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Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1874-09-15
MfSCELLANEOES.

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THE EUREKA ODD FELLOWS
BUILDING ASSOCIATION,
Eureka, Eureka County, Nevad,
CAPITAL STOCK, 100000
Four Hundred Share.
$50 E G II,
President:
William Arlington.
Secretary:
William II. Davenport.
Trustees
WaI rATrinstSn' Isaas Whi.e!.
W. II. Davenport.
YNllS ASSOCIATION Is INCOPrOr Arrn
i under the laws " tho State Of Xovai.o
for the purpose of rccting a building Tor "a,
use Of the d Fellows Of Eureka. and to a,
vide the same into suitable rooms for Uur
the Lodge Of odd Fellows and other .oc;",;os
and organizations, and for stores and ofSonr
and will proceed Immediately to cree, mnon
the land S4nated to the Association by tho
citizens Of Eureka. situated on the ems, s;do,naSs
Main street. 49, feet south Of the Post"Eoo
i'll Eureka. n substantial
Firc-Proof Building,
Being q twe. t2) story, and basement frc-pro0f
stone building. fronting AZ feet on thu oas.
sidc OF Main street, ard running east loo foa,
the same width. to the west side of Bucl ST roo,'
the basement having a frontage Oh saiJ Rr,i
street of AZ. feet.
Bacl street, md the Basement room will h.
% by 3ia feet in the clear. with a Hoo; call.
ing. and will be rented to responsible rartics
by the Trustees. ~
The first story will be partitioncd ,r int,
two storerooms. 81 BY Is feet in tho clear
with a %l-foot ceiling, which will also b:
rented,
The second story will be divided into room,
for tho convenient use Of odd Fellow Lodge
and OF the various societies " hich NAV mect
therein. and on this floor there will be Two q.
rooms. all of which will be rented BY III.
Trustees TO proper tenants.
The building will DO finished in Grst-cIoss
style. and provided with all convenience 10,
tenants. and the Trustees; from a careful and
prudent estimate Of the revenue Of tLs
building. feel confident in assuring 10 ,hn
stockholders q net dividcnd Of 9, Der cent
pcr month en- their Investment. >"'
The work will be PROSECUTED with III, n.
most disl atch, consistent with economy and
suhstnntia work: and it is con:cm lated that
the building will be ready for use in foJr In
months from this date.
Subscription for Stock.
Ton thousand five hundred (slo.5ool dol
lar; of the STOCK have already been taken,
and The books are now open to tn. public far
sdbscrij ton FOR The remainder, to wit: -. GN)
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1874-09-15
POLITICAL & SOCIAL PURPOSES
Balls Gnl Parties.

Especial care viii be taken in pcrfcctjng a.
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Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1874-09-15

throng to that of last sunday. taking
for his tex the 5th chapter of Gala
tian from the 18Th verse to the 18th in
elusive. Bcecher has seldom preached
with more vi-or or delivered q more
effective discourse. His subjec. To the
end. and the drift of his discourse. was
the meaning OF religion in man.
which he argued to I've liberty: that
liberty which comes from perfect an
CONSCIOUS, automatic Obedience to law.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-06-10
Mounted Rifiemen.

