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The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-08-04

To meet the requirements Of thoughtful and
conscientious parents for the education OF their
sons and daughters, the Placervile Academy
was established at Placerville, California. 1t is
surrounded blythe best moral and social in
fiuences the aim of its founders being to cul-
tivate the manners and tastes, as well as the
minds of the pupils by making the school.home
an orderly and affectionate family; the study
room a place of earnest and cheerful mental
toll, and the recreations and social amusements
pure health giving and joyful. The Academy is
situated in the foothills on the western slope of
of the Sierra surrounded by grand and beauti-
full scenery, where the pure mountain air gives
health and vigor to body and mind away from
the demoralizng influences of city life, in a
community unsurpassed on the coast in social,
morai'aud religious influences
The grounds are beautiful, the buildings
commodious, the furniture and apparatus new,
the teachers the best that ample salaries can
secure, and neither labor nor expense is spared
to make the school the best possible.
The next school year will commence August
9th, and parents Who intend to send their
children to q school where the moral as well as
the mental faculties will be developed and
trained and where they will have all the com
forts OF home, should not fail to correspond
with the Principal, E. B. Conklin, Placerville,
California who will furnish all information
desired relative to studies, terms, etc. a2-2t
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-08-04
south Mountain.

There is some prospect of work being
resumed on the South Mountain mines,
near Silver City, idaho. Thomas j..
Taylor, an experienced smelter and
metallurgist from Eureka, arrived here
Saturday and departed yesterday to
South Mountain to examine, the
mines and the ores for company,
which intends to commence work on
the mines if the ores can be sinelted
proftably. The greatest obstacle In
the way is the low price of lead, of
which there is large percentage in
South Mountain ores. At present that
metal would not pay the expense of
shipping it to New York from South
Mountain.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-08-04
Indian Troubles.

Naches informs us that cousin of
his named Bob has been arrested at
Reno for being implicated in shooting
affray between Indians in Honey Lake
Valley, California. He says that Cap
tain Dick, of Honey Lake, caused Bob
to be arrested, though he (Dick) is re-.
sponsible for the trouble. Naehes
thinks that the Indians ought to be
permitted to settle difficulties. which
concern them only, in their own way,
and that the whites ought not to inter
fere. He has gone to Reno to inter.
cede for his cousin.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-08-04
"Sagebrusla Leaves"

0ae thousand copies of "Sagebrush
Leaves, the first clifton of the late H.
IL. r. Mighels book, have been re-
ceived in Carson and Virginia City, and
are being delivered to subscribers as
rapidly as possible. The Virginia
Chronicle says it has been. found that
the first edition is not sufficient to
supply the demand, and this is why
other towns have not yet been sup
piled. "A second edition will be ordered
at once.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-08-04
A Frightened Mother.

Afew days ago the youngest child of
B. f. Riley, of Paradise Valley, which
is just, old enough TO walk, was dis
covered in the yard with piece of
bread in its hand which large snake
was trying to take away from it. Mrs.
Riley, was of course horror stricken at
the sight but she mustered sufficient
courage to drive tbs snake away and
yet the child in the house, as the men
were off harvesting Shortly after
wards the snake or one of the same size
was discovered in the house and killed.
The child was not bitten or injured by
the reptile.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-08-04
THE C0MINs.nOYT LIBEL SUIT.
The Taxpayers Of White Pine Dis.
like TO Pay for vindicating the
senator's Honor.
From the Ward Reflex.

