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Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1878-08-03
STEALING A GAME CHICKEN
A Joke that the Victim Did not
Appreciate.

John Doe Cassidy and Martin
Mccormick broke into George W.
Shaw's chicken coop, at Sutro, few
days ago, and got away with his
cock-a valuable game rooster for
which Mr.. Shaw refused $25. The
startled hens made a great deal
of noise when the coop was broken
into, and alarmed Mr.. Shaw, who
rushed to his yard in time to see the
men going off with his bird. He
gave chase and fired two shots from
his revolver but failed to hit the
thieves. The next morning he ascer-
tanned who they were, and had them
arrested. 1t was really only a josh
on the part of Cassidy and McCorm-
lex, and they owned up to the theft
when charged with it, but as they
had killed the bird Mr.. Shaw con-
cluded to prosecute them. After
they had been in the county Jail for
forty-eight hours Mr.. Shaw relented,
and the accused were liberated upon
paying $58 costs. Down at Dayton
the affair is looked upon as a good
joke on George Shaw, as he has done
more Dragging over that rooster than
the average father does over his pet
child.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1878-08-03
CAUGHT IN FLAGRANTE DE-
LICTU.

APrOminent Business Man Returns
Home Unexpectedly, and Sur.
prises His Faithless Spouse.
Last Tuesday evening a promi-
nent business man left Virginia on
the express train, ostensibly to 60 to
San Francisco on business, but got
off at Carson and returned by prinate
conveyance. Meeting an intimate
friend they proceeded to the p. b. ms
residence, letting themselves in with
a night key. Noiselessly they pro-
ceeded to the bedroom of the p. b..
ms wife, when they saw asleep by
the wife's side, a man well known on
the Comstock. The p. b. m. awak-
ened the man who jumped out OF
bed and made break for the door.
But he was at once stopped BY the
D. b. M, who assured him that there
was no cause for alarm, adding:
"Seven o'clock tomorrow morning
will be early enough. Better go
back to bed" The advice was fol-
lowed.
A divorce suit will grow out of the
affair.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1878-08-03
A Comprehensive Map.

Mr.. Anton Karl, topographer Of
the Wheeler Surveying Expedition, is
in Virginia City, putting the finishing
touches to contour map Of the
Comstock and surrounding country,
upon which he has been engaged for
the past two years. All the country
included between the Magnolia
House, at the foot of the Geiger
Grade, and tho Merrimac mill, and
every mill site within the boundaries
stated, as we'll as every house in Vir-
ginia City, Gold Hill, Silver, Dayton
and Sutro, will be shown on the map.
1t will be the most complete map of
the kind We have ever seen. The
map will be published under govern
ment auspices, but will not be placed
on sale.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1878-08-03
A Mishap In the Canyon.

Mr.. Emerson, of Dayton, met
with disagreeable mishap, last
Tuesday evening, while on his way
to this city in light wagon, in COM
pany with three ladies. One Of the
hind wheels slipped from the axle,
and the occupants were suddenly
landed on the ground, somewhat
bruised. The wagon was brought to
this city to be repaired. The acct
dent occurred near French's mill.
The wagon belongs to Jim Scott, of
Dayton, and is the same as was used
by Professor Casebeer in his recent
trip to and from Lake Tahoe.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1878-08-03
A New Teacher Wanted.

Some of the residents of Dayton
who are dissatisfied with Professor
Casebeer, the Principal of the Pub
lie School in that place, are circu-
lating, or are about to circulate, a
petition requesting the Trustees to
secure the services of somebody else
for the next term. Small towns are
proverbially difficult to please, in the
way of school teachers and ministers.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1878-08-03
MIR. EDISON IN DEMAND.
He Is Wanted to Invent q Double.
Acting Lumber-Pile Turner.

The next thing that Edison wants
to apply his talent to is the invention
of sort of double-acting continuance
by which pile of lumber fifty
feet high can be turned upside down
without disarranging the boards.
The necessity for such device is
apparent to any man who has ever
bought lumber. The bottom board
is always the best, or the purchaser
thinks it is, and the dealer is COM
PEELED to turn over 10000 feet of
lumber to get at the bottom board,
and thus please customer who some
times does not want any more lum-
Der than enough to make boojack
for Gold Hill girl.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1878-08-03
The Turner's Picnic Tomorrow.

