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Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-02-01
WHY THE FLUME WAS NOT
BUILT.

have it on excellent authority
that d. O. Mills said to Captain j. B.
Orerten that if Hobart & Marlette
bnilt their fiume and incline so as to
deliver wood on the Comstock inde-
pendent of the Virginia & Truckee
Railroad, he would see to it that the
Central Pacific Railroad Company
would arrange to deliver coal on the
Comstock on such terms as to ruin
the wood trade. This looks some
what like the conduct of the dog in
the manger.-Hon. II. R. Mighels's
Address.
Now the citizens of Lyon county
know why the fume project repeat
eddy referred to in this paper has
been deferred or abandoned. Had
the fiume been constructed, this city
would now be the lumber depot Of
the whole Comstock, there would be
employment for every man and boy
in town, and every piece of real
estate from the Silver Hill mine to
the Rock Point mill would be worth
three and four times as much as it is
now, while wood and lumber could
be obtained at our very doors for
about half the present cost.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-02-01
A Bad Tenant Of q Stomach.

Mr.. Randall, of Onondaga Hill
who swallowed his false set of teeth
six weeks ago, was in this city
yesterday. He still complains OF
great distress at times in his stomach,
and says he has lost some fifteen or
twenty pounds of flesh. He has re-
oeived many letters from different
parts of the country from people
who have been similarly troubled,
announcing remedies or operations
applied and performed on them, but
has not availed himself OF any OF
them. He prefers to wait awhile
before adopting any measures to re.
lieve himself. There have been in,
stances where operations on the
stomach in such cases have been
made, and that the patient has re.
covered and had good health.-Syra.
cuse Courier.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-02-01
BOOTS In MELODRAMA.
A Guy on the French Stage that
Made a Serious Impression.

A strolling troupe, of whom young
Hortense Schneider was one, an
nounced .'La Tour de Nesle" for
their last performance. An oyer
flow resulted. The actors were in
high spirits and full of fun Mile.
Schneider, discovering an old pair OF
russell boots behind the scenes, put
them, by way of Joke, into the
hands of "Buridan" as he was going
on the stage. Accepting of the awk
ward handful, be placed the boots on
table on the stage and quietly went
through his part. when another actor
of the name of Philippe d'Aulnay
took possession and made his exit
with one under each arm. In the
next act, Marguerite de Bourgogne"
entered carrying the mysterious
boots, and passed them to Gaultier
d'Aulnay: he turned them over to
"Orsini;" in short, before the curtain
fell the boots, though foreign to the
piece, had been borne in succession
by every parsonage. The audience
watched for their appearance, while
wondering what it all meant, and APP
plauded the players to their hearts
content. Twelve months afterward
another company set up their bills in
Agen, and "La Tour de Nesle' at
tracted everybody to the theater; but
before the first act was over there
were symptoms of displeasure, which
increased until the uproar was so
great that the curtain fell on half
played piece; benches were torn up,
lights put out, and only the arrival
of the Mayor at the head of a
troop of soldiers put an end to the
tumult. Then the Mayor turned on
the poor manager, who protested his
inability to understand how the riot
came about. "That is all nonsense"
returned the Mayor. "Your conduct
is disgraceful. You have misled the
people and mutilated a masterpiece.
Where are the boots r.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-02-01
A NEW AMENDMENT TO THE
CONSTITUTION PROPOSED.

In the United States Senate, last
Monday, Senator Edmunds offered
the following as an amendment to
the Constitution of the United States:
ARTICLE XVI.-No claims against
the United States shall ever hereafter
be sustained or allowed by Congress
or any department, officer or court of
the United States, or money paid by
the United States or from their funds,
whether as damage, compensation or
otherwise, for or on account of any
property, real, personal, or mixed,
taken, used, injured or destroyed by
the United States troops or by or
through any officer, civil or military,
or other person acting or protesting
to act under or by authority of the
United States or their enemies, or
taken, used, injured or destroyed from
any other cause whatever, during the
existence OF the late instruction or
rebellion against the government of
the United States, unless the owner
thereof (and in case any corporation
and its governing authority and mail
agement) was during all the time of
such ipsurrection or rebellion loyal
in fact to the government OF the
United States. and gave neither and
nor encouragement to the enemy.
No pension, bounty, grant, pecuniary
indemnity or pecuniary benefit shall
ever be given or provided for by or
under authority Of Congress or any
State for or on account of any mill
tary or other service performed or
injury suffered in hostility 10 the
United States. No pardon or am
nesty past or future shall have any
effect to take any person, case or
claim out cf the purview of this
article.
The debate upon this amendment
will place both political parties upon
record.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-02-01

