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The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1881-08-20
New Postal system.

Postmaster General James has devised a
plan fer sending small sums Of money through
the mails at a cheap rate. Tho device con-
sists OF a card having three columns represent.
ing dollars, tens and cents, and the amount
TO be drawn is designated by punching out
figures. Two denominations will be issued:
one for all sums within 81 %, and OF her for
all sums within S.. The orders will be pay
able to bearer. and the Postoflce will not be
responsible for their safe delivery any more
than for fractional currency. for which they
are a substitute. Tho order will be finely
printed on bank note paper. The Postmaster
will sell the 81 30 card Tor two or three cents
premium, and will himself punch out the
amount paid. and the buyer will simply in
close the card in his letter, and tho receiver
can cash it at any Office. The Postmaster will
enter the amount Of the erder on n stub,
which will be the only check the Department
will need. as the time Of the sender and payee
are not entered. In order TO prevent the use
of the postal orders as currency they are to
DO redeemed only for three months from the
date Of issue.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1881-08-20

Two thousand per day is the rate at
which laborers are coming westward.
Such a working force a this, multi
piled as it is nowadays at least six
times by the kindly aid of steam
power, will in the course of the next
decade show such results in the way
Of building up and developing a new
country as will fairly rival anything
in old romance. People who wish to
marvel about the growth of the West
should not concern themselves so
much about what has been done in
the last thirty years as about what
Will be done in the next ten.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1881-08-20
Nevv TODAY
Application for a Patent
To the Eastern Extension of the
Star fSine.
NO. G55.
u. s. LAND oFFIcF.

EUREKA, MY, August Il, 1881.
NTOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN THArHENRY
y X. LYONS and PETER WEBER whose
p,stoiace address Is Cherry Greek. Nevada
have this day hled their application for a Pat
ent for fifteen hunireed i ,5oOl linear feet Of
the Eastern Extension Of the star mine or vein
bearing silver. with surface ground six hun.
drec feet in width, situate, lying and being in
Cherry Creek Mining District. County Of White
Pine. State OF Nevada. and known aud desig.
mated by the field notes and Official plat on
hie in this Office as Lot Number Forty-eight
No. AZ, located ou unsnryeyed land. The ex-
terror boundaries Of said Lot No. 4s being as
follows to wit. Variation l6 degrees 50 min
utes East
Commencing at post marked No. / Z. s
Survey No. -. whence L. ;. l~nounfusrt No. l
bears N. 5s degrees % minutes. v $3.50 feet: a
tunnel on tins claim bears 5. 50 degrees Is
minutes. ". 91i feet. aud a shaft on this claim
bears n. 81 degrees, ". 1906 feet: thence run
ming first ceurse--S. Is degrees. " GOO feet TO
post ma ked No. 2 U. S. Survey No. as thence
second course y. 70 degrees 20 minutes.
". 1900 to post maraed No. 81 S. Survey No.
IS. which il identical with post post No. , O..
5 Survey No. ~ star lode. thence third eenrse
y. IS degrees. i. Coz feet to post nisrked No.
4 L. 5. Survey No. 4s, which is identical with
post No. | L. :. Survey No. IS Star lode; thence
fourth courses. 70 degrees 50 minutes. f.
800 to post No l. the place of beginning. con-
tanning - 55-l0l acres.
This claim is bounded on the westerly end
by L. :. Survey No. Is Star lode.
The location Of this mine is duly recorded i'm
the Recorders office Of Cherry Greek Mining
District. in page 30 of Book B, Of the mining
records OF said district.
Any and all persons claiming adversely any
portion ~ said Eastern Extension Of the Star
Mine or said mining ground as hereinbefore de-
serihsd. are required to file their adverse claim
with the Register of the United states Land
Office at ENeka. in the State of Nevada. during
the sixty DAYS period Of publication | areof, OF
they viii b. barred by virtue OF the provisions
OF the Statute.
a2O-6Od L. a. HIScKI.EY. Register.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1881-08-20
A Good Paper.

Nj. J. E. Anderson has made great
improvements in his paper, the Ruby
Hill Mining News. The last issue
comes to US as a double sheet, brim
full of mining news collected about
his district. 1t also has p new head
ing, which adds much to the already
handsome appearance of the paper.
While jim did not prove a success
at President-making. none will dis
pute his entire fitness Tor publishing
a good paper. Success to you, Jeems.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1881-08-20
STATE AND COAST NEWS.

