smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1868

The opinions of Commissioner Wilson
in regard to the amount of mineral lands
that may be located by individuals or
companies appear TO have undergone a
change that will materially affect those
desiring to take up leads under the law
OF July 26, 1866. In reply to letter of
Hon. Bella NJ. Hughes, of Colorado, some
time since, the Commissioner stated that
under the provisions and within the
meaning of tie Act, two or more persons
would constitute an association author
lied TO locate 1900 feet. This letter has
in many localities been accepted as a
ruling, and was published in Yates
San Francisco treatise on mining laws
The erroneous impression conveyed in
this letter the Commissioner is about to
correct in letter TO Mr.. Yates, and a
decision soon to be made in n mining
case that comes within its scope in the
Marysville District, California. This
Information is conveyed to the press of
Colorado by Messrs. Britton & Gray,
Attorneys, Washington, who are init
mate with the views now entertained
at the General Land Office. The follow
ing extracts from the communication,
coming as it does vouched for as relia-
BILE, we deem of sufficient Importance to
Montanians to reproduce:





When the commissioner addressed General
Hughes the whole subject of mining laws and
customs was new 90 his Office. No opportu-
nifty had been enjoyed to collect and digest
such information as would enable him to put
the law in operation upon sound principles of
construction. Hence his rulings at that early
date were immature, and in the nature of a
''leap in the dark" But since then, Mr.
Wilson has been a close student of mining
law, and his mature judgment rejects much
that he had heretofore adopted. This is the
case with the question. in point. He now
holds that parties may apply to him for a
mining patent, either as locaters of the mine
or purchasers. IF as locaters, that they are
restricted to the number of feet allowed by
the local law and customs, so long as tAe
game does not exceed the maximum of two
hundred feet allowed to EACH locator by the
act of congress. In such case it would re-
quire fourteen applicants to receive a patent
for 3 200 feet, if one is claimed by discovery.


But if as purchasers, then even one appli-
cant, by exhibiting certificates of purchase,
or other lawful chain of conveyance from
sufficient number of original locators, can re-
ceive patent for three thousand feet.


We understand the conflict in your Terri
tory to have reference to the location of
mining claims. In such case not more than
two hundred feet can be located by one per-
son, with an additional claim for discovery !;
and an association of locators can only take
in the same ratio to each member up TO the
maximum for the whole of three thousand
feet


The Grass Valley Union has the latest
reason for the selection of Colfax as Vice
President on the ticket with Grant.
Being the more Radical of she two, he
was nominated as kind of life assur-
ance for Grant. his more extreme views
assuring that Grant will not be Boothed
as long as such an unmigitated Radical
stands heir apparent to the office
Year: 1868

Which will be sufficient to duplicate lines to all,
nearly all the paying points reached by the present
monopoly.


The present telegraph Companies OF the country
have been consolidated into one huge monopoly
and are earning six millions of dollars per
year, or over one hundred per cent the actual
cost of their lines their present capital having been
watered over one thousand per cent.


The National Telegraph Company have recog
milton from the United States Government OF the
Importance of their enterprise, with grant of the
most valuable franchises ever conferred upon a
Telegraph Company. No competing line has ever
had the right granted by congress to this Com,
pany to construct and operate lines over every Rail
road and Mail Route in the United States The posi-
ton of this Company differs from that of any com
pany ever before organized. The question of the
right of way is forever settled,


The Stockholders of this Company not be sole
out or transferred to any other Company. The ac
of Congress under which this company has beer
organized, prohibits any transfer of the franchises
granted.
Year: 1868

General Hancock thinks it doubtful if
the convention has been carried in Texas,
but if it mas the revised registration has
insured a majority of whites, who can
adept or reject the constitution.
Year: 1868

A new enterprise to be known as tire Nation
Telegraph Company has been organized with val
uable franchises conferred by recent act of Con-
Telegraph all the principal railroads and mail
routes in the United States The stock is to be
issued upon the same principle that of the Mer.
chants Union Express Company, which recently
the entire business community in the enterprise.
This is done, not so much to dispose of the stock
it is to the business of the country through
which the Lines pass


The Capital is to De
Year: 1868

The QUALIFICATIONS REQUISITE for a
member of the New York City government
are of very remarkable character. Mr..
Bergh, of that City, the President of the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals, states that he recently had to have
one of the Councilmen arrested. He was a
butcher, and had chopped off the hind legs
of pair of steers which were unruly, and
then allowed them to lie in the scorching
sun for hours before putting them out OF
their misery. When required to write his
name he made cross, not having acquired
the art.
Year: 1868

tion since the fire, on suspicion of dishones-
ty.


