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Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1877-07-21

A wANDERER in the Cotton States
has discovered the hiding place of
an undue portion of tn /, new silver
coins. The African element has
gobbled them like watermelons. A
Nashville banker says the cOlored
people OF that city and It's .viciDage
have boarded over 100000, which
should be classed as permanently
" itbdrawn from circulation. The
~ro of tho nation appreciate its
vfufjo,
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1877-07-21
Tur M v York Tribune Sys; II

En-, ~ " York Tr;hun NyS: IN
Sor.h ~, "a tho p.,,,,,: $ns talk
of d;sh Doss !, .uo t'cur to
the n,n aers ,h...s may
get the South too sol, " The peo (.
s 2, the North don't like the look
even exist.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1877-07-21
NOTICE TO MINERS.
NOTICE TO PIONEERS.

a Ii PIONEERS WITHIN THE STATE
moi Nevada who have not yet sent In their
personal narratives ana remi iscences or
Pioneer Life ON the Pacific Coast. are re-
quetted to forward the same or call upon me
at NV place of business. Carson street. oppo-
site the Virginia a Truckee Railroad Depot.
Carson city.
The books will be- closed on the 4th OF July
next. FAM BAKtR.
Register aud Collator.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1877-07-21
Talks with the Telephone.

The music Of piano played in ] I.
q. Danb e's cottage u: Piedmont,
three miles from oakland, was dis
timely heard at the residence OF Mr.
SaDin, at the corner of California
and stockton streets, last evening,
by aid of the telephone brought from
the Eas. with other Instruments by
George 5. Laid, of the Electrical
CONSTRUCTION Company. Converse
ton WAS also carried on between the
two places by way of the Oakland
office, where George Gamble, son of
Mr.. Gamble, WAS stationed.-[P Post.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1877-07-21

tItH htN' III MY Part " tHV
country, WIN IL ling to work steadily at
the employment that we furnish $50 per
week in your own town. You need noi be
away from home over might. You can give
your whole time to the work, or only your
spare moments We have agents who are
making over $40 per day. All who engage at
once can make money fast. At the pr sent
time money cannot he made 30 easily and
rapidly at any other bu iness. 1t sts moth
ing TO try the bu-n- 81. Terms and rs outfit
free Address at once, Ii. HALLEiT, Co.,
Portland, Maine.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1877-07-21

THE vacancy in the United States
Supreme Court will be given, prob
Nv, TO Judge Hunt OF Louisiana.
"s.iss VI that STATE and u
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1877-07-21

TICK recently pup
MA. Nos D. Box, ~ Francisco
h 'hed a card in Tho q as 2
Pos. tie i tor 'ha y his man..
ns to r.. '' biz. Of ',a .ns apps.
'.in'Ain a. ny and h harmony TO to a.
arty. OF n,
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1877-07-21
X, A. COOKE.
M-1zls NOT EASILY EARNED IN

SherlH OF LNOn LUunty, NOV.
Dayton, New, culy II, 1871.
The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-08-10

ton. A dispatch from Alexandria says
il is reported and generally believed that
six thousand more Egyptian troops are
going to ConstantinopIe. The road was
numbered with broken and retreating
troops, wholly destitute of order; officers
without soldiers and soldiers without
officers, without cohesion and mostly
without arms. At n narrow bridge near
Bulgsreni there was wild confusion and
complete. Tumbrils, ambulance wagons,
provision wagons, officers, calesches,
horses and carts, were filled with the
wounded all were jammed in indiscrim-
mate chaos. There had been wounded
found all along the road, but the bulk OF
the wounded began a little way beyond
%Bulgareni, and extended in an unbroken
line for seven miles along the road to
Sistova. They were mostly carried in
ox-carts, the severe cases in ambulances,
and a large number tramped on foou. I'M
mense numbers of wounded had tramped
the whole way from the battlefield, and
were already entering Sistova at six
o'clock yesterday evening. They must
have walked forty miles in twenty-fours,
wounded as they were. Nearly all Of
these wounded, however, consisted of
men who had somehow managed to walk
out of the battle bad cases were mostly
left where they fell.
The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-08-10
A Town of Dwarfs.