The fruit yield in the Boise Valley, Idaho,
this season, especially blackberries, is said
to be enormous.
Near Helltown, Cal, n few days ago, a very
rich streak of gravel was struck. The hrst
pan yielded $50 and the next two $50 each.
The Reyielle reports a strike in the Bartell
mines. Nye county, under lease to a party OF
miners, the ore from which runs as high as
1850 a ton.
There is great excitement over recent rich
carbonate discoveries nine miles from Dead-
wood. A new town has sprung up called
West Virginia, which is growing rapidly and
supports a daily paper.
On the 18th. All Saints Episcopal Church
and ~rectory, in San Francisco. were destroyed
BY fire. Loss $4,000. mostly covered by IN
suranee.
A eleven-year-old boy has been sent to the
penitentiary for two years by a California
Court. The Judge who sentenced that boy
should return to his legitimate business Of
~bull-punching.
At Visalia, California, last week, Miss Mag
gle Blaine. a young lady of sixteen, while
lighting a fire with kerosene, was enyeloped
n flames. There was no one else IN the
house. She ran out and the wind famed the
flames. 4 neighbor, who saw her. came to
her assistance, but whom the poor girl was
taken into tho house her clothes fell of ahd
tho iesh peeled IN strips. She was horribly
burned. a few hours later she DIED IN great
agony.
An cid prospector named Stoidard has
discovered what are supposed to DC valuable
mines about ioar miles ives. OF palisads on
the c. z. Railroad. Three assays OF the ore
ranged from Sos to 90 per ton. Tho walls
of an old hat neal by. built By u woodchop-
per some years ago, are said to DC m lde Of
ore that viii average sl5e psr ton. IN dis
coyery has created great exile enlent at Pals
ade, and every man in the place, who could
leave. has gone OF to the ninus.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1881-08-20

The Irish Convention, which has
been in session in Chicago for the
past ten days, has repudiated the
dynamite plots. Rosa, the nihilist;
was deposed from both office and
confidence in the Irish movement.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1881-08-20
TnE DENVER AND RIO GRANDE.

IRE OHN En- avn 49,
The opening of the Denver d Rio
Grande Railroad to Durango, 45o miles
from Denver, in South western Colo
RADIO, was celebrated there last week.
This is the completion of one of the
several extensions of that road, now
being constructed in that State. The
extension just finished is 200 miles
long, beginning at Alamosa, on the
Rio Grande, and terminating in the
Los Animas valley. In the valley are
immense coal deposits, hundreds of
miles wide. It is also the natural out
let for the rich mining district at San
Juan. which has been but little devel-
oped owing to the want of the proper
transportation facilities. Other extern
tons will tap the San Juan on the
Eas; and North-a region covering an
area as large as the State of Massa-
chusetts, and interested by various
mountain ranges and traversed by
many rivers. At present two thou
sand men are employed on this ex-
tension, aud about three miles of track
are laid daily. in April, 1850, 337
miles of road were operated. On the
first of this month s95 miles were in
operation, showing that during the
last sixteen months ass miles of road
have been completed. These roads
are being built in a mountainous
country, and will tap "a section of the
State rich in mineral resources.
Eight hundred miles more road are
now under contract, and construction
IL being pushed as far as the Utah
border. The extension to Gunnison
City will be completed this week.
The other extentions to mining camps
are being pressed forward to compile
ton before the early SHOWS. The in.
crease Of miles of road operated, and
the great development of the indus
tries of the State have caused a pro-
portionate increase in the earnings.
In 1880 the gross earnings for seven
months ending July 3Ist, were ST.
439, 400 40; for the same time in 1851,
$3,l04, 042 s6. The net earnings for
the first six months in 1880 were
s520,2ls 50, aud for the same time
this year, $~l.173.s39 %.
This great road is now on its west
ward course aud will not stop until it
reaches the Pacific. 1t will enter Ne
vsda somewhere between the 3slh
and 18th parallels and pass through
the richest mineral portions of this
State. At this present rapid progress
another twelve months will find its
western terminus within the borders
OF Nevada, and it is no wide stretch of
imagination to believe that by the time
the L. & G. Road Will be more than half
way bet @een Eureka and the Utah
line to meet it, so that the LIST of jan
uaty, 1883, is almost certain to give
Eastern Nevada a through competing
line to the Atlantic seabord. Ii will
be a glorious day for us all when we
are freed from the yoke of the mer-
cenary masnates OF the Central
Pacific.
Two thousand per day is the rate at
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1881-08-20

