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The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1879-04-13

Arrivals Mt Depot Hotel.
W. 81. Biggs. Pleasant Valley.
Simon Van Camp,
J. +. BaLeos, Tuscarora,
T.. Dnkin, Lamoillo.
II. s. Hoskiu. Camp Hallcck.
Mrs. @. 4. Mayer.
Joseph Kane, Carlin.
L.. A. Hall, San Francisco.
j. II. Rcnd.
T.. Meyers.
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Arrivals.

Arrivals.
This ovoning-J. Barada, Geo. Field
Dr, Huntington and 3 Chinese.
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AalmAEaAaL

Regular meeting OF Eiko Lodge. No.
Is 1. o. o. r. ct the hall. At 7:3O this
evening.
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DEPOT HOTEL,

JAMES CLARK. Pr.Prs..ss.
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Advertised Letter List.

The following IN n list Of unclaimed
letters remaining in tho Elko Office for
the week ending Saturday, Arsi! 9Th,
1879:
Anderson August Biddlcy Lawyer
Canayan Zonoy Farow Miss Kato
Harvey Peter Hall DrFA
Kundsen l. Kochlcr -
Maynard J A Ross William
Skaggs s O Smith Mrs Fannie
Q. W. Hull. +. NJ.
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Mas. ". A. JAcrson.
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In the water csc before tho District
Court. the defense closed its argument
this evening.
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The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-02-06
A Chinese Proclamation Against
Christians.

We find in the Northern Christian
Advocate, a Methodist paper, the follow
ing alleged proclamation by Chinese
against some foreign Christians, who
propose to settle among them:
The Chinese gentry of Kea- Hing send
out the following:
Notice is hereby given that during
the sixth and seventh months of last
year people have been bewitched and
their cues cut OF by imps. 1t is reported
that these things were done by repro
bates belonging to the foreign Christian
religion Now, those who attach them
selves to that religion must first swallow
the medicine that is given them, and ut
terly destroy the tablets of their ances-
tors and the kitchen god After death,
when the corpse is being dressed, none
OF the relatives are allowed to be present,
but it is said the eyes are to be scooped
out in compromising this medicine. We,
the inhabitants of Kea- Hing, all follow
the teachings of Confucius and Mencius,
which change not for ten thousand ages,
and we will never accept any such re-
ligion as the above. Recently some of
these fellows came from Ningpo, and are
searching about everywhere to rent
premises, their object being to spread
their religion here. Henceforth the cue
cutting, bewitohing the people, destruc-
ton Of ancestral tablets, abolition of
proper distinction between men and
women, and the abandonment of the
teachings OF the sages, threaten univer-
sal contamination, and the local mandar-
ms will not exercise their control, which
is truly deplorable.
But the great mass of the people have
agreed with one mind that they will not
allow houses 10 be rented for the Chris
tan religion, either III the city or vii
lagos
Should any be enticed into that relig-
ion, We must not beat them, but we
will pull down their houses, and ever
after the place shall be abandoned
ground.
Or should any one sell vacant ground
for the Use Of that religion, we will shoot
rubbish there in heap that will cover
4 We shall certainly show no forbear
ance.
A special notification. Issued by the
gentry and people.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-02-06
A Coed Story Of Kind Hearted
Ola Man.

A pianist was giving concerts through
the provinces Of Germany for her sup
port, and to enhance her reputation she
advert sea herself as q pupil of List
In little town IN the interior Of Ger
many, where she had announced con-
cert, she was confonnded the day before
the concert was to take place by seeing
in the list of arrivals and al the very
hotel where the concert was to be given,
an. Liable Liszt," Here was q di-
lemma, and what to do she knew not.
Her fraud would he discovered she
would be exposed; she could never give
another concert; she was ruined
Tremblingly she sought the presence
Of the great maestro, Diet ermined to make
clean breast of it and cast herself on
his mercy. Coming into his room with
downcass eyes, she knelt at the old mans
feet and with many tears told her story
how she had been left an orphan and
poor, with only her one gift of music to
support herself; the difficulties she had
encountered, until the fraudulent use of
his great name had filed her rooms and
her purse Well, well, said the great
man, gently raising her up, {" let us see,
my child, what we can do. Perhaps it
is not so bad as you thought. There is
a piano; let me hear one Of the pieces
you expect to play tomorrow evening"
Tremblingly she obeyed, the maestro
making comments and suggestions as she
played, and when she had finished he
added: "Now, my child, l have given
you lesson you are pupil of List.
Before she could find words to express
her gratitude List asked: care your
programmes printedl' "No, sir" was
the answer, mot yet" "Then say that
you will be assisted by your master, and
that the last piece on the programme
will be played by Able List. y Spring
field Republican.
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The Paris Exhibition Buildings.

