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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-08-16

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lowed to land passengers at Mount
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DO manEiari and groundA Steamer leaves 9th street.
wharf day Sundays eXcepted) at 10 g. m, and re-
turns about 2. n. J. Mob. HOLLIN6SWORTH
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-08-16

"THE ABOVE BALE Is POSTPONED by
1rGel 1873 at the same hour ana pisoe shfrEMnER
WILLIAM 81. PHILIP r
JAMES NJ JOHNHTON} 1Eustees.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-08-16
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HALF TICKETS, ONE DOLLAR.
TIaT OF pRTZEa

All our Grand Extraordinary Drawings are under
the stlDerristOn and management of GENERALS G..
T. BEAUREGARD and JUBAL A. EARLY
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Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-08-02
BRIEF MENTION.

There will he five cases adiudica-
ted upon in Justice Harkins's court,
to-day.
The recent apportionment of coun-
ty school moneys was based upon
.he census of this year, and is there
fore null and void. The County
Superintendent will re-apportion the
money according to the census re-
turns of last year.
There will be public examination
of all applicants for certificates to
teach in this county held in Day.
ton during the last week of this
month. All who propose to apply
should freshen up their memory,
now that they are warned.
Mark Flsction was arrested ia
this city, last Wednesday, on com
plant Of Mr.. Barrelet, the watch
maker, who charged him with as
sault and battery. AS Mr.. Powell
was too ill to come to this city, the
case was tried in Dayton. Flaction
was sentenced to pay fine Of four
dollars and costs, or eighteen days
in Jail. He is in Jail.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-08-02
THE KOSSUTH MINE.
How the Value of the Vein will
be Ascertained-The Machinery
Working Well.

Ore is being shipped to the Excel
sior mill from the Kossuth mine.
This ore is not selected in any way
everything broken from the breast
being taken, without any discrimi.
nation; it will therefore not yield
very high. In fact, it Is not ex pected
to yield over $50 TO the ton. There
is ore assaying as high as $1,000 in
sight, but this has not been touched,
the object of Mr.. Goddard, the man
aging director OF the company who
Is at the mine, being to ascertain
what all the vein matter, taken sep
arately, will yield. When this is as
certained the higher grade ores will
be mixed with those of lower grade,
80 AS to make the yield as nearly
uniform as possible. All the ma
chinery in and about the mine is
working we'll, although owing to the
length of time during which it was
Idle, some difficulty was experienced
III starting il up.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-08-02
The Walking Match.

Miss Bertha Won Berg, the Cham
pion Pedestrienne of the World. and
Madame Tourtelot, the Champion of
the Pacific Coast, are now walking u
slx-days' match at Piper's Opera
House, Virginia City. A great deal
OF interest is being manifested in
this walk as everything indicates that
IT is "for blood A fine track has
been laid out at the theater. 1t is
four feet wide and extends around
tand over the orchestra seats and
the stage. Walking is excellent ex-
ercise, and should be encouraged. Ii
is to be hoped that a goodly number
OF ladies will visit the theater
during this match, aud thus encour.
age the walkers by their presence.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-08-02
A Murder by n Comstock Sport.

Billy Dillon, sport well known
In Gold Hill and Silver as the SCAR
son Bangor" shot and killed his
partner, Richard King, in Bonanza
City, Idaho, few days ago. The
crime was the result of q dispute
over the division of the profits re-
sulting from the sale of a lot In Gus.
ter City King was shot IN the back
while lighting fire in the stove of
his residence, and in the presence of
his wife and another man. From all
accounts tho shooting was cold
blooded, unprovoked affair. Dillon
was arrested. Tom Dillon, William s
brother, who Is also well known
here, is in Bodie.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-08-02
A Happy Father.

