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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-12-13

No person of normal accessibility doubts but
taat to kill criminals by hanging IS a barbar-
ous nlethcd--a remnant of the middle ages,
and now abandoned by the most civilized
people The Turks often drown theul, ss we
our superduous dogs, and We wish Mr.. Bergh
w;suid take a stand against this equally bar
bareus method aud make US adopt the Phils,,
delphia plan, which is to place the dogs in a
closed room in which esrbolic acid gas is adj
nlitted In less than two minutes they die
essily without any struggle ; but to make
sure Of it they are left in the room for three
minutes, when they are taken out perfectly
dead As this gas acts like al snesthetic,
beginning by producing uncohseidusness, and
causing death without any struggle, DR.. Pack
ard of Philadelphia recommends it as u subj
s5ltute for hanging aud if Mr.. Bergh would
elevate himself from his certainly praise;
worthy sympathy for brute creature. to sym
pathy for needless human suffering, he would
surely becone a champion for the method of
4xtingaishlng, without suffering, lives which
the safety of society requires to- be put to an
end at once, instead of the brutalizing pros
sess of hanging the criminal by the neck
making s. public exhibition Of his death
struggles for the ediication Of the Old and
rSta yoiJ,.p
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-12-13
SENATOR SARGENT.
Under date of Washington, December II
We have the following:

Under date of Washington, December II
We have the following
Senator Sargent, in accordance with the
savioe of his physieians, left Washington to-
day for an absence of FIVE or six weeks, or
longer if necessary, for the complete restora-
ZION Of his health and strength, which have
been very seriously impaired, accompanied by
his wife and youngest daughter. He took
the steamer this afternoon for Norfolk, whence
be will proceed by railroad to Savannah and
ap' the st. Johns river TO near It's head of
navigation, stopping to rest a-day or two at
each place of transfer. After enjoying the
seni-tropical climate of Upper st. Jehns
about week the Senator will come north to
st. Augustine and there intercept the New
York steamship for Nassau. The length of
his stay in the Bahamas will depend upon the
rapidity of his improvement, but he expects
TO return to Washington by rail from Savan!
nah between Che 18th and Goth proximo. He
Ii very reluctant to be absent from the Capital
forHso long period although the holiday
recess of Congress will sbsorb most of it, bus
his friends and physicians alike insist upon
shis cotirse as absolutely necessary for his
's6mplste recovery.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-12-13
ABOUT GAMBLING.

The Eureak Sentinel. dealing with a very
prominent question of the day says: '"fhere
are those Ill every community who lean to the
aplnicn that to deal in mining, or other stocks,
10 to gamble, in the reckless sense of the
tafrh. 1t is bad enough, goodness knows,
But not quitea as bad as gambling on the green.
And. in truth, are we not all gamblers2 Is
not the whole speculative world-the world Of
chance gamble? When the merchant buys
ton of -four in the fall to hold until spring.
does he not bet that that the flour will q
higher IN the spring. When the prospector
expends his money and labor on mine, Is he
not gambling that he strikes ore in the enda
When Messers Mills & Co. built the railroad
from Palisade to Eureka, at cost OF S2,OOO,-
900, did they not gamble just 81 900 on
the value and permanency of the mines OF
Eureka District The farmer CANDLES that
his crop will not be blighted by drouth, and
the owner of herds goes his money against
Texas fever in his cattle and dry rot in his
sheep And 50 it is with everything about
which there is any chance or speculation.
The cautious, conservative man, who can con-
troll himself, and not become demoralized, Is
al we'll off in stocks as in anything else. The
buying of stocks is quite as legitimate as the
buying of wheat, or hogs, or corn, or any
: other commodity that must be held for raise.
The one, as business, is not a whit more i'm !
moral than the other. When one man profits
by an Investment in hogs, some other man
loses precisely what is gained. So it is with
stocks buy en- when they are down, and
eel 'em when they are up" and you need
have NO fear of becoming demcralized and
wicked You will enjoy fortune, thus &C
aured, with as much zest az though you had
accumulated it by corner on peanuts or
putty,
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-12-13

