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The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-12-29
SAADO ~ DO OAs
The Natural Tendency Of
Trade to Hibernate.
A Liberal Policy Which
Makes Lite and Activ-
ity Preferable
The Merited Reputation Of
Being a Hard Hitter.
No Chrom9s.

After Christmas, trade has a natu-
raj tendency to hibernate until the
approach of the next season, and, in
deed, will surely do it unless the
merchant counteracts the disposition
by the adoption of a policy, the lib
erality of which makes life and &C
tivity preferable. We have never
experienced any dull times, because
OF the practice ofsuch a policy, which
like
HONESTY,
we believe to be the best. This poll
icy consists simply in making popu-
lar concessions in prices of such
goods as would not otherwise sell,
and w wish to announce that 1t has
now gone into effect; not next week
but
NOV.
We intend to be busy during what
is known to the trade as "the dull
season." even if we shall not make q
dollar. These dull seasons afford
a good opportunity for live, progress
i've and enterprising houses to clinch
their reputation as snch by scat
tering bargains among their patrons.
This is what we propose to do and
we have the merited equation Of
being
HARD HITTERS"
when we reach out for telling ticks.
We don't wish to convey the idea
that we intend to give lhromos for
the simple act of removing goods in
lots to suit, but we do mean to con-
vey the
FACT
that we will make it to your advan-
tage to buy such goods as you are not
disposed to buy at regular prices.
These goods are not confined to odds
and ends but embrace goods which
many of you have hesitated to buy
and deferred buying solely on &C.
count of price. The present IL your
glorious opportunity.
Very respectfully,
SANDS 4 BOYCE.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-12-29
ANACONDA.

It's Magic Growth.-Its Business
Outlook. - It's Soft, Bracing
Zephyrs. "A Large Lumber
Yard Ar Almost Fatal
Accident. - Christ
mas Tree.--Joui-
fcation.
A Fight or Two.-ThOse 'POssums.
"Carve Another 'Possum
to the Heart. - Ten
Missourians Good
and True.
Etc, Etc, Etc.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-12-29
Something Delicious.

Imported French crystallized fruits
at Morris Bros. Apricots, cherries,
mirabelles, chinois dores, prunes,
noix glaces, pears, oranges and lem-
ons Of the new crop. Call and ex-
anime. l2-2S-tf
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Differences $4,000
Grand Ball.

At Anaconda, January |, 1854, for
the benefit of the public school:
Good music, good hall and q good
time. Give the school a lift and
spend a Happy New Year. Tickets.
including supper, $500.
l2-2S-d-3t-sw-lt
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-12-29
DIED.

CLARK.-December 18th, 1855, Clearance Clark
son OF II. s. and Laura Clark.
Funeral at 2 p. m. to-day from residence.
oDONNELL.-In this city, Thursday, Deem
Der q, 1883, Maggie, daughter Of Michae
and Mary 0'Donneu, aged % months q
aAys.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-12-29
Montana'a Product for 1882.

New York Mining Record; This
Territory comes next alphabetically,
in our revision of the official state
melt put forth by the Mint Bureau,
of the product of gold and silver for
the calendar year 1882, which state
ment we collate with that of Mr..
Valentine of Wells, Fargo s. Co.'S
Express:
~E Gold, Silver. Total.
Miut Bureau. ...s22,5O,0oo s4,s7o,oW ss,sao,oN0
~. Valentine. 2,355,O0o 100000 6,735,oW
Differenee...S lS5, coo $ $4,000
In Mr.. Valentines estimate he
gives the silver bullion at $1,O65,OO0
with 81, 574, coo in base bullion and
ore, which 1 assume to have been
chiefly copper and lead. from such
mines as the Hecla of Beaverhead
county.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-12-29
TREES

leads your correspondent to remark
that one of the finest he has seen in
this western country was displayed
by the ladies of Anaconda on Christ
mas eve. Through the efforts of Mis-.
Winter and several other noble
hearted ladies of the place, a large
amount of meats, biscuits. ETC., had
been cooked and donated for the oc-
casion. Candies, apples, oranges, nuts,
raisens, etc. had been generously
given by the merchants of the town,
and when all were brought together
they made u most ample and elegant
spread. The tree was loaded with
Gifts to the little ones, who, by the
way, number over one hundred in
the district, and were qdite as rich
and varied as are found upon trees in
more favored..localities. There was
The Opelousas courier., 1883-07-28
lightning Among Catrldges.

