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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-10-22
How Mushrooms Grow.

Mr.. Julius A. Palmer, Jr., writes to
the Boston Transcript: A few years
ago the banks of the lot opposite the
Brunswick Hotel, this city, were sodded
and the landl eveled to its present
grade. AS the pick of the work
man broke up the soil, a white
substance ran through every piece.
Starting with large branches, it
divided and subdivided like the veins
on the back of the hand. The smell was
very strong, quickly noticed on the op.
posite side of the way. This subter-
ranean white vein-for it had that ap-
pearance-was nothing but the hidden
part of the C0TpTG'1xS cOindtuS, a mush-
room freely eaten now, although twenty
years ago thought to be poisonous. The
common name of this substance is
spawn" Just as a cutting of the grape
vine placed in conditions favorable to
growth will shoot up, put forth branches
and bear fruit, so part of this COTpripuS
vine transplanted will continue to
ramify and in time show the result in
the form of mushrooms. The whole
earth beneath your feet, on a country
walk, is alive with vegetation to great
depth. This vegetation is just as real,
and the various vines-Or, in other
words, the thousand varieties of mush-
room spawn-are just.as distinct as the
hopvine and the woodvine, the ivy and
the virgins bower that twine their
tendrils above your head. Just where
grew this year a peculiar kind of toad
stool, there, next year and so on for sue
cessive harvests, will you find the same
plant. There is no more mystery about
its appearance than in the growth fthe
chestnut on the tree that shades it.
Rapidity ofgrowth is not near as general
as it is thought to be. The common
mushroom and many others form for
days just below the soil. A heavy dew
or an evening shower straightens the
stem of the fungas and expands it's top.
1t breaks the earth in the night, and the
gatherer is able to find in the morning
the white buttons where he could see
nothing the night before. So, popular
error has made mushroom growth pro-
verbal for a supericiality which by the
fungi at least is undeserved. Further,
the various varieties of toadstools sue
ceed each other in rotation Just as the
bloodroot and anemones of spring are
followed by the roses of summer and
the cardinal or gentian of fall. These
are not theories that are here advanced; :;
they are the results of several years.
careful watching of the growth of this
order of plants. On the very spot where.
in 1874, gathered mushrooms, there, in
1879, I find the identical variety, so that
the lover OF fungus may have his regular
harvest with all the certainty of the
farmer who looks for the return of his
wheat crop or the results ofhis cranberry
culture. With just that degree of GER
tainty, no more and no less, for, as cer-
tain years are favorable for the produc.
tion of certain fruits, as the potato crop
sometimes fails and the apple orchard is
barren, so the mushroom spawn, usu-
ally producing abundantlyits expected
variety, may pass year, or even under
difficulties become extinct. The blight
which may visit all life, animal or vege-
table, does not fail to fall at times upon
my humble friends.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-10-22

The Fall of the Year.

Oh! the elms are yellow,
The apples are mellow,
The corn is ripe in the ear;
The birds leave off nesting,
The earth begins resting,
Because 'tis the fall o. the year.
The crickets are calling,
The red leaves are falling,
In the field the stubble is sere;
The day of the clover
And wild bee is over,
Because tits the fall o. the year.
Since summer is fitting,
Dear friend, it is fitting
The heart should make double cheer;
So let us go smiling
With love life beguiling,
Because tits the tall o. the year.
Mrs. NJ. f. Butts, in Boston Transcript.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-10-22

1t is estimated that American travel
ers expended last summer, in foreign
travel, Sl7,000,0OO.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-12-20

There now lives near Dahlonega,
Cherokee county, Georgia, two chill
dren who have no such seemingly
necessary things as veins. They are
the step-children Of George GAYLE,
who married the widow Montvale.
The popularity was inherited not
from their mother, but from their
grandmother, who was also veinless.
The slightest scratch causes copl-
Gus flow of blood. There were three
of the children until about two weeks
ago. when one of them bled to death
from an abrasure of the skin. The
surviving children are in perfect
health. This is very tall story,
but the Dahlonega Mountain Signal
swears to its truthfulness.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-12-20
A Touching Story.

