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The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1880-01-18
NeVRIA-G.entrnI.

1.-The work ,en iho line is progressing
finely; over fifty ltnilasio tho road is
finished and alithn grading in the can.
yon.' ~hei " thsiheaSy'work was, is done
aud the balancnpfsthb grading will be
eduplstcdby the 2dthsnI Iron IL coming
at the rate Of tEslvsi cArs 10 ada ~ en Tiny,
and large force n engaged in trans.
tgfihg itfr6ml ltfe dcentfal faciie chrs
to those Of The Nts&iacsRlrago TSere
are at present over 500 men and $40
teams empio6sa3SiI iItsSciiald, and 100
additional trackmen are expected to ar.
rivi dpygHS GGago tie .c9sHSstor
Is personally experimenting the work
and has been out on the line for tho
past nine days>>Tr1a esme- in town We'd
nesday to seehiow lhines at This end of
the roSA were pfosr Sssing and 1eSves
for fho front again 10. morrow. Nj.
Hall the Vice.PEeJdepsof the com1 a.
ny, Aalso op-.he ground. nnd-itno'u I'M
fdDseen accident occurs and the wealth
eHe9HtiPRes -ipe, thef9,is n9t ths, lenst
doubt bat that the stiffness Of PONY
Canyon will be disturbed by the toot Of
the et,sihc, on tST befor'c?? tfe amthaay
of Fetquatys OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1880-01-18
.saraIinsYI..,S S!-',i1al,.,Iar

M s1Ihiufs' f..rN! Am en,ls.a! 'H'
The bill To amend certain sections Of
the United States mining Laws, intro.
duce'f IN. the s. nate'wns strongly advo.
Gated by Is ,Aforl. Of Colorado: and after
a alongthy discussion of its merits. finally
passedttrs HouTs. Thursipy. Tbe pur.
port 81 tlIc BIT; is tbnidtJ the Existing
lnyrYthte rTnYtaH that Sheq eTeiiAipant
of patent, is not a resident OF The land
diSStrie;;Tths eoe9s 'LE,appiicAtiens anl
hmd"vits' may be made by his author.
fzedngent; also. that the period within
which work is required to be done an q.
,nanuynaAiI NM Gsat0l paasryl elaips
shall commence on the LIST of January
succeedjB2 tSe ulaB qt bRDten of the
claim, and that this section shall apply
tonll ciniiDi since May 10. 1879! ,.HsH
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1880-01-18

=
byissuing a new seh payablc,in 1890.
withinierest at four per cent ntpsrapnum
aud which he exchanged for the old
onefs also, giving bonds ,iorsCerued ins
.sEest, The following is n copy Of the
new issue, the original beipg hiynsdiby
the old Emperor few hours before his
death: ,bIsa 1-zi siSdi - .iesIl G5t5si
:gs.: a.g.ls. s.....I III. aai,i... ...g.g
u bNo. 30te. !-5IsE; sr,bGsl sii sain:
soHnki rnrFriILi ai6ovEnSausra OF !:
:1oioF2di ;IUmTrnJ srarns,ii ui bled O.
q m'di 1oi NORTON lriHlosda sea J:
:Prosiises 10 pay the holder h6reof :
! the SUM of FIF.r cfSrs inIlIeiy ear:
1891, with interest nj the rati, 4 of,,:
= per GENT per nnnum from date,
he principal aud Interest to be con-
vcrtiblc. at the option Of the holder: .:
at mnturity. into 20 years per &.
cent Bonds, or payable in Gold /:
:rN"in. <, I-a 80 ,srgUrr ygAs ~ anil:
:dGiysn under our Royal hand ana.
:: seal this Sth day of January, 1880.
- '"''2' NoftToS1. Emperor
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-06-03

