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The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-03-27
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TTNHE NEWARK land COMPANY is now
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raid in. Z he CCLlpany viii be PR pnfed in
Marcel to take Geo people by steam beat and
railrcad TO t6ti town emo lanes in ne excur-
sion. which will be advertised. Hy reference
to the Coast Survey iait it VIII lie seen that
1t POtrtro Point. a H. ut of Newirk, the
deep wafer Genes all the way tnr ugh the
chs mel from the sciEe. with the G. L. Il.
running in a direct line tbloreh ] v,lmore
lass, making this the g nneciii G Point be-
tween all parts If the tinted Stu.os ard by
deep water to II taits of the 81, b. al the
greatest m nufacturing ~ ut en- the Fay of
San frt neiseo- rl,nIy Of viter, goed climate,
excellent s. ii and easy cHmn unicatiOn This
land will be sold at tuctit II in April in acres
and lots. This comp; ny will con nlence active
opera in building, etc, eacn. tor all in
formati II, circulars maps and subscription,
apply n the Office If the Cen pily, 4r5 = Cal
ifdrnia street, lsst ment. a poAite Bank Of
Calf mia.
CHAS. Il. PETERS, Manager.
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The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-03-27
THE wINNEMUCCA AND OREGON
RAILROAD.

Ihe N"t"'"l nosts',o Goose Lake
ihe Fi"est T,mbe, ed Belt in the
Unite states-Mhutt M. Who has
Been There Says ana Think, of IL.
a correspondent at Bartlett Creek,
who understands the topography Of
Northwestegn Nevada and Southeastern
Oregon, Whites as follows CONCERNING
the route OF ihe propose d railroad from
Whine mocca to Oregon:
Vary'llie Is % miles North aud 70
miles west FROM Wlnnem"cca; Lake
CIts, III Surprise VALLEY, is Is miles
north and 40 miles west from Vary,lle.
aud Goose Lake Valley il "a miles
north nom Lake City. Tie most
available rontei Tor \ eIiIoad from Will
nenucca to Goose Lake Ii by way of
Lake City, ~ there Is IL Natural pa,s
through to thai pise ~ aud there would
be DO heavy grades 10 overcome. The
road would open an Extensive mineral,
agricultural ana heavily timber, d coun-
Try, aid would IL doubt, dly do the
heaviest numbering bnsiness of any
railroad hhe III The world. The Slerras
northwest flnnri.ie ale co> cred With II
DhNsk GROWTH OF THk FINEST TIMBER
III the United States, which would upon
the completion of tie road supply the
greater part d. Nevada aud all OF Utah
with lumber. This timber of itself
ought to BE- u sufficient iudnct rneln to
capital to Invest in the enterprise and
complete the road at All early day.
That road will be- butt sooner or later
to make this timber available there Is
no doubt. and the time Is not far dis
taiIt when II viii be a Necessity. The
timber supply on the Central Pacific
road will shortly become exhausted,
and Central and Eastern Nevada aud
Utah will bave To be nIplied from the
virgin forests northwest Of Humboldt
which have never resouuded with the
Woodlands ak, and which in extent
ARE uneqnalied and are practically iu-
elhanstlble. OF course the people in
this part Of the comfy are in favor of
the early completion Of the road, as it
would give an impetus to the develop
meut otais resources that cannot uther-
wise be expected, and they want it hur-
RED along rs rapid, as possible.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-03-27

A ROYAL PRIsoNhR.-TheP Pinto Prin.
cess, Sarah Wiuuemucca, WINS arrested
last night on charge Of having cut
JnIins Argasse with knife, on the
sidewalk In front of the Winnemuccn
Hotel. She was lodged in the Comfy
JAN last night. and is being examined
upon charge Of assault with intent to
DO great bodily harm, before Justice
DAVIS to-day.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-03-27


CoENUcoPA - George Ii. Willard,
Superintendent OF the Leopard mine
in CornncOpa District, passed through
here Yesterday. he says the mine
looks well. aud the mill works admir-.
ably. They average weekly $40, UOO in
bullion, aid expect 10 increase the
amount TO $50 900 when they can run
steadily, aud produce more bullion in
proportion 10 the number of stamps than
any other mill in the State. He SAYS II
stage line should be put on the road
bttSesn Winnemucca and Cornucopia
and Bull Run DISTRICTS immediately.
The liue wonld be we'll palionized, AZ
1t would shorten the time 81 making n
trip to San Fr"narco one day. aud all
the bullion from the Blue Jacket aud
Leopard mines would be sent this Wa,
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-03-27

