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Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1871-12-27

LAWS OF THH UNITED STATES.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1871-12-27

COMMISSIONERS AND SurERytsoRs oY DRAW
NO: Genera, A. II. WRIGHT, OF Georgia;
General BRADLEY 4. JOHNSON, OF Virginia;
Colonel y. II. RUTLEDGE, OF South Carolina;
Hon. ROGER A. PRYOR, New York.
Connecticut western news., 1871-11-10
The Late Gen. Anderson.

General Robert Anderson died at Nice, France. He had gone from Venoy to Nice about three weeks ago, hoping to receive benefit from the change. His family were with him. His remains will be brought by the United States vessel Guerriere to this country for interment.
 General Robert Anderson has occupied prominent position in the history of America, and the news of his death will bereceived throughout the country with unfeigned regret. He was born in Ken lucky in, 1906, graduated at West Point in 1925, and on the first of July in that year received his first Commission as brevet lieutenant of Second Artil- lery. During the Black Hawk war he was lnspe ectors general of the Illinois volunteers. In 1835-37 Robert Ander- son was assistant instructor and inspec- tor of the West Point Military Academy, and during the Indian war in Florida he was aide-de campto General Scott. For his successful conduct in the Florida war he received, in August, 1888, the rank of brevet captain. He accompanied General Scott through the Mexican war until the fall of the City of Mexico, particularly distinguishing himself at the battle of Fl Moino del, Key. His gallant and meritorious conduct on this occasion was rewarded by his promotion on the 9th of September, 1847, to the rank of brevet major. When Fort Sumter was built Major Anderson was appointed com mander of it and of all the works round Charleston and for his defence of this port was immediately promoted to the rank of Srigadier- general, and ordered to the Department of Kentucky. Here his health failing him ,hetwas obliged to retire from active service. a. He grew gradually more and more feeble until, being advised to leave his home and try the effect of change of air and scene, he went to France, where, as the above despatch informs us, he fingered until he died.
Connecticut western news., 1871-11-10
How he iIaid it.A

The Court Journal states that there is at present in London one of the greatest " sensations" of American perseverance, and confidence in self which has ever been beheld even amongst the persever- ing and self-confident people of that country. This gentleman, now ranking amongst the highest and most distin- guished authorities of the United States, the guest of princes, and the counsellor of diplomatists, is a barrister of high standing, who left his humble and re- tired New England home at the age of eighteen, with thirty dollars in his pock- ct and paper sewn up with thread made of hemp of his fathers own sow
 ing, and his mothers own spinning. Outside the paper was written, "To Le opened in 1864, or at my death, should I die before that time." The paper was opened on. the night mentioned, and found to contain these words, written in a large, sehoo42boy hand, This day I leave my father'ss house with thirty dol lars in my ponkAb to seek my fortune, and here do take solemn VOW before God, to foreswear all gambling, smok- ing or drinking, or any self-indulgence which can stand in the way of my firm determination to advance. Henceforth my motto must be Push !'" The VOW was registered in Heaven, and the New England boy has changed his thirty dol lars into thirty millions, if report spseak true, by sheer industry aided by great talent and spotless reputation.
Connecticut western news., 1871-11-10
Expense. and Profits of Hotels.

The main outlay needed to start first class hotel in New York or any large city, is the cost of the building itself and its furniture. The actual running capital need not be large, and the establishment itself if it is sufficiently imposing will be its own advertiser. From $15, ,O00 to $20, 900 cash in hand would be sufficient for repairs and daily expenses, even in cash, and there are rarely any long out standing accounts. A large capital, how. ever, is required in the beginning
 Every one knows the enormous cost of building lots on leading throughfares,
 while the building expenses are not much
 less expensive. Any one of the leading hotels, of New York such as the Astor,
 Metropolitan, St. Nicholas, and Fifth Avenue are worth as million dollars, land and building inclusive as they stand,
 while it is reported that $3O0,000 was laid out on furnishing the latter alone.
 From these figures some idea may be gained of the amount needed to open a first-class hotel. The profits upon this capital when 1t is we'll employed are nat urally very large. The annual earnings of theFlfth Avenue Hotel have been said have averaged $20O, 900 since it was open- ed, while the income of number of other hotels have exceeded 20 per cent, upon the sum invested Among our hotel proprietors will be found not a few men of great wealth, while the incomes of the whole body of those engaged in the business would probably reach very high average. .. .K
Connecticut western news., 1871-11-10
Save Ynnr Rnrned Trees.

