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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-02-12
'' Why?"

:" You must not go in there ?" said an
old dog to young pup who stood on the
white steps of a large house. g You must
stay out now"
Why!" asked the young pup. For 1t
was trick (and bad tricky of his TO say,
"Why?" when he was told TO do, or not
to do, thing.
Why?' said the old dog; g 1 cannot
say why. Old as 1 am, l do not know
why. But do know, that if you go in
when it is wet day like this, the maid
will drive you out"
But why?" went on the pup. at is
not fair. There is no sense in it. l
have been in the house some days, apd no
one turned me out; so why should they
nOw?'
'Those were fine, sunny days. said
the old dog.
"Well, il is on the wet days that most :
want to be in the house, said the pup.
" And don't see why should stay out
So here gO.''
though no one stopped to tell him why
he must not come in, it was quite true
that he might not. The first who saw
him was the cook, who had broom in
her hand.
THAT vile pup~ cried she. "Look at
his feet.''
What is wrong with my feet ?" barked
the pup.
But she did not wait to tell him. She
struck him with the broom and he fed
with howl up the stairs.
"Oh, that pup" cried the maid, as she
saw the marks of his feet. % He ought
not to come into the house at all, if he
will not keep out on wet days.
but why?" yelped the pup, as the
maid threw hearth brush at his head.
Still no one told him why. But man
just then came up stairs. "Why, what q
messr' he said. "Oh, 1 see, it is that
pup. I thought he knew he must not
come in!"
$50 did; but 1 did not know rhy,"
growled the pup, as with sore back and
lame foot he crept under a chair.
Come out, come out!" cried the man.
81 will not have you in the house at all.
Out with yOu!" And he seized him
with strong hand and chained him in
stall.
g You might have stopped out, and
played on the grass, if you had staid
there" the man said. But as you will
come into the house when you ought not
to, you must be kept where you cannot do
So"
And so the young pup had TO stay in
the dull stall. And when at last he was
let out, he did not ask, Whyg" if he
was told to do, or not to do, thing, but
did as he ought at once, like wise dog.
Nursery for January
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-02-12
Selected sWisreHa,w
PARSON KELLY.

OLD pARsoN RELLr's fair young wife Irene
Died when but three months wed,
And no new love has ever come between
His true heart and the dead,
Though now for sixty years tine grass has grown
URor her grave, and On its simple stone
And yellow lichens creep her name across
Outside the door, in the warm summer air,
The old man sits for hours
The idle wind, that stirs his silver hair,
Is sweet with June's first flowers;
But duh his mind. and clouded with the haze
or life e last weary, gray November days;
The past and present look alike to him.
The sunny scene around. confused and blurred.
The twitter of the birds.
Blend in HE mind with voices long since heard
Glad childhcod's careless words,
Yet strong, one thought with ell fair things is
linked
OF his lost youth is ever by his side.
The rose-tree branch hangs low,
And In the sunshine, like 1eecy cloud.
sways slowly to and FRO
oh, Is It your the old man asks; !rene!"
And smiles, and fancies that her face he's seen
Beneath
The opening roses of a bridal wreath,
Down from the gambrel roof a white dove fits,
The sunshine on its wings.
And lighttn. close to where the dreamer sits
A yirion with IL brings
golden CLEAN from rome long vanished day.
!" Dear love- he calls; then, :. Why will you not
rtay.''
He signs,
For. At his voice. the bird looks up and hiesl
Oh, constant heart whose failing thoughts cling
fast
To one long laid in dust,
Still seeing, turned to thine, as in the past,
Her look Of perfect trust,
Her soft voice hearing in the south winds breath
Dream on. Love pure as thine shall outive
DEATH
And when
The gate. unfold, her eyes meet thine againi
-Xdri0n Douglas, in GALAXY for February.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-02-12

