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Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-06-27


Nor GuILTY.--A quite interesting
suit for assault TRANSFERRED before
Judge J. Porter Gould, at Armory
Hall, on Friday afternoon. The
trouble grew out of a disputed pos
session of the extension of the now
famous Amazon mine. Two par
ties claim the discovery, one of
which is represented by John Dona.
hoe and the other by Victor Laun-
dry. 1t appears by the testimony
that Laundry was working in the
shaft on Thursday, and while thus
employed was ordered by Donahoe
to desist. Laundry declined, and
was pushed away from the mine by
Donahoe, but not struck or hurt.
He thereupon had Donahoe arrested.
The State of Nevada was ably repre-
sented by Major f. B. Stonehill, of
Virginia, and "Tom'' Harkins, Esq,
of Gold Hill. The defendant en-
ployed no counsel, leaving the mat
ter for the jury to decide. We have
seldom seen a case of so little i'm
portance conducted with such digni-
ty and formality by the Court, and
such profound efforts by the counsel
for the State. Counsellor Harkins
opener the case and principally con
Quoted the examinations, and Major
Stonehill made an able and lengthy
appeal to the jury for conviction.
One of the jurymen, like the fore
man of the Beecher jury, was dis
posed to make light of the solemn
ties of the occasion, and was taken to
task by the Major. Those who have
read the sterilization administered
to the Beecher juryman by the dis
tinguiShed Beach, can gain some
faint idea of the Majors remarks
under the same head. The Court
d'oc tiiOo W iih pAOoo upon WV ihAht
OF the defendant that it was not All
occasion for levity, and with all the
majesty Of the law beaming forth
upon his rugged coun;Cnance, COM
manded The defendant to "aSSume Il
becoming gravity i'll the presence OF
the Court. Nero tidd ed while Rome
burned, sir! and Judas smiled as he
betrayed his Lord, sir! but you, Sir,
are not to take example by these I'M
feeling barbarians. You sit there,
sir, on the gloomy eve of disgrace,
sir, and the eyes Of this Court and
the State are upon you. Don't let
this Court see you smile again, sir!
Proceed with the case, Tom" There
being no evidence of an intention to
assault, the jury promptly brought
in verdict OF not guilty.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-06-27

The Amazon toot-wall was reached
on Thursday The ore body and vein
matter is fifty five feet wide, and the
walls are as perfect and solid as
cut stone. A drift will shortly be
run along the vein west ward, and
another to connect the tunnel on the
Glasgow ground for ventilation.
The hosting machinery is already
ordered from San Francisco, and it
is intended to put the shaft down an
other hundred feet as soon as posi-
BILE. The stock set aside as work
ing capital is now converted into
cash and will be sufficient tor six
months development. The Amazon
bonanza looks exceedingly favorable.
IT is said that Powning, of the
Reno Journal, and Miss Clara Poor,
his betrOthed, are having a scrap
book made to contain all the press
notices received by them before
marriage. Af.er that happy event
they will rcss without notice.
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SETTLE UP.

a Ii parties indebted to p. Barnes, Livery
"A Stable, Dayton, are requested to make
payment on or before July LIST, 1875, or their
accounts will be placed i" the hands of an
officer for COLLECTION. l mean bus ness.
=. BARNES,
js6wA AaiU Street, Dsyton,
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A GooD OLD FASHIONED DINNER.

A GOOD OLD FASHIONED DINNER.
One of our esteemed Benedick
friends whose business compelled
his absence from the Pioneer pic
mic, and whose front and rear name
we shall call Superintendent G. d.
McDuffie, for short, gave an old
fashioned dinner to small party of
his gentleman friends yesterday IN
the absence of Mrs. McD., who with
friends enjoyed the day at Bowers
Mansion and the festivities gotten
up by the s.Old Boys" of the Pacific
coast. However much the presence
Of that good lady may have been,
and of course was, missed at the
table, the affair concocted and put
into execution by the lord of the
manor lacked nothing of being a
success. Every guest was an sold
pioneer" when it comes to
good dinners, and not one
of them could go back
far enough in his record to remem-
Der when another such dinner had
been served as the one that had been
spread before them by the good
judgment Of the host and the deftly-
applied manipulations of Miss
Maggie" the queen of the kitchen.
Chicken pot-pie, lamb with mint
sauce, pork and beans, and such
vegetable soup, and such coffee, and
such claret, and such salad-um,
mum! Well, we won't tantalize you
poor folks--who spread your cold
grub on the grass, and got down on
all tours, with cramps III your shins
and feet asleep to get moutbful-
by further enumeration, but it was
a superb dinner, and whenever, after
this, "Mac' stays at home from the
picnic, we Shall plant ourselves I'M
der his banner. The boys in the
mill were not forgotten, either, and
a close observer might have noticed |
a half-barrel of cool lager, and some |
fine cigars within reach. We have |
chalk marked the Goth day Of June,
1875, in our treasure book among
the list of very pleasant memories.
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A Diplomatic Boy.

