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The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1876-06-11

TIE San Francisco Stock Exchange
thus propounds md answers tho fol
lowing conundrum:
al WHY'S it that men generally aro
: given to lying, md TINT onco n man
engages in stocks that NIL his latent
lying propensities arc abnormally
developed? They lie mp and they lie
down with refreshing complnccncc
just az their Interests indicate. They
buy Jacket long, and tho mine is n
crystal palace OF wealth; they soil ii
short, and jacket isn't worth n last
years farthing, They buy Consoli-
dated Virginia today to sell to-mor-
row, and if they mako n loss, 1.-THE
Id mine is nearly played ont"
TSeJ sell Overman short, and Bob
Morrow nips them for $40 share,
and they think tho id thing
ought to DO investigated. Thoy buy
Niagara mt 81, and it goes down to
~ cents, and they always know it
was blk. TO get even thoy want
to corral tho management and collect
the assessment. Obi how these
stock mon arc given TO lying. They
lilo oyory why, hot, cold md luke
warn; on this side Of the fence and
on thnt-nll to turn mn honest dollar
with which to pay commissions to
brokers. There will como millen-
ium in tho stock market after n while +:
when nil tho impccunious operators
will strike it right and wax rs rich rs
Billy O'Bricn or jim Ieono; when
oil will hold trump bonanza cards,
EXAGGERATED notions are current
about hnrems Rud harem receptions, no
tons born partly OF the scclusion Of the
female portion OF tho household in tho
East. Of course, tho majority Of tho
harcns In Egypt nrG simply tho apart
mont OF one wife mud her children. Tho
Indy who ont0rs ono Of them pays nh
ostliIiury call and finds no mystery
whatever. II there il more than ono
wife, privileged visitor, ablo 10 con-
rcrao with tho inmates, might find some
skeletons behind the screened windows.
1t Is also TRUE That foreign lady may
eDter ono Of tho royal harems and DO
received with scarcely moro ceremony
than would attend EN- ordinary call ut
homo. Tho receptions, 81 which there
Is great display, ut which crowds OF
beautiful or ngly slaves limo the apart
menls, at which thorO Ia music ami
dancing by almclis, IN endless service
OF sweets aud pipes and coffee, and n
dozen changes Of dross by tho hostess
during tho ceremony, are not frequent
mud aro for some special occasion, tho
celebration Of q marriage or tho enter
tnininent Of visitor Of high rank. Ono
who expects upon n royal invitation to
tho harcm TO wander into the populous
dove-eoto OF tho Khcdivc, where lat
guisl tho beauties Of Asia, tho sisters
from tho Gardens OF Gul, pining for
now robe Of tho mode from Paris, will
DO most oruclly disappointed. - @arics
DadIty Warner.
TnE spaidlng CotTt-ihnrliol has
mado up its findings In tho caso and
transmitted them to Washington. They
will not 10 mndo public until ihuy shall
have boon pissed upon by tho Secretary
OF tho Navy. Tho mcmbor8 Of the
Court have returned 10 Vallejo.
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1876-06-11

Give VS. rali and lc convinced that NE lnicud
TO sell S0OtlS lower than any house IN town.
Respectfully Yours,
Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-04-29

MORE AMERICANs.-The latest phase
of the testimony being taken before the
Chinese commission is that John in
tends to declare his intentions and be-
come full fledged bird of freedom. So
at least says Mr.. Hung Chung, the
President of one of the Chinese compa-
nies. As John can swallow an oath as
easy as he can bowl Of rice, we do not
doubt but every heather in the State
would hasten to declare himself at
tached to the principles "of the consti-
tuition and Government" even while un-
der contract to have his bones taken
back to China, if he has the slightest
idea that he will derive three cents worth
of benefit therctrom. But the idea Of
hanging the @gs of liberty over Celestial
shoulders will not meet with general
appreciation Mt the hands of those who
are already enjoying its blessings. Mr..
Hung Chung and bis rice-eating country
men are very much out of their reckon
ing if they believe that the expression
of a desire to become endowed with cit
iaenship is calculated to advance their
case with other citizens. People gen
orally think that the enfranchisement of
Chinese would be burlesque on the
right of suffrage, and people are right in
thinking so. Still, there can be no
doubt but with those who do not under
stand Chinese character the proposed
NEW departure of the ceestials will
be viewed with favor.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-04-29

