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Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-07-03

them, and therefore voted for Platt. Mr..
Tremble did the same. ,
A Mail ALBANY special says the Stall
warts wish to adjourn without an election.
The Half breeds hold aloof, but unless
there is a caucus within o week an adjourn
ment is probable. q,
The Albany Express (Conkling organ)
strongly urges an adjournment and q SUB
mission to the people.
The Pratt Scandal.
New YORK, July IAN Albany special
says the attention of the Stalwarts all the
the evening has been concentrated on the
Platt scandal and its relation to their can
vass. There has been informal discussions
of the subject at their headquarters in the
Delevan House, in which almost all ct
them have participated. Plat and his
personal friends are positive aud peremp-
tory in ~denouncing the whole scandal as a
baseless and wicked invention.
The Tribune editorilly says: The scandalons
story affecting the private character OF a
prominent politician of this State was re-
ported on the streets here aud IN Albany
yesterday, and full particulars were tele-
graphed to this paper, which we decline to
DElnt- we bHilh W. hbO"
see it, but we have our own ideas as to the
propriety of using scandal as a political
weapon. Our disagreement with this gen
tleman is exclusively on public grounds,
and if assaults are to be made upon his
private reputation we prefer that they
should appear in some other paper than the
Tribune.
The Times and the World have no al
lusion to the Platt scandal.
Railway Accident.
CHICAGO, July 1.-The south-bound
passenger train on the Chicago and Eastern
Illinois railway collided with the Grand
Trunk north bound freight near Kensing-
ton, IS miles south of here last night, ow-
ing to q misplaced switch. The engine of
the passenger train was wrecked and the
baggage car te~lescoped into the smoking
car, tanning and bruising 10 people. En-
gineer Frank Hazen was caught in the
wreck and will probably die from scalds
and bruises. Jacob Kurges, United States
Gauger living at Bloomington, this county,
had DO tn legs broken. lie cannot re-
cnvAr.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-07-03

Go early and secure bargains at the San
Francisco Clothing Store
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-07-03

At Ruby Hill, July 2. to the wife Of John
holmes, . son.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-01
The Man of Glass.

A very extraordinary existence was
brought to close not long ago by the
death of man who was known as the
"man of glass" The records of the
asylum at Bicetre, where the man died,
show that as long ago as III 1897, when
he was Is years old, certain Jubissier
was brought to the. hosp tai suffering
from mental alienation of a severe kind.
His lna1ady had been caused by wound
inflicted by pane of glass, which fell
ON his head, and before the cut could be
healed the brain became affected by u
permanent disease. The sufferer lapsed
into idiocy, and then into madness of a
more violent kind and he was shortly
afterward shut up in the asylum, where
he has remained ever since. After the
first transports of delirium had passed
off the man became more calm, but he
could never get rid of the idea that he
was made of glass, and that the least
shock or blow would cause him to break
in pieces. He rename d, therefore, per-
fectly quiet and silent, being afraid even
to speak, for fear of preclpitating the
catastrophe which he fancied was ever
impending. For SO long years he has
led this singular existence, only once
opening his lips to speech, when he
asked for a little tobacco. At one other
period his intellectual and physical fac
ulties appeared to be aroused, and that
was when. during the siege of Paris, he
could hear the shells bursting in the air
at no great distance from his place of
retreat. At this time he was seen to
grow nervous and less lethargic, and to
walk about restlessly, humming some
words which had nointelligible sequence
or meaning. He survived, however,
and, relapsing into his usual condition,
has so lived until the age of 103, testify
ing, in somewhat striking way, to the
effects of totally placid and inactive
tranquility both of body and mind in
prolonging life. No little credit is, how
ever, due to the authorities at Bicetre
for having thus preserved for SO years
an existence which from the first was
utterly useless and uninteresting. LON
don Globe
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-01

