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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-07-17

James Kinkead, the Reno banker was
fined S35 on Wednesday for throwing rocks
at man who called him names. Not long
ago the bank was supposed to be out Of rocks.
New PAPER IN GENOA. Carlisle,
late of the Enterprise, is ahont to publish a
sixteen-column paper in Genoa, to be called
the Genoa Courier.
William S. Pollard, miner in the Yellow
Jacket was knocked off cage night before
last, fell to the bottom of the shaft and was
instantly killed. ,1.&
The attempt to get up rain boom yes
terday was dead failure. The storm didn't
come up to the watering cart.
Oliver Roberts has applied for the vacancy
in the police force occasisned by the resig-
nation of officer Hawthorne
WANTED.-A furnished house with FIVE
rooms. Apply at APPEAL Office. tf*
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-07-17
by Carson and Bodie Stage Line.

ARRIVED YESTERDAY AFTERNOON.
S B Smith G Henderson
G Bursen Il VT NJ Woodwork
Miss A Mcmillan Miss 1 Mcmillan
G Daugherty l I Reinstein
III G Ward Hugh Craig
Fl Northup DI4 Fullmer
q K Gibson II Amhold
.... L l. Sankey
DEPARTED YESTERDAY MORNING.
Mrs A Moore Mrs G White
Mrs Schaffer Mrs Leonard
Z c Hall L S Aberstone
J S Longabaugh Jas. O'Neil
Mrs Miller
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-12-23
neh

Three negroes, two of them boys aged six
teen and eighteen years, and q negro girl aged
fifteen, q sister of one of the boys, attacked and
killed the wife of Thomas Kennedy, of Salem,
in Clarendon County, s.. c., a few days since,
during the temporary absence of her husband.
Mrs. Kennedy was aged nineteen years, and a
bride of less than one year. Their object was
robbery. Mrs. Kennedy fled for her life, but
was overtaken by them at the yard gate, and
knocked down. She pleaded for her life, tell
ing them they could have what money there
was, but one of them said to her, Else been
waitin' a long time to kill you,' - and with a hoe,
literally severed the head from the body. A
few hours later, when The murdered woman's
husband returned, he found her lying at the
gate, stiff in death, in a pool of blood. Tl4
murderers we're apprehended, arrested, and one
of them confessed the crime. One hundred
and fifty whites and fifty negroes collected, and
on q vote whether to lynch the trio, there were
only twenty-three dissenting votes. The fifty
negroes pleaded with the whites to let them
burn them alive, but were refused. They were
driven in a cart to a convenient tree, and swung
of amid general satisfaction.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-12-23

A Dublin dispatch to the London Times
says: ut is hardly correct to say anarchy pre-
walls in Ireland, for there is a very distinct and
potent Government which is rapidly super
seding the Imperial Government, and is obtain
ing a~scendency. 1t rules with an iron hand and
promptitude which e~nforces instant obedience.
Its code is clear, its Executive ~resolute, its ma
chinery complete, and its action uniform.
There is a Government de fdcto and Govern
ment de jure, the former welding a power
whhic is felt and feared, and the latter exhibit
ing only pomp, but Little reality of power.
Tn former is a terror to welldoers, the latter
no terror to evildoers. The law of the Land
League is becoming the aw of the land, and
while the law of the State is costly,
and to a large extent suspended, tho now
law is effectively administered, cheaply and
conveniently. League courts are springing up
in various places, and people are instructed to
have their disputes decided by such courts, and
to go no more to Sessions. Local Magistrates
in the west of Ireland have lately been surprised
to find no cases brought before them except by
police. Tn people have been for som time
advised to take this course, but they are now
beginning to act thereon. As 3 rule the penal
| ties which said courts have power of i~nficting
are regarded with more dread than those i'm
posed under the statutes. Another function Of
the new Government, the levying of taxes, is
most effectively fulfilled. No rate assigned by
law is half as promptly paid as the tax which
the League imposes. Licenses to sell at fairs
and in markets are required by the new Gov
eminent, and their production is enforced by
summary process. The only element wanting
to continue the new Government a body of
country, is a standing army, but the materials
for one are at hand and are being fitted for
use when called upon. knowledge of this fact
creates deeper alarm, because with all armed
and disaffected population around them, loyal
subjects of the Queen in many places believe
that the danger which looms beneath it is more
formidable than a visable terror. This fear is
rather confirmed than allayed by the military
preparations of the Government, and the ar
rival of the battalion of Coldstream Guards
and an order for two more regiments of troops,
indicate the authorities consciousness of i'm
handing DANGER -
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-12-23
Humboldt and the Luuatic-

