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The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1870-05-11

PERsoSAL.--A. II. rutherford, one of the
pioneers Of White Pine aud ono Of it's most
liberal and public spirited citizens, came
down yesterday morning, spent tho day in
town and went TO ToaDo lust night. Ruther-
ford is prominent candidate for State Con-
trollor, subject 10 the decision of the Repub-
lican State Convention
The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1870-05-11

THE FI0nr BETWEEN MACE AND ALLEN. we learn
by telegraph, came OF as per announceme
On the eighth round blow from Mace dislocaied
Aliens arm, when Mace was declared 10 be
the winner. Time, q minutes. Allen was badly
punished about the face, but Mace escaped with.
out q scratch.
The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1870-05-11
WI. FonpEs, of the White Pine News

WI. FoRBEs, of the White Pine News,
came down on yesterdays stage, passed the
day in town and went up to Toano on the
evening train. He is thoroughly practical
newspaper man, and we give Forbes tho credit
of standing at the head of the profession in this
Stntc, If not on the coast. AZ popular and
attractive writer he has no superior, and his
paper always sparkles with rich jewels of
thought
The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1870-05-11

BASEBALL At MoUSrArS CrTY.-The base
ball conta gion appears to have extended to the
Cope country. The Mountain City Base. Ball
Club was organized on tho Goth ult., ont of
good material. Tho club is confident that be-
fore the Summer is far advanced it will be able
to meet the champions Of the State and wrest
from them their honors in friendly contest.
A game played Oh the ID, between the first
and second mines resulted as follows:
The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1870-05-11

SHORT CRorS.-The usual amount Of rain has
not fallen through the southern portion Of Califor.
inia, and at present the prospect for good crops
Is decidedly bad. South Of Stockton the crops
will be failure, and in some portions Of the
Sacramento valley they will be very light
The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1870-05-11

Miss GARDNER, daughter of our popular
landlord arrived from Carson City, where she
has been attending school, on Sunday. Sho
IL one OF the sweetest singers and most ac-
pianists in tho State.
The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1870-05-11

Dr. W. G. Wayman. we'll known on this
coast as clever gentleman and liberal Demo-
crat, passed through town with his family, on
his way TO his old home in Indiana, on Sun
day. lie goes cast on u three mopthH' visit
The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1870-05-11

requistion was made on the 2sth ul,imo.
by Governor Blasdel, on the Governor Of Illi-
nois, for the arrest of Edward F. Murphy,
charged with embezzlement in Humboldt
county.
The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1870-05-11

Jso. GARDEn, Esq, aspirant for the Demo-
cratic nomination for Supreme Judge. came
up Monday night. on his way to White Pine
He tarried with ms yesterday. Mr.. CARRIER Is
widely known as n man Of marked ability,
a brilliant scholar, n sound lawyer and pol
isbed gentleman and has no superior on the
const.
The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1870-05-11

A. @. Ellis, Esq. passed through here yes
terdny on his way from White Pine to Carson.
Ellis is one Of the most talented gentlemen in
the State and If elected Governor of Nevada
will grace the chair with dignity.
The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1870-05-11

The Sutro tunnel is in 1,0i0 feet. Forty feet
were made last week. No water is encountered
to interfere with the rapid prosecution Of the
work, which is progressing satisfactorily to all
concerned
The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1870-05-11

j. S. ''RosMAS, Of Treasure City, is, accord
ing to the White Pine News, n candidate for
Lieutenant Governor. He was the first Lieu
tenant Governor of this State,
The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1870-05-11
First Nine.
Total

Total 20 Total M
lNsIsos Let 2d ID ith 9th 9th 7th sth 9th
ID al S Nine. II 2 2 Q so
Umpire. J. st. Clair: Scorer DIR. Boatman; Time of
game. hours and minutes. -.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-11-08
Why do we Believe in God?

