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The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1879-12-27

The litigation sbont the Lick sssate
was terminated by deoieion rendered
by the supreme Court of California on
the 18th instant. Under this decision
John II. Lick, son Of the late Jas. Lick.
will get 1886, 900 moro than his father
intended he should have, and the sum
must come out Of the residue bsqueathsd
to the Society of California Pioneers and
the Acadamy of Sciences. leaving the
other bsqussts clear and available. These
are the following in the order of their
magnitude: Seven hundred thousand
dollars for an observatory on Mount
Hamilton; $40. 900 for School Of Me.
ohanioal Arts in San Francisco; $4,000
for free baths in San Francisco; 500, 1000
for an Old Ladies' Home In San Fran
cisco; 100000 for bronze statuary in
the San Francisco City Hall; $4,000 for
= bronze monument in the Golden Gate
Park; $25, 900 each to the San Francisco
Orphan Asylum, the San Francisco
Ladies' and Relief Society, and the San
Jose Orphan Asylum; $4,000 each to
the Mechanics Institute to buy scientific
and industrial books. and to the Society
for tho Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
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The Jews in Palestine.

The Turks are surprised (writes a
correspondent of the Philadelphia Press
from Constantinople) at the interest
which the Jews have of late manifested
in Palestine. That a people should
abandon the most favored regions of
Europe and seek a permanent abiding
place in this, the most sterile and des-
Olate part of the Turkish Empire, is
something that passes their compre-
hension. Whatever the Holy Land
may have been in the scriptural age, it
is now tor the most part, a dreary,
barren land, scantily supplied with
water, treeless, thinlY covered with
verdure, and subject to frequent drouths
and famines. Since the disappearance
of the forests, the springs and water
courses have dried up, the soil has
been washed off the mountain slopes,
and tracts once celebrated for fertility
have been converted into naked wastes.
There is no shade for the wayfarer or
for the herds. On all sides the pros
pect is of the gloomiest. 1t seems to
be, what it is, land wasted by fire
sword, and natural cOnvulsions. I'M
doubtedly, the ancient land of Canaan,
bIbNGCn lllb lOOb vi lllC anu
the sea, yet yields fair crops, but even
its productive pOwerSare gradually be-
ing exhausted, and few and far be-
tween are the hamlets and farms that
dot its surface. Whoever emigrates to
Palestine must expect to battle with
the most tickle of climates, to undergo
hardships of every kind, and to lead a
life of poverty and suffering. Whether
or not the sacred associations of the
country may compensate for all these
trials is another question. Jerusalem
itself is one of the most wretched
cities of the Turkish Empire. 1t is
built on the summit of an elevation in
a wilderness of a rock. Hardly tree
can be seen from its walls. On all sides
the prospect is bleak and sombre.
Famine and despair seem to perpetu-
ally besiege it. Within its walled
circuit there is but little movement.
The shops are rare and meanly fur
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forth saving hand for theml All he
wished was liberty-to be free to 90
back to the home of his fathers, TO bury
his dead there, to build and labor and
to live and die there. He saw before
him the example of the whites, he
asked only the poor privilege of being
permitted TO follow it, and earn liv-
ing as honest as the words he spoke
for himself and his by the labor of his
own hands. He admired, wherever he
was, the works of the civilization of
the whites. He likes to watch them at
their labor-to see them plow and
build-to see their children learn to
read and write. And for the truth of
his every word he appealed to the God
of the white men, before whom, with
uplifted hand, he had taken solemn
oath. Such was the simple yet perfect
and irresistible logic of this "poor In
dian whose untutored mind" though
it comprehended not the processes,
leaped to the same humane conclusions
as to those to which the eloquent
speech of the learned advocate irresist-
IDLY tended. We present literal
transcript of this interesting speech-a
speech historical, for it is the first, as
Judge Dundy remarked, ever made by
an Indian before q Federal court of
Justice. .- omaha ReDubLicdn.
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nishcd with goods, and there is a scant
supply of animal and vegetable food.