Untold numbers of valuable trees, both
 ruit-bearing and ornamental, have been
 destroyed by the devastating fires of the West. Yet, in most instances, the vital ity of the roots has not been impaired.
 It may not be generally known that by
 cutting of the trees close to the surface of the ground, before Winter, and GOV
 ering the wounds with a heavy coat of grafting wax, the life of the tree will be preservednntil next Spring, when most young trees, and many large ones that have been standing for more than score of years, will send up strong and luxuri- ant canes, which will grow rapidly into greens and some -deciduous trees will not sprout, while fruit-trees of every sort. grape-vines, currant and berry bush es of every variety, rose bushes and valuable shrubbery, the tops of which have been killed by fife, will sprout again, provided, that'the tops are cut off close to the ground before Winter. If left until next Spring, the vitality of the roots of many trees and many valuable grapevine will be impaired to such an extent that no sprouts will ever appear.
 and pear-trees, six to ten inches in diameter, which have been burned to bfackness, below the, collar of the tree should be removed with axes and carpenter sladz until the live wood and bark have been!reaehed beneath the surface of the ground. SpaaA trees and grape vines should,be sawed'oH smooth ly close to the surface of the earth and if the wood has been injured below that point. remove the soib and continue to cut off the heated portions until live surface is laid bare.s Then apply 8 heavy coat of warm grafting-wax, in a liquid state, and before the wax has become hard press piece of strong brown paper or piece of any sort of cloth into the wax, after which cover the stump with fine and mellow earth, several inches in depth. Early next Spring remove the soil, leaving not more, than, an inch in depth over the stump. A suitable graft ing-wax for such a purpose may be made of equal parts of tallow and resin of any kind, or pitch. We have frequently made it of one part of hnseed oil mingled with two parts of course, cheap resin or pitch, heated in an iron kettle until the pitch is all dissolved, and the mass is of the consistence of thin tar. It should not be applied scalding hot. In lieu of paint-brush, employ D swab made of piece of course cloth wrapped around the end of stick. Veay few young trees, and but 9 small proportion ot grape vines and shrub bberyyh have been burned to such an extent as to injure the wood below the collar of the main stem.
Connecticut western news., 1871-11-10
Alice CAryss Love.

Mary Clemmer iAmes kpublishes the story of ''Alice Cary,s hove," as confid- cd to her by that lady for the purpose of being made. public if false reports con- cerning it continued to circulate. The beloved object was not, as frequently stated, Rufus w.. Griswold, though there was an intimacy with him, growing out of the aid he, as g literary man, render ed her when she first came to New York to live by her pen. She never liked him, though when he was broken down she hired a a'roOn and anurse for him through report that she had 'nursed him herself.
 The real story of her love is faintly ishadowed forth as follows :-
 ]" In the profonndest sense, Alice Gary never loved but once. The man whom she loved is still alive; yet gossip, with it's keenest scent, has never found or named him. With all her fitness of affection, hers was an electric and soli- tary soul. He who by the very patent of his being was more to her. than any other mortal could be might pass from her life, but no other could take his place. A proud and prosperous family brought all their pride and power to bear on a,son to prevent his marrying a girl uneducated, rustic and poor.
 1T waited for one who never came back "' she said. Yet I believed he would come till I read in 8 paper his marriage to another. lCan yod think what life would be +-loyihg one, waiting for one who would never come!"
 He did come at last. Isaw him. His wife had died. Alice was dying. The grey-haired man sat down beside the grey-haired woman. Life had deal prosperously with him, m,eas is wont witt men. Suffering and death had taken al from her save the lustre of her won. drous eyes. From her wan and wasted face they shone upon him full of tender ness and youth. Thus they met witt life behind them-they who ,. partet plighted lovers when life was young. H, was the man whom she, forgave for he blighted and weary life, with smile o parting,as divine as ever lit the face O woman"
Connecticut western news., 1871-11-10