When a Lacrosse street boy is play
ing "hop-scotch" on the walk and his
mother comes to the door and asks him
to split some wood, he replies that he
will be along in just one minute. At
the end of ten minutes she opens the
door and says: 1iioH
"Wilyum, want that wood"
"I'm coming right away" he replies,
and then goes on hopping here and
there on one leg. aoaE - tQs sTa
Another ten minutes flies away, and
she opens the door and says: via ot
"Wilyum, il you don't get that wood
you know what your father will do ="
'Just ten seconds" he calls back, and
he enters upon new game. .fs
The next time she calls she says:
"Young man, it's almost noon and ]
can't cook dinner without that wood!'
'I know tim coming now," he
replies, and he stands on one foot and
holds long discussion with the John
son boy as to whether the game ol
.hop-scotch" is as good game as base
ball. He has just started to hop when
boy whispers:
"Hi, Bill there's your old dadT
"Great snakes" whispers Bill, and
be goes over the fence like fash, grabs
tho axe, aad during the next two min
utes he strikes two hundred blows pei
minute. He gets into the house ahead
of his father, and as he drops the wood
he says:
"Mother, the boys were just sayin
that / had the handsomest and best ant
coolest mother on Lacrosse street, ant
I want to- kiss your'- Detroit Free
Press
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Gumbs's Dogs.

Gumbs, who lives next door to us,
has bought new dog. He needed
new one His last dog used to bark all
night in the yard until, in frantic des-
peration, we would shy our boots and
cologne-bottles and furniture at him.
But he always went on worse; and in
the morning Gumbs would come calmly
out and gather up those missiles and
carry them into the house.
He has more than twenty pairs of
boots and slippers in his possession, be-
sides chair-legs and cakes of soap, and
hair. brushes match-safes and towl-racks.
And he never had the manliness to offer
to give them back. On the contrary, he
trained that dog to sit by the front gate
and seize us by the legs when we came
out, three or four times week, appar-
emily for the purpose of securing some
more boots. - et
But we poisoned him one night, and
the next morning Gumbs threw the car
cass over into our yard. We threw it
back. Gumbs returned it. We both
staid at home that day, and spent the
time handing the dog to one another
over the fence.
Then we hired an Irishman to stand
there night and day to return the de-
ceased dog to Gumbs's yard. Then
Gumbs also hired an Irishman. 1t was
an exhilarating work The corpse rap
idly traversed that fence six or seven
thousand times every twenty-four hours.
He must have become familiar with the
route even if he was dead. At last he
wore away with so much handling, and
on the last day the Irishmen whiled the
hours by finging only the tail at each
other. Our Irishman at last buried the
tail and resigned.
And now Gumbs has got a new. dog
1t will be excessively singular if we dc
not fish for that dog some evening soon
with a Goldfish lipe and piece Of beef
and run him up all of sudden to oul
window, and. launch him into the sewer
No dog owned by man named Gumbs
shall exult over US.
a.
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Keep The Recipes,

Every housekeeper should have her
own recipe book--a book of her own
creation, of gradual growth and proved
'excellence-and We propose to show
our lady readers how to make one. In
the first place buy blank book and
write your name and date On, the first
leaf. Divide tie book into as many
different departments as you wish, head
ing each page with the department to
which it belongs, as follows: Recipes
for cleaning; recipes for soups; recipes
for cooking meats; recipes for cooking
cake, and so on through family cooking.
Then comes cooking for the sick, care
of the sick. and all the various things
that are part of woman's duty, and
for which, unfortunately, there is nc
school but experience Number youl
pages if they are not numbered in the
beginning and make On index, leaving
blank spaces in the index to correspond
with blank pages between departments
which you do not expect to fill imme
diately. Write down under these differ
ent heads every recipe which you have
actually tried, or the result of whicl
you have seen in the houses of YOU
friends, and enter the page in the index
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Facts worth Rem ember,ng.

