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Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1874-10-12
DIR. A. D. SPINNEY,
las Removed 10 No. ISIS South q

nav hNhtoNNu W N's ~ U"s
street. Virginia. opposite Champlaln House.
DR.. spinney. well known throughout the eoan
try ~ a Patholoci-t and Psychologist, whose
successful treatment ct certain physical dIsa'
bllitles and functional arrangements deserved
ly en,ltle him To the familiar recol milton ofthc
GREAT srEcIALisr, would respectfully Inform
the citizens Of Virginia City and vicinity that
his Increasing patronage demanding more com
mOdlous apartments, he has removed to his new
oricc, No. ISIS south & street, Virginia, seven
door north Of the French Drug store. where
he will be- pleased to consult with all. tins CIV
Ing inyalids an opportunity of Kidding them
selves, through his professional agency. OF snch
constitutional AnnOy anccs and ailments A. he
claims to compass and 10 cure. without ca
tering Into biographical details, u u sufficient
to simply promnlgatc the fact that DIR. SPIN
NEY's earliest reputation may be traced back
10 his Inauguration aud conduct Of the Mon
treal iCanada EasD Medical Institute. The
regime OF the English Pharmaccuiical Colleges
/. gagged by an elevated standard. An extend.
Ell experience aud m assldnou- study Of the
varied phases Of di-oa-c enables him tn guaran,
tee assurances OF success In the eradication OF
the muItiform chronic Affections Incident tn
both sexes, such as Nervous Debility, Exhaust
ed Vitality, Youthful Exce-ses, Marriage lm.
pedimenir, and Chronic diseases generally.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1874-10-12
Or. M. HOLMES

A NNouNcRs HIMSELF AS A CANDI.
"A date for the once Of Public Administrator
OF Storey County. Nevada, subject TO the
vote. q ~: .iii,sns O. Inc county tsat sis pos
honest odesr who win do his duty, without fear
flvor OF Affection. ssai
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1874-10-12

foR the very hest Photographs 70 TO hndsS
4 HuIofson's Gallery without STARR
~ ASCEND IN TIE ELEVATOR, No. a.
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Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1874-10-12

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Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1874-10-12
Young. MEN,


Who may be suffering rom thcefcc:- OF youth.
ml foliie- or indi-cretion, win co well TO avail
themselves OF this. the greatest boon. ever lali
an Nh. altar OF suffering humanity. DIR SPIN
NEY will guarantee To Forfeit i've hundred dol
lars for every case Of seminal weakness or pri'
yaie disease or any kind OF character which he
undertake. and fails 10 rure. lie would, icrc'
fot.. say To the unfortunate sufferer who may
read thl. notice, that you are treading npoi
dangerous ground when You longer delay In
seeking the proper remedy Tot your complaint,
You NAV be In the frst stage-remember you
are approaching the last. u you are bordering
upon the last, and rre suffering some or all OF
ii. evil effects, remember that II YOU obstinate
ly persist in procrastinaiion, the time must
come when the most skillill physician can rem,
der you no assistance: when the doors OF hope
will he closed against you; when no angel OF
mercy can bring you relief. In no Gaze has the
Doctor iiied OF success. Then lst not despair
work itself upon Your Imagination. but avail
yourselfo of the beneficial results OF his treat.
ment before your cire IL beyond the reach OF
medical -kia. or before grim death hurries you
To A premature grave.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1874-10-12
TO TIE LADIES.

DIR. sPISNEY. while naturally Impressed
with the delicaey OF the subject, feels no u 81
fancy In assuring them that, IN conjunction
Win a e ,u petent knowledse Of their various
snferIngr, such As Nervousness, Neuralgia,
snIn.I Weakness, Loss OF Appetite, lassiiude,
PToIapsu., uteri. l,etroyer-ions or Di-pLaee'
ment OF The Womb. Vaginal Irregularities, Leu
chorrea. Dyspepsia, Indigestion, constipation,
almo-t Invariably have their origin In the uter'
Inc rerion. AFFORD them Immediate relief.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1874-10-12
COME And NIX HEALED.