1t is announced, on what appears TO
be good authority, that nearly the whole
of the Exhibition Palace on the Camp
de Mars is to be preserved, and to he de-
voted partly 10 the purposes ef a na-
tioial museum and partly to the storing
Of war material. Only the pavilion of
the city Of Paris w.ll-,e demolished, and
the central space situated between the
French and foreign sections on one side,
and between the poriicos Of the fine
arts on the other, Will he converted into
a magnificent garden BY this scheme,
which is said to be approved by the
minister's, the deputies Tor Paris, and
the general and municipal councillors,
the Street OF Nations, one Of the ,aost
attractive features of tnt exhibition Of
1873, will be preserved. For this pur-
pose the foreign governments seemed
to hand over the property in their ma
terials ~ the French government.
Covered streets Will be built TO put in
communication the two remote quarters
of the Champ de Mars, Gros Gallon and
Grenelle. For convenience OF admins
tration, the palace will be put under the
jurisdiction Of the Minister of War and
the Minister of Agriculture and Com
MERGE. The fine art galleries will be
used as a museum Of the decorative arts.
One advantage mentioned in connection
with the project Of maintaining the pres
ent building intact is that, in the event
of another universal exhibition, lutte
expense would be required to restore the
ediice to the condition IL which it lately
stood. -Continen.al Gazette. Paris.
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What Makes the Man.

Many people seem to forget that char
acter grows; that it is not something to
be put on, ready made, with womanhood
or manhood; but day by day, here lit
tie and there little, grows with the
growth, andstrengthens with the strength
until, good or bad, it becomes almost a
coat Of mail. Look at man of bust
ness-piomrt, reliable, conscientious, yet
clear-headed and energetic. When do
you suppose he developed sll these ad-
mirable qualities When he WAS boy4
Let US see the way in which boy of
ten years gets up in the morning, works,
plays, studies, and we will tell you lust
what kind of man he will make. The
boy that is late at breakfast, and late at
school, stands poor chance to be a
prompt man. The boy who neglects his
duties, be they so ever small, and then
excuses himself by saying: II forgot |
didn't think p will never be a reliable
man. And the boy who finds pleasure
in tue suffering Of weaker things, will
never be noble, generous, kindly man
"A gentleman.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-02-06
How the Negro Senator Feels.

When a place on the Blaine Commit
tee was offered Mr.. Bruce, Of Mississippi,
he replied tina. he really did not see how
any good could result from the proposed
investigation. Perhaps. he said, there
had been some frauds. 1t would be
strange if there had not been. but his
people had jus, made the second largest
crop Of cotton ever grown in the South.
and tina, circums ance furnished ample
evidence. to his mind, that they were
quite a. prosperous as the laboring classes
Norh. This being the case he colored
people ought not 10 be stirred up by po-
l,tical excitement, which would do no
good, and might do harm by arousin.
anew the feeling Of suspicious dislike Of
the whites which was dying out with the
prosperity Of the New South. These SEN
timents were felt to be 'ull Of The good
sense which Mr.. Bruce has always shown
in speaking Of a6sin affecting the South
and his people. Washington Letter.
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The Changes in the Frcg.

