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Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1874-06-18
REPUBLICAN CONVENTIONS.

Three State Conventions of the Re-
publican party were held yesterday.
One in Vermont, n in Indiana, and
the third in Illinois. All were largely
attended. 1t was expected that the con-
ventions Of the two last named States
would take strong ground in favor Of in.
%fation, and many prophesies as to the
probable effect Of such action upon the
party in the campaign have been made.
The Indiana Convention. under the in
fiuence Of Morton, adopted a plank
which leans infationward. 1t is Us fol.
lows:
We are in favor Of such legislation on
the question Of finance a. shall make
national banking free. and shall furnish
the country with such an additional
amount Of currency ~ will be necessary
to meet the wants Of the agricultural.
industrial and commercial interests Of
the country, to be distributed between
the sections according to the population,
and such ~ is consistent with the credit
and honor Of the nation and will avoid
the possibility Of permitting capitalists
and combinations OF capital controlling
the currency Of the country.
The Illinois Convention takes no
ground I favor OF an increase IN the
currency, but on his subject has thu
following resolution:
That. as one OF the consequences Of
,he l'e ei'n war, aooa' =
issusd 10 md are now held BY the peo.
pie, and is a safe and convenient cur
! rency, and it would be unwise aud mex
I Pedient in the present comm
: uph OF 'as people 70 a.c' ~, pV NV,
: tom Of such treasury notes.
A Indicative hanover NJ the feelin,
4 ., n..o,.o,,o, 1, ma, la r,,.5 tina
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1874-06-18
Eureka Items.
Prom IN. sentinel. June 1911

0 "tHe sui
From oil accounts splendid progress is
being made in the construction Of the
Eureka and Palisade Narrow Gauge
Railroad. Our fellow-townsman, T. J..
Maupin, Of the well known firm Of Maui
pin x Cromer, who returned from San
Francisco last Saturday, informs us that
he rode out fourteen miles on the Mar
row Gauge. He thinks the Hay Ranch
was certainly reached last night, making
the total length Of completed road sew
enteen miles. Three miles this side OF
the Hay Ranch, or twenty miles out
from Palisade, n station Is to be built for
the accommodation Of the travelling
public. that being the point at which
the stages are TO connect with the iron
horse. Barring bad luck, the stages
will probably run to the end OF tho road
| at the new station on or before the first
day Of July. A reduction OF twenty
miles in the stage ride to Palisade will
be an important item to travellers, and
one that will doubtless be highly appre-
| ciated by all who have occasion to pass
over the road. II is gratifying to know
that the managers Of the Narrow Gauge
are pushing the work s. energetically.
On Sunday DR.. Chamblin was called
upon by a man just arriving in town,
who had been afflicted with a mild form
Of smallpox or varioloid for some days
past, in fact having already passed the
worst stage OF the loathesome disease.
He hal been working on a sheep ranch
about thirty miles from town, and re-
ports another man sick with the malady
at the ranch. He was taken to the pest
house Immediately, and a favorable turn
In the disease having already taken
place, he will be fully recovered in d
short time.
The Richmond Company yesterday
shipped 100. 900 pounds Of refined, tn,
Eureka Consolidated 5000, and thu
Hoosac Company 10000 pounds o.
crude bullion by Pritchard's line to the
railroad. Total. 1851 900 pounds. There
was also shipped by the fast freight H.
9G7 ounces OF Meadow Valley bullion
from Phoebe, valued at S7,029 IL.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1874-06-18

The Eureka Seniinl comes to us this
morning greatly enlarged. 1t is now the
former size Of the Com HILL Nrws, and
carries a much larger amount Of read
ing matter than heretofore. We ION.
g~ratulate Brother Cassidy ON the evident
success OF the S,diSo. The pluck dis
played by him when a few months since
the Ssnib'd Office and contents were to-
tally destroyed by fire merits recogni-
ton. and evidently is appreciated by the
Eureka people. May the !ScntiasI ''live
long and prosper" is our wish for its
plucky proprietor.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1874-06-18
The Post says :

CONGRESSMAN Wilson. Of the House
Judiciary Committee, yesterday present
ed a report in the case Of Judge Durcll,
Of Louisiana, recommending and provid-
Ing for his impeachment. Two dissent
ing minority reports were also presented
and all were ordered printed.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1874-06-18

VIZ fail to find in the Geographic col.
umns of Sutro's Virginia City organ any
mention OF the victory" achieved by
its master before the Senate Committee
ON Public Lands in the matter OF the
Pratt bill. Which is another grave
omission.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1874-06-18

GENEE,L BURNSIDE still leads in the
Rhode Island Senatorial contest. Two
ballots were had yesterday, in the last
Of which the General received AZ out OF
40 votes cast, or within eleven OF enough
to elect him,
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1874-06-18
rYRRELL a cummINcs,
MASS MEETING.

