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The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-19
A National Industry.

A Monterey (Mexico) correspondent
says: Washing of clothes seems to ba
principal industry of the poorer part OF
the womanly half of the population.
This is vicarious virtue, practiced at
the instance and for the benefit of their
betters. l don't think that the poor
souls ever get chance to wash their
own clothes at all-they don't look as
though they did, certainly; but all day
long they sit, or, rather, squat, at their
work deyotedly-and their wash-day
lasts the week through. Their common
wash-tub is a stream of water that
flows half across the city, wonderfully
pure at its source but more and more
bcfouled with soap-suds as it goes on
ward, until finally it passes the tan
neries and so loses all claims upon
responsibility. All along the banks of
this stream the washerwomen practice
their honorable profession, and very
comforting to eyes which take kindly
to the picturesque is the sight of them
Each woman has in front of her flat
stone or board, or, most frequently,
shallow wooden bowl, oblong, and
very like the bowls in which butter is
made. In this bowl she soaps and rubs
and squeezes the garment to be washed
until her fine knowledge of her art tells
her that cleanliness has been achieved;
Whereafter comes coplouS rinSing in
the running stream. Close beside her
is little fire on which rests Il little
boiler full of soiled linen and of bub-
Ing soapsuds and thence smoke and
steam curl up together among the
branches of the overhanging trees
Although their attitude is strikingly
ungraceful-or would be for a woman
not MeXican-these woman contrive to
put a certain grace into it, while their
instinct for composition compels them
always to arrange themselves in grace
full groups. Some children, not over.
dressed, usually play around them or
bask like little brown lizards in the
/ sun on the low bushes near the bank
Of the stream are spread the drying
clothes, straw-thatched hut gives
emphasis to the middle distance and
the background-of trees and bushes
and huts and half-hidden stone walls
/ is all that can be desired.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-19
Bridal Parties in Independence Hall.

Mrs. Wilson, the Superintendent of
the museum in Independence hall,
Philadelphia, says that her most
numerous and interesting visitors are
bridal parties, and that every day she
has an opportunity of witnessing the
curious phases of character and senti-
ment developed by newly welded bliss
the least amusement is afforded by
those who are making bridal tour in
style, and who come in carriages, ac-
companied by an escort of gayly dressed
and chattering bridesmaids and grooms-
men, Such groups of visitors are
frequently to be seen in the museum,
and the Duke of Newcastle, when he
was inspecting the curiosities there,
had an opportunity of also inspecting a
gorgeous American bridal party making
such queer remarks as
"What bang-up old fellow George
Third must have been"
"Give those photographs rest and
come over here where Billy Penn is
trading with the Indians" or a little
voice saying timdly: Horace, dear,
look at this horrid old man here. am
sure it must be a picture Of Captain
Ndd.' 1t was a painting of that
sturdy old Revolutionary patriot,
Israel Putnam.
Mrs. Wilson says that there is no
better time to study human nature
than when humanity is on bridal
tour, and there is no better place to
observe it than in the museum at In
dependence hall. The bride who, not
withstanding her bushes, has a WI OF
her own, generally shows it by quietly
leading the groom where she wants. tC
go. If he is doomed to be henpecked the
fact is bound to crop out.
There are Il thousand and one little
things which go on between the
freshly united couples which furnish {
never-ending succession of lessons in
honeymoon life. Mrs. Wilson has seer
so many bridal parties come and go that
she knows one the moment the pail
enter the room. There are certain in
fallible signs by which they make theiI
condition of happiness known. Mrs
Wilson says there can always be de
tccted a half-ashamed, half-proud OK
preston, as if they would say "Now
am afraid that you will laugh at me
but don't care. Its a good thing t
be married, if it does seem a littlt
queer" The bridal visitors come il
the morning, as if they felt it theil
duty when in Philadelphia to visit In
dependence hall.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-19

A minister of the interior in Ger
many, who was fond of Boosting of his
numerous olive branches, arrived while
travelling at small town in a noun
taineous district, where he came across
4 forester, whom he invited to dinner.
Are you aware" he said jovially,
that you are dining with the most
abundantly blessed-father of family
in all Prussia?" Sam l, indeed:' eX-
claimed the man. May l ask how
many children your Excellcncy has?'
Extraordinarily" was the proud re-
ply. sin that case" said the forester,
"may l request you to stay over to-
morrow and stand godfather for the
twenty-ffth his EXcellency's face
fell, but he complied with the request
of his rival, who had beaten him by
one.-AnoR.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-19

