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The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-11-12
AFTER THEM ALL.

One day last Summer, says the Wall
Street IN. Y. News, Jay Gould stopped
at Jackson, Michigan, while on his
way from Chicago to Detroit, to meet
some railroad man who was coming
across from Fort Wayne. While stroll
ing about the Depot he was sccosted
by thick set, middle-aged man, with
gray eyes and an ugly nose, who blurt-
ed out:
"Say, aint you Jim Keene:
''No, sir, was the reply.
because, if you are, I'm going to
punch your head !" continued the man.
"Jim Keene busted my brother-in~
law all to smash in the wheat business,
and I've sworn to break every rib in
his body if ever get hold of him."
The man with gray eyes walked
away, shaking his head, bat in five
minutes after he confronted Jay Gould
again and said;
"Say, old fellow, I believe your name
is Vanderbilt !"
"No, / am not Vanderbilt" was the
reply.
Because, if yoa are, one of your
conductors on this road bounced me off
a train and told me to get satisfaction
out of Vanderbilt, and I'm ready to
take it here and now"
He went off as before, held brief
conference with the Station Agent, and
then crossed Gould's path and growled:
'Is yo1- name Russell Sage?"
"No."
Because if it is, you can get ready
for roll in a mud-hole, Russell Sage
cleaned cut my only rich uncle in a
stock speculation, and I've sworn to
mangle him on sight "
Gould must have srspicioned that
one more inquiry was coming, for he
closeted himself in the telegraph office,
and had been there only few inmates
when the thick-set man halted under
the window, and said to friend
'Jim, want you to find that man
and ask him if he is Jay Gould; because
if he is, he's the worst pill in the whole
lot, and Tn going to make dog meat of
him in just ten seconds -
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-11-12
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CA U 10 N /!

The pubic are hereby cautioned not to pur-
chase or negotiate for County Warrant No. TSi6,
drawn in favor OF ], II. job, for $6l 90, on the
Redemption Fund, as the same has been lost
and the payment of the same has been stopped
bg notifying the County Treasurer
TRUSTEES HUMBOLDT LODGE,
No. is, |. o. q. +.
winncmucca New, July 10, 1880.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-11-12
Notice to Taxpayers.

TREAsoRER's OFFICE, HUMBOLDT COUNTY,
WINNEauccA, New, October 18th, $780,
Notice is hereby given, that the State and
County Taxes for the fiscal year 1850 are now due
and payable at this ofiice and that the law in
regard to their collection will be strictly en-
forced.
On all taxes unpaid at the close cf official
business on the 18th day of November next,
there will he added gen per ceat for deliHQues-
cy, as provided by law.
A. s. SHEPPARD. Comfy .S~a4a~eA
VSxNS
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1880-12-14

The rapid growth of railroad business
and the sensible improvement in the in
comes of the corporations have lately
given tremendous impulse to the market
for steel rails, in which the demand far
outruns the supply. The New York BuL
ttie notes great number of orders for
rails in small and large quantities. The
Chicago Tribune, speaking of the "boom !"
in this article, says that the Edgar Thomp-
son Steel Works, at Pittsburg, have lately
received orders for $4,000 tons, the de-
mand coming principally from new roads
pushing their way westward, ard includ-
ing the Texas Pacific, the Atchison and
Topeka, the Wabash and the Louisville
and Nashville. These rails range from
81 to so pounds to the yard, while the
Baltimore and Ohio and the Pennsylvania
roads, for all their heavier grades, are Sc
curing rails which weigh 81 pounds per
yard. These orders are taken at fixed
price. 1t is estimated that this firm alone
in 1881 will roll l2O, 900 tons of rails, for
all of which it has orders. These rails
will supply l,l4o miles Of railway with
steel track. 1t will therefore require IF
teen mills of the capacity of the Edgar
Thompson works, working full time, to
supply rails enough to equip all our rail-
roads with steel rails in the course of five
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1880-12-14

