Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 14, 1887, Page 4

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FEIL, Notary Public Kworn to and subser 12th day of Noveinbel . being first duly sworn, de- and says that he is secretary of The Bee Fuiishinie company, that the et average daily circulation of the Daily Bee for the * month nber, 6, 18,48 coples; for “IHE public debt was reduced nearly 817,000,000 during October. It is now $1,238,602,701. been un- on and will be out in its new form next summer. Ir Canada wants commercial union with this country, she must show more politeness toward our fishermen, —— TaE Lincoln and Des Moinesrailroad, according to all appearances, should not be voted upon when it moveth itself aright. PRESIDENT FI1ZGERALD, of the Trish league, has taken steps to ise money from Irishmen in America to aid home rule in Ireland GOVERNOR GRAY, of Indiana, is in training for a vice presidential boom. Cleveland and Gray is a trifle better than Cleveland and Grady. —_— THE jail officials are heaping indig- nities upon Editor O'Brien’s head. A stupid opposition has frequently been found to aid a worthy cause —_— TrE field of political action has been transferred to the floor of the house of ropresentatives, Washington, and the oxalted post of doorkeeper 1s the prize. VERMONT is shipping shcep to Aus- tralin. Some of the lambs offered on the judicial altars of sacrifice in Ne- braska, might, with profit, be shipped tothe Zulus. —_— THE reports from Towa indicate that the legislature to meet this winter will be handled by th. Iroads. In this triumph, Towa politicians undoubtedly took their pattern from Nebraska. Luaupriovs prophets arve already forctelling poor crops in Ohio. Indiana and Illinois next year by reason of the drought prevailing in those states. Joremiahs should not ery until they are hurt. Tur Kouts disastor has made known the fact that Indiana has no statute against criminal carclessness. The legi ure of that state has been criminally negligent, but will thus cape punishment. — IN New York City 17,000 registered voters failed to cast their ballots. So in Omaha. At least as many registered voters failed to cast their ballots for Cadet Taylor's jugglers and mounte- banks running on the judicial ticket. o8- NEW YOrk City undertook a great deal when she promised General Grant a decent burial. A funeral bill of $280, contracted by the city s committee, has not been paid and the courts have ren- dered judgment for the full amount with interest. —— THe Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph company gave a bond of $50,000 to I’hil- adelphia when the company was first organized, to secure the city against consolidation. Philadelplia was not secured and now proposes to get the $50,000. TRANS-ATLANTIC steam still ply between the cholera-infected ports of Europe and New York. They cannot be stopped, as we have no law to that effect. Quurantine is our only safe- guard against the scourge and this has been shown to be inadequate. We need a statute forbidding the carrying of passengers to this country from foreign ports infected with dangerous diseases. THE election of a republican to con- gress from Rhode Island gives the re- publicans a majority of the states in the next house of reprosentatives, a matter of considerable importance in view of the possibility of the election of the next president being thrown into the house. In voting for president in the house each state votes as a unit, its ballot be- ing cast for the eandidate favored by the majority of its delegation. States whose delegations are tied cannot vot The election of a republican in Tthol Island gives twenty states to the repub licans in the next congress, the demo crats having seventeen.. New Hamp- shire is tied, and therefore could take no part in an eleetion. for prcsidonl. The possibility - to which this refors, bowever, s very remote. The Supreme Court Vacancy. The question of who shall fill the vacancy on the bench of the supreme court of the United States is especially interesting in view of the fact that the court has been about equally divided on soveral important legal and constitu- tional questions. Foremost among these is that of prohibition and the question of compensation under prohibitory laws. The court is on record as to the right of a state, under its police powers, to prohibit the manufacture and sale of intoxicating Jiquors, but the new ques- tion of compensation, raised by the d ion of Judge Brewer that the state must pay distillers and manufacturers whose property will be rendered worthless un- der the operation of a prohibitory law, has yet to be passed upon by the supreme court. It is inferred from past decisions made by the several justices that the court is about equally divided on this question, the importance and gravity of whichare apparent, so that the new member will probably determine the decision of the court, As court is the question now constituted the equally divided on of the responsibility of an