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Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1877-12-22

THEinssnuity Of tn. Chinese Is not con-
fined to embroidery, ceramics and deco
rativo art. but extends to internal rsve-
nue.. One OF the latest schemes Of the
Celestial statesmen proposes . tar on
newborn infants. The sum 10 ridicu-
lously smali-about ten cents but Is
babies are n Of tho principal produc.
tons Of the Celestial Empire. and the
market 10 constantly overlooked. a
handsome revenue from this source Is
confidently expected. The tar falls due
when the infant enters the world. and
the happy father. without delay. steps
down to the captains Office and settles
Its passage. Strange Is IL may seem.
there are no deductions in cas- Of double
entry. This Is not in accordance with
natural equity or customs morality.
The tax for twins surely ought not to
exceed fifteen cents. for small jobbipg
lots. with the usual discount to the
trade.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1877-12-22

TuE philosophy Of evolution is illus
tratsd BY the development Of the germs
Of invention. Aworthy gentleman living
in Washington. Pennsylvania, recently
invented an oseillatory washing. machine.
The elementary idea was scarcely formu-
lated in his mind before 1t took . new
and higher shape, and 4 patent was
issued for an oscillatery churn. An.
other stage in the process Of evolution
rendered possible the invention Of an
oscillatory cradle. Here the ingenious
man has paused; but has he indeed
reached the perfect typsi Can be not
invent an oscillatory baby that may be
rocked in the oscillatory cradle. fed from
the oscillaiory ehurn and washed by the
oscillatory machinsi There are strong
grounds for believing that he can 10 1t.
for during his busy career he has not
only illustrated the versatility Of his
talent by scores Of useful devices. but
has paid special attention to the condi-
tons OF infancy. inventing. among other
things. . pneumatic mixer. . helm for
childrsn's slsds. and q dental anssthstic
a~pplicator.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1877-12-22
THE AJAX on %ELEcrRicrrY.

The present has been called the age Of
steam; there are many indications that
the coming age will be distinguished as
that Of electricity. The tslsgrsphs by
land and sea Of our day. seem likely to
bear about the same relation to the uses
Of electricity in . near future. that the
early inventions Of Newcomer and
Watts have to the railways and steam
ships and manufacturing industries Of
the present. The pathway Of the new
agsn. for promoting the welfare Of mar
kind has been fairly opened; ssms Of
the directions Of progress are indicated;
but the length and breadth Of the new
developments can scarcely be even i'm
agined. In rsspee, to providing Arti-
fetal light. the advances made within .
very brief period are enormous. From
week TO week new successes with the
electric light are recorded; hundreds Of
inventive minds are at work upea the
problem. simply to keep . tally Of the
improvements. a. they = aansuncsd.
is becoming difficult.
Not many weeks ago the electric
candle" capped what was then the
climax OF these Inventions. IL was
shortly followed oy the discovery Oh n
means OF dividing the hght into smaller
and numerous portions. the squivaisnt'
for ordinary use OF separate
ers. IL the hight IAN mus . ~non'
subdividsd' and Inc snan burners 10
their work vsn' the problem must -
nearly solved /; at all events . long
stride has been made In the right dirse.
ton. One OF the very latest improve
msnts consists in arranging electric can
dies in q series on q chandelier. 20 con
nsctsd that just before one Of them II
burnt out. another 10 lighted automatic
ally. and the illumination 10 continuous.
Hitherto the services Of an attendant
were required to- replace the carbons.
perhaps every three hours.
The most surprising thing about the
electric light Is its c~hespnsss in proper
ton to tho amount Of illumination.
The figures given by q correspondent Of
the Lsndon Glo1s. who Is evidently an
expert. seem almost incredible. He
says that the cost. including the run
ming OF q special steam engine. with the
labor Of q stoker. Is only tsnpence stsr-
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1877-12-22
MARKEY TO HooNAN.

IN REPLY TO WILLIAM SooNANs CARD
OF the itih instant. I have to say tina, I will
vres,ie him for frcm $So TO Z i.0S. he matcn
At the Baltic switch saloon. Gold Hill. n
Noonan meaAs basins-s let him put mp; Other
wise let hin shut mp.
EUoENE MARKEY.
Champion c liar and Elbow wresilss Of the
rtate OF >svadA
0eld NH. Dec. q, 1877. dea2 IL
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1877-12-22
ANUsEHESfs.