This touching story was told by
Eastman Johnson to our correspond
ent in Nantucket: ON a narrow is.
land near the New England coast,
where primitive customs still obtain,
were the crier goes about the streets
by day and the Waterman by night,
where they dispose of surplus meat
by auction and the merry maiden
and the tar 60 junketing together in
an ancient calash, lives an old lady,
Auntie B. The same roof has
sheltered three generations of her
family, and it would require little
less than an earthquake to dislodge
her from her seat by the old fash
toned fire place. There she sits, a
picture of peace aud contentment.
Haven't you single regret IN your
whole lifew we asked her once. She
dropped her knitting, and dreamy
look crept ever her placid eyes.
"Yes," she said at length, ~ have.
Ten years ago, when my dear dead
sister was alive, man with hand
organ came to this island by steamer.
OH he could play beautifully. He
came near our street, and my sister
says to me, let us go down to the
corner and hear him play Well, do
you know, I didn't go after all, but
she said 1t was just splendid, and l
suppose l shall regret not hearing
that hand-organ to my dying day"
Aud the dear old soul dropped tear
on the half-heeled stocking.--East-
ern Magazine.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-12-20

TIE publication of an article
headed Rumors of failures" 10 the
Virginia Chronicle of last Thursday
evening, was timely. During the day
quite a number of SiIverites who had
been to Virginia brought doleful sto-
RES of the great number of failures
reported there. As we recall them
now, they referred to q hardware
dealer, a groceryman, druggist,
two stock brokers, one liquor house,
. bank, . clothing store. and an as
sortment Of persons and establish.
msnts representing about a dozen
branches of business. The feeling of
dependency caused by these reports
may be imagined. For few hours
the Silverites really believed that the
bottom had at last dropped
out of the Comstock." When the
Chronicle came, however, that
feeling gave way to more
hopeful one. Aud although more
failures are looked for unless stocks
recover soon, the community is bet
tor prepared to hear Of them, and
their announcement will not have q
very dlsquleting effect. AS to the
stockbroking Arms referred to above
the TINES ia Of the opinion that
their failure 10 next to impossible.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-12-20
SOMEBODY connected with

-SoMEBoDY connected with the
Grant Club at Pittsburg has been
playing q joke on the old commander
which he must have despised some.
A copy of the constitution Of the
club, which declares the intention to
make Grant President again, together
with printed notice, asking contri:
buttons and notifying the recipient of
his election as a member Of the club,
were sent to General Grant at Galena,
The ex President seems to have dis
covered that somebody was having
some fun on his account, for he sent
u felicitious note, written by his own
hand, to the Secretary Of the club.
He said that "the Grant Club pream-
BILE is 90 personal to myself that I
think good taste requires that I
should decline the membership which
has been so kindly voted. But may
he able to meet some of the members
during my proposed visit to Pitts
burg" Officers Of Grant Clubs ought
to be careful how they ask modest
man like Grant to contribute money
to elect himself to the Presidency.
He has no barI.-Phils Times.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-12-20
why Don't Our Ranchers Try lit

DR.. Collyer, the chemist of the ag-
ricultural department, referring to
the experiments which have been
made in making sugar from Indian
corn and sorghum, said the other day:
IF Congress will give me ten acres
of ground to experiment on next sea-
son, I will return twenty tons Of raw
sorghum sugar fully equal to the
best raw cane sugar or forfeit my rep
utation; that is two tone to the acre,
and is a much better result than
they reach on the average in Louis
lana with the sugar cane" 1.-THE
corn crop of Illinois, for example,"
said DR.. Collyer, ais worth about
$75, 900 annually. If they will
devote one-tenth of the acreage to
sorghum, of the variety best suited 70
that latitude, they can raise sugar in
amount equal to our whole Imports
ton, which is about 500, 900, 900
worth, and even this will only equal
80 per cent. of the most favorable of
my experiments"
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-12-20
Business and Politics.

Mr.. Samuel J. Tilden and Mr.. John
Sherman are directors of the same
railway company, and they seem to
have got pretty we'll acquainted with
each other. II is Mr.. Tlden's calm
judgment that Mr.. Sherman Is . ras-
oal, and M. .eherman has an ;un-
pesiudiesd bslisf that Mr.. Tilden Is
mt 70 b. Arustsd. 1t 10 . cheer
III sort Of contemplation for the
country that both of these men ex.
pset 10 b President Of the United
Atee.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-12-20
AYoUrHFUL INcENDIARY.

