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The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1877-11-11
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The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1877-11-11
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

NOTICE ~ HEREBY GIVEN by TuE US.
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The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1877-11-11

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The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1877-11-11
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

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tho creditors Of nnd all pcreons having Claims
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The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1877-11-11

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The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1877-11-11
THE QUESTION

The QUESTION
las OFTEN BEEN ASKED, WY 10 IT
IL that tho establishment of -
b.. a. L. BADT
II tho nIoIt Popular IIuAin-.. ,1,
In Eastern Ncvadn1
Wo AnSwcr, that
GOOD GOODS.
LOW PRICES.
soUAEE DEALING
Aud strict attention. 10 buAIpc.1 a-o .-,,,r,..
that are bound 10 gain rccosn,,ion
and camnot possibly fail
10 sCcuroIh
trade.
THIS FALL SEASON
NC h"Se made stupcndcus cID..1 10 dis!raee
all our competitors and have no doubts for our
nnal success. Our
Stock Is Full and Complete
III every department, and haA bren GeIrc:.I
""h Lac Sr'al,bi u care fIUn the Inr.e.: cs
""isnncuts on tins coast. We hive 40 :c,r Of
Contradiction, when We say that
We E"y Goods 30 Per Cent. Cheaper
Uhnn Our OppoSitioui
AM 'h' single 'act explains THE reason why we
''n rfi"i' 10 aid do sell CHEAPER ii,an any
ho"'r IN 81. ilne U; bLsflcas bct~cca YI.-,i.I,
and Omaha.
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1877-11-11
THIS FALL SEASON

nc h"Se made stupcndcns cfD.:1 to dIsirace
MI our competitors and have no doubts for our
nnal SUCCESS. Our
The Russellville Democrat., 1877-04-05

fixed at both ends 50 that when force acts on one end in the direction of the length of the bone, it tends to bend, and often cracks and breaks across.
 Now, a fractured coIlar-bone would be a serious thing for gorilla. He could no longer lift up his arm, and he would be in constant peril and difficulty here nature has given him, not only very strong and straight bone, but has oy the sshigh" shoulder posture, rendered faii on the top of it almost impossible. A fall would probably injure the upper part of the arm, which is well protected the by thick cushion of muscle, flesh and hairy skin which covers the bone. Tray eIers and hunters have noticed the rapidity and ease with which the gorilla moves when off the ground, and when the size and the weight of the animal are considered, it becomes evident that not only must it have great muscular power, buta stout heart, good circulation, and capital "wind." It must be re- membered, also, that it is great eater of vegetable food, and that it has to con- sume large quantity to obtain sup ply of nourishment; Tn other words, it has very capacious stomach, which has to be carried about and kept very we'll filled.- Casselps Nationnl History.
The Russellville Democrat., 1877-04-05
THOMPSON OF "ANeELs.v

It is the story of Thompson-of Thompson, the
 hero of "Angelsn; Frequently drunk was Thompson, but always DO. 1sgbt and free Was inc touch of Thompson upon his Great the mortality incident upon that lightness
 and freedom; Yet not happy or, gay was Thompson the nero 0i Often spoke to himself in accents of anguish ana Why do make the graves of the frivolous youth
 who in folly ...: IA. Thoughtlessly pass my Iesoisc', io'se'ans ''
 lightness and freedom "why, in my daily walks, does the surgeon drop The undertaken smile, and the sculptor of grave
 st. ne marbles Lean on his chisel and gaze9 Icare not o'ermuch Simple am in my ways save but for this light-
 ness and freedom" So spake that pensive man-this Thompson, the Bitterly smiled to himself as he strode through the
 chapparal, muslng. "why, indeed ry whispered M the sage brush, that
 bent heath his feet non elastic.
  Pleasant indeed was that morn that dawned OCT
 the bar-room at " Angels" Where in their manhood's prime was gathered the
 pride of the hamlet. Six took sugar in theirs" and nine 10 the par
 keeper lightly Smiled as they said, Well, JIHl, you can give us
 our regular fusil" Suddenly, as the grey hawk swoops down on the
 barn-yard, alighting Where, pensively picking their com, the favorte
 bullets are gathered, So in that festive bar-room dropped Thompson, the
 hero of Angels" Grasping his weapon dread with his pristine light
 ness and freedom. Never word he spoke; divestins himself of his
 garments, Danced fhe war dance of the playful yet truculent
 Modoc, Uttered a single whoop, and then in the accents of spake, behold in me a Crested Jay Hawk of the
 Mountain " Then rose palld mana man sick with fever and
 ague; Small was he and his step was tremulous, weak and Slowly Deringer drew and covered the person of
 Thompson, Said in his ieebles. pipe, "pm a Bald Headed
 Snpe of the Valley" As on it's native plains the kangaroo, startled by
 hunters, Leaps with successive bounds and hurries away to So leaped the '' Crested Hawk" and quietly hop Ran, and occasionally shot, that Bald Headed
 Snipe of the Vslev.' Val the festive bar still fingered the people ol
 Angels" Hearing afar m the woods the petulant pop of the
 pistol; Never again returned the Crested Jay Hawk oi
 the Mountain; Y" Never again was seen the Bald Headed snipe ol
 the Valley" Yet in the hamlet of "Anges,h when trucuent
 speeches are uttered, When bloodshed and life alone will atone for some
 trifng misstatement, Maidens and men in th2ir prime recall the last hero
 of Angels D. Think of and vainly regret the " Bald- Headed
 Snipe of the Yalleyl"
 Bret Hdrfe ia "Pack."
The Russellville Democrat., 1877-04-05
SAVED BY 4 BOTTLE.

