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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-01-04
THE CONDITION OF THE STATE
TREASURY

Never in the history of Nevada has its
treasury been SO abundantly supplied with
money as it now is. This condition Is all the
more gratifying in view of the fact that the
seDet proceeds of the mines" for some months
TO come are not to be reckoned as so sure
source of revenue as they have proven to be
during the past seven or eight years The
States treasury, like the treasures of the
mining companies themselves, must be re
parded as a reserve to be cautiously drawn
upon what time the miners are prospecting TOR
new bouanzas All the more need, then,
for prudence and frugality. The Legislature,
itself. will be an expense to the State OF not
less than $50 900; there must necessarily be
extended very large amountot money forthe
insane. the criminals and the orphan wards OF
the Commonwealth, and any extraordinary
expenditures, under the circumstances, will
he undertaken at much risk of early embar-
rassment. Through the politeness of Mr.
Treasurer Schooling and his very efficient
aal obieing deputy, Mr.. Wager, we are en-
abled to present our readers, in advance OF
the regular report to the Legislature, with
:. succinct statement of the present condition
If the Treasury The following figures are
official
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-01-04
INSERT A SAVING CLAUSE.

There will doubtless be introduced in tie
Legislature, at its forthcoming session, bill
authorizing the people of Lyon county to 70
a subsidy to the Virginia and Truckee Rail
road company in consideration of the con-
struction, by that company, Of the proposed
new road to Bodie The record OF this
county is not such as to encourage any rail-
way corporation to entertain reasonable
hope that a subsidy will be granted. But we
will have more to say on the subject when
the bill comes before the Legislature or the
people. At present We wish to state, tor Il e
special benefit and information of our Legls-
lators-elect, what seems to be the desire OF
the citizens of Lyon county. 1t is, in sub
stance, that if such bill is introduced 1T be
allowed to pass provided the right to vote on
the question of the subsidy be restricted to
actual residents of the county; and provided,
further, that the railway company, In case the
subsidy is granted, obligate itself not to en-
ploy, in the work of constructing the road,
not a single Chinese laborer At first the
proposition to limit the right to vote upon
the subsidy to actual residents may seem
unnecessary; but, on second thought, It's I'M
portance will be readily conceded. Corpora
tons and monied individually have heretofore
been known to colonize localities for special
purposes, and if some safeguard is not IN
temptation to follow similar course here
| may prove too strong for the railway COM
pany to withstand. -Lyon County Times.
Ormsby county gave the V. Il L. *. X.
company $500 900 toward the construction OF
of their line We believe the investment to
have been a good one, but it will prove to
have been very bad one if Carson is to be
left out in the cold by branch line termln-
ating at the Mound House. At present Car
son is the base of supplies to Bodle and
| large part of Esmerada county. Our mer-
chants and teamsters and stage men and no
| tel proprietors have been doing profitable
| business during the past twelye-month OF
more, and it is with no light sense OF appre-
heusion that we see a movement which
threatens to despoil onr little city of this I'M
| portant source of trade. When this county
gave the V. & L. company its bonds to the
amount indicated they did so under the prom
Use, made and implied, that there should be
an illdissoluble bond of sympathy between
the company and the County; but railway
switch terminating at the Mound House not
only sewers that bond but leaves the county
in the condition of Esop's farmer, whc
warmed the viper. Nine years is but bre1
time in which to forget how faithfully Orms
by county has stood by the V. Il 7. company
and if that corporation have entertained no
ton of building their Bodie road through
Lyon county, we hope they will be JUS
enough to reconsider their intentions, and, il
they build at all, build by way of the foot
bills of the Sierra, as they fringe the weste: :
side Of Carson Valley. At all events, it is
but an act of self-preservation for Ormsby
County to oppose this scheme with all its IN
huence.
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1t will be seen by these figures that there
ire, in the General and StatosBuildng Funds,
{the two added :ogeher), no less than S446,-
p24 50 Of ready money wherewith to carry on
the business of the State. This is something
more than Governor Bradley predicted would
oe or hand when he told the people of the
'inviolabiity" of the Building Fund and
predicted the insignificant which would
be on hand at the meeting of the incoming
Legislature. Indeed, this exhibit vindicates
Controller Hobart's calculations and shows
the State to be in a highly prosperous con
ditiOn, not only in the matter of ready money
but i'll regard Of the School and University
and Interest and Sinking Funds. Thesesare
to be invested in the new Government Four
per cents, thus making those funds
n'easurably sef-sustainng The amount
of money disbursed annually on &C
CONT of the Territorial Interest and s. liking
Fund Is no less than $50, 514, and on accom- ut
at the State Interest and SINKING Fund !,
Sl4,679 So, This is excessive in the extr.ne
""eIi we come to consider the rate of interest
which Is no less than % per cent.-more
fhan double what the Government DAYS II
Is to be regretted that the LiyingstOnes who
Mold the bulk of the funded debt have so
1aF' proven unwilling to acccCle to the nrono-
sltlon contained in the statute Of 1877
whereby the entire debt was to he consoli
GATED 1" one huge bond. 1t is to be boned 5
mat the Legislature may see its way toward a
such procedure as will induce these credit
"r' OF the State to pursue more public =
spirited and liberal policy The Legislature >
viii be beselSed on every hand to spend these
ready at-hand moneys For expanding the
building Fund, the name of the schemes is
Legion! We believe it to be the wisest nolicv
possible to cover that fund into the General y =,
una amt to dole it out with extreme pru- =,
'ehce' our State is Ill better condition. -
financially, than any within the Union; and =,
b; We are only governed by wise and sagacious =,
,"unclis and withheld from extrayagance and IA
'nwise expenditures, the taxes, long and ~
burdensome, will be Hobtened u0
rade and manufactures will revive, and the =
loped-for better days will come upon rs III
With retrenchment will come relief tn our p"
uillon producers (many of whom need relief Oh
rom the present harsh and onerous measure tn,
[ taxation); and not only shall we see the the
tate independent of the money sharks, but fro
TIT people lightened OF the very heavy load u y"
taxation which has 50 long oppressed them. sew
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-01-04
CALEB CUSHING.

