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st. Nicholas for 1877,

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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1876-08-18
SUNRISE IN THE ROCKY NOM
TATNS.

Low IN the West doth the white moon hoat,
The starr are Losing their mldnighl nre'
The night Is yielding O. days desire,
While dawn Il stealing irom realms remote,
Tinging the violet southern shy
Win palest pearl where the mountains Ne
mist wreAths up fsOm the canyon walls,
" mite and chill a. a touch OF irost,
Caught by the zephyrs, kissed anu tosse"'
TIL Ia melts IN distance. Hushi there ialls
Down from the hill tops. far and near,
A shower OF bird notes, fun and clear
Earth il awake. A squirrel leaps down,
Mountain quails fit in the underbrush,
and upOn me breeze Il borne the rash
Oi ire srrging stream, walled In by brown.
Men furr0wed ranges. Below the pines
The mountains are cleft with yellow mines.
The heavens are lushod with royal rose
TIMING the rugged scene below,
Lighting the duil brown rivers now
With their matchless glow. While daylight
grows
The colors vanish, the mists unfold,
And The hills are crowned with CLEAN o.
gold.
Colorado SPriags Ga-ettc.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1876-08-18
HARRY wINSOME, MIDSHIPMAN.
CHAPTER 7.

thAF1Ek l.
Harry Winsome wasn't q model mid
shipman like those you read of in nov
els. There was nothing very wonder
ful about him at all, in fact. On shore,
when he happened TO go TO party or
ball, he did not try TO dance all the
evening with the tallest and fairest for
partners; he did not bully the blue
Jackets and call them buffers when in
charge II boat and on board he new
er shirked his work or Judged" the
sums the naval instructor gave him TO
work, and he never went on the sick
list with the toothache, and he didn't
spend one-hah Of his time at the mast
head because be chose TO spend the 9TH
or hall in playing tricks on his superior
officers. But Il Harry had nothing very
brilliant about his eharacter-and briI-
liancy, mind you, is very dangerous
thing for a naval midshipman TO be
possessed of-he had something that
was far better he had that plodding
spirit SO characteristic Of the Saxon
race, that indomitable perseverance
which is inseparable from the true En-
glishman's nature; and so, from the
very moment Harry became a naval ca
Diet and fioaied away from shore, perch
ed upon his sea- chest, 10 join his ship,
although not enamored of his new pro-
fessicn, Harry meant TO go on with
it." No one likes the sea at first
there is 80 much to endure, so much TO
conquer; but these same hardships,
when overcome, naturally make US love
old ocean all the more.
When Harry and his sea-ehest were
bundled-rather unceremoniously, II
must be- allowed-On board the gun-boa'
Badger the frst thought that occurred
to him was that he had never seen such
confusion in his life; for, although the
vessel was under sailing ord rs, and il
less than twelve hours would be south
of the Needle, hardly any Of the stores
had ss yet zen struck down, and tn,
deck was perfect litter. Harry
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them straight To the Indian village
Sailors, perhaps, do not look very
sOldier-like on shore, but nevertheless
they can do their work, as witness the
Crimea. Here, however, an unexpect-
eel difficulty arose. The village was
surrounded by a high wooden palisade,
and as they were wondering how 10 get
over a pattering fire of musketry Wa,
opened on them and several men
dropped.
"Let us pitch each other overt here
goes, I'm first" cried Harry WiRsome.
Hurrah !" and in five minutes, read
err. there wasn't one man-Jack at the
wrong side of the palisade except poor
Dan Williams, who happened 10 he
last, and had nobody TO pitch him over.
and what do you think he did? WHY.
lay down and cried for veXatiOn.
The Somali Indians and Arabs made
a stout resistance, and for hours the
fight was hand To hand, from one burn.
ing house TO another.
Back again on board the Vengeance.
An awning is spread amidships, and
under il hangs many "A poor fellow In
his hammock, and among them Harry.
VINO was grievously wounded in the
late fray.
/ Steaming onward at full speed
/ through the Indian Ocean, Bombay was
reached al last.
/ When Harry was able 10 get about
I bit in a palanquin and was feeling As Il
/ he had got a new lease of life, one day
Captain Cameron came on shore with
a pacEef az letters
All Harry's letters We're papers bat
one-u was his commission as lieuten-
ant.
Harry Winsome had won his epau.
lets.
When Harry read it his eyes sparkled,
and the old pin cushion came back
again, and for moment he thought he
must make a fool Of himself; but he
didn't.
Harry is home again, and holding his
mother in his arms. Homci Oh, read
er, it is worth W lille going abroad for a
I few years if only TO know the meaning
Of that one word, Home.
81 tell YOU" said General Strath-
burn (Harry's uncle), "that, peace or
war. there is no better career in the
world for boy Of spirit than the brave
old English navy" Tho Gen RAJ is
right. Family Magazine.
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SPECIAL PROTIDENCEs.