ADJUSTMENTS.
FIREMEH's AND CITIZENS
GRAND DRESS BALL,
Il ''' r.. =. an. BENEFIT -
Gold Hill Fire Department,
MINERS UNION HALL. GOLD MILL.
TUESDAY EVENING, DEC. rs, 1877.
Csunittse or Arranssneusa.
n Kennedy. Oh Eng MPwolf, DELEGATE
X Bcholl, Id Asst A Oarre. DELEGATE
A Jones. fors Liberty J II MILL. Liberty
\ Sslton, Fors YJ'ket WHv poane, Liberty
A McNsrtin. Y jacket IL Bisnchard, Lincoln
X Mercer, Y Jacket X BrJan. Lincoln
W Phipps. Y Jacket - French. Lincoln
Invitation Committee.
vnoMA CITY.
S n I Rn . s ssssa v VIZ r.S n ci fss. z
ooLp NIL
onieen and Members Of this Fire Department.
ARSON CIT.
Gus Lewis, Old Chief L Stsrns, Fore MOL
sTs SIi::i ~ ~ M 4, aEFisis''' Toi'S''
a a.a.s. ! s ss;S ssS:. G 3
sLvEa orr.
JIM Meainnis ? Kenyon
is Davenport
Reception Cemmiuee.
K ! TSily i ssssou
;s SsSS 4 YIN. s%.ss'n
MOL Care
Fissr Director.
A McMartin
Pissr Managers.
N Kennedy MP Wolf
wDo Gibson JLsny
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admitting Gentleman and Ladies.l
yarney's Celebrated Quadrille Band
Ilss been engaged for the occasion.
~ The Ladies' and 0entiemen's Hat and
Cloak Room viii DO In charge Of competeut
Aiteodants FREE or CnARaE. poetd
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1877-12-22
NEW TO-DAY.
NOTICE FOR REDEMPTION
STOREY County Court House Bonds.

NoricE Is usREBS GtvEv. IN PURsU.
IN ancs VI an order % the Board 81 County
Commissioner Of Story county. Nevada. made
and enterd In the minutes Of said board on the
nth day % I ecsmber. A. ID. 1871. that there
r~mains the sum Of r~eniy.hve Thousahd Dol
lars In the storey Connty Court House Fund, TO
he applied In the redemption of storey County
Court House u nd-. and that sealed propoealr
will BE- rec-iyed and the same are hereby In
vited, for the surrvnder % said STOREY County
Court House Bonos On ot befnre the sEvENTH
DAY VI JANUARY. A. ID. ISIS. 20 be made
and hled with tho Clerk Of SAID Board, % their
once. In the city of Virginia.
In witness vnsrrof ! have hereupto set my
hand and a11rsd the seal Of said Bard, this
f0;h day Of December, An ISM
tLs IL. MCFARLAND. County CLERK.
by II. Z. TnonrsoN. Deputy CLERK. dos2td
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1877-12-22

Published every wednesday In the NEWS, d
carefully prepared nom the MOST AurHEN
TIC souncEs, private and Otherwise. O q
the day OF publication. employing
IN able and efficient corps Of
reporters. II 10 universally
recognised % ofieial, and the
most RRK and RsillBLx m.
roRr OF the conditiou Of the mlnes OF
the OonsrocK OF "WAsMoE" section.
We also give the stest mining nnrnaiion
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1877-12-22
rhe Gold Hin Daily News has

now the largest and best
circulation Of any evening
newspaper published In the
State Of Nevada. It is
therefore the very best and
most efficient medium for
business, mining and all
other advertising.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-05-17

