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Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1880-10-21
True Meanness.
Carson Appeal.

Carson Appeal.
II takes a woman to reduce meanness
10 a science. The other night young
lady was called upon to play the piano
at an evening party. and paved the In
strument for nearly an hour. much
to the delight Of the company. after
which her sister was called on. but de-
clined on the ground Of being an indii-
f.rent player. After the guests had de-
parted the dialogue ran as follows:
''You are just a mean. hateful, nasty
thing"
"wby. Jennie. what's the msttsrr
"You know. you deceitful huzzy."
"My gracious. darling. how you do
astonish me-"
"You went and played all the pieces
play the best. You know the Angels
Whisper is my crack piece to show on on
and you played that last. II was the
meauest trick ever saw girl do 10 my
life. II / was rs hateful as you I'd
Pull out handkerchief aud begins to
bawl. Sister leaves the room happy.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1880-10-21
BANKERS AND BROKERS.
The NEVADA BANK
OF Gam FRANCISCO.
SAN Observation-Disclosures

~Buys and cells Exchange and Telegraphio
TransferS. Issues Commercial and 1rAvslsrs'
Crsdiis. This bank has special facilities fog
dealing In bullion. lu
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1880-10-21

County Central Committee:
q n CoNNOR, wM. SUTHERLAND.
EF PAGE, LEE WENTWORTH,
r. W BURGESS, RICHARD MERCER,
p STANLEY, THOS. GALLAGHER
P, A. DOYLE.
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S one of the richest and most influential

is one of the richest and most influential
men in his town.
| CRY treasurer Williams of Rochester,
| n. Y, committed suicide June 80. His
accounts were declared correct by COM
mittee of the common council, the day
! previous.
| sAN attempt was made, on the oath inst,
at Grand Rapids, Mich, to rob the grave
of Mrs. Lyons. The body-snatchers were
discovered and driven Off Two physicians
: of Sand Lake are suspected.
BEDFORD, Penn, and Queenan, the
Washington, D. c.. murderers, were SEN
fenced, on the oath inst, to be hanged on
September 10. Judge Hagner, of the dis
trict court, pronounced sentence.
EMERY B. MoREy, of Battle Creek,
| Mich, formerly a prominent and successful
dealer in real estate, has been convicted of
forgery and will be sentenced on the 9Th
prox. His daughters marriage is set for
the following day.
THE Galveston News' special from schul,
enberg says w. R. Ragsdale, prominent
whom he had followed four miles. They
dragged his body half mile and threw it
into the branch
THE boot and shoe store of Sterfield &
Co. at Etna Green, Ind, was burglarized
and nearly the whole stock carried away.
There is no clue to the thieves, as i was
next morning. Stertield estimates his loss
at $4,000.
The swindler, James T. Harris, of
Georgetown, Texas, who has obtained large
sums of money by transmitting circulars
through the mails in the north asking fl
nancial aid for suppositious community
been run down by special agent of the
postotiice department, and lodged in jail.
EX-JUDGE YAPLE, of Cincinnati was
robbed on the street of very valuable
diamond pin, picked from his scarf. The
pin was worth 81 200. The thief, one J. F.
Norris, was arrested but he had in the
mean time turned the pin over to his pal.
The pal was also arrested, but the pin
could not be found on him.
WILLIAM M. WILLS was shot and killed
in Washington township, eight miles from
Mount Ayr, Iowa, on the 25th inst, by
two brothers named Golden. The killing
was caused by a quarrel over q game of
pool. Excitement runs high, and militia
have been called out to protect the mur-
derers, who are now in Jail.
PRISONERS in the Sangamon county jail
attempted to overcome the officers, on the
oath inst, and in resisting the attempt S.
n Shontz, sheriff, shot and killed Jacob
Mitchell, of Charleston, Cole county, who
was the ringlcader, and assaulted the
sheriff. The coroner's Jury returned a YER
dict of justifable homicide Mitchell was
awaiting trial in the United States court
on an Indictment charging him with sell
ing liquor without paying special tax.
SIX escaped convicts from the Idaho peni-
Tertiary stopped stage-coach on the Chal
lis and Utah line, on the Both of June, re-
lieved the seven passengers-fve men and
two women-of all their valuables, and
then divested them of all of their clothing.
The unfortunates travelled several miles
in state ofnudity, and procuring some
sheets and blankets, continued their journey
to the railway where they obtained suitable
apparel.
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Dangers Of the Skipping Rope.