THE vote on the bill to create
State Board of Equalization, in the
Senate the other day, shows that the
number of Senators who favor the
railroads in preference to their con-
stituenrs is less than had been antici-
pated. The bill is intended to have
special effect upon the assessment of
railroad property. In Washoe coun-
ty the road bed of the Central Pa
cific Railroad is assessed 1--WE believe)
at $4,000 per mile; this is the high
est rate. In tins county it is as.
sessed at $4,000 per mile; this is the
next highest rate. And in all other
counties in this State the rates range
from $4,000 down. The bill is now
in the hands of the Assembly. If il
passes that body the valuation Of all
broad gauge railroads in this State
will probably be increased to $4,000
per mile.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-02-01
NEvADA's SCHOOL OF MINES,

In 1856, says the LYON COUNTY
TINES, Congress granted the State of
Nevada 10000 acres of land as an
endowment for an experimental
School of Mines. After several extern
sions Of the time in which the school
was to have been established, IN 1877
the State was granted five years more.
At the expiration of the term, to-wit,
in 1880, should our State fail to per-
form its part Of the implied contract,
the land or money obtained from the
sale of the same shall revert to The
National Government. Already, in
1877, 100000 worth of these lands
had been disposed of. The question
therefore arises, Shall this money
and valuable land revert to the Ma
tional Government 2 Or, shall our
Legislature, by little judicious
management, retain this desirable
property is. F. Stock Report
The above has been copied APP
provingly by many newspapers in
this State and elsewhere, but no
notice seems to have been taken of il
by the Legislature. Cannot some
member introduce a bill providing
for the establishment of q School OF
Mines Z The bill, if properly drawn
could not fail of becoming law
and the institution would soon prove
Of incalculsble benefit to our lead
Ing industry,
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-02-01
DELAY Is DANGEROUS.

If the committee of citizens OF
Storey county who have the prepara-
ton of a railroad bill in charge do
not make haste, they will be too late
to do any good this session. If we
arc correctly informed, a sub-com-
mittee has been appointed to draft
two bills, one of which shall apply to
local roads and the other to through
roads. This committee will report
next Tuesday evening, when the bills
will probably be given 10 the press
for publication and discussion. An
other meeting will then be held to
draw up amendments, then there will
be more publication, more discus
sion, and, possibly, more amendments.
By that time the end of the session
will draw near, the railroads will
probably have secured all the legis-
lation they desire, and viii, fgura-
lively speaking, laugh in their sleeve
At the futile attempts of the slow
peoples champions. We admit that
q bill or bills that will fit the emer-
gency and stand the critical examina-
ton of the courts cannot be pre-
pared in a day or two; and therefore
wish it understood that we do not
conplaia OF hardness on the part of
the citizens committee; but call at
tention to this matter in or,ler that
all danger of having proper legisla-
ton eliminated may be averted. The
people of Nevada are thoroughly
aroused On this question, and if this
attempt to regulate it fail it is doubt
full If such an unanimous expression
Of opinion can again be obtained.
Delay is doubly dangerous just now.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-02-01

-AssEMBLYMAN FISK, of Eu-
reka, mas introduced bill which pro-
vides for the election by the Legisla-
ture, biennially, of three commits
.ioners who shall be known as Com
missioners of Transportation. Their
salary is to be $4,000 per annum. and
they are to have secretary who will
receive not exceeding 81 800 per an
mum. They are required to inspect
all railroads in this State, to ascer-
tain as to their safety, convenience,
etc.; to fix freight and passenger
rates, to prosecute the railway COM
panies for all determinations against
individuals or localities; to examine
the books of railroad companies, etc.
Free passes over railroads within the
State are prohibited to all except the
Commissioners and those in their en-
ploy, railroad officers, telegraph Off
GERS, destitute persons, troops and
public messengers. These are the
main features of the bill-which is
reputed to be in the interest of the
railroad companies. We believe that
this proposed law is copied, in part
if not in whole, from the Revised
Statutes of Wisconsin or Massa-
chusetts.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-02-01
Consumption Cured.

