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OUT WE,sT.

A salmon was caught recently in WASH
ington Territory that weighed over 1876
pounds. ..slt,.6 ..ra3 ar,I,H sxEsrsg.s agaH
Frank Kenyon has made the Lyon Coun-
ty Times daily and is prospering finely. na
A 10000 pound steam hammer has re-
Gently been placed in position in the Saw
age mine.
Hon. Tom Fitch is in Carson, where. he
eontemplates taking up another t' perma-
nent residence oia.flHs aflup9B yGu nCii3G
William w. Maynard, late editor Of the
Nonparea, died at Council Bluffs He was
a keen writer and a Masen of high stand
ing. ''s'' .'l" '"=1'oiA3 ''''-.7a ,'' ''''
Colonel J. w. Grassey, 9pprri private, t,Is secretary
Of Senator Jones, Of Nevada died in
Washington City on the oath ult., Of pneu-
monia.
The Silgea State says it is reported that
Flood s. O'Brien are negotiating for the
purchase of the White and Shiloh mine at
Galena, Lander county. sotiggaF ad5 II go
Among the population of Virginia City,
New, there are thirty three persons who
have served terms in the Carson Peniten-
tiary, and over $50 ex-convicts from other
States. ' tH 5--t .i't T.
Sixteen faro games and 118 saloons on
g street afford evening recreation to the
citizens of Virginia City, New. On the
same street are five bakeries and two
churches.
Hammer said he could lick any man in
Austin, Texas, who wore a stovepipe hat,
and Thompson went out of the saloon in
which the remark was made, bought such a
hat, put on, and rejoined the party. Han
ner at once tried to make good his promise
by staobing Thomson, but failed, and was
fatally shot. rI Esstat0szf@j .i1faE sAl
A California firm has contracted for a
miniature 20-stamp quartz mill to be exhib-
ited at the Centennial. The mill is to be
the finest, and the engine is to be about 4
inch bore by 6-inch stroke, with other ma
chinery in proportion. All the wood used
in and about the mill is to be polished ma
hogany and California laurel. The entire
process of reducing and amalgamating ores
is to be shown precisely as it is done in the
regular mills. 9atiHBHr 5soHts "a aaE'aa.5t 90
f. The Colorado Miner gives the particu-
lars of catastrophe as horrible as any in
Alpine story. One Charles Ritchie was
coming home with a fellow boarder, Mr..
Thomas, across the Democrat Mountain,
and when just ever the brow, in crossing a
gulch, they lost the trail and went lower
down to cross. In so doing they had to
cross a field of snow. Mr.. Richie sat
down to slide, and the moment he did so
the snow started. Mr. Thomas was only
about three feet from him, and the snow
started above and under him, but being on
his feet he succeeded in reaching the edge
and saved himself. Mr.. Ritchie, however,
was carried down the mountain side one
thousand feet, and over precipitous ledge
of rock fifty feet high, landing him near
the end of a wood slide. He was seen fall
ling, and before Mr. Thomas reached town
for the purpose of giving the alarm, his
body had been found by parties who has
tened to tho scene of the disaster. When
found life was extinct, his skull and jaw
being literally smashed. saig ag
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The Silver Standard.

I During the present week, the price of
silver has touched the unprecedented low
figure of 81. IA gold per ounce, decline OF
more than 12 per cent. frofu the price OF
few years ago. 1t is said that the Director
of the Mint expects the large proportion of
gold in the Comstock bullion to make
itself felt before long in checking the down
ward course of the silver ratio. We trust
he will prove to be right; and we have
reason to put faith in his intelligent fore
sight of the matter For ourselves, we are
more alarmed at the indications appear
ing in several quarters that a serious at
tempt will be made to substitute silver for
gold as the United States standard of cur
rency, or, what is more absurd though not
more mischevievous. to introduce again
the principle of double standard, and
make both gold and silver coins legal ten
der in all amounts. The danger appears
to be that the 'tsoft-money" men and the
triInmers among the hard money men and
the deinagogues in search of a novel pollti-
cal watchWord viii strike hands with
few keen representatives of the silver min
ing industry of the Pacific Slope, and rush
through one OF these schemes, as q sort OF
return to specie payments. = Engineering
and MSniaq IdaraaJ March, "A.
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WHAT THE WITS SAY.

