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The Wilmingtonian., 1884-10-11

Dynamite, which has been described by
Sir Fredk Abel as zone of the safest, most
powerful, and most convenient explosive
agents applicable to industrial purposes, in
its simplest form closely resembles moist
brown sugar. and is nitro-glycerine absorbed
in any Inert base. 1t is not yet twenty
years old having been first offered for sale
in June, 1867, when, owing to the strong
prejudice against its chief ingredient, it
began by making only slow progress. In
the form in which it is licensed for use,
dynamite must consist of 70 per cent. of
nitro-gl ycerine and 20 per cent. of an infus-
orial earth known as kieselguhr.
1t was in 1S47 that an Italian named
Sobrero, an assistant in Pelouzes abora-
tory, lighted on nitro-glycerine.
Nitro-glycerine is a very pale yellow oily
liquid, about half as heavy again as water.
1t has no smell, but a sweet aromatic taste,
and though it is not in strict sense poison
GUS since even when absorbed in the blood
it has never been known to be fatal to life,
yet single drop placed on the tongue will
"iiiiO'U i''iH'o'"'oiJ Piouuoc Flo'cho heau-
acne Even the hanallhg II, before the
u5ii"'".Ue o'tUiluSes were III Ao'o wrapped
il parchment, would do the same. "The
dynamite headache" is a disorder very well
known in the trade, more painful in inten-
si'y' we are assured, than the worst form OF
rack que TO the worst champagne 1t is an
allection Tor when, YIR many, time and
custom arc NO reWeogNFor' IKE NELSON, VINO
was always SICK ms ilfst three days at sea,
"r Ieueilck Aoel' the we'll known chemlst,
never even hoW' haraehed eXperlmentallst
70 ono "o'iiu imagine MIN py TINS tlme TO
oc' touehes inc compound without suffering
l 'oih IT,
For sixteen or seventeen years after its
discovery in 1S47, nitro-glycerine attracted
but Sigh attention, and, owing in grea
measure to the difficulty of exploding il
with any certainty, was looked upon merely
as chemical curiosity. For, explosive in
the highest degree as it certainly is, in its
pure form it requires the fulfilment of GER
tain special conditions for the development
of its force which were not at that time
clearly understood. We are told, indeed
that the fame of an ordinary match, though
it does not appear to be by any means a
favorite experiment with chemists, can be
quenched in it without harm, nor under
ordinary circumstances will any small
applied light ignite it, But smart blow
or strong vibrating jar was often found to
do the work that fire could not effect, Then
The Wilmingtonian., 1884-10-11
TEMPERANCE.
rhe Evils of Intemperance.

"What about Prohibition" was the theme
selected by Rev. S. NJ. Vernon, at the Trim
ity Methodist Church, Fifteenth and Mount
Vernon streets Philadelphia, last Sunday
night. Just as Jesus drove the money
changers from the Temple of God" said
Mr.. Vernon, $50 must we eradicate The evil
of intemperance. This is the evil of all evils,
and it has attained such proportions that
we must give our attention. Look at the
figures given in the report of the United
States Census Office at Washington, which
state that there are annually consumed in
this country $4,000, 900 gallons of all kinds
of liquor. This, at an average of two dol.
lars gallon, makes the annual amount
spent for this curse over billion dollars
The report further shows that 500, 900 men
are employed in the traffic and that there
are $50, 900 drunkards. Its effects are most
baneful to society, and it is estimated by
those having recourse to criminal statistics
that nine -tenths of the crime in the United
States can he directly traced to its use. The
death rate of the country is increased
1000 annually from this cause alone.
"With these figure before us it behooves
us to be up and doing and prohibition is our
only remedy. Mo,al suasion is of value,
but not sufficient of itself. The license sys-
TEN by State legislation. Drinking would
cease if saloons were taken out of the reach
of men, Take away the temptation and the
desire will end.''
The Wilmingtonian., 1884-10-11

PAaadelnhia TYmes.

After all the pomp and display of hum
mers and BURNERS, there is one hungry-cry
OF the American people that is not met in
the imposing Blaine demonstrations. Hon
est government reduced taxes aud the
repeal of surplus revenue are forbidden topics
among the huzzas for the Phmed Knight;
but ten or twenty per cent of tile Repnb-
Leans voters of the country incline just now
to care more for honest government, reduced
taxes and frugal administration than for
mere party success. 1t. is needless to
attempt to impress these vital facts upon
such leaders as Elkins, but there is fearful
danger that the voters may impress them
upon parties and upon the country in
November
The Wilmingtonian., 1884-10-11
Speaker Carlisle.