"Oh, sir, have pity upon me-" cried he.
{" l am an unlucky dog. If it had not been
for sneeze should have had ten thousand
pounds in my pocket by this time


"Oh! you came after that, did you y
said my husband, coolly. well, please to
give up that life-preserver which you have
in your pocket before we have any more
conversation"


And did your lady tell you that, too -
cried the villain, in accents of astonishment
as he delivered up the weapon to the man
servant; "and yet [ stood by her yonder,
and never heard her utter single syllable y


Il never spoke word, cried l, through
the dressing-room key hole, for | did not
wish the man to think that | had broken
my oath, nor, to say the truth, was [ anx-
ious to make deadly enemy of him in case
he should ever be at large again.


Then it's judgment upon me-" ex-
claimed the miserable wretch; g and its
no good for me to fight against it"


It's not the least good" replied Frank,
decisively; land we'll 80 to the police Of
fee at once"


So off went the burglar in their custody,
leaving me safe and sound, after all. And
now don't you think there's some use in
learning every thing, even so small thing
as the deaf and dumb alphabet ,
Year: 1868

[ will tell you story of how [ once
saved my life entirely through having
learned the deaf and dumb alphabet


There were two little boys who used to
come to stay with Frank and me, when we
were first married, and they could neither
hear nor speak.


not talk, except with their fingers-so-
only ever SO much quicker.


Frank and | learned this foreign alpha
bet on purpose that we might understand
what they said They were quick and
clever; they could read and write, and
draw and sew, and do many other things
which most boys would make very bad
hand at.


They could play at draughts, and back
CANNON, and chess, and at fox and geese
as well as any boys They could almost
see what we said, although they could not
hear, with such quick, eager eyes did they
watch every movement of our lips We
soon, however, got to talk as easily with
our fingers as with our tongues and
sometimes, when the lads were not with
u.s. Frank and I nsed to converse in that
manner when we were alone, for practice.





had to 90 to London on important business
he was to have gone by an afternoon train,
but something delayed him, SO that he was
not able to leave before the night express.


was not in very good health, and re-
tired to my bedroom about two hours be
fore his departure he promised, however.
to come up and wish me good-by before he
started, which would be between twelve
and one o'clock in the morning. The mat
ter which had called him away was con-
nected with the bank here, which had Just
been burned down and my husband, it
seems, although l did not know it at the
time-so great secret had be endeavored
to keep it-had many thousand pounds be-
longing to the concern in his temporary
possession, locked up in the iron safe in
our bedroom, where the plate was kept
He was bank manager, and responsible tor
the whole of it. 1t was a cold time, and
there was fire in the room, so bright and
comfortable that was in no hurry to leave
it to get into bed, but sat up looking into
the fiery Goals, and thinking about all sorts
of things; upon the long journey Frank
had to take that night, and of how dreary
the days would seem until he returned, anc
in particular, how lonely should feel il
that great room all by myself when he
should be away-for l was a dreadful
coward 1t was a little after clever
o'clock when got into bed, but I did moi
feel the least inclined to sleep even then
1 knew that Frank would be coming tt
wish me goodbye presently; and besides
there seemed to be all sorts of noises abou
the room, which my foolish ears Away
Year: 1868

FEMALES OF TARTARY. Some of the
Tartar women wear long snow-white wells,
which cover not only the face, but the
whole of the head and upper part of the
body and as if wells were insufficient to
protect them from observation, they no
sooner behold man, than they hang their
heads and endeavor to escape notice by
fight. An English servant observing this
practice, deemed it to be an act ofrudeness
on his part, to give them the trouble of
hiding their faces and running away on his
account therefore whenever he encounter
ed them, he covered his face and took to
his heels, in order to hide himself in the
first place he could find. This passed un-
noticed for some time at length the Tartar
women, struck by the singularity of seeing
a man always avoiding them, let fall a
portion of their wells when they next met
him but this caused him only to run fas


ter than before. Such conduct excited
their curiosity more than ever, and at last
they hunted him after following him in
parties to his hiding place with their wells
off, they resolved to see man who for the
first time concealed his face at the ap-
proach of a woman, and, having caught
him, they actually commanded an explain
alton of his unaccountable behavior.
Year: 1868