em- ployer for an injury suffered by one em- ployee in consequence of the negligence of another, so that the new justice will determine the decision on this question, which is a very important one to railroad companies and their cm- ployes especially, On the latest phase of the Virginia debt question, involving considerations deemed to be of great importance to the states, it is also understood that the pres- ent membership of the court is cqually divided, which will throw the responsibility of determining the character of the decision on the new justico. It will thus be scen that the man who shall fill the vacancy on the supreme court bench will have a most important part to play at the very out- set of his career. There appears to be no doubt that it is the intention of tho president to ap- point Mr. Lamar, and, granting that he will be confirmed, his probable attitude upon these questions becomes a matterof great interest. He is not understood to be favorable to prohibttion, and it is deemed more than probable that he would favor the view regarding com- pensation under prohibitory laws pre- sented in the decision of Judge Brewer. Regarding the Virginia question, his lifetime devotion to and advocacy of the doctrine of states rights does not permit a doubt as to where he would be found in this issue. If he goes on the supreme bench the present government of Virginia will get the vindication, with every right of repudiation in- volved, which it is seeking. It is also 10 be expected that in the question of the responsibility of employers, if it should be presented to the court, Mr. Lamar would be found favorable to the view which relieves the corporations. It may reasonably he asked whether, with such well-established views and predilections as Mr. Lamar is known to possess, he is the sort of judge of whom the people could fairly expect an impartial judgment on many vital questions. —_—— Is It Foredoomed to Failure? There does not appear to be a great deal of confidence that the conference on the fisheries controversy provided for by the president and secretary of state will have any practical result. This is a proceeding in disregard of the plainly indicated feeling of the last con- unfavorable to a commission, and uready been intimated that some difficulty will be found in securing an appropriation to pay the expenses of the conference. This, how- ever, is the least important matter. The question of first importance is whether any conclusion that may be ronched by the conferenco will he ap- proved by the senate. A New England senator whose name is withheld is quoted us saying that the senate having inopen session last winter expressed itself very forcibly aguinst the appointment of any commission to settle the fisheries sy, and also its disapproval it could not endorse the itself. The sentiment of the sen- wding the whole subject was certainly very definitely declared, in view of which a@ifficulty is presented that may not be casily surmounted. It is not unlikely that the question may bo made a party issue, the demo- crats in both houses of congress support- ing the action of the administration and the republicans opposing on the ground that it is in direct contravention of the declared and well-understood sen- timent of congress, or at least of the senate. In this event it would be almost certuin that the deliberations of the conference would come to naught, On such an issue it is to be expected the ve- publicans of the senate would stand firmly together, not only for the re- jection of any treaty, but perhaps even in denying all recogni- tion to the commission by refusing to allow any appropriation for its expenses. They may decide, indeed, to block the conference at the outset by rejecting the nominations of the commissioners, for unless this is done they could not justify themselves in refusing an ap- propriation or in giving fair considera- tion to the conclusions arrived at by the conference. It is to be hoped that none of the ap- prehensions now expressed respect- ing the possible attitude of co gress toward the conference will be realized. Granting that the president’s action is somewhat ir- regular and may fairly be regarded as wanting in defevence to the feeling of congress, there is still some considera- tion due the English govern- ment, which in good faith has sent its representative to this country to endeavor to bring about a satisfac- tory settlement of thedisturbing contro- v Such a result is undoubtedly to red by the intelligent public opinion of both countries, and it is clear that, if by any Interposition of cong the conference eannot proceed, the ef- fect will ' be to aggravate the issue and, v likely, increase the dificulties in the way of a fiual settlement, the accom- plishiment of which: might be -indefi- uitely postponed. The wiser course \ e ( A s DAILY BEE: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1867, will be to place no obstaclo in the way of the conference and to give to its con- clusion, if it should