THE action of the House OF Lords
on the Land bill has created a Storm
of indignation throughout England
and has revived the cry of abolition
of the Upper House. Gladstone will
not yield and the prospect is that a
new bin will be presented at the Au-
tumn session.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1881-08-20
WATER NOTICE.

WATER CONSUMERS ARE HEREBY
" notified that any ono found wasting
water for irrigating gardens or other need
less purposes will be cut of altove,her. The
water Is turned on three times daily-nt6 A.
NJ. ut noon and al 4 2. NJ, aud with proper
caro- and no wastage all can DO snnplied.
No wastaRe will be tolerated, and parties dis.
regarding this notice will be dealt with as
above stated. WILSON cARy
Proprietor Of the Citizens Water Works.
Cherry Creek. August 5, 1881. A
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1881-08-20

II is now being demonstrated that
the harvest Of 1881 will be as great in
the United States as the harvest of
1880. All the country needs is a good
market.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1881-08-20

The San Francisco Post says /:
James G.. Blaine Is now the Richelieu
e the United States. =
Morning journal and courier., 1881-12-28
WHAT YOU MUST EXPECT.

Slang is the destroyer of conversation 7" You bet 1t is, and the American people should sit down on it.
 The best way to afford instant relief to any one suffering from water on the brain is to give him a goop tap on the head.-London Punch.
 Charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up" aud yet some men expect puff every time they give a dollar to Gn indigent old woman's society.-Neao York ComnseyciaI AdDertiser.
 For "the world to end shall come in 1881, '' read "A rise in the Ohio river shall come in 1SS1." We trust the public understands that the proof reader often overlooks 0 serious typographical error.-Mother Shipton in Courier Journal
 Two little girls, aged and 6, had just had new dresses, and were on their way to Sun day school. Said Etta, the elder siOh I have forgotten my verse 'I haven't for gotten mine," replied the other 'It is, Blessed are the dressmakers "-BostO7e T3uas- c7Tpt.
 ''Is it not about time you were off, Sozzle?'' said late caller at the saloon. from whom the old gentleman had accepted an invitation to take something" Nor yet, sirl Nor yeti" said Sozzle as he communicated a TO- tary motion to the remainder of his gin toddy so as to absorb all the sugar. 'I'm like CT gun! Never go f half cocked."-Bosto7 Commercial Bulletin.
 Whither art thou travelling, venerable Joke? The way is rough, the air is chill, and thy strength is well nigh spent and thy habi- iments are threadbare and torn. Come rest thee; thou hast lived long, thou hast visited many climes, thou hast acted well thy part And the Joke replied, May, I was present in the garden; I beguiled the tedious confne- ment of Noah and his family during the del uge; have appeared in all languages in all ages and among all peoples. 1 have one duty to perform ere die. I have only to appear in the Harper's Drawer. Then may thy ser want depart in peace" And the venerable Joke tottered slowly away, mumbling a prayer that strength might be given it to reach the asylum for superannuated witticism before laying itself down to the sleep that knows no waking I7u7asc2ipt
Morning journal and courier., 1881-12-28
Wednesday Morning, Dec. 2S, 1881.
A DANGEROUS POWER,

