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Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1877-03-10

The WAY THE jury STooD.-Yes-
terday the Constable inquired of the
foreman how the jury stood, and re-
ceived the following reply: Whisky,
Z; gin, Q; beer, 3.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1877-03-10

Now is the time to get your job
printing. At The TIMES Office there
is fine assortment of bill-head, fiat
cap, folio and other papers. Cards
and circulars very cheap.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1877-03-10

The old mans toast: "It's hard
work to keep our sons in check while
they're young; it's harder to keep
them IN checks when they grow
older"
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1877-03-10

REBUILT.-W. r. Chamberlain,
of the Depot Hotel at Reno, is again
prepared to accommodate the hun
cry railroad passengers in first
class style.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1877-03-10

A SERIOUS CHARGE.-Paul Bray
was yesterday brought before Judge
TAFT on charge of a serious nature.
He is the owner of q number of tene-
ments, one of which, said to be of
little value, is occupied by Mrs. Hen
rietta Marks, whose husband is alb
sent. For some time past he has
been trying to get her out, the rent
not being paid regularly. According
to the complaint, he loaded several
sticks Of wood with giant powder
caps and fuse and laid them in her
wood pile. The case was tried before
jury, which failed to agree, and ON
motion OF District Attorney Keith,
the case was dismissed.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1877-03-10

SEVERAL attempts at robbery in
Virginia and Gold Hill should ad-
monish our citizens to be on their
guard lest their valuables he dis
turbed,
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1877-03-10

The Virginia papers are ridiculing
the craftsmanship of our citizens.
Eight or nine shots and no one in
Jured" has more than one parallel in
other towns on the Comstock.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1877-03-10

MAIL RoUTE.-A petition is being
numerously signed asking for mail
route from Dayton to Columbus, in
Esmeralda county. ...
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1877-03-10

RELIGIoUs.-Rev. w. II. Jenvey
will hold service in Dayton at IL A.
NJ. tomorrow, and at 7 P. NJ. in Silver
City. Sunday School vt $50.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1877-03-10

E8 The richest stock OF clothing
In Virginia City is at BROWN &
Co.'s ~ South q street, next door
south of Schoenfeld Il Cook.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1877-03-10

@For Gents Furnishing Goods
try N. Brown Il Co. No. 81 South q
street, Virginia City.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1877-03-10

~ For Latest Styles of Clothing
sry N. Brown & Co., No. 81 South q
street, Virginia City.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1877-03-10

B-N. BROWN Il Co., the new Cloth.
ny House of Virginia, guarantee sat-
sfaction In all cases. Try them.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1877-03-10

The cheerful crack of the pistol
is occasionally heard on our streets.
Fortunately, no one has been hurt.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1877-03-10
STOCK REPORT.
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Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1877-03-10

HoLLOwAY's PILLs.-The most
powerful existing medicine for the
cure of female complaints. Fifty
years experience, incontestably prove
the remedies unrivalled for the dis
orders incidental to the softer sex.
No family should be without them.
They may be taken by young and
old, as they will restore health when
every other means prove unsuccess-
full. % cents cents per box or pot.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1877-03-10

GJN. BROWN & Co., ~ South G
street, Virginia, manufacture their
own clothing.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1877-03-10

eYG Get your clothes made to order
at j. W Downing's, and secure per-
feet tit and good workmanship,
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1877-03-10

For paints, oils and wall
paper, 90 to Stewart, the Druggist.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1877-03-10

OLA SIS Coin will be here every two
weeks with his xlsss box.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-02-22
Massacres n, Arizona.

