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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-03-01
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CHICAGO, FEB. 2S.-Flour-no export
demand. Whest-No. spring 81 20; No.
2, Si.1961.174. Corn 315d31!c. Oats
&c. Rye and barley unchanged. Mess
pork sold shade higher at Sl3.20AI3. 25.
Lard S7.65. Dressed hogs quiet. Whis-
Ky. SIC.
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will probably go into the hands of Jaw
Gould: Western Union was active, ana
the whole market closed strong.
Sterling Exchange-B. B. IO8s:
U. 5. coupons, 1881, 11ss; 5-2Os Of 1852.
115!; do. "a, 115a; do '65, I163; 40. new
ll4s; do. 1857, 1l63; do 1858, Ii6I; 1O-zos,
las; currency SIS, 114S; Missouri bonds
g4c. Tennessee, old, 800; do new soc;
Virginia, new, SOC; do. old 45; North
Carolina, old. q; new -,
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-03-01

FRIDAY, FEB. 28.-The Senate ne
e O'Clock A. NJ, Speaker Lacey In ths
chair.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-03-01

DER Inc properly OUT vi IHo uhuuS VI ANY
persons holding the same and order such
property into the custody Of the State
Treasurer, to be held by him subject to the
final order of the court. Passed.
REVENUE BILL.
The consideration Of the revenue bill
was resumed, and the following sections
adopted: ..
Sec. II. Be it further enacted, that the
County Court of each county in the State
shall at its April term, STAND at its JAN
uary term each year thereafter, elect an
Assessor for each civil district in said coun-
ty, and in the cities Of over 10000 inhabit-
ants, an additional Assessor for each ward
in said city, and if the court should fail to
elect such Assessor at its April term, 1873,
the Chairman or Judge shall call a special
term for the first Monday Of the May
following to elect such Assessor.
Sec, Is. Be it further enacted, that each
Assessor so appointed shall be resident of
the civil district or ward for which he is
appointed.
Sec. 10. Be it further enacted, that the
Chairman or Judge Of the County Cont
may, in vacation, appoint an Assessor for
any district or ward in which the County
Court has omitted TO appoint, or where the
appointee, by reason of sickness, or other
sufficient excuse, is unable, or refuses to
perform the duty.
Sec. 20. Be it further enacted, That each
Assessor of real estate, on being notified OF
bis appointment, shall proceed to assess the
property in his district or ward liable to tax
alton, according to the requirements OF thii
act; and.to this end, when practicable, shall
commence at some corner or outside point
of his district or ward, and assess the pro
perty in rotation as it joins or lies contigu-
GUS to property just assessed, or about te
be assessed, and shall proceed in some reg
ular manner, until he shall have made the
circuit of his district or ward. Said Asses
sor shall see each lot, tract, or parcel Of
land, or otherwise obtain satisfactory infor
nation in regard thereto; and shall enter
each assessment in suitable book, to be
furnished by the Clerk of the County
| Court.
Sec. 81. Be it further enacted, That The
Assessors shall furnish to every person
company, firm or corporation required tc
list his property for taxation, the prope
blanks for that purpose; and it is hereb,
made the duty of the Comptroller of tn,
Treasury to furnish the Clerks Of the Coun
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WANTS.
FOR RENT.


Ex0R RENT In Edgefeld-Several Houses,
E one brick, rooms, near the bridge. Also
the kdgeheld House to let.
mil IT. h. CAMPBELL.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1873-03-19
Ra ties of Postage.
Hhet they Were. Are. and Are 70