One thousand shingles laid four in
ches to the weather will cover over one
hundred square feet of surface, and FIVE
pounds OF shingle nails will fasten them
on
One fifth more siding and flooring is
needed than the number Of square feet
Of surface to be covered, because of the
lap in the siding and matching OF the
floor.
One thousand laths win cover seventy
yards of surface, and eleven pounds of
lath-nails will nail them on.
Eight bushels of sand and one bush
ell of hair will make enough mortar to
plaster one hundred square yards?
A cord of stone, three bushels of
lime, and cubic yard of sand will lay
one hundred cubic feet of wall.
Five courses of blick will lay one
foot in height on chimney, six bricks
in q course will make flue four inches
wide and twelve inches long, and eight
bricks in course will make flue eight
inches wide and sixteen inches long.
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PATS First Month in America,

Robert Colahan was at the bar of the
Special Sessions, the other day, to ans
wer for assaulting Officer Henifer, q
patriarchal policeman of Castle Garden
IL would not have made charge
against him if he had done it while
drunk" said the officer "He knocked
me down with blow in the nose be-
cause ] tried to make him take his place
in the line, and him just as softer as be
is now, your Honors."
"When did you leave Ireland, Rob
ert3" Justice Sherwood inquired, kindly
"Fifteen days ago, Judge, your Hon
ors," was the reply.
"Did you strike the officer p
81 was thryin' to get spache wild 6
! ,'jintleman that wonted help, and the col
pulled the coat from me back"
"Did you strike him?" again the Jus
tice inquired.
"He wer kapin me from gittin' work
and he pulled the coat from me back
and"
"Did you strike him ?" the Justic'
demanded with asperity.
"Well, Judge, your Honors, his nos'
run agin me clinched fist, and he fell.
The Justices smiled as they sentenced
the prisoner to one month in the peni
tentiary.
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Bljah Spelis--A Discourage ed Pris.
Oner. YGfe

Bljah Spelis--A Discourage ed Pris-
(from the Detroit Free Prcss.)
Bijah and the boys were holding a
spelling school when the reporters got
down. 1t was pleasing sight to see
the old gray haired man seated on the
floor with miscellaneous assortment of
lads around him, and it was affecting to
see what confidence they placed in his
word. When he gravely informed them
that "corn" was spelled with "k," and
that "victim" should be spelled with q
"w," they placed implicit conidenc in
his knowledge of orthography, ,and Lame
Jack admiringly remarked:
"Where would this world be without
B1ah!'
When his honor arrived Andrew Crane
was brought out. Andrew said he want
ed to be sent up, and he didn't care
whether it was for thirty days or thou
sand years.
"Kinder discouraged, eh?" asked his
Honor.
81 care not what becomes OF me %
sadly exclaimed the prisoner. "I'm way
down tue bank, and | don't believe I'll
live long"
"Take heart. my boym cried the
Court, as he bit into another apple
Strawberries and cream will be along
before you know it."
II don't care nothin' for strawberries
and cream" answered the prisoner:
"But don't you want to hear the end
of the Beecher scandal" !"
"Not Beech ~ was the sad answer.
"Think of harvest apples, Fourth of
July and soda water"
waters them to me 2" was the mour-
ful inquiry.
Summer is almost here, my boy !
Don't you want to ge out along the
grassy meadows and listen to the bab-
bling brooks ?"
'Nary bah"
swell, I'll have to send you up, Shall
I make it sixty days3"
"Sixty days!'
And when the sad man entered the
buggy the boys sang:
"Oh, why should fellow feel sad
When it is easy enough to feel gay?
Oh, why should he ever go for to die
| When there's every inducement to stay"
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Adventure OF Lord hIacau,ay.