Terrific forces, capable of blowing the
earth to pieces, are now guided and re-
strained by the same great hand of power.
Under our feet, few miles down, there
probably rolls an ocean of fire; above it,
separated by thin crust, rests the weight
Of five oceans. Let crack occur, and an
ocean pour down into this central furnace,
and what could save us? Let the central
fire lift the ocean few thousand feet, and
another universal deluge would come
Who sets limit to the extremes of cold
in winter, and heat in summer; 50 that
the thermometer shall not fall to 1902 be-
low zero, or rise to 200o above it, but only
oscillate between safe limits? We have a
tornado occasionally, which blows down a
few houses and trees. Let its force be but
increased little, and it would sweep away
man and human civilization from the face
of nature. Who says to the storm, to the
sea, to the heat of summer, to the cold OF
winter, to the plague, to famine, to fire, to
pestilence, Hitherto shalt thou come, but
no further, and here shall thy power be
stayedp
81 20 out into the woods in the fair Oc-
tober days. Over million of pickering
leaves, the innocent fires of autumn pour
their flaming glories. Every imperial tint
appears-of scarlet and crimson, orange
and yellow. The climbing vines hang
from the branches their unbought drape-
ries, more gorgeous than those of kings
palaces. The oak leaves run up through
their long gamut Of browns. Little MOSES
cluster round the roots of trees; soft bed
of tender green and gray lichens variegates
their trunks. The clouds glide softly past
the openings above; the brook circles and
sweeps through light and darkness below.
Who has bathed the world with this inef-
fable, indescribable beauty? If you come
home after few weeks absence, and find
your room arranged for you-another pic
ture on the walls, new and pretty carpet
under your feet--you bless in your heart
the thoughtful love which provided them
When we 60 out amid the infinite beauty
of the advancing or declining year, and
listen to the melodies of woods and winds
and waters-all new every hour, every mo.
ment-shall we think they come by acct
dent, or by some blind, cold law? had
rather be
"A pagan, sucked in a creed outworn,
amid the ineligible forms of ancient
poets and the fair humanities of old re-
ligion for the Greeks saw something di.
vine in nature-caught glimpses of naiadi
BY the mountain streams, and of dryad,
hiding in the summer woods. Their igno
rance was wiser than our cold reason, which
DESCENDANTS nature of love and life. Blu
wiser still the conception which finds God
the universal Father, above all, through
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-11-08
Religious knowledge.

Physical science alone can never make
man educated; even the formal sciences
invaluable as they are with respect to the
discipline of the reasoning powers, cannot
instruct the judgment; it is only moral
and religious knowledge which can accom-
plish this. And il, habitually removing
such knowledge from the course of our
studies, we exercise our thoughts and I'M
derstanding exclusively on lower matters,
what will be the result, but that when we
come to act on these higher points, in our
relations as citizens and as men, we shall
act merely upon ignorance, prejudice and
passion? For notions of moral good and
evil of some sort or other we must have
and so also we can hardly help having
some notions about political good and evil
but if we take no pains that these notions
shall be true and good, what will our lives
be but a heap of folly and Of sin? And il
these merely scientific or literary institu-
tons appear to US to be sufficient for ouI
instruction, if, having learnt all that they
cad teach US, the knowledge so gained
shall hide from us our moral ignorance
and make us look upon ourselves as edu
Gated men, then they will be more than in.
efficient or incomplete; they will have
been to us positively mischievous.-Dr
arnold.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-11-08
The Departed Soul.

Heavens what moment that must be
when the last futter expires on our lips
What a changed Tell me, We who are
deepest read in nature and in God, to what
new world are we borne? Whittier has
that spark that unseen, incomprehensible
intelligence, fed? Look upon that cold,
livid, ghastly corpse that lies before you
That was she'll, gross earthly covering,
which held the immortal essence which
has now left-left to range, perhaps, thro'
illimitable space-to receive new capaci-
ties to delight, new powers of conception,
new glories of beatitude. Ten thousand
fancies rush upon the mind as it contem-
plates the awful moment between life and
death. 1t is a moment big with imagina-
ton, hopes and fears it is the consume
ton that clears up all mystery, solves all
doubts, removes all contradictions and de-
stroys all errors Great God What flood
of rapture may burst at once upon the de-
parted soul. The unclouded brightness Of
the celestial region-the solemn secrets OF
nature may be divulged, the immediate
unity of the past, forms of imperishable
beauty may then suddenly disclose them.
selves, bursting upon the delighted sense
and bathing them in Unreasonable bliss
-~Spurgeon,
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-11-08
The GuernseyS.