THE CITIZENS OF STOREY COUNTY
= are requested TO meet at the Court house
on THURSDAY EVENING, June 18Th, at /
o'clock sharp, for ths purpose OF receiving the
report OF their Executive Committee, and also
TO- further complete the arrangements for the
celebration Of nc coming Fourth Of July.
by order OF
J. @. cURRIE, President.
7. A. STEPHENS. Secretary.
Virginia City, June Is, 1874. Jui5 I'd
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1874-06-18
DEFEATED.

MY. DutAos 49,
w~ithstanding the efforts Of the illustrious
Pratt, to close the case and enforce the
gag law before the Committee on Public
Lands in reference to his bill; in spite OF
the eminently fair motion which he
made before that committee to hear no
argument from any n opposed to Mr..
Sutro's schemes, he made n most con-
spicuous failure. This committee. like
the Judiciary. before whomthe merits Of
the Negley amendment came for discus
sion and decision, failed to recognize the
necessity or equity Of giving Mr.. sutro
and his foreign hackers the mines upon
the Comstoek lode. They could not see
wherein this tunnel swindle was above
all justice, or whereby its rights were
jeopardized by lack Of further legisla-
ton in its interest. This committee
was selected by Mr.. Sutro's latest
advocate. the now notorious Pratt. He
samembcr thereof, and the presumption
- H. h.l-a ,ua,ou.a .la~ou -
a.
force . favorable report The committee
held a special session last evening, and
-,
ro's latest progeny. This ends the con-
-. = A. g..
"'' va" N "' Nv"
uo runner SNinuie io' 'no P''S'"'' anu
places MIR. Sutro in the vast array oil
beaten lobbyists. 1t hasn't been n very
GOOD wear for LOBBYISTS in Congress. We
100000 - u,o,.o,,a ,ho r.,,,,
"ono" P''f'"
OF MI. Sutro To Nevada. Although nc
doesn't yet own the Comstock lode. his
.s,,ts IN that emil deserxc and will re-
=. a. uooo,,i,;o, ~ ,ho n.o,lo "a
-
storey county tono"ihg II
from Washington, dated the 10Th inst,
giving an account OF the debate before
N. oomu;,,.. op this hill Sptro's "a
- c. o.,..h, r.
P"es " 'A''' os"s''' ~
these 1t appears That somebody
lied when he said 10 members of the
uo,so n, ,,. ,;u. al. Ne,,.v amend.
ma, ~ N,.
nen' w 'e"a'e p"" NO ""' u''
discussion, that the bill was hostile To
the Sutro Tunnel, and would work il in
- -, - :,
Jury! f''P'' VIM ''' nv i'P'iS
the debates upon that bill ran judge who
is the Ananias:
The Senate Committee ON Public
Land. met this morning to consider SUI
49, new pronosition IN comncl ali
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1874-06-18

p. Q. HrNAS, Warden Of the Nevada
State Prison. has returned from his trip
TO the East.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1874-06-18
Births.

HCGuEs-ln Virginia City. June II. TO the
Wits ef Thomas Hughes. q daughter.
HANsEN-ln Dayton, June 10, to the wife oil
Jacob Hansen, q daughter.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1874-06-18
NOTICE.

A IL PERSONS 10 WHOM WEIR DIS
a thbuSsd for sale, Tieksts for the Picnic
Of the Silver CITY Miners Unlel. NJ respect.
fully asksd for Q sett smoai before nsxt Tues.
day, a. 10 70 absolutely noeessssy TO the adjust
ment Of the accoupta
D. sEwKIL, Rec. Secretary.
Silver Oily, June 10, 1871. juieiw
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1874-06-18
Deaths.

siLvA-IA Gold Hin. June rs. Manuel Silva, q
native Of Portugal. aged IS years.
DOUGLAS-At McConnelfs Station, W. r. X.
r., June II, George N. Douglas aged 60 years.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1874-06-18
NEW TO-DAY.