"Great wits are sure to madness near
allied" and a quaint anecdote, taken
from Humboldt's "Wenderjahre," aptly
demonstrates how readily even SO keen
an observer as the great German traveller
may mistake a genius for alunatic. Dur
ing one of his many sojourns in Paris,
Humboldt, who took a deep interest in
the mysteries of mental alteration, con-
celved a desire to converse intimately
with some ineurable maniac, and re-
quested of his scientific friends, IN
eminent mad doctor, to give him the
opportunity of meeting me of his more
remarkable patients. A few days later
he received an invitation from tine
specialist in question to supper, and OIL
his arrival at his friends house found
two strange gentleman awaiting him,
neither of whom was formally introduced
to him by his Amphitryon. One was an
elderly gentleman of grave demeanor,
dressed in the height of the prevailing
fashion, by no means talkative, and man
ifestly devoted to the pleasures of the
table. The other was a comparatively
young man, extremely excitable in man
ner, with long, disheveled hair, ill-made
clothes, and so e~xuberantly voluble
S"Uo " Uh DuU nOAODOllaCu bhO COll-
versation throughout the evening, al
though Humboldt himself was one of the
most l~oquacious men alive. This Wild
looking person displayed extraordinary
versatility and restlessness in his talk,
which teemed with paradoxes, and dealt
with an infinite variety of subjects.
Humboldt listened to his brilliant
ramblings with absorbing interest, and
upon taking leave of his host at a late
honr of the night expressed his gratitude
for the psychological experience afforded
him, observing that ''the mailman had
amused him beyond all measure" Chow
is that" exclaimed the doctor; styou
scarcely exchanged a word with him all
the evening" 81 mean, of course" re-
joined Humboldt, ''that excitable young
man." "You are altogether mistaken
the mailman was that quiet, decorous
old gentleman" "And who, then, was
the person I took to be demented ?"
.'That person, my good friend, was NJ.
Honore de BalZac !"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-12-23
A WaJward Wife.

Mrs. Bergman, the young wife of a French
man, who, on an ocean passage, became in
fatuated with a young Spaniard, has been giving
her friends a peck of trouble. She left her hus-
band, and has been spending her time in New
York hunting the Spaniard. Her husband and
mother resorted to the Courts and had her adj
judged insane, but under physicians, in two
weeks she was pronounced convalescent. Still
she refuses to return to her husband, who is
wealthy, or to give up the Spaniard. Finally
the Spaniard was brought to her, and told her
that he wanted nothing to do with her.
"What the d. do you want with me, any
how ?" he asked, but even such an interroga-
tory as that did not seem to weaken her infatn-
alton. She protested that he was repelling her
under c~oertion, and refused to believe he did
not love her. After his departure, she again
set out, roaming the streets hunting him. She
and her husband are both wealthy, and belong
to refined society. Her husband now declares
he will apply for a diqorce, while she persis-
tently refuses to abandon her crazy infatua-
ton.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-12-23
A Joke on a Horse.

A Detroit merchant had q horse which
was the terror of every pedestrian who got
within three feet of his head. The ami
NAL had teeth like ashark, and would bite
everything within reach except a pile of
grindstones. Whipping had no effect,
and he would get rid of muzzles as fast
as they were put on. The firm had paid
out considerable money to settle for his
bites, and were wondering what they
could sell him for, when along came a
man who guaranteed a cure for SIS. He
was told to go to work, and his first
move was to get an old suit of clothes
and stuff it with straw. The horse was
driven down the street, and the suit was
tied to a hitching-post, back to the street.
A full pound Of Cayenne pepper was
then rubbed into and sprinkled over the
garments and the straw stuffing, and the
joke was ready.
The horse came Jogging back, and the
driver left him standing within.six feet
eyes had a twinkle as he saw q fine
left alone he began edging toward the
post. When ready for business he made
q sudden lunge and caught the imam"
ny b10 SuOu1u6T. 4Adb Olu AOtoC AiCd1u
wickedness, but he had a surprise IN
store for him. As he lifted the figure
off its feet and gave it a shake it fell
apart, and his mouth, nose, and eyes
were filled with smarting powder. Great
tears rolled down his long nose, he
sneezed and snorted and coughed, and
he was just as chagrined at the general
laugh on him as a man would have been.
He backed away from the remnants,
opened his mouth to cool it, and hung
his head in shame. He did not cease
weeping for q day, but when he got SO
that he could look the public square in
the face he was a changed horse. Any
body could pull his ears or rub his nose
with IMMUNITY. In fact, he would court
caresses where he had defied them, and
on the approach of a stranger would shut
his eyes and mouth, as if fearful OF an.
other dose.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-12-23
Iron and Bronze.