The telegraph brings the news OF Caleb
Cushing's death In some respects he WIS
one of the most remarkable men Of his time.
He was miser in all his ways He boarded
learning as well as as money. "Caleo KNOWS
a GREAT many things" said Quincy Adam,
once, At recess in the Supreme Court, Will e
the more liberal hearted lawyers were In the
Senate Restaurant or the Hole-in the Wall
taking their terrapin stew and Burgundy.
Cushing would slip round behind the scr'en
and eat his bit of cold sausage and dough
nut So member of the court relates
thus confirming a bit of old gossip. Grant,
aware of Cushing's learning, nominated HIM
to the Chief Justiceship left vacant by Chase S
death. Sargent, who, like Cushing, was
born in Newburyport, objected to the Old
man on the score of his rebel sympathy. and
he was not confirmed. subsequently he was
sent to Spain He was a wonderful llnguist,
and was said to be acquainted with nearly
every written language-even the Chinese,
He probably had a closer intimacy with our
foreign policy and exercised greater influence
with the State Department than any mar
related to our politics. In his death the
country suffers the loss of one of its most
learned and useful men. He was born IL
| 1900
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-01-04

The Oakland Rodtator Dohn |. Ginn's
paner} Analyses the society of Bodie in the
following maliivI:
Scanning the names Of an Invitation com
mitteo for grand ball to be given in BpdIe
on Tuesday evening next, we find miny ia
m!iar ones, and some which have been con
nected with more stirring events on the from
tier during tie past quarter OF Il century than
the snl 5.ntending of social gathering
Here il NE man who went to the Nevada
State Prison many years ago Tor killing tel
low being on one of the most crowded streets
of Virginia City; another who was tried for
murder but acquitted; one who participated
in the bloody conflict with the Sioux Indians
at the North Platte bridge: another who.
under the late Col. f. Y. Sumner, in 1897,
assisted in the battle which nearly destroyed
the Cheyenne tribe, near where Denver
CITY nov stands: another who recently
returned from an extended prospecting
tour through Arizona and the northern
and Western States of Mexico; an
other who has been dubbed "the stormy
petrol of American politics B. F. Butler
another who served through the war under
the notorious guerilla chief, Qu&ntrell; an
+Ler who was gallant officer Of the Ameri-
am navy during the war for the Union; an
,ther Who, a few days since, committed sui
;do in 'arysville; another who left White
,;no aa,on Hars ago little more than shot
nm nm ranr e y ahs d of a vigilance committee;
mother = oradna, Of West Point, who was
My restrained from street duel with shot
uns with now exc. ngress man oy the
igorons interference of the frit nds Of both
artles; stall another who served a "liel
NeEaIa
arted ia a;,Lt"a,, t iiso'i' ana alter in
Sacramento melodeon and develoDed ''t w.. q
ell-muscled prize fighter There are Of 'or ,'
the committee who have histories "1
us Is sufficient to give idea of the mike,
ciety of Bodie
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-01-04
BODIE SOCIETY
huence.