A Girl Of sixteen Setting Fire to
Farm.Houses, in Order to Meet
Her Lover.
A curious affair has just come be-
fore the Cour daisies at Versailles,
France, an affair vraiment roman
esque. During many weeks the news
papers of Paris gave information Of
repeated fires IN the commune OF Au-
vers. They we're evidently the work
OF incendiaries, and the police were
set diligently to work to find the
criminals. Their search resulted
finally in the arrest of young girl
of sixteen, Clemence Blossier, q sew
ing girl Of Auvers.
The motive which led to her wanton
destruction of property is ono that
every one will recognize as particu-
larly inflammnble one-love. 1t
seems that this girl of sixteen was
madly in love with youth of her
own age named Albert Romaru, q la
borer in neighboring village. The
girls parents had forbidden her to
see her lover, and the two had great
difficulty even In managing a clan
destine correspondence. 1t was this
obstruction to the course OF love that
gave the girl the extraordinary idea
of setting fire to farm houses and hay
stacks. The alarm was given, bells
rang, neighbors ran to the scene.
Albert Romaru ran too, met the
young girl in the throng and fled
away with her to neighhoring for
est, where they passed hours together
while the FIRE worked its ravages.
Six times in six weeks there were
m ysterious CONGREGATIONS in Auvers.
Six times 10 six weeks the lovers fled
to the little woods, and the farmers
Of the commune paid fer lighting
their love- making 10000 francs. But
finally, one fine night, just as Glenn.
ence was thrusting lighted matches
into the hay-stack of one of the neigh.
bors, a strong hand was laid upon her
shoulder, and she was led away a
prisoner. She confessed all imme-
diately, and has been condemned to
ten years of hard labor.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-12-20
A BAD START.

Two Of the FIRST stocks called at the
initial session of the new Chicago
Mining Exchange, few days ago,
were Leviathsn and Original Key
stone. These stocks are hardly con-
sidered worth having here. The
Leviathan claim IL located over the
abandoned workings of the Belcher
(probably on q stringer from that
mine), and the Original Keystone is
pndeyeloped. This is bad start,
and one which is not calculated to
benefit Comstock stocks.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-12-20
Boarding Thirty Years for $500

Bernard Dor.n IS the Oldest llti-
CANT in the country. He was born
in County Tyrone, Ireland, on JAM
uary Z, 1878. When he was 70 years
of age he gave Terrence ]. Duffy,
landlord of his New York house,
5000, under the agreement that he
should be permitted to live in the
house free of rent for the remainder
of his days. Duffy took the money,
because he thought old Bernard
would die in year or so. But since
then Duffy himself has died, and his
heirs recently endeavored to make
the old man pay rent. Though lO7
years old be attended court and won
his case.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-12-20
0wINe to the great increase

OWING to the great increase
in the price of paper and rag stock
and chemicals, all the paper makers
throughout the States have been
obliged to advance their papers from
! to . cents per pound, and late ad-
vices from New York state that an
other raise may be expected within
. few days. We advise ell printers
who are in . position 70 do 90, to
purchase and lay in . good supply
of paper At once.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-12-20
THE EUREKA PULP ASSAYS.

VIM. Rose writes to the San Fran.
cisco Daily Exchange q letter from
which We quote:
The Eureka mine, at q depth of So
feet shows q ledge 16 feet in width,
the pulp from the battery assaying
1108 20. The Chieftain, at depth
Of 200 feet, has a fine ledge % feet
in width, which mills $28 to $50.
The Gold and Silver Terra, in the
ahaft, 80 feet in depth, prosecuting
the ledge will commence as soon as
D. F. Verdenal returns from the
East; the ore carries more silver
and IL fine grain. The Como, Jacket.
Con. Como, Sunrise, Star of the
West and Crosus mines are of equal
richness.
The pulp asssying sos 2al These
figures do not agree with those Of
the Enterprise, to-wit: SIT; nor with
those Of the TAXES, to-wit: from SIS
to $se. Bat the papers named are
nevertheless correct. No good can
accrue to the camp from mis- state
mests by interested parties. The
TINES will endeavor to further the
legitimate interests Of Como to the
full extent of it's ability; but it will
not permit grossly exaggerated state
ments to 60 uncontradicted.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-12-20
Suing for Damages by Vigilantes.


All tie well-to- do citizens of Will
son precinct, Colfax county, Nebras-
ka, have been sun mon ii to appear
in the United States Court at Omaha
AS defendants in a suit brought by
Martin c. Daily. In June, 1875, one
hundred of the citizens in question,
constituting the vigilance committee
for the precinct, appeared at the
house of Daily, who was a new set
tier, and ordered him to leave the
county within three days upon peril
of his life. Daily has established
the fact that he had nothing to do
with the crime of which he was sus-
pected and now sues for $4,000 dam
ages.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-12-20
MINING AND ENGINEERING.

