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The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1878-12-02
THE CONVICT MU AID &c RER.

Solitary Confinement I'm a Sub
teraneam nungeOn.
The Carson Appeal las the fol.
lowing:
Tom Flynn, the convict who MUIR
dered his fellow prisoosE at the State
Prison in this city last July, is still
confined in the subterauean dungeon,
where he was placed Immediately after
the commission of his most dastardiy
crime. 1t is a dark, unfriendly place
which no sunlight ever penetr4tes. ex.
cept through the grating overhead. aud
that only for few moments at mid
day. No one is permitted to converse
with this miserable man, unless il IL
Captain Gonond, the chief of the
guards, and he only exchanges such
words with him as are absolutely
necessary. Once in a while be asks
for newspapers of a fash kind to
read to change the channel of his
thoughts from his impending doom
He reads no books which might COM
fort him in his living death; he has no
relatives or friends who visit him and
from whose lips he might receive few
sincere words of comfort and cheer.
In that dungeon that man vegetables. as
it were. feeling within himself that he
is alone in the world. This poor. for
saken wretch will be tried for bis life
some time befo.e the end of this month
His prospects are dreary in the ex-
ireme, and we have no reason to doubt
that at times in his solitary eonfine-
ment wishes he had never baen born. -
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1878-12-02
A CARD.

To all who are su 1-.;sg from the e.rots AMI
iIdiscret ons OF yoush, me- voas weakness,
early decay, loss o. manhood, &c. ;. I ill s, nd
recipe that Will Gre you, FREE OF Gu ICE.
This great remedy was discovered by q mis-
sionary in South America. Send o sef-ad-
dressed envelope to the REV. JOSEPH T.
INMAN, Station d. Bible House, New York
City. dec-2-'7S-ly
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1878-12-02
BORN.

WOoD--ln Winnemncca. November 80, to the
wife Of r. W. wood. q son.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1878-12-02
DISPATCHES
The Afghan War.

LAHORE. Dec. l.
A signaling party. under Major Pear
SOD. was attacked by Afreedis yester.
day on a hill opposite Khyber. Two
men we're killed and one wounded.
Khy Der Pass is blocked and several con
voys have returned. A company of the
Ninth Regiment and Forty fifth Sinks
has been sent to the scene whence the
firing has been heard. Continued
heavy firing has also been heard near
Ali MusjId since yesterday. The
trouble with Afreedis is not serious.
Gladstone Protes
LONDON, Dec. /.
Gladstone. in speech at Greenwich,
inveighs against personal government,
He reproached the Government for not
communicating anything to Parliament
relative to Afghan aft .irs aud the ques.
ton Of sending the Mission to Cabul.
War had been declared aud the invasion
begun before Parliament was convoked.
Parliament, formerly the grand coun.
Gil OF the nation. now resent les the
Parliament of France before the great
revolution. He solemnly warns the
British people not to abandon the
principles of liberty which made it's
happiness. Speaking of the Afghan
war, he declares the money spent
therein is the dishonor of Eng and, and
her responsibilities will but commence
with her victory. Lady Macbeth's
words--"Here is smell of blood are
still powerful peroration. and unjust
wars lead to natioual downfall.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1878-12-02

The Eureka Sentinel has entered up
on its sixteenth volume under fair
sky. It's publishers claim that 1t is as
good daily newspaper as is printed in
America, the size of the community in
which it is published considered, and
We believe they are right.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1878-12-02
Notice for Bids.
Notice to Mechanics.

YNHE Boerd of County Commissioners will
Il receive bids and proposals for lining
County Jail with iron, and thaS plans and
spec 6cations of the me are DOW o file with
the Clerk. and may be- seen upoa application
to him. Said Board of County Commission
ers will meet at the Clerks office on Tuesday.
December 10Th, A. d. 1878, for the purpose of
receiving bids and proposals. The Board re.
Be. ses be ri he to reject any and all bids.
Dased W.-nenucca, Nevaua, Nov. 80, 1873,
dec2-td j. II. JOB, Clerk.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1878-12-02
7 e. Z c r APP MIG.
DISPATCHES
Chinese Naturalization.

