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Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1869-01-22
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Life evermOTe il fed by death
In earth and sea and sky;
And that rose may breathe its breath,
SOMETHING MUST DIE.
The oak tree struggling TO the blast,
Devours its father tree.
And drops it, leaves and sheds its mast
That more NAV lie.
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Drugs, Medicines, &C.
CARLOS 1IeCRAY,

CARLOS 1IcCRAN,
nEALEB in Drugs. Medicines. Pure Wines and
IL Liquors. Notions, sc, Brick block, foot Of
OTange-St. 81
BRILL & WEIGH,
GENERAL dealers in Drugs. Medicines. Wines.
y Liquors. Paints Leads, Oils. EaIni>hes. Glass
Patty. Toilet Articles. Fancy Goods Stationery
Picture Frames. Moulding~. Wall Paper. Tobacco.
Cigar~. &c BrOad-st.
- Physicians Prescriptions carefully pre-
pared 81
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CHAS. O. BOUGHTON,
IEACHANI & CO.

nEALER in Confectionery Canned Fruits.
~ Fresh Oysters. by the dish or can. cor. Broad
and kinniCkinnick-sts. 81
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Mrs. VI. \. MARKLE.

! MANUFACTURER Of sash. Doors, Blinds
III MOuldings. &c BTOad-st
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Miscellaneous.

WISE & VANNATTA.
4 TTORNEYS x COJ-NSELORS al Law. Corner
\ kianiCkinuicsS and BrOad-sts 81
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BAkBER SHOP.
~ MAUREB. Proprietor. Shaving. Hair Cut
u. ting &c-. &c. neatly done. 81
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IARNESS MAKER. Custom work promptI,
4 ended TO- BrUad-st. 81
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H. = " EVNs
PHYSICIAN ~ SURGEON office over Jas. y
Smiths store. BrOad-st. 81
, 1869-09-14
From Chambers's Journal. }
COMETS.

A good many of our readers will be in
cIlned to think that we know already
quite enough about comets, and NAV as
we'll put them aside as thoroughly ex-
pIOred and used up !; and without doubt
we have extended our acquaintance with
them very considerably within the last
one or two hundred years. We never
think Of being frightened of them now,
or dream of questioning their having as
good right to appear as any of the planets
within the limits of our system. We
know that they move about the sun, as
we do, though with a difference ; for as
the earth and other planets move in clip
ses, hardly distinguishable from circles,
with the sun in the focus, almost colnci-
dent with the centre, in the cometary Or
bits, the sun is so far from the centre,
that Tor a large part of their course, it
may be for thousands of years, many COM
cts are out of sight and out of mind with
all of us and when they do approach us
and the sun, they accomplish their little
transactions in our neighbourhood in a
few weeks, or even days, and then are off
again millions and billions of miles into
space. But there is one question con-
nected with comets which is still as far as
ever from being answered-that is, how
they are constructed, what kind of ma
terial they are made of, and especially
whence arise those singular ~appendages
called tails, which to the vulgar eye are
the most remarkable feature about them.
To understand a little of this difficulty,
let US briefly call attention to some of the
many surprising feats which they have
accomplished with these, tails of theirs.
Take, for instance, the great comet of
1850, which had the advantage of being
seen by Newton. This comet astonished
ever body by darling out in the space of
two days a tail which covered nearly half
the visible heavens, or a length of twenty
million leagues at one time, indeed, it
occupied torty-one million leagues, or a
distance much greater than that of the
earth from tie sun. The tail ofthe comet
Of 1869 extended sixteen million leagues,
and that OF the comet Of 1911 thirty-six
million leagues. Newton's comet, it was
known, would have to pass so near the
sun in getting round him, that apprehen-
sions were felt for its safe return; but it
accomplished the whole business in about
two hours, bringing its tail safe behind
it; that is to say, having whisked this
enormous appendage through half a COM
pIete circle in this incredibly short time.
1t is needless to dwell here upon the
numerous varieties and peculiarities in
the lengths and positions of the tails of
, 1869-09-14

