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The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-02-03

I know fortune may be regained. social
position may be obtained, and the So
cial stain almost wiped out. l say
yes, though a man might be reunited
to his family and to his friends, the
horrors of ten years. life of imprison-
ment, ten years of silent labor, exclu-
sion from the world, from communion
with society, with Intercourse with
mankind and womankind, ten years OF
self lf-contemplation and introspection.
ten years for remorse and despair are
enough to derange the human intel
lect, as the intellects of nearly ali men
who have been confined in the pen for
any great length of time have been
shattered and broken. Nothing equal
to it was ever invented.
IKansas City Journal of Commerce.]
Another bread riot in the Missouri
penitentiary! The miserable wretches
whose misdeeds have forced a great,
brave and humane people to lay their
strong hands upon and con6ne them,
have been seised by . mercileas and
corrupt ring of soulless politicians
and sold, and now in their slavery are
able to obtain food to keep them alive
only by riot. Such is the chapter of
history this leasing business is writing
for Missouri. Slavery, abolished as
to the individual STAKEHOLDER is adopt
ed as State enterprise, and in addi-
ton to the punishment State may
inflict upon malcfactors, starvation is
added to the portion of the unfortu-
nate and helpless victims. 1t may
save the State few dollars, but 1T
conflicts with the theory of the Con-
stitution, shocks common humanity,
shames religion, and disgraces a great
State.
A more horrible place than the
Missouri penitentiary, under the leas-
ing policy, it were difficult for imagi-
nation to paint Starved and fed on
rotton food until especially subjected
to disease and death, the dead convict
is hustled, nude as a newborn babe,
into a rough, pine box, and buried
with no ceremony or recognition of
his humanity than marks the inter
ment of a rabid dog The men are
denied soap with which to wash or
shave, and hence go for weeks with
unshaven faces and unwashed bodies;
and when discharged at the termina-
tion of their sentence, although the
law requires that they be sufficiently
clad, they are sent into the wintry
blasts shivering, with their garments
so badly moth eaten that they will not
hold together until the poor wretch
gets out of the city.
Such are the facts as stated by one
who is evidently informed. And,
added to all this, the lessees are con-
stantly coming forward with applica
tions for State aid, alleging that the
institution does not pay. Did men
ever know such infamy to prosper?
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-02-03

When you call at the Office for your
mail, and the Postmaster hands it out,
ask him if that is ALL 1t you ask for
mail, and he tells you there is none,
tell him there ought to be. Then go
home and send all the rest of the
family around to ask at different times
through the day. Don't bring your
mail to the Office until the mail is
closed, then curse the Postmaster for
not opening the mail bag and putting
your letter in. When you want a
stamp on your letter, tell the POST
master to put it on; il he don't like it
lick him. In case you put it on your
self. soak it in your mouth long
enough to remove the mucilage; it will
then stick until it is dry. Be sure
and ask the Postmaster to credit you
for stamps; if he has any accommo.
dation about him he will do it. IF
you have a box, stand and drum on it
until the Postmaster hands out your
mail; it makes him feel good, especial
ly if he is waiting on somebody else.
Be sure and ask the Postmaster for
your mail while he is distributing. and
before the window is open for deliv-
cry. y. w. NJ.
MORNING VIEW, KY.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-02-03

A Bostoni journal innocently re.
marks that there is an air Of improba-
bility about the Chicago Posts story
of "a woman who was eaten up by
grasshoppers." Some of these Bos-.
ton papers would doubt the veracity
of Mr.. Gulliver himself.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-02-03

The editor Of the Madison Courier
siding with the chewers Of tobacco.
declares that the weed is . powerful
tranqui)izer and allayer of firritability. !"
and that, therefore, it may be usefully
employed in the household. If he
would step into . Texas bar room
about the time the shooting com. !.
mences, and see how lively some of
his tobacco-chewing friends can make
. dull evening, he would place less
confidence in tho great tranquiliser.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-02-03

