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How About Burning Them Up ?

Witnesses are still testifying about the
Ashtabula bridge. Expert after expert is
called to add to the evidence that the
bridge was not safe.
What is the use of nil this? Every
body knows the bridge was not safe.
1t could not have been, Or it would not
have broken down. The giving way of
the bridge, rs if it had been made Of
glass, settled that question. Now let
the rich company which carried passen-
gers over this dangerous bridge be made
to pay, in the fullest measure Of dam
ages, 80 far as the poor compensation of
money can 60 to offset the destruction of
priceless human life.
But that is not all. The more inter-
esting and more serious question re-
mains, whether human beings were will
fully permitted to be burned up, after
the bridge fell, for the purpose of saving
the insurance on the cars, and diminish
ing the liability in damages, or for any
other purpose?
It has been proven that engines were
on hand, which could have been used,
and they were not used. It has been
shown that many lives were destroyed
which could have been saved; that from
gross neglect, no matter from what
cause resulting, the flames were per-
mitted to burn on and consume human
lives and human beings, when they
might have been extinguished. A deaf
ear was turned to the dying, when Wa
ter, easily supplied, would have rescued
them.
This is one of the blacklist, apparently
one of the most fendish, occurrences
ever recorded. 1t is to the bottom of
this that the investigation should 60.
As to the dangerous condition of the
bridge, you might as we'll introduce evil
dence to show that it was not dry time
during Noah's food
How about the willful or permissive
destruction by fire? That's the question.
-Nc,o York SWa.
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Crazed Cashier Taylor.

George Payne was sitting in his sons
office, says letter from Franklin, Ind,
when a stranger entered from the rear
and motioned him into the back room.
"Who are you?" the old gentleman
inquired.
"Don't you know Dick Taylor ?"
"Ah, T know your voice now," re-
piled Mr.. Payne ; "but how you have
changed"
It proved to be the missing cashier
of the Franklin First National bank,
whose crime has been heralded through
the land, he having disappeared with all
the funds of the bank. His clothes were
muddy; he carried his boots in his
hands, and his face, which had been
shaven except the mustache, was the pic
ture of agony. His mind seemed shat
tered, and his conversation was inco-
herent and meaningless. DR.. Webb,
who came in soon afterward, administer
ed valerian, which had soothing effect,
and at about nine o'clock he asked to see
John T. Vawter and Leland Payne.
Very soon these gentlemen came, and
with them DR.. Donnell. Taylor recog-
nized them, but his conversation was
confused and flighty. He called q revol-
yer his medicine, and insisted on keeping
it by him. He had been gone four or
five years, he said, and had travelled in
Nevada and Colorado all of the time.
He inquired the day of the week, the
month, and year, and imagined he left in
1872. When questioned closely as to
his recent whereabouts, he said that after
leaving Indianapolis, he went to Cincin-
natl, thence to Madison by boat, thence
to Louisville New Albany, Jefferson
vile, and back to Indianapolis. Reach
ing there too late for the train, he con-
cluded to walk home, and he had done
so, running almost the entire distance,
twenty miles. He complained of sore
feet, and on examination they were found
to be swollen and badly CALLED. At the
suggestion of DR.. Donnell that he be
taken home, he threw a roll of bills to
the floor, with the remark that he would
give it to any one who would take him
home. It amounted to 1886. A search
of his person discovered several twenty
dollar pieces and twenty-six one dollar
bills, but nothing or value. he sald MS
satchel had been left on the Louisville
train but that it contained nothing except
two shirts and other soiled garments.
His reception at home was heartrend-
ing. His wife, still very weak, had been
prepared for his coming. AS he enteredher
room she pulled him down to her bosom
and wept bitterly. His aged mother
mother almost hysterical, and his sisters
were inconsolable, but Taylor seemed en-
tirely unmoved. In the course of the
day he slept occasionally, and at night
seemed more at ease, but still wandering
and incoherent. It may be mild form
of insanity, or rather delirium, the result
of great nervous prostration. His wife
has nerved herself for the work and is
constantly ut his bedside,
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Maureen COSha DhaS.
Maureen Cosha Dhas