HAvING SPECIAL ARRANGEMENTS
u with the two largest Cigar Factories In
San Franclseo-NArRiscn nRos., and LEws
BRos.-1 offer any brand. manufactured by
them, At their prices, free Of freight charges.
juls I'm
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1874-06-18

THIS Old KsTABLIsHRD AND
1 reliable Laundry 10 prepared 70 turn out
any quantity OF Renovated and Clean Lir :,
Without Being damaged By ~ uipuAtion or
By chemical application.
Packages punetually called for and returned
Oncss-lntcrnationsl Hotel and WAlisee's
Fruit Store. Ia south G street, Virginia and
'vesey House. Gold Hid.
JulH sff.efI J.F. d u. w. HALL.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-10-21
OppOsed TO Patents.

A strong opposition has gained head
of late in England against the patent
laws, and has been strengthened by the
support of Sir Roundell Palmer, who,
it may be said, had he consulted his
private interests, would certainly have
been among the first to uphold sys-
tenn productive of such immense pecu-
MARY benefits to the law practitioners.
He seconded Mr.. Macfie's motion, made
in May, 1868, for the abolition of pat
ents, and in his speech propounded the
doctrine that invention and discovery
were essentially unlike literary produc-
ton. Copyright. he held, applied to a
creation. A man wrote book: he thus
brought into existence something which
had no existence in the nature of things
before. The rest of the world we're not
in the race with him to write that par
ticular book. But in the case of inven-
tions and discoveries, the facts with
which they were concerned lay in na-
ture itself. All had right of access to
the knowledge of natural laws, and all
engaged In such pursuits were actually
upon the track which led to discovery
and invention. He cculd not allow
that the man who happened to be the
first in the race of discovery could
claim for fourteen, or any other term of
years, an exclusive property in portion
of the common stock of knowledge
which was accessible to all who had the
means of discovering it. What are
termed secondary patents Sir R6undell
condemned as unmitigated evils, and
said that they exceeded in number
patents of Importance, in the ratio of a
hundred to one.-PhrenOlogicdl Jour
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-10-21
Take Time to Rest.

Most men and women mustkeep in the
traces and keep pulling, the year round.
All the more, therefore, is it their duty
to take things easier as the hot weather
comes on. Take longer rests at noon.
Put on less steam when you are at
work. Snatch Sunday now and then
from the middle of the week. You
can't? You can. People find time to
be sick and die. They can Just as easily
find time to rest and keep well. Every
thing does not depend on finishing that
dress or fencing that field or putting
up" so much fruit or catching so many
customers. Better that the children
should wear old clothes than that their
mother should be laid aside by a fever.
Better that the corn crop be a little
lighter than that there be no one to
harvest it. Let us have shorter SER
mons and fewer of them on Sunday I;
longer recesses for the children at
school on week days. Put up the store
shutters earlier at night prepare
palmer meals IN the kitchen. Take a
noon-daynap yourself, and give your
employers chance to 60 fishingof an
afternoon now and then. That only is
duty which the Lord lays upon us and
he is not so hard master as we some
times suppose.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-10-21
Quicksilver.

Mercury is the only metal known to
science which is fluid at ordinary tenn
peratures.
Mercury was well known to the an
clients, who, however, seem to have had
strange ideas regarding it. They
thought it was silver in some peculiar
allotropic state. The name .'Argent,tnl
ViU,ni," by which they knew it, lead
to the modern name Quicksilver. u
The symbol used by the chemists of the
present day to represent mercury is
''Hg," from the Latin name "Hydrar-
gyrun,," literary, "Silver-water."
Pliny writes that the Greeks obtained
vermilion, which is the sulphuret OF
mercury. from the Almaden mines in
Spain, 700 years before the birth of
Christ. 1t was known as Minimum" a
name now applied to oxide of lead. 1t
was found as a scarlet sand in the beds
of rivers. Ten thousand pounds were
sent to Rome annually, under seal,
where it was manufactured into ver-
million.
Four centuries before Pliny's time
this metal is mentioned by Aristotle
and Theophrastes, under the name of
''huid silver" Vitruvius describes a
method of fire gliding copper and silver
by its aid, much as the same process is
conducted at the present day.
The word vermilion is of quite re-
cent origin, being taken from the
French word "vermeil," from 'vermi-
culum," name applied in the Middle
Ages to Kernls, which is the Arabic
name for an insect from which a red
dye was obtained. The literal transla-
tion of KeTms is ''little worm," hence
the name "vermiculum" and ''ver-
million"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-10-21
A Nerve ChrOnOmeter.