LEAD MINES AT SADAwGA = The follow
ing account of these mines, to work which
the Wilmington lead and silver mining
company was last fall chartered, we find
in an exchange:


Tradition says that an Indian named
Sawdawda-the name is now spelled Sa-
dawga--used to get his lead from these mines
with which to make his bullets. He was
the last surviving member of his tribe in
this vicinity, and lived near the pond which
bears his name, situated about 3-4 of mile
west of the center of the town. He used to
hunt and fish about this pond, and along the
Deerfeld river, in the west part of the town,
which passes these mines. As near as our
correspondent can learn he disappeared
about so years since, and it is believed by
many that he was drow ned by the upset
ting of his canoe when passing the rapids
in the river. 1t has been known by the
inhabitants for many years, that valuable
minerals existed here, but no analysis was
made until about 19 years since, when Will
liam B. Harvey of New York visited this
section of the country, exploring for min
erals He learned of these mines and pro-
cured specimens of the ore, and had it
analysed by DIR. james B. Chiffon, an able
chemist of New York City. The result of
the analysis was 3l6 ounces of silver to one
tun of lead This was in the Fall of 1e4S.
During the following Winter or Spring be
returned and obtained other specimens of
this ore, which he had analyzed at the mint
in Philadelphia with like results About
sh;r time Mr. Harvey's wife was killed by
an accident on the railroad, and he sick
ened and died soon after, and nothing has
since been done about these mines till with
in the past year.
Year: 1868

THE RAINING TREE-The islandof Fier-
TO is one of the largest in the Canary group
and it has received its name on account of
its iron-bound soil, through which no river
or stream flows 1t has also but very few
wells, and these not very good. But the
great Preserver and Sustainer of all RENE
dies this inconvenience in a way so extra
ordinary that man will be forced to acknowl
edge that he gives in this an undeniable
demonstration of his wonderful goodness.
In the midst of the island there grows
tree, the leaves of which are long and mar
row, and continue in constant vedure winter
and summer, and the bronches are covered
with a cloud which is never dispelled, but.
resolving itself into moisture, causes to
fall from its leaves very clear water IN
sech abundance that cisterns placed at its
foot to receive it are never empty.
Year: 1868

How A MINING AGENT Cor RICH-
Tribune, from Nevada, relates the follow
ing


q An acquaintance of mine shook hands
with me in such very patronzing manner
Yesterday that | am moved to make him
the text of a paragraph that will serve to
illustrate what one may term state of
things When [ first knew this man he
hadn't a cent. He did not put on airs then.
Now he is a superintendent of one of the
great silver mines, and has grown rich.
You may not believe thata superintendent
can grow absolutely rich in four years on
a salary of from ten to twenty thousand
dollars a wear, but such is really the case
Ordinary superintendents are content to
covertly receive a present of a dollar or so
for each ton of ore they sell to millman :,
but nv mans ambition scared higher than
that. He took lumber belonging to the
great corporation that employed him, and
built little mill of his own with it. He
built that mill below the company's mill,
too, which was wise. Then he took other
of the company's lumber, and built a string
of sluice boxes that reached clear from the
company's mill TO his own. After that he
worked the companys rock in the COM
pany's mill and got sixteen dollars ton
out of it-and turned the money over to
company-which didn't declare dividend.
Then he took the trailings from that same
rock, carried them through his sluices to the
his little private mill, worked them over
again and out of every ton he got thirty
dollars Which money was his own. of
course, and he never gave any of it to the
company Now you can understand how
a man can get rich in four years, on twelve
thousand dollars a year, when the company
furnishes him dwelling house and horses
and carriages free"
Year: 1868

does 1t happen that in assigning great and


brilliant parts to his subordinate command
ers, he has never, when the results of his
strategy were fully unfolded, appeared in
the picture except as the central figure +?
However, 1t may seem during the progress
OF one OF his great combined campaigns,
IL always turns out at last, when it reaches
that completeness and finish in which he
eontrives to have his campaigns end that
we see him standing in the foreground,
and that the grouping is always such that
the glory of the other Generals, instead of
ecllpslng his own, gives it additional luster


