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Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-01-10
JOHNsON's RETRACTION BILL.

Grove L.. Johnson, a Senator in the Cal
lfornia Legislature from Sacramento coun-
ty, has introduced his pet measure, the
newspaper retraction bill. As a member
OF the Assembly, two years ago, he strenu-
ously advocated the passage of u similar
bill. 1t is orthodox, of course, in all news
papers to object to Mr.. Johnson's measure.
But, really. it is difficult to detect the in
justice of such a law. There are scoun-
drels and confidence men and dead beats
in the journalistic profession, the same as
in all other professions. Amalicious liar
behind types and printers ink does not
deserve a full license to indulge his dis
honorable propensity. No honest and
honorable journalist can object to pub
lishipg a retraction of damaging language,
when convinced of his error. The same
is the rule, as the law now stands,
with all respectable journals. The
pretext that guilty parties will go un-
whipped OF justice in the event of the
passage of the johnson bill will hardly do.
1t only requires that a retraction shall be
made on proof that the libelous charges
were without foundation in fact. There is
nothing unreasonable in this. If a news
paper misrepresents' a private citizen the
least PREPARATION that it can make is to set
the PARTY injured right in the eyes q the
public. Under the present rule a suit at
law for damage IA moneyed consideration
is the only ecourse Money is but poor
satisfaction TOT a ruined reputation. The
johnson rstraction law would come in
very good play for the lying shysters of the
press. 1t could mot possibly harm any
conscientious saisefo r'rsspsctsbls journal.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-01-10

The New York Tribune is authority for
the story going the rounds that General
Grant declined to see Belknap during his
late visit at Philadelphia. According to
the Tribune, Belknap called and sent in
his card, aud received back from Grant the
message that he was engaged. Belknap
took the hint-they call this kind Of a
thing a hint in some pisces-and retreated.
The Chicago Times says nothing Of the
kind happened. Grant, says the Times.
received Belknap as cordially in Philadel-
phia as he had previously received him in
Chicago. ..z..4
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-01-10

ATTORNEY GENERAL MURPHY has pre-
sented his annual report to Governor Kin
kead. Among other things, he deplores the
defeat Of the State Board of Equalization
bill at the last session Of the Legislature.
The SENTINEL fully agrees with Mr.. Muir
ply that the bill should have become a
law. With such a law on the statute books,
the several counties would have no trouble
with the railroads about collecting an
equitable share of taxes. The State would
then have to do the principal part of the
fighting. 1t is due to Republican votes in
the Legislature that an Equalization bill
was not passed. The Attorney General in
his report says:
At the session of the Legislature in 1879,
a bill was introduced to create a State
Board of Equalization, for the purpose Of
equalizing property located in two or more
counties in this State, but failed to become
a law. l think we ought to have q law of
that kind to govern us, as it would have o
tendency to equalize property throughout
the State, and prevent q discrimination in
the assessments of the same class or species
Of property, and would have the effect to
establish a uniform valuation of all kinds
of property throughout the State.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-01-10
THE PUBLIC L
Comments Of she Press ON Lfv
Subjects.

Comments Of the Press ON Live
Subjects.
Q STATE LEGISLATURE.
From the Carson Appeal.
When q Legislature meets in this State
which has the brain and determination to
run itself, instead Of allowing outsiders to
step in, then there is a possibility Of some
thing being done. Last year an alien held
the Legislature in the hollow of his hand
through the entire session, assisted by q
Californian. The next session will prob
ably be controlled by a man who has no
residence in this State.
THEIR LAST APPEARANCE.
From the Sacramento Bee.
The Paradise Reporter heads a marriage
notice, Once More We Come Before Thee,
Lord" And it is probably the last time
they will come before Him, for they are
likely to be playing the very devil hence
forth.
IRwIN's ADMINISTRATION.
From the Alta California.
The period during which the outgoing
State administrator held power will not
be remembered by the people Of California
with satisfaction. 1t was marked by the
calling Of the Constitutional Convention,
the framing of q new Constitution, the
adoption of the instrument, the rise of the
Kearneyite and Blk parties, great depres-
sion il business, and the hardest times for
the poor eve suffered in our State. The
Legislatures of 1876 and 1878, were in
judicious, reckless, corrupt, and their adj
%journment was hailed in both cases as q
public relief.
COMFORT FROM A oLD SOURCE.
From the Springfield Republican.
There will be one comfort to the Demo-
Gratis in Grants nomination-they can use
all their old 1876 documents full of the
rotten practices of Grants two terms; doc
uments whose wide distribution left the
Republican party in a popular minority of
100, 900.
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NEVADA.
Explosion Mt the ophir.