The Houston, Mo- Pioneer relates
the following: While Doctor Young
and Hayden Lynch we're on their way
from Waynesville to this place they
stopped at a cabin by the wayeide to
warm The proprietor announced
himself as q doctor Of medicine. and
was entertaining his guests with q
vivid account of the honors he bore
off at the Mcdowell Medical College
at the time of his graduation. While
intent on his narrative, an Obtrusive
hen, oblivious of the profundity of
the doctors discourse. and of her own
duty as . genteel bird, entered the
room, and flying upon the bed. depos
tied thereon q new-laid egg. "A we'll
bred hen would, of course, have re-
tired quietly and waited for another
voice to have sounded her praise. but
this plebean biped, copying her mss-
ter's example, at the close of the per-
formance, cackled loudly to call atten-
tion to the feat che had 80 expedi-
tiously accomplished. The pseudo
doctor was annoyed at the intrusion.
To think that high toned chicken of
his own brood, one he had nurtured
with great care, and instructed In the
profoundest mysteries of hen litera-
ture, should go far forget the respect
due her master as to cackle in his
presence, and thus interrupt and
break the thread of his narrative, just
at its most interesting part. Annoyed.
yet seeking not to appear so, he glanced
furtively about for missile to hurl
at the offender. A cat at his feet
seemed the most convenient object,
and seizing her by that rear append.
age vulgarly called a tail, and with
back handed toss threw her at the OBJ
trusive biddy, and thus drove her
from the apartment. The doctor re-
sumed his narration, and tho cat en-
sconsed at his feet, seemed to take
her use as a matter of course. A few
moments passed and another hen, en-
ulative Of her predecessor. entered
through q crevice in the logs, sought
the nest, and beside the first deposit
ted another egg, all unobserved by
the master of the house, but much to
the mcrriment of his guests. The
host had reached point in his narra-
tive just proceeding the climax. and
was using the pronoun | with fright
full frequency. just as the hen accom-
plished her purpose and broke out
with the most internal din of which
the bird language is capable. For
bearance was no longer virtue; and
the exasperated man sprang to his
feet, made several brief, ejaculaiory
quotations not found in Scripture,
and seizing the recumbent cat, waved
her fiercely over his head for a mo-
ment, and then hurled her at the of
Tending bird. A squall from both cat
and hen ensued-a cloud of hair and
feathers arose, and amid the confusion
and din our friends fed the apart
ment, with narrative of the doctor in
complete, and posterity will never be
apprised Of the conclusion of the
thrilling tale.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-02-03

The past few weeks have seen ten
thousand changes upon the reign. OF
oppression and hatred" which the Re
publican party has visited upon the
staid, equable, and long-sufferine peo-
pie of the South. A document is up
on our table as we write, in which one
of the oprressions Is set forth in fig
ures which do not he. Il is the report
of Secretary Belknap of his expendi
ture of 1910, ,945.63 in ''tlie issue of
supplies to sufferers from the over
flow on the Lower Mississippi, and
on the Tombigbee, Warrior, and Ala
bama Rivers, under the act of April
q, 1874, and the acts and joint
resolutions supplementary thereto"
These acts were passed by Republi-
can Congress, approved By Republl-
can President, and carried into effect
by the Regular Army Of the United
States. Misunderstanding Louisi-
ana-in which State the Goddess of
Liberty has been so shockinely de
foured-received during a period of
118 days 2,699, ,622 rations of pork,
1881 ,6S8 rations OF corn meal, 168, 800
rations of hard bread, and 2762, ,240
rations of beans-enough, says the
commissary of subsistence. to have
fed 26.27O persons daily. during that
portion of the time. The South has
been fed by the North when she has
been starving. Northern people have
flown to the relief of her cities when
the yellow fever has decimated them
laying down their lives in the fruitless
effort to stay the pestilence. But to-
day all this benefcence is lost sight
of, and the air is blue with the curses
of those whom we have nursed and
fed. The viper. warmed into ANNA
ton. turns and bites the hand to
which it owes its life.-Inter-O Ocean.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-02-03

The best hit of the able debate on
Louisiana affairs in the United States
Senate was made, the other day. bv
Gen. Logan when he said: "The
Democrats of this chamber have de-
nounced Sheridan more since he wrote.
that dispatch than they ever denounc-
ed JEFF. Davis and the whole rebellion.
during the four years it was thunder
ing at the constitution"
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-02-03

