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The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-04-02
STEWARDS AUTHORITY.

The Carson Appeal comments on an
article which appeared in the SILVER
STATE relative to the Centennial, and
asks, "If w. T. Stewart is the author
lied agent of the Centennial Board for
this State, or is he acting informally
and on his own hook?" This the En-
terprise answers as follows:
OF what Mr.. Stewart is doing, we, by
accident, happen to know something,
and at the risk of being accused OF
meddling with what does not concern
us, we will tell enough to make Mr..
Stewards acts entirely plain to the pub
lie. Mr.. Stewart was rendered the
position of agent to collect specimens
for the Centennial by great many of
the individuals composing the Centen-
NAL Commission. OF the number who
so solicited him we can only name
Messrs. Stevenson, Mccoy and Haynes,
but we know others, composing more
than one half the Board, expressed to
him their desire that he should under
take the work. For the reason that
the Board was scattered all over the
State. no formal meeting to confirm his
appointment was ever held; but on his
return from the Legislature, the Presi-
dent of the Board, Hon. C. c. Steven
son, said to Mr.. Stewart in our pres
ence: "There was general under
standing among members of the Cen
tennial Board that you were to collect
the Nevada cabinet, but we never had
regular meeting to confirm your
appointment. If you are ready
to move, go ahead and l will
be responsible to the Board for your
acts, until we can have meeting" 1t
was on that authority that Mr.. Stewart
commenced his work. He is travelling
at his private expense, without author
ity to do anybody any harm, and with
no desire except to collect the finest
cabinet ever seen. The only risk we
can see in his proceedings is. that as
often as he can procure box of speci-
mems he proposes to ship them, to be
stored in Carson. With the DISPOSE
ton that town maDifests toward the
remainder of the State, on every con-
ceivable and inconceivable occasion,
we do not know whether the specimens
will be safe there or not.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-04-02
TAKING THE CENSUS.

In accordance with the provision of
the Constitution which empowers the
Legislature, if deemed necessary, to
have an enumeration of the inhabi-
tants of the State taken in 1875, an
Act was passed by the last Legislature
to provide for the taking of the census
of the State of Nevada. The Act re-
quires that said census shall be taken
in the same manner as the United
States census was in 1870, and that the
enumeration of the inhabitants of the
State shall be made in each county by
the Assessor of such county, during the
time of, and while assessing the prop
erty of such county for purposes of
taxation for the fiscal year 1875. Be-
fore entering upon the discharge of the
duties imposed by the Act, each
County Assessor and deputy shall take
and subscribe to an oath that he will
fully and honestly discharge said du-
ties. For the services required of
County Assessors in taking the census
they shall be allowed and paid two dol
lars per day, to be paid wholly out of
State funds, which allowance and pay
ment shall be certified to the Controller
of State. For the taking of said GEN.
sus, and to facilitate the carrying out
of the provisions OF the Act, the State
Controller furnishes each County AS
SCISSOR in the State suitable blanks.
These blanks, when properly filled,
will give the number of dwellings and
families; the number of white, colored
and Chinese males and females; the
number of males and females of foreign
birth; the number of blind and insane
persons, and the value of real estate and
of personal property in each county,
which enumeration is to be certified
by Assessors in their respective coun-
ties, and forwarded to the Governor,
who shall lay the same before the
Legislature at the next regular session
thereof. The census, like that taken
by authority of Congress in 1870, re-
quires that the name, age. occupation,
profession or trade of each person, male
or female, shall be given, also, whether
married or single, or can read or
write, with such other information as
might be of general or special interest.
All this will be accomplished at a
trifiing expense to the State, and will
be more reliable than the enumeration
made by the General Government, from
the fact that the Assessors have better
opportunities of getting all the facts
than United States Census Marshals.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-04-02

A few evenings ago prominent Con-
gresham called briefly upon Grant.
He happened to be accompanied by DIR.
own.Sequard-there was subse-
quent engagement the two were to fill
together. As favor" said the
eminent law-maker to the eminent pill
maker, make a quiet optical dag
nosis of the President, and tell me what
you think when We come ont. The
interview was soon concluded, and the
visitors were soon out under the stars
again. Well," said the Con-
gresham. turning to the physician.
g What do you say?" II say" an
swered DIR. Brown Sequard, "that
man must change his way of living or
die within six months"
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-04-02

