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Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-26

And in accordance with law, and All order of
the Board of Directors, made on the second day
Of October. 1876, so many shares of each parcel
of such stock as may be necessary, will be sod
at public suction, 1T the Office of the company,
No. 4l0 q California street, San Francisco. Cali
fornia, on TUESDAY, the TWENTY-FIRST
day of NOVEMBER, 1876, at the hour of II
O'Clock NJ. Of said day, to pay said delinquent
assessment thereon. together with costs of ad.
vertsiDt and expenses OF sale.
w. STAIRLEY, Secretary.
Office, No. 41oh California street, San Fran.
cisco, California.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-26
PLUMBING, GAS FITTING AND
WELL BCRiNG
WORK DONE TO DRDKI,.

ain now sinking wells. and have been vtry
successful in obtaining good howins water.
The work of boring and casing wells IL part!c-
u1arly solicited just at this time.
Carson, May 8, 1876.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-26

At the hour of - NJ. Of said day, to pay the said
delinquent assessment thereon. together with
costs OF advertising aud expenses OF ssle.
JOHN Is. ELY. Secretary.
Carson City, November 9th, 1S.6.-td
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-26
POSTPONEnIENr

At meeting Of the Board of Directors OF the
Houston Mining Company, held on Friday, the
18th day of November, 1876, the day of sale OF
the above delinquent stock was postponed until
WEDNESDAY, DEBEMBER 20th. 1875, same
hour and place. By order of the Board OF Di-
recto.s. W. STAIRLEY, Secretary.
Office, No. 4l0s California street.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-26
DELINQUENT SALE NOTICE.

HOUSTON MINING COMPANY.
i i Location of principal place of business:
san Francisco. California. Location of works:
Eagle District, Ormsby County, Nevads.-No-
ticc-There are delinquent upon the following
described Stock, on account Of Assessment No.
y levied on the second day of October, 1876, the
several amounts set opposite the names Of the
espectiye shareholders as follows:
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-26
AvORTH CARSON SILVER MIN

MONTH CARSON SILVER VI NJ
~ ing Company. Location oi principal
place Of business San Francisco. California.
Location of works, Ormsby County, Nevada
Notice is hereby given, that meeting Of the
Board OF Directors, held on the third day "
October 1876. all assessment, No, 5. of ten cents
per share was levied upon the capital stock .!
the corporation. payable Immediately in United
states gold coin. to the Secretary, AZ the Office
@ the company, No. 800 San-orur street san
+ ranci,co. California. Any stock upon which
II, j.. assassll"nt shall remain unpaid on the
,i> II day o: November. 1876. viii De Delinquent,
.nd advertised for fslc at public auction: and
mi, S. payment is made before viii be soil ~
MON DAY. the TWENTY-SEEt Nth DAY or
now tl:BER, 1876, to pay the delinquent as
SEISMIC Mt together with costs OF Edvertisne
and * utnses of sale. By order Of the Roatd
vi Dire, tors. "
WN. a. M. VAN BOKKELEN. Secretary.
Cn'ce, No. $50 sanson.e street. Room q. san
Francisco, California.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-26
FORTH CARSON SILVER MIN.

IN Ing Company -LOcation Of principal place
Of business, San Francisco. Californis: location
Of works, Ormsby county. Nevsds.-NOtice-
There are delinquent upon the following de-
scribed stock. OH account of assessment No. 81
levied Oh the third day of October. 1915, the
s-veral amounts set opposite the Eauiss OF the
respective shareholders as follows:
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-26
A LTA CONSOLIDATED GOLD

n and Silver Mining Company. Location
of principal place of business, Carson City,
Nevada. Location of works, Pyramid Lake
Mining District, Washoe County. Nevada
Notice is hereby given that there are delinquent
upon the following described capital stock of
the Company on account of Assessment No.
II levied October 18th, 1876, the several amounts
set opposite the names OF the respective share
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-26

And in accordance with law, and an
order of the Board OF Directors, made on
the third day of October, 1876, so many
shares Of each parcel of such stock as
may be necessary, will be sold at public
auction at the office of the Company, on
Monday, the 9th day of November. 1876,
at the hour of IL O'Clock NJ, of said day,
to pay said delinquent assessment there
on, together with costs of advertising and
expenses Of the sale.
W. A. VAN BOkkELEN, Secretary.
Office-;20 Sansomc street, san Fran
cisco, California.
Middletown transcript., 1876-09-30
THAT UMBRELLA.