reach any, the fair and thorough oconsidération demanded by the importance of the controversy. ———— As to Bogus Tickets, “Whore fgnorance is bliss "twore folly to be wise.” This adage s strikingly illustrated by the talk of the organ of the defeated roustabouts, with regard to the so-called election frauds, coupled with the assertion that every mixed ticket should have been thrown out by the judges of election or the canvassers. Why don't these disgruntled party wreckers read the election law? There is not a word in the law, even by infer- ence, that makes a mixed ticket illegal, providing the voter is not deceived by a fraudulent heading. In any event no ticket can be legally thrown out. All that the law contemplates with regard to regular party tickets, into which names of opposing candidates are fraudulently inserted is, that the name of the candidate so in- serted shall not be counted. All other names on the ticket are required to be counted. If the whole ticket were to be thrown out because one man’s name was smuggled in,a whole county or state ticket could be defeated by simply print- ing a single name on it that is not on the straight party ticket. In other words you could beat a candidate for congress by pur posely inserting the name of the op- posing party candidate for constable on the precinct tickets. As to Dave Mercer, who is cited as a victim of variegated tickets, the less said the better. A candidate who runs behind his ticket over twenty-five hun- dred in this county, is only the victim of his own overreaching ambition. Tho party merely administered merited re- buke to reckless roustabouts who tried to force themselves into places for which they are not fit. The Whee rogress. The organization known as the National Agricultural Wheel is assum- ing proportions of sufficient importance to set politicians to thinking and cause the producers of the country to rejoice. In 1884 the membership of the Wheel was less than 5,000. At the last annual session, held at Nashville, Tenn., the 10th inst., its numbers had increased to 500,000, Consolidation with the National Farmers’ Alliance was discussed at length, and committees to confer with proper persons to bring about that result were appointed. The Wheel is a southern idea. The resolutions adopted by the convention demand that United States senators be elected by the people; that public lands be reserved for actual scttlers only; that the national debt be paid as rapidly as possible; that legal tender treasury notes be substituted for national bank notes; that dealing in fu- tures be prohibited by the national gov- ernment; that a graduated income tax be adopted; that the public education of the masses be fostered; that the Wheel- ers support no man for congress who will not pledge himself in writing to support these resolutions. ‘While this organization is as yet im- perfect, and some of its demandsim- practicable—yet its increasing strength 1s the straw indicating in which way the southern wind is blowing. — Tue Cobden club of England claims that Great Britain has the ‘“lion’s share” of the world’s trading. Figures tell a different story, however. A care- ful estimate of the internal trades of the principal countries gives the fol- lowing wealth per capita of the in- habitants: ‘United States, population 65,000,000, at $100 per head (vich and poor together), 6,500,000,000; Great Britain, 85,000,000 at $80, $2,800,000,000; Canada and South America, 40,000,000 ut $70 per head, $2,800,000,000; Europe, exclusive of Great Dritain, 270,000,000 at 850 per head, $13,500,000,000; Asia, 700,000,000 at $25 per head, $17,500,000,- 000; Afric 100,000,000 at $20, $2,600,- 000,000; total; $45,100,000,000.” This makes the “lion’s share” about 6 per centof the entire home trade of the world. THE police muddle will be settled within ten days by the supreme court, but whatever the court may decide the council will still have the power for a agreat deal of mischief. They may and doubtless will have torecognize the police commission as the sole ap- pointing power in the police depart- ment, and will have to drop their flings at the “‘pretended” chief of police; but they may, if they choose, keep on with the starvation policy by refusing to levy enough taxes to maintain a respectable police force, and defy public sentiment us long as they continue in power. Now that Architect Meyers 1s in the city the council and board of publie works should scttle all the differcnces between the city and the contractor on the city hall basement. There has been agood deal of needless delayin the erection of the foundation, but the needs of the city of a fire proof ofice building should prompt the authovitics to expedite the work on the bascment and let the contract for the super- structure to responsible contractors, whe can get thewr material out during the winter and put the building under roof next season. — A TEXAN jury has solved the ques- tion of how to reach a verdict quickly. After arguing in vain for twenty-four