A correspondent of the Augusta, Ga,
ChronicaI and ConstitutionaIist, presents
his views on the value of immigrants, az
follows:
1t is admitted that each immigrant brinRs with
him $40 on the average, 80 that 900 immigrants
will bring $40 900. In each one thousand immi-
grants there are four hundred men worth 81, 600
each, $500 900; so that the total value of one
thousand immigrants is $4,000. Several years
ago an English company offered 10 Governor
Smith to bring to the State of Georgia thirty
thousand immigrants for three years, provided
that the State pay to the company $4,000 every
year for three years. 1t was not % premium for
each immigrant 1t was very cheap at that price.
Now, if our legislators appropriate $4,000 to
encourage immigration by offering premium Of
81 for each immigrant brought to Georgia by
any company or individual, provided that the
premium will be paid to immigrant families
only, that no premium win be paid to single
persons, male or female, one appropriation of
$4,000 will bring to the State twenty FIVE thou
sand immigrants. With $40 each this will be
100000; ten thousand men worth each q, 900
will be $4,000, 000-total, eli ,0O0O 900; premium
paid, $4,000; net profit, without any fisk for
the State. 10950OOO. 1t is understood that no
premium will be paid before an immigrant society
is established to locate the families OF immigrants
so II is out of the question to induce immigrants
to come to Georgia before such society u estab-
lished. The success OF such company depends
upon how immigrants are treated. If they are
treated honestly and kindly, 90 that they can
make favorable report at home, then all will be
right; if not, then the company could get no
more immigrants for love or money.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1880-12-14

We have received copy of the Fair
Bulletin The fair will open at Tallahas-
see on the 10th of January, and its pre-
MUM list offers good inducements to
those who have articles for exhibition.
Our Thomas county exhibitors were re-
msrksbly well treated at their last fair,
and We trust they win carry many articles
down this time. We bespeak full Ct
tsadanee Of our people ct the Capital of
Florida On this interesting OCCASION
zA0mGsvfzs Esse,prise.
We are m receipt Of the Fair Bulletin,
announcing the coming exhibition of the
shove Fair st Tallahassee. Our friends
IN Lsos hsse patsonised as literally in
Tie P4st, and We hope to ZEE . rousing
deIsgntion from Themasvills and Thomas
oounty ss TAllshasses during their exhibi-
ton A number Of our people made en-
tFsss 01srs Last yssr, and were suecsssfal
IN csrFyine or several handsome eprssuis
ma skeps shsy win bet sfsiisto 60
dosn again With specimens Of their
crop1. &c e Let YhoGnas mske o goodl
aho~isg tEsrs oh tEs6 cossI6n zNossde'
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1880-12-14


tIom.
Il IL quite certain that Judge Bethel and vie
were British suhjectt. and that the Democratic
candidate for Lieutenant Governor was born On
one of the Bahama lslandA
Now, IL he has meyer been naturalized. he 10
stili Q British subjectf Itisconhdently reported
that no record Of naturalization can be found.
But the question arises, If Mr.. Bethel Is found in
eligible, can General Ledwith be declared the
Lieutenant GovernOt or Is there no electionI
If Judge Bethel was naturalized while
the son was a minor, that is the end of
the argument The act of the father
rendered the naturalization of the son un-
necessary. (See page ss2, Section 2,l72,
Revised Statutes u 81 The offices held
by Judge Bethel show that he was nat
uralized citizen more than twenty years
ago. In lS6O-'6l, he was a member of
the Constitutional Convention of this
State from Monroe and he could not have
been such member if an alien. In 1875
he was appointed by Governor Stearns
Judge of the 9Th Circuit and held the
position until 1s n. Twenty years ago
Lieutenant-G Governor Bethel was only
about Is years of age. 1t will turn out,
we have no doubt, that all this talk about
his not being a citizen is the merest
twaddle.
The San and Press wants to know
whether, in the event Mr.. Bethel is ineli-
gible, that fact will enure to the benefit
of General Ledwith. Undoubtedly not.
In 1869 the Supreme Court of the State
declared Mr.. Gleason ineligible as Lieu
tenant Governor by reason of his not
having, at the time of his election, &C
quired the citize nship required by the
Constitution to entitle him to hold the
Office and ousted him, but did not say
that the next highest candidate took the
Office. On the contrary, it declared a
vacancy, which Governor Reed filled by
appointing thereto Major E. c. Weeks,
who acted as Lieutenant-Govcrn until
the general election in 1870, when Gov
ernor Bloxham was elected but was
counted out " and the place given to
DIR. S. T. Day, who was in turn subse-
quently ousted by the same Supreme
Court and Bloxh am awarded the position.
There is nothing in this precedent to
fiatter the ambitious hopes of General
Ledwith, and we think he might as well
surrender.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1880-12-14
Experiments with Potatoes.