Daniel has got the papers and will give
them to thee. Thee can stay as long as
thee likes; thee will live happily once
more, for that-pointing TO the frame over
the mantel- piece No. drop more,
Daniel is his motto now, andwill be as
long as he lives
Daniel and his wife fell on their knees
before the Lord. Their prayers were
mingled with many tears; but in their
future lives those prayers were found to
be answered.
Several years have passed away since
the above events occurred, and Daniel
Akin, now an earnest Christian man. still
sticks to his motto: Not drop more,
Danielr-RuraE Nen Yorker
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-02-12

but since he could not go, he wished him
to embalm his heart after his death and
carry it TO the holy city and deposit it in
the holy sepulcher.
Douglas had the heart of Bruce en-
balmed and iDclosed in a silver case and
wore it on silver chain about his neck.
He set out for Jerusalem, but resolved
first to visit Spain and engage in the war
waged against the Moorish King of Gren-
ada. He fell in Andalusia ia battle. Just
before his death he threw the silver cask ct
into the thickest of the fight, exclaiming:
" Heart of Bruce, follow thee or dier'
His dead body was found beside the
casket, and the heart of Bruce was
brought back to Scotland and deposited
in the y-clad abbey of Melrose.
Douglas was a real hero, and few things
more engaging than his exploits were
ever told under the holly and mistlctoe or
in the warm Christmas light of the old
Scottish Yule-logs. -Hezekidh Butter1oorth,
in st. Nicholas for February.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-02-12
Our Bous and @irls.
THE SILLY YOUNG RABBIT.
NO.. Z.

THERE was a young rabbit
Who had n bad habit
Sometimes he would do what his mother forbid
And one frosty day,
His mother did say
= My child y must stay in the burrow close
hid;
For hear the dread sounds
OF huntsmen and hounds,
Who are searching around for rabbits like you
Should they see but your head.
They would room shoot you dead,
And the dogs would be off with you quicker
than boot
But poor, foolish being,
When no was seeing,
Looking out from his burrow to take short play
Re hoped DER the ground
With many bound,
And looked round proudly, as if he would say,
Do fear a man!
Now catch me who can!
So this young rabbit ran to a fine apple-trce,
Where, gnawing the bark.
H. thought not to bark
The coming OF hunters, SO careless was he;
Now, as rabbits are good
When roasted or stewed
man came along, hunting rabbits for dinner;
He saw little Bun,
Then raised his big gun
And there he lay dead. the foolish young sinner
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-02-12

enlist, or free passage home, give in
their names and go to Cuba, to be turned
into inhuman and wicked brutes; to be
hardened by gazing upon fortunes and
horrors which would make their mothers
blood curdle; and then, without any help
of God or man, TO go into the teeming,
swamp-beset military hospital, and die
Cadiz Cor. London Times
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-02-12

Catholicism in Minnesota, which, in
the boyhood of its recently -consecrated
Bishop, Ireland, consisted Of Il few mis-
sIonaries, ministering in log cabins to the
grown to IA hierarchy of three Bishops,
one mitred Abbot and an army of secular
and religious clergy, monastery, Il Jesuit
and Benedictine college, IA score of con-
vents, with their schools and charitable
institutions; magnificent church edifiGes
dotted all over the State, with parochial
schools attached, and a Catholic popula-
ton Uf 100 coo.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-02-12

FOLLOWING is list of mons de plume
used by American and some famous
foreign authors, which may be of interest
to MANY readers
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-07
DON'T SELL YOUR VOTE!

Wien any man offers to buy your
vote, fellow citizens, show him these
lines and shame him away:
To-day shall simple manhood try
The strength Of gold and land;
The wide world has not wealth to buy
The power i'll my right hand
No man can be guilty Of a greater
atrocity than the bartering Of his vote
for money or place or power or promise
of reward. This election involves
great and undying principle. Each vote
cast involves the choice between the re-
beliion and the efforts and lives and
treasure which saved the Union. A man
who would sell out the Republican
ticket to-day for gold, would sell the
flag of his country for pot OF beer. Re
publicans! Remember ths power each
one OF Won holds in his right hand this
day, and exercise that power as becomes
o patriot.
''Not lightly fall
Beyond recall
The written scrolls breath can ioat
The crowninS fact
The knsiiest at
OF freedom is the ireemsn's vote!
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-07
THE VOTING: MANS PEER AGE.

Who serves today upon the lis:
Reside the served shall stand
Aliks the brown and wrinsied tht,
The GLOW d and danny haGd!
Tire ri,il is level with the poor,
The weak is strong to-day:
The sleekcst brOadcloth counts no more
Than homespun rock - gray.
Each freeman stands the full peer Of
all to-day. The poor nan 5 ballot
weighs Just AS much, counts for quite as
much, effects as nlnch as that Of the
richest man in the Republic. II every
man who has ballD: 10 cast will but re-
member this, and, i'll the pride Of his
personal and politica! sovereignty and
selt-respect. Will but use his vote as he
would employ that which is the badge
and voucher Of his independent man
hood, he will not only yindicate his
hight TO the fall exercise CT the privi-
lege5 OF American citizenship. but Will
fortify and strengthen and reassert mis-
manhood and his honor.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-07
sTAxn NY LEONARD AND THE
kC1yOOLHNG OF THE COL.ORED
CHILDREN.