II matters not what your trouble may he.
come aud let the Doctor examine your cssc. IL
will cost you nothing for consultation, sopleasc
call and satisfy yourselves whether the Doctor
understands your case. n he can cure you he
will tell You so; II not. he will say 50. for he
will not undertake a cure unless he u confident
nj AFT cling n cufe.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-07
Grasshoppers.

Now that the vast army of grasshop-
pers has got fairly in motion some idea
of its immense range may be gathered
from the fact that our special dispatch
es report their simultaneous appearance,
flying from the southeast to the north
west, at Sheldon and East Orange, to
northwestern Iowa, where they lighted
in immense clouds on the finely grow
ing crops at Mankato, over 200 miles
east of those points, where they were
flying northward, and at Breckinridge,
over $50 miles north of the frst-men-
toned points. Contrary to expectation
and to the impression derived from
their first movements. they have not
pursued continuous flight northwest
ward or even northward, but large bod
les of them have returned southwark
and sOutheastward, in the inverse direc-
tion of their original movement. Their
winged columns seem. too, to have
spread out laterally toward the east, SO
that the skirmish line on their eastern
flank now takes in Blue Earth county.
1t is just possible that they may con-
tinue their flank movement toward the
east. If the prodigious swarms of hungry
locusts should once take it into their
heads, after stripping the thinly set
tied country west of Mankato, to move
eastward over the rich, populous, and
prosp rous agricultural counties this
side of the Blue Earth and Minnesota
rivers, the destruction of crops would
be immense, and the calamity tenfoId
what has resulted from their ravages in
the newly and sparcely settled region to
which they Lave heretofore been con
fined. If they should once set about it
there can be no doubt that they could
without difficulty destroy in a single
week the entire growing grain crop of
Minnesota. Their numbers are simply
prodigious. Mr.. James @. Butterfeld
estimates from the numbers clinging to
stalks of wheat, that in Watonwan
county, where his farm is situated, there
were 100 bushels of grasshoppers to the
acre of all growing crops, and they were
as thick over the whole titled area of
the country westward to the Iowa line
as in Watonwan county.-St. Paul
{ (1Iinn), Press.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-07
Dealing in Tigers.

Two dealers, Mr.. Jamrach, in Lon
don, and Herr Hagenbeck, in Hamburg,
have almost a monopoly of the trade in
wild animals. The former recently
gave some of his experiences with
tigers. He says: "When the young
tigers are accustomed to intercourse
with men they are always tame, but you
must not go near them at feeding time.
My assistant took a large tiger, two
years old, to London in a sailing vessel
from Calcutta he played with every
one on board, and was only smut up in
his cage at night. His great friend was
a dog, rat-catcher, and they were
taken together in the same cage to
America. I have often tried to bring
up tigers with other animals, and have
succeeded best with the common Indian
iackal believe the scent of this ami
NAL prevents the tiger from attacking
it. The tigers greatest enemies, next
to man, are monkeys. It is interesting
to see the courage and dexterity of a
monkey when. he cannot escape an en-
counter. once put a great baboon
with a nearly fulI-grown tiger. The
baboon leaped upon the tigers back
and took firm hold with his teeth. The
tiger could not shake him off, and it
was with great difficulty that we took
the baboon out OF the cage. He seized
the tiger by the neck through the bars,
and vented his rage biting them. I
never made the experiment again.
"I had great difficulty in getting
tigers between the years 1866 and 1867,
as the Indian jewellers would give five
or six rupees apiece for claws, which
we're used for ornaments. The Shika-
rees, therefore, found it better to shoot
tigers than to capture them. A good
skin is worth two or three times as
much in India as it is in Europe. You
may get frem one hundred and twenty
to one hundred and fifty rupees for
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS skin. There is now
but little demand for living tigers, so
that the Skikarees devote themselves
chiefly to killing them. . And, although
hundreds are killed every year, there
is still an immense number of them. 1t
is almost incredible how many human
beings are devoured by them. A tiger
generally only becomes a man-eater
when other food fails but when he has
once taken to killing men he keeps at
it.. | believe that all the tigers in
Singapore are man-eaters, for there is
no other food for them. It has been
proven tha' one Chinese woodcutter dis
appears on an average every day. l
have seen many tigers from Singapore,
old and young, bat they were none of
them tame. At Madras, on boaId a
steamer, my assistant was frightened
out of his berth one night by tiger
having gnawed through the roof of his
cabin. This was one from Singapore.
Before the opening of the Suez canal
there was a great difficulty about the
transport of tigers. L once had seven
tig rs on board ship, twenty two oxen
for food, of which seventeen died in
one week of pestiIence. The tigers
had to content themselves with two
pounds of meat per day until more
could be procured at Cape Town. There
have been many cross breeds between
lions and tigers in English menageries,
but the cubs are never reared"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-07
Caution Concerning the use of Paris
Green.

