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Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1873-04-17
Collections Made.

TRAV. Nj. JOHNSON ANNCU MES
to business men and tne puolic eHat az
ba will attend to the COLLECTION OF
RILIS in Eureka and its vicinity from
this date. He will also attend to busl-
ness and make remittances Tor parties
at a distance. Charges moderate.
Office at the office of VIM. NJ. oates'
Justice of the Peace. "a,
Eureka, Jan. %. 1878. JAZZ
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FOR SALE OR RENT.

FINE TWO STORY HOUSE ON
n North Main street, containing Ten
fine rooms up stairs and two store rJoi.is
ana THOS. MURPHI'S Boot store.
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FOR SALE OR RENT.

A GOOD AGRICULTURAL RANCH,
N eight miles north of town. Farming
IMPLEMENTS, houses, stables, etc, all
complete. If rented, full supply OF gar
den seeds will go with the ranch. For
inquire of c. l.. BRCY, i'm
mediately back of the Catholic Church.
clh29 If
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tn Furnace Men and Builders.

r r. SMITH WILL SUPPLY ALL
furnace men and builders WIN
fl rst-class quality OF SAND rock ior pu'io !, -
'arrv apl II
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Dissolution of Copartnership.

yu|HE COPARTNERSHIH HERTEO-
fore existing between James L.
Hunter and James NJ Woodson, IN the
saloon business, at the La Grande sa,
loon. is this day dissolved by mutual
consent. j. NJ. Woodson will contihue coat
the business at the old stand, ana correct
all moneys due, and pay an ueo's
90 J. T. HUNTER.
j. NJ. WOODSON.
Eureka, March 2sth, 1873.
sTI have this day sold to j. Nj. Wood
son ali my right, title and interest In tue
In Grande saloon. 1T. HUNTER.
Ia $3.50 March osth. 1873. m29-lm
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Notirrs,
TO MECHANICS,
Plans for Building a County Jail.

a L a MEETING OF THE HON.
- Board of County Commissioners of
EUREKA t0unty, held this day, the Gol-
lowing order was made and entered unon
the minutes, to wit:
ordered. that the Clerk publish no.
tlce In the Eureka sentinel" soliciting
plans for Building a Jail, containing six
cells, with one vault the outside dimen-
slons OF which Jail are to be thirty by
thlrty-two feet, and twelve feet high the
outer walls to be constructed of stone ~
feet thick, with flre-proof roofing: the
valt TO be built of stone: and the parti-
ions between the cells to be of 2xG-inch
scantiing, spiked together"
Witness my hand officially.
+. II. HARMON, Clerk.
Eureka, March 18th, 1873. mh29
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-04-03
NUMBER 5.

their expiring places" :" One of the
finest things said by Wilberforce had
relation to Pitts frmness in resisting
the spread Of French Jacobinism in En-
gland; Hestood between the living
and the dead, and the plague was stay
ed" "The schoolmaster is abroad"
was Broughams descriptions of the grow
ing desire for popular education "The
ignorant impatience of taxation" and
"men turning their backs upon them
selves" are assigned to Lord Castle
reagh stemming the tide of democ-
racy" to the earl of Derby; and "the
queens government must be support
ed, to the duke Of Wellington, who
used this argument to induce one of his
party to vote for government measure
which both of them disliked. Peel's
celebrated question, "What is apound,"
arose during debate on finance mat
ters. Restore the heptachy appear
ed to Canning about rs practicable rs to
reform the Parliament, The "leap in
the dark" was the name which the late
earl of Derby candidly gave to his own
reform bill in the House of Lords in
1867. Upsetting the coach was the
same earl's mode Of characterizing Lord
John Russell's proceeding in regard to
the fall of the Grey ministry. "You
shall hear me !" said Mr.. Disraeli to
the House of Commons, 80 years ago,
when the young member was received
with derisive laughter or, rather, his
words were: 81 will sit down now;
but the time will come when you will
listen to me, "a prediction certainly
fulfilled in later years. Mr.. Disraeli's
historical conscience was appealed
to by him, to justify an opinion express
sed in early life, but abandoned at n
later period in his career. The same
statesman's looming in the future" re-
ferred to prospective though unan-
nounced adjustment and reduction of
taxation. 1t was he, too, who claimed
TO have been educating his party" to
the appreciation of measures not before
palatable to them.
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AFTER THE APPLE.
KATE PUTNAM os0oop.