Prot. Huntington, of Kings College,
London, is not convinced that the belief
that mankind employed bronze before
iron is well founded. It is true, indeed.
that more bronze than iron implements
have come down to us from prehistoric
times; but the force of that fact is weak
ened considerably by the very important
consideration, frequently disregarded,
that iron oxidizes very rapidly-is soon
reduced to rust; while bronze, on the
other hand, decays very slowly. At a
very remote period the inhabitants of In
dia were well acquainted with the work
ing of iron, and there is every reason to
believe that the ancient Egyptians could
also manufacture it. Man, in a very
savage state, may have a practical
knowledge of the nature and use of iron.
as has been proved by the finding of
iron assegais of native workmanship, in
Zululand. The hard and fast lines u.s.
ually drawn to indicate human progress
first from the stone, then to the bronze,
and lastly to the iron age, need to be re-
Taxed, to say the least.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-12-23
A Sailors Life Mt Sea.

In an article upon the general features
of a sailors life, published in the Boston
Commercial Bulletin, the writer says:
After the pilot leaves the vessel at the
mouth of the harbor, the captain assumes
command, then officers and crew begin
to understand each otier. In olden
times it was customary for the crew and
officers to make this day the decisive one
as to whether the officers or men were to
''take charged"
The most trifing act indicative of in
su~bordination on the part of the crew, or
the first harsh word from an officer, was
sufficient to throw call hands" into a
tumult-as the result of this fresh battle
determined the character of the rule
throughout the voyage. Heaven help
the officers who are overwhelmed by the
turbulence of the crew in this, their first
encounter. For while the men dare not
openly disobey the orders from their Of
ficers, they will contrive to render their
obedience in such a manner as to cause
their unfortunate mate the greatest
chagrin.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-12-23
ARCTIC WEATHER.
The Severity of the Summers Around
Hudson's strait.

New York Herald.J
The temperature in Hudson's Strait
was much lower than in the bay, and we
felt the cold intensely. 1 began to i'm
agine that my acclimatization had not
been complete until I noticed that the
Inuits who came on board complained OF
the cold as much as we did. Indeed, L
believe that one feels the cold in an Arc
tic summer much more disastrous hi
in the winter. The low temperature in
the straits is in all probability attribute
BILE to the ice that is constantly there,
either local ice OF the pack brought down
from Fox Channel by the wind and cur
rent. The great Grinnell glacier, on
Meta Incognito, which Captain Hill es-
mated to be 100 miles in extent, must
also have considerable effect upon the
climate. As we passed down toward
Resolution Island we could see this great
sea of ice from the deck of the vessel In
all its solemn grandeur, surrounded by
lofty peaks clad in their ever enduring
mantles of snow.
I did not go ashore while our vessel
lay at anchor at North Bay, for l had no
anxiety to encounter the mosquitoes
which abound there, though not to the
extent that makes life such a burden as
upon the eastern shores of Hudson's Bay.
While our water casks were being filed
at Marble Island in the early part of Au-
gust, Captain Baker and I went into one
of the ships boats to the mainland, about
fifteen miles to the southwest, to secure
q lot of musk-ox skins and other articles OF
trade at q Kinnepatoo encampment there,
and though we spent but n night on
shore, I never endured such torture from
so small a cause as the mosquitoes occa-
stoned us. Indeed, my hands and his,
for q month afterward, were swollen and
sore from the venomof these abominable
little pests. They are not like civilized
mosquitoes, for no amount of brushing
or tanning will keep them away. Their
~sociability is unbounded, and you have
absolutely to push them off, a handful at
a time, while their places are at once
filed by others, the air teeming with
them all the time. The natives keep
their tents filed with smoke from a slow
smoldering fire in the doorway, which is
the only plan to render them habitable
at all, but the remedy is only one degree
better than the disease, MS Captain Baker
remarked to me, with tears. The only
relief from the torments is a strong breeze
from the water, which carries them away
but even then it is not safe to seek shell
ter in the lee of a tent, for there they
swarm and are as vigorous in their at
lacks as during a calm. The men weal
musquito-net hoods over their heads a
shoulders while in camp or hunting, ant
the women and children live in the smok,
of their smoldering peat fires.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-12-23