Dispatches from Tucson, Arizona,
state that the Apaches are killing and
plundering the settlers in Southeastern
Arizona, ten being killed in the Senorita
Valley on the 4th inst, and the work
still going on.
Governor Stafford has sent message to
the Legislature, recounting the depreda-
tions and murders committed, dwelling
on the inefficient manner in which mill
tary operations are being conducted, the
troops moving slowly with heavy trains,
and unable to reach the more mobile
enemy. He recommends that the Legisla-
ture memorialize the Secretary of War,
asking for the appointment of a bodyIof
Indian scouts to operate with troops, or
else appropriate money to raise and
equip force of whites and friendly In
dians and carry on a vigorous campaign.
He says as military operations have been
conducted for the last six months, the
whole army of the United States could
not subdue the hostiles in the next
twelve years, while he believes scout
ing party of twenty-five citizens and as
many Indian auxiliaries could accom-
plish the work in three months. He ex-
presses fear that under the present con-
dition of affairs Southeastern Arizona
must be abandoned by the settlers. and
the success of the hostiles is liable to in
duce an outbreak among the reservation
Indians, resulting in general war.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-02-22
Ladies, BetDafe!

If the ladies will wear rats, and puffs,
and twists, and braids, and other decep-
tive hirsute jiggers, they must now and
then expect a joke to be played upon
them.
Rather a serious one it was with a
friend. who, passing hair dresser's, was
struck with a beautiful set of curls
marked, "Cheap-only $25."
She entered the store, made the pur-
chase, and had them adjusted to her
hair.
The clerks attention being suddenly
diverted, she laid down her money, and
started homeward, walking down Broad
way, and thence over to Brooklyn.
The first TO accost her at home was
her husband, who said, SO you're for
sale, eh?''
"Why, what do you mean?" she an
swered Indignantly.
Nothing; only 1 see you labeled as
'Cheap-only $685. and was thinking
of taking half a dozen at that price,"
All of sudden she thought of those
curls, and turning to the mirror, there,
sure enough, dangled the tag which the
stupid clerk had forgot to remove, and
which had advertised her, down Broad.
way and over to Brooklyn, as " Cheap
only $25."
! Ladies, beware
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-02-22
A MGgnetic Actrfss,

Miss Adelaide Nelson visited the Vir-
ginia Legislature recently, and was the
target of many admiring glances shot by
the Solons of the Old Dominion. As
she turned to depart, one of the delegates
was speaking. Although he was address,
ing the Speaker, he managed at the same
time to hear that the actress was leaving
the House. He looked around to see
her before she left, and as his eyes fell
upon her he stopped in the middle of a
sentence. in the midst of the most con-
vincing part of his argument and in the
most eloquent portion of his speech. He
forgot Speaker, House, and Common
wealth. "Mr. Speaker-'er-'er-'er !;
yes, Mist-'er-'er-Speaker," but he
could get no further on. 1t was evident
that he could not speak and look at Miss
Nelson at the same time. This wander
ing of mind and eyes was more than even
the sedate, stately, and grim House
could stand. The House of Delegates
of Virginia roared. This restored Mr..
Clarke, and, like man who had walked
from a dream, he went on with his
speech. When the fair Juliet was at the
Boston Theater, three or four years ago,
one of our most accomplished Legislators
at that time took front seat every night,
and when the lady left here and went to
Providence, he, too, was there to join in
her enthusiastic welcome.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-02-22
Bet,oeen the Cup and the Lip.

The proverb that many things fall out
between the cup and the lip is a literal
version of one in Latin" Multo inter
pocula libra cadunt," the origin of which
was as follows: A king of Thrace had
planted vineyard, when one of his
slaves, whom he had much oppressed in
that very work, prophesied that he
should never taste of the wine produced
in it. The monarch disregarded the
prediction, and when at an entertain
ment he held a glassful of his own wine
made from the grapes of that vineyard,
he sent for the slave and asked him
what he thought of his prophecy now !;
to which the other replied, "Many
things fall out between the cup and the
lip" and had scarcely delivered this
singular response before the news was
brought in that a monstrous boar was
laying waste the favorite vineyard. The
king, in rage, put down the cup which
he held in his hand, and hurried out
with his people to attack the boar; but,
being too eager, the boar rushed upon
him and killed him without his having
tasted of the wine. Such is the story
related by some of the Greek writers,
and, though evidently apocryphal, ii
certainly is productive of good practi.
cal moral.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-02-22
The Shanty-Palace Of the Hing of
Dah0mey.
[London Standard. !