As producer of flesh, one pound of egg is
equal to one pound of beef. A hen may DO
calculated to consume yearly one bushel Of
corn, and to lay twelve dozen or eighteen
pounds of eggs, This is equivalent to saying
that three and one-tenth pounds of corn will
produce, when fed to a hen, one pound OF
eggs, A pound of pork, on the contrary, re-
quires five and one-tentha pounds of corn for
it's production. When eggs are "a cents a
dozen and pork 10 cents pound, we have a
bushel of corn fed, producing 50 SO worth of
eggs and 81 05 of pork. Judging from these
facts, eggs must be economical IN their pro-
duction and in their eating, and especially fit
for the laborins man in replacing meat.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-12-13

1t is not strange that cholera RACES in India
where cleanliness and hygiene are seldom
thought of. As an instance of the general
intelligence, q small village in the Presidency
of Madras was lately invaded by the scourge,
and out of population of 100, sc were at
tackled and 81 died. Medicines were sent to
the place, and the messenger who carried
them found the natives washing the clothes
of the cholera patients in large we'll which
supplied drinking water for the town. Ex-
amples of this kind are constantly occurring
Ignorance slays many niore.thsn disease does
IN egory part of tho East
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-12-13

TIE LATE SAM PATCH.-Some one inquired
of the editor of the Batavian what he knew
of "Sam Patch" and what was his real name
The editor interviewed an old citizen of
Genesee County and answered: "Sam
Patch's" real name was Samuel Patch, but by
common consent the uel was torn off in his
boyhood, and was never afterwards patched
on. Sam was first discovered in or about
Patterson, N. J, He didn't develop well as
boy or man. He was as good natured as the
day was long, and as shiftless and dissipated
as he was good natured. His surname was
placarded all over his clothes by careful
mother, and all over his face by the effects of
the "wster he took in hizzen." He had, oc-
casionally, lucid intervals. In one of these he
determined to be patch on the Passaic River,
with suicidal intent, and with mighty leap
went over it's beautiful falls and into its
seething waters below. But as the lamented
Greeley has it, 'fthough he tried thus to give
up the ghost, the ghost refused to be given
up" and Sam came out alive and well. An
idea struck him. He had new way for
man to make a living He'd jump, the
crowds would pay. He utilized his idea,
jumped falls here and there all over the
went to Niagara Falls and leaped
safely down that tremendous cataract; went
to Rochester, N. Y, leaped the falls there
once in safety, tried it again, was drunk at
that time and did not maintain his perpen-
in descent and striking the waters
a little angling was probably killed by the
collision. His body was never found. This,
his last jump, was made about forty-fye
years ago
AMONG the confrmations by the Senate on
" Wednesday were the following Receiver of
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-12-13
A SLAP AT THE RAILROADS.


A Washington special to last evenings
Virginia Chronicle, under date of December
II, contains the following:
In the House yesterday the Bill reported
last year from the Committee on Commerce,
to regulate inter State commerce and prevent
discrimination by common carriers, was taken
up. The bill makes it unlawful for persons
engaged in transporting property by railroad
from one State to another, or to or FROM
any foreign country, to discriminate against
any person in the price charged. Itprohibits
the pooling of freights, combinations and
draw backs.
Reagan explained and advocated the bill.
Potter opposed it as being superfuous and
useless.
Townsend of Illinois advocated the bill
Combinations of trunk lines had recently in
creased the transportation on wheat from ST.
Louis to New York eight or nine cents bush
ell, and farmers of the West, who anticipated
higher prices for their wheat, have been in
jured thereby. The bill was as much in the
the interest of those living at the terminal
points as at the intermediate points Every
Western producer was interested in having
the strong hand of the government prevent
monopolies levying taxes on producers.
Philips of Kansas favored some parts of
the bill and opposed others. Railroads should
be permitted to carry great quantities of
freight cheaper than small quantities.
Canon said he advocated tho provision
against pooling, but was not for the section
prohibiting reduction in fares for long dis
tances.
Hewett said it was an unwise measure An
interstate commission of experts was the
proper remedy for the grievous existing abuses
which demanded careful attention of all who
wished to develop the great foreign trade that
is pulling the country out of the quagnire
into which bad financial legislation has plunged
it.
The bill then passed-139 to ITO.
The Pacific Coast Representatives divided
as follows on the bill: Page, Luttrell and
Wren voted aye, and Davis, Wiggington and
Williams voted no. Congressman represent
ing terminal points of railroad unitedly op-
posed the bill. Davis believes that its enact
ment would practically deprive San Fran
cisco of the benefit of water competition for
Eastern freights, as the railroads, if compelled
to carry way freights at the SANE rate as
those charged for through business, would
have to advance the latter, and vessel rates
would undoubtedly be advanced incorporation.
The general impression is that the bill will not
pass the Senate.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-12-13

