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Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1874-10-22

RECEPTION COMMITTEE.
VIRGINIA.
S McMeans, Joseph Nelson,
VIM NJ Stewart Chas Cummings,
Chas E belong, G T Legate,
. William Sharon, Jackson,
James G. Fair, VIM Wood,
J b Winters, VIM NJ Lent,
volney E Spalding, Thos Sunderland,
John Lambert, G. W Hazleton,
Charles Rawson, Chas Getzler,
A L Edwards, S A Tomkins,
T B Storer, s Kaneen,
John Knox, WI Ford,
H V Mccullough, Us Peck,
WE Shepard, IS Atchison,
Maj G E Ferrend. Tom Eager,
r H Taylor. V. Elliott
Will Campbell, S d Baker,
W F Stewart Chas Hail.
Fred / Titus, J b Overton,
J P Smith. G. Hast,
Matt Redding A Melatovich,
Joseph Stewart A Aurich,
VIM Shields, l. r Bradley,
Frank Morrill,, Geo II Mallory,
A W Currier, W B Hickok,
George Sanders, Coin,
DIR NJ Holmes, Z Skaggs,
Major Downie, Williams.
GOLD HILL.
Hon P Jones, Hank Jewett,
j Moves, G l. Brown,
Seymour Pixley, t W Goodwin,
W III Meserve Henry Balch
D Moore, NJ Frankenheimer,
Hank Donnelly, II Griswold
Sam L Jones, Hank Blanchard,
George Adams, VIM La Force,
W II Risen, Chas Adams,
Fox. Frank Wheeler,
Henry Jones, H Harris,
Judge Fitzsimmons, NJ Miner.
ALT Doten, A Lafee.
J Richardson,
LYON COUNTY.
Nv Grier, John Briggs.
Chas Robedee, John W l. Hunt,
Will Thomas, Claus Becker,
Geo Atkinson, John Vandewater,
Bob Buzan, James killen,
G C Fish, z Crane,
NJ H Harrington, Patrick Henry.
oRMsBY COUNTY.
W W Hobart, VIM Patterson.
George Chedic, Farmer Treadway,
Samuel Baker, Chss Wilson,
Gus Lewis, d Fryer,
NJ Il Elsiner, Robt Fouke,
P C Hyman, WO Brodhead,
George L Gibson, James Duffie.
Thomas Wells,
wAsHoE COUNTY.
S F Hoole CIV Hepperly,
W II Carey, CHI Eastman,
Theo Winters, PM Kelly.
F A Parke,
FLOOR MANAGERS AT THE HALL:
VIRGINIA.
W W Tinker, T d Storer,
John S Kaneen, Maj G Ferrend,
GOLD HILL.
Charles Robedee, A D Morse,
A J Tyrrell. Willett Young,
Sam Jones, W. H. Meserve,
Hank Blanchard,
CARSON.
C Wilson, Wv Hobart.
wAsHoE.
ST Hoole, F A Parke.
ORMsBY.
T Swift NJ r Elstner.
FLOOR DIRECTORS:
VIRGINIA. GOLD HILL.
L Edwards. wD G Gibson.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1874-10-22

To LODGING housekeeping Bed and
Bedstead, $1,000. Don't let your dodgers
sleep on straw and Stats, when you can put in
a good bed for less money
J. CORNWELL.
80 North Street, Virginia.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1874-10-22
TO THE LADIES.
COME AND BE HEALED.

1t matters not what your troubles may be,
come and let the Doctor examine your case.
1t will cost you nothing for consultation, so
please call and satisfy yourselves whether the
Doctor understands your case. If he can cure
You he will tell you so if not, he will say SO,
for he will not undertake case unless he is
confident of effectinp a cIlre.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-10-23
-43 Cong IA Cong
National Bank RObbery-$1O0,O0O
in Money and Bonds Stolen.

NASHUA, \. H., October 20.-The
Souhegan National Bank, of Milford,
was robbed last night by masked men
of about $4,000 in currency and bonds,
The robbers previously visited the resi-
dence of the cashier and compelled him
to accompany them to the bank and op-
en- the safe.
Further Investigations show that the
securities taken from the Sonhegan Ma
tional Bank will amount to almost $780,
600.
Boston, October Professionals
undoubtedly planned the robbery in adj
vance. The Cashier, Sawyer, has long
been in the habit OF leaving the keys of
the bank in possession of the Postmaster
of the town, whose Office is about a
quarter of mile from the residence of
Sawyer. This precaution was taken by
the latter in order to guard against such
scheme as that followed out by the
robbers. The parties engaged in the
robbery seemed to be we'll aware of the
disposition of the keys, and after plac-
ing a cord around Sawyer's neck to pre-
vent any outcry, forced him to accom-
pany them by threatening to kill his
baby in case he refused to comply with
their demands. Arriving at the post
office the robbers effected an entrance by
removing a pane of glass with dia-
mond, and the keys of the bank were
soon in their possession.
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California Clover.