An old physicisn, retired from practice,
having had placed in his hands by an East
India missionary the formula of simple
vegetable remedy for the speedy and perma-
nent cure for Consumption, Bronchitis, Ca
tarrh. Asthma, and all Throat and Lung At
fections, also a positive and radical cure for
Nervous Debility and all Nervous Complaints.
after having tested its wonderful curative
powers in thousands of cases, has felt it his
duty to make it known to his suffering fellows.
Actuated by this motive and desire to re-
lieve human suffering, 1 will send free Of
charge to all who dseire it this recipe, with
full directions for preparing and using, in
German, French, or English. Sent by mail by
addressing with stamp, naming this paper W.
W. SHERAR,l49 Powers's Block, Rochester, NY.
Chew Jscksons Best Sweet Navy Tobacco.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-02-01

Chew Jackson's Best Sweet Navy Tobacco
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-02-01

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN BY THE
~ undersigned, Administrators of the
above named estate to the creditors of and all
persons having claims against the said de-
ceased. to exhibit the same, with tho neces-
sary vouchers, within ten months from the
first publication Of this notice, to the under
signed, at the Dey IFS Gate Toll House, Lyon
county, Nevada. w. F. FRAME,
DAVID McALLISTER.
Dated January Is. 1879.
GEO. W. KEITH, Attorney for Admins
traitors.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-03-14

The MOTHER LOVE FOR HER YoUNG is the
strongest and noblest feeling of which ami
mails are capable. and with certain species it
is more than an instinct, it is a passion which
rises to heroism. Thus with the stork and
the lark among birds The stork, which
spends the winter in Egypt and the summer
in Northern and Western Europe, likes to
build his nest on the top Of some steep gable
roof Such a nest is real nuisance. It is
from three to five yards in diamcter it
swarms with snakes lizards, frogs, toads and
other disagreeable creatures it becomes, in
course Of time, so heavy that it would break
the roof if not artifcially proppcd up from
below. Nevertheless, for various supersti-
tious reasons, the stork is not only welcome.
but even courted by the European peasants,
and il cannot be denied that the reverence
with which the bird is looked upon is, to
some extent deserved. II the house takes
fire, and the young storks happen to be at an
age in which they cannot be saved by being
brought away from the nest, the stork-mother
does not leave them. Standing erect in the
nest, tapping with the wings to wait away
the smoke and the flames, and crying out
now and then some strange Egyptian dirge,
she remains with her young ones, and per-
ishos with them. The sky-lark, which builds
her nest in the meadows, runs away from il,
when frightened by somebody's approach,
four or five yards under the clover, and rises
then perpendicularly in the air, pouring forth
all her song in its widest strains in order to
divert the attention. But the peasant boy
knows that as long as she remains hanging at
the same point in the air he is still four or
five yards from the nest, and he uses the di-
rection of her movements and the ring of her
song TO find out the exact spot. If then it
happens that the young larks are just about
to break through the shell of the eggs, at
which time the motherinstinct of the bird is
on the height of excitement, while her bodily
strength is much exhausted from the laying,
she will drop down dead from the sky in the
very moment the nest is touched.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-03-14

