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Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1875-07-22

II. as General Bidvell says. Gorham
and his friends made threat in 1867 to
expose Bidwell's fraudulent land case
unless he supported Gorham, why did
Bidwell support Gorham for Governor
that year? Surely if he were entirely
conscious OF being in the right. he not
only need have had no fears, but as an
honest and Independent citizen he could
not have copscientiously supported a
man who wouli make such false charges.
If Bidwell tells the truth it must follow
as nutural conclusion that he was
frightened into Gorham's support. and
mis- course under tie circumstances is
the strongest evidence that he had reason
to fear the result of carrying such threat
into execution.-S. f. Post
When Gorham spoke at Chico in 1867
Bidwell presided at the meeting, intro
duced Gorham and asked the crowd to
vote for him Ii is no doubt true that
Bidwell believed that Gorham was
acquainted with his fraud and would ex-
pose it if he bolted. How true it is, my
dear hearers. that the wicked fee when
no man pursueth,
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1875-07-22

WAsHoE CrTY.-Once the liveliest camp
in the State is now termed - dead, " and
is almost entirely deserted. Its former
friends are now scattered broadcast over
the globe, and all heave gentle sigh
when contrasting its present condition
with its former glory. Yet there are a
number of rich farmers around is. and
the timber trade in the mountains close
by serve to keep body and soul together.
We would there were brighter DAYS in
store for poor old Washoe City.-Reno
Journal.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1875-07-22

JcDGE E. B. CRoCKEH, of Sacramento.
recently deceased appoints. in his will.
his brother Charles as trustee of the en-
tire property, to hold and maintain the
estate intact so long as in his judgment
IL shall be deemed best
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1875-07-22

FRANKTowN.-This old Mormon set
Element in Washoe Valley has seen its
best days. though the farming interests
around it demand that the place shall
never entirely die out. Last year the
lumber trade was an important feature,
but the transferring Of Haynes forces
to Douglas county effectually cast q
damper ON Franktown. Still its old
settlers and standbyes express their ut
most confidence in its future prospects.
Reno Journal.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1875-07-22

GEEAT and damaging floods are re-
ported in Lancashire and Yorkshire
counties in England. Sheffield is
threatened. The Calder, the Don and
the Ribble Rivers have all overlooked
their banks and inundated the roads.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1875-07-22

A SORT of Presbyterian Ecumenical
Council is in session in London. Rep
resentatives from all parts Of Christen-
dom are there. They will sndeavor to
agree on a platform Of faith.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1875-07-22

As for horseback riding. a patent
clothes pin on . vet clothes line in q
windy day isn't marker for some of
tho girls-over in Ornsby county
Lyon County Times.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1875-07-22

4 few days sines, says the Aun-
ehausen Who writes the marvellous for
the San Bssnardino Argus. - the work
men ON the tunnel at Cajon pass we're
hauling over some rocks. they came
across . deposit Of honey. and taking .
pole and running it into the mountain.
were surprised to find no bottom. They
got longer pole, some twenty feet in
length, and were unable to touch bot
tom with that. Upon Withdrawing the
pole the honey hogan to run out. and
soon tubs. buckets and two barrels were
filed. and still it flowed. Some parties
came in town and loaded up with bar
rels. and propose to make business Of
it. They put in a charge of powder and
blew OF a portion Of the rock. which dis
closed tons upon tons Of honey. Our
Informant states that after exploring it
from below to where the bees enter, it
was found to be about one-fourth Of q
mile. and it is his opinion that the whole
cavity is filed with honey. He estimates
over 100 tons tn sight, and believes that
900 tons would not be an ~ fair esti-
mate. This immense deposit :, onot be
equaled by any ever found. According
to the above estimate, it would take
every barrel and hogshead in San Ber-
nardino TO hold it.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1875-07-22

TIE Connecticut Supreme Court has
decided in favor Of the constitutioBality
Of the local option law.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1875-07-22

THERE 10 eight per cent more corn
growing this year than last-so the
Agricultural Department proclaims.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1875-07-22

