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The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1870-05-26
[sutlc-No "a ]

An Act declaring the consent Of Congress % 'he
erection + a c.ib H. Lake fiie ts The cry OF
c!e,e!a, H. tiiu. Tor tin protection oil an me-
tor 81 "a @. " X tEnAcl aoOGt to be c0nstiGc-
ted Iy said city.
re it enacted by the Senate and House Of Rep
re.e t,iiyes ct the rite-i -tates OF America III
Co z - assembled, Thai III c"T-eht y 'nsie
!. Ls,bv iy n 10 The Guy f Clevclihd in the
cnunty f Cuyaho.a and STATE OF ho t" erect
.nt M .iuran IN Lake Eri- at such dis ance - ~
III sr, thereof y, mas BE- n cesar. - cfib t'f
:he pr i e. i'm o az met staff f'r an una ihk
v,te- "a Ks ruriuel ah ut to b. Constructed Tor
III. n,.r,.s4 cf s,5,t,,l,in- said city with pnre
warei: Pr .vi ed That sad crib SHAH be fur
ni>heA with a ben, ol-light, which beacon lshi
.ha I be keit liz ted at a such seasons aud ho"r-
a the Ii hit On the pier nj tie entrance oil tosa-
"a river.
Approve /, Apr IS, lSIo-
The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1870-05-26
(Pub,ic ResoIution-No TO-

Joint Resolution expressing the sympathy o.
Congress at the death Of AsJor General oeorge
IL, Thomas.
he il resolved by the Senate and House "i Ref-
rese,.r,tiv.s ui the Unitei States ii America IN
q "a. as-erii.ls. That the senate and rouse
# fe,re e,r.aiive- hav. heard with deep reg .t
II the d,ien d-ce # Major General "ehse I" =.
Thomas enaearrd 10 the country by series 81
nnhr, ken. 1T lotto services during ref'o" OF
tiiiiy wears
&c , nd he it further resolved That his dis
ii ,.ti.h-d queer in the defence OF his country
a ainst f,nri.n ani donvsi'c enem e- MS never
t,lt,. Ing faith rnd al in the m,infeiian II me
Union .ini the int .rity If The government anu
stern eyecu ipu If every tru-t c''nhd q I" I'M,
c,,.,ti ute "a iecnId in life ma lie memorable III
.etth-
SEC 5 And be it fur' her resolved ina, inc
President of the senate AID the pe"ker ~ tue
n,u.e sre her. b. authorized IA ma eci' ar
ran ssuents liz c nneriion wi h his "bS"inie> a.
wi attest the -yn falhy Of Congre al 'h'S M
i,uai b eavemcHt
rHoved. Aprii :. $50
The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1870-05-26
TPublic-No. AL

An Act making appropriations for the support Of
the Military Academy for the fiscal year end
ing June thirt eth, eighteen hundred and sew
enty-one.
The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1870-05-26
REESE'S SALOON !!

THE SUBSCRIBER HAS CHANGED HIS
base Of operations He has abandoned the
hastily built entertainments which he has eecu-
pied during the Iast yesr and has removed into
The classmates recently abandoned BY General
George L. Gibson ard the forces under his COM
mand known as :. Pharaoh's Host"
He offers general amnesty to all offenders; and
proposes to treat-fOr piece.
REMEMBER THE PLACE:
THE OLD SAZERAL BUILDING,
CarsoA Sire 1t.
m. VERY BEST OF WINES. BKANDfEs,
WHIDKIkS, To-, always for sais.
J. NART REESE, Rr6prister
apl3-u
Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1870-10-12
Not So Now.

