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The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1876-05-03

PERSONAL. - Eohn II. SAKE arrived
here last night With car lo.d Of hne
horses which he is taxing to California.
. sam, King of Central District is
Ia town. He reports miners ousi,y at
work in that camp, and all taking ont
more or less rich ore L. =. RAISING
of Oreana is in town looking handsome
and fleshy MS ever.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1876-05-03

Pay UP.--Subscribers to the Owybee
bridge fund, are requested TO call al
Germaiu's Hotel, and pay mp hume
ately, as money is required 70 make
payment now due. Us order If the
FINANCE COMMITTEES
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1876-05-03
This Mornings Board .

400 Opbir 531a. 81 b5
1870 Mexican 800, 305s
30 Gould * Curry IL. Us.
ll70 Best Il Belcber 571,. 51s
DO California 7a1@. 1914
7SD savage lG. 133s
G60 Con. Virginia 7lia, II
% CholIar So, S2t9
80 Hale a. Norcross 51113 52M
$50 Crown Point 1917
$50 Yellow Jacket 245., 90.
$40 Imperial AZ, Il.
) Kentuek 1917
30 Alpha 40, Az
700 Belcher 1871. 90.
205 Confidence II, ia
495 Sierra Nevada 1917, 1914
400 Utah u
$50 Bullion AZ. 43
z30 Excheqner l6s., II
800 Oyerman 500, $50
200 Justice 90, 22s+
500 Snccor G21l9. 60c
$50 Union l2A, 1928.
80 Lady Bryan IL
lG5 Julia ii. ia
So Caledonia So
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1876-05-03

PRISONERS AT Work. Thomas Shone,
Road Supervisor, Is utilizing the labor
of the prisoners now serving out SEN
fences for petty offenses, to good adj
vantage on the levees Leading to the
Humboldt bridge.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1876-05-03

Dom PEDRO. The boys at the Hum
boldt Reduction Works are building a
clipper, which they have named
Dom Pedro" with which they in.
tend to navigate the raging Humboldt.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1876-05-03
Winnemucca, Apr Is.

Too YoUNG TO DIE thousands Of
OF young persons between the ages Of
lG and % die of consumption every
one OF whom might have been saved by
using HALE's HoNEY or HohhHoUND
AND TAR when the cough first set IL.
Pixies Tooihache Drops cure in one
minnie
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1876-05-03

A MINNESOTA girl is named Happi-
ness Qnun, and half the young men in
the neighborhood wear black eyes for
indulging in certain inalienable
rights, among Which are life, liberty,
and tie pursuit Of Happiness.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1876-05-03

TKoRoUDgrp STOCK. A car load of
thoroue hbred Durham cows and bulls
from the best herds i'll Kentucky, will
arrive here about the first of June, and
will be offered for sale at Montana's
Stables, where the public are invited
10 inspect them.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1876-05-03
FIVE DOLLAR. REWARD.

Lost yesterday gold ring with the
letters IL. l.. engraved on its face.
Five dollars reward viii be paid TO lie
finder upon delivering the same 30 j..
German at the Lafayette Hotel
S CnaMBeRs.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1876-05-03

PHYSICAL impossibility make
Billy Wilson's, the end man Of the
Georgia Ministries, mouth any larger
without putting his ears further back
on his head
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1876-05-03

To BIZ SENTENCED. ID w Rover,
found guilty OF the murder OF /. N.
sharp, is to De sentenced at 3 o'clock
10 day.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1876-05-03

HIGH WATER. The Humboldt river
is higher than it has been since '6s,
and il is stiii rising.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1876-05-03
AN INDIAN FANDANGO.
The Pjutes Gathering for n Big
Dance--k Novel Way of Taking
the Census OF the Tribe.