BABIES IN CH1NA.-One of the first things impressing traveller in China,
 says James Brooks, is the babies, the countless babies. Girl babies, however, alas for the poor things,are deemed rather curses than blessings, more especially if you have too many of them such curses, that often the little lasses are tumbaed away to perish-boy babies, never. All the junks we passed, or saw, were more or less filled with babies-naked babies
 mixed up with the cocks, and hens, and dogs, and kittens. Fathers were as often fondling them as the mothers. This love of babies it is that makes up the Chinese countless numbers, ever popu- lating the land, and forcing the poor often to starve, or to live on kitten cut lets and puppy steaks. What we saw people eating most of, on our boat jour- ney, was watermelons, pretty good ones species of cantelopes, that they nibble, as monkeys would then peaches, that nobody else could eat, they are so bad with onions, onions, onions innumerable. Indeed, the whole population hereabout seems saturated with onions and opium.
Connecticut western news., 1871-11-10
Farm, Garden and Household.

INK STAINs.-Ink stains may be re- moved from mahogany by touching them with feather dipped in a mixture com- posed of few drops of nitre and 8 teaspoonful of water. To $ prevent 8 white mark being left, the spot must be rubbed with cloth wet in cold water the moment the ink has disappeared.
 BUTTER, CHEESE AND MILK.-If sixteen quarts of milk are required to make 8 pound of butter, and ten quarts pound of cheese, and butter is twenty-five cents a. pound and cheese twelve cents, it is more profitable to make butter butter yielding fraction over one and @ half cents quart, and cheese fraction less than one and a quarter cents.
 Moss IN PASTURES OR MEADOWS. This is always found on poor knolls or wet flats. The remedy in the first case is to harrow until the moss is torn up, and spread load of manure and little lime. In the second place, drain off the water, and harrow and spread lime or plaster, and salt or ashes. Get rid of the water, strengthen the soil, and moss will be no further trouble.
 VERY NICE FEATHERS may be made by simply rolling the plain dough (after it has risen of >course) and cutting and frying as doughnuts, to be eaten with sirup or sauce. By putting lump of risen dough into pudding bag, tying, leaving room to swell, put into pot of boiling water, and boiling an hour or more, according to size, you have an ex- cellent plain pudding, but it should be eaten with rich sauce.
 BOXERS IN APPLE TREES. -E. F. D., asks Hearth & Home, if there is any way to prevent borers from entering apple trees. The best plan is to wrap the base of the trunk with tarred roofing paper. A piece foot or more wide is wrapped around the tree, the lower edge of the paper extending just below the surface of the soil. Before this is applied the trees should be examined to ascertain that borers have already entered. Should any be found they must be probed out or cut out.
 SHELTER THE STooK.-The season has arrived when it is positive cruelty to permit beast to stay out of doors for a single night. A sense of justice to these animals, which exist only for our use, if he does not consult his own interest, should impel every farmer immediately to put every stable and shed on the farm into proper condition, to fasten all loose boards, close all open windows, and make his stock snug and comfortable. There's money in it too, as he will find. Even his hens will lay better if kept warm. .5E.2 f-su v
 FEED FOR CATTLE AND HoRsEs. thrifty animal will consume about three per cent of it's hve-weight in fodder daily. For COW of 800 pounds, twenty-four pounds of hay should be provided. But it has been abundantlv proved that when this hay is cut, wetted, and mixed with the allowance of meal two to four quarts) eighteen pounds daily is ample to keep an ordinary COW in good condition. The difference then is the amount saved, which is equal to one fourth. This represents the gain in digestibility oi the food by the method of preparing it. In practice the gain is greater, because no waste can occur in using cut feed while in using long hay much is always wasted.
Connecticut western news., 1871-11-10

