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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-08-03

PR KENDALL,
A TTORNEY. BARTON LANDING, VERMONT.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1874-11-24

The Schenectady, New York, Star
relates this;
Solomon Smith, Junior, step up
here T.
Smith, a stupid Hooking country
boy, advanced to the platform,
tripped on the step, stood up and
began:
When General
Make your bow, sir!" interrupt
ed Mr.. Whipem.
The boy stopped short, made a
jjerky inclination, and went on:
When General Jackson climbed the heights,
Here he raised his feet as if
climbing.)
And tore the starry banner down.
(Snatching at the air.
He caught his foot upon stump,
And scraped himself from toe to crown.
During the delivery of these last
lines, he put on the most painful
expression of countenance, and
scraped his hand over his whole
person.
well done, Solomon said Mr..
Whipem, ego on with the next
verse;"
There amt no next verse, sir;
the moral comes next"
We'll, then, give us the moral
sir!'
As we rush upward on our way,
Quick fastening Ger the sod.
drumming from one side of the
platform to the other.)
Some little trouble stops our way,
And down We fall, by Cd
Solomon" said Mr.. Whipem, as
soon as he had recovered his breath,
" did you write that ~
No, sir" whimpered the boy,
.'Sam Jones wrote it for me. l gave
him two apples for it,
Thar" exclaimed Mr.. Whipem,
" I thought Sam Jones did it, he's at
the bottom of every piece OF mis-
chief in the country. Wait till l
ketch him!"
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1874-11-24

THE Detroit Free Press describes
in very plain language the result of
a prohibition policy of twenty years
in that State. During all that time,
it says, there have been spread upon
the statute books the most stringent
enactments for preventing the sale
of spirituous liquors as a beverage,
and for the punishment of those
dealing therein. And it is the con-
current testimony of friends and foes
of the prohibitory policy that pro-
hibition has been an utter failure,
and that intemperance, instead of
diminishing, has steadily increased.
Occasionally there have been times
when in some of the smaller sub
divisions of the State the traffic
seemed for a brief period to be
checked, but the fact was evident
that the people would have been
Just as temperate without law.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1874-11-24

A DREAM WHICH CAUSED A d.
voRCE.-A lady in Maine had a
dream that was not all a dream.
There was painful reality about it.
She dreamed that her husband, who
was leader of a choir in the village,
was too intimate with one of the
young ladies who sang in it. Her
dream told her that in a trunk in
the girls possession she would find
all her husbands amorous letters.
So powerful was the influence of the
vision that the wife searched the
girls trunk, and there found pack
age of letters. as she half expected.
The choir numbers one less than it
did; the leader has tried arnica and
hair restorers in vain, and has been
compelled to resign the baton, and a
divorce suit is pending. And all
through the influence of an empty
dream.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1874-11-24

Bishop Colenso arrived in England
from the Cape of Good Hope recent
ly. Before he left the Cape he had
asked for an interview with the con-
demned Caffre chief, Langabalele,'
whose sentence of transportation is
said to be illegal, but his request was
refused by the authorities, and tho
course thus taken by the govern
ment is said to have excited great in
dignation.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1874-11-24
BARBER SHOP.

TUN ZACHARIAH, WITH ASSISTANTS,
. can always be found at his shop, Silver
City, prepared to do
Hair Cutting, Shampooing, and Shaving
in the most tasteful manner possible. Give
him q call.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1874-11-24

In recent action for breach of
promise of marriage, the defend
ants counsel asked the plaintiff,
did my client enter into a posi-,
tive agreement to marry you?"
Not exactly she replied, "but
he courted me good deal, and he
told my sister he intended to marry
into our family"
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1874-11-24
VARIETIES.