Mules are selling for 5000 apiece in Geor-
gia, and yet the Chicago Tribune complains
that it has to pay personal man $11 a
week.
A JaWpone sixteen feet long is to be ex-
bibited at the Cenrenn1a1 ny mdssacII trsc6Us.
-Pittsbatrg Commercial. Thunder! And
SO Ben Butler is dead, is he ?--Maasng
Journal. t.rs,v4B .zlH # .a
An envious German paper prophesies
that England's Suez Canal prize will yet
turn to ashes in her grasp. Isn't this sug-
gestive of further in-turn-ash-ional COM
plications ?-Com. Advertiser. I'll s' a
The attempt to feed Robert Toombs
mint julep with spoon was a failure.
"Gimme that bowl minute" whispered
Uncle Bob, and the next second he saw the
knothole in the bottom of it.-Detro1 Free
Press. EaE# ats zsa ,aslaa q s sse
( The Chicago Inter Ocean, in the course
of studies in paleontology, devotes column
to Susan B. Anthony, and comes to the
conclusion that it is hard to fancy Susan
perehed on Theodore's skeleton knee, like
a mellow pippin on the point of a very
slender stubble, and not feel how absaasd
her connection with the case is. f..t.f..g u.
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Black Hits Buncornbe.

Here is the way the Laramie Sentinel
talks about a spread eagle letter in the
Cheyenne Leader: .atfli4 gi8sii as asasssss g
1t is pretty evident that nothing in the
way Of faisehood and absurdity on the
Black Hills question can turn the stomach
of the Leader sh haia aHtatffsf s}t*i3 astn
1t lis well known that the thermometer
ranged nearly all the time, for the two or
three weeks previous TO the date of this
letter, at ii ON twenty to thirty degrees be-
low zero, and there was little or no snow
on the ground, and yet the Leader pub
fishes the statement that the. grass was
green and no grass on the ground. ..f..
There are other statements equally ab-
surSl. We ali know that "a creek bottom
composed OF fourteenlfe Of gravel = is "a
splendid, rich, productive loan soil. II
we amt surprised chat the man who
publishes such stuff as this spent all his
wife's patrimony trying 10 raise ascotton
and woor' by crossing 4 Mary's little lamb
with " hydraulic ram.'
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sWAsIIE BeRN TovBE, HuNa2--A Taun-.
ton, Mass, man of forty-six has had q
chequered career. He has been shipwreck-
ed once, escaped baking. III railroad acci-
dent, has been run away with times innu-
merable, was shot the neck at Gettys-
burg, had a taste of the horrors of Libby
PRISON, fell overheard from q. whaler, and,
before being picked up, lett two fingers in
the mouth of shark was drafted twice,
had his right arm broken in two places
during the first New York riot stood on q.
barrel with q halter around his neck, in an
Alabama town at the outbreak of the
rebellion, from sunrise to sunset; In 1858,
was crushed under q falling buildings
during California earthquake. and was
without food or drink nearly fifty hours !;
and, when hoineward bound from the
White Pine region. narrowly ESCAPED
lynchiHg thrangh Inistake in persua-i
Amidst all, be preserves his eqnaniunity
and refuses To believe that luck is against
him.
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EE4NGELICAL CORNER.
ugaFlts.LEg 4zTOL U ~
Cream is the fashionable color for. til

