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Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1872-04-18
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With Kings and Queens, a. well a. Knayss,
Ye Gambolier doth Deal;
He lives on Stakes. but doth not
Aught for 70 public veal.
Full oftys merrie Gambolier
In 70 gay attire u seen;
Ye sportive cuss doth love to play
And gsmbol on 70 Green. q
He fain doth Cut. he loves 70 Chips,
When he TO balls doth go,
Ye Double shnfie 10 for him,
Ye Break down for his foe.
Ye winds appal ye Gambolier,
For wknds he doth not reck;
For he 10 ersr one ye Sieze,
And traveleth on ye Deck.
Ye Gamboller doth ever speak - = 4
Like Hamlet, BY 70 Card ~ tf
A soldier he who serteth not
Save on ye Piquetguard.
Ever 70 swifter Passeth he, EeNTTr.
Yet more he lags behind;
And exc moro sharply doth he Soc
When he 10 going Blind.
When Dcaah dotA can, snd rakes his Pile,
No panic doth he feel;
he Shufies on this mortal coll,
And Cutteth for 20 DOLL E-Hrr-
Connecticut western news., 1872-04-26
Effects of an Earthquake.

The details of the California earth quake, writes correspondent, seem to have little variation. They are all sick ening and horrifying. I wish had never talked with one of these "eye- witnesses. Ayoung husband had been sitting at his fireside with his wife. He intended to depart in the morning for this city, and the two were making the most of the last time they would be together for several montbs the candle had burned out and they were both seated close to the open fireplace, the wife holding in her arms child of few months. After the shock, the husband was found lying on his face dead, Q beam across his neck which, in falling, had nearly severed his head from the trunk and the mother was so frightfully burned | by the firebrands. that she could not have lived many minutes, and the infant was discovered lifeless nearly rod dis tant. A family of seven persons on the outskirts of Visalia who were sound asleep, were sunk, some two or three | feet below the surface of the earth. All were rescued, however, alive, except a baby which was burned to death by coming in contact with stove. A moth l CT WaS nuTSluS st SlCh Cull1, u S1I1 Ol 1H or 15, who had been taken the day be- fore with chills and fever. After the shock neither could be found, the ruins of the house itself even being swallowed up in the enormous Assure which had been made made in the earth. This fis- sure ran across the ground of a farmer, who, feeling some presentiment of dis aster, in what form he knew not, went out about one o'clock to see his stock. An unruly colt had broken loose from his tether. and the owner was chasing him about the lot when the shock came. The colt disappeared, but the farmer has first-class drain across his forty acre farm. These incidents of the ca tastrophe are but few examples o1 many others. Had the district been densely populated they would have been multiplied by hundreds. As it is there are enough of them. To hear those who witnessed them relate their expe. riences is like reading a romance, but they are facts, and such facts are rarely met with. The rumors of volcanic erup
 ton have proved groundless, all o1 them. The people throughout the dis
 trict so violently convulsed have most O.
 them relatives or intimate acquaintance here, and the desolation that has visited the country is indicated by the grie
 stamped on many faces when any ques
 tion in relation to the subject is asked them or any allusion made to the sub feet.
Connecticut western news., 1872-04-26
NO. Al.
A Chapter on Gold.