A writer in the London Times de
scribes the effect of excessive intermar-
rage or the inhabitants of Brotes, a little
town in the provinces of Santander,
Spain. Until eighteen or nineteen wears
ago the village was quite shut off from
the rest oil the world. Its inhabitants,
from their e~ver-recurring intermarriages,
had become quite a race of dwarfs. On
market days the priests might be seen,
with long black coats and high black hats,
riding in to purchase the simple provi-
siOn'for the weeks consumption, men of
little intelligence and'no learning, sprung
from the lowest ranks. About eighteen
years ago the Galician laborers, or Gale.
goes, from the mines of Galicia, swarmed
into the town for lodgings, etc, and since
their colonization the population has in
creased in strength, stature, education,
intellect and morality. Their intellects,
also, have improved-intellects which
have been stunted, dwarfed and ruined
by their frequent intermarriages.
The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-08-10
The Louisiana Eeyees.

The yacht Sappho, with the Louisiana
state engineer corps on board, has just
completed a voyage of inspection of the
Louisiana %levees, beginning at Grand
Lake, Ark, and from that point down.
The ridge between Crank Lake and
Bayou Macon was examined. Also the
Ashton and Bars crevasses also the
Willow slough cave. These latter were
found to be the worst breaks and lines
for new levees were run for their recon-
struction. The surveying party were
Major B. NJ. Harrod, chief state engi-
neer; Major H. B. Richardson, Col. T..
S. Hardee, assistant state engineers; H.
B. Thompson and S. F. Lewis, assistants
to engineers. Gen. J. Floyd King and
Mr.. Shields, of Concordia parish.
The New Orleans Picayune says that
the police juries afforded all the aid
which they could to the engineers, in the
way of furnishing means to employ chain
men and assistants and transportation.
Carroll voted $500 and Tensas $3.50 to
pay contingent expenses. 1t is not
probable that the mouth of the Red
river will be surveyed until fall, owing
to the height of the water. At the last
session of the legislature sum of money
was appropriated to clear away the OBJ
structions at the mouth of this river.
The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-08-10

The town of Taunton, in England,
contains, according to the last census, a
population OF 1886 souls. Two of these
souls are its mayor and vicar. The
mayors name is Jacobs, and the wears
name is Mr.. Smith. Mr.. Smith has
distinguished himself from several other
gentlemen bearing the same cognomen,
by writing to Mr.. Jacobs the following
extraordinary letter:
"TAUNToN, July !, 1877.
"SR-It appears to be very generally
supposed that you, who have become our
mayor, are an unbaptizeG person, and
consequently not a Christian. If, as |
hope is the case, there be no truth in
this supposition, will you authorize me
publicly to say 50, and thus relieve very
many persons in our town from an
exceedingly painful and distressing
impression ? 1t would also be an act of
justice to the aldermen and councillors
who have elected You, to free them from
the %imputation under which they now
rest of having knowingly chosen for the
chief officer, and, in some sense, repre-
sentative of our town, one who does not
believe in Him whom they themselves
profess not only to believe in, but to
worship az their Lord and God. | pro-
pose to publish this letter, together with
any answer you may send to it. | am,
your obedient servant,
FREDERICK SMITH,
"Vicar of st. Johns, Taunton"
To this illumination the "unbaptized
person, and consequently not a Christ
ian" replied as follows
TAUNTON, July 8, 1877.
REVEREND SIR have received a
letter bearing your signature, and but
for recognizing your writing should have
deemed it a forgery. / am proud to
avow myself a member of the Hebrew
faith and of a people who in free England
have attained some of the highest official
positions in the land. | am equally
proud to know that my Christian neigh
bors and friends have not permitted
religious differences to influence them in
the choice of their first mayor. / shall
ever retain a pleasing recollection of the
high distinction hat has been conferred
on me, and l shall not permit anything
to mar the pleasure l feel in subscribing
myself
"MYERJACOBS, Mayor of Taunton"
The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-08-10

