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The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-02-25
Dissolution Of Partnership.

NOTICE is hereby gwen that the co-part-
IN nership here ofore existing be ween I'd,
byines and frank ID. Hinkey, under the firm
name OF Byrnes L. Hinkey, in Spring City,
humboldt county, Nevada, is this day dis
solved by mutua, consent, f.. IL. dinksy re-
firing from the business.
All debts Of the late firm will be paid by
their successors, Byrnes Il Lamance, VINO III
alsJ collect all acc0unts due the OLD firm.
ED. BYRNE5,
FnANK Ii. HlNKEY,
February "a, 1879. I'm
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-02-25
Fob SSALA.s.

Wl5HING to retire from business, now
w oner Tor sale nay entire property in
Winnemucca. consisting Of Book and Station-
cry store and the News Business, and family
residence on Second street, all OF which will
sell ut u reduced price for cash in hand.
U CHENoWErH.
Winnemucca, Jan, Is, 1879. If
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-02-25
THE COMMITTEES OF FoURrEEN

The Legislature some time since ap.
pointed joint Committee of fourteen
composed of one member from each
county 10 the State, to consider all bills
relating to railroads, and report q
bill regulating fares and freights
on the same. AS soon as the
Committee was organized the railroad
agents went to work to capture il, and
the course of the Committee Indicates
that they have succeeded in doing So.
Tue Committee of Fourteen is al,nost
IS important and powerful body as
the Elko Grand Jury, which protested
against the reduction of freights, and
as great bodies move slowly, the Com
mittee devoted considerable time to de-
liberation. Honest msn-there are
some of that ciass, strange as it seems
in the Legislature began to think that
the Committee had no intention of re
porting any of the bills which had been
referred to it. and moved that the Com.
mittee be requested to report forthwith.
A motion of this kind mads ia the As.
sambly by M. Mslarkey of Humboldt.
was promptly voted down, but it had
the effect OF stirring up the Fourteen.
who inally met last Saturday evening
to take action on what is known as the
"Woodburn BILL" to regulate fares and
freights on the. Virginia & Truckee
Railroad. This bill had been carefully
prepared after tbs officers of the road
and the citizens of Storey county b I'd
been heard on the question of fares and
freights. Twelve of the "Gallant Four
teen" we're present at the meeting. aud
according to the Carson Appeal. one of
them, Comins OF White Pine, moved
to report the bill back to the House
with the recommendation that it do not
pass. BoardmAn of Washoe, moved to
eamend by recommending the passage of
the bill. The motion to amend Was
lost, and the original N otion was car
ried all the members of the Committee
voting for it except Boardman and Viii
liams. Senator Thompson of this
county is a member of the Committee
OF Fourteen. and as hs was present and
voted against recommending thu pass
age of the bill. he of course does not be-
lleve the merchants and business men
of the western part Of the State when
they say the freight charges are exorbi
tant and ask for relief from railroad ex.
tortion. The Legislature is not bound
to abide by the report of the Com.
mittee. and defeat the BILL but uu
fortunately there are too many members
who, on the fimsiest KIDD, of pretext.
will vote against that or any other bin
TO reduce fares and freights. aud the
report OF the Com mittee gives them a
loop hole to crawl through 1t it is re.
markable that men, who as candidates
denouuoe monopolies and proclaim
themselves the peoples champions.
should. as legislators. pay more atten.
ton to the whisperings of an agent of
those monopolies than to the cries for
relief of whole community.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-02-25
TnLEeRAPHIc ITEMS.