Baron Humboldt said that before Col umbus struck the New World (1492), the amount of gold and silver dug annually amounted to only $250, 900 !; and that the gross amount of gold and silver in use in the world was $175, ,O00, 900, about one-twelfth of our national debt. How valuable was dollar in those days Why, it would buy ten bushels of wheat and pay for five days labor. ..
 Well, the Spaniards overrun Mexico and South America, and before 1862 one thousand new mines were discovered in Europe and Asia. In 1545 the annual yield of gold and silver had increased from $250, ,000 to $750, ,000, and the silver in use then amounted to $250, ,000, 900.
 In 16OO the stock on hand was estima- ted at $65O, 100000.
 In 17oO it had reached s1, 3s5, ,ooO, 900.
 In 1860 it had reached $1, 900, ,000, 900.
 From 1910 to 1929 there was not much mining good deal of gold and silver were used in the arts, and, through "wear and tear" the worlds stock o1 gold and silver decreased to $1 ,565, ,O0O,' 600. .- .<". +
 From 1900 to 1948, before California, the worlds supply of gold and silver, through mines in Russia and North ano South America, increased to $4, ,O95, ,00O,' GOO.
 In 1S10 came California. Australis followed, and in 1853 the years yield was $193, ,90O,000. Statistics show that the worlds annual yield of gold and sil yer, since 184S has been $180, ,000, ,OO0 so that, in 1870, the amount of gold an6 silver in the world in money and the arts amounted to $7,906, 100000.
 Still the gold and silver is increasing Nevada is opening up rich mines, Colora do richer, and one hundred mines art being worked in Utah alone. s..#.-
 There is also lead enough in Utah tt supply the world, wh;S3 California, Idaho and Montana are supplying gold in un limited quantities. The ''Comstocl Lode" supplies three tons of silver pc week, the C Meadow Valley" at Pioche three tons per week (worth $32, ,000 pc ton), and MT. Webster says there ar still 2,OO0 unworked copper, tin, bis muth, silver, and lead mines within l5 miles of Salt Lake City.
 America alone yielded in gold and sil yer in 1870, $100, GOO, ,000 and it was es timated that in 1871 the annual increas reached $2OO, 100000.
Connecticut western news., 1872-04-26

GREAT Loss OF CATTLE IN TEXAS Both the late cold weather and tbe drouth have occasioned an immense loss of cattle in many portions of Texas. In: deed, the stock interest bas not received for many years such severe blow. Ac' cording to the Texas papers it is estima- ted that 100000 heads of cattle have died during the past few weeks in Wes. tern Texas. The loss has been fearful between the Guadalupe and Nueces Rivers. In Goliad alone %, 900 animals have been skinned, and about an equal number in San Patrico and Karnes Counties. -....-....s.
 The San Antonio Herald says that in space of one mile opposite Helene, 1000 or more animals have been skinned. Within a space of three miles, near Ken nedys Ferry, on the Nueces 5000 more have died, and many of the carcases have been stripped of the hides. ...,... At last accounts the cattle were dying in Texas at fearful rate, from starva, tion. After the cold weather came $ terrible drouth, and there was literally no grass for them to subsist upon. Sc the loss of stock in the counties above mentioned, in Victoria, De witt, Con
 zales and other neighboring portions this Winter and Spring, may be estima
 ted at about one half. We rejoice tt learn that abundant rains have recently fallen over all the State. .-...s
Connecticut western news., 1872-04-26
Tes.nss, g. co e Year, Strictly tss
Thank God for Sunday.

Now God be thanked that he has given Blest boon to saint and sinner A day of rest-one day in seven
 Where toll is not the winner; Rest for the tired and jaded brain,
 The wearied hand on Sunday, That they might gather strength again For toll renewed on Monday. Pho merchant in his counting room,
 The clerk OCT desk and ledger, The artisan at forge and loom,
 The ditchsr and the hedger- .. The laborer, who must toll and slave
 From early dawn on Monday Until the week sinks in it's grave, All cry Thank God for Sunday sss The day that lifts the weighty chain Which all the week hath bound us; That respite gives to heart and brain,-
 From thousand cares around us That in the toilsome march of life sf So bids us take, for one day, Rest from the battle and the strife,
 Ohl God be thanked for Sunday! If thus by all one day of rest ...., Be hailed, as respite solely, How to the Christian, doubly blest, -#s Must be the Sabbath holy; As, in faiths light, he lifts his eyes
 To the bright world where, one day 4, He longs to spend beyond the skies,> Asss A blest, eternal Sundayl ,-
Connecticut western news., 1872-04-26

PAYING GENERAIs.-The great Prus- sian generals have been receiving their douceurs for war services. Prince Fred erick Charles, Count Moltke, and Gems. Won Roon and Manteuffel got $245, ,000 each; five others $150, 900, and five more $75,OO0. Frugal Prussia thinks this rather too much of g good thing, but compared with the gold showered upon Marlborough and Wellington, it is the merest trifing. The places and pen sions alone of the former and his wife amounted to $315, ,O00 Q year, and this did not include divers grants and allow ances for building Blenheim. Yelling ton received grants to the amount of $3, 800, 900. and held appointments and pensions equal to at least $50, 900 a year besides. Very few merchants have found business so paying trade as these gen. erals found war;
Connecticut western news., 1872-04-26