LOuf01aDa Remarks of Senator PeaSe.
Senator Pease, of Mississippi, on
the 25th, sent to the Clerk desk the
resolutions Of the Mississippi Legisla-
tire indorsing the action of General
Sheridan in Louisiana, and said the
President had been declared an
usurper and a military ,lictator. He
had been arraigned on mere newspa-
per reports. When the facts came
out it was shown instead Of any at
tempt to overthrow the government of
Louisiana, the President had only
performed that which his oath of Of
fice compelled him to. The President
was bound to recognize kellogg rs
Governor of the State Congress has
taken no action TO establish a govern
ment there, and the President had no
other course than the recognition of
Kellogg left him. He said the act of
Wiltz was part of a conspiracy on the
part of the Democrats to overthrow
the government of Louisiana. Not
one word of censure has come from
the Democratic side of this chamber
toward Wiltz, who was the revolution
ist. He was surprised that an Amer
lean Senator should stand in his place
and apologize for the outrages COM
mitted IN Louisiana in the last few
years, when it had been shown that
3, 500 persons had been murdered
there for political reasons since 1866
He read from the report of Mr. Schurz
upon the condition of the South made
in 1865, and said he begged to assure
Senator Schurz that the condition of
affairs he found then had been grow
ing worse every day since. This new
movement at the South meant revolu-
ton and the destruction of the Re-
public Under the political teachings
Of the Senator from Missouri 6Schurz)
his State had been turned over to the
secession Democracy. and he would
have the Republican party now turn
over the South to the White League
banditti. The old Kuklux organiza-
ton and the White League of to-day
are the same, yet these murderers and
assassins had their apolegists on this
floor.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-02-03

The Santa Cruz Sentinel compares
that town to s'thc dimpls on beauty's
cheek" More cheek than dimple.
probably. ne
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-02-03

Comfy O4cers.
Judge of the Wayne County Circuit Cour
Prosecnting Attorney Of the Wayne Cir
eait Court-.D ": Go%Sf1WSkiD W Dua,ex
Deputy--W. H. Lynde.
sherif-Wm. II. study.
H1dRieosy.-E. Hos--isiRRn X. Parker. p %
Deputy--R- II. King.
Treasurer--Joseph @. Lemon.
Reeorder--Jesse E. Jones'
Deputy--James w. Wilson.
gins, William Brooks, Jonathan Baldwin.
County Assessor Riley w. Anderson.
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.
Enos Thomas, Richmond.
John W. Martin, Chester.
coNsrABLEs.
Thomas McGir, Charles Seaman and B. L.
Miner
Cisy O0ecrs-
Mayor-James Elder.
Marshal.LewisO Q. shofer.
Treasurer-Wiiilam p. Wilson.
Att1rRsy,;,John Att; S;iyyss & lyle; aut,er
Wocd Msas1rerIssT'ssn nSIiesdicR III s%idn,
City Assessor-Lewis M. Baxter.
Street Commissioner-DavtdH Haner.
Chief Eire Department.I.G g. Doug:n;
Police Board-Elder, Dfckman, and Zelief
Chief of Police-ThOmas Atkinson.
COUNCIL COMMITTEES.
Board of Public Improvement Nye,
Peterson and Watt.
r. Johnson and Frank Pruyn.
City CommissioneIs--E.H 81. Page, John H
Norman, w. 81. Bennett, H. Ahaus, Jno.
COMMITTEES ON Finanee-Dickman, Mes
tor, Rosa.
Fire DeparcmenER zeIler. Land.
Public Schools-Duiin, Dickmans Nye.
Markets and Public Buildings - Zeller,
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-02-03

A bill has been introduced into the
Indiana Legislature, to prevent medi-
cal quacks from imposing on a credu-
lous public. A law on the subject. of
some kind, 10 earnestly demanded.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-02-03

The State for editors-Peucil-v.ni.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-02-03

The Grar GERS trump-Spadee.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-02-18
Notice Of Assessment.