Behind me clang the golden doors
No strength Of mine may ope again;
Before me stretch the wild, waste shores
These hands to harvest felds must train.
Ny last look, turning to the skies
or Eden that | lose to-day,
Sees but the lightnings Of yonr eyes,
Like flaming swords to bar the way,
You stand there. in your innocence,
Amazed, indignant at such end;
Judging u passion too intense
For Uniformed souls to comprehend.
From you within to me without
A distance AZ from sea to sea
Outbroadens--tho abyss Of doubt,
Twixt dream and wake that needs must 6s.
Yet think not howsoeyer wide,
That gulf shall not be spanned at last;
Nor fancy shOreless dGeps divide
The eXiled future from the past
The path my feet have trOd before
Or soon or late You too shall tread
| may not walk your Eden more,
But you will come TO me instead.
For, various of taste, trow
That, since our common mothers lull,
Some fruit upon that self-same bough
Hath ripenCd fer the lips of all
And hang it low or hang 1t high,
And be the flavor sour or sweet,
For you in turn the time draws nigh
To pluck the apple and to eat.
Till then pcrchancc tis well your eyes
Should seattle mo with their igorant scorns F;
su shelter in your Paradise,
Aud leave me here among the thUrns.
But when You too, without the gates,
Look, shuddcring, DER the desert bare,
Then turn-and pardon one who waits
10 make a pathway for you there.
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Selected Miscellany.
TIRED.

A little elbow leans upon your knee,
Your tired knee, that has 80 much to bear
A chds dear eyes are looking lovingly
From underneath thatch Of tangled hnir
Perhaps you do not heed the yeivet toucm -,
OF warm, moist fingers Folding yours 80
You do not prize this blessing over much,
You are almost too tired to pray tonight.
But It is blessedness Some years ago
/ did not see it as do to-day
We are so dull and thankess; and too slow
To catch the sunshine till it slips away.
And now II seems surprising strange to me,
That while | wore the badge of motherhood,
/ did not kiss more oft and tenderly,
The little child that brought me only good.
And If some night when you sit down to rest,
You miss the elbow from your tired knee;
This restless curling head from OF your
breast,
The lsping tongue that clatters constantly
If from your own, the dimpled hands had
slipped
And ne'er would nestle in your own again,
If the white feet into their grave had dropped,
i could not blame you, for your sorrow
then.
| wonder 81 that mothers ever fret,
At little children clinging to their gown;
Or that the footprints when the day is wet,
Are ever black enough to make them frown :;
If | could find a little muddy boot,
Or cap, or Jacket, on my chamber floor,
If could kiss a rosy restless foot,
And hear patter in my home once more {;
II could mend broken toy to-day,
Tomorrow make q kite to reach the sky
There is no woman in Gods world could say,
She was more blssfully content than l.
But ali the dainty pillow next my own
IL never rumpled by shining head =
Nv singing birdng from its nest is flown;
The little boy used to kiss il dead!
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The quintessence of the OmniyerOus
hog is supposed to be imaged in the
hen, but the hog is Il Peabody among
animals alongside Of the hen Hens
are by nature monopolists. When the
subject of victuals is mentioned they
are evidently listening. Throw hand
ful of corn into u ten-acre lot, and every
hen in the inclosure will get dab mt it.
The last hen on the spot may not get
more than two or three kernels, but
nothing in the hens appearance will in
dictate that. 1t will step around with
as much precision and gratitude rs any
in the flock, and wear the most pensive
smile you ever saw. A hen will not eat
every thing it sees, but will try to, and
there isn't one on the face Of this earth
but that can tell you the taste of every
thing it has seen within the radius of
half mile OF its house. 1t is only
when man has kicked at hen and
missed it that he begins to understand
how thoroughly hollow and deceitful
| this world is, and it is marvellous fact
in this connection that he will miss the
hen if he kicks at it, and misses it if he
dont.-DanJury CONN., NeUs.
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HERR PRoFEssoR.- -Iss it not
shdrainch ting, laties, dat de Latin race
cannot aguire de Enklish bronouncy-
alton? | have choost dis momend bard
ct from an Idalian chendleman Ia Grade
vrent OF mine ant ferry gletrer NAM
who has lived in Lonton almoste as
long as l hav-dvendy-vife eeeerrs-ant
foot you belief it? He shbeegs Enk-
ligh Wit kvite shdrong voreign indona-
ton How to you agound vor 20 eg-
ghsdra.orrtinary zeergoomsddanx as
tat ?-Pumch
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A BOY OF tender years and heart has
drowned II kittens, tied tin pans to the
tails of all the neighbors' dogs, orna-
mented his chamber by pinning flies to
walls, cut brickbats with his uncle's
razor, blown up pet canary with fire
cracker, pulled the tail feathers out of
two roosters, been thrown into the top
of an apple-tree by COW that he was
teasing, brushed his fathers hat agains,
the grain, told his sisters lover about
her false teeth, and still his fond moth
er intends him for the pulpit.
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ROBBING THE MAILS.
How The Light-Fingered Letter-On
ers are ShadOwed and convicted