Cream is the fashionable color for the
coming season. on"-~----~---- -"
"A bill is before Parliament to enable
Queen Victoria to take the title of s.:Em7
press Of India ''''' s'' ss''S'' ''''''S "
To avoid mortifying her lover, who was
poor, a Montreal heiress was married re-
Gently in q gao muslin dress.slisN sN eHNNoRo
Mrs. Swisshelm saysiwe need areligioa
which means sixteen eancess sof sugar for q
pouhu' ana no sano IN lt' .MsA
It is decided thai" women cannot practice
law in VVisconsia ;fBut tlfe judge Wle1fe-
cided it crawled ander his barn last Beska
and hasn't come out since. ,,ab sr,,e;s
Moses and grasses goneato seed are the
the fashionable trimmings for rough straw.
bonnets for early spring. They are naing--
led with crBarn fibbons ana cream iaeess 'a1
Miss Julia A. Hamilton, d great gfand1
daughter of Alexander Hamilton, died of
pneumonia at the homo of ex-senator Car
penter, in Milwaukee, Wis, on the 22d of
February, in the sixteenth year of her
age el L9xrs s3a zssi5aloo2 3ns.aVaa9d 1870
tits noted as significant fact by the
Chicago Times that while Mr.. sBeecher
challenged all men, all angels, and God
Himself, if they had anything to say to his
detriment to speak it out, he excepted
women from the challenge. .9altimmcJ 5.
Whichever way the Massachusetts Leg
islat11re decides on the application to legal
ize the well known authors recent marriage
with his step-daughter, there is no alterna-
tive for the unhappy lady herself. In:
either case, it involves Partin' for her.
The news comes that several lady leaders
of fashion in Washington are ex1lting over
the social ruin of the elegant and beautiful
Mrs. Beknap. q Ladies, after she has gone
you may pull and strain and hump up your
shoulders and squeeze your toes together,
and yet there will not be one of you who
can get on her Mol II shoe.--Nesoi YorS
HsrGtd; 1o0 OF 1zua4 b1GbHa5a $ ,baovItGE
. 1t is related of Senator Christiancy's
young bride that when the aged Senator
proposed she at once accepted, and returned
an engagement ring to suitor who had
her promise of marriage in Georgia. Hav-
ing done this, she urged the statesman to
make no vexatious delays, inasmuch as
she anticipated that the discarded Georgian
might come on and make trouble. Ia How
long will the orange flowers bloom?al uo1J
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A TEN4EssRE GIAET.-They have dis
covered giant out in Tennessee in the
person of a man named James Horner. He
is citizen of Perry county, ono of atfam-
i!y of eight children, none of whom had
exhibsasa any unusual traits. At eighteen
he was a well-grown man, six feet high,
and weighed $50 pounds. At twenty-one
he was six inches taller, and weighed 210
pounds. He ceased to notice any growth
after that until he was twenty-four years
old, and then only by the smaliness of his
clothes, and then measured in his stockings
six feet nine inches. Since then--he is now
thirty-one years of age he has attained
the height of seven feet nine inches, and is
still growing, this being an increase of
about two inches annually. Some years he
grows more and some less, but this is his
average. He was recently measured, the
result being as follows: His head TO top
of shoulders was eighteen inches; from
shoulders to the hip.joint, two feet three
inches thence to eentersof knees, two feet
two and one-half inches, making the enor-
nous aggregate of seven feet nine. and one
half inches. From the shoulders to the
tip of his fingers was four feet six and one
half inchess II g9ai 3ed1 W Sfea9slI,
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Total! !!.ssI.I ..... s..laai. .s$1 ,55O, ,S30s405
There lean be no question, that with the
largest allowance for actual cost of produe-
tion, the yield d. Of gold and silver for the
twenty-six years covered by. the above
table, taken in connection with the present
cash value of the dmines and machinery
worked and used in the production, our
mining interest has returned as. large per-
centage of. profit as any Of the great pro-.
auctive1 Interests of the country. 1t is
quite lime for the men of brain and musclesF
who within the last tWenty-six years have
contributed nearly two billions Of hard
cash tothef depleted Treasury ofthe coun-
try, and the, circulating medium of the
world, to rise in their, might and hurl q.
few statistical missiles like the foregoing,
at the heads Of the eroakers and idiots,
whose insane ochatterings about the waste
of capital in mining, fill the land. We call
especial attention to the, fact that aUtahs
who first broke, mining ground in 1869,
when Colorado was producing from BIZ, ,-'
coo, 900 rs $lJ, ,000, 900 ofthe precious metals
per. annum, now, stands third on the list.
That she, is destined to become; first on the;
list OF silver producing districts, we firmly
believe. AaH35 u 3tH ,9siiIsz19 Won {'A5eOl9
And in this connection, we would impress
upon our mining fraternity the necessity
and advantage of an immediate Territorial
,organization.d3 Salt Lake City as a central
point, would be a, fitting place forit the first
national convention, and the enterprisiEg
miners of Utah, the youngest and richest
of the glorious sisterhood of mining States,
should at once Iinauguarate the movement
Utah Mail..osoeg .,s}s e8i5o43x8 ssEaie
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TIE MARY BELLE.
The Boat and Cargo Valued at HALF a
agu 5aaf q = Million Az. ol@l.t--

