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Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-12-03

A NOTICE to the Red Men is among our
new advertisements this morning. Our
Improved friends will take notice.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-12-03

JOHN PIPER has engaged the Carson
TLeater for two nights of next week.
He will play May Howard here. She is
vociferously applauded by the Storey
papers.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-12-03

HARRY ZIMMERMAN will accept our
thanks for the .resentation Of Season
Ticket to his Skating l;,.[.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-12-03
Box and parlOr Stoves at Cost !,
PRICES TC SUIT TIE TIMES |!

Tie following goods, atwhich prices l cfT,T,
Will give an idea Of the low prices am Low
selling Goods:
Coal Oil, - cts. Ter gallon; LAMPS complete
50 cents, Nails Per key, s.; per pound, cts:
Axes 81 so 10 Il 70: Steel Sledges, 40 cts. per
pound; Steel Wedges, IS cts. per pound; W N.
L Co. Cross Cut Saws, 70 cts. per foot; Stove
PIPE 80 cts. per joint; Atlantic Lead. So IS per
key; boiled Oil, 81 to 81 IS PER gallon; Eailing
Rope, 16 cts. Brooms . bits 90 bits each:
Wood Fuse, bits Per 100 feet; Greener and
Clabrsugh Shot Guns Hunting Goats, etc, at
LESS than San Francisco Prices.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-09-10

the entry of $4,000 90 Of four per cent. bonds,
given in settlement with the United States Gov
eminent, in lieu Of bonds or notes which were
given at the time the property was purchased
for about s634,000 90. This. settlement was
made and reported TO your last annual meeting,
but not in time TO be embraced in your last
financial statement 1t has been reduced By the
the cancellation Of $4,000 90 of endorsed
bonds, purchased and used in the payment of
the sinking fund to the State
The future business prospects of your Com
pany, with the exception Of the increased COM
petition previously alluded TO, are quite rs en-
couraging as at any former period and
as we have before stated, we hope what
you may lose on account Of this,
will be replaced from other sources.
The partial failure of the wheat crop of the
present year, and the entire failure Of the fruit
crop, together with the existence of cholera for
the past two months, may prevent an increase,
and indeed may cause some decrease, in the
the receipts of the ensuing year, as compared
this is exceptional, and does not permanently
effect the future promise of your Company.
Allow us to congratulate you upon the very
| satisfactory condition of your Company both
upon its physical and financial Improvement;
and especially upon having at last reached a
point where you can reasonably hope for some
return upon the investment which you have
| held for so long time in an unproductive
shape.
We refer to condensed balance sheet Exhibit
No. !, for the financial condition of the Com
pany.
Exhibit No. shows the amount and charac-
| ter of the funded debt now outstanding.
Exhibit No. shows the earnings of the Road
| for the year; and Exhibit No. shows the ex-
| penses both ordinary and extraordinary for the
| year
We beg to mrke most favorable mention of
| the very efficient, economical and satisfactory
manner in which your able Vice President and
| Superintendent, Capt. Joseph Jaques, and your
able aud efficient Vice President, G. NJ. McChee,
together with the other officers and employees of
| your Company, have operated the road during
| the past year, to whom we return our thanks
Respectfully submitted in behalfof the Board
| Of Directors,
r. T. WILSON, President.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-09-10
%, 1875 u
Total reduction of debt lin four