Those who use Paris green for the ex-
termination of the potato beetle, should
bear in mind that it is a most danger
GUS and deadly olson, and they cannot
be too careful lest it prove fatal to
"larger game" than the bugs. All
packages of the substance should be
plainly marked poison. There is great
danger in the mixing of this green for
the potato bug, owing to the fine dust
which arises in the process, which IS IN
haled, and also rapidly absorbed by the
pores of the skin, especially If the per-
son using it should be in a state of per-
spiration. To guard against this, the
hands and face particularly the nos
trils) should be protected as much as
possible, and should be carefully
washed after working with it, or with
any of the preparations of which 1t is
an ingredient. AS it penetrates and
poisons wood, gets into the seams and
crevices of articles made of metal and
even into earthenwars that is at all po-
rous, it Is important that all household
utensils, or anything in barn or stable
(which cattle or horses could have ac-
cess to- in which the article may have
been mixed, or from which it has been
used, should be carefully set aside, and
never again used for any other purpose.
sores are not unfrequently
caused by scratching the skin when
itching or irritated from handling the
green. As an antidote for the poison,
the free use of milk as beverage is re-
but hydrated proxide of
iron is better. Sores caused by the
green should be we'll c, vered with this,
as with an ordinary salve, and tea
spoonful in a wine. glass of water should
be taken twice a day, internally, while
working with the green. This remedy
can be obtained from any druggist or
chemist,
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-07
Cape Diamonds.

The diamondiferous fields of Africa,
which have now been worked for five
or six years, are situated ON the Dor
ders of the colony of the Cape of Good
Hope and the free states of the Orange
river, at about 1900 kilometres from
Cape Town, in 20 degrees of south lat
itude and % degrees of east longitude,
and at a mean altitude of ], 800 me-
tres above the sea level.
The region belonged at first to the
republic of Orange, but as soon as the
extraordinary richness of these depos-
its had been ascertained the English
government suddenly remembered that
these lands had been ceded to it by an
old Kafir chief, and accordingly the
British authorities took possession of
them. The Dutch republic made most
energetic protests against this spolia-
tion, and offered to submit the case to
the arbiatration of the emperor of Ger
many. The cape government, however,
refused to accede to this, and kept the
mines in spite of all that was urged by
the other party.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-07
The following table shows the debt,
population and debt per capita of the
leading cities of the United States.
A Substitute for Ice.

1t is probable that mqny good house
wives do not know that butter may be
kept firm and nice-looking by merely
inverting over it a fower-pot covered
with damp cloths. In the same way a
water-pitcher enveloped in wet cloths
will keep its contents cool and grateful
to the parched throat this hot weather.
On a large scale the same plan may
be used in the felds-as we have before
said, but it will bear saying again. The
contents of barrel enveloped in cloths
which are kept constantly wet, will be
so pleasant as almost to induce the la
borer in the field to drink more than is
good for him.
The reason why water kept this way
is cool is, that the evaporation of the
outside dampness carries off the heat
from the inside-just as perspiration
carries off the heat from the human
frame, and renders a live man capable
of withstanding heat which will cook
a beefsteak
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-07
The Bullion Yield.

