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Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-06-30

Q. Dialogue-The Milkmaid.
By Katie Fitzpatrick and Joe Jury
10. Duet-Down bv the Old Mill Stream.
By Carrie and Charlie Metts
II. Recitatien-The Fate OF Virginia.
By Mamie Coonan
70. Competition is the Life Of Trade.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-06-30
Ann DEPARTURES.

IA AID pALIsApH sAILnoAp.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-01-29

Probable End Of Slavery i'm Cuba.
1t is more than four centuries 81

1t is more than four centuries since
certain Portuguese captain landed
lin HAD at Lagos cargo of 23o slaves.
The slavery of white captives and Mo-
hammedan prisoners was fast dying
out in Europe, but the united discov-
cry of new continent needing labor
and of a barbarOus coast having slaves
awOke greed and stimulated cruelty,
and created slavery anew. One of the
most benevolent men of any age has
the bad fame of introducing slavery
into this continent. But Las Casas,
though he did this to protect his be-
loved Indians, lived to bitterly repent
of this great mistake.
Three centuries and a half have
passed since the first slaves were in
trOduced Q521) into the island of Cuba.
And it may safely be said that of all
the human pain and hopeless misery
which the sun looks upon year by
year, none ever equaled that history
of agony and injustice which began
with the Spanish importation of sla-
very into the New World, and was
continued 10y the English slave trade
during three hundred years. With a
mockery of their faith which sceptics
will never forget, the Spanish author
tiles during two centuries concluded
more than ten treaties ''in the name
of the most Holy Trinity" which au
thOriZes the sale of more than 800, 900
human beings, and received from it
tax of over fifty million livres. Nor
was the Roman Church alone guilty.
Protestant England was equally crim
inal with Catholic Spain. The first
ship which sailed from England, in
1862, under Sir John Hawkins, ON the
diabolical errand of buying slaves in
Africa and selling them in the West
Indies, bore, as if in blasphemy the
sacred name of Jesus.
The present generation in England
and the United States have fortu-
natcly never heard much of the hor-
rors of that trade, which Great Britain
piled industrously for two centuries
and Il half. The young student turns
over the writings of Clarkson and
Sharp and WilberfOrce, and is amazed
to see the tortures which so steadily,
for so many years, wer, inflicted on SO
many innocent human beings merely
for the sake of money.
Even so calm an historian as Ban
croft reckons that during one hundred
years before the Declaration of lndc-
pcndence Great Britain transported To
the New World one million of slaves
from Africa, and that, besides these,
two hundred and fifty thousand had
been thrown into the sea in the horri-
bic middle passage. Even after the
abolition of the slave trade (ls07) the
importation of slaves continued into
the Spanish colonies of South Amcri-
can states, and it Is estimated that rs
late as lS49 fifty thousand negroes
were secretly introduced in one year
into cuba and Brazil.-NcW York
| Times
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-01-29
The Maine Trouble.

The Boston Herald, democratic in
politics, says: The governor and coun-
ell of Maine have changed the result
of the late election of that state upon
certain technical grounds in relation to
the returns. 1t is not denied that the
people of Maine east their votes in
such a way as to make the Legislature
republican in both branches, and this
they did after Il brisk and thorough
campaign, which brought the question
involved home to every voter. The
governor and council, taking advan-
tage of their position and power over
the returns, have so manipulated them
as to reverse the will of the people.
This is the real point, as it will be
considered and judged in the public
mind. Supposing that the technical
grounds are legally correct-of which
there are grave doubts that we need
not discuss-this by no means weak
ems the appeal to the tribunal of last
resort in a republic Local officers
may have been culpably negligent,
but the essential question is: What
did the people say by their votes? 1t
is well known what they said, and Il
change of their verdict, because GER
tain officers neglect to sign the returns,
or the returns were sent in one day
late, or certain names were Jumped as
''scatterlng,' is IA grave offense which,
the law may not reach, but which
makes the best ground of appeal to
the people.
We can afford to denounce such pro-
cecdingS because we denounced with
equal severity similar proceedings in
other states. And, carefully consider
ing what we say about it, we unhesi-
tatingly declare that the governor and
council of Maine, in doing this, have
far exceeded the infamy of the Louisi-
ana returning board, inasmuch a they
were not strongly tempted to commit
an outrage against the rights Of the
peogle.
We can scarcely conceive that the
governor and couucil Of Maine haV"
done this thing of their own accord.
We fear that they have listened to
very bad advice, and that their adviS-
ers are looking forward to pre>iden-
tial election. We believe, however
that the result will be exactly the re-
verse of what it is intended, and that
it will help to make n solid north
this year. The heighth OF the demo-
cratic wisdom seems to be to follow
the worst precedents Of their oppon-
ents, and improve upon them, thereby
loosing the assistance of public SYM
pathy.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-01-29
NUMBER 23.