SAD But TRUE.-An Englishman writes in
the London Standard n mournful letter upon
the invasion of the British markets by Amer
lean manufacturers. He found in his travels
that American calicoes and cottOns had super
seded the same style of English goods on the
continent. Coming home he found his iron
monger selling American spades, saws, chisels,
hammers and axes, and other dealers with
stocks of American locks, bolts stoves, and
lamps. American leather is sent to England
to be made up into shoes English carriages
are built out of materials which have crossed
the Atlantic States are now quarried in the
United States to roof English houses my
grocer butter man, and probably my butch
er," says this writer deal largely in Ameri-
can goods of all kinds even the cigarettes
which he smokes are made in Richmond, Va, F.,
and the pen with which he writes come not
from Birmingham but from AN American man
ufactory.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-03-14

An ALPINE AVALANCHE. There was tre-
mendous Alpine avalanche on the ST. Goth
ard route on January 24. The long process
sion of the sledges started from the Hospice
at the summit of the pass soon after four o.
clock, and descended toward Airolo. At the
first great bend in the road, not far from the
little refuge house known as San Giuseppe,
the two leaders of the caravan noticed with
alarm that huge snow mass was breaking
loose from the top of the mountain, Imme-
diately the cry backwards :" was raised
Every one sprang in an instant from the
sledges, and rushed up the road as fast as
possible. The avalanche thundered down.
aud horses and carriages were buried in a mo-
ment under the tremendous heap of snow
Fortunately no one of the company lost pres
ence of mind, but all returned to the buried
horses and sledges and began the work of
excavation with hearty good will. All the
horses except two were dug out alive. The
passengers were too much worn out and eX-
cited to continue their journey, so the horses
were fastened to the sledges and the whole
party reascended and spent the night at the
St. Gothard Hospice, where they amused
themselves with telegraphing the news of
their wonderful escape to their friends.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-03-14

The LARGEST Libraries. A correspondent
asks, Which are the largest three libraries in
the world and which the largest three in
this country? BY far the largest in the world
is the National Library at Paris, which in 1874
contained ., 900, 600 printed books and $780,
600 manuscripts. Which the next largest is
it is difficult to say, for the British Museum
and the Imperial Library of st. Petersburg
both had in 1874, /, 100, 900 volumes. After
them comes the Royal Library of Munich,
with its 800, 900 books. The Vatican Library
at Rome is sometimes enormously supposed
to be among the largest while in point of fact
it is surpassed, so far as the number of vol
umes goes, by more than sixty European col
lections. 1t contains l05, 900 printed books
and %, 800 manuscripts. The National Ii
brary at Paris is one of the very oldest in
Europe, having been founded in 1850, while
the British Museum dates from 1853, or
time more than four hundred years later. In
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-03-14

The "MARsEILLAIsE."- An important an
nouncement is made by General Gresley, the
French minister of war, of the intention to
put the "A1arseiase" in office, to make it
national hymn by ministerial revival of the
decree of 1875. 1t would take great many
DEGREES to make any given poem or piece Of
music an expression of national sentiment or
aspiration if the poem or music had not pre-
yiously settled this point with the popular
mind as the "Marseillaise" has done but
when that point is determined even the min
isterial decree is Of consequence because it
puts aside the objections Of ill-disposed COM
Inanders of military posts and makes the ia
vored air Legitimate part of all public festiv-
tiles. Toward the "Marsellaise" this decree
is piece Of justice in which everybody will
rejoice who has sympathized with the senti-
ment Of that great chant. In its day the
"Marscillaise" has been howlcd by many
cowardly and savage rabble from the cutters
flowing with the blood of good men but even
these associations have not been able to de
grade it. In the whole number Of national
hymns it is the noblest 1t is. indeed the
only one that is grand and true and national
Our own hymn takes our standard as tangi-
bile presentation Of the national idca-which
is one of its picturesque yet minor details !;
and the English and German hymns put the
sovereign for the nation-an equally defec-
tive style. But the 'Marsrillaise" was the
voice and accepted uttcrnnce of the senti-
mcnts and aspirations Of great people Mt
sublime moment in their dcstinies. and ty-
rants are always compelled to suppress it, as
they would try to suppress volcano under
the throne. y. J. HeydH.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-03-14