A dozen or more men stood at the
eastern entrance to the City Hall yes
terday when it began to rain, and along
came an individual with an umbrella
over his head. As be reached the top
step one ofthe men advanced and said
"Ah! I've been waiting for you,
knew you had it and it's all right /"
The man surrendered the umbrella
in very hcsitating manner, and his
sheepish look showed very plainly that
he was not the lawful owner of it. As
he passed into the hall another Of the
crowd stepped out and said:
That's my umbrella. and / can prove
it, 1t has M cut into the handle ;"
So it had, and after some parleying
it was handed over The new owner
was smiling very blandly as the crowd
applauded, when man turned in off
the avenue to escape wet,ing As
soon as be saw the umbrella be called
out:
well, we'll. where did you get
this ?"
It's mine-bought it at the store"
was the reply.
''Not much. sir. 1t was stolen from
my Office month ago. and you had
better hand it over if you don't want
trouble r
It was passed to him. and he started
for home.
Only the angels know whether or
not the real owner stopped him some-
where up Woodward avenue.
Middletown transcript., 1876-09-30
WOLVES IN RUSSIA.

Russia is still good deal behind the
rest of Europe in the matter of wolves.
These animals, whose heads used to be
a source of income to the borderers of
Wales. and of which the last were slain
in Scotland by Cameron of Lochiel,
make considerable figure in the agri-
cultural returns of the Russian empire.
According TO pamphlet which NJ Laz-
arevsky has circulated. the wolves in
1873 did nearly as much damage as a
Tartar invasion might have inflicted.
They carried off $4,000 cattle and
562, 900 smaller domestic animals from
the forty-6ve governments of Russia in
Europe. In the Baltic provinces fell
1000 head of horned cattle, and in the
Polish provinces 2,7O0 oxen. and 5000
sheep, pigs, and goats. The Journal
dcs Debats calculates that If a COW be
reckoned as worth thirty roubles, and
sheep at four roubles, the gross sum
of the tribute levied by the wolves in
Russia must reach 7,700.00 roubles
This is an amount of money quite we'll
worth looking after, and it represents a
number of wolves which must be dan
gerous even to human life. In the for
ests of France. and in the Pyrenees, the
wolves last winter attacked some shep-
herds, and they now and then venture
within the walls of lonely chateaus and
farmhouses. But their numbers, Of
course, cannot be compared with the
enormous hosts of savage beasts in Rus
sia. which one may perhaps guess at
from the quantity Of wolves which must
band together to kill and carry off one
able-bodied OK. The writers of good
little books. who invariably illustrate
the virtue of self-sacriice by the story
Of Erci, the faithful serf, who rescued
his masters family by throwing himself
as food to the wolves, will be pleased to
learn that opportunities Of practising
devotion in the best style will long con.
tinue to be found in Russia
Middletown transcript., 1876-09-30
A REmARKABLE DUN.

A business man in New Carlisle,
Ind, has issued a circular letter to
his creditors couched in the following
terms:
My DEAR SIR-I want to ask you a
plain question in all kindness and sim
cerity, and l would like to have you an
swer it honestly and candidly, not in
two or three years or months, but now.
this week, Supposing you we're as poor
as Jobs turkey and had invested ST.
600 or 5000 in an enterprise which
you designed to make an exclusively
cash business /; supposing, as matter
Of accommodation and good nature. you
had trusted it out all over the country,
from Carlisle to Jericho; supposing
you had kept adding to your means and
still putting it on the books until your
funds were played out; supposing you
had claims against you in the hands Of
business men who had accommodated
you in good faith and needed their
money; supposing you had some pride
in you. and meant to be square toed
and punctual, and hated to see the man
you owed when you didn't have the
legal tender in your trousers to pay his
just and lawful demands. worse than
you would to see an Indian. and sup
posing those whom you had accommo-
dated felt perfectly easy and contented,
shied the track when you went to see
them, and told the wife of their bosom
to answer mot at home" or come into
town and left without even paying
part; supposing that they held your
money and waited patiently for wheat
to come up to ninety cents or one dol
lar, or pork to bring FIVE or six dollars
a hundred, what would you do? Would
you let your debtors 60 and smile and
be villain, or would you sue every
mothers son of them that did not pay,
if it was the last thing you did in town?
If you were an honest man you would
do the latter, and that's just what I'll
be compelled to do if there is king in
Israel l don't want money to look at
| can earn enough for that don't want
any to salt down q never could make
it keep. but out of several thousands
trusted out l bumbly want few hun
dreds, and I'll be hanged if l won't
have it or an execution returned nulla
bona. | love you myself as mother
loves her first born, but love TO pay
my debts better than l love any man,
woman or child on the face of God AL |
mighty's green earth, and by the Great
Jehovah and the Continental Congress
I propose to do it, if / have to make
costs for every man in Olive township
Or in St. Joseph's county owing me-
Now. let us have the ''spondulix" and
see how sweet and pretty can smile
upon you. Yours, courteously.
Middletown transcript., 1876-09-30