Maureen Cosha Dhas.
Yer the purtiest lass
Ever walked on shoe leather or dhrove a boy
mad
For your wee little feet
And yer figure go sweet
Are too much for the brain of poor Irish lad
Maureen Cosha Dhas!
When see We at mass,
Saints above. I'm am afraid that it's t. yeh
pray;
An tn crown o my hat
When look at that,
Has yer purity face there, wild the dimples at
play
Maureen Cosha Dhas,
Thin the MEDIA ye cross,
To your fathers nate cabin just under the
hill,
TIL divil we're tould,
Tempted Tony of ould
Wild woman-Bedad. we've the pattern still.
Maureen Cosha Dhas
(Yer's tn sly little lass)
VIA 1Op III lIllu yen SO Ou
yer way,
But yer purity eyes dance
And yeh gives me glance
That sez "D;nny, agra have yeh nothin'
say?"
Maureen Cosha Dhas,
I'll not let yeh pass
Tn next time meet yeh at fair or at wake;
Me pace yeh destroy
An that's hard on boy
Thatud fight whole faction and die for yer
sake!
Maureen Cosha Dhas,
Well sit on the grass
Wild me arm round yer waist, and tear in yer
eye:
And yeh'id say "Darlin Dinnis!
Spake to Father Maginnis;
Shure Id rayther do that now, nor think that
ye'd die"
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CuriOsities of Life.

Lay your finger on your pulse and
know that at every stroke some immortal
passes to his Maker; some fellow being
crosses the river of death ; and if we
think of it we may we'll wonder that it
should be SO long before our turn comes.
Half of all who live die before seven
teen years. -.
Only one person in ten thousand lives
to be hundred years old, and but one
in hundred reaches sixty years.
The married live longer than the
single.
There is one soldier to every eight
persons, and out of every thousand born
ninety-tive weddings take place.
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A Kiss.

ga kiss" says writer, els a seal ex-
pressing sincere attachment - the
pledge of future union-a present taking
the impression of an ivory coral press
crimson balsam for love wounded hearts. "
We had no idea, says the Norristown
Herald, that kiss, when dissected,
would prove such simple thing. I'm
agine young man, as he bids his girl
adieu on the front step ut three o'clock
A. NJ. on Monday, darting back, as she is
about to close the door, to snatch some
"crimson balsam for a love wounded
heart" And girl might ask her lover
for some of that balsam right before the
old folks, and they would think it was a
new kind of gum drop.
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EXPLORATIONS in Florida.

The New York Herald prints letter
from it's correspondent in charge of the ex-
plorations in the wilds of Florida, describ.
ing, his progress and discoveries. A
vast area of the peninsula has been, up
to the present, terra incogaitd to civil
lied man, and the utmost exertions OF
explorers have hitherto failed to lift the
veil of mystery that has hung over that
strange land. Since the days of Ponce
de Leon, who sought on the shores Of
the Gland of Flowers " the mystical
fountains the perpetual youth, the ut
most interest has been manifested in de-
termining the physical character ct
Florida. But few have been tempted to
brave the terrors that were found to sur
round investigation, and explorations
were limited to the coast line terri
tory, which proved, with the e1cep-
ton of the northern sections, to be
the only habitable portion Of the State.
Now, however, there is prospect that
we will become acquainted with the ma
ture of the interior-its vast swamps, mys-
terious rivers, great forests, and even
the ancient monuments left by the long
extinct races that peopled its area. Dur
ing the Florida war, when the dusky
warriors of Osceola fought so stoutly
against their white enemies, scattered
posts were established by the United
States army for the purpose Of maintain
ing communications between the occu-
pied districts, but many of these have
long ago lost every vestige of interest e1-
cept that attaching to their names in con-
nection with sanguinary combats between
civilization and barbarism. Following
the direction marked by singular col
umn of smoke whiclwas observed by the
correspondent to rise from some unknown
lource in the interior the expedition
plunged into the wilderness Of vegeta-
ton that clothes the country, and sue
ceeded, after much exertion and wading
through deep water, in reaching an island
or elevated ground surrounded by
swamps. There were discovered some
strange and rudely carved masses of
stone, evidently erected by a prehistoric
race as idols With description Of these
we also find that of the "sinks, or slngu-
lar points of disappearance of the rivers
where they enter on subterranean courses
to reappear again in other places. The
dark haunts of the alligator and venom
GUS snakes, the bear, the panther and the
deer are graphically described.
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Depression in the Iron Trade Abroad

In Germany the capital invested by
thirty-two of the largest iron and steel
manufacturing companies in that coun-
try amounts to $78,035, 900, and the net
loss, exclusive of interest and deprecla-
ton in the value of property last year
was 81, 794,O Only six of the COM
panies paid any dividend, and the most
fortunate of these six was one CT the
smallest, which divided 6 % per cent.
The Prussian mining and iron company,
of Dusseldorf, with capital OF 81, 7OO,-
900, lost $6O5, 900 on last years opera
tions, and $215,0O0 on those OF the year
before. The net loss of the thirty-two
companies in two years has been 81, ITO,
900. If misery loves company, here is
plenty of it.
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Indignant Polly Wog.
A tree toad, dressed in apple green,
Sat on mossy log .-.

