davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-11-29
.'PoKER Joe's" Ten COMMAN DMENTs

-'POKER JOE'S" TEN COMMANDMENTS
a correspondent writing from Gen.
tral City, near Deadwood, gives the
latest Black Hills version of the Ten
Commandments, which have become
the common law of the land
We had to hang a man here the 9th :
er day. We'd been putting it off on
| account of lack of time and bit of
| sentiment, till the morals of our town
| had become as bad as those of Chica-
go. In all camps and towns of the
hills. there are certain understood
things. They form sort of second
| Ten Commandments, and read as fol-
| lows:
\ /. Thieves and robbers will be
driven out of camp for the first offense
hung for the second.
>. The man who picks a quarrel
had better pick up his traps.
5. Men convicted of murder shall
be hung on the same day.
4. Passing bogus money will entitlt
4 chap to pass out of town, everybody
taking kick at him rs he goes.
S. Don't covet your neighbor'
wife.
6. Lying should be discouraged.
I. Whack up even on all ''finds."
s. No Sinking in an Indian fight.
3 All notes of hand must be pal,
when due, or down goes the maker.
- 10. Rebellion against the legal au
thority of the town. shoves the rebe
out and contiscates his claim.
Most any man can live up to thes
laws and not shed hair and the ma
who doesn't mean to, will. sooner. O
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1877-01-04

Railroads and Internal improvements
-Chubbuck. Ga1rsrd, Comins. Farrell
and Cassidy.
Mines and Mining - Scultz. Blair,
! Stewart, Stampley and Dickinson.
Agriculture and Ross,
Shepperd and Martin.
EDgrossment-Grimes Chubbrck and
King.
Claims - S.ampley. Dickinson and
Shepperd.
Observation-Disclosures, Stone and
Edwards.
Public Printing--Farrell, Cassidy and
Mcconnell.
Military aud Indian Affairs-W ester-
field. Cresswell and King.
Pubic Lands-Edwards, Blair and
Stone.
Fed raj Relations-S:ewast. Cassidy
and King.
Mileage-Rickey. Chubbuck aid Blair.
Public Morals-Piper. Wesaoatt and
Creswell.
State Library-Sheppesd, Ross and
Grimes.
Supplies and Expenditures - Blair,
Dickinson and Martin.
State Affairs-Martin, Westerdeld and
Comins.
Roads and Bridges--MoCoanell. Ross
and hickey.
Rules and Joint Rules Dickinson,
Boardolan and Schultz.
State Prison-Garsard, Comins and
Grimes.
Hickey asked indefinate leave of alb
sence for Senator Dickinson. Leave
granted.
Cohn, Of Elko. entered a protest
against T. N. Stone holding the Office of
Senator. as he at the time of his election
was holding the Office of postmaster. On
motion of Shepperd, the matter was re-
ferred to the committee on elections.
The message of the Governor was then
read by the Secretary. Afterwards Blair
offered the following resolution:
Resolved, that there be printed. on
card board, one hundred copies of the
standing committees of the Senate for
the use of its members. Adopted.
Ross offered the following resolution:
three Senators be appointed to ascertain
how many COMMITTEES rooms will be re-
duired during the session; how many, if
any. can be obtained in the Capitol build.
ing, and the lowest cost that suitable
rooms outside can be rented for, and that
a report be made as soon as convenient
to the Senate. Adopted. Ross. Ed
wards and Martin were appointed by the
Chair.
Notice Of the organization of the House
was received, also message from the same
in regard to the printing of the Govern.
or's Message.
An amendment 10 print fifteen hun.
dred instead OF twenty-five hundred, was
lost.
Cassidy moved to concur in the AS |
5embly bill, relating to printing the
Motion carried, and after
wards an adjournment took place.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1877-01-04
MARRIED.