MUMMIEs CONVERTED INTO PAINT
Fow persons are aware that veritable
Egyptian mummies are ground up into
paints But in this country and in
Europe mummies are used for this pur-
posc-the asphaltum with which they
are impregnated being of quality su-
perior to that which can elsewhere be
obtained, and producing q peculiar
brownish tint, when made into paint,
which is priced by distinguished artists
both of this and of other countries.
The ancient Egyptians. when they put
away their dead wrapped in clothes
saturated with asphaltum, builded, as it
were. better than they knew, and could
never have realized the fact that ages
after they had been laid in the tombs
and pyramids along the Nile their dust
would be used in painting pictures in a
world then undiscovered. and by artists
whose language was to them unknown.
That portion Of one Of the Pharaohs,
Of Potiphar, or even Of the historic
Mrs Potiphar, may even now be on the
canvas Of Nernet. Millais, or a
Church, who may question!
Middletown transcript., 1876-09-30
Selett postrp.
THE EMPTY PLACE.
BY ADA CAMBRIDGE

BY ADA CAMBRIDGE.
Bright faces come and 60, fair shapes
Dance up and down the wall
A presence in the crowded room
Takes precedence of all.
We see it night and day, howe'er
By shrine or shadow crost-
A little vacant spot, wherefrom
O1e little face is lost.
The sound Of music swells and falls,
And laughter fills our ears
A silence, followed out of life,
Is all our spirit hears.
That silence like hush of prayer,
Can drown the loudest speech,
And, piercing sharp through langh and song
Our inmost sense can reach.
No thunder Of the outer world,
No burning rage of pain,
No passion-storms of love or grief
That beat on heart or brain,
Beat down with such constraining strength
The vital forces there,
As that dull, soundless ache of loss
Which lonely mourners bear.
o little garments, in the drawer,
With such precision spread
o little chair against the wall
% little cradle-bed, s
Uncurtained in the silent room,
And pillowless and cold
o mothers arms and tender hands,
That have no babe to hold
We know full well the worth and wealth
OF which we are bereft;
But where are words wherewith to tell
The emptiness that's left
Wherewith to span that shoreless void
Sound its unfathomed dceps,
And picture to the common sense
The sacred thing it keeps.
Sunday Magazine.
Middletown transcript., 1876-09-30
A TUNE HALF PLAYED.

THE man that played the flute at ou1
house is dead" said Mr. Magufin, "is
dead and l boldly state that be fell .
victim to the malicious hatred of clique
of boarders who have no soul for music
He was harmless and most persever.
ing man. Had he displayed in any
mercantile pursuit the marvellous con-
tinuity that marked his performance on
the flute, be would doubtless have been
a light house in the world of commerce.
He was thin and not over strong. but
he would play the flute by the hour
and at last the same gang that objected
to the music of Zugenheimer, the bass
horn artist, determined to drive out the
Aute-player.
One night, after be had gone to led.
they captured his flute and took it down
town to a fire. work maker, who lined it
with fiery preparation SO arranged as
to 60 off after it bad borne continuous
pressure of one hour. The numer-
Gus little holes in the flute give ample
vent, and it was thought that the burn
ing would afford at once a warning and
pleasing pyrotechnic display. The
flute was safely returned to his room.
but the poor fellow fell sick before he
had chance to toot; and for a long
time he suffered patiently When at
last he did recover, his first thought was
of his flute; and last night the clique,
sitting in the parlor, heard him in bis
room above blowing away with zest
born Of long abstinence He was play
ing a lovely song that was popular
many years ago, Roll On, Silver Moon
1t has eighty-three stanzas, and it takes
long time to sing them properly. l
remember one night when was going
to the lodge, passed two youthful low
ers who were sitting on the front stoop
looking at the moon and grooming that
song, and when I went back that way.
early the next morning. they hadn't
quite finished it Some Of the lines are
very pathetic, but as interpreted on the
flute they are not so touching !; there's
a good deal of sameness to them like
this:
" 'Tooty-toot tooty tootlum tooty toot toot-
lum toot,
Tooty-toot tootlum toot tootlum too-oot,
Tooty-toot tootlum-toot tooty tooty tootlum
tooty,
Tootum-toot tooty too tootlum.toot.'
He began playing at about ten min
utes past eight, and at nine, after he
had executed about one-half of tbs mu-
sic, Maguffin and his friends went up
stairs and filed ito his room with pleas
ant congratulations on his getting
around again. and compliments for bis
playing 1t pleased him to receive
such unlooked-for attention, and he
played with redoubled vigor.
At eight minutes past nine the music
ceased. Fire crept out Of a keyhole
near the east end of the flute and burned
the players fingers. But it didn't 60
off as was intended His long illness
had given the powder time to cake, and
instead Of blazing with frisky playful
ness it acted like a last years rocket
a sharp siz, and before the player had
recovered from his astonishment, a
fierce bang! and the devilish deed was
done; he had futed his last flute r'
Middletown transcript., 1876-09-30