About five weeks ago there was washed
 ashore on the coast of one of the Orkney
 islands bottle containing an appeal
 from some starving castaways who had
 been wrecked on St. Kilda, the most in-
 accessible of the Hebridean Islets. Mir.
 Sands, a Scottish artist, had landed on
 that lonely..rock in small boat, and on
 January l7 an Austrian vessel was
 wrecked of the cliffs and nine survivors
 were washed ashore. The islanders had scarcely enough provisions for them selves, but they generously shared what they had with the ten castaways Star vation stared them gil in the face. Mir. Sands wrote the message containing this information, and flashing the bottle to the life-buoy, and rigging small sail, cast it adrift. The little craft drifted to the Orkneys, and was picked up by the islanders. The gunboat Jackall was dispatched to the island with store of provisions, and arrived not day too soon, for the islanders and their guests were starving. The artist and sailors were landed at Greenock about March |, after dangerous voyage. The London Telegraph states that St. Kinda belongs to the Lacleod, whose family has owned it for two centuries. Over the estate he reigns with despotism as unquestioncd IS that of the czar. The whole trade of the poor people is his factors monopoly, for until Mir. Sands got boat for thema ew months ago they were unable to undertake passage to Lewis and sell heir produce for themselves. They at ribute to his neglect to send them upplies this season, when their corn crop vas failure, the staraitened state Of heir sesources when the Austrian cast ways were thrown on their charity.
The Russellville Democrat., 1877-04-05
STRENG I'll OF THE GORILLA.

Considering the bulk of the body of a
 gorilla, and the nature of the move.
 ments of climbing. it is to be expected
 that those muscles and bones which are
 connected with the blade-bone should be
 large and strong. This is remarkably the
 case. On examining the back of a
 gorilla one is struck with the great pro- jection of the back-bones in the neck. In
 man each backbone or vertebra has a projection, or spine, which sticks out
 backwards more or less. These are small
 in the region of the neck, but in the
 gorilla these spines are very long there
 and give peculiar hump-necked ap-
 pearance. Their size, however, is in
 exact relation with the size and strength of the muscles attached to them, and
 some of these go to the blade-bone to
 assist in the act of climbing.
 It is this hump-necked appearance, and the reund-backed look produced by
 the great size of the blade bones which
 makes gorilla so ugly about the chest and head, but beauty is of much less use in an African forest than good, stout bones and active muscles. The hind part of the neck does not form graceful curve as in we'll made man, but pro- jecting which gradually slopes into the line of the back. Moreover, the shoulders of the gorilla do not slope from the neck .-on the contrary, their direction is that which renders the hand. overland move 'ment of climbing the readiest of com. mencement. They are "high," as the term is, the head and neck being, as it were, sunken between them, 90 that the chin, instead of being on much higher level than the top of the brea,t-bone, is naturally lower than it.
 The front of the neck is thus hidden by the huge lower jaw. Gerilias have collar-bones which are in the same DO. sition of those of men, but they are stouter and stronger they | are not placed almost horizontally be- tween the front of the blade bone and the breast bone, as in us, but as the shoulders are "high," they slant down. ward to the breastbone. By placing the hand on the upper part of the op- posite side of the chest, the collar-bone nay be felt, with the tips of the fingers,
  ike ridge, and it is one which many Inow to their cost is very readily broken y a fall on the end of the shoulders. The bone is something like the letter fI n outline without the crossbar, and it is .
The Russellville Democrat., 1877-04-05

relishes, and can be retained in the stomach, when in this liquid state it would be impossible.
 sYLLABUB.
 The juice and grated rind of a large lemon, four glasses of white wine, . quarter pound pulverized sugar; mix and let it stand some hours; then whip it, adding pint of thick cream and the whites of two eggs beaten to froth. It should Dc made hour before using, set in the refrigerator to keep cold, and served from a glass dish. Sprinkline with colored sugars in designs forms . variety.
The Russellville Democrat., 1877-04-05
REMAINS OF EN6LAND'S WOODEN
 WALLIS.