"You must decide that question, dear mad
am, responded the deacon with suppressed
eagerness The finger Of Providence was in
this He held his breath to make sure which
way it pointed.
Then if you don't mind re,y much, Dea-
con Phunix, perhaps il ,roVH be better for
us to part as friends. Oh dear | hope
you'll forgive me il I've done any thing
wrong"
The deacon hardly heard the closing SEN
tence for the glad beating Of his heart "My
dear child, you have done quite right | do
not reproach you" said he, with smile of
infinite benevolence 1T is natural that
youth should choose to wed with youth
And that age should wed with age he
added mentally, as with an adieu almost pa
ternal, he drove away in the direction of Miss
Olives
He aud Miss Wayne were married the fol
lowing October, but Mr.. and Mrs Vance
waited till Christmas. Hdrp,r's Bdzdr.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-03-14

JoHS g. SAKE who has been in delicate
health and done no literary work for some
time, is now confined to his room in Brook
lyn, suffering. it is said from chronic melan-
cholia, superinduced by illness in his own
case and among members of his family. Mr..
SAKE is so well known to the public as a hu-
morous poet and lecturer, and to his personal
acquaintances as a man of genial, joyous dis
position, ever looking at the bright side of
things, and advocating cheerfulness as the
sum of all philosophy, that his suffering
from mental morbidity must cause as much
surprise as regret. His spirits are so deeply
clouded, his nerves so depressed, that he re-
fuses to see any Of his friends and there
seems to be no prospect of release from his
impenetrable, overwhelming gloom. He has
been before the public in literary capacity
more than - years having first appeared as
a poet in the Kuickerbocker in lS43 but the
earliest work that attracted any special atten-
tiou was Progress, Satire, published
three years later. Admitted to the bar at -,
he practiccd in Vermont, in his native coun-
ty CFranklin), until he removed TO Burling-
ton, whore he purchased the Sentinel, and
conducted il for some time. One of his
Jokes used To be to run on the Democratic
ticket for Governor of the State, conscious
that there was no more chance of his election
than of his becoming King of the Cannibal
Islands. lie will, if he lives, be G3 the com
ing June.-N y. Times.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-03-14

The ALBATRoss. Somebody who has been
studying the habits of the albatross, largest
sea birds. in the South Atlantic, has come to
the conclusion that it feeds almost entirely on
dead fish, and is a sort of marine vulture
When it is feeding on dead fish, it is so
greedy that gun discharged cannot make it
fly. Like vulture or raven, it seems to
know when any creature is dying or dead,
and immense hocks of the birds will gather
when the carcass of sheep or beef or horse
is thrown overheard. They appear to be able
to see and to scent carrion for miles and when
il is floating on the ocean, they will come in
clouds from every point of the compass.
They spend the greater part of the year far
from land but they go to barren and we'll
nigh inaccessible rocks TO breed. The fe-
male lays her soiled white egg on the bare
earth, the females often Matching so close to-
gether that they seem to have one nest in
common. Then they are perfectly indiifer-
snt to the presence of man, at whom they
merely snap when he invades their sanctuary
The male albatross is very gallant, sharing
with the female the labor of incubation and
of rearing the young which, when fully
fedged, puts of to sea with its parents, and
with them plays ITS part of scavenger OF the
ocean. Many sailors are still superstitious
about killing the albatross.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-03-14

SECOND ALPINE TUNSEL.-Tbe second
tunnel beneath the Alps-the great St. Goth
ard-after passing through many vicissitudes
will be ready for traffic some time next year
1t has already been bored for distance of a
little moro than seven and half miles, which
is seventy feet more than the length of the
Mont Gents. There remained on January =
only 2922 yards to be cleared and if the work
progresses as last year, when 2772 yards We're
bored, the two companies of wOrkmcn who
started from the Italian and Swiss ends would
meet in January, 1850. Geologists have cal
culated that there is hard stratum of SER
pentine and schist yet to pass, and if this
proves true the work cannot proceed so rap
idly. But in any event the workmen are
likely TO meet before the year progresses
many months beyond January. The tunnels
length will be more than mile and half
greater than that of the Mont Gents, and the
total cost several million pounds sterling
more. The German, Italian and Swiss gov
ernments have granted in subsidies "a, 800 e
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