On Wednesday reckless dispen-
sation of wine, liquors and cigars
was carried On, until late at night, at
George Holiness saloon and variety
store, in this city, and all tenders Of
money were respectfully but frml y
rejected by the smiling proprietor.
The cause of this unusual proceeding
was soon made known: Early that
morning George had been presented
with a bouncing daughter. His ex-
uberance was therefore not surpris.
ing. Both mother and daughter are
doing remarkably well.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-08-02

tilation, and it is probable that the
arrangements at the new shafts will
more than compensate for the greater
heat which they must expect to en-
counter.
When we study the subject Of
drainage, we at once find. ourselves In
tho presence of much more serious
conditions. The vast rsmidcations
Of the mines, extending more than
two hundred miles 10 aggregate
length. and increasing probably
twelve miles each year, form drain,
age system that must collect the local
rainfall very thoroughly. Fortunate
~, the quantity Of this il not great;
but tho rocks also contain immense
stores Of water, from which the
pumps are constantly drawing q the
deepening al the mine taps one ~.
ervoir after another. Whether the
annual supply Of i've million tons -
drawn entirely from these two
sources, or IL maintained partly from
watsr channels that tap distant and
exhaustless stores, can not b deter.
mined now.
Virginia stands about 1900 feet
above Carson plain, and the mines
are already nearly 1000 feet deeper
than Carson river, four miles away.
1t 10 not at all improbable that the
drainage of large areas which would
naturally discharge into this and
other channels may be diverted to
the mines. The drainage Of the
mines 10 already more difficult aud
expensive than their ventilation, and
its difficulties are likely to increase
more rapidly with depth. The COM
pletion of the Sutro tunnel will give
the mines new lease of life, and
improvements which are always DOS
sible in mechanical appliances will
further lessen the cost and labor Of
drainage.
When the present working shafts
were decided upon, they were thought
to be very formidable undertaking.,
and it was supposed that they would
suffice for the work of the lode for
many years. But the vigor with
which the ground has been worked
has reduced their life to ten years.
They represented an advance Of about
six hundred feet in depth in the YER
teal shaft. The new line represents
an advance Of 1t least twice this in
crease in depth. No one can pre-
tend to anticipate their history; but
it has been my effort to show you
that their prospects arc good, though
they are begun after . continuance
OF disappointment quite unprece-
dented on the Comstock and an ex.
penditure Of assessments entirely nm.
exanpled in the history Of mining.
Their fortunes depend on three fac
tors: the finding of ore, the control
of drainage, and the possibility Of
work in the increasing heat Of tho
rock. l think that . careful exam.
ination of the lode and Of the mining
upon it would discern encourage
ment in all these respects. The lode
in depth bids fair to be precisely
what it was nearer the surface, and
the unknown quantity 10 really the
exact depth at which the great barren
zone will end.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-08-02
The Atlantic Con.

Work Is progressing as usual Il
this mine. Tho winze has now .
depth Of seventy feet below the tun.
mel level, the bottom being in orc
which assays from go to $50 per
ton. Tho vein has been stripped to
. width of four.and.a.half feet and
no east wall found - yet. These
facts are obtained from 6upsrintend.
emit Cahill.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-08-02
Mighels's "Sagebrush Leaves"

Hon. w. II. King, chairman of the
Silver City Committee appointed to
solicit subscriptions to Harry
Mighels's book, has been busily en-
gagged, tho past few days, in deliver
ny the book to subscribers, and re-.
ceiviny pay therefor.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-08-02
Now is Your Opportunity.

nyou want to buy clothes cheap.
ly, now 10 your time. 8. Aronson.
OF No. l9S Main street, Gold Hill
(Dr. Halls building). has marked
his entire stock Of summer clothing
twenty-five per cent. LESS than they
cost him in San Francisco. All his
goods are Of the latest and most ele.
CANT styles, but be wants 70 make
room for stock Of goods for fall and
winter wear, which he IL about to
put In.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-08-02
Born,

In Silver City, July 20, 70 the wife
of George n. HolMss, . 6nDhtsr.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-08-02