rum oiiO !" hO isbhSA.
Ex-senator Comins is once more in
our midst-came over from Hamilton
Thursday. This reminds us of attempts
made at the last term of Court looking
| to the dismissal of the libel suit now
pending against A. V. Hoyt, wherein
White Pine county is to foot the bills,
for the sole purpose of disproving Mr..
Hoyt's charges. More properly speak
ing, this suit is based on a spurious in
dictment, which should be thrown out
of Court, and the chances are it will.
A hundred men of this town who
signed their names to paper and
backed it up with dollar each, say so
too More, yes, all would have signed
it, but for the fact they did not
have the dollar. This money, be it
understood, was contributed for the de-
Tense of Mr.. Hoyt At the same time
the taxes paid by those men must of
necessity be used to defray the enor-
nous expense incurred in defense of
Mr.. Comins' honor. They well know,
and we know that the retired Senator
did not do what was required at his
hands by the people; that cooked petit
tions were the only kind he deigned to
notice, etc. In the face of all this Mr..
Comins could not-but he does-ask
the people OF White Pine county to,
parge him OF the charges made by A.
V. Hoyt. A man that so far forgets
his pledges and promises cannot con-
sistently demand this at our hands.
His recourse was, and is, civil suit,
even though the damages be placed at
ten dollars. Seeing that he had been
so derehct in his duty, the people of
White Pine county have but little ilr>
terest in him, and as for paying dearly
for that little they have, they would
rather not. We sent other men to the
the last Legislature who took special
pledges--some Of them self-imposed-
and they forgot them quite as easily as
did our hold-oyer Senator the expressed
wish of the people, MIR. Comins was
member of the Convention that adopted
the platform and should have been gov
erned by it. Think you these things
are so easily forgotten. This celebrated
case comes up in September.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-08-04

A man, who was under the Influence
OF liquor, as the stage was leaving town
yesterday undertook to take possession
OF an outside seat, which a passenger
had engaged the day previous. This
caused disturbance, which the driver
promptly quelled by putting the
drunken man off the stage.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-08-04
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.



Last evening while Rev. Mr.. Riley
was holding services in Centennial Hall
several shots were fired just outside the
building. The shooting did not dis
turb the congregation, though nobody
would have been greatly surprised il a
bullet had entered through one OF the
windows. The shooting was done by
Cinnamon, who were chasing the
eolored foot.racer, who arrived here a
week or two ago with Fleming, alias
1.-The Emigrant. 1t appears that he
has been playing poker with the
Chinese, and, having aclearer under
standing of Schenck's rules than the
Heather Chinese, raked in their money
and ran out of the house. The Celes-
tials, determined to take his life, fired
three or four shots at the foot racer as
he ran at two-forty gait down the
street by the hall, where the services
were being held; but they missed their
mark, and he got away with the coin.
Such Sunday amusements ought to be
stopped; but, as the Chinese swear by
Confucius that they did not fire shot,
and no white men were present, no ar
rests have been made.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-08-04
sTME M0ETEzUMA. MINE
some Facts Relative to It's Location and
Condition.

OVm0htAOhs
J. L., of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, is
informed that there is snch mine as
the Montezuma at Arabia, in Humboldt
county, Nevada, upon which some
work has been done without material
profit, as its ores, the carbonate of lead
carrying silver, are of low grade and
chiefly worked for the lead. As we
understand from the Report of the State
Geologist for 1875 and 1876, the mine
belonged to the Hurricane Company
who own smelling works at Oreana,
some eight or nine miles from the
mines. Wood and water are scarce in
the district Assredly, the stock of
Msntezuma described by j. l, has no
present market value. We would re-
spectfully ask our Winnemucca conteme
porary, the Silver State, to give us the
precise present condition of the Monte
yuma property
The above is from the New York
Mining Record, and in reply we will
state the following facts: The Monte
yuma mine is situated in what is known
az the Trinity ARABIA District, three
miles west OF the Humboldt river and
about five miles from Oreana Station on
the Central Pacific Railroad. 1t was
located in 1865, and sold by the loca-
tors to the Trinity and Sacramento
Mining Company of New York. That
Company disposed Of it to the Monte
yuma Mining Company, of which, A.
w. Mason was Superintendent. The
Company built furnaces on the river
near Oreana, and shipped, from ores
taken from the Montezuma and reduced
at the, furnaces, some $3.50, 600 worth OF
bullion. The ores which produced this
bullion were found near the surface.
Before the railroad was built to Oreana,
the Company became involved, and SUBJ
sequently, General L. A. Buckner OBJ
tanned the property. from the creditors.
Last year he prospected the mine to
some extent and had a quantity of the
ore, extracted while prospecting, smelted
at Oreana. The greatest depth to which
the mine has been prospected is 100 feet
from the surface. 1t was never worked
by the Hurricane Company, though that
Company bought it for $50, 900 of which
they paid $1,000 and gave notes and a
mortgage for the balance which. they
failed to pay at maturity and General
Buckner foreclosed the mortgage and
bought back the property. For full
description of the property aud the
country in which it is situated, the Re-
cord is referred to Exploration of the
Fortieth Parallel, volume III, publish
by the Government. Not having a copy
of the work to refer to we cannot give
the page, but it will be found under the
head of Montezuma-H Humboldt, and
if Professor Clarence King, who was
chief of that Exploring expedition,
knew anything about mines at the time
he explored the Fortieth Parallel. the
Montezuma is one OF the best mines in
the country. His opinion is recorded
in the volume referred to and the work
done ON the mine since he made his re-
port has not been sufficient to prove or
disprove his theories. Ore has been
found and is now in sight in the mine
at the lowest point to which it
has been prospected, but at present
it is not worked, and we believe the
property can be purchased at reason
able price.
A Frightened Neither.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-08-04

