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The Osceola times., 1876-07-22
In the house on the 18th Mr.. Payne,

In the house on the 18th Mr. Payne,
from the conference committee on the silver
bill, made report and proceeded to exhibit
1t. Mr.. Payne went on to explain that in re-
gard to the proposition to make silver dol
lars a legal tender for all debts, public and
private, the committee had been unable to
agree, but two Of the house confreres and all
the senate confreres recommended the omis-
sion from the bill all that related to the sill
yer dollar. He showed that owing 10 the
extraordinary decline in the price Of the sill.
yer in the last few months, and most remark
ably within the last ten days, the silver dol
lar Of weight and fineness prescribed by law
is to-day worth more than eighty cents rela-
lively TO gold, and less than ninety cents rel
atively to greenbacks. So extreme and sud
aen change in the value Of a silver dollar
made the proposition OF declaring il legal
tender most startling proposition, and one
OF n revolutionary character. Certainly con.
gress and the country should wait before a
standard value OF silver fixed by law. Per.
haps ii could be determined at the next ses-
sion, but II could not he now. The confer.
ence committee, therefore, could not agree
in recommending any policy in reference to
the silver dollar. The conference report was
adopted, yeas l29, nays 75. Messrs. Lynde,
Lord and Frye were appointed committee
Of conference on the bankrupt bill. Ad-
journed.
The Osceola times., 1876-07-22
Asst.

Several cases of yellow fever, brought
from Havana, have appeared at quarantine
below New York. There have been two
deaths.
In the case of the Nellie Mcguire pris-
oners, on trial at Pottsville, Pa, for the muir
der of the mining boss, Sanger, the jury rem
dered verdict of murder in the first de-
gree.
Fifteen deaths from sunstroke were
reported in Philadelphia on the 10th, and
several occurred which were not reported
Three wagons were running all day, remov
ing victims to the hospital.
The Osceola times., 1876-07-22
FOREIGN.

A revolution at Cuzzo, Peru, was sup
pressed with the loss of thirty lives.
Fortv-two persons were killed and
forty-seven seriously injured by fre-damp
in colliery in Germany, recently.
The khedivc has devoted the fl3,000
given for monument TO himself to the
building OF great public school in Alexan-
dria, open to all nationalties.
Subscriptions are being raised among
the Mussulman, for the prosecution of the
war. Fifteen hundred Seftas have been
offered for service.
It is stated that Russia has address a
circular note TO her representatives abroad
announcing that she will not support servia,
The Osceola times., 1876-07-22
A PRODIGAL'S RETURN.
A Wansierer Con.nsits Suicide in hts Oid
Home.
New York World.


Twenty years ago Wellington Cole
man, then aged sixteen years, disappear
ed from his fathers home in Westport,
Pennsylvania. His room was found in
disorder and bloody garments and dirk
on the floor. 1t was supposed that the
boy had been murdered by his French
tutor, who disappeared at the same time,
and his body hidden. Long and diligent
search, however, failed to reveal the boy,
either dead or alive. The father left the
town, and the affair was nearly forgot
ten, when last week a stranger appeared
at the village hotel, and said that he was
Wellington Coleman. He related the
story Of his leaving home, from desire
to 90 to sea, and his subsequent wander
ings and hardships. He was drawn home
by desire to see his father, whom he
had not heard from after going abroad,
He was penniless and broken. in health
ard spirits. He visited his old home,
which had been for many years desertcd.
Some one passing the house soon after,
heard two pistol-shots. Search was made
and the stranger was found dead in one
of the rooms, with two pistol-shot
wounds in the head.
The Osceola times., 1876-07-22

TUE joker who offered a life annuity
to the collector of 100000 old postage
stamps, without any idea that the offer
would be accepted, has been brought to
book at last by the young girl whose
efforts to win the prize have been so
frequently chronicled during the past
two years. Everybody who heard of the
offer, and had any power to assist in the
matter, has seemed TO take malicious
pleasure in helping the young collector,
and contributions of stamps have poured
in from all quarters, one especially large
one being a contribution of 80, 900 from
Paris. 1t helps ones faith in human
nature to learn that the promise made in
jest has been kept in earnest, and that
the young girl has her annuity secured
to her.
The Osceola times., 1876-07-22

