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The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-03-21

A oLIB-TosoUED rascal goes from
house TO house in Connecticut. telling
the owners of sewing machines that the
Government is about to have en- enor-
nous quantity of clothing made In
families throughout New England. and
offering for % cents to make q slight
alteration in each machine. to adapt II
10 the expected work.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-03-21


Axxzrn CONSOLIDATED GOLD AND silvia
MUIN0 ooMPAxY.
Location Of principal place Of basiness
Paradise, Nevada.
location Of works, Mounk Rose Mining
District, Humboldt county. Nevada.
NOTICE Is hereby given that ct . meeting
IN Of the Board OF trustees held on the
Eighssenth (lsshl day of March. 1879, On as
sessment mo. II of two t7l cents per share
was levied upon the capital stock Of the cor
po-Ation. payable immediately, IN GATED
States gold coin. 70 the secretary u the once
Of the company. Paradise. Nevada.
Any stock upon whirh this assessment
shall remain unpaid ON
SATURDAY, TIA SKSrEESrH (i0shl day Of
APnxL, 1852.
VIII be delipqnek and ADVERTISED for sale ct
public auction. and unless payment u made
before. Will be sold saturday. Nay third t3dl
1879. 70 pay the delinquent Assess meat. to-
eesher with costs Of advertising And expenses
u the sale, -
II. WARREN. Secretary,
Paradise. Nevada naao<d
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-03-21

10 reported lost-Mrs. Borverssx. whs
vas burned 70 dsath while attempting
to release some horses from Q burning
stsble. Several other persons we're
severely injured. The loss ID estimased
ct $4O,O
Archbishop Purcell publishes letter
In which. after rsciting bis struggles
and removal to Cincinnati. be dwells
on his present financial troubles. He
states that it can be safely said that not
more than $500. 600 was deposited. The
rest is the result of compound interest.
As q proof. he cites an instance which
occurred yesterday. where creditor
called with claim of 100. In pre-
senting it be admitted that $500 Of it
was Interest, and expressed q will
ingness to accept $500. the amount of
the original deposit. The claims OF
hundreds are of the same nature. The
Indebtedness OF the diocese in equity
does not amount to more than $l,OOO.-
600. to place il at the highest figure.
He sage. further. that for twenty years
no general collection las been taken
up for the support OF the Diocesan
Seminary. the entire burden Of educat-
ing priests falling upon she Archbishop.
He paid the salaries of professors. fed.
clothed aud educated the seminarians
he also paid the expenses. during the
same period. of the ecclesiastical
students at Mount st. Mary's Emmets.
burg, 10 France. and at Rome. In
twenty years. these expenses. which in
justice the whole diocese should have
borne. amounted to q vsst sum. While
in Europe he bought library of 16. 600
volumes. with philosophic apparatus.
requiring large expenditure. which,
with the sum spent in building an
orphan asylum. cathedral aud other
buildings 6oally swamped bin. The
Archbishop then Iehearses the situa-
ton. declaring that but for the gener
Gus sympathy of Catholics aud Protes-
tsnts alike he would have sunk under
the weight of his troubles. He then
appeals to all Catholics and others. who
feel for others woes. to help him out
of his embarrassments.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-03-21

John A. Smith of Wichita. Kan. was
unable 10 leave -his business to 60 20
xsnis, Ohio, AID marry Miss vashti
Longfeliov; and the girl's father. 9
cautious clergyman, would not permit
her to join her lover before the knot
was tied. The difficulty vas overcome
by employing the ,eIegrsph. The bride
aud her friends gathered NJ one end of
the wire. Smith stood . thousand
miles distant ut the other end. and the
proper questions and answers we're
flashed between. Then Mrs. Smith
started TO joan her husband.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-03-21
A RAMPANT REBEL.