hours, cuts were drawn and a verdict brought in according to lot. Straws would be safer guides than arguments with the average juror —— IN the recent election for directors of the Manhattan Elevated road Eddie Gould ousted a son of Cyrus Field and elected himself a director in his place. As Eddie is but twenty-one years of age a bright future may be safely promised for him. It is announced that the ‘“boomers” are preparing to again attemptentering the Iudian territory. The of Boomer Payne goes marching on, but it may be questionable whether or not his followers should atte: soul Pretty blaukets, with a thi riped in dull blue or pink on cream or gray ground, are used for making dressing wraj Ders, and are very warm and ineqpensive. ~ POLITICAL POTPOURRL Anxious Reader—Judge Stull was running for judge in the first district. Judge Gaslin, who hangs vicious criminals on sight and sends particulars by mail, was handsomely endorsed in his district. The fulminate cap with which Lingg blew off his leii cheek would have shrank in dis- wmay at the iron jaw of Paul Vanderbum, Wa had nearly overlooked the fact, but it seems that the people endorsed Judge Groft inthe Taylor-Rounds city printing fraud, don’t itV Can it be that Chief Justice Maxwell made the recent decision hgainst railroads, in order that he might secu reasonable rate in getting his majoritioy Ancolun! Lightning has stguck many men. It nover struck with more graweful procision and in a manner calculated 40 do more good, than when it struek 4p the fivst district and mado Appelget judge, Judge Suljivan, of Columbus, who was one of the menibers of the judiciary committee of the late unlamented legislature, was well snowed under as @ candidate for judge in the fourth district. It is well. It is claimed that in tho Seventh judicial district over one hundred Indians, less than sixteen years old, voted for Crawford. Yet with this importation from the reservations Crawford was politically scalped by the honest white man, One of the grim pleasantrics in which O. H. Ballou often indulged, some years ago, was to employ a brass band to serenade him. Judge Allen Field has recently been enter- tained by a brass band, Can there be any- thing suggestive in thisi A first district exchange prints a “poem’ entitled “Humphrey’s Soliloquy.” This s sad. When Mare Antony asked the noble Brutus if all bis conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, had shrunk to to this little measure— he was satisfied with viewing the corpse of Ciey But here comes the exchange and flourishes an original poemn over the dead body of the once gallant captain, and credits him with being its author. Well has it been written that the evil men do lives after them. The pressure which caused Humphrey to withdraw, when just in sight of the promised land, is now known. Humphrey and Tom Majors were billed to speak at Be- atric. Humphrey commenced to talk and grew cnthusiastic. Majors commenced to tall. The story is, no matter how well authenticated, that before he had half finished Humphrey wrote his resignation, gave it to a friend and throw himself upon the protection of the city authorities. And up to this day Majors believes that his con- gressional boomlet is unimpaired. pazdtioe sl STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings, Political roosters thrive best in par- tisan dunghills, Political graveyards are enjoying a iively boom just now. The state board of transportation has secured a new Leese of life and useful- ness. Ben White received a re: d seat in the Hastings juil for voting “early and often.” The press of the dtate were consid able'* cut” up last week in announcing political victories. A. U. Hancock will now devote his best and undivided attention to newspuaper clients in Papillon and vicin- ity, K The diseriminating critic of tae Wayne Gazette puts a volume of truth in a few words: “The Omuaha BEE has no rivals.” Antelope county will try the township system of government and squander her surplus in a cumbersome piece of political machinery. The scheme of the Lincoln Democrat for a *‘trust” of candidates for office is needless. The trouble is they are trusted too much. The democratic party of Cass county has been sent to the Burlington shops for repairs. Tho Journals of the wreck are a melancholy ruin. It is confidently believed that the reg- ulation of railroad rates will enable Chief Justice Maxwell to transport his majority to the state capital, The defeated Douglas county candi- date who_distributed his pictures pro- miscuously can now call them in and label them ‘‘Here lies—before and after.” The Lincoln Democrat thus the metropolis: To Omaha: thousand happy greeting You have outgrown railroud sm. May you live long and prosper!