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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-02-05
LibeISuit Against the New York sun.

New YORK, February 4.-The trial o!
libel suit of VIM. II. Kemble, of Phila-
delphia against Charles A. Dana, for
the publication in the SiR ofallegcd libel
ous charges affecting the character Of the
plaintiff, and laid the damages at $4,000,
was began Yesterday in the Supreme
Court. before Judge Curtis The jurors
were selected with great care both sides
cxhausting their challenges and the unusu
al proceeding of challenging to the favor
was resortcd to. Before the case opened
efforts were made to settle the matter
without trial. The plaintiff after the
Jury was empannelled stated that not
having brought the suit for the sake OF
money, he was willing if defendant
should make full retraction. to allow
Judgment to be entered for mere nomin-
al damage. Defendant desired in any
case to allow judgement against him,
but was willing if the suit was discon-
tinued to rctract the charge that plaintiff
had received money. This not being
satisfactory the case proceeded.
The Naval Cadetship Sale.
WASHINGTON, February 4-The House
Committee on Naval Affairs has decided
that while the testimony shows that DIR.
Beattie paid State Senator Graham
of Virginia, 81, 700, for an appointment as
Naval Cadet, it fails to sustain the charge
that Representative Stowell received II
portion of the money.
A New Territory.
WASHINGTON, February A. The
Senate Committee on Territories to-day
agreed to the report and recommended
the passage Of bill to a create the territory
Pembina out of the northern half OF
Dakota.
X. X. Train Stuck Fast I'm the Snow.
CHICAGO, February "A Dubuque
special to the Post and Mail, states that
last night the western bound passenger
train On the Iowa Central road, stuck
fast in snow drift about seven miles
from Dubuque, and that thirty passcn-
gers aboard, were without food or fuel.
This morning a relief train started out
to render them assistance. Terrible
storms have prevailed in that section for
three days. The Thermometer ranged ut
- 90 ~ h' , '''o ''''" '''''-
Railroad Freighis.
New YORK, February 3.-After the
adjournment of the railroad conference
last evening, the General Freight Agents
of the Eastern trunk lines met for pre-
liminary consultation as to the rates to
be adopted, and agreed to leave them at
the dollar basis adopted January 10Th, for
West bound freightS. The Western
freight agents will be requested to estab-
lish, without delay, their tariff on East
bound freight.
Extremely Cold Weather.
OMAHA, February 4 No trains over
the Chicago and Northwestern road for
two days. The Union Pacif, road is
four hours late. The storm has abated,
but the weather is extremely cold.
The information that the bill appro-
priating $l500O0 for the relief of the
people on the frontier has passed through
Congress, gives great satisfaction through
n,,t tha West
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-02-05

The specie in the Bank of France in
creased 22,SS00 900 francs during the past
week.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-02-05
VOL. T..
at'heelinq 9eeister.

Gold closed il New York yesterday
al ll4t.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-02-05

From our reports this morning 'H'
r,T =. cr.o- with westerly winds, and
higher temperature
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-02-05

v, WERE shown aprivate dispatch
Yesterday by gentleman of this city
saving that the substitute which had
hneu offered in the Senate to the CaPitaI
Removal Bin, providing for its remoV".
TO almost any place but Wheeling hAd
been defeated. and the bill ordered to a
third reading. This looks like business
and il is likely that before long no"' al
least one Of the main questions before
the Legislature will be disposed o.
At this writing our special dispatch
has not been received; but when 1t does
come no doubt it will fully corroboFate
the news given above.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-02-05

WASHINGTON, February 4.-The House
Committee on Naval Affairs has decided
that while the testimony shows that DIR.
Beattie paid State Senator Graham
of Virginia, 81, 700, for an appointment as
Naval Cadet, it fails to sustain the charge
that Representative Stowell received II
nnrtinn of the money
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-02-05
Butler Alluded 10 or Not:

Now what should be SAID
speak not Of men, but of language with
in the rules of this House, if that accusa-
tion should come from one who Is out
lawed in his own home from
respectable society, whose name
is synonymous with falsehood-
who is the champion of fraud, the apollo
gist of thieves, and who is such aProdlgy
of vice and meanness that, to describe
him, imagination would sicken and in
vective would exhaust itself. In Scotland,
years ago, there was a man whose trade
was murder. He earned his Livelihood by
selling the bodies of his victims for gold
He linked his name to this crime, and to-
day, throughout the world, it's known as
"Burking."
The sPeaker-Does the chair under
stand the gentleman to be referring IN
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-02-05
The Memphis Carnival.

MEMPHIS, February 4.-The General
Council last night adopted resolution
extending the hospitalities of the city to
the Senator elect, johnson, on his arrival
on Saturday. Visitors to the approach
Inc carnival are already arriving, and
opDlications for rooms indicate that an
immense crowd will be present.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-02-05
A New Territory.

WASHINGTON, February A. The
Senate Committee on Territories to-day
agreed to the report and recommended
the passage Of bill to a create the territory
Pembina out of the northern half OF
Dakota
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-03-04
THE LEGISLATURES.

In the Senate yesterday Committee
on State Affairs reported favorably on
bill to provide for taking the census OF
Nevada in 1875. The Senate went
into Commute of the Whole for the
consideration of the military bill, and
recommended that it be laid on the
table. Messages from the Governor
were received announcing his approval
of an Act to provide for the govern
ment of the State Prison; also, OF an
Act providing for the payment OF the
outstan ding Indebtedness of Humboldt
county; also, of an Act to re-dlstrlct
the State; and also, of an Act to regu-
late proceedings in criminal cases.
Bill to regulate proceedings IN civil
cases passed by unanimous vote. Bill
relative to costs in criminal cases
passed. Bill to provide revenue for
the support of the State Government
passed. Bill for the protection OF
stockholders, lost. Assembly Dill
authorizing the Controller to sell GER
tain lands, passed. Assembly bill rela-
ting to roads and highways, laid on the
table. Assembly bill to create State
University. indefinitely postponed.
Assembly bill to provide for the
destruction of noxious animals, passed.
The bill providing for the erection of
partition fences was reconsidered and
passed.
In the Assembly. Beck's bill to regu-
late fares and treights was discussed In
Committee of the Whole. The Gov
ernor's approval of an Act to secure
liens to mechanics, also of an Act con-
corning Courts OF Justice, was an
nounced. A message from the Senate,
stating that it had receded from its
amendments on the gambling bill, was
received. The bill to require incorpo-
rated companies to keep an office IN
the State, was lost. The bill concern
ing elections, amended to prevent colo
nization, passed. The bill to remove
the county seat of Esmeralda, was lost.
The bill relative to unlawful stock,
passed.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-03-04

From the Detroit Free Press.I


Zone of the pleasantest sights III
human nature" remarked Bijah as he
sat down, sis to"-He rose up sud-
denly, became very red in the face, and
as he held an eight-ounce tack up In
his fingers, he hoarsely whispered:
"Show me the wretch who sot me
down on this ere tack!' There was an
awfnl stiffness. Some of the loafers
looked straight at the wall ahead, and
Others looked down, while the boys
turned pale and crowded back against
the partition. "Never mind con-
tinued the old man; Justice sleeps
but never dies. I'll live a hundred
wears but what I'll have blood for this!'
The last captive brought out was
Jacob Hauser. You don't feel well
this Aorning, l see, remarked his
Honor, as he took square look at the
prisoner.
mo, I'm pretty near gone" sighed
Jacob.
us it consumption, asthma, in
sanity. or wEata"
Yes, think so"
"Do you have pains in the head,
hot. fiushes, back ache. cold sweats,
a nervous feeling, and loss of
appetizer"
Yes, do, ;" replied Jacob, blowing
his nose softly.
Cant sleep nights-no ambition to
run for Office, don't care cent whether
school keeps or not?''
"Them's the symptoms" answered
Jacob.
"Oh well you can go. If should
send you to the House of Correction
and you should die there of Charles
Summers ailment or Napoleon's dis
ease, I'd never feel like buying an
other pound OF Catawba grapes.
Bijah said that was all, and the dri-
yer OF the Black Maria rushed his
vehicle around on gallop, and the
boys formed a circle, took off their hats
and sang:
Fun and sadness mixed together,
Tears of woe and smiles Of hope;
Some get of and some are boosted
Better stay outside the rope.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-03-04
N o r c e