The celebrated diamond necklace
and earrings presented by the Khedive
of Egypt to Mrs. Minnie Fitch, the
daughter of General Sherman, remain in
custody of the Collector of Customs of
the port of New York. Congress, by
resolution, authorized ThomasW. Fitch,
who is an engineer in the United States
Navy, to accept of the present sent to
his wife, but did not exempt the pres
ent from duty. When this defect be-
came known another resolution cover
ing the whole ground was introduced,
and would have passed, but General
Sherman protested against it as a rig
marole of foolishness. Engineer Fitch
has not the money to spare to pay the
duty, and General Sherman cannot
support such extravaganza, hence Mrs.
Fitch has to go without the diamonds.
1t is now ascertained that the gems are
worth about $4,000 in gold, and the
duty is about ST., 500. 1t was real
mean in Congress not to have included
the words " free of duty" in that reso-
luton, and permit Mrs. Fitch to take
her diamonds.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-04-02

A WOMAN rode home from ball in
Boston on recent cold night, and the
driver, upon hearing the door of the
carriage open and shut, supposed she
had alighted. He drove away, without
having got down from his seat, and
left his carriage standing outside of
his stable after caring for his horses.
The woman, who had been drinking
freely, had not got out of the carriage,
and was found in it the next morning
frozen to death.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-04-02

The Truckee Republican says that
last Sun day distractions were found
on the track between Boca and Pros
ser Creek, which must have been
placed there by some wickedly de-
signing hand. On bridge at the
bottom of the grade a stick of wood
was found placed at the upper end of
the bridge, SO that the train, had it
gone off. would have gone off the
bridge. A connecting link was found
placed on a rail, and also pieces of
chain wrapped around the rail at a
curve. Extra precautions are now
taken to prevent accidents from these
causes.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-04-02

A oUAcK now travelling in New Eng
land aims to profit by arousing the
religious superstition of his dupes.
He processes to be a chosen emissary
of God, commissioned to cure diseases
by baptism. The astonishing part of
the story is that he makes plenty of
converts and money.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-04-02

THE lone idea" man of the Gold
Hill News thinks that because chickens
were stolen a few days ago at Truckee,
he could not have been a self-elected
delegate to the Cincinnati Convention.
While this thought shows that the News
man is not utterly devoid OF reason, it
proves that the stock on hand is not
very extensive.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-04-02
LETTER FROM BARTLETT CREEK
Great Expectations-The Mill to be
Running fn Two Wecks-Chfna-
men Among the PiOneers-New
Discoveries In Bartlett Peak.

VARYvILLE, March 30, 1875.
EDITOR SILVER STATE: While winds
and snow continue to howl around,
and fall plentifully upon US, we are
comparatively happy. We sit around
our sagebrush fires, and in anticipation
pile up the bullion that each and every
one of us are sure to take from the
rich mines that abound in and around
Varyville, many of US are millionaires;
all are rich, or we will be soon, now
that the long-looked- for mill is here.
visited the place destined for its erec-
ton last week, and found Mr.. DEMO
busy, with several men at work. The
ditch is complete. with the battery,
bars, pans and water pipe on the
ground. All the excavations for the
mill-house, battery, tail-race, ETC., are
complete. Everything is now awaiting
the arrival of timbers from Winnie
mucca, all of which will be here to-day
or tomorrow. Weather permitting, in
fifteen days after the timbers are un-
loaded on the ground all will be in
running order, and MASKING rock :"
the order of the day.
There are some fifty or sixty men
now in camp, of which number some
seven or eight are Cinnamon. These
"cusses - were in other days accus-
toned to follow civilization; now they
go before it. Washee," with the de-
scendants of Noah or Confucius, is a
kind of second-nature. They all APP
pear to take as naturally to the wash
tub and to stealing as does a Missou-
rian to terbacker" and whisky.
Now that we are to have mill, let us
give thanks to those who have under
taken so good deed. Vary and DEMO
will be kindly remembered for long
time to come for the energy, industry
and public spirit thus displayed. TO say
nothing of the Colonels virtues, in
deed Mr.. DEMO deserves great credit
for the manner in which he has pushed
on the work since his advent among
us.
Mr.. Bolinger has been in town for
the last week. for what purpose we are
not informed, but take it that gentle
man so affable and companionable
cannot be otherwise than on "good
intent" We welcome him here, and
pray for his success in whatever he I'M
dertakes.
All the mines look well. A new tun-
mel is being run in the Badger to tap
the ledge at a great distance below the
old one, and through which the mine
in the future is to be worked.
Some very rich prospects have been
struck here during the last week in
what is known as Bartlett Peak. /
fird by the surveys that this camp is
% miles north and SO miles west of
Winnemucca, and that Winnemucca
is 1872 miles east and 46 miles south of
Lake City. The angle across the sur
veys not calculated in the above.
PIUTE.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-04-02