different comets it will suffice to saw,
that in o general way the telescope aspect
is that of a quantity Of vapour escaping
from the nucleus towards the SUM-, and
then carried directly behind the comet,
as if by d repuIsive force emanating from
the sun, sometimes for a distance of my
rlads Of leagues, thus forming the tail.
Hence, in whatever direction the comet is
moving, the tail is turned away from him,
the turthest end being curved backwards,
just as a flexible rod or feather would be
If whirled rapidly round one extremity.
Now, the great difficulty lies in conceiv-
ing the possible constitution of a body
which can deport itself in the way we
have been describing. We should imagine
that 1T must sweep away planets in its
wild %gyrationS. We hardly regard it as
ridiculous that Winston should have
gravely maintained that it was by a whisk
OF one of these tails that the deluge was
brought about, and calculated the parti-
cular comet which caused that catastrophe.
However, everything goes to prove that
these comets are huge unprecedented
and tail alIke-and are the most vapoury,
windy bodies conceivable $50 much so,
that 1T is no exaggeratiOn to Say that the
tail, with all its millions and billions Of
miles, might, if properly packed up and
slowed away, travel by a continental pas
senger-traln, and cost nothing in the wav
Of extra luggage. This has been long
known and Sir John Herschel sees no
difficulty In concelving that the tail of a
great comet, as, for instance, that of 1850,
with its twenty million Of leagues, might
weigh only a fewpounds, or even ounces.
This tenulty of constitution is proved in
many ways: partly by the disturbances
and deviations caused in a comets motion
by the approach to any other body and
partly again, by the fact that stars have
been seen to shine with undiminished
l%ustre, alike through their heads and tails
stars which would be utterly obscured
by a few feet of ordinary terrestrial mist.
But, granting any amount of tenuity, it
is hard to conceive such an extended
mass whirled half round in two hours, and
retaining It's continuity. Sir John Her
scheI, therefore, ventured upon a concep-
ton involving the total absence of matter
altogether-suggeSting the hypothesis of
a negative shadow; and an original think
er, specializing upon the last big comet
of 1858, announced the discovery in the
papers that comets were worlds on fire,
most probably suffering the punishment
Of their wlckedness !; and that the light
proceeding from the conflagration was in
visible where the SUMS rays penetrated,
but was seen in the shadow cast by the
head, thus producing the Italian idea in
VOlvin0. amonO other ahsurdities the ne.
, 1869-09-14
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The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-06-11
THE LATEST NEWS.

We make the following short synopsis
from the Gold Fill News of last even
ing:
President Grant will attend the grand
Peace Jubilee at Boston.
The latest report from the scene Of
the late Indian disturbances in Kansas
is to the effect that the red skins have
| disappeared and the settlers are feeling
more secure.
Alexander &. Stephens thinks the
country is drifting into imperialism
He says that secession can't help the
matter but that the ballot box can. We
reckon that it is possible for the coun-
try to be saved without any of Alexis
help or advice.
Several prominent clerks in the
Treasury Department have been re-
moved.
The Cubans are getting along SWIM
mingly, the rumors of their defeat and
surrender to the contrary notwithstand-
ing.
The New York hotel walters strike
is at an end and the strikers are out of
employment.
The Peace Jubilators have had a big
rehearsal in Boston. Five thousand
rehearsed.
Burchard, Republican nominee to
succeed E. B. Washburne, Minister to
France, has been elected by large
majority.
Senator Sprague has been spouting
to the New Jersey harness makers. He
seems to be swinging around the circle.
A convention of fanatical opponents
of Free Masonry was held in Chicago
on the 9th. They denounced the prac-
tees of he Masons as &" heathenish,
horrible and profanely tcked, where
at Old Piety, of the Gold ELL News
wakes savage swears he is Mason of
twenty-five (hundred y years standing
and that he knows that these conven-
lions don't tell the truth.
Mike McCoole and Allen are to fight
4 prize fight on the 10Th inst.-the day
Of the Peace Jubilee.
The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-06-11

CUBAN MATrERs.-In the Washington
Chronicle of June 1st we find the fol.
lowing:
ONE of the fillibusters who got off on
the steamer PERT, from New York, a
few weeks since, has been heard from
through a metropolitan journal, which
yesterday, published letter dated
bay of Nipe, May ~" The fllbus-
tering correspondent goes into costa
cies over the success full landing of the
Perrit refers TO the excitement of an
anticipated engagement with the Span
iards, whose flag floats within sight OF
the bay =: says that the expedition is
&" full of feverish aud impetuous life,"
and that whetherthey succeed or fail the
cause of Cuban indedendence is sure to
10 triumph. Reports by telegraph of
the attack of the Spanish troops on the
fortifieations of the fillbus;er, subse.
quent to the writing of the letter refer
red to, have already been published.
The New York Sun of yesterday
states that it is not the intention of the
Cuban jun,a in New Yerk to ship any
more arms TO their friends in the field,
and that their reversionary interest in
the large shipment of arms BY the
Spaniards to Havana by every steamer
10 90 great as to render any further out.
lay on their own part unnecessary.
The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-06-11