CINCINNATI, February 2s.-It is esti-5
ma mated upon re reliable lab data that the loss BY
Vicksburg, Miss, yesterday, will reach
over $500, 900. She had large number of
passengers, with valuable baggage. She
was believed to be the largest steamer ever,
constructed for navigating the Mississippi
OF any other river, the extreme length Of
her hull being 325 feet and her breadth SO
feet. In constructing the boat ], ,000, 900
feet of water-seasoned oak was used. She
had a battery Of eight STEEL boilers. She
costoyer1 $125, 900. The insurance of her
cargo will fall heavily on Memphis and,
New Orleans underwriters. q >. ;. $500
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Mormon Courtship.

-ss
On Saturday Mormon by the name of
Fulmer, who had been chosen among the
faithful to go on a mission to Arizona, call
ed upon Brigham Young fasi2iaias 4 '3't 2
6 Married ?' queried the Prophet. 4t
Not any," said Fulmer, DER whose
brow forty odd years had left their I'M
print.
aMust marry, Brother Fulmer, before
you go to Arizona TO, tbuilol up the King
dom.'' f.sss,s.ss Iii tss, a.,ffae,t a.. S.
"Don't know anybody who will have
me, was the reply. 87.ast '''t1
"I'Il find some one. DO you know
Brother Brown in the Seye nteenth Ward
Well, he has several daughs ers you go to
Brother Browns and tell him / want you
to marry one of his daugh ters.'
Fulmerleft and obeye1 counsel to the
letter. Knocking at the oor he was adj
mitted by Brother Bros IN, who, upon
learning what was wanted !, called in his
several daughters, to be selected from.
Fulmer taking his clioice, D brown told tile
girl to get ready in fifteen q minutes. bass
TH do as you say, dad, - = was the meel
reply, as she walked out. !, ,..,s, .sa.,
NThat's the way | raise my daughters
if they disobey me, thers's war in tht
| camp q ssa3ta1ssf gaIa=9T .ts8sfg!iiaiast
The wedding festivities take place to
night. Salt Lake Tribune. II I'll
RICHARD H. DANA, 1JR I i ,LL.-A Bostoi
dispatch says Richard H.. Dana, Jr., wa
suffering yesterday from svere attack o
vertigo, which prostrated him at charcI
| Sunday when the news of his nomina tiol
| as Minister to England wa made. Tt j
/ stated he viewed the posisios l9as one of thl
most honorable, and be f. tItnits dignity
but before he could make up his mind il
favor Of acceptance, I'D asau st ! consult hi
friends.
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THE LARGEST e
First Class Hotel in the Territory.

Having secured lease for long term of
years of this large and commodious house,
have renovated. refurnished and embel-
ished it's roomy parlors and elegant suits
of rooms, and no expense or pains will be
pared to continue to improve and keep it
on first class principles. The tables are
supplied with the verv best the markets
afford and the delicacies of the season. At
tendance unexceptionable. Terms, reason
able. tI.... ..... r.. ra.5.. 322.
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POLITICAL NOTES.