What they We're, Are, and Are 10 Be.
The history of the reduction of
postage in this country is comprehen-
sively given in repor. made a week
OF two ago to the House of Represen-
tatives by Mr. Farnsworth, of Illinois.
In 1892 the first postage act was
passed. 1t introduced a highly COM
phcated system. The lowest postage
was six cents to places within sixty
miles ten cents to places within one
hundred miles; twelve and half
cents to places within one hundred and
fifty miles; fifteen cents 10 places
within two hundred miles seventeen
cents to places within two hundred
and fifty miles twenty cents toplaces
within three hundred and fifty miles,
and twenty-five cents to places more
than four hundred and fifty miles dis
tant. In 1893 the rates were chang
ed. The lowest rate was raised to
eight cents, and the lowest distance
to forty miles. Instead of nine rates
tHcAV Ntit bul SlA LNtuiN CtulS
carried letters FIVE hundred miles,
and twenty-five cents were still
charged for greater distances. In
1916 the minimum rates were again
reduced to six cents, and the distance
to thirty miles only FIVE rates were
established eighteen and a half cents
carried letters four hundred miles /;
and for longer distances twenty-five
cents was charged still.
These rates, with single excep-
ton, where the postage was increas-
ed, continued until ls45, when the
first material reduction took place
Five cents became the postage for
letters carried a distance of less than
three hundred miles ten cents for all
the greater distances. At the same
time the drop-letter system was in
troduced, such letters being charged
two cents. Previous to this time the
rule had been that the above rates
were for single letters-that is,
letters on one sheet of paper, large or
small, and without reference tol
weight In lS45 the halfounce
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1873-03-19

weight was made the standard. in
stead Of the number of sheets. IN
1851 the single rate was made three
cents for all distances under three
thousand miles and six cents for
greater distances, If prepaid. this
being the first inducement held out 10
prepay letters Unpaid letters were
charged fve and ten cents, according
to the distance. In 1855 prepayment
was required, three cents being still
the rate for distances under 5000
miles, and ten cents charged for
greater distances In 1863 the pres
ent rate Of three cents, prepaid By
stamp. for all distances was establish
ed. The history Of these reductions
shows also that no material loss Of
revenue has been their immediate re-
suit, and that no loss at all has been
permanent Since 1850, when sub
stantially the presentrate was fixed, the
revenue of the post-oiiiec has inereas-
ed from $500, 600 for that year to
S22 .0G0, ,00a in 1872 but we need not
go further into details.
The proposed reduction Of the sin
gle letter rate to two cents is an ex-
ceedingly important step. We can
estimate very nearly what the effect
Of the present reduction will be-
During the last year there were sold
four hundred and four and a half
million three cent stamps, and ninety
three million three cent envelopes
As double rates are almost always
paid by additional stamps Of this de-
nomination, and as foreign postage is
very frequently paid with two or
more three cent stamps, we may take
S50, 600, 900, the value Of five hundred
million three cent stamps, as the sum
to be affected primarily by the new re-
duction. Were the number sold to
be stationary. the consequence would
be loss to the revenue Of One-third
OF this sum-in other words, loss Of
S5,000,000. As a matter of fact.
however, the natural increase in the
number OF letters is about ten per
cent. annually, and this would make
the number Of two-cent stamps. sub
stituted for threes, for the year end
ing June 30, six hundred millions,
with value Of twelve million dol
lars, and reducing the loss to three
million dollars Experience has uni
forml Y shown that reductions Of post
age canse an immediate increase of
correspondence, and it would not be
at all surprising if the revenue from
stamps and stamped envelopes in
1874 were nearly as large as in 1872.
Accompanying the letter postage re-
form is a reduction of One-haIf on the
postage of newspapers regularly
mailed by publishers The total rev.
enue in this department last year was
not quite a million dollars. 1t is
part Of the postal system that does
not exhibit as rapid growth as others,
and loss of from a quarter to half
million dollars in this department is
inevitable.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1873-03-19

By the suffrage of his countrymen,
ratified by the consent of all who are
competent to judge, Burns in the realm
of song and lyric is facile princeps.-
Loyal as they are to Campbell and
Scott, Seotsmen the world over cling
to Burns as the representative poet of
Scotland. Unlike many of his coun-
trymen who had tuned the Tyre be-
fore him, an uninterrupted succession
of splendid names, from LINDSAY
Dunbar and Gavin Douglas to Allan
Ramsey and the ill-fated Ferguson
and Tannahill, men famous in their
time, but whose reputation is now
chiefly confined to their native coun-
try. Burns took a wider range and
to a larger circle. Though
intensely national, he was in pro-
found sympathy with all humanity.
Tenderness, the most exquisite humor,
broad, genial and refined, strong
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1873-03-19
GREATNESS.

hclI SIOfy
Springs from the silent conquest of ourselves;
And without that the conqueror Is naught
But the first slave.
--Ihnln aan
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1873-03-19
Mark Ywain's Account OF Jim smiley.