The final deposit of $500 side to
make up the stakes for the coming
swimming contest between Johnson, the
English champion, and Coyle, the
American. took place last night i'll the
Rainbow Saloon, in Anity street. The
contest is to occur on the 10th inst. on
the Delaware River, the course to be %
miles long. Both johnson and Coyle are
training at Gloucester City, n. j., and
are in good condition.-N. Y. Herald,
July IA.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1875-07-22

LARGE FUNERAL.-The cortege attend
ant upon the funeral of Senator Piper S
son yesterday afternoon was very large
and imposing. and the funeral services
of an unusually interesting character.
There is not in the whole of English lit
erature to be found anything more i'm
pressiTe than the Episcopalian burial
service for the dead, and when the cere-
monies are performed around the body
and ever the grave Of the lovely and the
loved, We envy not the man who can
stand unmored. - Virginia Entegprsse,
July 20h.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-22

tice, Biddle offered to accept challenge
if Pettis would send it. The challenge
was sent The place of meeting Bloody
Island.
1t was hot August afternoon that
they met under the cottonwoods on
Bloody Island to settle this question of
injured honor. The river bank at st.
Louis was lined with people eager to
know the result; for the duel was no Sc
cret and its merits were freely discussed
by all. Biddle was very near-sighted:,
so the distance agreed upon was only five
PAGES; and there the two men stood pis-
tol in hand almost breast to breast.
When the word was given, both men
fired at the same instant The
loud report rang out and the
keen-eyed ones on the distant river bank
saw the little puff of smoke that foated
up above the trees. With the report of
the pistol both men fell the surgeons
luoiico 1OlM W tlcH WOIh, ANU Tie
seconds were as eager to assist them, but
their principals were past the skill Of
surgery. Both men were MORALLY
wounded. A few minutes later the ex-
cited throng upon the other bank of the
river saw people bearing the wounded
men to their respective batteaux, which
were rowed rapidly across the river.
Pettis died the next morning and Biddle
two days later. That hot Friday after
noon saw the last of the bloody scenes
enacted there to retrieve injured honor
Bloody Island long ago ceased to be an
island save in name, and a great dyke
| bound it fast to the Illinois shore Then
came other dykes and railroads, with
depOts and all the paraphernalia of COM
merce and travel. The cottonwoods dis
appeared and buildings sprang up. Long
before that the batteaux and canals had
given way to the ferry-boats. A few
trees that shaded the victims of injured
honor still remain but what is left for
them nowl Not one trace of the old
times. Wheeling ferries, noisy locomo-
tives, impatient, dusty travellers and
last of all, a giant bridge of steel binding
the island fast to the other, the Missouri
shore. Traffic, hustle, noise, perhaps
pleasure but not trace of that earlier
honor is left to Bloody Island.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-22
DOCS IN TENNESSEE.

DR.. Redfield, of the Cincinnati Com
mercial, in letter from Chattanooga.
Tennessee, says: The poverty of the
State to-day is due in no small degree to
the multitude of worthless ours, which
consume as much as the hogs and cost as
much as the schools, and produce moth
ing. In the rural districts there are
nearly as many dogs as people, showing
of itself state of civilization not the
highest. Not long ago a plaintive appeal
was sent to Nashville from 143 colOred
people of Rutherford county, saying that
last years dry weather cut off the crop
and that they were in a starving cOndi-
ton. Some one went through one of the
poverty-stricken districts of that county,
and his business being to enumerate the
population, he enumerated the dogs also,
and found more dogs than people. What
was fed the dogs would have fattened
enough hogs to have furnished the pop
ulation with a reasonable amount of
meat.
Curse the worthless dogs Where
ever you find them in great numbers,
you find the people correspondingly poor
and the country wretched. l wish the
tax was twenty-five dollars on each dog,
and the proceeds given to encouraging
the raising of sheep. Here is great
central State, adapted by nature to the
production of wool, and wool, too, of
such superior quality that it has taken
the premium more than once at the
Worlds fair, yet ON account of the myri-
ads of worthless ours which prey upon
the sheep, there is not one-quarter
enough wool produced for home con-
sumption.
In twenty-seven counties of this State,
average counties, the dogs last year killed
II, 469 sheep. In the one county of Giles
they got away with $50.
A northern farmer who settled in COT
fee county was telling me few days ago
OF the fine location he had Tor sheep ralS-
ing as compared with the North. 1t cost
only one-quarter as much to winter sheep
here as in the North. The cold weather
never killed his lambs, no matter what
month of the year they were born. But
there was one drawback that spoiled all
that was promising and fine. The worth
less dogs killed his sheep and destroyed
all the profits of wool growing. He was
powerless to remedy the matter. The
county was fairly alive with dogs, every
family having from two to a dozen, the
poorer and more wretched and ignorant
and worthless the family, the more dogs
they kept.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-22
HE WIS THERE.