™ The Lyons Mirror refloctively notes that Manderson and Thurston staked a senatorship on the partisan judicial ticket and the influence of the Omaha Republican, and enquires, “*“Where are they now?” A young West Point kid pulled a re- volver and fired into a crowd of boys “just to hear the durn thing croak.” Letit be recorded for the first and last time, the bullet only took a finger in its flight. The Lincoln Democrat says the fate of Dave Mercer *‘is u melancholy example of the bright young man blasted by pol- itics.” And his tearless grief is ren- dered more painful by the fact that he was pounded into the earth by a one- armed man. The venerated “smoke of battle” has been totally lost in the wilderness of **dull sickening thuds” echoing through the country press the past two days. The whiskers of antiquity bear' a charmed life in the byways and flourish in all seasons, Swan Petersen, o Fremont rustic, blockaded a section of the street car track d bombarded with his mouth the innocent mule and bob-tail attach- ment. The police finally raised the blockade and Peterson’s pocketboolk for $11. The U >s Dispatch notes with pleasure that the young men of Omaha have organized a republican club, and “trusts that it will be stuffed and vigor- ously used on Paul Vandevoort and a large number of other republican fossils of Omaha who are a standing disgrace to the party.” V. A. Woodward, a glib-tongued wretch and moral liar, has crawled out of Washington county, leaving a young wife and child and numerous creditors tosigh for a erack at him. Woodward taught school in Calhoun township, grossly deceived a young irl, was forced to marry and then basely desert- ed her. Such vermin would hardly grace a picnie of hemp, The scientific theory that a hempen choker is a harmless and pleasant mode of shfling did not find lm{uml‘nl in the melancholly mind of Emmet Hann, of Hooper. Ile wanted blood, the pure crimson _coursing through his pipes, and with a knife sought in vain the fatal cords of his neck. Iive insertions were made, but the unfortunate only succeeded in contracting a large :l/.m)l doctor bill, The Norfolk News belioves that “the result of the elections leaves the two old political ties occuryving about the same relative positions they did before, Both are confident of carrying the next presidential election, and next year's contest promises to be a life or Geath struggle with both. The labor vote has not been so large as wus expected, while tho prohibition vote has been increased in nearly every state.” “The triumphant election of the non- partisan judicial ticket in the Third dis- trict,” says the Fremont Herald, “is one of the most pleasing results of the can- vass, When it comes to urging the claims of candidates for our highest ju- dicial positions simply because of thair partisanship, regardl of all other qualifications, it is time the people's voice was heard in the interests of good government and honest courts.” Buffalo Flats in Wheeler county en- joyed a lively eleetion day, during which the polls were smashed, ribs shattered, eyes colored, and several old grudges wiped out. A muscular masher named Spring_danced up to A. B. Cacy and demanded satisfuction for thumping his uncle one year ago. A. B. C. Fromptly flipped " his dukes and the bat- lo was on instanter. An inventory of tho ruins half an hour later showed Cacy’s head thoroughly softened, his son Frank laid out by a 2x4 scantling and young Cacy’s futher-in-law decorated with a broken nose and battered cyes. The latter two are dangerously injured. Mr. Spring intimates his readiness to entertain the remainder of the family and relatives at any time. The Burlington road continues its long haul on the producers of the state for the sole benefit of Chicago. The Lincoln Demoerat presents this sample of its friendship for the state: “‘From all the western part of the state it costs the same to ship hogs and cattle to Chicago, But as soon as it comes within tho radius of the territory in which hogs may be bought for the pack- ing houses at Omaha, Nebraska City and Lincoln the Chicago tariff on hogs is reduced. The Fairmont shipper of hogs get a reduction of 85 tosLip to Chicago. At Crete, $10. At Johnson and all other points near by Nebraska packing houses the reduction in_ favor of Chicago is $10. In plain words the lington railroad "compels Nebraska ng houses to pay $10 more on ery car of hogs than they ought to pay, simply that it may get the long haul to Chicago. 1f it ‘costs 810 less to haul o car of hogs than a car of cattle from Créte to Chicago, it cortainly costs that much less from Juniata or Red Cloud. Here is o clear case of discrimi- nation that cuts both It oppresses and discournges Nebraska packing houses to the amount of many thousand dollars annually. It robs the hog raisers of three-fourths of the stato of 810 on every carof hogs they ship to Chicago.” fowa Items, There are 495 creameri Political poultry enjoyed their regu- lar fall airing last week. Marengo retains the county seat of Towa county by 6,000 majority. Four Keokuk children played with a bonfire and were severely burned. Keokuk is cultivating the trade of Missouri by building roads into the in the state. Ced ing for Sioux . Manchester ships 8,000,000 pounds of butter annually, trinimed