The Nevada Democrat., 1856-12-10
WHOLE NO. 1866.
VARIETIES.

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$50 miles per hour. Its center of gravity is
placed so low as to render it safer than ordinary
engines at the usual speed, so far as gettieg off
! the track is concerned. 1t is doubted whether
the speed named can be reached without much
! larger driving wheels, but there is no doubt of
| the practicability of achieving it with larger
| ones; or that by elevating the track so as
to allow of very low center of gravity, to-
geiher with Widening the space between the
rails aud avoiding common roads by bridges
and tunnels, railroad trains can move with case
and safety $50 miles an hour.
CurrA.PERcHA FOR Horse SuoEs.-A Phila-
delphia mechanic has constructed horse shoe
| in such manner that it requires no nails, and
can be put on by any one without the aid of o
blacksmith. Attached to the shoe is fiange
extending around the hoof, and at the back of
the horses foot is q joint held in its place by
screw which allows the shoe to open and close
so as to accommodate itself to the size of the
hoof Between the hoof and the plate is layer
Of gutta pcrcha, for the purpose of preventing
| injury TO the hoof or leg of the horse by con-
cussion while running over hard roads or streets
The mechanism is very simple, and the applica-
ton of gutta-percha new and ingenious idea.
MURDER ON THE PLAINs.--Mr, William Shoe
kendick recently arrived at st. Louis from Cali
fornia, and states that when crossing the plains
about eighty miles the other side Of Fort Karney.
his party, consisting of himself, wife and four
! children and teamstcr, were attacked by q BODY
of Cheyenne Indians who plundered them of all
their valuables, and murdered the wife of Mrs..
and the teamster and carried off one of the chill
dren, aged four years. Mr.. S. fortunately es-
capped with three of the children.
THE LIMANToUR GRANT.--An important land
case was decided in the Fourth District Court
of San Francisco, on Friday last The question
in dispute was the title to one-half of two hum
dred vara lots. This is, we believe, the first
time jury has been called upon to return q
verdict on the l.imantour grant, as to its genu-
ineness or invalidity. The verdict was against
the Limantour grant, and in this aspect the case
is one of considerable Importance.
TIE CROPS IN IRELAND.-Accounts from Ire
land state that the failure in the potato crop
this year will be by no means SO great as was
anticipated at the early re-appeaPance of the
mysterious light. In the districts where 1t was
supposed the crop was irretrievably tainted it
has been found that the injury never went be-
low the stock, and that the root itself remained
perfectly sound.
THE FRENCH PRESS AND FINANcEs.-Such il
the extreme of financial trouble in France that
''all the editors Of the Paris journals have been
summoned before the Minister of the Interior,
and ordered to withhold all comments upon the
commercial and financial crisis" That's one
way of relieving "tight' money market which
is peculiarly French, but is not likely to prove
very successful.
THE CoNQuERoR OF LEcoMPrE.- -Porter's Spirit
of the Times is Informed that Lexington the
celebrated conqueror of Lecompte, has gone
blind. This is the inheritance from Boston, and
we fear that Lexington will, TO a greater or less
extent, impart the same defect to his issue. This
however, is not a paramount defect, al the in
heritance of blindness does not usually come on
until a racers best running days are over.
UNITED STATES CoNSUIs IN Russla.-The con-
saiar agent of the United States at Cronstadt
has demanded authority to hoist his national
flag, and to place the arms Of his nation over
his residence. The Emperor has granted this
permission, and stated that the same permission
will be given to all the other consular agents
who may request it.
RIcu SrRKE.-Thc Sierra Democrat says that
the Juniata Company at Minnesota. took out
last week, a quartz boulder weighing ca pounds.
IL is estimated that the boulder contains gold to
the amount Of $4,000. The same day this COM
pany found nugget weighing II ounces. There
il very little quartz in the specimen. Minnesota
will loom up yet and no mistake.
THE MoRxoNs IN DENMARK-Late European
advices state that Mormonism is making such
progress in Denmark as to excite considerable
alarm in the minds of religious and rejecting
men. IcllllOus nave Dtcu Seub III ldTpe numbers
to the government asking that the Mormons
may be restricted from the more public practice
of their ceremonies
SAM SLIcK.-Ex-Judge Halliburton, author of
, Sam Slick, the clock pcdlar, has taken final
farewell of Nova Scotia as place of residence.
Clifton, his beautiful seat ut Windsor, was sold
a short time sinca aud the old Judge has taken
passage for Liverpool, 10 make hishome in Great
Britain for the remapder Of his days.
BLusuING AND INPUDEScE. -Blushing arises
from want Of sclf-posscssOn. II is best cured
by mpudcnce. Time will diminish the tendency
to it. 1t is dangerous to suppress it; it is one
of the best safeguards of character We have
faith in q person who bushes; no faith in one
who docs not.
CHIKD KILLED BY A GAIA short time since,
at Antwerp, a child was stided in q cradle by
cat coming into the room and lying on the its
face. The parents were asleep in the same
room, but did not discover the unfortunate cir
cumstance until the morning.
SEBAsroPoI.-Th Russian government intend
to make Sebastopol magnificent city. A letter
from Constantinople says the attempt made to
get up the fragments Of the vessels sunk at the
mouth of the harbor appears likely to prove
successful.
ExpENsIyE--It is calculated that the mission
of Earl Granville to Moscow, as the Extraordi-
nary Ambassador of England at the coronation
of the Gar, has cost his country from e25,O00
to e35, 900. The suit of the noble earl included
nearly forty persons
DEATH OF A TALENTED LADY.-Mrs. Ellen h,
wife of w. L. Claiming, Esq, died in Boston
} lately at the residence of DR.. Walter Claiming,
; at the age of SO years. The deceased was
sister of Margaret Fuller, the noted writer.
SALrrE.-On the receipt of the election in
telligence, salute of two hundred guns was
fired by the Young Mems Democratic Club at
San Francisco.
, CosT OF THE ELEcrIoN.-The n. Y. Tribune
estimates the expense of the Presidential election
just past at over twenty-five millions dollars.