Andrew Hubs informs us that there.
are over twenty Cinnamon at work
prospecting quartz and placer mines on
Willow Creek, about fifty miles north
of town on the Idaho road.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-08-04
Fresh ErIlifs.

All varieties of fruits in season. hines
and Sicily lemons, ETC., are now re-
ceived daily at C. Chenoweth's store,
and will be sold at the low, st market
prices. Call and sample his stock.
to, att
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-08-04
Recruits Going west.

Lieutenant Touey passed through last
evening with twenty-three recruits for
cavalry and infantry regiments in Cali
sornia and Oregon
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-08-04
silver City Bullion.

Wells, Fargo & Cos Express brought
down from Silver City,. Idaho, yester-
day, bullion valued at 1921 80, from
the Black Jack and Florida Hill mines.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-08-04
"A, FRANCISCO STOCK REPORT.


THIS MOfnhnSs AsVu"
SIS Ophir 354 Boz
1910 Mexican 26f y
Sj5 Gould & Curry 80 "
34j Best n Belcher Is
30 California 1850
3Oj Savage l25 l24
rs Con. Va, 400 1850
Is5 Cho!lar % III
80 potosi 43Oc
45J Hale & Norcross l3f
700 Crown Point $50 475c
Go5 Yellow Jacket IL i64
1915 Imperial 49, l4Oc
80 kentuek Aloe
20 Alpha u
4-O Beicher 400 460c
go Confidence liz III
g75 Sierra Nevada ~ 49,
40 Bullion D.
400 Excheqner 81 81
1913 Oyerman .
245 Justice 37Oc
100 Union 80 391
4S5 Alta
600 Lady Bryon l20 ll5c
40 Julia 270 215c
80 Caledonia 22O 245c
225 Silver Hill 1870 l2jc
100 Challenge II
100 New York DC
1870 Occidental |
800 Phil Sheridan 35c
go Lady Washington 100 ll5c
400 kossuth 25c
1919 Andes |
l70 Ward J
80 Scorpion 300 295c
.95 Benton 400 405c
100 Trojan loo b30
800 Con. Dorado l90c
80 Flowery 20 75c
Gao North Bonanza 1865 l70c
80 Mackay 4
1900 South Utah sc
100 Mountain View $50 26Oc
- North Con. Va, 3
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-08-04

The regular monthly meeting of
Winnemucca Hose Company No. l
will be held this evening, at 8. o'clock.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-08-04
Grain.

A team arrived to-day at Kemler's
mill with 30, 900 pounds of grain from
John McLeran's ranch, in Paradise
Valley.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-08-04
N0TECE TO CREDITORS.

ESTATE OF E X. WILEY, DECEASED.
Notioe.is hereby given by the undersigned
Administrator Of the estate of Z. X. Wiley,
deceased, to the creditors Of, and all persons
having claims against said deceased, TO exhibit
them, with the necessary vouchers, within ten }
months after the first publication OF this notice
to SAID administrators at his Office in the Justice
of the Peaces Office in the Courthouse, at Win
nemueca, Humboldt county, Neva1a.
3. W. KUSE,
administrator OF the Estate OF f.. X. niey
deceased. jolylO-4w
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Bells of Bonneville.
A Narrowing Zone.