Total reduction of debt lin four
years, Sl,92G, 791 co
Your Company is practically without any
floating debt, as the money you have on hand
and the amount due you, fully equal all the
floating debt you owe. 1t will thus appear that
your Indebtedness has been reduced within the
past four years to the extent of 81, 926, 19l ~;
and at Il very low estimate the value of your
property has been increased during this period
fully $500, Co., making total gain of 81, 49,
79l 60.
OF this amount, about 81, 372, 900 90 was made
in the payment of the State debt and about
S40O, 900 90 in the settlement of the Government
debt, making gain IN these TRANSACTIONS OF
81, 772, 900 90, and showing to have been received
for the same time from the income of the Road,
over and above operating expenses and the pay
ment of interest on the Indebtedness OF the
Company the sum of 1854 9l GO, This sum is
equal to an annual dividend Of about eight per
cent.
But we think that time will show, that it was
| a wise policy to apply the income TO the lm>
provement Of you poperty instead of dividing
it. Indeed the freedom from accident, with
which the road has been operated for tie pasl
| two years, and its increased capacity 10 earn
dividends in the future, fully vindicated the
| course that has been pursued. We now believe
| that the time has come when we can, in the
exercise of q wise policy, commence paying
| dividends, and at the same time preserve your
| property in an improving condition. Hitherto
we have felt, that your oolgatlons 10 the pup
| TO the travel and the business of the country,
were such as TO make IT wrong, and injudicious
| to apply any portion of the earnings OF the road
| to any other purpose than to its Improvement
| We now feel, however, that we can divest a
portion of the net earnings 10 the payment OF
dividends and still leave sutlicientto meet your
annual interest demands, and at the same, time
| keep the property in growing, ana improving
condition, so as to meet the demands OF our
| growing business.
We have therefore declared semi-annual
divided of three per cent. on the capital stock OF
the Company, payable on the LIST day OF October
next, having applied the net earnings for the
first half Of the fiscal year towards the payment
of the floating debt The net earnings fol, the
year, over all expenses, both ordinary and ex'
traordinary, have been suficientto pay the an
nuGl interest. and a dividend equal to little
more than seven per cent. but the surplus ovel
the amount required for interest, has been APP
piled as previously stated TO the redcetionof the
floating debt and TO the payment OF sinking
fund on the State endorsed bonds.
The following changes have been made du
ring the year in your funded debt, viz; In
creased by the sale ofsl24, 600 90, first mortgage
seven per cent, bonds and further increased by
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-09-10

John c. Burch estimates the fees OF the
Controller at ST. 900 for the first year, pro-
viding the funding job shall have been
finished within that time. Hobbs, who is
good on figures, deliberately surrendered
the Office on three certificates from his
doctors. How could Hobbs survive three
certificates, and the knowledge that he
lost $1,000? And yet he lives TO write
cards to the public.-AUdl0Hche
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-09-10
KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY

Located at Ashland. the Home Of Henry. Clay and
Old TIansylvania. Six colleges in operation. with
thirty professors and QUO students from IS States En-
tire fees for collegiate year, $50, except IN the Law
o IS per week. For catalogue, address j, i, BOW
MAN. Regent. Lexington. Ky. YllllgdAWlm
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-09-10

Your total Indebtedness now ou
as follows:
Funded debt, including bonds
given to L. 5. Government in
settlement of former bonds or
notes,
Deduct from the above the cost of
the Morristown and Rogersville
Roads, and the money loaned
in the purchase of securities in
the Western North Carolina
Road, and interest on same,
which will be returned when
these properties are sold,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-08-22
TERMS $500 PER ANNUMIN ADVANCE

take her out of her handsome
nest into an interior once. Tn resistinn .iic
matrimonial temptation he has ortethino 70
say Tor himself. His knowledge of life tslls
MIN that there are scarcely any ho Irs of han
piness which are compensation for tbe rasp-
ing, wearing, daily want of means 10 nrovido
for every y neeessaries and comforts. and
that it's Jt long before domestic peace gives
way before this terrible pressure. 1t Is bu-
man, toe, ior the woman in unguarded mo-
ments to make comparisons between her
married and single life, in which regrets and
reproaches are implied il not spoken. When
matters reach this point it is the coup de
grace, and domestic felicity is at an end
An adviser may say to this young man, if
he wants to marry this poor rich girl, Go
west; but this is counsel be cannot follow
MS lou Is cast here, and through industry he
mas reasonable expectations of ultimately
acquiring modest competency. IL would be
loolish Tor him to give up the bird in hand
for the two out West in the bush. to sew
nothing OF his likiDgs, which ten to one ia
vor his surroundings. Here the field of labor
is plainly indicated, and he is already in the
harness. His future being here he must sub
NIT to the conditions Of life around him, and
accept civilization as he finds i &. Thus 1ea-
sonlnS he turns away from the poor rich
mans sumptuous dwelling with a sigh; he
may not pluck the coveted flower And if
the expected bridegroom in purple and fine
linen from Lydlan shores, fail to come, the
daughter is condemned to life of celibacy
Ii the father has several such, who wait in
vain, his house, according to the Dutch PROV
erb, becomes like cellar tul OF sour beer.
There are three issues out of the difficult
ties which involve marriage in the cities a
simpler mode of life; the independence
which the woman may acquire in seli-support; |;
and the dowry, which concerns rather the
parents than the woman hersels-Abert
Rhodes in September Golary
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-08-22
WHY Marriages Decrease.