The only qualifications possessed by
Grants new appointee for Chief
Justice of Utah, are that he was de-
feated for reelection to Congress in
Kansas last fall, and that he voted for
the Third-term-force bill. 1t doesn't
take much of a man to Gil the bill for
an important Federal Office now.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-04-02

THIS is the season of the year, says
the Detroit Free Press, when the farm
err tells his son John that if he will sort
over ten bushels of potatoes, feed the
stock, repair the fence, and reshingle
the corn crib, he may have the rest of
the day to go rabbit hunting.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-04-02

EUREKA was shocked last evening.
A dispatch says the quake was of sew
eral seconds duration. People fed
affrighted from their houses, and
though things were shook up quite
lively no damage was done to life or
property.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-04-02

THE daughter of ex-senator Nye has
presented conductor Birdsong of the
Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad
Company, with a pair of massive gold
sleeve buttons, in appreciation of his
kindness to her father.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-04-02

BEECHER is on the witness stand in
the scandal trial. He refused to be
sworn on the Bible, giving as reason
therefor that he had conscientious
scruples about taking nm oath in that
manner.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-04-02

A WISCONSIN lady opened matri-
monial intelligence Office recently, but
she married the first man who applied,
and the concern came to a speedy end.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-04-02

In 1886 Roger Williams was banished
from Massachusetts for opinion sake,
and now the Massachusetts, Legislature
is petitioned to revoke the sentence.
National Republican., 1875-06-16

JAY GOULD's ORGAN seems to derive
comfort for its owner in the following
frank admission, which appeared in its
editorial columns yesterday, in reference to
some portions which have not before been
printed of the correspondence that took
place at the time of the overthrow of the
Gould administration of the Erie railway:
MIR. Sharp, the London attorney Of the
''rescuing party, asks that commission of
''2! per cent. be paid to his principals as a
"bonus for their efforts. The letters afford
evidence of the tendency on either side to
milk the Erie COW while handling her. "
There is no pretence of denying that Gould
'milked the Erie cow" and there is as
little doubt that he will milk the Tri6UBe
COW while handling her, fatrow, even
though she may be, by blacklegging stocks
and making puts" and corners through
her influence.
National Republican., 1875-06-16

THE recent burglaries in New York and
Brooklyn have aroused the energies of the
editor fthe New York lines, and he has
assumed to teach the detectives of those
cities few lessons regarding their duties.
A few days ago he boiled over with in
formation regarding the proper manner to
cook coffee. Very soon he may be ex-
pected TO instruct the tailors how to do
their work, and the sewing girls how to
make undergarmelrs If this young man
keeps on he will strike his Ill rnt. but
aust now he reminds those who have tlhe
to watch him of the famous "coon aog, 30
who must have been q StaffiIee4 fiIea4' at everything
he dGeftsin it is that Jennings is failure
as Journalist, and it would be cruel to be-
lieve that he is incapable of doing any,
thing useful. We insist, therefore, that he
would make good tailor, or first class
starved sewing girl.
National Republican., 1875-06-16

learr. he descended into political tophet,
ever. into the lair Of the Pirate of the
Pro, and communed with Charles A.
Da' Q, the refugee from. justice. selfIcon-
fcs d slanderer, and liar, and hsbitual as
s re with thieves. discharged detectives
q { prostitutes Alter this who win deny
t our Henry is not in earnest when
b scclares himself to be the Great North
A. rican Political Conciliator?'' But re-
POI does not show that he s'dropped in, !"
as Mr.. Ex Speaker Blaine did, upon the
Beecher-T -Tilton trial? Herein Mr.. Blaine
carried ofthe palm, for he allowed himselfto
be interviewed by both the Tribune (''mut-
tered under his breath') and the Sun, and
afterwards shed the light of his beaming
countepsnce upon that sink Of iniguity,
the Brooklyn court house. Why, oh why
did Henry overlook this great oppOrtu-
DitT
National Republican., 1875-06-16