DR.. Peck of the Surgical Institute has
just performed a surgical operation on
the leg of a young girl by the name Of
Jordan, from Illinois, sent here for
treatment. The bones Of both of her
legs will have to be partly removed, and
the little sufferer will have to submit to
two painful operations. The cause of
her. affliction is from jumping the
necrosis, or death Of the bone. The
Doctor stated to a reporter in this con1ec-
ton, that similar cases were constantly
occurring from this same cause, but
more frequently resulting in necrosis Of
the spine, and that not month passes,
but more or fewer cases of that charac-
ter come to the Institute for treatment.
He says that rope jumping produces
continuous conclusions on the joints
which impinge upon the bone causing
at the stage periostetis, and finally re-
sulting in the death of the bone. He
thinks that parents and teachers should
be warned Of this dangerous sport, and
eradicate it entirely from the play
grounds of the children, as It is ruinous
in its effects, and is the prime cause of
more cripples among the female por-
ton of the community than probably
any one cause. He also adds that dur
ing the practice of his profession deaths
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"THE Falls of Niagara were dry for a
whole day." said the Rev. 7. B. Fuller
OfHamilton, Ontario, in a recent lecture.
The accuracy Of the story was quest on
ed, and now the clergyman publishes
the sworn statementsof several persons
that they saw the phenomenon. They
say that it occurred ON March 81, 1S4S.
At s clock in the morning so little wa
ter was dribbling over that man and
his daughter walked half way across
from the Canadian shore near the edge
of the precipice. The girl stuck pole
into a crevice of the rock, and left a
handkerchief, flying from the top. Not
content with this feat they went half a
mile above the fall and rode part
way across the bed of the river in a
wagon. Others did similar things. The
Jagged rocks at the bottom below the
Falls were exposed. This strange con-
dition lasted until nightfall then the
stream began rapidly to swell. and be-
fore morning was as large as usual. DR..
Fuller's theory is as follows: "The wind
had been blowing down Lake Erie which
is only ABOUT thirty feet deep, and rush
: ing great deal of the water from it
over the Falls; it then suddenly chang
ed, and blew this little water compare
lively speaking) up to the western por-
ton OF the lake; at this juncture the ice
OF Lake Erie, which had been broken
up by these high winds got jammed in
the river between Buffalo and the Can
ada side, and formed dam which kept
back the waters of Lake Erie"
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-07-08
FOREIGN.

