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Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1873-10-22

JAPAN does nothing BY halves. At
a recent execution of three criminals
there the victims were beheaded, their
skulls battered In, their brains scooped
out and their hearts cut out. None Of
them survived this treatment.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1873-10-22

TEE Chicago Times speaks Of the
New York World as that ~"eminently
servile organ Of a putrid reminis-
cence."
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1873-10-22

A SOAR mine has been discovered In
Wisconsin.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-04-25
The Number Three.

A singular significance attaches itself
to the number three. When the world
was created we find there were land,
water, and sky T; sun, moon and stars.
Noah had but three sons. Jonah was
three days in the tomb. Peter denied
his Savior thrice. There were three
Observation-Disclosures, Isaac, and Jacob.
Abraham entertained three angels.
Samuel was called three times. "Simon,
lowest thou me ?" was repeated three
times. Daniel was thrown into the den
with three lions, for praying three times
day Shadrach, Meshech and Abed-
nego were rescued from the fiery fur
mace. The Ten Commandments were
delivered on the third day. Job had
three friends. ST. Paul speaks of faith,
hope, and charity-these three. Those
famous dreams of the baker and butler
were to come to pass in three days and
Elijah Frustrated himself three times on
the body of the dead child. Sampson
deceived Delilah three times before she
discovered the secret of his strength.
Thesacred letters on the cross areI. III. S;
so also the Roman motto was composed
of three words II, hac sig,,o. There are
three conditions for man the earth,
heaven, and hell. There is Holy
Trinity. In mythology, three graces
Cerebus, with three heads; Neptune
holding his three-toothed staff; the
Oracle of Delphi cherished with veneer
ration the tripod and the nine muses.
sprang from three. In nature, we have
morning, noon, and night Trees grow
their leaves in threes there is the three
leaved clover. Every ninth wave is
ground swell. We have fish, flesh, and
and fowl. The majority of mankind die
at thirty. What could be done in mathe-
mates without the aid of the tri-
angle I? Witness the power of the wedge
and in logic three premises are indis-
pensable.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-04-25

shells drive them out After firing they re-
piled through yells, which were frequent. On
the fifth shell there came raking fire and
sheet of flame. A small party Of men sprang
out OF the chasm and came into the lines amid
a shower OF bullets. The falling back was
caused by the Modocs thanking and opening a
cross fire. Col. Miller, in attempting to form
junction with the Warm Spring Indians,
missed them. AS he swung down IN the great
chasm, the Modocs sprang up and cut INN on,
with thirteen men. Miller fortified himself,
when they fought for their lives until the NOR
tars opened.
The Indians withstood the fire until p. m.
When the shells began falling in their midst
they took cover, dashing across the ledge,
losing two men and one wounded. The line
reformed and held around the Nodocs. Mason
signaled that the Modocs on the left were try
ing to get out.
Costello says the blaze of musketry firing
along the lake shore about the time OF his de-
parture last night was terrible and grand
He believes the Modocs made strong effort
to escape by the lake or to get water, but were
completely routed. From the appearance OF
the fling and the length Of it's continuance,
the Indians we're certainly disheartened. He
watched them with glass at long range at
different times during the days fight. They
were running from one point to another, with
no apparent strategic move, seemingly bewil-
dered by the advance Of our forces.
1t is learned that we have "a casualties-5
killed and 10 wounded, some slightly.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-04-25
Another Railroad Slaughter.