Macaulay was at Rome when he. was
quite young man-before he was cele.
brated at all, and one night he was all
by himself under these dark arches
where it is as black as night, when all
of sadGsn q man in large cloak
brushed past him rather rudely, as
Macaulay thought, and passed on into
darkness. Macaulay's first impulse was
to clasp his hand to his watch pocket
and sure enough he found that his watch
was not there He looked after the
man who he doubted not had stolen his
watch as he brushed past him, overlook
him, and seizing him by the collar, de.
manded of him bis watch.
Now, Macaulay could at that time
speak very little Italian, and under
stood none when spoken So, he, was
obliged to limit his attack by severe
shaking OF him by the collar and an
angry repetition of the demand. "oro.
logic! Orologiow The man thus at.
tackled poured forth torrent of rapidly
spoken words, of which Macaulay ,un.
derstood not one syllable. But be
again administered severe shaking to
his captive, stamping his foot angrily on
the ground, and again vociferating.--
"Orologio! Orologio!" Whereuponj the
detected thief drew forth the watch and
handed it to his captor. Macaulay, sat.
isfed with his prowess. turned on his
heel as be pocketed heswatch, and saw
nothing more of the man. But. wher
ne returned to his apartment at night
his landlady met him at the door hold
i ing out something in her band and say
ing: 'Oh, sir, you left your watch or
the table, SO thought it better to taxi
care of it. Here it is." -.
"Good gracious. What is this 2
What is the meaning Of it?" stammeret
Macaulay, drawing from his pocket thu
watch he had so gallantly recovered il
the Coliseum. 1t was watch he hat
never seen before. The truth was plain
he had so violently attacked and apos
trophized IN the darkness and solitud
Of the Coliseum arches had been terrific,
into surrendering his own watch to tn
resolute ruffian who, as he conceived
had pursued him to rob him. The mex
morning Macaulay not little crest
fallen FASTENED to the office of the Cues
tor with the watch and told his story
"Ah, / see," said the Questor; "you ha
better leave the watch with me. / wi
take your excuses to the owner of j!
he has already been here to denount
Iyou."'
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Catching q Cannon Bail.

Paris Correspandenco New York Times
A very singular exhibition was given
yesterday at the Jartlin Mabille. There
has been perforIning here at the Folies
Bergeres,' a maa named Holtum, an
American, whoz,has q, cannon fired at
him and catches the ball in his hands.
This prodigious feat was witnessed
nightly. ard although the actors present
avowed THAT there was no trick, Pierre
Veron, of the Honde Illustre,, would not
believe it. Hessid that the cannon ball
must be thrown 10 Holtum from the
stage. The latter made bet of 5000,
frances that he would perform the feat
under certain conditions which left no
room to doubt, and when the het was
taken, Veron designated Mabille as the
place for the trial All the journalists
of Paris were INVITED, and they found
Holtnm there before his cannon. It
was examined with minute care, and the
heavy ball passed from hand to hand
81 am no longer in my own house,"
said Holtum; a'you are master here. and
you must watch over all the arrange
ments." Having carefully aimed and
lashed his cannon, it was charged, and
Holtum took his place against plank
target some ten yards away. This was
to show that the ball was solid and the
force of the powder great enough to
send it through the plank Holtum got
the aim of his gun, and then placed his
head in a certain position against the
plank, giving the command to fire. The
ball just grazed the hair, and broke
through the plank, rolling some twenty
yards further on. The same bail was
picked up by the journalist, who again
charged the cannon, and sent the ball in
his hands as neatly as be does nightly
upon the stage He won his bet, and
no one seemed disposed to accept his
offer of 5000 francs to any one who
would perform the same astounding
feat The physical force required must
be enormous, but Holtum showed his
strength by tossing up cannon balls as
if they were SO many oranges. The
precautions taken are very simple; he
wears very thick leather gloves, and
covers his breast with many thicknesses
of thin paper to form sort Of cuirass
This looks to me like very dangerous
feat, and particularly the first part of it.
where Holtum places his head against
the target half an inch below where the
ball will probably strike. If the powder
should chance to be defective. some day
there might be an accident. 1t is like
the foolhardy trick of putting ones
head into lions mouth. One day ]
fancy that ball will snap his head very
neatly off. So n9iasYe1q 9Tai
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Deacon Hiram Jones.

Deacon Hiram Jones, of st. Pau, went
out to milk his COW the other morning
while the mercury was nesting down
among the twenties below zero. His
feet were clad in ligh., close-fitting pair
of moccasins. a
The cow stood in cold, hunched.up
posture. He "hysted..' her, seated him
self on the stool, took hold In his usual,
energetic, triangular fashion, and had
smashed into about the middle Of the
first half Of the first squeeze, when bos-
sy's nigh hind foot suddenly swung out
and doubled that tin milk pail aatteI
than pair of waffle irons, while the dea
con tipped backward from his three.leg
ged stool, and sat down on his shoulders
forcihly.
"Consarn your picter!" said the Dea
con, in short, emphatic tones, starting
up, launching his stool, and hitting the
side of the barn about three feet above
the animals back.
The culprit, filled with lively sense
of her depravity, was, by this time, pi
roueting around the inner perimeter o
the stable with considerable alacrity. Sd
"I'll larn ye!' again calculated th'
deacon, clinching his teeth, doubling hi
fists, and darting forward, planting hi
right big toe solidly against the bone
just back of Brindle's shoulder.
And then, if professor of the highe
| Christian life had been present, he wOult
have seen Deacon Hiram eagerly gral
that toe with both hands, land begin hop
ping aronnd the stable on one foot, ex
claiming, "Ow-oo 90! Jimmy to bls
zes! O-o-o-o! Ughw
And then he would have seen hir
mournfully lean up against the mangel
cautiously work that big toe with hi
thumb and finger to see if it was out O
joint, and then utterly ignoring the pres
ence Of the cow, go limping off to th
house. to get the arnica bottle, and RI
late the circumstances to his sympathi,
ing family.
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England expects every man to do
his duty" exclaimed the heroic Nelson,
at Trafalgar; and that the spirit of these
words springs eternal in the human
breast we have constantly recurring
proofs. A boy who was holding the
bride of a doctors horse, in Clinton
street, the other day, excited considera
BILE attention by series of most extra
ordinary bodily contortions, until at
last one kind.hearted lady approached,
and compassionately asked him what
the trouble.was.
"Oh. ma'am," said he, "I've got the
awfulest pain in my stomach you ever
see, but I'm goin' to hold on to this
horse if ii kills me"
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Battles OF the Revolution.