In Sacramento. Cal, on Sunday. December
81, 1876, at the residence of the brides parents
BY Rev Mr.. Briggs. Mr.. Trenmore Cofin OF
Carson City, Nov. and Mrs. Helen L. Gilbert OF
Sacramento. Cal.
Althouh tho old year had almost gone. yet i.
was At that on its last day the contamination
Of union for life should take place, and that
. happy couple should commence the new with
the hopes and joys Of welded life already be-
gun Mr.. Coffin has many friends In Carso q.
and his bride is welcomed to her future home
by large circle Of the same. We congratulate
them BOTH and In this glass of ruby. sparkling
wine We drink to their health; We wish them .
safe voyage on the rough sea of life.
In Bingham, December -. 1876. by Rev. D. J.
Presbyterian Church in Carson City, to Miss
cons;o.
1t was the holiday time Of the year in mora
senses than enc. Christmas. that CHEEKY day.
had already passed, but tho merry making and
joys Of that happy season only reached its eli.
max with the persons named whom three days
after they were joined in the holy bonds Of S.
cred wedlock. And il sharing her husbands
joys and tolls and cares of pastoral life, may
the bride also share the esteem and popularity
which the bridegroom has already attained in
Carson, and may the future of both be streWn
about with fragrant flowers, flowers which
bloom in the dew and sunshine Of the heart.
and which bear delicious fruit both in this
world and in Heaven to come.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1877-01-04
Senate-Third DIV.
Assembly-Third Day.

Members called to order at ii A. N.
Lieutenant Governor in the chair.
Roll called and quorum present.
Prayer offered by Rev. J. D. Ham
mond, of the NJ. E. Church.
After the reading and approving of the
minutes, the following standing commit
tees were announced:
On Eiections-Wescoatt, Martin, Nc
Cornell, Farrell aud Schultz.
On Corporations-King. Westerfielj,
Piper, Ricky and Stamply.
On County and County Boundaries
Creswell, Wescoatt and Edwards.
OnJudiciary-Baker, Edwards, Board.
man, Creswell and Stewart.
Ways and Means-Comins, Cassidy,
Westerfield, Piper and Garrard.
Education-Stone, Wescoatt and Club.
buck.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1877-01-04

and then signed by the Governor him
self.
Many of the subjects proposed, are
supreme in their Importance. and the
proper discussion Of the same will be
ono of the interesting features of the
present Legislature.
The New York herald., 1877-07-29
The Famine in British India.

In the midst of the excitement caused by
domestic disturbanc and by the war now
in progress in the East few persons remem-
Der that famine Of unexampled severity
and involving an immense extent of country
is making awful havoc among the unfortu-
nate natives of British India The march
of this dreadful visitation is already passing
beyond the control of the 'famine secreta-
ries," to whom we took occasion to refer in
q previous article on this subject The
officials who represent red tape and statis-
tics when surrounded by starving millions
of Hindoos, are growing anxious. The
Marquis of Salisbury, the Secretary of State
for India, admits ''that our prospects, in
stead of Frightening, have, during the
past few weeks, become more gloomy"
He adds that 'the physical circum-
stances are such that even if we
cannot prevent any widespread suffer-
ing from actual famine-which very
much doubt-there can be no doubt
that severe epidemics will follow and COM
plete it's work" The facts that the rains
have been exceptionally light in Southern
India during the season, that all the beasts
of burden have died of the drought and that
railroad communication is wanting with
the stricken districts, suggest an appalling
picture Of the future There can be no
doubt that q second years famine is COM
mencing with all its nameless horrors.
The canals are dry, the rivers at their
lowest levels, and the railroads that have
absorbed much of the wealth of the country
in their construction, though cleverly laid
down for purely military purposes, do not
convey food to the helpless inhabitants.
England is sending troops to guard and
keep open the road to India. Unless her
rule in that country has different results
within few years guarding the road to
India will become as absurd as it would be
to put sentries on the edge of Sahara to pre-
vent trespass on it's desert wastes
The New York herald., 1877-07-29
Marshal MacMahon mt Bourges.

The speech at Bourges of the Marshal
President of France is telegraphed as an ex-
planation of his policy; but it has very
much the tone of an apology to the nation
for the escapade Of the recent change which
it endeavors to commend as a consequence
of good intention. ''His sole aim had
been the maintenance of peace abroad and
constitutional order at home" Although
he had really alarmed all friends Of order by
the fear of a reactionary revolution, that
was not his intention; and though he had
imperilled the relations of France with
Germany by seeming to make the politics
of his country subordinate to papal theories,
that also was remote from his purpose.
This is q sort Of plea which implies that
man does not know what is the meaning
and obvious consequence of his own acts
that he has no political conceptions-that he
should resign or leave politics alone. But
the Marshal will do neither. He is conf
dent that the nation will choose representa-
tives that will support his policy and 'limit
the conflict, which if prolonged can only be
hurtful to the interests Of the country"
With whom is his conflict? If his declara-
ton of his patriotic intentions is just there
is no person or party opposed to his policy.
The New York herald., 1877-07-29
In and Out OF Town.