A Texas farmer writes to the Southern
Cultivator that this clover makes the
grandest forage crop known at the South
and it is making great revolution in
stock-growing. 1t yields more than any
grass or forage crop, stands both cold and
drought, is capital for winter pasturage,
requires but once planting to be perpe-
tual with top dressing of manure. The
same writer says he raises large crops of
Irish potatoes of good quality every
season without sending North for his
seed. He has planted Goodrich and
Russet potatoes for six years. On a bed
of fine straw they keep we'll through the
winter. He plants in drills three feet
apart, covering the tubers in the row
with barnyard manure.
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New Cloth Cutting Machine.

Among the articles exhibited in the
American institute Fair, now open in
this city, none attracts more attention
than cloth cutting machine, intended
for cutting garments, shirts, coats, any
thing. The ready made clothing trade
is an immense industry, employing large
amounts of capital and supplying thou
sands of persons with work; but Il very
serious obstacle to its rapid prosecution
in some branches has been the inability
of the cutters to keep pace with the sew
ing machines. We are informed that a
man can cut but two thicknesses Of cloth
by hand at one operation, and loss oc-
CURED from that cause. Hence the nee
essity for a machine. In the one under
notice the pattern of the garment is
marked out on the upper thickness of
the cloth, and the material, consisting of
twelve thIcknesses in all, is then laid up
on a large table. The machine is driven
by belts from line of shafting, and not
much larger than a common sad iron, is
taken in hand by the operator, much as
the same utensil would be by house
wife. A vertical knife works at great
speed directly against the cloth, and is
as easily guided as pair of common
scissors. 1t cuts very neatly and rapid
ly, without any Jagged edges. Four men
can cut, fold and sketch eight hundred
pairs of pants by the use of it, and it will
cut from one-fourth of an inch to one
and one-fourth inches solid cloth.-Ex
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That was my proposition, and that was
the head and front of nv offending. Is
there anything very dishonest in that?
Yet that is the whole of it. Ii came
within three votes of passing in Re
publican House, two-thirds Republican;
and they say | am not Republican. !
then said the Congress of this country i
a usurer in permitting this high rate of
interest. Do not misunderstood me. l
do not blame man for taking a high
rate of interest if he can get il, but do
blame that Government which puts it
into the power of man 10 get it. APP
plause.1 Let us go back little. have
seen it in operation in this State, and
the operation was this. Before the war
We had usury law. But there was not
strength enough to hold it, and it had
been repealed before the war, though in
all transactions between man and man
the rate of interest was six per cent.
Now, that law has been repealed I'll
through this State, and your savings
banks are gathering mp the savings Of
the laboring people, and are lending
them at ten or twelve per cent on mort
cages, and soon get all, for no man can
live at any business and borrow money
at twelve per cent. That being so,
wished the Government To issue bond
bearing 3 65-10o interest-most Of your
bonds are now bearing five and six per
cent. interest-and give the bond-holder
this privilege Of exchange for currency.
With that facility men Will deposit their
money in the Treasury, and not with the
safe deposit companies, who always fail
just when they ought not. Now, why
go into trust companies, do you ask? I
will tell you. There have been three
great panics within my remembrance in
this country-one in 1887, one in 1857,
and the other in 1878. The first was
started by the failure of the Philadel-
phia Trust Company; the second-for
when they get started they go down like
a row of bricks-by the failure of the
Ohio Relief Trust Company, and the
third by the failure of the Union Trust
Company. The time when they were
wanted they were not there. Not that
the managers were dishonest. 1t was in
the very nature of things. You and
have money, and we go into some bust
ness and leave the money with some
trust company. They say, "We can give
you four per cent. for it." But you must
have it on call. How are they going to
make money out of 1t? They have got
to loan it on a mortgage at some higher
per cent. There is run on the mar
ket, and you call at once for your mon
ey. They can not pay, and you have a
manic.
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ed hundred years ago. But when any
of the dependencies of the British Crown
grow too fast for its control, and when
the time for their individual develop
ment has arrived, We shall let them part
with good feeling and a contentment
which. it may be hoped, Will form the
foundation of permanent friendship.
We have referred 20 the problem
which the Government of the United
States has now to solve, and it has be-
come evident that the victory of the
North in the civil war was so far from
being a settlement of the question which
provoked the struggle that it did little
more than determine the conditions un-
der which the question should be settled.
The great problem OF the South is the
determination of the relation between
the white and black races. The South
erners have a very definite scheme for
the purpose. As Mr.. Jefferson Davis
boldly avowed the other day, they
thought, and they still think, that the
true position of the negro is one of slav-
cry, and that a society of which slavery
is the peculiar institution is the only
one which is adapted to the Southern
States. The war has decided that such
an organization of society, however ap-
parently convenient, is inconsistent with
the principles of the Nation, and can
not be tolerated. But the organization
which is to take lis place has vet to be
created; and the statesmen of the North
have, it Is to be feared, scarcely realized
as yet the magnitude Of the problem.
They have given to States composed ofa
demoralized population of whites and
an ignorant population of negro lnstitu-
tions which are only adapted fer an in
tclligent, vigorous and united race, and
the violent conflicts Of which we have
lately seen the commencement are an
unavoidable consequence. The first step
of course, is to put stop to these disor-
ders, and it is satisfactory to see that the
menacing aspect of affairs in New Or
leans has for the present passed away.
The insurgent Governor has submitted
to the authority Of the Federal Govern
ment, and Mr.. Kellogg will resume his
position as Governor of Louisiana. But
such an adjustment will be of little avail
unless the causes which led to it are re-
moved, and for this purpose the greatest
sagacity, and probably the greatest pa
tience, will be necessary. The statesman
who shall guide the United States
through the present crisis of their histo-
ry will prove himself no unworthy sue
cessor of the men of whose deeds the
Centenary is now being celebrated.
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the new pattern, with two hundred
and fifty metal cartridges to each
weapon. This does not look like
peace. We can imagine Prussia
grimly watching such preparations.
She knows what they mean. While
France has no more efficient army
and no better officers than at pres
ent, Bismarck does not care. Things
will last his time. Neither he nor Won
Moltke will see war between the
two countries. Some of this gener-
alton will see, however, the struggle
of the giants. Napoleon's war was
not popular; the next will carry
away the people as by a sudden fren-
zy, if it is rightly managed in the
beginning. Let France once achieve
a success over any other people, and
the Gallo cock will begin to crow
Justify in the direction of Prussia.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-10-23