The strike of ten thousand Staffordshire
potters has collapsed.
BARON Won CALL1CE has been nominated
Austrian ambassador to Turkey.
A TELEGRAM from Tobercourry Ireland
states that famine is raging there.
The Russians in Central Asia are again
reported defeated by the Turcomans, AID
in retreat.
MANY revolutionary pamphlets 9s1d
books have been seized in the house Of a
well-knOwn agitator in Austria.
A CALCUTTA dispatch Announces that the
Burmese rebels have defeated detach-
ment of fifty royalist troops.
In the house of lords, the bill leagaliz-
ing marriage with deceased wife's sister
was rejected-10l to 80.
Ex-EMPREss Eugene has arrived at
Durham, Cape Colony, en- route from the
death scene of her son in Zululand to En-
gland.
JOHN BEVERLY ROBINSON has been ap-
pointed Lieutenant Governor of Ontario,
in place of Mcdonald, whose term Of Office
has expired.
THE famine fever has appeared at Char
lestown, county Mayo Ireland. Twenty
cases are being treated at the public in
frmary in Siveford, near Charleston.
FORSTER, chief secretary for Ireland,
has informed Parnell that he must oppose
his relief bill granting e2OO,O 900. 1t would
do more harm than good.
PRINCE BIsMARK has secured the sup
port of the conservatives and the national
liberals, thus assuring the passage of the
a ct ica1 hill hv q umol aioritS
In the election in Paris, for municipal
counsellor for the Pere La Chaise quarter,
Trinquet, the communist, now in New
Calendonia, received 2,23S votes and his
opponent l,5SO.
The council Of state, of Spain, have
adopted a bill regulating the conditions of
service of negroes in Cuba, reducing the
number of working hours, and prohibiting
corporal punishment.
The gravest apprehensions are said to
lative to the turn Of affairs in Albania.
1900 men to Daligcio.
INTELLIGENCE from Buenos Ayres repre-
sents that battle was fought, on the 22nd
inst, between the national and provisional
troops. The latter were routed. The ma
tional troops, however, were repulsed in an
assault upon the city of Buenos Ayres on
the oath inst.
The dueling mania is not yet cured in
Paris. A gentleman named De Hauterne,
a member Of the Paris club, had three af-
fairs of honor to settle within about as
many days. In two duels he wounded his
adversaries and himself escaped unhurt.
He is to fight the third duel soon.
A LONDON Times dispatch from Berlin
says: There is no longer any doubt in re
gard to the impending decision of the
powers. The porte is beginning to aban-
don its attitude of proud, apathetic indifer-
ence, affecting to caution the conference as
to the dangerous lengths it evidently means
to go.
PRIVATE dispatches from Buenos Ayres,
dated June 26, state that fighting is going
on and many have been killed and wound
ed. DIR. Tyedos, governor of the province
of Buenos Ayres, has issued a pronuncia-
mento. The city of Buenos Ayres has
been fortified, and the unarmed population
is fleeing.
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FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

/. A SHOEMAKER named Francis kusta, iv-
ing at lis Vliet street, Milwaukee, Wis,
fell dead on the street last week.
A FIRE in Tarport, Pa, a town of two
thousand inhabitants, destroyed two hotels
and twenty-nine stores. The loss is about
$4,000.
Mrs. JANE REYNOLDS, of Austin, Indi-
ana, the victim of hydrophobia from the
bite of mad cat, has become hopelessly
insane.
A LITTLE daughter of William Stokes,
aged years, of Carroll, Iowa had both legs
cut off below the knees in a moving ma.
chine. She is still living, with chances OF
recovery.
JOSEPH BERGER, of Sharpsville, Penn
svlvania, was fatally injured in attempting
to board moving train. Both his legs
were cut Oft.
J. TODD, an old gentleman, of Carroll,
Iowa, had leg cut off in mower. His
recovery is doubtful. A child of VIM.
Stokes died Saturday from a similar acci-
dent
As five young persons were boating at
Scott's station, Mich, their boat was cap
sized, and before aid could arrive Eugene
McGregor, who lives at South Haven, was
drowned.
Mrs. FRED HOFFMAN,, wife of grain
dealer at Grand Park, ILL.,, was killed by
being run over by the cars. a child, car
ried in her arms, had one leg cut off. The
coroner's jury hold the train employees re-
sponsible for the accident.
A FIRE destroyed Hamer's mill, of Chase,
Mich, with two million feet of choice
lumber, on the 24th inst. Loss on build
ing and machinery $4,000, no insurance
on lumber $4,000, fully covered, The
origin is unknown.
THE extensive Touring mill of Y. S.
White, of Bellton, on the Baltimore and
Ohio railway, near Wheeling, Va, was
totally destroyed by fire on the 26th inst
Loss, $4,000. Insured for $4,000.
LOCK No. 2, Lachine canal, Montreal
was burst by the steamer Bohemian. Two
barges were sunk and the steamer was bad
ly damaged The loss is about 100000
Navigation of the canal is interrupted.
THE Burlington, Wis, woolen mills
owned by Fred S. Alderman, were burned
to the ground on the lst inst The super
intendent, Mr. j. p. Willard, slept in thu
factory and was burned alive. The build
ing, machinery and stock are total loss.
FRANK DENN1soN, brakeman in tn,
employ of the Michigan Central railroad
had his foot badly crushed at the depot at
Niles, Michigan. He was standing. on
freight car. When the train suddenl,
started he fell to the track, directly unde
| the wheels.
AT Woodsdale, six miles north of Ham
ilton, O., the large paper mill of tn
Woodsdale- Paper Company, was entirel..
destroyed by fire on the 26th inst. Los
estimated at $4,000; insured for 935, 900
Sixty employees thrown out of work.
il. MYERS, a canvassing agent, LIVING
south of Wiota Iowa. was killed by freigh
train No. 26, the engine and nineteen car
passing over his body. His limbs wer
horribly mangled. When seen by the en-
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-07-08
CRIME.

