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Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-02-27

MINING NEwS.-In the Ophir there
has been steady increase in the val
lie of the ore found III the prospecting
drift that encourages the belief that
large deposits of paying ore Will soon
be encountered. The amount of ore
extracted by the Consolidated Nlr-
GINA Company is being gradually in
creased and now amounts to over 200
tons per day. The Occidental mill,
which has lain idle during the greater
part of the winter on account of the
bad condition of the roads, was started
up on Consolidated ore last Thursday.
The yield of the mine UP to last even
ing for the present month was oyer
500. 900 in excess of what had been
taken out at the same date III January.
There are large accommodations OF ore
at all the mills. Some promising i'm
proyements are noted III the Imperial
and Alpha grounds at the depth of
1000 feet, and greater breadthS OF ore
than were known To exist are being
opened out in the Belcher. In the
Overman and Justice mines improve
ments are also spoken of and the
prospects for the development OF good
bodies of ore are considered excellent.
our prospecting companies are all
hard at work and in the main they are
meeting with very encouraging indi-
cations in the shape Of quartz and low
grade ores. The feeling Is that we are
to see a brisk time N stocks before
nett June.-Enterprise.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-02-27

MISTAKEN ZOE TwEED. - Oval-laced,
portly gentlemen. with full gray heards,
labor under great disadvantage at the
present time Yesterday a man answer
ing the above description alighted from
the passenger train, and in company
with travelling companion who had an
official look, promenaded the platform
The portly gentleman was mistaken by
the by-standers fer Tweed, and whisper
ings to that effect were rapidly transmit
ted through the crowd, and were 1t not
for the assurances OF spectator who
had seen tie Boss that the traveller
was not Tweed many would have LETT with
the impression that they seen one Of the
greatest public plunderers of the age,
not even excepting the St. Louis revenue
Silver State, Feb. 81.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-02-27

MckEE, the Glyle man oi St. LOUIS,
convicted Of completely in the whisky
frauds, has applied FOX = new trial. The
filing of the necessary affidavit being
mentioned in the dispatch it further
says
Some editorials t7ora the Relt.5,ica,.
which are claimed to have served 10
prejudice the case agains. the defendant,
were also filed. The affidavit mentioned
is by Watson Foster OF Pike county, Mis-
souri, who charges Ii. I. Summers, a
Juror il the Mckee trial, with having
prejudged the case by stating previous
to the thai that he believed Mckee TO be
guilty. and that =" he was the biggest
toad in the puddle. The Court ordered
that the defendant have leave until the
9TH of March to lille additional affidavits,
the prosecution ten days thereafter 10
answer the same, and then the defendant
to have unit! the 10Th 10 file testimony
in rebuttal.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1876-07-14
SECRET UIRRLiGEs.

Every now and then the public is
startled by the exposure of some do
mestic or social villainy based on Sc
cret marriage Some confnding young
lady has been induced to marry her lover
secretly, and to keep the marriage secret
for months, perhaps for years. in
recent case the marriage had been kept
secret for nearly seven years. OF course,
the man who wishes TO keep his mar
riage secret is always actuated by selfish,
and usually by base motives. He Is
acting participating a game and his
confinding wife is pretty sure, in the end,
to find herself the victim OF his treachery
and baseness. A woman should never
consent to any such arrangement. her
marriage should be sslemnized in the
light OF publicity, and not in the shadow
of concealmcnt. She should distrust
man who has any reason for shlQudlns
in darkness the act which, i'm his esl'
nation at least. should be the crowning
glory of his life. The man who always
has some plot on band-who naturally
takes to trickery and concealment, ana
is never ready TO have his actions brought
out into the clear light Of day, is apt 70
be constitutionally so base that he sell
dom, even by accident, deviates into the
path of honor and virtue. No women
who values her domestic happiness
ehorld over listen to the suggestions OF
such man in favor Of secret marriage.
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4 sEYsITI0N 1T NLIGIR.i.