Gen. Badeau, Gen. Grants biogra-
pher, receives diplomatic promotion. being
transferred from the London Consul General
ship to the higher grade of Charge dAfaires
to Denmark. The present Minister to Dem
mark, Mr.. Cramer, the brother-in-law of Gen.
Grant, also receives promotion, being trans
ferred from Charge d'Affaires at Denmark to
Minister to Switzerland, a somewhat higher
rank. 5
Thomas M. Nichol, of Wisconsin, who
has been appointed Commissioner Of Indian
Affairs, is well known in the West and through
out the country as Secretary of the Honest
Money League. He is a personal friend of
Gen. Garfield. He has for some weeks been in
charge of the Indian Office
Gen. Lionel A. Sheldon, WHO'S named
as Governor Of New Mexico, was an officer in
the Union army, and at the close of the war he
settled in New Orleans. He was elected to
Congress three times successfully from
one of the districts of that city. He is
a personal friend Of the President. Gen
Lew Wallace now Governor of New Mexico,
goes to Paraguay and Uruguay as Minister.
Judge Phillips, of North Carolina, has
been nominated for Judge of the Court of
Claims to succeed Secretary Hunt.
William E. Chandler has been APP
pointed Solicitor General of the Treasury.
A Washington telegram to the Chica-
go Tribune says "there has been great deal
Of speculation as to what course the Secretary
of the Treasury will take to provide for the pay
ment of the bonds which become redeemable
in May and July, in case an extra session Of
Congress is not called for the purpose of pass
ing a Funding bill 1t is rumored that
Secretary Window has, among other
projects, considered that of using money
in the treasury to buy, before
the LIST OF next December, $150,O0O, 900 Of g.
percent. bonds. 1t has also been asserted thai
this plan embraces the idea that it will be prac-
ticable to avoid the necessity of issuing the
$104, 100000 of 4-per-cent. bonds There is
some reason to believe that project like that
above outlined has been taken into considera-
btoAJ puo AOeAiA145 10 AuOMu LoSulQl tu6 pTOD-
ability that it will be adopted.
The President has nominated Robert
R. Hit, of Illinois, to be Assistant Secretary
of State.
A Washington dispatch says that "per-
mission is finally given to announce the fact
that it has been decided by the Cabinet not to
call an extra session. This decision is subject
to the reservation that, if circumstances shall
seem to make it necessary Congress may be
convened in the early fall, but there will be no
summer session.
The President withdrew the nomina-
ton of Adam Badeau to be Charge dAffaires
to Denmark, as the honor was positively de-
clined.
President Garfeld's wife, mother and
three younger children will HE to Mentor on
the approach of warm weather, and the Chief
Magistrate expects to take a long summer vaca-
ton on his farm.
For the expedition i'll search -of the
Jeanette the Naval Board of Inquiry recon-
mends the detail of five officers and thirty-fve
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-01
Presidents and Their Faith.

All the Presidents were, with one ex-
ception, men who respected Christianity
Washington and Garfield, however, were
the only ones who were church commu-
nicants. Adams married clergyman's
daughter (Abigail Smith,, but he did
not accept her views. He was inclined
to Unitarianisr6, which, in his day, was
becoming very prevalent in Massaehu-
setts Jefferson was not believer in
Christianity, at least while President.
He had, during his residence in France,
become skeptical, and his election was
opposed by some on the score of inf
deity. After Tom Paine had written
the G Age of Reason" Jefferson invited
him to return to America. which was
understood to be- direct recognition and
acceptance of his opinions. Infdelity,
at that time, was so fashionable that, in
polite society, it was rather eccentric to
avow different opinions. Madison, while
student at Princeton College, was of a
religious turn, but it wore off under the
cares Of Office. His early religious con-
nectiops were. Presbyterian. Monroe is
said to have favored Episcopacy. John
Quincy Adams was inclined to Unitarian
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-01
Things Learned by Experience.