erS are ShuuOWcu N'V SOhNN'V"
Boston Times.l
"Charles Gillis, postmaster at Hills
boro' Bridge, was arrested Saturday for
embezzling the mails" Such was the
simple announcement in the daily pa
pers recently, notifying the public that
one more had been added to the thou
sands who have been detected in prey
ing upon the mails, and the subject is
one that affords food for earnest thought.
That this species of crime is yearly on
the increase is self-evident, and it safe
to say that not a day passes but the no
tice of the post-ofiice officials is called
to one or more such cases. The expe-
dents resorted to by the depredators
on Uncle Sans plethoric mail-bags,
especially where they contain, or are
supposed to contain, money or valua-
bles, are as varied as the hues of the
rainbow, and the means used for the de-
tention of criminals of course have to
bs varied according to the circumstan-
ces of the case under consideration. In
the matter of detection, however, the
preliminaries are usually the same, III
order to arrive at a proper understand
ing of all the points surrounding the
affair. For instance, gentleman, gen
erally in a somewhat futtered condi-
ton, enters the post-office and desires
to see the postmaster on business. His
request is complied with, and, in cases
of this kind, after briefly stating the
nature of his errand, he is referred to
the special agent with whom he is more
directly to deal. To that official the
visitor accordingly states that he is the
representative of downtown firm,
who have been for some time past
LOSING LETTERS,
in majority of cases the missives con-
tanning remittances from some OF their
correspondents. The agent listens at
tentively to the story, taking in every
particular as given by his informant,
and mentally cogitating on the same,
Then, when the tale is told, the first
question asked is, "Do you receive
your letters by carrier, or have you n
box?" Ii by box, then is propounded
the query, Chow many keys are there
to your box, and who has access to
them?" That information being also
given. is duly digested and the case
then begins to look like business, the
party or parties most likely to prove
dishonest are placed under surveillance
at once and carefully followed up till
some clue is obtained, then trap is
laid that scarcely ever fails in securing
the prey, and the victim of his own dis
honesty and cupidity suddenly finds
himself in the meshes of net from
which there is seldom any escape, and
as general thing the result of the ar
rest is
| FULL CONFESSION
by the culprit. If in case of box rob
berries the thieves are boys, the post
office officials have method for entrap
ping the young rogues which nevel
fails, but the particulars of which, fol
obvious reasons, it would be impsliti'
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FIRMNEss.


Well, let him go, and let him stay
do not mean to die;
guess he'll find that | can live
without him, If | try;
He thought to frighten me with irown'
So terrible and black
He'll stay away thousand years
Before l ask him back!
He said that had acted wrong,
And foolishly beside;
/ won't forget him after that
wouldn't if l died.
If l was wrong, what right had he
To be so cross with me?
| know I'm not an angel quite
/ don't pretend to be.
lie had another sweetheart once,
And now when we fall out,
He always says she was not cross,
And that she didn't pout,
1t is enough to yex saint
It's more than l can bear;
] wish that girl Of his WAS
Well, don't care whcrp.
He thinks that she was pretty, too
Was beautiful as good;
I wonder if she'd get him back
Again, now, if she could?
know she would, and there she is
She lives almost in sight;
And now its almost nine O'Clock
Perhaps he's there tonight.
I'd almost writc to him to come;
But then I've said won't,
do not care 30 much. but she
Shan't have him if | don't,
Besides, I know that | was wrong,
And he was in the right;
| guess III tell him so--and then
WISH he'd come Tonight.
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GRAVE AND GAY.
LID EXERCIsE-Plowing.