In India a famine of unprecedented
severity prevails, involving a vast extent of
country and an immense population. The
Marquis of Salisbury, the secretary OF state
for India, admits "that the prospects, in.
stead of Frightening, have, during the past
few weeks, become more gloomy" He adds
that the physical circumstance are such
that even il we cannot prevent any wide
spread suffering from actual famine-which
| very much doubt-there can be no doubt
that severe epidemics will follow and com.
plete its work" As the New York Herald
says, the canals are dry, the rivers at their
lowest levels, and the railroads that have
absorbed much of the wealth of the country
in their construction, though ~cleverly laid
down for purely military purposes, do not
convey food to the helpless inhabitants.
Wallachians and Bulgarians accom-
pany the Russian army in bands, calling
themselves avengers. General Kendall tel.
egraphs, under date of July 2sth, that the
massacre at Bayazid is confirmed, but the
atrocities at Arabian are quite untrue.
Official papers laid before parliament
contain the following: The English consul
at Slivno informs Minister Laysrd, under
date of July 14th, that the Russians stir up
the Bulgarians and arm them, and that they
tore out the eyes of the Mussulman whom
they killed at Sistova and filed the sockets
with bread. Minister Layard telegraphs
Lord Derby, under date of July oath, that
the sultan had sent him a message entreating
the queen to use her influence with the car
to step the shocking cruelties committed by
the Russian troops. Men. women and chill
dren are outraged and murdered in a horri.
BILE manner. The sultan can scarcely be.
lieve the car wishes the war to become one
of determination and a war of ~brigands. The
sultan's aid-ds-camp gave Minister Lsyard
an account Of the revolving atrocities which
he witnessed, and which Layard says are in
a great measure confirmed by advices from
consuls and other sources. Minister Layard
also transmits July 2s) several consular re
ports Of outrages and massacres by the
Bulgarians, and says there is truth in them,
although they may be exaggerated.
The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-08-10

The number of English survivors of the
battle of Waterloo, fought sixty.two
years ago OF the 18th of June, is now re-
duced to As officers, five of whom were
captains at the time, two attending to
their duties as assistant surgeons, and the
remainder served as subalterns in the
guards, cavalry and infantry of the line
and artillery. The surviving officers who
served on the staff of Wellington's army
are Field Marshal Sir Charles Yorke, who
was aid-de'camp to Major General Frede-
rick Adam General Sir John Bloom
field, staff officer to Colonel Wood, COM
handing the Royal Artillery; Major
General Sir John Woodford, who was an
assistant quartermaster general, and Lord
William Pitt LennoX, at that time a
youthful cornet in the Blues, and extra
aid-de-camp to Major General Peregrine
Maitland. Twelve of the surviving Wa
terloo officers received severe wounds,
and once of their number, Lieutenant John
Bramwell, lost his right leg during the
campaign, and is now in receipt Of the
half ray of a lieutenant's commission
PhilddeLphid Pres.
The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-08-10
Summer Resorts Condensed.

The summer resorts are generally les:
lively than they were last season. Nj.
agara has a Cuban woman visitor who
wears diamonds worth $50 200. Bathing
shoes with metal soles are worn at New
port. White walters are employed at
one hotel at Long Branch, and one at
Saratoga. The talk about a political
meeting at White Sulphur Springs has
helped to fill the hotels there. The very
latest fashionable thing for a young wo-
man to do on a crowded Saratoga piazza
i" is to start and amble along in front,
suddenly give her head a toss over her
left shoulder, as if expecting some one.
proceed a few steps further, stop, look
down in a reflective manner, then turn
and 60 back as fast as her pull back will
permit, looking as busy and as abstracted
as if she had two minutes to pay a note
at bank" A Cape May correspondent
says: "The plank promenade lining The
sands for a mile or two and leading
by the verandahs of the chief no.
tells, is rarely equalled in its delightful
facilities for starlight meditations, for
serious love-making or the coqueteries of
evauescent hirtations." There is more
camping out than usual in the Adiron-
iacks, and the flies are more numerous
and active, too.-N. Y. San.
The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-08-10
Fashion Gossip.