New YORK. Dec. /.
The clerks in the Superior Court say
that certainly twelve or fifteen China
men have been made citizens in this
city within the last twenty years. The
three who were naturalized last year
could read and write. and said they be-
lieved in a Christian God.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-12-27
Girs mo a Lover Berth.

Geo. Peck, of the Milwaukee SUn,
spins this yarn:
The evening of the third day of the
races an intoxicated man, smelling like a
horse blanket, and carrying q dyspeptic
carpet bag, stopped a street car at the
corner of East Water and Wisconsin
streets, and stumbled on. It was one of
those summer cars, with canvas back
curtains, one of those refrigerator cars,
that makes cold ehills run up your troW-
sers leg to look at them. A colored bar
Der was standing on the back platform,
and the intoxicated man hauled his car
pet bag to him and went in, reeled up
into the corner as though looking for
something. "Gimme q lower berth in
the middle" said he to the colored man,
as he felt around in the corner for the
door knob to 4he drinking fountain. The
eolored man laughed and told the man
to take seat in the middle of the car.
There were only few people in the car
-an old man going to the depot, a young
couple coming home from picnic, and
an old maid going to the Lord only
knows where. The drunken man, who
was evidently from the country, in at
tendance upon the pool box of the races,
pulled off his boots and said to the col
ored man, HAin't yer going to make up
my berth p The old maid took out her
smelling bottle and acted as though she
was going to faint. Well, it was enough
TO make her faint. His stockings were
old enough to vote, and his feet could
have been condemned by the board of
health. He pulled off his coat and vest,
tried to hang his hat on the bell cord,
when the driver saw him, and, leaving
his mules, he came in and took the man
by the shoulder and said, 'None of that,
boss P' The man, who evidently imag-
ned he was behind the curtains of a
'eeper, said: "Shay, con(hic)ter, 1 want
% be woke up at Camp Dug's, sure" and
he began to make the preliminary move
ments toward taking off his pants. Slid
ing his suspenders over his shoulders,
his hand had lust reached his waist
band when scream struck him dumb,
and the old maid pulled the bell strap,
and as the car Stacked UP, she jumped OF,
yelling for policeman. The driver rea-
soned with the man, told him he was on
s street car, and got his clothes on and
pointed out the depot to him. As he
took his carpet bag and went of, with
one boot in his hand, trying to button up
his vest with the other hand, he NUT
tered "If that old woman had kept her
curtain pulled down, wouldn't have been
any tr(hic)ouble at ALL" And he wan
dered off into the night.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-12-27
PauDerism IN ireland.

It Is terribly on the increase. From
the Erish Times we learn that, out of a
population of 5,000,U00, nearly 100000
are supported by public relief; and the
number of paupers, we are told, is in
creasing at the rate of 1900 a month
To support this vast army of paqpers th'
labor Of ireland Is taxed 84,0Q0,Q00 a
wear, Of this sum, the salaries of work
house officials and the cost of the pauper
prisons eat up nearly 100000. 1t used
To be said that Ireland was overpOpu-
lated, Well, famine killed off nearly
100000 of the people, and scattered
100000 more all over the globe; yet
here is ireland to-day in her rags, with
her begging-bag over her shoulder, and
her beggar's hand extended for relief
Ireland has natural resources sufficient
TO support comfortably 100000 of peo-
pie. Independent of the millions of
acres which have been robbed from the
people, there are millions Of reclaimable
land, which, under wise and benehcent
government, would be sustaining a
happy people instead of what we now
see-a paupered population. Restore
the people to their natural inheritance;
educate them in the science of agricul-
ture; put improved implements into
their hands; enable them to utilize the
mineral resources Of the country; push
on manufactnres-in a word, diversity
industry and abolish landlordism-and
in ten short years Ireland will present 10
the world a picture Of cpntpntedness
sleh as ne cauptry ever before exhil
tied, but which, indeed, every cOuntr
under 9 system of government conform
able to the laws Of God may und can ex-
hibit, as well.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-12-27
Holding Ones Breath Under Wafsr.