A INV JuDGE.-Jndge j II. Flack.
OF Eiko, has accepted The invitation of
Judge Bouniti,ld To come here III the
ensnirg term OF Court and try several
eases on the calendar, which he il dis
qualified from trying 10y reason of his
havlng been attorney ia said cases.
Judge Fl"ck has bad much experience
on the bench, having been elected is-
trict Judge two terms in Elko county.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-03-27
Fan IEANtIstO s1ttK REPORT.

Foi,,uji pule II. lil hest rices paid
for si,,ls H. lie Sui Irl oistu Board
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-03-27

While i'm command of the United
States military forces Mt New Orleans,
General Butler seized n large amount
of property at that city for the use of
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-07-31
The Unknown Arctic Regions.

Within the Polar circle there is an
enormous area, comprising at least
1000, 900 square miles, of which we
know simply nothing. We shall have
presently to speak of the Various specu-
lations regarding the nature of this vast
extent Of the worlds surface; it is
enough for our immediate purpose to
say that we dc not know anything
whatever about it. Whether it is land,
water or ice +; whether the climate is
cold or warm whether there are inhabi-
tants, animals, plants, or whether it is a
bowling wilderness has in
tluded almost every possibility, and
almost every abshrdity; but of knowl
edge such as alone intelligent men can
be content with, we have absolutely
none. To attain some such knowledge
10 the first object now proposed in Arctic
exploration. It is cons dered uniting
and unseemly, in the present state Of
scientific progress, that there should be
this large area of our earth's surface
still SO utterly unknown. The examina-
ton of it is loudly called for; it is a
problem of universal interest, the solu-
ton Of which appeals not to commercial
profits, pecuniary advantage, increased
facility for transport and communlca-
ton, but simply. in the first instance, to
those higher feelings and yearnings
which, whatever our remote ancestry,
now distinguish us from the brutes.
We want to traverse this unknown space
and see and know what it is Edin-
6argh Review.
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The New Docks at Vienna.

The Pail Mall Gazette says: "The
improvement of London during the last
twenty years has been as real, at least,
if not as snowy, as that of Paris. But
Vienna, with her old city Notifications
turned into one splendid boulevard of
real architectural merit, may be fairly
said by every visitor who knew the
crowded, ill-built city of 1860 to have
outdone other capitals in material re-
forms. The most important of all these
is the works lately opened in state by
the empel or, the new arm of the Dan
ube, forming in fact, a gigantic ship
canal, with spacious docks and quays
branching off it, to supersede the devil
GUS and narrow streams of the great
river which brought the traffic in before.
The guays thus erected will, when COM
plete, be very nearly ten miles in length;
and this, although nearly 5000 acres of
building ground are added to the city
by getting rid of the old passages of
the water, which were constantly shifting
their banks were not built in. A So
called winter harbor of eighty acres in
extent is being formed at present, to be
followed by two lesser basins, giving
ample accommodation for the river
trade, which of late has been seriously
cramped for want of wharfage. The
canal is spanned by six substantial
bridges connecting the city with the
new quarter now rapidly rising, The
estimate for this great work was Just
CO, 100000.
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Three Thousand Years Ago.

Mr.. Conway tells, in a recent letter,
of a gentleman If Halifax, England,
who, being in Egypt, brought back for
its museums II number OF AlexanyriAh
mummies--a mummied ibex eat, anosev-
eral heads taken from human mummles.
These heads were brought in separate
email boxes, and one of them IN some
way got soaked i'll salt water on the voy-
age. When it was opened by Mr:
LeylRnd, distinguished antlquary OF
Yorkshire, in the presence OF other
gentlemen, they were astounded to find
that flesh had covered its outline, the
chin and checks We're plump and
rounded, the open eyes looked upon
them, and even seemed to move.
The gentlemen FASTENED to call others
from all parts of the museum to O.
serve this wonderful phenomenon. 4
a few minutes they beheld an unmis-
takably Egyptian CONFERENCE.-The
face of n mar who bad lived at least
three thousand years ago.
They could only conclude that the
powerful aromatic gums which had been
used had arrested the decay which tho
salt water he'd now rendered possible,
and which speedily set in after the head
was taken from its box and wraPpings.
Several gentlemen who saw 1t nave as
sured me that they can never forget tne
EfeIikeuess of the face before the swift
decav of flesh which followed. me
stnJi was shown me, and the bone
of II ia remarkably white and clear, in
stropo contrast with the darkness OF
other mummy heads.
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The Mosquitoes Of Arctic Land.

