The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1896-01-25

Mrs. D. H. Wilcomb is suffering
from the effects of a severe cold and
will not be able to visit schools for a
few weeks.
The children of st. Pauls Sunday
School will render the comedietta
king Persifer's Crown" at Armorv
Hall Saturday evening Feb I. The enter
talnment was to have been given Mon
day evening, but had TO be postponed
on account of the illness of some of the
little folks. 1t promises to be a very
pleasing entertainment and will un-
doubtedly be very generally attended.
Tickets on sale at City Drug Store.
Reserved seats - cents.
The Virginia Literary Society
which continues to flourish like the
green bay tree held its semi-annual
election of officers Wednesday evening
with the following result: President
Wiley Mountjoy; ice-president, Mat
thew Nelson: Secretary. Miss Nellie
Cole; Treasurer, Rev. Guyler; Critic.
Prof. Hall: Editor Gossip, Thomas J.
Lowman; programme committee, Mrs
Flora McNulty, Miss Flora Duncan and
Kew Guyler. On account of the cleo
ton the programme was abbreviated
there being music by the uuartette.
consisting of Messrs Haines. Hall,
Stevenson and Nelson, an excellent pa
pei on Longfellow by Mrs. McNulty,
instrumental music by Miss Nelson and
Prof. Bovee, and the debate on Re
solved, That Other Powers Should In
terfere in Behalf of the Armenian
Suffers The affirmative was champ
ioned by Miss Nellie Cole, who won,
and the negative by Rev. Mountjoy,
the judges being w. J. Foreman, Mrs.
Duncan and James How. The meet
ing was very interesting.
The latest fad in society circles in
Rocker is the organization of hug
ging society, novel pastime intro
duced by 'Rube' Geary for the pur-
pose of raising funds to build church
in that suburb. Mr.. Geary is not par
ticular as to the demon ination of the
church but there is a suspicion exist
ing in the minds of many that he in
trOduced the game to make himself
popular with the old maids in that vi
oinity. Mr.. Geary states for the bene-
fit of the young men of Butte who
wish to assist in the good work that a
regular scale of rates has been adopted
which range as follows: Girls under
Is years for each hug of two minutes,
rs cents; from 16 to 20 years. so cents;
school-mar'ms, 40 cents: another man 8
wife, 81; widows, according to looks,
from 10 cents to S.; old maids, four for
dime, no limit to time; ministers, no
charge; reporters, take it out in adver-
tising, and conductors and red-headed
widowers are charged extra and must
wait until all others get through. Vis-
itors to socials there will be guaran-
anteed square deal by Mr.. Geary.--
Inter Mountain.
James Cavenah, a young man en-
ployed at the Easton Mine, died at the
Madison House Saturday afternoon of
chronic inflammation of the bowels.
When it became apparent to the ply
sicians in charge that there was no
chance to save his life by ordinary
methods, they decided with his con-
sent to perform the operation known in
medical science as laparatory. The
operation. performed by DR.. South
mayd, assisted by Drs. Ragan and
Miller, but the disease was in such an
advanced stage that nothing could be
done to save the young man. He died
q short time later He was very re-
tricent as to his family history, and
did not seem to care whether his rela-
tives were notified of his death or not
and from the conversation had with
the physicians he was evidently a man
with history. He had no means and
the boys at the Easton did the hand
some thing by seeing that the remains
OF the unfortunate young man were de-
Gently inferred and paying all the
bills therefor. He had suffered from
two previous attacks OF the same troub-
le and came very near dying a year
ago. The operation performed was
the first OF the kind ever attempted in
Madison County. Cavenah had been
employed at the Easton only short