A tree toad, dressed in apple green,
Sat on mossy log u
Beside pond, and shrilly sang
"Come forth, my Polly Wog-
My Pol-my Ly-my Wog,
My pretty Polly Wog;
I've something very sweet to say,
Ny slender Polly Wog!
"The air is moist-the moon is hid
Behind heavy fog.
No stars are out to wink and blink
At you, my Polly Wog-
My Pol-my Ly-my Wog,
My graceful Polly Wog;
Oh, tarry not, beloved one!
My precious Polly Wog!"
Just then away went clouds, and there
A-sitting on the log
The other end, I mean-the moon
Showed angry Polly Wog.
Her small eyes fashed-she swellcd until
She looked almost frog;
BHow dare you call me, sir" she asked,
"Your precious Polly Wog?"
"Why, one would think your life was spent
In some low muddy bog;
I'd have you know, to strange young toads.
My names Miss Mary Wog."
One wild, wild laugh that tree toad gave
And tumbled of the log,
nd on the ground he Xxi cked and screamed
Oh, Mary, Mary Wog
Oh, Ma oh, Ry oh, Wog!
Oh, proud Miss Mary Wog!
Oh, goodness gracious what JOKE!
Hurrah for Mary Wog!"
Mrs. Margaret Eytinge, in scri6ner's
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Fashion Notes.

The catogan is going out of vogue.
! Debeges are shown in small figures.
Plain debeges will not be fashionable.
Nets are worn only with morning coli
! fures.
Fashionables coiffures are broader and
wider.
Diagonals will no longer be worn in
spring fabrics.
The pendant is now the principal part
of the brooch.
Braid and fringe were never so much
in favor as at the moment.
Buckles of lophophore feathers are
among the bonnet trimmings.
Princess ball dresses, with peacock
trains, are the style this season.
Narrow fur borders are still seen, but
they are not 80 fashionable as broad ones.
Lead colored plush jackets fitting close
to the form are taking the place of seal
in Paris.
Chenille cords and bands of plush are
very stylish new trimmings for hats and
bonnets.
Pinhead checks of myrtle green and
white and navy blue and white appear in
the spring goods.
The latest style Of evening gloves are
laced, instead Of buttoned, and are finish
ed with small silk tassels.
The most fashionable garnitures for
/ ball dresses for married ladies arc feath-
ers, stones Gewels of gems), and lace.
Ball dresses are made low necked, q
necked, OF Y necked, or heart shaped, or
square in the neck, according to fancy.
The dresses seen at the New York
charity ball wers all in the plain-over-
waist-and-hip style, and elaborately
trimmed around the bottom of the skirt.
Married ladies wear rich laces as garn-
itures for ball dress, Young ladies wear
tulle, crepe, tarlatan and organdy,
trimmed with garlands, bouquets, knots,
and fringes of flowers, at pleasure.
! The new percales show a variety of
colors-mixtures of ink-blue and cardinal
red; brown and myrtle greeu, gold and
white, and cretonne designs in small fig
ures on grounds of the dark colors.
( The Greek coiffure is formed thus {:
The front hair in waved bandeaux, low
over the brow, with few short curls or
crcuc ceuer locks on the forehead and
! temples around chignon of coques and
braids from which droop a few short
crrls. This chignon is banded across
the middle with ribbon or golden band,
and another band is placed over the
bandeaux in front.
; Frank Lcslic's Ladies' Journal tells
us that q Russian lady of wealth and
beauty has introduced fashionable SEN
sation in Paris. She has temporarily
given up driving horses in her carriage,
and appears daily in the Champs Elysees
and Bois de Boulogne in low brake, to
which are attached four donkeys i'll scar
let trappings. She holds the ribbons
herself, and, it is said, that the donleys
are as fine rs Egypt could produce, 30
that she has no difficulty in keeping pace
with the most rapid horse-drawn carriage,
while her "cattle " are as high stepping
and showy as any of her rivals.
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InyincibIe in Peace; Invisible In War.