The Turner's Picnic Tomorrow.
The Committee on Transportation
Of the Turner's picnic having decided
not to send car to the terminus in
this city, the residents in this vicinity
who wish to attend must walk to the
Switch or to the Gold Hill depot, or
reach the picnic grounds by private
conveyance. The picnic will be as
enjoyable as the jolly Turner's usu-
ally make them, and all who want a
days solid fun should be there.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1878-08-03

In addition to the foregoing games Team,
consisting Of twenty men each from the
various Military Companies in this State, Will
compete for handsome Solid Sterling Silver
Vase Cup, richly engraved and OF elegant de-
sign. to be awarded by the Club to the team
making the most points. Shooting to be con-
Quoted according to the United States National
Rifle Association. Distance. 200 yards; each
man to have i've rounds.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1878-08-03
THE NORTH END MINES.
A"TIMES" REPORTER ON THE
NEW BONANZA.


An Ore Body Running from the
Center Of 6Ophir to the Sierra
Nevada Gr0und-His Visit on
the 30th.
The TIMES reporters account of
his visit to the Ophir and Sierra Ne
vada mines, on the Both ultimo, did
not reach US in time for our issue of
Wednesday. We therefore publish
it to-day, emitting such details as
have appeared in the other papers on
the Comstock:
THE OPHIR MINE,
The main point of interest-cross-
cut No. 2-has been in ore mixed
with porphyry since last Monday.
The face of the drift, worked with
out sorting, would probably mill be-
tween $45 and $50 per ton. From
the face of the drift to the east wall
there must be from fifteen to twenty
feet of better ore than is now shown
in the crosscut. As soon as the cross
cut gets out of the ore, winze will
be sunk, east of the ore, to the level
below.
The east drift on the 2100-level is
in about fifty.five feet. As it is
about 220 feet from the incline to the
vein. and the average progress is five
feet per day, the vein should be
reached on this level in about thirty
days.
In the drift south of the 1900
winze, on the 2000-level, the drill hole
bored ahead has tapped the water in
the California-Ophir winze, and has
drained it. The two wines will be
connected in few days, and when
this connection is made probably by
the 7th instant there will be 800 feet
of unprospected ground which can
be opened up at once by crosscuts.
Not much ore is expected in this
direction, however. Hope centers on
the north workings.
THE SIERRA NEVADA.
The incline-winze at this mine is
down 2110 feet, which is equal to the
2210-level of the Ophir, in body
of ere which pitches east at an angle
of IS degrees. The incline pitching
only 80 degrees, the bottom has got
out of ore, but the ore all along has
shown steady improvement as it was
sunk upon. The ore in the bottom
Of the incline at the present time will
average about sos per ton. The
course of the ore body is from north
west to southeast, and is therefore
the reverse of that in the Ophir,
which runs from southwest to north
east. The appearance of the Sierra
Nevada ore body is similar to that of
the bonanza mines when first struck,
and it is evidently the curve at the
end of a bonanza-probably the
Ophir bonanza--bu there is not
enough of it exposed to enable one
to form reliable opinion as to its
extent north of the incline. As the
ore is as good and regular on the
north as on the south side of the in.
cline, it evidently extends some dis.
lance north.
The next point of interest in this
mine will be the 2200-level, where it
is intended to open a station and
drift west to the vein.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1878-08-03
SETS HIMSELF RIGHT.
Colonel Gillette Says He Did Not
Send An InsOlent Reply.

Superintendent Gillette, Of the Saw
age, claims that his reply to Mr..
Sutro, on the day when he closed the
Tunnel connection, has been mis-
stated by interested parties. He says
that he did not telegraph that lie
would open the tunnel when he got
ready, but that TO use his own
words), ~ had turned the air off for
the purpose Of assisting the Hale and
Norcross, and that ! would open the
tunnel as soon as could"
Superintendent Gillette should
have made this statement two weeks
ago. People would then have known
who to blame for the falsehood.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1878-08-03
A New Kind Of Geese,

There are geese in this town that
chew tobacco, smoke cigars or pipe,
and converse so they can readily be
understood. They are Portuguese.
N. B. -Portugu(e)ese, guese. geese.
See 2
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1878-08-03

I'm AND AFTER JULY 1st, 1878, THE
" Registry Books will be open at my once.
Armory Hall, from 10 A. n. to p. n, until
further notice. for the Registration Of the
names of all legal voters of SAID Precinct,
ALEX. TAFT. Registry Agent.
Silver City. Nevada. June %. 1878.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1878-08-03

pEcT BUSINESS YOU CAN ENGAGE IN.
0ECI IS to $40 per day made BY any worker
OF either sex, right in their own localities.
Particulars and samples worth IS free. Im-
prove your spare time ct this business. Ad-
dress STINsoN o.. Portland. Maine.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1878-08-03