The suggestion which formed the basis
of Col. George Chesney's lecture last week
at the United Service Institution was not
so remarkable in itself for novelty as for
the ability shown in the arguments bv
which it was introduced Whatever NAV
be thought of the difficulties of maintain
ing in England a small army of mounted
men instead of large one of infantry
and these the duke of Cambridge plainly
looked on rs very practicable objections
it is certain that the notion of 4 new power
to be gained by using such force in the
field has already attracted attention among
military men of great practical knowledge
Col. Hamley especially has gone very far
in this direction in the last edition Of his
Operations of War" And there is much
to be said for the lecturers view, that it Is
hard to tell how far such revolution in
war as he proposed might not be success
full from its very daring and novelty. The
example he referred 10 of Frederick % roll
ing up" the Austrains at Leuthen is sin
gularly striking. Frederick had but thirty
thousand against the eighty thousand OF
his enemy; vet he routed the latter with
perfect ease and completeness, simply be-
cause he had discovered a process of gain
ing ground to a flank rapidly with infantry
which the other side did not know how t.
initiate or meet. 1t seems possible, there
fore, in theory at least, that this instance
might be repeated were the bulk of an at
tacking force able to move with the speed
of horsemen when brought against a line
of battle composed even of the best infan-
try.
There is, indeed, already one example
in modern history of the thing proposed
being done; for Lees lines of defense be-
fore Richmond in 1865 were actually bro
ken, and the long contest he had main
tanned brought to a finish at one blow by
the sudden transporting of Sheridan's
newly arrived force of three divisions OF
mounted infantry to aid Grants left in
! forcing his adversary's extreme right. In
consequence of this rapid movement the
Confederates were completely overweight
ed ut the point selected for the attack, and
their works actually pierced rifle in hand,
by the dismounted horsemen. American
troops were but rude men-at-arms as COM
pared with the army of cavaliers which
/ Col. Chesney suggested as a possibility
worth considering in the future. 1t is re-
markable that the lecturer did not use the
very obvious confirmation of his theory
which may be found in the saying of the
same Gen Sheridan when in France in
1870. Some of the audience We're no
doubt surprised at the audacity which could
even imagine that the operations of an
ordinary modern army of three hundred
thousand soldiers could be effectually par
alyzcd by one of thirty thousand vigorous
horsemen. Yet this is just what Sheridan
is known to have openly declared that he
himself could have done against the inves
tors of Paris with three times the force of
mounted rifemen he led from the Shenan-
doah to Grants aid five years before
| Pail Mall Gazette,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-06-10

JOHN w. KEELY, of Philadelphia, is
said to have discovered a new motive
power, the result of series of expert
yea 5. 1t consists simply of process
whereby water is converted into vapor
without the aid of heat, resulting in
power greater than steam. The vital prin-
ciple of Mr.. Keely's engine is that it con-
verts water into cold vapor solely
through the agency of mechtnical appli-
,nces. The principalsparts of the power
Generator con-i>t of Il hollow metal globe
about fif cen inches in diameter. having
walls three fourths of an inch in thickness
The globe is connected with strong cylin-
Ter of iron, which is used rs receiver of
the power or force generated in the globe
From the cylinder a brass pipe. having
bore of one thirty second of IN inch, con-
ducts the power to the test or force regis
ter. This apparatus is an iron cylinder in
which piston moves like the piston of All
ordinary engine. The piston-rod commu-
nicates with a lever so weighted that a
power equal to 10,400 pounds per square
inch is required to move it. Upon turning
"A stop-cork and admitting the power to the
lest gauge, the weight above mentioned
was easily raised. 1t is peculiar quality
of the vapor that it can be used ut any
pressure from ten pounds to ten thousand
pounds to the square inch, and when once
generated it can be stored in the receiver
for an indefinite period without any loss of
power or energy. Mr.. Keely is building
4 practical engine to be propelled by the
newly discovered motive.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-06-10

The Brighton Aquarium is the present
home of sea-devil caught lately in the
channel near Hastings. This monster fish
is of dusky brown color; tadpole shaped,
that is, all head and shoulders. 1t is about
i've feet in length, and some three feet
across at the fiappers. The mouth at once
arrests attention. 1t stretches literally
right across the creatures face, and when
closed as much as it can be. it measures
nineteen inches. At the edge of each jaw
are two or three rows of teeth, hard.
strong, and pointed, set like the prongs of
a rat trap. those of the lower jaw directed
obliquely inward: and once interlocked
upon prey, escape would be hopeless. 1t
is, however. when open, that the enormous
capacity of the fishs mouth is apparent.
If the fish chose to strain point. four
and-a-,lalf gallon barrel might lie got into
it. At all events, it is circular shaped
over n foot in diameter. and little less than
two feet deep. Tine fish is very rap icious,
and had not nlture endowed it with a
special contrivance for procuring food. it
would fare baslly. being but u slow swim
ner To this coniri ance il owes its name,
the Angler - Fish. On the tpp of the
head. between the eyes and mouth, are two
I.tendrils, each about a foot in leng h, one
having ut its end a feshy substance which
serves as bait. When angling for i
meal, the Devil Fish covers itself partly
beneath the sand or weeds, hoists these
tendrils and bides his time. By-and-by
incautious rovers are lured by the bait,
then the fish-its eyes being capable of
looking in almost every direction re-
views the situation gets his body by n
special action into position, the enormous
mouth opens, and seizes its prey.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-06-10