drawn. The summer heat will have
cooling influence on the passions of
recalcitrant Republicans. If peace
and contentment prevail in tho South
during the spring, summer and early
autumn months, the acguiescence of
the country in the Southern policy of
the President will be so nearly unIver-
sal that his assailants will lose most
of their supporters. OF course the
President and cabinet see their way
clear to maintain the army
until autumn. The soldiers will
perhaps be a month or two be-
hind in their pay, but as they do not
exceed the number authorized by Con-
gress they may be legally kept in ser
vice. Whatever Congress may do
about the army when it assemblies, it
certainly will not refuse to pay it for
service already rendered. A summer
session is undesirable on many ac-
counts, and we are glad that the ad-
ministration sees its-way clear to get
through without new appropriations
until fall. The country needs rest
from political excitement, and by Oc-
tober Congress will be able to form a
more intelligent judgment as to the
in which our trade and indus
try will be affected by the European
war, and the home and Southern pol
icy of the President will be seen in its
beneficent results.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-05-17
WHEN Galveston went to San Ante

WHEN Galveston went to San Ante
nio the whole delegation was received
as tie latter city's guests, and the costs
and hotel bills were paid by San Anto-
MO. In fact, guests badge in San
Antonio was the ''chalking of o hat. -
and cigars and whisky were free. Even
hsckmen recognized the law of kospi-
tality, and the cold Herald relaxed its
frozen grip on the West and declared
that it should stick to Texas at least
while Galveston was in San Antonio.
The generosity and hospitality of San
Antonio were boundless, and never was
an entertainment given by one to an
other city more successful. But when
those pauUres diaJles from San Antonio
went down to dine at Galveston and
look at their faces in the sea, which
they had only seen reflected in the ce
rulean sky, and when they proposed to
test the heralded virtues of oysters
and shrimps, and to ride along the
briny beach, 1t was then that San An
tonic found that its hospitality had
been lavished in vain upon stony hearts
of the parched sandy island, and many
an empty purse went back from the
island to the distant city of the plain,
and there is such enmity aroused be-
tween the two cities that San Antonio
talks of drawing up the narrow gauge
from Corpus Christi that it may have
a new gateway to the sea. Governor
Hubbard, with the military force at his
disposal, can keep the peace, we hope.
He need only silence the Herald and
the GGluestOnidn.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-05-17

A WASHINGTON dispatch states that
bill is in course of preparation, and
will be introduced in the House at the
extra session, reducing the army to
1000 men, and thereby effectIng a
saving to the government of many
millions. Now that the Indian wars
are at an end-and it is the opinion of
Gen. Sherman and Gen. Sheridan in
conference there on the subject that
we will have no more of them-and
the troops are to be used no longer for
police duty in the Southern Slater,
the advocates of retrenchment claim
that there is no need of a standing
army of the present size. In case this
reduction is made, and men alone are
discharged, we will have left an arm y
consisting wholly of officers.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-05-17
HON. ED. BURLESON BEAD,

1t becomes our painful duty to record
the death of Hon. Ed. Burleson, which
occurred at the house OF his sister, Mrs.
T. E. Sneed, in the city of Austin, at
8 A. NJ, on the twelfth Of May. But
a few months ago, Mrs. Burleson was
laid away in her grave, and the sad be-
reavement operated so heavily upon the
surviving husband as to bring upon
him a depression fatal in its conse-
quences. Since the death of his wife
Major Burleson has been in declining
health, weakening as the days passed
by, until death came and placed him
with the one he loved SO well.
Major Burleson was born November
26, 1926, in Upton county, Tennessee.
In 1881 his father, Gen. Ed. Burleson,
Of Texas revolutionary fame, moved to
ie1as and settled In Bastrop county,
Wnere the son grew up to manhood.
In lo4o the family moved to Hays
county, wherstAe subject of this sketch
established his home to the day of his
death. He married Miss Emma XVI.
daughter of Claiborne Kyle, of Hav,
county. He served as a soldier in tho
Mexican war under Ben McCunocb
and in 1857 was in the Texas frontier
service with Col. Ford, holding the
rank of major. During this service be
received severe wound in an Indian
engagement on the Rio Grande river,
the effects of which remained with him
through life. Though often called
upon to accept civil position, he refused
in all instances, except when elected
80 delegate to the Constitutional Con-
vention of 1876, in which body he
served with distinction. Again, he
acted as a commissioner for locating
the Eastern State Penitentiary.
In social life Major Burlesor
was gentleman of rare parts
Love and kindness were his leading
attributes, and association with him
was conducive to honorable and emo.
bling impulses. His acquaintances
honored and respected him, and his
family regarded him almost in the light
of a divine impersonation. Friends
and relatives and State have lost much
in his death, and his memory will
live with many as the brightest
along their life's journey. His
happy matrimonial connection was
productive of a numerous family oil
children, seven of whom are living,
four boys and three girls. Their be-
reavement and grief elicits the deepest
sympathy.
The body of the deceased will be
buried, as he desired, beside that Of
his wife, at the family burying ground
near San Marcos.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-05-17

