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The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-12-14

SENATOR MORTON believes he has
has discovered in New Jersey case to
Offset the Tilden vote in Oregon.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-12-14

The Grand Central Hotel, New York,
is the only leading tirst-class hotel that
has come down to "hard pan" rates,
VIZ: reduced from "a 10 ~ 50 and 50 per
a.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-12-14

THE revival Of the fast mail trains
will aid in the revival OF business.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-10-19
Grasshoppers in Texas.

Grasshoppers are rather novelty in
Texas, and if you were to tell Texan,
anywise familiar with railroads, that
grasshoppers could stop train, he
would laugh at the idea and think you
were ''poking fun at him." For all this,
the Rrasshoppers are stopping trains
right here in Texas. Sunday night, when
Mayor Lord and Alderman MCGOWAN
were going to Austin, just beyond Gid
T nger ra that It took b SO en to hours @1
to make six miles. In places they were
two feet thick on the track. The wheels
running over them mashed them so that
the track became SO slippery the wheels
revolved without going ahead. The
stencil from the massacred insects was
so great and overpowering that the win
dows of the cars had to be closed
Waco (TeG. Examiner.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-10-19
Has Man Been SO Very Long on the
Earth.

There has been tendency among men
of science to pass from profession ESQ
few years ago) of total ignorance as to
the mode of origin of all living things,
to claim to almost complete knowledge
of the whole progress of the universe,
from the first speck of living protOplasm
up to the highest development OF the
human intellect. Yet this is really what
Formerly difficulties we're exaggerated,
and it was asserted that we had not sntfi-
cient knowledge to venture on any gen
Civilizations on the subject. Now diff
culties are set aside, and it is held that
our theories are so well established and
so farreaching, that they explain and
comprehend all nature, and at the pres
ent day it seems to me that facts which
oppose popular views hardly receive due
consideration. It is q curious circum-
stance, that notwithstan ding the atten-
ton that has been directed to the sub
iect in every part of the world, and the
numerous excavations connected with
railways and mines which have offered
such facilities for geological discovery,
no advance whatever has been made for
q considerable number of years, In de-
tecting the time or the mode of mans
origin. The Palwolithic flint weapons
first discovered in the North of France
more than thirty years ago are still the
Oldest undisputed proofs of mans ex-
istence and amid the countless relics of
a former world that have been brought
to light no evidence of any one of the
links that must have connected man with
the lower animals has yet appeared. The
conclusion which think we must arrive
at is, that if man has been developed
from a common ancestor, with all exist
ing apes, and by no other agencies than
such as have affected their development,
then he must have existed in something
approaching his present form during the
tertiary period, and not merely existed,
but predominated In numbers wherever
suitable conditions prevailed. In that
case it will be fair argumenf, that, just
as he is in his mental and moral nature,
his capacities and aspirations, so infn-
itely raised above the brutes, 20 his or
isin is due to distinct and higher agen-
cIes than such as have affected their
development.-A. R. Wallace at the
British Association.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-10-19

A cable dispatch from Paris, dated
Oct 10, says: s'This afternoon depu-
tation of twenty Polish gentlemen de-
livered to United States Minister
Washburne, at the American Legation,
for transmission to President Grant, a
special address and medal. The
medal ON one side bears an efigy OF
Washington, and on the reverse eff
gies of Kosiusko and Pulaski. On
handing the medal to Mr.. Washburne,
Charles Edmond, Pole and Librarian
of the French Senate, said: In the
name of the Polish emigrants, l deliver
to your hands an address to the Presi-
dent of the United States, written on the
occasion of the glorious centenary which
the Americans are commemorating, and
also medal representing the founder Of
American independence, and two Polish
heroes who fought In the liberating
army Mr.. WaShbMrne made a cordial
reply, and said, pending President
Grants answer, he felt authorized to as
sure the deputation that he would be
deeply touched by the honor they did
him. Mr.. Washburne also thanked the
deputation on his ewn behalf, and said
he shared their hopes for the establish
ment of liberty throughout the world.
Several Americans we've present, and the
proceedings were most cordial"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-10-19
A ROMANTIC STORY.