each gentleman in the church long wax
cierges decorated with black Grape bows
In the Greek Church no organ or other
musical instrument is used. The service
is chanted by the priests, assisted bv a
choir of very young BOYS. At intervals
hymns and anthems resounded through
the aisle till, the service concluded, the
coffin was transferred by superior officers
to a portable bier, also covered in white
ornamented with silver lace and flowers
the coffin it supported The same, pre-
ceded by the priests and choir, and follow
ed by all the assistants in procession, pass
ed out of the church, and in front of that
portion of the monastery which for some
years has been fitted and used by Prince
Charles as summer palace. The corteqe
then, by circuitous walks through the pal
ace gardens, descended to the valley one
hundred feet beneath. The monastery.
from its plateau, dominates the country
around for miles. The priests in their SUI
perb robes, the whole way swinging and
agitating their censers, left in their trair
transparent clouds of sweet odors The
long procession of thousands having des-
cended to the valley, again ascended to the
hillside to small enclosed space where
the tumuli of fresh earth denoted the poor
child's resting place. 1t had been the IA
vorite spot where it had in its little life
sported, and where half-a dozen davs pre-
viously it had been playing with its nurse
Just about this spot on the heights over
looking it were hundreds of young girls
clothed in white, who united with the
choir their silvery voices, and behind these
thousands of sympathizing persons of all
degrees. From valley to hilton HYMNS
filled the air with sweet sounds as the flu
nereal flowers filled it with sweet odors.
When the little body was lowered into its
sylvan grave, few eyes surrounding it saw
clearly, for all were dimmed by tears.
Then came the awful thud of the clav on
the coffin, sounding the mournful requiem
of the last earthly farewell, and the mourn
ers and spectators dispersed.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-06-10
Che FIREMAN.
MONTPELIER, VT,
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 1874.

LOST IN THE WOODs.-The party sur
y4ving the State line between New Hamp-
shire and Maine started out March 30th.
The party consists of six persons, three
each from Maine and New Hampshire-A.
T.. Gordon, Esq, of Fryeburg, surveyor
f.r Maine, with W. X. Hobbs of Fryeburg-
and \. ID. Russell of Weld, as his assist
ants: Prof. j. II. Huntington of Hanover,
surveyor for New Hampshire, with J. F.
Woodbury. Of FrancestOwn. and Pat Sulii-
van Of Hanover, as his assistants.
They travelled on snow shoes, dragging
their provisions, etc, on a sled. They
found the snow four feet on a level. By
mistake of the guide they missed their
way. and were lost in the wilderness three
days. the thermometer below zero and
~tolming most of the time. One of these
cold nights, Prof. Huntington and Mr.. Rus
sell had the misfortune to freeze their feet
badly They were obliged to leave their
Sled and take the load upon their backs
They crossed a stream and concluded to
follow it. as the surest plan to find their
way out. Travelling on snow shoes, with
frozen feet, has but very little pleasure in
it. but it had to be done, and eventually
the party came back into the old tracks
made in going toward the line.
The forest trees consist of yellow and
white birch, spruce and tir-very tail an(
straight. The mountains are as heavily
timbered rs the valleys, and they went fol
miles without finding an opening large
enough to see out. 1t is about nineteen
miles from Connecticut Lake to the corner
between Maine and New Hampshire
which Is marked by an iron post set up ii
\ d. 1912, by the boundary survey Ot
that wear.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-06-10
The Burial of a Baby Princess.
A SCENE AT BUCHAREST