was working at an old Tufts press
when my roller-boy gave utterance to q
prolonged roar. He had an old newspa-
per pinned with bodkin against the
back of type-case ut his left hand, FROM
which he had been reading by snatches.
/ asked him what he was laughing at,
and he read the anecdote which had so
excited him. have not seen it in print
from that day to this, and think it worth
reproducing:
In the times when the political warfare
between the Wings and Democrats waxed
hot and relentless there was town out
West in which the two parties were so
nearly equal that the variation of single
vote, one way or the other, might be a
matter of most serious consequence. OF
course, ON both sides sharp eyes were
open and watchful-
A young man came up to the polling
place on election day, and offered his
vote. 1t was his first appearance in the
character of an elector, and he had the
independence, or audacity, to differ po-
itically with his father. His father
challenged his vote.
"On what grounds" demanded the
presiding officer.
He amt twenty-one.
ssIam twenty-one, asserted the youth
"No you amt" persisted the father;
"you won't be twenty-one till to-mor-
row.
81 say / ,cil." cried the youth. 81
was born on the twelfth day Of Novem-
Der. It's down so in the old Bible"
"Then it's dod-rotted mistake" said
the old man. "You weren't born till the
mornin' of the thirteenth Of November,
i can swar,"
"How can you swearf
"How?" repeated the father, indig-
nantly. Goodness gracious. wasn't I
thar"
"WeIl,," returned the son, with proud
defiance, "wasnt there, too 2"
The young man voted.-.S. c., J-., an
Near York Ledger.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-22
GERMAN GYMNASTIC DRILL.

In private letter to O gentleman in
New York, the contents of which are fur
nished to the Cincinnati Gazette by q
correspondent, the secret of the success
attending the German arms in recent
struggles is partially unfolded by de-
scription of the drill under which the
soldiers have to pass. The writer wit
messed some portions of it while strolling
near the barracks outside of Madgeburg.
For raw recruits lot of gun boxes were
piled up to height of four or five feet,
and over these the men were required to
make handsprings, each one on failing
being required to try it again and again
until successful. Another squad was
practicing leap over four foot high
pile, touching only with the right hand.
Others were springing with the help of
the left hand only, and others still with
out touching either hand. At one side
of the drill ground were horizontal bars,
and other appliances of the gymnasium,
at all of which squads were at exercise,
every squad being under the supervision
of an officer. In another place was q
wall breast high, over which soldiers in
full marching order with muskets and
knapsacks were leaping, with only the
assistance of their left hands. With
bayonets fixed they marched to the front
of the wall, and halted at the word of
command. Then, at another order, each
man rested his left hand on the wall, and
at another he leaped over, without touch
ing feet or hitting the butt of his musket
against the stone. Several times they did
thus, and then, from distance of twelve
or fifteen yards, went over it at run in
the same way, by the use of only the
left hand. Such exercise as all this gives
man must necessarily make him, in a
measure, insensible to the ordinary
fatigue of an active campaign, and has
also the double effect of keeping the men
under strict discipline while improving
their physique.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-22
A MODEL JUnOR.