II MOsHEIMER, IN SAN FRANCISCO.
eDs in cooperation with . Society OF I'm
Rineers, Ia publishing monthly journal, THE
ENGINEER OF THE PACIFIC, devoted 70
the advancement Of Mining. Engineering. Ne.
chsnicsl Arts, eto. II 10 conducted on strictly
scientific principles and The price, y y ~
yeaS.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-12-20
TIE Eureka papers are wrei

-TBE Eureka papers are wrest-
ling With the following problem.
II . courthouse, the contracted
price of which is $e2, 900, costs, when
half finished 81, 500, What will q
complete courthouse costa
Al courthouse 10 in course of
erection in Eureka, 1t is evident, from
the above, that that county il being
:" Burked."
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-12-20
-HoN. r. NJ. DAoGErr ,

-HoH. r. n. DAeoErr will
please accept our thanks for a copy
Of the Statutes of the United States
passed at the first session Of tho
Yorty-Sixth Congress. Also, for sun
dry other documents of public inter-
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-12-20

AwEEK In your own town, and no
capital risked. You can give the
business . trial without expense.
The best opportunity ever offered for
On nRthose willing TO work. You should
OOOtry nothing else until you see for
yourself what you can DO at the
business we Offer. no room to ex-
plain here. You can devote all your
time or only your spare time to the
business. and make great pay fol every hour
that you work. Women make o. much ~ men.
Send for special private terms and parttcu'
lars. which we mail free. IS Outht free.
Don't complain OF hard times when you have
such . chance. Address H. HALLETT q co..
Portland, Maine.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-12-20
Mlddle.Aged Men.

There are many at the age Of thirty to sixty
who are troubled with too frequent cvacus.
ton Of the bladder. often accompanied by .
slight smartinR or burning sensation and Q
weak ming Of the system In = manner the
patient cannot account for. On EXAMINING
the urinary depos In . ropy sediment viii
often be found and sometimes small particle
OF alhnmen will appear, or the color will b.
OF thin milkish hne. again changing to ,
dark and torpid appearance. There are many
men who die Of this dim ulty. ignorant OF
the cause. which Ia the second stage Of semi.
nal weakness. DR.. b. will guarantee perfect
cnre In all such cares, and healthy restoror-
alton Of the genito. urinary organs.
ONCE haurs-l0 10 I and q TO q. Sundays
from 10 10 II A. n. Consultation free. Thor.
ongh examination and advice Is, Call OF
address w
DR.. sPlMNEY 4 Co... u
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-12-20
DIR. SPIN N e Y,
No. ~ kearny Street.
Treats All Chrome and Special Disease
Young Men

WHO MAY be SUFFERING FROM THE
w effects Of youthful follies or indis-
cretion, will do we'll to avail themselves Of
this. the greatest boon ever laid at the altar
Of suffering humanity. DIR. SPINNEY viii
guarantee to forfeit $500 for every csse o,
seminal weakness or private disease for ever,
kind of character which he undertakes and
fails TO cure.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-12-20

A contract made with . minor is
yoid.-Ex.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-12-20
AGENTS WANTED
To introduce in every County In the United
The History Of the Bible.

Tho best work 10 sell that has ever been pub
lished. Splendid Premium 90 every
Subscrtbcr. For circulars and terms sp-
ply 1t once 10
vhe Henry Bill Publishing Co.,
Il, As and Is Shetucket st., Norwich, Ct.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-12-20

A stout backbone 10 as essential to physical
health % to political cons stency. For weak
ness Of the back and disorders OF the liver
and kidneys, the tonic and moderate dietetic
sction OF the Btters Is the one thing needful.
Remember that the stomach IL the maiDstsy
OF every other organ. and that by invigorstine
the digestion by this preparation. the spinal
ened.
For Hostetter's ALMANAC for 1880 spply 10
Druggists and Dealers generally.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-12-20
VIRGINIA, COMO & SUTR0


