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The daily gazette., 1877-01-12

1here was an Act passed March IL. 1855,
authorizing and requiring the State Treas
urer to convert the loan of eighty-five
thousand dollars (S5, ,000) to the Philadel-
delphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Rail
road for the benefit of the Free Schools
into stock of said Railroad, and by the
terms of said loan the Company is Obliged
to submit to the conversion at par. The
said stock is now commanding an extra.
ordinary premium and pays a dividend
OF eight per cent. on its par value, whereas
the loan only pays six. But as 1t has
either been overlooked or Intentionally
avoided by other Treasurers so long,
have deemed it advisable to wait until The
convening of the Legislature and theI
direct their attention to the same.
Under the act known as the '-i'i q.
Oyster Law there has been .os.
received during this admin t
lstratfon after deducting ex-
PenSeS'... ................... - 1854
But presume there is considerab
amount in the hands of the Collector
this time, as he is only required to settle
annually. .ps 'aaH- WI II yGi'
There has been received to Au- ...it
gust last, from various sources
the income of which is ap-
Propriated to the support Of
Free schools. os......-.......... $50, ,9O4 Is
And the same distributed
among the districts entitled
2 to receive it.
l am gratified to inform your Excellency
that all the Railroads within the State are
prompt in the payment of their taxes, ex-
cept the Wilmington and Western and
Frankford and Breakwater. The latter,
however, has promised to remit at an early
day, and | am of the opinion will do SO.
None of our Bonds are due until Janu-
ary 1st, 1S95,an if we could obtain them
without paying the ruinous premium,
which they are now commanding, our
present revenue, if allowed to remain un-
touched, is sufficient to redeem them be-
fore they are due. .....-...
There has been received since January
21st, 1876, the date of my settlement with
the Legislative Committee, under the va
GUS Acts TO raise revenue and from all
other sources beloning to the General
Fund as follows: I'll, ~ .......,.( +.
From the Clerks of the Pace
for Licenses! :. -. ~. $40, 800 16
From the County Treasurer .- .,,,e.
which is Tax upon real and si.!a'
personal property .o.!.: -! .H.0., /. sc, ,95e 90
From tax on net earnings of I1is3 Is
Railroads. ;. ...... "a 49,. 1920 90
From tax on passengers. 13, ,563 90
From process tax from Regis
ters and Recorders. az 10 9O3 %
From di yidends from Banks J, J, 2,992 90
From tax on Bank Shares. ...a 81 3,577 80
From fines and forfeitures Irf oi a92
other than School Fund. 80. 1,527 73
From commission fees from Ainsi ,f'.
Secretary of State other than % ID
School Fund. nd..e,~,o..>..... - 588 70
From tax on Fire Insurance. .l
: Cos. other than School Fund. 45O 90
From Vacant Land. .......... 1915
From interest on mortgage
from the Junction and Bleak
water Railroad. d............. 100000
Belonging to the School Fund. 2,O56 IL
S160, ,468 "a
Discussed from the General Fund since
The daily gazette., 1877-01-12

MF. Orton, Pesrident Of the Western
Union Telegraph Company, was taken
to Washington yesterday in charge of q
deputy sergeant-at-ar,ns.
The daily gazette., 1877-01-12

t.' a..frstff 't;c e. -
81, ,195, ,799
If the total assets were deducted
from the total debt 1t would only
leave a net indebtness of five thousand
two hundred and one dollars. { $5, ,201 }
with prospective receipts which are
due January 1st, as follows:
Interest on investments. ....... $26, ,272, so
Ct CaDitation. ............... .. Is, ,7s5, 900
Tax on Bank Shares. .......... 2,682,17
Tax from Real and Personal
Property. ..............,.... oU,izz,oU
Tax from County Officers and
other sources. s........,......'.'. z,UoOVO
Total. $100, ,4624 AZ
The loan to the New Castle and Will
mington Railroad twenty-five thousand
dollars 25,000,) for the benefit ofthe free
schools, expired on May 1st, 1875, by
limitation, and was paid. Twenty-one
thousand dollars ($21 ,000) Of the same is
now idle and should be invested as soon
as possible. have used every effort to
secure State Bondsforthe above, and now
have an order in the hands OF two promi-
nent bankers in Wilmington and Phila-
delphia to purchase them at one hundred
and three, but with all their efforts in
connection with my own, l have only
succeeded in securing four, in conse-
quence of their being at a much higher
premium. The payments of this sum
has been unfortunate for the Free School
as the Treasurer has no authority to in
vest it, and as it has remained idle so long
the revenue of the Schools has been cur
tailed to . serious extent
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$1,672 80
Weather ReTSb'f.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12, l A. NJ.
PROBABILITIES. r...