THE people Of Australia are talking of
securing new telegraphic connection
with England, by way of San Francisco.
They have had good deal of trouble
with their dispatches to London, owing
to the fact that the line between
Australia and India passes through
Dutch territory, and as the Dutch
operators are deficient in the knowledge
Of the English language, they repeat the
Australian dispatch in the most in-
fernally mixed-up language, and they
reach England is an undecipherable
condition. 1t is probable that new
cable company will be soon organized in
Australia, the line to connect with our
telegraphic system in California.
The Osceola times., 1876-07-22

'usrER was an experienced Indian
lighter, and it was probably to this fact
that he owes his death. He knew too
much about Indians, and much fam.
iIiarity had bred contempt. 1t is the
veteran railroad man who gets ground
up, and the veteran Indian fighter even
tually loses his hair. Custer was one of
those dashing fatalists who believe that
man has an allotted time TO die, and can
neither hasten or retard it.-Indianopols
Herald.
The Osceola times., 1876-07-22

The country in which Sitting Bull
has established his camp is broken up,
mountainous country, among the large
affiuents Of the Yellowstone river, which
IL itself an immense tributary of the
Upper Missouri. fhe Big Horn, the
Little Horn, the Rosebud and the
Tongue rivers, all ofwhich are mentioned
in the news concerning this fight, are
tributaries Of the Yellowstone and
empty into it just north of the 10th
parallel of latitude, and between the
lo6th and l0Sth degrees of west longi-
tude, in the Territory of Montana. 1t
is the Big Horn mountain country, and
part of the territory reserved to the
Sioux by treaty.
The Osceola times., 1876-07-22

"YoU needn't take down any more
goods" she said TO the weary Looking
clerk, who was half submerged in ] Is
wares. 81 don't want to buy any, hut
my husbands sisters niece is going to
New York, and she said she'd buy me
what needed there if the prices were
enough lower than here to make it worth
while. Chicago journal.
The Osceola times., 1876-07-22

The royal mausoleum of Russia is
2l0 feet long, 9S high. The tombs are
all alike-a plain block of marble, six
feet long, enclosed by gilded railing,
and bearing an inscription on sunken
golden plate. Over one hangs bunch
of keys taken from fortresses by the
soldier beneath, over another droop
battle-hags, while above Il third, and
sparkling brightly in the glow of the
never eStinguisbed lamp, is closly
studded diamond betrothal ring.
The Osceola times., 1876-07-22
III MELY TOPICS.

HE manufacture of lamps and tum-
''erS toughened by the newly discovered
process has been commenced on a small
sesfca at Philadelphia.
The Osceola times., 1876-07-22

BRICE w. CUSTER, brother of the de.
ceased general, has lived in Columbus
for many years. Boston Custer, aged
twenty-five, a forage master, and Thomas,
aged twenty seven, lieutenant, both
unmarried brothers of the general, were
killed. The brother-in-law, who was
killed, was the husband of the generals
only sister; who, with Mr.. Custer, was
with the expedition. The parents of the
general are upwards Of seventy and very
feeble. The mother, as were the rest of
the family, was greatly attached to The
general, and his terrible death will
probably kill her. Neither the general
nor his brotherin-law had any children.
Mrs. Custer would never leave her hus-
band. She travelled many hundred miles
with him, on n pony, slept with him in
ambuances, and when duty called him
TO battle her grief was inexpressible till
he returned. Ciereiand Leader.
THE Sioux are the perfection of Ma
ture's wild men. They are red repub-
Icans, polytheists, who worship every
ohIect IN nature-objects being rare on
their plains. They are polygamist, to
whom nature contributes wife every
where and Sioux infancy is spent in
listening to the delectabilities of war till
the child precociouslv weeps to take a
scalp. The chiefs have little or no au.
thority and are overcome by the braves.
There is no law or code of law among
the Dakotas, and property is an institu-
ton of adherence with them. Untam-
able, factious, but formidable in war,
trcacherous and cowardly, but still in
arms forever, they have survived every
European innovation - smallpox, rail-
road Indian agents and rum. They all
used to 60 afoot and now they ride as
well as Comanches. They had only
bows and arrows and now have Spencer
rifles. They want the scalp Of mankind.
-Gath, in Grqphic.
The Osceola times., 1876-07-22
2I3I4I5I6I7 o 10 II

Now, says she, III two OF you gen.
tlemcn will go into No. 1..bedroom and
wait few minutes I'll find spare room
for you as sson as have shown the
others to their rooms" Well, now, hav-
ing thus bestowed two gentleman in No.
/, she puts the third in No. 2, the fourth
in No. 3, tie fifth in No. 4, the sixth in
No. 5, the seventh in No. 6, the eighth
in No. Z, the ninth in No. 8, the tenth in
No. ., the eleventh in No. 10. She then
came back TO No. ], where you will re-
member she had left the twelfth gentle
man alone with the first, and said, "I've
accommodated all the rest and have still
room TO spare, no il one of you will step
into No. II you will find it empty"
Thus the twelfth man got his bedroom.
OF course there is hole in the saucepan
somewhere, but we leave the reader 10
determine exactly where the fallacy is,
with just warning to think twice be-
fore declaring as TO which, if any, of the
travellers was the "odd man out"
The Osceola times., 1876-07-22
A Woman's Ingenuity.
GAINESVILLE Courier.