| A dispatch from Paris says: Discus
sion on the impeachment question will
probably result in q resolution reciting
that the country by successive votes
has deservedly condemned the acts of
the Ministry of the 18th of May. The
Chamber of Deputies will then pass to
the order OF the day.
Nearly all the Greenbicker elected
to the next House are in Washington.
in consultation. They expect to mum
Der about 30. which will be the balance
of power. According to the present
programme they will nominate one OF
their own number for Speaker and vote
| for him to the bitter end. He can, of
course, only be defeated by the break.
ing up in measure of tbs Republican
and Democratic parties, and in any
event they say the result means sue
cess for the National party hereafter.
The Worlds correspondent says:
The Greenbackers count up their 20
members by including Wright of Penn.
sylvania, Allen aud others. who are
sure to remain with the Democrats.
Besides. the action of the House.
showing large falling of in the anti.
resumption vote. has dampened the
Greenback ardor not little.
A special from Santa Fe, N. NJ, ar .
nounces more trouble 10 Lincoln
county. II. j. Chapman, lawyer. the
head of the McSween faction was shot
dead in front of the Courthouse in
Lincoln.
A Fort Worth special says; On Sun.
day morning the stage hence for Yuma
was halted inside the city limits by
three masked highwaymen, and the
two passengers were compelled to give
up their money. The mailbags were
robbed of fourteen registered packages.
Opposition to the anti Chinese bill is
undiminished, but there is a noticeable
change in the treatment of the subject
by some of the leading papers, growing
out of better understanding on the
question, which Blaine's letter and
Bayard's attitude materially help.
The principal objection now urged by
the Tribune. World aud other leading
journals, is want of consideration by
Congress of all the facts 10 the case,
and of the national honor and interests
involved by the treaty.
T The New York Tribune prints a
three.column letter on the Chinese
question from Senator Bl.in. He
maintains that immigration of Chinese
has not been voluntary; sketches a
dreadful picture of the Chinese quar-
ters ia California; says that there is not
one step toward assimilation; that their
system of labor is blighting. and that a
vast i'm migration is threatened. He
says tina. the outcry that We are violat
ing our treaty obligations is without
any foundation; that the talk about
China closing her ports to our trade is
made onsy by those who do not under.
stand the question; that it is unsafe to
permit here prescribed and disfran.
chised race, aud closed by discussion
of the labor question. He says: II
feel and know that | am pleading the
cause of the free American laborer and
bis children. and of his children g
children. 1t has been we'll said that il
is the cause of the house against the
hovel. of the comforts of freedom
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-02-25

n moss agate mine has been dis
covered ia the upper part of Nevada
county, California.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-02-25
SALT, SALT.
The Desert Salt Company

Is now prepared to furnish choice article OF
MILLING SALT in quantities to suit
at reasonable rates.
ADDRESS ORDERS:-"DEsERr SALT COM
PANy, Browns Station, G. p. r. R.
Nevada au16-73-tf
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-04-03
What Our Presidents Cost,

A correspondent sends to the Boston Her.
aid the following curious calculation: Il
have been calculating the difference between
the expense of supporting President of the
United States at the salaries they have received
since the first Inauguration of Washington
with the sum of $4,000 per year to each
President during his lite, the sum to COM
mence upon his Inauguration day, he receiv-
ing no other pay for his services. The re-
suit is as follows: Salaries from 1889 to 1870,
at 1926, 900 per year, So, 100, 900; from 1878
to 1879, at $50, 900 per year, $500, 900; total,
So, 400, 900. The combined lives of all the
Presidents to this date, dating from their first
Inauguration. amount to 280 years, and at
$4,000 per year it amounts to $4,000. 600.
There being so little difference in the sums
total, while for most of the time the salary
has been but half what it is now, would it not
be better for the country, financially and
morally, and for the Presidents also, if they
each received $40, 900 per year during their
lives, dating from their Inauguration? The
present expense of the Government would be
$4,000 per year instead of $780, 900, and it is
not probable that we should have on an aver
age more than two Ex-Presidents living at
one time, and four would not increase the
present expense. The object of the large sal
ary was clearly for the purpose of giving the
outgoing President respectable competence
to retire upon, and not be driven to mental
labor for support. Would not the above
plan be an Improvement"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-04-03
Chopped m llsic.
[Oliver Wendell HOlmes.]

lOllVer wendell Holmes.
II don't like your chopped music any way
That woman-she had more sense in her little
finger than forty medical societies-Florence
Nightingale, says that the music you pour out
is good for sick folks and the music
you pound out isn't. Not that exactly, but
something like it. have been to hear some
music pounding. 1t was a young woman
who gave the music stool twirl or two and
tluffed down on it like a whirl of soapsuds in
q handbasin. Then she pushed off her cuffs
as if she was going to fight for the champions 8
belt. Then she worked her wrists and hands,
to timber em, l suppose. and spred out her
fingers till they looked as though they would
pretty much cover the keyboard from the
growing end to the little squeaky one Then
two hands of hers made jump at the keys
as If they were couple of tigers coming
down on flock of black and white sheep,
and the piano gave great howl as if its tail
had been trod on. Dead stop-so still you
could hear your hair growing then another
jump and another howl, as if the piano had
two tails and you had trod on both of 'em at
once, and then great clatter and scramble.
and string of jumps, back and forward, one
hand over the other, like stampede of rats
and mice more than anything. I call music
l like to hear woman sing, and I like
to hear fiddle sing, but these noises they
hammer out of their wood and ivory anvis---
don't talk to me. / know the difference be-
tween bullfrOg and wOodthrush :"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-04-03
An Eagle Carrying Off q Pig.