The Fin0HcjU Chronicle. New York,
referring to Dun Il Barlow's exhibit
of business failures during the past
year, says that fully half came within
the first quarter of 1879. 1t shows that
the only city in the United States sep
arately reported upon where there has
not been II decided decrease in failures
during 1879, is San Francisco. Boston
shows 10 failures during the year,
against 325 in 1873; New York 519
against S63; Philadelphia, 1S9 against
257; Cincinnati, - against PIG; Chi
ca@o, S3 against 362; St Louis, So
against l67; san Francisco, 22l against
.3222. The statement also shows that
in the six cities first named, the IL
abilities amounted to only one-quar-
ter of the previous years total, while
in san Francisco the liabilities were
increased last year about l6 per cent,
being S5,317,llS. Another table shows
that while III all the remainder of the
country only one in every 10 in bust
ness failed, there was in California
I'VE have not the figures to give san
Francisco by ITSELF one failure in
every SO in business, and in the Pacific
states and Territories, which depend
largely upon California for their pros
perity, one failure in every 81 in busi-
ness. The san Francisco Chronicle
draws the following moral from the
above: During the past two years
California has been attempting to put
fcttcrs around capital, being in state
of dcpression. Her people have been
attempting by legislation which shall
deprive capital of its natural earnings,
to force ,perity. Do we not in these
statements of failures plainly see writ
ten the results of this movement?
Cannot our Legislators heed the lesson
thus taught?N
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-01-29

The bridge over the river Tay, in
Scotland, was l0,6l2 feet in length, or
- feet more than two miles. II con-
Sists of ~ spans, of varying extent,
eleven of the longest being % feet
each. The bridge, rs Il whole, was the
largest in the world, but there are
many bridges in this country with
longer spans. On this point the It.
Louis Globe Democrat presents some
interesting facts:
There are ten truss bridges across
the Mississippi above 1t. Louis, which
are not regarded a. very wonderful
structures, and yet seven of them have
spans rs long rs those of the lay
bridge. The bridges at Winona, la
Crosse, Dubuque, Keokuk and Ham
nibal, have spans of 2+0 feet, that at
Rock Island go, and that at Louisiana
of 256 feet. The span which gave way
at st. Charles was 320 feet in length,
yet the same bridge has two spans i06
feet long. over the same river j.
truss bridge, at Leavenworth, with
three spans of $40 feet, and another at
Glasgow with five of 3l5 feet Across
the Ohio there is Il truss bridge at
SteubenVillc with Il span of 32O feet;
one at parkersburg of $50, one nj Gin
cinnati with span of 5l5 feet, the
longest truss yet built, and one at
Louisville with span OF 100 feet. The
truss bridge over the Kentucky river,
ON the Cincinnati Southern railroad,
has three spans S75 feet in length,
resting on iron piers Us feet high.
The bridge over the Hudson at Pough-
keepsie has five spans of 800 feet, with
piers l35 feet above high water.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-01-29