[London standard.I
The kings palace is situated in the
suburb of Abomey, called Jcgbeh, about
a couple of miles southwest of Abomey
proper. 1t stands about half mile to
the left of the road leading from the
coast to the capital, the residence of
Hahansu, the heir of the throne, being
at the forks of the road, one of which
leads to Abomey, and the other to
Jegbeh.
Externally nothing more is visible
than high wall of red mud, thickly
stuck with cookie shells, and having at
frequent intervals a gate, with a high
pitched roof of thatch, and earthen
benches, also under cover, on either side.
The area of the palace within the walls
is about equal to that of Regents Park.
while before each Pwe shed, as the COW
cred gate-houses are called, is a large
open space, cleared of trees and obstruc-
tions, wherein troops dance and go
through their military evolutions, such
as they are.
Inside the palace is divided into a
series of large court-yards, with intricate
mazes of passages between them, and it
is the delight of Dahomian host to be-
wilder his guest by conducting him
through court after court ere he reaches
the audience chamber. In the inner
most court the private apartments Of
the king are situated, consisting of mere
barn-like structures, kept scrupulously
clean by frequent sweeping and lime
washing. Around the Amazonian Kposi,
or leopard wives, the actual wives of the
king, each have their separate suite of
apartments or huts; while beyond the
Amazon body-guard have their quarters,
to the number of perhaps four thousand.
In one of the courts shed is erected
about twenty feet square, with a high
gable roof surmounted by silver image
of tree with an antelope eating the
branches, and bird building its nest
thereon. The tree denotes the king, and
the bird and antelope, representing the
Dahomian people, show that the king
provides shelter and nourishment for his
subjects. Within the shed is mys-
terious something carefully wrapt up in
a cloth, wherein the spirit of the present
king is said to reside. This is carefully
guarded by priestess, who after the
death of the king is the recipient of his
soul and is consulted by the fetichists.
When the king has an important
matter in hand he consults this c,lstos
spiritus, and during the present custom
dozens of unfortunate men have been
carried bound and gagged into this
spirit-house and there decapitated, their
blood being sprinkled ON the cloth en-
veloping the spirit.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-02-22

A WAGER has been made in England
which may have some political signii-
canoe. Earl Dudley, who is sixty years
old, has offered twenty-five thousand to
twenty-five dollars that the sonof Napo-
leon III, will be officially proclaimed
Emperor of France during the Earrs
lifetime. The odds were at once accepted
by the Prince of Wales and by three
other persons.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-02-22
Newspaper English.

T. W. Field, Superintendent of Public
Instruction in Brooklyn, in lecture on
Vernacular," touches up the press in
the following manner:
That horrid, scrambling, worried mar
ration and comment on current events
which is the very necessity of newspaper
life; in which day is old age and thirty
six hour two generations-breeds and
fosters a style not to be studied for
elegance, or cultivated for its terseness
or precision. Phrases thousand times
hackneyed are used as ready shaped ex-
pressions convenient and commonplace;
platitudinous, but brain-saving. They
are stock in trade to draw upon, when
original terms are exhausted-a sort of
literary bricks which will build up into
any kind of structure. Every editor has
store house of these stock phrases, and
every reporter at least a brown paper
parcel of them. Horace Greeley had
stores of these jointed and squared words
and phrases to fit into any chink of an
article, for which novel terms failed
him. One of these was 81 judge" for
Isuppose or conclude. l was present at
an encounter between Beecher and Mr..
Greeley, which afforded me much grim
satisfaction in detecting the peculiar
lingular style-the idiosyncratic phrases
which characterized each of these dis
tinguished writers. had brought these
and other celebrities together by the in
centive of fruit festival, and with the
exception of Mr.. Beecher the company
were seated at dinner. He soon after en-
tered the room by door opening directly
behind Mr.. Greeley, who, protesting
to be unobservant of his arrival, without
turning his head commenced in his
peculiar, squeaking, highkeyed tone this
assault: "I judge that no community
can have a greater nuisance than a
preacher who batters the pulpit on Sun
days and runs around the country on
week days to lecture at two hundred dol
lars night" Beecher, who had stood
quietly listening near the door, added +:
"Gcd has afflicted humanity with multi
form trials, but when he made an editor
who batters the Kings English every day
and breaches every night, he oyertasked
human endurance"
Among the stock phrases the following
occur DerpetQally in neWsDaper English
"These are facts more easily told than
realized" )" "The position of such man
can be more readily imagined than de,
scribed." The terms are specimens of 8
cheap antithesis, which indolent writers
too lazy to reflect or too poor of brain te
invent novelties of expression, constantly
borrow to exc out their poverty of Ian
guage.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-02-22