SoME of our exchanges have been led to
believe that Mr.. Charles Nordhof, at pres
ent Southern correspondent Of the New
York Herald, is Republican, gentle
man, and waA formerly the editor of the
New York Eoeniag Post. This is a mis-
take. 1t is true that he at one time wrote
for the Post; but it was as any Hessian
would have done the same thing. He is no
more of a Republican than Brick Pomeroy,
and could not be one if he tried, because,
as his name indicates, he is Dutch jew.
Unlike respectable German Israelite, he
came to this country simply because he knew
that he might be called upon to do the kind
of work ne is now engaged in, and that no
respectable journalist of native or foreign
birth would descend to compete with him.
Like Eli Perkins, Joe Howard, Marcus
Cicero Stanley, and other similar frauds,
he has monopoly in his especial line OF
National Republican., 1875-06-16
Not q New Question.
rFrom the New YORK Graphic. ]

IRON the new 1or6 urdphlC'l .ra.
The Third Term question is not new one
in American politics, as is generally supposed.
1t was talked Of in the days OF Washington,
jefferson, Madison and Monroe. In January,
1921, John Quincy Adams said to Rev. DR.,
Allison that he ''did not know that it was Mr..
Monroe's intention to retire from public life at
the expiration of his second Presidential term.
If he should not decline q third election l
should not consent, even were 1t in my power,
to have my name held up as candidate in
opposition to him." DIR. Allison said in reply
that 'this own purposes were all founded upon
the presumption that Mr. Monroe would de-
cline another reelection, as he sh6ald not
wish to support any other person In opposition
to him" At this time Mr.. Adams was In Mr..
Monroe's Cabinet, and DR.. Allison was "vice
president of the general association of Baptist
ministers throughout the United States.' And
it is evident that John Quincy Adams did not
regard a third election of Mr.. Monroe with the
least digaDUnOYal.
National Republican., 1875-06-16


PIERRE.-At his residence, No. Ills Third street,
on Sunday, at p. N, j. K PIERRE In the forty
The funeral viii be al the Nincteenth-street
church this afternoon at O'Clock.
H the
q the brothers and sisters and nine orphan! OF
kind words, and very kind acts. our thanks are
also rendered to all the gentlemen of the Navy De-
partment for their deep sOlicitude, with whom our
WIN. PIERRE.
reqGee Of seP hr T%ss9 nssF
SUSAN A, second daughter Of John ID. LatchfOrd.
@ hsuFPe HS on Il ocCcR
which the relatives and friends invited wi hout
al o'clock.
HAMMER.-On the I4th instant, KATIE ELIZA
Sged eleven months and three DAYS.
Relatives and friends Of the family are respect
VI sire ct southwest, Thursday, at ) o clock p. m.
VII LIAAMS'GORw Ans w Tuesday morning, A June Is, at At
Shree days. eldest sen OF Elizabeth and the late
Edward P. Williams. ..r- -
vii ed to sttend the funeral from the residence Of
his moths No. T25 Eighth street southeast, Thurs
day evening, June Il, At O'Clock.
BRENNAS.-On the 18th Instant, ROBERT PAT
RICK, son OF Robert and Maggie Brennan, aged
EeiatiSes and fIiends Of the family are respect
fully requested TO attend his funeral from his pa
rents residences va street northwest, this AFTER
] CoXr-on Monday, June Il, after brief iliuesS
JAMES u. SONt son OF MIS- ID. A. Cox ana tne lAte
Captain W. Cox. '.".. D..
Friends respectfully invited. ...- -s
-UARTER.-In MerAn, Austrian Tyrol, on the
24th OF May, 1875, OF pneumonia. Mrs. CAROLINE
G. GARTH, wife OF Captain s. p. Carter, United
| States navy. sr'... - .
FLEMING.-ol the l4eh instant, sUsAx, FLEx-
ING, wife or Abraham Fleming. ESQ.,, aged sixty
eight years, formerly Of Harper Ferry, virginia
The rrlattVes and friends Of the family are re-
specifically invited TO attend her funeral this aer'
noon at : O'Clock, At ncKeudree NJ. q. enurcn,
Massachusetts Gyenne, between ninth and Tenth
,treets northwest. ..s-
| KELLY .-On the morning OF Sunday. June Il
lsI6 in the tWenIy-seventh year Of heC age; MIS-
| CARoIISE g; KELLY, wife OF Btehard' Kelly
| esq.,. OF Washington, d. G, -. =,
Tie f1nera VII take plsSe On om e6n 1ae
Of Dr, GhafIes =. MseSehald. No. az Indiana ave-
nue.. The friends OF the fAmiy are respectfully In
| Vited to attend. .--...
/ NICHOLSON Monday, June Il, at 1880 D. m,
1 Dr. wARNER b. NICHOLS, In the thlrty-seyenth
| year of his age. ~, -. - -.
| northwest, At y o,clock a. m, Wednesday, june
iG. Friends the family are ssa uested TO attend
National Republican., 1875-06-16
MLHRR PAYMENTS.