A dreadful accident occurred to train on
the Stonington and Providence railroad on the
morning of the 10Th. While running from
Stonington to Boston, the tran fell through
the bridge at the Richmond switc.. Six cars
were burned and some fifteen persons killed.
The train left Stonington about thirty-tiye min
utes late, and was running at the rate of forty
miles per honr. Az it approached the bridge,
the fireman and ehgine-driver became aware of
the existence Of the watery gulf before them,
but saw the danger too late to prevent the dis
aster, or even save their own lives by leaping
from the engine. The locomotive jumped the
gap about 80 feet wide, and landed on the
other side, in sand-bank, plunging into it
with such force as to wreck her completely.
Some idea of her speed may be ascertained
from the fact that piece of rail was
broken up and shot through the boiler 30
that it remained like shaft exposed at both
ends. The engineer, William Gould, when
discovered, was between the driving wheel and
engine, there being but just enough Of his
body left to identify him. The fireman,
George Eldridge, was crushed to jelly.
There were about eighty passengers and the
scene can better be imagined than described.
AS the overturned stoves and lamps set fire to
the woodwork, cries for assistance rent the
air from the smoking caldron. Frantic hus-
bands were calling for wives and wives for
husbands, SONS and daughters. Some escaped
through the car windows others were pulled
out of the water below, while many more were
writhing beneath the ruins. One man, with
his body partly out of the window, could extri
cate himself no further, and was calling wildly,
oh, save me, am burning to death His
screams aud means were not needed, and
death put an end to his sufferings.
When Mr.. Allen met his death, he was stand
ing on the front platform Of car. and, as the
train struck, his foot was caught in the Crap
pling-iron and in this condition he was burned
to DEATH
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-04-25
The Murder of Gen. Congratulations
Particulars.

The following additional particulars of the
massacre of the Peace Commissioners have
been furnished: Capt. Anderson was at Col.
Mason's camp when the attack was made on
the peace-commission party. He says Lieuts.
Sherwood and Doyle were attracted out from
the camp by white flag. They went 400 or
500 yards when they met what they supposed
were only two Indians, who said they wanted
to talk to Little Tyee Col. Mason. They
were told they did not want to talk, and for
the Indians TO go back to their camp, and they
would return to theirs. AS they turned around
the Indians, four in number, fired upon them,
wounding Lieut.. Sherwood in the arm and
thigh; the latter being very serious wound,
the bone having been shattered by a bullet.
Capt. Anderson was on duty at the signal
station on Hospital Rock, saw plainly the at
tack upon Col. Mason's 'front.' and telegraphed
to Gen. Gillem to notify the Peace Commission
Immediately Col. Biddle, who was at the
signal station at Gillems headquarters when
this message was received, at once placed his
field glass upon Gen. Candy, as the party sat
together about one mile distant. Very soon
the whole party scattered. He followed the
Generals course with his glass while he ran
about 80 yards, threw up his arms, and fell
backward dead Two of the Indians who were
following him jumped upon him, one believed
to be Capt. Jack, stabbed him in the neck and
he was completely stripped. DR.. Thomas was
also entirely stripped. His purse, containing
aDOuJ -OU, was lOunu unuer MS DOuy, the III
dams having dropped it.
Mr.. Meacham was shot in three places, one
ball entering at the inner corner of his right
eye, another on the side of his head These
are both believed to have lodged within his
Uranium, third passing through his right
forearm He also received cut in his left
arm, and a scalp wound five inches in length.
He was found about so yards from the spot
where the slaughter began, in direction oppo-
site to that taken by Gen. Candy. He was en-
tirely stripped and bewildered in mind.
Meacham says he thinks he shot Schonchin in
the abdomen, and blood was found, which in
dicated that one of the Indians had been
wounded. The soldiers who were ready start
ed on a double-quick Immediately upon the
firing of the shot met Dyar and Riddle and
his wife before they were half way to camp.
The Indians retired to their retreat about 600
yards in advance of the soldiers, who followed
them half mile beyond the murder ground,
and there remained until dark, and we're with
drawn, as they were not provided with supplies.
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two forts, but were repulsed from the prlnci-
pal fort They are now besieging the sultan's
palace. The fighting was desperate. The
Dutch commander, Kohler, was killed, togeth-
or with 200 of his men.
painful rumor has reached London from
Alexandria, Egypt that Sir Samuel Baker and
wife have been murdered in the interior OF
Africa by natives Sir Samuel accompanied
by his wife, took al Egyptian expedition up
the Nile.
Baron Justus Liebig died at Munich, April
1S, aged 10.
The wife of Henri Rochefort il dead
Reports from San Salvador state that the
authorities still persist in rebuilding the
city on the same site, although this is the
eighth time within $50 years that city has been
destroyed. Most of the people, nevertheless,
have removed to Santa Tecla. The only build
ing that stood the shocks without the least in
jury WAS q building erected OF timber. The
impulse at present is to import timber from
California for the construction OF such earth
ouake-proof houses. Aid and money have
been rendered and sent from all parts of the
Republic. Everything has risen to exorbitant
prices. The United States Consulate was a
mass of ruins inside, though the walls were
standing. Mr. Biddle, United States Minister,
with his five little ones, had narrow escape.
During two days three officers remained in
San Salvador, and they felt light shocks.
In some places the ground cracked a
foot wide and very deep. At every shock
all the cocks in the place began to crow,
and pigeons whirled about wildly in the air.
The English visitors think it is tempting
Providence to rebuild the city again on the
same spot. The crust below is evidently q
mere shell. The ear placed close to the ground
hears noise like running water, and the fall
OF heavy stone produces hollow sound
The Indians would never build on this site.
Advices from Spain state that the Republic
cans continue to rule the city Of Barcelona
The Carlists last week stopped diligence in
the Province Of Corona, shot all the passen-
gers and seized the mails.
The leprosy is spreading among the natives
of the Sandwich Islands.
The epizootic has reached Honolulu.
Advices from Belgrade state that plot for a
general massacre of the Christians of Bosnia,
during the observance Of the orthodox Easter,
had been discovered and frustrated.
The Shah Of Persia has started on bis Euro
pean tour.
The Pope is again out Of danger. He rose
at half-past seven the other morning, and said
mass in his private chapel. He subsequently
gave audience to a deputation bringing Peters
pence.
Gen. Pieltan, the new Captain General of
Cuba, was received at Havana by large con-
course, not one Of whom raised a cheer or
uttered word of welcome.
Six thousand square feet more of space
have been yielded American exhibitors at
Vienna, and their articles will be received until
June 10.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-04-25
UncOnsidered Murderers.

