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The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1877-11-10
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MISCELLANEOUS.
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A ssess1nent y, Office,
sHFtA SILVER MINING COMPANY.


n OCATION of principal place Of business.
- San Francisco, California. Location OF
wCrks. Star District, Humboldt codHy,
Nevada.
Notice is hereby given, that at meeting OF
the Board of Directors, held on the 9th day OF
September, 1877, an asse. sment mo: 81 OF rive
Cents per share was levied upon the capital
stock of the corporation, payable imme-
diate1y in United states gold coin, to the
Secretary, at the Office of the company. No.
312 Montgomery street, san Francisco
California. ''
Any stock upon which this assessment shall
remain unpaid on the
TWENTY -skvENPH DAN OF OCTOBER,
1877,
Will be delinquent, and advertised for sale at
public suction; and unless payment is made
TAIURDAY. THE sEvENt ZENITH DAY
NOVEMBER, 1877,
To pay the delinquent assessment, together
with costs Of advertising and expenses OF
sale.
BY order of the Board of Directors.
ABRAHAM ,HALSEY, SecretarT.
Office, - $40 Montgomery street, San
Francisco. octl-td
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-04-05

ing into bloom, but they are not so
ineffable and immaterial and so slim
ularing to the sense as the incense Of
April.
One characteristic April feature land
one that delights me very much, is the
perfect emerald Of the spring runs
while the fields are yet brown and
sere, strips and patches OF the most
vivid velvet green on the slopes and
in the valleys. How the eye grazes
there and is filled and refreshed! I
had forgotten what marked feature
this was until I recently rode in an
open wagon for three days through
mountainous, pastoral country. re-
markable for its fine springs. Those
delicious green patches are yet in my
eye. The fountains flowed with May.
Where no springs occurred, there
were hints and suggestions Of springs
about the fields and by the roadside in
the freshened grass sometimes over
flowing space in the form of an actu-
al fountain. The water did not quite
get to the surface in such places, but
sent its influence.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-04-05

From the New York Sun.
Some repairs were needed to the en-
pine when the train reached Reno, and
while most of the passengers were tax
ing philosophical view of the delay
and making themselves as comfortable
as possible in the depot, in walked a
native. He wasn't native Indian nor
a native grizzly, but native Nevadian,
and ne was rugged out in imperial
stvle. He wore a bearskin coat and
cap, buckskin leggings and moccasins,
and in his belt was two knives and a
big revolver. There was lightning in
his eve, destruction in his walk, and as
he sauntered up to the red-hot stove
and scattered tobacco-juice over it, a
dozen passengers looked pale with
fear. Among the passengers was car
nainter from Jersey City, and after
surveying the native for moment, he
coolly inquired:
s.Aren't you afraid you'll fall down
and hurt yourself with those weap.
onss'
s.W-what!" gasped the native in
establishment.
Il suppose they sell such outfits as
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-04-05

April, at it's best, is the tenderest of
tender salads. It's type is the first
spear of grass. The senses-Sight,
hearing, smell-are as hungry for it's
delicate and almost spiritual tokens, las
the cattle are for the first bite of it's
fields. How it touches one and makes
him both glad and sad! The voices Of
the arriving birds, the migrating
fowls, the clouds of pigeons sweeping
across the sky or filling the woods, the
elfn horn of the first honey-bee ven.
turing abroad in the middle of the
day, the clear piping of the little frogs
in the marshes at shutdown, the camp
fire in the sugar-bush, the smoke seen
afar rising over the trees, the tinge Of
green that comes so suddenly on the
sunny knobs and slopes, the full trans
lucent streams, the waxing and warm
ing sun,-how these things and others
like them are noted by the eager eye
and ear April is my natal month,
and am born again into new delights
and new surprises at each return of it.
It's name has an indescribable charm
to me. Its two syllables are like the
calls of the first birds-like that or
the Phebe-bird. or Of the meadow
lark. It's very SHOWS are fertilizing,
and are called the poor mans manure.
Then its doors! I am thrilled by
its fresh and indescribable odors-the
perfume Of the bursting sod, Of the
quickened roots and rootlets, of the
mold under the leaves, Of the fresh
burrows. No other month has odors
like it. The west wind the other day
came fraught with a perfume that was
to the sense of smell what wild and
delicate strain Of music is to the ear.
It was almost transcendental. / walk
ed across the hill with my nose in the
air taking it in. 1t lasted for two days.
l imagined it came from the willows
Of distant swamp, whose catkins
were affOrding the bees their first pol
len,-Or did it come from much
farther-from beyond the horison, the
accumulated breath Of innumerable
farms and budding forests! The main
characteristics OF these April doors is
their uncloying freshness. They are
not sweet, they are oftener bitter, they
are penetrating and lyrical. I know
well the odors Of May and juno, Of the
world Of meadows and orchards burst
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-04-05