A few days after the rebels had been
driven from Resacca, the place was
visited by a terrific thunderstorm. The
Union regiments were merely resting,
and had arranged no permanent shell
ter. AS the clouds rose and the wind
increased the pup tents were pitched
and pegged close, and gum blankets
donned, shawl fashion. AS the men
were crouching under the little white
shelters, there was q vivid flash, o
terrific crash, and men who had storm
ed intrenchments o few days before
started in terror to leave the ground.
The lightning had struck a house in
which we're stored great quantities OF
shells, cartridges and powder. The men
had, with soldier quickness, caught the
meaning of the crash. They saw the
sentinels about the ammunition houses
struck down as if by a cannon ball, saw
the boxes of ammunition hurled this
wav and that, saw something burning
among the explosive shells, and with
out o word the men darted as one man
away from the place. A shout caused
them to pause. A single man was
creeping toward the place marked by
the little column of smoke. He moved
quickly, reached'ou u his hand with 9
strange energy, and raising a mass OF
burning tow or filling, shouted simply
"All right" The men stopped, gave
an answering shout of relief, and re
TUNED to their tents to sit through the
furv of the storm, scarcely noticing the
drenching they got in the wonder Owe
the fact that lightning should STRIKE
among boxes of shells and cartridge
and not cause an explosion, and con
fusing themselves over the question o
why the man who went forward ant
prevented a general disaster by lifting
the fire from the very explosives them
selves was not as much a hero as on
who led a charge.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-07-28
A Monster Prison.

The largest prison III Europe is The
House of Detention, which has Just
been completed at Berlin. The enor.
nous editice comprises six separate
buildings, to which have been trans
ferred all the prisoners awaiting trial
WHO have hitherto been confined in the
various prisons of Berlin. The prison
for men consists Of a ground floor and
four other stories, with 1872 separate
cells, dormitories for 1876 prisoners, be-
sides 40 rooms for turnkeys and. sleep.
ing accommodations for 118 attendants,
Each Of the 1872 cells has a window 10
feet high. There are 6 cells in the
basement for prisoners who are refrae-
tory to discipline, and in the basement
are also to be found the kitchens, the
bathrooms, and the heating apparatus
of the prison. The internal part OF the
,prison is constructed of iron and is 50
built that all the corridors look out up
on o central hall which commands 8
view of every cell. The prison fr
men, which is separated from the rest
of the building by a wall is feet high,
also contains only 70 cells and 10 large
dormitories, the latter of which are
divided into sections, each containing
bed, which can be locked up every
night after its occupant has retired 70
rest.-LondOD NeUS.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-07-28
SILyERY-TONGUED.
Why 1le Editor Of the ArkansaW Trigger Nhaiei
a RepOr: or.