The Darwinian theory is not only
unsupported 10y facts, but it is in fla
grant contradiction to them. There
are some 10000 species of animals, and
not one instance is known of different
species being crossed without stcrility
ensuing in the animal thus begot. 1t
seems law of nature to keep species
apart. Darwin, to support his hypoth-.
esis has to assume that there may
have been a time when this law was
reversed. What would be thought of
an astronomer if he were to argue that,
though the attraction of gravitation is
true now, there may have been time
when an apple thrown into the air
would travel forever in space? Dar-
wins argument is precisely similar,
though its fallacy is not SO obvious at
first sight. If the theory of evolution
be true, multitude of animals should
be discovered in various stages of
physical change, which would defy
the efforts of naturalists to classify.
As is well known, the reverse of this
is true. A skilled naturalist finds no
difficulty in placing each newly dis
covered animal in its proper order.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-01-29
Newspaper Decisions.

l. Any person who takes paper reSularN
from tie post-oiiicc, whether directed i'll his
name or anothcr's, or whether he has SUD
scrbcd or not-is responsible for payment.
>. If person orders his paper discontinued,
he must nav all arrears or the publisher may
continue to send it until payment is made, and
then collect the whole amount whether inc
napcr is taken from the Office or not.
!, The courts have decided that refusing TO
take newspapers and periodicals from tle post
Office, or removing and leaving them uncalled
Tor. is prima facia evidence Of intentional
fraud.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-01-29
ELECTRIC LIGHT IN LONDON

ELECTRIC LIGHT IN LoNnoN.--A
circumstantial account of Edison ;
new electric lamp sent by cable pro-
duced fresh excitement. Gas shares
fell in some cases 10 per cent, but
have since mostly recovered. The
British public thinks Edison cries
wolf too often. Comparatively few
timid holders sold out, and all their
shares were eagerly bought up. The
scientific opinion i incredulous.
Electricians say that Edison has com-
pletcly abandoned his original line of
experiment, the failure OF which was
predicted at the beginning. No te-ti-
mony of ordinary non-scientific OBJ
servers will convince the public here.
Ii is reported that new French iu-
vcntion for the production OF electric
light will shortly be made public. II
is alleged that remarkable results have
been attained.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-01-29

California is sorely puzzled with the
debris question. The vast quantities
of materials washed down from the
mines are making steady encroach-
ments on the agricultural lands of the
valleys. The farmers demonstrate,
but no remedy seems available. Gov
Irwin in his late message presented
the difficulties in this way, viz: "That
il the miners are not restrained they
will destroy the farming lands, which
would be lamentable; that if the
miners are restrained they will he
compelled to stop mining, which
would be unfortunate; that if the
farmers obtain relief through the
courts the result will be disastrous To
the miners; that if the farmers do not
obtain relief through the courts the
result will be disastrous To themselves;
that the situation generally is melan-
choly, and that there ought e. be some
remedy which will divest the debris
of its injurious properties, or which
will render the farming lands indie
structible."
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-01-29

+. I. Gennert, writing from Los
Angeles to the Rural Press, thus re-
fcrS 10 the raising of beets and the va
ricd manufactures in operation in that
state: In sequel Cal, is the oldest
beet-sugar factory in the United States;
from ii Is to % barrels of white gran
ulated sugar are turned out daily with
as much regularity as II baker turns
out his rolls. In Alvarado, from thirty
to thirtytive barrels of white sugar
are made daily, and the beet-sugar
prices are regularly quoted in the San
Francisco market. The Maine beet
sugar company in Portland, Me-, turns
out daily from 10000 pounds to 5000
pounds of concrete or melado, and has
sold the whole seasons product in ad-
vance ut Il very good price to n Boston
sugar refinery. The beet-sugar factory
at Isleton, Cal, though complete,
stands idle; but there is little doubt
that it will work this year to its full
capacity. \ new sugar factory will
he built in Los Angeles county, and
begin work by next July; the beet> for
the same were planted before the eX-
piration of the past year.
[The Sequel factory is not the oldest,
oncat Chatworth, ILL.,, being six years
Oldcr-ED. INDEPENDENT.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-01-29