The oldest vessel, indeed, in Ports
 mouth harbor, is Nelson's Victory, the
 only ship which the sentiment of the
 nation will never allow to be broken up
 She is one hundred and eleven years ol age. She is not the first of the name, s
 previous Victory, as great, but not SC
 fortunate as herself. having been lost at sea with thousand hands.
 Next to the Victory in point of age
 is probably the St. Vincent, now train.
 ing ship; after her the Excellent, for.
 merly called the Queen Charlotte, whose launch was signalized by an accident
 which caused the drowning of fifty peo pie; the Carnstic and Malabar, now black old hulks, once gallant ships of Nelson's time, though not of Nelson's fleets. Then comes Codington's flagship at Navarino. the Asia, an old Indian built teak ship; there is the Bellerephon, which received Napoleon; half dozen splendid old three-deckers which, like the Donegal, Glawgow and Victoria, have seen the blue water on single trip; or else, like the Camperdown, have lain forgotten by the Admiralty, and actually never been to sea at all.
 Among the other relics of bygone fashions there is the Act@on, the last sailing ship ever built for the navy; the poor old Oberon, which once did good service cutting out slavers, now con. demned to be target for torpedoes; there is perhaps the last of the old French prizes still aAoat, the Blonde, captured in the time when if war shin came back to Plymouth or Portsmouth without her prize she was felt to have disgraced herself; and alongside the modern royal yachts, bright and dainty with gliding and paint, lies the Royal George-not the old line of battle ship which went down with the flag of Rem. penfeldt, and dragged down with her twice four hundred men, but ship rigged, square built craft. designed for King George IT., in which his grand laughter, Queen Victoria, made her first voyage to Scotland.-London Daily Nems.
The Russellville Democrat., 1877-04-05

Though Vesuvius has been in a state oferuption twenty-six times during the present century, against twenty-three in the eighteenth and four in the seven- teenth century, the largest number of many hundred years, it is still disturbed. There are expectations of speedy out break, which will be grateful to the Nepolitans, since it will bring an influx of strangers to their city.
The Russellville Democrat., 1877-04-05
EDxTORIAL TRTALS.


 the strain upon his sympathjes. Sup. pose we present few of them. A young man with little experience in life, high ambitions, greatexpectations, through in- dustry, sends a manuscript and accom- panies it with letter, in which he says that all the hopes of his life are hanging upon the fate of his paper-ths. the editor has destiny in his haDi-that the writer is waiting to hear his fate, etc., etc. A woman writes chat the liv- ing of herself and her children, who have been left without protector and provi- der, depends upon the editors decision, and that if her manuscript is mot ac- cepted, she and her little ones must be- come beggars. A young girl, just from school, wishes to earn her own living, and relieve father who has failed in business. Another girl desires bravely to educate her brothers and sisters, who have been left without the requisite means. A woman is possessed by an overmastering desire to do good with her pen. Hundreds write that they are poor, and that they have no recourse but their power to write.
 To a man who carries heart, such appeals are painful beyond expression. He has no right to yield the slightest v,osl lav kn kkA- val kn nat nak do it. They have no right to distress him in this way, but they do not know that. Their resort is so desperate that they are really united by it for doing their best work. The presumption always is that the literary part of the case is consciously weak one. The urging of an illegitimate consideration would be indulged in by one who felt strong in his literary claim. When man. is large enough to write for the public, he is usually large enough to see -that an ille- gitimate claim to attention degrades him ; indeed he is large enough to think of making it.
 After all, the mistake of the novice begins in his incompetent idea of litera- ture. No nam thinks of putting his first picture in the exhibition but the msment man begins to write, he wants to print, forgetting that there is no art that demands more study and practice than the literary, and that he has had no special training fer it. Without ex- perience in life, without training in art, and with only natural facility for ex- pression, he has fancy that if he could only get publisher he could succeed at once. Our painters, our sculptors, our singers, our architects, are obliged to go through long courses of instruction and practice; but eur essayists, our poets, our novelists, seem to think that they must fly when they tumble from their nests, or it is all up--or down--with them.-Dr. J c. Holland, in Scribner.
The Russellville Democrat., 1877-04-05
ICE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA

The following is summary of paper by Professor Hind, in which he describes the remarkable effects..of an "anchor ice' on the coasts of Labrador and Newfound- land:
 "Anchor ice is a form of ice which occurs both in fresh water and sea water, and is known tc the Germans under the name of Grundeis, to the French Cana dians under the name of Frazoo, and to the old sedentary seal-hunters under the name of Lolly.' Anchor Ice forms in rapid rivers, and has not unfrequently been described. It is, however, on the borders of the artic current, where sea water rapidly cools in the fall of the year, along our coasts, that anchor ice manifests itself in peculiar manner. During the first cold snap, at the begin ming of winter, say toward the middle of November, and early in December, the sedentary sealers often had small spiculn, or needles of ice, formed on the corks of their nets, which are set in eight, ten, and sometimes fifteen fathoms of water.
 If the seal-nets are not soon taken up when the corks near the bottom begin to show the ice.needfes Fofnfisgsabout them.- they are liable to be lost. The spicule accumulates very rapidly, and being lighter than the water, they will enable the corks to raise the whole of the net to the surface, and if the anchors are not frozen to the bottom of the sea- the net is liable to be driited away by.the tides. It sometimes happens that the anchors of seal nets are frozen to the bottom, and when forcibly detached, they bring up masses of frozen sand, and this from a depth of fifty and sometimes seventy feet below the surface of the sea. In other words, the bottom of the sea is frozen.' This remarkable phenomenon was inex- plicable till Despretz showed that sea water in cooling does not follow the or dinary law which governs fresh water when it cools from forty deg. to the freezing point. But sea water increases in density regularly as it cools, hence the coldest water is always at the bottom. Sea water freezes at twenty-seven degs. Fahrenheit, or five degs. below the freez- ing point of water; hence, as the coastal waters cool in the fall on the Labrador and northeast Newfoundland shores, the bottom layer of water acquires, during a cold snap, temperature of five degrees below the freezing point of fresh water, and from every rough surface, such as stones, bits of sand, seal-net-corks, seal nets themselves, minute spicule of ice form, first at and near the bottom, where the water is coldest, and these very rapidly accumulate, break off, and rise to the surface, forming the Jolly When sealers see 'lolly' forming they at once take up their seal-nets; and it often happens on the Labrador that seals taken in nets sunk fifty feet below the surface are found frozen solid when brought to the surface" e."-7oronto Globe.
The Russellville Democrat., 1877-04-05
PAPA'S STRANGE GUEST.

It was warm June evening and my father and mother and were seated 1T our drawing room, with the long door leading on to the lawn thrown open, tt admit the air. I was sitting at my bu reau, examining some of my jewelry which I kept there, whep the door opened, and M Menton, friend of my tatherSstaying with us at the time, en. tered. He was a French Canadian rather fine-looking man, but man l never liked there was look in his black, beady eyes which, to me, was at once repulsive and distrustful. He look ed curiously at me, and approached
 Mademoiselle is busy?" he asked.
 "Yes," replied shortly.
 My father and mother had dropped asleep, so, much to my disgust, M. Men. ton took up his station on chair by my side. say disgust, because I loathed the man his politeness always seemed to me unreal.
 Mademoiselle has some fine jewels" he remarked, presently taking between his finger and thumb handsome broach and rubies.
 "All of this jewelry is not mine," answered. "Most of it belongs to my mother"
 Soon after, tea was announced; after which meal M. Menton and my father adjourned to the latter's study, to talk on business, and my mother and I re- turned to the drawing-i oom.
 had finished putting away the jewell ry in the bureau, but had not shut or locked it, when I turned to my mother.
 "What is this business that so often keeps M. Menton and papa closited to- gether?" l inquired.
 "Some money matters, my dear," re- turned my mother.
 Is papa in any difficulty ?" I in. quired anxiously.
 "No, no; but, between ourselves, Louisa, I think Monsieur Mentor has some heavy bills due, which I fancy he cannot pay; but if he expects that your father can help him, he is grievously mistaken"
 My mother took up book and com menced to read, whilst 1 went over to the piano and played.
 In about half an hour, our visitor and my father entered the room, the latter again taking up his station on a chair by my side, as close as he possibly could. song after song he made me sing; and, much as I would have liked to, I could not, with common civility, refuse.
 It was ten o'clock when rose from the piano and prepared to retire to my room. l shut my bureau and locked it, kissed my father and mother, and bade monsieur good night.
 It was about half-past one, when was awakened from light sleep by hearing stcalthy footstep in the corridor out side my room. It approached my door; the person, whoever it might be, walk, ing softly and cautiously, as if fearful of disturbing me. Who could it be My first impulse was to jump out of bed and see but ] was of timid nature, and imagined burglars and all sorts of things, 50 remained still, listening with sus- pended breath.
 Presently the handle of my door was turned. Oh, heavenl I felt paralyzed. A man entered my room with a small | dark lantern in his hand, and, after paus- ing for moment, slowly approached the bed. had just sufficient presence of mind to shut my eyes and feign sleep as he bent over me. I felt that he had