Under the above title, the Pail Mall
Gazette moralizes in the following fash
ion upon the delinquencies of architects.
The structures of the Gazette are as APP
plicable in this city, probably, as else
where:
The man who cuts his neighbours
throat runs good chance of being
hanged the man who murders him by
secondary causes is neither condemned
nor suspected. Yet there are crowds of
these murderers abroad, agents and eff
fects of our boosted civilization, and we
decorate some of them, honor others,
and pay all, just as we pay the under
taker and the sexton for the considerate
burial of our dearest. The ordinary
architect is one of these murderers land
we question whether we shall get rid of
his bad breed until one of them has been
hanged pour encourdger les antreS. The
ordinary architect builds handsome
looking house, paying great attention to
the ornamentation of the iron-work, the
right curves of the holdings, and the
general effect of the facade. The stairs
are wide and what he calls noble, the
drawing rooms perfectly proportional,
and the principal bedrooms are arranged
with taste, and according to superior
ideas. But the drains go into stag
nant cesspool, and the waste-pipe of the
cistern leads direct into the drains that
is to say, the architect has built house
which is nest for perennial typhus and
diphtheria, and thus constituted himself
the prospective murderer of any number
of innocent lives. Damp through all
the basement, and imperfect ventilation
in the sleeping-rooms, are extra -four
ishes of the weapon he employs in his
trade. People take these fine artistic
houses, and their friends congratulate
them on their good fortune in having
such first rate architect, and make all
sorts of admiring comments on the per-
feet taste with which their dwelling is
arranged. But, somehow, all sorts of
troubles and illness follow. Children die
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-04-25
Foreign Items.