For several days past the resident farmers
in the northwestern portion of this county
have marked the presence of an eagle skim
ming the heights in their neighborhood and
a Mr.. Stringer, Tarrant county knight OF
the gun, anxious to capture this king OF birds,
shouldered his fowling- piece yesterday morn
ing and laid for the bird on the open prairie,
at point about two miles northwest of the
town, where small herd of young pigs were
innocently grazing on the green sward. The
bird came soaring along, and when point
had been reached nearly perpendicular to the
head of the swine, as it were, the old ''Na-
tional" swooped down and around the sur
face of an inverted imaginary pyramid, and
sinking its talons deep in the interior compo-
sition of thirty pound pig, started heaven
ward. The ascension was tedious and slow,
and gave ample time for Stringer to draw a
bead, and when height of thirty or forty feet
had been reached, he banged away and bored
hole clean through our American monstros-
ity. The pig and eagle tumbled tolerably
we'll together to the surface-both dead.-Ft.
Worth (1ecas) Democrat. .-
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-04-03
A Candid Opinion.
detroit Free Press.1

lUetrOlC Free PreSS.l
A Detroit lawyer, famous for his wise and
candid opinions, was the other day visited
by young attorney. who explained:
81 was admitted to the bar two years ago,
and think know something about law, yet
the minute arise to address jury forget
all my points and can say nothing. Now,
want to ask you if this dosn't show lack of
confidence in myself, and how can overcome
it?"
The wise attorney shut his eyes and studied
the case for q moment before answering:
MY young friend, if it is lack of conf
dence in yourself it will some day vanish.
but If it is lack of brains you had better sell
out your Office effects and buy pick-ax and
long handled shovel
but how am I to determine2' p anxiously
asked the young man.
I'D buv the pick.ax anyhow and run my
chances!" whispered the aged advieer, as he
moved over to the peg for his overcast
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-04-03
A New order.
from the Detroit Free Press


The other day, after strapping young mar
market and had taken his team to hotel barr
to ''feed," it became known to the mer
around the barn that he was very desirous Of
joining some society in town. When Ques
toned he admitted that such was the case
and the boys at once offered to initiate him
into new order, called "The Cavaliers o1
Caveo." He was told that it was twice as
secret as Free Masonry, much nicer than
Odd Fellowship, and the cost was only two
dollars. In case he had the toothache he
could draw five dollars per week from the
relief fund, and he was entitled to receive
ten dollars for every headache, and twenty.
five dollars for sore throat.
The young man thought he had struck a
big thing, and after eating hearty dinner he
was taken into a storeroom above the barn to
be initiated. The boys poured cold water
down his back, put flour on his hair, swore
him to kill his mother, if commanded, and
rushed him around for an hour without a sim
gle complaint from his lips When they had
finished he enquired:
''Now I'm one of the Cavaliers of Caveo,
am II" =
''You are, they answered.
''Nothing more to learn, is there %
''Nothing."
'.Well, then, I'm going to lick the whole
crowd!' continued the candidate, and he
went at it, and before he got through he had
his two dollars initiation fee back, and three
more to boot, and had knocked everybody
down We or three times apiece. He didn't
seem greatly disturbed in mind as he drove
out of the barn. On the contrary, his hat
was slanted over, he had fresh five-cent
cigar in his teeth, and he mildly said to one
of the barn-boys:
''Say, boy, If you hear of any cavaliers
asking for Coveo about my size, tell 'em
I'll be in on the full of the moon to take
the Royal Skyfulge degrees"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-04-03
Helena, Montana, Thursday; April 3, 1879.
Enormous Foxes.