Below we give list of all the import
ant battles of the Revolution. They be.
gun April 10, ITS, and closed October
10, 17s1-Asix years and six months
The British sent $4,000 soldiers and
sailors to this war. The Colonists met
them with 280,000 Continentals and CO.
900 militia. TIE British let loose Indi-
ans and equally savage Hessians. The
Colonies had for allies the brave and
courageous Frenchmen. The leading
battles of the war (those particularly
worthy of celebration) are Concord and
Lexington, Bunker's Hill, Long Island,
White Plains, Trenton, Princeton, Ben
nington, Saratoga, Monmouth, Kings
Mountain, Cowpens, Eutaw Springs and
Yorktown. These are of National in
terest.. Many of the others are more es-
pecially local. The disposition is to
celebrate them all, victories or defeats;
to recall the deeds of our ancestors, and
have good time generally. Our read
ers will do we'll to preserve the follow
ing list of the Revolutionary battles:
Lexington first skirmish, )April ls,l775
p,,n,.O.,a ui In, Juns ~ I775
nanasf M.sos,i nm Allan .o,nSSan, as i77s
e. oI.Len'S Iohn,s Leaa hsa;aaed fs~ and q can. p
trrod Nov 1775
Great Bridge, Virginia, Dec 9, IT'S
Qnebec( Montgomery killed )Dec.3l ,I775
Moore's Creek Bridge, Feb. 27. 1776
Eort ~ S,I,;uon Charleston. lime 81 1776
80 ~ Ia,onJ Anonot 81 177e
u. LII nis-, ~ plo;n. Sent Is IT'S
VII WI - pi,;na ~ 0ct % 17e6
mn :, n.'e 'a,"s' A,:Iu NJ ne 177e
Tuau,on Tuau !" "'D'D Dec Dc 177s
nlen'on' @ '.' ~ Ya. 11 1771
nl,hse.1n, tIhs,4n y~1n Sn, = 1777
pa';a r,uoGslu.on' A,nust 10 1777
Prand'sinn Ssnt II 1777
F;rs, Fret Sat,le .t Ram;s, ue;ohts
c. c".os""o os..o ~ Son, TO- 1777
pao1; ' Sept On 1777
naun,..ou, au.' pct 1777
Eern1";o"n' Eer.u H;O , Mo,.nou
foi.s o.nsou e, ano Ao oot ,777
$50 Ill, ~ pou;s,
'ef1aa aaiah,a o'.s.v ssr.tooa ~ oeA'' Oct 1777
cuasSas me,sa.s' 81 S'Ssa, R"rgo,no ~, I "a 1777
Eu,,eHIe, Tort Moaosr -. D0'0'''' Oct 90 90 i777
~. ~. Dt;se. M;as;n NJ 1e 1z77
Mnumom,h M % Jnne % 177s
Wvomins yE JnIv a 177S
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California estimates its three leadin G
products for the coming season as fol.
lows: Wool, 50,0Oe,0O0 pounds; wine,
100000 gallons, wheat, 100000
bushels.
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Auehpg.
PRAYER,

Be prayerful; ask and thou shalt have
Strength equal to thy day;
Prayer clasps the hand that guides tho world,
Oh, make it then thy stay.
Ask largely, and thy God will be
A kingly giver unto thee.
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We are usually capable Of greater
things than we perform; we are sent
into the world with bills of credit, and
seldom draw to their full extent.