The Oakland Radtator Dohn l. CHM
paner) ai.alyzes the society of Bodie i'll tn
following nailiiuI.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-01-04
L . S T d!

o..>rEn or NJ .saIC EAR ORC"
~ was lost IN this city yesterday The finder will be
suitably sre by leaving the same at this cfice or at
tine oAicu ri r. VI. IL NJ, Lumber Dealer. deC2Sw
, 1879-03-01
IT SpEAEs AGAIN.-The Cincinnati

IT SPEAEs AGAIN.-The CINCINNATI
Enzuirer-that implacable foe to Mongo-
liam immigration-inakes q comparison, or
rather a contrast, between the Chiaan.an
and the Indian, not at all complimentary
to the former. Here is the way the E"-
qlsirsr talks;
This vellov barbarian belongs to & ranl-
pire race. who come to .gck the nation S HE
Mood and leave it withering skeleton; a
Pagan race, who would blot the very name
OF Christianity from existence; knavish
and slsvish race, who are aispossessins white
laborers of employment and robolns their
families of the means of existence; race
vile and corrupt beyond redemption mole
like and leprous race, barrowiug under
ground, feeding and fattening and fostering
in f;lth. rerelling in rags and rottenness and
foul disease. Copparei with the Chinaman,
the Indian uncorrupted by white surround
;nes. is clean and healthy, wholesome and
happy human being and adesirabis neighbor-
In speaking of the restrictive bill, which
passed the house of representatives, the
Enquirer says;
The names of the gentlemen who shall op-
pose this wise and Just measure viii be Ere.
fully noted tar future reference.
, 1879-03-01
A Custer County Massacre.

4 body of cowboys from Custer coun
ty, five Thousand strong, well mounted
and equipped with Winchester rifles and
navy SKIES, crossed the Loup river, few
miles below Olives ranch, spreading ter
ror and dismay among the peaceful
inhabitants. They moved upon hearny
Junction, arriving there about daylight,
where they are now bivouaced- Here
have been enacted scenes at which
humanity and civilization shudder. We
are carried back to cannibalism.
This body of lawless invaders are under
the command of Colonel Blood, notorl-
Gus desperate who has hitherto operated
chiefly from Texas to Halifax,
As soon as they had tethered tEeir
horses and spread their tents i'll the beat
tiful groves Of kearny, q detail OF SIX
hundred men were sent TO More's Hail,
where all the citizens, with their wives
and children, were witnessing 4 minstrel
show. Without word they shot down all
the men, and carried the fat little ones
screaming TO the camp. They alleged,
amid coarse jokes and brutal laughter,
that the old bu, X were too tough for broIl-
ing purposes they wanted tender steaks.
When they reached the camp these little
innocents were mercilessiy slaughtered
ana cut I'D into steaks and roasts, barbe
cned and eaten by the vandal host
Alas, that should lire to see 4 state re
lapse into cannibalism wish that |
had died before my eyes were bllstered
with such a sight, my ears pierced with
such screams, my soul sichened with such
horror, Kearny Junction is no more,
1t has been ripped up ywhite cannibais-
Not content with this terrible feast-this
orpie of the demOns-the same band are
now securing Buffalo and kearny counties
with frightening effect. All the tender
little children are carried to the pot
They live only on human flesh, and they
are men of enormous appet:tes. An In
fant weighing twenty-five pounds will
furnish food for one day for only four of
these terrible gormandizers, and they all
| fastidiously I-fase to eat tough meat.
They shoot the men and drive the women
in droves into the Platte river, where OF
course they are all drowned The resi-
/ dent population in this fertile but ill-fated
region has almost disappeared.
This terrible band have killed S9G
men, drowned 5987 women, ard eaten
1928 healthy children within the last
three days. 1t is believed they have Tir-
tuaily cleaned out the ll-starred courtIes
of Buffalo a-l Kearny. Where they vii
now 90, heaven or the other place only
knows. 1t is believed ii Lincoln that
the soie purpcsa OF this Col. Bloed inFa-
| sion is to intimidate Governor Nance and
compel hi@ to general jail delivery.
. send you this without signing my
name or indicating the place from which
write. Such IS the reign OF terror IN
this unfortunate section that my life
would not he worth button if It was
known that l had given you these awful
facts
, 1879-03-01

