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The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1877-03-21
NEW TO-DAY.
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NoTICE is hereby given by the under
IN signed Administrative of the estate Of
J. +. Snapp, deceased, to the creditors of
and all persons having claims against the
said deceased to exhibit them with the
necessary vouchers within ten months after
the first publication OF this notice to the said
ADMINISTRATIVE ut her residence ON Rebel
Creek, Humboldt County, Nevada.
@a ADDLE SNAPP,
Administrative of the estate ot j. +. Snapp,
deceased.
March q, 1877. 10d
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1877-03-21
A . M / n 4 : T7 At O ~ s
NJ OTTO Z.

NOTICE is hereby given by the under-
~ signed Administrator of the estate OF
Q. W. Purdin, deceased, to the creditors of
and all persons having claims against the
said deceased to exh bit them with the
necessary vouchers within two months and
fifteen days after the first publication Of
this notice, to the said administrator at his
residence in Winnemucca, Hum boldt County,
Nevada. j. A. SCH AEEn.
Administrator of the estate of c. W. Furlin,
decSase.
Winaemuccay March.2I. 1877. 10d
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1877-03-21
TELEGRAPH SUMMARY.


by Foolscap at the meeting to-day.
The Cabinet meeting yesterday de-
cided to retain troops in the South for
the present. ..-...-aa....
First Assistant Postmaster-Genera
Tyner entered upon the duties of his
Office to-day.
DIR. Wakefield, who took five ounces
of laudanum at Cincinnati yesterday,
died this forenoon.
The Extreme Left in the French
Chamber of Deputies have introduced
another motion for amnesty for Com
munists.
There is every probability of definite
action boing taAen by the President
to-day upon the Louisiana and South
Carolina questions.
The Post-Office Department to day
made provision for tri-weekly mail
communication with the Black Hills
country. commencing on May LIST.
The stranded steamer husband, at
Long Branch, is sinking in the sand
and the cargo-in the after part of the
ship is under water.
The Cabinet met at 10 o'clock this
morning and continued in session till
afternoon. Nothing is known as to
their decision on the Southern ques-
ton.
1 Assistant Secretary Conant proposes
to go before the Grand Jury and ask
that the discharged employees who
have made false afidavits against him
be indicted for criminal libel and per-
jury.
The Political Correspondence Of
Vienna has intelligence from Belgrade
that Pentieff Effendi, the Turkish en-
voy, was received by Prince Milan To-
day to present the imperial frmen.
Peace with Servia is thus considered
as definite.
In Berlin, Prussia yesterday the
| laborers attacked q number of men
from Posen, whe were working on o
Tramway at reduced wages. A regi-
ment of soldiers was ordered out, and
with the assistance of mounted police
cleared the streets.
The Post-0fice Department to-day
issued orders that the mail service on
the route from San Diego, CAL, to
Mesilla, New Mexico. via Tucson, A.
T., be increased from tri-weekly to
daily, commencing on the 1st of
April.
The executive committee of r. w.,
Grand Lodge of Good Templars, is in
session in Chicago. All parts of the
Union and Canada are represented. It
has been decided to hold the annual
meeting of the Grand Lodge at Port
land, Maine, in May next.
A letter from the Red Cloud Agency,
dated 10Th instant. says. some 400
hostiles have arrived at the Agency
during the present month. No advices
have been received from Spotted Tail,
who went on mission to Crazy
Horses camp.
The story is gaining circulation in
Washington that the ADMINISTRATION is
preparing a new financial scheme,
which will result in the early resump-
ton of specie payment. Secretary
Sherman declines to say anything
about his plans.
4 Governor Hubbard of Connecticut
yesterday vetoed the bill giving mem
bers OF the Legislature rs cents
mileage each way upon the ground of
its being a violation of the rOonstitu-
tional provision against members Of the /
Legislature increasing their own pay.
He also vetoed the new Registry law.
A delegation of German citizens, ap.
pointed. at a rscent meeting of Wash
ington Germans called upon the Pres
ident this afternoon and presented res
olutions adopted at that meeting. ten
dering him their hearty eonorafnla-
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NOTICE

Is hereby given to all persons indebted t.
me to settle at once with my agent, M. b,
HAYES, and save costs.
RICHARD NASH.
wrNNEMUecA. January 18th, IS77-tf
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1877-03-21
DENTISTRY.