There does not seem to be the usual rush
from the city this year. One reason, proba-
bly. is the dulness of the times and the gen.
eral desire to economize. but another, and
more important one, is the comparative COOL
ness of the summer The average heat OF
June last year was 73 $40, and for June Of
this year. II 4-1O. In July, 1876, the average
was SO $40, and for twenty-eight days of
the present month, rs 6-10 The difference
of eight degrees is very perceptibly felt in
large city, but the mere registry of the ther-
mometer does not fully measure the
effect of heat. There were maLy days
last year without rainfall, and the city
was baked in q dry atmosphere This season
there has been plenty of rain, and there
has been comparatively little discom-
tort from dust. Our citizens have found
the summer pleasant thus far, and
while the country has lost none of
it's charms the town is without
some of its pains. Hundreds Of families
have therefore remained at home, and have
not regretted their decision. Besides this,
there are so many opportunities for short
holidays in the vicinity of New York that
both the mountains and the sea may
be said to be at our gates. In
these respects it is the most favored Of
American cities. The Bay and the Park are
priceless treasures, and it is to be regretted
that the latter is not better appreciated. In
the early morning the Central Park is
paradise of shade and GOODNESS yet
there are thousands who endure the
discomforts of village boarding houses
and torrid seashores while the most
beautiful garden in America lies un-
noticed at their doors. Those who must
remain at home are wise to consider that
they are not shut up in an inland town, but
have at any time, within the reach of an
hours travel, all the beauty of the woods
and all the grandeur of the ocean.
The New York herald., 1877-07-29
Parnell and Rfgxar.

Having no great admiration for many OF
the antics Of so-called Irish patriots in the
British Parliament, we are, we believe, the
more ready to recognize Legitimate struggle
when it is initiated. In the tilibustering
campaign of the two Irish members who
have lately so tried the patience of John
Bull il seems to us that fair occasion has
been taken to make effective opposition to
measures of legislation by means that the
in Parliament have 80 much neglected that
field for the assertion of their opinions that
it is, perhaps. not strange that English
members have acquired the habit Of
regarding them as not possessed of the same
rights and privileges as themselves. They
have had their eyes opened on that subject
by the experience that these two members,
adroitly and persistently using the devices
of parliamentary law, have managed to make
an opposition so effective as to paralyze action
on all obnoxious points. It has lately been
endeavored to overwhelm one Of these two
House. and the proposed addition to the
rules, as given in our dispatches yesterday,
is related to this subject. TWAS endeavored
to suspend the functions of Mr.. Parnell by
declaring him in contempt Of the House, but
the very fact that it is necessary to make
new rules on the point in dispute shows
that the Interpretation of the rules as they
existed was at least open to doubt. If new
rule is necessary to prevent certain course
that course cannot be plainly in dereliction
of an existing rule.
The New York herald., 1877-07-29
The Health Boards Pest Holes.

The Health Boards Pest Holes.
The citizens OF Harlem are certainly to be
commiserated, for the outrages they suffer
at the hands of the Health Board are be-
coming intolerable. Not satisfied with per-
mitting the Harlem fats to be made dump
ing ground for the city filth this precious
Board, composed of experts in chemistry
and medicine, has issued its license under
which the district is fast becoming manure
depot for Southern New York State and East
ern New Jersey. With ruthless disregard
for the commonest rights OF their fellow cit
izens, and in contravention of the very pur-
pose for which they receiver public pay. these
officials of the so-called Health Board toll
crate nuisances in Harlem that community
of Digger Indians would not permit near
their miserable villages. And yet we live
in the Empire City, the great commercial
metropolis of the continent, the centre OF
wealth, culture and luxury. The truth is
that these Health Board ghouls have never
been made to feel the weight of public CEN
sure, They are secure in having the re-
moving power in the hands of Mayor who
is as plastic as putty in their hands They
laugh ut the protests of press and public
because it pays to take abuse. Let no one
suppose that Mr. Kane. the manure man, or
Judkins the manufacturer of "bone dust"
can carry on his filthy business without ''see-
ing somebody about it. 1t would be con-
trary to the system controlling the admins
tration of our city government that any in
dividual should make money at the public
expense without coming to on arrangement
with the officials. Now the HERALD is on
the track of these traders in the city
health, and when the chain of evidence
against them is complete the people will be
informed as to who they are. We give this
morning full particulars rs to the number,
location and character of the pest holes
licensed by the Board Of Health, and we
hope soon to be in position to tell chow
much it was worth"
The New York herald., 1877-07-29
Tweed's Estate.