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN, THAT AT
IN meeting 81 the Board Of Trustees OF
Minnemucca School District, No. z, held in
the school-house in said District on the I'd
day Of February, A. ID. 1876, ID was moved and
unanimously carried that the question Of
raising by Special AK the sum Of Twenty
five t$2,5OOl Hundred Dollars, to be appro-
priated to the building Of an additional
School-house and to the repairing of the old
one, should by said Beard be submitted to the
qualified Electors Of said District.
Now. therefore, be it known that a Special
Election Is hereby called for the object set
forth above, said Election to be held ut the
sehoolhonse, in Winnemucca, umboldt
county, Nevada, on the goth day Of March, A.
u. 1878, between the hours of 10 A. M. 6 y. NJ.
OF said day. The Ballot al said Election shall
contain the words Tax, Yes" or Tax, No."
A. kLEINHANS,
q. Il. WALKER,
JAMES BUCKNkR,
Board Trustees Winncmucea District No. Z.
Winnemncca, February II, lo76-td
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-03-04
Measurements Of Ancient Cities.


Nineveh was IA miles long, s miles
wide and Al miles around, with wall
100 feet high and thick enough for
three chariots abreast. Babylon was
so miles within the walls, which were
rs feet thick and 100 feet high, with
100 brazen gates. The temple of
Diana, at Ephesus, was 420 feet to the
support of the roof; it was 100 years in
building. The largest of the pyramids
was 4Sl feet in height and S53 feet on
the sides. The base covered III acres.
The stones are about 80 feet in length,
and the layers 2OS. 1t employed $780,
600 men in building. The labyrinth
of Egypt contains 800 chambers and
IL halls. Thebes, in Egypt, presents
ruins ~ miles around, and contained
$4,000 citizens and 40O,O slaves.
The Temple of Delphos was SO rich in
donations that it was plundered of
$50, 600, 900, and the Emperor Nero
carried away from it 200 statues. The
walls of Rome were Is miles around.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-03-04

THE bill introduced by Senator
Varian, and entitled IAN Act to au-
thorize the Commissioners of Hum
boldt county to issue bonds to the
amount OF $52. 900 for the purpose of
redeeming bonds heretofore issued.
and to provide for the payment of such
bonds" has been approved by the
Governor, and is now law. 1t is be-
lieved that the bonds, which are to
bear interest at the rate of 10 per cent.
per annum until maturity, twenty
years from the date they are issued,
can be readily disposed of at trifing
expense, and an annual saving of
"a 900 made in interest.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-03-04

The Virginia Enterprise takes excep-
tons to the statements made by Mr..
Varian and others on the floor of the
Senate last Friday evening while the
bill for the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of
Churchill county was under consider
alton. At that time and in tina: place
Republican Senators appealed to their
fellow-partisans to vote for the bill,
which they represented as being par
tisan measure, in the interest of the
Republican party. The Enterprise
denies that the object of the bill was to
further Republican interests, and that
it has tried to keep the matter out of
politics. The question is now one of
veracity between the Republican En-
terprise and Republican Senators. The
latter openly assert that the disentegra-
ton of Churchill is political measure,
while the former just now slyly insists
that it is not. We hope Governor
Adams will see it in the light in which
it was represented by tbs Senator'S,
which is Enthusiastically the correct one,
and let Churchill remain as it is by
vetoing the bill.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-03-04