Afternoon dances are the latest
freak of the fashionable world.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1878-08-03

the THREE BEST BANDS OF MUSIC
IN THE STATE
Will accompany the Excursion and furnish
music to all those DESTROYS Of dancing.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1878-08-03
DALL'SGROyE
Saturday, August 10, 1873.
Committee on Games,

A: g. MoK1Nz1E. THOMAS G1DDEs,
JAMES GRANT, J. O. DUNLOP,
A. DIXON.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1878-08-03
THE IssoLvESTs OF A YEAR.

Statement Showing the Bankruptcy
Proceedings In this State Dur
ing the Twelve Months Ending
June 80, 1873.
The following statement showing
the number of cases in bankruptcy,
the amount of liabilities and assets of
the bankrupts therein, the amount of
dividends declared from the said as
sets, the average rate of dividends
declared, and other matters of gen.
eral interest, We compile from the
report Of E. Strother, Register in
Bankruptcy for the State of Nevada
for the year ending June 80, 1878,
which has just been forwarded to the
Judge of the United States Circuit
Court:
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1878-08-03

Freight is now five cents per pound
Pom Kelton to Boise. y
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1878-08-03

VOLUNTARY CASES.
Number Of cases of volun-
tarybankruptcy referred 81
Amount of assets of bank
rupts therein. ....Sl27, 374 %
Amount of liabilities of
bankrupts therein....... $780,, 341 06
Amount of dividends de-
clared therein ............. s2,s4e SO
Average rate of dividends
declared therein p. ct.
Amount of dividends de-
clared in voluntary cases
referred in preceding
years......... ......... s2,14s 1
Average rate per cent. Of
dividends declared
therein .-................. 26 p. ct.
INVOLUNTARY CASES.
Number of compulsory
cases referred ............. s
Amount of assets of the
bankrupts therein e. q. $77,72s 80
Amount of liabilities of the
bankrupts therein. ...... $50, 374 90
Amount of dividends de-
clared in involuntary
cases referred in preced-
ing years................... s4,5oe SO
Average rate per cent
therein ......... ...... slN
MISCELLANEOUS.
Number of cases in which
composition was made. 8
Average rate per cent paid
in composition............ 363S
The Register has no official know
ledge Of discharges having been
granted,
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1878-08-03
CELEBRATION OF CANES
cALEDoNIAN CLUB

WILL TAKE PLACE A.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1878-08-03
Perfect Safety and Strict Order

Tickets from vlrginia. ..... 81 50
Tfckets from Carsen............l 80
jyll-4m
St. Landry democrat., 1878-07-06
The Waste of War.

No doubt war is very dreadful thing,
but writer in the Popular Science
Monthly shows that its peculiar effects
are worse than the generality OF men
have any conception of. Here are the
arguments. We confess they are some
what deep for us:
"Gunpowder contains on al average
rs per cent. of ssltpetre or nitrate of
potash, equivalent to 1912 per cent. Of
combined or available nitrogen. OF the
102 per cent, 99S per cent, or practi-
cally the whole, escapes in the form of
free nitrogen, and is consequently rem
dered useless. Assuming the total pro-
duction Of gunpowder to be at least 100,-
100000 pounds annually, this is shown
to mean the destruction lin advance of
100000, 900 pounds of bread a year.
Every ounce of powder used in war,
celebrations, ETC., means the absolute
unrecoverable loss to the world OF a Ger
tain quantity OF food, dimlnishes the
fertility of the earth, and makes the
struggle for existence steadily more diff.
cult. There is here furnished an addi>
tional argument against fourth of July
combustion OF gunpowder, and srbitra-
ton advocates may also fairly cite it
against war. A great war not only ex>
tinguishes large numbers Of useful lives,
but does go at the cost of potential life.
If people buried every year 500,00o,00O
pounds of bread in the earth, they would
be guilty of frightful prodigality; but
then, the nitrogen would still be availa-
BILE for the future. When they burn
100, 900, 900 pounds of gunpowder, how
ever, they perform an infinitely more
wasteful act, as they permanently dimin-
ish the amount of food the earth is cap
able OF Yielding"
St. Landry democrat., 1878-07-06
Oatmeal.