luSU
been married to. Mr.. Timothy, of
Georgia. What a cereous family!
In the case of Kansas man being
struck by lightning, the Coroner's S
inry rendered a verdict: I" He was
calied by the Lord, but the Lord,
is all right
ARussian proverb says: Before
going to war, pray once before
Going to sea, pray twice; before get
ting married, pray three times.
The Vermont free-lovers have
formed the "Dawn Valcour Agricul-
tural Association for the improve
ment of agriculture and horticul-
ture, in Peru, on the island of Val
cour, and at Plattsburg, N. Y.
An exchange says - Father
BOYLE, of Washington, addressing a
school on an Easter celebration, a
Young Miss asked him: sFather
Boyle, what is the origin of Easter
egg p "A hen, no doubt, Miss, re-
Piled the father quietly"
The following appeared on a tomb
stone in Thompson, n. H.: i" Here
lies the body of Jonathan Richard
son, who had never sacrificed his
reason at the altar of superstition S
God, and who never believed that
Jonah swallowed a whale"
Milwaukee Nea0S "a Berlin
man rolled his wife down a cellar
and locked the door. The married
men all said he had done just right.
Cause-She insisted on having a
new monument tor her first hus-
band, and wanted one of those zinc
affairs, that are so fashionable, you
know"
The great national library of
France is showing some signs of
life and vigor. The administration
has just finished publishing printed
catalogues of 1885 works relating
to the history of France. 1t is an
nounced that the entire library en-
braces the enormous number of
2,077,571 volumes.
A bright little miss of six or there
abouts was making what is known
as rag doll. Turning to her
mother, she thoughtfully remarked:
!" Ma, didn't you say that God sees
everything ?" Yes, dear; of
course" "Well, l guess he'll laugh
when he sees this doll, won't he %
I" Where was Bishop Latimer
burned to death ?' asked a teacher
in commanding voice. Joshua
Knows" said little girl at the bot
tom of the class. Well" said the
teacher, "if Joshua knows, he may
tell" "In the fire." replied Joshua,
looking very grave and wise.
Two clergymen were busy dis
cussing a knotty problem in theol-
ogy. "I believe" said one, "i in
the doctrine of"-up went his feet,
and as he bored hole in the ice, he
finished the sentence -.' damna
toni" 1t did not sound pretty, but
then he Gidn't intend to say it that
way.
In the construction of the irriga-
ton works in the Battacola district
of Ceylon, a stone idol which has
stood on the plain of Amparree for
ages was likely to be submerged.
Recourse was had to the oracle of
the temple to decide whether the
god might be removed or not, and it
was decided in the negative. Con-
sequently the idol remains i'm
merged in water up to his chin half
the year.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1874-11-24

"ALAs" said the nurse who at
tended the witty divine, Sidney
Smith, in his last Illness" l have
made a mistake and given you
bottle of ink" "Then," said the
dying wit, ''fetch me all the blot.
ting paper there is in the house.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1874-11-24

Rev. J. T. ToDD, of Sioux City,
played rather neat little joke on
his wife, the other day. While she
was unsuspectingly engaged in half
soleing his winter trousers, he
quietly slipped out at the back gate
and eloped with milliner.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1874-11-24

NEXT to a rooster is rainstorm,
or man with his mother-in-law
on his arm, the most wretched-
looking thing in the world is can
didate who has just heard some
friend wanting to bet three to one
he won't be elected.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1874-11-24
CAUTION.

VyIRGINIA CITY COAL COMPANY. -
Sale No. 1.-The public is hereby eau
toned against purchasing the following de-
scribed Stock of the Virginia CITY Coal COM
pany, as the same has been sold for Assess
ment No ], this 3lst day Of October, 1874:
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1874-11-24

IN very we'll known town in
Vermont there is a f1ourishing colo
nv of Irish settlers who cultivated
the soil to some profit. Some of the
number emigrated few weeks since
to seek their fortune elsewhere. One
of them, returning on visit, was
making inquiries as to his old
friends, among them was one Jim
Donovan Ah, Ned, where is
jim Donovan?" "Oh, sure, he has
sittled down entirely, and is we'll OIL;
but, bad luck to him, he went to
Montreal and married little Prot
estant girl!" "Married what?' "a
Protestant girlw "May the divil fly
away wild him! why didn't he mar
nv one of his own sex?"
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1874-11-24
HAD AN ALrERNATIvE.-A go

HAD AN ALTERNATIvE.-A good
story is told of "Yank' Hatch. An
old acquaintance met him after sew
eral years absence and found him
still hard at work, and apparently
no better off in this worlds goods
than before.
After the usual salutations, the
following colloquy ensued.
"Well, Yank, l find you still hard
at work"
eyes, am still at work, but l am
not obliged to work any more"
"Why do you work so hard, if
there is no necessity for it?"
"Because l do not care. to avail
myself of the alternative"
.sWhat is your alternativeT'
"Well, if l must tell the truth, it's
work or starve, and l have conclu-
ded to work awhile longer"
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1874-11-24

+. C. LORD, secretary.
Ofhce-Room No. Z. Medin, Building, No. II
North C Street, Virginia City, Nevada.
Virginia City, New, Nov. !, 1874.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1874-11-24
Loves Learning.


