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Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-09-19

HtOSMOPOLITAN MINING COMPANY
~ Location of principal place of business,
San Francisco, California. Location of
works, DEVILS Gate District. Storey county,
Nevada.-Notice Is hereby given that at
meeting of the Board of Directors, held on
the 18th day OF August. 1873. an assessment
(No. y of Twenty-Five cents per share was
levied upon the capital stock Of the Corpora
ton, payable Immediately In United States
gold coin, to the Secretary. at the Office Of
Company, Room Z. 5O7 Montgomery street.
San Francisco, California.
Any stock upon which this assessment shall
remain upaid on the 18th day Of September,
1878, will be delinquent, and advertised for
sale at public auction, and unless payment Ia
made before, will be sold on MONDAY. the
4th day of October, 1878. to pay the delin-
quent assessment, together with costs Of
advertising and expenses of the sale.
M LANDERs, Secretary.
Ofhce-507 Montgomery Street, Room No.
7, San Francisco, California.
POSTPONEMENT.
HNHE DAY FOR DECLARING THE
IL above assessment delinquent has been
postponed till October 10th, 1875, and the
day Of sale to October 25th, 1878.
a16td NJ TANDERS 2ecretarv
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Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-09-19

VALUE.
$32S,464 81
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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1875-03-19
Bewitched by a Beautiful Actress
Loving Wife's' Terrible Death.

In 1870. says Figaro, a young French
man, the Count George de Meyrac, MAJ
ried a beautiful girl of his own station I'm
life. Mathilde -. who was very much in
love with him. All went well. and the
two were happy in their devotion 10 each
other. They were fond of the theater, and
every one Just at that time was enraptured
with a new actress. Rosita. who took the
principal roles in the dubious dramas OF
the Dumas school. The newly welded
pair often went 10 ROsita's theater, until
the Countess thought her husbands eyes
fingered too fondly on The actress, and be-
gan to feel pangs of Jealousy. Frou-Frou
was one OF Rosita's best representations,
and on her farewell night. she appeared by
request In that character. The Jockey
Club, of which George de Meyrac was
Vice-President. gave her a supper after the
PLAY. George, of course. was present, and
sat by the side of the fascinating Rosita,
who was surrounded with bouquets. Wine
flowed freely, and mirth and wit enlivened
the banquet until 3 O'Clock i'm the morning.
Meanwhile. the poor wife, Mathilde, wait
ed at the little gate of their park for her
truant husband. The hours passed slowly
on. and he came not. a cold. penetrating
rain began 10 fall at midnight, and Ma
thiide trembled from exhaustion and eX-
posture. At five in the morning. when her
husband came through the little gate. he
stumbled over her manimate body lying on
the rain soaked ground. She was not
dead she lived five days after. but never
recovered her mind. In her deiirium. she
necessarily m%urnSired "Frou-frou /,
Frou-Frou!" Those were her last words.
The Count was almost crazed bv mis-
wife's loss. He entered the army and
sought death in the bloody battles Of the
Franco-Prussian war. Fate was cruel.
and he returned unharmed. His wife's
room, adjoining his own, had always been
kept closed since her death. but owing to
the suffocating heat one summers night.
George opened the door between the two
rooms. He then fell asleep. In about an
hour he awoke; the clock struck mid
night. As the last stroke sounded. he
heard distinctly from the other room the
words "Frou-Frou.- He listened with
inexpressible anguish "Frou-Frou"
seemed TO be murmurcd from all parts of
the room. He leaped from his bed, lighted
a candle, and crossed the threshold Of Ma
thildie's chamber. At that instant n cur
cnt of air extinguished the candle, and
George felt upon his forehead. his lips.
his cheeks, something indetinable7a
breath. a cares. the contact ola cold wing.
or, perhaps. the muslin Of "A peignoir. He
fell unconscious. The next morning he
was found lying there insane. To every
Interrogation he only replied. s'Frou-
Frou." The country people In the neigh
borhood OF the Chateau de Meyrac think
that IL was the soul of the Countess. re-
turning at midnight TO murmur In the ear
of the cruel husband: George. / still
love thee; but ii is thou who hast killed
me 7"
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1875-03-19
Poland.