If Bristow don't "break," it isssafe to
predict that he will come in ahead. as5...-
The Kentucky Legislature is first for
Hendricks and then for Old Bill Allen. I-.....
Senator Dawes is reported as expressing
himself in favor of Boutwell, for the Presi-
Governor Garland, of Arkansas, is the
promised Democratic candidate for United
States Senator from that State. .-.a h..
They are calling Thurman trimmer,
Hendricks hemmer, Blaine baster,
Chandler filler, Conkling pinker, Sher
man ripper, and sew forth. j t aGtmeu
OF sixty-eight Republicans in the Ohio
Legislature, sixty prefer Hayes three,
Blaine one, Bristow three non commit
tai. Seventeen members eluded the can
vasseF.
General Garfield is reported as lahoring
in his district, the Nineteenth Ohio, to Sc
cure delegates to the Cincinnati Convention
who will be externally for Hayes and inter-
nally and eternally for Blaine.
Tie Democrats of the kentucky House
have been polled, with this result :: For
Hendricks, 81 Allen, Is Pendleton, B.;
Thurman, g.; Tilden, 3; Bayard, B, Black
q; Randall, /; Kerr, /. r.r .,5 saegrr 5#si VI
The New York World intimates that
Wendell Phillips really. must have been Sc
rious in his nomination of Grant for Presi-
dent and Fred Douglass for Vice-P President,
orhe would not have aputit in black and
white. .gfaf .gsI5 s.aff la uazif.a ts, 5aaua
Writing to the ST. Louis WestlScle Post,
over his initials, Mr.. Schurz expresses the
opinion that Grant will not be strong
enough in the National Convention to Sc
cure denomination, but is quite likely to
be strong enough to name the candidate. ID
The Utica Herald credits Democratic
member of the Legislature with saying
that. though friend Of Governor Tilden,
he feels confident that Tilden could not be
again elected Governor if he were candi-
daten pa -5-.5sis+2H p T'f-s7.''
Although the indianapolis Sentinel re-
CARDS it without doubt that "Tonl" Hen
bricks will he the Democratic candidate for
the Presidency, and AYERS that "small men
have misconceiyed Mr.. Hendricks's disere-
tioil. and call him timid," the st. Paul Pa-
.0ne4s Press entirely ignores him, and says
he i; sly, slippery, negative, indeterm-
mate sort of politician, who is not EN-
harrassed by convictions on any OF the
greaG issues Of the day" Z,
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Action on the, Pacific Railroad Bill POST
5ldsaosaa4 svis poned. Us zaaujsnd 10 3asq

-I5fl-1F 1975s71E1aI ~ sAF IF1I -
WASHINGTON, March 1.--Aelmeeting of
the friends of the Texas Pacific Railroad
enterprise was held last night, at which it
was decided not to urge action by Congress
at this session. CD As a result of that deter
mination the House Pacific Railroad Com
Imittee, at its regular meeting today
adopted, By a majority vote, a resolution
that the Texas Pacific bin, and all others
of similar character, lie onsthe table, not
to be, taken mp except by o majority vote
of the committee,, Messrs. sLuttrell, Car
field, Kasson and Blair voted against the
resolution. elI 81 sIn sAittA1sisl h4h#'a . 0@A
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LUCK BAL[D'w1N's TRoTTrER,
rfr-,.I, .fsrg, E.,sra5--- : Fsn.y4f- ss.f s. Ssi
A Wicked Trick of the Turf.