Oance-A NosoA way Oh TAXING
the Census OF the Tribe.
BY order of the head Chief of the
Piutes oil the Captains or sub-Chiefs
With their bands are to appear at the
Big Meadows, on the Humboldt river,
tomorrow to attend great fandango
which begins tomorrow afternoon and
may last week or more, Naehes in-
forms us that all the bands along the
Humboldt. from the Shosbone bound
AIRY, on the east, west to Reno, and
from STEMS Mountain, south, to Still
Water, will be represented, and be ex-
poets to see at least six hundred
Indians on the Big Meadows to-mor-
row. The Indians in this section have
been preparing for the dance for weeks,
and last evening they crowded TO the
depot, loaded with -four and beef, to
take their departure west on the trains.
These faudangoes, which are held
every two or three years, are designed
for the double purpose of amusing and
ascertaining the condition of the tribe.
1t is the method adopted for taking the
census, biennialIy or triennially. Each
and every Captain is expected to re-
port the number Of deaths III bis band
since the next preceding dance, thus
showing the actual number Of bis
band. and whether it is increasing or
diminishing. Before the advent Of the
whites, hen wars we've waged against
other tribes, strict attention was paid
to this enumeration, as the number OF
warriors that each band should furnish
ia . campaign against the Washoes or
Shoshones, was based upon the census
taken at those gatherings. There will
be games of football and foot-races.
shooting and card playing for prizes at
the Big Meadows. md whites visiting
this big dance will undoubtedly learn
much of the old customs among the
Piutes before they became semi civil.
lied by contact With the pale faces.
The GEoRdIA MISsTRELs. - This
troupe, all real negroes, arrived on
the belated train last night and gave al
entertainment in Centennial Hall.
Notwithstanding the lateuess of the
hour. they had a fair house. and
proved themselves worthy OF the en-
comiums bestowed upon them by the
press of the eastern States. To-day
their brass band raraded the streets,
aud proved that as musicians as well
as Ministries they are first class, The
troupe will give another entertainment
this evening. and will undoubtedly
have crowded house. All perform
their parts with ability but the epd
men are inimitable. Ticke:s for sale
ut the hall; performance begins at s
o'clock
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1876-05-03
SAN FRANCISCO STOCK REPORT.
Last Evenings Board.

Last Evenings Board.
$50 Meadow Valley ~
l25 Eureka III
$50 Alps u, lss
80 Belmont | a, IA
600 Leopard Az, Az
Go Jefferson ! "a, -.
40 ella q
80 Panther "a
100 Metallic 2
40 Gen. Thomas 21aa
300 Coso Con. soc
600 Golden Chariot "a, 2X
200 New Coso 4
225 War Eagle 50c
505 Kuickerbocker 80
$40 Baltimore 2E
60 Silver Hill 81.
100 Challenge Al
100 Dayton 81 5
80 New York ~
200 Occidental 4, AZ b30
80 American Fla.
100 WoodsiIle ., "a
$50 Tyler 25c
30 Lady Washington "a
$50 Kossnth ~, Is
G75 Andes 3
30 Mdes
300 Europa 81
$50 Wells Fargo Soc
100 Niagara l5c
% Ward ~
10 Cosmopolitan soc
, 1876-09-23

The story is told that Mr.. Greeley
once became dlsgusted with the blum
ders of one of the Tribune compositors,
and sent note to the foreman saying
that the said compositor was inefficient,
and requesting him to dismiss him at
once. and never again employ him on
the paper. The foreman obeyed in
structions, and the compositor put his
coat on. Before leaving. however, he
managed to get possession Of Greeley's
note to the foreman, and Immediately
went to rival Office and applied for
work, showing the note as a recon-
mendation. The foreman to whom he
applied read the note and said: "Oh, 1
see--eood ana efficient compositor-
long time on the Tribune
Horace Greeley" and incidentally
asked. why Z" did you leave the Tri-
bune p "I've been away for some
time" (meaning ten minutes.) So the
compositor was at once set 70 work in a
rival Office on the strength q Mr.. Gree
ley's ccrtiication of his inef1iciency,
having been out Of a job about fifteen
minutes.
, 1876-09-23

ABOUT five years ago man left
this city for the United States to
seek work, his wife and three chill
dren remaining here. A year after
ward the wife heard that he was
sick in a New York hospital; and
subsequently that..he was dead. After
the lapse of two years she grew
tired of her supposed widowhood.
and gave her hand and heart to
another, by whom she has one or
two children. The persons reside
in the north end; this week q let
ter has been received by the wife
from her former husband, who is
aliveand we'll in Texas, and talks
about coming on. The family are
respectable, and these tidings fell
like a bombshell upon them. The
second husband is in great distress
over the unfortunate affair, and
wishes to leave the country. The
moral of these cases is that it will
become dangerous to marry a wild
ow on trust that her husband is
dead, unless the corpse is produced.
--Halifar Recorder.
, 1876-09-23

General Tom Ewing, who is rum
ming for Congress in Ohio, is in fa-
vor of the softest money. In 1857,
in Kansas, he was a free State man,
and became Chief Justice and after
ward Union colonel. His military
career was not great. He was once,
while in Kansas, the law partner of
General Sherman. The Shermans
married Ewings, and Ewing married
O sister of the McCooks. Tom will
be the rag money leader in the next
Congress, to which he is sure to be
elected. His father was famous
whig and Secretary of the Treasury
under several administrations.
, 1876-09-23