VIRGINIA CRY, January 3.
Yesterday afternoon as an old boiler, that
had been prepared as a receptacle of COM
pressed air, was being tested at the Ophir
works, the head blew out, striking J.. W.
Somerstine in the breast. James Brown,
chief engineer of the mine. was cut in the
head, but not dangerously, and Thomas
Wooley was also hurt. When the explosion
occurred the boiler recoiled about 80 feet.
Somerstine never rallied from the shock,
and died during the night.
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SPECIAL NOTICES.
REMOVAL.

THOMAS MURPHY has removed his Boot
shop three doors south of the new brick build.
ing on Main street, where he is prepared to
make the best French Calf Boots to order, from
kSl2 to SIG. Repairing neatly done. A large
assortment of Boots Of my own manufacture
ut reduced prices.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-01-10

The San Jose Herald reports that A. K.
Smith of Saratoga, dug mp a bonanza De-
cember S0th, in the shape of a box of
money that contained SS.000. 1t was found
on what is known a. the York or George
Cross property, in Saratoga, Santa Clara
county, Cal.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-01-10

At the GOLDEN RULE STORE. Goods nj
% price, to close by the first of February
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-01-10

Hon. s. s. Cox was recently interviewed
by a Washington Post reporter. He says
Ex-Governor Seymour will accept the DEM
ocrstic nomination, for the Presidency if
rendered to him. s4sss 20 s1&e
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-01-10

All kinds of MINING CAR WHEELS an
AXLES at the New Foundry, at
II. H.. CONKLIN & cos.
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w. r. Haskell

Has on hand n small lot of Triple-plated Goods,
consisting of Table Cutlery, Casters, Butter
Dishes, etc, which he will close out at very
low prices.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-01-10
Attention, Richmonds.

TINE REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING OF
IL Richmond Hose Co. No. 8. will be held at
their Hese House Monday evening. January IL,
1870, at $50 O'Clock. All members are request
ed to be present, as officers to serve the next six
months are to be elected. Alse, arrangements
are to be made in regard to the ball, to be given
by the Company on the. evening OF February
%, 1880, and several persons have handed in
their names, requesting to be admitted ss
members. j. J. ALLEN. Foreman,
NJ. DOWNING, Secretary. y
Eureka, January Q, 1850. jan10 I'd
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-01-10

Joseph, at the GOLDEN RULE, is offering
his stock of fashionable hats and caps Mt
cost. Is closing ont, to go East.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-01-10
Sir Ashley COOper's Vital RestOra-
tive.

The great English remedy has made more
cures of Nervous Debility, Seminal Weakness,
Lost Manhood, nocturnal emissions, lassitude,
inability for mental labor, dependency and
such diseases as are induced by youthful foilies
and excuses, than all other medicines COM
bined. Why will you suffer- Send to A. +.
Mintie, NJ. D.. No. II Kearny street. San Fran.
cisco, for the Restorative. and be cured. Price,
So per bottle. Four times the quantity, SO,
Try a bottle. DIR. Mintie treats all private dis.
eases successfully without mercury.
nov20-1yd&w
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-01-10

Gloves of buckskin, kid, dogskin. wool and
combination, at cost at the GOLDEN RULE,
on account of M. II. Joseph going out of busi-
ness,
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-01-10

The Reno Gazette demands a fair deal in
the matter OF selecting delegates to the
Republican National Convention, from Ne
vada. 1t is firmly opposed to their ap-
pointment by the State Central Committee.
Commenting on a proposition appearing in
a recent issue of the Enterprise, it says:
A correspondent of the Enterprise sug-
gests that the rank and file of the Repub-
lican party should have a voice in the choice
of the national candidate for the Presi-
dency. He advises a vote for the SIX dele
gates, and that each voter write the name
of his candidate upon the ticket. We hope
the suggestion may be adopted. 1t would
be unfair for a committee selected a good
while ago, to pick u the men to cast our
vote, regardless Of our feelings and pro-
fessions.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-01-10
NOTICE..

