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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-09-04
S G r A p S .

By way of personal mention it is to be sale
| that Sam Jones passed here yesterday morn
| ing, going upward Mr.. Emanuel Penrod
who is in town, says that he has lately found
some gravel diggings in Elko county that are
60 feet deep and prospect 81 per day with 4
rocker Hope he will strike blue dirt and
the bedrock pitching. And speaking of min
ing, reminds us that Dick Sides is also in
town. Dick looks good for another century
or two.
The cool nights and mornings and the mod
Grated temperature of the days are an earnest
of that pleasant Fallish counterfeit of warmer
days, The Indian Summer. The temperature
is very invigorating. Pity but it could be
lent to the fever-stricken South long enough
to cleanse the air of its deadly miasma.
Speaking of the fever at the South, we are
reminded that the Committee of Citizens ap-
pointed to collect moneys for a relief fund
we're busily at work yesterday. We hope to
be able to make handsome showing of Car
sons hberahty.
Some of the plaza trees are doing nobly.
Standing near the north side of the square
and looking south, over the newly mown
grass, one catches gimpses here and there
through the speckled shadows of the elms, of
something quite lawnlike and handsome. In
a little while, the ranchers being done with
the water for the season, We shall begin to
have flow from the mountains then, with
the drenching of the grass, will come new
growth, and with the new growth strength of
root and by-and-by the handsomest grounds
in all Nevada
We learn at the Perasich fruitstand that
Medagovichs eye is doing well, although there
is vet no assurance that its sight will not be
destroyed
Guirado, the man of pills and polygamous
accusations, is in the city, being out of du-
rance and on bail Hope he may be able to
show a clean bill of health when the time of
trial comes. BY the way, a Douglas county
man of standing said to us the other day that
it was long time between Grand Juries in
that bailiwick
Concerning Grand Juries, let not the men,
bers of the panel forget that they are to meet
to day, as per order of the Court
Hutchinson, the woman carver, will receive
sentence to-day. We learn that he feels very
much resigned 20 his fate-especially in view
Of the chances he ran of getting into much
worse one.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-09-04
INCENDIARY DESTRUCTION OF
GRAIN.

Night before last at Theodore Winter s
ranch in Washoe county the entire harvest of
the year-with the exception of a compare
lively small amount of the crop-was de-
stroyed by fire From Mr. James Gatewood,
who brings the news, we learn that the stacks
of grain wheat and barley-thus burned
stood in n field east of the railway track.
There were we understood himeto say, five
stacks Each of these stacks was fired separ-
ately. wagon which stood near one of
them was destroyed. The stacks were set on
FIRE from the north side. There was not
enough wind stirring to make the fire spread
at all The amount of grain thus destroyed
amounts to 60 or 20 tons Mr.. Winters him
self is but a one-half owner in the property
thus annihilated His partners are his son
and Mr.. James Looper. What object the
incendiaries had for doing this devilish thing
is beyond conjecture. The loss is total, there
being not one cents insurance on the prop
erty. The loss amounts, we suppose, to some
thing between $1,000 and 81, 900. No one is
attaDprted
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-09-04
BALL AT YANkS.
suspected,

On the evening of the 18th inst.-one week
from Friday-Mr l. B. Richardson, the
present manager of the popular hotel known
~ "Yanks, will give ball for the enter
tanment of his friends and the general,
dance-enjoying public, The steamer Governor
Stanford will make the tour of the Lake,
stopping at all the landings for guests. The
steamboat trip will be free to all. The music
for the occasion will be furnished by Varney s
Quadrille Band. The price of tickets to this
entertainment will be So 5O-which price in
oludes supper. Now here, by way of closing
up the seasons amusements at the Lake,
is a very promising entertainment There
will be lots of fun, lots of good things to eat
and pretty girls by the score. Go by all
means.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-09-04
COLLECTIONS YESTERDAY.

