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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-01-04
Revenue Raiders.

The latest reports from the revenue raid
ers in Fentress county, Tenn, are to the
effect that II or IA illicit distiileries h we
been destroyed, and 10 or Y prisoners ar
rested. The raiders are suffering with cold
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-01-04

Ia gale at Aspinwall, on the 10th inst
four vessels were lost and the Pacific Mail
company's wharf with other wharyes, were
damaged to the extent of 100000.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-01-04
Decorating n Tree

Four horse thieves were lynched by the
populace at Corning, Clay county, Ark, on
the 9th
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-01-04

The schooner Charlie Bell was wrecked
at Thumb Gap island, coast of Maine, on
the 2lst inst; four men were lost.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-01-04
A Wrecked Steamship.

The steamer State of Louisiana is on the
rocks at11arne Loeb, and it is feared she
will be lost with most of her cargo.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-01-04
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Assistant Treasurer.
New Cardinals.

+ L. Pierce, Of Boston, has been appoint
ell assistant treasurer of the United States.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-01-04
Foreign

LONDON, December % 80 p NJ
Liverpool wheat market opens very slow
arrivals off coast for orders small.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-01-04

It is stated that twelve new cardinals viii
soon be appointed, three of whom being
foreigners
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-01-04
Wholesale Drowning.

Forty-eight children were drowned by
breaking Of ice on pond at Chapelle
Moche, France, on Christmas.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-01-04
TO LAUGH AT.

weIl-fed hog reused up in his sty
: nd dropped a resretful tear
1.-THE Beautiful Snow has come" he said,
' And Staying viii soon be here.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-06-11
The Wild Boy Of HillsbOr"ugh'

Some three years ago a colored
boy, four years old, the child of
Eliza Spotswond, living on the west
side Of the Marlborough river. near
Rocky Greek, wandered away from
home and was lost. A thorough
search was made for several DAYS
afterwards, hut in vain was the
search, and il was finally concluded
that the child had heen devoured by
alligators, until last week, while
Charley Allen, a colnred man, who
lives 10 that settlement, was out cow
hunting, when he came upon a herd
Of cattle aud discovered II boy fol-
lowing along among them, with his
body covered with hair. So soon as
the cattle became aware that the
hunter was approaching they broke
off towards u hammock, near by,
and the wild boy went jumping and
leaping along With them. We learn
that party went out an last Satur-
day to look for the child and discov-
cred his tracks In several places. but
up to the writing of this he hid not
been captured. 1t seems almost in.
credible to believe that a human be-
Ing could subsist 90 long in the wild
woods without clothes, shelter and
food. but Allen saws it is the same
child.--Tampa (Fla.) Guardian.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-06-11
A Brass Brick Sold for Gold.

An uncommonly smooth trick was
played upon Lawyer Callahan, of
Fayette county, Mo, few days ago.
He was victimized by the "bullion
game" dodge long known but one
that has not been successfully ap-
piled for many years. T. G. Clark, a
trusted employee of the Cooperative
Claim Association of St. Louis, ap-
preached Callahan with the whispered
statement that he knew party who
knew another party that had bull
lion brick worth $4,000. Callahan
nihhled at the bait. Clark introduced
the man from whom he had obtained
the secret. Callahan actually tugged
at the line. Ellison, the second per-
son in the approach, introduced the
lawyer to Captain Allegro, the owner
If the brick, who said bluntly that
the treasure was gotten during the
recent train robberies. Callahan bit
outright. He drew $1,000 in gold
from his bank and passed it to
Allegro, receiving the coveted bullion.
He did remember that "all is not
gold that glitters," but as a similar
il not the same brick was analyzed
in his presence. there was no thought
Of swindle. But Callahan soon
learned that his brick was brass from
the center ont. 1t was an excellent
imitation of a valuable ingot, how
ever. Callahan felt sick at stomach.
He thought he would sneak off and
say nothing about the affair, but de-
cided to have all the parties to the
sale arrested.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-06-11
A Girl Builds Herself a House.