INNOCENT RUsTICs.-The innocence
and childlike simplicity Of some rural
denizens is shown by the story of Gran
ger, described in an Anoka, Minnesota
paper, as follows AS William Mogle,
OF this city, was on his way to Minneap-
oils last Friday, he overlook man from
Hennepin County with load Of hay, on
which were two large-sized women.-
A short distance this side of Minneapolis
the hay man stopped his team, and Mr..
Mogle moved on and passed him, and on
looking back the women were no longer
visible. The two teams entered Mime
apois about the same time, the load of
hay was driven at once on the scales and
weighed, and as the driver had turned a
corner the women emerged from their
retreat. Somebody paid for these women
at the rate of $40 per ton."
Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-04-29

THE COMING MAN.-Blaine is credited
with having said the only man he dreaded
in the Presidential nomination was the
Great Unknown" Blaine is right, if
we are to judge by the force of the prece-
dent. 1t is a singular feature of our poll
tics that the most eminent statesmen we
have do not attain the highest honor the
Republic can give. Clay, Webster,
C!ittenden and others of the brilliant gal
axy OF Wing statesman who once thrilled
the heart of a nation with their words of
eoquence, failed to reach the highest dig
nifty though their names were ever before
the people in that connection. In the
Democratic party the same state of affairs
obtained. Van Bnren was the (avorite
of his party in 1914, and went into Con-
vention with clear majority in his favor.
The two-thirds rule was sprung on him
and after number Of ballots, an almost
unknown and hitherto unnamed man was
brought forward, the several interests
centered on him, and j. X. Polk was
nominated almost unanimously. OF the
train OF circumstances which placed him
in the Presidential chair, beating the
peoples favorte, " Harry of the West,v
the public are well informed. Four years
later another unknown" became the ia
volite Of fortune, the Mexican War
bringing Taylor into unlocked for promi-
nence, and Webster the greatest intellect
of his day was forced to give up the cher
ished dream of n lifetime to another mill
tary hero. This time the Democrats Sc
lected one of their abest men, Lewis Cass,
but he only shared the fate which CLAW
had met four years before. In 1852,
Pierce received the Democratic nomina-
tion when he had not been even talked of
until a number OF ballots were taken.
lie had sweeping victory over an oppo-
nent whose fame was national. Blaine
is right. 1t is no easy matter to cast
political horoscope. So far he seems to
be the choice OF his party, but the policy
of expediercy may rule the hour and
he be sacrificed to quiet the jealousies
which always arise between the friends of
prominent candidates,
Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-04-29

AN INDIAN MAssACRE.-Thel late re-
ports from the Black Hills region betoken
a state of affairs there which will soon
cause the downfall Of the Indian domin-
ion that coveted part of the country. a
family of emigrants were captured and
massacred, women and children falling
under the tomahawk like the early set
tiers of the West. That this will lnaug-
urate a general Indian war, in which the
red men will go to the wall, the expert
ence of the past forbids us to doubt
Government was in duty bound to pre-
serve the Black Hill from the encroach-
ment of the whites, but the Indians, by
making war upon women and children
have forfeited their claims for sympathy
and though they may delay the acqulsl-
ton of the country for time and destroy
many lives, yet will find that might
makes right and will lose what they might
otherwise have retained.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-04-29

SINGULAR CAsE.-Louis G.. Cabanis,
of Los Angeles, has been granted pen
sion by the Government. During the
war he was stationed at Fort Walla
Walla as Regimental Quartermaster, and
while travelling on business was thrown
from buggy, landing on his head, which
produced conclusion of the brain. He
was insensibe for two months, and on
partial recovery of consciousness, he was
asked to sign the regmental report, when
to his dismay he found that he had for
gotten his own name. Not wishing to
expose his condition, he asked for the
postponement of the report for a few
hours, awled to his camp-chest and
found from the papers what his name
was, and signed the report. The Express
says Mr.. Cabanis had been master Of
four or five languages, which he has for
gotten in consequence of his injuries
Oakland Transcript.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-04-29