Boston Post.
The sensation Of the season at Niagara
: the projected trip across the Niagara
river of a young lady, lately arrived from
Europe and known as the Signorina
Maria Spelterina This young artist ar
rived in New York about two months
ago, and has since been quietly making
preparations to accomplish the feat that
gave Blondin worldwide reputation.
She was bone in Italy, and made her
first appearance in public with her
fathers company when sshe was three
years of age She performed until she
reached the age of ten upon the tight
rope, and then commenced the slack
wire and the rolling globe. In the last
two acts she achieved brilliant success,
performing for two years in Berlin and
Vienna. In 1871 she went to Russia
and made such grand success upon the
high rope that she adopted that branch
of her profession entirely and give 1t her
sole attention. She is gifted with won
derful nerve combined with cool daring,
and during her entire career has never
made a single mistake, although on
several occasions she was only saved
from accident by great presence of mind.
Speaking of the Niagara, she does not
regard the feat as anything at all extra
ordinary, as walking across the river
does not display the artists nerve half
as much as the different performances
that she proposes to give on the rope
If sufficient strain can be got on the
rope so as to stretch it tolerably straight,
she will perform ten or twelve different
acts The rope is now being man
ufactured in New York, and when COM
pIeted will measure one thousand feet,
and weigh one thousand seven hundred
pounds. 1t VIII require one thousand
pounds weight of guys to keep it fairly
steady. The rope will be stretched across
the Nigara Rapids about two hundred
feet below the railroad suspension bridge,
and three hundred feet on each bank
of the river will be enclosed and ar
ranged with seats for the accommodation
of tho snectatOrs
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cONGREssIoNaE ersn.,..s.

New York Argus. IS
The house of representatives Ts1ve done
a noble work.
1t has saved the COUNT from the us
grace of having Blai-e Tor speaker Inc
presiding officer ofsnis branch of congress
no longer writ to applicants for railroad
aid. setting orth what he has done for
them in certain emergencies. The
speake room is no longer a brokers'
offic for railroads applying for federal
AZ: The government is not now dis
sraccd by the spectacle of its third civil
officer conspiring steal the public lands
and to load down the people of the
United States with bonds granted to
railroads organized by his friends.
Congress has exposed the corruptions
of member of the cabinet of the presi
dent, in dealing in post traderships and
compelled hasty resignation in order
to secure a technical plea against punish
ment.
1t has driven from the diplomatic ser
vice one who was disgrace to the state
department.
1t is engaged in struggle with the
administration, to save forty millions of
dollars recommended by the treasury
department, and has thus exposed the
hollowness of republican pretenses in IA
vor Of retrenchment.
1t has placed in a clearer light the well
known corruptiops of the navy depart
ment, and produced moral proof of the
dishonesty of secretary Robson by
exhibiting his bank account.
1t would have purified the war depart
ment, if the republican party had not
placed a Cameron at its head.
1t has revealed the corruption of the
interior department, in its treacherous
and profigate dealings with the Indians,
and has broken up one Indian ring,
leaving another to take its place, we
presume.
1t has shown how the postoftice depart
ment has robbed the people of millions
by means of straw bids.
Thus it has revealed the rotten work
ings af every department of iovernmont-
More even than this. II has entered
the household of the president, and star
tied the country with the rascalities cen
tering there.
1t has broken up the district ring, and
indicted, or compelled to flee, the bosom
friends of the president who were its
corrupt manipulators
1t has reorganized the army and substi-
tuted silver for fractional currency.
Ii has framed a tariff act which would
revive industry, if passed; has endeav-
ored to take additional steps towards
specie payments; has struggled earnestly
for retrenchment and reform.
In all of these efforts at redress, reform
and retrenchmen, tit has encountered the
resolute oposition of the republican party.
This brief summary suffices to show
how extensive are the corruptions at
Washington; how earnest are the efforts
of the democracy to remove them; and
how necessary it is that ring-smasher
like Tilden should be elected president,
in order that he may thoroughly over
turn the monstrous system.
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word TO BUsY PEOPLE.