Miss Nettie c. Carpenter, a young
lady from Michigan, had quite an
adventure last Wednesday. She has
taken herself a claim, built thereon
a very neat stone dug out, rooted
with poles and dirt. To keep the
dirt from falling down she put heavy
paper on the under side Of the poles,
and hearing a rattling noise on the
paper she thought that the mice were
TT work. She got the broomstick
and gave the paper gentle tap.
when, instead Of mice as the young
lady thought, she brought down =
kissing viper. His vipership imme-
diately took possession Of the bed
and coiled himself for fight, but he
got more of 1t than he could stand
and had to succnmb to the courage
1T Miss Nettie. He measured four
feet In length. How many Of your
Eastern ladies would have fought
and killed 1t with q broomstick?--
Graham County lKansasl Star. 4.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-06-11

The lottery advertisements in the
New York papers have undergone a
curious change. They no longer an
nounce that such company will
have drawing at future date, but
are constructed after this curious
form, eIts drawings have always
been on the last day of the maath i
whole tickets were only $2:' or, in
another case, "The date fixed upon
has been May 81, whole tickets have
always been g." The object, of
course, is to evade the law against
advertising the sale Of lottery tickets,
on account Of some fear that the
grand jury mean to indict the Of
Tenders, but it would not lie at all
strange il the result should lie to
call Increased attention to the guilty
parties and thus conduce to their
punishment.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-06-11
LYING IN BED.
A Lazy Mans View on the Adj
vantage Of Not Getting Up in
the Morning.

A Lazy Mans View on the Adj
vantage Of Not Getting Up in
the Morning.
Let us analyze this lying in bed a
little further. maintain that, in
the mere fact of lying in bed, there
is something healthy and recuperative
to the system. The wheels of life
are oiled and eased. TIE proper and
legitimate purpose of stopping in
bed is to go to sleep There is moth
ing like sleep. There is no tonic or
medicine in the world like sleep.
The more sleep the brain gets the
better does the brain work. All
great brain workers have been great
sleepers. Sir Walter Scott could
never do with less than ten hours. A
fool may wan: eight hours, as George
III. said, but philosopher wants
niue. The men who have been the
greatest generals are the men who
could sleep at will. Thus it was
with both Wellington and Napoleon.
The greatest speakers in the House
of Commons have been the men who
can go to sleep as much as they like.
This explained the juvenility of the
aged Palmerston. There is II man who
has been Attorney General. whom l
have seen bury his face in his hands
over his desk aid sleep soundly un-
til his own cause should come on.
Z" Sleep" says the Greek proyerb, SIS
the medicine for every disease. If
he sleep he will do WELL" A friend
told me that he treated himself for a
fever. He went to bed with large
pitcher of lemonade by his side.
He drank and slept, slept and drank,
till he drank and slept himself well
again. When you take to your bed
get all the sleep you can out of your
bedstead, even although, to quote
Dick Swiveller's saying, you have to
pay for double .bedded room, con-
Tossing that you have taken u most
unreasonable amount Of sleep out of
single bed. You will be banking
whole store of recuperative energy.
Even if you cannot sleep, still keep
to your bed. There is no more pes
tilent heresy than that you should get
up directly you are awake. If it is
the early riser who catches the worm,
the worm is great idiot in rising
still earlier in order to be caught.
If you do not get sleep by lying in
bed you get rest. You secure the
fallow ground which will hereafter
produce good harvest. Sleep is of
course the proper employment for a
bed, Int if you don't sleep you can
can lie still and read. I don't believe
that the man who gets up really
learns OF does more than the man
who lies in bed. If, for moment,
the writer may be egotistical, some
of the hardest work which he has
ever done has been from the early
dawn till after breakfast in bed.
OF all sleep in the wcrld there is
none so good as what you get, in
the way of treasure-trove, after the
usual time of waking, when, in point
of fact, you have given up the ex-
pectation of getting any more sleep.
AS for being called" as the saying
goes. that Is simply relic of the
barbarism of our ancestors.
should quarrel with any man who
presumed "tO call" me. One Of
main beauties of an occasional day
in bed is that you get an extra stock
of sleep. which goes to the credit
side Of your sanitary account.-Lon-
don Society.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-06-11
MAKING waistcoats at fourteen