Grenad ne is full dress for all but
young girls.
Moonlight-blue is the new shade for
lawn dresses.
New linen collars and cuffs have the
edges embroidered with red, blue or gray.
Pale blue batiste dresses are the novel
ty for midsummer.
Linen collars are higher aud turn
back further from the front than for
merly.
Thin white dresses are to be worn over
skirts of pale blue or rose celored lawns.
Black silk dresses for summer wear
are trimmed with knife pleatings of
grenadine.
Black canvas grenadine made owe
silk and trimmed with knife-pleating, is
the fashionable dress for summer MOURN
ing.
Linen busters for ladies retain the
Ulster belt in the back, but are less
baggy than the ~ungainly garments worn
last summer.
An excellent novelty is a'shoe-buttoner
with a long handle above the hook, 30
that it is not necessary to stoop down to
button a boot.
The latest style of ladies slippers and
low shoes are real lively. Among the
prettiest is the box-toed slipper of the
finest kid, with a dainty French heel,
straps of the kid, on each side of which is
a buckle reaching above the ankle, show
ing the bright colored stocking between.
The mousquetaire cuffs of lace to be
worn outside the sleeve have been her.
aided for some time and are now found
among the importations. They are six
inches deep, and square, or else they are
closed in gauntlet shape for the hand to
be slipped through. At present they are
only shown in the wEite and colored
torchOn laces that are worn with summer
costumes. Accompanying these are
broad collarettes that fasten behind and
have long jabots in front.
Among the recent importations, colt
are black, and white Spanish, and
lama laces are among the most notable.
They are from twelve to eighteen inches
wide, obtusely pointed in front and back,
with long rounded lappets, to tie under
chin. For out .of.doors evening wear
summer resorts they supply, with an
article, a want long felt by our
fashionable ladies. A still more conven-
lent article. of larger and more compre-
lensive style, combines both a light
nantilla and,the head dress, and the effect,
when gracefully arranged, shows the
of the Spanish ladies in adher-
ng to hemantilla.
The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-08-10

near Church Flat, four stone anchors, which
are supposed to have been cast there when
the British hrst landed on Carolina soil,
These four stone snchors are square, and
weigh about SOC pounds each, An iron is
run through the stone and riveicd at the
bottom, and at the top are fastened iron
rings For the purpose Of making them fast to
a vessel. On the stones are cut the coat OF
arms Of Great Britain. The -four stones are
separated from each other not more than
twenty-five feet
There are eight hundred Baptist
churches IN Mississippi.
The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-08-10
An ElOpement and a Vendetta.

About two VT eksago a terrible tragedy
occurred on the Calcssien river, a
little above the southern line of this
parish. A young lady nam,d Gunter
had eloped with a young man named
Bass. Her father and brother pursued
them to the residence of a neighboring
magistrate, where n few minutes before,
they had been married. The father en-
tered the house at one door and the son
at another, and Immediately the former
discharged a double-barrle gun, loaded
with buckshot, into Bass breast. The
latter, though MORALLY wounded, re-
turned the fire by two shots from a revolt
yer, both taking effect in the elder Gun
ter's head. Both parties fell to the floor
and young Gunter plunged a bowie-knite
repeatedly into Bass body killing him
instantly. Young Gunter then took up
his father-who is likely I recover from
the pistol shot in the head, as they were
CHANGING shots-and fed. Being pursued
by the sheriff and a posse, he turned on
pursuers with a revolver, and was
shot by the posse, dying from his wounds
day or two after. The elder Gunter IS
the custody Of the sherif.-Ldks
Charles (FId.) Echo.
The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-08-10
Voltaire's Views of a TurcO.Russian
War.