A juror in Erie, Penn, who was unable
to follow the evidence sufficiently closely
to satisfy bis own mind, last week sought
out the defendant. in the case, and got
all the facts he deemed necessary. The
result is thus set forth by The Erie Dis
patch:
When the Lehman VS.. nlig jury re-
tired, upon the first vote cast, eleven
were in favor of a verdict for the plain
tiff, and enc for the defendant. This
one is farmer, passing the primeof life,
a conscientious, digniffed personsge, a
pattern of probity and simplicity, who
wouldn't on any consideration have his
verdict influenced by improper motives,
After some persuation he yielded to the
very strong majority against ain, not
because he thought them exactly right,
but because the majority was overwhelm-
ing. After the verdict had been rend-
cred he explained his position in this
manner: During the trial he had suffered
considerably from rheumatism and neu-
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-22
SPRTyG.

OF all the seasons spring is the most
coquettish. She is like the Princess who
stopped and kissed the sleeping poet
under the tree, who still slept on but
dreamed different dream. The earth
was hardly conscious that spring had
come till yesterday, when blue skies
dropped ethereal mildness (Thomson)
on her BOSOM 1t is indeed the time
when the young, the rosy spring gives
to the breeze her scented wing (Anacre-
ON and April is garlanded with all the
fairest flowers and freshest buds the
earth brings forth (Spencer). Well was
it observed that like an army defeated
the snow hath retreated (Wordsworth)
and that the fields with flowers are
decked i'll every hue Drummoned),
though we must not go out just yet to
pull them. The swallow also brings us
the season of vernal delight, with his
back all of sable and belly of white
(Annonymous), and there are daffodils
which come before the swallow dares and
take the winds of March with beauty
(Shakespeare). In the spring a brighter
crimson burns upon the robins breast
CTennyson), and young mans fancy
lightly turns to thoughts of love Qbid).
Now is heard the sound of vernal
showers on the twinkling grass Shelley,
and with his umbrella wanders forth the
hyacinthine boy, for whom morn well
might break and April bloom Emerson.
Now shall We notice how our swift
spring heaps the orchards full of bloom
and scent IowelD, and the maiden May
returns with a pretty haste Barry Corn
walD. Now do the majority of intelli-
gent people think it better to sport with
Amaryllis in the shade or with the
tangles of Neera's hair (Milton) than to
creep into some still cavern deep, there
to weep and weep and weep (Tennyson).
All tn Sc and many other things do We
see and enjoy now that spring has
broken the icy letters of the silver
streams CWilkesbarre special dispatch),
and all nature rejoices that grim-visaged
March has smoothed his frosty pow
Burns and Shakespeare. SPRING beau
tiful spring. has returned with birds
and flowers (original), and new fashion
able styles in hats, bonnets, dresses lad
vertisements), infiuenzas and catarrhs
and hundreds of other things make
business. hvely.-Nev York Herald.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-22

ralgia, and the pain had attracted so
much more of his attention than had the
evidence that he was not very clear what
the testimony had been, and so, to en-
tighten himself upon it--having passing
acquaintance with the defendant In that
suit-he sought him out ON the evening
preceding the morning when the jury re-
tired for consultation, got from the SAID
defendants full explanation of his theory
in the case, conceded heartily In his
views, and, after an hour or so in con-
versation with him in relation to it, went
to bed fully convinced that the SUIT
should never have been brought, and
that the defendant was entitled to YER
dict, which impression he carried unim-
paired to the jury-room.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-22
@arshall county Republican
PLYMOUTH. INDIANA.
THE MYSTERIES OF THE HUMAN
THROAT