TnE LEGEND OF THE GAS MAN.
There was wailing and woe in Burlngtown.
for every other day
The humid showers came tnmbling down
AS they had come TO stay.
There Was water enough IN the land to spare,
And men who were won't o pray,
w-hek they looked in the cellar each morn would
And wrsthtuny turn away.
All out on south I'm they pumped and pumped
But their every cf0rt the storm king uumped
And laughed ban IN his sleeve.
Til the Soath Hiii man ms spin. Was oloAe,
And he safe him down on his hall,
Though l pump till my back cries OUT he
my cellar still keeps its hr."
''NoE lithe and listen. coed pump Of mine,
II ever 4 touch thee more,
MAY never again the bright sun shine
AZ 10 shone In the days of yore.
Then & took his pump and he hung itup
Where u might not tauut his sight,
And he drowned his grief IN the poisonous cup
Which "moveth itseif Alright. v
And be vowed him that II the immortal gods
wocld hold up their rain tor a while,
He'd trild HIM a cellar ana take the odds
On Top II his domicie.
''oi a cellar in the ground.
Into the which. u you went for bread.
Nou were pretty cure 20 be drowned
81 nate the cellar: Oh winds OF the south
Inv rains. - hara a. 1 can,
1 wish could strike them both with "a drouth.
Exclaimed the south Hill man.
Tie lifted his eyes to the city read
A coming figure to scan,
And q Wild. fierce light IN hs optics gioWed
When trey fell on the hated gas man.
he carried his book and his railway lamp.
And wore a sinister frown;
And he scaght out the meter in cellars amp
And h. noted The figures down,
And shesher a man burned much OF small,
or how often tne gas man came,
Or whether they turned on the gas az al,
The meter just counted the same.
SO the nnsn Of south Hill, when be saw him come
Surprising that he had come TIL
Rough ignorance. said. la tones full glum.
'lOH cut on my gas last month
The ras man he winkeG. and exc as he wunk
lie shook his head knowing iee.
And A. though he something susplciously hunk
wen look at the meter, said he.
Then he opened the door Of the cellar 30 damp
And be stepped where the pump log had been
And be went ont Of sight, with his book and m
As nc Water he tumbled in
s'Oh, help" Loud he shriekel as HE DOddl
Hnbbulub6ululpi- shis noodle went down
While The man of south Hin on the cellar doc
sis,
Was me happiest man in the town,
splashi splash Blubbullupi in the cellar h
heard.
And be Rugged himself close in bis glec.
And whenever the gas man would ssuttera word
"Oh, catch hold Of the meter" cried he.
And he shut down the doors, and he locked thci
up tight,
And into the well threw the key,
And, Providence always and ever IL right.
Rams and cellars are useful. !" said be.
Huntington HdirkeBe.
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Old Sis Battle with HOppergrasses.

old ii came rushing into town yester-
day morning as fast as his limping gait
would allow.
"Hello, Uncle 81, / haszen't seed yer
in town Sence Chuseday!n said Pete.
.'An' yer won't see me hyar agin tell
mex Chuseday nudder, 'ceptin' dar's
flood or a fire out dar on my place 'rwiNt
dis and den!"
How cum DATE
"Kasc Is got two acres ob de live Hest
bizness out dar sence de war;"
TEL me al! bout il, ole manu-
"Ef yer less wants ter see sights,
Niger, less cum out dar and see dem
grass'oppersl Good fathers, deres
millions OBJ dem. An yer nebber seed
sech forrigin' an instrucshun Oh truck
i'm de feeds senCe de DAYS when dc Link
um army cum long hyarl"
I .'Is dat SOP" wondered the interested
I Pete
"Yas, sab; dey mus hab migrated
hyar from p'o neighborhoOd, too, fur
dey's de mos hongry hoppergrasses
dat YOU eber did see. Dey jess lights
down on your place like Niger onto o
watermelon an de mex ting yer knows
. 0tEt AIN I uullAn ltlA Nfif HAA = ftA-Nil
o'stubs and nubbin cobs."
"Jess lissen at dat, will yer!" ey-
claimed Pete to another gaping darkey.
"Dey come onto my place yistiday
mo'nin' less AZ waz gittin de COW up
for de milkin'. waz down dere IN de
rode and see de revanco gyard Oo
de long leg scamps settin on de fence
inspecktin' round onto a patch. Den
| climes Ober inter de field. an ! cut
ne down purity, stout bresh, an lay
down my ole straw hat an lit inter 'em
wild de bresh. De fust hex | his 'em
dey Jess hop up like dey wuz skeered,
but bress de good Master, dey only
Jump ober my old head inter de field.
Dat made me mad, an lit inter 'em
stronger dan eber. An what yer tink,
Niger? When, turn round ter see
whar dey all gwine, seed de whole
army cummin in trOO' de fence, climin
up de CON stalks and chompin' away
Jess fifteen to kill, an fore de angels.
dey'd done chawed up dat ole hat Oh
mine tell dere wuzn't huff obit Ter show
what kind OBJ straw dat il had bin made
outen.n
"Oom-hooh! amt dey badir
"Dey's reg lar awginized, wild ole red
coat ginruls at de he'd OBJ de line, an
Kernels wild vale stripes down dey legs,
an captings wd colors all slash'd up
an down de body an de good Master
, only knows how many oh de privits
dere is-dey Jess dar by de acre!"
"What yon gwine ter do bout it!''
"I'm 'gwine up hyar ter git sum
Paris greens ter put on dem, and Ell dal
don't kyore dem ob forrigin, yer needn !
speckt me at church Sunday kase dere
heaps of tings dat 'ligious niger kin
stand wi'dout backslidin', but desc fur-
rim grass'oppers amt 'monsgt EN- '-
atlanta Constitution.
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During n recent thunderstorm the
house of NJ. Il. V. Clifford, opposite
Corona, Col, was struck 10y lightning
and burned. There were present. m tne
house mt the time William II. Humphre,
and wife and a hired man named
Alonzo Woodson, all Of whom Wer,
either killed 10y the lightning or stunned
so as TO be unable To escape from tse
flames. When rescued, their bodies
were burned nearly toa crisp, and were
almost unrecognizable.
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A small California town sent DO"
pounds of honey TO market in the msn'H
of June.
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1876-03-03
PIOCHE. NEVADA. FRIDAY. MARCH 3. 1871
LEGAL.