If your coal fire is low throw on Ia
blespoonful of salt, and it will help it
very much. A little ginger put into
sausage meat improves the flavor. In
icing cake dip the knife frequently in
cold water. In boiling meats for soups
use cold water to extract the juice. If
the meat is wanted for itself alone, plunge
in boiling water at once. You can get a
bottle or barrel of oil off any carpet or
wooden stuff by applying dry buckwheat
plentifully and faithfully; never put
water to such a grease spot or liquid of
any kind. Broil steak without sailing;
salt draws the juice in cooking it is de-
sirable to keep these In if possible; cook
over hot fire, turning frequently, scar
ing on both sides; place on a platter,
salt and pepper to taste. Beef having
tendency to be tough can be made very
palatable by stewing very gently for
two hours, pepper. and salt, taking out
about a pint of liquid when done, and
letting the rest boil into the meat.
Brown the meat in the pot. After taking
up make a gravy of the pint of liquid
saved. A small piece Of charcoal in the
pot with boiling cabbage removes the
smell. Clean oilcloth with milk and
water; brush and soap will ruin them.
Tumblers that have had milk in them
should never be put in hot water. A
spoonful of stewed tomatoes in. the gravy
OF either roasted or fried meats is an
Improvement. The skin of boiled egg.
is the most eficacious remedy that can
be applied to boil. Peel it carefully,
wet, and apply it to the part affected.
1t will draw off the matter and relieve
the soreness in few hours.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-01
Johnny Skae's Big Chance.

A little more than two years since
Johnny Skae, whom everybody knows,
would visit Carson several times a month,
and as lie passed down the street from
the railroad depot, with an independent
swagger, and more independent look in
his eye, men would enviously gaze after
him and express their convictions
that he would soon outstrip any single
member of the Bonanza firm in the
possession of millions. This was when
Sierra Nevada and Union were selling at
from $3.50 to $500 per share, and Skae
was supposed to hold fifty thousand
shares of the stock of those two mines.
At that period he would have had no
difficulty In realizing SO, 900, 600 in cool
gold coin for. his stock; but no, he was
ambitious, and desired no longer to play
second fiddle even to such q colossal
financial power as the Bonanza firm.
He fancied that the prospective dividends
of the Sierra Nevada and Union Consoli-
dated mines would be greater by tenfold
than those paid by the California and
Consolidated mines Johnny was over
sanguine; he imagined himself a hundred
millionaire, whose millions were safely
deposited in the bowels of the earth.
OF that he felt certain. In the mean
time he entertained his friends in regal
style. He invited them from San
Francisco to participate in princely fish
and champagne banquets, which were
spread near the reservoir of the Virginia
and Gold Hill Water Works, from which
a I11Go lob IN
various other ways extended his hospi-
tality to friends in such manner that
they privately called him prince John. !"
In the midst of this, however, he did one
prudent thing, and that was in settling
$3.50, 900 in bonds upon his wife. Believ-
ing that the stock Of the mines of which
he was so heavy holder was sure to
reach at least $1,000 per share, he
hypothetical the same to the Nevada
Bank, and purchased several thousand
shares on margin. Soon thereafter the
market crashed, and it was not long be-
fore his stocks were quoted at $50 and $50
per share OF course that nearly ruined
Skae; but being man of nerve and
DESTROYS of retrieving his lostopportunity,
he kept on dabbling in stocks which at
one time might have placed him in an
enviahle independent position, until he
lost all thatIhe had saved from the first
blow; and it isl even said that the $3.50, :
900 which he settled upon his wife went
the way of the rest Now Johnny Skae
is in Arizona, in place of living in luxury
and superlative elegance, seeking a
bonanza, which he probably will never
find. It is only once in a lifetime that
one man in million is so enehantingly
smiled upon by fortune as Johnny Skae
was two and half years ago.-Carson
city Appeal .o|
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-01
POLITICAL POINTS.