Tony PIERCE, prominent hotel man,
was arrested on the oath inst, at Big Rap
ids, Mich, for passing counterfeit money.
DAVID WHITE, an old, wealthy and re-
spected citizen of Charles City, Iowa, lost
$1,000 in game of monte at Coles circus
grounds.
CORNELIUS MAYER, glass manufacturer
in Brooklyn, n. Y, was murdered in the
streets of Williamsburgh on Saturday by
band of roughs who are now under ar
rest.
DANIEL CLuNE, of Holland, Brown
county, Wis, was under arrest, on the
charge of selling liquor TO Indians. Clune
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-07-08

Mr.. JOHN GLADSTONE, the premier's
father was born at Leith in 1853, where
his family were corn merchants, and
died at Liverpool at the age Of SO, so
that his eminent son inherits chance
of longevity. He was for time en-
gagged in the slave trade, and owned
large estates in the West Indian islands,
He belonged first, for sixteen years, to
the firm of Come, Gladstone & Brad
SHAW, but subsequently became sole
proprietor of the concern, trading under
the title of John Gladstone & Co. He
acquired great wealth, took an active
part in politics ON the Tory side, and
was always the strong supporter in
Liverpool and personal friend Of Mr..
Canning. He was made baronet by
.,ir Robert Peel in 1915.
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Democratic National Convention.

At l2:40 o'clock Senator Barnum called the
convention to order and without any preliminary
remarks announced that prayer would be offered
by Rev. c. W. Wendle, of the Unitarian 'church.
Senator Barnum then announced that he had
been unanimously requested by the national COM
mittee to nominate Hon. Geo. Hoadley, of Ohio,
for temporary chairman.
This being approved by the convention, the
chair appointed VIM. J.. Scott, and j. D. Nc
Emery as a committee to conduct Mr.. Hoadly to
the stand.
On motion the convention adjourned until at 70
O'Clock next day.
Upon reassembling the committee on credentials
reported presenting a majority and minority re-
ports in reference to the Tammany and Tam
many ,contesting delegations from New York
Aftcr,eXcitng debate, the majority report against
John Aellys Tammany delegation was adopted,
and the sitting anti-Tammany delegates will re-
tain their seats. The Massachusetts contest was
compromised by an equitable agreement between
the two sets of delegates. The. convention then
proceeded to a permanent organization, Hon. J.
W. Stevenson, Of Kentucky, being made the per-
manent chairman.
Candidates were then placed in nomination and
the first ballot taken resulted as follows:
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-07-08

THE proposed canal between the Bay
of Biscay and the Mediterranean will
probably be taken up, or at least be as
sisted by the French government. The
canal will start at Bordeaux, and, after
a course of about $50 miles will enter
the mediterranean at Norbonne. 1t
will be of sufficient size to allow of the
passage of ships of over 400 feet in
length, and will have width of 1S4 feet
at the surface level in the narrowest
parts. 1t is calculated that it will save
four days steaming; and, as it will en-
able vessels to avoid the dangers of the
bay, there is no doubt that it would be
we'll patronized.
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Living with Spiders.