EAANEY GOLD AND SILVER MINING
BY Company. Location of Principal
Place of Business San Francisco, California.
Location of Works, Lyon County, State of
Nevada.
Notice is hereby given, that at meeting Of
the Board of Directors, held on the 18th day
of January, 1875, an Assessment (No. l2l of
Seventv-fve (75 Cents per Share was levied
upon the capital stock Of the Corporation,
payable Immediately, in United States gold
and silver coin. to the Secretary, at the Office
of the Company, No. $40 California street,
Room No. 8, San Francisco, California.
Any stock upon which this assessment shall
remain unpaid on the 10th day of February,
1875 will be delinquent, and advertised for
sale at public auction, and unless payment is
made before, will be sold on TUESDAY, the
Ninth day of March, 1875, to pay the delin-
quent assessment, together with costs of ad-
vertising and expenses of sale.
GEO. II. SPINNEY, Secretary.
OfIce-No. $40 California Street, Room No.
s, San Francisco, California.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-02-18
DELINQUENT TAX LIST.
STATE OF NEVADA, COUNTY OF LYON,
DISTRICT ATTORNEYS OFFICE,


~ Office OF SUITS COMMENCED
~ To the following named defendants,
and to all owners Of, or claimants to Real
Estate, and Improvements thereon, or i'm
provements when assessed separately, here
matter described known or unknown:
You are hereby notified that suits have
been commenced in the Justices Court, Day
ton Precinct, Lyon County, Nevada. BY the
state OF Nevada, Plaintiff against each of
the Defendants hereinafter named, and each
Of the following described tracts or parcels
Of land, with the improvements thereon
and improvements when separately assessed
and all owners Of, or claimants to the same,
known or unknown, to recover the tax and
delinquency assessed to said defendants,
against said property, for the fiscal year,
commencing January LIST. A. d. 1874, and
ending December 3lst. A. d. 1874; and that
summons has been duly issued in each case.
Ana you are further notified, that unless
you appear and answer the complaint filed in.
said cause, on or before the 18th day of Feb
ruafy, a. u. 1910, at ~ CLOCK A. Nj. OF that
day, judgment will be taken against you, and
| the real estate and improvements specified,
and costs of suit.
Daniel Mel aren. and the real estate and
improvements in LYON county. de-
scribed as follows to-Nit. Lot with
corals, blacksmith shop, and saloon.
building and improyeueuts Drvtovn
| Waasworth Amount. . $40 90
| ]. W. KILN. and the real estate and
inprovements in LYON County. de
and lot in town of Sutro-Lot 6,
Block 572. Amount. Observation-Disclosures. 6 40
james henpsey' ana the real estate and
desrribed as faiioWs 70 vii! small
dwelling bonse and lot in Town Of
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-02-18
S u M M O N S.

&TATE OF NEVADA, COUNTY OF
~ LYON, ssh the District Court of the
Third Judicial District. The State of New
ada sends to j. W. DAVIS, Greeting: You
are hereby summoned to appear in an action
commenced against you, defendant, by NJ.
MEYER and G. H. STEGMAN, as plaintiffs,
in the District Court of the Third Judicial
District, in and for the County of Lyon State
of Nevada, at Dayton, in said county, and
answer the Complaint therein, which is on
file with the Clerk of said Court within ten
days after the service ON you of this sum
mons exclusive of the day of service), if
served in said County or twenty DAYS if
served out of said County but within said
District and in all other cases forty DAYS; or,
judgment by default will be taken against
you, according to the prayer of the said
complaint.
The said action is brought to obtain iudg-
ment against you for 1899 1900. and interest
ON s799 79-l00 from September oath, 1874. at
the rate OF ten per cent. per annum, and in
terest ON 5000 from May 49, 1873. at the rate
Of two per cent. per month; all to be paid in
United States Gold Coin-for Goods Wares
and Merchandise sold said Defendant, by
Plaintiff, amounting TO $685. 90 and Black
smithing done for said defendant by Daniel
SWart, amounting to STA so; and for amount
OF Note given by you, the said defendant to
Daniel Swart for 5000, dated May 10th, 1878,
at two per cent. month interest; which last
account and note have been sold and trans
ferred to plaintiffs; all of which will more
fully appear by complaint filed herein.
And you are further notified that If you
fail to appear and answer the said complaint.
the said plaintiffs will apply to the Court for
the relief prayed for in their complaint, and
take judgment for the said sum and interest,
besides costs.
In Testimony whereof I, j. A. BoNHAM.
have hereunto set my hand and affixed the
seal OF said Court this 9th day of January,
A. D. 1875.
J. A. BONHAM,
Clerk of the District Court of the Third
Judicial District, Nevada.
JOHN POWELL, JE,, Attorney for Plaintiffs. E.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-02-18