1t is this s1reaess of judgnent, 1c1tich sees
precisely where taes the turning point !;
which sees precisely what are the objects
that justify the utmost stretch of persist
ence; it this ability to take in the whole
field of view in just perspective and due
subordination of parts, that is the mark of
a superior mind. Gen. Grant has taken
out of the hands of all critics the question
whether it belongs to him He has won
his greatest triumph over the most skillful
and accomplished General on the other
eide; over General who foiled him long
enough to prove his great mastery of the
art of war and the completeness of whose
defeat is testimony to Grants genius
such as a victory over any other General
of the Confederacy, or even an earlier vic
tory over Lee himself, could not have
given. Apply to Gen. Grant what test
you will; measure him by the magnitude
of the obstacles he has surmounted, by the
value of the positions he has gained, by
the fame of the antagonist over whom he
has triumphed, by the achievements of his
most illustrious co-workers, by the sureness
with which he directs his indomitable en-
ergy to the vital point which is the key of
a vast field of operations, or by that su-
preme test of consummate ability, the alb
solute completeness of his results, and he
rindicates his claim to stand merit after
Napoleon and Wellington, among the great
soldiers Of this century, If not on a lerel
lcith the latter.
Year: 1868

ANEcDoTE OF LORD BRoUeHAM. NJ. Fa-
yonet, writing in Paris journal, gives the
following anecdote of Lord Brougham
" Speaking one night in the House of
Lords, his lordship experienced some in
terruption from conversation which was
carried on during his speech by the Dukes
of Cumberland and Wellington. Taking
occasion in the course of his argument to
explain the word illustrious, he said that
we sometimes use that word conventional
ly, and sometimes literally. For in
stance, said the noble lord, we apply it
by courtesy to the royal duke who is talk
ing so loudly, and who has done nothing
whatever to deserve it, while we apply it
in its primary and real signifcation to the
iIlustrious duke whom his royal highness
is addressing"
Year: 1868

MATRIMoNY Ruskin, in late work
of his, entitled Time and Tide by Weare and


Tyne, or twenty five letters to a working
man of Sunderland on the laws of work
offers the following plan to make matrimony
easy and prosperous:


:" Permission to marry should be the re-
ward held in sight of its youth during the
entire latter part of the course Of their edu-
cation, and it should be granted as the ma
tional attestation that that portion of their
lives had been rightly fulfilled No
girl should receive her permission to marry
before her seventeenth birthday, nor any
youth before his twenty-first and it should
be point of somewhat distinguished honor
with both sexes to gain their permission of
marriage in the eighteenth and twenty second
year, and a recognized disgrace not to have
gained it at least before the close Of their
twenty-frst or twenty fourth. In
every year there should be two festivals, one
on the first of May, and one on the feast of
Harvest Home in each district. at which fes-
tiyal the permission to marry should be given
publicly to the maidens and youth who had
won them in that halt-year, and they should
be crowned, the maids by the French title of
Rosieres, and the youth prehaps by some
name rightly derived from the supposed sig
nfcation of the word bachelor laurel
fruit and so led in joyful procession through
the city street, or village lane, and the day
ended with feasting of the poor. . And
every bachelor and rosiere should be entitled
to claim a fixed income from the
State, for the seven years after the day of
their marriage, for the setting up of their
homes
Year: 1868

REMARKABLE PRESERVATION OF THE Re-
MAINS OF Hon. s. A. DOUGLAS. An inspec-
ton of the remains of Stephen A. Douglas
was made on Tuesday, preparatory to their
removal to the tomb erected to his memo
ry. Upon removing the lid covering the
glass, the face of the deceased was found
to be in a remarkable state of preserva-
seven years ago. The complexion is very
fair, the contour of the head and face
unchanged, and the expression
quite natural and plainly recognizable.
The hair looks as black and glossy as ever,
and the raiment as new and tidy as when
first put on, not presenting the least evi-
dence of mildew or discoloration.
Year: 1868