The energy of the human heart,
working day and night while life lasts,
S enormous. During an average work.
ng day a good climber can only raise
his own weight 1000 feet an hour,
while the work of the heart is estima-
ted to he equivalent to raising its own
weight, ten ounces, 1850 feet high in
al hour. This is about five times the
energy of the most powerful steam en-
CINE ever made.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-19

A method of preventing pitting in
smallpox is given in The Gazette DIES
Hopitaur. A mask is made Of very
pliable linen cloth, leaving apertures
for the eyes, nose and mouth, and the
inside of this is covered with certain
liniment prepared in either of the three
following ways: One of these consists
of carbolic acid, four to ten parts, forty
parts olive oil and sixty parts prepared
chalk another, five parts carbolic acid,
and forty parts each of olive oil and
pure starch and third, two parts
thymol, forty of linseed oil and sixty of
chalk in powder. The mask should be
renewed every twelve hours, and COM
presses impregnated with one of these
mixtures may also be placed on the
hands, and on any parts of the face
which the mask does not directly touch.
DR.. Foote's Health Monthly.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-19
CLAIMING THE CAPITOL's SITE.
The startling Expectations of Forty Heirs to
the Alleged BInckmore Estate.


The startling Expectations ofForty Heirs to
the Alleged BInciSmore Estate.
Papers have been prepared at Pitts
burg, Pa, for the institution of an
ejectment suit in the United States
Circuit Court that interests every citi-
zen of the United States. The prop
erty involved in this instance is the
ground upon which the United
States Capitol building, the White
House, Treasury, Naval, and other
Government buildings and hundreds of
fine dwellings and business houses as
well as thousands of acres of land in
Georgetown and in Maryland and
Washington county, Pa. Besides this
vast amount of real estate, there is
said TO be u considerable amount of
money in the Bank of England be-
longing to the claimants. The owner
of this vast amount of property was
William Blackmore, who settled on
this side of the Atlantic in colonial
times. BY some means not known to
the present generation, he became pos
sessed of the land described. At his
death the property passed into other
hands, and subsequently the Statec of
Maryland and Virginia donated that
portion upon which is located the
Capitol and other Government build
ings to the Federal Government.
Many years thereafter claimants to the
property sprung up from diilereut
parts of the country, but it seems that
legal proceedings were never before
instituted. The late eX-Mayor Back
more, of Pittsburgh, was, it is claimed,
the grandson of the original owner of
the land. Shortly after his death, and
during the BlackmOre bankruptcy pro
ceedings in the United States District
Court Of this city, an allowance was
ordered to be made to the assignee, j.
G. MacConnell, Esq, for the purpose
of prosecuting the claims Of the heirs
of the eX-Mayor In accordance with
this order, Mr. MacConnell has been
looking up the records, and has rep
resentatiye in Washington. Several
months ago two attorneys from the
capital called upon the widow of the
eX-MayOr and offered to institute legal
proceeding for her,provided she would
give them a retainer. This she de-
clined to do. Other Pittsburgh claim
ants to the estate are eX-Sheriff Pat
terson, of East End, DR.. Samuel
Belt2ehoover, of Diamond street, and
| one of the oldest families of Mansfield
on the Farmland e road. Recently
about forty claimants met at Mansfield
and contributed money towards prose
cutting the claim, and sent Il represen-
tative to Washington, who is gather
ing points upon which to proceed. Be
sides this concerted action taken by
claimants, they are neart, all indi.
vidually represented by counsel.
The location and extent of the prop
erty claimed is as follows: In the
District of Columbia are 4Sl acres, 100
acres near Bladensburg, Nd, 500 acre:
in Washington county, Pennsylvania
taking in the Boyer property, and
vast treasure in the Bank of England
The amount involved can hardly be es
timated, but it certainly reaches hun
1reds Of millions of dollars.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-19