A Dublin chambermaid is said TO have
got twelve commercial travellers into
eleven bedrooms, and yet to have given
each a separate room. Here we have the
eleven separate bedrooms:
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1876-10-31
ARTESIAN WELLS.

vUyHR UNDERSIGNED BEGS LEAVE
to inform the public that he IL now
prepared, with the most approved machinery,
TO fink Artesian Wells in any part OF the state
on the shortest notice.
All orders or communications on the sub
iect address to Cahoon & Palmer. Battle
Mountain. will receive prompt attention.
t CAHOON n PALMER.
Battle Mountain. October 8, 1875. u
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+, .:OTIcE OF ASSESS
MENT.
sHEBA SILVER MINING COMPANY.


II OCATION of principal place Of business.
4 ISan FFsnciBco, California. ocation OF
works, Star District, HuIabofdt county.
Nevada.
NOTICE ia hereby given. that at meeting
of the Board OF Directors, held on the fifth
day Of October, 1876, an assessment no. 81 of
Five Cents per share was levied upon the cap
ital stock OF the corporation, payable imme-
d!ately in United States gold coin. to the Sec
rotary, at the Office Of the company. No. Sl2
Montgomery street, San Francisco, California.
Any stock upon which this assessment
shall remain unpaid on the 4th day OF Novem-
bBr, 1875, will be delinquent. and advertised
for sale at public suction; and unless pay
ment is made before will be sold on Thurs
day. the 30th day OF November, 1876. to pay
ths delinquent assessment. together with
costs Of advertising and expenses OF sale. BY
order Of the Board OF Directors. tslsea.
ABRAHAM HAlSEY. Secretary.
Onice-312 Montgomery stteet. San Fran.
cisco, California.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1876-10-31

SAX FRANCISCO suLrHuR ConPAsr.

II OCATl0N Of principal place of business,
IlSan Francisco, California - Location OF
works, Humboldt county, Nevada
NOTICE Is hereby given, that at q meeting
Of the Board OF Directors. held on the goth
day Of Sept mbcr. 1875, an assessment tNo.
II Of Ten Cents per share was levied upon the
capitol stock OF said corporation, payable i'm
InediateIy, in United States gold coin. to the
Secretary, at the Office of the company, Room
Is Sac Deposit Building. No 1928 Montgomery
street, San Francisco, California
Any stock upon which this assessment
shall remain unpaid on Monday. the thirtieth
day Of October, 1876. will be deemed delin.
qrent. and advertised for sale at public
suction, and unless payment is made before,
will be sold on Tuesday. the 2lst day Of o.
vember, 1876. to pay t5e delinquent assess.
ment, together with costs Of Advertising and
expenses ofsale. aes
JOS. ROBERTS. in, Secretary.
iCfice--Room No. 10 Safe Deposit Building
Nos s2s AoltgoLery street. san Francisco.
Calhornia. a 4
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DELINQUENT SALE NOTICE.
Hurricane Mining Company.

&C WHOM Of Principal place OF business,
4 I-an Francisco, California.
Location OF works, Trinity. Arabia J
Humboldt; county, Nevada
NOTICE. - There is delinquent upon the
following described Stock. On account Of As
sessment No. one ~ levied on the 1Ilh day Of
september. 1876, the several amounts SGT oypo-
site the names Of the respective Share folders
as follows:
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NOT &c TO TAX
-..-..." PAYERS.

AIOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN, THAT THE
IN State and County Taxes for the fiscal
year 1875, are now due and payable ct the
cfiice of the County Treasurer. and the laws
IN regard to the same will be strictly enforced.
On all Taxes unpaid ct the Gloss of business
op MONDAY. NOVEMBER Goth. 1876. ten
per cent. will be added Taxes are to be paid
in Coin. II sent by Express. charges must be
prepaid. A. j. SHEPARD,
fEfn County Treasurer.
winaemueos. New, October ls. 1874. ocls
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gwho may lie suffering from the effect !.
youthful foll.es or indiscrction, will Il
swell to avail themseisas OF this, the .grs5
t'ht boon ever laid at the altar 81 suaen4
humanity. Dl. SPiNNEY viii guard
"a TO forfeit $500 for every case OF semn
awcaknees. or private disease Of any kind
,shaiGct-r which he undertakes and IA
20 cure. lie would therefore say 90 The u
Fortunate Sufferer who may read this nosi'1
fhat you are treading on danger rs groaa
tshen You longer delay la SCI king the Pr
per remedy foi your complaint. You uiay 4
ia The FIRST staee; remenlbsr you are II
Fproaching the last. II you are bordGIli
kaIon the last, and are suffering some OF y
~ ats III effects, remember that IL ven PEI
si5t In proerastina.ion. tho time must con-
when the most sklilful physician can rel
Nier SoH no assistance. when the door y
kippe VIII be closed against you; Shen '
f'ngel OF mercy can bring you relief. In .
ase has the Doctor failed OF success. fhs
Pet not despair work upon your imsginatlGaal
out avail yourself Of the beneficial resall|
kf his treatment before Your case Is beyonI
he reach Of medical skill, or before gu
death hurries you te q premature raHH
kfull course OF treatment sos. send mons5
by Post Office order or Express with "
description Of case.
Call. or address. f4ta4
DR. A. II. SpINNEY.
No. II Kearney Street, San Fransiss'
lily
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DAILY SILVER STATE.
Tuesday October 81 1916
TRAVELLERS GUIDE.

Iva I'@IAl ~ ~ " ADA1'
Arrivals and departures of trains at
Winremucca Station: + ...
GOING EAST.
Express Train arrives at 1o:40 A. NJ.
and leaves at 1856 AM
Emigrant Train arrives at 10 P. NJ
and leaves at 10:45 p. M.
Freight Train arrives at II M. and
caves at 1915 p. NJ. -......-
GOING WEST.
Express Train arrives at 3:2O P. M.
and leaves at 1886 P. NJ.
Emigrant Train arrives at 1880 P. NJ.
and leaves at 6:15A NJ.
Freight Train arrives at 11:5O A. NJ.
and leaves at 1910 P. NJ.
49, Stages Forth.
From. Winnemucca to Silver City
and Boise City. Idaho Territory:
Idaho Stage leaves daily at IL A.
n. and arrives at 2:30 P. II.
From Winnemucca to Paradise VAL
ey. leaves upon the arrival of the ex-
press train from the west Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays, and arrives
Tuesday. Thursday and Saturday after
Moons.
Snaps Express, from Winnemucca
70 Yaryyille, Bartlett Creek mines, ar
rives on Thursday and departs on
Friday of each week.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-12-24
The New City Government.

Last Monday our lately elected City |
Government was installed in Office, May or
Pilsbury and the various Administrators
having taken the oath Of Office. No doubt |
seems to be entertained that this Council
introduces q new era, that henceforth City |
credit must gradually revive, new debts
cease to be formed and old ones put into a
course of extinguishment. The Mayors
message has decided ring OF that sort, and
it is understood that the gentlemen of the
Council, as a general thing, intend to second
bin. The City has certainly representative
men and men of ability in charge of her
affairs, they have thu experience of most
wofui series of improvements preceding
the last to afford them light for safe gui-
dance, and the labors of the administration
Just going out as a breakwater already
erected against the current of ruin.
The financial problem is now we'll under
stood. Everybody knows that the cash
sy stem is the only hope for our City trea-
sury. Contract no debt, pay cash for every
thing OF go without it, limit expenditures
to the revenue actually received and even
less, SO as to make a beginning, be it ever
go email, in paying off old debts,-such is
clearly the duty of the hour, and, no doubt
the programme ofsthe Council.
We would actually begin to indulge II
pleasant anticipaUioDs on this outlook dl'
, not the ominous cloud of carpet Dagger!
still darken our whole atmosphere. Tn
evil spirit of that presence cannot endur
an innovation 30 hostile to its nature a
prosperity, even local. and we may expec
some villainous p1ottin ss for putting city al
9 fairs under malign Influences. Everything
?. however, is rapidly working to crisis, an
v it may be that the field for plots and col
20 spiracies will not be so open and easil
/. worked hereafter, as it has been in the pas
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-12-24
the former may be easily replaced, the lat