There was fellow here once by
the name of Jim Smiley, in the win
ter of '49-or may be it was the spring
of '5O-I don't recollect exactly, some
how, though what makes me think it
was one or the other is because | re-
member the big aume wasn't finished
when we first came to the camp; but
any way, he was the curiousest man
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1873-03-19
REArTIFUL SMILE.

This rhyme
Is Ike the fair pearl necklace of the queen,
That burst in dancing. and pearls were split;
Some lost, some stolen, some al relics kept.
But never more the same two sister pearls
Ran down the silken thread to kiss each other
On her white neck-so is it with this rhyme:
II lives dispersedly in many hands,
And every minstrel sings It differently:
Yet, is there one true line, the pearl of pearls
Man dreams of fame, while woman wakes to lov,
--Tenrysoa.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1873-03-19
RAINBOW.

BE thou the rainbow to the storms Of life,
The evening beam that smiles the clouds away,
And tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
- ngyOu
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1873-03-19

Just published, new edition of DIR. Culver
wells Celebrated Essay the radical cure with
out medicine) of Spermatorrhoea orSeminal " eak-
ness, Involuntary Seminal Losses. lmpotency,
Mental and Physical incapacity, lmpediTnents to
Marriage, &c; also, Consumption, Epilepsy and
Fits, induced by self indulgence or sexual extray-
agance.
rp-Price, in a sealed envelope, only cents.
The celebrated author, in this admirable essay,
clearly demonstrates FROM thirty years success
full practice, that the alarming consequences Of
self abuse may be radically cured without the dan
geruus use of Internal medicine the application
OF the knife; pointing out mode OF cure at once
simple. certain, and eflectuai. by means OF which
every sufferer no matter what his condilioE may
be. may cure himself eheaply, privately, and radi
cally
ps- This Lecture should be in the hands Of every
youth and every man in the land.
Sent, under seal, in plain envelope, 10 any ad-
dress, postpaid, receipt Of cents, or two post
stamps.
Also, DIR. Culverwell's Marriage Guide" price
50 cents.
Address the Publishers
CHAS. ]. G. KLINE q CO..
II Bcwery. New York, Pestofice box s.5ss.
Jan ely
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1873-03-19

DoDGE CRY, a station on the Atch-
eson, Topeka ahd Santa Fe Railroad,
is the chief point of shipment of buff
falo meat and hides in Kansas The
principal business of the town is the
outfiittingof hunters.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1873-03-19

PRoF. John Wise, of Lancaster,
well known eronaut, eontemplates
making voyage across the Atlantic
next Summer in a balloon which he
is now preparing.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1873-03-19
BOARD OF TRUSTEES:

James Cooper, David Dibert. George Fritz A.
j. Hawes, +. w. Hay. John Lowmau Daniel NJ =
Laughlin, James Mcmillan, James Morley, Lew
is Pitt, &. Il. Ellis, Powell Stackhouse. Conrad
Suppes. Geo. T. Swank, w. W. Walters and ID.
j. Morrell. President. febl2
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-10-12

If you have occasion to use wheel
barrow, leave it, when you are through
with it, in front of the house, with the
handles towards the door. A wheelbar-
row is the most complicated thing to fall
over on the face of the earth. A man
will fall over one when he would never
think of falling over anything else. He
never knows when no has got through
falling over it, either; for it will tangle
his legs and his arms, turn over with
him and rear up in front of him, and,
just as he pauses in his profanity to con.
graduate himself, it takes new turn
and scoops more skin off him, and he
commences to eyolute anew, and bnmp
himself on fresh places. A man never
ceases to fall over wheelbarrow until it
turns completely on its back, or brings
up against something 1t cannot upset.
1t is the most inoffensive looking object
there is. but it is more dangerous than a
locomotive, and no man is secure with
one unless he has tight hold OF its ham
dies, and is sitting down on something.
A wheelbarrow has its uses, without
doubt, but in its leisure moments it is
the great blighting curse of true dignity.
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-10-12