The sand industry of Long Island
has grown to extraordinary proper
lions. Five years ago there were only
four firms engaged in it whose invested
capital did not exceed eighty thousand
dollars, while now the capital in
vested in the business exceeds two mil
lion dollars. An average of four thou
sand five hundred tons of sand are
shipped in boats to New York daily
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-19

A church in Bavaria accommoda-
ting 900 people has been almost en-
tirely built of paper mache, which can
be supplied at a cost little above that
of plaster. 1t can be made to initiate
the finest marble, as it takes polish.
superior to slate.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-19

The princes and princesses of the
early Egyptian dynastics were buried
in small pyramids which clustered
about the larger ones devoted to the
kings. Subjects were only allowed to
have truncated pyramids.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-19

The difference between tree and d
dog is that the bark of the latter is
more than skin deep. That is the
reason why so few people find any
beauty in it.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-05-25
A WOOD ENTERPRISE.
Fuel, Stove Length, to be Delivered In Deer
Lodge by Flume.

Last year, j. C. Robinson, Esq. concluded
that fuel could be delivered in Deer Lodge
more economically than by hauling 1T, but
the season was too far advanced to carry his
ideas into effect. This year, however, he has
prepared for 1t, and this week il placing the
machinery on the ground TO cut the lumber
necessary. The project is 10 build wood
fiume from gulch in the mountains about
seven miles west of Deer Lodge, between
Tin Cup Joe and La Barge Creeks, to point
on the bar opposite Deer Lodge. The tiume
will be v shaped with Is inch sides and will
have the natural grade of the ground as near
ly as possible. About 200 inches of water
will be run through IL. Into this stream IL il
proposed to toss the wood, previously hauled
cut up into stove lengths, and let the water
transport it over the six miles by the force of
the current. This business is successfully
conducted In Nevada and Mr.. Robinson be-
heves it equally practicable here. The ma
chinery sent out this week consists of q saw
mill with capacity of 5000 or 5000 feet q
day and aten-inch horizontal Leffel turbine
wheel which with rs feet head will give %
horse power. It is estimated $4,000 feet of
lumber will be required for the fume and the
mill will also do such custom work as the
market demands. The estimated cost of the
plant is 81, 1000 to $4,000. Seven men are now
employed, and their number will be increas-
ed as the business demands. 1t Is anticipated
the fume will be completed and wood drop.
ped at the exit of the fiume in August. The
scheme looks practicable and the protector
expects to supply Deer Lodge with ready cue
wood at less ratios than is possible by team.
ing. 1t is quite an enterprise, and If 1t comes
up to expectations will be an example for
many others to follow. -
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-05-25
MuRpHy, hlGGlHs & Co.,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
6 r o. e r -
KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND
A Complete Assortment OF Goods
-Is THEIR LINE
Which they offer on as good terms as any
house In the Territory.
eAgents for the CALIFORNIA POWDER
WORKS."


Special dispatch to the Times from n cor
respondent who would like 10 see $50 900
spent on new prison"
The above IN the head and sub-head the
Mlssoula Times saw proper 10 put on dis
patch last week relating to the discovery Of
the attempted escape Of six convicts from
the penitentiary. We wish to say that the
editor of the New NORTHWEST was in
formed by the prison authorities of the facts
In the above case; that with their approval,
and as the NEW NORTHWEST would not
appear antIl the following Friday, he wrote
the dispatch the Times published; that on its
being left fer transmission TO Helena the OPP
orator here obligingly said that IL there was
no objection he would let Ii be taken of for
the Missoula papers also, and 1t was accord
ingly done. We do not know that any sum
OF money spent on the extension Of the pres
ent prison or on the erection Of NEW" one,
would be any object 20 the writer But we
do believe that any editor OF Montana pa
per ought TO have intelligence enough TO
know that the Montana pepiteutiary Ii in
adequate TO the purposes for which IL Is de-
signed; that he ought TO respect the declara.
tons on this subject that have been submit
ted by every Executive and Marshal Of
Montana, and by every judicial officer and
United States and Territorial grand Jury Of
this District for years past, and by several
Legislative Assemblies, and we know that
the insinuation conveyed by the Times is
spitefH, mean, and contemplate. Wewould
be- pleased 20 know that IL was not the work
of the editor and proprietor OF the Times.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-05-25

