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Skaffaren. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1878-1882, 1879-08-16

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Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-06-25
PHANTOMs, MERELY.
The Glass Of People Who Quail
Before Mrs. Grundy.

In all communities, however small,
there is t, he found class of people
who frequently excite our pity, and
as frequently our contempt. We al
lude to that class who govern their
actions according to the opinions OF
Others, and who take no step, how
ever tritling, unless they are convinced
It will meet with the approval OF the
small circle IN which they move.
Individual liberty Of opinion is some
thing Of which they are utterly
Ignorant. They live and breathe at
the mercy Of others, and cultivate a
morbid constituencies that renders
their existence one long protracted
agony of suffering. A whisper Of
dissent, however slight, thrills their
whole nervous system, and criticisms
of their performances or questioning
Of their motives is absolute torture.
The peevish utterances of the mis-
anthrope, the sneers of the envious,
the malignity of women of faded
charms and disappointed hopes, and
the calumnies of mean men all alike
annoy and worry them. They for
get that merit stands alone, and that
evil can never obtain lasting victory
over the good. They abdicate their
humanity, and deliver themselves in
to the most humiliating of bondage.
They are simply phantoms of genu-
inc men and women. Within do
nestle circles there is world Pc
culiarly ones own. 1t is governed
by laws of our own prescribing. To
it is attached int ests which the
outside world cannot, nor has it
right to understand. 1t is case in
which local independence guarantees
happiness and peace, ard foreign in
reference invariably results in mis-
chief. 1t is proper at all times to
manifest decent respect for the
opinions of the society in which we
live, but when it calls upon US to
sacrifice the highest attributes Of our
nature, it is sure to fall back on the
primitive rights of human nature,
and to assert personal dignity. The
pure in thought, the upright in con-
duct, and the generous minded de-
base themselves when they quail be-
fore secret or overt defamation. They
forget that while their motives may
be good their actions may be mis-
construed, and may not appear so in
the eyes of others, or that they may
be misunderstood for time by per-
sistent depreciation; but truth will at
last vindicate its right to be heard,
and error will be confounded. -Eu-
reka Sentinel.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-06-25
A Baby without Any Arms.

Az some doubted the fact % re-
ported in the special from this place
in regard to the armless babe, your
correspondent, in company with M.
G. L. Yockey, Of the Banner, and his
daughter Mamie, boarded the train
ON the Louisville, New Albany &
Chicago Railroad, aud in twenty
minutes arrived ut Guthrie Station,
ten miles north of hero. Mrs. Mar
tin, the mother If the babe, is an
Misunderstanding woman of about
thirty five. BY the mothers permits
sion we were granted an examina-
ton Of the little stranger. n fine
looking, well-dcveloped black-haired
boy of nine pounds, minus the arms.
o. the right side there is an extension
from the shoulder about two inches
long, with the bone in it, and on the
end Of this 10 protuberance about
half an inch long and the same in
diameter. On the left side the shout
der 10 natural, but perfectly smooth
where the arm should he, except a
small dlmple about the center Of
where the arm should extend from.
We could learn no cause for this
wondt rful freak Of nature. Mr..
Martin has three other children, but
this is the only one that has departed
from the regular path Of nature.--
Bedford co., Special.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-06-25
Two Riv0l Teachers in One School.
house.

Modder and Donovan both claim
to be the lawfully-elected School
Director in Osceola township, Ackley
county. Donovan hired Miss Mary
Trainor and put her in the school
house to teach the school, and the
township School Board put the house
on rollers and prepared to move it
three-quarters of a mile. This they
did, and the plucky schoolma'am
stayed by and held her flock to-
gether, whereupon Modder hired Miss
Huff, who went into the schoolhouse
and commenced also. And the two
schoolma'ams hold the fort, one teach
ing on each side of the house, and
each having about half the pupils
acknowledging her authority, the
parents having given the children
orders which teacher to recognize
and obey.-Iowa State Register.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-06-25
LET 1T GO AT THAT.