BY order of the Supreme Court all the
creditors of Tweed are to meet Ill Septem-
Der next to agree among themselves as to
whether they will join in petition in favor
of the assignment of all his property by
Tweed in favor Of his creditors. This step
is initiated by Mr.. Butt, a creditor for one
thousand dollars. Perhaps this thousand
dollars may be sum of great consequence
to Mr.. Butt but, if what has been lately
reported OF the estate still in Tweed's hands
is true, the sum is so disproportionate to
the demand that the suspicion Is naturally
excited that there are in this mannuvre
other purposes than such as are declared on
the surface.
The New York herald., 1877-07-29
Austro-Hungary and the War.

In another column will be found very
interesting conversation of HERALD corre-
spondent with M. Tisza. the head of the
Hungarian government under the Emperor.
Naturally this distinguished statesman,
in his references to the complications of
European politics, speaks in guarded terms,
but between the lines is perceptible that
sentiment toward Russia which might be of
evil augury for the legions of the
Gear beyond the Danube, if discretion were
not wisely considered the better part of
all policy in the acts of Austria. In this
interview the Minister repeats his wise and
politically sound dictum that no nation
can afford to submit it's policy to the in
Auence of the sympathies or antipathies of
it's people. From his words it is to be in
ferred that the one ounce which would
practically overload the Hungarian camel
would be the attempt of Russia to establish
q new Slavic State near the Hungarian
frontier.
The New York herald., 1877-07-29

idle. The opening up Of the newly annexed
district would give an impetus to real estate
that would soon make itself benefcially felt
in all branches of trade. We should speedily
recover quarter of million of population
which legitimately belongs to us, but has
been driven to Brooklyn and New Jersey by
the impossibility of finding q COM
Portable, healthful home in New York
at reasonable rent. Our return
ing prosperity would stimulate capital
to investments that would give employment
to labor, as we'll as encourage the city to
proceed with works of public improvement,
such as the improvement of the docks and
of the lower portion of the city. This is no
imaginary picture, but is fair deduction
from facts We have been in condition OF
stagnation both as to public and private
work because no person could fore
see how long it would be before we
should have o revival Of business activ-
ity. When that comes confidence will
be restored and capital now, like labor,
lying idle, will seek investment. Rapid
transit would revive business activity more
speedily than anything else. The worst
enemies of the laboring classes are the
enemies of rapid transit, the street railroad
corporations, the ferry and downtown tene-
ment house interests and the narrow-sighted
property owners who fight against that great
public necessity. For their own personal
ends they withhold from the city an inn
provement that would give an impetus to
business insure work for unemployed labor
and revolutionize the abominable and dam
gerous tenement house system. If the
workingmen of New York were half as un-
scrupulous and selfish as the opponents of
rapid transit we might to-day have reason to
blush for the metropolis.
The New York herald., 1877-07-29

renee OF such disorders as have occurred
during the week. Mr.. Mccarthy believes
that labor is the glory of man, and hence he
views with disfavor modern Communism,
which would divide the fruits of industry
and thrift with the lazy and the istless.
He will speak his mind, therefore, on these
things to-day. In the days Of the apostles
the preaching of st. Paul at Ephesus stirred
up the mob and caused a riot in that city.
DIR. Holme sees some parallel between that
Smeute and ours, and hence he will review
its rise and its overthrow and see If ours
could not or cannot be quelled as
that one was. Mr.. Esray also will
draw such lessons from the strike
as it presents to his mind Mr.. Noble, OF
England, will tell the Temperance Union
some things about labor reform with which
Americans are not as familiar as they ought
to be. England has passed through the
transition state in which American capital
and labor now find themselves, and Mr..
Noble, fresh from that land, will speak OF
what he knows and has witnessed. 1t is
morally certain that DR.. Deems does not
include strikes and riots among the things
that have been created for Christ, about
which he will speak to-day, though DIR.
Osborn may include them among the phases
of iniquity and sin whose prevalence can be
reconciled with the doctrine Of an over
ruling Providence The life OF the patriarch
Jacob will be reviewed by DR.. Wescott and
the universal demonstration of spiritual ma
fertilization be given by DR.. White. OF
course what can be universally demonstrated
is science, and hence we have another
added to the many sciences already known
to mankind.
The New York herald., 1877-07-29