There were three passengers on a Dyers
burg stage, and they were entertaining each
other with yarns of trayel-that is, two OF
them were doing the talking. The third, a
clergyman, was rather quiet, and had little tc
say. The takers had been pouring out mar
velous stories of gigantic fish, enormous
snakes, huge mosquitoes, ETC., each trying to
out-do the other in lying-all of which was
evidently for the delectation of the innocen,
and gullible-looking parson. One had just
finished big frog tale, and the twain were
winking at each other and watching its ef-
fects on the preacher, when that individual
aroused himself, and obseryed
''Pardon me, gentlemen; do You see that
cotton-gin on the right, there!"
Yes, they saw the cotton gin.
''You notice that it is run by an old horse
power?"
Yes, they noticed it.
well, that gin was once the property of
old Jason Sanders, great hunter and trap
per in his day. One autumn, right in the
midst of the ginning season, an epidemic
broke out amongst the stock of this section.
Sanders lost everything he had that could
pull his power, and he was forced to stop his
gin with most of his cotton in the seed. Nei-
ther horses, mules DOR steers could he buy;
and-well, sirs, he took to the woods and
caught four immense live red foxes-oh! !
they were giants nothing like them ever seen
before in this countrY-and the very next
day, gentlemen, he"
s'Oh, yes, he made them foxes run his gin.
Well, that is a whopper"
''Tell that to the marines, old man.
Il was going to say, gentlemen, that the
very next day he took those foxes to town
and got a big notice in the paper. l never
heard of his running his gin with them.'
And then the two travellers looked at each
other wistfujly, and then one of them pro-
posed that they get out and walk up the hill.
-Neao York Sun.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-04-03
CONFEDERATE. BONDS.
An Early Bird Sends Forward One to the
Treasury for Future Redemption.

CHICAGO, March 26.-The Inter- Oceans
Washington special says: Secretary Sher-
man to-day received letter from T. w.
Phillips, of North Carolina, inclosing Con-
federate bond for redemption. Phillips is
evidently up to the spirit of the times, and
knows that Confederate Congress is now
sitting in Washington. He writes: Enclosed
please find 81, 200 bond of the Confederate
States of America, issued in accordance with
the 9th section of the act of the Confederate
congress, February 18th, 1864. l desire to
have my bond filed for redemption at some
future day. believe that law, sooner or
later, will be passed making them convertible
into United States bonds. This view is found
ed upon the fact that two.thirds of the men,
bers of the present Senate and House have
been Confederate bond holders. Such law
would produce vast deal Of consolation
among the Southern people, who have been
made destitute by the war. My object in
filing now Is to entitle me to precedence in
time of settlement"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-04-03
why Chinamen's Coats Have Five But.
tons.

Why does the mantle of our national cos
tune have five buttons, neither more nor less?
This number was not fixed upon capriciously,
nor because of fashion. We Chinese wear it
solely that we may keep in sight something
to remind us of the five principle moral vir-
tues which Confucius recommended to us so
earnestly. These are: Jen, q, ly, tche and
sin;; that is to say: Jen, humanity; g, justice;
ly, order; tche. prudence, and SIN, rectitude,
uprightness. You will perceive that humanity
stands before all other virtues. When one
has humanity he knows and feels that the un-
fortunate are to be respected; he does not
add trouble to trouble, sorrow to sorrow, or
misfortune to misfortune a fternoo,a.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-04-03
ONWARD AND UPWARD.

Fellow struggler on life's pathway
Through mlstOrtune's lot you know.
Though your path be rough and dreary,
Sink not meath your load OF woe.
Boldly up and face the future,
One of vast creations heirs,
What though others be before you,
You've right as great as theirs.
Rightly labor and exertion
Forward still to work your way,
Right to view through gloomy present
Promise in the fut IRE day.
Right to call the golden harvests
From the ever-will ne land,
Right to wage the war with fortune,
Stout of heart and strong of hand.
Let not doubt delay your pathway,
LIE: not error dim your sight.
Let not sneers at your endeavOrs
Turn you from the path of right.
What though others tower above you
With the wealth your fathers made,
Spreading out like forest mOnarchs,
Will you perish in their shade?
No-continue our exertions,
Do not linger to despOnd,
Rather burst into the sunlight
Waiting for you far beyond.
"Onward! Upward!' be your motto
Let your gaze be fixed on high
And on honor's Frightening pathway
Hope will bloom and doubt shall die.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-04-03