In work recently published in
London, s'The Land of the North Wind;
or Travels Among the tap1anders and
the Samsyedes," the author, Ed
ward Roe, gives the following account
of the Arctic mosquitoes, Which make
us slmost content with our OWL. ''The
one bitter drop in our cup of Joy was
the monstrous but inseparsble curse of
Arctic summer life-the MOSQUITO. He
aborrded, fourished, luxuriated, sur
passed himself, ort-mosquitoed himself,
on the Kuloi river. We we're at his
mercy our wells, gauntlets, handker-
chiefs, fapper, all were vanity and
ve1atitn. To kill was wanton, for to
destroy sufficient was impossible. We
had foreseen all this, and even thought
of taking, among other things, wood
pecker from home to protect our face
while we slept but one woodpecker
would have been solemn mockery we
should have wanted fresh woodpecker
every five minutes. I suppose these
were the historical flies sent to punish
the disobedient, obstinate Egyptians ;
they came forth in order, and after
three grievous plagues-the corruption
of the waters, the multitude of frogs,
and the swarms of lice-had entirely
failed. We are becoming connoisseurs
in mosquitoes we watch them traverse
our wells like figures on slides in a
magic lantern. There is the yellow
striped vampire mosquito, with triple
fang to his proboscis there is the
brown, hunchbaeked or camel mosquito,
with legs of gossamer, who appears to
our vindictive eyes to be from two to
three inches in length finally, there is
the scorpion mosquito, very searching
and business like. We dislike him
greatly, for he wastes no time. We
know now that leather is hollow de-
fusion, aid armor-plated gauntlets are
alone of avail,
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Life i'm Cuba.

The London Saturday Review says !:
| II ia the uncertainty that gives its
marked character to life in Cnba, as
elsewhere in the West Indies. 1t is not
exactly the slet tbs eat and drink, Tor
Tomorrow we die" OF the old Jamaica
planter for the Spaniard is constltu-
t;onaIlv temperate, and by no means SO
freely disposed to hospitality as the
more iovial Britton. 1t is not his way
to keep open house for all corners. ana
tables eroaning under loads OF Euro
pean cheer, supplemented with turtle;
land crab and all manner OF troplcA
dainties with Bullets covered with Us.
canters filled with the ardent wines OF
southern Europe, with RUNNERS on
sangaree, and ''beverage" perpetuaily
on the flow. He has rather lmPorteu
the more frugal fashions OF the PENN
sula he throws his house open IN YER
tullias and dances in place OF giving
dinner PARTIES he offers by way OF re-
freshment the light iced drinks which
come like the nectar of Olympus to the
scorcted palate when the thermometer
ia standing at something like ninety,
odd: YOU have fragrant conee, ana
chilly water with azucarillos and savers
heaned with fruits that are far 70 the
eve and pleasant to the taste, although
death or disease may be the Penalsy o.
indiscreet indulgence. The harp ano
onitar and piano are in these Cuban
feasts. and there are unhealthy wnite
COMMUNICATIONS and eyes unnaturaly
BRIGHT, and figures which want OF exer-
else makes over-voluptuous, or wnicn
are somewhat wasted by climate 1nat
dries up the blood in the veins. But
the people take thought for the morrow
even less than in Jamaica; Tor, aitnousn
not much given to thinking, tnere is =
vague impression on them bna ~, sno
future is absolutely uncertain. Io .S
may be few who, under tne streus.n
of that impression, wisely make mp tneH
minds to be content with a competency,
more than they are ever likely 10
wapt-and then to go home. but AS
ruIe thew find it difficult to stop Wnen
thew are busy in the pursuit OF weaitn-
and when every thing is going on pros
perously. So they stay on, with tne
idea that Cuba is not their home Dos
only a place of temporary solourn, per
snadiu9 themselves that they mean 10
return some day with fortune 10 emo
their lives in old Spain. All the time
thew are probably conscious that the
temptatiors I'd linger where they are
vii always be too strong for them; that
thew Will drop out of existence some
sunny day. very likely when they least
expect it. Yellow fever, cholera, ana
the terrible cOnlitO lrteto, are tne
scourges of the island. Malaria In al
it's malignant shapes turks in the richest
districts: in Havana itself the town is
%1Ssasi y drained, and the fresh
hreezes from the sea blow over the
mango swamps or are tainted by the de-
caying denominations thst strew the
beach. So life in the capital is marked
by a certain recklessness and an uIser
Indifference to the morrow. Inc
municipality pays no attention to sanl-
tary arrangements. Wealth elbows power
ty; palaces rise in the most squahd quar-
tiers, and many of the most imposing
houses are whited sepulchers.
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CheerfNl conversation promotes diges-
ton and fatigue, sorrow, and anger
DreyenI IT,
Death of a Prominent Educator.