MAN respires, aspires, expires.
ODD-FRLLows' haul--A rich wife.
To UNDERSTAND truth, one must liveit.
He WHO talks, sows he who listens,
reaps.
AN AWFUL swell---The cheek after Il
toothnche.
To LOVE is the only thing that can fill
up eternity.
FREE-nAND drawing-Handcarts i'll
Southern cities.
THE MAN who carries everything be-
fore him-The waiter.
NATURE feels no loss, because God is
always present to her.
OUR HoMEs should be as holy as our
churches, to say the least.
Or THE hundred good things in this
life, ninety-nine are health.
How TO turn peoples heads-Come
into n concert late with creaking boots.
To THE contemplative soul there is no
littleness ; the least of things is infinite.
"PAws FOR repley," as the cat said
when she scratched the dog for barking
mt her.
Why ARE religious people fit subjects
for entomologists? Because they are
insects.
WHATEVER God gives men as step
ping-stones, they often take into STUN
bling blocks.
He WHO cheerfully commits the uni
verse to God has nothing in the uni
verse to fear.
An Iowa paper boasts OF weather cold
enough to make an Arctic bear wear
pulse warmers.
SoRRow is reigning on the throne OF
the universe, and the crown of all
crowns, has been one of thorns.
To LOVE and to labor is the sum of
living, and yet how many think they
live who neither labor nor love
AFFIRMATIVE negation--Giles: Did
e'r man ever zee stitch wet weather in
all his born days afore. Hodge: Noah /!
INFANCY is perpetual Messiah, which
comes into the arms of fallen men, and
| pleads with them to return to Paradise.
A oRUsrY old batchelor says that
| Adams wife was called Eve, because,
when she appeared, mans day OF happi-
ness was drawing to close.
ARE DOSE bells ringing for fire IN
ouired Simon of Tiberious. No, indeed,
answered Tibe, dey had got plenty OF
fire, and dc bells are ringing for water.
COPS IMAGE slumbers in our souls
till sharp-edged grief cuts here and
there, who 10 the semblance of His
form appears sculptured by the woes OF
time.
In AN audience of rough people gen.
erous sentiment always brings down the
house. In the tumult of war both
sides applaud an heroic deed.
A YOUNG lady having read about II
man having invented stove which con-
sumes its own smoke, hopes he will de-
wise method whereby tobacco-smokers
can run ON the same economical prin'
ciple.
The MORE I think of it, / find this
conclusion more impressed upon me-
that the greatest thing human soul
: ever does in this world is to see some
: thing, and tell what it saw in plain
, way. Hundreds of people can talk for
one who can think, but Thousands can
think for one who can see. To sec
clearly is poetry. prophecy, and rel'
eion,-sll in one. --Ruskin
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York agent in opening the document,
upon which he was at once arrested
TIE ROGrE AND HIS RINO.