Candidates are the creatures Of the
parties which nominate tLem. Conven-
tons are o part Of the machinery OF
politics. So long as the Office of Justice
of the Supreme Court is matter OF
party selection, whatever of politics as
part of judicial decisions will be colored
by party bias by the judges who make
them. Against the decision giving the
colored children the right Of public
schooling Judge CARRIER dissented. 1t Is
not at all an impossible thing that full
Democratic Bench, if such should ever
sit in our Supreme Court, would reverse
the existing decision. Mr.. Xix
patrick, the Democratic candidate for
Justice of the Supreme Court, is
Southern born Democrat. He sympa-
,h;zed with the South during the war.
We believe that i! he had been on the
Bench with CARRIER, he and CARRIER con-
shutting a majority of the Supreme
Court, the colored children would never
have been admitted to the schools. Hon.
O. L. Leonard is the Republican csndi-
date for Supreme Court Justice. lie IS
an able lawyer, thorough Republican
and in full sympathy with the existing
decision. Lets see to it that ne Is
elected.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-07
THE VICTORY TO BE WON.

We shall win the battle to-day. To
doubt it is to doubt the manhood, the
self respect, the courage and the con-
staucy of purpose of the loyal sons OF
the North. The rebels stand shoulder
to shoulder to-day in as solid pha-
lanx as they did in 1861. As they then
sought to take the South out of the
Union, so do they now seek to nullify
reconstruction and rob the Republic
of the fruits of the war, as Floyd rob-
bed the country OF its munitions and
repositories Of arms. The time has
come at last when the Southern Safes
NAV all vote for President. In the last
two Presidential elections four Of the
Southern States were un-reconstructed
Now We see tho spectacle of a "Solid
South" arrayed against a divided
North. What for? Why does the
South stand Sowing in the face of the
North? Why is i, thus fiercely OPP
posed to the party under whose ad-
minstration the Union was preserved
and the rebellion crushed? Is it be-
cause Samuel J. Tilden, assisted to
Democratic nomination by John Nor
rissey, talks OF "Reform?" Or is 1t
because the South sees in Iilden and
Hendricks a brace OF accomplices
ready to DO their work of retaliation
upon the North" The intelligent
voters Of the Northern States are not
deceived by Tiiden's specious cry OF
Reform" They know that it is a
false guide to traps set for the unwary,
and they avoid it. And we, believing
as We do in the wi,;e reach and iutlu
ence Of Northern patriotism. apprised
as we are that the great ocean and
rivers ana e:reaniels, the heart, arte-
ries and veins OF commerce have been
heaved and set flowing with life and
activity; and al that is strongest and
most substantial in the Republic being
aroused 10 the need Of the hour, we
cannot doubt the result. AS to Ne
vaGa, she Is sure 10 range herself, as
heretofore, upon the side of Union,
Nationality and Right. She Will give
her voice to the great, undying Re-
publican Cause. And Ormsby cOun-
tvs voice will ring out louder and
clearer amidst the general acclaim
than the voice Of any other county in
the State-vie as they all will for the
honor of being known as the banner
county Of Republicanism.
Few, few were they whose swords
of old
Won the fair land in which we dwell;
But we are many, we who hold
The firm resolve to guard it well.
Strike, for that broad and goodly land,
Blow after blow, till men shall see
That Might and Right move hand in
hand,
And glorious must their triumph beo'
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-07
TOM WREN.

Next in necessity to the election OF
the Republican Presidential Electors
is the election to Congress of Hon.
Thomas Wren. To elect him is to give
the vote of Nevada against Confede-
rate rule in the House Of Representa-
tives. To vote for Ellis is to vote FOR
a rebel who served the Confederacy
as an officer in tho Missouri State
Militia. The issue is too plain to be
nisapprehended. 1t is CN1oNIsT
VERSUS REBEL.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-07
ONE MORE STRUGGLE.