1t is worthy of note that there is more
demand for Speaker Carlisle on the stump
in Ohio than for any other Democratic
orator. This is not because Mr.. Carlisle has
any extraordinary gifts of elOqueuce. There
are on the stump IN Ohio Democratic speak
ers who are his superiors in the graces of
oratory. But Mr.. Carlisle is regarded as a
sincere and courageous advocate of revenue
reform, as IA statesman who honestly desires
to reduce needless taxation without making
any violent or radical changes in the tariff
laws, that is the reason why the people of
Ohio are eager to hear him. 1t is a good
sign.
The Wilmingtonian., 1884-10-11

1t is the utmost enjoyment of travel to
find God present everywhere, listener and
an answerer of the devout heart; for there
is to each wanderer an hour in each day
when the loneliness of his situation over
comes him with heavy thought. There are
times when the miles, and mountains, and
seas that lie between him and the beloved
ones of earth seem like the distances that
stretch from earth to stars-yea seem vastly
greater, for he then remembers those who
have gone to the country he has been accus-
toned to consider as lying on the other side
of the sapphire floor" and then they seem
nearer to him than do those who yet travel
the beaten and well-known, well-located
paths of existence. And, believing them tc
be in the presence of God, he then believes
God near to him, and rejoices with keen JOY
in the might and majesty of these tive
words, "My Fathei," which reach the
Almighty ear, whether they be uttered OIL
the plains Of Orient or in the. close-curtaned
room at home where the dear circle gathers
at prayer.
The Wilmingtonian., 1884-10-11

An eminent physician says: "When taken
only or chiefly with food, and as constitu-
enys of general free-living, rermented
drinks, wine, or beer contribute to the pro-
ducton of an abundance Of disseminated,
overheated blood, which either finds vent in
eruptions of the surface or in local hemcr-
rhages, or causes vertigo, stupor, bilious
attacks, dyspepsia, govt, or gravel"
The Wilmingtonian., 1884-10-11

1t may not be generally known, but it is
nevertheless the fact, that the United States
is the leading producer of peppermint and
peppermint oil in the world. 1t is princi-
ply grown in the State of Michigan and in
Wayne county, New York. The production
of tho oil in 1873 reached as high as
150, 000lb but in 1888 the yieli was comput-
ed at not more than 35,0OOlb. This year
larger acreage has been planned, but prices
have advanced on account of the decreased
stocks The usual annual consumption of
the world is about 100, 0O0ib, but it is expec-
ted there will be considerable increase
this year, as also in other essential oils, on
account of apprehensions of cholera. Pep.
permint is grown to best advantage in good
garden soils, but requires an abundance of
moisture. An acre will grow plants enough
to yield from 8fb to 15lb of oil, according to
the age of the plant and the locality, and
tho price is from 1925 to 49, 10 ID. There
are no large farms entirely devoted to this
product, but it is cultivated in small guam.
titles by many farmers. 1t is used in medi.
cine, confectionery, and for perfdmery, and
is diluted with alcohol and water to make
essence of peppermint 1t is also largely
used by sanitary engineers for testing joints
and traps, few drops poured into wash.
bowl or closet making its presence sensible
to cmell at any imperfect joints in a pipe
leading therefrom, its pungens odour not be
ing apparently at all affected by the sewer
The Wilmingtonian., 1884-10-11

No one needs distilled spirits except in
sickness. Nobody in health drinks it with
his meals as cheering or digestive bever-
age. 1t is probably never taken by healthy
men without more or less physical damage.
In other words it is huge national curse.
The number of people who begin to see this
Is increasing, and they are likely every year
to become greater and greater proportion
of the American people.-Ldureace TTumJuu,
in Baltimore Sun.
The Wilmingtonian., 1884-10-11
THE TWO GREAT nExEr1rg or EXERCISE.

THE TWO GREAT BENEFITS or EXERCISE.
These are the two great results of exer-
cise-perspiration and stimulus to the di-
gestiye organs. Most people have a good
word to say for the latter; but it seems that
the intimate connection between free per-
spiration and health is not generally under
stood. An observant man who has once
got INFO the habit of taking exercise that
makes him sweat, soon finds what q won
derful secret it is of health aud happiness,
both to the body ami mind. Sweating is a
way of getting rid of waste material in the
body; which must be got rid Of somehow.
II is "chucker out, so to speak, as if the
body were a lodging house. The coadjntors
of the skin in its beneficial work are the
lungs, liver, and the kidneys. The more
work the skin does, the less remains for
those organs to do; the more vigorously and
easily will they perform their own tasks OF
getting rid of waste--be it carbon, watery
vapour or waste food. Hence, sweating
relieves the intestines But more than that,
it clears the head, as anyone knows who
works hard up to the time of taking exer.
else, and begins again afterwards. How
many gloomy humours and brooding cares
have been dispelled by its genial working.
How it cleanses mans view of life! and
leaves the body in a tranquil, purified con-
ditioh, ready for mental labour, or nourish.
ment or calm sleep.
The Wilmingtonian., 1884-10-11
Fun for the UnterriGed.