The Gold Hill News and Professor
W. r. Stewart accuse the editor Of
the TnEs with injustice toward
Major Downie, the venerable old
pioneer" and Superintendent Of the
Centennial gravel mine. In the very
card 10 which Professor Stewart
makes the accusation, however, the
following admission appears:
The most that can be said is that,
10 my opinion, the Centennial Com
pany were mistaken in the direction
Of their gold channel, but the Major
is not more to blame for this than
any other member of his company
All right. The Major and his
company we're mistaken" Let it
ga at that.
The Gold Hill News is rather war
like, however, and says, among other
complimentary things:
1t 1.-THE tunnel is something less
than two thousand feet in length, and
the last thousand feet Of it has
been run directly across what the
company has considered to be the
old river bed itself, or q bar in the
river, the bottom of the tunnel cut
ting the bedrock, and the face and
roof being in gravel which yielded
occasional good prospects IN heavy
wash gold. A strong stream flowing
undated from the tunnel since first
cutting through the rim rack shows
theiI theory to be correct, notwith-
standing what Professor Stewart or
anybody else may say. 1t is possible
that the deepest part Of the channel
has not yet been reached; and that
another tunnel may eventually have
TO be run ia order 10 cut It; but the
present tunnel is certainly IN the
river channel or in branch or over
low from it.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-06-25
WONDERFUL SINKS.
One OF the Most Notable In the
World.

Mono and Inyo counties have the
most notable sinks in the world.
Probably Big Owens lake receives as
much or more water than the Hum
boldt sink. 1t is not true, however,
that the quantity Of water is at all
times the same; the great lake IS now
some four feet higher than eleven or
twelve years ago. The amount Of
snow fall in the mountains is the only
thing governing it. In summer heat
the total amount of evaporation from
its vast expansc Of water is meal
culable, and doubtless furnishes
moisture for the winter snowfall of
the adjoining high Sierras. The
minute particles Of Of minerals and
alkalies gathered from the soil by
the infiowing streams are left IN So
luton in the lake, and during the
centuries OF this process the lake
has assumed its Dead Sea character,
in which no living thing can exist,
save worms and small nondescript
waterfowl. Mono lake is fully
twelve feet higher than it was many
years ago. At the northwest corner
Of the lake, near the Frenchman's,
the posts of former sheep corral
can be seen far out into the water.
A pre- emptor recently appeared in
the United States Land Office to
prove up his claim located five or six
years ago. OF this 100 acres he
stated that all but forty acres was
under water, and he very naturally
did not wish to pay for more than
that amount. Some ascribe the fact
of the water rising to an increased
amount Of snow ON the mountains
over former times; some believe that
the turning Of Virginia creek into
the lake has caused the change,
while some hold to the theory that
some secret outlet to the lake has
become filed up. Whatever may be
the cause, the fact is evident that the
lake is rising at the rate Of foot or
two year. There are numerous evil
dences that in former times Mono
lake extended over u vast extent of
territory-certainly ten times as
great as nov. Is it not possible that
in course of time it may again as
sumo its ancient proportions.-Inyo
Independent.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-06-25
CHILD DRUNKARDs.
An Insight Into the Conditions Of
Life ON Tar Flat.