CTATE OF NEVADA, COUNTY OF LIN
- coin. Phoebe Township. In Justices Court.
before o. T. Allen, Justice Of the Peace. In and
for the Township md County aforesaid.
The State Of Hsvads TO Pioche Wea Mining
Company and all owners Of. or clsimants, known
or unknown, to the following described prop
erfy. 70 wit Improvements in the town Of
piorhe. County of Lincoln. State Of Nevada, con-
sisting OF the building situated on the Piochs
West mine, IN said town. and Known as the
pioche West Hoisting Works. greeting
You are hereby summoned TO appear before
the UNDERMINED, Justice Of the Peace In and
for Phoebe Township, County Of Lincoln, on the
Tenth day Of February, 1879,
At ~ O'Clock m. TO answer unto the complaint
Of the state Of Nevada. which sues to recover
the sum Of forty-fcur lo-loo dollars, gold coin.
delinquent taxes on the before described prop
erty for the fiscal year 1873, together with per.
centage and costs - II provided by law. ~ fully
set forth in . complaint on file in my ofnce
And IL you fail to appear and answer, the plain.
tiff then and there will take Judgment against
you for the Aforesaid amount. together with al
costs subsequent to the assessment OF said taxs'
and of this action.
Given under my hsnd In the Township o
| January. A. d 1879 q. Z. ALLEN,
Justice Of the Peace of said Township
State of Nevada. County Of uncoln-In Jus
tees Court, Phoebe Township.
Tho State o. Nevada to the Sheriff Of sal
County: You are hereby required to make du
and legal service Of above summons and max
your returns thereon within the time prescribe
by statute.
| , q. z. ALLEN,
| SEAL. Justice of the Peace in and for Pioch
'~' Township.
Phoebe, New, January 9th. 1856.
Attest A true copy. A. FIFE, Sheriff.
By @. ". BrRDsALL. Deputy. jso.t
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1876-03-03
Summons.

CTATR of NEVADA, COUNTY OF LINCOLN.
y Phoebe Township. In Justices Court. BE-
fore o. Z. Allen, Justice Of the Peace In and for
the Township and County Aforesaid.
The State of Nevada, to Page and Panaca Min
ing Company, and all owners Of, or claimants,
known OF unknown, to the following described
property, to wit: improvements in the Town
Of Phoebe, County Of Lincoln, State Of Nevada.
consisting Of the building and machinery known
as the Page and Panaca Hosting Works, and SIT
mated on the Page and Pansca mine, in said
Town Of Pioche. greeting:
You are hereby summoned to appear before
the undersigned, Justics Of the Peace In and
for Phoebe Township, County Of Lincoln, on tho
Fifteenth day Of February, 1870,
At II O'Clock m, to answer unto the complaint
Of the State of Nevada which sues to recover
the sum Of two hundred and ten (2l0) dollars,
gold coin, delinquent taxes on the before de-
scribed property for the hscal year 1876 together
with percentage and costs a. is provided BY law,
as fully set forth in complaint ON dls In my
office. And II you fail to appear and answer. the
plaintih then and there will take judgment
against you for the aforesaid amount. together
with oil costs subsequent to tho assessment of
said taxes and of this action.
Given under my hand In the Township of
uary, 4. D. is7e. q. e. ALLEN,
Justice Of the Peace Of said Township
State Of Nevada, County Of Lineoln-In Jus
tice's Court. Phoebe Township.
Tho State Of Nevada to the Sheriff Of sale
County: You are hereby required to make dul
and legal service Of above summons and maxi
your returns thereon within the time prsscribst
Justice Of the Peace in and for Phoebe township
Pioche. New. January 9Th, 1876.
Attest A true copy. A. FIFE. Sheriff.
BY q. W. BmDsAtI, Deputy. 1al2.t