How Young American Determined to
Obtain a Great Mechanical Secret.
Forty years ago there lived in Provi-
dence, within a stones throw from where
Grace Church now stands, q young
man of great intelligence and wonderful
mechanical ability, who spent little
fortune in the valid attempt at making
perfect representation of Russia iron,
and after as many failures as attempts in
this undertaking, he became utterly
ruined, financially. His ambition for
the secret increased as his fortune grew
smaller and smaller, and when absolute
want stared him in the face he became
possessed with the determination to &C
cept of the only means of obtaining one
of the greatest secrets in mechanical art,
and to gain this he must suffer penal
servitude in the dungeons of Russia.
The rulers of Russia are the only pos
SCISSORS of the art of making what is
known as glazed Russia iron, used ex-
tensively for oil kinds of stoves and
stovepipe work, and which has for
nearly century been made within the
walls of Russia's underground prisons.
None but life convicts were allowed to
be initiated into the secrets of manu-
facture of one of the principal means of
income to the Russian Government, and
when once within its walls no one need
ever hope for pardon, for none has ever
been granted while bat one has ever
been known 80 have escaped, and when
the door IL once shut to the outside
world it il never known what has been
the fate OF the unfortunate. This, then,
was the Providence mans last resort for
gaining possession Of the secret which
had become his only ambition. He left
his home for Europe, and the simple
rumor OF the attempted assassination of
the Gar by an American, supposed to
be insane, was all that was ever known
to his friends of what became of the am
bilious mechanic, and as nearly half a
century has ratified on since he set out
upon his perilous undertaking, hardly
person living will remember the circum-
stance which is here recorded. There is
one person, however, in Providence,
who remembers we'll the day the hero of
our sketch bade her fearful farewell,
promising that before she reached her
twentieth birthday he would return to
her and fulfill his promise. All through
these long years she had never forgotten
her promise to wait for her lover, nor
ceased to believe he would yet come for
her. She now lives within moments
walk of the chimes of Grace Church, and
is still we'll preserved, and her grace and
beauty make her far more attractive than
many whose years are the same as were
hers when her lover separated from her
SO long ago. Last week she received
the glad tidings from far away over the
water that he VINO had so long kept her
patiently waiting was on his way TO full
fill his promise of forty years ago, and
let us hope he may bring the secret he
paid for SO dearly, and that he may live
to see some reward for his great sacri-
flee. -PrOUidence Press.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-10-19
A Rare Circumstance.

At Sufern, Rockland county, N. T., q
few days ago, there was q golden we'd
ding in circumstances which will not
repeat themselves very soon. James
Suffern and Miss Maria Winter we're
married on the 9th of September, 1926,
the Rev. Jefferson Wynkoop, pastor of
the parish of Suffern, performing the
ceremony. On Saturday, the 9th of
September, 1875, the aged couple were
reunited in marriage by the same clergy
man, who now lives at Cuba, Allegheny
county. The bridesmaid and the grooms-
man at the first wedding again oficiated.
The united ages of this remarkable we'd
ding party exceeded 400 years, and all
are still In excellent health.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-10-19
A Love Story.

Married next week, hear, eh 2" re-
marked friend, slapping good young
man of Burlington IN congratulatory
on the shoulder. Rich girl up from
Davenport, I hear9" We'll, no." said
the young man, sitting a little sigh,
.sthings was all arranged, but I've kind
O. had to put the wedding off a little
while, like it might be" 'What's
wrong 2" asked the friend in sympathetic
tones. "Old folks down on the
match 2" "Weu, not exactly ye see
she has no parents, and she's her own
boss like, but" Girl didn't throw
YOU, did she Didn't go back on you9"
swell" said the young man, hesitat-
ingly, "n-no, not exactly. Ye see,
two of her husbands kind of happened
to find her and come in on her together,
sort of unexpected like, and I've just
sort of thought we'd kind of put it off
like it might be-" And the subject of
conversation was delicately changed
like.-Burl5ngton HaaOE-Eye.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-10-19
THE BEAD LARK.
BIZ TOM G. La NOBLE.