THE WHITE PINE BUSINESS PROSPECT
Bro. Forbes, in his short, curt style re
views the business outlook at White
Pine and deduces some facts, on the
strength Of what be SAYS:
The bullion shipment from White
Pine, during last week, was S7s,6 oil,
larger than ever beforehand for this
week it will probably be as large, a.
though the municipal elections II the
three towns, most Of working men
losing day, may cause slight falling
off. The mill of the Chloride Cousoli-
dated will be at work in few days,
twenty stamps to the crushing force,
and we may expect material increase
of bullion for shipment.
A morsel of encouragement to the
croakers, who have so much to say
against San Francisco, as absorbing all
the wealth of the Coast, while standing
open-mouthed, ever hungry, crying
more l'-as depicted by those who talk
of bestowing their patronage upon Chi
cago, provided Chicago can stand it
1t seems by the count that the flow of
coin to the interior, from San Francisco,
during the months of April and May,
exceeded the shipments to that city
from the interior and coastwise. The
balance of coin sent ever bullion and
dust received amounted to 81 .324, AL
So, while that rapacious people continue
10 send goods to US, and in addition
send more coin to US, for business uses
and the purchase of mines, that the
total shipment of bullion from our
mines, We ought to bring to the emer-
yency a sufficient Christian fortitude to
stand the contact. With a balance
Of the trade in the metallic our way, we
nay deal kindly, by kindly dealing,
With the rapacious city at the Bay.
The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-06-11
NEW TO-DAY.

HALL OF CARSON ENcAMPNEsr, Nc 2, I 0. o. +. /
June 9th, 1869.
Your Committee appointed June Sth, 1869, to
draft resolutions. expressive Of the feelings of this
Encampment on the death Of Brother WILLIAM
P. JOY, would most respectfully submit the fol-
lowing:
WHEREAS, In the dispensatlon Of an all-wise
Providence our wel-beloved Brother WILLIAM p.
Joy has been removed from earth and its labors;
therefore, be it
Resofred, That in the dispensation of Divine
Providence beloved order has lost a good and
faithful odd Fellow; society an estimable MEM
Der; his family devoted husband and father.
ReSDired, That in common. with All extended
circle of friends, We mourn the death OF our be-
loved brother and tender to his afflicted fam y,
iu this their hour Of bereavement, our warmest
sympathies.
Res0lred, That ms influence and earnest deyo-
ton his untiring zeal in promoting the great OBJ
jects of Order his sympathy for the distressed
and afflicted, and his wayering and yeslous in
terest in the great cause Of humanity, have en-
deared him in the hearts of his brothers, and has
presented a shining example well worthy o. imi-
tatIon.
P. II. CLAYTON, !
X. L. HIGGINS, Committee.
wv J. W. ROBINSON
The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-06-11

The INDIAN SUPERINTENDENT
following statement regarding the in.
teutions and policy of the newly ap.
pointed Superintendent of Indian A fairs
comes to US in the Press dispatches:
General Parker is rapidly sending out
to his district agents. Mostly army
officers are detailed and will willingly
accept the work. Where one was found
who did not seem inclined to carry out
the Presidents views heartily, he was
set aside for some one more IN accord
anee with the Commissioner purpose,
which is to get men or whom he can
rely implicitly. The Central and North
ern Superiotendencles, comprising Ne
braska, Kansas, and part OF the Indian
Territory, are to be put entirely under
The Quakers, and all civilian agents in
this section will be removed from their
places, which will be filled by officers.
Everywhere else in the Indian country
the army officers will be put on duty.
In the end there will be about twenty
Quaker agents and Superintendent, and
about sixty military officers. This Sum-
mer will see an entirely new order of
things. Parker contemplales a revolu
ton in Indian purchases-doing in two
or three weeks what his predecessors
occupied two or three months in doing.
He has got a better quality of goods,
and at much lower prices than they
have ever been bought for before. The
Indians have already had much help
from him. The Commissioners will give
their constant aid and cooperation in
his lab0rs. Secretary Cox is satisfied
that the incipient troubles in Kansas
grew out of the hostility Of the old In
dian ring to the Quaker policy being
tried, and he expects like trouble for a
few weeks in other parts of the country
occupied by the Quakers.
We like Parkers policy and incline
to believe that Cox has guessed rightly |
rs TO the cause of the disturbances on
the frontier.
The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-06-11

The TREASURE CITY MUNICIPAL ELEC-
TIoN.-As We inferred from Coleman 5
eleclio as Marshal of Treasure City
reported in Tuesdays Enterprise--the
Democrats carried the day. This was
probably accomplished through the
supineness of the Republicans rather
than from their inferior numbers. Says
the White Pine News of Thursday:
Up to the hour of going to press last
night the canvassers bad not yet con-
cluded the count of the vote cast at the
municipal election yesterday. Enough
is known, however, to place Coleman s
election for Marshal beyond doubt. and
it is also pretty certain that Stewart G.
Bell has been elected Assessor. The
contest for Treasurer, between Hallock
and Guilds, is very close, with the chan,
ces favorable for the election of the
latter. Kit Lansing received q 4jori-
ty of the votes cast for the City Attor-
neyship The Board of Trustees will
most probably be composed of the fol-
lowing gentlemen: Church elected GER
tain), McCluskey, Daily, Bouring, and
either Layne or Dickinson, between
whom there was but little difference SO
far as counted. 1t was not generally
that there was to be party
fght, but somehow, majority of those
who are probably elected are Demo
Gratis
The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-06-11