Not many Years ago, when Judge
Robert NJ. Charlton, of Savannah, Geor-
gia, was quite q young man, he, in COM
pany with his father, Hon. 7. u. P.
Charlton spent every summerin the de-
lightful village of ClarksvilIe, Northeast
Georgia.
One day Robert was passing along the
street in Clark ksville, and it happened to
be election day. Members of Congress
were then elected by what was called
the general ticket system, and not bv
districts as they now are, when he was
met by. a verdant Whig of the noun
tains, who accOsted him thus
'Mr. Charlton, are you the man that
is running for COngressP
No, sir; / am no candidate-my faith
er is, however. But may I ask why
this inquiry2'
Nothing, only haven't voted yet
Ifit is consistent with your feelings, /
would like you would vote for my
father
Twould just as soon vote for him as
anybody
Mr.. G. thanked him, and, thinking,
perhaps, his friend was seeking a treat,
invited him into neighbOTing barr
room.
What will you takes
I never drink anything, but I see
they have some fresh ginger cakes. I
would as lief take one of them with you
as not
very well give US a cake.@
My brother is in town with me-
All right; take him cake with my
respects
Another cake was purchased and paid
for, and the two friends parted, 'Greeny'
to find his brother, and Mr. Charlton
to join in the merry dance with his
young friends in paTlOr hard by.
THE golden hours on angels Wings
passed rapidly away with Mr.. Charlton.
His friend was soon forgotten. Late in
the afternoon, while there was a pause
in the dance, our verdant friend, very
much to the surprise of every one pres
ent, stalked into the partor inauiring
for Mr.. Charlton. Of course, all ewes
directed to our friend as he approached
Mr.. Charlton. Drawing from his bosom
a four by six inch cake, he said:
Mr. Charlton, here's your cake. Nv
brother had gone and voted afOre l seed
him.
Mr., CharltOn's embarrassment was
no greater than his admiration of the
fellows honesty.
Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1870-10-12
DIAMOND FIELDS OF SOUTH AFRICA

THE newIy-discOvered diamond fields
in South Africa, if report be true, must
nearly realize the marvels related in the
Ard6id Nights, of Sinbadis enchanted
valley. They are even much more al
Turing than those of the story, rs they
are more accessible than the latter
which, the reader will remember, in
addition to being infested with numbers
of the most VenOmOus sernents; were
shut in by precipitOus mountains. But
here we have real bono fde enchaut-
ed valley, so rich in gems that for scores
of years to come, it is estimated the
precious store can scarcely be exhaust
ed, and with no seTpents worth men
tioning.
At least we find none mentioned in
the published accounts, and infer that
if they exist they have shown their
prOverbial wisdom by declining to in
terrier with the necessities of commerce.
What IS more wonderful still, among
the hundreds of people gathered to this
curious harvest, there is less fighting
than diversifies a primary election or a
trip to COney Island. For once, the uUrj
8dcrG flames seems to have failed in the
wOnted Inspiration of battle and blood.
There they dig peacefully side by side
these patient husbandmen, for such
fruits as the earth has surely never yield
ed up since the plOwshare first veXt her
patient bosom. If one luckier than his
neighbOrs, finds a stone that might serve
for a kings ransom and makes him at
one stroke rich beyond his widest hopes,
the rest are animated by the sight, not
to malice and murder, but to more Wig
orOus eXertiOns. 1t is like picture of
the golden age,
It produces a strange sensation to read
of these priceless jewels lying as thick
as pebbles on the sea shore. Diamonds
have been found of thirty carats weight,
and of thousands of value. 1t requires
more than HOratian philosophy to look
without emotion upon such stores as
these. And it would not be surprising
if, when this discovery is generally
known, South Africa should become the
objective point of such another tide of
invasion as swept over the Pacific Slope
when California was first found to realize
the fabIed FL Dorado. PniIe River is on
further from New York now than San
Francisco was in the memorable day of
AS. 1t is but month or so of ocean
vOyaging, and then all GOlecOnda lies
at our feet.
And all the necessaries of life are there
infinitely more accessible and cheap than
they were in California in the early
times. Meat, for instance, is plentiful
and good at four and five cents a pound,
and other things in proportion. If much
of our restless floating population does
not drift speedily to Pniel River, it will
be because its magnificentpromfse is too
obscure, or so prOdigiOus as to seem iu-
credible.
Americans of some sort, however,
sooner or later, will be sure to find their
way thither, and with them, we fear,
will cease the tranquility Of the little
settlement. With them will appear
those most efficient of mining tools, the
Bowie knife and the revolver. But,
with these weapons, they will bring in
genuity and energy, and these advant-
ages may somewhat compensate for any
little eccentricities of behavior.-NeJO
York Times,
Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1870-10-12
Irrigation.