Republicans Of Ormsbyl Rally to
the conflict! One who spoke by au-
thority, and who had the right TO
speak for the Democratic cause. haH-
ing earned that right by long service
in the rebel army, declared III speech
delivered early i'll the canvass that
d" this is orr death struggle'-mean-
ing by "our" the Democratic party OF
the Nation. Once more then, fellow
Republicans, le: Us strike for the green
graves of our gallant Union dead,
strike for our honor, our country and
our cause. The victory cannot be too
complete. No Republican has any
right to perform the act Of unfaiihful-
ness which will leave any nominee
of our party out Of the general trl-
umph which is to come. Not to vote
the straight ticket is to desert trusted
friend Of the cause. And not any man
of the Republican party may with
safety to his country and his country's
cause relax one iota of his vigilance or
the energy Of his act aud purpose. Let
us say to him, in the inspiring words
Of the poet:
'Oh not yet
Mavst thou embrace thy corslet, nor
lay by
Thy sword: nor vet, o Freedom! close
thy lids
In slumber; for thine enemy never
sleeps,
And thou must watch and combat till
the day
OF the new earth and heaven
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-07

For two years ur. Harry Peters has
performed, with great faithfulness, the
duties of Country Treasurer. He has
been tried and found fully competent and
fully responsible in all respects. This
is the reason Why he is entitled to the
confidence and respect of every tax
payer. Also it is the business reason
Why he should divide the bipartisan
vote With Dick Kelly. and get at least a.
equal share of the same. Harry Peters
is . straight, unwavesiug Republican.
That is the reason why Mr.. Kelly should
not obtain any Republican votes or any
Republican support. Indeed, we do not
know a more pronounced Democrat than
he. He takes an active, leading part IN
all primary meetings and conventions OF
his party; and be went to St. Louis and
helped nominate Tilden. Doubtless he
il entitled to the strength of his own
party; but the very things which entitle
him to Democratic support make it i'm
possible for any consistent Republican
to vote for him. Harry Peters spends
mis- money and e1erts his influence for
the Republican cause; he is the nominee
OF his party; and he has made salts
factory Treasurer. For each and all
these reasons he ought to be, and as We
believe, will be, reelected.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-07
LET Us REFLECT JONES TO
THE SENATE.
A Vote for Martin is u Vote for y
Republie an in the Senate Of the
United States.

The Senator who is elected in this
county this year will hold seat in the
next Senate-the Legislature of 1879.
He will have o vote upon the elestion
Of q Senator to succeed Hon. John p.
Jones.
VIM. o. II. Martin will, if elected,
vote for a Republican. Sam King will.
if elected, vote for Democrat.
There is nothing save the election OF
Hayes and Wheeler and Tom Wren
which is of as much Importance as the
election Of Martin.
Let every Republican bear this in
mind.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-07
THE OLD SHERIFF WILL DO

Our long -geared friend Swift is recog-
nized as one of the most skillful and
efficient Sheriffs in this State. He
brings frst-rate judgment, extraordinary
sagacity and uptiring vigilance to aid
his great experience in the administra-
ton OF his Office. These facts are
patent and need hardly to be told to any
reader OF the APPEAL. As with every
other man upon the ticket. the reason
why he should receive Republican sup
port is because he is Republican. We
are glad to be assured that he will be
elected by his usual majority-which
means that he will lead his ticket.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-07
70 THE REPUBLICANS IN THE
MINT.

II auy man in this world should vote
the straight Republican ticket. it is o
man who is employed in the Mint and
obtains his work and his salary from the
pfesent administration. We say this
significantly. We hear that there have
been influences at work-personal ap-
peals-to induce the employees of that
institution to scratch . prominent Re-
,ublican nominee for county Office, in
favor of . bitter Democrat. Let every
man vote his politics.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-07

These all important questions must
be, will be, are to be answered by the
vote which is cast in this State.
OUR ONLY CHOICE
Is between constant loyalist and self
confessed rebel who bore arms against
the flag Of our country.
The choice is between a follower Of
Abraham Lincoln and q follower of jeff
Davis. ...
1t is the Union soldiers happy home
against the Confederate dead-line at An
dersonville!
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-07

There are hills beyond Pertlsnd, and lands be-
yond Forth;
II there 5 lords in the Southland, there's CHIEFS
in the EORIE!
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-07
LET Us ELECT TRENMORE
COFFIN.