VOTING MEN Learn TsIegrap5y and earn SO
ate guaranteed n paying situation. Address
VALENTINE BROS, Manager, Janesvilie, Wis,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-12-23
SWAN LEGENDS.
h Romance which Surrounds the
Graceful Bird.
IPall Mall G.zette.1

Graceful Bird.
IPall Mall G.zette.1
In the northern legends swans play q
most romantic part. Two separate cur
rents may be distinguished in the swan
myths of Teutonic and Scandinavian
countries. To one current belong the
various stories of swan maidens, to the
other those concerning the knights OF the
swan. Here, again, both traditions OF
beast worship and images of nature, po-
etry may play a part; though it Is not
clear that the swan maidens of the north
had any other origin than the obvious
one which would lie in process of 1mag1na-
tive reasoning like this: Swans are beings
all ~softness, grace and purity; so are
some rare maidens; therefore, some rare
maidens are in reality swans.
At any rate there was no question that
such supernatural beings existed. They
were both fairer and wiser than mortal
women. They could change from n
shape to another at will. To assume
the human shape they dotted robes of
down or tswanshirts," but retained IN
variably a gold or silver chain about
their necks. She whose swanshirt was
carried off by q mortal could no longer,
while he kept it safe, become a bird
again or resume its freedom. On the
other hand, she from whose neck in her
human shape the chain was taken, i'm
mediately became O swan again, and
could not recover her humanity until she
got back her chain.
Sometimes a hunter approaching a for
est pool would descry a damsel of more
than mortal beauty bathing in its waters,
would notice the chain about her neck
and the robe of down hanging from a
tree, would seize the robe and bear the
damsel home to live with him in happi-
ness until one day he should forget the
key which kept her magic garment from
her, and return to find her flown forever.
Or swan-brides would consort of their
own accord with warriors who had sur
prised them at dawn as they sat spinning
in human shape beside the margin of
mountain turn, until after seven years
their hearts would change, and they
would fly away, leaving their husbands
to sally after them over the snow IL
vain.
Another Icelandic story tells how Helg
and Olaf fought on the ice of a frozer
lake, and how Kara, the mistress O
Helgi, lowered over the heads of the
combatants in the likeness of a great
swan, and by her magic blunted thu
weapons of them that fought against
Helgi, until by chance be struck off
leg Of the swan with his sword, and i'm
mediately the fortunes of the battl,
changed.
The other great swan myth of the nortl
is that of the injured maiden, to who's
aid, in her extremity, there comes sailing
q knight in q boat drawn by m enchante'
swan, and who, after the knight has res
cued and made her his bride, destroy
her happiness by insisting that he shall
tell her who he is and whence he comes
We are all familiar with this tale as it j
told by Wolfram Won Eschenbach, an
has in our own day been recast by Wa2
ner concerning Elsa of Brabrant an
Lehengrin, the son of Percivil.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-12-23
Mixed.

An inquisitive boy who had been taught
to believe in the resurrection of the iden-
teal atoms which constituted each indi-
vidual during life, said to his mother:
"Ma, will all the heather come up
when it comes resurrection time?"
eyes, my son."
"And then those missionaries; will
they turn up, too?"
Certainly, my son."
"Well when them cannibal heathens
what's been feedin' ON missionaries. get
resurrected, and them missionaries what's
been eat comes around and wants to get
resurrected, things is goin' to be worse
mixed han the presidential election,
hay, map"
at is time you went to bed, my son."
Mr.. GEORGE BARNES, of Bagnall &
Barnes, South Water street, said that his
wife had been a severe sufferer with neu-
ralgia for years, and had tried many
remedies in vain. st. Jacobs Oil is the
only thing that brought her relief
Daily Chicago Times.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-12-23
Age Cannot Wither Them,