600 reward and no questions asked. In
twenty-four hours his pin was return
ed, and the thieves were richer the
amount Of the reward. Afterward
this same gentleman went to Salt Lake
City and traded his diamond for min
ing property valued at $22, 900. The
mine developed we'll and the lucky
speculater realized over 100000 from
this investment. The miner who re-
ceived the stone was cheated out OF it
by Chicago gamblers, who sold it to a
diamond dealer who, in turn, sold it to
the firm in Salt Lake City who now
possess it.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-04-05
Picture Books for everybody.

orBut it is not easy done to get dec
alive painting done. If it be done
by first-rate hands, it is expensive
and there is seldom any talent for this
kind of work among our hOuse-paint-
ers,--even among those of them who
add decorator" to their other titles.
A good substitute for original decora-
ton, and under the circumstances
legitimate one, is to be found in the
picture. books of Walter Crane, pub
lished in London and New York, by
Routledge + Co. These books are the
most beautiful children's books that
were ever made and, indeed, they
are altogether too good to be shut up
to the delighting Of children, even
though these were the bonniest ever
raised on porridge. Those who know
the Walter Crane boOks.-the last one,
s.Eaby's OPERA" is perhaps the pref
tiest of all,-buy them for themselves.
and then can't resist the desire to give
them to their children, and then have
to buy more for themselves; they are
indeed, many times better than the
general run of pictures that one sees
by modern masters: They are better,
because the artist evidently enjoys his
art, and puts into it life, richness of
color, much delicate and ingenious
fancy, and a power of storytelling
that hardly needs the help of the
text.
Now way to use these pictures so
that all could enjoy them would be to
paste them upon folding screen, or
in the panels of the nursery and bed
room doors, or in the panels of a ward
robe, or cabinet. An acquaintance Of
the writer had wardrobe made Of
pine, in which the panels of the doors
were made expressly to be filled up
with these pictures each picture hav-
ing panel to itself-and then the rest
of the woodwork painted to harmon
ize with the general color effect. Stain
ing pine good black, OF, with strong
decoction of tobacco (which gives a
good brown and brings out the grain
of the woody and then shellacking, not
varnishing-never use varnish on
furniture-either of these methods
will make good background for these
pictures. A useful plan for ward
robe is to have one half closed by a
door the full height of the piece, and
the other half divided between say
three drawers below and, above,a cup.
board, closed by door. In the larger
closet one hangs clothes that must be
hung, the drawers hold body linen and
the cupboard above is useful to the
owner, if she be a lady, for the hats
and furs and other nothings of that
nature. The panels should he made to
hold each single picture, and an
agreeable variety may be obtained in
the disposition of the panels by max
ing some of them oblong and others
square, to suit the pictures which
sometimes fill two pages, and at time!
only one.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-04-05
A Celebrated Diamond.