For several years past uncle Billy
Patterson has occupied the position OF
District Attorney Of the county. He
has done his duty faithfully, in most
instances, we believe, but he is very
decided Democrat. He will, no doubt,
not only vote for Tilden and Hen
bricks and Ellis and the rest OF the
Democratic nominees, but will throw
all his influence in that direction.
Certainly he ought to vote and work
for the ticket nominated by the party
which has stuck to him SO faithfully.
Our party has nominated Mr.. Tren-
more Coffin, a young lawyer OF exem-
plary habits, thorough Republican,
and man of we'll trained mind. BY
all the rules of party discipline and
party fealty Mr.. Coffin is entitled to
the full vote and cordial support OF the
Republican party in Ormsby county.
He is eminently capable OF perform
ing the duties Of the Office to which hs
aspires, and his untiring exertlons Tor
the ticket en:itle him to the endorse
ment Of his party.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-07

Let every colored man in Ormsby
county remember these words OF that
poet who, of all others, has been his
warmest, truest and strongest friend.
There are about iorty-fye colored voters
here. Let them move together IN
solid body, and vote as man, and they
will prove an irresistible force, q force
whose effect will be demonstrated in the
election of the entire Republican ticket
without name scratched!
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-07
~mrr rO SUSTAIN THE FREE
SCHOOLS OF THE UNITED
HTATES!

You will do this if you cast your vote
for Daggett, TuAy and Bishop. and for
Tom Wren. You will do it more effect
ually by voting the entire Republican
ticket.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-07
SILVER NOTE BANK co.
OF SAN FRANCISCO,
CONRAD AARON WIEGAND,
MANAGER,
Virginia City, Nevada.

1T IS PURPOSED, AFTER ESTAB-
4 fishing the Virginia City Agency of this Com
pany, to open Agencies Of the same at Gold Hill,
Silver City, Dayton, Carson, Aurora, Reno,
Wadsworth, Elko, Hamilton. Austin and True
kee. >-ou,n,
Postmasters and Editors PLEASE NOTICE
and start action in best quarters.
Partial information in relation to TINS move
ment may be obtained by parties well known
applying, who can expedite and assist in the
PRACTICAL RECONCILIATION OF SILVER, anu IN
RAISING THE VALUES OF MINING STOCKS. Dy
communicating (IN sTRICTEsT CoNFIDENcEJ
pertinent facts to the manager as below.
ALL DAILIES published in the State OF Ne
vada Virginia Enterprise excepted please copy
and advertise this notice one week on low est
terms and send bill.
Other Nevada papers please apply with prop
er statements as to circulation, etc, as below.
San Francisco Post. Bulletin, Call, Chronicle
and Alta please advertise three insertions and
send bill.
No paper need publish which DIES not edito-
rally " notice" the advertisement-Bill should
contain clipping OF ad. and notice.
Conrad A. Wiegand,
Drawer G, Virginia City Postofice, New.
oe26W
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-07
TO THE COLORED VOTERS OF
ORMSBY COUNTY.

The proudest now is but my pesT,
The highest not more high;
To-day, of all the weary year.
4 king Of men aIn /.
To-day alike are great and small,
The nameless and the known;
Ny palace is the peoples hall,
The ballot box my throne!
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-07

For state Senator......-.....W W. q. II. Martin
For Assemblymca..... I: { :: N } 'fsyi~
W. !. Mcintosh
For =. /. Sw!it
For County Clerk -.-.......-.,.-.f. j. Edwards
Fo. County Trca>Urcr.---..-.....U. !. Peters
For County RecursicT..-....-.-.-.F.D u. Turner
For County ASsessOr...............E.B Z. PiS!cE
For Distric; Attorney T. Colin
For County ryeyOr................A.N Y. H"yt
For Supt Public SehooiS.~....F,. a. Moody
For Public AdminiStrator......J.P +. Neder
For County Commissioner D. p. Willis
Long Term
For countyCommisSionerl James Morris
Short Term
For Justice Of The P"acei c. \. Withereu
Carson Township !
" Empire township ]. \. Hoover
For Constable, Carson Township.L Stern
For Constable, Empire Township -
For school Trustees - ~ ci,rtn
pS'rie' No. } b. +. Slater
For School Trustees W a. RroaThaad
N>triet No :. E. Jones