: A writer in the Paris Figaro devotes
three columns to Mr.. Gladstone, in the
course of which he says. His father,
Scotchman, was a. corn merchant, and
afterward a ship owner, at Liverpool
The King kniqhted him. The son has
not inherited the title. He has prefer
red to remain one of the people. o He
was the pride of NJ, Theirs, whom Mr..
Gladstone in, some respects resembles.
His first budget speech was not only ap-
plaudedi by the usual hear, hear, but
also by stamping of feet. When in Of
flee he is conservative. and is with the
Catholics; when in oppositio he is Lib
eral and is, against the Catholics, He
retired to his seat a Hawarden, which
belongs to his second son. Mr.. Glad
stones son is Vicar of the adjoin-
ing parish. Mr.. Gladstone leads the
life of a gentleman farmer. He rises
early and is very abstemious. He
chiefly eats fish, because that diet stimu-
lates the brain. He takes two glasses of
Bordeaux, because that wine is q tonic Of
the cervical matter. He takes one glass
of port, because that is the orators wine.
Mr.. Gladstone, it will be seen, is logical
e ven in his msod,ls vivendi. On Sundays
he reads the lessons of the Presbyterian
rite at church. People go from five
leagues round to hear his fine sonorous
voice. Afterwards he puts on his stout
wooden-soled boots, with nails as big az
those on old church doors, takes an axe
and the ex-Prime Minister becomes a
WOOd-cutter,"
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New YOrk's Churches. zg
New York Times.


1t is said that there are at present 497
churches, chapels and missions of all de-
nominations in the Metropolis gain
of SO in the last 10 years. OF these
churches and the like, 402 are set down
as Protestant, with commodations for
285, 900 persons, The Episcopalia1sh have
the most of all the Protestant churches
-8s, with 50, 1896 sittings. The Presby-
terians have SO churches, with 1924
The Methodists have 81
churches, with 30,766 sittings. The
Raptists have 48 churches, with 1912
sittings. The Reformed Dutch have %
churches, with 1895 sittings;i the
Lutherans %, with 1891 sittings. . The
Roman Catholics have 81 churches,
with a, ,784 sittings, the largest number
of any sect in the city. As it is estimated
that the present population Of New
York proper is from l .250, 900 to ], 500,
900, more than three-q uarters Of all the
Inhabitants could not get into church if
they should want to. But, they do not
want to, obviously. If they did, plenty
Of accommodation would be pretty sure
to be furnished. 1t is asserted that not
much over half the seating capacity of
the city churches is generally needed.
Many of the churches are never hall
full except on special occasions. Only
the Roman Catholic edifces are likely
to be thronged at any time. This Is
not church-going town. The working
classes, outside of the Irish and few
Germans, do not usually attend church
and there are great many educated
Amerlcans who invariably stay at home
/ on Sunday h,is'4F 'tHf tes7 81
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Comfort for Fat Folk.

: Says the Londona Lancet: No doubt it
but the morbid dread of fat which has
mo fourdatio4s il Physiological fact.
Fat answers two purposes-it acts as a
non-conducting envelope for the body,
and protects it from too. rapid loss of
heat, and it serves as a store of fuel.
In the course of exhausting diseases it
not unfreq uently happens that the life
of a patient may be prolonged until the
reserve of fat is exhausted, and then he
dies of Finanition. eFatsg supply the
material Of the heasifg proeess on which
vitality mainly depends. In great ex-
cess externally it is .inconyenient, but
the 1ayings on Of fat is no certain mea-
sure of the internal development of
adipose tissue; much less does tendency
to grow fat imply, ,sor even suggest, a
tendency to what is known as fatty
degeneration" 1t is time to speak out
on this point, as the most absurd MOTORS
SEEM to- prevail.a Again, it is not true
that special forms OF food determine fat.
That is an old and exploded notion.
Some organisms will make fat, let them
be fed on the leanest and scantiest and
least saccharine descriptions of food,
while Others will not be "fattened "llet
them feed on the most 4 fattenipg = of
diets. The. matter is one in regard to
which it is supremely desirable, and
polite to be natural, adapting the food
taken to the requirements of health
rather than substance. Simple food,
sufic ;ent exercise and regular habits,
with moderation in the use Of stimulants,
compose the maxim of safe and healthy
,Way of life. ------.----s, s,---s----.--------
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A Detective Trapped.
New York Times. /