A New IDEA "A retail dry goods
house in Chicago has discovered short
road to bankruptcy. 1t proposes to Ii
cense customers to examine the goods
on the payment Of a small fee When
ladies enter the door they will be met
by page, who will say: "Do you wish
to buy, madam, or only to shop ?" II
the reply is ITO buy" the customer
will be escorted to the department she
selects and the article she asks for will
be shown her, but nothing else. Ifshe
says ITO shop" she will havc.t, buy a
ticket for each member of the party, in
scribed "Good for one shopping. The
bearer is entitled to turn over all the
goods in this store. Not transferable.
Good for this day and store only
These tickets will be sold in packages
at reduced rates, and arrangements will
be made to accommodate people who
desire to commute by the month, quar-
ter or year.
Middletown transcript., 1876-09-30
8nlllorous.
$50 GALLANT"


The best hit at Blaine that we have
seen was contribution by Gath" to
the Philadelphia Times, and is as fol-
lows:
It is amazing how many clever men
were beguiled by jim Blaine They
admit everything but say: yet, oh.
be was so gallant !" Iheard this argu-
ment brought to bear on Senator Silver
Jones "Well," !" be said. II don't know
what gallentry may not be. Some
twenty eight years ago ! went to Cali
fornia, and on the way out was an old
gambler. with set out Of faro boxes,
roulette tables. ETC. He took liking
to me and said. Johnny, I'll tell you .
secret that may save you many dol
lar. Do you see this roulette wheel |?
Its circle is black and red. and they
bet on the colors-a nearly even chance.
Now, watch me. Johnny, as I sit here
and spin the ball. Do you see me
gently raise my knees and press under
the frame of the table? Well, those
red and black compartments are con-
nected by two sets Of wires l raise
my knee when I Zee that the bulk Of
the money is on the red. and that wire
running through the reds trills and
trembles. SO that the ball won't rest on
any red cell, but is repelled and settles
in some black spot Johnny remember
this when you have bagged your gold
dust Now" said Jones, Il went
into gambling house about . year
afterward to raise a stake. There
was fine, fighting gambler, about as
smart as Jim Blaine. setting there
spinning roulette. Said / to myself:
Young man. I'll just take peep at
your knees He raised them very
gently and planted my money against
the pile, knowing that when he swept
the great amount of for the red be
must pay the black So l picked mp
. hundred dollars or so Every time I
bit it, That gambler got bis eye on
me. It was an eye full Of smallpox
audacity. He addressed me finally. in
loud tone of voice. Said he: Didn't
l tell you never to come here again
Didn't tell you that this was place
for gentlemen This is a gentleman's
game. That man. gentleman. it is my
duty to warn you against /; that loafer
is theft" ..Well," continued Jones.
II had never in my life been there be-
fore. but saw the scheme. II re.
sented what the Boss said. there were
forty fellows there, cappers and 50
forth, to kick me down stairs and rob
me; so I meekly said We'll, sir. /
do not wish to make any disturbance
here. If you don't want me here I'll
take my money and 60 So picked
up my winnings with fear, not unmixed
with humiliation. and in the sight Of
everybody. | went down stairs and
crept away Now" finished Senator
Jones, If that gamblers attack on me
was gallantry, SO was Blaine's on Proc
tor Knott"
Middletown transcript., 1876-09-30
THE GEYsERs OF CALIFORNIA,

