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The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1878-08-27
TEL &C r A P,HIC.
DISPATCHES
The New Freight and Passenger
Contract.

New YORK. Aug. &c.
1t is stated that a new contract has
been drawn up, which will be signed
by the officers of the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company and Union Pacific
Railroad Company in few days. 1t
calls for a uniform San Francisco
passenger rate. rail or steamer. at $l37,
In consideration of which the Pacific
Mail is to receive SO head money for
every through passenger carried by the
Union Pacific to and from San Fran
cisco. This is an increase of So head
money over the Clyde contract of 1875,
and, it is estimated, will yield to the
Pacific Mail treasury monthly sum of
$22, 900. 1t is also understood that
both companies are to act independ-
emily in the matter of freights, regard
less of each other or OF the existing cir
culars, President Babcock, of the
Pacific Mail, perem ptor lily declining to
enter into any scheme that would re-
quire an advance in the freight rates
now being charged by the Pacific Mail.
A Test of Love and Humanity.
MEMPHIS, August 26
There is scarcity of nurses, and the
Howard and other relief organizations
have telegraphed to Mobile and other
points for them. The members of
different associations are doing noble
work. in striking contrast to the action
of few people who have deserted
friends and relatives in their distress.
Instances are known of parents desert
ing their children and children their
parents. The wife and three children
of prominent citizen were taken with
fever during his absence from the city.
He was telegraphed for by the Towards
and replied, take care of nay family"
His wife is dead and yesterday his chill
dren were conveyed to the City Hos
pital, where one has since died.
Another S5, 600, OOOs Gail.
WASHINGTON, Aug 26.
The Treasury department will to-day
issue q call for the redemption of
$4,000. 900 in 500 bonds Of 1865, con-
soils of 1865. So, 100000 of which will
be coupon, and So, $780, 900 registered
bonds.
Illicit Distillation In Tennessee.
NAsHvILLE. Tenn. Aug. 26.
Commissioner Raum has telegraphed
Collector Woodstock to employ all the
men necessary to suppress the illicit
distillation of spirits in this district.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1878-08-27

TIE Emperor William, of Germany,
Las received thousands of kilograms
aud 20 less than 200 addresses since
The last attempt upon his life. Never
tteless. it has been thought best to i'm
rapre him in the Castle of BabeIsburg.
sAicn is surrounded by park, en-.
tossa with high walls. On. these sem
asRp.ss.urs placed, with orders to shoot
sss ysas;sho ea,ess except by the gates.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1878-08-27

NAsHvILLE. Tenn. Aug. 26.
Commissioner Raum has telegraphed
Collector Woodstock to employ all the
men necessary to suppress the illicit
distillation of spirits in this district.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1878-08-27

New YORK still keeps her control of
the foreign commerce of the country .
For the year ending June 80, 1878. she
received 81 per cent. of all the imports.
and sent out AZ OF all the exports of the
last fiscal years aggregate trade. New
York has 44.8 per cent. Boston 1.63,
and Philadelphia SO per cent.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1878-08-27

Notice to Water Consumers.
During the extension of the water
works hume water will be turned on
an hour, as follows: Morning, $50;
to Z; noon, 1l:30 to IL M night, $50
to aus If
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1878-08-27
SPECIAL LOCALS.
Millinery and Fancy Dressmaking /.

WWW EWHty Dk0sSRfAHMS~E .
Miss Peterson would respectfully in
form the ladies' of Winnemucca that
she has now come here to remain, and
will take great pleasure In waiting on
them in anything they may want in her
line. Hats. caps. bonnets. parasols.
laces, ribbons, aud all kinds of plain
or fancy underwear for ladies and
children constantly on hand.
~ Plain and fancy dressmakiag a
speciality, at prices to suit The times.
ie2S If
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1878-08-27

The V. ct. II. r. Company contem.
plate building branch road from the
Mound House to Bodie. aud probably
Aurora.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1878-08-27
Diss oIution Notice.