BUYING VOTEs.-The Democrats are
proving that New Hampshire was carri-
ed by the use of money. Voters were
purchased like cattle in .he market, by
hundreds and thousands. The State
Central Committee of the Republican
party had the distribution of the funds.
AS to where so great an amount of mon
ey came from has not yet been ascertain
ed. The Democrats have unearthed and
published letters from the Republican
headquarters, instructing their workers
to carry towns by the use of money. At
one place, a small country town, the
chief worker was informed that $4,000
was forwarded to him, and that he would
be allowed to use $1,000 more at his dis
cretion. Names, dates and details of the
facts are given with such exactitude, that
there can be no doubt that money, and
not Radcalism, carried the State.
We find the above in nearly every
Democrat paper we pick up and finally
clipped it from the Yreka Union. The
inference to be drawn from it is that New
Hampshire is Democratic State and
would have gone for that party in the re-
cent election but for the seductive power
Of money. If thousands" of Democrat
ic votes can be bought in the little one
horse puritan State Of New Hamps hire,
there must be a wide field for that kind
of an operation in other States. Those
New Hampshire Democrats must be an
impecunous lot, or else their devotion to
principle is measured by dollars and
cents.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-04-29
WE are threatened with another walk

WE are threatened with another walk
ing match. O'Leary, who recently COM
pleted five hundred mile walk in less
than 14O hours, has been challenged to
walk five hundred miles with a Chicago
man named Schmel, who has just accom-
plished similar feat in that city. The
challenge has been accepted and the con-
testants will walk for 81, 600 side some
time next month in San Francisco.
These walking matches may be of inter-
est as showing the power of endurance
Of which the human frame is capable,
but we fail to see any useful purpose
which they serve.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-04-29

DRUNK WITH MADNEss.-The pres :
ent House of Representatives are evil
IDENTIFY drunk with the madness that de-
stroys intoxicated with the hope Of
power, they precipitatc themselves reck-
lessly into every cesspool, and eagerly
snatch at any suggestion of nastiness
that promises the smallest amount of
political capital. Their chief hobby for
the moment is retrenchment, and their
principal method is reduction Of salaries.
Their design is always and nothing but
political power. They entered on the
work Of the session with fixed purpose
to obstruct and, investigate" hoping
thereby to increase existing evils, and
amid the alarm and wreck thus brought
to ride into power. Instead Of landing
in the saddle they have vaulted over to
the other side. They have overdone the
matter, and the reaction has already set
in. A Democratic member from this
city said just before leaving for the Cap
ital that this was the programme: That
no distinct measure of relief would be
attempted, that this session would be
devoted to investigation, and they have
faithfully adhered to this course. Moth
ing has been done but to stir up ill-sa-
vors, and nothing has been done to re-
lieve the country from the prevailing
uncertainty and arrangement Of business,
but whatever has lain in their power to
augment the troubles has been done.-
This Congress might have merited the
gratitude and support Of the people. -
1t has earned and deserves execration.-
NelO York Matt.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-04-29

No PRECEDENT.-A petition was pre-
sented to the House Of Representative 8
recently which is certainly original in
character. A Mrs. Matilda King re-
ceived a pension on account of the death
of her husband, Major King, until the
18th day of January, 1866. when she
married John G. Caldwell. This mar
riage proving an unhappy one, she asks
to be restored to the pension-roll having
obtained a divorce from her last men
toned husband. The petition was re-
ferred to the Pension Committee, and
after giving it such attention ns it merit
ed, the following terse report has been
made: " Your committee know no pre-
cedent for such restoration, and think it
unwise to establish one, hence they re-
port " dversely to the passage of the bill."
Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-04-29