One of the finest brilliants in
America, and one with a romantic
history, is now for sale at Salt Lake.
This stone is 1-32 of carat lighter than
the celebrated Tweed diamond, but
its cutting is much better, and it is
considered by experts to be more val.
liable. 1t weighs IL carats, and is
exactly half an inch in diameter.
1t was for many hundred years in
the family of an East India prince.
This potenate presented it to the ex-
Queen Christina of Spain, who pre-.
scented it to her daughter, ex-Queen
Isabella, on the occasion Of her mar
rage. The latter was forced to sell
it, with many other diamonds, and it
was bought at an auction of her dia-
monds, which was made in London and
it was purchased by st. Louis gentle
man with about $50, 900 worth Of other
diamonds. He was soon after offered
SIS 900 in gold for it by the Americas
Club of New York, but he refused to
sell it. Subsequently it was stolen
from him while visiting at Saratoga
Springs by thieves, who employed
what is known the umbrella game
While alighting from the cars, man
spread an umbrella in his face, and
as he started back the pin was stolen
from his shirt bosom. The trick was
so dexterously turned that the victim
did not discover his loss for several
hours. When, however, he found
himself minus the wonderful brilliant,
he promptly autographed to tho daily
papers Of New York city, Offering S.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-04-05

From
There are a thousand little courte-
sizes and salutations and compliments Of
life, but it will be well if there were
still more of them. Bluntness does
not mean honesty, and recognition of
whatever is good in men does not mean
insincerity. It would be promotive of
happiness if every time mendescended
in the morning they would look for
that which is comedy and praiseworthy,
and single it out, and tell it to their
wives. Oh, if men would only court
after they are married as they do bes
fore, what joy there would be! What
praise there would be distributed in
the community! But the faults Of men
are generally FIRST thought Of, and they
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-04-05

are condemned. There are multi
tude OF little imperfect, irregular
things in human conduct; and a man
says: 81 am not one Of those who 90
around and flatter folks !; tell them
what think of them; If they have
faults | hit them strong" But it is not
necessary to be hard and repellant and
unsympathetic in order to be honest.
There is good as well as evil in men,
and it is surely as worthy Of rec0gni-
ton.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-04-05
Another Mormon Massacre.

In addition to the Mountain Meadow
massacre, it is asserted that the Nor
mons killed some eighty government
teamsters who had been discharged
and were going to California. The
following old order has been found:
SALT LAKE CITY, April 10, 1858.
The officer in command of the escort
is hereby ordered to see that every
man is well prepared with ammunition
and to have it ready at the time you
see the transfers a hundred miles from
the settlement. President Young adj
vises that they be all killed, to prevent
them returning to Brldger TO join our
enemies. Every precauti0n should be
taken, and see that no one escapes. Sc
cresy is required.
By order Of Gen. Daniel 8. Wells.
JANIS TKRoUsoN.
Assistant Adjutant General.
The Ohio Lo0ia1ofurA h19 nQ0900 = biD
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-04-05

fight with long hair. l promised my
dying mother not to-
When the train rolled away he was
seen fourishing his tomahawk around
his head in the widest manner.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-04-05

The Ohio Legislature has passed . bin
ompellfng vaccination.
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The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1877-07-12
MISCELLANEOUS.
Fashion.