1t is with alarm that we notice that,
as we leave our country's birthday
farther and farther behind us, the negro
of longeval proclivities, shows a settled
determination to bridge the ever-widen-
ing span of years. The aged African,
whilom content with n round hundred,
now thinks nothing of adding ten of
twenty years thereto. We had looked
forward to the time when the entire a
of nurses and coachmen to the father of
his country should become extinct.
Vain hope! Age cannot wither them,
though custom has somewhat stalled
their infinite variety. Verify, the Wash
ington nurse and coachman shall flourish
in immortal youth, unhurt amidst the
wal of elements, the weeks of matter and
the crush of worlds. -BOStOn transcript.
IT is IN unprecedented success said
Mr.. Chas. s. D'Arcambal, the well-known
Burdick House druggist, when asked for
his views in regard to the st. Jacobs Oil;
it is highly extolled, and is giving gen.
eral Observation-Disclosures (Aich.)
D0iLy Gazette.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-12-23
Onenses In Ireland.

The statement of Baron Dowse, at the open
ing of the Connaught Ireland) Assizes at Gal
way, showed that in four months 69S indicta-
BILE offenses had been reported in Connaught.
For these only thirty-nine peasons have been
rendered amenable. Five hundred and seventy
seven persons, against whom offenses had been
committed, had, through terror or desire to
shield the offenders, refused to give evidence,
prosecute or assist the police. Lesser offenses
are also numerous. Thus, in Mayo there were
3SS lesser and 236 indictable offenses.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-12-23
Shakespeare,s Mother.

Both young men belonged to the sa-
cred jeuncsse doree of Harvard, but
even their brilliant intellects had sue
cumbed to the power of wine. They
stood upon the step of a Cambridge car,
and talked loudly, wholly unconscious
that Miss x, the young lady upon whom
they were to call the following evening,
sat just inside the car door. Theatrical
topics were the subject of their CONVEX
sation, and ne remarked, loftily, that
for his part he never cared for Shakes
peare. so, dash Shakespeare" the
other returned; she's nobody. I knew
his mother. She was nothing but an
old niger washwoman down on Joy
street," On the following evening the
two youths, in faultless attire, were sun
ming themselves in the smiles of Miss X,
when Shakespeare was casually men
toned. 81 am always smashed on
Shakespeare" the second youth remark
ed. What was his horror when Miss X.
returned, coldly, ''That is very natural;
I believe you are acquainted with his
mother. "-BOStOn Courier.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-12-23
I,..t ,,r an Inr.mou. Gang.

Intelligence from Rawlins, Wyoming, says
the Infamous road agent and murderer, George
Parrot, AHA Big Nosed George has been sem
fenced by Judge Peck to be hanged next April.
George is the last but one of the worst band
of road agents and robbers that ever infested
Wyoming. The last act of the gang was an at
tempt to turn a Union Pacific passenger train
into a chasm $50 feet deep. at Big Springs, in
1878. Two Deputy Sherifs pursued the gang
and were killed. George confessed he crime
and desired to be hanged in expiation.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-12-23

Near Shelbina, No., an old negro nan named
Cy. Arne was found dead in the woods where he
had committed suicide by hanging. He had
cut a withe of bittersweet, which had been
broken. Then he made another of hickory and
twisted it to form a loop, which he slipped
over his head. When found he was standing
on his feet, his body bent forward, the weight
coming on the loop. He could have relieved
himself at any time by reaching up to the pro-
jecting limb just above his head. He bent
twigs back to keep them out of the way. 1t
was one of the coolest and most deliberate
suicides on record,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-12-23
Pensian Ernnas

At Detroit there are twenty dusky damsels in
jail for drawing money from the Government
on fraudulent pension claims. James G. Rich
ardson, a colored man, and Eugene Fecht, a
German attorney, are the persons through
whom the applications were made. The claims
were all either those of widows, or heirs-at-
law, and it is stated that the 30 called widows
are many Of them not yet thirty years old, and
consequently could not have lost husbands in
the war. The affair will rebound with consid-
cradle force ON Richardson and Fecht.