THE NEXT COMET. comet is now on it's way towards the perihelion, which it will reach in January next. The comet has been telescopically visible for some time, but it is not an object of special interest to those whose vision is unaided by instruments. It has very short period-only three years and a quarter. The least distance from the sun is 2,0OO,O00 of miles, or about the average distance of Mercury. The greatest distance is S87, ,0O0, GOO of miles, or more than four times that of the earth. This comet is principally of interest be- cause its period of revolution has di- unfinished to the extent of about three days in the past eighty years, a fact which is generally accepted as furnish ing the best proof of the theory that the regions of space are filled by material G ether" capable of retarding the mo- tion of the bodies comp posinga the solar system. Of course this resisting medium would produce annual effect upon the comet of few tons in weight, that would not be experienced by our earth ip the course of, thpusands lpf ages. But the result, though long deferred, is none the less inevitable-earth, planets and com cts will be eventually. .precipitated into the sun. .--"yEyUg SIS
Connecticut western news., 1871-11-10
N "a g Sss aYa FSS2 Grace among the MOrmOns.

gGface Greenwood, ,whosl slias been among the Mormons thus speaks of them:
 You hear a good, deal about that "crosss," from, both Mormon husbands and wives, but you only see the shadow of it in the faces of the womeny7 do not mean to intimate that they all look de- cidedly unhappy. There israther in their faces quiet, baff1ing, negative and ab- negative expression, which certainly is as far from happy content as it is from des- peratel rebellion. Naturally, they are more alive to the outside pressure of public opinioh,I more sensitive to the oblouuy and .ostracism which their posi- | ton provokes, than men. Patient and
 passive as they seem, they feel these keenlyAthe 91nore intelligent among them, at least, t,-and though upheld by ] sincere, devout faith in this strange delu- sion, they have toward strangers pecu- I liar air of reticence, of mistrBst, almost of repulsion, I do not wonder at it-their hospitality and confidence have often been, abuse1-sthey srhave been intruded upon bys .impertinent intefviewers, and their. reluctant answers to persistent daestioningj Gpubished abroad, with startling additions and dramatic embel- 1 ishment. Those have met appear to me, T must say, like good and gentle Christian womeng They are singularly simple in dress, and modest in demeanor.' E What saddens me is, their air. of extreme qlietadey and repression
 But for the children around them you would think some Of them were women Ewh6 had done with this world. am Itold that the wivessof even the highest Misunderstanding pride in their lords. ftWere perhaps difficult to feel much pride in the sixteenth part of man, as men go. Even the first wife of wealthy saint, betrays in her husband and house. hold, they say, no exu1tant joy of posses sion. An inyestmenti in Mormon heart band home be rather uncertain stock I for woman. I am assured, though, l, that the second wife is seldom taken
 without the full consent of the first Not 1 only are the poor woman S faith and zeal appealed to, but her 1nagnanimfty toward her. sister-woman out in the cold. H must he through great suffering that such heights of self-abnegation are reached. The cruci6xion of the divine weakness of a loving womanls heart must be a severe process. But there is some sorry comfort in the thought that for these poor polygamous wives there is no wearing uncertainty. no feverish Eanxiety-that they are spared the bitter est pain of Jealousy, the vague nightmare
 torture of suspicion, the grief and horror of the final discovery, the fierce sense oi
 treachery and deception. They know the worst. {. Perhaps it is the '" dead certain l ty'' that gives them the peculiar cold,
 still look I have referred to. As to the
 Mormon men whom I have met, mostly leaders in the Church, and prominent, well-to-do-citizens, must say that they look remarkably care-free and even jolly under the seross. Virgil, I believe, has somewhere the expression, 70 three times and four times happy'p' We'll, that is the way they look.
Connecticut western news., 1871-11-10
INSURANCE COMPANIES. "A correspo