The WEATuER.--All the territory north of
the Tennessee line and east of the Missouri is
now within the margin of an extensive depres-
sion. The areas of highest barometer are
in the South Atlantic and the Western
States and Territories south of the Platte
Valley. The barometric gradient desccnds to-
ward the Gulf of Mexico in the Southwest.
Rains have been general through the lake region,
the Ohio Valley, the Middle and Eastern States,
and also in the Western Gulf Owing to the
general uniformity of pressure within the low
area the winds have been and continue to be
very moderate. The temperature has fallen
decidedly on the Middle and North Atlantic
coast, but has risen in the West. 1t
IA somewhat lower in the Southern States.
As the high pressure advances from the west
ward toward the Mississippi Valley during to-
day a ''northcr7 will be experienced on the
Texas coast, but the indications do not point to n
,eycrc blow. The weather in New York to-day
"a be cloudy or partly cloudy and COOL proba-
A. .-;tL ssiaA-
The New York herald., 1877-07-29
A Despica BILE Business.

The honest workingmen of New York con-
recent excitement The authorities, the
police, and above all the citizen soldiery,
gave satisfactory proof of their devotion to
law and order and of their readiness to
ignore personal convenience and risk per-
sonal danger in preserving the public peace.
How painful is it at such time as
this to find few miserable exceptions to
this devotion to the public good How
humiliating to learn that some business
men have so dem eaned and degraded them
selves as to make the attendance of thei
employees to their duty, as members Of the
National Guard, reason for their dis
missal We are in receipt of communica-
tions which assure us that this has actually
been done; that some employers have dis
charged men in their service who,
as members Of companies in the
National Guard, obeyed the call of
their superior officers and reported
at their armores for duty. We also learn
that there are other business firms who gave
their employees leave of absence without any
reduction of pay. This was no more than
their duty, for it was in their service and
for the protection of their property that
their employees shouldered their muskets to
guard the peace OF the city. 1t is to be
hoped that the men who have lost situations
from such a cause will speedily find new,
as they certainly will find more just and
generous, employers.
The New York herald., 1877-07-29
Rapid Transit and the Public
Health.

The increasing mortality from diarrheal
diseases during the present month has
directed attention to the unhealthy con-
dition of our crowded tenement houses, and
has induced a charitable movement in aid
of the children of the poor, who are the
principal sufferers from such maladies.
Visits are made and relief extended in the
shape of medical attendance and nourlsh-
ment, and no doubt some lives are saved and
some deaths rendered less painful through
these commendable and Christian efforts.
But the aid, timely as it is, leaves untouched
the cause Of the evil. Medicine and whole
some food can do no permanent good
while the foul air of overcrowded neigh
borhoods, badly ventilated buildings and
streets in which garbage is suffered to
lie and rot, is breathed night and
day by the tenement house victims Chill
dren can no more live and thrive in such an
atmosphere than flowers could grow and
flourish in a close, dark cellar. The pinched
face, the shrivelled limbs and the sad, old
thing more to save human life and relieve
human suffering than can be accomplished
by drugs and diet. Our abominable tene-
ment house system must be changed unless
we desire to rival Bethlehem in the
slaughter of the innocents, and to plant in
the tainted districts the seeds of pestilence
which may one day reap its harvest in the
richest as we'll as in the poorest quarters of
the city.
The statistics Of the Health Department
for the several wards furnish food for re-
Election, and show what lies at the basis Of
our heavy mortality from the complaints
superinduced by the want of pure air. In
that district or block of the city lying south
of East Fourteenth street and east of the
Bowery and Catharine street, containing
the Seventh, Tenth, Eleventh, Thirteenth
and Seventeenth wards, the deaths from all
causes and from diarrh9al diseases for the
second week of the present month"; as COM
pared with the area and population, were as
follows:-