DIR. THOMPSON, of San Francisco, will be in
Winnemucca March oath, remaining one
week, and will attend to any who may re-
quire dentistry. Particular attention VIII
be paidto the preservation Of the natural
teeth. Consultation rooms, Central Hotel.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-02-07
The Dance Of Delth.

It was New Years night at Cole Camp,
sixteen miles from Sedalia, Mo-, and
there was bar in the ballroom. A young
man, while dancingnear the counter, stag
gered, fell to the hoorand broke hisnose. 1t
was so common IN incident that no at
tention was paid to it. The man lay on
the floor for half an hour, and the dance
went on. A physician came in, felt the
mans pulse, and gravely remarked that
he would die in n short time. In twenty
minutes the man was dead. AS the
waltzers whirled by the corpse they chat
ted pleasantly about the cause of death.
SOME thought that it was the bad quality
of the whisky; others attributed it to
undue indulgence in Kimmel ); others
said it was the shock caused by the fall ;
others mentioned heart disease. But the
dance went on at Camp Cole until day
break, although the man under the bar
had increased his distance from Sedalla.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-02-07
The Story of a Child.

New Years night al infant child was
found in basket at the Centreville
depot, on the New Jersey Central rail
road, by Edward Marshall, a track walker,
and by him taken home. A card in
scribed "Martha jenkins " fastened to
the child's clothing leil the old folks to
believe that it might be their daughters
child, she having eloped from their home
in Liverpool, England, with man named
jenkins. They were so strongly I'M
pressed with the idea that they requested
the reporters who called in search Of the
facts to mention it in their story, and to
say that their daughter would receive q
welcome home if she would return to
them, she being their only child. Chief
Whitney, of the Bayonne police learned
of probable case of infanticide, and i'll
working it up learned that poor,
miserable woman, living in tenement
house on Avenue D, Bayonne, had had
all infant child until few days ago, but
recently it had not been heard or seen.
He learned that the woman was q Mrs.
Jenkins, and OH questioning her about
the fate of her child learned further that
she had put it out in the snow in basket
on New Years night. She told him her
story, how she hal eloped from Liver
pool, and lived in New York with her
husband until about a year ago, when he
took to drink because he could not obtain
work, and then deserted her She had
four children, but three had tied, and
the last one was born after her husbands
flight. She nearly starved after the
birth of her child, and was kept alive
only by the charity Of her neighbors, as
poor almost as herself, When she could
90 out she could not find employment,
and by reason of i'll health and scant
food she could not nourish her child.
She knew from letter she received from
friends in England where her father was
employed, and knowing his fondness for
children determined to put her child III
his way. She watched him, and knowing
when he would pass the depot Mt Centre
vile she left the child just where he
would see it. She hid to see what be-
came of it, and when he picked it up she
ran away She intended to commit
suicide the following day, but her courage
failed her on seeing the ice on the river,
and she went back to the tenement house.
She would scarcely believe the chief
when he told her that her father wanted
her to come home again, because he had
been so much incensed at her elopement.
Finally she consented to go to her father
and returned home.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-02-07
Her Answer.

AL day long she held my question
In her heart:
Stunned my eyes that craved an answer,
Moved apart
Touched my hand in goodnight greeting,
Roster grew
Should leave :o-morrow?-early?
Then adieu.
Bent her head in farewell courteous,
Onward passed,
While cold hand grippcd my hcartstrings,
Held them fast.
Still waited. still listened
All my soul
Trcmbled in the eyes that watched her
As she stole
Up the stairs with measured footsteps.
But she turned
Where lamp in brazen bracket
Brightly burned,
Showed me all the glinting ripplcs
OF her hair.
Yelled her eyes in violet shadows
Glimmcrcd where
Curved her mouth i'll soft compliance
As she bent
Toward me from the dusky railing
Where she leant.
Ah my love - One white hand wander
To her hair,
Slowly lifts the rose that ncstlcs
Softly there:
Brcathcs she to its heart my answer
Shyly sweet,
An;i loves message nutelv 1iutters
Tony feet.
--Bclg'drio.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-02-07
The Lake Shore Disaster.