1t is probable that the entrance of
water into the lungs has a great deal
more to do with the painlessness which
comes on quickly when the person is
deprived Of air because the lungs are
filed with water, than when the air
passages are closed while the lungs re-
main intact. Most persons can hold
their breath for minute, very many for
a minute and half, some for two min
utes. In one of the variety theaters in
New York appeared recently ''The Brill
liant Pearl of the enchanted Grotto," :"
christened Undine, who performed,
while under water incased in a mammoth
crystal illuminated tank, feats of aston
ishing suppleness and almost unbeliev-
able endurance. This performer can
probably remain under water, holding
her breath voluntarily, two minutes,
and perhaps more. l have myself, watch
IN hand, seen Johnson, the celebrated
ocean-sWimer, remain under water in a
tank before an audience for the astonish-
ing space of three minutes and twenty
seconds, and before he arose the inYol-
untary contraction Of his respiratory
organs were uncomfortable to witness
In such cases, although extreme distress
may be felt, there is no approach to IN
consciousness. But if a PERSONS head is
under water and he does not hold
his breath, Inconsistencies will usually
come on in one or two minutes at the
farthest.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-12-27
For cei1 aof be W;sa

a few years ago, says Hdgper's MaOQ-
ziIle, while the Alabama and Chattanooga
railroad was in process of eonstinf ion, il
was fayorite field for coIored preachers
to labor-and take up collections ''for de
spread OBJ de Gospel" Among these g
frequent visitor was old Father Helms,
from Tennessee, whose vivid eloquenee
SRd practical "spounding OBJ de Sacred
Word were attentiEely listened to by
large congregations of the sable race,
with no small delegation of interested
white listeners upon the outskirts. Upon
one occasion, assembled In a lovely
Alabama grove, he addressed his congre-
CATION thus:
Ladies and gentlemen OBJ my beloved
congregation = Havin' cotched a bad
cold de odder evenin', I shan't attempt
to preach to yer dis Sabbath mornin', but
will read chapter from de Bible, and
spound 1t as go along" He then read
the fourth chapter of Genesis, after which
ne continued his remarks: DE odder
evenin' 1 TUX for my tex de tragedy in
de garding OBJ Eden-de killin' OBJ Abel,
and de cuss and drivin' out OBJ Cain.
And after de sermon one OBJ yer smart
young darkies-Oae Ob desc yer thin
skinned, salaratus-complexioned niggers
steps up to me, and says he, 'Fader
Helms, yer disremember to tell us who
Mr.. Cain married down in de Land oh
Nod; was 1t his mudderP Dere was a
grinnin' crowd Oh nO-count, trifiin' Mig
gers wild him, and 'spected at once dat
de white folks had sent him up to ak de
:uestion. was so overcome with a
Rnse OBJ de sinfulness and great 'sump-
ton oh sinners, bofe white and black, dat
could say muffin. had muffin to say.
l TUX de question under prayerful consid-
GRAFTON, an de answer were made PLAIN.
Pm gwine to spOund dat part OBJ de
scripter TO yer. Who Gains wife was, and
Whar he got her, is plain to de ail-seein'
eye OBJ faith. In de garding oh Eden
Cain raised right smart OBJ craps and
garding truck and sich. But after the
Slowing OBJ his Christian brudder Abel
We don't read OBJ his workin' nomo' He
tux his gun and dogs, and went down
into dat sleepy, lazy, no-eount section OBJ
Nod, and loafed aroun' dat country; an
haVin' lost all OBJ his plantation and
mules, and all OBJ his self-respec', and
pride OBJ family and state, de mex we
hear OBJ him he had got so low down an
trifin' dat he married gal oh one oh
dose no-'eount poor white trash families
which de inspired 'postle didn't consider
fittin' to mention in de holy word"
The reverend "spounder" gazed
around upon his admiring congregation
with an air of triumph, and a brother
struck up the hymn, "Wha-, oh whar am
de Hebrew cliillen?"
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-12-27
WT and Human.