Few persons have any adequate idea
of the yield of precious metals in the
United States. The figures for the last
quarter of century arc startling and
almost incredible. From 184S to 1874
the enormous sum of 81, ,578, ,407, 641
was mined on the Pacific coast. To this
amount California contributes over one
billion and ninety-four millions and
Nevada little more than one hundred
and nineteen millions. The remainder
is divided between Montana, Idaho,
Colorado, and Utah. The two last ter.
ritories have yielded but about fifty
millions between them, but it is well
known that their soil is wonderfully
rich in silver ores of superior charac-
ter. When these territol les become
fully developed it is expected that their
enormous yield of bullion will recall
the golden days of California. In Utah
particularly a grain culture has been
developed heretofore to the exclusion of
mining interests, but this will prove
itself no loss in the long run, since it
has served to prepare food for a large
population. Judging by the amount of
precious metals already extracted from
the hills of the far west, it may be
confidently expected that the yied of
the next quarter of a century will, with
proper energy, nearly or quite equal
the last. New improvements in ma
chinery, the investment of large guam
titles of capital, aud the knowledge
that the slopes of the Rocky noun
tains are so many rich deposits of gold
and silver give promise of an abundant
return to the capitalist and laborer.
This is a happy answer, too, to the
gloomy auguries of those who look upon
our financial future with distrust. The
abundant promise of agriculture and
mineral wealth will tide US over our
difficulties. A billion and half of
gold and silver is no small return from
barren hills, though it took quarter of
a century to gather it.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-07
How to Plant a Tree.

When planting don't dig hole like
bowl cistern, but dig it just as deep as
the soil is, and no deeper make the
bottom of it one-third larger round than
the top, and loosen up the very bottom.
Then, as the tree is planted, throw in
grst an inch of real good, fresh, rich
soil ; set the tree, holding it with one
hand while on your knees you spread
its roots carefully with the other; let
the assistant drop the dirt in upon the
rotts Bs he he would if he had a sieve,
and, as it is dropped in, do you who
hold the tree upon your bended knees,
work every root carefully out straight
on a level line with the point or juno
ton of it with the main stems, use the
fingers outspread in mingling the fine
dirt with the roots, and be careful that
not an air space is left at the bottom,
and also that the earth upon the lower
roots is packed the hardest or tightest
of any.
AS you reach the upper roots only see
that each root is surely surrounded with
earth, and then let the last four inches
of earth be sprinkled on with a spade
or shovel, without pressure of foot or
any thing else don't even fiat it with
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-07
A Millionaire at Saratoga.

A commercial lion appearing in the
path of the Commercial Advertiser at
Saratoga, the latter gives his impress
sion:
He dresses in black. His clothes are
well made and fit him perfectly. His
only jewelry consists of plain gold
watch, worth about five hundred dol
lars, which he seldom disturbs from its
place in his vest-pocket. He loaths
all unnecessary personal adornments.
Three small, plain linen. covered but
tons appear on his shirt bosom. No
watch chain is visible. He wears a
black beaver hat, which weighs q half
pound less than the heavy gray stove
pipes fashion ordains shall be worn
this summer. His hair, of a reddish
gray, is neatly dressed at all times.
His beard, which is more tinted with
gray than his hair, is short, and trim
med regularly, so as to be kept at the
same length all the year round. Where
a cumbersome moustache ought to be, a
hair is never permitted to attain more
than a days growth. He is of slen-
der, though compact physique. His
complexion is ruddy, and bespeaks the
best of health. He always looks as if
he nad Just lett the JolleJ JeDle. IN
man is seventy-four years of age. In
conversation, his keen blue eyes are
never for an instant taken off yours
His face bears the impress of prudence,
self-confidence, a calmness
impossible to ruffle, and above all, Il
honesty and truthfulness. He never
speaks loud enough to be heard ten
steps from where he stands. Eaves-
droppers cannot catch even the sound Of
his voice. He shakes hands with you
nay, even warmly. He is
courtesy and politeness itself. His con-
always couched in the re-
fined language of the educated gentle |
man. He uses no slang. He is witty |
and at times vivacious. He is no teeto-
taller; he drinks only at meal-hours;
his favorite wines are Johannesburg, |
from Prince Metternich's private vine
yard, the like of which is not easily |
found 10 this country; he is fond of
sherry and Madeira his wine-cellar
contains probably the choicest collec-
5ion of wines in America, This mans
wealth is estimated at one hundred |
made by him since 1884, in
New York city. He has no children
he has not a single known relative on the
lace of the earth. He is the last of his
race. He is A. T. Stewart.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-07
Fastest Time on Record.