CHINESE SURGERY.-About four
weeks ago, Lee, a Chinaman who
keeps wash house at IS Taylor street,
Portland, chided his younger brother,
about Il year, old, for having over
slept himself The boy became an
gercd and cut his hand with knife.
\ Chinese physician was called, the
he attempted an entirely novel cure
by tying string tightly above the
wrist Gangrene, OF course, set in,
and few days since the hand was
amputated 10y Or. Harvey. The stump
has since commenced to mortify, and
arm will have 10 be amputated near
the shoulder, If tho sufferer don't die
before he can recover strength to bear
the operation,
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-01-29

CoNvocATIoN.-T next Mission
AIRY CouVocation of the Episcopal
Church will he held in 81 Paurs
Church. Salem, on Friday evening,
Feb. 5th. The following clergymen
have been selected to attend: Rev.
Geo. T. Piummer Rev John Rosen-
berg, Rev Il. w Wrixon, Rev. A. T.
Perkins, Rev. 4. w. Summers, Rev.
J. w. Sellwood, Rev. As. Nicholson,
Rev. II. l.. SteHos and Rev. J. Taylor
Chambers,
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-01-29

How \ SNAKE KILLED \ GIRL
The horned singer (crotdics PoHgo)
of the ~taked plains is one of the most
deadly snakes i'm the world, though
luckily ], is seldom met with. 1t is
very quick in Its movements, and it is
said to be provided with sharp, ven
omous tail, which it brings in con-
tact with any object that arouses its
anger. While gathering berries, n
young woman of Is, daughtcrof David
>'licer, of Dutch CrosSs Roads, on the
Little Big Sandy, Texas, was attacked
by one of these snakes. Terrified, she
fell to the ground, when it fastened
itself to her face, and, vibrating its
deadly singing tail, compelled the per-
sons who came To the poor girls
assistance to keep away. OF course
death ensued in few minutes.-FOrt
Bond NaUg.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-01-29
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Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-04-29
NoTABLEs INTERVIEWED.

Senators Cameron, Conkling and Ed
munds were interviewed the other day
by the correspondent of the Boston Jour-
nal. Here is his report Senator Cam
eron said: "You published an interview
with me while ago, in which I said I
was for Grant, had no second choice, and
knew he would be nominated by accla-
nation on the first ballot. Just print
that interview over again, and keep
printing it until everybody who cares
aboutrknowimg is convinced that I am for
Grant, and Grants nomination and elec-
ton is a. sure a. SUNRISE" Senator Conk-
ling said 1T have no other expectation
than that General Grant will be nomi-
mated at Chicago and elected. I believe
that the nomination will be made either
by reclamation or on the first ballot, and
this belief grows stronger every day, as
information of the sentiments of the peo-
pie reaches me-" Senator Edmunds re-
piled "The question is practically set
tied that Grant will receive the nominal
tion on the first ballot. I cannot allow
myself to be put in q position to defeat
Grant or Blaine, and no contin-
gency will arise at Chicago which will
me in allowing my name to be
presented a. . candidate"
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-04-29

He has confessed the deed. Three other
arrests OF persons of higher rank have been
made. Shevitsch left st. Petersburg Uni
versity in 1870. He was known there as
entertaining visionary schemes. After
leaving the university he associated him
self with revolutionists, and in accordance
with their frequent habit, learned a trade,
in order to more readily influence the work
ing class. He was known at the palace as
q clever carpenter, and has been recog-
nized by some officers for whom he worked.
The Gazette says the plague has ap-
peared. In the Volsk District, Govern
ment Of Saratoff, famine also prevails, and
twenty-seven peasants have already died
from starvation. The Golos, of the Don
says the phantom of death and hunger are
passing from village to village in the Don
District, where all grainaries are empty,
and there is an absolute dearth of money.
Other provincial papers report deaths from
starvation among the peasantry in various
parts Of the country.
MADRID, April 2S.-The official declara-
ton of the pregnancy of the Queen was
celebrated yesterday by the granting OF
amnesty for all press offenses. There was
a numerously attended levee in the Palace
and a general parade of troops. Eighty
thousand persons were in the streets. The
King and Queen, with a magnificent reti-
nue., went to the Atocha Cathedral and
heard a TIE Deum.
LONDON, April 2s.-The Standard says
Beaconsfeld took leave Of the Queen yes
terday. The following appointments have
been made. Duke of Argyle, Lord OF the
Privy Seal; Earl of Kimberly, Secretary Of
| State for the Colonial Department; John
Bright, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lam
caster; Marquis Of Ripon, viceroy of India.
He was offered the Vice-Royalty Of either
Ireland or India. The report that Lord
Derby was offered a seat in the Cabinet is
untrue. The absence Of advanced Liber-
ais has, after long negotiation, been met
by conceding seats in the Cabinet to Cham
berlain, who will probably be President Of
the Board of Trade, and Sir Charles Dixie
accepts the position Of Under Secretary for
the Foreign Department. Earl Spencer
will be Lord President of the Council, in
stead of the Duke of Argyle, as reported
yesterday.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-04-29
+ py relesr.ph to the sentinel.l