A SIMPLE way to make long dress
short for wear in the streets is to place
small brass rings on the back breadths in
a manner to slope like the train and then
raise it by means of linen tape or cord
which is run through them.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-02-22

THE new Episcopal Church edifce
(Trinity) Boston, which has been
several years in building, is now nearly
completed. 1t will cost, with the land,
S75O,OO0. The structure is of the French
Romanisque order, in the shape of a
Latin cross, with semi-circular chancel.
1t is a massive and imposing structure of
granite, with brown free.stone trimmings
and elaborate and beautiful decorations.
The church will seat !, 400 persons, the
pews being all in black walnut; five
hundred sittings arranged in the trausept
galleries, which will be forever free.
Rev. Phillips Brooks, one of the most
able and eloquent of Episcopal clergy.
men, is the rector.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-02-22
Che Gatpu 9emutrat.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
EATON, OHIO,
L. G.. OULD.
TERMS or SUBSCRIPTION,
In Advance Hss
Jon PRINTING of all descriptions furnished te
oraer, and guaranteed to prove satisfactory a. 10
auality.
:0IO SHE L0VE CHEM ALL.

keep them In the old. old box
That Willie gave me years ago,
The time We parted on the rocksi
His ship lay swinging to and fro,
At waiting in the lower bay;
thought ny heart would break that dayl
The picture with the pensiye eyes
Is Willie7 No, dear, that's young Blake,
Who took the West Point highest prize
BE went half crazy for my sake.
Here are lot of rhymes he wrote,
And here's button off his coat.
Is this his ring? Ny dearest May,
never took ring from him
This was gift from Howard Clay;
Just see, the pearls are getting dim.
They say that pearls are tears-what stuff!
The setting looks little rough.
He was as handsome as prince
And jealous But he went to Rome
Last fall He's never written since.
used to visit at his home
A lovely place beyond Fort Lee;
His mother thought the world of me
Oh, mol I sent his letters back.
These came from Washington.
But look, what a tremendous pack
He always wrote me threef one.
/ know used to treat him ILL
Poor Jack The fell at ChancellorsvilIe.
The vignettes-all that lot-are scalps
Itook in London, Naples, Nice,
At Paris and among the Alps;
These foreign lovers act like geese
But, dear, they are such handsome men,
We go to France next year again.
This is the octor's signet-ring,
These faded flowers? Oh, let me see;
Why, what a very curious thing
Who could have sent these flowers to me?
All now have it-Couut de Twirl;
He married that fat Crosbis GIRL
His hair was red. You need not look
So sadly at that raven tress.
Yoa know the head that lock forsook;
e Y ou know-but you could never guess
Nor would tel you for the world
About whose brow that ringlet curled.
Why won't tell Well, partly, child,
Because you like the man yourself;
But most because-don't get so wild =
have not laid him on the shelf
He's not a bygone. In year
IN tell you all about him, dear.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-02-22