The most powerfully armored
ship afoat is the Thunderer, which
met with such terrible accident
recently, but two gunboats have
just been finished on the Tyne which
will be fitted up by the Armstrong
firm with hydraulic machinery
working a 38 ton gun. Compared
with the Thunderer, the gunboats,
built for foreign government, are
diminutive, yet each little vessel
will carry gun capable of piercing
the thickest armor now on the seas.
The smallness of these marine wasps
will be their greatest protection, and
the steam power will be so applied
that not only the gun, but also the
vessel, will be under the complete
control of the a-ti'lerist.
, 1876-09-23
Franklin in Philadelphia

Mrs. Rebecca Harding Davis at
tributes to the advent of Franklin in
Philadelphia, the birth. growth and
life of the intellect and development
of that city. She writes in Serb
ner's:
The advent of Franklin into the
city on the day when, shabby lad
of seventeen, he walked up High
street munching his roll, really
marks the date of the birth of intel
lectual life of Philadelphia. There
is not an effort for her improvement,
mental or practical, which cannot be
traced to its origin in the teeming
brain of the energetic printer.
Schools, universities, free churches,
public libraries, drainage, fire and
military companies, street lamps and
street sweepings--e every reform,
from the broad policy of the states
man to the smallest detail-bears
somewhere the bold scrawl, Frank
lin fecit.
The wisdom and scholarship of
that day were wholly drawn from
books. Franklin dealt directly with
the great natural forces, physical
and human; out of the unlikely ma
terial of his fellow apprentices he
made the philosophic junto; with
the petty politics of the drowsy
town, he studied statecraft; kite
and key under his keen eyes told
the secret of the lightnings, which
had been kept for ages. Nothing
was too insignificant for the life
giving glance of those keen eyes.
He sees a seed adhering to the straws
on his wife's broom, plants, tends it,
and gives to the country the before
unknown broomcorn and a new
source of industry. He observes a
green twig lying on a basket on q
wharf, thrown from an Amsterdam
brig, plants and tends that, and pre-
sently Pollard willows grow wild by
every stream.
He is the foremost typical Ameri-
can in our history; moral rather
than religious; a domestic man;
faithful to his wife, yet cultivating
Platonic friendship with other wo-
men; never losing his cool self-con-
troll, yet with a keen, fine sense of
fun; testing, one minute, a high
metaphysical problem, and the next
a counterfeit dollar; always master
of the present moment, whether it
demanded the making of cases, roll
er and ink, which he had no money
to buy, or the construction of a new
government from the ruins of the
old.
, 1876-09-23

A party Of ten English medical men
were dining not long ago. when one
inquired if all present were limited in
their practice to selection of six
pharmacop@lal remedies, which would
be chosen rs being the most useful,
compound drugs to be excepted. Each
of the party wrote the names of the six
drugs he would select, and handed
them to the doctor who asked the
question. On examining the ballots it
was found that a majority of the votes
were given in favor of opium, quinine
and iron; between mercury and iodide
of potassium they were equally divided,
Us they were also between chloroform
and ammonia.
, 1876-09-23

The Commissioner of Internal
Revenue is encouraged to believe
from reports of officials through out
the country, and from evidences
which reach the Department of in
creased activity among distillers and
tobacco dealers, manifested by the
demand for revenue stamps, that
there will be a very considerable
increase in the revenue during the
present year over last year. Other
returns to the internal revenue Of
flee arc very encouraging and indi-
cate, in the opinion of officials here,
a more cheerful condition Of busi-
ness affairs throughout the coun-
try.
, 1876-09-23
LATEST BY TELEGRAPH.