Nothing In all his public life 80 much
becomes Mr.. Poland as his latest act. He
L. not one of those who. being discarded
by the people, set themselves To ruin where
they can no longer rule. With genuine
craftsmanship, Mr.. Poland has sough, To
settle the Southern question justly and
wisely. knowing that no other settlement
could endure. At the first intimation OF
his purpose. the whole gang OF desperate
adventures who have robbed the SOuthin
the name of Republicanism went at him.
and tried TO make him yield by abuse and
threats. Now. old Poland's brass-but-
toned coat does not cover a coward. Faults
he has he wa guilty of n when he suf
fered the gag-law to be palmed off on him
as a harmless and necessary measure. But
il he may be fooled. he cannot be bullied.
The more the carpet-bag scamps abused
and threatened. the sitter he grew in his
determination. and the more ~zealously he
worked TO impress his convictions upon
Republican members. No doubt his
strong description of the clique which has
ruled and robbed Arkar sas in times past,
and of the peace and order which have fol-
lowed the establishment OF the Garland
government, coming from an old Vermont
Republican. had great effect, not only
upon that question. but upon the Louis
lana business, the Force bill. and all other
urged by the carpet bag frater-
nifty. To him may fairly be attributed
much credit. as well for the failure of Con-
gress to do much mischief as for its proper
decision In the Arkansas matter. We are
glad that business men Of this city, includ-
ing many ~well-known Republicans. have
seen tit to telegraph to him a brief and
pertinent vote OF thanks, and are sure that
he will live to realize that a grateful peo-
pie can forget many faults in a true states
man.-St. Louis Dsmaerat.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1875-03-19
A SCENE FOR A STUD y.
ny JEAN rSGELow.

WHITE lay the snow over roof, over wold-
White hung the moon in the frosty sky;
And huddled sheep, that crouched in the fold,
Wore the white raiment dropped nom on high I,
But a little window, rustic and old,
Cleaned cheerily red ON the wanderers nigh.
A painter passed on his way, that night;
I" What q scene for a study y the painter said;
+" FAIRLY CLEANS that ruby light,
Icicles fringe from overhead.
Oh, moon, thou art ghostlyl oh, world, thou art
whitei
I'll look in the window all warm and red"
So he looked-but whatever his eyes might see
His pencil told not, his lips were dumb.
! might guess. but who would listen 10 mel
And the days OF the painter have told their sum
free,
And you two meet in the world to come.
Here IL the study the painter wrought
A little way on that window glows.
And the prints Of chilirep's feet are brought
Up 10 the doorway, athwart the SHOWS,
And the moonbeams fall like an afterthought,
And silvers their pathway who now repose.
Cold shows the world and the sky round about,
And warm breaks that ruddy light between;
OF the painters thought | need not doubt,
For long like his study his life has been;
Ali long time his lot was TO walk without,
From the one light apart in a wintry scene.
But | hope. where the white fakes freeze no
more,
hope, where winter Il over and gone,
For the cold Of the night that went before
lie almost forgets how he made his moan;
And almost forgets how they closed the door,
And doomed him 10 work in the w~orld-alone.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1875-03-19

Sirius, the brightest of the fixed stars
and particularly noticeable in the evening
nj this season of the year in the southeas-
tern heavens, derives its name from Siris.
tire Egyptian word for the rising of the
Nile. IL Is so far distant that the light
which strikes the eye now left IL twenty
two years ago,a and has travelled across the
Intervening space at the rate OF 1874, 200
miles each second.
AS a matter Of interest 10 wood en-
gravers the reported discovery Is worth
noticing that the plates of polished states
may be used as substitutes for lockwood
In wood engraving. IL is declared that
such engraved plates will furnish over
100000 impressions without loss Of de-
tail and further, that they will not warp,
M are not affected by either oil or water.
The one. drawback which they possess,
however. Is the fact that they are easily
scratched IN objection from which wood
j. free.
"A Vienna correspondent writes that an
invention Of Major Gen. Achatius, one of
the Artillery Committee, is just now ex-
citing considerable interest in military CIR
cles. and even beyond them. Ii is a com
position which he calls steel bronze, because
both Ia power of resistance and elasticity
he considers IL equal to steel. The tests,
as far as they have gone, are favorable.
About 1000 shots have been fired with in
creased charges from a gun made of this
bronze composition. without the least de-
terioration being visible.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1875-03-19
Odds and Ends.