IT is terrible story which tells of
the catastrophe in the Welsh colliery
OF IroeoyFhiw. A number of
men were entombed wlras~ walls
of coal some hundreds of yards
in thickness, in which they remained
alive for ten days, living upon the
ends of candles, while brave men were
cutting their way through the inter
minable wall of coal to release them.
The event created such a stir in Eng
land that for the moment even the war
was forgotten, and bulletins were pub
lished in London on the receipt of each
telegram from the mine reporting the
relief party's progress. For the ten
days men relieving one another worked
night and day and succeeded in saving
the greater number of the lives. The
whole story, in all it's singular details
of horror, reminds US of the terrible
evening in this city when four men
were buried beneath the earth that fell
from the sides of the deep ditch in
front of the STATESMAN Office.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-05-17


The Ohio ReUie1o says that one of the
worst features of the age in journalism
is the unprincipled advocacy of party.
What honest, fair-minded man but
must feel natural contempt rise in his
breast every time he picks up a paper
of his own party for Its partisanship9
And not only that, but worse, for its
shameless perverslon of facts to suit
partisan ends. He can never trust its
version of any great event which has
any positive connection or identity
with party. In any question OF public
interest very few editors have the
moral courage to face popular opinion
and assert the right as against party
clamor. Our recent presidential cam
paign was characterized by universal
and persistent misrepresentation of the
South. If we ever hope to leave
to our children republic which
can defy for all time to come
oil IdCLIOus, dlA OSSiSHo VI InC
Caesars and Napoleons of the Republic,
all enemies, we must, as nation, edu-
cate our people up to this standard OF
an independent public spirited press.
1t will then become the one thing
needed in the Roman and French re-
publics, the great teacher of the peo-
pie, the army of their liberties. There
are great dailIes in the Union, but
which of them but when named, its
name is synonymous with the party
whose cause it espouses, and you know
beforehand how rose colored IN that
direction will be its editorialsl Not so
the New York Herald. We would re-
spectfully ask the New York Times, or
Its great peer the Tribune, or even the
World to publish the editorial of the
Herald of the twenty-third instant, en-
titled, 'sLines of the New Departure
What the South needs is Justice and
Common Sense" While we would
like to except q sentence or two, as to
the Democratic party, We must admit
that the common sense view Of the
situation, North and South, is pre-
sented in a manner which none of the
dailies mentioned, and host Of smaller
FRY, would ever do under any cIrcun-
stances
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-05-17

HAYES AND TILDEN are to meet at
table Monday week. They both dine
that day with the New York Chamber
of Commerce. Hayes is somewhat the
guest of lank and wrinkled Uncle Sam
my. The latter dare not violate laws
of decorum and it is impossible that
the President should, and we may
therefore look on calmly while the
two are hobuobbing with one another.
But suppose it were fashionable, as one
hundred years ago when George Wash
ington "preferred rum," for the wined
and dined to indulge a game at cards.
Wouldn't Sammy wool the President3
Jay Gould and Jim Fisk discovered al
most a match in the railroad wrecking
in the nice, prim, precise and oily
Uncle Sammy, and we would like to
see him innocently strike Hayes with
'old sledge."
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-05-17
THE COTTON COMPRESS THE
BADGE OF SOUTHERN FOLLY.