The Democrats of Rhode Island have
nominated Horace M: Kimball for Governor
and W. L. Segar for Lieutenant Governor.
Postmaster General James, in declin-
ing banquet rendered him by New York mer-
chants, thanks them for their appreciation of
the manner in which he has performed his
duties in the past, but he adds that the trial Of
his fitness has only just begun.
A Washington dispatch says: "Mr.
Conkling's friends say that he does not appre,
bend any difficulty in securing the rejection of
Judge Robertson as Collector of New York. The
nomination is in Mr.. Conkling's hands, as
Chairman of the committee and he will not
delay action upon it. He believes that the SEN
ate will not, against the wishes of both of the
Senators from New York, confirm the
nomination, and therefore he says he
is not disturbed over it. The politicians to-
day credit Mr.. Blaine with having brought
about the nomination, as reward to Robert.
son for having divided the New York delega-
ton at Chicago and favored Blaines nominal
ton. Mr.. Conkling is very indignant. He
says the President has seen fit to recognize an
element that does not number over 90, 900 in
the State, and to reward boiling with one OF
the best positions in the gift of the Executive.
The Republicans of Rhode Island
have renominated Gov. Littlefeld and all the
other State officials.
The Attorney General of Pennsyl-
vania declares unconstitutional the law allow
ing members of the Legislature $40 day after
the expiration of the regular session. The
Solons have no recourse but to shut up shop at
the time fixed.
Secretary Kirkwood, in an order issued
lately, declared that competitive examinations
in his department must end.
The difference between the position of
the Readjusters and their opponents in yir-
ginia on the debt question, says Washington
correspondent, which has been made SO promi-
nent by the contest in the Senate, is about as
follows; McCulloughs Cor the DebtpayersO
bill fixed with the consent of the creditors the
debt at $32,O00,0OO, made the cou-
pons receivable for taxes and other
dues to the State, and the bonds nom
taxable. 1t fixed the rate of interest at an
average of 4 per cent. Riddleberger's bill,
which the Readjusters stand by, fixed the debt
at 500, 900, 900, made the coupons not receiva-
BILE for taxes, made the bonds taxable, and the
rate of interest per cent. 1t was proposed to
n,oEa tbc hill low without tho ccncaY1t Of fba
States creditors, on the ground that it was
Just to both the creditors and the State. The
Readjusters' bill excludes from the State debt
the interest accumulated during the war and
the reconstruction period. McCullough's
| bill includes this.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-01

country OF these 81, 600 were from Germany,
| 1900 from Canada, $1,000 from England and
Wales and 80 600 from Ireland.
A company has been organized IN
Philadelphia to drainthe Everglades of Florida,
and reclaim L, OOO 900 acres of the richest land
in the world. The scheme involves the digging
of ship canal across the State.
| The freight war between the Pennsyl-
vania and Baltimore and Ohio roads is at an
end.
The Directors of the Northern Pacific
Railroad Company, at recent meeting, decided
to distribute the residue of the common stock,
amounting to nearly 100000 shares, which
has been held in the company's treas
my. since the reorganization in 1875.
This issue completes the total amount of
common stock authorized by the plan of re-
organization and by the act of incorporation.
S49, 1000, 600. The reason for the distribution
of the stock is said by the officers of the COM
pany to be the anxiety Of the persons entitled
to receive it to realize their profits at the pres
ent market value of the stock. The chief
opponent of the issue has been the President
of the company, Frederick Billings, who was
unwilling that the stock should be issued any
faster than the road was completed and ac-
cepted by the Government.
The value of the domestic breadstuffs
exported from this country for the eight
months ending Feb. %, Of this year, was
1882, 1881 26. The value of the same class .ol
goods exported during the eight months end
ing Feb. 20, 1880, was $188, 1885,, $3.50.
Reports OF serious injury to winter
wheat have reached st. Louis merchants.
James Gordon Bennett has ordered
yacht in which he can cross the ocean. 1t will
be 225 feet long and forty-fve feet beam.
The Chief Engineer of Mexico has
surveyed the Tehuantepec route, and he re-
ports Capt. Eads' project entirely practicable.
Commodore Robert W.. Shufeldt, of
the United States navy, has accepted the COM
mand of the navy of China at salary Of
$4,000 per year. Secretary Blaine aided the
scheme as blow to England's supremacy in
the East. H12a 90 .8
Burned The furniture factory of G.
Mendell q Co., Wheeling, w. Va, loss $780,
900 !; the Saxony wooden mills, at Columbus,
Ind, loss $4,000; the cotton compress of
James L. Harway, of Norfolk, Va damage
SlOO, 600; two buildings in Broad street, Eliza
beth, n j., loss $4,000; shoe factory in
Campello, Mass, wiping out $4,000.
Coinage Of the fve-cent nickel pieces
has been suspended, as it is becoming redun-
dant.
During 1880 327,371 persons from
abroad came to make their homes in this coun-
try. This is the largest number in the history
of the United States, and was only approached
in 1854, when the number was 1927. From
present indications there seems to be no doubt
that the number of immigrants who will ar
rive here this year will exceed the number last
year, and will be close on if it does not exceed
100000. -
The death of the Earl of Caithness at
New York is announced. He was known as the
most scientific member of the Scotch peerage,
having perfected steam carriage for macad-
amized roads and invented an improved loom
and grayitating compass.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-01
WASHINGTON NOTES.