1t will give the Democrats of Delaware
more genuine pleasure tolay out Mr.. Anthony
Higgins cold in defeat the first Tuesday OF
next November than any other man the
Republicans could have nominated.
The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1884-01-16
Price, Ten Gents

year, held last December, he promised in
consideration of being again elected pres
ident, to take the stock according to his
agreement within limited time. This
promise he has not yet carried out Why
he has SO neglected his obligations re-
mains mystery. So goes the story.
Meanwhile the company's paper and ac-
counts are in the hands of Livingston and
Gardiner business men and employees of
the company, many of whom can i'll afford
to wait for their money.
That there will ever be any loss at the
company's hands is not within the region
of probability. It's assets represent its
liabilities several times multiplied, but
the great delay in liquidating these large
outstanding bills naturally gives rise to
much comment not all favorable to the
credit of the company.
The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1884-01-16
THE LATEST NEWS.


The Utah Legislature is in session.
Hon. Philip Philips, former congress
man from Alabama, is dead.
Governor Hoadly, of Ohio, was inaug-
urated on Monday in a quiet way.
The trial of James Mutt, for killing
Dukes, is in progress at Pittsburg.
Three four-story free warehouses OF
Lawrence s. Co. were burned in New
York; loss $23O,000.
The secretary of the treasury has issued
another call for $1O,OO0,OOO in three per
cent. bonds, to be redeemed March Is.
Senator Edmunds was reelected presi-
dent of the senate, Senator Anthony hay
ing declined on account of i'll health.
The retirement of President Willard
from the Northern Pacific, and his down.
fall, has created sensation in Germany
Montreal is building another ice palace
and will have winter carnival that will
be grander affair than that of last year.
E. w. Coleman s. Co., and J. w.
Fuller & Co., brokers of New York, both
failed on Saturday with heavy liabilities.
The powder magazine at Cornwall
Mills, Pa, exploded, killing workman
and creating shock that was felt mile
away.
A delegation of Apaches are at Wash
ington trying to get pay for 700 ponies
alleged to have been taken from their
tribe by Gen. Hatch.
William Black, the novelist, is danger
ously i'll. His physicians have forbidden
him to do any more work, or to discuss
literary matters. Black is suffering from
nervous debility, which the doctors say
has been caused by oVerwork
A San Francisco Iron and Nail COM
pany whose employees arc on a strike, has
sent to England for men, but the secretary
of the Amalgamated Association of Amer
lea has directed similar officer in Eng
land, and no mcn will be sent.
The body of Delmonico, the restau-
rateur, was found in the woods near New
ark, N. j., on Monday. He had wandered
there during an attack of mental aberra-
ton with which he was afflicted of late,
and had died from exposure.
The secretary of the interior ordered
the sale at public auction, February 81,
of the agency buildings and $4,000 acres
of land at Hot Springs, Oregon, and the
Caliente Indian reservation, New Mexico.
No bid of less than $15, 900 will be enter
tained
VIM. P. Pownall, a young man of Phil
adelphia, plead guilty to the embezzlc-
ment of $8, 700 from his employers, Sim
clair g. Mclaughlin, grocers, and was
sentenced to Imprisonment for five years
and three months. Pownell lost his money
at poker and faro.
Judge TAYLOR, in the circuit court of
st. Louis, in the case of the Nation and
others versus the Pacific railroad and the
Missouri Pacific railroad, sustained the
demurrer and dismissed the bill. The
'uit was to set aside the foreclosure of the
bird mortgage on the Pacific railroad to
J. X. Garrison in favor of the plaintiffs,
yho were judgment creditors.
A Boston dispatch says: Within the
,ast two weeks there has been an alarm
ag frequency of boldly, precipitated and
'rutal assaults upon respectable citizens
committed for the sole purpose of robbery,
ntil now it is considered absolutely un-
afe te walk on the public highways te-
ween Common and Dover streets. eisLer
.te 1t night or early IL the morning
The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1884-01-16
CINNABAR y
GALLATIN COUNTY, M. T.,