HENRY WARD BEECHER OPPOSED TO
PROTESTANT CoNsoLIDATIoS.-Gf a late
discourse delivered by Henry Ward
Beecher, the Washinton Chronicle says:
In his Plymouth sermon on Sunday
morning last, the Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher is reported to have taken strong
ground against the pending movements
looking to the reunion of certain relig-
ious sec,s In taking this unusual
view of the case the reverend gentle
man argued that 10 the large number
of Christian denominations consisted
the chief strength of religion, and CT
ted St. Paul to fortlfy his position.
He hoped that instead of decreasing in
number, the sects would continually
increase, and preferred that bad men
should preach the Gospel rather than
not have it preached at all. A novel
view of the.natter, to say the least of it.
We don't think that it was St. Paul
who first uttered the expression, COM
petition ia the life of trade but that
is what seems to be applicable to Mr..
Beecher's novel position.
The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-06-11

Touch CABBAGE.-Tnisi is good story
of a citizen who used to go home late
slightly inebria,ed, and take lunch
usually set out for him by his 'consid-
crate wife. One night, beside the u.s.
ual dish of cabbage and pork, she left
a wasbbowl filled with caps in starch.
The lamp had long been e1tingulshed
when the staggering sot returned bone
and, by a mistake, when preceding to
satisfy his hunger, he stuck his fork in-
to the wrong dish. He worked away at
his mouthfull of caps very patiently for
some time, but finally being unable to
masticate them, he said to his wife,
- Old woman! where did you get your
cabbage? They are go darued esringy
l cam chew them" Ny gracious"
she replied, " if the stupid Teller Ain I
eating up all my caps that put in
starch over night"
The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-06-11

GOLD ROCK.-At the Bureau saloon,
in this city, is to be seen some splendid
specimens of gold bearing quartz,
brought by a Mexican from near the
Colorado river. The ore is literally
lousy with free gold and as an evil
dence of the great value set upon it,
one piece weighing not more than two
pounds, was yesterday sold to an as
sayer of this city for $50. We are not
advised of the exact locality from
which these specimens were obtained,
and know nothing further than that
they came from some point on the Col
,oeado river.-Wzle Pine Nesrs.
The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-06-11

TIE REPUBLICANS have made a clean
sweep of everything in the late election
in Washington City. The majority is
thought 10 be upwards of 500. The
Register, one alderman, and seven of the
common council are colored men.
The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-06-11

WHITE PINE MUsIC.-We learn from
Che Treasure City News that brass
aud string band has been organized at
Hamilton,
The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-06-11

MARSHAL OF HAMILTON. - Major
O'Keefe has been elected City Marshal
at Hamilton, the county seat OF White
Pine county.
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1869-05-14

WELL ASewERED.-On eertain oceasio,,
a noted infdeb bsTowsd sum of money
from the lateDf Lalhrnp. of West Spring
Fl d. Msss. When be esme to pay it,. he
'hought to pose the Doctor by arguing ron
the Bibe ..--.-......-
You ought not to take interest for this
money, for the Jews we're forbidden to tax
u-nry ..its.r ~
Oh no. said the doctor, You forget The
jews Vtr- f'rbidden to take usury froR.
heir own people but they were allowed to
tax uSurs fr,m the hpathen
The app icatiun was too direct TO be mis-
taken and the Dan was quite willing &.
d'OP the argument and pay he money.
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1869-05-14
Pireman's state Convention.

Pursuant to Instructions Of the Firemen's
State Convention, held at Columbus. Ohio.
September 18Th, 1868, the undersigned Com
mittee, appointed to name the tigle and. place
for holding the next Convention, have select
ed the g7A day Of Nay 1869, as the time;
aud Wooster, Wdgns Cosmty Ohio, as the
place. si o.
This Firsmsn thrOughoutsbe State are re-
quested to correspond at once with The
Uha,rm n Of this O.,mmittse at Wo.etgr, m
vrder that be paJ BE- enab.ed make all
n cessary arrangements for The seo0umOda-
j'isn Of delegates. et ~
A large attsudsnes is aniisiPs,sd, as there
lsimPortaat Is bu- mss 70 bs traasac ed.
81 r. n. DOwsIve, Ch'n, Wooster;
VIZ. EocH, SauduskJ;
VIZ. 0AxrsELL, New P ilsdsIphis;
O mmitse.
~ The Pres 'h'ouzaOut tue sle is
respectfully sAhed to copy. s'io