Nowhere in the animal king ION is
there so favorable an opportunity for
poepng into natures workshop az in the
metamorphose OF the frog This animal
IS worm when it comes from the egg,
and remains such the first four days of
its existence, having neither ears nor
eyes nor nostiils nor respiratory. organs.
1t crawls. 1t breathes through its skin.
After Il while neck is grooved into the
flesh. Ita soft lips are hardened into
horny bark. The different organs one
after another. bud out; then q pair of
branching gills, and last long and lin
Der tail. The worm has become fish.
Three or four days more clapse, and the
gills sink back into the body, while in
their place others come, much more COM
pick, arranged in vascular tufts, ll2 in
each. But they, too, have their day,
and are absorbed, together with their
frame work of bone and cartilage, to be
succeeded by an entirely different breath
ing apparatus, the initial of second cor
related group of radical changes Lungs
are developed, the mouth widened the
horny beak converted into rows of teeth;
the stomach, the abomen, the intestines,
prepared for the reception of animal in
stead of vegetable food; four limbs,
fully developed hip and shoulder bones,
with nerves and blood vessels, push out
through the skin, while the tail being
now supplanted by them as means Of
locomotion, is carried away pieccmeal by
the absorbents, and the animal passes
the remainder of its days as as an air
breathing and flesh feeding batrachian.
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The Parrot and the Cookies.

A gentleman who owned a parrot
possessed Of much power Of thought met
with some cookies at the fshmongers one
day, and being fond Of these things when
picked, he sent them home with q mes
sage to his cook to be put forward at
once. She cooked them accordingly and
put them into jar. which she left un-
covered until the fish could cool The
parrots cage was standing near by, hav-
ing been brought down to be cleaned,
and when the cook left the kitchen to
see about some other work Polly came
out and soon found her way to the jar,
from which she helped herself literally,
scattering remnants or the floor and on
the bottom Of the csea Presently the
cook came in, and in an instant per-
ceived what had been going on. En-
ragged at Polly's audacity, she en-
claimed: "What You have been
at the cookies, have your and
flung over her some Of the boiling water
she was carrying in her hand 1t in
fhcted terrible punishment on poor
Polly, for in an hour or two most Of the
feathers dropped off Of her head, and
in this stripped and scalded condition
she sat for many days after, wretched
and disconsolate Her ordinary gaiety
and talk ceased, and She sat murmuring
only low complainings of her unhappi-
ness. At last, when the worst was
over, end down began to appear on the
naked head, visitor came into the
drawing room. who, on removing his
hat, showed a head perfectly bald. In
an Instant Polly sprang into her ring
exolaiming as she swung to and fro {:
$50 you've been at the cookies, have
you p The sight Of fellow sufferer
seemed to restore her spirits, and she
was not long in recovering her usual
cheerfuiness.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-02-06
Self CrueitIes in a Nunnery

A subject Of conversation here is the
leaking on: of certain facts connected
with the establishment of Carmelit
nuns at Hochelaga. There has been
little Carmelite colony III our anc ent
suburb for several years, but 40 one las
ever heard much of them. These nuns
are subjected to the severest discipline
Of all the orders. They wear but one
garment Summer and Winter. a coarse
serge gown reaching TO the feet. with a
hood ainoec completely covering the
face. Their feet are shod with sandals,
and they are no, permitted to wear
hosiery. As special favor, they have
been allowed, in our severe Winters. to
wrap pieces of serge around their feet
and ankles. They never touch meat,
poultry, fish, butter or eggs, and eat only
one meal day OF bread and boiled vegeta-
bies. Their couches are bare planks
with square block Of wood for a pill
low, and they sleep without other cover
ing than their daily dress Their doors
are jealously closed, even to women, the
priest or the doctor. They pass their
lives in silence, even their prayers being
said under their breath. Their singing
of the church service is conducted in q
whispered monotone. Such acceptance
Of the vows Of poverty, chastity and
obedience has proved regimen too severe
for the constitution of the ladies, and
several Of them have died. Others are
It the point Of death, yet the Lady su-
perior and the nuns themselves steadily
refuse to make any change in their
method of living declaring that all il in
Gods Montreal Letter.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-02-06

