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Year: 1877

The Democrat of the nineteenth publishes
at length the decision of the Nichols Sfs
preme Court in the case of the State ex rel.
T. j. Durant vs.. the Funding Board, and
winds up nearly column of editorial mat
ter as follows:


This decision of Judge Spencer is an
earnest of the honest, faithful and upright
Interpretation of the laws and administra-
tion of justice which we may expect from
the establishment of a government founded
upon the will of the people, and entirely
free from the control of all rings and cliques.


This case had already been decided by
Hon. B. L. Lynch, while sitting as judge of
the Superior District Court, and was taken
before Mr.. Spencer and his associates on
an appeal therefrOm. 1t was rendered by
Republican judge, against Republican
and a warm personal friend of the magis-
trate. Mr.. Spencer and his colleagues
simply confirm the former decision.


The case was submitted some time since
without argument, upon the briefs pre-
pared by Republican attorneys. If this
decision is correct, there is no doubt the
legal Supreme Court will render the same
in effect, when the case is reached by them.
Year: 1877

Packard legislative warrants have sold
freely on the streets for some time past at
fifty cents on the dollar and upwards, while
Nichols police warrants have sold for ten
per cent, and purchasers are hard to find at
any price.


There is very lively inquiry by members
and employees of the Nichols legislative
caucus as to what became of all the money
raised by the "five per cent on taxes" scheme.
The most worthy and needy seem to have
been left furthest out in the cold; and in
the anger of disappointment ugly talk about
"rings" is indulged in. Is there such a
thing as "ring of five" at the Odd Eel
lows Halls Would not an official state
ment of disbursements stimulate the pa
triotism of subscribers to the fund just nOw7
Try it
Year: 1877

Some two years since constitutional
juror" was made much of by the Demo-
cratic press, because, after having taken an
oath that he would obey the law, refused to
give verdict in accordance with the facts
in a civil rights case. He claimed to have
discovered constitutional scruples after he
took the oath. Perhaps he did, but on that
point it was his duty ito recognize the law
as in conformity with the constitution of
the United States, and not its conflict with
his own.


Tuesday Republican was on a jury to
which was referred the case of an assault
on one of Boylau's police officers. Un-
questionably, the statu qtso existing, a
doubt that such q man was Metropolitan
police officer was legitimate doubt. Yet
refusing to give a verdict against the ac
cused will submit him to the inconsistent
abuse of the same press that praised his
predecessor in the civil rights case.


In his case their condemnation of him
will be as iust as their appreciation of the
other was wrong. In fact, in the first case
the doubling Juror has more excuse, for the
Jury ulu nOb hBk 1OI OA bHO
special point of difference, and in the last
case they did. Besides, the unressoning
cepstitutionalist,Ii lin endeavOring to save the
defendant by q bubble of conscience, for
got that in the civil suit 8 disagreement
would, und er the special terms of the law,
cause him greater loss than verdict of
nominal damages.


The offense that was tried in the last case
was special one of the court, and an as.
sault and battery being proved the juror
had only to say so, precisely as he would
have said If no question of police officer
was involved. Whether the prosecuting
witness was or was not police officer was
question on which rested the jurisdiction
of the court, and that was not submitted to
the jury. The jury was told positively that
man holding the commission of the board
of which Hon. j.. A. Wiltz was president
was police officer within the statute. This
relieved the Jury of all responsibility. They
were not to decide whether he was an Off
.eer or not, but only whether common law
assault had been committed.


1t is not the province of the jury to say
that the court erred in It's instructions. The
cORrt may have assumed fact as proved
which was essential to the standing of the
case in court, or may have decided ques-
tion of Jurisdiction without argument con
ira, or may have refused to allow the jury
to determine facts on the evidence. In
either ease it is the duty of the jury to
think no more about the matter. Their
recollection and conviction may be just the
reverse. The Witnesses may have sworn TO
one thing and the court specially instructed
them in opposition. In such cases they are
Judges of neither the law nor the faets.
The court will take care of both, ha wing the
statu quo to maintain and the sentiment o.
the Democratic press for quOtable authos
itv
Year: 1877

--.-I 1T is suggested that Gov. Nichols
send Il commission to investigate Wash
ington.


