, 1882-03-11
Lettsr fom Boiss City.
RorsrCuY Feb. 9th, lSs2.

! BOIsE CITf, req. - In icS--
EDITOR STATESMAN. city has beer
exceedingly quiet during the past Winse
and We were proud TO see some ot our ees
citizens form themselves into q society OF
club for the purpose Of gaining knowledge
as well as the display Of talent and ability
The Holland Literary Circle, closed its Circle
meetings on Tuesday evening last at the les
iience OF L. f. Cartee. This Society Is cred
it to any town, city or municipality: IT has
been conducted with credit worthy o! the
names Of its members No employment
yields so rich harvest ot knowledge and de-
light to a rational being As visiting or De-
coming member OF literary or debating
club when conducted with respect. Sacn
employment IS source of never failing salts
faction to persons Of any age, it enlArses the
views, and enriches their minds and lays
thai foundation of credit and honor. lifting
man TO stem Iife's boisterous current. which
so frequently is wrecked on the voyage.
There Is another literary society, which,
when FRS. organized, was calculated to be On
q level with the Holland club, and some OF
its members worked hard to keep It on that
parallel line Of credit and respect, but lack
Of parliamentary knowledge retarded Its pro-
gress and caused the resignation Of some OF
its best members; 1t is still holding its resu-
lar meeting and if it would devote its noble
abilities to the investigation OF parliament
ary rules, it might gain for itself s name that
would never die; but it loses it questions,
the previous question, the main question
and also the question Of privilege are entire
ly lost; parliamentary rules are wrecked and
the noble bark which has safely steered
through the current Of clubs and organlza-
tons as well as parlisments and legislatures
has sunk into the shades of oblivion. but We
hobe they will save the ship before they close
the debates for the season.
In the fore part OF the winter our city
looked rather gloomy for a while; it was
thronged with strangers from our neishboE-
inr mining camps and some Of them were not
overly burdened with creditable looking faces
and at this sight our city fathers augmented
our police force; in a short time our city was
relieved Of those hard looking faces Our
city has been fre from burglary. with the
exception Of few days when hen houses sui.
fered seriously; we attribute this to the Chi.
ma New Year, which closed with a sump;u-
Gus dinner, which was well represented with
chicken boil, chicken stew, roast and stuffed
and caniied too Strangers have again made
their appearance on our streets: they look
ike the hardy sons Of toll who are waiting
for grim winter to doif hoary cap from the
Sawtooth range, that they may be employed
to extract from the earth the precious min
erals that may be hid in the Wood river fells.
Our winter has been very cold since the
first of January and Tor two night the ther-
mometer marked zero. We have had a thaw
for few days which makes our street ex-
tremely muddy and disagreeable; the frost
is not entirely ont Of the ground and the mud
is only foot deep on that account. This
morning tie wind from the south brought US
another st orm and now the mud is covered
with the white garments of the beautiful.
Reports from the valley are not very favOra-
BILE for stock men, no mortality among cattle
up 10 date, but a number ot herds look thin
and cattle men say unless a change comes
shortly, their losses will be great, for hay is
exhausted and no feed in the valley or hills.
Weiser city has had quite an excitable
time in the trial Of homicide; the murder
er is bound over, without hail, to await the
action of the grand jury. this gives satisfac-
tion to the Law abiding citizens.
DRAEH