In the Middle and Eastern States
rapidly rising barometer BRISK and high
north to west winds, diminishing in for
mer, decidedly cooler, threatening wealth
er, and rain or snow, principally the lat
ter, succeeded BY partly cloudy weather.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-06-29

The villages generally consist of
long rows, interspersed here and
there with irregular groupings of
One-stOry thatohed cottages, the
doors and windows in which are of
the most primitive character. Some
of these huts are whiteWashed out
side, like the shanty of an Irish
laborer in America, and the win
dows and door frames are painted
blue; but the mass are undocorated
and dirty appearance. The mud
was 80 deep in some OF the village
streets that the villagers were pick
ing their way with stats, trying a
quagmire before they yentured to
walk through it, as they came down
to the stations to "see the train"
just above Pascani l saw village
the main part of which was COM
posed of rows Of huts around three
sides of square. In this square
there was not u blade of grass nor a
tree, nor any attempt at a garden /;
there we're no walks, no pave
ments; one dead level of stag
nant mud stretched from the door
of one peasant to the door of an.
other peasant. In these huts, look
ing out upon this inspiring pros
pect, stood the peasants, with their
woolen caps drawn down to their
very eyes, their long hair hanging
in ringlets over their backs, and
their immense mustaches permeat-
cd with smoke from their pipes and
cigarettes. The women were SO
smothered in sheepskin cloaks,
made in ungraciouS form, that the
poor creatures appeared precisely as
if they had borrowed their hus-
bands overcoats-that it was inn
possible to Judge whether or not
they were pretty. Many of them
wear huge boots, which are ofcourse
highly necessary in this muddy
weather, and to see them tramping
across the fields one is entirely at a
loss as to which sex they represent.
The beauty of the Roumanian wo-
men has been highly praised in song
and story. Perhaps, under these
humble thatched roofs, and in the
midst Of those muddy fields, fair
creatures are born, but it hardly
seems possible.
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How it Looks IN ROumanla.

The section of Roumania be-
tween Bucharest and Jassy, on the
line of this hideously constructed
single track railroad, is very popu-
lous. Westopped every few min
utes at villages of five thousand,
two thousand, or ten thousand in.
habitauts. But what villages!
Verilyl the Russians will do well to
begin eleyating the Roumanians be-
fore they undertake their sublime
mission Of raising the Bulgarians
out Of the depths into which they
have been thrust by the barbarOus
Turk, There seems no independ-
ent thought, no sense of energy
among these kinds. They are
abased; yet there is in them the
material of noble men. 1t is simply
their ignorance which crushes them
to the very earth. | was struck in
passing a long procession Of water
carts on the Chaussee, the principal
promenade of Bucharest, with the
degraded types of men driving the
scrubby little horses. These men
were not abused by drink; they
we're simply rustic clowns. com.
pletely devoid of any knowledge ol
the outer world, Of their own, OF
their country's destinies-good only
to eat and, sleep, and do their du'
round Of daily work.
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100000 for Only Ten.
READ THE LIST OF GIFTS.
Drawing Positively June 80, 1877
And Every Three Months Thereafter.

The present management emph0iicdlly noiify
The public that there tcili be no pOstpoAoment Of
his drGteing, as IS usual ~ such enterprises. bat
that Il ioH positively and HneQaiUOcdllv take
place on he date named.
THIS, he Second Dra,cias, pW be conducted
Ike he first TO the fuirRess of iChich The fo0irinO
named gentlemen hare testified: t
Hon. Alvin Duvall, late Chief Justice Sup.
Court of Ky. James q; Dudley, Chm Board
Of School Trustees; Grant Green, Cashier
Farmers Bank Of Kentucky; Hon. S. l. NJ.
Major, Public PfiHter State OF Kentucky !;
Hon. Thomas N. Lindsay, Pres't Farmers
Bank Of kv.; Hon. Thomas G. Jones. Clerk
of supreme Court Of KY; Judge K. A. Thomp-
son Pres dg Judge Franklin Co. Court; ames
G Crockett, Clerk Frank County Court.
Remittances can be made by mail, express
draft, p0stotice order or registered letter,
made payable to G. W. Barrow K Co.
Tickets paid promptly and without discount.
Reliable agents wanted.
Address all communications and orders for
tickets to g. " BARROW X CO,
Courief-J Journal Building, Louisville, Ky.
Send for Circular. 47-eod. ll0.dGw
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-06-29

TOR POSTERS, SHOW BILLS, CARDS
4 Circulars, etc., gotten up with tho latest
style OF types and on superior paper ei any
anime stock.Ard prices
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Conn1rr.