In an art gallery: He, II love kera+
mics" She. "You are ker-rect-"
An Indian out West is called Jump
0ver-the-Sky. How is that for high?
10 hit a sleepy worshiper on the
Head Vitha coHtn butioh box IS merely
bunipd beneTeIences { t4EEF
Felt gray is \ popalaf col& for1adies'
suits1 Felt blue Is the popular color for
the husbands who have to pay the bills
Mrs Partington says she was much
elucidated last Sunday on hearing fine
discourse on the parody of the prodigious
son.
Brilliant and impuIsive people"
says an exchange, "have black eyes"
aImpulsiye people are only too apt to
get black eyes.
Whittier, who wrote about "The Man
with the Branded Hand" is about 10
set to music ''The Woman with the
Branded Peaches"
A young lady was praising her beau
one Monday morning for his strength of
character. "Yes,n said her father,
gfialy, 4 have noticed he has grCatstsy-
ing powers"
efHew does the new cow answerT
asked one man of another who had
lately purchased COW. 'T really can't
say, was the reply, "for I have never
asked her 3 question"
my dear" asked Mrs. j. OF her
husband, on coming home from church
the othor day, what was the sweetest
thing you saw In bonnets" ''The ladies'
faces" was the bland reply.
A young man from Connecticut who
went West q year or so ago, has Just
been hanged IN Nevada as horse thief
How true Is the old adage that You
haTeto 60 away from home to get ths
moose"
"What has been done once, can be
done again." said some philosopher.
This may be true, but we are inclined to
doubt u We OHee foa4f q teh-dollar
bill il 3 horse-ear, aud We have been
cunning horse-cars in vain ever since.
'aTen dimes make one dollar said
the schoolmaster. 'NoW go on, sir. Ten
dollars make one-What n qThey make
one mighty glad, these times" replied
the boy, and the teacher, who hadn't
got his last months salary yet, concluded
the boy was about right
Order received Dy rustic Wisconsin
dentist, which says: '''My mouth is three
inchesacross, tive-eighths inches through
the jaw. Sum humoks on the edge.
Shaped like q hoss-shew, toe forward.
If you want me. to be more partikler
shall have to cum thar"
He was an entire stranger to the girls
present, and the boys were mean and
would not introduce him. He finally
plucked up courage, and, stepping up to
young lady, requested the pleasure Of
her company for the next dance. She
looked at him in surprise, and informed
him she had not the pleasure of his ac-
quaintance. "Well," remarked Cazeno-
VIA 'yOu don't take any more chances
than I de.ss asz
No one can fancy the feelings Of
newspaper man when he hears a delin-
uuent subscriber whom he hasbut twen
four hours before vainly implOred to
"settle that little bill, I" yell out on Sum
day, "Put me down $50 for the good of
the cause" when they are raising the
church debt
s ARebinso1 latter long whist bout at
the club )-"ft's awfully late, Brown.
What will you say to your wife% Brown
lin a whisper)-"Oh, 1 shan't say much,
you know, good morning, DEAR or
something O. that sort. She'll say the
rest"
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-12-27
Ers. Beszsr on t6e PBo7oorao6.