IAN AND AFTER THIS DATE, WILL
Orun Concord coaches from sutro to VIZ.
eiuia. by way Of Dayton. Silver. and doia
Hill. in the morning. returning the same way
in the afternoon.
On the morning trip tho coach will leave
sutro At 7as, Layton about 7As. Silver
about $50, and arrive In Virginia about s'U
O'Clock.
In the afternoon the coach will leave VIZ
einis At s, silver At quarter to 6, and Dayton
At hal. past 6, arriving at sutro At O'Clock.
sIReturning, coach will leave virginia
on the arrival Of the express. arrive At sutfo
about l2A5 O'Clock. and leave for VIZ
s,pis about 80 O'Clock, arriving there sooai
half. past 4 O'Clock.
FOR COMO.
The Como coach will leave Dayton daily. a.
o'clochA n. returning in time 20 connect
with the afternoon stage for virginia.
The coaches have been fitted up specially Tor
me. and are the most comfortable on the route.
FARE TO VIRGINIA.
Fl m Sutro. 81 SO.
From Dayton, 81 rs.
From Silver, SO cents.
From silver To Gold Hill. 30 cents.
From Gold Hill. rs cents.
Parcels carried at nominal rates.
ROUND rRIr RATA.
From Sntro TO virginia and lack. " 30.
From DAYTON g. Virginia and back. ~
Tick r., good until used. sold At either emu
OF the line
yRon IA Oyvrcx-At Ailman's. next door
to Wells. Fargo b Co.'S, on South street.
surno OFFICIAL Ryan Reardon's saloon,
Florence avenue.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-13

The following are the transfers of real
estate from noon Saturday to noon to-
day:
Jas. and Ann Palmer to Geo schlenk, y
acre on the west side of the Cincinnati and
Harrison Pike, northwest quarter of Sec
ton So, Green Township; 500.
Nancy Palmer to same, qultclam to same
premises; 500.
Executor of Henry Schmidt to Anna L.
Huge, lot 23H by 80 feet, on the west side
of Sycamore street, so feet north from
Webster street; amount of purchase money
not stated.
M ]. Belts ct al, per Master Commission
er. to Geo. Hoadly, Lots Nos. A, G, II
B. II G, 40 A, 40 B, 27 A, 81 c, of the subdi-
vision of Jonathan Lyons estate, Walnut
Hills; S3,0 ,001 O2.
Trustee of Rensselaer, W. Lee to Mathew
Ryan ct al. leasehold estate, lot % by III
feet on west side of Broadway, 265 feet
north from Court street, $500.
Juliana Hermann ct al, per Master Com
missioner, to Peter Schmidt, 25 by l40A
feet on west side of Central avenue, 6lH
| feet north Of Findlay street; 1921, 1873 "a.
Assignee of August Seigman to George
Schrauder, quitclaim to 20 by 80 feet on
south side of Elder street. 40 feet east from
Elm street; 50, 200.
los, Ewald to Jos. A. Meyer, quitclaim
+o leasehold estate, 25 by SO 65-100 feet on
south side of Browne street, 122 100 feet
cast from center Of Freeman avenue; $3.50.
Franz w. Luebbing and wife to Moritz
Eichler, s. by 1873 14-l00 feet on northeast
side of Clifton avenue, 52 ieet northwest
from Currie street; S2,6oo
Elijah James Wood ct al, per Sheriff, to
Robert II. Wood, SO 70-l00 by 5i1 $4,000
feet on south side of Central avenue, 500
feet west from Clifton avenue, Clifton;
81, $50. VI,
Robert H. Wood ct al, per Sheriff, to W.
Schatfer "a 97-100 by 300 feet, on west side
of Clifton avenue, $50 feet south from Cen
trail avenue Clifton $3, 1870.
Carl and Johanna Z. Bensehausen ct al.
ner Master Commissioner to Z. E. Faber
acres in the southern part OF northeas
quarter of Section 3, Green Township
$1,000. ,,. r,,..,o. D uo,
land so by 300 feet, on southeast corne
Finton and Kinkad streets, paramount
$500. .,o.1;a.
so by 100 feet on north side OF ArDlgus
Road, so feet east from Marshall street, Cor
ryville; $3 800: ..... o;,,o.
five years lease OF premises oh hol VI GO
corner of Freeman and SGest streets
monthly rent $56.
Emelne A. Buckingham, per specia
Master Commissioner to Jane Cooper
Ga 3S-100 acres, southeast corner of Sectiol
u 4, Sycamore Township 81, l0O
). Susan Vannatta to Patrick Kelley, II b.
1870 feet, on east side of Main street, bein
Lot No. G and part of No. OF Chamberli
: & Cranes subdivision Of Springfield; &O(
Abigail Bernard to Jonathan Ogden, a
by 4O6 feet, on south side of Richmon
street, at southeast corner of first alley we'
e from Mound street; $4,000.
e Edward r. Tischler to Albert f. Tischle
50 by 1856 feet, on north side of Spence