From Mr. Pantlind, of the yellow fever
relief committee for the First Ward, we learn
no less than 1916 90. We understand that
the Second Ward committee collected not less
than $500. The Vivian Mill force, through
Superintendent Brown, have contributed $50
Also we believe there is S75 forthcoming from
Judge Hawley-the same being a residue of
the Virginia Relief Fund 1t is confidently
expected that our little city's contribution will
be not less than 81 900.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-09-04
HOME GOSSIP.

The hot air chicken factory in this city has
proven a failure, and the concern gone into
liquidation.
NJ Nj. Jefferson, annealer in the Mint
who was taken with violent attack of cholera
morbus Saturday last, is still confined to
his bed and quite ILL
The travel to Bodie is increasing to such
degree that Ar. Cluggage proposes to put
on an additional stage line between this city
and that point He says there will be no
money in it for him, but does it for the &C
commodation of the travelling public.
The Miners Union picnic will be held at
Treadway's Park on next Saturday. The
affair will, as heretofore, be a success.
r. G. Guirado is in the city.
Several more horses were taken to the Car
son race track yesterday There are now
twenty one animals in training on that course.
DR.. Hutchinson will be sentenced to-day
by Judge Wright.
The monthly meeting of the Board of City
Trustees will be on the 9th instant.
Go to Brooks for this weeks Harper's with
picture depicting the o twins of the Black
vile family starting for Europe on their
bridal tour.
The committee appointed to collect money
in this city for the relief Of the yellow fever
sufferers in the South, were around yesterday
and met with much success.
Col A. G. Ellis is expected to return from
San Francisco this morning.
The Supreme Court is in session.
One or more burglars entered mai5on de
joic, situated on Ormsby and Third streets,
on Monday night and distracted therefrom
letters and money belonging to the inmates.
Mr.. Butler P Anderson, of Grenada, to
whom the money collected at the Beecher
service in this city for the relief of yellow
fever sufferers was sent, died at that place a
day or two since. He contracted the yellow
fever while performing noble work among the
sufferers. The deceased gentleman was a
warm friend of General John R. Kittrell.
Supt. Brown of the Vivian mill has placed
into the hands of the Southern Relief Com
mitsee $j1. This money was contributed by
the attaches of the mill.
The stock market is still going upward, the
stocks located at the north end of the Com
stock are specially favored in this respect.
1t is predicted by the knowing ones that
Sierra Nevada will be selling for $500 per
share before the first of January.
In spite of the breezes with which we have
been favored during the last few days, the
weather continues very warm.
Wells, Fargo Il Co.'S agency in this city |
has discontinued buying stocks for customers
on commission.
Johnny Skae, the President of the Sierra |
Nevada Mining Co, owns 10000 shares of
that mine.
1t is ssatod that George F. Foard, formerly |
connected with the V. & T. R. r. Co. in this |
city, and now the home secretary of the
Sierra Nevada Co, has made handsome
fortune in the late stock rise. We are glad
of it, and hope he may keep on increasing it.
Capt, A. W. Pray came down from the
Lake yesterday
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-09-04
SMOKE.
worse one.

TX Marvel writes some pleasant things
about smoke, especially the smoke of a hard
wood fire in an open fireplace. Smoke is
also chief factor in the very wise old proverb,
that " Where there is much smoke there is
doubtless some fire" Now and then, when
the atmosphere is in a peculiar state, smoke,
especially the smoke from the Mint chimney,
settles down earthward instead of mounting
to the zenith. When they are in sulphur
Gus mood in that institution, this smoke is like
to be very choking. But the queerest smoke
of all smokes is the smoke which rolls up
out of the passenger locomotives, night and
morning Go up to the station in the morn
ing and you will find the smoke blowing off
nor'west by nothe, half nothe. That is,
the wind draws in from the southeast. In
the evening the frequenters of the platform
know which way the wind blows. The loco
motive smokes away, like a kiln; the
wind, hauled round with the sun, comes in
from the nor west and the smoke, moving in
a downward and east ard direction, makes a
smothering, binding cloud greatly to the dis
comfort of the regular promenaders there.
Now what makes the wind and the smoke
cut up such vagabond shines as that Is it
politics; or is it religionl 1t is communism
or is it the spots on the sun?
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-09-04
LECTURE FOR THE RELIEF OF VEL.
LOW FEVER SUFFERERS.