There 10 Q one-horse paper called the
Oksloos States, publish ID 10 Missis-
&ppi. The editor of the sheet fancies
that ths war for the preservation OF the
Union - no& yet over. aod that JEFF.
Davis 10 PTesidens of the Southern
ConfedeEsey. which win eventually en-
brace all the States. North and South.
With the exceptions. perhaps. of Asssa-
shusssts. which win be refused sdnis-
SION into the Confedsraoy. The rsvings
Of the editor Of the Okalona States are
parsdsd before the public By the AssO.
eiated Press and . few Republican
stump speakers, Who rsfes 10 them as
expressions Of Democrats sentiment
regarding the Ueion, foE The purpose Of
making party capital. whom in reality.
we're IL not for the Assoeisted Press and
the stump speakers. mot one Democrat
o. Republican in . million. outside the
torn In which Il 10 published. would
know that there 10 such paper in exc
istsDes. The Reno Gazette. . Repub.
hosn journal. has the manliness and in
dependence to cay. 10 commenting on
ARGENT article from the STATES. ssns BY
the Agent Of the Associated Press
throughout the Union. - . significant
expression of Southern sentiment, IS
that while not partial to the chiyslry OF
unwasnsd wings Of the DsmocsAey, i
objects TO having the insane mouthings
Of Little one horse semi.~sskly paper
poblishsd in Aississippi by two cranky
idolizers OF JET Davis. cramnsd down
the peoples throAss a. - ssgnifcsDs
expression Of Southern Democrats
ssnsiment."
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-03-21

Professor Loomis ia continaing bis
experiments in the mountains of West
Virginia. to demonstrate his theory that
at certain elevations there is Q patursl
electric current. by taking the ad-
vantage Of which telegraphic messages
may be sent witho0, the use of wire.
1t is said that be has telegraphed as far
as eleven miles By means of kites
which we're flown with the aid Of cop
per wire. When his kites reached the
same altitude, or got into the same cur
rent. communication By means OF an
instrument similar to the Morse instru-
meDt was easy. bat ceased a. soon a.
one Of the kites was lowered; bat be
has built towers on two hills about %
miles apart. and from the tops of them
has run steel rods into the region of the
electric current
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-03-21

The Supreme Court Of Ohio has d.
c;ded that where Q drunken and unsuiy
passenger is pot of railroad train. The
railroad company is not liable. 1t was
the duty of the conductor to protect
other passengers against him by eject
ING him, and IL be was too drunk W
take care of himself after that. 1t was
only bis own fault.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-03-21

A party Of Indians attempted last
week to drive of band Of horses from
the vicinity of Pilot Rock, Umstilla
county, Oregon. The owner with bis
meu gave chase. and firing upon the
Siwsshes, compelled them to abandon
the animals.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-03-21

E-SESAroR J. J. PArrxasos, of South
Carolina. informed an agent Of the As
sociaisd Press as Washington. that the
aa.horities Of South Carolina have
granted him full pardon and oblivion
for indictments pending against him in
sost State. and that he expected 10
leave Washington soon 10 accept Al i'm.
porssut position from the Socshern Pa.
sa6c Railroad Company 10 Arizona
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-03-21
Ranch for Sale,

sYNHR Raspberry Ranch, aitaassd "a Rssp.
Il berry Canyon. three miles from Rasp.
berry station on the G. r. a.. h., containing
10 acres OF arabic land. with plenty OF w.fer
Tor irrigAsfng purposes. IL ofeied fur sale on
Avor4ole terms. Apply 81 once ~ tia Dis
tricf Attorneys once. winnemucca, Nevada.
Thp 10 rare opportunity 70 secure Q good
ranch.
winnsunccs, New. March 10. ls7s. In
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-03-21

Il is rumored that Governor Stanford
Ass resigned his position - President
II the Csntrai Pacinc. and Lloyd Tsvis
Aas hssa elected On his stead.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-03-21

81
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-03-21

u nov psspared 20 furnish . onoaos -
MILLING SALT in Quantities I" =
q reasonable rates. -.
ADDRESS oRDKRs;-"Dssxsr sAl a,
pAxr. 4 Browns Station Q. =. "a. :.
Nevada" -
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1879-12-04
Measurement OF Distances.