Office is HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE
IN co-partnersnip heretofore existing be-
tween james Davis and Samuel b. p. Pierce
Is this day dissolved by mutual consent.
All outstanding accounts will be arranged
by Samuel Is. p. Pierce.
JAMES DAVIS,
SAMUEL d. r. PIERCE,
Paradise Valley, August 20, 1878. 22-sOd
The Hickman courier., 1878-07-26
The Fruits of Christianity

"No candid observer" Gays the
Springfield Republican, "will deny that
whatever of good there may be in our
American civilization is the product of
Christianity. Still less can they deny
that the grand motives which are work
ing for the elevation and publication of
eur society are strictly Christian. The
immense energies of the Christian
Church, stimulated by a. love that
shrinks from no obstacle, are all bent
toward this great aim of universal puri-
fication. These millions of sermons and
exhortations, which are constant power
for good; these countless prayers and
songs of praise, on which the heavy laden
lift their hearts above the temptations
and the sorrows of the world-are all the
product of faith in Jesus Christ. That
which gives us protection by day and by
night-the dwellings we live in, the
clothes we wear, the institute tions of social
order-all these are the direct offspring OF
Christianity. All that distinguishes
us from the Pagan word-all that
makes us what we are, and all that
stimulates us in the task of making
ourselves better than we are-is Chris
tian. A belief in Jesus Christ is the
very fountain-head of everything that
is desirable and praiseworthy in our
civilization, and this civilization is the
flower of time. Humanity has reached
it's noblest thrift, It's grandest attitudes
of excellence, its high-water mark,
through the influence of this faith"
And If the tree is known by its fruits,
what can be said against the tree which
bears such fruits as these We shall
be told that great corruptions and gi-
gantic 1niquities prevail in the midst of
our best civilization; but these iniqui~
ties were not introduced by Christianity
though they may have accompanied it
| in its introduction. When the sons of
God come to present themselves before
the Lord, Satan also comes with them.
The iniquities which disgrace a so-called
Christian civilization, are the remnants
of old heathenism never yet purged out.
They are the works of the flesh, the
fruits of that evil tree which is as deadly
to-day as it was when it first sprung up
outside the gates of paradise. The
crimes which are charged upon Christen-
dom, and which are perpetrated under
the name of Christian civilization, are
committed in direct defiance of every
precept of the gospel of Christ.
All that is best and purest in human
civilization springs from Christianity; but
if Christianity prevailed absolutely, and
all things were subject to the dominion
of it's moral force, how soon the desert
would rejoice and blossom as the rose,
how soon the waste places of our civil
lization would be built up, how coon
the dark, and foul, and stagnant FOOLS of
vice and sin would be dried, and days of
blessing would come such as this earth
has never seen. He who spreads Chris
tianity advances the greatest moral rem
ovation that the world has known; he
who scatters the word of God in its liv-
ing, healing power, sows the seed for the
most glorious harvest that earth hasever
borne, and shall reap precious fruitage
in the great day of ingathering. -
| TChurch Union.
The Hickman courier., 1878-07-26
Resumption by Paying out Col
and Silver.

Secretary Sherman has furnished the
Washington Star the following pro-
gramme to bring about resumption !:
"The silver dollar will be treated the
same as gold coin, and being like gold
coin, an unlimited legal tender, may
be disbursed by the treasurer in pay
ment of any current obligations Of the
government, and if offered in such pay
ment will have to be received. In
returning to the use of coin, the natural
pelicy would be to put the smaller
denomipetiens of gold coin IN circulation
first. If any considerable amount of
such coin were to come upon the mar
ket, the small premium remaining on
gold would no doubt disappear. 1t is
thought that most of the boarded coin
in the country consists of the smaller
denominations, and would in the ma
tuTe of things soon make its appear.
ance in circulation, especially such as
are abraided and reduced in weight
With the balance of trade largely in
favor of this country, and the very sat-
isfactory accounts received from all
sections of an abundant harvest, the con
tinued accumulation of coin would
appear to be a matter of certainty Ii
the gold and silver produced from the
mints of the United States be coined
and remain at home it is not believed
that there will be the slightest necessity
for recourse to foreign markets for gold,
though it is not at all improbable that
considerable importation of the precious
metals will be made in the natural course
of trade.
sIt is understood that the programme
of the secretary in favor of early re-
sumption, among other things, looks for
the removal of the premium on coin by
indirect means rather than by the re-
demptien of notes. In view OF the &C.
emulation of cein in the country, and
which is in a dormant condition, by
reason of the remaining rate of premium
on gold assgainst legal tender notes, il
once set in motion as circulating money
1t will tend more than all other measures
nut together to stimulate and revive
business throughout the country"
The Hickman courier., 1878-07-26
Carver the Marksman.