Though never taught to measure space,
Nor versed in geometric lore,
The lines of beauty can trace,
And Chioe's finished form adore.
/ cannot tell linguist sage,
And skilled in critic ken profound,
The purport of each puzzling page,
Nor every tangled text profound.
But can read and run the while,
The lucid language of an eye,
The mystic meaning of smile,
The soft confession of a sigh.
No rhetoricians robe l wear,
But can teach many an artless vile,
The soft persuasion Of tear,
The ruby rhetoric of u smile.
And of all the charms can speak,
Which round my Chloe's image fly,
Bloom in the blossom of her cheek,
Laugh in the lustre of her eye.
The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-12-07

servations know whether the earth con-
Times to reyolve at the same distance from
the sun, or whether the earth, as some
claim, is gradually approaching the sun,
or whether the sun remains of the same
magnitude or consumes away and is
diminished by the light and heat constantly
sent forth therefrom. Furthermore, the
parallax of the sun is an element that enters
into the calculation Of eclipses, and the use
of these in astronomy, history, chronology
and geography are too fully understood TO
need explanation. BY them are, also, TO
be determined the quantity of matter in
the earth and the proportion which this
bears to that Of the sun; and show us pre-
cisely the velocity with which light is
darted from the sun and other luminous
bodies. Another immediate and practical
benefit will be IN the further development
of the "science Of navigation" benefit in
which the whole world is directly or indi-
rectly interested, and which alone would
Justify a larger outlay of time and money
than even has been placed at the disposal
of astronomers the present year
We will not tire the patience Of our read
ers any further, this morning. than to say
that for reasons, which VIC may state here
after, these transils can only occur in June
or December and to give list of future
predicted transits as compiled from anthem
tic sources. The first of these, as we have
said occurs tomorrow, December 9Th
1874, which, as we now know, and accord
ing to the prediction Of Professor Winthrop
made more than century ago, "will be in
visible here, the middle happening abou
midnight After tomorrow, they occu
| December 9. 1882; June :, 1904 June )
2O12; December TO- 2117; Defenders 8, 2125
June II, 2247 June s, 1858; December l2
1850; December 10, 23GS. at may hence b,
! Observed rcmarksa writer, chat they taxi
place in pairs eight years apart, and tina
the intervals of years between them ar,
respectively S,12l@, S,t04l, S,12ll and So
on, this being the order Of succession for
long duration of time The reason of thi
we will cndeavor TO make clear hereafter
The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-12-07

For all good children accompanied by their
parents, TO secure one OF those fine fitting
suits OF Miner. Beal ITackett. During
lntermisSlOn shall sell
Mems very nice Queechy Oyercoats cut long,
from sf.50 to 500
Mems English WOrsted, latest style, for $500
Mems German Beavers, latest style, $500 to
$500.
Mems Burlington Beavers, color warranted
fast, from $1,000 to $500.
Mems English Shag. from ST.. co to $1,000.
mems Black Union Beavers, from $500 to $500.
Mems Chinchllas, nicely bound, from $500 to
S12.t0.
In connection with this sale viii be a large
variety OF both Mems Boys and Chilorens
Cape Oyercoats. Also the celebrated Ulster
Goats.
Mems Union Coats, doubled line d, $3.50.
Mems Union Pants, from sl.00 to Sl.tO.
Mems all wool Pants, $500
Mems full suits, nicely made, all wool, $1,000.
Mems very fine Shetland Shirts and Drawers,
20 cents each.
Mems Dog Skin Gloves, fine stitch back, per-
feet, G5 cents,
have in stock 200 all wool Mems Shirts, all
cOlors, Sl.25.
Also, a very large stock Of
The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-12-07

NEW YORK. Dec 8.
Corros.-The market is quoted as dull; mid
ling uplands Is quoted at liAc.
prices are without decided change. Re-
ceipts of 10000 barrels. Sales Of 1l,0O0 bbls.
superllne state and western at 4.0o@4. 80 com
mon to choice extra state s4.9565.G5; common
to choice extra Western S4.90ta5.I5 common to
choice II. II. O. S4.95@6.75.
RYE FLOuR.-The market Is quoted as I'M
changed in prices and steady. Sales 800 hbs.
ut 4.2005.I5.
wmEAT.-Market quiet and heavy. Receipts
GC0 S es 4gESS No. N MwoRee IIF
for No. spring; 1.19Ca1 % for new winter red
western i l27@l 30 for amber western or,
Receipts none. Sales none.
CoRN-The market is quoted firm. Re-
c,elpts, 1900 ;, bushels. saIes Of 20 100
and SSG9l cents for new mixed and yellow west
ern.
BARLEY. = Barley is scarce andshrmer. Re.
oATs.~SIarket quoted as firm. Receipts
$4,000 bu. Sales $4,000 bu. at 69a701lc for new
mixed western; 69@72c for white Western.
100 bbls 21.00 for new and old mess.
BEEF-Market is quiet.
CUT MEATs-The market is quoted as quiet
LARD -. Market is quoted firm. Sales 200
tlerces at 1890 13-1Gc for steam same price
given for Kettle rendered.
BuTTER.-The market Is quoted at 2S6i4 for
state and Pennsylvania, new.
CHEEsE.--Cheese is quoted at l2JE@15lic for
common to prime.
WnIsKY-The whisky market is firm at l.03
per gallon free.
EGGs.-The market is quoted as quiet at
80 G3lc for state and Pennsylvania
PETRoLEuM.-Is quoted at 5kc. for crude; 1915
"a lie. for refined.
LEATHER.-Market IS quoted steady. Buenos
Ayres and, Rio Grande light to heavy weights
are quoted at 26h@3Oc.
COAL.-Market is quoted as firm at $1,000
$50 for Anthracite per ton per cargo.
WooI.-Market is quoted as firm, Domestic
| fleece at 43@G5c; unwashed at 17@3,c pulled
| 3s@5Oc state 00@O0c: tubbed at &C.
The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-12-07
A"N York stock ana Money MARKET.
LATEST MONETARY.