In the Salt Lake Tribune, under date OF
items Of news, among which we find the fol
lowing:
1--WE are having considerable rex citemeni
inmate OF the insane asylum, at Warm
Springs, has escaped and is making for tins
place, so every body Ii on the qui rive TO
know what Is coming next.
"There was some talk of a third rail from
Butte TO Helena, uid Little Blackfoot, but
that project seems TO have fallen through, ~
Mr.. Willard doesn't seem 20 care whether his
road runs TO Butte or not
II Is fair to say that the town has recovered
lis equanimity concerning the Warm Spring
man-if, In fact, anybody In town but 30.
H." ever heard OF it before. 1t Is appalling
to think what an excitement IL would have
created here had the fact been generally
known. The attention of the municipal in
corporation Of Deer Lodge will be called TO
the above at its first meeting, and II it refuses
70 build m anti-insane-man ditch somewhere
In the valley TO prevent such panics In the
future, they win be whirled ont of office with
bell, book, and candle.
In the absence of Mr.. Willard we take the
privilege Of saying the views attributed to
him are not such As meet the approval of this
community, and we car prove that when In
formed "Deer Lodge wants nothing" he
gave his solemn assurance, In contradistinc-
ton TO his promises elsewhere, that every
wish of our people should be gratified. Ser
iously; the third rail- business has not fallen
through, nor did Mr.. Willard or Mr. oakes
aver Intimate that they were Indifferent to
the trafic OF Butte. The contrary Is very
much the fact.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-05-25
RAILROAD TIMETABLE.
Arrival and Departure Of U. an. Trains.
IRVINE LAKE.
The Work OF Improving II Under Way.

After some unavoidable delay, a force OF
seven men and team was put at work this
week under supervision Of VIM. Mckinney
digging the ditch to convey water from Te-
ceta creek TO Irvine Lake, putting up the
buildings determined upon, building the
roadway along the lake, and clearing up the
grounds. The ditch Is 10 be only forty-six
rods long.but will be Of large capacity, 30 as
to enable rapid discharge Of water. IL will
probably be completed in two weeks. The
line selected covers three depressions-one
fully thirty-hve feet deep and Of consider
able extent-which when Allied will make q
chain OF lakelets emptying into Irvine Lake
Tue area of this latter will be increased a
fourth or third by bringing in the stream
and will be large enough for boating. Boat
builders east have been written to for circu-
lars and on their receipt telegraphic order
will be sent for such rs are selected. 1t IL
designed 10 have the work completed and
boats on for formal "opening Of naviga-
ton" and an Informal good time the Fourth
OF July. The road TO the Lake Is n delightful
one, and parties living on the line are now
putting In new bridges at the creek crossing
anu kEhunR the opy poiht oc'wech o"n
and the foothills. When IL Is stated that
gentleman drove In with very ordinary
team In thirty seven minutes Wednesday, 10
will be seen that 1t is just pleasant driving
distance from town.
The Trustees are Peter Walton, X. L. Bon
ner, and H. Il. Larabie. Messrs. Bonner and
Larabie very properly designated Mr.. Vail
ton M Superi ntendent, with full authority TO
do all the work and have all the bother.
That he accepted the task Is assurance that 1t
will be we'll done.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-05-25
END OF THE STAMPEDE.
All the Boys Hotneward Bound

David Boerum and three others returned
here last evening from the CGur d'Alene
stampede. They found nothing; there is
nothing there. The man, III. A. Pritchard,
who wrote the letters Ii and has been crazy.
He only took out two ounces Of gold last
year. He had also written to old friends in
Washington Territory and California, and
considerable parties had arrived from those
points. The Bozeman party went 20 Crows
Nest, one hundred miles west of Missouls,
left their horses on account Of snow, packed
forty pounds to the man, went twenty miles
to the top Of the range up the St. Regis
Borgia on foot, crossing it on foot bridges
thurty-six times, and thence down the C9ur
d'Alene river forty miles 10 Pritc rs
camp. Sixty~even men went IN. Toy
prospected three days on Eagle and Pritch-
ard creeks, merely finding color. Pritchard
had left his cabin - they returned. The
boys have had > hard quess for nothing, but
no lives were lost and AL are returning.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-05-25
FROM PHILIPSBURG.
The News OF Our Ncighboring Town.