-MAKING waistcoats at fourteen
cents each, cheviot shirts at four
cents apiece, heavy overalls at fifty
cents per dozen and wonlen trousers
1t ten cents pair. are some OF the
facts CLEANED by society of ladies
who are investigating the condition
Of the sewing women Of Cleveland,
Ohio. When all the colored people
of Congo are supplied with red fan
mel shirts and all the Madagascarenes
With wooden trousers, few mis-
,ioparies should DO sent to Cleveland.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-06-11

Cfice--At Breed Il Crosby's. North street.
opposite the International. u here passage and
transportation can be secured.
JOHN -. DALLAS. Proprietor.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-06-11
"A FEW DAYS ago y Gilman

A FEW DAYS ago = Chinaman
Of Virginia City, Jealous Of the ut.
tentions paid his wife by a miner,
shot the latter. This incident fur
nishes new insight into the char
acter of the race that must go, as
the opinion has prevailed heretofore
that the Mongolians priced their
females solely in proportion to their
money value for purposes Of f"rni-
cation,
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-06-11


-SOLovIEFF, the Nihilist who
was condemned to death, at st.
Petersburg, few days ago, for an
attempt on the life Of the Gar, de.
MED that he had any accomplices
and refused to employ al advocate at
his trial, giving as bis reason that he
CON nit,sa the crime and knew the
penalty! He listened without any
emotion to the sentence which con-
DENIED him to the gallo~s. What
ever may be thought Of the Nihiilsts
and their practices, it cannot be de-
MED that they behave with the ut
most heroisn,. Such conduct cannot
but end in the triumph Of the prin-
ciples advocated by them. A thou
sand men like Soloviefi, If properly
directed, cuuld reyoluti'nize the
world.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-06-11

THE NEW ADA B NIX,
OF SAN FRANCISCO.
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.
Paid Up Capital. sic. goo, fsa,-Gold
Surplus u. $. Bonds..... o0.We-Gold
DIRECTORS:
LOUIS McLANE............ President
J. c. FLOOD. :..:..:.;.:.; wee resident
JAMES G. FAIR.
Cashier - ... H. W. GLENNY
Agent at Virginia. Nevada -. GEO. A. KING
Agent 4, at IN. New YORK. York. lGEo. L. Bnaspen
ISSUES COMMERCIAL AND TRAVELLERS
Il Credits. available in any part of the world.
Makes transfers of money by telegraph and
cable, and draws exchange at customary
usances.
This Bank Has Special" = acili-
ties for Dealing In Bullion.
EXCHANGE on the principal cities through
out the United States. Europe. Japan. China
and New Zealand. and on Honolulu tHawaiD.
New York BANKERs.-The Bank Of New
York, N. b. A.
LONDON BANKERs.-Messrs Smith, Payne &
Smiths; the Union Bank of London.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-06-11
AN INCORRECT MAP.

The San Francisco Post Of last
Saturday contained full page map
of the mines in the Virginia, Gold
Hill, American Flat, DEVILS Gate
and Chinatown, and Flowery Min.
ing Districts. 1t 10 probably copy
Of the chart published by one Rose,
about = year ago, and is SO replete
with glazing Inaccuracies that it is
almost entirely valueless for refer
esce. Few claims are correctly
shown, while many are omitted al
together. For instance, the Rich
mond, in this district, which adjoins
the Emigrant on the west, is located
on Cherokee ground, and the latter,
(which is owned by Messrs. Flood
and Hobart, and contains bonanza
from which 1000 tons of ore have
been extracted already,) is ignored.
The wide circulation given to this
map by the Post is to be regretted, as
. large portion Of the public will thus
be misled In regard to the correct To-
cation of many mines which will, at
no distan, day. provo very valuable.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-02-07
THE NEW POPEs WAYS.
An Exceedingly Light Diet. Learned,
But not Original.