The BLACK HILLs.-The daily reports
from this first class humbug confirm our
first impression. Every day parties re.
turn with the old story of these exc te
ments. But little gold, if any, is found,
and provisions etc. are at enormous fig
ures. and there are as many people re-
turning broke" as there are going
These excitements are merely got up and
kept up for the benefit of traders and
lines of travel, and those who rush to
them find it out af;er they We spent
tn .r all getting there.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-04-29

a MERCHANT of jackson, Tenn, a ke1
two men to keep store for him while he
went out for moment. Toy did So,
and sold each other large lot of goods,
Oh ap, for credit. When he returned and
WI informed of what they had done he
was anxiols to pass it off as a joke, but
they insist that they were his agents,
hence that the transaction was legal
one, and the Courts will have to pass up
on the question.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-04-29

THE CENTENNIAL ExHIBITIoN.-.
From the accounts which we gather in
reference to the Exhibition which will
open next month at Philadelphia, it
would seem that we are to have the
greatest display of the products of hu-
man industry that the world has ever
seen. More than eleven thousand Amer
leans and five thousand foreigners will
take part and there will be but few pro
ducts of civilized or semi civilized climes
but will have their place in the list.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-04-29

The clean up of the Black Bear Mine,
we are informed, was nearly equal, if not
quite, to the largest ever made at the
mine, being $4,000 and some odd hun
dred dollars. This is only specman
OF what this county can do in the way of
quartz. There are numbers of edges in
this county that would pay equally as
well If capital would only open them up.
- Yreka Union.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-04-29

HIGHwAYMEN.-It is found by the
State Prison record that twenty one OF
the highwaymen arrested last year are
old convicts, having served previously
one or more terms in the Penitentary.
From this we deduce that ifthose twenty
one, when first convicted, had been given
longer sentences, there would have been
only seven arrests during the year for
highway robbery.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-04-29

THERE is six-year-old boy on the
Heights who knows all the Psalms by
heart, but when he crawls up on his
fathers knees, and says to him Come
now, pa, tell me all about this good man
David" the old man drops him, and
skips out the room as lively as if he had
been subpGnaed to testify in scandal
.-BroOkiyn AYgus.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-04-29

A CASE that puzzled London mag
lstrate was that of woman who had
assaiIed her husband with an axe. If he
sent her TO prison, the husband would
have to hire somebody else to care for
her children while she was incarcerated.
If he fined her the husband would have
to pay the sum. If he put her under
bonds to keep the peace, the husband
would be responsible. She was discharged
with an admonition.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-04-29

AN impecunious but ingenious tramp
has left the coored population of George
town, Texas, poor in pocket and sore in
body, initiating them at 81 90 head in
to "lodge Of Free Masons." The prin-
ciple part of tho ceremony, next to pay
ing the fee consisted of the tying the can
didate ON table and branding him with
a hot poker.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-04-29

The State Convention met according to
programme on Wednesday, and was call
ed to order by Alex G. Abel, Chairman
OF the State Central Committee. w. c..
Norton, of Placer, a leading independent
was elected chairman of the Convention
Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-04-29

The coinage of trade dollars will be
stopped for the present at either the San
francisco or Carson mint. Let tho
scare about them get over a little and
the same brokers who are buying them at
nlnty cents will refuse to sell except at a
premium.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-04-29

SAYS the Vallejo Chronicle: "The
iive-hundrcd-dollar donation to the Cen
tennal fund by the San Francisco Chi
nese, with their reference to the neglect
OF the late Legislature to make anv an
preparation for the object, is one of the
neateSt sarcasms of the day."
Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-04-29

WOMEN vote for school officers in Min
nesota under the new law. At the "a
cent election in Minneapolis, about 25O
OF the fair sex ''sufraged" and the stern
er sex manifested its delight at the situa-
ton by decorating the ballot boxes with
flowers.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-04-29

THE champion mean thief is somebody
a. Fresno, who recently removed the
b cLts from biicl; vault built over the
grave of child of A. j. Thorn, ard
hauled them away.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-04-29

WHILE the CT lifornia Legi, laturs
took a step backwards, the California
Medical Society has taken one forward
At It's recent session it was dete mined
that lady graduates should be admit d
to mt mbersh p. Good for the medicos.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-04-29

A STATUTE of Lincoln was unveiled in
Washington recently. President Grant
and Frederick Douglas ofliciated. The
cost Of the statute was betrayed by color
Cd people.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-04-29