| The millionaire, Luck Baldwin, for once
in his life comes out Of a speculation wrong
end foremost. He read that Flora Temple
was originally purchased out of a drove for
$60, and that Dutchman was bought out of
brick cart for 1885,, This set the great
tfnancier thinking, and a brilliant idea was
born. He would watch the butcher carts,
and the milk wagons fora treasure jim dis
guise, and, when found, would develop the
animal in private. And when the coming
wonder was thus rescued from oblivion and
would astonish the world with its speed,
the ,talkative B, would howl with envy.
Some six weeks ago the lynx eye of the
great financier rested upon a half starved,
oyerworI1ed, slab-sided animaB the off
horse of a street car team Eureka!ff at
| last he had found the treasure. : The next
day this Bucephalus in embryo was his
property for the Insignificant sum Of $50.
| The equine anatomy was asent to training
quarters, fed, groomed,a and exercised in
the most approved manner When at
length he spread himself on the road, and
was allowed to pass everything he met, the
Joy of the banker knew no bounds. All
were his guests at the roadside inns, eorks
flew and jokes were cracked. Among the
| guests on this occasion was an old Sacra-
mento sport, who drove faded specimen
of departed greatness in the shape of a
trotter, which was never allowed1to pass
the new wonder on the road After the
banker, was fooled to the top of his bent,
he was induced to banter Old Sport for a
match with Centennial name he had
given his new purchase-for $500 a side,
mile heats, to road wagon. The match
was at length made for Thursday, January
9th. '''t t3's 7''+@l' o' 3f ~
Old Sport found out that Centennial had
done service on the cars for two years or
more, and therefore was very Obedient to
the sound of the bell. Procuring one of
these, he carefully screwed it into the floor
of his wagon under the seat, SO arranged
that his toe could strike it. II !Butaa9g
On the day Of the race the horses were
on the track at the appointed time, and
were sent off to an even start, amid the
veciferous cheers Of a party of the bankers
friends. Centennial was to be held in to
| tire out the old plug for about half mile,
and then let out to distance him in the first
heat. He was just about to forge ahead
when ting went the bell, and he came to a
| full stop SO suddenly that bis driver came
near being pitched over the DASH board.
Old Sport, Of course, shot ahead. BY the
use of the whip the bankers horse was
again started, and soon caught up to the
old plug. The bell sounded again, and
there was another full stop. The trial was
repeated at intervals for the balance OF the
way home, the old plug going wheeling
past the judges stand aGwinner. a uiThe
eighth wonder of the world was distanced.
TT all seems like hideous, ,dream,' Mr..
Baldwin feebly remarked, as he watched
the Sacramento sport button up the gold
notes. rs II. sNsaosl Letter.tqg sTa ved8 bn
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February 23 the following official inte1if-
gence was isent to- the Spanisl Ministeflass
London s-rs ssT no war is al an ends H Carlos
has asked France for hospitality lie ines
formed General Poucet, Commanding Bay
onne, that he would enter France at 8
O'Clock thisaa anoralsgg by5 ash6s bridge of
!ATneRuk TsThpes thOusand Qarliats have
entered France at St, Jean Pied de- PORT
They are crossing the. frontier in hundreds
at 9AlaHides.s The French vim immediately
intern then1.eK XIII .nlg1 gair0se isa5
| A dispatche received at sRayOnne fsoasi
aAinhoa announces that Don Carlss entered
France this morning .t Arnegui."
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bWHAT One OF THE HoTHscHrLDs SAYs
oF MoNTANA.@-T Thes London Daily NsWSof
the 2Qth Of February contains thelrepoTtqof
an interview with Mr.. James, Rothschilds, j
recently on d visit to the United States.
He says:al"I visited nearly all Of the
Western Territories and only regret that
the elatenessa Of the season prevented my
visiting Montana ! am impressed with
the idea that..it is BY far the richest of the
Western Territories. ITS gold and silver
mines are ingxhaastibiea and id a few years
will furnish gold and silver for the world
/ It only lacks development to- beaeme the
most important progSssce in the West.
This, OF course, is only a question Of tifne.5'
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Plain Figures. cures

> We call attention to the following sta,
the States and Territories, named during
the last twenty-six years, or since the.
first discoveries of gold iii California IN