When Is a small baby like a big bank
err When he Is "A wroth-child.
-"Ah, glorious weather this gays the
doctor. ''Splendid run of broken legs
lately"
-" If there is a place for every thing
inquiries a doubter "wherei is the place for
"A boil Z" On your enemy's nose.
Why Is a store that doesn't advertise
like Enoch Arden? Because IL .'sees no
sale from day 10 day"
The rural correspondent who anx-
iously inquiries concerning Sanscrit. is in
formed that il Is the language which the
Sanscritters used 10 talk.
-"For heavens sake. lend me So"
said a destitute maj TO his friend. :" have
had nothing i'm my house 10 eat for four
days but rice" Rice =" said the other,
iii | had known you had rico | would
have come around 10 dinner"
Young Mr.. Sauermilch, of Pennsyl-
vania. is an applicant for "A cadetship at
West Point. IL is melancholy To reflect
that though he should develop the mill
tary genius OF a Hannibal, he can never
represent the cream of the army.
"A party OF men animatedly engaged
in discussing politics before a country
store attracted the attention of an aged
Agricultural. There's somethin' the
matter here" he observed to his wife; and
drawing in his team. he lightly shouted TO
a consumptive individual on the ont
skirts, "What's %afoot?" Twelve
inches" was the sardonic reply. The
aged agriculturist swore som and
drove on.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1875-03-19
The Men Who Have the Greatest I'm
nuence Over President Grant.

Washington Correspondence Boston Herald. ]
The two men VINO have been more in
nuential than any body else with Grant
since Rawlings died are Gen. Babcock. his
secretary (reputed To be worth a million of
dollars, and the partner of the President
in various financial o~perations). and Boss
Shepherd. The latter has been for the
past w years a particular favoritc. and IL
the secret history of the White House
could he told. il would probably appear
that Grant has cared more for him per-
sonally than for any man in the country.
Not only did his great executive powers
and the grandeur OF his scheme of local
improvements impress the President very
favorably. but he was socially very ac-
ceptable 10 the President. When the Dis
trict Ring broke down. the Presidents
sympathles were with Shepherd so COM
pletely that he became more friendly to
him than ever. Indeed, he made Shep-
herds case his own, and befriended him
In every possible manner. even appointing
him one Of the new Board Commissioners
last spring. when the District Government
had been legislated out Of existence.
IL has been evident all along that. how
ever odious Shepherd might have become
outside Of Washington, the Presidents re-
gard for him was undiminished. lti true
he failed to save Mr.. Mullet. but then Null
let was not so very nxiou 10 remain In
office. and Bristow was very emphatic.
Being so powerful as he Is, il was not
strange that Mr.. Powell Clayton should
have enlisted his aid In behalf of his sink
ing political fortunes. How ready the
President still Is To oblige him the country
has seen. Ii seems we have a President
who is ever ready to s%tultify himself 20
obi re a friend. qualification Is the
only one word which completely describes
the action of the President in this case,
aud there l. nc doubt that the ex' 'lanation
given is a correct n so far "a IL goes.
The Arkansas message was written at the
request of Mr.. Shepherd. Ii would be for
tunate for Gen. Grant and for the country
ii this strange and contradictory communi-
cation to the Senate were simply a freak OF
the Presidential mind, and if there were
not too many indications that he Il pursu-
ing n line Of policy which made IL only too
easy for him TO conform to the request OF
shepherd AID Dorsey In this case.
There Is every reason To believe that
Grant Is now listening TO more reckless
and violent counsels than have ever been
poured into his ears In the past years OF
his administration that the number OF
bad men. extreme men, desperate men
around him Is constantly increasing, and
the number of decent, wise, and honest
advisers constantly growing smaller. Some
Of the worst men of the party. as old
! newspaper readers know, have long been
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1875-03-19
Congress and the People.