Alas THIS morn thou oidst not shake the dew
from on thine airy form. Why knowest death :?
why should have fled thine Away tuneful breath ?
Snil to be dumb? or sounding yet anew?
some Migrants cruel hand hath laid thee low
And olood-bedrabbled thine unheaving breast!
80, nevermore, thou1t have thy lova-made nest,
But tnis TOO sordld spot of earth must know!
Adding my tribute unto Natures need.
TO thy still eloquent though We celess CLAY,
AT thine own time, with duly reverent heed.
Interring thee at this sad break of day.
Ills meet to think of souls from earth thus freed
In heaven to ever richest harp-strings play
SHABBoNA GROVE, Ill.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-10-19
About Drinking.

When it can be said of young man
'he drinks" and it can be proven, what
store wants him for a clerlcG What
church wants him for memberG Who
will trust himG What dying man will
appoint him as his executors He may
have been forty years building his rep
utation-it goes down. Letters OF rec
ommendation, the backing OF business
firms, brilliant ancestry, cannot save
him. The world SHES off. Why's 1t
is whispered all through the community,
"He drinks he drinks!" That blasts
him. When young man loses his
reputation for sobriety, he might as well
be at the bottom of the sea. There are
young men who have their good names
as their only capital.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-10-19
Wild Peaches.

The editor of the WaItGp1S Enter
prise, published at Mineral Park, All
iona Territory, has been presented with
box of wild peaches, and says OF
them "These peaches, though wild,
are equal in flavor to any we have ever
eaten, and some of them measured as
much as nine inches in circumference.
The trees upon which they grew were
discovered some twelve or thirteen
years ago by the first whites in this sec
ton of the country, and at the time of
the discovery the main tree looked to
be as old as it does to-day. The fruit,
in appearance, resembles the finest Jer-
sew peaches"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-10-19

sipated man. Lord Delaware destroyed
himself in fit of love-melancholy, but
Lord Walsingham's self destruction re-
mains one of the most mysterious of its
kind. Within a month after the Prince
of Wales had paid him a visit at his seat
in Norfolk. Lord Walsinghhm, without
any known reason for the act, destroyed
himself
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-10-19
Suicidal Lords.

Three members of the English House
of Lords within the last six years have
committed suicide, Lord Walsingham,
Lord Delaware, and more lately Lord
Ribblesdale. The last, Lord Russell's
son-in-law, aged AZ, was known as dis
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-10-19

CONRAD DEARING Dragged, while
drunk in Columbus, O., that twelve
years ago he killed negro. When he
got sober, he found himself in Jail, with
the chances in favor of his being hanged.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-10-19
an ENGLISH RIDDLE.


Come and commiserate
One VITO was blind,
Helpless and desoiate,
Void of mind.
Though Unbelieving,
Free from all sin.
BY mortals adored,
Still ignored
The world was in.
King Ptolemy, CBsar's
And Piglath Pileser's
Birthdays were shown;
Wise men, astrologers,
All are acknowledges,
Mine is unknown.
meier had father
Or mother; or, rather,
If I had either,
By lineage or merit,
A spot on the earth.
Nursed among pagans,
No one baptized me;
A sponsor I had, who
Will ne'sr catechlse me.
She gave me name to her
Heart that was dearest;
She gave me the place to her
Bosom was nearest;
But one look of kindness
She cast on me never.
Not word on my blindness
heard from her ever.
Oompassed by dangers,
By foemen and strangers,
Nothing could harm me,
Naught could alarm me.
saved, / destroyed,
Yet [ never enjoyed;
Kept crown for prince.
But had none of my own;
Filled the place Of a king,
But ne'er sat on throne;
Preserved warrioA
Baf1ed plot;
Was what seemed not,
Seemed what was not;
Destined to slaughter,
A price on nay head.
A kings lovely daughter
Watched by my bed;
Though gently she dressed me,
Painting with fear,
She never caressed me,
Nor wiped off tear;
Never mOistened my lips,
Though parchIng ana dryi
Cared not Ishould live,
Feared not should die.
Twas royalty nursed me,
Wretched and poor;
Twas royalty cursed me
In secret, I'm sure.
live not, die not,
But tell you must,
That ages have passed
Since I first turned to dust.
This paradox: whence
This squalor this splendor?
Say. was thing,
Or a silly pretender?
Fathom the mystery,
Deep in my history,
Was / q mani
An angel imperial2
A demon Internal?
Tell it who can!
Transcript.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-05-30