A hundred thousand mad animals,
whose heads are covered with hats, ad.
vance to kill or to be killed by their
fellow-mortals covered with turbans. By
this strange procedure to want to know
whether a tract oil land, to which mont of
them have any claim, should belong to a
certain man whom they call the sultan,
or another whom they call the car
neither of whom ever saw or ever will see
the spot so furiously cOntended for; and
very few Of those creatures who thus
mutually butcher each other ever beheld
the animal for whom they cut each
others threats.
The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-08-10

President Vanderbilt Of the New York
Central and Hudson river railroad, has is
sued . circular stating that of the twelve
tAeussnd employees Of the company less than
five hundred struck, and that M. injury WIS
done to property, In recognition Of their
feslty he directs that one hundred thousand
dollars be divided ratahly, according to their
positions on the payroll, among all the en-
ployes engaged in operating the road, He
says no men who, in time Of trial, emharrsss
the company can remain in or re-enter its
service, aud adds that the pay will be in
creased the moment that business iustihes IT,
The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-08-10

You should never judge by appear.
ances. The other day a weazen>taced
little man, wearing a SO. 50suit of clothes,
vent to one of the big hotels, and regis.
tering his name as from Texas, asked for
a room, and if breakfast was on the table.
The Olympian clerk gazed at him
scornfully for a moment, and languidly
remarked:
"Any baggage3"
"No," replied the guest.
"In that case, replied the clerk, "the
rules OF the house compel me to insist on
payment in advance"
livery WELL" said the guest, without
hesitation or appearing offended, " take
two days board out of this" and from a
wad OF greenbacks as big as his arm he
produced a 800 note.
AZ beg your PARDON" stammered the
abashed clerk, but we are so often taken
in, and your face not being familiar to
me l."
"No offense," cheerfully answered the
guest Cuisines is business, and rules
are rules. 1t does look a little odd 10 be
without baggage, but as cattle dealers
amt much on style, and"
"That's all right" said the clerk.
Put up your money, we know a gentle
man when we see him. Jim, show the
gentleman to 146. Call for the best in
the house, General"
The old man slowed away an ample
breakfast, got the clerk to give him
small bills for a fifty, and asked where
Billy C~oolbaugh, the banker, had his
Office, inquired when they had dinner,
desired the clerk to tell Mr.. Farwell, if
he called, that he would be back at two
o'clock, then went, and hasn't been seen
The clerk subsequently discov-
cred that the $50 was bad. The sad event
cast a gloom over the hotel office.
The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-08-10
HAuN.SoNG.

q Robin, pipO no more of rain
IT'S four days since We saw the sun,
And stll the misty windov pane
ls loud With dnors that leap and run.
Four dsvs seo the sky wa, clear,
But when my mother heard you call,
She said, That's Rrbin's rain-sons, dear;
Oh, well he knows u hen rain will fall"
Fair ~ss the morning, spd l went
kccSuSe she would not lei me stray
Into the woods Tor flowers, hut kent
My feet trom wandering away,
And ] was veNed 70 hear 0 cry
SO sweetly Of the coming storm,
And watched with hrimmiug ewes the sky
Grow cold and dim from clear and warm:
IL seemed to me YOU brought tt sll
With that incessaut p~itintive note;
And still you call the drops 10 fall
IpOn your brown ana scarlet COST
How nice 70 he a bird like you,
And let the ram come vatteTtue down,
Nor mind bit 70 ne vet through,
Nor iesr 10 spoil ones only gown
hut since ! cannot he = bird,
Sweet Robin, pipe no morn Of rain
Your merriCr muse is prcierred
Forget At last that sad refrain!
And tell US Of the sunshine, dear
m Wild 10 he shrosd again,
Seeking for blossoms far and near
q Robin rire no moro Of rsinl
-Cdia Thsrier, 81, NoAoJIS for August
The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-08-10
Opium and its Consumers.

The recent heavy importations of
opium at this port have led to consider
able comment, and various causes have
been assigned. A Tribune reporter OBJ
tanned at the custom house the following
figures, showing the amounts imported
during the present year and its cost:
The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-08-10

be raised so pro6tably as in the United
States. But we are coming every year
nearer to supplying our W markets
with the wool they demand. In 1875
the wool clip of the country was noarly
200, 5000 o pounds, while in 1860 it was
only $4,000, 900 pounds.
The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-08-10

LAST year we paid foreign countries
$4,000 900 for wooden goods and SILL
OO0,0 900 for manufactured goods. When
we have in the country 10000, 900 more
sheep than we have now we shall only
produce the wool we use and yet there
is no country on earth where sheep can