That the people may know how great
~ Congress misrepresents their will. we
cOllate from the " Worid Almanac for
1875 a statement OF the total votes polled
in each state in 1874 for representatives in
the next Congress. In one column in the
following table is given the combined vote
cast for candidates nominated i'm OPPOSE
ton Ia the regular Republican or Admin
i~stration candidates. and In the other the
votes cast for the latter. The vote credit
ed TO Louisiana is that reported by the
Kellogg returning board. Doubtless the
genuine vote was several thou-ands bet
ter for the opposition, but We are not in
possession Of a statement OF the returns ac-
cording TO the Conservative count. The
statement of the full vote for Congress
mon in Texas Is not at hand.
TABLE OF VOTES CAS- IN 1874 FOL REPRE-
sENTATIvEs IN THE Fo~kTY-FoURTH CON
GRESS.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1875-03-19

very much at home at the White House.
The number. or the proportion Of such. |
believe 10 be increasing. IL Il not neces-
siry to beat about the bush TO discover
why this is so. There may be innocent
and trusting patriots In the rural districts
who still believe that Gen. Grant Is de-
termined not 10 be again a candidate Tor the
Presidency. There are none such in Wash
ington. Its noteworthy that the question
OF whether he l. DESTROYS OF a second re-
election. which was lately so generally
discussed IN the newspapers, hie almost
ceased To h" a topic of REMARK. Very little
i said about ii here now. and the reason
u that IL has become a settled conviction
in the minds Of all. or nearly all, that
Grant Is bent on a third term.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1875-03-19
A Woman Who Thrives on Pins.

The Kingston On. W freeman says:
There Is a lady in the upper part Of the
city who is a fine subject for scientific
investigation. She Is a born pin swal-
lower. We don't mean that she swallows
belaying-pins. hair-pins, or clothes-pins,
but the small pins so necessary for
women in making their toilets. And
the strangcst part of ii Is, they
agree with her, so she Is waxing
healthy and fat. The lady. like all wo-
meE, formed the habit of holding pins in
her mouth, and one day accidentally swal-
lowed six. She was terribly alarmed and
expected TO die, but day after day passed
by without any trouble being experienced
from this strange diet, so she be
came quite ~unconcerned about IL.
In less than a month after nearly
a dozen slipped through her lips
and also moved on gracefully down
her throat. No trouble whatever came
from these either; and then IL seems the
woman acquired an irresistible liking for
pins. She swallowed halt a dozen or so
every o and then. and as this diet has
been continued nearly a year, she must be
pretty well lined with brass. When this
lady took her first meal OF brass she was a
slight, fragile being. in very BAD health.
In a few weeks she began TO improve, and,
as we before stated. the more pins she
swallows the healthier she becomes.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1875-03-19
Haps and Mishaps.