Our comm1nity will learn with regret
of the death of Eev. DIR. Charles Col
lirs, president of the State Female col
lege, wn1tt1 occurred at four O'Clock
yesterday afternoon. He had been sick
about week, of inflammation of the
bowels. DIR. Collins was born April II,
1918, in North Yarmouth, Maine. He
graduated at Wesleyan university, To-
Gated at Middletown, Connecticut, in
the year 1887, being third in a class OF
fifteen. and at once entered upon the
calling of an instructor, in which the
greater part of his useful life was spent.
In 1887 he became principal of the high
school at Augusta, Maine, which po-
sition he held for one year, when he
became q minister of the gospel and
Joined the Maine conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church. He was
elected in 1885 president OF Emory and
Henry college, of Virginia, where he
remained until tie year 1852. A num-
Der of the graduates of this college are
now living in this city, among others,
Judge J. II. Carmack. The same year
that he accepted Gle presidency of this
college he became q member of the
Holston (east Tennessee) conference.
In 1850 he was elected delegate to the
general conference of the M. E. church,
south, and in 1887 received the degree
of doctor of divinity from Centenary
college, Louisiana, Masonic college,
Missouri, and Dickinson college, Penn
sylvania. He severed his connection
with Emory and Henry college in 1851,
and the year following was elected pres
ident of Dickinson college in Pennsyl-
vaniG, where he remained until his
removal to Memphis in 1860. As an
educator, DIR. Collins made for himself
in Memphis a great reputation, the
State Female college, by his excellent
management, ranking smong the first
Institutions of learning in the state
Memphis avalanche, July IL.
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Ieef-FINis,