with 500,000 dozens of eggs. It is estimated that the bogus butter law reduced the traffic in Iowa by $6,000,000 annually. Sioux City dairymen report a short- age of milk and the well springs of pity bubble cheerily for them. Samuel E. Brown, formerly of Daven- port, and of a highly respected and in- Huential family, has” been arrested in St. Paul for forgery and robbing the mail, William M. Lock, an elderly resident of Des Moines, blew out his brains with a revolver bullet. Mental aberration produced by sleeplessness was the mo- tive of his madness. A reward of $300 has been offered by Governor Larrabee for the arrest and conviction of J. Kacalack, the gunsmith of Fort Dodge, who is charged with having fired the Clay township farmer’s harn to cover a surreptitious exchange of horses some time since. Mrs, Anderson, arrested at Boone for dealing in counterfeit money, was found guilty in the federal court at Des Moines and fined $100 with aterm of one year in the penitentiary. The seutence was suspended conditional upon good behavior. Colonel Charles A. Clark, a prominent attorne ar Rapids, could not comply with the registry law, being ab- sent from the city. He offered his vote J*K,it was rejected. He sccured from the superior” court an order for the board of election to receive his ballot. This they refused to do and the entire board was arrested, The constitution- ality of the law will probubly be tested. Dakota. Prairvio fires are doing considerable damage in the vicinity of Steele. 0The new memorial hall of Phil Kear- ney post G. A. R. at Yankton was dedi- cated Wednesday evening, The extension of the railroad from Rapid City to Sturgis is now in opera- tion. The mule team and stage coach xln_rfu no longera feature of Rapid City ife, The vote of Fargo, the largest town in north Dakota, was 1,283, The vote of Sioux Falls, the largest town in south Dalkota, was 1,198, though the vote of Sioux Falls last fall was 1,305, ‘Within the past month or two a num- ber of samples of ores have been brought in from the southern mining districts of the Hills which are claimed to be tell- urium. Professor Hill, the noted pro- prietor of the Argo, Colo.,ore reduc- tion works, has examined samples of ore from a mine a short distance from Cus- ter, and unhesitatingly declares them a combination of tellurium, gold and silver, r Rapids capitalists ave negotiat- site for an oatmeal mill in Wyoming. The Burlington graders and track 1o are within hailing distance of camp is being opened up °n miles from Carbon by the Un- acifie, The Boomerang declares that there is no longer any doubt that anthracite coal has been found a few miles west of Laramie. A bloodthirsty Cheyenne man offered the Chicago sheriff a bonus of 320 a head for the privilege of hanging the anarchists. He did not get the job. Cattle shipments from Wyoming dur- ing October amounted to 8,109 cars. Estimating each car load at twenty head, we have 80 head of cattle re- ported as being shipped to the Chicago and Omaha markets during the month, and to this number might be added at least 12,000 more which were sent to Nebraska feeding farms. The double cob slack burning locomo- tives now running on the mountain di- visions of the Union Pacific are known as “man killers” among the ilroad boys. A single locomotive consumn: from twenty-six to thirty tons of th stuff in making u trip from Laramie to Rawlins, They frequently run out at some point along the road, even then, and are compelled to sidetrack their trains and run ahead for a fresh supply at the nearest coaling station, e s The Stewart mansion in New York is guarded by private watchmen at - all hours of the day and night. R o g s DIGGING FOR GOLD. What the Real Life of a Western Pros- pector s Lik Helena Correspondence N. Y. World: I'w?fll) used to think that the life of a gold-hunter 1s a jolly ono, thas when he gets out of funds he simply retires to the nearest mountains, finds a gold or silver miue, roturns in a few days, solls the lll"tlll(‘l'(\' for alarge sum and “blows in" his easily acquired wealth against a faro bank, of loscs it in trying to master the iutricacies of draw-poker. Aftor this he sallies forth as before and velills his dopleted purse. The fact, however, is that the lifo of a prospector is not easy or pleasant, but rather one of in- cessant - toil, innumerable hardships and disappointments. Nor is he more given to gambling than those who are engaged in other callings, In the spring time, often with no other com- punion than a stubborn pack-mule, which he leads along with a kmllm‘. the rold-hunter turns his back on such civ- ilization as border towns can boast of and hides himself among the awful goli- s of the mountaing, where he re- , except when he repairs to the nearest sottlements to procure fresh supplies, pursuing his lonely and dan- gerous tasks until the storms of wintor compel him to scck shelter again umong the habitations of hisfellow men. 1f perchance he should discover a prom- ising lead during his summer