said a man 10 the Mayor of New Lon
don, whom ne met at the State Fair, Il
have seen beet~ in California as
big a. am, Il beg your pardon. = said
the Mayor. but think that you deceive
youreIf"
At al anti-monopoly convention at
Iowa, recently, some fellow bawled at
the door: Candidate are requested to
step down stairs a few minutes" Then
eyerybod went down stairs except n
deaf old fellow who wanted TO run for
jailer.
"Corinne-if you are living, do return
to your friends, writes somebody in the
New York Herald. They don't say what
"Corinne' is to do if she is dead. In that
case she is is probably expected to reply
through the "Corinner.r---C -C2icago Lto-
Ocean.
AwrIter in the IT. Paul Press tells \
new story of Horace Greeley. Horace
wrote a note to brother editor in New
York whose writing was equally illeg'-
BILE with his own. The recipient Of the
note not being able 10 read it, sent t
back by the same messenger to Mr.
Greeley for elucidation. Supposing it
to be the answer to his own note, Mr..
Greeley looked over it but likewise was
unable TO read II, and said to the boy:
E4(io take IL hack What does tho dam
med fool mean?'' "Yes sir" -aid the
boy, that Is just what he says"
Three trays and All ace" said one of
the Oldest inhabitants, as he stepped up
to the stamp window at the post-ofiice,
and laid down ten cent piece Of cur
rency. The clerk at the window didn't
see it" until he had looked over his copy
Of "IIoyle." Then he dealt out three
three-cent and one-cent stamp. The
oldest inhabitant passed silently out.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-10-23

CORRECTED by AsHBRooK & CO
Stock Markets.