The neighborhood of the corner OF
First and Jessie streets is not dis
tinguished by that holy, peaceful
quietude for which retired country
villages and well regulated deaf and
dumb asylums are eminent. In fact,
from sunset dawn to rundown shade.
the crashing Of brick-injured window
glass, the ring Of the barbarian mis-.
siIe on the Asiatic caput, the CELESTE
ally profane arias 10 B fiat which II
invokes, the bowling Of tin-csn
adorned terriers anxious to get some
where, and Babel Of similar Wag-
merriam principles Of harmony fall on
the quiescent and respectable ear
with the soothing effect Of sawmill
doing its grandest or calliope gone
mad. The phenomena are directly
traceable to large number of grog-
geries, which like weeds upspringing
in congenial soil, or flock of vul-
lures attracted by prospective car
rion, have appeared in the vicinity,
and the consequence is that the Off
cial dragnet Is rarely cast without
obtaining a catch of fish whose gills
arc less innocent than those of the
literal swimmers and more used to
whisky than salt water. Drunken.
ness prevails alarmingly, not only
among the toothless old hags whose
souls, if they had any self-respect,
would have taken wing from their
filthy bodies long ago, but among
the children OF five years and up
ward, who seem to have sucked at
beer keg and exchanged Mrs. Wins
low during the teething for the more
appropriate tonic of rum anil gum.
1t has grown into custom Of late
for little boys and girls, accompanied
bv better developed hoods" to buy
half gallon Of beer at some one Of
the shops and retire to an adjacent
door step, drink themselves into reck-
lessness and then raise the particular
devil for which the place is famous.
1t WINS with the intention of putting
a stop tn this that Officers Tobin and
Marshall took tour around there
this morning. They found four
young hoodlums sitting at the foot
Of flight Of stairs on Jessie street,
near the corner, endeavoring to en-.
velOp gallon measure of beer
which they had bought Of Mrs.
LOOMS, on the corner. With the
natural instinct Of their class, they
scattered at the sight of the blue
coats, and it was only after chasing
one of them up the stairs and over
couple Of housetops that he was cap
tured. He turned out to be Richard
Daley, hoodlum who has served a
term in the Industrial School for
petty larceny, and been up for rob-
berry. He was locked up on charge
of drunkenness.-S. F. Post.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-06-25
A Georgia Snake Story.

On Tuesday morning Mr.. Jesse
New was looking for his turkeys and
found them in a ditch. He started
to drive them home and discovered
an enormous rattlesnake in the ditch
with them. He Immediately got his
gun and shot the snake twice and
then had to call Mingo Glaze, col
ored man, for assistance in killing it.
He cut the snake open afterward and
found inside Of it three turkeys and
one chicken. He says the snake was
eight or nine feet long and about two
feet in circumference. 1t had twelve
rattles, which we now have in the
Office. 1t was an ugly customer, and
Jesse says that he now intends leaving
Georgia, for when he finds such
snakes in two hundred yards of his
house he does not believe it healthy
for Observation-Disclosures (Ga.) Repub-
lican.
Thnu JnaEanpfa noa Ne Tor
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-06-25
THE Chiefof Police Of Virgin,

The Chiefof Police Of Virginia
has . good opportunity Of distin-
gushing himself. A few days ago the
remains Of child were found in
hog pen near the city limits, and
there has since been great deal Of
speculation as TO the identity Of the
person or persons who are guilty Of
the atrocious murder which has
doubtless been committed. Let Chief
Allan ferret out the perpetrators and
compel them to answer for their
crime, and he will deserve the COM
meudation Of his constituents.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-06-25

Chew Jackson's Best Sweet Navy Tobacco
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-06-25

BY fair dealing with everybody and in every
particular the undersigned hope to retain al
make many new friends.
jy6-tf DERBY " ohnnhhA'
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-06-25
Mas. Polk, the venerable reli

Mrs. FOLK, the veheraDie Teilct
OF the ex-P President, Is in favor Of
removing the dust II the Presidents
for sepulchre In Washington. She
says: "Ot all the Presidents now
dead, how many arc under moDu-
ments suitable for the memory Of the
great Offices they held 7 Where is
Ionroe's I Jeferso.'s Yes, Jeffer-
son's 10 in such state Of decay and
neglect. Until George Washington's
remains were removed m Mount Yer
NON and an association formed. his
tomb was much neglected. And IT
the grave Of the Father Of His
Country was allowed to 60 to ruin.
how can we expect that others will
be cared fort Mount Vernon is only
kept up nov by the efforts Of few
women. Philadelphia Times,
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-06-25

-YANKEE Fork is proving to
be blk Of huge dimensions. Many
prospectors who left Nevada camps
for the new Idaho Dorado, have al
ready returned to their former stamp
ing grounds with thousand pounds
to-the-squsre-inch disgust on. They
say that while capitalists may have a
show 10 the new district, II poor maj,
can have none other than to starve to
death.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-06-25

Tickets tor the round
trip. including admis-
sion to the groun ls) 49,. Two Dollars
children Half Price
Admission 10 Park FIFTY Cents
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-06-25
The Father Of ThIrty.Two Chill.
dren.

The Rev. Mr.. Tucker, Of Colquitt
county, Is the father Of thirty-two
children, thirty Of whom are now
living. He ought to have pension.
Macon (Ga.) Messenger.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1879-12-04
The Pollard Case.