explora- tious, then he builds himself asnug cabin of logs, or, if there is no timber in the neighborhood, scoops out a hole in the side of a mountain, and, to use his own expression, “camps on the pros- pect.” His diet consists of fat bacon, bread of hisown manufacture and coffee, occasionally varied by roasted grouse, a slice of venison or other game tuppliod by his own trusty rifle. And he makes Lis nightly bed on the brown lap of mother carth. As the gold-hunter ascends the slope of the mountain which he has sclected as the scene of his exploration be notes every change in the structure or com- position of the rocks. When a favor- able locality is reached.a locality where the geological formation indicates the presence of gold. ho stops at the first spring of water, unpacks his outlit, pitches his tent, if he has one, which is rarely the case, pickets his tived mulo, gathers o fow loose rocksand places them in the form of a horseshoe on the ground, to serve as a stove, and then, with bent head and watehful eyes, care: fully scans_every gulch and mountain sido, pries into every nook and cranny in quest of those signs which Mot Nature always posts near the spot where she has hidden her precious treasures Farupon tho rugged flanks of that storm riven mountain the gold hunter breaks off a picce of rock from a ledge and lo! it is flecked with bright, yellow specks, not unlike that metal which all mankind is glad to possess. His heart beats fast as he mines the specimen. Ho wets the bright specks with his tongue and picks at them nervously with his penknife. They crumble at the touch of that instrument, and then he throws the rock down with an angry gesture, and mutters disappointedly: “Pilgrim gold, be gosh.” Now ho 18 down yonder in the gulch, which seems as though it might be the repository of a vast amount of the | low metal, digging a hole in the gr: The trend of the driftisnorth and south. Nature never piled up a drift in that manner, especially in a ravine in this range of mountains without sprinkling it with gold. It was just such spots as this that she loved to secret her most beautiful metal whenever it was torn from its native home in the rock by the slowly advancing glacier or the floods of bygone ages. A little stream of water goes singing down the gulch, and the tall bunch grass bends gracefully over it as if charmed by the song. Hard by a chipmunk sits as motionless as a stone at the entrance to its little hovel and watches the intruder on its domain with the greatest curiosity. On the op- posite flank of the mountain a coyote skulks along in the manner of its kind, while high above the eagle is winging his way, a speck across the blue. The shaft is down three feet, and now the miner fills his pan with gravel from the bottom of the pitand washes it in the stream. Yes, there is gold in the drift, for on the bottom of the pan glis- ten three colors. Thoy are mere specks, it is true, but they are the genuine arti- cle, and no mistake. This small find encourages the toiler to continue his search, for he knows that the heavier particles of gold, no matter what ray have becn their position in the drift when it was first deposited, will not rest e until they have reached the bed- rock and found u erevice for their grave. And so he sinks the shaft to bed-rock, twelve feet more. He drifts east along the rock, he drifts west, north and south, and finds the precious stuff every: where, but not in sufficient quantities to pay. Again he is upon that cliff. How did he manage to scale those perpendicular walls which fori its sides? l‘l seems as though nothing but a bird could find a foothold, and yet there he isdancing wildly around “something that glittery in the sunlight like an enormous ball of silver. That pile is ore, vich in silver and lead. He has just dug it out of the ground. TIs it any wonder, then, thi he is in an gestacy of delizht, for seems as thotigh he had struck it rich at last. A little assistance from capital is all Lie requives now to become a mil- lionaire. He sits down for a moment and staves towirds the east witha yearn- ing look in his soft grey eyes. He is thinking, perhaps, of the home of his childhood, and how he has met with success at last. He leaps into the pit again and digs away r life. But the walls of the lode ddenly come together, Tt was pocket of ore, and will never make him rieh or anybody else; and fortune, who med s0 near to him a moment ago, 15 as far away as ever. The “pinching out” of that lode only disheurtened our prospector for a ment or so, for there he is now driving a tunnel at the foot of that granite hoss, There is a fine lot of ore lying at the mouthof theopening. Itisa sugary,com- sy quartz, and is sprinkled here ewith gold. Carefully he e the granite walls of the fode and see how clean they are, The most skilful workman could not have made them so smooth or polished them half so well. Observe those shining bunches of erys tals there in the heading, a sure sign thut the veinis a live one. It is si foet between walls, and the lead matter avernges $40 per ton. Tt is surely a rich ledge and the miner’s fondest hopes may yet be realized. 