LATEST MONETARY.
NEW YORK, Dec. 8.
Gold opened at lllA, afterward selling at
lll16 and then again at MY
sterling exchange rates remain steady and
without change at ds5h and 49OH.
The stock market on Saturday opened gener-
ally strong and prices advanced Pacific Mail
was feverlsh and excited, but in the main
stronger, with indications that the present
prices are about the lowest that are looked for
The specie shipment to Europe on Saturday
footed up 81 100000.
The stock exchange gold room and all other
exchanges closed at noon on Saturday.
Stocks closed strong and steady The London
dispatches were unimportant, showing no
change abroad In prices.
Abraham II. Carrick, dry goods merchant of
Church street, has suspended and assigned ;
LIABILITIES 100000 steinwsy Plant, Jobbers In
furnishing goods, of White street. also suspend.
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The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-12-07

THE SECRET Is HERE-Mose THOMPSON
and other large wholesale houses are very much
depressed. both in spirits and pocket and are
bound to sell. Nose says 1t is far better to sell
To-day IMAM walt longer. Money must be had,
Taking advantage or the great depression of the
boys and market, l was enabled to buy good
ing prices, which gives me the golden Oppor-
tunity of doing unto others as would be done
by.
citizens OF Rutland and vicinity, 1t is with
many regret that make this great sacrifice
ON stock, but as have previously stated, l
want money, must have 1t or perish. am COM
tail department, so as to save my wholesale de-
parlmen, which Is Just now in q crippled con-
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Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-03-22

MINERS UNIoN.-A mass meeting OF
miners was held at Armory Hall, Silver
City, on Saturday evening last, for the
purpose of organizing a Miners Union
III Lyon county. A strong delegation Of
nearly all the leading members OF the
Gold Hill and Virginia Miners Unions
were in attendance, and at the hour of
meeting the hall was crowded to its ut.
most capacity.
John f. Mcdonnell. President Of the
Gold Hill Miners Union, was unani.
mously called TO the chair. He explained
the object for which the meeting was
called, advising them not to allow any
but practical miners TO join their ranks,
and stated that if they would organize on
the same principles as the Gold Hill and
Virginia Miners Unions, these Unions
would gladly step forward and extend
the friendly hand of fraternity and fel-
lowship to them. After spec tches from
several gentlemen, President, John F.
Mcdonnell, OH behalf of the Gold Hill
Miners Union then rose and officially
recognized the Silver City Miners Union
OF Lyon county, and appointed Tuesday
the 24th instant as the evening he wou''
preside at the election of officers for the
Union. Hundreds OF miners came for
ward to join. but could not be admitted
until after the election of officers. A
committee was then appointed to pro-
cure hall to meet in.
After some more preliminary business
had been gone through, n vote of thanks
was given to the members OF the Storey
county unions for the spirit they showed
in bringing the meeting-which was the
largest and most enthusiastic ever held
in Silver City-to such successful issue.
&c. II. News
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-03-22

Poor Lizzie Cannon, who in q fit of
frenzy discharged pistol at Charles +.
MacDermot, the man who, in some mys-
terious way never explained. had cast
shadow upon her life. was brought down
yesterday morning from the City and
County Hospital to the Municipal Grim
inal Court. She looked i'll and haggard,
and apparently her earthly career will
soon close. Her counsel, Mr.. Campbell,
said that although physically unfit for
trial. Lizzie desired to have her case dis
posed of, not wishing to have that unset-
tied when she passes away. Judge Blake,
in compliance with the request of coun.
sci, ordered that the trial begin in the
morning. MacDermot is still absent in
Europe. rs. F. Call.