The richness of the milk of the cows of
the Channel Islands, which lie near the
coast of France and belong to Great Brit
ain, has been Icing known. 1t is not re-
markable that when their fine qualities
were first brought to notice, the various
strains of blood which exist in different
parts of the principal islands, Jersey and
Guernsey, were not particularly studied.
Now, however, it seems clear that the old
fashioned "Alderney" is really compos-
lite breed, and that more or less of Brittany
and Normandy blood is in its composition
even though the true jersey preponderates.
The name Attorney always was an absurd
one, for on the poor little rocky island of
that name but very few cows are kept, and
these constantly renewed from the neigh
boring island OF Guernsey. This is the
most isolated of the islands, and not near
ly so we'll situated as Jersey for communi-
cation with the mainland of France, whence
doubtless a good part of its neat stock was
originally derived. Whatever their origin.
the Guernsey cattle are quite distinct from
the type Of Jersey cattle, now regarded as
the standard. They are larger bodied,
shorter legged, usually of lighter colors,
having more white upon them, and almost
uniformly having white three cornered
star in the forehead, and white switch.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-11-08

The COWS are usually superior to the high
blood Jerseys in yield of milk, and close
up to them in quality-that is, in quantity
of butter, which is the real test of goodness.
The engraving we present is portrait
of fine bull now two years past, imported
by Mr.. James p. Swain, of Bronxville, last
spring, by ship Hudson, Captain Pratt.
He is of lemon yellow color, with some
white, having the triangular star in his
forehead and white switch, with the
admired "butter-ball' tip. He is large
for his age, very deep, fine boned, with a
rather small head, fine waxy horn, dishing
face, and good deal of style and spirit,
but as gentle as heifer He was selected
by Mr.. Thomas Guile, of Forest Parish,
on the island of Guernsey, from one of the
best and most carefully bred herds upon
the island.-Rearth and Home.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-11-08
A Healthy Christian.

A healthy Christian is one who can work
as well as eat. If there is a heavy load to
carry in Christ's cause, he takes 10 it at
once. If there is wall to build, he is the
man to lift the big stones. If some one
has to go into the storm, and endure pelt-
ing opposition, who so able to bear it as
his broad breast and brawny arm7 A man
that loves Christ loves work? A lazy Chris
tan shirks it. What hospital is many a
church Here lies one poor man down
with paralysis of faith Here is another
laid up by sprain which he got by sud-
den fall into temptation. Here is one of
whom the fever of passion has burned out {;
he looks hardly worth the medicine to cure
him. Alas for another he is under pasto-
raj treatment for the blindness of unbe-
lief. and for another, whose gaping wound
reveals the spot where Satan's fiery dart
went in! A revival commonly clears the
church hospital. But long period OF
spiritual declension Grams it to the door,
way. Oh, what need that he who went
through Galilee healing all manner of dis
ease should come into some churches whose
atmosphere is loaded with the effiuvium Of
incipient putrefaction!
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-11-08
The Worlds Doom.

The North British Review thus COM
ments on what it is pleased to call the
''doom of our world "What this change
is to be we do not even conjecture; but we
see in the heavens themselves some traces
of the destructive elements, and some in
dications of their power. The fragments
of broken planets, the descent of meteoric
stones upon the globe, the wheeling comets
welding their loose materials at the solar
surface, the volcanic eruptions on our own
satellite, the appearance of new stars and
disappearance of others, are all foreshad-
ows of that impending CONFUSION to which
the entire system of the world is doomed.
Thus placed on planet which is to be
burned up, and under heavens that are to
pass away-thus treading as it were on the
cemeteries of former worlds, and dwelling
in the mausoleums of other planets us
learn lessons of humility and wisdom.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-11-08
The Worth of Praise.