The National Life-boat Institution OF
Great Britain saved 54S lives by their
Ife-boats during 1872, and rescued 20
ships from destruction. Rewards were
also granted to fishermen and others for
saving lives to the number of 40. Since
its formation, the institution has saved
in all Il, 465 lives, and have expended IN
awards f38, 1000, and granted 923 gold
and silver medals.
CONSIDERABLE alarm has been occa-
stoned in England by the discovery that
horses are becoming very scarce, and
that the price of them is rapidly rising,
There has been an advance of nearly
fifty per cent. in London during the
past ten years and when the War De-
partment found itself in need of 1900
horses for the manoeuvres last summer,
it had to import 1900 from France.
In England, the number of deaths
each year is one out of fOrtythree in
habitants in France, one out of thirty
two; and in the United States, one out
of eighty-one. In the latter country, the
rate in the Northwestern States is one in
one hundred and twenty in the Middle,
one in eighty-three in the Southern,
one in seventy; and in the Gulf States,
one in sixty-three.
KING LOUIS of Bavaria is one of tho
most incorrigible bachelors in Europe
but it is reported now that a marriage
has at last been arranged with the Prin-
cess Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the
Duke of knhalt, who is now sixteen, and
said to be very beautiful. The Kings
last ENHANCEMENT was with an American
adventures, who came very near en-
trapping him into marriage.
ONE of the curiosities of the Vienna
Exhibition will be a watch made entirely
of rock crystal. Many years since a
workman in French mandatory de-
cided to make a watch every part of
which, the handspring alone excepted,
should be of rock crystal screws, and the
escapementi is most intricate. His widow
would never part with it, but when she
died the treasure fell into the hands of
French matchmaker, who intends to ex-
hibit it as a sample of French workman
ship, pricing it at $1,000.
Mr.. THOMAS HOLLOWAY, the great
patent-medicine man, has accumulated
fortune of about $50, 10000 which he
now intends to devote to charitable pur-
poses. He is building an asylum for
the insane on his estate in Berkshire,
which is to be the model establishment
of its kind in the world he has numer-
GUS other benevolent plans, which he is
preparing to carry out; and it is re-
ported that he employs six clerks in
opening, reading, and answering such of
the begging letters-a very small pro-
portion of those he receives-as require
or deserve answer
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-04-25
Natural Duration OF Life.

According to Prof Faraday, the crime
of suicide is very common i'll this age of
the world, for he intimates that all who
die under 100 years of age may be
charged with self-murder that Provi-
dence, having originally intended man
to live a century, would allow him to
arrive at that advanced period if he did
not kill himself by eating unwholesome
food, allowing himself to be annoyed by
trifes, giving license to passions, and
exposing himself to accident. Flourin
advanced the theory that the duration
of life is measured by the time of growth.
When once the bones and epiphyses are
united the body grows no more, and it
is at 20 years this union is effected in
man. The natural termination of life
is five removes from the several points.
Man, being 20 years in growing, lives
or should-5 times 20 years the camel
is 8 years in growing, and lives times s
years the horse is years in growing,
and lives 25 years, and so on with other
animals.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-04-25
Sixteen Good Habits.

l. Abstinence from tobacco and intoxi-
cants.
2. Temperance at meals.
3. Daily attention to all the conditions
of health.
4. Constant occupation.
5. Doing at once whatever is required.
6. Having a time and place for every
thing.
7. Fidelity to all appointments and
duties.
8. Paying for everything in advance.
8. Regular pursuit in some science.
10. Giving as well as receiving.
IL. Aiming at harmony in converse
ton.
IL. Looking always on the bright
side
-. Associating with some favorite
minister and society.
IA. Talking on edifying subjects.
Is. Acting always in the right spirit.
16. Realizing the presence of God at
all times.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-04-25

A RATHER singular case of somnam-
bulism occurred recently in Shelby
county, Ky. A beautiful and accom-
plished young lady of the neighborhood,
who had strong prediction for attend
ing all the dancing parties that came
off anywhere within the reach of his
home-who rather had dancing OF the
brain, as one of the good deacons of
her church remarked-arose one night,
while asleep, and proceeded to dress as
for ball, and, as she remarked after
ward, dreamed that her escort was wait
ing for her, and that she was in great
hurry. Instead of fixing the hair up as
she should have done, she procured
pair of scissors and cut it nearly all off,
which occupation she was found engaged
in by her mother, who, hearing the noise,
had gone to her room to ascertain the
cause. She now mourns the loss of her
curls, and can't be induced to attend
another ball.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-04-25