What two counties in Ireland
would you suppose to be lighter in weight
than the rest? Cork and Down.


Wheeler is supposed to be good
man to put on an Investigating commit
tee. because it is known that he is good
for nothing else. Hayes wants to make
him useful


Winter which strips the leaves
from around us. makes us sec the distant
regions they have formerly concealcd; so
does old age rob us of our enjoyments,
only to enlarge the prospect of eternity
before us.


"A modest young lady desiring leg
of chicken at tho table, said: 'l'll take
the part that ought to be dressed Ill
drawers" A young gentleman opposite
Immediately said: :'Fll take the part
which ought to wear n bustle" Harts-
horn was Immediately administered to
the lady.
Year: 1877

IA sparrow hawk has been seen to
sit for several days in one position on the
yanc Of the Moraviau church at Bethle-
hem, Pa. and it is apparent that it IS
dead and frozen to the vane, having
alighted there during recent severe ice
storm.
Year: 1877

There could be no greater boon given
to the people of the Black Hills than
the importation Of about 500 more
ladies. There are 10, 900 men to-day in
the Hills eating dyspepsia-making food,
wearing dirty clothes, and becoming
otherwise demoralized, and per conse-
quence degenerated, because there is an
insufficiency of ladies in the Hills to
meet the requirements Of domestic du-
ties that properly belong to the women's
sphere. We will venture the assertion
that in this city Of Deadwood and
neighborhood, 500 servant girls would
find immediate and remunerative en-
ployment at wages that would astound
the same class in the east. THERE'S not
a hotel or restaurant in the city that
can obtain dining room girl at any
price, and having talked with many of
the hotel and restaurant keepers they
have assured US they would much
rather employ female help at higher
figures than is now paid to men, IL they
were obtainable. We make the broad
assertion that 1000 marriageable
women would find worthy, industrious
and prosperous husbands here within a
month men who, having 'roughed it"
in mining camps, could and would all
the more appreciate the cunning, clean
ly and neat housework of women. If
there are any young ladies desirous of
living in one of the best countries the
sun ever shone on, of obtaining en-
ployment at remunerative wages, or of
selecting husband from 10000 mar
riageble men, we advise them in all can
dor to emigrate to the Black Hills
Deadwood Champion.
Year: 1877

The cat is a hardy perennial that bears
abundanlly and requires little care. You
have but to provide a few back fences and
outhouses, mulch them by moonlight, har-
row the ground very lightly with boot
jacks and chamber crockory, and you are
certain that they will yield twenty, thirty
and IN hundred fold. Every fence will
have seven cats, and every cat have seven
kits, the total being Kit-Cat Club rather
more numerous and noisy than the Union
League e.-NeeO York World.
Year: 1877

Only very small portion of this amount
was Silver, the most being gold dust ranging
above 900 in fineness. The enormous pro-
duction of the years 1864 to 1868 was due
to,the rich placer diggings found in the
gulches of the Missouri head tributaries,
and when these were exhausted to such an
extent that it was necessary to combiEe the
small claims into large ones, and employ
capital to develop them on large scale, the
annual product decreased rapidly, and the
outlook appeared dismal for Montana.


This period of desertion and retrogression
invariably occurs in the history of all coun-
tries irst opened by the discovery of placer
gold, and where there is no other industry
to fall back Oh. Montana being farther
away from communication with the ciYil-
lied world than any other part of the Union
has suffered more severely, and for longer
time than any sister Territory; but the
few who have remained in her cafions and
valleys IN the belief that the land was good
and worth standing by, cannot DO far from
the day of their reward. Signs of new life
and new growth are everywhere visible.
Silver mixing has become one of the recog-
nized industries of the Territory; gold
quartz mining is on souad basis, and
many old and abandoned placer districts
are waking up under the stimulus of new
enterprises. Capital to moderate extent
has come in; IS being employed successful
ly, and already is reproducing itself. Mon
tana is no longer An unknown and unvisit-
ed section of the West, and those who have
taken the pains to examine its resources are
finding that it embraces as fine a field for
Investment as any part of the country.