Among the moral forces which act on
mems inner lives as steam and heat and
electricity do upon matter, there is one
great agent which we think might produce
ten fold the effects that are generally OBJ
tanned from it. If there is one old saw
which we heartily reputiate and detest it
is that which runs
"Praise to the face is open disgrace"
We never heard any such solemn saying
about blame to the face And great many
people act as though criticism and fault
finding were very proper and healthful ap-
planes for human nature, while praise
was only sweet poison. They believe in
the whip and spur, but not in the caress
The idea that praise, when deserved. is in
furious, supposes the one praised to be
either the victim of conceit, or fool. To
persons of ordinary modesty and common
sense, just praise is at once cordial,
cheering them with flush of warmth land
tonic, bracing them for further good
work To sensitive and diffident natures
it is almost vital necessity. We believe
that there are two classes who suffer es-
pecially for want of praise; those so low
that they are forgotten, and those so high
that they are supposed not to need it.
Many minister sends his hearers home
delighted and strengthened by his sermon
and then suffers from self distrust and anx-
iety lest he has failed. A few words of ap'
probation would inspirit him wonderfully
but no one gives them. because no one i'm
AGNES that he can be ignorant of what al
others know so well. At the other end o
the scale is the drudge, the household ser
want for example, whose work is humble
and out Of sight. A man eats his NIGEL!
cooked dinner at home, and fOrgets tina
human effort and human feeling have any
thing to do with preparing it. Perhaps
good natured word to his servant woulC
give her pleasant sense of success, tina
would make her day seem bright instea,
of dull. As for men who do not prais
their wives, they are "worse than infdels.
- Christian Union.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-11-08
The OulV Grace.

One of the happiest instances of ministe-
rial skill and fidelity, is recorded in the
memoir of Rev. Thomas Brainard, d. D.,
who for thirty years was pastor of the Pine
Street Church Presbyterian in Philadel-
phia. At meeting ofleading members Of
three of the city churches, called to raise
money for an important new enterprise,
where there was little response in the way
of subscription, though all applauded the
object. Dr. Brainard rose, faced the rich
men, and thus delivered himself:
Brethren, the Lord has denied to you the
privilege of exercising many of the most
precious graces of the christian character,
which in his infinite mercy, he has vouch-
safed to the rest of us. You never knew
what it was to repose absolute, unassisted
faith in God for the things of this world.
You never had to go to sleepat nightwith-
out knowing where your breakfast was to
come from. You never had sick child
wasting away for the want of costly luxur-
les. You never had to deny yourself the
qualification of the impulses of pity, when
a sufferer came to your door. You never
had to endure the humiliation of being
dunned for an honest debt without know
ing whether you could ever pay it. Al
these unSpeakable advantages in develop
ing christian character an inscrutable Prov
idence has taken from you and bestowed
upon us poor men. The one solitary grace
of the christian life which has been denieC
to US and given to you is, the grace of lib
crafty, and if you don't exercise that, thu
Lord have mercy on your souls
That bold and apt appeal did the work
A smile crept over the face of one Of tn,
rich men, he drew TO him the subscription
paper, put down $4,000, Others followed
his example, and this the fortieth meet
ing for consultation. u accomplished wha
the thirty-nine preceding had failed to do
-4dUaHce.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-11-08
Cut Meadows Often.