! Unless we entirely misapprehend the
growth Of public opinion upon the sub
| 1ect of irrigation, there will be consider
/ able attempted in that line within the
next twelve months all over the older
settled States.
The fall is the best time to make prep
aTatiOn. Across every brook that has
in any Of its windings an altitude above
any other portion of the farm, build
dam, which shall be so constructed chat
the pond thus formed can be lowered
one foot if it is large, and tv o feet ifit is
small, in short space of time.
The theory is this Few streams ON
ordinary farms will suffice to keep CON
stantly wet fwere it desirable) any verv
large portion of land. Wetting twice
each week, or three times, is better than
nothing; and if you can accumulate
sufficient water to make a stream that
will flow to the end of your channel. and
thoroughly wet all the section intended
once in fOrty-eight hours, or once in
twenty-fOur, it is far better than to have
the little stream spend itself on the
ground contiguous to the dam.and ada
cent to the two or three first openings
in the sluiceway.
All that can be done in the dry season /
is to prepare the dam. This can be
made probably cheapest On farms where
stone is abundant hy digging a trench
anywhere from two to four feet wide, as
the height of the dam is to be, and then |
in this trench laying a wall as solid as |
may be, slanting from the bottom to the |
top or both sides, and then filling in the
upper side from four to six feet with |
gravel.
If the water is to be taken out both /
sides, little fumes must be inserted in /
the wall, which around their OutermOst |
edge will need a sheet of board piling to 1
prevent the water from working under, |
and thus doing damage
Where there are no stones, earth will 1
answer if the overflow is guarded by a /
section of boards laid on the top of the
dam with board on each side, exactly /
in the shape of wide spout. The upper |
end of the platform must be piled to 4
prevent the water getting under it and /
carrying away the structure.
When the early fall rains come and
the pond is full trace your bitches, Civ
ing them six inches fall to the sixteen
feet. The water let into little f1rrow /
made with the corner of a hoe will indi-
cate the proper level, which, when ae-
complished, the plow and the shovel viii /
finish the ditch, and the work is DONE
Hearth and Home.
Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1870-10-12

same time from 300, 900 tons las estima-
tedl to lis, ,391 tons. At present twelve
States of the Mississippi valleys inclu-
ding Pennsylvania contain 1,02S steam
vessels, having an aggregate tonnage Of
271, ,5O7 tons, Ond 945 barges and canal
boats, with an aggregate of lis, 39l tons.
This decline of nearly tWO-thirds in our
river tonnage is, in a great measure, due
to the safety and cheapness attained by
railroad transportation. The fact is
plainly seen on those rivers where, as
on the Hudson, Connecticut, Ohio and
Mississippi one or more lines of railway
superseded the water route. First the
passengers abandon the boats. AS their
profits fall off, their Accommodations de-
teriorate. Then freights gradually take
the route by rail. On the Hudson Riv-
er whole fleets of river craft formerly
sailed between ports which are now serv-
ed by one or two vessels, though the
commerce of the ports by rail has been
twenty-fOld. In short the iron
track means certainty, swiftness and
and these, in the end, make
it cheaper than water, against which 1t
is written, unstable as water thou shalt
not excel Changing currents, bars,
snags, collisions, delays, explosions, and
slow time, are the sufficient
causes of the decline IF our river navi-
CATION. 1t is possible that the introduce
tiOn of iron vessels may remedy some of
there evils, but the iron track and iron
horse must remedy the rest,-CbjcdgO
Tribune.
Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1870-10-12
THE TIGER, THE BRAMIN AND
THE FOX.
AH1NDU STORY.

4 tiger, prOwling in forest, was at
tracted by bleating calf. 1t proved to
be bait, and the tiger found himself
trapped in q spring cage. There he lay
for two days when a Bramin happened
that way.
ooh, Bramin, piteOusly cried the
beast, have mercy upon me, and let me
out of this cage
tAh, but you will eat me-
Eat you! Devour my benefactOr
never could. I be guilty of such a deed
responded the tiger.
The Bramin being benevoIently in
clined, was moved by these enGreaties,
and opened the door of the cage,
The tiger walked up to him, waved
his tail, and said, 'Bramir, prepare to
die; I shall now eat YOU
2 'Oh. how ungrateful, how wicked am
| not your savior p protested the trembl-
ing priest.
True said the tiger, very true: but
it is the custom of my race to eat men
when we get the chance, and I can not
afford to let you co.
Let us submit the case to an arbitra-
tor replied the Bramin; here comes a
fox; the fox is wise; let us abide by his
iudgment'
very we'll, agreed the tiger.
The fox, assuming a judicial aspect,
sat on his launches with all the dignity
he could muster, and looking at the dis
pUtants, said, Good friends, I am some
what confused by the different accounts
which you give of this matter; my mind
is not clear enough to render an equita-
able Judgment, but, if you will be
good enough to act the whole transac-
tiOn out before my eyes, I shall attain
unto more definite conception of the
case. Do you, Mr.. Tiger, show me just
how you approached and entered the
cage, and then, do you Mr. Bramin,
take the trouble to show me precisely
how you liberated him, and l shall be
able to render a. proper decission,'
They assented, for the fox was solemn
and QFacqlar The tiger walked into
the cage, the spring door fell and shut
him in. He was a prisoner inside.
The Judicial expression faded from the
fOx's cOuntenance, and turning to the
Bramin. he said. Now you are all
right, you silly Bramin; I advise you
to go home as fast as you can, and alb
stain, in future, from doing favor to
rascally tigers. Good morning, Bramin
Good morning, Tiger. .-HeHdyL Sclsd-
der, D. D,
Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1870-10-12