THE Calavelas Chronicle thinks that
if this county can't afford to pay its
President $4,000 year, the office should
be put up at auction and sold to the low
est bidder. Them's our sentiments.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-04-29

AFTER arresting old man Bender
times innumera5le and in every part of
the Union the newspapers have "let upu
on the old man and gone after the old
woman and daughter. These two have
been arrested at Laramie, Wyoming.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-04-29

A JERsEYMAN married five wives, and
they were all red-headed. He explains
it by relating that the first one cuwed
the spirit out of him so completely that
he didn't care after that if he married
porcupne."
Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-04-29

AN INDIANA preacher said he wouldn't
preach until the Sunday morning collec-
tions amount to at least eighty cents, and
he is having long rest and his coagre-
cation are saving money.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-04-29

Miss SHELTON Of Marshallton, Iowa,
could not get damages of her ie.reant
lover in breach of promise suit, but she
could and did throw red pepper in his
eyes as he was going out of the court
room.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-04-29
Weaverville, April 20, 1876.
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ITY JOURNAL" Weaveryille, Cal.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-04-29

y LETTER for Joseph Kzmgietski is
awaiting its owner in the Danville pa
postoflice. The postmaster and his family
are meantime all going around with their
jaws done up in slings.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-04-29

WHEN Modoc doctor loses patient,
the tribe takes him aside and kills him.
Why was not this fact suggested to the
last Legislature when worrying ever that
long wiaded enactment for the suppress
sion of quackory VaHejo Chronicle.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-04-29

A DAsHING young widow writes to a
lady friend "Cailornia is splendid
place to marry in, because husbands
never live long.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-04-29

SOME people regard it as singular,
that a man "who never played cards in
his lie, because it's wicked" will exact
fifteen per cent. interest from widow.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-04-29

THE spirit of chivalry is reviving. A
man in Onondaga, New York, has just
been mulcted in $4,000 damages for call
ing lady " a withered old maid"
Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-04-29

THE Chinese Senatorial Commission
will resume its labors next Tue. day, at
the State Capitol.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-04-29

A FRENCHMAN uamed Dostiilo, while
breaking up ice in the river at st. Paul,
Minnesota, was blown to atoms by a
premature explosion of dynamite.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-04-29

A NEWSPAPER warmed and placed in
side the waistcoat will keep out the cold
far better than large quantity of cloth
ing Now is the time to subscribe.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-04-29

A CH1NAMAN at Oreana, being unable
to collect a debt Of $50 from another
Celestial, seized the debtor and cut off
one of his ears.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-04-29

JOHN SMITH comes to the surface
again. This time he has his cabin rob-
bed at Butte Mountain. We didn't
know John had gone there.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-04-29

The Spring stage robberies have COM
menced. Operations began on the line
between Laporte and Oroyille.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-04-29

In French play the plot shows that
the late American rebellion was caused
by President Lincoln's imposing a tax
on absinthe.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-04-29

STATE SENATOR TINNIN of Trinity is
spoken Of as a candidate for Congress-
man from this district.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-04-29

A WHALE 73 feet long washed ashore
at the mouth Of Ventura river, the other
day, bearing in its sides three large har-
pOOns.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-04-29

The arrival of Mr.. D'Alcantara is an
nounced at San Francisco. He is some
times known by the name of Dom Pedro.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-04-29

JoHN TYLER, a son of the President
Of that name, proposes to run for Cover
nor of Florida upon an independent tick
ct
Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-04-29

TWENTY-FIVE children in the Orphans
Home at Vallejo have been attacked
with the diptheria.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-04-29

THE Democrat State Convention, to
send delegates TO st. Louis will meet in
San Francisco on the 24th of May.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-04-29

THE admirers Of Thomas Payne in
Boston are Gesirous of having his bones
brought to Philadelphia and placed in
the Exposition.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-04-29

CHICAGO, ever fertile in novelties, has
a new name for the barkeeper. He is
now know as the cocktail architect"
Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-04-29

A ST. JosEPH (Mo.) girl lately refused
a wealthy sutor because he ate beans
with a knife.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-04-29

THE late Philadelphia census shows
10000 more females than males.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-04-29
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