Some experiments have recently been
made by Exner to determine the reac-
ton time of the sensorium, that is to
say, the time required to convey an
impression along the nerves to the
brain, and to convey an order from the
brain to any portion of the body, to-
gether with the interval required by the
brain to deliberate and act. Exner's
method of observation consisted in
stimulating some portion of the body,
and requiring the person Immediately
to make a signal by pressing a tele-
graphic key with the right hand.
Marks were produced on a blackened
cylinder both at stimulation and at sig
mailing, and the interval was noted by
the ordinary methods of the chrono-
graph. The reaction time ranged be-
tween thirteen and thirty-six hun
dredths of a second, and seems inde-
pendent of age, being shortest in those
who have the habit of concentration.
The tables also show it to have been
the shortest when the stimulation was
applied to the eye by means of an elec-
tric shock, and then follow in order an
electric shock given to the finger of the
left hand, sudden sound, an electric
shock to the forehead, shock to the
right-hand finger, the sight of an cleo
trio spark, and lastly shock commu-
nicated to the toes of the left foot.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-10-21
Child Life Among the Shakers.

The Pittsfield (Mass.) Eagle says
that children placed with the Shakers
at Lebanon are indentured to Benjamin
Gates, or some authority, until they
"become of age" he agreeing in the
papers to provide them food, clothing,
&c. They are then placed i'll the
"children's order" under the charge of
a sister designated tn care for them,
and she commences ut once to lnstlll
into their minds the glories of the creed.
In their management not a blow Is
struck. Refractory ones are punished
by being laid fiat upon the floor, face
down. When they have been kept thus
PROSTATE for n length of time, they are
taken up and talked to-" the enormity
of their offenses pointed out, and are
eXhorted To behave better in the future.
Those from eight to dozen years of
age "gO to confession" every Saturday,
and Gown up (or are supposed toy to
the little sins of the week that have
escaped the notice of their guardians.
And as they receive special approval
after an apparently very full confession,
they early learn to conjure up quite
enormous stories, knowing that they
gull their confessors into a deeper
belief in their penitence. Now don't
you Itti DtltcI dlltI tbultSSihS an
that ?" asks the ancient virgin who has
heard the story. Yea, yea" saws the
little miss, and tipping wink to her
companions she walks out as sedately
as a spinster of seventy. Another
method of punishment is to put the
youngster into large sack, tying it
lightly round the neck. Should the
child refuse to get into the bag 1t is
drawn over the refractory one, and
then, head, feet, and all envelOped, he
or she is left to repent of the offensive
disObedience. The children are sent
to school four months each year-the
boys in the Winter and the girls in the
Summer. CO-educatiOn hasn't the
slightest support there. The girls and
boys must not converse together. Ii
they happen to meet, and if a roguish
yOungster is bold enough to break the
silence with some pretty maiden, the
maiden must be deaf and dumb to him.
"Isn't there some boy here that you
are just little fonder of than the
others r. is standing question in the
confessional. The reply always is
"nay," and the blind old goodies be-
lieya IL ~
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-10-21
Fashion I'm Nature and Art.

But what is fashion? 1t is simply
the common way OF doing things.
Things must be done. We all agree to
that. The human animal was not sent
furred or hairy into the world. 1t must
dress itself. In this climate it must
dress itself a good deal. The bear and
the beaver have no opportunity of set
ting or following the fashions. They
go in a foreordained groove. The
ducks neck and the peacock's tail are
wonderful specimens OF splendor in
attire, but neither duck nor peacock
has any hand in the matter. To man
alone is given the high art of using
taste. Judgment and genius in his
clothes. And high art it is. in spite Of
all our denuncistions. Man and his
Maker are the formers of all the fashions
of the world. Man devises his own
dress. The Creator devises the dress
of all the beasts of the field, the birds
of the air, the fish Of the sea. If we
are to be taught by example, there
need be inherently no limit to variety
and splendor of costume. So far as
usefulness is concerned, all the birds
might Just as well be gray. Does fish
taste any better because his scales
simmer like opal in the sunshine ?
Man may waste himself on invention,
but ne can never hope to surpass the
splendor of the beetle and the butter
hy.-Why is the cut of coat. the tint
of gown, unworthy of the human
mind, when the Creator has so clothed
the grass of the field which to-day is
and tomorrow is cast into the oven {? A
woman trims her hat, but God made
the feather.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-10-21
The Dome of st. Paul.