The greater the density Of compressed
cotton and the longer it remains in
this solidifed condition the greater
the injury sustained by the staple
when subjected to processes employed
in beating it into Its natural condition
and In making the fibers parallel with
one another. The best and most dura-
BILE cloth and sheeting and the very
strongest is that made from cotton
taken directly from the fields and
hauled in baskets to Southern cotton
mills. A thread, made from such
cotton of equal weight per yard with
another made from q cotton bale COM
pressed and shipped to Boston, wi
sustain one-half more weight. More
over, the thread made from the uncom-
pressed cotton will retain degree of
glossiness and smoothness by which
it can readily be distinguished from the
material that has been compacted TO
solidity by hydraulic pressure. 1t thus
happens that cotton goods made in
the South command in St. Louis ten
and fifteen per cent. more per yard
than the best fabrics, of equal weight,
woven in Northern mills. The saving
thus effected Is enough to insure the
ultimate transfer of New England cot
ton mills to the Gulf States. The very
machinery employed in Strengthening
the bent fibers of compressed cotton
costs enough to induce manufacturers
to prefer the South a. the site of man
ufacturing establishments. And when
We remember that the warmth
of the Southern sun obviates
the necessity for costly registers and
heating apparatus, when We save here
the cost of transferring the raw ma
terial to Boston and of returning yarns
and cloth to the South, it must follow
these savings constituting q sum GER
tainly twenty-five per cent. of the cost
Of cotton goods-that every mill owner
Of the North, sooner or later, will
transfer his machinery to Southern cit
ies like Austin. Here water power is
boundless. Here the only snow we
have is seen in the glowing whiteness
Of autumnal cotton fields; here bread
and beef and fuel and clothing cost
the least possible. Here two cOmpet-
ing railway lines gather in the products
of cotton fields and distribute those Of
the mills. These plain facts tell n
why the mill owners of GeorgiA.
skilled in the bunness, have steadily
made enormous profits. while those Of
New England have become bankrupt
or been forced to suspend production
that is worse than proftless. These
simple, palpable facts have often in
dueed the srArEsNAx to inveigh
against the erection Of these compress
ing establishments in the South. Their
owners are ippelled by selt-intsrest to
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-05-17

prevent the erection of Southern cot
ton mills. They become organized as
sociatiOns deeply interested in sending
wealth out of the South. They exert
themselves to prevent the home
consumption of the raw material.
They are interested in preventing the
creation of manufacturing villages IN
the suburbs of Southern towns. Wo-
men and children IN the South must
remain useless and helpless, unem-
ployed and dependent adjuncts of So
ciety. The needle and washtub are
the only resources, except that which
is nameless, of impoverished, unfortu-
nate women. In very truth, the cotton
compress is the symbol of sin and sug-
gestiVe of the greatest and most ruin
GUS defect in the social system of the
South. The North realizes these facts
and despises our folly, and maintains
its mills that it may maintain, without
ruin to popular morals, and without
universal beggary, its vast hives of in
dustry, about which schools and
churches spring into existence, and
about which there are cleanly homes
and pretty gardens and bright-eyed
children as full of intelligence as of
that proud spirit which distinguishes
the self-supporting man or woman from
the helpless beggar about the streets
A cotton compress is the badge of ruin
and poverty worn by Southern towns
and cities, significant of their want of
wisdom, and of falsehood to the peo-
pie and country that sustains them,
and we will bless the day when not
one exists IN the Gulf States.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-05-17

THE Archbishop of Quito, DR.. Igna-
clio Checa, who was raised to that see
in 1868, was poisoned on Good Friday
while saying mass, strychnine having
been introduced into the sacramental
wine. There is great excitement, of
course, in the Ecuadorian capital over
the event, the perpetrators not having
yet been discovered, and an attempt
has been made to attribute the crime to
the Freemasons, who are regarded in
Ecuador, as they are in many other
parts of South America and Mexico, as
the deadliest enemies of the church.
No evidence warranting this imputa-
ton, however, seems to have been pro-
duced. 1t is the misfortune of Ecuador
that the politics of the country are very
closely involved in the relations be-
tween the church and the State; and
the republic in this respect is far be-
hind either Peru or Chill. The So
called Liberals of Ecuador have shown
themselves on several occasions of late
to be much mole thoroughly impreg-
mated with the Jacobinlsm of Revolu-
tionary France in 1892 than with the
love of constitutional government OF
the principles of religious and political
liberty.