The Hospodar of Roumania has lost his
only child. She was, writes a CORES pond
ent of the London Times, Il beautiful and
lovable child, three and half years old,
and only four days previous in apparently
rude health, but suddenly fell victim to
scarlatina. A most sincere regret and
sympathy pervades all classes for the
Prince and his excellent wife, the Princess
Elizabeth de Wied, the more particularly
as it was their only child, though their
marriage was celebrated on the 18th of
November. 1869 The sale law prevail
ing here, the Roumanians were not mourn
ing for the loss of an heir 10 the throne.
but in pure sympathy for the affiiction of
the parents. According to Continental
custom interment follows rapidly after
death; in consequence the remains of
the poor babe We're the same evening con-
veyed, escorted by troops of cavalry, to
the Summer Palace, formerly the ancient
Monastere de Controceni. and the follow
ing day, at ? p. NJ, was appointed for the
| funeral service in the church i'm which it
had been baptized. The Summer Palace
is situated about five miles from the city
of Bucharest. The road presented an un-
broken line of pedestrians and carriages.
The ministers, officers, civic authorities
and foreign consuls were in full court COS
tune, the Boyards and civilians in full
dress, and their ladies in the deepest
mourning, but their sombre toilettes were
still the very acme of taste and luxury
| (par parenthese, the Roumanian ladies,
| surpass in richness and elegance Partisan
toilettes).
On arriving at the monastery all left
their carriages and passed on foot within
its ancient walls to the church, making
their way through crowds of troops sup
porting their colors draped in Grape. The
front row was entirely composed of supe-
Iior officers, with Grape on the left arm
and ut their sword handles. All the troops
had Grape on their left arm. All branches
of military and navy were represented
On entering the sacred edifice the blaze of
! light from the hundreds of wax lights
was dazzling. In the midst of this tenn
pie, beneath the dome, raised on an elevat-
ed bier, reposed the earthly remains of the
beloved child, enclosed in coffin covered
with white satin ornamented with broad
silver lace. The upper part of the coffin
and bier was covered by wreaths of the
richest flowers. Ranged around this fune-
real altar were young girls clad in white
from head to foot, their faces being yelled
with semi-transparent wells, their fair
heads being crowned with wreaths of vio-
lets and their waists girdled with the same
No ladies but in the deepest mourning
were allowed access to the church.
As soon as the service commenced some
iof the ministering priests distributed te
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-06-10
From Cassells Magazine.
Men who Face Death.
BY THIS | see,
Fortune does better aim than we
THE ENGINEER

The weather had been dirty for several
DAYS As the heavens were obscured no
observations could be taken, and we had
been obliged to sail by " dead reckoning :"
that is, we guessed our position from the
log. Dead reckoning is not very salts
factory mode of ascertaining vessels
position, and as the navig cation of this part
of our voyage was rather difficult, the poor
captain was very anxious. He and the
officers were continually glancing heaven
ward to try to get peep ut the sun; but,
as | have said, for days together there was
nothing to be seen but heavy masses of
clouds or banks of foggy drizzle. We
steamed along, halfspeed, very strict
lookout being kept. There was one wild
rocky point which the skipper was very
anxious to give us wide a berth rs possible,
and to make sure of this, as he thought.
he instructed the officers to make great
allowance in the steering. We should
have made land by this time, but hitherto
none had been sighted
When | turned in for my watch below,
the sea was getting up, and l noticed the
captain and chief officer on the bridge in a
very earnest consultation.
There will be a gale blowing shortly" !"
thought I, as turned into my bunk in or
der to snacth four hours sleep if possible.
fell into II profound slumber as soon as
had put my head down. Just as four
bells g A. NJ were being struck, / was
hurriedly reused by the entrance of the
chief engineer His face was blanched
with horror, and his tongue fastened, as
he reused me up
Get up, Thompson-get up for Gods
sake. We are going ashore, man, and
there's an awful gale blowing, and the
cursed thing is that there is something got
loose in the enginc-something down be-
low out of sight-and if it is not frightened
up at once, she will tear herself to bits"
why don't you stop her then and see
what is wrong?" asked half angrily;
have only had two hours below-that's
four bells just gone.'
"Stop her?" said the chief; eve can't!
The engine must be kept going to hold her
head to the sea, and keep way on her. We
are drifting on lee shore, in a gale, and
if we turned broadside to the sea, or if the
engine breaks down altogether, we'll be
among the rocks and the foam in ten min
utes."
now sprang out of my bunk, and has
tily dressed. While / was doing so, the
chief explained the situation more fully.
Some one must go down and put things to
rights, or all would perish. The diffiulties
and dangers of the task consisted in the
fact that it must be accomplished while the
engine was going. and all the while the
ship was tumbling and kicking about in a
most desperate fashion. Then again the
engines were g racing every few minutes
Il. e., when the propeller was raised out
of the water the engine went at terrible
pace, owing to the resistance being re-
moved 1t was not pleasant to dive down
into that hole among frantic machinery
the ships jumping and tumbling about
and nothing to grasp but hot, slippery. oily
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-06-10
Pyramid of ChOlula.