The following prophecy was first announced
IN IsfS by Mother Shipton. 1t will he gooe
news to people having long mortgages to run
etc. I
Carriages without horses shall 70
and accidents fill the world with woe
Around the world mans thoughts shall fly
II the twinkling of an eye.
Waters shall yet more wonders dos
How strange! but shall yet be true.
The world upside down shall be-
And gold Re fotAd al the root Of a tree.
Through hills man shall ride
And no horse or ass be at his side
Under water men shall walk
Shall ride, shall sleep, shall talk.
In the air men shall be seen,
In white, in black, In green,
Iron on the river shall float
As easily as a wooden boat
Gold shall be found and shown
In lands not now known,
England shall ct .ast admit a Jew,
And Ere and water shall wonders do.
The world to an end shall come
In eighteen hundred and eighty-one.
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executed die bravely some die Joking.
Tr4ppmann, the wholesale murderer,
! was an exception &c this rple. He was
awfuIly frightened at the neai ptCstect
of his doom. The dressing room, or
ehap,bre de toilette where the director
Of Iia Hoouette delivers over his pris'
oner to the eHeS1tictsr, il q narrow
apartment like bit cut off a p8ssage.
It is whitewashed as to the upper part
of lie wallis, and painted brown near
the floor thres doors, all narrow. and
capable OF bsing so1idly bolted, lead
out of it. It's furniture is an slrna-
nae, six registers, used to keep account
of the relicts and personal effects of
the prisoner about to suffer, two wooden
benches, one CHAIR, The floor is uu-
carpeted and uncovered !: it seemed to
me as though blurred and stained with
tears of blood. French executions are
still conducted in public, but hedge
of mounted policemen prevents the
crowd from witnessing the last agonies
of the dying. Moreover, the guilotine is
not now raised upon a scaffold &c it vas
formerly. A man going to have his
head cut off may dress as he pleases !;
and some indulgences are shown to him
il he has any appetite for them, as he
CouluOhy iItsC Ot- VIZ SoJ
his execution, for attempts seem to be
made with questionable mercy to Keep
his spirits up to the last. When the
order for his execution arrives he is dis
posed of with marvellous celebrity. At
$50 4. L. tho go7ernot enters his cell
to warn him he is about to die; at ESQ
he has ceased to exist. The whole
business of preparing him for eternity
is concluded in Just twenty minutes.
The terrible ceremony Of the toilet
used to consist IN cutting off the con-
demned mans hair now the hair of
culprits sentenced to death is always
kept closely cut beforehand, and his
brief agony is not prolonged by any
preliminary formalities. The execu-
toner merely tears off his shirt collar
by an adroit movement of the hand,
and then the criminals neck is ready
for the knife. M. Roch, the execu-
toner, is un hOnanee tres froSd, deeply
pitted with the small pox, and he does
his duty in cool, collected, very i'm
pressive manner. It is necessary to
send him away privately in a closed
carriage Immediately after each execu-
ton or the mob might modest him.
Victor Hugo and other great French
writer's havd pleaded against capital
punishment J with such passionate
eloquence that power in France is evi-
IDENTIFY beginning to get ashamed of
shedding blood and the human instru-
ment employed and paid to shed it is
very loathsome to Che populace.
don NeaUs.
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A Fifteen-Mile Flume.

In Nevada, q fifteen-m mile fiume has
just been completed at cost of quar-
ter of q million dollars. It is intended
to supply several mills and mines owned
by its proprieton with the timber and
fuel they need. These mills and
mines consume about 10000 cords
of wood per year. and as fire.
wood costs from 81 to S12 per
cord, and timber from $22 to $24
per 1000 feet, o great saving is ex-
pected. The hume commenced in the
Truckee meadows, and is quite a tri-
umph in engineering. The method of
construction has been simple and rapid.
At various points water could be turned
on, and as the boxes were laid others
were foated through and the fume
would float the material for its own crea-
ton. The greatest days work was a
quarter OF mile. Four gangs of 30
men each have done the work. 1t has
required 1000, 600 feet of lumber and
20 tons of nails to build the hume. The
reservoirs are models of solidity. The
upper one is 600 feet long, with an av-
erage depth of 10 feet; the other is
100 feet long, with depth of 10 feet.
A ditch nearly two miles long brings
the water to the first reservoir, whence
it is conveyed three miles and a quar-.
ter to the fume by means of a feeder,
which is q strong square box, well
braced, capable of carrying $50 inches
of water. A stream of pure water large
enough to supply Virginia City rushet
through this feeder. The timber,
thickly covering Il, 900 sores. owned 10y
the company which built it, is mainly
fir, yellow pine, and tamarack. The
superintendent calculates that he will
be able to obtain from the forest 500,
600 cords of firewood, and 100, 900, coz
feet of saw logs of an average diameter Of
% inches, and 30, DOC, 900 feet of hewI
timber. Facts like that make Gen.
Brisbin's tree-planting theory signifi
cant.
A NEW Jersey man has invented al
easy method of killing the potato bug
He shuts the bug up in a room forty
eight hours and allows it to eat nothing
but salt. Then when be let's the insec
out it makes a straight shoot for tn,
nearest creek to get q drink, and tn,
chances are ten to one, if there is N,
creek nearer than ten miles, that som,
wagon will run over the bng and smssf
| it before it gets back to the potato patch
SOCIALISM is on the decline in Ger
many, the number of its adherent
having dwindled in few years fror
! 10000 TO about $4,000.