4 new instrument for measuring dis
tances by sight is among the recent inven-
tions in England. In this arrangement the
distance of any object is ascertained by
simply reading off upon scale marked
on the base of right angled triangle the
number of divisions which are equivalent
to the angle of two lines of sight denoted
by an index scale; the two sides of the tri-
angle-that is the perpendicular and the
hypothenuse-are the two lines of sight to
the object, and the length Of the base varies
with the distance of the object observed at
the apex of the triangle. The distance of
the same is measured by the length of base
required to enable the line of sight to meet
the object of the oblique line. The oblque
line of sight in the instrument is obtained
along radius arm, the angle of which TO
the base may be set at pleasure. The part
of the instrument forming the other line Of
sight at right angles to the base has a
sliding action along the base, so as to ena-
able the latter to be heightened or reduced,
but is always at right angles to it. For
the base, a space is divided of 6. 2S2 inches
thus allowing the decimal readings of the
length of the base to be obtained-6.2 2S2
being the proportion of circle circumfer-
ence to radius. A scale is provided by
means of which the radius arm may he set
for oblique line of sight to the decimal of
a degree. The process of reading off the
distance of an object on the instrument is
in this wise: AS the chord of arc of an angle
is to the radius as l to 81. 35, then if then
the radius arm be 81. 35 inches, it follows
that for an angle of one degree it will be
one inch out of perpendicular to the base.
The oblique line of sight being along the
radius arm, will therefore meet at 57.35,
the perpendicular line of sight with one
inch base, and the object-at the apex of
the triangle-will be distant 57.35 inches
from the observer, that is 57.35 times the
length of the base line The base line be-
ing divided to scale, the distance of the
object may thus be read off.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1879-12-04
High Art.
"Wcll!' l cried eagerly.
"You make that picture!

'Wcll!" | cried eagerly.
''You make that picture!
II did," | exclaimed Irlumphantly.
"Henceforth the wife of your bosom dc.
votes her lite To the divine art Is it not
fine ?"
"Nery-very fine; but could YOU not
have found pleasanter subject than bat
tie field? Although that group of Indians
! to the right there
Indians
"Yes, in the corner. Very natural to be
sure, but"
Indians? There are no Indians. That
is group of trees just tinted with the
touch of Autumn's finger
20, yes to be sure! see. Surely,
am growing nearsightcd. A graveyard
scene. Very touching. And whose monu-
ment is that in the centre y
Monument Graveyard scene:"
"Ics. But is it not rather unusual to
see camels grazing in country church
yard?'
''Camels Where do you see camels y
"Why, here. | would not have beiev-
cd you could have got them SO natural.
/ And those five graves all in row. Quite
family shufiled of the mortal coil. But
you are excited This painting has been
too much for you"
cit is too much for me. That beautiful
rustic mill monument And camels
You will kill me! They are cows! Don't
you see they are COWS? And those graves
rs you call them, are moss covered rocks.
Such ignorance :"
81 beg your pardon, it is my poor eyes,
and | see Alright this time. That wind
mill is just the thing, but don't you think il
should be nearer the mill ? It's just sug-
gestion, you know. may be wrong"
"Gou will make me desperate \
windmill That lovely elm tree wind
mill! Have you no touch of the divine
genius in your soul? Have | encouraged
this divine talent but to meet scorn and sar-
casm ~
MY dear Absinthe, draw it mild. |
dyn't know much about the divine art but
you have done-yes, | will say it-better
than myself should unIer like circum
stance. 1t really is a marvel, but knowing
so little about il, it isn't strange if mistook
your effort for battle or even graveyard
scene. 1t is u Swiss scene-the Alps. These
glaciers are grand. But no. must be
wrong again, for surely you wouldn't put
trees and COWS on icebergs. No, my dear,
it's all very pretty, hut giveit up. What
is iG?"
"Oh, you miserable wretch! I've n
great mind not to tell you. It's a beautiful
New England farm scene Any one could
see. I'll never paint another picture
There ~ And one stroke of the brush rum
ed my painting forever, and marched
Aminidab grimly from the room. slammng
the door What is my one talent:
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1879-12-04
His Pretty InuIan Nurse.