Tn TEnEnE OF TIE EARTH New
York san notes tii.; not oily ':om California,
hut f.nu Hrltisi Columbia, New Zealand,
Naw S"u;h Wales, Australia and the Sand-
wich Islands. the Si:ne cry OF - The Chinese
Must go,' Is heard l. i, too, LOG The same
reason. T!,r h5tr,!i,~ racr. wiia.. las prac-
tiaai a terrible yo,,n,tay ;or ;;G91 years, uu-
til they h,v- ceased T.. even .onG for tie
reasonable comforts % lie. and which,
,iir,uqh the aavs have hecu forced 10 work
perpeJaal!y t. keen from starving, untIl now
to toll is their Aari,Ial condition, are ut last
prepared hy genera ions o! misery s1 i've on
So Ii tie food and 10 brea- he 81 little air that
to compete with them Is an Imrnssiit:ity
The poor white lahorcr cannot work alter he
ceases to hope. If very poor, he Is comi"rted
through the week by the thought that when
Sunday comes he will have the day with his
loved ones. and thai it will be crowned by a
generous feast If ever So poor. there Is,
down IN his heart, a belle! that some time
he will save en"ugh to bay llt'le home,
which will be all LIS own. where there VIII
b.. = garden. and ,i,mhIfg VINE above ms
roof. Aud Whel, he s,rS 4 race appear 'hat
have no Sunday. thai hGve o cream o' any
,binr Ia the future bat ;cii, AID yet can
work because nos one SeHrTaus nope "as
ever warmed tiIJIr hearts, no wonder He re-
coils aud cries 0dt that such race must 81,
\ thrift that reduces a man iui'9S uh'h
they want but 4 molety of AR; an economy
which dries mp the secretl"ns untli ohiH
mai.tv ef food Is required, and an iiousts
which drives man iii 10 labor without hr
and without food. make conditions WHICH
the native born American cannot meet ana
comp.te with. And when there is found.
added to these characteristics, BRAIN vacant
of all thoughts which lit up and eanooie
bumanit.,. brt subtle beyond description IN
DECEPTION and in the bearings which = 'raiis'
40, is 10 have upon a tnal profit OF loss,
and which at the same time Is controlled by
no moral sentiment, the duliest MN" Ill .ne
world can commence to estimate ho@ lormio-
able is the danger presented TO af' SsHeJ "a
races by these mysterious creat"frs' ,., ~
then. they are non-combatants. Inc! ne"
derision with smile, and persecution WIN
\ patience which battles courage everywhere
Lastly, as compared with ali other naiionS'
they are as the leavas Of the forest IN mum
her. If through their vass nattVe i->,.' 'HC
Anoal Of the Shadows should pass and touch
with his cal the lips OF the first.bo,h as ~, ~
Frypt of old; if on tomorrow dawn ~
should be found that these we're as many
dead as all the inhabitants OF our grea' re- re-
,,ubl;r can number, the loss would scarceiy
r,use A ripple there. BY the end OF the
week everv tear would be drled, the AWFUL
o,p wouli be closed, and ths same sefrio,e
FRONT of hungry millions would be presented.
raaJv with insidious step to commence wiz, |,
a lceus. raid upon any land which 9hersa Sa
"a % or presented : possibility for toll No
,uou ,Uouder -, have men grow afraid as they con-
template the spectacle no wonaer esnhIu. hone.
hearts cry out against competition 50 "0pe
less.
, 1879-03-01
"LETTERs FROM HOME ~

Letters from my fathers household,
lsied amidst The surrounding sea,
owlft-winged messengers Of eladness.
Bearing rest and peace to me,
Fathers calm and sacred counsel.
Mothers large and shining tears.
And my sisters Drumming feelings
Flung to HE acrOss the spheres.
. the dear and loving letters.
U my childhood's thronging dreams,
y the ancient, low-r rooted cottage,
With its quaint old oaken beams,
U the haunts among the meadows,
And the moss-grown garden seat.
Where the scented appIe-blossoms
Swept In waves about my feet,
And | sit and muse upon it,
I'LL l seem to see it all
See the reh grapes purple clusters
Dropping from the leafy wall
See the mellow peach ripening,
Breathe the breath OF blessed flowers,
Watch the steady house clock marking
All the pulses Of the hours.
Fathers hair is growing winter,
Mothers step is feebier now;
But the old seraphic beauty
Lingers yet on her meek brow;
h.ii ~" S"ttI lpllts ttllJ tsiTll.ru
And the lps l used to rreso-
y the years can never win them
From their holy tenderness
And the flashing eyes of laughter,
And the speech Of merry scorn,
And the rippiing aubuEn riuglets
OF our households youngest born
Very gently they have deepened
To the glory and the graos
OF a tranquil maiden, moving
Ihoughtfully amid the place.
Letters from my fathers household.
Isled amidst the surrounding sea;
Swift-winged messengers OF gladness,
Bearing rest and peace t. me
Let the foamins world tear oaw.,rd-
Let the sin.esa children play,
and the young bride clasp her husband
| an wealttiest to-day,
, 1879-03-01
TIRE TRAMP,