is to youth, and the stern truths of phi
losophy are as fatal to the fictions of the
one as the chilling testimonies of ex-
perience are to the hopes of the other
Cotton.
$50 there's another rupture of Mount
Vociferous," said Mrs. Partington, as
she put down the paper and put up her
specks; +" the paper tells us about the
burning lather running Down the noun
tain, but it don't tell us how it got on
fire."
LAY your finger on your pulse and
know that at every stroke some immor-
tai passes to his Maker; some fellow
being crosses the river of death and if
we think of it we may well wonder that
it should be SO long before our turn
comes.
FORTY millions of people, dedicated
from infancy to alteration of the palla-
dunn of their liberties, will some time or
other flop over upon the inventor of
"bulldozing" and mash him down,
down, down into the night of ofeyerlasting
nothingness.
THE murmuring moonbeams their music are mix
ing;
The wandering wombat is watching the wave;
The frolicsome frog his finances is fixing,
And the grasshopper gropes in his grandmother's
grave.
Yet dark are the dangers and doubts that distress
me,
horrible heaviness hangs on my heart;
Come, Caroline, come, calm, console and caress me,
And tickle my taste with turnover tart.
Then vanish, ye vain and voluminous vapors,
That buzz in my bosom and bother my brain;
Or promptly I'll publish your pranks in the pa
pers,
And lay up my lutte till I'm lucid againI
NJ Y. Evening Mail
DANBURY Neans: A back-woods chap
sent an Iowa editor a poem. The next
day the paper poured out half column
of scarcasm against the young man, and
said that the poetry was not worthy of
an eight-year-old school boy. Then the
rural lad sent the editor a copy of
Horace's Odes, with the leaf turned
down whence he had copied the trashy
poem."
A MAN noted for his close-fsted pro-
pensities was showing an old coin to
neighbor, when the latter asked, "Where
did you get itT' az dug it out of my
garden" was the reply. "It is pity
you didn't find it in the cemetery" said
the neighbor. "Why so?" asked the
coin.owner. Because you could have
saved the hole to be buried in" was the
somewhat unexpected reply.
Worlds interview with a millionaire: {:
81 tell you, sir, this winter is awful hard
on the rich man. He doesn't even eat
his dinner in peace. How can he, when
there are forty thousand who are dinner
less? His money gets to be reproach
to him, and he feels as if he'd like to
give the whole of it way in one lump,
and try the luxury of being poor for a
while. But you needn't say anything
about that, or Tll have fresh battalion
here tomorrow, and half the idlers in
town will be writing me letters. In fact,
1 wouldn't say anything about it if l
were you; but it's fact, the rich man
suffers in hard winter good deal more
than the poor man. You take my word
for it. And the poor don't pity him a
| hit -
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-02-22

GREEN GRASS UNDER THEsS0T

The work Of the sun Is slow,
But as sure as heaven, we know
30 wen not forget
When the skies are wet
There's green grass under the snow.
When the winds of winter blow,
Wailing like veices Of woe,
There are April showers,
And buds, and flowers,
And green grass under the snow.
We find that it's ever so
In this life's uneven flow,
We've only to wait
In the face of fate
For the green grass under the snow.
II our paths must diverge, be it so;
For whatever betides US, we know
II we'll only be strong
We shall see before long
The green grass under the snow.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-02-22

"PA, l guess your man Ralph is a
good Christian" How so, my boy ?"
"Why, pa, read in the Bible that the
wicked shall not live out half his days;
and Ralph says he has lived out ever
since he was a little boy"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-02-22
Milking Bufdt0eS.

It's stated in the Turf, Field, and Farm
that the farmers in Nebraska have COM
menced the domestication of the buffalo.
The wild animals, while young, are in
troduced among herds of the tame stock,
only one or two at a time. Half and
quarter breed are found to be very hardy,
and in the yield of milk the cows raised
of mixed stock give even more than the
average yield of rich milk. The expert
ment promises well, as the endurance of
the wild animals is impaired to the do
mestic stock. In this way the extermi-
nation of the species will take new
form, and when wild buffaloes become
legendary creatures the progeny of the
race will still exist in modified, though
probably more useful form.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-02-22

WHEN young man encircles his
partners waist for dance, he will do
wisely to keep his fingers still. Nothing
aggravates young lady more than to
imagine you are trying to count the
whalebones in her dress.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-02-22
PENCIL AND SCISSORS.


In olden times there were liars, but
now there are only men who misstate
the facts. This shows that the world
grows more courteous as it increases in
sinfulness.
A WESTERN paper, in describing, an
accident recently, says, with considera-
BILE candor: "Doctor Jones was called,
and under his prompt and skillful treat
ment, the young man died on Wednes-
day night"
THE grave Of Prentice rests alone,
Without mark, nor wood, nor stone,
Nor rhythmic epitaph.
This should not be, ye writer's just
The life and form that now is dust
Gave to your world the very " fust"
The pithy paragraph