THE MYSTERIES OF THE HUM4N
THROAT
DIR. Frederick Fieber, of Vienna, like
the little boy with his drum, not content
with enjoying the melody of Madame
Pauline Lucca, has made close scrutiny
of the throat whence the sweet sounds
issue, and publishes the result of his in
vestigations. The mechanical apparatus
which Is the instrument of the mental
faculty, appears in Madame Lucca's case
to be beautifully perfect, the result to
some extent, perhaps, of congenital fit
ness, but also doubtless, partly of the
scientific training to which the young ar
tiste has been subjected IN early youth.
Examined under the laryngoscope, the
iarynx appears small and well-shaped,
its several parts being marvelonsly de-
veloped and perfect The true strings
are pure SNOW white and possess none OF
the blush tinge common among women.
Although shorter than usual among vo-
calists they are stronger in proportion
and amply provided with muscle. When
at rest they are partly screened by the
false strings; but DIR. Fieber, who
watched Madame Lucca's throat through
his instrument while she was singing,
noticed that rs soon as tone was struck,
they displayed themselves in their full
breadth and strength. The aid given
by suitable form OF mouth to the pro-
duction OF vocal music is a novel and In
teresting point brought out by DIR. Fie-
Der. On being admitted to a view OF
the artiste's mouth he was at once struck
with the spaciousness and symmetry of
its hollowness, the otherwise perfect SYM
metry being impaired only by the alb
sence of a tonsil. which had been re-
moved, as well as with the vigor with
which every tone produced raised the
s'sail - of the palate. DIR. Fieber is of
the opinion that the natural conforma-
ton of her mouth accounts III a large
measure for the wonderful power Mad
anne Lucca possesses of raising and drop
ping her voice alternately. The sound
waves are naturally strengthened in so
favorably shaped a space, while the mus
cles of the palate appeared TO have ac-
quired exceptional strength and pliabiity
by long practice.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-22
SINGULAR REQUEST.

An old gentleman named March died
recently in Charlestown, who was most
eccentric genius. Though possessed of
some wealth, he had but one pleasure
that of theater-going. He would econo-
mize in everything else, but always
treated himself to sight of every new
play or actor, good or bad. He left no
heirs, and few relatives, and his property
was disposed of in several singular ways.
The principal item of his will provided
for the investment of sum sufficient to
realize $500 per year clear, which was to
be expended in theater tickets, to be
given away to poor, respectable people
not over one dollar each to be paid for
the tickets. The trustees under the will
are otherwise given full authority in the
carrying out Of this provision, and will
to-day perform the first act under it,
spending the whole sum allowed. They
have selected the Boston Theater, Mu-
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-22

The STATURE OF PRIMITIVE MAN.
The indications are that the primeval
man of Europe and his nearer descend
ants were of short stature. The popular
notion that the present generation is
physically weaker and smaller than the
primitive or ancient is not only utterly
unfounded, but there is abundant evil
dence that the reverse is true. Most of
us would be amazed if not shocked at
true and ife-sized portrait of the real
Eve, "mother of all living" We often
hear, indeed, of giants bones here and
there dug up, but intelligent examination
invariably proves them to have belonged
to the mammoth or other animal.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-22

BIG GUNs.-It is thought by nautical
men that small vessels mounting heavy
guns are the most effective in naval war
fare, and that these gigantic pieces, prop
erIy served, viii hereafter decide the fate
of naval battles. A single shot from a
monster gun with long range may
cripple the largest and finest hne-of-
battle-ship that was ever launched.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-22
THE GERMAN TROOPS,

The Alnaandch de Gotho states that
the military forces, including those of
Bavaria, comprise at this moment 81, $50
officers, 1,329,600 men, 314,970 horses,
2,7OO field and $40 siege pieces of can
non. They are subdivided as follows :
Stats and their suites, 1900 men in
fantry and chasseurs, 107, 900; field artil-
lery, 109,500; foot artillery, 61,70O; en-
gineers and railway corps, 40, 900; train
men, 1880; administration service,
$500. Moreover, an order of mobiliza-
ton can bring under arms the following:
57S,3 infantry soldiers, 81, $50 cavalry,
81 900 field artillery, ID, 100 engineers
total, no. 100, without counting the
staffs, their suites, baggage trains, ETC.
In these figures the four battalions which
Germany proposes to form are not in
Guided. These last will be composed of
3,4OO officers and 152, 1000 soldiers, to
which must be added 234 battalions of
the new landstrum, II regiments of cav
airy of the same, besides 81 companies
of chasseurs, consisting of at least 3, 718
officers and 202, 800 men; total, 80, 94S
officers, 1854, 200 men, and about $780,
600 horses. The above estimate takes no
account of the numerous staff of the
ambulances, nor of individuals suscepti-
BILE of being called out by virtue of the
law of 1913, who would increase the
German armies by at least 335, 200 men.