by Telegraph to the SENTINEL
BERLIN. April 2s.-In the debate in the
Reichstag, yesterday, on the second read
ing Of the Samoa bill, Prince Hohenlohn
begged the House to adopt the bill in the
interest Of German trade and navigation.
and for the promotion Of German influence
abroad. The Federal Commissioner, Rem
boux, pointed out that the bill gave the
German trade in the south seas a national
foundation, which would be advantageous
in Its competition with England and the
United States. The bill was rejected by q
vote Of 1873 to 122. The majority including
the Ultramontaines, Progressives and some
National Liberals. The rejection Of the
samoan bill has caused great commotion,
and 1t Is said that Bismarck will resign in
consequence.
ST.. PE-rrnsBuRo, April 2s.-The missing
workman, who had been lodging in the
basement, under the guard-room Of the
Winter Palace, until the day OF the explo-
sion, February I'd, was arrested here last
Saturday. His name is Shevitsch. He is
. Lithunian, and his uncle is Governor Of
the province Of Kalougs. He was placed
in the palace by the Executive Committee
OF Nihilists six months before the explosion,
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-04-29

Tuscarora District seems to be in bad
odor in the East, as the annexed para
graphs from the New York Daily Mining
News will show:
There is q talk of Q coming IDEAL" in one
or another Of the Tuscarora stocks. We
wonder II it is possible for the swindlers
who control this district to inveigle the
Eastern people in another trap like the
Grand Prize or Belle Isle "deals"?
In regard to the Belle Isle stock, it is
$50 low" because 1t Is not worth anything
except what the rascally m~anipnlators who
control this entire district choose to make
II worth. Eastern investors ought by this
time to know better than TO touch anything
in Tuscarora.
The SENTINEL takes occasion to inform
its New York contemporary that these
structures are undeserved. Tuscarora has
been one Of the best-paying little dis
tricts in Nevada. According to the cap
ital invested and the number of men en-
ployed, it has disbursed more in divi-
dends in the last four years than any
other section of equal extent West Of
the Missouri river for the same period,
and the general management Of its mines
has never been questioned on this Coast.
The trouble is with the Eastern people
themselves. Afraid to take chances in
un~developed mining properties, they were
eager purchasers of the low-priced divi-
dend-yielding mines of Tuscarora. To
obtain a dividend of so cents or 81 per
month on an investment of from SO to IS
proved too tempting a bait for them.
They rushed in hsedlessly, without stop
ping to inquire how long this sort of
thing might last. The very fact that the
shares ruled low should have furnished
conclusive proof that there wa no war
rant that the dividends could be continued
indefinitely. Having fallen victims of
their own cupidity, they now turn around
and hurl ISLANDERS at the managers of the
properties in which they invested with
out due investigation or consideration.
The SENTINEL is not intimately posted
on mine management in Tuscarora, but it
knows full well that nothing altogether
outrageous could have occurred there
without the fact being known at this
distance. The Mining News is not
furthering the great interest to which it
claims to be devoted by voicing the
groundless complaints Of disappointed
spectators.