The city of the plain is only distinguish
able by single mound that lowers to a
respectable hill. Mr.. Beecher says that
one can understand the labor involved
in making a mountain by shoveling and
wheeling and dumping few barrows of
earth in his own lot. The Cholulans shov-
eed, wheeled and dumped Gf, indeed, they
did wheel, and did not carry it on their
shoulders and heads which is the more
likelv) not less than a score or two of mill
ions of such barrow-loads. to make a tenn
pie for their chief god, and on which many
of those who built it, or their children,
were offered in sacrifice. 1t is big rs
well as bad faith that would thus make
multitudes erect joyfully their own funeral
pyre.
This pyre has base of forty acres, the
size of the Boston Common. Conceive of
those free-religion puritans leveling off
that sacred place. and bringing loads of
earth from Brighton, Brookline, Dorches-
ter and Somerville, to erect the whole level
square into pyramid as high as the pine
apple of its State-house! Up, up, up slow
ly creeps the mighty plateau, growing
narrow as it grows taller, like many up.
lifted men. Yet when above the tallest
house of Beacon Street, it is twenty acres
across; and when it reaches the dome of
the capitol, it is ten acres across. And
all this for faith, and faith which involved
their own immolation, or that of their
nearest friends and kindred! How hap
pens it that Boston goes to Buddha for its
god? He lies nearer home on these Aztec
plains; he is native American, the better
suiting their national or continental con-
ceit he shows us faith that makes Budd-
has nirvana tame, for suicide is always
baser than submission to another's knife.
The pyramid of Cholula is the shrine that
should draw these worshipers. Here is
the eleventh religion that should swallow
up their ten, for it is more majestic than
any, save the one that builds its temple in
the skies. and offers up its one victim, the
Divine Author thereof freely and of His
own will, for the worlds salvation.
The pyramid is mounted by roadway
cut to the top. You see along the cleft
edge the strata of thin brick and other sub
stances which went to its composition.
Orchards open half way up, ravines drop
down near the summit, all the traits of nat
ural hills appear. A winding row of steps
makes the last ascent. The prospect is one
of great breadth and beauty of des0lation.
Scores of empty churches stand in an
empty town. The population has dwin-
died to its shortest span; a few hundred
hug the broad plaza, bigger than any in
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-06-10
A DE.THBED INTERVIEW BY TELEGRAPH.

The overland telegraph in Australia ex-
tends for 1900 miles across the wastes of
the insular continent, and the line is great
ly exposed to the attacks of the natives,
who use the wire to point their spears
with sharp edged fragments, with which
they scrape the spear blades smooth. In
order to guard the line, therefore, each
station is fort. On the evening of Feb
ruary 23 one of fthese stations was attacked
and in the melee Mr.. Stapleton, the mas
ter, was fatally wounded. The station
was 1900 miles from Adalaide and the
sufferer had to be treated for his wounds
by Dr. Gosse ofthat place, by means of
consultations over the wire. The case
was hopeless, however, and all that could
be done to make the situation of Mr.. Sta
pleton somewhat easier to bear was to
allow him to exchange a few parting
words with his wife, who. like the surgeon
was also 1900 miles away in Adelaide.
This was done, and the man and woman
who had seen each other for the last time
on earth were able, in a measure, to say TO
each other those words of tenderness which
cheer the dying in their last moments. and
leave pleasant remembrance upon the
minds of the bereaved. Other persons
who were wounded in the affair were sue
cessfully treated by DIR. Gosse.