A IL BILLS DUE MR.. CHARLES KNIGHT
"A must be paid to the undersigned before
JANUARY 18th. or they will be placed in the
proper hands for collection. @s
j. L. LINGxNEEJ.TEa.s
Eureka, December 81, 1sSs, dG9s.td
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q REWARD.

r OST-SOME DAYS AGO, A SHIRT PIN
IL black hand. holding a brilliant. Any one
returning the same to the undersigned. wall
receive the above reward.
ED. WILHELM, Jewslsr.
Eureka. January 9. 40. janT Nv
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California all wool understands and drawers,
canton flannel, merino. and all kinds of mems
underwear, Mt cOst at the GOLDEN RULE,
as M. H.. Joseph is about to quit merchal-
djsinp,
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NOTICE.

an AND AFTER JANUARY fst, 1880, ALL
" freight not called for. charges paid. and
taken away, within twenty-four hours sitter its
arrival at the depot, will be turned over to the
Eureka Forwarding Company, who will charge
storage and commission until taken away.
p. EVERTS,
ta.t ssls General Superintendent.
Eureka, December Is, 1879. delT-lm
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-01-10

NJ. II Joseph. of the EN- RULE STORE.
will close out his stock of cigars, stationery,
pocket cutlery, razors and notions, at east.
to quit business.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-01-10
. Tender.footed Dcfaulter.

Frauds on the Produce Exchange. to the
amoun Of S3l 900, have been discovered.
The defaulter was Benjamin G. Bogert,
who had been treasurer of the Exchange
for many years, and who was a highly re-
spected merchant, in whom general conf
dence was felt. Bogert did not appear at
the Exchange or at his Office after the dis
covery was made, and died suddenly yes
terday afternoon, at the house of a friend
in this city. 1t is thought that, being I'M
able to bear his disgrace, he may have COM
mitted suicide.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-01-10
A COmmendable Act.

Representative beiiofd to-day which au-
thorizes the Secretary OF the Interior to
pay out OF the Indian annuity fund, to
us; ~. y. MTeehei' Ine suni oi So,ooo 70
widow NJ william post =, 0on ana Nv
Mania 7 Ell;ntt az ma Cor mi aa "
tanned NV than at H. hanas ~ ~ ~ Tm
dams in Colorado
-
!" 1s". "s"iAs' "or'o
WASHINGTON January ..
senators boosn anu FARLEY and kepre-
sentatlves DAVIS, rage Pacheco and Berry,
To-day unltediy signed a written communi-
cation addressed to the Senate Finance
COMMITTEES, recommending that the nomi-
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-08-19
The Soldier Stampede to Hancock.

The attempt to check the movement
of soldiers to the support of Hancock
by prescription in the departments will
not succeed. All over the country the
men who fought the battles of the
Union. who aided Hancock in stamping
the life out of the rebellion, who fol-
lowed the changing fortunes of war
through alternating, periods of light and
darkness, until tho supremacy of the
Government was admitted and the old
flag was respected on every foot of our
National domain-these men, every
where, are showing a strong inclination
to rally under the banner of the gallant
soldier who bears the Democratic stan
dard in this campaign.
And thousands of them in every
Northern State are breaking away from
the Republican party in obedience to
the same high sense of public duty that
impelled them to take up arms against
the rebellion and fight it, as Hancock
did, until it was dead. They are patri-
otto citizens. Their creed is that their
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-08-19
The Campaign and the Prospects.