Fashion kills moro women than toll
and sorrow. Obedience to fashion is i
greater tran.gr.>,ion Of the laws "i
woman natuyc--a greater inlnry 80 her
physical and mental cnuSttutioll-than
poverty and neglect The slave woman
at hcl task will live and grow Old. vii!
see two on three generations ot mis-
tresses fade and pass away. Washer
women, with scarcely ray Of hope to
cheer her in her toll, will live to see hcr
fashionable sisters die all around her.
The kitchen maid i hearty and strong
when her lady has to be nurSed like 4
sick baby. |, is a sad truth that the
fashioned"pamp red women are almost
worthless Cor all the ends Of human
life. They have still less power OF
moral will and quite as little of physi-
cal energy. TLey live fer no gTca; pnr
pose in life; they accomplish no worthy
ends They are only doll forms in the
hands Of milliners and servants, to be
dressed and fed to order. They serve
nobody and they save nobody. They
write no books and set no examples OF
virtue and CT womauly life. II they
rear children, servants and nurses do all
save to conceive aud to give them birth.
And when reared, what are they
What do they ever amount to but weak
scions of tue old stock? Who ever
heard Of fashionable womans child
ezhihitiug any virtue cr power Of
MIND lor which it Lecln.e cn.ineLt !?
Read the biographies Of our Z eat and
good women, No, one of them had Il
fashionable mother. They nearly all
sprang from strong minded womer. who
had about as little to d. with fashion as
with the changing clouds.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1877-07-12

alliance she said, in answer to his nr'
gent proposal.
but wha: can have wrought this
change in you - he asked, his coani9-
nance changing.
Il must refer YOU to my uncle.
Uncle Henry. who entered the room
Immediately, explained in few wor'S
in what way they had gained IN u"i.'.
vorable impression ofhis character. He
concluded by saying:
The man who is obscquious to the
,ich and impcriinent to the poor, shah
not, with my consent. marry one IN
whom l feel any interest
\ year aitcrward Julia formed an al
lance with one mlre worthy Of her. and
never had cau>e to Ic2rc, adopting her
unclc's test.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1877-07-12
POETRY.
THE NAY OF THE WORLD.

T,,oro or. beautiful songs that we neve
sing,
There are treasures guarded win Jea'ou
care,
And hapt a. sacred token.
There are faded flowers and letters dim
Win tears tia, have ,ained above them
For the hckl. words and the farhIes
hearts
Tha, taught us how to love them
There are sighs that come in our Joyous
hours, 49,,
To chas,en our dreams of gladness,
And fears rha, rpiing 10 cur aching eyes
In bours of though,less sadness
rnr tho h,ithes, birds that sing in spring
Will Ait the waning sCmmcr.
And llp, that we kissed III i'haes' 'o'e
win smile on the hrst new comer'
over ,he breast where lilies rest
In white hands still forever.
Tba roses Of June viii nod aud blew
Unh.eding the hearts that sever
And lin. that quivcr with silent gr'i'
AN words Of nope r"t"Sng'
NIl lightly ,uru tu the tleeting joys
That rerished with the using
S,mu.r blossoms and winter SHOWS
Love and its sweet elysi"h'
Hope. like the siren. dlm and f"'r'
Uaickcning our fain'inG VISION;
Dropping spiri, and failing pulse
" here untold memories hover.
Eyeliis touched with the seal "t 'e"'"'
And the ftful dream Is over.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1877-07-12
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The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1877-07-12
Th5 Reason, for Coming Sou,h.

|. The lives of thousands " 10 are Ia
jurou,ly affected 10y the sud len changes
and extreme cold q northern winters.
will.bc prolonged
ol. Cou>ii,lin. tie social, education
n and religious advantages, Transports,
ton lac;ii'.y. ,Nhii. improyclnen', aud
fertility Of ,o:l IT,, LANDS a.r rhrap'r
here than in any other section o, 81,
county.
81. Considering tfc cost Of land anl
expense Of t;lil-c. , much - a''r net
profit can lc realized annually III the
>,u;h than i, ,rriA"d y Ia" fa'my'' ~
an; e the Nor,ic.n ;>'a,,>.
-i;h. Ovins 10 the lon: aud temper,
ate summer ard mild wiai,r ;hr SodIh
q. la.u.c. :. J nrv"r l.. hurried by rs
worh, bat !la arnrit ,nae 10 Dlieih'y
AMI thorough, culliyo'. hi- c:o!'-. 'ni
prosecute successfully the other opera
ilon~ If tn, frm For Il. business Of
.,o,k r,i,in. hi lra;ur, l. IF tprrlai
IMPORTANCE
-'h. The lie Of emigration ha' 'u'u'
"a >outhwara. ani l..i.. scr'ioA i, dos
tined to become dcn,cly ropa'at i
agricultural anl manu!lc'uiin. region.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1877-07-12
News in Briet.