A French agricultural journal, the
Basse- Co,tr, describes the result of some
experiments in potato growing recently
conducted by scientific men in Germany.
The principal conclusions to which these
sages have come seem to be two in num-
Der. The first one of them is that the
vigor OF the potato plant is always in
direct proportions to the weight of the
tuber used for sets, fact which certainly
finds support in common sense alone, con-
sidering that the young shoots for some
time draw their sole nourishment from
the mother potato.
The second conclusion is that there is q
great variety in the productive power, not
only of different eyes in the same potato.
1t is found that the eyes at the top of the
potato produce a much more vigorous
offspring than those in the lower part,
and the consequence is that those agricul-
turists who cut their potatoes in half be-
fore planting them are not well advised
in cutting vertically, but should always
divide them horizontally, planting the
upper half and using the other as food for
cattle.
But the best plan of all is to plant the
tuber whole, cutting out, nevertheless, all
the eyes except those in the top part
Experiments were conducted in garden
soil by Professor Gantz, the amount of
crop produced by several different settings
of the potatoes being accurately estimated
in statistical tables. 1t appeared that
from the tubers divided vertically, only
five tons were produced per acre, and
from whole potatoes seven and half
TONS
In this particular, however, some of the
other Professors do not agree with Herr
Gantz, but maintain that other things be-
ing equal, the whole potatoes will always
produce more than halves, however cut.
On the fourth, however, all agree, and
that the whole potatoes, from which the
lower eyes have been cut out, produce
eleven and one half tons per acre, or more
than double the result by the sets first
mentioned. iE
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1880-12-14
Civil Service RefOrm-The Demo-
cratic OppOrtunlty.

The President-elect hopes for the CO.
operation of Congress in establishing " a
legal basis for all routine appointments,
so that it shall not be in the power of
anybody, even the President himself, to
remove any capable and faithful ap-
"pointee during his term of Office, whe-
"ther the time be long or short" This
is well enough az far as it goes, says the
Nescs and Courier, but it does not go
very far. Something more than security
against arbitrary removals is called for.
The object of the true Civil Service Re-
former is to ensure, in the first instance,
the appointment of competent public off,
GERS, and to assure to such officers the
holding of their places during good be-
havior. They can vote as they please,
and take what part they please in poll
tics, 90 long IS they attend to their work,
but there will be no longer an army of q
hundred thousand office-holders and their
dependents fighting with the desperation
OF despair TO save their own bread and
butter by electiIg particular candidate
for President. A large number of Re-
publicans and 9 larger number Of Demo
Gratis are heartily in favor Of measures that
win accomplish this, and we are satisfied
that the majority in the present Congress
cannot serve the country and the party
better than BY Introducing and passing
proper Civil Service bill at the present
session. The Nasion, on this subject,
says seas g u VS.,
sThe consensns pk the Buffalo Obsvisr, the New
York Wpr8, Mp Louisville QbNrisr, journal and
peshaps other Democratic journals, in recon-
needing the mkioiity b Cohgress IL the coming
sesslQh % taksup md enact civil service reform,
might led o spl1ethisg 4 Mr. Hayes should
dexteeuplly spaRD The way In biz I6rthc0niInk
message. and d TIE South were ready 70 seiEs
this opportunity, willis SIN acting with tie
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1880-12-14