The Democratic campaign of 1880
has opened most auspiciOuSly. Several
weeks have elapsed since the National
nominations were made, and it is more
and more evident, from day to day, that
they are completely satisfactory to the
party and impregnable to hostile criti-
cism. The bright smiles which IL
lumined the faces of good Democrats,
when the name of Hancock appeared
on the bulletin boards as the nominee,
have given way to an expression OF
calm content and cheerful determine
tion-a content which awaits the COM
ing triumph, and determination which
means that nothing shall be left undone
to deserve it. There is no installing
the general enthusiasm of the party for
the ticket. 1t is genuine and deep. All
sections of the country share in it. The
East, the great Middle States, the South
and the West have echoed congratulate
tions upon it, one to another. Han
cocks character, his brilliant and pat
riotic military achievements and his
statesmanlfke utterances, when demand
ed by proper occasions, combine to
make him one of the most distin-
guished Presidential candidates that the
people have ever had an opportunity to
vote for; while his associate on the
ticket, Mr.. English, is gentleman well
known, both in public and private life,
as of strict integrity and a high order
of ability. Of such candidates the
Democrats of the country may well be
proud. They have made a selection,
from among many honored names.
which does credit to themselves and
which appeals directly to the patriot
ism and sound judgment of the people
at large. In presenting the names of
Hancock and English as their National
ticket, they have guaranteed not only
to Democrats, but to thinking men of
all parties, that it is their purpose to
put the administration of public affairs
into the hands OF well-known men of
the highest character, and the most
thorough patriotism. They have de-
served success by their sagacity and
public spirit, and their prospects of
winning it are of the best. The
distinguished representatives whom
they have put forward will steadi-
ly attract to their support during the
coming campaign large class of the
community, which believes in honoring
remarkable public service wherever
it is found. and in trusting well-tried
men. When to this strength, fairly
earned, is added that of the great party
which in '76 carried every State now
necessary to an election, victory is
almost certain; defeat hardly possible.
This year, however, we must not be
satisfied with a mere victory. 1t must
be Overwhelming. 1t must be as de-
cisive as Hancock's work at Gettysburg.
The Democratic party has it in its
power. by continuing to make judicious
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-08-19
POLITICAL POINTS.
The New York Star calls