Alexander Cameron was killed al Har-
~risville, Mich, the other day. by a log
whica slipped Oh the skids and crushed
his head.
AT MOoreville, Mich, recently. a man
named John Bunting. while clearing a pile
of dust in Muhling Il Bros furniture
mills. was caught by a saw and instantly
killed. He leaves five children.
AT Jacksonville. Ind, Mike Land,
fourteen years old. while riding on the
draw-head Of an engine the other day, at
tempted to Jump of. but slipped and fell
between the rails and was killed.
Curtis Pope. a young man about TWEEN
ty years old. committed suicide at Column
bus, Ohio, recently. by taking a mixture
of laudanum and morphine. He hsd been
intimate with a Mrs. Ewing. a young
widow. for some time, and died at her
lodgings.
A passenger train on the indianapolis.
Cincinnati and Lafayette Railroad was
thrown from the track near Lawrenceburg,
Ind, one night recently. by a broken axle,
and a tramp who was stealing q ride on
the forward end Of the postal car was in
stantly killed. No others were injured.
w. III. Bobbett, a laborer in the Van
Vert (Ohio) Stave Factory, slipped on the
ice, and, throwing his foot out TO balance
himself, came In contact with a large cir
cular saw. severing one foot from the leg,
and causing other injuries. which, II was
thought, would prove fatal.
A horrible accident occurred recently In
a sawmill, thirteen miles north of Osh-
kosh, Wis. A man named Eugene Brown
fell backwards against a large circular saw
which was in rapid motion. Ii entered the
shoulder beside the head. cutting him In
two lengthwise as far as the pelvis bone.
His stomach. lungs and bowels were cut
through the middle, laying the heart bare,
which rolled out of the left halt of the
body, and was seen to beat quickly for
several minutes. The two parts of the
body were tied together with blankets and
taken TO Oshkosh, where his family resi-
ded. Brown was 30 years ef age, and
leaves a wife and one child.
A singular incident, saws the st. Louis
Globe, occurred In the southern part OF
town last Friday. Jacob and Anna Ger
stel, an aged couple, whose ages range
between sixty and seventy years, have
been living in the rear of No. 2IJ0 Dekalb
Street. TOR some time In a very feeble state
of health. and on last Thursday the old
lady died. The funeral was arranged 10
take place on the 26th, but when they
came to take the body away, Jacob, who
was sittisg in the room, begged very pite-
ously to be taken along, and interrupted
the persons who had interested them
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selves In the funeral. While the prepara-
tons were being made, he suddenly fell
back dead. This postponed the funeral
until Saturday afternoon, when both par
ties were inferred together.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1875-03-19
ITEMS OF


The King OF Burmah is going to start
newspaper.
-Algernon Sartoris, the Presidents som
in-law, has an Income of $4,000.
-Ex-Qucen Isabella has forwarded a
silver service worth $4,000 To the Pope.
Charles orion, brother of the Itch
horne claimant. was recently an applicant
for relief from the Lambeth (London)
poor-beX.
Raphael Semmes. formerly captain of
the Alabama, l. lecturing In Georgia on
the subject of his experiences during
the Rebellion.
Mrs. Captain Jack. in her lonely Sc
clusion. may take comfort in knowing
that il cost the Government Sill ,OOJ to
make her "A widow.
The wife of United States Standardized
Mcdonald, of Indiana, died very suddenly
at indianapolis, Ind, on the 10Th ult.
They had only been married a few
months.
Mrs. Fawcett. wife of the blind mem
Der of Parliament, Prof. Fawcett, and
author of = Tales i'm Political Economy
is about TO make her first appearance as a
novelist.
"A veteran of the campaign of Napo-
leon in Russia. named Pierre Pachoud,
aged ninety-six, is a resident at Xenia,
OHIO. lie was a participant in all the hor-
rors of the famous retreat from Moscow.
Mr.. Thomas Carlyle has declined the
offer OF the Grand Cross of the Bath made
10 him on the recommendations of Mr..
Disraeli. IL j. stated that Mr.. AlfredTen-
nysoH has also declined the offer of a
~baronetcy.
John Chamberlain, the rich gambler.
who recently bought the late residence OF
Sir Edward Thornton, the British Minister
in Washington, paying 100000 for il, is
said TO be the original of Bret Uarte's
character, John Oakhurst.
-0henbach's daughter is shortly TO be
married in Paris. The famous opera
boufte composer. looking forward TO tie
event as one demanding something differ
ent from his usual roll-and-tumble fan
TASTES, has already composed a mass in
music TO be executed in the church of
observation-disclosures on the day of the
marriage.
1t is rumored that PrincessBeatrice. the
youngest daughter OF Queen Victoria. j.
10 be married TO the son of the Grand
Duke OF Baden, who Is a descendant of
the Empress Josephine. The family was
at one time immensely wealthy. but the
property has been made over To the State.
and the Grand Duke now has a civil list of
only about $1,000 per year.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1875-03-19

Eugene is said to be wasting away
with consumption, and looks much older
han a few months ago..
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"A Pennsylvania boasts that he makes
n soap that would wash n politicians
character white A. snow" There must be
a good deal OF ''lye'' about that soap
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1875-03-19

Tho song of the Washington youth
al want 10 be a lobby man u In the
lobby stand, with brass upon my forehead
and greenbacks In my hand"