In every aspect from which these
mines are viewed, they are remark
able. They have been the most
productive Of bullion; they are the
hottest excavations which have
been made in the earth's crust;
they are the deepest openings on
the American continent, and are
rapidly becoming the deepest in
the world; and finally their fortunes
tiuctuate between the absolute ex-
tremes of dividend and assessment,
of rich bonanza and barren bor-
rascs, with a rapidity that has no
parallel in vein mining. Such an
array Of superlatives in description
may be thought to defeat Itself,
but every one of them is strictly
true when applied to these mines.
The last of these items covers the
most important characteristic of the
lode, and its accuracy is well ex-
hibited by the recent history of the
mines.
In 1878, two mines in Gold Hill
the Beicher and Crown Point
were in bonanza, and continued In
production for three years longer.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-11-30
"Alas!" said the page, II would !,

Alas! sald the page, 81 would II
were more tender one"
"Whatever it may be, speak,, gasped
the lady.
"The only message that have" replied
the page, lis, wait forever!'"
II am well paid IN my own CON-" said
the lady. "At last I have received all
my own answers back"
In little while she died, and they
buried her in the old churchyard, with
stone at her head and stone at her feet.
When spring came there was grass
upon the grave, and there also was a
new plant strange to those who looked
upon it; plant with dark glossy leaves,
that crept slowly but surely along, clutch
Ing last to every rough surface it met.
There had never been plant like that
on earth before. Now we call it the ivy,
but this, what those who saw It for the
first time said of it:
ut is the lady whom her lover babe
to wait forever. Iu this form she Is
creeping toward his castle slowly but
surely. So she will creep on until she
reaches the heart she threw away
Generations have passed from earth.
The castle is ruin, covered with ivy,
and the peasants will tell you that it has
crept there from the lady's grave, point
by point, over stone and rock, through
the graveyard and over gates and fences,
You can trace it if you choose, they say
but Won do not trv
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-11-30
WAIT FOREVER.
4 Pretty Rhine Legend.

Once upon time, there lived beside
the Rhine beautiful young lady. She
had lover who loved her aud whom she
loved in return. But, after he had WOO
ed her-not one year, but threc-he ask
ed her to marry him, and she, anxious to
show her power, merely answered, "wait."
II have waited three years." he said,
"but at your bidding l will wait one
more-:just one more.''
Then he went away and became SOL
der, and praises of his bravery filed the
the land; but the lady was piqued by the
thought that he had been able to leave
her, tor even a year, and when he return
ed she determined to punish him, though
all the time she loved him we'll.
He knelt at her feet ana took her hands
in his and said:
LADY, I have come to claim you for
my wife"
But all she answered was, "Wait long
er; patient waiter is not loser"
II will wait t~ o years longer" he said
calmly. "If do not lose, all is we'll"
Then he lott her again. She had hop
ed that he would plead with her, and
that she would be forced to change her
mind; but now he was gone-gone for
two long years. How she lived through
them she could not tell; but they passed
and again her lover was before her.
81 have waited patiently" was all he
The lady yearned to cast herself into
his arms, but pride was strong within her.
"Wait longer" she said.
"No." he answered. ''This is the last
time. If wait now, I will wait forever
At this she drew back haughtily.
"Then wait forever,1 she said coldly.
-. lie left her without word. And now
her heart sank in her bosom. She wept
liter tears, and repented in dust and
ashes. When year had gone by, she
could bear her woe no longer, and sent
her little foot-page to her old lover,
bidding him bear this message, "Come
back to me-
But the. message the little foot-page
brought was just this: "Wait.''
Again she was left to her sorrow, and
two years glided by; then once more she
babe her page ride over the mountains to
her lover'a castle.
Tell him am waiting" she said.
The page rode sway and rode back.
He stood before his lady and dotted his
cap, and repeated the message that had
been given him: ''The patient waiter is
not loser"
''He is Furnishing me-" thought the la
dy, and for two years longer she re-
manned in her cactlo Hor hort uoc
breaking-her health failed-she knew
that death was near.
Again she sent her cruel lover a mes
sage.
ssTell him." she said, "that I am near
my end, and that if wait longer before
I see him shall wait forever"
The page returned, and stood before
his lady's chair. His eyes we're full of
tears; his head was bent upon bis breast;
he sighed and hid his face in his plumed
cap. The lady lifted her wan face.
"SpeakH she said. ''The message!"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-11-30
A BaMed Parent.