The question of substituting silver coin
of flessdenomination than the dollar for the
fractional currency now in circulation is
attracting considerable attention, and sew
eral of our exchanges who have predicted
the failure of this important provision of the
finance bill now seem inclined to look upon
the measure as not only feasible, but one
which will add strength to the Administra-
ton by bringing the country nearer to a con-
dItion for the resumption Of specie pay
ments.
1t is contended by the opponents of the
measure that under the present condition of
the gold premium the silver coins, as fast
as issued, would disappear from circulation,
and that there Can be no prospect of the
silver circulation being retained, except
under the condition of gold remaining be-
low 10, and there will be strong motives
for bullion dealers and spectators to keep
the quetient above that figure. The causes
leading to the appreciation of the gold pre-
MUM have not been fairly considered by.
those who predict failure in the carrying
out of the finance bill Germany and
France have been the great arteries
into which our gold has been
swept for the last two years,
the first nation accumulating gold for coin
age, and the latter boarding it preparatory
to the resumption of specie payments. The
Bank of France, within the present year, has
increased its stock of bullion by about
100000. 900, mostly in god, and the
amount of specie now in that country is
believed to be greater than the total paper
money outstanding. The necessity for
boarding gold having ceased in France, and
everything pointing to the fact that the de-
mand for Germany will not be so great in
the future as it has been in the past, it nat
urally follows that the gold premium will
fall before the close of the present year, and
by that time the Government will have on
hand stock of coin sufficient to commence
the withdrawal of the fractional notes.
The amount of subsidiary silver coin now
in the Treasury and mints is about Sc, 0OO,-
0O9, and the additional purchases made
within the last month will bring it up by
the first of September next to about $9,-
900, 900. With gold at $1.13 3-5 and silver
at its present rate, 50! pence, the gold value
of dollar in fractional silver coin and
dollar greenback is about 88 LOO cents;
and as 1t would not pay to export silver at
50! pence, under gold premium of $1.15,
the Government can, if so minded, circu-
late IFS silver without fear of export, when
ever the gold premium shall have fallen to
$1.13 3-5; but the probabilities are that
still further decline in silver will take place
before the Government shall see fit to COM
mence the withdrawal Of the fractional
nnfrs
National Republican., 1875-06-16
That Much-Talksd-of Tax List.


Here, it will be observed, the magpie press
lies each on its own account, and they disagree
in everything save the purpose to SANDER.
The Philadelphia reformer, Alexander X. Nc
Clure, aims to vilify the President, and hence,
the act that must of legal necessity be that of
the new Commission which governs Washing
ton, is made to appear the act Of the President
of the United States, who has no more author
ity to order this advertisement than McClure's
correspondent in Washington. But tho
"Young Editor" of the Sugar Refinery de-
mands another story to enable him to 'tget
even" with General Babcock, and his profess
sionsl Hbeler and slanderer at Washington is
equal to the occasion, and sends on telegram
to the Tribune fixing the blame on another
man who has no power whatever in the prem
ises. 0fcourse the magpie press must pub
lish lies. But cannot their Representative"
meet in convention and arrange to lie In uni
son! So long as the decent journals can con-
found the magpie press by using their own
gross fslsehood of the same day, from the
same place, on the same subject, they fail to
be either successful or even interesting.