AMONG the combinations by the Senate on
Wednesday were the following: Receiver of
public money-H. q. Osborne, at Bodie, Cal
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-12-26

The legislature of Georgia has au>
thorized the issue of half a million
dollars in bonds bearing four per CEN
interest. The bonds will be issued ir
denominations of five dollars, and will
be exactly the size ola greenback bill.
Each bond will have six coupons, tc
be clipped annually. They will be
largely used as currency, and will
furnish safe, interest>bearing invest
meut to the people. They will be
issued in January. It is proposed to
substitute four per cents for the whole
of Georgia's debt, this half million be.
ing issued to take up bonds which ma
ture in February. As these obl;,a>
tions have coupons attached, they are
not in conflict with the provisions of
the law against the issuance Of money
by the States. Georgians say that the
plan will succeed and make money
plenty.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-12-26
W0men's Wages.
rom the St. Paul Globe.

From the St. Paul Globe.
The departments at Washington
give employment to thirteen hundred
women. Their saleries range from
nine hundred dollars year to double
that sum, the average being about
twelve hundred dollars. These wo>
men do all that is required of the male
clerks, and are reekoned as the most
expert in counting money and detect
ing counterfeit bills. Yet they re.
ceive less than two-thirds Of the pay
that men receive for the same work.
They are, besides, more reliable and
honest than their male associates
They never 60 off on sprees, and 1t is
yet to be recorded that one OF them
has purloined dollar from the gov.
ernment. Such being the fact, is il
not unjnst that they should be re.
quired to work for less consideration
than is paid to men ? IF a woman
does a mans work she is entitled te
the mans pay, and the government
should be the last to set the example
Of oppression.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-12-26
From the Pioneer Press.

From the Pioneer Press.
Some worthless hummer set ahoat
a malicious paragraph, some months
ago, to the effect that equal suffrage
in Wyoming was failure; that no
respectable women degraded them
selves by going to the polls, and more
to the same purpose. The Pioneer
Press is not an advocate Of woman
suffrage, but it is only fair play to state
that the afidavi,s of several clergymen
who have lived 10 that paradise of
equal rights for ten years past, and
the authenticated reports Of parties
sent out from Boston, put an effectual
quietus on the SANDER. The moth
ers truDdle their baby-carriages to the
polls, deposit their votes as though it
was the most natural thing in the
world, aud hurry home to lay the
cloth for tea.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-12-26
Verdancy.

The Plainvlew News recently pub
Iished an article advising the county
papers to rake the Pioneer Press over
the Goals for its shameful abuse of the
people for refusing to pay the old
State railroad bonds, and the Pionee,
Press replies as follows:
The Plainview News now proposes that thu
county papers shall rake us over the Goals anG
make us desist from this shameful abuse o
the people. The editor of the PlainvieW
News is evidently q new conner in this region
The county papers have tried that on GOOD
many times in the last twenty years and We
may safely venture the prediction that what
ever opinions they may have or express about
the course of the Pioneer Press on this or or
any other topic, they will be somewhat amused
at the verdant suggestion Of the PIainyieN
man that they can run this journal for us Of
make it desist from the Independent expires.
sion of any Of its convictions. = -.
We fully agree with the Pioneer
Press as to the verdancy of the Plain.
view man. Noperson who has been a
reader Of the Pioneer Press since its
consolidation can reasonably expect
that paper to represent tile interests
Of the people when such interests
conflict with the schemes of bondhold-
ers and monopolists. In fact degree
of verdancy seldom met with, is re-
quired in order to hope that the Pic,
ncer Press will ever have sufficient re.
gard for the rights or opinions Of the
people to cease to. be the special
pleader for every gang Of high toned
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-12-26