SINCE Kendall became a salary
grabber aud stood in " with the Re-
pubhcans he has wholly ignored the
interests of his constituents by absent
ing himself from Congress. The reso-
lutions of the Nevada Legislature for a
modification of the Burlingame treaty
were presented to the House by Lut.
trell, of California, Nevada having No
Representative in that body.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-03-04

The Seventh Session of the Nevada
Legislature closes at IL o'clock to-
night. by constitutional limitation.
Charges of corruption have been made
against members of the House by a
member of that body, and no attempt
is made to prove their truth or falsity.
1t is surprising that body supposed
TO be of average honesty and respecta-
bility should rest so quietly under the
impu!ation, unless the majority fear
the consequence of an investigation
or consider Mcdonnell. who preferred
the charges, unworthy of notice.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-03-04
Registration Notice.

UyHEREAs, THE BOARD OF school,.
w Trustees of School District No.
(Winnemucca) has ordered Special Election
to be held in said District ON the 10th day Of
March, 1876, at which Election will be sub
mitted to the qualified lectors Of said Dis
trict the question of Assessing q special
Tax for the purpose of Enlarging the School
house" of said District.
Nov therefore. notice is hereby given that
the Registration Books Of Union Township,
In said school District, Humboldt county,
Nevada, are now open ut my Office for the
Registration of the names OF the qualified
electors in said Township at the said Special
Election to be- held on the 10th day Of March,
1875, and will continue TO be open for
suen Registration between the hours Of 10
o'clock A. NJ. and O'Clock P. NJ. of all legal
days, including the 10Th day of March. 1915;
and from O'Clock p. NJ. to 0 o'clock p. N.
during the ten days next preceding the 10th
day of March, 1876, in addition to the hours
above specified, on which 10th day Of March
the books will be closed at q o'clock p. NJ.
All naturalized citizens must produce their
naturalization papers, or come prepared TO
prove their loss. JOB DAVIS,
Registration Agent.
Winnemucca, February 2, is75.-td
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-03-04

In consequence of the passage of the
Civil Rights bill several of the princi-
pal hotels in Maryland and Virginia
have cancelled their licenses and
closed. A bill is now before the
Tennessee Legislature repeating the
law licensing hotels, and allowing
them to be run as private boarding
houses.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-03-04

SPECIAL dispatches from Sioux City
say there is great excitement in that
vicinity and Dakota over reports
brought by two returned Black Hill
miners, both of whom are we'll known
and reliable men. They represent
gold as plentiful, and that the miners
in those hills have had no trouble with
the Indians and have wintered comfort
ably. An immense emigration to the
hills is expected this Spring.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-03-04

The Republican members of the
Legislature are evidently opposed to
the Eight-hour law, and are not salts
fed even with ten hours. The Senate
passed bill fixing the Office hours of
the Governor from 10 A. NJ. to 10 at
night, which the Assembly amended
by making it midnight. This mean
ness was engendered by that non-par.
tisan measure of the Enterprise. the
ACKNOWLEDGMENT of Churchill county.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-03-04