When the conductor of the train that
was wrecked in the Ashtabula ravine was
told that about fifty of the passengers
had been saved, he exclaimed: "My
God have the rest Of the 200 been
burned up?' When he went before the
coroner's Jury he testified that there
were only 131 passengers on the train.
The Cleveland Leaoler very sensibly re-
marks thai the absolute truth ought to
be brought out without misrepresenta-
ton and pettifogging. We do not
charge that the conductors testimony
before the jrry was inspired by his otfi-
cial superiors; we do point out the fact
that it is already impeached by the evi-
dence of another conductor and by other
witnesses, and that it is, therefore, no
only Intellectual but damaging. We have
placed no faith in the absurd story that
the officers Of the company forbade the
use of it's steam pump and hose, which
stood ready on the shore beside the
wreck, to quench the fire that was con-
suming the cars and the wounded within
them, but we want to see that charge
ovcrthrown and buried by testimony
which will convince every one. Plain
language and perfect frankness on the
part of witnesses, and cool, judicial fair
ness on the part of those who hear and
Judge, are essential. Nothing else will
Suffice
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-02-07
4 Story Of Immigrants.

Antonia Won Appenig came to this
country from Germany accompanied by
her brother, to whom she was greatly
attached. The brother fell overheard
from the steamer, and was rescued by
Christopher Josephson. During the
rest of the voyage, and OH their way
across the continent to California, Jo-
sephson became a suitor of Antonia's.
She did not desire to marry him, but she
was very grateful, and her brother
urged her to consent. She said that she
would be miserable rs his wife, because
she did not love him, but that she would
marry him, if he insisted upon it, as Il
recompense for saving her brothers life.
He took her on those terms, and they
were married in San Francisco. Her
show of repugnance was noticed by the
clergyman, and he asked her if the cere-
mony was against her will. She said
that she had of her own accord consent
ed. On tie following morning Joseph
son was found dead in his bed, having
been shot, and Antonia's body was taken
out of dock where she had drowned
herself. The supposition is that, frenzied
by the hateful union, she killed him, and
then hurried to the water to kill herself.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-02-07
A Disaster at Sea.

Tie following statement is made by
one of the survivors of the steamer Mont
gomery, of the Havana line, sunk by the
Seminole, Of the Boston and Savannah
line: The watches were set for the night
as usual, and the watch below had turned
in. Shortly after two bells had been
struck I heard sounds of confusion Oil
deck, and cries as if an accident of some
kind had happened or was impending.
Ny berth was III the forward house, and
as soon as awoke 1 jumped from my bunk
and pulled on my trousers. [ was en-
gagged putting on my boots when the
crash came, and the steamer seemed to
stop, as if it had struck a rock. There
was crashing of timber and slight re-
coil. I sprang out upon the deck, and
on looking through the mist discovered
that we had been run into by bark rig
ged steamer. All was confusion. Those
who were below rushed on deck Just ns
they left their hunks, terrified at the
thought that the steamer had struck
something and was about to go down.
while to their number we're added several
men who had jumped from the vessel
they had run into. It was but second,
so it seemed, we had chance to see what
we had struck. When I first saw her she
was settling by the head, and, in another
moment she made Il lunge forward and
sank beneath the waves, carrying NUM-
bers down with her. BY their agonizinS
cries it appeared to me that a large ships
company were struggling for life, but
these voices were soon hushe;l. There
was quite a high sen running at the time,
and the Seminoles boat forward on the
sturboard side was with difficulty cleared
away, launched and manned, and sent TO
aid any that might he floating on any
part of the wreck. But there was little
left to mark the spot where the i'll fated
steamer had gone down. The boat re-
turned with but one man. Presently a
boat belonging to the other steamer
boarded the Seminole, and when all hands
were aftcrward mustered it was found
that only fifteen OF the twenty-eigEt per-
sors who had left New York for Havana
in the steamer Montgomery were alive.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-02-07
Real CannibalS.