The falling off in marriages is found in the
centres of population, where the needs of life
press hard. The old-fashioued disinterested-
ness has of late years been losing ground in
these places. Thirty or forty years ago it
was plain sailing; gibbons hat and the Ital-
ian opera were unknown; all worked tor
living, and none were rich as compared with
those of to day. 1t has become evident that
in cities Hymen is losing his power; yet the
goddess who came out of the seafoam con-
tinues to exercise her wonted charms over
men, though they refuse to follow Hymen.
There is a hide-and seek process on the part
of man to avoid supporting the Woinao,
which would be to the last degree ungenerous
if it were not IN some measure compulsory.
Fathers endeavor to dispose OF daughters to
those who stand upon cohuitious, ana each
tries to shirk the expense of keeping them.
Tbus regarded, the woman becomes poss-
hla enculnbrance to a marrying man, and al
most a parasite in her own family A great
number of those who live in luxury in the
metropolis make both ends meet with difficul
tv. The head of the family is stretched on n
financial wheel, which never ceases to turn
every day in the year. He is pressed for
what he considers the necessaries of life. and
spends twenty thousand dollars year. The
capital OF this man who spends twenty thou
sand collars year, at legal interest, would
not perhaps yield him a third of what he ex-
pends; thus he is obliged to work hard for his
living, and without relaxation. He is not in
position to help any one but himself how
ever willing he may be to do so. The young
man making his way through an ocean of
difficulties. and carrying heavy ballast in the
shape of clubs and social dissipation, may like
the daughter of the poor rich father; but he
has not the audacity, even If she were
willing, to make the sacrifice, 10
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-08-22
English Goodness.

HOW THE COLONEL LOST HIS CoFFEE-PoT.
Don Piatt, in the Capital, tells the follow
ing story of an English colonel whom he met
during .he late war: This Englishman had
been fighting in all sorts of wars, in every
part of the globe, for and against everybody
and every cause. His cool disregard of dam
ger, and at the same time anxiety to get into
quiet places and comfortable quarters. afford
ed us infinite amusement. At the battle of
Fredericksburg, Captain Meyers of the voiun-
teer artillery, found himselfin very exposed
position, where he was doing no good, al
though he used due diligence, and fired away
from his one battery in response to the con-
centrated fire of half dozen. Whilst thus
engaged, ar d worried to see his men and
horses killed, Colonel NJ. rCde up.
'Hawt work, Captain" remarked the new
conner, refining in his steed.
''Devilish hot,' was the response.
''Never saw such day, Captain; don't
like it, you know. I've been rather unforuu-
uate. While crossing that blarsted river | lost
me coifee-p,t. I've had that coffee-pot all
through India and South America, and now
Eve lost it. l don't know what Pll do with
out that coffee-pot-"
''Id ike to know what Pm kept here for,
unless they want my battery DESTROYED" in.
terrupted the Captain.
Jaw, Captain, beg pawdon that monkey
OF an Adjutant sent me here to order you out
The General says you're doing no good here;
better get out, you know"
"Damnation, why didn't you give me the
order? I've lost two men and three horses
while you talked about a damned coffee
pot"
''Never mind, Captain; beg pavilion. III
help you. Well soon get out OF range of the
beggars. But an old campaigner cannot lose
his coffee-pot you know"
Further discourse was interrupted by a
shell that, exploding, blew up casson and
tumbed all that was left of the concern down
the decvity in the rear. Colonel M. extri-
Gated himself from dying horse, and, walk
ing away, grumbled:
Most unfortunate day; lost me coffee-pot
and now that horse; but the coffee-pot, YOU
KNOW, cannot replace that; had it in India
and all over South America: most untortu-
nate"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-08-22
Extracts from the New York Press.