Those who have attained matu-
rity may recollect seeing upon maps
of Africa a large blank space in the
center, indicating a land unex-
plored and unknown. OF late years
explorers have pierced its mysteries,
and ascertained that this region Of
great equatorial lakes is one of the
most populous and fertile Of the
earth, and that an immense pla-
teau, among mountains crowned
with eternal snow, is watered by
great streams proceeding from
them, and offers climates Of vari-
GUS degrees of temperature. This
inviting land is, however, the abode
of savages, who are at perpetual
war with each other, and who mu-
tually cause a destruction of human
life computed at hundreds of thou
sands a year. AT least 10000
slaves are also annually captured
there, for use upon the continent,
or for shipment elsewhere. The
International African Association,
headed by the king Of the Belgians,
desires to commence the civilization
of the country by establishing sta
tionS for scientific observations and
for the use and protection Of trav-
elers; and branches of the associa-
ton have been formed in several
European countries.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-06-29

ems with ducats braided in their
hair, and with the national red cap
used as a kind of net in which to
contain their luxuriant braids.
These ladies, who carry their wealth
thus displayed upon their heads,
astonished me when first saw
them but now it seems to me quite
as sensible as that ladies should
a few thousand of dollars in the
shape of diamonds. ph
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PlgfHres OF the Oanubian IIfe-The
ToWSs aud People Along the
silver.

PtgfHrea OF the Oanubtau Iife-The
ToySs and People Along Ihe
The journey from Orsova to Bel
grade is exceedingly picturesque,
and gives one a fine chance to study
the bold Servian headlands, which
jut out into the stream, ane ard here
and there crowned with ruins of old
castles and forts. The Servian pop
ulation along the Danube is exclu-
sively devoted to agriculture of
the rudest sort. / was even aston
ished to see winnowing machines
from England in use at Gradistie-
one of the small towns at which we
made a landing-because | did not
think the Seryians so remote from
large towns would submit to inno-
vations. Most of the tiny towns
along the bank are composed of a
strip of whitewashed cottages near
a Greek church, whose bulbous
spire suggests the idea of a kind of
emancipated mosque ; of wharf,
on which half an hundred bare
limbed girls and a dozen rough fell
lows in national costume are gath
cred to see the arrivals, and one or
two small shops, in which the arti.
cles, brought hundreds, sometimes
thousands Of miles, for Seryia has
no manufactures, are sold at exag-
gerated prices. Some of the towns
seemed standing in the water, the
Danube is so very high at present;
but as we approached them, we dis
covered that they we're just above
the water level, and some levees had
here and there been constructed.
Every Servian man carried a
small knife dangling from his belt,
and the mountalneers whom we saw
trotting along the hilly roads by the
Danube side, mounted on tough
little ponies, generally carried rifles.
The Bosnian men and women
carry these knives above mentioned,
and my Russian fellow companion
told me a story of a plucky girl in
in tlh province, who, in a hand to
hand encounter last year with a
Turk over the dead body of her
father, managed to rout the assassin,
inilicting on him such wounds that
he will never kill any one else.
Our boat load from 0rsova to the
Servian capital was a curious med
ley Of people. There were half a
dozen young Bulgarians, dressed,
or rather undreSsed, in rags; the
lamb.like expression of the counte-
nances Of these young persons, and
their almost frightened demeanor
when any one approached them,
made it sufficiently evident how far
the Turks had succeeded in de-
grading them. There were Rou-
manians fleeing the wrath to come,
with rather more precipitation than
seemed necessary; mild-eyed men
with symmetrical boards, and state
ly women, dressed in black, and
evidently unconscious that their
charms had faded at an early day.
There were Polish Jews, painfully
working their way back from Rou-
manian villages, where they had
been to speculate, but where they
discovered that the native Hebrew
had forestalled them. There were
Servian merchants and Russian
agents-men who laughed loudly
and talked in gruff, robust voices,
which could be heard above the
widest roaring Of the river. There
were little Servian maidens, coy and
rather ferocious if stared at-maid-
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-06-29

100, 900 Tickets at One Dollar Each.
LIST OF PRIZES.