a Cleveland Leader reporter recently
called upon DR.. William F. Carver, the
great rife shot, and had long talk with
him on matters connected with his early
life. He possesses a wonderful history
that is full enough of material for the
framework of a good drama, without
going into the realms of imagination or
wandering from the paths of truth. The
Indians title him +" Evil Spirit" on ac-
count of his great accuracy with the
rifle. Never missing his object, they
could not understand how it was possible
for one to be so deadly in aim without
possessing ssome supernatural pow
Carver's life has been one of thrilling
adventures. Captured by the Indians
when only four years old, he never had
an equal among the savage tribes that
taught his hands their cunning, and
helped to train the steady nerve and
physical force that is his birthright.
When Is years of age, the tribe held
council, and declared him the medical
man of the entire Dakota nation, which
position he occupied for six years, and
received in that way the title of doctor.
After leaving the Indians he went TO
school in a small town in Illinois, where
he remained four years. The inclina-
ton being strong upon him 10 Hturn
to his former associates and pas
times, he betook himself once more
at the end of that time to the pls ins,
and soon became famous as q hunter of
buffalo, elk and the abundance of wild
game that infest the frentier. He says
that he has killed more buffalo on one
run, solely and alone, than any party Of
hunters. In the fall of 1866 he rescued
two ladies from a small band of Conan
ches, for which he was highly commented
on by the entire Western press. He
acquired the reputation OF phenomenal
shot at the age of seven years, when he
was known to bring down a blue-iay on
the wing with rife.
As result of constant practice in this
particular line, together with his good
habits, muscular form and unerring
nerve, the requirement of his wonderful
skill is attributed. He has achieved
most fattering success wherever he has
appeared to give an exhibition on his
way east. At Omaha he surprised his
spectators by killing three teal ducks
while flying in succession. At Detroit
he appeared on the Hamtramck race
track, and, while shooting at glass balls,
a swallow few within range of his un.
erring gun. The crowd had become sc
sanguine of his ability that they cried
out, "Shoot it, and they were net dis
appointed when the man leveled his rife
and brought the luckless bird to the
ground. DR.. Carver stands six feet two
inches in height, with frank and pleas
ing face. He has pair of keen, restles:
eyes, which gives him a wonderful
quickness and precision in sighting. He
weighs one hundred and ninety-siz
pounds, and is thirty>eight years of age
He intends making tour of the world
The Hickman courier., 1878-07-26
Curing Beef without Salt.

Our system OF sailing meat makes it
unhealthy and distasteful. Why do we
salt bones? Were they extracted one
third the salt would suffice, and meat 70
cured would lose little of its nutriment
besides gaining in value. Two-thirds of
the smoking might be dispensed with,
and one cause of indigestibility greatly
lessened. Modern mechanical skill can
surely contrive tool to disbone ham,
and let the salt have equal access inside
and outside. The thick skin might be
removed with equal benefit. Custom
may claim the shape of the ham as inn
portant, but this objection would give
way before the great superiority of the
meat. Farmers would find profit in it
for their own household. A boned tur-
key is always attractive. When raised
far from market, turkey boned and
slightly salted and smoked would find
ready sale at rem lucrative price. The
Mexicans cure beef without salt The
first operation is to unbone it. Then it
is cut into narrow strips and exposed to
the sun till superficial crust is formed.
to exclude the air. A slight smoking
keeps insects away. 1t is usually kept
in sacks in dry place, and time does
not injure it. 1t is now suggested that
great improvement can be made in cur.
ing all meats without salt, by some
adaptation OF the Alden fruit-drier.
We have seen beef and mutton shredded
into broad ribbons two inches thick.
and passed through an Alden drier and
slightly smoked till streng outer crust
was formed The cured meat was served
to sailors on voyage to the Sandwich
islands and back, and was esteemed q
great luxury compared with the best
salted mess beef. Some that was brought
back to San Francisco satisfied the ex.
perimenters that this mode OF curing
meat is destined to come into general
use--lSan Francisco Cor.
The Hickman courier., 1878-07-26

RUSSIAN TACTICS.
yoprng the Prussisn System How TN
are Handled in the Field.