The Commercial Advertiser says of the
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-08-22
Relation Of Changes in the Length OF
the Earth's Radius VectOr TO
Frequency Of AurOras,

The following is the paper read by Profess
sor E. b. Elliott, before the Scientific Asso-
citation Wednesday:
That auroras are of electric origin is admit
ted by all who are conversant with the sub
ject. The exhibition of extensive and mark
ed auroras are all invariably attended with all
the other well known evidences of magnetic
storms--such as the corresponding rush to
and IT. OF electric currents in telegraphic con-
ductors to such an extent as to serionsy dis
turb and interrupt the ordinary transaction
OF business upon the lines; and the irregular
and extraordinary reflections of the magnetic
needle.
Whenever the magnetic condition of the
earth is disturbed, corresponding disturbances
OF the magnetic needle, disturbances of
electric c)ndition of telegraphic conductors,
and manifestation of auroras invariably result.
The question had suggested itself whether
among the many causes which may produce
disturbance in the electric or magnetic coudi-
ton of the earth and its invariably attendant
magnetic and aurnual storms, might not be
ranked the anroral or periodical lsngthening
and shortening of the earths radius vector.
1t the year be divided into twelve equal
| parts, it will be found that the radius vector,
| Tor distance of the Earth from the SUM aug
ments most rapidly during that equal portion
| of time which corresponds to the month of
| March and diminishes rapidly during that
portion which corresponds to the month Of
October; the date, however, of most rapid ap-
proach being during the latter part OF Septem-
Der lis 25 toy.
The following table gives the increment and
decrement of the logarithma ofthe radius vec-
tor for the monthly periods above referred to.
TABLE SHOWING THE CHANGES IN THE
EARTH's RADIUS VICTOR.
Increments and decrements of logarithms
of radius vector, by months, or periods of
304 days each, as adduced from the American
Nautical Almanac for the year 1868:
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-08-22

WITH board, two furnished rooms at 30s Hige
w street. Also good Accommodations for singlh
Gentleman.
aui2eodtf S. S. KNIGHT,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-08-22
Notice to Owners o. Lots in Ever
green Cemetery.

A NY person owning lots in Evergreen Cemetery
IN by calling at the Office OF the City Treasurer
and paying the Of one dollar for each lot will n-
che best OF care for the by the Superntend
sum OF twenty-five dollars will secure the care OF
their lots by the city Tor all time.
JAS. BAILEY,
j. S. PALMER, I Trustees
c. E. JOSE, =
DOGS-Anr Dogs found in the inclosure after ms
date withor he presence of master will be in perus
JAS. BAILEY,
j. s. PALMER,
G. 4. JOSE.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-08-22
Total number of auroras observed. 1882

HO'1'' H'IIIOOI UI uuIUIds UUseIVeu' 80 Iz,ooz
From this table it will be seen that the
months of maxium frequency of auroras are
the calendar months of March and October.
Reducing the calendar months of September
and October to an equivalent number of
days would make September-instead of Oc-
tober the month of maximum frequency, the
period from about the middle of September
to the middle of October being that monthly
portion in which auroras in the latter part Of
the year were most frequent.
This marked coincidence between the fire.
quency OF auroras and the rates of approach
and recession of the earth, to and fr Jm the
sun was deemed worthy of note, as illustra-
ting the nature of the phenomena under con-
sideratiOn.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-08-22

Overpaid one hundred dollars, on checl:
by bank, the Georgia negro who received
them at once returned the money. The local
paper says this is another evidence that the
race can never be civilized.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-08-22
THE PRESS.
FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 22. 1873
Gossip and Gleanings.

A young gentleman in New York called a
coach dog Dalmatian hound. and was in
formed by his .fdncee that if he could not re-
frain from profanity in her presence, they
must henceforth be strangers.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-08-22

EBrooklyn sea captain, just returned from
tour of the Holy Land, expressed himself
disgusted with Jerusalem. ''It is the mean
est place 1 ever visited! There is not a drop
OF liquor in the whole town fit to drink"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-08-22

tIncrements, -decrements of logarithms

tInerements, -decrements of logarithms.
In general catalogue Of auroras classified
by years end months, compiled by P,of. Jo-
seph Lo; ing of Cambridge, Mass, and pub
lished by the American Academy OF Arts
and Sciences, may be found the following.
table, showing the distribution by calendar
months of l23S2 auroras ohserved.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-08-22
SneciaI Meeting.