I1TNuyDuslnes you can engage IN
II vs. to $50 per day made by any
DIO yorker Of ether n;,;ss sex right Battjn in
ulars and samples worth S.
free. Improve your spare time at this business
Address STISsoN + Co.. Portland. Maine.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-12-26
conducted in any other way.

couuucteu LII any otuef way.
The House Committee on appropri-
ations is endeavorlpg to get from the
Department of Injustice some inform
alton as to the number Of Deputy
Marshals appointed to help carry elec>
tions for the Radicals, and the amount
of money paid them. Also What fund
the amount was taken from. Mr..
southard, Of Ohio, offered a resolution
calling for this information, and tie
committee reported it favorably, but
the Republicans are systemically op>
posing it. This Deputy Marshall bus
mess is little else than a species of
election bribery. The appointees get
$5 per day to vote the Radical ticket
and stand at the polls to work for it
all day. Part Of their work is to keep
Democrats from voting By various
methods. BY this means several Con-
gressional districts have been carried,
as many as 1000 deputies having
been appointed in single district.
It has been charged that the Marshals
and Supervisors were paid out Of
funds appropriated for other uses, and
the policy of the Republicans in seek
ing to suppress information concerning
the matter, indicates that they are
afraid to have 1t examined into. But
prominent member of the Appropri>
alton Committee says: "Wc intend
to have this information before we
give the Department Of Justice any
more money"
1t is very home1ike to read that
Mrs. Hayes caused the White House
cellar to be fitted up this Fall with
potato~bins, shelves for pumpkins and
squashes and other things needed to
refresh the Administration during the
winter. Yet it is little remarkable
that, after year or more Of LIE DUO
in the Agricultural Bureau, squashes
and pumpkins and potatoes, are the
only things the mistress of the White
House has to put away in the cellar.
What has become of all the bamboo
and bon>bons and other delicacies, LIE
Due has been raising right along?
If pumpkins and potatoes are all that
the White House needs, it seems as
thoug h we could get along with less
complicated Commissioner Of Agri~
culture. But lie Dues sins of omis-
sion are greater than his sins of COM
mission. There is scarcely doubt
but that he is responsible for the mis-
erably small crop of old line Wings,
which has so grevlously disappointed
the Administration. PHoNo.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-12-26
Notice.

" Mrs. F. A. Whittier would announce
to the ladies Of Little Fails and vic1n-
ity that she is now prepared to do all
kinds of Fancy Work in Wax and
Worsted. Hair Work a Speciality.
Residence opposite VIM. Harrison's,
Belle Prairie Township.
NoY. 20, 1878.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-12-26
Lands For Sale.

5000 acres Of first class farming
lands in Morrison county for sale BY
the undersigned. Prices moderate
and terms easy. -s..
.... JONATHAN TAYLOR.
Little Falls, Minn.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-12-26

robbers who have schemes on hand
for plundering the public treasury,
provided in each case that some other
compact Of: villains have not secured
priority of right in the pursuit Of the
.niundar.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-12-26
Notice..
To all whom it may concern: .

To all whom It may concern :
Take notice that George r. Whit>
ney, of Rich Prairie, Morrison
county, Minnesota, has made an as
signment for the benefit of his credi-
tors, to the undersi gned, of St. Cloud,
Minnesota, which assignment, has
been duly filed with the Clerk Of the
District Court, Of said county, and
that the Undersigned has taken pos
session ofthe property so assigned.
Dated October 81, 1878.
JOSIAH E. WEST,
P. o. address, Assignee.
St. Cloud, MINI.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-12-26
Notice..