EAST LIBERTY, October 21.-Receipts
of Cattle to-day ,8l9 head; Supply good
market opened brisk, with a good de-
mand, but prices are unchanged from
last weeks closing rates, best S6 121G6
rs, medium to good S. 6096, common
to fair 81 75Cd5 %, stockers S3G4, Bulls
3 GG3 %; sales for the day 1,20O head.
Receipts of Hogs to-day 5,115 head;
best Philadelphia So 40@6 20, Workers
s. 50C16 25. Receipts of Sheep to-day
$500 head; best 81 1905 %, medium 81
25@4 30.
BUFFALO, October 2I.-Wheat dull:
No. Milwaukee Club 81 OF. Corn dull;
sales of 1000 bush, in car lots, at 8356
Sac. Oats held at soc for No. Toledo.
Rye is held at 96c for Western. Market
for Barley is quiet. Freights 94@10c,
for Wheat. Receipts of Cattle 1872
head, making a total for the week of 8,
755 head. The market opened dull and
slow, and owners asked full last week s
prices for good Cattle; common off s0
}c, the bulk of receipts were common
stock; some prime lots. offered-were
quickly sold: mediuIS grade scarce. Re-
ceipts of Sheep and Lambs 1000 head
making total for the week of ~, 400
head. The market is lifeless, and own
ers are asking &c advance, but buyers are
holding off; there were not sufficient
sales to establish prices. Receipts OF
Hogs 600 head, making a total for the
week of 10000 head The market is
slow and the pens are full of good stock,
and buyers are holding off: York s. 80
as, heavy Hogs Sc 1240620.
PITTsBURG, October 21.-Wheat un-
changed. Corn quiet; new ear Goat 65c,
old shelled 63G6Sc Petroleum dull:
crude 90c at Parkers; Iefned 113c deliv-
cred in Philadelphia.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-10-23

Barnum has knocked the socks off
of the wedding shows of Grant and
Sherman. On Monday last, at Gin
cinnati, where his immense Roman
Hipprodrome is exhibiting, a we'd
ding took place between two of his
performers-Mr. Charles M. Cotton
and Miss Mary E. Walsh-which
was, decidedly, the most novel and
romantic affair in the wedding line
that ever came off anywhere. 1t
didn't take place in Cincinnati, eth
er, but rather about mile above
the city, in gorgeously decorated
car swung beneath an enormous bal
loon, in charge of the daring aero
naut, Prof. Donaldson. The party
was composed of the bride and
groom, bridesmaid and groomsman,
Rev. H. B. Jefries, officiating cler-
gyman, Prof. Donaldson, and Mr..
Thomas, the press agent of the Hip
prodome. 1t is estimated that at
least thirty thousand people were
present at the pavilion to witness
the start, which was made prompt
ly at halfpast four o'clock in the af-
ternoon. At the conclusion of the
ceremony parachute was dropped
from the balloon to notify the null
titude below that the thing was done
The party were in the "upper air"
not quite an hour, and made safe
landing near the western edge of the
city, where an immense crowd of
people welcomed them with loud
acclaim. The bridal trousseau was
the gift of Mr.. Rarnum.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-10-23
The Autumn-Time.

In the eternal round of seasons there
is nothing strange; and yet very COM
mon and pleasant custom it is, as one
goes out and we stand upon the thresh-
old of another, to take a usrvey Of both
When grim old winter sets his snowy
foot and icy grasp upon us, the soft
balmy airs of spring are anticipated
wholly with delight. Neither drilling
rain, nor omnipresent slush, finds place
in the mental picture. But soon these
are palpable enough-uncomfortab
palpable, and mighty near insupportable,
but for the expectation of the approach
ing delights of summer, whose clear
skies, and rich vegetation in turn lead
us to forget the sweltering temperature
and long droughts, which in due order
assert themselves and incline ever dis
contented humanity TO cast another
glance forward--this time to autumn, the
season now opened.
OF all seasons, Autumn promises most
and disappoints least. Melancholy it
may be, yet its melancholy brings no
touch of pain. There is death in the
walling winds-a dirge they seem to
chant from the withering leaves, falling
fruit, and decaying flowers, even as the
fresher breezes of spring are a natal an
them. But it is death dealing with
maturity, and, however sad, but fulfill
ing its mission at a natural and befitting
period. The process is suggestive of
calmness and repose, and every sur
rounding helps to produce that effect.
If man is influenced at all, it is into
quieter, more thoughtful mood, and for
once he feels measurably well disposed
to linger, content with the present in
stead of again taxing anticipation
Golden roads, fields and forests in pur-
pie, yellow and russet; delicate, many
tinted twilights, and all softened, sub
dued, and invested with an additional
charm by such haze as that which be-
longs to our Indian summer-there is at
no other time so exquisite a treat for the
poet
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-10-23