number of private citizens have waited
upon our townsman, Dr. J. W. Fox, with the
request that he deliver one or two lectures in
this city for the benefit of the yellow fever
sufferers in the South. The Doctor has kindly
consented to lend his services to this cause,
and arrangements will in all likelihood be
made by the committee within a few days for
the carrying ont of this object.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-09-04

THE Virginia Relief Committee of Carson
have placed the funds which remained in their
hands at the disposal of the committees col
Letting for the relief of the Southern sufferers.
The sum amounts to S91.
SUPERINTENDENT GOULD says that there is
no question about work being resumed at an
early day on the North Carson mine
No BULLION came in from Bodie on the
southern stage last evening
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-09-04
BILLS OF FARE.

Our strong suit, Gf We may be INDUCED in
he expression), is the printing OF bills of fare.
TO speak after the manner of the profane and
gamblesome, we beat the deck on bills of fare.
liberation.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-09-04

FINE GROCERIES, Reinstein & Gibson
who conduct that depot for the supply OF all
fastidiously epicurean palates, on the corner
of King and Ormsby streets, are selling goodf
lower than any body, for cash. This firm
are constantly in receipt of the finest Ger
man, French, Italian and English delicacies,
besides everything in the ordinary grocery
line.
New RoUTE.-The southern stage which
leaves here every morning is running by way
Of the new McTarnahan road, between Car
son and the Twelve-mile House, and does not
touch Genoa, as heretofore. This lessons the
distance six miles, and makes saving of one
hour in the time. Whether the new route is,
in all respects, as desirable as the old one, We
have been unable to ascertain.
MINT OPERATIONS. The following are the
operations of the Carson Mint during the
month of August, 1873:
Gold deposits, value ........... S16,297 %
Silver deposits, value .......... 525, 466 "a
Standard silver dollars coined $310, 900 90
FIRE AT AURoRA.-At an early hour last
evening McIntoshs hotel at Aurora caught
afire, but the flames were extinguished before
much damage was done.
Big TRAvEL.-The travel to Lake Tahoe is
unusually great this season. Benton has two
coaches coming down daily, loaded with tour
lists.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-09-04

The MORNING APPEAL Office (Which is pro
vided with the most extensive assortment OF
book and job material i'll NEVADA, will print
bill heads, on the finest and best of paper as
cheaply as they can be procured i'll Sacra-
mento.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-09-04
SHIPPIN6 TAGS.

If there is any one thing that the MORNING
APPEAL can do better than another, it is to
print, at the most preposterously low rates,
the shipping tags so much needed by the
mercantile community.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-09-04
BUSINESS CARDS.

The MORNING APPEAL job Office will print
professional and business cards at rates ride
ulously low. Even spinsters and children yet
unweaned cry for them
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-09-04
POSTERS.

The MORNING APPEAL Job Office is better
prepared to print posters, handbills and
dodgers than any establishment between San
Francisco and Omaha. Come and inquire the
prices.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-08-22