An East Saginaw special to the Chi
cago Times says of Goldsmith's extraor-
dinary performance at that place on the
18th inst: "On the second heat the
Maid had made the best time on record,
but on the third heat she even beat
this. She made in this race the three
fastest heats ever made, and the slow
est of the last two heats was better than
the best recorded time ever made by
trotting horse. As to the time, there
can be no question, and as to the dis
tance there is no question. The course
of the association in this city is one
mile and fraction over three feet in
length, measured five feet from the
pole. Time-First heat, quarter, 34i
half. 1:O8s mile, 2:19f. Second heat,
quarter, 331 half, 1:O7! mile, 2:151.
Third heat, quarter, 80; half, 1:O7 /;
mile, 2:16."
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-07
An Original" Barber.

Speaking of extraordinary person
ages in New York, correspondent
saws: Gone of the most eccentric of
this class is a barber on q downtown
street. He has occupied the same lit
tie den for half century. No barn IS
palmer than his hair-dressing shop, for
he does not dignity it by the name OF
saloon. Its sanded floor and common
furniture would ruin any uptown hair
dresser. All the bucks and the mil
lionaires of the street patronize him.
He is q well educated man, and has
written acceptable things for the news
papers. He is lordly, aristOcratic, and
imperious. He seldom spends less than
an hour on any mans head with which
he designs to meddle. No aristocratic
mother with her first babe handles the
child more tenderly than does our bar
Der his customers No pulling, no
Jerking, no scraping sending the nose
this way, and sending it that, so COM
mon with ordinary halr-dressers, but ev-
erything is dainty, delicate, aristocratic.
His touch is tenderness and his whole
air patronizing. Nobody gets out Of
the shop for less than dollar, and any
extra touches run the bill up to two dol
lars. Nor is the artist obliged to you
for your custom. You are the obliged
person and he makes you feel it. Dur
ing the fifty years he has been in this
little shop he Las amassed three for
tunes and lost them all in speculation.
He is now on his way to his fourth for
tune. He is an original character and
is worth looking at. He was an intense
copperhead during the war, and had
many a row with his customers, whom
he threatened to pitch down stairs for
being loyal to the old flag"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-07
Decidedly Personal.

Mr.. Ruskin, in a recent number of
Fors Claveriga, says
cit is quite possible for the simplest
workman or laborer for whom I write
to understand what the feelings of a
gentleman are, and share them if he
will but the crisis and horror of this
present time are that its desire of
money and the fulness of luxury dis
honestly attainable by commen persons
are gradually making churls of all men !;
and the nobler passions are not merely
disbelieved, but even the conception of
them seems ludicrous to the ordinary
churl mind so that, to take only SO
poor an instance of them as my own
Ii e-because have passed it in aims
giving, not in fortune hunting; because
I have Iabored always for the honor of
others, not my own, and have chosen
rather to make men look to Turner and
Luini than to form or exhibit the skill
of my own hand because I have low
cred my rent, and assured the comfor
table. lives of my poor tenants, instead
of taking from them all / could force
for the roofs they needed because I
love a wood walk better than a London
street, and would rather watch a sea-
gull fly than shoot it, and rather hear a
thrush sing than eat it finally, because
I never disobeyed my mother, because
I have honored all women with solemn
worship, and have been kind even to
the unthankful and the evil; therefore
the hacks of English art and literature
wag their heads at me, and the poor
wretch who pawns the dirty linen of his
soul daily for bottle of our wine and
a cigar talks of the 'effeminate senti-
mentality of Ruskin.'