Nowhere is there such bitterness of
feeling as between the many religious
sects that strive for mastery within its
precincts. There is no community of
feeling among the Christians. They
hate each other intensely, while the
Turks despise them all as so many dogs.
1t is the meanest representative city of
modern humanity in the world, and the
last place to which one can go to for
tify his faith as a Christian. There is
no denying the fact, however, that of
late years passion for emigration to
their ancient capital has developed it.
self among the Jews in all parts of
Europe. Every year since the Crimean
war they have been pouring into Pales-
tine. Though thousands have perished
by fever and famine, the cry is 4" still
they come" The great body of them
live on the charity funds raised by the
Rothchilds, Montefore, and other rich
Jews. They have tried to check the
tide of emigration, but in vain. 1t
flows on in unabated volume, and
more extensive, consequently, is the
misery of this stranger population. In
my opinion Palestine is nearly past re-
demption. 1t would take o century to
repair the ravages of war and nature,
to cloth its hills with soil, to replenish
the beds of its ancient streams with
water, to repel the invading sands of
the desert, and to restore the fertility
of its plains. There can be no security
also for the settler as long as the Arab
is allowed to plunder and murder at
will. Palestine is q wasted land that
ages only can regenerate. 1t has few
facilities for commerce, and its agricul-
tural resources are of the poorest. 1t
will never cease, however, to be a con-
secrated land in the eyes of Jews and
Christians, and a shrine to which pill
grims will repair from all parts of the
world. 1t has little else to recommend
it than its associations, but they are of
a character to commendit to universal
sympathy. Pity that it could not be
delivered from the Turkish yoke and
placed under the protection of powerful
Christian States which would make it
a safe dwelling place for men of all
races and religions.
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A Historic Scene and Speech.

The hearing of the Ponca ha6eas
corpus case has been one of the
most interesting in the history of our
courts. 1t was interesting not only
from the novel point of law involved
or, rather the novel application of prin-
ciples as old as English law-but it was
interesting in the circumstances sur
rounding the cause and in the pictur-
esque features of the occasion. The
five Indians there-the three chiefs
the "noble dame," with the presence,
the visage and the air of n Roman
matron-and the little grandson fondly
held by her-formed a striking picture.
Still barbarians in speechn they had
for the most part the dress, the ways
and more than the dignity of the whites.
The traditional Indian stolidity was
wanting. Their countenances and their
actions responded to the passing emo
tions of the hour. When Standing
Bear was giving his testimony, and was
relating the pathetic story of their os-
tracism, want, sickness and death, and
came to where he told how he was
bearing the bones of his dead boy to
bury them in his native country's soil
his wife, Susette, broke down, buried
her face in her handkerchief, and wept;
and how bitter must these tears have
been, shed by an Indian woman before
the curious eyes of strange white men.
Remarkable for the contrast presented
was the session on Saturday evening,
with the learned, elaborate and elo-
quent plea of the great attorney, fol-
lowed by the simple but impressive
speech of the old chief. Yet the latter
will not be found wanting in the ele-
ments of a just and effective plea. 1t
gives with a few simple but decisive
strokes-like the lines from the master
hand of some heayen-born artist-the
whole case of these people. In the
speaker, his race stood before the
law of the land. He did not come
from out the woods but from Gods
hand, and he had remained where
God had placed him. Then comes the
hand of power that takes him away
against his wIll-took him and cast
him into the fires of n burning climate,
where scores and scores of them died.
Escaping from land of death, of idle
ness, they seek TO return TO liberty and
TO labor. The law puts its hands on
them as frost had put its icy finger on
white men whom, in years past, the
humane chief had found dying alone.
He had rescued and fed and healed
them; why now should not these breth-
rem, the Great Father, whose children
they were that he had saved, stretch
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his folly by distributing among the
ladies OF Queen Anne's Court Gn the
time of Louis KILL pearls TO the value
of nearly a million francs.