One cause Of accident in blasting, but
little understood, and which applies to
powder as well as nitro -glycerin, is thus
stated: "The blaster, not aware that he
is a walking charge of electricity, pro-
ceeds to his work, inserting cartridge
after cartridge of nitro glycerin, until he
comes to the last, which is armed with
the electric fuse. The moment his hand
touches one of the naked wires, the
current passes through the priming, and
explosion follows. Let blaster, before
he handles these wires, invariably grasp
some metal in moistened contact with
the earth, or place both hands against
the moist we'll of the tunnel"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-10-23

Snow on THE MooN's SURFACE
The interesting suggestion has been
made by writer in Nature, that the
white telescope appearance in many
parts of the moons surface, SO strikingly
resembling snow, may, in fact, be n coat
ing of salt on extinct volcanoes of that
satellite. The dazzling, snow-white eff
feet, so familiar in the appearance Of the
lunar mountains, is commented upon,
and it is thought that clue to this well
known but hitherto unexpiainable phe-
nomenon, Is furnished by some of the
more recent eruptions of Mount Vesu-
vius. In this instance a crust of crystals
of salt, very definite, was formed over
the entire surface of the lava on cooling
the effect of which, in the sun. being
quite similar to the whiteness of some
portions of the moon viewed by the tele-
scope.
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Tribute to General Grant.
[From Dom Platt's Capital. ]


His generalship consisted in the fact
that he would fight. Had he been put
in the war at the time Mcclellan was
his career would have been brief and
disastrous, but bloody. AS it was, he
lost more men in his march from Wash
ington to Lees surrender than Lee had
under him. There is sort of subdued
power in the mans face, however, that
is remarkable. Without a particle of
that magnetism that wins while it con-
trolls, his look excites feeling more
akin to fear than respect. There is as it
were, smouldering fire in his dead eyes
that men generally do not care to dis
turd. We pass him almost daily when
in town, as he slouches to and fro before
the Executive Mansion, with his hands
behind him, and note his rounded shoul
ders, thick-set and ungainly form, upon
which the clothes hang as if purchased
at slop-shop; his bloated red face, from
which not the slightest ray of intelli-
gence emanates, for the eyes-those win
dows of the soul-next to those of the
late Louis Napoleon, are the deadest
eyes ever given to human being, and
he reminds US of an ill-conditioned and
not over-cleanly bulldog, at which it
would be dangerous to poke cane.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-10-23

So far in the campaign of this year
the tide of battle has been running
against the Republicans, and seriously.
The following comparative table shows
the political changes in representation
of the States which have 30 far voted,
and it is significant:
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-10-23

The Pittsburgh Telegraph says ::
France has takenthe first step toward
success in any war which may occur.
The army is to be supplied with a
new musket superior to the Cheese
pot and also, it is claimed, to the
Prussian needle gum. At the end
of 1876 France viii have at great
expense three million muskets of
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-10-23

The scandalous Washington Chroni-
Gle, says: "When Mary Walker reaches
Turkey we hope the Sultan, that abso-
lutte monarch of all he surveys, will
make her take her breeches off," Mary
won't listen to any such in Sultan prop
osition. She isn't that kind.
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\ Suit was brought against saloon
keeper in New York City for damages
arising from the sale of liquor to a son
Of the plaintiff, the eject Of which Ii
quor on the boy was death. The lad
went with a number of his companions
into the liquor store of the defendant
and drank fourteen times, that, it was
said, being the first time in his life he
had tasted liquor. Death soon ensued
and suit was brought under the Civil
Damage act, and verdict of 900 re-
covered. 1t was in proof that the young
man did not become drunk, but the ex-
cessive quantity of liquor killed him
without his undergoing drunkenness.
The post nortem examination confirmed
the testimony on that point, to-wit: that
he died from excessive use ofliquor. On
this state of facts the defendant based
one defense, but the judge held that Gin
toxicating" should be construed "poison-
ous," as to its original use by the Greeks
signiied a drugging or poisoning, and
that the effects of liquor for the purpose
of the case could be called intoxication,
drugging, or poisoning.