Every one knows that we supply
Great Britain with large amounts Of
cheese which, when sold, is called Ched-
dar, and that certain quantity Of this
article finds its way back across the At
lantic, and commands in fancy grocery
shops an enhanced price in consequence
of the foreign favor it has presumably
acquired during it's sojourn abroad. So,
too, the bacon from Cincinnati and Chi
cago comes back to us after a voyage to
the old world labeled English, often
needing only a stay of few weeks to
become tho, oughly naturalized. These
deceits are so patent that no one thinks
of objecting to them but one Of a more
hidden character has lately come to
light, whose Nervousness is increased
because it aims to hoodwink select and
discriminating class of consumers.
Caviare is just as little appreciated by
the multitude now as it was in Ham
let's time, and hence it is not offered
for sale on every store counter.
Those, however, whose tastes are
educated up to the point get
their favorite condilnent at some
well stocked German store, or perhaps
direct from some importer. 1t is usually
put up in tin cans, with gorgeous label
stamped with the imperial double eagle
OF Russia, and although brief line
sometimes states that the work was done
at Hamburg, the can and It's adornments
impress the ordinary mind With ideas
at least as far-reaching as Moscow. Re
Gently, some statistician has limited that
we were, among our many exports, send
ing cayiare to Europe. The announce
ment at first seemed preposterous; but
among the rude shocks to human feeling
occasioned by the sinking of the Pom.
merania was that caused to some by dis
covering from her freight list that she
had on board large quantity Of caviare
in barrels, sent by shippers in New
York to Gamers in Hamburg. 1t thus
turns out that the foreign luxury in
which we have INDUCED at the expense
of customs, duties and transportation
charges is nothing more than American
article of food, made no doubt out of
the roe of good, though cheap, American
fish.-N. Y. Times
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-02-06
Warning to Girls who Chew Gum

An incident occurred lately in St.
Louis that may serve as warning to
hundreds of young persons who have
entered upon career OF waX-chewing.
4 girl named Ida Smith had been chew
ing for nearly year. She is about
eleven years old, rather bright and in
telligent, and chewed about the same
as was used by neighboring girls along
the avenue. On Saturday evening she
took the wax from her mouth, stuck il
under the edge Of the mantel until she
could 60 to the kitchen and get swal-
low of water, and on her return her pa
tents were Mortified to see her jaws NOV
ing rapidly. She was told to throw the
wax from her mouth, and ON investiga-
ton it was shown that she was not chew
ing anything; still her jaws kept work
ing at rapid rate. The parents sent for
a physician, who came and attempted
to hold the jaw in proper position, be-
lieving it to be only temporary, but he
he could not stop the regular movement
The child grew nervous, and the excite
ment only increased the action of the
laws. The physician put a tight band
age over her face and this partially re-
lieved the movement, but then the
twitching of the muscles extended all
over her face AS last resort mod
crate dose of morphine was administered,
and the little girl kept up incoherent
mutterings, accompanied by a general
disturbance of the muscles of the upper
portion OF the body, during the greater
portion Of the night, and towards
morning the little sufferer was restored
to her normal condition. The physician
says he never heard of such case be-
fore, and thinks it was brought about
by spasmodic action of the muscles Of
the face, caused by overaction. The
little girl after enduring night of suf-
fering is now restored, but nothing in
the world could again induce her to chew
wax,
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Wives of Diplomatic

1t is singular fact that fifteen of the
ladies connected with the present diplo-
matte corps at Washington are Ameri-
can girls whose beauty and diplomacy
aptureddistinguished husbands. Among
the number are the wives of the French.
Italian, Guatemalan and Turkish Minis
tiers, and many of lesser rank, including
Mrs. Yung Wing, Of the Chinese Lega-
ton, who was Miss Bartlett Of Connec-
ticut. In the diplomatic corps Of Europe
there are also several American ladies.
such as the wife of the Italian Minister
to Hague, and others. Whether Amer
lean women have peculiar penchant for
diplomacy, or diplomats for them, is a
difficult question to decide. At all
events, diplomacy is u career for which
our women seem TO he admirably adapt
ed. They have also broke, down the
exclusiveness Of hcridetaly aristocracy,
and some Of them are connected with the
Oldest noble families of England and the
Continent Provcrbial az is their beauty,
thei' natural grace and dignity Of man-
ner and their intelligence are no less
striking.
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Temperance Bird.

Mary More has pet canary bird.
which has been trained TO many pretty
ways. Every day at meal times. Mary
opens the cage door. and Dick flies out
and lights upon her shoulder, and ex-
poets taste Of everything she eats. O"e
day Mary was i'll and faint. The doctor
ordered brandy and water 70 revive her;
and when she tasted il. Dick as usual
called for his share. He laid his head
against her face, peeped and coaxed. till.
Just for fun. she held up the spoon to bis
beak. But no sooner had Dick tasted
the brandy than he few into a violen,
passion. shook his head. stamped his
feet, and beat his wings, scolding sharply
all the time. Then. in disgust, he few
back into his cage, and would mel her
come ost nor notice May al day.
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A Dead Railroad.