\ tramp came up the garden walk i
He shivered ami shook with cold.
His lips looked blue, and his fingers too,
And his garments were thin and old.
Nee York Etprsss.
The tramp walked up to the kitchen door,
A pitiful story he told,
They gaYehim ham bone minus themeat-
And bread all covered with mould.
-Ei4tira Gazette.
Then that tramp went off in horried huff
And he grihned CHASTITY grin,
While the cook im1ihcd some soothing stuff,
That was labelled Holland Gin"
--Neic York Meas.
.''Something to eat, lie sadly sad,
As he gave his trousers hitch.
We gave him bread, with the fine butter
spread,
And he-aung it into the ditch.
-Hacksnssek Republican.
He ioafed around the chicken coop,
The puiiets roasted high;
And 50 he started off for soup,
And hove bitter sigh
The next nom he thought he would start for
the HUB"
He reached it bv travelling hard;
To supply him with food, he sawed up some
wood
IRrec aickx in the charity yard.
II m,ricGa Punch.
Then he came 20 Cleveland, ragged and cold,
And told ms pitiful yarn;
When night policeman, saucy and bold,
Put him il Poverty barn.
-CGeeelnnd Voice.
To Terre Haute he came, qhite DRINK,
He said he been toll t" go west );
Boz, Thomas, a. the station house,
give him a bunk,
And lhcn he took a rest -
-Yare Haute H1d.
That tramp at length has arrived in the West.
From the E;, he beat y retreat;
And in y ala y ala BE- is trying his hc&t
Not 20 work f.- something to eat.
, 1879-03-01

A FEAT OF MEMORY-One of the most re-
markable feats Of memory Is not recorded IL
the books. though il came before the public
IN singular manner in January, lS47. At
Sydney, Australia, q prisoner set up as his
defense on trial an abb. claiming to have
been, at the time the complainant was
robbed, at home In his own hut listening to
the recital of Eorace Walpole's novel, The
Old Baron, which man named Lane hs,3.
with other novels, committed to memory,
the matter Of time being disposed OF by the
declaration that Lanes recitation took two
hours and half The attorney general de
clared that this was Incredible, whereupon
Lane cleared his throat, began, ''In the
time OF King Henry. when the good Duke
OF Humphrey returned from the wars In tho
Holy Land, where he had been sojournins
for 4 number OF years, there lived and
had recited several pages when the attorney
gener.d told him to stop-he was quite sat
isfied. But the counsel for the defense
| was not, and insisted that as the veraclty oil
his witness had been questioned, the witness
should be allowed TO set himself night; also
to prove the allegation as to the time by re-
citing the whole novel. ''Do you expect
me to take it ali dewn IS evidence: STAN
mered the chief justice, In great dIsmsy;
Finally compIoH.jse was arrived a., and
Lane gaze chapter from the middle OF the
story ana its ccnclus;G2. The prisoner was
acquitted.
, 1879-03-01

4 BANKRUPT CTTY.-The beautiful little
city of Elizabeth, New Jersey, has defaulted
IN payment of interest and the part of her
bonds which matared on the first This re
suit was not entirely unexpected. The city
has population of $4,000 and a debt OF
81, 6s6, l30 1t contained in 1876 about SIG, :
0e0, 600 q. taxable property The debt, 1t
viii be 5 d, Is o.er One-tnird Of its entire
! possessions. Every person who owns one
Thousand dollars worth of property would
be required to give three hundred and thir
ty-three dollars to pay its debts. The sus-
persion of payments caused great excitement
and much distress. The police force had
not been paid for some months, and credit
gave ont suddenly when it became known
that the credit Of the city was gone. The
public schools were IN danger OF being closed.
but at last accounts efforts were being made
to keep them open by private subscription
The trouble of Elizabeth commenced about
ten years ago The advent of certain patent
pavement companies had something to do
with 1t. These companies wanted to I'M
prove the town and the town wanted to be
improved 4 debt Of S3,000,000 was IN
Cured III this way This was good start,
and other improvements sweliea the debt to
five millions. The crash came in 1873, and
property decreased in value despite improve
ments. The result is as stated. One Ameri-
can city is bankrupt beyond hope Of redemp-
ton, and others will soon follow, when it is
hoped the recklessness which has been mani
tested in almost every direction viii be
checked