gERE win scq %sStDg pf a6sss es ss0GshOd
- ers Oh tnS S IN, - of Ross e Sturvant ITS Conn
%ercia as street Portland on Wssdnesday i & Aug 27th
isao stors a. to purchase addi ional steamer and
@ sne ,Se transaction Of any other business thar may
come before them.
'O- Per order ofthe directors
VIM. ROSS, Clerk.
August Goth, 1873, aug20td
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-08-22

hate anything that occupies more space
than it is worth. / hate to see load of
band-boxes go along the street, and hate 20
see parcel of big words without anything in
them,-Hazlitt ..
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-08-22

Mr. Hamerton, in his intellectual Life"
thus gives us his estimate of mans capacity
for language: "A man sometimes speaks
two languages correctly, his fathers and
mothers, or his own and his wifes but never
three. Children can speak several languages
exactly like natives, but never simultaneous
ly. They forget the first on acquiring the
second, and so on" ..
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-08-22

A house ought to be the work of art, just
like picture. Every bit of furniture in it
should be a particle of great composition
chosen with reference to every other particle.
A grain of color, hundredth of an inch
across, is OF the utmost Importance in a pic
ture; and little ornament OH the chimney
piece is of the utmost artistic Importance in a
house.-P. g. Hdmerton.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-08-22
RARE CHANCE!
FOR SALE

CTOCK and fixtures Of Grocery and Provision
= Store on al lea I ing tIhoroughfare: doing good
and H rness. Will be sold cheap if called for soon,
as the is about to leave the city Enquire Of
CHAS. SAMPSON Cahoon Block
All persons indebted to the some please call and
settle. jy2SH
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-08-22

Sticks in ones drink seem to be dangerous.
A man in st. Louis has been suffering from
lockjaw, produced by absorbing elaret punch
through straw. Luckily this method of OBJ
tanning the contents of tumbler is too slow
to be very popular in st. Louis.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-08-22

No man or woman was ever cured of love
by discovering the falsity of his or her lover.
The living together tor three long, rainy days
in the country has done more to dispel love
than all the perfidies in love that have ever
been omnlitted.-Heips.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-08-22

Ghosts are odd fishes and seldom go in
couples, but newly-married pair of Troy
people have been driven out of their chosen
home by the apparitions of man and
woman that would come in each night and
disagreeably glide around, passing through
walls where there are no doors, and never TAX
ing the trouble to go round chairs and tables,
but always through them.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-08-22
EDUCATIONAL.

GORHAM SEMINARY.
Fall Term commences August 26. 1873.
Board Of Instruction.
q. M. BODICE, A. NJ, Principal,
Teachers Glass and Sciences.
I. B CHOATE, A. NJ. Associate,
Greek Latin and Spanish.
PROF. j. C. MORAZAIN,
Supt. of French Glasses.
NJ. JOHNSON, Assistant
Mathematics and Business Dept
vi. H, HOWARD, Preceptress, Higher English.
MRS. S. p. CH0ATE, French.
MISS j, E. BODICE, Rhetoric.
MISS ETA S. QUINCY, Painting.
MISS JENNIE S. FORSAITH. Music
MISS A. E. CLEMENT, Primary Dept
TUITICN.-Higher English, Teachers Glass, and
ancient Languages one or all, SO; Common English,
So, Modern Languages, (each) extra, So; Music
and Piano, (extra S12; local S12; Pennmanship
extra S1:50; Bookkeeping (extra) S1.5O; Drawing
S4; Painting $s.
BOARD i'm Seminary, $40 Per term
Hoard ln Private Families, $4 Per week
At Seminary, Young Ladies only, board Each
room for two persons, who are required to find
Sheets pillow cases, towels Quilts and toilet soap
For circulars and information address g.. M,
BODICE, au11d&w2w
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Abbott Family School for Boys,
ATLETTLE BLUE, Pennington We.

TEyHE Autumn session will open August 10th. All
Il the comforts of HOME are here combined with
superior school, Boys prepared for college busi
ness Graduation and diplomas are conferred upon
all who finish the required course of study. Send
for an illustrated circular or address the Principal,
juI1d3m ALDEN j. BLETHEN, A. M.