In Great Baitain children are fire.
quently raised on oatmeal diet alone,
because it causes them to grow strong
and healthy, and no better food can pos
sibly he found for them. 1t is also quite
as desirable for the students as for the
laborer, and for the delicate lady as for
the Woodworking sister indeed, all class
es would be greatly benefited by its
use, and dyspepsia, with ali its manifold
anuoyances, can be kept at a distance.
Oatmeal 10 more substantial food, it is
said, than veal, pork or lamb, and quite
equal to beef and mutton, giving as
much or more mental vigor, while its
great desideratun consists in ones not
becoming weary of it, for it is as well
come for breakfast or tea as is wheat or
graham bread. It can be eaten with
syrup and butter as hasty pudding, or
with cream and sugar like rice It ia
especially good for young mothers, upon
whose nervous forces too great demand
has been made, and they lose equilibrium
of the system and become depressed and
dispirited. Oatmeal requires to be
cooked slowly, and the water should be
boiling hot when it is stirred in.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-07-06
Employer and Employed.

Whenever either employer or EN-
ployed torgets that there is a commun-
ity of interest between the two, both
are sufferers. This is true of all kinds
of business in which the two classes
come in contact. The employer who
has no other interest IN his help than to
get out Of them all that their strength
will permit them to do, will soon find
that his employees will become equally rs
selfish, and that not only the least posi-
bic amount of labor that will prevent
their discharge will be done, but that
what is done will be imperfectly perS
formed, and the enploye who has no
other interest than to get his money, is
detriment to any man who employs
him. In some establishments, and on
some farms, stranger would be unable
to tell, from the language or actions of
the help, that they were employees.
Whenever they speak of the affairs of
their employer, they don't speak of
them as if he was wholly responsible,
and that they had no responsibility
whatever, but their language conveys
the idea that they feel their own respon-
sibility, and that the success or failure
of the business is matter of anxiety to
them; and their actions accord with
their words. Nine out of ten employers
greatly appreciate such manifestation
of interest, and it really seems to tighten
the burden which always necessarily
rests upon business man. IF an en-
ploye has such an interest in the affairs
of his employer, there is no mistakingit.
1t will show itself on every conceivable
occasion; and if he has been go unfor~
tunate as to find a man who does not
appreciate his merits, they will not long
90 unrewarded, for others will see them,
and be glad to avail themselves of them.
1t is, no doubt, the case with human
nature, that it is selfish in all of its rela-
tions Of life, and perhaps the great ma
jerity Of men are too apt to slight their
duties, instead of doing everything upon
honor, and performing services for Others
as they would perform the same service
for themselves but there are men, and
a great many of them, who are strictly
GOES cientious in the performance of their
duties rs employees, and it is such men
who will ALWAYS win.--T Western Rural
St. Landry democrat., 1878-07-06
XIII Out the Rats,

A correspondent to the Journa, OF
Agriculture and Farmer writes to that
paper as follows about exterminating
rats.
Make poison box expressly to poison
rats in; maze it go nothing larger than
rats can get in; leave it open and let the
rats 60 and come from it when they
please; bait it well with something they
are fond of, such as cheese, buttered
bread, etc. Continue to feed them on
good food until they will almost come
for calling, then saturate the bait with
deadly poison, and they will come, and
all their near neighbors with them, to
enjoy the repast, after which they will
pass resolutions of thanks for your kind
ness, and sink to rest forever"
St. Landry democrat., 1878-07-06
FARM AND HOME.
Rub Low.

Few men who handle horses give
proper attention. to the feet and legs.
Especially is this the case on farms
Much time isspent of a morning in rub
bling, brushing and smoothing the hair
on the sides and hips but at no time are
the feet examined and properly cared for.
: Now, be it known that the feet Of horse
require more care than the body. They
need ten times as much, for in one re.
spect they are almest the entire horse.
All the grooming that can be done won't
avail anything if the horse is forced to
stand where his feet will be filthy. In
this case the feet will become disordercd,
and, then the legs will get badly out of
fix; and with bad feet and bad legs,
there is not much else Of the horse fl for
anything.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-07-06