Is Situated at tie Terminus of the National P1rh
BraRcb Of the ~ p r. r. seven miles north OF the Nam
moth Hot Springs, mile from the National Park line
ion the V9st bank the Yellowstone RiUer II WiuTon-
tee Title has been obtained in faUor of the Northern Pa
cfc Ralroad and other Capitalists, z0ho zO spare
pains opening it to Speedy Settlement on and after
December 10Th books z0iU be open to those ising to OBJ
tain Title to Lots. No wisipg to inUest In IoWn
Property afford to loose the present opportunity,
ing to the Liberal policy OF the Company relative to Price
and Terms of Payment
The Su7rounding Country aboundsin COAL equal
to the Bnauous CoaJof Pennsylvania making this
excellent point for Smelling Works. for the Bear GuLch
and Czors Fo7 Mines, zOhere smelling isinerht1s
tible East Of CINN.4B4R is Uust Grazing country
afo1zing excellent facilities for Stoch Raising The
Lands lying north and south along the YeouUsoe Val
lev erceedin ely fe e mountain streams oording
ample zUater for aU HriGane purposes, making de-
sirtte country for those 1OishnS to engnge IN Agric1
tttYaI Pursuits.
Particulars of application
PARK IMPROVEMENT CO.,
Yellowstone National Iacrk
The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1884-01-16
Park Improvement company Anaira


How are the affairs of the Park I'M
provement company going to shape them
selves is question of some public inter
est just now, when the company is com
ing in for share of the government CEN
sure that seems falling upon everyone
connected with the National Park. Their
heavy floating Indebtedness still remains
without immediate prospect of liquidation.
The company carries names upon its list
Of directors that are currently supposed to
represent many millions. Rufus Hatch
is president of the company and was its
main protector. One story says that the
company's IS embarrassment arises from his
refusal to carry out his agreement. 1t is
said that upon the organization of the
company he contracted to take a large
body of the stock enough to place suffi-
clent funds in the treasury to carry out the
entire SYSTEM OF projected improvements.
lie failed TO fulfil his contract. Upon
tho election of officers for tie ensuing
The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1884-01-16
The constitutional Convention.

| w. j. Mccormick on Monday at noon
Temporary officers were elected and q
committee of thirteen members Zone from
each county, on credentials was appointed
who reported the following as entitled to
seats:
Beaverhead County-Joseph A. Brown
and Robert A. Smith.
Choteau County-T E. Collins and w.
FL. Hunt.
Custer County-C. W. Savage, William
Van Gasken and s. r. Douglass.
Dawson County,. F. Malony.
Deer Lodge County,. c. Robinson,
E. B. Waterbury and Joaquin Abascal.
Gallatin County IS. w. Langhorne, r.
P. Vivion, G. 0. Eaton, F. d. Pease and
E. F. Ferris.
Jefferson County E. Mcsorley and N.
Merriman.
Lewis and Clarke County Matt Car
roll, j. K. Toole, G. Hedges and George
Steele.
Madison county-H. s. Howell and J
e. Galloway.
Missoula county-W. J. Mccormick,
W. j. Stephens, j. B. Catlin, and r. A.
Eddy.
Meagher county,. F. McClintock,
James Fergus and w. F. Haas.
Silver Bow connty-Thos. L. Napton,
w. Y Pemberton, w. A. Clark, Marcus
DAILY, J. G. c. Thornton and Francis Med
hurst
Yellowstone county,. NJ. Proctor
and F. NJ. Greene.
First Judicial District Walter Cooper
and A. F. Burleigh.
Second Judicial District-W. w. Dixen
and James Fl. Mills.
Third Judicial Dtstrict-W. q. Humid
ley and I. C. Power.
In the afternoon Chief Justice Wade
attended and administered the oath of
office to these members.
AT the evening session w. A. Clark of
Silver Bow county, and James III. Mills of
Deer Lodge, was nominated for the posi-
ton of permanent chairman, and vote
resulted in the election Clark by 25 to A
several members refraining from voting.
The new chairman took his seat and de-
livered neat speech. Paul L. VanCleve
OF Billings, was nominated for the position
of chief clerk, and no other nominations
being made, he received the place. 1t
was resolved to elect an assistant secre-
tary, an engrossing clerk, sergeant at
arms, fireman, two stenographers, two
pages and clerk for each standing COM
mittee, and committee was appointed to
consider the amount of pay each clerk
was entitled to.
Aresolution was offered so appoint the
following standing committees:
On rules; on election and qualifications;
ON bills of rights; election franchise;
Legislative department; executive depart
ment; judicial department; distribution
of powers, pardons and militia; education;
state institutions and public buildings;
cities. towns, and counties; corporations;
revenue and taxation; water and water
rights; state and municipal Indebtedness;
land and homestead exemptions, and
to the constitution; miscel-
laneous subjects and boundary; schedule.
Referred to committee of one men,
Der from each county.
Burleigh, Mccormack, Mills, Lang
horne and Toole were appointed COM
mittec ON rules Convention adjourned
Park Improvement Company Affairs.
How are the affairs of the Park I'M
company going to shape them
selves is al question of some public inter- |
Daily Republican., 1884-08-05