Most everyone knows the story told
by Pliny of Cleopatra, who, TO outdo
Antony's extravaganza, wagered with
him she would spend a sum equivalent
to FL 900, 900 upon one dinner. When
her lover ridiculed the banquet as in
nothing coming up to her promise, she
replied that it was merely an adjunct to
the grand dish; and, wearing in her
ears the two finest pearls then known,
of the value above mentioned, she
threw one of them into n vessel of the
strongest vinegar sat before her, and,
as it dissolved Immediately, she drank
it up. The fellow to it was about to
share its fate, when l.. Plancus, who
had been appointed Umpire IN the
matter, seized it, declaring that An
tony had lost. This pearl, on the con-
quest of Egypt, was sawn in two to
make pendants for the ears of Venus in
the Pantheon, the goddess, remarks
Pliny, being well satisfied with half of
their dinner. AS regards this story, no
acid that the human stomach can en-
dure is capable of entirely dissolving q
pearl, even after long maceration in it,
Barbot. on trying the experiment,
found the outer layer was reduced to q
Jelly, while that beneath was not at all
affected. The same experiment is re-
ported to have been tried somewhat be-
fore Clodius, son of Esopus, the player,
who, having discovered that dissolved
pearls possessed the most exquisite
flavor, did not selfshly confine his
knowledge to himself, but gave one
apiece to each of his guests to swallow.
Powdered pearls were formerly consid-
cred an invaluable medicine in stomach
complaints; the benefit they produced
must have depended entirely on the
imagination of the patient, the sub
stance being a mere antacid, no more
etficacious than the powder of the shell.
The example of Cleopatra found an
imitator in England, Sir Thomas
Gresham, not otherwise famous for
acts of folly, so mistook the meaning of
loyalty that he ground a pearl which
cost Els, 200 into a cup of wine in or
der to fitly drink the health of his
Queen! The plagiarist again had many
liNdlo III JilC lAtll COui VI lIOulo
XIV.
A species of pearl ornament called
the "baroque" is but little known in
the United States. ltis an excrescence
of the mother-of-pearl, and represents
some strikingly odd freaks of nature.
In Spain they hold the baroque in high
estimation, as also do the French and
Russians. Two of the most extra
ordinary known are owned by prom
inent Partisan jeweler. The one most
perfectly represents a bearded dog, and
the other a Chinese, sitting with
crossed legs upon cushion.
The largest pearl accredited to mod
ern times was destroyed by cooking the
oyster in order to get at the gem more
readily. Of course the color of the
pearl was ruined in the process.
The pearl fishery forms q source of
considerable commercial speculation.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-05-23
The Grave of an Ancient Cherokee Chief.

A negro man, while plowing in
field on Mr.. George Hamilton's place,
near Dalton, last week, struck hard
substance with the plow point, which
was unearthed and found to be brass
kettle. Upon further examination it
was found that the kettle was one of
was supposed to be an Indian grave.
In the grave were found two skeletons
in a good state of preservation, one of
which was very large and over six feet
in length, and supposed to be that of
an Indian chief, judging from the ar
ticles found on and around it and the
position of the two skeletons-there be-
ing at the head scalping- knife, at the
feet q tomahawk, and on the breast
large silver ornament, representing the
rays of the sun, and large gold belt
slide and two gold buttons. The other
skeleton was small, evidently that of
female and the wife of the other. A
thimble was found on one of the skele-
ton fingers and looking-glass on the
breast, together with some other trink-
cts. In the grave were also found sew
eral earthen crooks, metal vessel
shaped like a modern frying pan, and
other household utensils. Tradition
says that before the Cherokee Indians
were Christianized when a chief of the
tribe died the wife was killed and buried
by his side, the mans head placed to
the east and the woman's to the west,
in which position these skeletons were
feund-hence the supposition that this
was a chief and his squaw. There are
other graves in the locality where this
one was plowed up.-NOrM Georgia
Citizen,
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From the Chicago Evening Journal
Our reporter, hearing that a new car was
being constructed which claimed to reyolu-
tionize the present mode of Transporting
grain, visited the shop, No. % Henry street,
Chicago, and saw the car, which is partially
completed.