Do we realize, we busy people, how
recklessly we abbreviatc our hours Ct de-
yotion? How little space we spare for
God Hours Someof us can compress
into one poor, meager hour week, ex-
elusive Of Sundays and prayer meeting
nights, our time spent in reading the
Bible and in prayer. 10 be blessed and
tranquil, and spiritually to grow, we
must commune with the invisible. A
few hurried moments in The morning,
few tired moments in the evening, frag-
mentary dash at Matthew or Mark, and
a few verses hastily read with the sense OF
duty accomplished are not enough to
lift one over the roughness and materiali-
ties ofevery day. They are better than
no reading, and better than no prayer,
but to have a living sense of the nearness
of God, one must abide in Him.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1876-07-14
THE FIRST SINGING OF THE .'MIR.
.SEILL4ISB5.'
London Illustrated Newsnnnsr

What marvellous power that strange
chant has exercised in France during
the greater part of century? What
wild vicissitudes have accompanied its
defamation by men and women who
have used it Se as a patriotic and
revolutionary call to arms. Rouget de
L'Isle was himself but commonplace
young mana poetical lieutenant in the
army of Strasburg-but for once he
mounted to pinnacle of genius without
knowing it: for the ''Marseillaisc' was
simply 4 chant cte batofue, and never in
tended to be a revolutionary song.
Dietrich who was mayor of Strasburg in
1892, asked the young soldier to compose
a new marching song. for volunteer
company going on foreign service. He
finished the composition in one night,
and the next morning was heard to
rehearse it before the mayor and some of
the artistes of the theater. At midday
it was sung in the market place, and so
great was its effect thai 500 recruits
joined the GOO who were ready to go out.
That chant was to have a history un-
precedented by any battle song in the
world-to survive its author, and to take
new meaning and a new name. Rouget
de L'Isle, himself prescribed as a roy
alist, heard it in the Swiss mountains as
a menace of death, and recognizing the
well-known sound, asked his guide what
was called. 1t had then been named
the "Marseillaise Hymn" and was so
called till hymns went out of fashion, and
then it still returned the name of
"Marseillaise. Whether it has played
out its part in the history of France it
would be rash to endeavor to determine.
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A BIG sLEETE-BUTTON.


cold Sulphuret's sleeve button,s as
they dubbed it at Georgetown, was on
exhibition at the railway depot yesterday.
it is mass of ore rom the Pelican mine.
near Georgetown, weighing 500 pounds,
and containing between 500 and $500
in silver. The specimen is remarkable
for its great size and weight. 1t was
raised from the deepest working of the
mine, and shows the worth of the rich
VEIN 1t contains ruby silver, silver
glance, grey copper, pyritous ore, argen-
tifcrous galena, and quartz, and is
familiary designated as 300-ounce ore.
That is, each ton OF the ore yields about
800 ounces of pure, metallic silver. 1t
also gives a small quantity of gold.
The same mine contributes quantity of
other and richer ore-in all, about seven
tons, which is arranged in a pyramidal
pile, with the large mass for base, in
the exhibition. The ore increases in
richness toward the top and the whole is
surmounted by monster brick, or but
ton of pure silver
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1876-07-14
OBJECTIONS FOR CALoTMINING.

Buy the best bleached glue, if the
walls are to be white or some light tint
(if dark, it is immeteriaI, so the glue is
clean), and use it in the proportion of
quarter of pound to eight pounds of
whiting. Soak the glue over night, in
the morning pour off the water, as it
simply swells while soaking. Add fresh
water, put in pail, and set that in a
kettle of boiling water. When dissolved,
stir it into the whiting. adding enough
water to make it, after mixing, of the
same consistency of common whitewash.
1t may be tinted any color, and is APP
piled with a whitewash brush. If the
color is rubbed smooth in little water
and then mixed with the wash il will be
more even. If the walls have been pre-
viously whitewashed, scrapu away all
that will come off, and wash with a
solution of white vitriol-two ounces
in a pail of water. The vitriol will be
decomposed, forming zinc white and
plaster of paris, to which the cal
Chime easily adheres. 1t is important
to dissolve the glue in hot water bath.
for if scorched by too great heat its te-
nacity is impaired or destroyed.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1876-07-14
BOg TIE STAR-ETSH TAKES HIS OTS-
TIERS.
Ponular science Monthly.