protest till he found out where the land
lay, and Kellogg urged me to do what l
could to get Anderson to make a protest
The attention of the whole country was be-
ing concentrated on Louisiana, and Kel.
logg said it was highly important to get a
protest out of Anderson before some of TIL
den's emissaries arrived and bought him
up. l advised Anderson not to make any
protest at all. Anderson and 1 agreed that
the Republican party was defeated, and we
were sorry for Hayes, but ad Packard
was beaten. We agreed, however,
that though beaten, the Re-
publicans would get in. In an interview
with Kellogg, he said that no matter what
Anderson would do, he would count the
State in for Hayes. We agreed to Kellogg's
plan to count in Hayes. knew very well
that Sherman and the visiting statesmen
had come down to steal the State. l knew
they were after Anderson's protest, SO that
after committing himself he could not go
over to the Democrats without perjuring
himself. There was glorious prospect for
Anderson, and knew he could get any,
would cause the vote of East Feliciana to
be thrown out. think that, even without
Anderson's protest, they would have
thrown out the vote.
The witness said there were many affi-
davits manufactured for moral appearance.
He had advised Anderson not to sign the
protest without making bargain for it.
Anderson told witness he had seen Sher.
man, aud Sherman had promised every
thing. Was afterward shown by Anderson
a letter purporting to have cone from
John Sherman, promising him the Naval
Office. Saw John Sherman's name at the
foot of the letter, but was not permitted to
read the letter.
The examination of Leete was continued
on the 10th, with no important results.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-08-22

The inventor of gas lights is said to
have been a Frenchman, Philippe lie
Bon, an engineer of roads and bridges,
who, in 1772, adopted the idea of using
for the purposes of illumination the
gases distilled during the combustion of
wood. He labored for long time in
the attempt to perfect his crude inven-
ton, and it was not till 1899 that he
confded his discovery to the Institute.
In September, 1900, he took out a
patent, and in 1901 he published a
memorial containing the resultof his re-
searches. LIE Bon commenced by distill-
ing wood in order to obtain from it gas,
oil, pitch and pyroligneous acid; but his
work indicated the possibility of obtain
ing gas by distillatioh from fatty or oily
substances. From 1899 to 1902 LIE Bon
made numerous experiments. He es-
tablished at Havre his first thermo-
lamps; but the gas which he obtained,
being a mixture of carburetted hydrogen
and oxide of carbon, but imperfectly
freed from its impurities, gave only a
feeble light and involved an insup-
portable odor, and the result was that
but little favor was shown to the new
discovery the inventor eventually died,
ruined by his experiments. The English
soon put in practice the crude idea of
LIE Bon. In 1904, one Winsor patented
and claimed the credit of inventing the
process of lighting by gas; in 1905,
several shops in Birmingham were
illuminated by gas manufactured by
the process of Winsor and Murdock
Among those who first used this new
light was Watt, the inventor of the
steam engine. In 1916, the first use Of
gas was made in London, and it was no
until 1918 that this invention, really O.
French origin, was applied in France.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-08-22
An Unexpected Ghost.

There was real dead man at Paris
clearinghouse, and after he had been
taken to his last lodging, it got about
that he was in the unseemly habit OF
paying nightly visits to the room in
which he died, and for long time re-
mained tenantless in consequence. At
last it was taken by student, who
laughed at the idea of the place being
haunted Annoyed at his incredulity,
two of the dodgers arrayed themselves
in sheets, and glided into the room one
night at that witching hour when grave
yards are supposed to yawn. With
silent step, and slow they stalked
around the bed, until happening to
glance behind them, they beheld a
sheeted figure watching their move
ments. This was more than they had
bargained for, and they were out of the
room almost before they knew it. Next
morning they settled with the landlord
and departed, never thinking their in
tended victim had OWNED their inten-
tions, and paid them in their own coin.
They were not quite equal to the occa-
sion
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-08-22

The session of Parliament was prorogued
by the Queen, on August Is, until the I'd
of November, 1873. In the royal speech,
which was read on the occasion, the
Queen congratulates Parliament ON the
conclusion of peace by the Berlin congress,
and the Cypress treaty is referred to as
a guaranty OF Turkish independence, and
a pledge OF reform. The conduct of the
troops is highly praised. The Queen, in
her speech, attributes the pacific solution
of the difficulties in the East largely to the
support of Parliament, and believes that
the peace concluded by the congress of
Berlin will be satisfactory and durable.
ADEICEs from London with further news
of the Chinese successes in Kashagaria, re-
ceived there from Russian sources, state that
the Chinese had placed a garrison of one
thousand men in each of the Kashgaria
towns occupied by them, and that they had
commanded the natives to produce horses
for campaign which was to be undertaken
this spring. At Zangisbahn the Chinese
found about seven hundred small sired
cannon, meant to be carried on the backs of
eamels. These guns had not been in use.
They lay under velvet and brocade cover
ings, and were all supplied from England.
Mandalay, the King of Burmah's Capital,
was on fire. On June S,,two thousand houses
had been destroyed. The city is walled in,
and like most Eastern towns, the streets are
narrow and the houses crowded together.
1t is quite probable, as his golden footed
Majesty is unprovided with fire engines,
that the greater portion of the city will be
DESTROYED
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-08-22