The letters the Repiew is now publishing
from Montana will be found to cover the
details of each important mining camp. 1t
is intended in what follows to glance at the
condition of the mining industry in the
Territory as whole, and to offer the means
of comparing its status with that of older
parts of the West. - .5. s. a


To begin, the following is list Of the
larger working and producing mines Of all
kinds fa 4ess2 85l7# @a5eaa= a4 Il
Year: 1877

The New York Tribune says: A little
pamphlet, entitled "The Problem Solved
How to Shorten the Distance Between Eu-
rope and America" is a commercial curios-
ity. The author comes to New York to
obtain funds for building railroad in Nova
Scotia, the ultimate effect of which, in his
opinion, will be to concentrate all the Eu-
ropean trade of this continent, and the
shipping engaged therein, at Whitehaven,
Nova Scotia, at the expense of all other
Atlantic ports. The railway is seventy
miles long and is to connect Whitehaven
to New GLASGOW, where connection will
be made with the railway system Of the
continent. The idea of the author is that
it is necessary to. shorten the trip across the
ocean for the benefit of that "steady and
eyer-growing stream of wealthy and culti-
vated people which pours down to the
steamship wharves and diffuses itself
throughout the countries of the Old World"
annually, and Of the return tide of fashion
able European travel, and also for the
benefit of trade. To shorten the trip, he
purposes to have all the ships sail from


WhitehaveD, which is the most easterly
point of the continent, from which point
steamers can cross the ocean in five days.
Travellers and mails, by taking a train be-
tween Whitehaven and New York, would
still make the distance between Liverpool
and New York at saving of twenty-five
hours over the fastest time ever made.
The author Of the new scheme believes
that all the grain, coal, cotton and other
trad of the continent can be and win be
gathered at Whitehavsn. He call atten-
tion, therefore, to the grandeur of the
Whitehaven scheme, and urges that the
projected railway g would be a veritable
bonanza to Its owners, #s#3s5s-'- sJV
Year: 1877

Bleak, chilly March and November
are the two worst months of the year for
those suffering with pulmonary diseases.
Keep DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup near by
and such suffers will be able to brave
this rough weather without danger.
Year: 1877

On Monday evening next the London
Anatomical Cabinet Museum will open
in the Institute Hall for one week. The
first evening will be free, and after that
an admission of 25 cents will be charged
The exhibition will be accompanied each
evening by an interesting lecture. ... il,
Year: 1877

WASHINGTON, March 30.-The dele.
cation from the Charleston Chamber OF
Commerce have divided themselves into
committees 50 as to call on the several
secretaries.


Secretary Evsrts read to the commit
tee that waited on him, dispatch from
leading bankers OF New York, urging
that the most favorable consideration be
given 70 the Charleston committee S
views, and saying that if time had
permitted they could have had the
dispatch very generally signed. Mr..
Eyarts said that when the President
was prepared to act, he would do so on
his own responsibility, not seeking to
place any part of the burden on the rep
resentatives of either side, or the parties
they represented.


Secretary Sherman replied that the
President would, OF course, make de-
cision in the South Carolina case, bat his
hope was to relieve South Carolina OF
one of her two Governors in such
peaceful manner as to insure
peace and the absolute enjoyment OF
the rights of the colored people. Much
stress was laid on this point by all the
Secretaries.


Postmaster General Key was cordial
in his reception of the subcommittee to-
dsy, and said he had no reason to be dls-
coursged. He said he understood the
condition of affairs and the need OF
prompt action.


Secretary Thompson was uncomp7o-
missing IN the expression of his opinion
that the Federal government had
no right TO intervene in South
Carolina. He said that that State
should be left absolutely free
to settle her own disputes by her own
laws, in her own way. Secretary Schurz
was extremely cordial and liberal IN al
he said.