When q woman wants to deceive
man, she is inclined to deceive him by
feigning love for him. The reason she
would probably assign for this is that
by such feigning she can blind his iudg-
m ent and suppress his common sense,
"A feminine detective has been practic.
ing this ruse upon another (masculine)
detective in the West. and with entire
success. She is named Nellie McPhear-
son; has been some time employed by
the Commercial Detective Agency at
st. Joseph, Mo-; is about thirty, tall,
slender, has dark hair and eyes, is at
Ftractive in person, and has most engag-
ling manners. Some time since divers
Western railways, the Chicago & Rock
Island, and Darlington & Quincy among
others, found that a great many coun.
terfeit local tickets on their roads had
been put in circulation. and they en-
ployed Detective Murry, of Chicago, to
discover the counterfeiters. He en-
tered on the work, apparently, with
much eagerness, expressing confidence
that he could soon trace out the
guilty; but he really made no progress.
Then the corporations engaged Nellie to
assist him, and she did assist him vigor-
ously. In few weeks she had reason
to suspect him of the crime; but in or
der to blind him TO her suspicion, she
pretended to have fAllen madly in love
with him. The pretense wheedled him
completely, and in short time she had
collected overwhelming evidence against
him. She set a trap for him, he fell
into it, and she caused his arrest at a
Chicago hotel, while he was waiting for
a sentimental interview. He is now in
jail, complaining that he can endure dis.
covery and disgrace; but to betrayed
In the sacred name of love wounds his
tenderest sensibilities to the core. He
may commit fresh crime again whenever
he can; but he can never smile again
never, never. never. The mimosalike
nature of a detective, whore the holy
emotions are concerned, can. not be di.
vined by ordinary mortals T s5
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head was nearly seyersd from the body
connected only bY the skin in front.

head was nearly seyered from the body,
connected only by the skin in front.
Pillsbury had committed suicide in a
most methodical manner He built a
guillotine of joist and plank, and took
for knife carpenters broadax, set in
a wooden slide, the latter being held in
position above by resting on q weighted
lever. The weight was . large Watering
pot full Of small leak holes at the bot
tom. Aelarge box filed with stones was
placed on the knife slide to weight 1t,
Pillsbury's plan being that. when the
water had escaped enough, the lever
would release the knife. which would
Instantly drop. AT the foot of the posts
sPillsbury made collar for his neck,
and made close by hollow in the joist,
holding about quart. The collar was
fastened by heavy boxes Of stones to
keep him quiet IL he struggled. 4 H@
j From appearances he had filed the
hollow with ether, placed himself In the
guillotine, fastened himself with. his
nose and mouth over the ether, and
probably became insensible. The knife
fell, nearly severing his head from his
body. ...-...
Pillsbnry was about thirty years old,
and probably insane, as insanity occurs
In his family. He left Q letter addressed !:
& Dear parents, brothers and sisters, y
saying he believed the step he was about
to take was right. s e '.,ssss 80 -. :
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The Girl Pound in China.

Moung Edwin, Burmese, who has
been educated in this country with the
view of sending him as a. Baptist mis-,
sionary 70 Burmab, lectured recently in
Baltimore. Speaking OF the deplorable
condition of women in the East, owing
mainly to peculiar religious teachings,
he said: " Girls in China are believed
to have no souls, and to kill them, is
not murder, and therefore not to be
punished. Where parents are too poor
to support the. girl children they are
disposed of in the following way: At
regular intervals an appointed officer
goes through q village and collects from
poor parents all the girl children they
cannot care for when they are about
eight daysold. He hatt tNo large baskets
attached to the ends q bamboo pels
and slung over his shouIdei. Six in
fants Are placed in ea6h fhsket, and he
carrie9 than to some xhboring vii
lage and exposes Them for Aale. Moth
ers who desire, to raise wives fer their
sons buy such sas they may select, The
Others are taken to the Government
asylum, of which there are amany, all
through the country. II there ID room
there they are taken in, if not they are
drowned. boo s1sr'l Y l''s.e ls's !
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-06-03
IDeadwood r1oneer.j

An extraordinary duel took place at
Valparaiso not long ago, in which the
weapons used proved to pe terrible in
struments of torture Two rival pro,
fessors of music had quarrel, and one
challenged the other. The challenged
had the right of choice of weapons, and
he chose the piano. The conditions of
the duel were that neither of the duel
lists should eat nor drink until "honol"
was satisfied, and that no waltzes nor
lively airs should be played. Seconds
were, appointed, and for forty-eight
hours dead marches and " misereres 2
were played without ceasing, until
finally one of the musicians fell to the
floor dead, after having played the
same Z" miserere" one hundred and fifty
times. The other musician became in
sane, and the two seconds were i'll for
some time. This story is vouched for
by truthful narrator. e
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London's Cooperative stores.