The Gainesville Bee of Thursday
last makes a serious mistake in undertak-
ing to tell its readers what the Legisla-
ture of 1879 did Sin its eagerness to re-
duce taxes" That paper says:
The collection of the tax to pay the interest on
the bonded Indebtedness of the State was sus-
pended for two years This was piece of DEM
agogueism that should have been rebuked at the
time. 1t was stroke of policy on the part of
the Democratic majority that neves should have
been engaged in. The people did not demand
it. 1t was no way to bring them relief, for it
could only be temporary. 1t was no doubt
thought by many very polite thing for the
tai in winning applause for certain leaders of the
party in the Assembly. The suspension of the
collection Of the tax in question was not neces-
sary to insure Democratic victory in 1880.
The people would have been more than satisfied
with the administration of Governor Drew,
without the slightest reduction in taxes. Having
honest and capable men in Office; the law faith
fully and justly administered; crime punished
and life and property protected, were sufficient
to guarantee the retention of the Democratic
party in power. But the assessments had been
very materially reduced. Where then the neces-
sity or even propriey of suspension of the col
lection OF the tax referred to? There was none,
and when the people are forced to pay triple
assessment on the bonded debt, together with an
increase to make up the heavy deficiency in the
past two years collections, they will begin 10 in
quire where the fault lies Alter investigation
the last legislature may not prove to have been
much of a benefactDr, after all. They evidently
worked more with the aim to win the applause
Of their constituency, than with an eye to the
welfare of the people. Better to have let Is have
moderately high taxes every year than TO reduce
them one year and double them the next. In
short, better less demagogueism, and more square,
honest legislation.
The revenue act adopted in 1879 did
not suspend the collection of the tax to pay
interest on the bonded debt; but it did
suspend for two years "the levying of a
tax for the raising of sinking fund for
the ultimate redemption of the bonded
debt "-and this was done for the reason
that the sinking fund, owing to the excess
siye tax which had been previously levied,
had accumulated beyond the requirements
of the law creating it. This is all there
is of that. A tax to pay the interest on
the bonds was provided for in the act of
1879, and some SOC, 900 was assessed for
that purpose last year and like amount
has been assessed for the same purpose
the present year, and the interest has
been promptly paid as it accrued.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1880-12-14

On the LIST of December the grain
elevators at Chicago held 10000, 900
bushels.
1t is estimated that there will be
100000 worth Of oranges shipped from
the south side of Orange Lake this sea
son, and the production of this fruit even
in that part of our county is yet in It's in-
fancy OcdIG Bdnner., 49,.
Judge A. G.. Whitner, who has salts
factorily discharged the duties of County
Judge during the past four years, has re-
signed said Office, and removed to Jack
sonville. We trust he viii be very sue.
cessful In his new field Of labor. - Nom
tioelg0 Consultation. .,. a e s
I'VE have received the Middle Flor.
ida Fair Bulletin, . supplement- to the
TalIahassee FLoRtDIAR, which, - its name
implies, i devoted TO the Interest," Of the
fair The exhibitionnwill begin, On Mon
day, January 10th, and continue through.
out the week. The premium list ii en-.
tensive and LIBERAL and tho fair win, as
usual psovela great saeosss.~S auan,sah
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1880-12-14

De-ocratic party, Of demonstrating their infer.
est 10 legislation which concerns an aecfluus
alike. The Southern press made tho most az
Mr.. Gar6eld's detection from the principles 81
reform In his letter Of acceptance, and used 1t -
provemens 10 the Federal oficess at the South
under decentralization. Their representatives
In Congress now have Il In their power 70 fore
stall his accession. and to bind him aud the sue
ceeding Republican Congress TO system making
capacity and fidelity the tests OF admission 10
and tenure In Office. One result of this would
office holders from forced assessments. -Four
years hence they could not be counted on 1t all
for the sinews of the campaign; 90 that, ciesoed
merely 40 styoke Of parry policy Ghe reform oOns-
Daends itseB 70 the outgoing majority. 1t would. Of
course, challenge the support Of an influential
President Hayes. Moreover, it would b he BE-
ginning Of a neN record of which the Demo
cratic party stands so sorely in need; and some
thing would have been dene TO Offset resumption
or any other trump card Of its opponents
This is an excellent summary of the
argument from party stand point a.
well as in its national aspect. The Dem
ocracy can make nothing out of the pres
ent system except Republican workers,
Republican campaign funds and Repub-
lican votes. By reforming the system
radically, the Democracy can demonstrate
their interest in legislation which con-
Germs all sections alike; they can bind
the Garfield administration to the Jeffer-
sonian test Of capacity and fidelity, in
obtaining and holding public Office; they
can emancipate Federal ofice-holders
from forced assessments for political pur-
poses. At the same time they will plant
themselves SO uarely on reform which
commends itself to the whole country,
and SO have a record to pit against any
thing that is done or promised by our OPP
ponents. 1t is grand opportunity, and
it will be seized, if there be in Washing
ton any practical craftsmanship and a
grasp of the situation.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1880-12-14
Sunland Tribune, December 81
asa 90 Ie.