ton. But from this it follows that his
will usually displays the real man.
The ruling passion is most irresistible
when it presents itself unber the most
serious circumstances. The hard and
unforgiving man is most hard and most
UnfOrgiving when he knows that the
consequences of his disposition are inca
pable of change. The bOastful and the
swagger and the liar will swagger and
lie more defantly when he knows that
even if he is found out, it will be when
Indignation and censure can no longer
effect him. There is many man who
has gone out of this world with a lie in
his right hand for the mere pitiful salts
faction of bOlstering up te the very last
the false position in which he has lived
with his fellow-men. If will, as 1t of
ten does, brings out the best of a good
man, it brings out the worst of a bad
man. What is the bottom of it all, we
suppose, is the difficulty OF realizing
what the after lie is. 1t is not life but
death, which settles the most weighty
responsibility. The saCredness which
civilization attaches to the dying mans
bequests, intentions and declarations,
attests the force which human nature
recognizes in the sOlemnity of death. 1t
is only under most extreme and rare
that the provisions of a
will are set aside. Ii we do not admit
that dying man pTophesies, we attri-
butte to him something of that divine
power which makes the future immuta
ble. These are some of the more Obvl-
GUS considerations which invest the
voices from beyond the tomb with spec
ial interest.-SGtITddy RCUjetC.
Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1870-10-12

pulling up stakes, and tearing away
hOme-tendrils, even if her migratory
spouse is in other respects the best in
the world. I'd like to see the person
who would tell me that I wouldn't go
with John if he decided to set up a soda
fountain in the desert of Sahara. No.
I'd go; but suffer in the going, though
] told my woes not even to the CheOps
himself. But what if, instead of one
grand move, he fitted about like q
grasshOpper? What if he tried Bloom
field, and Flatbush, and WoOdside, and
a dozen other places, from the coming
of the first nursery tooth to the going
away Of the last nursery measals ?
What if he dipped the children into
twenty schools, filled every April air
with mOuTnful farewells to all our neigh
bOrs, and kept the parlOr carpets in a
perpetual spasm of contraction and eX-
pansiOn2 , Would | be the blessed, hap
py woman that am ? Wouldn't / be
thin, weary and heaTt-sOre, and the
children, morally, just little waits made
of the shreds and patches of many vii
lagos? Certainly. Established SMILES
are all very well;but your oaks don't hop
about. They stand still and give the
clinging vines a chance to take root be-
side them.
Only yesterday, while shopping iii
town, l CHANGED 10 find myself in a
street car beside a man and a woman
engaged in earnest conversation. His
wOs a thin flushed face, with restless
eyes and lips, that ask 'Why% who %
Where ? even when they were silent.
Hers was soft, 1eshy, massive, and its
little eyes were full of temporary affa-
bility and interest He evidently was
speaking of some recent bereavement,
while the lady leaning toward him wore
a sort of a wash off deep feeling which
was mot dye though it gave her a
hue of sympathy quite proper in a street
car. Presently 1 caught the words:
'She was indeed. You lost a treasure
when you lost her,
yes, and q wonderful creature for
moving about pursued the man with
deep feeling. 1T didn't make any diff
ference you could take that woman and
set her dOlOR dnytrheren
His eyes filled with tears, and l look
ed out of the windOw-sOTry for his sake
but glad that the angels had taken at
least one poor woman away from a mi
gratOry husband.
The country abOunds with these natu-
uraliZed BedOuins. ] say nothing
againt men who go North, South, East,
or West, and settle. For the sake of
wives, home, children, yourselves, take
root somewhere. Help to build up in
America the beautiful homestead feel
ing so common to Europeans and al
most unknown to us. LetyOur very sap
liHgs understand that in time they are
to shade yOnr great-gTeat grand chill
dren.-HcdTtb and Home.
Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1870-10-12
The Wong widow.