Rome Letter in Paris American Register.
If the pope continues to work so
much, his days Though they COM
mence at six in the morning and end
at midnight will not be long enough
for all the tasks he sets himself to do.
A Roman paper of authority in the
matter, tells us, that the pope rises,
winter and summer, at six in the morn
ing, and that, after he has celebrated
mass, he breakfasts at seven with cof-
fee and eggs, or chocolate, and that he
does not eat again until three o'clock
when he takes little chicken broth
and boiled chicken, and that is all his
food for the day Ifthat be the case,
the Vatican treasury should surely
suffice, however poor it may be.
At eight o'clock, the pope, says
our informant, receives his secretary
of state, and, after him, other cardi-
mails, ecclesiastics and seculars. Af-
ter his boiled chicken he has his siesta,
which he takes in his armchair. 1--WE
are assured that this lasts no longer
than twenty minutes). After this,
conferences with his under-secreta-
ries, and then he takes walk till
dusk with his cardinals and court
When he is tired he sits down. like
any other mOrtal-but every one else
stands. The pope is very proud of
his literary knowledge, and will bear
no contradiction on that. He speaks
like pedagogue, and, though learned,
has not an original idea in his head.
He has wonderful memory.
and reeites willingly by heart. He
is fond Of Lamartine and Vic
tor Hugo. OH He does not
like newspapers, and reads but few
Of them. He is never without a copy
of the Revue des Deux Mondes, how
ever. He has also large bible in his
study-the one illustrated by Gustave
DOre. In the evening he sees to the
internal arrangements of the Vatican
and here we are told secret, which
is, that he loses his temper, and
scolds his servants like any angry wife. |
(Remember, | only quote another's
Words At 10 o'clock he retires into
his bedroom and reads and writes for
half the night. The other morning.
as, think, | have told you, he was
found asleep at his table. That night
he had not gone to bed at all.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-02-07
A SAD CASE.
The Adventures of a Poor Immigrant In
the Far West.

San Francisco News Letter.
About two weeks ago, as the over
land train was passing Cheyenne, the
attention of the passengers was at
tracted by the lamentatiOn of poor
Irish immigrant, whose berth had been
robbed during the night, and every
penny of his scanty savings stolen,
and whose family would, therefore,
arrive beggars in strange land. The
charitable passengers at once began a
subscription, which finally amounted
to something over $3.50. When the
money had been handed to the suffer
er, piOus, plausible-looking man. in
black and adorned with a white era
vat, drew him aside at one of the
stopping places and said:
My poor man, | am truly sorry for
you. Your sad case touches me deep
ly. am myself well provided with
this worlds goods, however, and so
will give you $3.50 more, Here is a
$500 gold note. Give nae the $3.50 you
have, and keep the rest May heaven
bless you
The poor Irishman did as requested
with many blessings on the generous
stranger, who insisted that his gift
should not be made known. When
the passengers reached this side of the
bay the pious-looking philanthropist
was nowhere to be found, he having
evidently gotten off at Oakland, for
reasons of his own.
The next morning the immigrant re.
paired to a bank to get his note
changed. The teller picked up the
bill and began narrowly examining it.
"There-there is nothing wrong
with the bill, is there?' gasped the
poor fellow.
Now, the clever reader has seen all
along what was going to happen He
has read lots of Just such incidents as
this. 1t is the old, old story. Well,
we II see about that.
Nothing in the world is the matter
with it, said the teller quietly, and
he handed the man fifty tens. That
ended it.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-02-07
The CinIler Dispatches.

New YORK, February 6.-Investi
cation into cipher dispatches was be-
gun to-day, with Manton Marble on
the stand. He said in answer to ques-
tions II went to Florida to look after
the electoral vote l cannot say that
| went under instructions of the Dem
ocratic committee; | did not go at the
specific request of any one had no
conversation with Governor Tilden on
the matter; | called on the governor
the evening | left, and simply bade
him goodbye; on my way / met Ran
dolph, Blair and Fox, and of course
canvassed the matter with them +;
think got cipher from PeltOn at the
Everett House, and used it subse-
quently; neither sent nor received
from Tilden any kilograms; ad-
dressed my dispatches to Pelton /;
my object in going to Florida was to
take care of the electoral vote and let
me here suggest that the cipher dis
patches, as published in the Tribune,
so far as | am concerned, are simply
rubbish.
Q.-Give the committee a general
idea of what you did in Florida.
Al have already published state
ments of what | did and did not do /;
one of my statements was published in
January year ago the other rub-a-
dub was published in the Tribune
for months. What | did not
do was to buy Florida votes, and
they were for sale; ! would like to
submit these letters if the committee
has no objections.
Mr.. Reed have decided obiec-
ton.
The Chairman-Then they are ruled
out.
Mr.. Stenger-I can't see the force
of the objection of the member on the
other side Beyond a doubt on the
cross-examination they will require
the witness to state all he knows
about these letters and probably make
him read them verbatim.
The Chairman-Mr Marble, have
you copies of the kilograms you sent
from Florida?
Answer have not; they were
published at the time, and | would
prefer if you will, to take them as
published.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-02-07