Why the Editor Of The ArkansaW Trigger hhaie'
a Reporter.
Colonel Joglin, editor Of the DAILY
Arkausaw IJ'igger, was arrested and
arraigned before court OH IL charge OF
assault with intent to wipe from the
face of the earth. Some time ago, a
Young man, who, for several months,
had been a journalist, secured a situa-
ton on the Trigger. Shortly after
wards, the people in the nelghborhood
were startled by distressing noises,
and hurrying to the Trigger office,
they found Colonel Joglin standing
over a young man, belaboring, as Mark
Twain delights to say, the immortal
soul out of him with 3 board. In
court, the Colonel made no denial OF
the assault, but declared he had a
cause to act with a decision which
some people, i'll their ignorance, might
term violence.
"The young man was q reporter,
was he?" asked the Judge.
eyes, he was a journalist"
Odd you whale him because he
failed to make q personal mention OF
the fact that you had returned from a
visit to Uncle Billy So-and-So, who
lives out in the Whitcoak District"
"No, sir"
We'll, did you fall on him because
he said Miss Such-and-Such, the
beautiful and accomplished daughter
of General Blow-anG-PuiIf-the freckle-
faced girl who g~iggles-was on a visit
to the amiable and handsome daughter
of the editor-in-chief?
"No, sir"
"What did he do?"
"Why, sir, he wrote this" and he
read the following from his paper:
We were very much pleased to meet,
the other evening, Mr.. John Guguckle,
the rising young attorney of Snack
vile, the silver-tongued orator OF
Mulehead county Now, sir. this sill
very-tongue and rising young lawyer
business has been carried on long
enough. Every fellow in the State
who stays in a lawyers Office is arising
young attorney and a silver-tongued
orator. Here's another notice: I'VE
were delighted, yesterday, to form the
acquaintance OI MI. IllOHIdS NhedGWlHS
of Snackville, who is a rising young
attorney and the silver-tongued orator
of Mulehead county, Here are q few
more, Judge: Captain James Hughle
the rising young attorney and silvery'
tongued orator of Mulehead county, is
here. Colonel Wesley Hodges, the
silvery-tongued, who has scores Of
friends in the city, of Mulehead county
is with u.s. [ couldn't stand that any
longer. So many silvery-tongues
from one county sickened me, and
downed the rising journalist"
"Of course you acted in self-de'
~fense," the Judge replied. Il regre'
very much that you did not kill thu
silvery-tipped young journalist, but il
the belief that you did your duty t.
the best of your ability, I discharg'
you."-ArkansdU Traveller.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-07-28
A Problem in Flying.

An interesting discussion is at pres
ent going on among scientific engineers
in regard to the flight of birds, which
has considerable bearing upon the fly
ing-machine question. It is a matter
of observation that birds, without any
movement of their outstretched wings,
and without any apparent muscular
exertion, are enabled to rise in the air,
and to move laterally even against the
wind. The modus operandi of these
movements is q mystery, and scientists
are trying to discover the secret. The
most plausible theory is that the
wings may be placed il such q position
as to divert a current of air from its
normal course until it represents two
sides of an angle, of which the apex
is the hinder portion of the birds
body. If that be the case, say the
theorists, there would be really two
currents of air coming into collision at
the apex, the result of which would be
a pressure upon the body of the bird
at that point, urging it forward with
force far greater than on first thought
might be supposed. The smoothness
of the feathers in but one direction
reduces to a minimum all opposition
to a forward movement. Experiments
are now being carried out with me-
chanical contrivances to demonstrate
the correctness of the theory, and it is
stated that the Investigators are in q
fair way to a discovery of the cause OF
the phenomenon, and also to a solution
of the fying-machine question.-Faon1
O. London Letter.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-07-28
GRmRrAEa

e. J. Lehman, a Chicago merchant, OBJ
tanned Judgment against the Chicago Her@M
for $25, 600 for libel, ..s
w. II. Vanderbilt has added $lG0,GOO to
the endowment fundof Vanderbilt Universitv
at Nashville, making the total amount $7OV
600.
b -Enock Pratt, of Baltimore, had decided
the Pratt Free Library, now nearly completed,
to the city, and given his check for sS53,335.SSS
for its support.
The telescope reveals extraordinary DIS
turbanees on the face of the sum- and thls Is
believed to be the cause of the unusual atmos-
pherie disturbances on our planet.
The celebration of the $3.50 anniversary
of the settlement of Santa Fe, n. M, began
with great eclat on the I'd of July, and will be
continued throughout the month. The opening
exercises consisted of professions, music
speeches, dancing fireworks, etc.
Three distinguished prelates passed ava!
on the Fourth of July-Catholic Archbishop
Purcell, near Cincinnati, in the Saith year o
age; Rev. John McMullen, Catholic Bishop o
Davenport, Iowa, aged so years; and Episeopa
Bishop Pinckney, of the Diocese OF Maryland
near Baltimore, agod %,
The Opelousas courier., 1883-07-28
Vanderbilt ON Gould.