A census-taker, going his rounds
stopped at an elegant brick dwelling.
house, the exact location of which is nC
business of ours.
He was received by q stiff, WelI-dress-
ed lady, who could be we'll recognized
as q widow of some years standing.
On learning the mission of her visitor
the lady invited him to take q seat in
the hall. Having arranged into a posi-
tion, he inquired for the number Ofper-
sons in the family of the lady.
Eight replied the lady, iincIuding
myself
Very well; your age madam p
My age, sir, replied the lady, with a
piercing, dignifed look. 4 ooneieve it's
none Of your business what my age
might be. You are inquisitive sir
The law cOmpels me madam to take
the age of every person in the ward, it
is my duty to make the inquiry
We'll, if the law compels you to ask
presume it compels me to answer.
am between 80 and 4O.'
I presume that means SIS -
No, sir; it means no such thing-I
am only SO years of age.'
Very well, madam putting down
SAC AAe5 - SSl Jei9S esS , w othg ANOW lUL
the ages Of the children commencing
wit the youngest, if you please
Josephine, my youngest, is ten years
of age.'
'JOsephine-pretty name-1O.'
Minerva was twelve last week
captivating
Cleopatra Elvira has just turned IF
teen.'
iOleopaSra Elvira--chasming-15,
Angelina is Is, sir.'
'Angelina-favorite name-IS.
My oldest and only married daugh-
ter, sir, Anna Sophia, is little over 25. ,
Twenty-Five did you say?'
Yes, sir. Is there anything remarka-
BILE in her being of that age :?
We'll, no, / can't say that there Is;
but is is not remarkable that you should
be her mother tUbe1 yOU 10ere only eight
gears old?'
About that time the .census-taker was
observed running out of the house
why, we do not dnOw. It was the last
time he ever pressed a lady to give her
exact age.
Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1870-10-12
The Rival of Niagara.
The Great Cataract IN South AnlerjcG-
Nearly Eight Hundred Feet FuH-A
Column of Sil0lU White Foam.


Sir George Young, a British official in
South America, gives the following de-
scription of the newly discovered cata-
aract in British Guiana. It is in the Po-
taro river:
The fall has a clear descent, according
to barOmetrical observations taken sim
ultaneOusly by Mr.. Brown at the bottom
and by my colleague, Mr.. Mitchell, at
the top of $50 feet. Above, the POtarO
glides smoothly in a slight depression OF
the table eOfcOnglamerate sandstone, and
disappears over the edge in a body
which we estimated at so yards in width
and of depth uncertain in the centre,
but Swallowing rapidly toward either
bank. When Mr.. Brown discovered the
Fall i'm April, the rocky channel was
must have had a width of at least 100
yards. At present it is diminishing in
volume, and, as the Indians assured
US will continue to do so until October,
when only the central and deeper por-
ton, about one-third of the whole, will
remain. The best time, therefore, for q
visit is in the spring, at the end of what
appears to be the rainy season of this ell
evated tract.
'As we saw the fall cannot imagine
anything more beautiful, The center
portion which is never dry, forms a
small horseshoe or re-enteTing angle,
and the water in this part preserves its
consistency for a short distance from the
ledge. But everywhere else, and here
also, at few feet from the top all SEM
blance of water disappears it breaks up
or blossoms into fine foam or spray,
which decends in the well known rock
et-like forms of the Staubbach and SINH
lar waterfalls, butmultiplied a thousand
times, into small dark pool, over a
semi-circular curtain of precipice deeply
followed by the action of the spTay.
The cavern behind the fall is the house
of thousands Of swallows, which issue
from it in the morning and may be seen
returning at night in multidudes at night
The fall itself is one vast descending
column of fine, dry looking, snow
white substance, bearing q resemblance
in color and consistency, to the snow of
an avalanche, but surprising all avalan-
ches have seen in size, and in the
forms taken by the material of the fall,
Rainbows of great splendOr were Observ-
ed. one from the front of the fall in the
morning, and one from the summit in
the afternoon; but this last reverted,
forming a colOred loop or ring, into
which the whole mass seemed to pre-
cipitate itself and disappear, and dart
out underneath, black and fOaming, at
the gorge and outlet Of the poOl'