At the first session of the Congress
which expired without regret at IL
O'Clock last night, bill was introduced
to make one man as good as another,
and better in proportion to his shades
of color. 1t was known as the Civil
Rights bill, and passed by the Senate
a year ago. 1t was semi-oficially an
nounced that the President was op-
posed to it, and would veto it on sight.
Since then change has come Ger the
spirit of his dreams; for once his High
Mightiness changed his mind, and
upon being notified of that remarkable
event, the salary-grabbers under the
guidance of the Essex statesman. Bot
tied Butler, whom the people of Massa-
chusetts repudiated last November,
took up the bill and passed it, after
some of its most Objectionable features
had been stricken out. The Senate
concurred in the amendments, and
sent it to the President, by whom it
has been signed, which now makes it
the law of the land. Its provisions are
manifold, and severe penalties are to
follow their violation. 1t requires that
equal privileges shall be extended to
all citizens, regardless of race or color.
Any preference given to individuals by
hotel keepers. railroad conductors,
stage drivers, or anybody else, will be
regarded as violation of the law, and
the offender punished with prompt.
ness and dispatch. A landlord who
gives boarder porter-house steak and
puts another off with CHUCK" shall be
guilty of felony, and subject to fine
of half the value of his property, or
imprisonment for life. A railroad con-
ductor who gives choice seats to plain
persons and shows colored ones to
smoking car, shall be deemed guilty of
murder in the first degree, and hanged
on the nearest telegraph pole at the
next station. A stage driver who gives
the inside seats to plain ladies in
stormy weather and puts colored gen.
tlemen outside, shall be guilty of
high treason, and be hanged, drawn
and quartered. A young lady who
gives plain beau any privileges she
does not grant a colored one, shall be
transported to Dahomey and become
the one-thousanth wife of Its polyga-
mic monarch. These are but few of
the greater offenses named in the bill
to which serious penalties are attached,
and the minor ones are innuDerable.
All persons engaged in the transaction
of public or private business should
procure copy of the Act Immediately
and devote sixteen hours day to its
study, as their lives or at least their
liberties. may be prejudiced through
ignorance of its provisions. 1t will be
published in full, at the expense of the
public. in those journals which indorse
military interference in Louisiana, ap-
prove the Force bill, and try to make
it appear that Credit-mobilier and sal
ry-grabbing Congressman are pure
patriots, and Grant the chiefest, the
honestest, the most patriotic of all;
but ignorance will not be bliss in this
case, where color is everything-and
delay is dangerous.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-03-04

A Grand Encampment of l. o. o. F.
was instituted in Carson last Tuesday.
Heretofore the encampments of this
State have been under the jurisdiction
of the Grand Encampment of Cali
fornia.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-03-04

A BILL has been introduced in the
Illinois Legislature making it u penal
offense for one person to treat another
to any kind of intoxicating drink.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-24

almost unattainable issues of the Quebec Historical
Society. Then there are several of the excessively
rare and much coveted Jesuit Relations issued
between 1882 and 1872, and all devoted to the mis-
sions in Canada. Two Of VimOnt's, 1912, 1643, and
others. appear here Campanus's version OF
Luther's Catechism in Delaware, and his " kort
Beskrifnung" of the Province OF Nya Sverige;
Vanderdonck: Roger Williams's key; the original
edition of Hubbard's Indian Wars" and similar
works, meet the eye on almost every page Here
too is fine set of Lord Kingsborough's noble work
on Mexico.
But besides all these nuggets and rarities to com
mend the collection to amateurs, there remains the
mass of the lbrary-bOoks on Indian languages,
prepared by the French, Spanish, Portuguese,
Swedes, and English personal narratives or local
histories of campaigns; books that IN type,
paper, and binding look comically primitive at
times, but which can be appreciated only when you
find that information that must be had is there, and
there only. Then comes the hunt, and it begins to
dawn on the book-hunter that there are
some of our books yet to rise 10
the dignity of nuggets. There Is Sanders
Indian Wars" printed at Montpelier. w. in 1917
There is copy in this sale one other perfect copy
is known. but no more There is Loudon's selection
Of some of the most interesting Narratives OF Out
RACES Committed by the Indians in their wars with
the White People," printed at Whitehall and pub
lished at Carlisle in 1908 Of this only three per-
feet copies are known. There is CuscRs History
of the Six Nations" the rare first edition OF $50
printed at the Tuscarora Village. But there must
be an end of all things. 1t would be easy 10 go on
pckipg out choice bits, that some OF our libraries
might profit by hints; but we fear that we may
ONLY call the attention of agents of the British NIL
scum and other foreign institutions to what Is most
desirable. and the public spirit of our own buyers
NAV awaken too late. Mr.. Field earnestly desired
his collection to 90 to some American institution and
there grow to the dimensions he dreamed OF but
could not hope to He offered it at price to DE
determined by experts, less $4,000 That his otter
was not taken the public know.