A short time ago the Portsmouth
Times had long article attempting
to prove that Senator Pollard could
not constitutionally hold his place as
member of the Ohio Senate, because,
when elected, he was Sheriff Of Adams
county. The article cites several cases
in point. These cases all arose under
the constitution of 1902, which has
this, in Article 1, section 26:
Of RecoId, Sheriff or Goeetor. Member Of either
House Of Congress or person holding any office under
the authority Of this State shall be eligible as
didate for, or have seat in the General Assembly.
It will be seen that man who held
any of these offices, had to resign be-
fore the election, as he could not be g
candidate.
When the present constitution was
made, the word candidate" was pur.
posely left out, and Article 2, section
4, reads as follows:
No person holding Office under the authority of th
United States or any lucrative office under the au
| in the General Assembly.
Sheriff Pollard Informed us. whe1
he was in Jackson, that he intended
to resign the office of Sheriff before
he asked place in the Ohio Senate
Then he will be eligible.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1879-12-04

During the late campaign the Re-
publican press and party generally re-
garded the New YORK TRIBUNE as the
national leader. The campaign was
fought substantially ON the plan it
outlined, and largely With weapons it
furnished. Its WEEKLY was recog-
nized by campaign committees as one
of their most effective agencies; and
its campaign extras were circulated by
the hundred thousand. Tt gave the
country the piteous story of Mrs.
Chisolm; furnished an admirable anti
dote to Greenbackism in its series on
the A. B. c. of Finance; portrayed the
real danger from the South in the ex-
haustive articles showing in detail
how every Southern State but one
that went into the Rebellion had re-
pudiated it's own debts, and would
much more surely repudiate those OF
the Nation, incurred in whipping it,
whenever it got the chance; exhibited
in detail the wild schemes Of the
Greenbackers in Congress and the
monstrous extent of the Southern
claims; exposed the robbery of a rail-
road from New York by its Governor
for the price of 81 year; and in a
hundred other ways forced the fight
ing and led a thoroughly aggressive
campaign. It did all this too, with
out a particle of the personal calumny
and vituperation so common in party
organs, winning votes by the force OF
its arguments and never repelling by
reckless personal abuse. Such pa
per will be of enormous value to the
cause of good government in the Pres.
idential campaign next year, and de.
serves the widest circulation. We
urge every reader who wants a New
York paper to read its prospectus il
another column. 1t offers Chambers
CyclOp@dia as premium on terms
that would seem incredible, but fol
what it has already done with Web
ster's Unabridged Dictionary.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1879-12-04
New Type-NeW Dress.

The first issue of the Standard in
January, 1880, will have an entire new
dress; that is, the type, rules, heading,
etc. will all be new-fresh from the
type foundry. We have the new type
now, and have sent for the other ma
terial.
Every business has its technical
words and phrases, many of which are
not readily understood by the general
reader. Some of these, as applied in
the newspaper business, we propose to
explain.
This part of this article, is set in
Long Primer type, loaded. A lead is
a piece of type metal about as thick as
the blade of a case knife, and the
length of the lines in column. In
loaded matter, one of these leads is
placed between the lines of the read
ing matter, and gives it the open ap-
pearance you see in this, which you
are now reading. All editorial articles
in first class papers, like the Standard,
are loaded, and the editorials in the
Standard will be in this type loaded.
Now notice the difference: This
paragraph is set in the same type, but
it is solid, or the leads are left out.
The outside Of the paper, that is, the
first and fourth pages, will in general
be set in this manner, except poetry,
which will be set in the small type.
Now you will notice that this para
graph is set in smaller type, called Bre-
vier. The local articles will be set in this
type, and being original, will be loaded.
| There is another kind of type called Agate. We
have bought large quantity of this type, great
deal of reading can be put in very small space. Ex-
tracts from other papers, and, when crowded, commu
ncations, speeches, etc. will be set in this type Thus
| far this paragraph is loaded.
This paragraph is in solid Agate. This is the way
ments viii be set in Solid Agate as we'll as ali extracts
| from other papers.
You will observe that we intend to
use three kinds of type. 1t is all new,
clear and distinct, even the smallest.
1t has cost us good deal Of money
to purchase this new material, and we
hope, and expect, and know that our
friends will pay up promptly what
they owe, between this time and the
beginning of the new year. We hope
to make the Standard one Of the neat
est, prettiest, and the best papers, not
only in Ohio, but in the United
States.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1879-12-04
Are We a Nation Of Liars!