The authorship of this aphoristic wit
ticism has generally been attributed to
the Hon. Ben. Hill, of Georgia, who re-
Gently applied it, on the floor of Con-
gress, to the present day. The merit Of
It belongs to the late Capt. George h.
Derby, better known by the nom de
7,l,tnc OF "John Phoenix. When sta
toned at San Francisco he was invited
to a public dinner given by company
of State militia. Being called upon for
q toast, though guest, he could not re-
press his love for satire, and accordingly
gave: "The California Militia-Invin-
chile in Peace; Invisible in War"
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"the game is made !" cleared away his
piles of coin and sacks of dust, his
spread and himself, and surrendered the
table to the uses of the election. Then
the polls were held until they closed and
the count was duly proclaimed. But
Carpenter failed of an election.
Charley Shaw was not in condition to
officiate after m early hour of the after
noon. His arduous and very responsible
duty during the Viua vOce voting had
required frequent stifeners, and by the
time he found himself let out by the sub
stitution of the ballot system he was SO
overcome as to need rest, or at least
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know with whom it was not safe to quar-
rel, and of these Nick, Tom and Oliver
were his especial fear
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-01-14
AssnssMnMT NOTICE.

UT. LAWRENCE MINING COMPANY
y Location Of principal place OF business,
San Francisco. Standardization Of works,
Eureka county, Nevada.
Notice is hereby given hat Mt a meeting
Of the Board Of Directors. held on the I'd
day Of January, 1877, an assessment NO. u
Of twenty cents per share was levied upon
tho capital stock of the corporation, payable
"a immediately. in United States gold coin, to
the Secretary, at tho office Of tho Company.
at the southwest corner Of Battery and Fill
bort streets, San Francisco, California.
Any stock upon. which this assessment
shall remain unpaid on the TWELFTH day
Of FEBRUARY, 1877, will be delinquent and
advertised for sale at public auction, and
unless payment shall be made before will be
sold on THURSDAY, the first day Of March,
1877, to pay tho delinquent assessment, to-
gether with costs Of advertising and ex-
pensss of sale.
By order of the Board Of Directors.
J.O MCGkATH, Secretary.
Office, Southwest corner Battery and Fill
bert streets, San Francisco. ja.otd.
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WE WILL KEEP ON HAND EzsA
w. nconstant supply of the ccle- TnnhHEi
orated Bavaria and Boca Beer; also G1zW
Vineyard, Prop n Co.'S Sazorac de Forge and
other well known brands Of brandies, Bour-
bon and Rye WHISTLES, some "a years. old,
and the, finest liquors of all kinds at l2%
cents u drink.
We have an elegant elevator of tho latest
pattern for, boisting the beer, filled in
the bell.
Free lunch from IL to / O'Clock daily: will,
also keep sandwiches Of all kinds, Dutch
cialty. spy
j3-tf LOFTS A
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To the Unfortunate.
NEW REMEDIESl NEW REMEDIESl

~ DIR. ciBRoN's DisPEM-
rN corner ef Gommereial. San Fran.
cisco. Private entrance on Com
mercial street. Established II
1851, Tor the treatment of Sexua and Seminal
Diseases such as GonorrhGa, elect, Structure,
Syphilis in all its forms. Seminal Weakness.
Impoteney. etc. etc. Skin diseases of years
standing. and liberated Legs. etc.. successfui.
DR.. GIBBoN has tho pleasure of announ.
cling that he has returned from visiting the
principal hospitals of Europe. and has re-
The Doctor has spared neither time moi
money in seeking out new remedies, and has
returned with increased facilities for tho allie
Walton of human suffering.
Seminal Weakness.
Seminal emission is the consequence of self
abuse. This solitary vice. or depraved scNua,
indulgence, is practiccd by tho youth Of both
sexes to an almost unlimited extent, produc-
ing with unerring certainty the following
train of morbid symptoms, unless com bated
by scientific medical measures, viz: Sallow
countenance, dark spots under the eyes, pain
in the head, ringing in the ears, noise like the
~rustling of leaves or rafting Of chariots, un-
easiness about tho loins. weakness of the
limbs. confused vision, blunted intellect. loss
of confidence, difidcnce in approaching stran-
gers, q dislike to form new acquaintances. a
disposition to snun society. loss of memory
YlAlpAC u lOuo CAuPiionS 1ooAt tHC y
hectic Pushes, furrcd tongue, tetid breath
coughs, CONSUMPTION, night sweats, monoma.
mia, and frequently insanity. If relief be not
obtained. you should apply Immediately. Ell
Their in person or by letter, and have a cure
effected by his new and scientific mode Of
treating this disease. which never fails Of
e~fiecting a quick and radical cure.
Cured at Home.
Persons at a distance may be CURED Al
HOME, by addressing q letter to DIR. Glib.
BON, stating case, symptoms, length of time
the disease has continued, and have medicine
promptly forwarded, free from damage and
curiosity, to any part of the country. with
full and plain directions for use,
By inclosing Ten Dollars coin in a regis
tered letter through the Postofice, or
through Wells, Fargo l. Co.'S, a package OF
medicine will be forwarded to any part of the
Union.
Persons writing to the Doctor will please
state the name of the paper they see this az
vertissment in.
All communications strictly confidential.
Address DIR. j. +. GIBBON,
Box 1857, San Francisco. California.
iv11u
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Assessment Notice.