On the outskirts of New Orleans lives
an old man whose only companions are
spiders of every shape and hue. He
has never attempted an accurate cen
sus, but he believes that there are five
or six hundred of them, and the cell
ings of his two rooms are completely
hidden by the webs which they have
spun For the most part these strange
pets make their own living, but occa-
sionally the old man throws them
handful of flies into the meshes of the
innumerable webs, and delights to see
the spiders glide along the gossamer
and seize their struggling victim.
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The Rev. Summer Latham was en-
gagged at $500 a year as pastor of the
Baptist church at East Ware, N. H but
majority of the members were not will
ling to pay him even that meagre sal
ary, and it was voted to dismiss him.
He intends to sue for the $500 at the
end of the year, and therefore prepares,
every week, two sermons, which he car
ries to the church on Sunday to deliver,
but always finds the door locked against
him
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-07-08
GENERAL HANCOCK.
He Alone Culpable for the Execution
of Mrs. SurHatt.

The Baltimore american has an account
of remarkable interview with Mrs. Pro-
fessor Toury, who was Miss Anna Surratt
the daughter of the Mrs. Surratt who was
hung in Washington under the orders
Gen. Hancock, the commanding general.
The democratic organs and orators hither-
to have charged that General Hancock
could have saved Mrs. Surratt had he
chosen to do SO, and that he not only dis
obeyed the writ of habeas corpus that was
issued to him on the preceding day for the
production of the body of Mrs. Surratt,
but that he also prevented the access Of
her daughter to the president when she
came to the white house for a reprieve and
that in various other ways he took care that
the execution should take place at the ap-
pointed hour. OF course the democratic
press and democratic orators now tell diff
terent story. In the course of this long
interview with the daughter of Mrs.
Surratt she is quoted as saying the
following among other things: Speaking
of General Hancock, you could not call
his conduct exactly brutal, but l do believe
that he wished for the execution of my
mother, and would not SO much as have
lifted his finger to prevent it. If l were to
tell you all that happened and all that was
sitlu tt tiIdC .lHLcINlcW \IclclIlllS ~ all III
terview with General Hancock at the Me-
troplitan HoteD, it would be very much to
General Hancock's discredit." The hus-
band of Mrs. Toury, then coming in, said,
"The truth will come out sooner or later
My wife has already told you that it will
do no credit to General Hancock, and l
know that that is a fact. For my part:
wish that he had been in the Sandwich Is
lands sooner than that NV marty the demo-
cratic party, had nominated him for the
presidency. repeat to you that this con-
nection with the murder of Mrs Surratt
was no credit to him, and he deserves the
title of her executioner. You may write
down whatever is said in Hancock's favor
in that matter as untrue" Replying to
the question that General Hancock would
probably disprove these sensational state
ments, Professor Toury said: '"Then we
are ready to meet him and prove our side
of the case"
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-07-08

THE value ofthe imports to the port
of Boston for the week ended June IS
was 81, ,110,639, against 81, las, ,905 in the
corresponding week of last year. The
exports during the week were 1892, $50,
against 9914,7 ,732 in the same week last
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-07-08

STATISTICS show that more shipwrecks
and collisions occur on the coast of Eng
land than anywhere else, as the ship
ping and commerce ofthe world centre
in the neighborhood; but they are ten
times less frequent than twenty years
ago.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-07-08

A PUBLIC meeting was held at Eaton,
Ohio, to discuss the marriage of a white
woman and, black man. Aresolutlon
to drive the couple out of the village
was discussed, and voted DOWN
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-07-08

THE plenary amnesty bill for the
beneft:of political offenders. has been
passed by the French chamber of dep
uties. The senate subsequently receiv-
ed the. bill with silence that may be
considered OminOus
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The Freak Of Two Linnets.
Stockton Mail.

Several weeks ago a pair of linnets
built a n est in vine on the awning
post of a house in the northern part Of
the city. The post is in front of the
front door, and the nest is only about
four feet and half from the ground.
The strangest part of the affair ia that
the female linnet Matched her eggs
without any apparent fear Of the occu-
pants of the dwelling, and did not seem
at all DISTURBED while the head Of the
family leaned against the post and
smoked his pipe of an afternoon, with
his shoulder almost grazing the nest.
Three young linnets were hatched q few
days ago. One of them died and was
taken away and buried by its mourning
parent The two surviving youngsters
are thriving and are fed BY the old
birds, which seem very much ats home.
They fly to and from the nest 6pirping
merrily and do not appear to ss the
slightest objection to the handling Of
their young ones by the lady az the
house,