The manner in which the committees of
 the House were made up by Speaker Keller
 has called attention to the danger there is in
 allowing one man to have the power of ap-
 pointing those committees. It is pointed out
 that bad man might be elected Speaker, who
 would appoint the committees in @ way to
 carry out bad and objectionable schemes.
 The standing committees control legislation.
 It is next to impossible to get through the
 House or Senate any bill that has not secured
 the approval of the committee to which it
 properly belongs. The weight of a commit tee, for or against bill, is generally eonsid- cred conclusive This being the case it is plain that an evil disposed Speaker might do
 great deal of mischief in the appointment of committees And it may also be added that well disposed Speaker can hardly avoid doing some.
 The New York ISmes thinks it Is not nec- essary to wait until some dishonest person Cor some weak man controlled by dishonest person) shall be made Speaker of the House before we reach the conclusion that the for nation of all of the committees of the House is too much to give into one mans power. It calls attention to the fact that the appoint ment of committees is better managed in the Senate. The Senators of the party in a ma Jor1ty in the Senate meet in caucus, agree upon the constitution of the several standing committees, and then present the list to the President of the Senate, who announces them; and there is an end of the matter The places assigned to the minority of the Senate on the standing con- mittees are filled by a caucus of the minority party. Thus tho Sena- tors of both parties agree among them selves upon the personnel of the standing committees. And as the Senate in full ses- sion may hold debate in which all Senators may participate, without undue consumption of time, the advantage which the Senate has over the House, in the matter of being sub- lect to the dictation of standing committee, is obvious. The Times thinks the members of the House also should in some way have ! voice in the formation of committees It says of the present method: 'sThat this is contrary to the theory of republican form ,f government is clear. That this is annu- lily working great injustice to the interests 'f the country need not here be repeated. l It will be well for us if we change so danger 'us practice before some malign influence 'hall have precipitated a peaceful revolution oy organizing the House of Representatives Or selfish, wicked and corrupt purposes" If he House had the appointing of the com nittees those committees might not be better l han they usually have been. but they would ! never be as bad as they may some ime be if the present system is not changed 1
Morning journal and courier., 1881-12-28

A Washington lawyer is charged with ap- plying the following story to President Ar thurs way of slipping Garfield man out of his Cabinet and slipping an anti-Garfsld man into his place at regular intervals. An old darkey whose masters horses had all escaped from the pasture one night went to the mas ter and said: sMassa, de old brown mare's got out an gone i'' ''Oh, we'll" said the master composedly, s'send nigger to find her.'' After waiting half an hour he went again and said: s'De sorrel horse done gone tool" The master calmly repeated h1s former order. third and fourth time, after similar interval, the darkey reappear- ed with the information of the absence of an other horse, when the master turned sharply and asked if all the horses had been stolen or were lost. The darkey said they. were all gone, that he knew 1t in the morning, but had been afraid to tell him the whole loss at once, tease, sah, was afeard you couldn't bore it all ter once, sah !n
 The astrologer Raphael, the rival of Zad- kiel, thus predicted in his sixty-frst almanac the events of the current month: Mercury and Venus are in opposition to Saturn, hence it will go hard with literary men and fair wo- men, and death will make great onslaught among their ranks Much sickness will pre- vail, affecting the throat and respiratory or gans; place of amusement will be reduced to ashes, and some heavy grief will befall the
Morning journal and courier., 1881-12-28
The WlSonia Magnetic Garments
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Morning journal and courier., 1881-12-28
Price Four Cents.

people. Mars is still in Cancer, and will stir
 up discord, mischief and accident in the
 North, and in New York also The most
 probable times for these will be near the end,
 when terrific events may be expected, with
 earthquakes in some parts, the eruption of
 volcanoes and other subterranean phenome-
 na. Those born on the 27th will have the
 sun in opposition to Mars, and they will be in danger of an accident and must be careful
 of their health. D Some of these predictions have proved true. Several literary men have died, and in Vienna "a place of amusement'' has been ''reduced to ashes"
 Four saints were canonized in Rome the other day. The ceremony of canonization occupied four hours, from 10 till 9 It was by far the most splendid ecclesiastical cere- monial that has been seen at Rome for many years. The four new saints added to the cal endar are Giovanni Batista de Rossi, former ly canon of Santa Maria Lorenzo da Brin- disi, Capucin friar; Joseph Labre of Bou- logne-sur-Mer, layman, who lived as men, dicant at Rome; and Clara di Montefalco, an Augustinian nun. The ceremony took place Tn the hall over the portico of St. Peter's, called the Aula Paramentorum No pomp of detail in the ancient ceremonial was omitted that could add impos- ing magnifcence to the solemnity of the occasion. The Italian government had taken precautions to prevent the Radicals seizing the occasion to offer any insult to the clericals. Forty-two. Cardinals, sixty-three Archbishops, seventy two Bishops, and the entire Apostolic Court were present, and also four hundred French pilgrims The Pope, who was fasting, as he had to perform mass, to be very feeble when h. was borne in on the Sedia Gestatoria with the tiara on his head but he seemed to gather strength as the ceremony proceeded. At the offertory after the mass the traditional offer lngs were made to the Pope on behalf of each new saint, namely, five large wax candles or with paintings, two gilded loaves, one small barrel of wine, one of water, both gilt, two turtle doves, two pigeons and small birds in gilded cages
Morning journal and courier., 1881-12-28