The inventor claims It to be cheaper,
lighter, more durable, occupying less space,
easier draft, will not laminate the track may
be run at greater speed, lowering the center
of gravity, reducing the Windage of train, re-
moving the weight of load from axle, requir-
ing less oil, less attention, less parts, will dry
wet grain in car aud prevent il from heating
sourlng or molding while in transportation.
Richard 2. Morgan, a railway engineer Of
great experience, says of it in Western Rural
Recently, very extraordinary improvement has
been patented by Treat I. PrOsser. ESQ., one Of the
best mechanics in Chicago. II is a railroad car for
the transportation OF grain. composed OF two large
cylinders of thick sheet iron, capable Of containing
225 bushels of grain each, about twelve tons in
the aggregate, and, with the connecting frame,
weighing only three tons, beside the load. These
cylinders are to be hoOped with tires having annes
which they may run, and when adjusted so as TO
meet all practical requirements for uniform mo-
uon, will roll forward with great facility. The
force necessary 10 pTupel q common eight-whcel
railroad car, loaded with twelve tons, on a level
railroad, is 2SOla pounds, the car itself usually
weighing eleven tons, total Of twenty three tons
a forty-t engine (Which is twice the weight
which true economy admits Of even on steel railsD
can haul forty four such cars on level railroad.
The resistance to a PrOsser car being only thirty
four pounds, the same engine could haul 352 cars
ON level track, containing more grain than the
largest propeller on the lakes.
But the grades between Chicago and New York
and railroads generally in Illinois, averaging prac
ically twenty-five feetin mile, the actual load for
cars, carrying twelve tons each, while the Prosser
trains could be 100 cars, equally loaded.
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clothes, and getting bronzed and weather
stained on the route. One night he asked for
lodgings at a certain farm house door, as II
threatened rain, and he had a mind 10 try the
luxury Of bed indoors. A young girl open
cd the door for him, spread the table, made
the bed, and-stole his heart and the next
week, when the farmer offered him a seasons
farm-work, being short Of hands, and mistak.
ing him for q tramp, he promptly accepted
the situation, having fancy for adventurous
living and the young girl aforesaid"
"Mr. Baxter" said Polly, "what do you
meant"
"Ics true story, Polly.n
"Do you mean that you-oh, John that you
are not-that you are the young man, that
the farmer Is Mr.. Thornley,, and an ignorant
country girl like me your Difcl 0 John, how
could you be so foolishi How could you de.
ceivc Inc soin
at was all for love and the world well
lost" said Baxter, proudly.
" There's that hundred dOllars,n said Miss
Hannah, the next year, when she lay III. 81
put IL direct into the bank. Give It TO Polly,
if-lf anything happens TO me, though she
doesn't need it, goodness knows--a-trapesing
off TO Europe. You needn't tell her, bat
must confess | was little confused when
found them greenbacks on my closet floor,
seeing that hadn't lost a red cent myself"
-fgTDeT'S Bgz1r,
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Flowing in Crops as Manure.

A large number of farmers arc una
BILE to understand how it is possible to
better the condition of lands by plow-
ing in clover, rye, buckwheat, etc, in a
green condition. The difficulty is in
comprehending methods by which
crops that are supposed to draw their
sustenance from the soil in which they
grow can return anything more to the
soil than they took away in their
growth. The point is cleared up when
it is known that all plants draw nour-
ishment from the atmosphere as well as
from the soil, and this is one source of
gain. While the leaves are accHmulat-
ing stores of fertility from the air, the
roots are busy searching for it in the
soil, and thus the two distinct parts of
plants work together. 1t is probable
that crops absorb in some way nitrogen
from the atmosphere; at least, it has
never been satisfactorily proved that
they do not, and hence from that source
one of the most valuable of the various
forms of plant food may be derived. If
this point is in doubt, it is certain that
the leaves gather from the atmosphere
the elements of organic matter, and or
ganize them so as to form the great
body of the plant; and when we turn
under the clover it leaves its organic
matter in the soil, and this is in an i'm
portant sense manure.