Real cannibals have been discovered
by missionaries Oh the islands of New
Britain and New Ireland, off the north
east coast of New Guinea. These natives
are nude savages of the OHental negro
type, who live more like beasts than
human beings. The Rev. George Brown,
a Wesleyan missionary, reports that lie
saw women roasting the leg and thigh of
a man who had been killed in a fight.
In another hut smoke dried human flesh
was hanging. In another he counted
thirtv-five Jaw bones of men and women.
Cannibalism seemed to be common
throughout the islands, not as religious
rite, but rs an ordinary means of sub
sistence. The natives assured the mis-
sionary that the accounts heretofore pub
lished of race of tailed human beings
were true, and were certain that these
strange creatures were not monkeys.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-02-07
An Unhappy Postmaster.

The postmaster of Spencerfort, N. Y,
is not happy. His last quarters account
showed him indebted to the government,
over and above his salary and disburse-
ments, in the sum of $78.76. This
amount he has on hand and cannot legally
get rid of it. The department ordered
him to pay it over to the agent OF the
Hudson River railroad company, but that
individual declines to receive it, as the
larger portion is composed of silver coin,
and the law is specific that silver coin is
only legal tender in sums of S. or less.
Section 359 of the Postal laws provides
that no postmaster shall "loan, invest,
appropriate or exchange" any money
coming into his hands in his official
capacity, and section 359 makes it a
prima tacie case Of embezzlement If he
neglects or refuses to honor draft, duly
certified, presented by any contractor or
agent for carrying the nails. No excuse
Whatever will be received for non-com-
pliance.
The position of the unfortunate man
is, therefore, this: The government
cannot compel the Hudson River rail
road company to receive more than s.
worth of silver coin. They have ordered
the postmaster to pay over his surplus
to the aforesaid road. That surplus con-
sists principally OF silver, which the law
forbids him to exchange for other money,
and which the department itself is, under
the law, forbidden to receive from him
in nny amount over S.
The unfortunate man has written n
pitiful appeal to Postmaster James, III
New York, but the entire wisdom OF The
department has thus far been inadequate
to suggest any means of relief. Until
the law is changed he stands self-con-
victed of being an involuntary felon.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-02-07
A Fearful Death.

After very many years, there was an
an execution at Lucknow, India, Il short
time since. A mo,llvie of some little
repute paid the last penalty of the law.
He was convicted of most brutal act of
murder, albeit not committed by his own
hands, but through means the most re-
voting to humanity, and was sentenced
to deaL... He kept a small school, and
one of the boys who had been absent for
two or three days, on coming to school
was locked up by him in a small room.
In this room snake had been some days
previously, but was not killed. A little
while after the boys incarceration he
called out GA snake snake p and
implored the moulvie to open the door.
ooh !" he said, "open the door and see
for yourself-for Mahomed Russool's
sake open the door % The molllvie
would do nothing of the kind. At last
the poor boy was bitten in several places
in the ankle, and he called out: "Oh !!
now that I have been bitten, open the
door," The moulvic was inexorable-
he would not open the door. About mid
dny the father of the boy came to the
school and inquired why he had not
come home for his usual meal. The
moulvie said 81 have confined him for
his absence" "Wcll," said the father,
"release him now." The door was then
opened and the corpse of the lad twelve
years old, the only child of its parents,
was the sad and shocking sight which
presented itself, with the snake coiled
near his neck,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-02-07
What Made Them So .

Imust say it Human beings, con-
sidcring how talented they are, are very
foolish. If not, why do they make other
living things afraid of them instead OF
teaching love and confidence by. their
own example? Almost all animals who
see men for the first time approach them
without fear. I am told that when the
naturalist, Darwin, went to the Galapa-
gos islands, he there found hawks that
had never seen men, and they were so
tame that he showed some of them gently
off branch with the muzzle of his gun,
while others came to drink from pitcher
he held in his hand. It is only because,
for generations, beasts and birds have
been so often deceived and cruelty treat
ell by men that they have become sus-
picious of them.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-02-07
Continental Money.

The notable Continental money of the
United States was issued in the follow
ing quantities: 1884 bills of eight
dollars each 1888 bills of seven dol
lars each 1888 bills of six dollars
each 1888 bills of five dollars each ;
93, 1888 bills of four dollars each 50, 1873
bills of three dollars each SO, 333 bills
of two dollars each 1888 bills of one
dollar each. The Continental money,
when received for taxes by the colonies,
was to be cancelled by "taking care to
cut by circular punch Of an inch dame
ter an hole in each bill, and to cross
the same thereby to render them i'm
passable, though the sum or value is to
remain fairly legible."
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-02-07
What increases Drunkenness !