PROVIDENCE, Sept. 15.-The bleach
ing and dye works of Andrews &
Butterworth were burned this morn
ing. Loss, 100000; insurance,
$4,000,
New YORK, Sept. 15.--September
Dist is fixed upon as the day on
which hell-gate is to be blown to
pieces.
Judge Westbrook to-day granted
an injunction restraining President
Grant and the Secretary of State
from issuing a mandate for the sur
render of Leopold Veto, demanded
by the Australian authorities on a
charge of forgery.
ATLANTA. Sept. 15.-All the Dem
ocratic Congressman from Georgia
have been renominated.
SAVANNAH, Sept. 15.-Yellowfe-
yer iaterments %. Over one-half
Of the cnlored population are de-
pending upon the charity of the
whites, and the destitution is in
creasing. Subscriptions will be open
tomorrow. The City Council con-
tributed $500 per day during the
prevalence of the epidemic.
Sioux CITY, Sept. ia party Of
foreign capitalists, with the officers
of the Covington, Columbus and
Black Hills Railroad, passed over
the first thirty miles of completed
track to Panca, Nebraska, to day
The road is narrow gauge, and was
projected, built and equipped to the
present terminus since the 1st of
March this year, and is the first link
of the projected road via the Black
Hills and National Park to Portland
Oregon. Arrangements have been
made to complete l5O miles OF the
road this year and to reach the
Black Hills in 1877.
LOUISVILLE, Sept. 16.- The Ansieger
has information that the Empress Eu-
genie Las written letter in which she
announces that the Prince Imperial
visit to this country is postponed in
definitely.
SAVANNAH. Sept. 16. - Total inter
ments to-day, 25; yellow fever, 81. The
weather is very threatening, with north
east wind and rain, and bad for the sick
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 16.-Louisians
election was held to-day. Quiet pre-
vailed, except in the Fifth Ward, wher'
about fifty shots were exchanged ani
several wounds inflicted.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. II. - In thi!
city to-day considerable damage wa
done by the heavy storm which pre-
vailed all dag. Portion Of the roofs o
the main exhibition building and ma
chinery hall we're blown away, doing
considerable injury to exhibits. espe
ci4lly American and English.
, 1876-09-23

There never was campaign more dis
graceful than that of Servia against
Turkey, unless it be the campaign of
Turkey against Servia. We have been
told repeatedly that the subjects of
Prince Milan were in the habit of
wounding themselves to escape going
into battle, and now we are informed
that they shot their Russian officers for
compelling them to fight for their coun-
try. their race and their religion. The
butcheries of the Turks are atrocious,
but the abject cowardice Of the Servians
is inexplicable.
, 1876-09-23

Suicide in England is more prev
alent among the educated classes
than among the ignorant.
A Pennsylvania man boasts that
by eating five eggs a day he con-
sumed about 10000 of the oval fruit
in eleven years.
A philosopher in Paris has learned
that people who have extraordinary
long first joints on their thumbs are
born with homicidal instincts.
General Sherman will leave Wash.
ington on Saturday for Harrisburg,
where he will be joined by Secre.
tary Cameron. They will then pro.
ceed on their tour of inspection in
the West and on the Pacific coast.
DR.. Roepell writes a history oi
Poland, in which he reads lesson
to America. He says that the down
fall of that country was owing to so
cial intemperance and to both polit-
ical and judicial corruption.
The Pope, whu has been SO many
times at deaths door within the last
few years, must have kind of miracu'
lous bold on life. Within tie time ir
which his health has been a matter o.
so much solicitude that physician hal
been constantly in attendance at hi
side. seven of his physicians have died
They must have exh austed all their il
lustrious patient.
It seems that DR.. Mary Walker il
still keeping o dairy farm. A west
ern paper says that her calf has beer
bitten by dog.
, 1876-09-23

During his recent stay at Ischl the
Emperor of Austria saved tie child of
a poor woman from violent death. As
he was passing through the Rettenbach
gorges child of four years old fell over
u precipice, and, his clothes having
caught on a projecting branch. was sus.
pended over torrent some fifty feet
below. The Emperor. whose prof.
cheney in all athletic sports is well
known, jumped across the precipice,
freed the boy from his perilous position
and took him back to his mother.
, 1876-09-23

he complained that the hard times,
corruption and debauchery in Office
were the legitimate results of their
unfulfilled promises, and urged the
election of Tilden and Hendricks as
the means of securing q better fra
ternal feeling. Mr.. Trumbull will
first attend to some professional
business in Springfield, and thence
proceed to Indianapolis and take
part in canvassing that State.
, 1876-09-23

Few are aware of the vast number
of people that can be placed in a
small space. When we speak of
millions of men, we are apt to pic
ture to ourselves an almost bound
less mass of humanity; yet a million
of people standing together, each
person occupying four square feet,
could be placed upon a patch but
little more than a mile square.
, 1876-09-23

When man coming down to break.
fast half awake and his uncertain feet
shod in pair of slip-shod slippers,
steps on spool on the first step, he is
generally wide awake enough by the
time he tries to break the last step to
have vivid and not entirely incorrect
idea of the power and indestructible
force generated by the Keely motor.
But that isn't what he talks about when
he goes into the breakfast room and the
folka1sk him what made such noise in
the 1i.
, 1876-09-23

'THIs here Centennial star-span-
gled business is going too far" OBJ
served Guzzler, as he picked his
way home, last Wednesday night.
II don't mind seein' stars an stripes
awavin' all day; but dash my but
tons if it's re right sing for every
lamp post to chuck stars an span
giles in your eyes when you happen
to touch it assidently! See Mayor
bout it in the morningr'
, 1876-09-23
The TE11-rA1E "D.". Early on