Green Prairie, M,nn., Nov. 80, 1873.
All persons are hereby notified to
not trust or harbor Mary Bates, or ber
daughter, Veldora, on my account, as
I will not pay any debt Of their con-
tracing. WILLARD BATES.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-12-26

Summons.
GTATE OF MINNESOTA.
~ COUNTY OF MORRISON.
DISTRICT CouRr,
SEVENTH JUD1c1AL DIsrRIcf.
Mary Thompson, Plaintiff,
against Summons,
Barrant Thompson, Defendant.
The State Of Minnesota, to the above named
Defendant:
You are hereby summoned and required to
answer the complaint in this action, which has
been fled in the Office of the Clerk of said
Court, at Little Falls, Morrison County, Min
nesota, and to serve copy of your answer to
said complaint, on the subscriber, at his office,
in Little Falls, Morrison County, Minnesota.
within thirty days after the service of this
summons upon you, exclusive of the day Of
such service and it you fail to answer tho
said complaint within the time aforesaid, tho
plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court
for the relief demanded in the complaint,
Dated December 5th, 1873.
A. ]. CLARK,
Plaintiffs Attorney,
Little Falls, Morrison County, Minnesota.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-10-10
JOice Heath.

Barnum saws that the best investm ent
he has ever made was the $1,000 which
he gave 1880 to the Phi adelphai exhIb
itors of Joice Heath. the pretended negro
nurse of George Washington. He had
then lost most of his property, and boz
rowing the amount from his friends, ht
made journey to Philadelphia TO inves
tigate the prospect of -urning The ole
colored woman TO pecuniaTy account
Satisfied that there was money in her, he
purchased her cash. down; advertising
her so cunningly that he created great
curiosity TO see her, and soon took In 81,
500 week. After tie city had been
graiiied by the sight OF 5olce, he travel
ed through the country with her. IN con
nection with company of mountebanks
and made good deal Of money. This
was Baraum's first venture as a Snowman,
and determined his career. He cleared
directly il is alleged $4,000 out of Joice
Heath, and indirectly an immense for
tune. He had not had her much more
than a year when she very ungratefally
died, and an autopsy proved her to have
been bur seventy-tve TO eighty years old,
instead of 161, as had been claimed.
Barnum said be had bought her for the
latter age, and had done his best to make
the public believe her so old 1t was her
fault If she had fallen short of what was
expected of her BY some eighty years.
She might have been 161, no doubt il
she had wanted to be, and her failure ID
attain that degree Of venerableness evinc-
ed on her part q disposition to disappoint
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-10-10
Stanley's Story of his Expedition.

The deeds thus told with modest piety
are now before US in two
large volumes from the press of Harper
and Brothers, glowing with illustrations,
and printed in clear royal type. If Col
umbus could have told his story in this
fashion, and could have it to the world
with accessories of art and science, how
much more comfort it would have been
TO him of how much more value to the
world But Columbus lived in an age
when kings went to CanOssa; when civil
lization was just awakening from its long
Information in the sloth and darkness of
of the cloister; when there was no
literature but what came from monks;
before the world knew of the press, the
steam engine, and the telegraph. Stan
lev went forth as the ambassador of a
civilization of the variety and mystery of
which Columbus never had dreamed,
He represented two newspapers, the
New York Herald and the London Iele-
of the press which now
and rules the world. He
carried with him arms of precision and
strength, embodying the strongest force
of civilization.
lie was served by science in the shape
of instruments which would have excited
the wonder of Columbus, and which en-
abled him to read the tides, the currents,
the attitudes, the ATTITUDES and longitudes,
the meaning of time and space, the vari-
atoms and processes of nature, the Sc
crets that form infinite ages had been
4. h. oh 10 vryn9
strengthened that he could carry over the
mountains the boat that would carry him
over inland seas, and defy the fury of
tropical storms. He had the elephant rifle
and quinie; but for one would have fallen
under the knife of the kanibal; but for
the other he would have gone to sleep,
with the many intrepid spirits who had
gone before him, in the embrace of ty-
phus. When his journey was ended,
there was no weary pilgrim TO doubling
and cold court His Triumph was flashed
over the seas, it came at once to our
homes, to millions OF homes in all lands.
And now, thanks to science, we can fol-
low HIM step by step, and see with his
ewes all the adventures that betell
him, and all the wonders that opened to
his view, and read the story in his fine,
clear, nervous Saxon English, simple in
its strength, with the stamp of truth IN
its simplicity. If we are grateful that
such a work as the discovery of Africa
should have been done in our time, how
much more grateful should we be that
the story of it should be open to US in the
sumptuous array with which printer and
artists have surrounded these volumes =
Joh1, Russell Young. IN HGrper'S Magazine
for October.