Old Commodore Vanderbilt had an
uneommonly good knowledge OF men
By his skill in physiognomy and DIS
aptness in some other matters ne ",
cumulated o fortune OF $lOO,0Oo.Oos
Here is what he said OF Jay Gould ID .
public card written on the 26th OF Now
1872:
st have had but one business trans,
action with Mr.. Gould in my Life. y
July, 1868, Isold him a lot OF stock ~
which he paid me, and the privilege =,
a call for o further DOT, which ne alsu
settled. Since then 1 have had notalns
to do with him in any way whaSessl,
nor do I mean even to have unless y ~
to defend myself. 1 have besides , -
ways advised all my friends 70 nass
nothing to do with him in any Duslnsso
transaction. I came to this conciasi IT,
after taking particular notice OF NJ
countenance." .-..nd
Gentlemen who now have, or mes ~
to have business transactions with ~ "a
Gould should ponder the wise ~
commodore's words.-N. Y. SIN
The Opelousas courier., 1883-07-28
Just Missed 1t.

At West Point, Ga, we saw q negro
at the depot with a torn shirt and a
battered nose, and naturally inquired
what had happened.
"Well, sab, you orter bin heah bout
ten minits ago" he replied. eyes, sab,
you orter bin heah."
"Why?"
"Kase I came de clussest to havin' de
awfullest fight you cher hearn tell on.
You see, I'ze bin sorter down on
Abr'm Jones fur de last six months, an
he has also bin sort o. down on me.
Bout half an hour ago I started to look
him up an have it out"
"And you found him?"
eyes, sab, he vas right up dar by de
lime-shed. I tell you, it was a mighty
clus shave! Why, We come widin a
HAIR bredth Of havin' de terriblest fight
two men cher got into"
"How close did you Gomez"
"Why, sab, we come dat close dat de
mint he hit me I turned an run, an he
followed me half a mile afore his wind
gin out! Why, sab, if he'd got hold OF
me I'd a-pounded him till his own mud
der wouldn't a-believed dat she cher
sot eyes onto him befo'r-M. quad.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-07-28
TIE NEWS IN BRIEF.


. AT Glasgow, Scotland. another memorable
disaster has been added TO the appalling
record of 1889. The steamer Daphne, IN
process of construction, was run of her stays
into the river. Faith i'll the architect had
been such that hundreds of workmen were
busy in every part of the wretched craft
when she was launched. No sooner was the
water reached than the vessel rolled from ON
side to side and finally half sank. All the
men below stairs, about 80 in number, were
drowned.
A cable dispatch of the I'd inst, says that
119 deaths from cholera occurred at Damietta
in twenty-four hours. Most of the physicians,
becoming panic-striken at the horrible NOR
taFfty, had fled the city. Persons attempting
to pass the sanitary lines in Egypt had been
ordered to be shot. The French Government
has decided to quarantine all vessels sus-
pocted of having cholera on board. as the
British authorities have been known to grant
clean bills of health to ships from infected
ports. The annual pilgrimage to Mecca mas
been prohibited by the Governor OF AlgleTs.
Every precaution has been taken to guard the
British troops in Egypt.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-07-28
Grimes and Criminals.

"A negro named Shines was lynched by a
mob at Bowling Green. Mo-, for a brutal as
sault upon Miss Kate Mcguire.
-Ex-United States Marshal Joseph I.
Brown, Of Arkansas, recently found guilty Of
embezzlement and forgery, was sentenced
to Ave years in States prison.
For unknown reasons the four commits
sioners and clerk of Grand county, Col,
were shot by masked men, two being killed
instantly and two others being mortally
wounded.
William II. Seaman, aged "a, shot and
killed his sister, Fanny Seaman, aged %, at
the residence of William L. Ferris, at Throg's
Neck, Westchester county, N. Y. Seaman was
insane.
Near Waynesborough, Va, Beirne and
Elan, the Richmond editors, met and settled
their difficulties with Colts five shooters al
eight PAGES. The first fire was barren of re-
suits, but at the second shot the bullet from
Beirne's revolver struck and lodged in Elam's
right thigh, producing a painful and serious
wound. Beirne then quilted the ground upon
his adversary's seconds expressing s~atisfac-
ton, and Elam was taken to the residence OF
Lieut.. Gov. Lewis, a shortdistance off.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-07-28
liz y~ersOll's Advice.