The TELL-TALE "D.". - Early one
morning a gentlemanly looking fellow.
with evident marks of having been on
tear, found his way upstairs in the
United States army recruiting Office at
St. Louis, and introduced himself to
some of the boys in blue. He invited
them out to drink, and declared bis
willingness to buy whole whisky store
for them. He gloried in being a news
paper man, a special correspondent,
and feeling patriotic desire to avenge
Custer's death burning in his breast, he
wished to doff citizens attire, don the
uniform of soldier brave. and be dis
patched Immediately for the far North~
west. He was told to call again at 8
o'clock that morning. He did so, hav-
ing fortified himself with several drinks.
In order to undergo the doctors exam
animation, he took off every article of
clothing except his undershirt. He had
a fine physique and appeared in first-
class health. He passed the doctor,
and was just laughing with some of the
soldiers at his good fortune. when the
man of medicine (who had been'given
the wink by one of the oficers) ap-
preached our friend and asked:
"What have you got on your left
breast ?''
Nothing" the man replied.
"Let's see," said the doctor, and he
lifted the undershirt up, when the fatal
brand I'D" showed itself unmistakably.
The man protested that the mark was
not D at all, but the remains of dis
ease he had contracted, He was dis
missed, however. as incompetent to join
the American army. He was deserter
from the British army.
, 1876-09-23

A VETERAN PRINTER BURIED. - The
New York Herald says: Last Wednes.
day Charles MeDsvitt. an honored mem.
Der Of the typographical fraternity.
died. and yesterday he was buried. His
life was OF peculiar interest. The Her.
aid reporter on his way to the funeral,
met the veteran journalist of the State,
Mr.. Thurlow Weed, going to pay the
last tribute of respect to an old and dear
frierd. Mr.. Weed said: ~ have
known Charley McDevitt for fifty-6ve
or sixty years. The first tract issued
by the American Tract Society. about
the year 1916. was set up by Mr.. Nc
Dewitt, and he and I worked it off to-
gether In DaLiel Fanshawe's Office, at
No. II Cliff street, in this city. He
joined tAe New York Typographical So
ciety soon after did. 1 joined it in
1916. At the time of his death he was
the Oldest member of that society that
had not missed meeting tor more than
fifty years. He was ever active in hunt
ing up and providing for sick members,
and extending aid to those in distress.
l left the city in 1918. and excepting oc.
casionally since then 1 have not been
acquainted with his work for fifty years.
I always attended the meetings of the
society when was in town. In 1919 l
went to Albany as journeyman print.
or, and during the next year started a
paper for myself in the adjoining coun-
ties. In 1880 I went back 10 Albany
and started the Albany Evening Journal.
Mr.. McDevitt then went on the New
York Mirror. He remained with it
after it was changed to an evening pa.
per, and ut the close of its existence
went on the New York Ledger, where he
remained until he was taken sick last
December. Until last Wednesday he
and William E. Dean, now living on
Tenth street, and I were the Oldest
members of the Typographical Society.
Mr.. Dean, after serving as journey
man, becare a publisher. Now he is
blind and out of business.
, 1876-09-23

The value of fthe Centennial build
ings at Philadelphia is estimated at
S., ,794, 600, and that of their con-
tents at $97 ,343 $50, making q total
of $104, $40, $50. It is believed that
there has never been an aggregation
of products of all the arts and trade
of such immense value as that in
Philadelphia.
, 1876-09-23

A MAINE student, on wager,
managed to make away with ten ice
creams in succession recently, but
his screams soon brought a doctor
on the scene. The same voracious
youth offered to devour ten mince
pies in twenty minutes, but as
nobody was willing to pay for the
pies, the offer was not accepted.
, 1876-09-23
PACIFIC COAST.
Especial to the Daily Dispatch. !

lopSSA0A ~ tAo 0AAy OASpotSAj
VICTORIA. Sept. 16.-The Colonist this
morning says: "Itis stated that per-
son suffering from smallpox arrived
here lately from San Francisco and was
conveyed secretly from the steamer to a
house in town. A number of Indians
are also infected with the disease, and
yesterday several deaths occurred. The
Health Officer has posted notice this
morning to alIay excitement. stating
that he has not att ended case of small
pox, and that there is none here.
The driving of the first pile of the
coffer-dam for the dry dock at Esqui-
malt. by Earl Dufferin, has been post
poned from today until Tuesday.
Mr.. Mckenzie having declined the
position of principal of the High
School. it has been accepted by Mr.. E.
E. H pc, A. B.. lately of Oregon City.