In proportion as the world grows thorough
" scientific, specialists have developed, able
to cope successfully with difficulties previous
ly considered unconquerable. The great dis,
coveries in mechanics and chemistry, medicine
and philosophy have, with few exceptions,
been made by persons who have centered
their study and experiments very closely on
some practical point. The same principle APP
plies to success in commercial or professional
life. The zone of diseases for example which
for ages have been considered incurable, has
within the last generation been very sensbly
narrowed. Epilepsy, by way of illustration,
has, from ancient days to very recent times,
been classed among those beyond human
power to conquer. In this particular eonnec-
ton, however, We have information indicating
that this Evil Spirit may have found master,
which leads US to consider it public duty to
make that information known.
Having friends afflicted with falling fits, we
secured for two of them the services of ply
stefan who was so wonderfully successful IN
curing them that we WILL without expense
send his address to any sufferers.
Address A. 3. A, Box 1901,
Philadelphia, Pa.
Note: No charge made for sending the
address.
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Swearing a Chinese Witness.

The San francisco Post contains the
following report Of curious Chinese
trial:
The All PAX Chinese habeas corpus
case, on application to release Sing
Fung, a young China woman, from the
clutches of hag known as 81 Que, in
whose custody she was alleged to be,
was resumed in the County Court this
morning. The announcement made
several days ago, that the ceremony of
swearing the witnesses would be per-
formed in the Chinese fashion, attracted
quite crowd to the Court. p. Cum
mings appeared for the respondent, and
W. II. Chamberlain for the petitioner.
Mr.. Cummings argued at length against
the barbarous method of swearing wit
nesses proposed by counsel, and quoted
extensively from g Chambers S EncyclO-
pedia'' to show that almost every ma
ton, modern and ancient, invariably
insisted upon people OF other nationali-
ties conforming to their mode of admin
istering oaths. Although frequently re-
quested to cOnfne himself to the text, the
counsel could not be got to do it. Fl
nally the Judge said: "Mr. Clerk, en-
| ter fine of $50 against the counsel fol
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contempt of Court" Mr. Cummings
closed his encyclopedia and sat down
without uttering word. Judge Wright
then directed Counselor Chamberlain
to bring on his oath or something to
that effect, and in response the attorney
made dive for the rear of the court
room, and in q moment returned with 4
bucket, huge butcher knife and a sack
made of mating, from which emanated
a decidedly lively cackling.
50 Your HONOR said Mr.. Chamber
lain, "we don't want to spatter the
blood around. How'll we prevent
that?''
81 don't know responded the Court,
drawing away out of range
A lively colloquy ensued between the
Chinese Interpreter, the witness, and the
Chinaman, who insisted upon being
sworn in the Oriental fashion. What it
was all about was wholly Incompetent
sible to the Court and the other BAR
barians present, but the manner of hold
ing the pullet about to be sacrificed in
the interests of truth appeared to have
something to do with it. The woman,
who at first did not want to be sworn i'll
the genuine heather style at all, finally
concluded to decapitate the rooster, pro-
vided one of the Cinnamon held it.
This modification of the orthodox meth
cd, which requires the person affirming
to touch the chicken before the decap-
itation, was accepted, and after some
further discussion and the further con-
cession that the chickens neck should
be held against the rim of the bucket,
the woman was sworn, the clerk pro-
pounding the following oath, which was
translated by the interpreter:
4" You do solemnly swear that the evil
dence you will give in the issue now
pending shall be the truth, the whole
truth, and nothing but the truth, and,
if | tell lie, may my life be as this
chicken
The response was a stroke of the
knife, which only partially severed the
chickens head, whereupOn the woman
dropped the knife. The crowd of China
men earnestly gesticulated and protested
that the oath wasn't prOperly admins
tered, and the woman was compelled to
repeat the stroke, the second time per-
forming the decapitatiOn. The China
man who held the chicken rammed it
into a bucket, and held it there until its
struggle had ceased. The woman then
mounted the stand, but skillful fire of
cross-questiOns failed to elicit any thing
more than at the previous examination.
She knew nothing of the whereabouts
of Sing Fung, the missing maiden.
Some of the questions she pretended not
to understand, and in such cases she in
variably broke out with, "Me no fool!
Me take him Melica mans swearee; me
cuttee chickee's head off; me tell him
lie, me 90 down stairs, sable" The
interpreter in the case was accused by
the indignant Mr.. Cummings of being a
sleuth hound. As he did not give salts
faction, it was decided to postpone the
case until October Il.
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4 LEGEND Of HARTEST.