CoCRT-HousE IN STOREY yesterday
the County Commissioners of Storey
opened the bids for the building Of q
new Courthouse and ten prisou-cells.
Peter Burke was awarded the contract
for the building of the Courthouse, the
front to be OF Philadelphia pressed brick,
for the sum of S66, 9So. So. John +.
Simms of San Francisco put in the low
est bid for the building of the ten cells.
namely, $7,O6S. According to this the
grand total cost Of the building will be
SIS, $3.50.
ARRESTED AND GAVE BAIL.-Yes.erday
the United States Grand Jury brough: in
q bill of indictment against Adolphus
Waltz, Land Register, for e1tortion in
Office, in that he was guilty of an over
charge Of fees. A warrant was thersupon
issued for the arrest of Mr.. Waltz, who
responded by giving bail in tho sum OF
81, 900 for his appearance at the trial OF
his case.
LATE MA1L.-The lightning mail train
didn't have SO much lightning about 1t
on Sunday, for it didn't reach here until
SPIN. The detention was owing to the
fact that a freight train ran off the track
below the Summit and the express was
obliged to wait until the debris could be
removed. A couple Of cars were smashed
up, but no further damage was done.
The Rev. George g. Allen returned
yesterday from a trip to the southern
part of the State. He lectured on the
I" School Question at Columbus, Belle
vile, Aurora and Genoa. We are in
formed that he mad full houses in all of
these places.
ANTI-CooLIE mass meeting at the
Theater tonight.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-05-30
HOTEL ARRIVALS.
Report Of the 4. s. Grand Jury.

The United States Grand Jury yester-
day concluded their labo,s and made the
following report:
To the Hon. E. W. Hillyer. United
States D;siric. Ju5Se for the District 0.
Nevada:
We, the Grand Ju.y, report as follows:
That we have examined iuto ali business
brought before US. and have found one
true bill of indictment Tor violating the
United States Postal laws, and one true
bill of indictment for extortion in office
in the illegal obtaining Of money while
acting a. United States Land Office Re-
gister.
We shave also examined into the charges
made by one II. ]. Norton against the
Carson City Mint and find the following
facts: That Mr.. Norton was subpenasd
on or about the 23d inst. to appear be-
fore the Grand Jury on the 29th day OF
May and that he is in contempt OF such
order. not appearing before us. We have
examined ali other witnesses whom We
hvve supposed to have knowledge of the
facts and believe that no offence against
the law has been committed.
We recommend that the defaulting
witness. n. J. Norton, be punished for
contsmpt in not obsyiDg the writ OF sub
peaa.
C. c. BATTERMAN. Foreman.
Carson City, May 20. 1876.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-05-30
MEMORIAL DAY.