But.the excellent effects of plowing
under. clover or other green crops are
not due alone to elements of fertility
obtained from air. The great deep
penetrating roots go to point lower
than most of the cereals, and hence they
draw supplies of mineral food from
sources inaccessible to other valuable
plants and further, it is to be observed
that these roots of coarse texture disin-
tegrate and loosen the soil, so that air
is let in, and in some sense the work of
the pillow is performed by them. When
these roots decay, they form a consider
able portion of organic or vegetable
matter, which, combined with the min
eral, gives a good compost for better
plants to thrive in.
From these brief considerations it will
readily be seen how it is possible to
manure land by plowing in green
crops and we will here remark thatit
is practice not often enough followed
by our busbandmen. The clover is per-
haps the best of all the plants for green
manuring, and it is easily and cheaply
raised. A thin dressing of superphos-
phat (home made) will almost give
heavy crop of clover on common land,
and this crop turned under, when at its
and allowed to decay, brings
it into good tilth, and certainly affords
to the farmer a wide margin for profit
in successive crops. s.-Jour1saI of Chem
tStry.
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Premiums for Boys.

The disposition of farmers sons to
escape from farm labor at the earliest
possible moment is doubtless due less
to the nature of the work than to the
fact that farmers boys are usually ex-
pected to work as a matter of course,
and without any personal interest in
the result. His efforts receive no special
recognition or reward, and few Oppor-
tunities are offered him for personal
distinction or profit.
Mr.. Stillman B. Allen, of York Coun-
ty, Maine, believes that much good
might be done by taking more account
of boys labor on farms, and sets a
practical example by offering a series
of premiums to the boys of his county,
for individual efforts in farming. Thus,
to the boy (under siXteen) who shall
raise the most Indian corn on one-eighth
of an acre of land during the coming
season, he offers premium of 500.
To the boy who shall raise the next
largest quantity, $50, and to the five
boys who shall raise the next largest
quantity, $40 each.
The conditions are easy, and the
awards are to be made by the President
of the County Agricultural Society. At
the end of the season each contestant
will have to make and sign full re-
port, giving the shape, description and
location of land, when planted, when
and how many times hoed, when stalks
were topped, if at all, when harvested,
and how much is raised, and as nearly
as can be estimated, the value of ma
nure, and number of days labor spent
upon the crop, excluding the husking,
when he may have all the help he wants
from the boys and girls in the neigh
borhoOd.
The example set by Mr.. Allen is
worthy of being widely followed, not
only for the immediate effect in height
ening the interest of boys in farm work
but for its indirect effect in raising the
standard of such labor. The boy that
has learned by actual trial that it is
possible, by careful cultivation, to get
from an eighth of an acre as large a
crop as the average farmer gets from
twice or thrice the ground, will not
soon forget the lesson
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OF all the preparations of wheat
that have tried, think the "whole
wheat cold blast'' flour makes the best
mush. Mix to a smooth paste with
cold water, and stir slowly into salted
boiling water till the right consistency
is attained; it is best rather thin. From
thirty minutes to an hour cooks this
mush, which makes it convenient for
breakfast dish. 1t is good hot or cold.
Canned strawberries make delicious
dressing for it, the two favors har-
monizing perfectly.-Mrs. Read, IN DR..
Foote'S Health Monthly.
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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-05-23

French Bread. With a quarter of
peck of fine flour mix the yelks of
three and the whites of two eggs, beat
en- and strained; little salt, half pint
of good yeast that is not bitter, and as
much milk, made little warm, as will
work into thin, light dough. Stir it
about but do not knead it. Have ready
three quart wooden dishes, divide the
dough among them, set it TO rise, then
turn them out into the oven, which
must be quick. Kasp when done.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-05-23

That remedy made of such common, simple
plants as Hops, Buchu, Mandrake, Dandelion,
etc, should make so many and such marvel
Gus and wonderful cures as Hop Bitters do,
but when old and young, rich and poor, Pastor
and Doctor, Lawyer and Editor all testify 10
having been cured by them, you must believe
and try them yourself, and doubt no longer.