INSURANCE COMPANIES. A correspon- dent says of the value of insurance stock: When surprise is expressed that business men should have had so much invested in 8 single interest, it must be remem- bered that for years and years our fire insurance stocks have proved most re- numerative investment. In a recent law suit it became necessary to deter mine the present value of $265 of stock in one company, which was alleged to have been misappropriated in 1851, twenty years ago. A careful conlputa- tion by the value of the stock, with all the dividends that have been paid to date at compound interest, showing the enormous accumulation of $44, ,OOO. And in the smaller companies equally astonishing results have been attained. Another company started in 1850 with a chartered capital of $2OO, ,OOO, only ten per cent paid up. Since then the whole capital has been made up by stock divi- dends and the handsome cash dividends paid on the shares, which were quoted at$140 before the fire.
Connecticut western news., 1871-11-10
'The TBniIding Societies of England.

r These societies shavel become to be an mpoftaut feafnre in the LAahor reform movements there, and are closely iden- 4fad dswitA the Yintp tpgovea Sihaastrial life Of the Kingdom. Tn spite of aristo- cratic opposition, a middle class is con stituted thereby which win be the strength, perhaps the salvation of the nation. The value of the dwellings which, through these societies, have be- come the property of workingmen, IS estimated at '$1, ,O00, ,O0O,O0o. A great many of these societiessare called Bow kelt societies, from Dr. Bowkelt, who originated cthem., ss The, fundamental principle is that, by certain arrange- ment men dhitipg together gcan realize in the first instance the same amount of interest for their own saving that they are sccqstomed t9i pay for tile use of other peoples money; next, that they can prpcticallY obtainf bneS fourth more than Sthat rateIof interest, and nexxt, thAJ the rate of interest is compound interest. The resultsis, that swhaez ordinary men, lie indeed, througshout sfh their whole life time, if they afe fpa65r fp65or, yetif th6se small earnings accumulate at high rate of
 
 ldte1y oemancipateD any of them, or all Sef 6hem, tromopoyerty. ss In Birmipg- ham alonelS, 900 houses belong to the workingmeh through this agency, and there are streets more than a mile lohg whereon every house is the property of the working classes. The society does not build houses. but lends the money to member to build. The streets are dll drained, and every man is bound to drain into the main sewer. The society advances on the certificate of the sur veyer as the work proceeds, always talk Ing care not to advance too much. If a man goes to sale and buys by auction, the surveyor goes with him by order of the committee, and charge is paid if he buys the property but if he gives more for 1t than the surveyor has valued it at, he must find the surplus himself. These Birmingham societies also serve as banks of deposit, A servant girl can put hway sf50, Idrpw thereon ten shillings a yeaiA sandiat b month's notice get back every cent with interest up to the time l the notice wasgiyen, A great love for I freshplds Exists ih Birmm ghaIn, and thousands Of Working men possess Ghem The great object of the land society is to buy large estatel; to buy,land whole sale, and sell it to the members retail at the wholesale price. Thus, the society gave lately 933, 900 for one estate, and divided it, after draining it, into nearly 500 allotments. 'tsThe first thing we do, J says the secretary, ''is to have plan made of the land then streets are made and drainedy foot-roads are paved and curbed, and gutters' are formed, and So on, and whatever it costs is added to the original cost of the land.
Connecticut western news., 1871-11-10
The Martyrs of Neglect.

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 It is not too much to- say that tens of thoasands now suffering from bousness indigestion constipation periodical fevers general debility and nervous affections who might be restored to perfect health within month or less by the qse of Stomach Bitters The muttudes who have been cured of these and other a- ments by the use of this well known specific are always ready testify to its virtue preventive and rem edy They are spread over the whole country they eager to praise and reeonmend it and yet notwth- standing it's popularity there many invald and many Who tinddh exposed to the epdsmca dis eases against which sure protection who either through fndeteHoe or inSredaity neglect seise the opportunity to and means of prevention, which they have'onto rach cut their hands to obtain. This
 is strange it is of the anomalies of human nature which it is impossible account for or explain It is howeyer quite certain that every day the numb of these Martyrs of Neglect This proved by the statistics of the sales of the great remedy Du- ring the present A te demand for has increased be- yond all preoedent and it if the end the en tire communitylwould reaEoths important fact that when all other medicines prescribed for the above plsnts fan, it and does eectla cure. As ptotee- ion against the diseases most at7 this season
 there is nothing comparable with it. y,r
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