the former may be easily replaced, the lat
ter once forfeited are irrevocab!y gone.
Why then treat a threatened invasion
of popular rights as a matter of interior
importance, of merely sentimental interest
to be met by an expostulation, while a
watermelon thief would be shot in the
patch And, then, what about those " as
surances of support to the House of Repre-
tativesi" If You are unarmed, uudrilled'
unoficered, upequipped, unprepared in any
and every way, what kind of support do you
expect to givef Moral supports AS well
board q pirate craft bible in hand, as
calculate on influencing the race of Catl
line by moral Influences. A hardened
scoundrel is jast as unscru pulous on land
az on water. He will laugh at your pub
lie opinion" aud your "dignified remon-
STRANGE" unless gently backed up by
cooked pistol.
Our opinion, which may be taken for
what it is worth, is that Gov. Hendricks
might as we'll drop the politician in an
emergency like this, and recognize the i'm
pending opening of that act in the drama
where the soldier steps on the stage. If
the soldier is not made ready how will you
have him appear when the curtain rises !
In other words, if Northern patriots expect
to Illustrate the long prepared and mighty
conspiracy against this republic which is
now about to strike it's blow, they must
not wait for preparation until they are
tied down. They ought to have erery man
who is able aud willing to resist, we'll
drilled, armed and equipped member Oh
some military organization. Their land
| should be ore vast military camp, not in
war, but prepared for war, ready to put its
forces in the field as an effective army at
one days notice.
| This would be the very beat way OF
averting the conflict, for, on the principle
that conscience makes towards Of US all
conspirators are generally cravens. If wal
should he thus averted the process would
not have been too costly if it should come
in spite of all, the preparation would have
been most timely and providential.
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Retreat of the Clergy, and Christmas Collection
for the Seminary.

ARCHIEPIsCoPAL RESIDENCE, Dec. Is, 1876.
Rer. and dear Co Laborers,-Our Most Rev.
and beloved Archbishop having returned to hls
diocese after long and, to his paternal heart,
most painful absence, and wishing to afford to
his priests the blessing of pastoral retreat of
which they have been long deprived, has
directed me to let you know that the pastoral
retreat will commence on Thursday evening,
January the ts:h, ending on the following
Thursday.
The Most Rev. Archbishop expect that
every priest will attend il, unless prevented by
very great reasons, which he will make known
| to him, and such as will have obtained permits
| sion to stay at home will take charge Of the
neghboring parishes for the visitation Of thu
sick, etc.
At the same time, the Most Rev, Archbishop
wishes me to recommend to you, in a very par
ticular manner, the collection which will b
taken up at Christmas. Make your parishion
ers understand well, that if they have been Q
far very generous, they must this time surpas
themselves in generosity and this is the NOR
necessary as there will be, in the course
next January, very heavy payments to
3 made, which cannot be postponed. The MOI
/ Rev. Archbishop relies on your zeal and on tt
r generosity of your Pensioners; he must M
] be disappointed in his expectation.
2 By order of the Most Rev. Archbishop.
g. RAYMOND, v. G.
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Too Polite.

BY telegram we are informed that the
Indianapolis Journal has interviewed Gov.
Hendricks and reports a milk aud-watery |
result. The Governor holds, if we are to
believe the report, that the Convention
called for the 9Th of January is merely for
the purpose of expressing an opinion as to
the threatened invasion of popular rights
and of giving the House of Representatives
assurances of support, and that there is no
purpose of going any further.
This strikes us at being little tame. 1t
in reality" popular rights" are threatened,
" opinions" and "assurances" arenot quite
up to the exigencies of the occasion. II
you understand that some thieves are going
to raid your house, do you call meeting OF
the family and formulate for the press an
elaborate argument to show that the. in
:ention of the thieves is not exactly right
If 60. it is a new style entirely; the custom
airy way has been to borrow a revolver, if y on
haven't one, and to buy some ammunition
. An additional ingenious device is to practice
| with the pistol in the back yard, 80 that the
friends of the adventures may be able to re
+ port what is to be expected. In ninety nin'
: cases out of q hundred, the thieves chang
their mind under conditions like these
when polite expossulation would have ha
q as little effect on them as dew has on a
e alligator's hide.
u Which are of more importanCe-a man
E household chattels, a few only of whic
or could be taken by thief, or his "populs
rights" that is, his personal liberty an
dignity, his civil status, his political power
N The former constitute but fraction of b
4. poaaesaiOns, the latter embOdy his ever