So long ago that history pays
No heed nor record of how long,
Back in the lovely dreamy days,
The days of story and of song,
Before the world had crowded grown,
While wrong on earth was hard to find,
And half the earth had never known
The forms and faces of mankind,
When jut as now the years would keep
Their terms of SHOWS and suns and showers
1t CHANGED that summer drOpt asleep,
One morning, iii field of flowers.
And while the warm weeks came and fed,
In all their tender wealth OF charm,
She slept, with beauteous golden head
Laid softly on her weary arm.
She did not hear the waving trees,
The warbling brook she did not hear,
Nor yet the velvet coated bees
That doomed about her rosy ear.
In many a yellow breezy mass,
The rich wheat ripened far away,
And glittering on the fragrant grass,
Her silver sicdy idly lay.
But then at last, one nootide hour
A gorgeous moth, while lowering by,
Mistook her sweet mouth for a Hover,
And summer walked with startled cry.
She lose, in anxioes wonder, now,
To gaze upon the ripened wheat,
And saw its plenteous tassels bow
Dead ripe below the sultry heat.
Half craZed she wandered East and West
Amid the peaceful spacious cline,
Until at length with painting breast,
She stood before old Father Time.
With tears of shame she told him all,
While pointing to the wheat unknown,
And said. " What power shall made it fall
Ere Autumn's bitter winds have Dlown:'
Then Father Time, with laughter gay,
Bowed all his frame, and crooked his knees
And tossed his white beard like the spray
That crowns the crests of wintry seas.
"Oh, daughter, cheer your hearth he cried
" The wheat shall fail ere falls the night.
We two shall NOV it, side by side,
And reap it in the stars pale light!
80 Summer cleared her brow of gloom,
And forth with Father Time she went
And, haggard Age by Youth in bloom,
Above the tawny wheat they bent.
Ere fall of night the harvest fell;
But since that season, fair and blithe,
As ancient annals love to tell,
Old Father Time has borne a scythe!
Edgar FOtrcett, in ST. Nicholas for NoUemRer.
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CONSUMPTION Cured.

An old physician, retired from practice,
having had placed in his hands by an East
India missionary the formula OF a simple
vegetable remedy for the speedy and per
manent cure for Consumption, Bronchitis,
Catarrh, Asthma, and all Throat and Lung
Affections, also positive and radical cure
for Nervous Debility and all Nervous Com
plants, after having tested its wonderful
curative powers in thousands Of cases, has
felt 1t his duty TO make it known to his
suffering fellows. Actuated by this motive
and desire to relieve human suffering, l
will send free of charge to all who desire 1t,
this recipe, in German, French, or English,
with full directions for preparing and us
ing. Sent by mail by addressing with
stamp naming this paper; W. W sHEhAh'
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Cures White Swelling and Dyspepsia.

PROCTOR. Lee County, Ky.. Feb. I l. 1873.
Dear Sfr-I have been afflicted with the white Swell
ing for several years. and could get relief M
duced 10 try bottle OF your Indian Blood Syrup.
After used the bottle improved mich bousdsx
three bottles, and u has finally cured afsO
had brother who suffered very much With Dyspepszs
be got 50 bad that he could do any work. indnceo
him 70 use the Indian Blood - rap- and nov he
thinks there is no such medicine ia estsnca; be q
able 70 Work as well as ever. JOSEPH CUSGLEfOM
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BESIDE A LITTLE GRAVE.

Call no one happy till he dies" the old
Athenian saving has the stamp of truth;
And OH how many bright and glowing
youth,
Lit with the mornings sunshine and its gold,
As wears swept on has darkened with the mold
of vice and bitterness and sin-brought care
How many a fond and fearful mothers prayer
Had been muttered if she could have told
His future life whom she sought God to spare
Nay, rather she had prayed he should lie cold
In all the purity of childhood drest:
And standing DER my first -born's little grave
can but humbly mu-mer God knew best.
StainlssS He took the precious flower He gave.
-(,OOd TTOyds
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To coRRESpoNnrNTs.

All communications for this paper should be
accompanied by the name of the author, not
necessarily for publication, but as evidence OF
good faith on the part of the writer. Write
only on one side Of the paper. Be particularly
careful in giving names and dates, 70 have
all letters or figures plain and distinct
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AT reception in London given in
honor Of distinguished American, who
was rather dark, having been much
tanned, an elegant lady, professional
beauty, kindly inquired of the dark
compleXioned American, ais your tribe
at peace with the whites?''