1t~'flhg me Frussisn system How the troops
are Handled in the Field.
IGsn. Hssm,ey In Nineteenth Century.l
lhe Russisns are copying Prussian
tactics in their main fsaturesof company
coiumns and an extended firing line.
Iheir fighting formation is a line of
groups of skirmishers, four men in each
gr0np, with supports and reserves and
such a line may be extended till the
groups reach the limit of forty PAGES
apart, or closed to not less than six PAGES
apart; and the parts of such line need
not be uniform, but so varied as to adapt
the troops to the features of the ground.
This skirmish line is always followed by
part Of the same company (unless the
whole company is extended) as support.
When the whole company is extended,
other companies of the same battalion
form the supports. In attacking, few
skirmishers are extended at first, which
Ars gradually reinforesa 10 requisite
strength during the advance. The sup
ports follow in companies either entire or
broken, according to the extent of the
line or the nature of the ground. The
instructions for the Russisnsfield maneu-
yers are fairly level with the military
science of the time, and they grapple
sensibly with the most important pro
blem of minor tactics offered in these
DAYS, namely, how to form troops for the
attack of an enemy in position. Defens'
is comparatively easy there is, ofcourse
plenty of scope for judgment in placing
troops to defend ground, but it is no
difficult to do this fairly well, and ever
troops with small training and littl,
power of maneuvering may be formida
bic on the defensive. But for a success
full attack it is necessary not only tina
the arrangement of the troops shall b
good, but that they shall have receives
that thorough training in the art of
well regulated advance under rife FIR
over all sorts of ground which can alon
give them confidence in themselves ant
in each other. Now, from all that ha
been related of the Russian attacks il
practice, as at Plevna, it would appea
that, however good their theory of in
struction, officers and men have been ia
too spsriDgly exercised in this most es
genital particular.
The Hickman courier., 1878-07-26
Why Do Women Gush Over
Criminals =?

The woman who gushes over the poor
but nice young man who has been landed
in iail for murder or something, doesn't
dwell together in Chicago. She has
broken out with some severity in San
Francisco, although it is somewhat
humiliating to note that she is throwing
herself away on a common iorger, who
can't, of course, stir up as much real
enthusiasm as a murderer, such as the
gushing woman in Chicago operates upon
But the San Francisco woman may not
be 80 proud, and when young fellow
who had been making a living for seine
time by realizing on forged bank cheeks
was thrown into Jail, the place was
haunted by something like half hun-
dred gushing girls of all ages. Some OF
these women the nice young man bad
robbed and they didn't gush quite as
much as some others he had promised 10
marry, in fact he had ageed 10 inarry
| nearly all of them, and there were still
Others who had come fully determined
to marry him in Jail. This multitude
oigushing women is going in and out o
the prison all day long, bearing sweet
meats and books and cigars and kisses t.
this good young man. When we contem
plate that he is only second-class kin'
of criminal, after all, he having commit
ted but twenty-seven forgies, there is
suspicion that the California woman
gushing too much and without suficien
cause. She is wasting herself to such a
extent that if pirate or murderer or
dashing train robber ever got into jail !
San Francisco--small probability --sh
would have no resources of gush to Ia
back upon. Theirs would then be enothin
but Chicago to draw upon.--G Pbitsde
phia Times.
The Hickman courier., 1878-07-26