To-day the surviving soldiers OF the
late War Of the Rebellion, and citizens
generally. will assemble to do all they
can do in honor of our ii!us:rious
dead, whose memories have been rem
dered sacred by having taken up arms
in the service OF their country. The
custom Of decoration Of the graves OF
soldiers was Instituted by members OF
the Grand Army of the Republic,
who each succeeding year place upon
the graves of their fallen comrades
fragrant flowers. A beautiful and ap-
propriate custom. Flowers are the
emblems of love and purity the en-
bodimens Of beauty and their lives,
their brightness and freshness remind
US Of those whose memory We would
to day honor. And though on the
morrow, like our briet lives, they may
fade and wither, yet year by year as
they spring up from their wintry
graves, fresh and beautiful, they re-
call to our minds all the privations
and suffering those brave men en-
dured who in the hour of sore trial
and need went out 10 fight the battles
of their country. And to-day when we
look back and consider how they left
their families-wives. mothers, sisters
all the sweetness and peace of quiet
homes and pleasant firesides, to fol-
low the dear Old flag through all the
perils and privatiOns Of war on TO the
great mystery of death, does it not
seem most fit that we should give one
day each year TO commemorate their
services and mourn their early death.
And we think their memories will
grow more precious as time rolls on.
The gratitude of the nations tears will
keep forever green their graves, for
they are the property of the nation.
Is there not something peculiarly
gratifying in the thought that to-day
in nearly every ham:e. and city IN
our country others will strew with
gentle hands flowers over the graves
of those who gave their modest yet
brave lives that the nation might live.
And those who are members of the
Grand Army Of the Republic should
to day thank God that the ties Of
formed in the bivOuac |
and on the battle field have not been
and cannot he broken, until we be- |
come as they who have gone before |
us to make up a pa # that Grand |
Army Of immortais whose columns |
are filled by the spirits of our dead
comrades. The Army boys, better |
than all others, know the trials and |
suffering by which and through which |
the union of this nation was preserved
10 see this Centennial year. And tho
we mourn with the widow and father
less children who weep to-day, we
can rejoice that the sacrifice Of our
was not offered up in |
vain. For theirs is the proudest cpl
aph ever inscribed on the tomb Of
mortal man-They died that their
might live. Cox.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-05-30
Board OF City Trustees.

The Board Of City Trustees met last
evening in the Office of County Clerk
Edwards. All the members were present
except Mr.. Bender.
The minutes of the previous meeting
were read and approved.
A communication of J. Muller resign
iug his Office Of Foreman OF Curry En-
gins Company was received aud referred.
The Committee consisting OF Beam.
Driesbach and st. Clair reported that
they had employed Mr.. Hoyt to make =
survey Of Csrson aud King streets. lsnv-
ing the question Of compensation to be
settled BY the Board.
Mr.. Hoyt was employed to make full
survey and complete map Of the city for
the sum Of $3.50.
An ordinance 10 regulate the laying OF
water pipes and gas pipes was passed.
The City Clerk WAS instructed to pre-
pare an ordinance prohibiting ball play
ing on Carson and King streets.
Bender and Beam we're appointed
committee to confer with Mr.. remington
IN regard 10 running tIaius tOo int WILL
in the City limits aud particularly across
Carson street.
An ordinance Was unanimously passed
prohibiting all theatrical. circus or other
exhibitions on the Sabbath, under . PEN
atty OF $500 for each offence.
Bills were ordered paid ~ follows:
John G. Fox. 81; George w. Clark. $21;
Robinson L. Mighels. 1923
Officer Butts was instructed to put
new covering on the cistein between
Olccvich's and DriesbscL's.
The Board adjourned to meet this eve
Mug at 8 o'clock.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-05-30

ANTI-CooLIE mass meeting at the
Theater tonight.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-05-30
Notice.
70 WATER CONSUMERS.

A IL PERSONS RENTING WATER
~ fro,a the Carson Water Company who wish
to use it for irrigation during the coming sum-
mer, must first apply at the Company's Office
and make the necessary arrangements. Any
person diversing water for irritation sprinkllng,
etc, without first having made prior arrange
ments. will be charged such rate as the Com
pany shall deem right, and any person making
Connection with the company's mains, or re-
newing a connection after it has been cut on,
will be dealt with as the Company may see Mt.
Carson City, May s, 1876
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-05-30
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