Among the exhibits Of the Electrical
Exhibition special mex ton should be
made of the stereographic maps to be
suspended in the lecture room showing
the ocean cables. These maps are
twenty -four feet In diameter, and dis
play the ocean cables Of the world,
both those now In use and those aban'
dohed, In their exact positions ~ they
lie on the ocean floor.
The addition 70 the galleries in the
nave of the main building, spoken oil
. few days since In these columns, has
now teen completed, and adds many
hundreds Of square feet to the exhi.
bition space in that portion Of the
building.
The literature Of electricity, sent
from Belgium, Ii . formidable collec
ton, occupying an immense amour,
| Of space, but possessing great interest
for them of silence.
The Belgio exhibit win be the same
that attracted 30 much attention at the
Paris Exposition.
Experiments were tried yesterday
at the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia,
with the arc light, instead Of the lime
or Drummond light for the Holman
lantern-microscope. A Brush electric
focusing lamp was used, operated by
Brush dynamo, but the occasional
soft spot that occurred In the carbon
threw q red glare that prevented entire
success. Enough, however, WA
shown to prove that the electric light
can eventually be used for the purpose
indicated,
Daily Republican., 1884-08-05

DIAL Of 1t over his own signature can
easily be made 1t is quite too serious
a charge to let 60 uncontradicted.-
When the Chinese lie was raised against
Garfield, a lie not half as damaging and
bad as the charge against Cleveland, he
lost no time in branding 1t as q lie, and
suit for libel was Immediately insti-
tuted against the papers that published
1t. That was the only thing that saved
his election, and she fact that the
denial did not reach California in time
was the only thing that lost him that
State. We do not believe that q denial
by Cleveland of the charge against him
will secure his election, for he will be
beaten anyhow, but it would save his
character if the charge is not true, and
after all a good character should be
more desirable than good office. II
Cleveland does not deny this serious
charge the inference must be that it is
true, and if true the face of every hon
est man that loves chastity more thar
vice should blanch with shame thai
votes for him.
Daily Republican., 1884-08-05

MIR. William Dean says the Dean
Wooden Company has S21S,O00 paid in
capital, but for the last two years the
business has not paid a cent of interest,
and has run behind s., 900 besides. Let
US see how much of loss this will
amount to, anyhow. The interest of
s2lS, 900 for one year at six per cent
would be S13,0S0. Add this to the
81, 900 lost besides and we have ST., $50,
loss in year. AS the loss extends for
two years the total deficiency would be
S34 16O. AS the Company made money
until two years ago, and since then
lacked S34, 100 of paying interest on the
capital invested and expenses, with a
moderate reduction of the tariff, how
much more would it run behind with a
horizontal reduction of 20 per cent.
more. This question is only asked in
view OF the fact that the losses of the
Dean Wooden Company only extend
back to the time the tariff was re-
duced.
Daily Republican., 1884-08-05

TIM letter of Independent" pub
lished in to-day's REPUBLICAN,, refer
ring to Mr.. Deans losses in carrying
on the Dean Wooden Company's mills
is pertinent and to the point. 1t seems
that three stockholders have paid in
S21S, 600 capital, and for two years past
the company has not only paid no in
terest on the capital, but has run be-
hind "a, 900 besides The interest IN
paid and the loss besides amount to $l7-
$50 year. The company pays year
500, 900 in wages to hands. 1t is q le-
gitimate question to ask what the sala-
ries of the stockholders are employed
in the mill? How much is paid to the
President, who we believe is Mr.. Dean?
How much to the Secretary, Treasurer,
or superintendent or by whatever name
these officers are styled, and are their
salaries part of the S63,OO0 paid for
wages If the three stockholders are
paid from S., 1000 to So, 900 each in sals-
ries for their services it will make a
considerable offset against the annual
loss. Mr.. Dean was not very explicit
upon this point perhaps he will yet
make it more plain.