telligeuce upon it. Wetalked of eyerv-
thing, and was surprised at the congo
niality of taste We soon discovered. In
an animated discussion of heroines. Mr..
Roberts, turning to uncle George, said
"You were kindly inquiring this
morning about my fortune since father
died, batI did not tell you one little
episode. Before was fortunate enough
to obtain my present lucrstive situation,
was for time telegraph operator in a
small place called Dryden, and then
heard OF real heroine, of whom the
world will probably never hear"
I knew what was coming, but kept my
face perfectly composed to listen. When
the story was finished, giving uncle
George a sly pinch to keep him quiet. 1
said
g What kind Of looking person was
the wonderful heroine
"I neveE spS - although Bays
vile wss. A-to Dryden,
$ : ~ Ens.-s desc ioed
10 me rs Idii, sLleSdfEsAiu ni1'0N"iAhO.
In short, my dear Lion," l said
gravely, q she was perfect Elephant"
such stare as greeted me L am GER
tain never came upon Leo Roberts face
before or since that hour. His eyes
dilated until thought they would pop
out of his dear, ugly face, and his mouth
opened in utter amsmment. Finally he
remembered his manners and gasped:
Pardon me, wis it really you ?"
Uncle George" Issid, "will you be
kind enough to introduce me properly
to Mr.. Roberts? / believe he thinks
your niece must bear your name"
With q flourish, Uncle George arose
and gravely introduced:
Mr.. Leo Roberts, Miss Olive Hud-
son Miss Hudson, Mr.. Roberts"
After that we coud not certainly be
strangers, and Mr.. Roberts came often
to dine with Uncle George.
And one day there was wedding,
where the bride was very small, buried
in lace and orange blossoms, and the
bridegroom was ugly and good natured
but it was true love match, fit ending
for the Irritation commenced at Dryden
and Baysville, "Over the Wires"
The Hickman courier., 1878-07-26
Popular Science.


The United States troops at Atlanta
ale busily engaged in preparing to move
to Newport, KY
The state banks of Louisiana will urge
upon the next congress the repeal of thf
tax upon state banks.
z-e-o.,e,.. ~, south Georgia think thG
have discovered a:ssnanza-sp t.ha euIa1
vation Of the Chinese ssanuspear.
Rapid cures of diphtheria by means
or 1nnaIason of turpentine, are reported
by prominent New York physician.
Caoutchouc hardened with magnesis
is new article of industry and is called
by NJ. Turpin, its inventor, vegetable
ivory.
The moonshine raiders that have been
harassing the upper counties of South
Carolina will be Investigated by the de-
partment at Washington.
Sugar is made from Indian corn at a
factory in Davenport, Iowa. The pro-
duct somewhat resembles maple sugar,
and sells readily in the neighborhood.
The international commercial conven-
tion, proposed by the New Orleans
chamber of commerce, is to take under
special consideration the question Of
South American trade.
Schwartz has made an analysis of the
smoke of cigars made of Virginia tobsc-
CO. 1t yielded II S5 per cent. of car
bonic acid and 476 of carbonic oxide. The
large amount of the oxide explains the
depressing effect of the cigars.
The Journal G'Hygiene is the author
ity for the statement that a case of
in the human subject has
been successfully treated by causing the
patient to inhale oxygen. Two Russian
physicians are said to have effected the
cure
The Hickman courier., 1878-07-26
miscellaneous.

Early fruit catches the worm. This
is reliable.
Lock jaw has become epidemic among
North Carolina swine.
Mill companies on Puget sound are
gradually working into the employment
of married men to the exclusion of the
bachelor element that heretofore made
up the ranks of the mill companies
principally.
The Ewater in which the dishes are
washed at the St. Nicholas Hotel in
. New York is conducted to immense
tanks in the cellar for the purpose OF
skimming off the grease, which sells for
from SO to $15 day.
The nickel cent in our coinage owes
it's origin to desire of Mr.. Bryant's, after
his first visit to Germany to replace the
old>fsshioned copper cent with some
thing more nearly resembling the
kreutzer.
A traveller of the seventeenth century
wrote of the Russians passion for strong
drink that Frenchman, if Fly fell into
his wine, would throw away the fly and
the wine also; that an Englishmar
would take out the fly and drink the
wine; but that Russian would swallow
the wine, fly and all, 30 that the wine
which the fly had swallowed might not
escape him.
When an editor carefully contemplate
his subscription book and views the vast
number of delinquent subscribers en-
rolled thereon, he buries his facs
in his hands, heaves a sigh tina,
: sounds like the soughing of the windl
among the pines of the mountain
side, and wishes he were in HEAVIER
and had the money for his clothes.-EN
. j Republican.
The water wag-tail which last yea
built its nest or the framework under
meath a third-class railway carriage OF
the London and Southwestern railway
has returned this spring TO her old quar-
ters, and has reared fesh brood of foul
little ones in her strangely chosen habi