A California correspondent says
After tea, accompanied by the old Ger
man guido, we armed ourselves with
stout Alpine slaves, and went down the
ravine at the side Of the house to the
springs. A clutch only few feet wide,
and some half mile long, contains
steam. smoke. boiling springs of all
colors, and rocks covered by salts and
minerals of various hues Copperas,
alum and sulphur lie in thick powder
around some of the springs, and cinna-
bar and magnesia color the ground un-
der our feet. We passed all the weried
places which have been SO often describ-
ed. We walked over ground from
which steam was squirting, and which
was SO hot it burnt our shoes; the steam
keeps putting from the subterranean en-
gines. and some day the boiler will
burst and scatter these rocks and visit
ors to the four winds of the heavens.
A short distance from this smoking
clutch may be seen the crater Of this
extinct volcano The ground was hol-
low beneath our tread, and on every
hand were pieces of lava which had
in past time issued in molten state
from the crater. 1t is truely fearful
and wonderful place. All night our
ears were saluted with the strange
muffled sound of steam and water ierc-
ing their way through the assures in
the rocks just back of the house, aad
in the morning we saw great volumes
of steam rising from the clutch and
floating upward in feathery lines. Of
course, the volume of steam increases
in proportion to the lowness of the tenn
perature of the surrounding atmos-
phere.
Middletown transcript., 1876-09-30

Sixty years ago occurred "the year
without summer" Frost occurred in
every month in the year 1916. Ice
formed half an inch thick in May; snow
fell to the depth of ten inches in Yer
mont, seven in Maine, three in the in
terror of New York, and also in Massa-
chusetts in June; ice was formed Of the
thickness of common window glass
throughout New England, New York
and some parts Of Pennsylvania on the
9th of July Indian corn was SO frozen
that the greater part was cut down and
dried for fodder in August, and farmers
supplied themselves from the corn pro-
duced in 1915 for the seed of the spring
of 1877.
Middletown transcript., 1876-09-30

HIS NEIemBoR's HENs.-A gentle
man in Danbury has long been annoyed
by his neighbor's hens, which made q
daily practice of rowing through bis
front garden and back yard. And what
did this worthy gentleman do? He just
went patiently and pu, some old hats
and hay under his steps and in the barn
and when those hens came to scratch
they remained to lay He has had all the
fresh eggs he wanted this summer. and
has sold four dollars and sixty cents
worth to the man who owns the hens.
Middletown transcript., 1876-09-30

A PIRATES GoLD. WllllaWs OF Cal
ifornia rescued dying pirate from a
noisome prison in Central America, and
he wanted to do something for Williams
So he held him with his glittering eye,
and told him long yarn: He had be-
longed to Thompson's band, which had
scuttled ships, murdered mariners,
robbed the churches along the coast
from Mexico to Patagonia, and heaped
together SO much booty that they had
to land at Cocos Island to find a place
Of storage. Fifty hog-skins of Mexican
dollars, two or three tons Of quicksilver
and select assortment of gold and sill
yer chalices, they buried on the island,
and then sailed away. But off the coast
a mutiny broke out, the vessel caught
fire, and all the pirates were drowned
except him of the glittering eye. He
swan to the island, where be lived eight
years with and on the pigs and cats
which Captain Cook had left there when
he sailed around the world, when ship
hove in sight. and he was taken of. -
The secret Of Monte Cristo he locked
in bis breast, in the hope of returning
to the island some day and getting the
treasure himself; but now his protector
his dear Williams-could have it all
Williams chartered a schooner, set sail
for the island, and burrowed for seven
teen days-6nding nothing but rusty
cutlass and fragments of whiskey bot
ties. He returned last week to San
Francisco. Does be suspect the dying
pirate lied to him? Not SOL He
thinks that the treasure has been COW
cred by landslide, and he intends to
go back with machinery for making
thorough excavations Dying pirates
tell no lies!
Middletown transcript., 1876-09-30

was into our southern provinces, and
compel our subjects there to cast their
ballots for Rutherford, surnamed Hayes,
and thus prevent Samuel. surnamed
Tilden. from becoming the chief ruler.
r. And the saying pleased the king,
and be commanded the chief captain to
send large army into the south couD-
try. and to compel his subjects there to
do his bidding.
13 And there was great commotion
in the land, and the people were amazed
and confounded at the doing of Ulysses
and his chief counsellors.