Col. II. G.Tngersoll says: There is
a quiet about the life of a farmer, and
the hope of a serene old age, that no
other business or profession can prom
Use. A professional man is doomed
sometime to feel that his powers are
waning. He is doomed to see younger
and stronger men pass him in the race
of life. He looks forward to an old
age of intellectual ~mediocrity; he will
be last where once he was first. But
the farmer goes, as it were, into part
nership with nature he lives with trees
and flowers, he breathes the sweet air
of the scented fields. There is no con-
slant and frightful strain upon the
mind, his nights are filed with sleep
and rest. He watches his iocks as
they feed upon the green and sunny
slopes. He hears the pleasant ain
falling upon the waving corn, and the
trees he planted in youth rustic above
him as he plants others for the child
rel yet to be.
Our country is filled with the idle
and unemployed, and the great ques-
ton asking for an answer is. What
shall be done with these men-what
shall these men do? They must cult
yate the soil. Farming must be rend-
cred more attractive. Those who work
the land must have an honest pride in
their business. They must educate
their children to cultivate the soil.
They must make farming easier, SO
that their children will not hate it-so
they will not hate it themselves. Their
boysmust not be taught that tilling the
ground is q curse and almost o disgrace.
They must not suppose that education
is thrown away upon them unless they
become ministers, merchants, lawyers,
doctors or statesmen it must be under
stood that education can be used to
advantage on q farm. There is no real
conflict between Latin and labor. There
are hundreds of graduates of Yale and
of Harvard, and of other colleges, who
are agents of sewing machines, solicit
tors of insurance, clerks, copyists--in
short, performing a hundred varieties
of mental service. They seem willing
to do anything that is not regarded as
work-anything that can be done in
town, in the house, in an ofice-but
they avoid farming as they would lep-
rosy. Nearly every young man educa-
ted in this way is simply ruined. Such
an education ought to be called ignor-
ance. It is a thousand times better to
have common sense without education
than the education without the sense.
Boys and girls should be educated to
help themselves. They should be
taught that it is ~disgraceful to be idle,
and dishonorable to be useless.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-07-28
The Business Outlook.
American Grocer.

AT the beginning of the year trade
prospects were certainly not f~attering.
Railroad business had apparently been
over done and orders for iron had not
only ceased but those which had been
given in advance were well worked out.
As q consequence the iron and coal in
dustries were depressed, and in the
large districts depending upon these
industries trade was dull. The same
thing was true, to some extent, of
other branches Of manufacture. Pro-
duction had outrun consumption and
markets were in many cases over
stocked, and could only be relieved by
a decline in prices stimulating censump-
ton. The agitation of the tariff ques-
ton in Congress still further tended to
unsettle trade, and during the first
months of the year it was evident that
If these conditions should be supple
mented by a bad harvest, a dull season
would be inevitable and q panic proba-
BILE. Prudent business men, therefore,
began to take in sail, and prepare for
squalls. Six months, however, has
passed away without any serious disas-
Ter. The crops, upon which the gen.
eral prosperity so largely depends, and
which in the early spring did not prom
Use well, gave progressed favorably,
and in most sections Of the country a
good harvest is now well assured. Pri-
ces of many manufactured and import
ed goods have declined toa point lower
than ever before known, and as q con
sequence, consumption is rapidly in
creaseing: and, with the changes in the
tariff, which go into effect on the LIST
of July, we look forward to a large in
crease of trade, accompanied by o gen.
eral Improvement in prices. Mer-
chants in the districts which depend
entirely upon manufacturing establish
ments, which, for the time being, are
shut down, would, of course, do well
to buy cautiously. The ability Of oper-
atives IN such districts to purchase is
c~rirtailed, but throughout the country
at large we believe the time has come
when prudent merchants can with safe
ty and profit spread q little more sail
than it was safe to do while crop pros
poets wer uncertain and the tariff un-
settled. These remarks apply even more
forcibly to the grocery trade, which is
not exposed in the some degree to fuc-