On the road from Jhelum for some
distance toward Rawil Pinde there is
visible melancholy memorial Of the
dark ages. Alongside the Grand Trunk
road there still remains section of the
still-born, impossible, and preposterous
narrow-gauge line which formed the so
called continuation of the railway sys
tenn beyond Lahore. The broad-gauge
or rather the normal gauge, has bee.
completed as far Jhelum, and there IA
way communication stops, but tn
ghastly limb Of the dead corpse, still, as
| have said, stretches out some distance
beyond Jhelum, a monument OF folly, o
good money literally thrown into the
gutter, Of insistence in laundering on
tho part of pertinacious imbccility.
One passes well OH to mile of efiete
rolling stock collected here apparently to
rot In his Narrative of Beseiged
Resident, Mr.. Iabouchere tells an anus
Observation-Disclosures the attachment
to routine of the Paris postman. The
ordinary suburban distribution by mail
carts had just been stopped when he
strolled into the courtyard of the Gen
eral Postoftice. Here stood the vehicles
ready for the usual service, but endorsed
and without mails. But III each cart,
through force of custom, the complement
of postmen had taken their places, and
there they sat, resignedly waiting for
events. Of this story the spectacle of
this spectretrain wildly reminded me.
What hindered me to dismount from the
rattle-trap of dark gearrie, and take
my place III the comparative luxury OF
this train? There was choice enough of
accommodation in the hollow mockcr.
One vehicle bore the inscription, Fam
lily carriage" another pretended to be "a
" Travelling Inspectors carriage" Ma
tive females" were provided for. Camels
laden with ammunition tramped on their
twelve days journey to Peshawar past
conspicuously labeled Powder vans"
in this melancholy ghost OF train.
There was a long string of trucks which
would have in two days cleared away
that Ossa on Pelion OF miscellaneous
matter-stores tents, g,m-cotton, she'll
boxes, heaven knows what. that cum
bers the neighborhoof of the Jhclum
terminus, and in its huge bulk seems to
ieer nj the efforts made to diminish time
IN the means available for sending It.
London News.
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Who ever sAw oysters vLocp
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81 LoCI-. Mo- September szh. 1919.
Sabob whisky for some time. and have
pu-est article I have Used. either mrdi
mt. Nho hsre ken suffering With indi-
SsbOb wLisky fog their u-e. and I take
s~z;isfzrtOFy. ples.e s.nd M by express
II. c. LOrDERBACk. VI. ID.
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ESTRAYS.

THE FOLLOWING EsRAYs CAME TO
my ranch on Willow Creek. on the Rad
from Fix Ia T%nscnrora, hhOut six months
ago. One cream colorcd marc. branded IN.
hind feet wltc; white suip IN forehead and
white name and tall; shout 8 years old, One
cream eolorcd colt with mare. no brand. right
hind foot whiio, white sup IN forehead, and
white manc and tall. Tho owner II requested
"a prove property, pay charges and Take them
away. q. A.. WILEY.
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DUNPHY & HllDRETR.
OFFIcE, Sss xEARNY STREET.

The above ~%eii.tnoun arm 49,
have commenced business ag.in
in San Franoisco. aud will boy ~
Csltle for their own nee. or cell --N
OF eiangh ter on commission. Liberal adSahres
made on consignment.
Parties desiring information shout the mari.
ets. viii receive the lAtspt quotations BY I'd.
drSsEiag tho ARA 81 thotI Once. O1S
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
.. ". DORSEY. ~. ~EEs. In. Elsp.
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q. SINNONDS. Esq.: hzTe bcen using yoET
20 Invitation n sayiD= n g. NithOat exception. the
inkiiy % Soc family parT~~--. 10 nEny d ~ pal
.-s;i0n shd n-rToas ES-oiOos. I Raw pT~Hcrih-d
7lsassr. IN saying 60 roa the s5e1 Ia. hen mosi
liz e4Sef. and obli=s. NOur,. veg irrly.
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Conveyance N and from tho Syringe sysrI
hour during srery day In the Seek.