1t is curious to read the silly stories
that are told in the name of natural his
tory. There is one that says that the
star-fish puts its fingers or rays into the
oysters shell, and helps itself. From
every point of consideration the thing is
ridiculously impossible. A more sober
Judgment is that given by some natural
lists, namely, that the sea star protrudes
its sack-like stomach and envelopes to a
great extent the oyster therein, and so
Ieisurely digests the mollusk out of its
unopened shell, much rs the Goldfish does
the shells it swallows. After having
-..n. > fishes eat small specimens Chat
q such as were suited to their size) of
oysters, mussels and scallops, which l
have fed to them in an aquarium, ! give
the following as based on a number OF
observations Having brought the val,
or stomach orifce, exactly over TIE nib
of the oyster, the star embraces the bi-
valves with its five flexible rays, aided
by the hundreds OF sucking disks on tine
tiny feet Thus positioned, the star-fisll
clings firmly, but keeps itself quite still
and waits very patiently. After awhile
the instinct of the oysters at fault, and
it will open as il no enemy were near
At this moment, as it seems to me, is in
iected from the oral orifce of the star 4
baleiul "sideeral blast" 1t is something
that paralyzes the mollusk; because from
that moment the valves of the oyster are
open to their fullest extent, and the hold
of the flexible rays is relaxed. Instantly
a singular variation of the performance
sets in. The rays are withdrawn and sci
back to back-the stomach is protruded
and then doubled up intrudes itself int
the oyster, the evicted stomach leading
the way in the movement. ab-oi hing 1T
victim. IT the famous ''india-rubbe
man. could throw back bis arms, legs
and head, and in this position could thel
infuse himself, stomach first, into l
partially opened writing desk, he woul'
rival this feat of the sea-star without thu
villainy of injecting chloroform through
the key-hole.
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REM4INS or hOY4LrY.

The remains of King Louis Philippe,
accompanied by the remains of nine
members of his family, buried in Eng
land, have just arrived in France, to be
placed in the mausOleum of the Orleans
family at Dreux. Twenty-six years ago
this same king took the first steps in a
generous and popular act. Just before
his death'Napoleon had expressed the
wish that mis- ashes might find resting
place upon the banks of the Seine, in the
midst of people he loved. Louis Phil
lippe saw that wish realized, and the
Prince de Joinville was sent to st.
Helena in La Belle Poule to bring the
body of the emperor back to France.
The ceremony when it was deposited in
the Invalidas was splendid and impos-
ing, and the occasion furnished pat
se's55fe fete which reused the better feel
iig of the masses. The king showed
himself generous in giving to the emperor
tie homage that history accorded, and
which was really due. And now the
rmains of Louis Philippe are brought
b France and buried in silence. There
Is something of ingratitude in all this.
ior Louis Philippe was an excellent
monarch, wellintentioned ruler, and a
good and amiable man.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1876-07-14
COTTON MINUFA CTURING IN THE
SOUTH.

While the cotton manufacturing in
terest at the north is so Frustrated and
mills are failing, the same interest at the
south is flourishing. The Atlanta, Ga,
Constitution'print tabular statement
Of the cotton manufacturing industry of
the states in 1875, which shows a graft
tying gain in the number of spindles.
The number of mills in the southern
states, exclusive of Maryland, is shown
to be one hundred and eighty-One; num-
Der of spindles, four hundred and eighty
one thousand eight hundred and twenty
one; bales of cotton used, one hundred
and forty-fve thousand and seventy
nine. Georgia takes the lead with forty
seven mills and one hundred and thirty
one thousand three hundred and forty
spindles In 1869 the total number of
spindles in southern mills was two hun
dred and twenty-five thousand and sixty
three, and in 1870 they had increased to
two hundred and sixty two thousandItwu
hundred and twenty-one. In 1875, az
the above figures show, the number oil
spindles had advanced to four hundred
and eighty-one thousand eight hundred
and twenty-one, having nearly doubled
in five years Ground has just been
broken for third mill by the Eagle 6
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1876-07-14