THE MILK SwND1E.-The London and Dublin authorities, in investigating and punishing the innumerable swindles now practised in the milk trade, are ses-
 ting an example which might well be fol- lowed here and periodical named the Milk Journal is zea!ously aiding them.
 The latter has instituted sort of sanita- ry commission, or analytical inquiry up- on the subject, and out of 1000 samples examined only 26 were found to be pure milk. Not less than 210 were adulterated some with articles too loathsome to be named, and all the others are more or less diluted with the product of that COW of which no other description need be given than that it has an lnAexible iron tail with knob at the extremity. All the vendors of the deleterious were brought before the magistrates and more or less fined; but what they dread more was the publication of their names in the columns of the journal before men, tioned. s. --.-. -.
Connecticut western news., 1872-04-26

A LEGAL QUANDARY.-7Here is legal muddle in Boston The Federal author ities have compelled the private clubs of that city to take out licenses as retail liquor dealers. Now, many of the state judges are members of these clubs; and this decision of the revenue authorities makes them retail liquor dealers and if they remain members of the clubs, and the clubs do not give up selling liquor, what will the judges be but criminals, liable to indictment by their own Grand Juries, and arrest by their own constaa bles ?--Baltimore Stn. el iv oNf 'Hs-
Connecticut western news., 1872-04-26

In Q trial at Okalona, Miss, the attor- neys were nonplussed by the question, :" Whether wife could sleep with her head upon her husbands arm all night without paralyzing it." Proceedings be. ing thus brought to stand-still, the Judge finally called in an old physician to decide the question, who said "She might, and then again she mightn't. , Decision reserved.
Connecticut western news., 1872-04-26

A good, finished scandal, full-armed and equipped, such as circulates in the world, is rarely the production of sin gle individual, or even of single coterie. It sees the light in one; is rocked and aurtured in another is petted, devel- oped, and attains its growth in third !; and receives its finishing touches only after passing through 8 multitude of hands.
Connecticut western news., 1872-04-26
FrIrhtened by the Earthouake.

The effect of the successive shocks upon the miners, says California letter, was singular. Some of them threw them selves prostrate in terror, while others, half clad and in the greatest fright, took to the woods. Our artist has caught the expression and appearance of two ofthese affighted men most earnestly, yet at the same time somewhat ludicrously.
Connecticut western news., 1872-04-26

Two children of MT. Ferrel, little boy and little girl, living in Grant Coun- ty, Ky, got into playful scuffle lately, when the little boy fell on his sister and killed her instantly. The girl was about ten years old and the boy about eight.
Connecticut western news., 1872-04-26

A HALIFAX pilot and three assistants, who at great risk succeeded in getting aboard a Quebec schooner which had parted anchor and was going to sea with the drift ice, were arrested by the agent on bringing her in, for illegally enter ing the vessel and breaking open the cabin,
Connecticut western news., 1872-04-26

OUR Western exchanges show that cerebro spinal meningitis prevails very generally in Northern and Central Hin. ois, Northern Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota.
Connecticut western news., 1872-04-26

A MAN and his wife and their two sons died in great pain, in East Hanover, N H., having been poisoned by eating stewed oysters which contained innu- merable living microscopic parasites, even after they had been cooked full day.
Connecticut western news., 1872-04-26
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Connecticut western news., 1872-04-26

MAKING BUTTER.-L. B. Sperry, of Malone, N. Y, Secretary of the Berry butter factory, reports as follows Fac tory commenced receiving milk 24th of May, and closed October 28th, 1871 ; whole number pounds of milk received, 425, ,98S pounds of butter made, 16, 931. Thus showing fraction over twenty-five and one-tenth pounds of milk to the pound of butter. Sales of butter averaged little over thlrty-one cents per pound. The Union factory, of Bangor, N. Y., reports 96 days milk, amounting to 233- 16l pounds, and 9,522 pounds of butter sold, making an average of 24a pounds of milk for pound of butter. The Gold Spring factory, of Malone, reports Al, ,267 pounds of milk received, and 19,T76 pounds of butter made, or one pound of butter from 22 31-100 pounds of milk. The Borley Spring factory, of Chatauqua, reports 270,S11 pounds of milk for 12, ,O12 pounds of butter made, or % 55-100 pounds of milk to one of butter.
Connecticut western news., 1872-04-26
Walking Dresses.