DO you think Pm a tarnation fool ? 4"
szld Mrs. Beezer to her nephew, who
was telling her about the wonders of the
telephone and phonograph. "Ain't YOU
ashamed Of yourself, Hezekiah Bidaker.
10 SIT there with face ike a deacon in
class meeting and tell such outlandish
hes? don't know nothing about sci
ence, as you call it. but I reckon FVe got
common sense, and wouldn't believe it
nyOu was to get up and swear on a stack
OF Bibles as big as this house. that any-
body could speak loud enough to he
heard SIX hundred miles away with the
wind agin 'em, and as for winding uD the
speech If people into a machine and
then getting it out again whenever YOU
wanted to, by just turning a little crank.
I would not believe it, no, not if you was
to turn black In the face telling it."
'But it's all true, aunt, every word I've
said to you, and can read it to you in
this paper" protested the young man.
Its the greatest discovery Of the age,
and everybody is fairly going wild over
it."
"Hezekiah! Now tell me, amt you
fooling? Isit really there in plain let
ters and spelling"
" Yes, aunt, and here's a picture Of the
machine.r
Lets see," and the old lady took the
paper. and looked long and carefully at
the cut of the phonograph. at may be,
but it looks more ike patent churn.
Read what It says about it.
The young man read the account care
fully, while she kept a close eye on him
to see that he was not making it up as he
went along.
HNow, aunt, what do you think? Amt
it Just as told you? Only think-a per-
sons voice may be heard years and years
after they're deadT' exclaimed theyouth
with enthusiasm.
"Well, if all that is there in print,
suppose there must be something in 1t
but want to tell you, boy, what my can
did opinion is about it. It's the doings
of Satan, and there won't be no good
come out of it TO nobody. It's the work
of the old boy, and will make mischief
for all them as has anything to do with
it, sure. heard he had been turned
loose for a thousand years, and now
believe it. Dear mel what's to become
Of us all? Why, I wouldn't have one of
them machines in the house when I'm
overhauling Beezer for his shortcomings
NO. HOS lOE any uOueys 4A4uu edA6s!
What lots of devilment there is in the
world lately, to be sure Come to think
of it, honestly believe that concern has
been got up on purpose SO that no poor
woman could have her say any more
with any peace or comfort. What's to
hinder these newspaper folks from slip |
ping into every house and rigging one Of |
EN- up along side of the gas meter2 But |
I don't care. I'll keep on giving Beezer
il piece of my mind whenever think he |
needs it, if it breaks every cog in the |
box"
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-12-27
Rsmankabls Reolpss.

John ]. Ball, known as the hermit Of
Cavan's Point, n. j., who died a few
years ago, was remarkable character.
He was seYenty-six years of age, and was
thorough recluse. His only intimates
we're dogs, thirteen of whom were in his
cabin when he died. He would allow
mo human being to cross his threshold
If he could help it, The cabin In which
he lived was crowded with stove in the
center, the tick in one corner of a long
box was falling to pieces, turning lathe
on one side and carpenters bench on
the other was Uttered with rusty tools,
scraps of old iron, Junk, wood, horns Of
cattle, and all kinds of useless rubbish.
Clam shells, were heaped up Just outside
the doorway. On CLAIMS dug from the
beach, the neighbors say the hermit and
bis canine companions snbsisted, His
thirst for reading was Unsuitable, and ne
would stop on the road and talk by the
hour on political economy and history.
{ On the most important subjects around
him he would talk learnedly and with
interest. He was noted, besides, for his
mastery of many trades. He was an
adept at painting, shoemaking, carpen-
tering, calcimining, plastering, and sign
painting, and he made gentlemen's canes.
He was sensible and proud to the last in
being self-dependent, and to offer him
aims was to offend and hurt him but
he would take, in provisions, three times
the value of his services in filing a saw,
patching a shoe, riveting a jaek-knife, or
mending gun. Little is known of his
history. His birthplace is in Northern
Vermont, and he lived for years in Meri-
den and New Haven, Conn, He had a
brother, a shfp-builder, in New. Haven.
Suddenly he took to rowing, and at the
time of the Seminole war he was in
Florida, trapping, hunting and fishing.
Then he worked westward to Texas, and
came back in time to go to Mexico in
the Mexican war. His wandering habits
chung to him afterward, and at the out
break of the war he entered the Army
of the Potomac, He had lived in his
cabin for oyer six years, having pre-.
yiouay inhabited an old boat.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-12-27


ffehersa misch5eI alts issnit;
VIZ shsla neEar stsIl mIn1fsl AZ
And she looks psrfecf night.
What she's like, I cannot guess I'll
Like An eels that won't express It?
Mother eIldes the little midget
Calh her such q fdget"
up and down the stairway tnamplng.
Through the hallway stamping, stamping;
II you ask her 10 be still,
Pretty eyes with tear-drops hll.
Making more than twice the noise
Gould be made by twenty boys"
That's what mother says 70 midget;
Oh, she's such ddget!
Soon, b0WeYef. comes her bedtime:
You shoaId see her men, e said time,
IN her Iittfe gown 50 whites-
Hear her sweet Goodnight; :"
Mark her pretty, sad confessions
or her very small transgressiOns'
Then you'd love our little midget
Though she's such idgetI
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-12-27
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Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-12-27
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Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-12-27
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