GRAND MONTHLY DRAWING,
tuesday, August 7th,
CAPITAL Prize, $4,000, Tickets a. each,
- l07osd
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MEMpKIs g. LITTLE ROCKER.
Shot Line to Arkansas and Texas.
TIMEOARDi

Leaves. Arrives.
Mail train, daily...........-5 30 pm. u,3J pm.
Freight train leaves Hope
Geld daily(e undayG 30 An, 52g m.
Passengers going on thi; road Will take
vile md Great Southern railroad. Mail
trains maze close connection at ATgen.l for
points on the ] title Rock and Fort Smith
railroad ana ct Little Rock with the Cairo
and Fulton ldtlTOad for points in Southwest
Arkansas and 1HeS' uL4
trains. r,.,...
For tickets and information spPly at Iieket
offices 81 and 2s7 Ma street sn4 ~ debot
foot of Washington street, or at Loslsvl!!e'
Nashville and G a, Southern railroad Depot
or to the understand
NJ STAY e P nd Z. Ag't. Little Rock.
w. &. SMITH, sup't, Memphis Tenn.
10lt
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Louisville and Great Southern R.R

Hal p m Night Express Connects at Milan
Nashville. Chattanooga, Atlanta and the
Southeast, atGuthrie for Hopkinsville, Hem
derson and Evansville, at Louisville for all
points North and East.
ll0 pm. Day Express-COnnosts for St.
Louis and Chicago. at Louisville for all
points North and East.
4:40 pm. Milan Accommodation = Daily
except Sunday.
Pullman Palace Cars on either train to Louis
Vile, and on Night train to Nashville.
For tickets or ipform alton, apply at Ticket
Office. 287 Main, Northwest corner Madison
street
JAMES SPEED, Ticket Agent.
@91-t
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ThstleS require radical treatment to
remove them, and so do boils and PIN
Piles. DR.. Bulls Blood Mixture is a
radical blood searcher, curing all skin
eruptions.
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MISSISSIPPI g. TENNESSEE
RAILROAD.
Change of Schedule.
MEMPHIS. Tenn, May 12. 1917.

nN AND AFTER SUNDAY. MAY. 18TH
~ 1877, trains will ruR as follows:
Leave. Arrive.
'cw Orleans mail, daily 300 pm. l:SO pm
Freight and Ac'm dation,
daily Except Sunday ;.;6;S0 9.m 0O a IN
Gl-1 NJ. BUM b. sup u
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1877-12-09

TIE Eureka Ssa,iHc! publishes the
following account Of a stage robbery i'll
White Pine County:
Inst Friday evening rs Woodruff &
Ennor's stage, Ola the route from the
Wells TO Cherry Crock, was approach
ing the town, it vas stopped 10y four
masked Ecn, and the usual prcliuin-
Gries gone through with. The paBaen-
gers on the stage were robbed Of about
Sl00 III coin. Wells. Fargo & Co. had
their treasure aboard. which was locked
UP IL Hn iron safe attached 10 the
coach. II Is supposed thnt tho near
approach: OF the stage - Cherry Cree *
WAS tho reason the robbers did not Llow
tho safe opcn. Fonr men, supposed to
have Bcen engaged in The robbery, have
been arrested by the officers at Cherry
Creek. Among them nro Doc. bell
md Nose Watkins. two former resi-
ncntG. as we lgSn. oi Eureka. We
have net bccn advised regarding Tho
character OF the evidence U;GinH thcn.
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1877-12-09
rursuin: Justice.

L. J. Baldwin. Archie Borland md
John L. Hill have called n meeting of
dissatisfied stockholders of the Justice
mine, to DO held at tho Pacific Board
room, today, mt . o'clock, to find out,
as they say, "what has been done with
nll the heavy assessments, and the bull
lion taken out Of the mine, and why n
very valuable part of the miao Was
given away secretly for dollar" This
latter clause is said to be based on n
transfer of n valuable portion of the
Justice laiae TO the Ala Mining Com
p"ny for ono dollar. Some $1,000, GOO
have been collected from assessments
in the past twelve months. besides the
bullion produced, and the Gentlemen
WHO hare si"nci the call claim to have
"noscd ont" something ns to where il
has all gone.
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1877-12-09
Tlir i'rC.iticNi'a 7Irssugr.