A woman entered ST. Albans store and
asked the price of beans which stood in a
barrel. Being told, and ever ready for some
excuse for not purchasing. she said: 'Just
look at those black ones!" .Well." replied
the merchant, II ask no more for those than
for the rest" Then turning to some Indian
(hsving previously made bet with his part
ner that he could Ak the price 40 low on one
thing that she wopldn't attempt to beat him
down)replied. lobe cent per bushel, madam" !"
She then wanted % know if II was sifted.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-04-03
/" Boy Wanted.''
From the Detroit Free Press

(From the Detroit Free Press.]
A few mornings since a lady living on
Clifford street answered the bell to find a
bulky boy with an innocant face and peach
coored ears standing on the steps. He ex-
planned that he wanted to see her husband,
and she answered that her husband had left
for his Office.
I'm the boy who sweeps out all the offices
where he is," said the boy as he backed
down the steps, "and this morning found
letter in the big scrap-sack.
Well you can leave it," she replied.
"l-I guess hadn't BETTER" he half-whis-
pered, as he showed the small pink en-
velope
"Boy-that is-boy, let me Sc that letter."
she said as she advanced and extended her
hand.
80, twouldn't be 'zactly right, ma'am,
cause l know he'd gin me fifty cents"
"See here, boy she said as she felt for
the dollar bill left her to buy coffee and tea,
"you take this, give me the letter, and don't
say word to Mr.. about finding it,"
81 don't believe it's much of letter." he
remarked.
money!"
"Mebbe there hain't word of writing in
it, ma am"
Here-give me the letter-now go!"
She took it and entered the house, and the
boy with the peach-colored ears flew down
the street like cannibal going to dinner.
In about forty seconds the woman came
out, looked up and down the street, and the
expression around her mouth was not happy
and peaceful. The boy had seemed to doub
that there was any writing inside the envel-
ope, but she was not quite prepared to tear it
open and find a printed document COM
mencing: Whereas, default having been
made in the conditions of certain mort
gage" etc. She wants to hold another in
tervlew with the lad. If THE meets his eye,
he will please call between the hours of 8 and
10 a. m., when she feels the strongest.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-04-03

After the death of Alderman, Caliph of
Cordova, the following paper was found in
his own handwriting: Fifty years have
elapsed since became Caliph. have passed
riches, honors, pleasures, friends, in short
everything that man can desire in this world.
/ have reckoned up the days in which could
say I was really happy, and they are four
Gen.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-06-07

IN l., maniac.
Usually the .ssaloo1 is credited
with all the dissipation. Yet, liie's
candle is burnt equally fast at either
end in the study. Intense mental
application becomes a passion.
The victims whole life and energy
are concentrated in books, in the
presumed facts and opinions gained
from them, and in giving them ex-
preston by tongue and pen. lie
lives in study, He is with diffic ulty
borne away from it. He begrudges
the time spent elsewhere He is
absent from his family even when in
their sight. His body may be pres
ent, but his mind is absorbed else
where. He eats abstractedly or
with book before him.
This is dissipation. 1t does not
give man bad name, as will
late hours in wickid places, and
midnight orgies, but the result,
sooner or later is similar. 1t is as
much craving after a certain sort
OF excitement, as is granted by the
gaming table. It matters not
whether a mind ia over-driven in
the study, or in rouge ct noir. Both
tend to midni ght oil and exhaus-
ton. The penalty of thea disrepu-
tlble dissipation is no greater than
that of reputable dissipation. Both
alike often lead to insanity. The
daily neglecting exercise, and Sit
ting down Immediately after has
tily bolted meal, to his books, thus
diverting all the spare blood, life
and energy of his system to the
brain, when it should be at work in
his stomach, is equally culpable
with the one daily poisoning him
self with bad liquor. Nature makes
no exception in favor of moral pur-
suits. Good character goes for
naught at her court. She Furnishes
the young divine and the drunkard
in exact proportion according to
the weight of their offences. If re-
terred 20, she can recite many dread
tul warnings among students, di-
vines, inventors and writer's, as
among the reckless and dissipated,
who travel to death by less respect
able roads.