| showed her how to climb up by means
of step called Multiplication Table.
" wish 1 had got some shoes like
yours" said Rosie, rather mournful-
ly, as she tried to keep up with Good
child.
You must get pair" said Good
child "for 1 see your shoes are made
by Mr.. Now-and-then, and those soon
wear out; but here we are at Copy Cor
ner, and then we shall soon be there"
But at Copy Corner poor Rosie sat
down to rest awhile, and Goodchild was
kind enough TO wait to; for she said it
would be no fun to so into Toy Town
alone, now they had come so far togeth-
er. SO while they rested, Rosie asked
Goodchild if there was anything on the
other side of Toy Town.
Oh, yes" i" answered Goodchild but
that's in Grown-up Land, so don't know
much about it,"
= There's no Lesson-book Lane there,
IsuPPose 2, ssiia saja L rRFgsie sailed 50 there.
But I've heard Aunt Industry say we
shall have to go up Hardwood hill to
great big country called knowledge, and
that leads to-
Rosie was just going to ask what.
when all at once she gave a great Jump.
and Goodchild was gone; and in her
place stood Nurse, looking down on the
blotted copy-book, where she had been
writing De ays are dangerous, before
she fell asleep.
Rose expected scolding but nurse
only stroked her head, and said she was
too tired for lessons that hot afternopl,
and she had better brush her hairand
run down to mamma till tea.
So Rosie ran down gladly to mamma,
and told her all the funny dream she had.
Mamma was very much amused, and
iaid it was all true, and work must ceme
oefore play all our lives through.
" But grown-up people don't play,
mamma they would not care for Toy
Town"
g Yes, but they have to work and
earn just like little children"
@ And then, mamma"
Well, not exactly Toy Town, dear
,ut something we shall like better per-
laps But for the present, Losson-book
ane is enough for my little girl, and
Toy Town is part of the kingdom Of
Wisdom as much as what comes after
ward. Aunt Judy's Magazine.
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PHOTOGRiPJFS or ICTORS IND AC-
TRESSES.

Actors and actresses generally make
the best picture, because they under
stand the art, for it is an art, of graceful
posing. Harry J. Montague, of Wal
lacks has sat for Quincy, Mora, and
Sarony, and fully 10000 of his pictures
have been sold in New York. Lester
WaIlack has been sitting for pictures for
over twenty years, and perhaps 10000
copies of his photographs have found
places in the albums. OF Edwin Booths
pictures over $4,000 copies have been
sold within fifteen years. Edwin For
rests pictures never sold we'll. John
Brougham sells very well for man of
his age and modesty. About 10000
copies of CapouPs portrait were bought.
OF John Wilkes Booths about 900
copies were sold before the killing of
president Lincoln, and as many more
afterwards. Humpty Dumpty Fox,
Fechter, Thorn, Stevenson, Barrymore,
and Southern sell about equally well,
the limit for each not exceeding 5000.
The photographs of Parepa Rosa have
had larger sale than those of any other
singer or actress who ever sat in this
country. Nearly $4,000 copies have
been obtained from one negative. Next
to Parepa Rosa the demand has been
greatest for Mrs. Scott Siddons' pictures,
over 10000 of which have been Sold
OF Christine Nilsson about 10000 have
been sold of Adelaide Nelson about the
same number; Of Clara Morris $4,000 :;
and of Fanny Davenport nearly as many.
Maggie Mitchell, who used to sell her
own pictures while travelling, has had
25,OOe of her photographs disposed of.
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rHE TsrIluUS or PAN41rI.

The uncertainties surrounding the
Suez canal bring up the old project of a
ship canal across the istbmus of Panama.
In connection with this matter it is i'm
portant to note the fact that new canal
route has been discovered, or redis-
covered, across the narrow neck Of land
uniting the two continents, and a
wealthy citizen of Colombia proposes to
survey the track at his own expense.
The matter has been laid before the con-
gress of the United States of Colombia,
and that body asked to indorse the plan
of Nh Gogorzo, which is to have an
accurate survey made by a corps of
engineers, and than to organize a joint
sock company in Europe to build the
canal and put it i'll operation, the whole
work to be completed in ten years. /
there is the least body in this movement
it will be watched with interest by
commercial nations. England virtually
controls the Suez canal. If British
money cuts ship way through the soil
of the new world from the Atlantic tC
the Pacific ocean then England will
command both commercial shortcut:
and have a vast advantage in the
markets of Asia.