IT has puzzled many people to
decide why the dark wood so high
ly valued for furniture should be
called rosewood. Its color, certain
ly, does not look much like a rose,
so we must look for some other
reason. Upon asking, we are told
that when the tree is first cut, the
fresh wood possesses a very strong,
rose-like fragrance, hence the name.
There are half-a-dozen or more
kinds of rosewood trees. The va
rieties are found in South America,
and in the East Indies and neigh
boring islands. Sometimes the
trees grow so large that planks four
feet broad and ten in length can be
cut from one of them. These broad
planks are principally used to make
the tops of pianofortes. When
growing in the forest, the rosewood
tree is remarkable for its beauty,
but such is its value in manufac-
lures as an ornamental wood, that
some of the forests where it once
grew abundantly, now have scarce
ly single specimen. In Madras
the Government has prudently had
great plantations of this tree set
out in order to keep up the supply.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-02-18

AFFICE OF THE VIRGINIA CITY COAL
W Company, Room No. 7 Medin Building,
No. 16 North c Street, Virginia City, Nevada,
saturday. February 10, lS75.-In accordance
with 4 resolution adopted by the Board of
Trustees of the Virginia City Coal Company,
at meeting held by them this day, a special
meeting of the Stockholders Of said Company
is hereby called, the same to be held at the
Office Of the Company, Room No. 7 Medin
Building, No. 16 North G Street. Virginia
City, Nevada, on MONDAY, the 18th day Of
April, A. d. 1875, at the hour of l o'clock
P, NJ Of said day, to take into consideration
and to decide upon the proposition to in
crease the capital stock of said Company
from five hundred thousand dollars (S5O0,O00l
divided into fifty thousand 100000 shares, of
the par value of ten dollars $50 each. as the
present, to ten million dollars $4,000, O0O)
divided into one hundred thousand 100 0O0)
shares of the par value of one hundred dol
lars (s100l each.
r. NJ. DAGGETT,
c. G. STEVENSON,
NJ. LYNCH
JAMES KELLY,
L. II. TORP,
fc16-td Trustees.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-02-18

THE St. Louis Republican Of
Jan. It'll contains a special dispatch
from Topeka, Kansas, stating thai
Josiah B. North, alias Buffalo
Joe," who murdered George Jones
on Christmas evening a year ago,
was hanged to a telegraph pole by
a mob on the night of Dee. 30th, at
Wallace, Kansas. The knot of the
rope with which he was hanged
caught under his chin and did not
choke him; so he hung for a long
time in that position, talking to the
mob, imploring them to release
him, but only received jeers in re-
turn. He did not die for over two
hours, and finally froze to death.
The sheriff Of Ellis county is after
the mob and the leaders will soon
be captured.-[Ogden junction.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-02-18

IT IS not generally known that
fish are fond Of molasses; but such
is the fact. Mr.. Thomas, recently
from Frankton, Washoe county.
invited a few of his friends last
week to accompany him to Washoe
lake. On reaching the margin he
cut away the ice, and formed cir
Gle with his seine in the shallow
water. Within this circle a pailful
of thick molasses was poured. In
less than two minutes by the watch
swarms of fish came darting in
from all directions. A vain attempt
was made to haul in the seine, but
the thought of it was ridiculous.
for there were fully eight wagon
loads of them. The gentlemen
contented themselves with taking
out barrel of white perch, which
were of unusual size. Since then
others have tried the experiment
with equal success.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-02-18
of G. C. LANGTRY
DECEASED.

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN BY THE
~ Undersigned, Executrix and Executor
of the above-named Estate, to the Creditors
of, and all persons having claims against said
deceased, to exhibit the same, with the neces-
sary vouchers, within ten months from the
first publication of this notice, to the under
signed, at the Office of the Lyon Mill and
Mining Company, Main Street, in Dayton,
Lyon County, Nevada.
Dated at Dayton. January 2lst, 1875.
ADDIE s. LANGTRY, EXecutrix.
JOHN LANGTRY, Executor.