RECENT eccentricities of lightning:
At Wheeling it killed a young man,
breaking every large bone in his body
into small particles, but leaving no
external mark of injury further than a
slight scorch on his hair. At Mapping,
Conn.,, on Sunday it struck the Method
ist church, snatched off a sisters back
hair, ran down her back, which it
moxaed slightly. and went out through
her shoe, which was reduced to ashes.
At Wellsburg, W. Va, it struck Thomas
Briggs and left the perfect imprint of a
tree on his breast. In Woodford County,
KY, two persons owned peach tree in
partnership, but they couldn't agree
about the division of the fruit, and fell
to disputing over it. Shortly after, the
tree was struck by lightning and split
from top to bottom, one-half falling one
way and the other the opposite.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-08-22
The Eclipse as Seen From Pixies
Peak.
lPhiladelphia Press1

The sky was cloudless and the atmos-
phere wonderfully clear. The range of
vision extended for probably one hun
dred miles in every direction. The
mountain north and west stood out clear
cut against the sky, and the plains to the
eastward stretched away until they
seemed to mingle with the horizon. 1t is
a rare occasion when distant objects can
be so clearly and distinctly seen from the
Peak. There was no haze or mist to
cloud the view in any direction. There
was perhaps no special feature observa-
BILE in the eclipse, as noted from the
summit, which could not be seen from
any point on the plain below, except
such as might arise from the clearness
and rarity of the atmosphere incident to
the elevation. This clearness and the
absence of moisture doubtless gave
great advantage for scientific observa-
ton and for the use of astronomical in
struments.
But there was no point, probably,
within the entire limit of total observa.
ton which afforded such an opportunity
for noting the approach of the shadow
of totality, or which gave an equal op
portunity for taking in at single SWEEP
of the eye such an extended area of the
earth's surface.
To the unscientifc observer, the mos
remarkable phenomenon observable from
the summit of the Peak was the ap
proach of the shadow of totality
from the north, its swift passage, anC
the sudden burst of sunlight which fol
lowed.
1t must be remembered that tn,
movement of the shadow from north t,
south was at the rate of about thirt,
miles per second, and it was necessar,
that one should have stretched beneath
him wide expanse of the earth's sur
face in order that the eye could seiz,
with a glance the line of the approach
ing shadow, and followed it as itrushet
away to the southwark. This advan
tage an observer who stood upon TIL
Peak possessed.
General Myers had very kindly ad
vised our party where and how to loo
for the coming shadow, and we had take
our station on the northern edge of tn
summit several minutes before tn
period of total obscuration of the sun
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-08-22

IT has always been subject of curl
osity and inquiry as to how and where
prairie dogs, living on the prairie far
away from any river or stream, obtain
their water. Mr.. F. Leech, formerly
of Mercer County, Penn, and a front
iersman of experience, asserts that the
dogs dig their own wells, each village
having one with concealed opening.
1t matters not how far down the water
may be, the dogs will keep on digging
until they reach it. He knows Of one
such well 200 feet deep, and having a
circular staircase leading down to the
water. Every time dog wants drink
he descends the staircase, which, con-
sidering the distance, is no mean task.
In digging for water the animals dis
play as much pluck as in resisting the
efforts of settlers to expel them from,
the land of their progenitors.