A ST.. LOUIS lady whose foot had been
pressed in street car by man, said
she would make an example of him. She
returned the pressure, looked anguish
ing, and all that sort of thing, and when
she alighted tacitly invited him to fol-
low. Arriving at her home she invited
him in, and he accepting, was brought
face to face with her husband She re-
quested the latter gentleman to "wada
into" the former, and detailed the cir
cumstances of the affair. The husband
politely dismissed the gent with the
pressing foot, and then turned about
and beat his wife for inviting such ia
miliarities.
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of scarlet fever, and older people suffer
from incurable neuralgia and dyspepsia !;
there are obscure cases of typhoid fever
springing up, no one knows why or
whence and the fine house, with its
chief rooms to the east or the north, with
it's defective ventilation, is poisoned
water, and it's contaminated air, is
simply deatb-trap constructed by an
architect at great pains, abundantly re-
warded by applause"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-04-25

A STRANGE TRIBE.-An intelligent
traveller on his way to the penal settle
ments of Siberia, starting from st. Pc
tersburg, fell in with tribe of Kirgis
Although informed it was customary
with them to knock their Russian pris-
oners on the head just hard enough to
blunt their intellect and destroy their
usefulness as laborers, this was denied
by one of the elite as a SANDER. How
ever, he ascertained the fact that when
they have secured captive, such
one as they would like to retain perma-
nently, a deep cut is made in the soles of
his feet, near the heel, into which wad
of horse hair is inserted OF course,
walking is next to impossible after that
cruel operation, which probably partially
divides the planter ligament extending
from the heel to the toes. But he can
ride, and as it is the life of these ma
rauding rascals to be always on the back
of horse, the manned slave is not in
capacitated from following his master
on horseback and performing such SER
vices as may be required of him.
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THE DIR. Thomas who was slaughtered
with Gen. Candy by the Modocs, was q
prominent minister of the Methodist
church on the Pacific Slope, and was
for many years the editor OF the church
organ of the Pacific shore, the Adcocatc,
published at San Francisco. He was q
man of goodness and Goodness, and out
of the Kindness of his own heart, desir-
ing to save the Indians from slaughter,
volunteered to go upon the Peace Com
mission. BY those whom he aimed to
bofriend he was massacred. The people
of the Methodist church everywhere will
especially lament the death of DIR.
Thomas.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-04-25

Mr.. WRIGHT, of Sheffield, Eng, pro-
poses to supply the world of the future
with gas for light and heat made from
common air by means of electricity 1t
is only to cost fifteen cents per 900 feet.
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The South.

The Memphis and Little Rock railroad has
been seriously damaged by the Mississippi
overflow.
1t is stated that the Kellogg State Govern
ment in Louisiana intend applying to the Fed
eral authorities for troops to preserve order in
that State.
Apublic meeting Of the citizens Of Rich
mond, Va, was held last week, at which reso-
lutions expressing sorrow at the death Of Gen.
Candy were passed.
United States troops have been sent from
New Orleans to Grant parish La the scene Of
the recent disturbances.
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Washington.

The Supreme Court has unanimously de-
cided that aliens who domiciled in the South
during the rebellion, and who were guilty of
acts of treason, come within the amnesty
proclamation of President Johnson of Dec. 25
1868, and are therefore freed from the faint or
odium of treason. The matter came up on an
appeal from the Court of Claims in the case
of Carlisle Vs. The United States. This de-
cision settles number of claims pending for
cotton taken, amounting to 100000.
1t is now announced that as soon as prac-
ticable after the reorganization of the Civil
Service Commission by the acceptance of the
appointments of Hessrs. Eaton and Shella-
barger, the rules prepared by the old commits
sion will be 30 modified as to enlarge the
authority Of the appointing power, and possi-
bly, give greater scope to the discretion Of the
heads Of departments and others in the selec-
ton Of subordinates.
Senator Sumner continues to improve slowly
and his prescribing physician, DIR. Brown
Sequard, who was recently in Washington, has
strong hopes Of his entire recovery. The
Senator is still prohibited from work Of q
mental character, but is allowed to read to
some extent. He is much better now than he
was In January last, when hypodermic injec-
lions OF morphine were nightly necessity
Foreign.
Inc Vienna Exhibition building is in back
WARD state, and will not be completed before
the middle of May.
'e'egram from Singapore, India, says The
A'cheen war continues A second assault was
made with partial success The Dutch carried