afford to sell wood ashes for any price
that the soap boiler would pay. Where
oats lodge, as they are apt to do upon
heavily-manured land, an application OF
ashes would save the crop.
There are now 1,250,00o sheep in Col
orado. worth 1925 per head. The ma.
iority of the sheep are now shorn hut
once year. 1t was formerly the custom
in the southern portion of the state to
shear in April and October, but the
Losses by the severe storms are doing
away with the October practice.
Over / 800 head of cattle are said to
have been entered at the cattle show at
the French exposition. England sup
plies the principal part. Sheep and
hogs will also be fully represented. The
emit, les in the horse department show at
the Palais de pIndustrie consisted of
twenty eight three-year.old stations,
two hundred and thirty~nine animals of
four and one hundred and seventy-fve
of five and six years of age.
It isa common practice in England
for several farmers to unite and set up
bone mill, to which each sends as many
bones to grind as he sees fit to purchase
for his own use, and thereby gets an un>
adulterated article finely ground at first
cost. Farmels might erect bone mill in
Tennessee and grind not only bones, but
South Carolina phosphate, buying the
mineral at the lowest wholesale price.
Coal for making steam is cheaper in
Tennessee than in Charleston, ;. G.
A valuable mixture to keep On hand
at this season is one of coal ashes, sui
phur and hellebore The ashes should
be very fine. 1t is best after passing
them through the ordinary coal-ash
sieve. To one pailful of -four thus
sifted, add quart each Of -four OF sui
phur and hellebore, and mix together.
For currant worms, plant lice, cabbage
feas, slugs on pear trees and melon bugs,
we found this so efectual last season that
We confidently recommend it to our
readers. 1t is always best to use it in
the cool of the morning, while the dew
is upon the leaf
A German farmer insists upon the
great value of swine as exterminators of
field mice and other vermin. He be-
lieves that the terrible plague of mice
now so prevalent in many parts of Ger
many is in a great measure due to the
present system of keeping swine penned
up instead of allowing them the range of
the field as was formerly the custom. He
states that a careful observer may often
detect pigs in the act of swapping up and
devouring d good-sized mouse; besides
which they have an extraordinary keen
scent for the nests, grubbing them up in
search Of young mice, which they eagerly
1evour.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-07-06
A Queer Case.

Whatever may have been George Pes
body's views oSsthe laws of Nautilus, the
trustees in charge of the London lodging
houses which bear his name are unwilling
to Jet rooms to married couples who have
more than four children. The difficulty
is in compelling the tenants when once
in possession either to limit the number
of their ogsprings or toquit the tenements
when the minimum of four is exceeded.
A poor woman who had received notice
10 quit after the advent of her fifth olive
branch resolutely refused to go; the re-
St. Landry democrat., 1878-07-06
DUTCH MODERN JURISPRUDENCE.


In drials IN gourt,
You rea iy vas ought
DO SECURE dat young lawyer, u Witty,
Who dalks liEe pOok,
Though he new r vas cook
ANY course oa Gose gont!acdIs 0y Chitty.
IL de o Ter mans smardt.
Den it'ssure do go hardt.
For de shury do know vich de right vas.
But itdond 20 much mind,
For de shury am p!ind,
" woman do weep und DO CRY goes.
Den de shudge he vas charge
From poor pig uHd largs,
Dat de law va. shusI dis uud 10 der;
UnG de thury retired
Dill de heopies god UiraI
Eni god quite zick ov de bedder
Ven de shury god back
the sHnd%e gave crack
TN the desk mt small little hammer.
Mein gag. i'll vOs losdt,
After all id vas .osdt,
Und de gourdt it adsaourns NIT glamor.
Now, dake nay advice
Und pa shuIe you looks dwice.
Ere you dink dat to law you should go vas.
For berhsps you will lose
Und besides god abuse
BY do: chab who de oder sides dalk does.
-p' FRITZ. u
St. Landry democrat., 1878-07-06

hill. It is grain upon grain, shovelful
upon shoveful: and Load upon load, that
causes the mound to rise. So results OF
character come gradually. An act st
this time, deed yesterday, a word this
morning, cross answer to-day, repeated
a month hence, and go On, till at last you
find there ridge between you and your
wife's or husbands sffection.-[Golden
Rule.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-07-06

WILHoFT's Tonic l---UNFA111NG AND
IEFALIrBLE This great Chill Tonic cures
Chills without the intervention of doctors
and their bills. No consulting visits-no
prescriptions to be fled-no huge bills, en-
failing peeuniary embarrassments, adding to
loss Of health. It is the friend Of the poor
man, because it enables him to earn aliving,
and of the rich, because it prepares him to
enjoy his wealth. This great boon to man.
kind is cheap, safe and prompt. Wheelock,
Finley & Co, Proprietors, New Orleans.
For sale by all DRUGGISTS,