To set matters right and to show who received
the Republican vote in the recent Senatorial
election In this county, we publish the following
statement: k.
STATE or FLORIDA,
RILLsBoRoUGH Co, ssr7A&5sir3s !
We. the undersigned, hereby certify that We
have carefully canvassed the ballots caat ct tho
election held in and for said county on the SEC
ond day Of November, A. d. 1880, and ahat we
find one hundred and eighty -four asa Repub-
lican ballots with the name Of James Mckay for
State Senator thereon, and that We find eighteen
u.s. Republican ballots with the name of Thomas
r. Spencer for State Senator thereon, and the
remainder of the Republican ballots had no
Given under our hands this 27th dsT of No
yember. A. ID. 1880. Nm. O. BBowN.
r. Z. CRANA,
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1880-12-14
WASHINGTON LErrER.
A QUORUM OF CONGRESS PRESENT POLITICAL
eossIr-cARL SEIZURE CIVIL SERVICE CANT.
From our Regular Correspondent)

QUORUM OF CONGRESS PRRsRNT-PorarTc.Y
eossIr-cARL SEIZURE CIVIL SERVICE CANT.
From Our Regular conespondent)
WASHINGTON. d. c., Dec. 4, isS0
During the past week every train has bfousb,
accessions to the Congressional delegation, until
at the present time, the representation Is nearly
complete, and both houses will be opened on
Monday, the 9th inst, with very few absentees
Members and Senators, when they can he
found in the hotel Hobbies and on the avenue
are not averse to expressing their opinaon on
the political status, but have observed that
political leaders do not much frequent hotel lob.
bes, and those whose opinions are worth having
are the least accessible. Amer all, there is yerv
little to talk about. The election is oyek: sec.
tional politics is sleeping the sleep of exhaustion
and political sensations may well be postponed
until after the 4th of March, Politicians, how.
ever, will talk about something, and, since the
present is uneventfnl, they are just now discuss
ing the future. The hermeiical reticance of
General Garfield as TO the personel of The coming
Cabinet, and of little Billy Malone as to the
size on which he proposes to tip the Senate.
nave lefl open boundless field for conjecture
and prophecy Almost every prominent Repub-
lican, from Gen Grant to Private Dalzcll has
been suggested for Cabinet position. General
Grant, it is asserted will be offered the portfolio
of State; Secretary Sherman, if he wants to re-
tain his present position, will not be without
influence as potent as his own. General Garfield
is, indeed, under obligations 10 every member of
Hayes present Cabinet for helpful assistance.
As Kearney would say, they pooled issues"
swallowed the affront hnrled at them in the per.
son of Chester A. Arthur, ignored all their civil
service professions, and worked like ireineu; for
their party and an Office. A more grotesque ex-
ample of Dutch paradox was never seen than
when Carl SchurZ, the great apostle OF civil ser
vice reform, broke its most essential tenet in
abandoning his work in Washington to lsbor for
the party. all the time making civil service
reform the burden of his oratorical can't.
General Garfelds hardest task will come
when he undertakes TO reward his friends for
his friends are by no means friendly with each
other. The seethIng cauldron of political ami.
mostly, jealousy, and envy is already stopping
over; but this is a mere simmer to the ebnllltion
of political and personal selishness that gill In.
undate Republican political circles (ringsl about
the 4th OF March. For any lack Of excitement
during the present session, we expect ample
in the events that will follow close
upon the retirement of Mr.. Hayes.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1880-12-14

The Democrats are in a measure demoral
lied. Their chief strength is from the South
and the same element that traded away Tlden
after his lawful election will trade away their
souls If need be, for the smileA Of the Executive
Men who have once been traitors To their coun-
try, and have never repented, may, by possibility
If The temptation is very great, beiray their party
--Neao York Sun.
The San forgets that but for the de-
lection in New York city, when Demo
cratic voters "traded away" their votes
for Republican gold, the election of Han,
cock would have been certain, 1t i'll be.
comes any New York paper to talk about
"traitors = and Grading" and betrayal
of party"