Just beyond the Moosic river, a few
miles northeast of Scranton. in the primi-
tive village of Salem, there lives a centena-
rian whose history reads like apage plucked
from one Of the Leatherstocking romances.
Abraham Johnson is now LOG years old
hale, hearty, unimpaired in intellect, and
gifted with remarkable memory. His
family record shows that he was born in
the State of Vermont early in the year
| 1878, near Lake Champlain. His father
was IA Revolutionary soldier, at short
time before General Burgoyne's surrender,
! October Il, l777. Abraham johnson was
! Captain of company of Oneida Indians
IN 1914, under General Macomb, who COM
manded at Plattsburgh in the absence of
| General lizard. He refers with great pride
to the battle of Plattsburgh, and shows two
wounds which he received on that occa-
sion. One of them is "A bayonet thrust be-
| low the knee, and the other a sword cut on
the neck. He says that after he was cut
down by a gigantic "ReGcoat" another
thrust bayonet through his leg 10 aScer-
tain if he were dead. He SAYS he bore the
punishment rather than suffer the indigni-
~ OF being taken prisoner, and was accor-
dinghy left for dead The Indians carried
their bleeding and battle-scarred command
er to their village, where he was nursed
and cared for by Oneida, the beautiful
daughter of an Indian chief, whose gentle
care soon restored him to strength and
health. But while she healed his bodily
wounds, she inflicted one still deeper on
the warriors heart, and he fell desperately
in love with her. She eventually returned
la i'll Ft
peace had been restored between the United
States and Great Britain. They made their
home in Sussex county, n. j., where the
dark eyed daughter of the forest taught her
husband how TO earn livelihood by basket
making. A daughter was born to them
and they named her Martha. She is at
present known as Mrs. Ellsworth, and lives
in Madison township, Lackawana county,
Pa. As years went by Abraham Johnson's
Indian wife began to pine for her old home
and the rude associations of her childhood.
She gradually failed in health, and finally,
in response TO her repeated longings for her
people, her husband carried her back to the
Oneidas, where she died and was buried as
became the daughter of an Indian chief.
Little Martha found home and shelter
for time with an uncle in Sussex county,
but when she grew up she joined the Onei-
da Indians, and lived among her mothers
kindred. where she married man with tn
unromantic name of Brown. After hi
death, she married Ellsworth, her presen
husband, and returned to civilization. She
is as proud of her princely ancestors as if
they bore the proud name of the Plantage-
nets, or possessed the high and naughty
spirit of the Tudors. Since the loss of his
Indian wife, Abraham johnson has remain
ed single. He still talks of General Jack
son to the day of his death. Although en-
titled to pension for his soldierly services
in the defence of the flag, he does not re-
ceive penny, and is permitted to remain a
charge on Salem township. He is probably
one Of the oldest men in Pennsylvania.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1879-12-04
One can't excel I'm Everything.

Ideals of cxcellences, If not excelences
themselves, are SO graduated rs to fit the
different orders of mind in which they take
their rise. Greatness is not positive quail
| ity; il is simply a relative attribute.
The man who has never succeeded in en-
snartng single 'speckled beauty" from
some 'tortuous stream" may truthfully
boast Of his eminent success in catching
sculpins.
The man who cannot sing may yet have
voice peculiarly adapted TO crying CLAIMS,
oranges or charcoal.
He who is no dancer may be good at
hitch-and-kick or shinny.
The man who was not born to command,
to set squadron in the field, may surpass
all his acquaintances in the untiring devo-
tion he evinces in the coloring of his meer-
schaum.
The boy who is ever at the foot of his
class may still be an expert in the formation
and propulsion of spitballs.
The lad who is not a pronounced success
at arithmetic niay be simply excellent at
mumble-peg and taw.
The woman who canno make loaf of
bread may excel in the making of frills and
| furbelows.
She who cannot play tie simplest air on
the washboard may execute the most diff
cult themes upon the piaroforte.
She who cannot darn stocking may be
the envy of her circle for her skill and taste
in worsted work, in marrying sky blue dogs
to pink backgrounds.
The mother who cannot command the re-
spect of her children may yet be fawned
upon by half score of male bipeds without
a spot on their dainty linen or an idea in
their heads.
The son who never does a stroke Of work
at home may be superlatively active in the
bowling alley or billiard room.
The daughter who is too feeble to wash
the dishes may dance till the small hours of
the night after having been shopping all
day.
The girl who cannot sew may chew gum
with tireless jaw.
\ great singer may not be able to smoke
the mildest of cigars without turning pale.
A general who has led armies on TO vic
tory may be surpassed in profanity by the
raggedest street-boy in the city.
he hand that has penned the divinest
poetry may be clownishly awkward with
the billiard cue
The man who is capable of organizing
and carrying forward gigantic business en-
terprises may be easily outdone at caucus
management by the shabbiest politician of
his ward.
The artist who gives birth to such cx-
quisite creations may not be able to tie his
neck-cloth nearly SO well as Augustus, who
in his turn can do nothing else
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1879-12-04
Teaching at West Point.