York agent in opening the document,
upon which he was at once arrested.
THE ROGUE AND HIS RING.
In addition to robbing the mails there
are people who occasionally attempt to
defraud Uncle Sam in other ways, or if
not defraud him, endeavor to shoulder
on him their own sins, and with cou-
pie such cases we will close. Avery few
weeks ago a gushing youth, who resides
in the western part of this State, sent
his lady-love letter. in which he said
she would find inclosed ring he had
paid fourteen dollars for. When the
letter was received at Chelsea it was
noticed that II portion of the upper
right-hand corner had been torn off and
close by were two circular imprints APP
parently made by ring that had been
inside, but which was missing. The
young lady of course was somewhat
surprised at not finding the ring, and
reported the fact at the Office, bringing
with her the letter, which was examiu-
ed and at once showed the transparent
nature of the dodge the verdant youth
had tried to play. On the face of the
letter were as said before, two circular
imprints, but on the back was only one.
On the inclosurc were also two imprints
on each half of the sheet, but neither
corresponding in position with those on
the envelope, and the distance between
the impressions likewise varied quar-
ter of an inch. That was sufficient, and
all that was done afterward was to write
to the young man asking him to call at
the Boston office and "risc to explain,
but up to the present time he has not
put i'll an appearance.
A somewhat similar case occurred re-
Gently in New Hampshire, when party
mailed a letter purporting to contain
two so notes, the letter being address,
ed to n gentleman in this city, for whom
the sender was acting rs agent i'll some
business matters. The recipient, how
ever, upon opening the document found
but one note of $40, and at once report
ed the matter. An agent Of the office
at once sought the man who sent the
letter, and after some conversation the
latter stated, on his firm belief, that
young lady employed in the post-onice
where the letter was mailed had stolen
the other note, rescalcd the letter, and
forwarded it. After some further con-
versation, the agent remarked
"I'M GOING To HAVE HER ARRESTED.
This Mt once started the young man,
who replied, Good God, you don't
mean it. "Yes do, - said the official,
"and you must appear as witness
against her"
" Why, said the thief, for suck he
was, "I wouldn't do that for n hundred
dollars; I'd rather pay the money my
self"
The suspicious of the agent We're now
fully confirmed, and, assuming IN en-
tirely different tone, he taxed the rogue
with his rascality and eventually made
him confess he had put only one bill
in the letter. He also made restitution
of the $40, after which he was permit
ted to depart, the case being simply
one of breach of trust between man and
man, and not of nature that the post
office authorities could interfere with.
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IN GENERAL.

The changes in the post-oflice law abolish
all free matter after the 30th Of June next, and
the effect will be to break up all free exchanges
of newspapers. The postage OH newspapers
may be prepaid AZ heretofore at the Office Of
delivery
The practicability of q ship canal through
Nicaragua has been settled by the labors of the
present United States surveying party.
The American ship Europa from New
Orleans for Liverpool with cargo of 3,47G
bales Of cotton, five hundred tierces lard and
two thousand slaves, was totally destroyed by
fire when three hundred miles off tho south
west pass. Loss estimated at 1876, 600 Capt.
Fulton and the crew of the Europa were brought
to the southwest pass by the British ship
Sparkenboe. The Europa belonged to Hough-
ton Rose, Bath Maine, and was registered
Liza tons.
1t is said that the recent advantage in the
price of pork is owing to a heavy demand from
the larger and wealthier countries of Europe
for pork to be converted into bacon for army
food.
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FROM WASHINGTON.

The President has decided to commute the
sentence of O'Brien, convicted of the murder
of Cunningham, August last, to Imprisonment
for life.
Gov. McCook having declined the reap
pointment to the Governorship Of Colorado
Territory, the President has nominated G.. II.
Ebert, OF that Territory, as his successor, to
take effect on the 7th Of April, the expiration
Of McCook's term.
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OUT WEST.

Lieut.. Fred Grant has been assigned to
duty on Gen. Sheridans staff at Chicago.
st. Louis--The strike on the st. Louis,
Kansas City and Norther Railroad is practically
ended. The Companylshas over fifty new
engineers, and the freight trains have resumed
running. About forty strikers and those en-
gagged in obstructing the road, destroying
property and interfering with trains, are now
in jail at different points, and will be prosecu-
ted to the utmost extent Of the law.
st. Louis has contracted for wateworks
engine to cost $3.50, 900.
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News of the Week.
DOWN EAST.

-Philadephia-In the case of David Scull
against the Kensington Bank, for the recovery
of $30 900 in Government bonds, stolen from
box deposited for safe keeping, when the
bank was robbed in 1871, the jury after being
out two days, returned a verdict for the plain
tiff.
The case of Phillips, Dodge u Co. has
been finally settled on the payment of S272, 900
TO the Government by the firm.
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by the culprit. If in case of box rob-
berries the thieves are boys, the post
office officials have a method for entrap-
ping the young rogues which never
fails, but the particulars of which, for
obvious reasons, it would be impslitio
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One of the smartest depredators, per-
haps, and one who gave the officials
considerable trouble, was Marshall
Laws, who was arrested about year
ago, and when taken into custody had
on his person over forty letters. His
mode Of operating was very shrewd,