The ice men on the Kennebec feel assured that the ice crops in the middle and western States will be as decided failures as were those of 1s79-'80, and unusual preparations are being made by the thirty or more eompa- nies, and by private individuals who expect to cut and stow large quantities this season. If everything turns ont to be favorable, it is thought that fully 5000 men and 1,5o0 horses will be employed on the Kennebec this winter, and that at least 1,25o, 900 tons of ice will be housed and stacked. It cer- tainly looks well for the Kennebeckers now, but there is no telling what may happen.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-12-28
How Patti Sang.
What the PlafnfieId ssBuIIetin'' Ma III Saw
 from the Gallery.
 From the Plain field IN T. BuIIetin1

From the Pla1nheld (N. J.) Bulletin.
 A long pause, and then the red velvet cur tain at the door is pushed aside, and steps out richly-rebed, richly-jeweled, beautiful woman-Patti. The next moment the build ing quivers with applause. Everybody ap. plauds; the quiet man stamps, the enthusi- astie man clars. the man with an umbrella tries to drive 1t through the floor, and the Patti bows and bows, and bows again, and smiles, and bows, and bows to the right. and bows to the left, and bows to the centre, and bows to the balconies, and bows to them altogether; and just as everybody is tired out and stops, somebody starts it of once more, and the whole performance is gone through with again. till finally the pianist seizes favorable moment and strikes a chord. In an instant there is silence, and in another instant there floats out over the hushed hall the first clear, full notes of the diva's song, birds song it seemed Not the song of the nightingale or the thrush; not the notes that touch the heart, and leave forever floating through memory haunting melody that time does not dim but the song of happy canary singing in gilded cage; singing that pleases us that makes us forget rain and broken banks and muddy streets and falling stock market and an election day defeat, and leaves us just remem- bering that we are having real nice time and everybody around is just as happy as we are This is the Pattis singing. Nobody knew or cared what she sang nobody ever thought whether she was giving them Italian or English or Choctaw the men forgot her beauty the women forgot her dress and diamonds and everybody just sat and listened until with one final soaring up of the voice that must have reached high X, at the very lowest, the diva turned and ran like pleas ed child into the group that stood waiting to receive her at the doorway, and the next moment people clear down in newspapefl row thought the elevated railways were fall ing, and men on vessels at anchor in the harbor thought powder store had blown up. It wasn't applause-it was pandemoni- um. The Patti was again on the stage and then there was shower of howers-bou- quets, baskets, and finally a procession of ushers with harps, pyramids and emblems by the score, all of which were placed before the lowing and smiling singer, while shouts of applause went on, the old bald heads in the front row waved their handkerchiefs the young men who wanted to be utter shouted tsBravai i' and no one of the audience would be appeased until the notes of an encore silenced the confusion. And after this was done there was more applause, longer, if pos sible, than ever, and the Patti had to come out again and again to the stage and bow and smile until she fairly earned the money that she gets for her singing (The American public, it may be remarked, always manage to get it's moneys worth, if not in singing then in bows and smiles
Morning journal and courier., 1881-12-28

What could be more horrible than the scene in Jersey City Monday, when small pox patient escaped from his home in deliri- ous condition and died in the streets, and two drunken men, supposing the dead man to be in the saI condition as themselves, only a little worse, picked the body up, and, SUD- porting it between them, walked it to police station two blocks distant.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-12-28
EDITORIAL NOTES,

The funeral services yesterday were fitting tribute to the memory of a good and great man. There might have been grander funeral, but not more appropriate and i'm pressive one.