Correspondence Neo North West.
PHILIrsRURG, May 21.-If we could judge
from this center the world is surely at peace
quiet is no name for it-nothing has trans
pired of much consequence since / last
wrote, with the exception of the introduce
ton of the new American Diamond Rock
Boring Machine. The Hope Company with
their usual enterprise have introduced this
novelty lat least in Montana.) The machine
will be under the charge of Mr.. j. HI. Taylor,
gentleman who was sent out here to SUPER
intend its workings. This is the machine
with which few years ago the we'll 2103 feet
deep, was sunk under the Astor House. in
the City of New York. 1t is to be used for
prospecting.
Mr.. Thomas WEIGH, who has been or q
visit east, has returned, bringing with him
his mother, brother and sister. Tommy has
more friends than anybody and the rest Of
the family will receive big welcome on his
account.
Mr.. Joel Parkman objects to my advertls-
ing him as married man. / stated my
last letter, I believe, that he had brought his
family here. 1t was r. F. Parkman who had
the good fortune to have q family to bring;
although appearances justify the statement
that Joel would be quite willing to be put in
a fix wherein he might rightfully be accused
of the same thing.
Mr.. G. Clark is here looking after his min
ing interests. He acts as if he was on bust
ness.
A good deal of talk about bonding and SELL
ing mines is being done, but do not knew
of any transaction of that kind of any mo-
ment
Mrs. o. b. O'Bannon, of Deer Lodge, and
her children are spending few days in Phil
ipsburg with her sister, Mrs. DR.. c. n.
Bowie.
The weather has at last settled down and is
delightful.
We have had two foot races between Robt
Macdonald and an Indian. In the first the
native was victorious, but the last time
Robert got away with the stakes.
The glee club, which has been silent
number of months, in consequence of the
long, continued illness of their leader, has
practice again.
An entertainment il in process of prepare
ton consisting of musical and dramatic ex-
ercisrs. The progr anime, which consists
partly of selections from Shakespeare, may
look a little cheeky, but those who have seen
the performers before, are pretty well satis-
fed they'll ''get there"
LEoSTI |
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-05-25
THE SALT LAKE CONCERTS.
Something Number of Montanians Pro-
pose Hearing.

| Some months siur. Theodore Thomas, who
! has conducted the most popular musical fes-
/ tivals there have been in the United States,
| organized gigantic enterprise, which III
cluded seventy grand concerts 10 be given IN
the principal cities OF the country, including
San Francisco. Salt Lake City being OH the
route was dated for three concerts, VIZ: FIJI
day evening, june 18th, aud Saturday after
noon aud evening, June 10Th, at the Iaoer-
nacle. These are to be given on the return
trip from California The Thomas orchestra
consists of sixty musicians, which alone
would make a splendid concert, but in addi-
ton to this he has engaged for Salt Lake
Miss Emma Thursby, soprano; Mrs. L. Hum
phrey Allen, soprano; Mrs. Annie Hartde-
gen, soprano; Mrs. Belle Cole, contralto; MIR.
Fred. Harvey, tenor; Mr.. Franz Remmertz,
bass; with Madame Julie Riye-King as solo
pianist. These will be supported by chorus
of three hundred voices, trained especially
for the occasion, and the concerts will in
clude selections from Beethoven, Weber,
Mozart, Mendelssohn, Wagner, and Gluck.
These concerts, in such building as the
Tabernacle, present an opportunity to hear
the best music rendered in the best manner,
and is such an one as occurs but rarely. But
few people have such an opportunity in
lifetime. These concerts will be worthy of
especial effort to hear, and quite a number
Of Montana people propose to hear them.
Salt Lake City expects thousands of visitos
on the occasion by excursion and special
trains, and we think the Utah and Northern
Company would dc we'll to offer excursion
rates to Montanians. Every worker is en-
titled by the laws of nature and the rules of
we'll established business a fortnight's recre-
alton each summer, and as Salt Lake and Salt
Lake City will then be in their prime, why
not take the usual holiday a month earlier
and include the concerts? The round trip
can be made, to include the concerts, in five
days, if necessary, from any point on the U.
& N. We trust the railway company will
offer special inducements for our people to
make the trip.