The n. Y. Herald has the opinion that we have,
OH the perjury question. 1t says:
Some of the statistics in the annual
report of the Commissioner Of Pen
sions, just furnished to the Secretary
Of the interior, supply material to
which we invoke the attention of any
clergymen who propose to preach to-
day from the numerous texts of the
Christian Scriptures which reprobate
lying. In the cases Of 500 pensioners
whose names have been expunged
from the list during the last three
years on account of the detection of
fraud in their cases Commissioner
Bentley certifes that perjury was as
certained in 1904 of the 1897 affida-
Wits which accompanied their applica-
tions and forgery in at least 80 in
stances. These fraudulent claimants
succeeded in drawing $547,225 from
the national Treasury before they
were dropped. What part, if any, of
this vast sum has been recouped by
the United States, and how many, if
any, of the 3,0S4 perjurers and 80 for
gers have been prosecuted for their
crimes, the Commissioner does not
state. 1t is hard to imagine a more
meritorious claim upon public sympa-
thy and support than that of the wild
ow or orphan of a Union soldier, and
just in the same degree imposture in
such cases is odious and needs to be
pursued by the law and denounced
from the pulpit-punished here and
punished hereafter.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1879-12-04

durance and all other moral qualities.
That this stimulus is to be found in
religion no one will deny; for even
skeptics admit the moral force Of
Christianity in material affairs; that
the reflex influence of proper worldly
conduct is beneficial to the spiritual
life of the individual will certainly not
be denied by their clergy. 1t is not
forSus to inform the pulpit Iof the
many references of Scri ipture to the
fact that men have something besides
their future ease and security to live
for, but it may not be impertinent to
suggest that since the world began
the men, in the pulpit or out of it.,
who have most raised humanity are
those who have come down to it and
concerned themselves with its practi-
cal life and needs. and that the most
prominent and successful worker in
this direction was the being whom all
the churches recognize as Master.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1879-12-04
Effeminate Christianity.

Here is editorial from the n. Y. Herald which
expresses our opinion exactly:
A timely sermon was preached last
Sunday upon the habit, too common
among preachers and not unknown in
the laity, of talking of humanity as if
it were a mass Of disembodied spirits
temporarily misplaced and with no
duty but that of getting back to
heaven as safely and speedily as posi-
bic. The fact seems to be overlooked
that, according to the only record that
the clergy consider inspired, men and
women are what they are and where
they are according to special and all
wise design, and that, consequently,
every one is charged with grave res
possibilities. By strange inconsist-
ency many of the preachers who talk
as if the sole purpose of being on
earth is to get to heaven by the surest
route are the most earnest in condem-
nation of the men who used to seclude
themselves from the world and its
cares so as to give themselves wholly
to thoughts of Paradise and to deeds
which should be wholly devotional.
What effect, for good, do such teach
ers imagine their efforts produce in
the pews? A merchant goes to
church after week of earnest compe-
tition with his fellows; he has suffered
by scoundrel Or two, perhaps, and
certainly has been tempted to make
some one else suffer by means that are
neither Christian nor moral. The
hard working day laborer, as he
kneels, cannot Danish thoughts of the
contractor who has left him unpaid,
or the temptations he has had to force
his overtasked frame with drink, or,
maybe, the removal of the strain of
the week has reduced him to that dan
gerous dependency from which near
ly every hard worker of any sort is
likely to suffer on Sunday. The
mother, with several boys and girls OF
whom she is proud, is wondering how
best to direct the superabundant ener-
gies of each, and the affairs OF every
day life are what she must have in
mind as she ponders. All of these
representative people, and thousands
Of others who might be instanced, are
compelled to pay almost unremittlng
attention to earthly affairs, and they
need stimulus and direction for their
courage, honesty, patience, love, en-