Stowe very fitly says the following


Very estimable, and we trust, very reli-
gious young women sometimes enter the
house of God in costume which makes
the acts of devotion in the service seem al
most burlesque. When a brisk little
creature comes into pew with hair frizzled
till it stands on end in a most startling
manner, rattling strings of beads and bits
of tinsel. she may look exceedingly pretty
and piquaate; and if she came there for a
game of croquet or tableau-party, would
be all in very good taste; but as she comes
to confess that she is miserable sinner,
that she has done the things she ought not
to have done, and left undone the things
she ought to have done-as she takes upon
her lips most solemn and tremendous
words, whose meaning runs far beyond life
into a sublime erernity-there is a dis
crepancy which would be ludicrous if it
were not melancholy.
Year: 1868

FIGHT BETWEEN Two EAGLEs.-Two GEN
tlemen, returning from fox hunt in New


Kent county few days since, hearing a
noise in the woods few yards from the
roadside, had their curiosity excited to as
certain the cause. Passing in, they dis
covered that it was caused by fight be-
tween two baldhead eagles. They were 80
actively engaged, and so intent upon watch
ing the motions of each other, that they did


not perceive the approach of the huntsmen. n.
These gentlemen succeeded without any
difficulty in capturing them both. The
birds we're taken in charge by one of them,
who, upon reaching his home, put them to-
getber in chicken coop. The next day
the fight was resumed, and was concluded
only by the death of one Of them. The
survivor was brought to this city, and is
regarded as being one of the largest of the
species, measuring eight feet from tip to tip.
Year: 1868

lMPRovEMENT.-The unsightly mass of
rubbish on the site of the old State court
house is being removed by prisoners from
the penitentiary. The foundations will be
filled up, and the space once occupied by
the building graded to conform to the ad-
jacent portions of the Capitol Square.
Year: 1868

A NEGRO CHILD BURNED NEARLY To
DEATH.-Yesterday morning negro wo-
man named Parish, living on Franklin be-
tween Seventh and Eighth streets, had occa-
sion to 60 out for few moments. She left
her two children, one not quite two years
old and the other only seven months, in
a room where there was a large fire. Du-
ring her absence, the oldest, which could
just run about, picked up stick and com
menced playing in the fire, and set fire tc
the bed upon which the infant was lying
The mother came back before the child's
life was entirely extinct, and sent for a
doctor, who pronounced the opinion that
the burn which was on the left side, arm,
and back, would probably prove fatal.
Year: 1868

it to his country and his times to plan his
life with regard to the best results to be
accomplished for humanity. Now there
is no single interest of this nation which
has more need to be fostered and developed
than the agricultural. The foundation of
our strength and prosperity as q people
must lie in an intelligent farming class.
owning the soil, cultivating it scienti6cal-
ly, bringing out its resources to the best
advantage. improving the face of the
country by their skillfll tillage, beautify-
ing it with their neat aIu tasteful build
ings, improving the stock by careful breed
ing and the markets by the quality of their
produce. and improving the morale of the
country by that strong sense and healthy
virtue that are best nourised among the
tillers of the soil. In all the land there
is no vocation more honorable, more use-
full, more rewarding than this. The young
man who resists the allurements of the
city, and resolves to make the most of his
farm, and the most of himself as a practi-
cal agriculturist and country gentleman.
may prove himself in the end the wisest of
economists, the best of patriots, and the
happiest of men.
Year: 1868

DISEASE BY ALcoHoL.-The strength
experienced after the use of alcohol is not
new strength added to the system, but is
manifested by calling into exercise the ner-
vous energy pre-existing.


The ultimate exhausting effects of al
cohol produce an unnatural susceptibility
to morbid action in all the organs. and this
with the plethora superinduced, becomes =
fertile source of disease.


A person who habitually exerts himself
SO as to require the daily use of stimulants
to ward off exhaustion, may be compared
to machine working under high pressure.
He will become much more liable TO
disease, and vii, certainly break down soon.
er for it. The more frequently alcohol is
used for debility, the more it will be re-
quired.