Perhaps ten ortwenty millions IN fresh
greenbacks will convert sufficient pro-
portion of the nine hundred millions ow-
ing to the banks from bad debts into
good ones to demonstrate the prudence
of the bank managers, but We doubt it.
Lastly, a few words asto the great idol,
the balance of trade. We are now export
ing more than We are importing: UD
because we are selling very cheap; (2)
because the English have experienced
tremendous rise in prices and We are not
able to pay for their wares; (3) the Eng
lish, being already somewhat in trouble
from short crops, labor unions, scarcity
of coal, etc., and foreseeing a great deal
more, are drawing in and refusing to buy
our securities as they have been doing
for the last five or six years. Now our
farmers are already in trouble because
We have been selling their stuff so cheap.
The English are getting more and more
in trouble every day, and We, in the great
cities, expect to be as "prosperous" and
extravagant as ever. All we need, the
doctors tell US, is little more green
paper! Not so. We must come down to
bread and water and pay our debts. We
have no choice in the matter. We must
continue to send out of the country more
valuable things than We bring into the
country until John Bull gets on his legs
again. John Bull is sick, and the farm
ers are sick, and the trade of peddling
railroad bonds is annihilated. Will Mr..
Richardson's greenbacks repair broken
china, or enable John Bull to give our
farmers more for wheat? That is the
question. The reverse we have met with
is simply the beginning Of the inevitable
transition from prosperous to pinching
times, and brandy will do us no good
IN. Y. Tribune.
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Notice to Absent Clainholders

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN TO Ii. DEF
IN FENBACHER, one of the owners in the
quartz lode known rs the ST. GEORGE LODE,
situate in Ely Mining District. Lincoln county.
and State of Nevada, that ii he, the said II. Def
enbacher, does not appear and pay his proportion
of the expenses incurred in the development Of
the said st. George Ledge within NINETY DAYS
from this date his interest in said lode viii pe
sold to pay the same, according to the law III
such cases made and provided.
p,ocbs Ar~ssS ~. 1o;p su1essf
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To the Unfortunate.
NEW REMEDIES NEW REMEDIES!
DR.. GIBBONS DISPEkSARY

MO. 623 KEARNY STREET, COR
IN NER Commercial, san Francisco.
Private entrance on Commercial strc9.. ~sN
Established in 1854, for the treatment ~
of Sexual and Seminal Disease, suchV
rs Gonorrhea Gleet, Structure, syphilis in all its
forms, Seminal Weakness, Impotency, etc, etc.
Skin diseases of years standing, and liberated
Legs, etc, successfully treated.
DIR. GIBB0N has the pleasure of announcing
that he has returned from visiting the principal
Hospitals of Europe and has resumed practice.
The Doctor has spared neither time nor money
in seeking out new remedies, and has returned
with increased facilities for alleviating human
suffering. ...-.....
Seminal Weakness.
Seminal emission is consequence Of self
abuse. This solitai. vice, or depraved sexual
Indulgence, is practiced by the youth OF both
sexes to an almost unlimited extent, producing
with unerrlng certainty the following tram OF
morbid symptoms, unless combatted by scien-
tific medical measures, viz: Sallow countenanee,
dark spots under the eyes, pain in the head, ring
ing in the ears, noise like the rusting of leaves
or rafting of chariots, uneasiness about the
loins, weakness of the limbs, confused vision
blunted intellect, loss of confidence, diffdenct
| in approaching strangers, dislike to form new
acquaintance, q disposition to shun society
loss of memory. pimples and various eruptioni
| about the face, hectic hushes, furred tongue
fUtid breath, coughs, consumption, night sweats
monomania and frequently insanity. If relic
be not obtained you should apply Immediately
! either in person or by letter, and have cur
| effected by his new and scientific mode of treat
ing disease, which never fails of eaccting quic
and radical cure.
Cured at Home.
Persons at a distance may be CURED A.
| HOME, by addressing a letter to DR.. Gibbor
stating case, symptoms, length of time the di,
ease has continued, and have medicine promptl
| forwarded, free from damage and curiosity,
any part of the country, with full and plain d
rections for use.
Persons writing to the Doctor will please sta
the name of the paper they see this advertis
ment in.
By enclosing $40 in coin in registered lett
through the Postofice, orthrough Wells, Fargo
Co., package Of medicine will be forward,
to any part Of the Union.
All communications strictly confidential.
Address, DIR. J. +. GIBB0N,
dllly Box 1857, San Francisco, Cal
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-10-12
REMOTE CAUSES OF THE PANIC.