The Quarterly Jo"fn0i n M"bIrty
says It is curious fact that great fl
nancial rcvcrses and upheavals of society
are felt like waves, i'll the increase OF pa
tients in all the larger inebriatc asy-
lums. The Black Friday of Vail street.
the fire of Chicago, and the present t.
nancial crisis, with its sudden rcvolu-
tons, have and are still developing thou
sands of inebriates, all over the land.
The better class of these unfortunates
come to inebriate asylums, others suffer
ing more severely appear i'll insane hos
pitfalls, and another class drop to the
lowest level and soon disappear.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-02-07
A Smart Wife.

Concord, n. H., boasts Of a clergy
mans wife who is exceedingly smart, rs
attested by her record for the year. as
follows Gentlemen entertained, fifty
three guests at tea, sixty-nine Mt
breakfast, thirty-eight at dinner, forty.
seven; lodged, thirty-nine number OF
calls made, ISL: received, $50; letters
received, 494; written, 61O, covering
1881 pages. She has read ninety books
and written JIG newspaper articles.
This is in addition to doing her own
sewing, attending to her marketing and
parish matters, keeping only one SER
want
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-02-07

HIS WAy.-The late Commodore Van
derbilt was accustomed to carry his cigars
in his side pocket, and when a well
meaning friend who had observed this
habit presented him with beautiful
cigar case, the commodore declined the
gift, observing: cit will be too ex-
Densive for me. When I take it out full
of cigars everybody around will expect
me to- offer them one, but when I take
one out of my pocket they won't know
that there are any left. ;"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-02-07

Prompt payment of newspaper sub
scriDtions will meet with due reward. In
proof of this statement, read and ponder
the following incident: A gentleman lost
his pocketbook at the Centennial. The
other day he received it by express, with
contents intact, from New York lady
who had found it, and identified it from
a receipted subscription to newspaper.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-02-07

Punch -" Farmer proposing land
lords health)-'An' if a squiears nd
dew as our squiear dew, there wudna be
so many on 'em as dew as they dew
dew p
A little boy in Stockton, CAL, stuck
red-hot poker into the bunghole OF keg
that contained q pound Of gunpowder.
The result was all that he could have
expected.
There is no wisdom save in truth.
Der Nordstern. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1874-1931, 1877-06-07
.taQt Minnelpta.
Jeuer in Winoma.

sm Donneritas, seeen 6 llbr Abenbs,
,uurben bic Der Stabt se8eniberIiesen=
ben unb Der Green Bap Gijenbabn 60.
seborisen @ebdube bur4 Jeuer ,erft6rt.
9a0elbe entitanb, ,uie mon permutbet,
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Ga Grofe." tuel@er baielbit foit ben
san,en Sag nit Gin. unb NusIaben
BON Gra4t bei@dftiet mar.
gbenio p%erbrannten % Tro9hpa9en,
= 10000 stid Geoer. Yfoiten unb
cine Barge" gum 0ampfboet nggpreb"
Seb0ris.
Sn Dem glepator befanben fi4 un9e-
tdbr $500 guibel @eijen unb i'm 2a-
9erbaus 1000 8arr.Is Mebl.
Oer @erluit wirb, wie folst. sei&dbt ;
eleuator> Wborf unb Gaserbaus &C, 900;
Mebl $4,000; @cisen $4,000, Gra@t=
iuasen 10000; 2umber $1,000; 9fo.
fen $1,000; elm tleines @~o6mbaus
Der Nordstern. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1874-1931, 1877-06-07
Mus hen @taatem.
Wiseon

1iseonin.
Sn Der @esenb BON Abnapee 1T tpie.
Der einmal Der 3eeruurm iebr petbeereno
aufsetrettn.
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- Sn 9ilbert bat fi@ cine fotbo=
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~ bauen. Dieielbe Ioa, mic mir loren,
40 X 80 Jub srob uerben, unb Die
duberen 0auern aus 8adFeinsn Ct.