Two ELIAkIM COREY: PLEASE TAKE
l. netice that you are n cd-owner with ths
Undersigned in the Gopher mine. situate in
Eureka Minin; District, Eureka couf ty, State
Of Nevada. and that there is now due from
mont work done on the aboye-named mine
for the years 1915 acd 1876. the sum of SIS, be-
ing your one-third interest in the said mine.
and If tho said sun Of SO, with the cost Of
advertising this notice remains unpaid at tho
expiration of ninety days from the date u
this notice, your interest in tho Gopher mine
and Company will be forfeited, sDd your title
therein vested in your co-pertners, in accord
anco with the provisions Of the Act Of Con-
gress, approved May 10. 1877.
SPENCER REYNOLDS.
ADAM HALL.
Eureka, Nevada. Jsnnary. 3, 1877.
ja5-g0d
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SHERIFF'S SALE.

RY VIRTUE OF AN EXECUTION Is.
ID sued out Of the District Court of Fureka
county State Of Nevada, on the 2lth day of
December, A. u. 1876, at u NJ, and to mo d.
r,ectsd aad delivered, for q Judgment rem
dered in said Court on the 18th day Of Decem-
ber,. A. ID: 1878. in favor Of NJ. B. Bartlett
plaintiff and against the Eureka Odd Fellows
Building Association defendant, for seven
thousand five hundred and eighty and six.
one-hundrcdths Isl, $50 6-iG0l dollars in L..
:. gold coin. with interest in like gold coin At
the rate OF two % per cent. per month on
five thousand one hundred and ttirty-seven
and seventy. eight one hundrcdthst5 10. 7S-lOOl
dollars from Juno LIST, Is75; also interest on
four hundred and ninsty and sevsnty-ains
one-hundredths (s490. T-I00) dollars at the
rate of two 90 per cent. per month from No.
VEN Der LIST, 1875; also interest on ono thou.
sane -four hundred and ffty-one and forty.
nine one-hundredths N,45l.49-loop dollars
from March 18th, 1879; also with interest on
(g por cent. per month from May 10th. 1875,
to draw interest on tho above amount until
paid at tho above rates, together with dam.
nges. and sixty-thrce and thirty one-hun-
drcths (S13.S0. 1000 dollars, in US. gold coin,
costs OF suit, together with all costs that NAV
hereafter accrue, | have on This, the 9Th day
Of Decsm Der. A. ID. 1876, at II O'Clock ", lew
led on the following real estate property, to
wit. Lying and being in the town OF Eureka,
in Eureka county, Nevada, in the Mccoy
Survey. OF the town Of Eureka, in block 2, u
tho McCoy Survey, and lot =, . by 100 feet.
and south lbh feet of lot /, block 9, OF tho
Mccoy Survey ofthe town OF Eureka, 'front.'
ing Az feet on the cast side OF Main street,
and extending back to Buci street; also the
building situated thereon, and known ss the
Odd Fellows building and odd Fellows' Hall,
together all aad singular the
hsrcditaments and sppurtenancos thereto be-
longing or in anywise apportaining.
Notice IS hereby given, that on the 18th
day Of January, A.. ID. 1877, between the
hours of = o'clock A. NJ. and 5 o'clock r. n,
viz: at |. o'clock NJ, | will sell all the rich,
title, claim and interest of the said defend.
mt. the Eureka Odd Fellows Building Asso.
citation Of. in and to tho above described
property, at the Courthouse. at public auc-
ton, for cash in hand. TO tho highest and best
bidder, TO satisfy said execution and all costs.
Eureka, Eureka county. y Nevada. Decembcr
Goth, 1876.
GEO. W. GILMORE, Sheriff.
BY S. z. BELL, Deputy. do
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BRANDT's

Bavaria and Boca Beer Depot.
Three doors above Meyers & Franklin's
MAIN STREET. EUREKA.