"Why does not pasture run out as much
as Meadow asked farmer of us the 9TH
er day. 1t was a very rational question
and just as important as rational. We re-
piled, because it is often cut,-cut by the
herd"
"Our meadows, then" he responded,
care not cut often enough"
That is it, precisely. Our lawns are cut
frequently so are our dooryards, and they
are always green. But people heed it not;
they run away with other theories, and the
result is, that our grass is cut late, when
the stem is mature, and like thistles and
weeds, when cut at that time, the roots
wither and die. These same meadows, cut
twice, would have been still better green.
There are, however, exceptions and va
riations, depending upon the seasons. A
severe drouth and hot sun will hurt an ear
ly cut meadow, whereas, had the grass
been permitted to remain, it would have
protected its roots. But the drouth con-
have been the same withered condition; so
that something depends upon seasonable
rains
OF course, we cannot determine upon
this, but must take the general run, p
and that is in favor of early and frequent
cuttings. Whatever philosophy may be
applied to this, experience tells US that it
is the best for our meadows. 1t thickens
their sod, enables them to withstand win
ter the better, and such meadows put out
earlier in the spring. Besides, more feed
is obtained, and of better quality. The
thing is all clear, if we only look at it,
Our clover lots cut frequently, become per-
ennial cut once, for seed or late hay, they
die out.
One field of a given number of acres will
do more service cut twice, and the after
math permitted to remain taken yearly
than twice the number of acres cut once
and then aftermath fed off. 1t is the way
in Italy, where it becomes necessary from
the scarcity of land to get the most off o.
it with the least expense. Here, the ben,
eft is more than double
1t is not SO much the quantity as The
quality of the hay that favors frequent cut
tings, the benefit thereafter, in th,
thickening of the sod. The aftermath
should always be left. This is greatel
aid than is generally supposed. But W,
are left to turn in" and feed of, getting
some benefit; but the Goat" which is tn,
projection, the cattle do not get, nor, b,
feeding it of, the land either.-Rural Nea
Yorker.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-11-08
Puritans and Pilgrims.

Sometimes we hear the Pilgrims of Mas
saehusetts berated for their prosecuting
spirit, and are told that they hung the
Quakers and whipped the Baptists. They
never did any such thing. The Pilgrims,
after maintaining independently in Eng
land for while, fed to Leyden, in Hol-
land, where they existed for few years as
Il church fraternity, under the ministry of
the celebrated John Robinson. But not
being satisfied with their position, they re-
turned to England and set sail for the New
World, in two small vessels, as they would
now be called, the Mayfower and Speed
well. They landed in Plymouth harbor
Dec. q, 1920. They were about one hun
bred in number, and about one-half their
number died of hardship the first winter
They entered into compact and organized
! themselves into a commonwealth, before
they planted their feet on the Rock of
Plymouth. They were a noble band Of
christian refugees. They and their success
sors constituted the Plymouth colony
They. and they alone, were the Pilgrims Of
New England 1 know of no evidence
that they ever prosecuted good men who
dissented from their religious opinions. If
they did so to any extent, it could not have
been with rigor.
The Puritans, so called, were another
colony. They landed in Salem few years
later, and commenced their first settlement
there. They soon extended their settle
ments to Boston, Charlestown, and New
ton, now Cambridge. These men were
Puritans, with a sprinkling of Episcopa-
lians among them. They were not pilgrims
or refugees, as the good men of Plymouth
were, but were adventures, seeking, in tbs
spirit of enterprise, to better their condi-
ton and extend the English type of chris
tian civilization. These two colonies re-
manned distinct, and under distinct and
separate colonial government, for nearly &
hundred years. 1t was the Puritans of the
Massachusetts Bay colony that prosecuted
the Quakers and Baptists, and banisheC
Roger Willinms. 1t is true, the early faith
ers of Massachusetts, of both colonies, wer'
Puritans, or Trinitarian Congregationalist
in faith, in the main but their experien
ces were different. The Plymouth peopl
were religious refugees, driven from thei
native land by a fanatical spirit of perse
cution they became religious wanderer
: or pilgrims before they reached their vii
derness home at Plymouth. Not so tn
people of the Massachusetts Bay colony
They were not religious pilgrims, but Pu
3 ritanieal Adventures, seeking to do goo
: and mend their own fortunes. - Wdtchmd
! and peHecJoT
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-11-08
Speak of Christ.

All that man that has had Christ in
his soul, and wants to tell nobody, has a
soul that is sepulcher, and he is dead.
If there be one thing in this world that is
worth telling, it is not that honor, that
wealth, that any good fortune in similar
things has come to you, but that Christ
has been made known to you. 1t is the
noblest of all events, and the most precious
of all disclosures; and if there is a man
that has walked in sorrow and sadness. and
had his Savior come to meet him, and at
last disclose himself to him in mis- own
house in the breaking of bread, and he is
not moved to tell his friends and neigh
bors, then the dead ought to speak, and
the very stones ought to cry out.