There is a baff1ed old man IN Williams
port, and he is di sgusted, too It seems
that he learned that his daughter intended
to elope upon certain evening, with
lover upon whose suit he frowned. So he
locked his child up in her room, and sat
down stairs to await the sound of the low
ers carriage wheels.
= But that d1sgraccful young man tied
rags around the tires Of his sulky, so as
to muffle the noise, and he drove softly
up to the back gate. He then sent a
boisetrous, rickety hack around to the
front, and engaged the man to make as
much racket as he could for the money.
When the infuria,ed father heard it, he
rushed out with his shotgun, just in time
to see female figure jump into the hack
and drive off, He fired two rounds of
buckshot at the concern, rushed out and
got his horse, and started IN pursuit.
Mean time, the insidious outcast who
.oved his daughter, persuaded her to slide
down the ]ightning-rod and then away
he fled with her in an opposite direction
from that in which the enraged parent
had gone.
The bereaved old man had caught up
with the hack about eighteen miles out
OF town, and he not only shot the driver
but he burst open the door and dragged
out-a man, dressed in waterproof
cloak.
The father was Immediately arrested
for highway robbery and assault and
battery with intent to kill, and the pe1se-
cutters say they will press the suit unless
he comes down with handsome dover
for his daughter, and then gives the
couple his paternal blessing.
There is no use of trying to explain the
mental condition of the old man. The
English is copious and vigorous, and all
that; but it fails utterly in these extreme
cases.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-11-30

family met it, waddling along the mid
die Of the road, repeating to herself in
the tenderest and most mournful manner:
"Where's little Wa1reh9 Poor baby Baby
sick? Baby want water? P-o-o-o-o-r baby!
Polly's so. 90 sorry"
She was picked up and taken back
home, but never spoke another word un-
til the day of her death, when she cried
out, ''Hawks, hawks" and the next min
ute was whisked away in tho talons of a
monstrous chicken-hawk that had been
watching for an opportunity to carry her
of for several hours.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-11-30
BabV'S Grave.
Saws the WASHINGTON. PEN

Says the Washington, Penn, Reporter:
There was baby funeral in Mount Eli
OF Cemetery yesterday afternoon. There
were but three mourners-the father and
mother and a little girl-in attendance.
But they wept abundantly, and appeared
to concentrate in themselves more sorrow
than usually appears in more pretentious
funeral pageants.
The little, common. black wood coffin,
holding so much OF what was infinitely
precious to these people-they were Ba-
varians, evidently, and not long from the
fatherland-was committed to the earth,
and the sexton commenced to shovel in
the dirt upon the little form it took so
little to cover.
Suddenly the mother threw something
into the grave which fell with jingle.
and she turned away, sobbing as if her
heart would break.
A News reporter, who happened to
be present, looked into the grave, and
saw little TIN rattle. Perhaps it was
the only toy the dead infant had ever had,
and the mother, moved by the same IN
stinct which prompts the Indians to
bury all the weapons of their warrior
dead in their tombs, threw that TOW into
the grave of her babe, to accompany it
to the spirit-land.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-11-30
AN AUTUMN CHANSON.