The New York Star calls Gen.
eral Arthur's letter of acceptan ce. "a
comical allusion to civil service"
1t is "said" that Mr.. Conkling
intends to take an active part in the
New York canvass as soon as the hot
weather is over, but according TO all
representations the heated term this
year will extend away into November.
Washington Post.
"A Vermont ofliceholder recently
said: II know we shall have very
vigorous campaign in Vermont; the
size of my assessment tells me that.
This is the kind of political barometer
that officeholders have cause to under
stand-BOStOn Statesman.
What has become of that fear
some official proof that General Han
cock contemplated heading a revolt
for Tilden?" Awful "revolt." Has
it got lost with Cardinal McCloskey's
letter? Or has it gone up the spout
with the explosion Of that "oil tankP"
MCPHERSON. IF the Republican
Campaign Committee, says that ''the
outlook is very hopeful" Mac has got
his 100 tons of campaign documents
started off to the Postmastcrs, and he
fondly believes they will do the bust
ness. The voters, however, are look
ing at the Republican candidates and
the rotten record of the party they rep
resent, and these are the arguments
which will slaughter the Republican
party lin the melancholy days of No
vember."
The Republicans hired a man
the other day to put in claim for
pension at the Pension Office IN Wash
ington, representing that he was Con-
federate soldier who had been wounded
and was entitled to a pension from the
United States Government. This game
is too thin, but it shows the desperate
feeling pervading the ranks OF the
sacrosanct, and that they will not hest
tate to commit any act of perjury or
forgery or to utter any falsehood to
''help the party"
- In the opinion of one Garfield
paper, it is not by inquiry into the de-
tails of his Congressional career, but
lit is by taking the large UieU of Gar
field that people will gain confidence
in his character, and will be inspired
with enthusiasm in the Republican
campaign. The voter must weigh the
candidate by his life." If the Repub-
lican voters do that Garfield will be
crushed under the load of DeGolyer's
pavement blocks and Cakes Ames'
memorandum. -Hayttord Times.
Speaking of E. w. BARRIERS con-
version to Democracy the New York
World says, very pertinently: cit is
now in order for the stalwart papers to
show conclusively that General Barber
was a copperhead, and that writ of
accommodation from the grand old
Republican party had been drawn up
and signed and would have been served
on him next morning ut sun-up if he
hadn't displayed the wise discretion of
the dog that went down stairs when he
saw his master put on his boots"
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acts should be such as will best pro-
mote the public welfare. They went
into the war because they felt that the
success of the Confederacy would be
the destruction of the best Government
ON earth. They fought for the restora-
ton of the Union. They will not be-
lieve and they can't possibly be made
to believe, that the object for which
they sacrificed so much, and for which
so many of their comrades died, was
not attained.
They believe the Union is restored.
They are confident that General Grant
told the truth when he said, in his tour
up the Mississippi, that he had seen, in
every State of the defunct Confederacy,
the most convincing proofs that the men
of the South were as loyal to the Union,
and as devoted to the old flag as the
people of any Northern State.
They have seen enough of sectional
hate, have heard the bowling of the
bloody shirt chorus until they are sick
of it; have witnessed the untiring efforts
of the radical leaders to fan the embers
of expiring malice into flames until their
very souls loathe the old shibboleths
and notices by which the Northern
heart has been Tired until it has ceased
to respond to old influences.
These men recognize, in the cheerful
alacrity with which the South comes to
the support of soldier like Hancock,
the best possible evidence of desire on
the part of the Southern people to get
the country out of the old sectional
ruts, and put our politics upon higher
plane. They are with Hancock in this
campaign for the same reason that they
were with him at Gettysburg and other
fields where he earned his immortal
fame-because they are sure that the
future of our country will be happier,
more prosperous and more glorious if
the cause which he represents is tri-
umphant.
Against this patriotic impulse how
poor. how small, how impotent are such
devices as the discharge OF q gallant
soldier like Captain Hamlin from a de-
partmental position for declaring that
he would support Hancock. True, the
sneaks who discharged him wanted him
to resume his place when they found
that he was gentleman of influence
and would take the stump in Illinois.
but this only aggravates the original
business. Captain Hamlin spurned their
offer with the contempt that is shared
by the whole country.
AS persecution is the seed of the
church, so this sort of prescription,
which is being tried in not less than
three of the departments. will but add
to the tide it is intended to check. The
soldiers UiU rally to the Hancock col
umn. They will vote for the great
General who fought to the end OF the
war, and whose record is spotless,
rather than for the smaller General who
left them in the midst of the terrible
conflict to take civil office far to the
rear Washington Post.
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had the eventual greater responsibility, and so
the matter was governed as between him and
myself.
As have been writing thus freely to Won. T
may still further unbosom myself by stating
Inat nave not thought it lawful or wise to use
Federal troops in such matters as have trans
pired east OF the Mississippi within the last few
months, save SO far as they may be brought
INTO action under the article of the Constitu-
a,om "nlcn contemplates meeting armed resist
than the State authorities can subdue by the
ordinary processes, and then only when re-
quested by the Legislature, or, if it could not
DE convened in season, by the Governor, and
when the President of the United States inter-
Vened in that manner, it is state Of war, not
peace Inc army is laboring under diSadvan-
!ages and has been used unlawfully at times,
IN the Judgment of the people Din mine GER
kindly feeling which the community at large
once felt for us. 1T is time to stop and I'M
load. OHcers in command of troops often
find it difficult to act wisely and safely when
super1ors in authority have different views Of
the law from theirs, and when legislation has
sanctioned action seemingly in conflict with the
fundamental law, and they generally defer to
the known judgment of their superiOrs. Yet
the superior officers of the army are so re-
responsibility, especially those at or near the
head of it, That it is necessary on such mo-
mentous occasions to dare to determine for
themselves what is lawful and what is not law
full under our system.
II the military authorities should be evoked,
as might possibly be the case in such excep-
tlOnal times. when there existed such diver
gent views as to the correct result, the army
will suffer from it's past action if it has acted
wrongfully. Our regular army has little hold
upon the affections of the people of to-day.
and its superior officers should certainly, as far
lies in their power, legally and with righteous
intent, aim to defend the ri ght, which to us is
the law, and the institutions which they repre-
sent. 1t is a well-meaning institution, and it
would be well if it should have an opportunity
to be recognized as a buwarl< in support of
the rights Of the people and of the law. am
truly yours, WINFIELD S. HANCOCK.
To General w. T. Sherman, Commanding Army
of the United States, Washington, ID. c.