-
In the animated discussions that have
GENTLY taken place on the subject of
Cooperative stores the fact that the most
&ccessful of them are not conducted
pom cooperative principles at all, but
5e really companies trading for profit,
1Sems to have escaped attention. 1t is
|ue that this was not the, original in;
|ntion of their founders, but for some
,syme past the character of cooperative
Eores, and especially that of the Civil
ervice stores, has been undergoing a
reat, though gradual change, The
original idea of cooperative stores was
that all articles should be sold at the
wholesale price, plusIthe cost of distri-
button, and that all the profits hitherto
made by shopkeepers should be divided
among the-members inproportion to the
amount of their purchases This was
the theory of cooperation, but in. prac-
lice it was found impossib Bile, with, the
utmost nicely Of calculation, to Ak the
prices at exactly the figure that would
cover the expenses and'leave no margin.
As business increasede- this unavoidable
profit became larger every year and
then, came the question as to what was
TO be done with growing surplus. Ac-
cording to the principles of cooperation
It should have been divided among all
the members. Those who had advanced
the money for the establishment of the
stores duly received interest at four per
cent. for the same, and had, therefore,
no claim upon the surplus profits beyond
their proportfonate share as customers.
But instead Of adopting this course, in
more than one Of the Civil Service stores
the, surplus profits have been divided
among the shareholders, who form but q
mere fraction OF the customers, in con-
Of the first principles of Co
operation, .5g~~ess.sssss
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- Funeral Funeral Folly,

4 A number of the clergy of ST. Louis
recently held a meeting, at which they
adopted resolutions condemuing the
ypresent expensive funeral customs, pre-
vailing in the cities and larger towns,
and sometimes even in the country. 1t
is time that steps were being taken to
abolish the extravagant and ostentatious
displays that are becoming 30 common.
The funeral of friend is the last place
at which one should wish to see formal
parades, pomp and the display of elegant
trappings, and yet no sight is more
common than procession consisting
of half a dozen or more hacks or
carriages, drawn by matched horses,
covered with the most costly trappings,
a hearse that has cost from % 600 to
$4,000, bearing body in coffin costing
from $35 to 500, and long rctinue
of the members of some secret society,
to which the deceased belonged, headed
by brass band, hired for the occasion
at a cost of from $50 to $50 The entire
expenses of these society, and many of
the private funerals, often exceeds to
three hundred dollars, to say nothing of
the loss of time by persons who have no
interest in the matter further than to
prove themselves worthy and faithful
members of the society to which the de-
ceased belonged. A much more reason
able plan would be to donate the amount
of the efuueraLexpensesa and the earnings
of the half day. spent BY the brother
members to the pereayed family of the
deceased, who are. quite. often in sad
need OF help. especially when. they are
| deprived of The wages Of the departed
one, and the, doctor, ,s ills and the neces-
ry-eEpenses- az the sfunsral. ere to be
| paid. 11he elnecalled private 4 unerals
are becominR eopstaht tly nofs ex pensiye
and ostentatiousss This extFaxagsnce
might be passed Without ;conH5 IL II Ii
was limited ia the wealthy, but those il
moderate. circumstances and often the
poor, expend. much more, than they car
afford, aud far more than, is necessary
to show q decent respect for their dead
1t is onesof the saddest follies of ths
times TO see money layished in unneces
sary and unbecoming funeral display
that. is Absolutely needed to keen thl
bereaved family from want and suffering
| 1t istims tiiat the press and tie pulpit
and al other agencies that help t0 niolt
public sentiment we're spnitinR to put al
end to the folly III rnssal s1tFsvagance
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They Met and Parted.
Detroit Free Press.