The promenade dress says fashion journal is usually made with the under skirt just touching the ground, although few foolish women persist in trailing expensive silks through the mud of the streets. But this style is too absurd and too inconvenient for it to regain easily the popularity it once had. Hav- ing once rid themselves of the annoyancs of having to hold up long skirts to keep them clean from the dust of the pave ment, and then after all their trouble have the modification of finding them we'll drabbled when reaching home, la- dies are not willing to endure the same martyrdom again. The inexperienced bellies of the next generation, who are wearied of short dresses, may revive the style, but for the present the short dress deservedly continues in favor.
 A pretty costume for the skirt may be made of black gros grain for the under, skirt, this being trimmed with deep founce put on with groups of plaits- three or four in number-the founce forming its own heading above three ol four rows of bias folds, with this a polonaise of black and white striped silk, the black predomina.ing, trimmed around with bias folds of black silk, and either deep, black fringe, or wide guipure lace. The polonaise is looped very high at the sides with large bows of black ribbon, and has revers of black silk up, on the front of the corsage. A collar also of black silk, which extends down to the middle of the back, and is trim med with fringe, and furnished with loops of silk end and tassels, is pretty addition to the toilette. With such ( dress may be worn hat of black straw, or of black lace, with founces of any be- comingcolor.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-08-14
Sudden Death Of Rev. John Balm.

The many friends of Rev. John Balm,
formerly Presiding Elder of the NJ. E.
Church in Warren District, will be
panied to learn of his sudden decease,
which occurred last week in GAINESVILLE,
Wisconsin. The Gazette of that city,
gives the following particulars:
We referred briefly, yesterday, to the
sudden death of Rev. j.. Balm, who fell
upon the sidewalk, near The residence
EoG his son-in-law, Mr.. HogoboOm, in
the Fourth Ward, and expired in an
apoplctic lit. Mr.. Balm had complained
in the forenoon of not feeling a well as
usuaI-a chilly sensation p~ervading his
system-but as he was accustomed to
slight attacks of indisposition, no
thought of serious results was aRtici-
pated. In the afternoon lie cams down
town, procured a newspaper and started
back, stopping in a grocery on his way
home, where he stated, incidentally, to
some friends that he was not feeling
right. He had nearly reached Mr..
Hogoboom's house, where he resided,
when he suddenly fell upon the walk.
His grandson, Frank Hogoboom, hear
ing a groan in the direction of the pros.
trate man, FASTENED from the house to
ascertain the cause and discovered his
grandfather lying motionless m the
sidewalk. He Immediately notified his
mother, who fastened to the spot. Her
father breathed once or twice after she
reached him, but before assistance could
be procured 3 carry him into the house
he was dead. He was attacked before,
some seventeen years ago, with apOplexy,
but beyond that there was no warning
of the approach of death from that com
plant. Mr.. Balm was s~ixty-seven years
of age, Of plethoric habit, but had gener-
ally enjoyed good health. He came to
this city last winter, from Ashtabula
county, Ohio, bringing his wife, who
in poor health, whom he thought
might be benefited by the change. She
died last spring. He was a Scotchman
by birth, but had spent the larger por-
ton of his life in this country, doing
the labor of a Methodist clergyman.
was a member Of the Erie Con-
ference, was a man of unusual ability
and great influence in the community
wherein he resided. From the begin
ming of the anti-slavery movement Mr..
Balm was its earnest champion, and as
an advocate of that principle of justice
had gained a considerable reputation.
During his brief residence in this city
he had gained very many warm friends.
At the time of his death he was supply
ing the pulpit of a Methodist church in
Beloit. The funeral will take place On
Sunday afternoon at three o'clock, from
the residence of Nh. Hogoboom, on
Franklin street, in the Fourth Ward.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-08-14
Death of DIR. III d Ballard

