The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-12-10
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Gov. HILL will find very comfortable bal
ance to his credit In Wash ington. His salary
as senator began March. I, 1891 He is also
drawing salary es governor of New York.
T. @. WEEKS, the Boston broker who recently
failed for S429, $50, has made an offer to his
creditors of mill on the dollar which has
been accepted and the offer confirmed by the
court
TIE GRIP has been severely prevalent in Aus
trala during the past few months, the winter
season in that quarter of the globe, where the
middle OF July is the chilliest time of the year
The governor Of Victoria was confined to his
bed for several days with influenza, and many
OF bis engagements for a considerable period
had 70 be Cancelled. The postmaster general,
the chief secretaryland minister of lands, and
many other members Of the government, were
prostrated with the disease, and serious incon-
veniences was caused generally In the conduct
OF public and private business.
ALL the Idle piacer-miners in the west-and
their name is legion-are fiocking to the new
Big Horn mines in Wyoming, near the Mon
tana line, word having gone out that they were
lost and found again. Nothing SO excltes a
treasure-hunter' s imagination as the story.sthat
some lucky prospector has stumbled upon a
lost mine, for the reason that the tradition of
its value Is magnihed with the passage Of time.
Inc Big horn PlS9ers were discovered By three
kapley, in the summer of 1869. Before
the close OF that year they came out
OF Of the wilderness with gold dust worth
$4,000 They left behind two carts, log
house and their tools, expecting to find the dig
gings again without dlf1culty. They intended to
return the following year, but the Indians were
years afterward that the prospectors ventured
in again. They found no traces Of their camp
and gave up the search whom winter set in. At
the litae towp OF Hyattville, Wyo., they told
the story to incredulous ears. A man named
Williams, who heard IL repeated, re-
m members that while prospecting
had come upon two carts half buried
in a Rulch He started for the wilderness at
once, but after long and fruitless quest he
concluded that a new forest growth had long
since covered up the evidences Of the gold seek,
ers camp. He found, however deposit near
Bald mountain, and building a hut began to
wash for dust without indulging In the hope
that he would ever come across the abandoned
plaoers. One day he lost his horse, and while
in pursuit Of 1t penetrated thickly wooded
ravine. In its recesses he discovered an old
hut falling in ruins. II flashed upon him that
there was the camp Of the three miners, and he
made an examination, TO find their picks and
cooking utensils, and an old envelope with the
name Of John Eads' upon It, The following
year 1888 he returned with his brother and
brother-in-law. They Kept their own counsel,
and nothing was heard OF the party until nine
months ago, when the brother rode into Buffalo
Wyo., and summoned a physician to attend
Williams, who had been seriously hurt by
falling tree in the Big Horn camp. The miners
could keep the secret no longer, and today the
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diggerS.
IT Is SAID that the father Of the late
William Henry Smith saw with discrimination
and wisdom that the time would probably come
when 1t would be to the advantage of his son.
and in accordance with his earnest desires that
the absorbing and rapidly increasing response
blties OF the newspaper trade He made the
request TO me, writes an English politician in
the Mondon telegraph that 1 should ask Lord
Inn ruhn han .fasuA
he would not try to find an opportunity for his
son to contest a parliamentary seat In the first
election that might take place 1 then had as a
colleague one who was an intimate friend
Hunt, the eldest son Of in0 fei9b
Hunt sent him TO Cambridge house Co see
Lord Palmerston. aud 1 asked him 70 inform
the premier that there was at that moment
young man zealously working In the strand
who would one day be heard OF Ia the public
service, and who strongly wished to enter the
House OF Commons. In the 1aunty way which
was peculiar to him, the prime minister said
YES, certainly; daresay you are right Go
and tell Brand ard he will look after him." Mr..
Brand was then Lord Palmerston's whip and
as far as my memory serves me, he received
the suggestion favorably. and said he would
bear the fact in mind. But in those days and
days the liberal party did not pay so much
to the selection of eficient candiD
dates for parliamentary seats; re-
Joinder that the proceeding is not peculiar to
one party, but at certain epochs, seems to have
been common to all. A short time afterward
Mr.. Smith caused his name to be inscribed for
membership duly proposed and seconded in
the books of the Reform Club. With tho rota-
Bile absence OF pretension which characterized
him throughout his blameless life, he described
himself as In reality he was. ''newsven.
der" At this the pride Of certain inmates of
the Reform Club revolted. majority of them,
men more interested in the social comforts OF
their club than in the political welfare of the EN-
pire, declared they didn't want anything to do
with newsvenders;" 80 they promptly black
baled rising honest, able and ambitious
liberal The Development of party spirit and
the everchanEinR current Of affairs brought
about In the minds of many men a change In
their convictions and in their inclinatons; and
there IL no doubt that. altogether apart from
the rejection of Mr.. Smith by what was then
the chief liberal organization, the bent of the
late first lords mind turned toward conserve
tism. In 1885 he determined, hating become a
man Of repute and Of power In the district, to
stand for WeHtminsteP