The Cabinet in q session OF several
hours to-day fully discussed the South
Csrolino question. No vote was taken
but the expression of the opinion OF the
different members showed decided ma
iority in isyor OF the immidiste with
drswsl of the troops from the STATE
House.
Year: 1877

The Keyser Echo contains the follow
ing singular price of information. The
names of the prominent citizens" and
keeper of the Jail" who found them
selves into a mock court and deliberately
turned loose upon society a murderer,
ought to be given to the public. we
shall look with some interest for the Sc
ouel to this affair. Some light may be
shed upon it at the next term of Judge
LEWIS court in that county. The
Echo says:


ave have reliable inform alton Of
most disgraceful proceedings in Dod-
ridge county. 1t is to the effect that a
dsy or 80 ago several prominent citi-
zens of West Union got on spree,
formed themselves into kind of mock
court, and ordered the Keeper OF the
county isil-he being one Of the number
to bring before them the prisoner
Powell, who so coolly murdered one
Thomas Borton u month or so ago, and
proceeded to try him. One party acted
as prosecutor and another tor the de-
fesse. After the prisoner had testified
and speeches had been made pro and
con, the Judge decided the prisoner in-
nocent, and after being given ten dollars
was allowed to depart, which ne did
without the least delay. As soon as the
sheriff of the county learned OF the affair
he started in pursuit OF the prisoner, but
at last accounts he had no clue 70 him.
This is certainly one of the most out
raseous affairs that has occurred in our
State"
Year: 1877

IT is now believed that the great
pressure which representatives of the
business interests Of the country have
brought to bear upon HAYES will induce
him to Issue an order withdrawing the
troops from the State House al Colum-
bia, south Carolina. This prop being
taken frem the CHAMBERLAIS govern.
ment, it must fall. The wounded feel
ings of CHAMBERLAIN being assusged
with fat office, his followers will gather
up their carpet-bsgs and quietly steal
away, leaving the people of South Car
olins to recover as best they can from
the awful ruin wrought by the bogus
government.


Governor HAMPTON yesterday sd-
dressed q manly letter TO the President,
stating that he would consent to no bar
gain or compromise whatever, but tha
he could and would secure absolute free
dom and peace to all citizens of TIT
State.
Year: 1877

WASHINGTON, March 3O.-Governor
Hampton wrote letter to the President
tonight saying that he might not have
an opportunity to see him again, and as.
suring him that he could and would
secure absolute freedom and peace and
equality to both white and colored citi
zens of the State SO soon as the troops
should be withdrawn, but intimating at
the same time that he would consent to
no bargain or compromise whatever. In
very warm words he thanked the Presi-
dent for the manner in which he had
been received, and expressed his conf
dence that the President would be true
to the loyal and patriotic sentiments OF
his inaugural address.
Year: 1877




London Globe.


The geological gardens at Pesth have


just been the scene of . combat worthy


of Nero or Heiiogsbalus. The cage ten


snted by lion and lioness happened to


be next to that in which dwelt female


leopard, for whom the captive queen of


the desert entertained a special hatred.


Probably she was jealous of the bright
eyes and beautiful skin of her neighbor,
and may possibly have suspected her


lord and master of casting tender re-
gard or two across the barrier which
separated the two dens. The suspicion,
brooded over in silence, became q
devouring passion, and it rlpened into
certainty at the precise moment when
vengeance happened to become possible.
The keeper OF the gardens had inadvert-
emily, one day, left hanging within the
lions cage the chain which served to
draw up the partition, and the lion was
not long in seizing it and beginning to
pull Whether he was animated with a
spirit of fickleness or by curiosity alone
must remain forever secret. But the
result was that the partition few up and
the road remained opened from one cage
to the other. Through 1t instantly rush.
ed the lioness, breathing hatred and NAL.
ice, but the lion had no sooner dropped
the chain and prepared to follow 10 chase
than the portculls fell and the passage
was barred again.