From the Findlay. o., JefIersonian. July 28.l
Our citizens were surprised and panied
last Saturday morning by the intelli-
gence on the street that DIR. H. d. Ballard
was dying. He had been ailing for sew
eral days, and it mad been known for a
day Of so that his sickness was of more
than ordinary severity, yet few were
prepared for this sad and startling intel
Ggence. He took worse about four
o'clock Saturday morning, and from that
time remained unconscious until his
death, which occurred a few hours later.
He was buried the following day Sun
day. the Fraternity of Free and Accept
ed Masons conducting the funeral SER
vices. As near as we can judge there
were about 200 Masons in procession,
and there were also a somewhat larger
number of the Order of Odd Fellows. A
considerable number of both Orders
were present from Fremont, Fostoria,
Button Carey, Vsnlue, GilbOa, McComb
and Benton Ridge. The procession was
headed by the Fremont Brass Band
which discoursed appropriate music
The procession was the largest, of a sim
liar nature, We have ever seen.
DR.. Horace ID. Ballard was born in
Bristol, Trumbull county, Ohio, July q,
1882, thus being nearly 40 years of age
at the time OF his death. He came to this
county in 1854, first residing in Benton
Ridge, and coming to Findlay in 1862,
since which time he has practiced his
profession here. He was a graduate OF
Western Reserve College, Cleveland,
Ohio, was q member of the Ohio State
Medical Society, and President of the
Northwestern Ohio Medical Association
He was also, in 1869, elected as CORES
ponding member of the Society of Gym
geology, Boston. In his death the COM
munity have lost a valued and respected
citizen, and the Medical fraternity a
high-minded and honorable fellow
labOrer. But his loss will be most deep
ly felt in the little family circle, of
which he was the head, and who have
the heartfelt sympathy of our citizens
in this sad and sudden bereavement.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-08-14
Fred. Douglass ReplIes TO simmer

Some of the Greeley organs having
ridiculed Fred. Douglass for support
ing Grant instead of: Greeley, he re-
spends as follows in the National Era:
Frederick Douglass is not ashamed
of his doubt of Horace Greeley, nor
his faith in U. S. Grant. The head
of a man on the body of a snake is a
puzzling monstrOsity. Greeley at the
head of the Democratic party is a fact
so strange and stunning as to excite
hesitation and raise doubt. 1t mat
tiers not how the two came into their
present anomalous relatiOn-the fact
before US is that Greeley is the head
and the Democratic party is the body
of the opposition to the re- election of
U. S. Grant. 1t is all nonsense and
self deception to assume that if elect
ed by this Democratic nomination
and by Democratic votes MI. Greeley
Will be anything else than a Demo-
cratic President. The Democratic
party has taken a Republican leader
not becacse il loves him, but because
it hopes to win Office and power under
his lead. That party would have
secuted Greeley if it could have won
under a Democratic leader. The
members of the party have not
changed their principles, but their
mode-Of supporting them. The ''old
platitudes" of truth are much to be
~preferedto the platitude of falsehood
Observation-Disclosures by which a friend
of the negro would beguile him into
the old Democratic party. 1t is bet
ter to cling to an old truth than a
new lie.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-08-14
Tie DifFerenee.

The amount of the British nation
al debt has diminished during the
past ifty-six years only go, 200, 900.
When there is a surplus revenue Yer
expenditures, a circumstance which
rarely happens, One-fOurth of the sur
plus is applied to the reduction of the
debt. There has been, in the mean
time, no diminutiOn of taxation. The
debt is now e795, 100000. Comparing
this with what has been done in the
United States we find that a steady
reduction in taxation has, under
General Grants administration, ac-
cOmpanied the reduction in the debt.
When that administration began, in
March, 1869, our national debt was
81. 100000, 900, and the annual taxes
were S356, 500 $50. Up to the LIST of
July, 1872. there was paid of pTinci-
pal of the debt, $333, 976. 9I6, making
an average reduction of SS,349,422 per
month, to say nothing of the saving
by diminished rates of interest to the
public creditors and a steady reduc-
ton of taxation. In other words,
these three years nave witnessed a
payment of the principal of the
American debt, nearly equal to what
Great Britain has accomplished in
fifty-siX years. A very corrupt and
ruinOus administration, isn't it?