y West Point recitation, by the way, is
something unique. When a visitor makes
his appearance every cadet rises and
fronts" and you feel as you did when you
entered your first freshman society, where
the walls were lined with your tender initi-
ators. This severe military carriage is re-
laxed at a sign from Lhe instructor, and the
recitation goes on. The teaching is un-
doubtedly the most thorough in the country
if not in the world. The reason will proba-
bly, be found in the act that not only are
the cadets held to strict accountability for
the work they go over, but in addition to
that the assistant Instructors are also strict
ly responsible TO tho professors in charge of
their department. Thus q professor of
mathematics will have one hours instruc-
tion with his class dIring the forenoon, and
the remainder of the time he devotes to in
specting the work Of his assistant professors
who are instructing other sections in the
same subject. As h,re are only nine men
in section, it will We readily seen that no
one can escape. The fact that a professor
is known TO make tie rounds of the section
rooms is a guaranty o the cadet that no in.
justice will be done lin by young instruc-
1Ol NhO lOl iSthSul lllah1 bStldy
lity The professor sure to seek an ex-
planation for any great difference between
his mark and that on tutors book when
the same man is under consideration. 1t is
the curse of the marking system at our
American colleges that manis at the mercy
of a young tutor who by his mark-book sits
in judgment from which there is no appeal.
Every college nan knows how much in
justice is done Iy few callow instructor
who have perhips forty men to hear at a
time, who hea, each man perhaps every
other day, ana must determine his stand by
the two or three minutes he is on his feet
There are so many opportunities for the dis
honest student to impose on the tutor, and
the tutor is 50 quick to suspect of laziness
the man who is too honest to ''pony" or
hand in ''sick-excuses, and, moreover, the
divisions are so large and the examinations
so infrequent, that the marking system, in
my Judgment, is fruitfulof evil. No edu-
cational institution in tbfJ country has prob
ably so large a teaching force in proportion
to the students as West Point. At Yale
and Harvard the proportion is about ! to
10 at the Military Academy it is l to 8.
At Yale professor has sometimes 60 men
in a recitstion-room herehe has nine Here
the student must learn, there he may
Here he must learn so much and no more
there he must learn little less than so
much, but may learn great deal more.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1879-12-04
The Farmer, the Gunner, and the BIRD.

1t has been gravely asserted by men who
have given the subject serious and patient
study, that the locust and grasshopper pests,
which, from time to time, devastate some
of our Western States and Territories, are
due TO the wholesale destruction of game
birds of the Rocky Mountains slopes and
the Mississippi Valley. Prof. Riley, State
Entomologist of Missouri, declared that one
grouse would in a season consume eggs and
larvae of locusts enough, if hatched out, TO
destroy the crops upon one hundred acres
of land. These birds arc the guards which
nature has set over the fields, and we might
as well poison the soil as to remove them
from their appointed work. And what the
grouse is to the Western farmer the beauti-
full Virginia partridge is 10 the Eastern
for it comes in numbers proportioned to the
ields sown, and takes as the recompense
of its guardianship of the young crops only
the scattered grains of the harvest. Even
the ungainly crow has at last found favor
i'm the ewes of the husbandman. He pays
for the few grains he steals from the first
planting by an incessant warfare upon
countless unseen enemies of the corn. But
these are not all. The trees, the hedges,
and the grass are alive with smaller birds
which contribute their share to the security
of field and orchard, and which are swept
away in multitudes by the foolish gunners
who infest the country from the first of Oc-
tober to the first of January.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1879-12-04
Up POpOcataDetl.

When a stranger goes to Mexico, every
body who has ever been there asks, care
you going to climb Popocatapetl?" and the
stranger almost invaribly replies, Seer
tainly." He almost invariably changes his
mind. Popocatnpetl is private property,
owned by a resident of the Mexican CAPT
tal In our own country where there are
plenty of things to get, nobody would take
volcano for gift, but in Mexico where
there are so few things to own, they snap
up volcanoes as we would gold mines and
brag of owning them. There is something
not only unique but impressive in owning
volcano. was going down stairs in the
Iturbide hotel in Mexico one day with a
native. when the native pointed out gen.
tleman coming up stairs, and said he was
the owner of the volcano Popocatepetl. |
rather expected to see fire belching out of
his mouth and birthstone oozing out of his
ears. But there was nothing of the kind
His name was General Ochoa, and the
guide-book says ''ke is perfect gentle
man." so it must be So If he is, should
think he would start up his old worn out
volcano when a lot of strangers go down to
see it. But he doent. 1t is not within the
memory of man that this fraud of volcano
has done any real work. We might as well
say that old ROundtop UP In the CstSkillS,