Tho Transmission cf tho prcnitlcn.'s
mcHgnGo to Congress began ovrr The
wire" nt II o'clock This morning ami
has been in continuous transit up to the
present hour ! 80 J.. II. How much
longer time will be required TO complete
Tho d0cumont il not known but proba.
bly, not less tl!am two hours.
In his message tho President recon-.
monds that should silver be made II
l"Gnl tender, thn! provision bu made for
cXcinrtmg tho public debt now out &.
standing, either principal or interest,
from payment III am coinage Of Icgg
valuc than the present gold dollar.
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1877-12-09

NEs. II. J Bcorn. residing at San
Nnffci. discovered that ono al n pair
Of diamond earrings, valued at -, 0JO
each. hal disappeared from her jewel
box. She suspected Chinese scrvrnt,
one Ah Ice, OF tbs theft, hut said Meth
ing to him TcBnT,:imS it. Detectives
wcro notified, however, a;lj rpoa their
advice tho Lady son. tho Ci,innmnli
I" San TTarciUcp with letter tu her
husband. Tho device. succeeded, fer
tlr olicrra fal!o%ri !liIa from the hcusa Q
t" The boat, and mr:Cg(ld Kim just NJ hc
w"a stepping OF tEo Loat Hl t!ic ferry
landing. Upon searching him at the
City Prison tho gem vas found. II WAS
"horr Of ita setting, however, and wInu-
ped up i'll paper. The thief ut first
claimed that he Lad found ii, ana then
That ho had swept it out OF sthe room
and Ecp. il btcaUso it WAS pretty.
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1877-12-09

TnE Troy TdHc' says: \ culorcd man
named Gidncy, rcsilinGon North Third
street, below Jacob. claims 10 have dis
covered tho trao and oznct ratio Latwcrn
tho diameter aud circumfGrcute OF n
circle. According to tho accepted rule.
with the diameter or circumference
ale given, the other cannot be exactly
told. The ratio is 3.TIl5o plus. or ns
commonly used. 3.lllG. Mr. Gidn"y
claims trct 10y nn NlgcLrnic calculation
he has discovered the exact ratio, and
Ito has III preparation hool, on The
subject which he intends shortly to
publish.
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1877-12-09
DANIEL F. BEATTY'S
Pianos and Organs

The Pianos and Orgaus manufactured by Dan
lei 7. Beatty of Washington, New jersey, uro
more earnestly and generally commended by
the Press, aud music loving public than any I'm.
Strumcnts manufactured IN this country or
Europe. The Pianos have tho grcatcst possible
depth, richness AMI volume OF toac. combined
with n raro brillancy, clearncSs and perfect
GvenneSs throughout the entire scale, nnd above
all, surprie!ng duration which never changes
under the most delicate or powerful touch.
The celebrated "Golden Tongue" Reeds In
Bsstty's celebrated Organ IN conjunction with
tie perfected Reed Boards, produce sweet, purc
and powerful tones. Every instrument, Iinno
aud Organ. fully warranted perfect In every re-
sptct. and will he shipped un from five 10 lf-
teen doys' t:st trial, Tie manufacturer paying
freight both ways, II the ;astrument ia not sal.
isfactory. illustrated ADVERTISER. Catalogue
Editlon,l cent tree ON application. Address,
DANIEL Il. BEATTY, Warrington,
New Jersey. " -
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1877-12-09

AT hnlf past o'clock thiS afternoon
says tho Virginia Chronicle. of tho 1st,
Dick Carlton, q man about 10 years OF
age, committed suicide ut Koch's shoot
ing gallery, on South G Street. by
shooting himself in tho head, the ball
entering tho right nostril. Deceased
Ind been Mt work i'll tho Savage for
twelve or fifteen months, but was dis
charged Inst Wednesday. Since that
tino he had been drinking heavily,
and felt despondent. No other cause
is known for tho net.
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1877-12-09

The Battle Mountain Messenger says
there IL 10 longer any doubt about tho
great cStcnt and richness OF tho Lewis
mines. 1t is thought by good judges
that there is ono million dollars in
sight in tho Starr and Grover mine.
An immense vein OF ore i'll the bottom
OF tho incline, cut by tho tunnel Of
high grade ore. Tho snIue vein is
sIruCl: by the tunnel Of Defiance No. 2,
400 feet north OF tho Starr md Grover
works, and the lucky owners aro offered
$50, COO, nnd II is refused. Tho Eagle
Company is taking ont rich Gro con.
slanily, anl LOWS i5 on tho owe OF
reaching n status equal to any wo be-
ltovc in Eastern Nevada. and perhaps
In the Silver State. Two town plats
nro made, ono al tho Eagle Compamy's
Inill, and The other ut their mine two
or three miles above; aud there il quito
e!rifo over choice lots. Prospecting
il being extended and other rich mines
nrc being discovered In tho district,
and VIC predict prosperous future
for Lewis.
MIR. Il. D. fGuntsman. vito and two
laugatcrs, Malta and Emma, arrived
at their old homo in Battle Mountain
by tho eastern bound passenger Train
On Sunday. tho 25ih ultlmo. from San
jose