Before we apply desperate remedies We
sbonld understand the nature of the dis
ease We have maintained and still in-
s;st that an imitation of the legal tender
circulation is no cure for the malady
which affiicts us. This will appear il We
% back and examine into the remote
causes-not SO very remote after all
which have produced the present state of
th;nos. We are bound to suffer for our
follies. Imitation may postpone for a
short time the day of reckoning, but that
day will surely come.
The trouble with us is our immense
mass Of Indebtedness, both foreign and
domestic. 1t must never be forgotten
that by far the larger part of that indebt-
e1ness is the direct effect of the imitation
Of our currency. The payment of debts
has always been found troublesome, yet
it is the only honest way of getting rid of
them. Privation and suffering must be
endured, or the money can not be saved
with which to make the necessary dis
bnrsements. And now let US calmly con-
slider how wescame to be so much In debt,
and take look at the ledger.
la the first place we will glance at our
Indebtedness. From the year ended
June 80, 1868, to the year ended June 80,
1873, our imports RAPIDLY and steadily
Increased in value, as follows.
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-10-12

Il EYsToNE Il. A., CHAPTER NO. 6, U. D.
N Called conversations first and third Thurs
day evenings in each month at ~ O'Clock.
Stated convocations second and fourth Thursday
evenings in each month.
Sojourning brethren and companions in good
standing cordially invited to attend.
NJ. W. kALES, NJ. L. HIP.
II. kRAUsE, Secretary. je2S-tf
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-10-12

The mothers yearning, that complet-
est type Of life in another life which is
the essence of real human love, feels the
presence of the cherished child in the
base, degraded man.
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-10-12

The above are the gold values at the
foreign ports from which the goods were
shipped During the same period our
exports and re-exports, in gold values,
were about as follows.
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NOTIt T. OF
Dissolution Of Copartnership.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE
IN copartnership heretofore existing between
the undersigned. under the Arm name of +.
Brown Il Co, at Bullionyille, is hereby dis
solved by mutual consent. :. Lewinsohn and
Lewis woldepberg withdraws from the business
L. Brown himself will continue the SAME rs be-
fore under the Arm name of +. Brown, and he
himself will collect all debts due the former
Arm of Z. Brown Co. -
= M 8. s.sLEwINsOHN,
L. WOLDENRERG,
es.lm T. sRowx.
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-10-12

MIssISsIPPI-ALCORN AND AMES.
spicy correspondent of the Louis
vile Courier-Journal, writing from Jack
son, Miss, gives an interesting sketch Of
politics in that State:
The most interesting campaign now in
progress in any State of the United
States is on the boards in Mississippi.
The campaigns in Ohio and Virginia may
be more important, but they lack the
halo of tragic interest which is thrown
over the Mississippi contest, by reason
OF the strange attitude Of parties and
",rght-about face of numerous politi-
clans.
ALcoRN's FIRST APPEARANCE.
James l.. Alcorn was the Radical can
didate for Governor in 1869, and whip
ped out the Union conservative National
Democratic and-so-forth candidate, Lewis
Dent. He was taken up by the hard
pressed Democrats because he was the
Administrations brother-in-law, and
would draw influence from that high and
mighty source. Dent was q bad speci.
men Of the genus carpet-bagger, and it is
SAID that, up to the opening Of the cam
Paign, he had only resided in the State
long enough to have his shirt washed,
and failed to pay for that. But these
are all dead issues. Dent was smothered
under q heavy black majority, and re-
turned to the family residence at Wash
lnston, there to go into the claim bust
ness, and mourn over the instability oi
human events. Time passed on, as i
Always will pass, even in Mississippi
and Alcorn was elected to the Senate a.
hery and untamed Radical
Preceding Alcorn, however. to tn,
Senate, was
ADELBERr AMEs,
formerly of Maine. but at present of N,
pace In particular. Ames came here a
ageneral in the army. He was here i,
command during reconstruction times
ne fooled around the Legislature will
MS epaulets blazing before the eyes O
the skillst-hsadsd negroes, and his swor,
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is altogether different man from Ames.
There is not particle of similarity or
sympathy between them. Alcorn is a
Mississippian, one of the richest men in
the State, owns plantations enough to
make nigger's head swim, and is as
fully identified with the interests of the
State as man possibly can be. He was
q rebel during the war and fought the
fight to the bitter end, and then turned
his sword into cotton strap and went
into business, both political and agricul-
tural. His negroes were gone, thou
sand or more, but he said he didn't care,
as they could now board thmselves. He
became violent Radical, and was elect
ed Governor and promoted to the Senate
as before detailed.