3ut who are those two men who have just come over the crest of the hill above the tunnel. Oueof them has a wooden box under his arm, It has no cover and the a paper containing some writing fastened on the inner side ofits bottom. They are a villainous looking pair these:two, and are there for no good purpe 3 Low they crawl along, almost on their stomachs. They conduet themselves as thou some one might see them and m: target of their worthless carcasses. But nobody 1 Y ave come its end and piled loose rockson it tokeep it in and then sneak off *the way they came \couple of cowardly coyotcs, which they closely resemble. Mese two worthiés belong to that disreputable cluss known here in the | west as “‘claim jumpers,” They have been sent out by some covetous specula- tor, who wants the carth and who stioks at uothing to got it, or at least a large slico of it, 1o has learned in some way of this promising prospect, and has en- gagod those wretches to post a notlce thercon, elaiming the property. Thero will be a fierce dispute over it now. The matter will be brought into the courts, and will probably be settled some time in the nextdecade. Ttwill beaconflict of the friendloss and ponniless neainst the rich and influential. Might and not ally wins in such cases, not fanlt of those who ndmin- ister the law, but because of tho pove erty of the rightful owner aud the law ich is the real life of a gold huntor, septina few cases. . After yeurs of exhausting toil, and just wlen his cfforts aro about to be crowned with success, others step in and steal the fruits of his lubors, or by trickery and fraud reap the harvest” which he has sown. Those who so wrong him are highly honored and respected in the communitias where they reside, while he who first planted tho standard of civilization in_ the western wilds, and won a vast empire from the wilderness, steals into an unknown grave, e < AN ODD EPITAPH. A Queer Inscription on a Tennes<ee Tombstone. Chattanooga Commer t A corre- spondent of the Commicrcial copied the following unique and exhaustive epitaph from a Tombstone in Tennessee and sent it in as a masterpioce in its lin gives pretty much all of the deceasod’s Listory, and he cortainly had a vemark- able carecr. The stone was creeted hy M. Muldoon of this city. The opitaph is as follow . H THOMAS P. A¥ H The 8tk Son of o SOLOMON FIDELITY AFTERALL, H Killed in 1516 by the Indians. : Of Puritun Stock, H And His Fourth Wife, H 131124 JANE Sy, ®ieiriiiniiiieiine e Who was the thivd wife of J. Smith who was her sccond hushand, horn at the new city of Indianapolis, Ind., in the year of our Blessed Redocmer and Savior, 1814, on the 15th day of Janu- the same blessed yi nd, after ving been «l by the proper ng the true llll¥< faith, was marricd to Peggy Cott lest one), danghter of Jim Cott (who lived at the forks of the road) who, having died, he took to his tender ast his true [friend—and mine— Martha Wolpus. The two above help- mates gave him seven sweet buds of trust and affection, and I gave him ono after his death myself, who got scalded accidentally by him on maple sugar, and then still trusting the prom- so of God, he clasped his wife for the third time, O! so sweet! his now \\'m-‘n- ing widow, Mary Bangs Aftevall (whols myself), and died soon after, on March 10, 1 A. D., peace to his ashes. Hav- ing performed the work laid out for him to do by his Creator, he now restg from his labors. There is no sorrowing there. Erected by his weeping and disconso- Inte widow, and his truest wife, Mary Bangs Afterall. bapti A S trange f Carcer. Lelex, who won the big race from Vo- fante, ete., at Baltimore last Friday, says the St. Louis Republican, ran sec- ond to Hindoo for the Kentucky Derby six years ago. He then went to the bad, and at one time helped tote a hearse for Scott & Lynch, the well known St. Louis undertakers. Another phase of usefulness was found for him on the stage, where ho has been secen at the rate of $2 a night in our different the- atres in “The Vovage en Suisse,” “The Black Hussar,” “Kerry Gow™ and other piebes. He is probably as alw-dx a miler a8 ever peered through a bridle, and no one outside the authorities of his present stable reaily know just how fast he his at from six fo ninc furlongs. Catarrhal Dangers. Tobe freed from the dangers of suffocation while lying down; to breatho freely, sleep souud- ly and uundisturbed; to rise hed, head clear, brain active and freo from pain or ache; to know that no potsonons, putrid matter defiles the breath and rots away the delicate machin- ery of smell, taste and hearing: to feol that the tem does not, through its veins and arterios, suck up the poison that 15 sure to undermine and destroy, 13 indeed a blessing beyond all other human enjoyments. purchase fmmnu- nity from such a fate should be the object of all afliictod. 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