\ cavalry regiment has ben rr-aniz'l
in Beaufort, with Co. W Sos =
Coi"ncl.
The welcome new, is brou-'a; that
Collc-,lr Norlhin.tcr. q 't,.a!.v:.;.a.
will lose lis oGlcili head
The daughter Of Archbishop Whate.
Is has school Of touI hul,:rai boys
and girls in Cairo, Egypt.
Coal mining i, becoming ',4ite al ia
po''on' Interest tn IN ..l Aa9eo ir"ia' Fc~% a
oficr mine. grew to t5 900 t'a- in $40.
l1o cmp.yyees have been discharged
from The Nyw York custom huu>e un-
der the How administrator re.o:m.-
This i aayiu. to the treasury Of
S2223n. .G0J.
\ mre'in,. Of 'he >,a'r Gr;n-n will
takc lace ' Ant.r-rn nn;he N,h Il
.Ar-u,t u,>.. Members oi IT,. order a'e
ur.c,I t. ai',t,i. an! lL" P,t.!i &c"
ally arc iari.sd.
llr Tia l.a la, llk,n pl>,,s" IN tL.:
/ C,ua,a .:o.hrs e., h.a. ""ieh .l.- IL.
Elol- op .lal., /. | j, Hij,u' that
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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1877-08-01
een. TsylOr and the MsxIosn spIes

In the course Of his lecture on "Rem.
iuiscences Of the Mexican War;" de-
livered at Auburn, General Shields
related tho following Incident:
After dinner, while we were sitting
by the door Of the tent smoking, a
guard brought in two roughly dressd
Mexican poems. They had been about
the ca mp for two days selling oranges
to the soldiers, when one Of the guards
accidentally noticed that one Of them
wore fiue linen shirt under his rag.
gsd peasants dress. This excited sns.
picion they we're seized, and-a search
revealed number Of papers, includ-
| ing sketch Of the camp, with loca-
| tion of its dsfences, the number Of bat.
teries, strength of the force and some
notes, showing how the army could be
successfully attacked by surprise.
They we're military spies, of course.
The general sent for his interpreter,
for be never mastered the beautiful
Spanish language, and demanded their
names. They gave them correctly, [
suppose He asked their profession.
They saw concealment was useless, and
they answered like braT0 men, they
were soldiers. Their rank they were
colonies of the Mexican force at Mon.
terey.
"Ask them" thundered the general
"who SAINT them into my camp in this
. cowardly, sneaking wayi" The inter
prefer put this into Spanish as we'll as
lie could, and they answered, "Gener-
. al Ampudia :" they wero sent to sscOr
tain the strength Of the army, etc"
, "rell tbem,' said the general, that
Gen. Ampudia is no gentleman. IF he
had been he would have sent to me
r directly, and would have given tho
3 information he desired" Laughter.
r They smiled, for they were evidently
men of courage, and the general ask
r ed if they understood their situation
7 that they would be shot as spies.
EYES," they answered, "they expected
= to be shot, and hoped to meet their
e fate us brave soldiers" Gen. Taylor
!. saw that they we're brave fellows, aud
. this touched him, I thought, as |
d watched him. His great, noble, gen
n ercus face showed his emotion. HC
n considered his duty under the circum
u stances. At last his face lit up witl
:; a bright smile. "Tell them," says he
'r that / will not shoot them this time
r but if they come snesking around m.
r, camp again will make short work o
lie them. Tell them to say to Gen. Am
le pudia that l have six Thousand men
10 that we are agoing to take Monterey
ht and that l don't care a---ho'
10 many men he has" (Applause.]