The dome of st. Paul's is the origi-
nal of our dome at Washington but ex-
ternaIly think ours is the more grace
full of the two, though the effect inside
is tame and fiat in comparison. This
is owing partly to the lesser size and
height, and partly to our hard, trans
parent atmosphere, which lends no
charm or illusion, but mainly to the
stupid, unimaginative plan of it: Our
dome shuts down like an inverted iron
pot there is no vista, no outlook, no
relation, and hence no proportion.
You open a door and are in a circular
pen, and can look in only one direction
up. If the iron pot were slashed
through here and there, or if it rested
on q row of tall colums, or piers, and
was shown to be legitimate part OF
the building, it would not appear the
exhausted receiver it does now.
The dome of st. Panl's is the culml-
nation of the whole interior of the build
ing. Rising over the central area, 1t
seems to gather up the power and ma
jesty of the nave, the aisles, the tran
septs, the choir, and give them express
sion and expansion in its lofty firma-
ment.-Scri6ners's for September.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-10-21
Purity Of Life.

1 believe the world o,ces it to boys, as
well as to girls, that they shall be
brought up to manhood with clean
minds this condition is much more ne
cessary than clean faces, hands, and
clothing, although the latter would nat
urally be associated with the former
condition.
Purity in the training of boys does
not make girls OF them. They do not
grow unmanly, as is too commonly be-
lieved. by being taught modesty.
Lately it was my pleasure to remain a
short time in family in which there
were four or five we'll brought up boys
and young men. They were stalwart,
handsome, manly set, with self.re-
spect and modesty that gave them a
certain dignity, young as they were !;
but they had live mother, though only
plain, unlearned woman. They were
obedient, affectionate. and respectful
to her. She had made every effort to
educate them to arouse their ambition
and industry, and had succeeded well,
but especially was she anxious about
their morals. l believe this article was
suggested by observing in her homely
but excellent face her motherly solici-
tude when they were likely to be ex-
posed to evil companions.
Among farmers, society does not re-
solve itself into castles, but at their So
cial gatherings or dances" as they are
called, the lowest characters, even in
point of morals, may mingle with the
best. repeat. one could see the strug
gle in this mother's-face between MARI
ing the pleasure of her brood and see
ing them among evil associates. Her
boys understood it, too, and sometimes
would say Mother, l don't care at all
about going, 1 am going to stay at
home" They were entirely trustwor-
thy abroad, as the following incident
will prove A neighbor's son came one
day to visit them. The mothers coun-
tenance darkened as she saw him ap-
proach. She said to me afterward, 'I
imagine my boys will learn more vile
ness from that fellow in an hour than
they would in year out of his COM
pany he's had no training" At the
school which these young men atten-
ded, l noticed them when together
though they we're companionable, So
cial, and pleasant with this Deighbor,
one could see the good mothers infu-
ence reaching out from home. There
seemed no cordial interchange of CON-
modities of low nature, but they I'M
refined their neighbor, and
to him great self-respect.-
PhrenOlogical Journal for October.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-10-21
Keep Ii To Yourself.

You have trouble-your feelings are
injured, your husband is unkind, your
wife frets, your home is not pleasant
your friends do not treat You fairly,
and things in general move unpieas-
antly. Well, what of it? Keep it to
yourself. A smouldering fire can be
found and extinguished; but, when
the Goals are scattered, who can pick
them up? Bury your sorrow. The
place for sad and disgusting things is
under the ground. A cut finger is not
benefited by pulling off the plaster, and
exposing it under somebody's eyes;
tie it up and let it alone it will get
well of itself sooner than you can cure
it. Charity covereth a multitude OF
sins. Things thus covered are often
cured without a scar; but, once pub
lished and confded to meddling friends,
there is no end to the trouble they may
cause. Keep it to yourself. Troubles
are transient, and, when a sorrow is
healed and past, what comfort it is to
say, No one ever knew it until it was
all over 7