The high hill landscape Of gold and green
And crimson color is softly seen
Through the hazy lights where the slopes
To the leaf-fringed edge of the smoky town,
The following porch vines bend and sway,
The peacock struts in lordly way
Up and down through the drowsy day.
The fruity gardens are dusk and sweet;
Sheavcs of lilies like white maids meet;
The wild hop blossoms drift down the air;
Yea, bind them, maiden, about your hair!
Like you, they are fragile and fair today,
But youth nor sweetness can last Away
So life shall be merry when best it may.
In the leaf-strewn pathway the slim maid
stands;
Gold-iropping honey combs drip in her hands
High over her fair head the ripe grapes hang;
While note of the air he softly sang.
AS here in the flight of the dusk they stood,
With thoughts of the looks that like sweet
words wooed
"Ah WELL" signs the maiden, "the world is
wide;
Some strange dark beauty may well be his
bride.
But if in the far time to yet come
May reach in my love to his heart so high
/ should tlus> like this frost-hower meath his
kiss;
And, though something OF new life the time
might miss,
| should choose to be wooed in a scene like
this"
Now comes an hour that is rarcr still
The Qu>ky sunachS CLEAN dark on the hill;
An evening larguor is on the leaves;
The swallows twitter along the caves;
The pigeons nutter from wall TO wall.
Hush. bend low to their musical call.
While the peaches, red with their ripeness
fall
\ thin rain comes with the chill, gray dawu
Flush and flavor from autumn seem gone;
4 cloud of mist drifts over the walks;
Tie dead leaves cling to the black flower
stalks;
Low TO The meadows the strayed birds fly;
The vines are beaten; the west winds sigh
For the sun sweet beauty that soon passed by.
What will the winter bring for thee?
Firesidc dreaming and sleigh-ride glee;
Song and laughter and lighted rooms;A
Low, loye-nlusic and hot-hvuse blooms;
Pleasures sacred and sweet; but oh!
The autumn flush and the autumn glow
VIII lie like a veil on the awful snow.
Dream of orchard and wet wood lanes,
Splendor Of purple and red-gold stans,,,
Rise in beautiful life between
Low-huny picture ard tireside screen,
"Nuy' but the maiden signs in her bliss,
Flushed and fair in the fires warm kiss,
"Ncvcr scene so fair as-this"
NUlie w. Carpenter, in Christian Union
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-11-30
A Wonderful GeOrgia Parrot.

Some months ago, says a correspond
ent Of the St. Louis Globe Democrat, met
a gentleman from Alabama who relst ted
the following parrot story, which 1 be-
lieve to be the best / ever heard: DR.,
OF Montgomery, Ala, owned parrot
during and after the war that was pride
aud wonder of all Montgomery county.
The doctor, like all physicians, was fire.
quently call out at night by some ones
"ha,loo" at the front gate. Polly learned
this, and one night when the doctor an
swered shrlll ''halloo' by coming to
the door and asking what was wanted,
Polly answered from a bunch of rose
bushes: ''He hi" har' fool the doctor
that time; hi! he! hat" Polly received a
sound thrashing for this trick and was
quite sullen for week or so, wbe1. one
dark, rainy night the doctor woke up to
hear some one at the gate repeating his
"halloo' frequently. Gong to the door
he asked who was there. From the top
of tall Lombardy poplar the parrot
screamed out in fiendish glee: cha! ha!
ha! You can't catch Polly this time
You can't you can't!! you can't!!v' All
the doctors persuasive arts were called
into requisit1on to get the parrot down
from her high perch, but she could not
be deceived, coaxed or fattered into do
ing as he commanded or entreated her.
She resolutely kept her perch all night
IN the rain, and waited until he started
off next morning on his daily round be-
fore she ventured down.
The doctor had little boy aged about
two years, for whom the parrot formed a
strong attachment. Warren was the
child's name, and by-and-by he fell sick.
The; parrot moped around and appeared
to be quite melancholy. At times when
the child was left alone for a few mo-
ments, Polly would hop up on the edge
of the cradle, and spreading out her
wings, she would vlbrate them like fans,
and ask as she had heard the nurse ask
"Poor baby Baby want water? Baby sick
Baby hungry? Poor baby? Polly's 5000
sorry"
Finally the child died, and the parrot
skunk away for two days preceding the
funeral, and was neither seen nor heard
On returning from the cemetery, the