SIS 80 sf4et.s'- ga. lsfLC'Tsf Z. .-sl Il 81.
CHOW then" says tramp No. 1 to No.
as they turned into .M0ntcalm street
from Woodward avenue the other day,
!" here is the game: you walk down the
street aud ring the bell of some house.
When the lady answers, you tell her that
|, you haven't had anything to eat for three
days. d If she says she don't care, tell her
that you are, desperate and ready to com
NIT any crime. If she starts to slam the
door onlyou, hold it open with your foot
and roll your eyesand look savage. I'll
arrive just about then, and I'll take you
BY. the, neck slam YOU around and pitch
you outofs the yard. Il m the ladys
protector and the hero of the hour, you
see. Pil' be very modest and claw OF, !,
but pll tell her I'm, 9 stranger and need
quarter to buy food. She II hand it
over, and I'll join you around the corner
and divide. Seef1JL sEk1E(l4
! s'..MagnifcentY replied No. 2. "You
ought to be- in the United States Senate
Well, here / CO." q dsle lsai 81 ...s s. 4
F Hepassed down the street and selected
a house, and the programme was care
fully followed out until he reached the
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rThs foIlowing curious story y reprinted from .
r.r, coy Of che cosnecicut esae Of June u, f77s,
printed in Nev Lsndou, for which, says the New
London Telegram, We are indebted to the courtesy
Of an eminent photographer, who quantity remarks
that he sends II 20 u.s. n it may answer equally well
for the present day. 1t certainly proves that the
fashions Of q century gone were not considered
whit less extravagant than now, and that feminine
apparel matter what form II takes Is always held
fair game for the wits Of the times
Give Chloe q bushel Of horse hair and wool,
OF paste and pomstum pound;
Ten yards OF gay dbbon 20 deck her sweet sknli,
And gsuze 70 encornpassit round.
OF ali the bright colors the rainbow dNplays
BE these ribbons which hang on her head;
Be her founces adapted TO make the folks gaze,
And ABOVE the whole work be they sBresd.
Let her flaps ny behind for a yard at the least,
Let her curls meet Just un Ter her chin;
Let these curis be supported. TO keep up the Jest
4 With one hundred instead Of one, pin.
Let her gown be tucked up 10 the NIP ON each dde;
Shoes loo high for to walk or to jump,
And 70 deck the sweet creature colnplse for bride,
Jes the cork cutter make her rump.
Thus finished An tasts, whiisou Chloe you gaze,
You may take the dear charmer for life;
Bot never undress her-for, out Of her stays,
You'll find you have lost half your wife.
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NUMBER g.
AEsss4ts.EisLl fi9 u
A Modern Jacob.
Paris Letter to the Philadelphia telegraph ]

was recently told by young French
gentleman the son Of The Perfect of La
Rochelle) one of the strangest romances
of real life that ever came TO my knowl-
edge. Some four years ago peasant
boy who lived on a farm near the town
of lClermont-Ferrand saw and, fell in
love with the beautiful daughter Of a
entleman of good fortune and position,
he being at that time seventeen years of
age, and the young lady Just, sixteen.
This new Claude Melnotte" was SO
madly in love that he went straight to
the house Of the young girl s. parents
and demanded her hand in marriage
The father treated the preposterous
propos ton with good natured scorn.
"Come back when you have an income
Of $40, GOO GOO, 900, francs)" was his an.
swer,t t.and then we will see about it." The
Infatuated youth took. him at his word,
and forthwith set to work. Now one of
the peculiarities of the town of Cler-
mont-Ferrand isIa scarcity of water.
There is no river near it, so it relies for
its water supply, on springs and wells
Under these circtimst anees epring is q
valuable piece of property, and COM
mands relatively high price. So, the
young peasant lover set of for an ad la
cent mountain, there to search for hid
den springs. My informant said that
he had honeycom bed the whole side of
the mountain with his works, construct
ing at one point tunnel over. two m lies
in length. All this was executed with
his own hands. He works from dawn
to dark, lives upon potatoes of his own
planting and never spends 80 much as
| sou upon mug of beer. Every Sur
/ day he goes to mass in the town. after
which he proceeds to the house of his
i lady love, to ask if she is married OF
likely to be. On receiving a, response
in the negative he plods eontentedfy
hOmeward, and starts out afresb to his
toll on~the morrow. This life has con
tinued now for full, foul. years up te
the present time he has discovered three
Important springs, each of which he sold
for So, 900, but, though now possessed oi
what for q man in his condition in life
is wealth, he iabates none of the hard
ships of his existence.4e He has one fixed
idea, namely, to become, the possesso1
of q fortune sufficient to enable him tt
claim the hand of the object of hi.
blind passion. Yet no one who know
the parties even imagine that the youns
lady will ever consent to marry him
She is now twenty years of age. and i
pretty, refined, and accomplished, Will.
he is coarse, unIettered peasant, with
out even physical comeliness, as lie il
short and thick set, with broad stolit
countenance. Whatswill abe the end o
his dream, wonder? Will he go; mat
or break his heart the day that he find
his Beloved either married or betrothed
4 Or will headie some day of privation ant
-overwork, with a vision of success be
fore his eyes ea5aoss #n4afa aaEias4s3szss