In the meantime, however, q struggle
commenced between the two lady war
riors such as has not been seen in Europe
since the pslmy days of the amphithea.
tre. The leopard, worsted at the first
onset, attempted 10 take refuge from the
foe by jumping and hanging to the top
rails of the cage. 1t was all IN vain, how.
ever. She was brought to bay again, and
compelled to fight tsce to face with the
terrible invader. For twenty minutes
the battle ragged in royal style.
The neck and shoulders of
the lioness were deeply furrowed
with red gashes. But her victim was
and at length thrown on
her back, when the coup de grace was
given by the savage fangs of the victor.
The lion who had been looking on, pro.
badly with mingled feelings, at the
scene, will now, no doubt, be restored to
the atfectlonate confidence of his spouse
remained at the end of the
encounter of the pretty spotted skin
which had so captivated him, but a few
torn and mangied shreds, and the 70.
nance of the cages, if romance there was,
came TO a tragic end.
Year: 1877

WAsH1NGToN, March 30.-The charges
against ex- Consul General Seward, now
Minister to China are said to be the re.
suit of an old quarrel between Mr.. Sew
ard and the present Consul General:
There is nothing in the Department OF
State showing anything whatever dis
creditsble to either his public or private
character.
Year: 1877

AksteS.


There is something mighty funny about skates
/ ont know just what it is, and 10 fact can
understand them OF al. One cant see anythlnA
uncommon aboat them. They look tame ant
simple. but nat IS just where they beat man
7 don't tnow of anything that contains such
powerful amount of deception as skates nave
ssen professional men and farmers and some
of the shrewdest business calculators, make the
most stupid calculations on skates. Unless mar
has been brought up with them, he cannot form
any kind Of an simate as to. their pecularities
The fact is, they are gamey. They are SOLID inl
of pranks, and the very concentration Of force
as il were. They seem to know their msSRoo
every time and if he be the right specimen, they
show him what they can do. They usually start
out mildly however, by, perhaps, shooting him
into the air, standing him on his head. or sudden
ly throwing i'm up the ce,etcuntil he gets sort
of ashamed and excited, and seems kind OF un-
natural; then they go for him and put him
through all sorts of ridiculous and awkward gym
nastic. and give him general shaking up every
way. There is no end to the different games
they can play on man. and for exercise they
sutpass anything both in kinds and quantity.
Why, it often takes man two or three weeks,
and sometimes even months, to realize the amount
of exercise he gets in a single hour on skates
They furnish even better mental exercise than
physical. for they give a man such an excellent
opportunity 10 think and plan, and especially to
exercise bis sell control by keeping bis temper
under proper discipline and not allowing any en-.
ergetc disconnected sentences to escape his
mouth. Then they are great help in the study
of astronomy. Many man has discovered multi
tudes Of stars, by their aid, which the strongest
glasses cannot reveal | think, however, they
are especially adapted TO the science of phrenol
ogy, for they can put bumps" on any kind of a
head 1t is really surprising to see the number
Of bumps" they can develop in short time, and
what large full ones too. 1t seems incredu-
lous, to be sure. hut one must try it for himself
before he can fully comprehend their use in thi.
way. FAM.
Year: 1877

The following bill, important TO q
number of counties in this State, has
passed the house:


Sec In all cases where the rec
ord of any deed or instrument OF
writing conveying or affecting real
estate, has been lost or destroyed,
aud such deed or instrument of writ
ing, Or certified copy thereof, shall
not have been again filed for record
in the Office Of the recorder Of deeds
Of the county where such real estate
IS situated, at the expiration of two
yea:s after the passage of this net.
such deed shall cease to impart any
notice or be of any force or effect
whatever against purchasers in good
faith of the real estate therein des-
cribed: Provided that this act shall
not affect the rights of parties claim
ing under deeds, the records of
which have been copied or transcrib-
ed in accordance with any law in re-
lation to copying or transcribing rec
ords which have been worn, defaced
or otherwise illegible.
Year: 1877

Nanator Stanley Matthews says he has
made no assertion that the President will sign
the silver bill. He has merely expressed his
individual opinion that the event of the bills
passage by the Senate the President viii ap-
prove it, and he adds that this expression of
opinion was made by him without any in
formation derived from the President as to his
intentions on this subject, and he neither pro-
fessed, nor was in fact the statement based on
the Presidents authority. It was based upon
the assumption that the bill would pass by a
large majority, and that the President would
consider it such an expression of the public
viii as he could not properly disregard