THERE is growing feeling all over
the State that a law is needed to make
tax titles good. The necessity for
some change in the present law is rep
resented in the immense lists Of delin-
quent taxpayers. The State officers
go through the farce every year of
bidding in property sold for taxes.
This makes costs but brings in no
revenue and makes no titles. The
State merely has a lien upon the prop
erty, which must be paid off before it
can be transferred. We have reached
a period Of resumption and hard
pan, to use a modern phrase, and can
begin to lay plans for the future.
Times will gradually though slowly
improve. In many States a tax title
is considered one of the best that can
be made, and in such States taxes are
paid promptly 1t would be hard
ship upon some whose taxes accumu-
lated in a period of imitation and Of
high assessments, to be forced to pay
up at once. This class could be pro-
vided for by allowing them longer
time in which to pay, and also the
privilege of paying all or part in bonds,
coupons or other evidences of public
Indebtedness Merchants and others
who pay privilege taxes are compelled
to pay promptly because their proper
ty is accessible and can be sold with
out the privilege of redemption or a
distress warrant. Real estate should
be made to pay its proportion of the
burdens Of government, and whenever
this is done, real estate will go up in
value and all classes will be benefited.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-02-07
River Telegranls.

EVANSVILLE, February CLEAR.
Thermometer 32'. Departed - Rob
ert Mitchell, Gam Virgie Lee, 10.
The U. P. Schenck lays over till 9
and cleans up freight
CAIRO, February 7.-Arrived-City
of Alton, st, Louis, 9 am; Maude,
st. Louis, 2 am; Golden Crown, Gin
cinnati, 3; Durfee, Pittsburg, 5;
Charles Morgan, New Orleans, Z; Iron
Mountain, Ohio river, 8. Departed
Alton, New Orleans, midnight; Col
den Crown, New Orleans, 4 am;
Durfee, St. Louis, Z; Morgan, Gin
cinnati, 8; Vicksburg, noon. Weather
clear and cool.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-02-07
THE BLACK DEATH.
The Plague Which Has Reappsared in
Russia.

New York Times.
The black death, which has again
appeared in some parts of Russia, has
proved very destructive, and caused
the greatest alarm This is the same
disease which, in the fourteenth cen
tury, desolated the globe, and it gets
its name from the black spots, symp-
tomato of a putrid decomposition,
that show themselves at one of its
stages ON the skin of the sufferer. 1t
is thought to have had its origin in
China in 1888, some fifteen years
before its outbreak in Europe,
and it ragged for twenty-five years,
while drouths, famines, floods, earth
quakes that swallowed towns and
mountains, and swarms of locusts
spread devastation everywhere. Dur
ing the same period Europe had as
many abnormal conditions as the East.
The order of nature seemed to be re-
versed The seasons were at various
times inverted thunder storms were
frequent in mid-winter, and volcanoes,
long considered extinct, burst forth
afresh. The theory is that the extra
ordinary activity on the earth. accom-
panied by decomposition of vast
organic masses-myriads Of locusts.
brutes and bodies Of human beings
produced some change in the atmos-
phere inimical to life. Some writer's
say that the impure air was actually
visible as it approached with its bur
den of death The plague owed its
extension almost wholly to infection
and eontagion. Three years passed
from the date of its appearance in Con
stantinople before it crept by huge
circle TO the Russian territories.
Statistics we're not obtainable then,
but it is estimated that in China alone
130O0,O0O people died, and in the re-
mainder Of the East 4,0O0,O00, while