Judge William H. Robertson, who led
the independent bolt in New York prior to the
Chicago Convention, who has long been the
personal and political opponent of Senator
Conkling, and who is near friend of Reuben
E. Fenton, who, at the Chicago Convention
headed the seventeen New York delegates who
voted for Garfield, is appointed Collector of Gus
toms for the port of New York. Mr.. Fenton's
other friend, Gen. Merritt, was transferred
to London as Consul General. The ap-
pointment of Robertson is said to be a severe
disappointment to Mr.. Conkling.
William Walter Phelps, nominated to
be Minister to Austria, is a wealthy young New
Jersey ex-Congressman, now travelling in Eu-
rope for his health. He is an intimate personal
friend and supporter of Mr.. Blaine and friend
of Wlitelaw Reid. It was Mr.. Phelps who was
reported to have furnished the loan which first
enabled Mr.. Reid to secure control of the New
York Tribune.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-01
MISCELLANEOUS GLEAN1NGs.

Judge Spier, of the Superior Court of
New York, has issued an injunction to restrain
the Northern Pacific railroad from issuing and
distributing SIS, 900 common stock. Part,
if not all, of this stock has already been dis
tributed and placed in the market with COM
mon stock previously issued. The application
for the injunction was made in the interest of
the Willard pool
The survey for new railroad from
Buffalo to Toledo has been completed through
Northern Ohio, and the right of way is being
rapidly secured. The company will be called
the New York, Chicago and st. Louis. CON
tract for the construction Of the line is said to
have been made with a Chicago firm, the
amount involved being $s.OO0,OOo.
During the eight months ending Feb.
IS. 1881, S05,O22 Immigrants arrived in this
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-01
Toughest Story Ever Published.

A correspondent of the Louisville
Courier-JournaL tell the following story
of Cornwall on the Hudson, well known
as summer boarding place:
81 once knew a very ridiculous thing
to happen there. Several years ago
was coming down from Poughkeepsie by
boat. 1t was bright morning in mid
summer, and we stopped at Cornwall to
take aboard the few gentlemen who
went early to business in New York.
Instead of the usual number there were
a great many people who rushed aboard
in various stages of indignation and dis
gust. Itwas an exodus, and we soon
learned the cause The night before
bread was made up and set in the pantry
to rise. Bed time came and all retired
all at least save a pet kitten who
prowled about seeking a comfortable
bed. Kitty got into the pantry, and
finding the pan of bread, which she mis-
took for nice soft cushion, laid down
thereon and went quietly to sleep. The
soft dough yielded gradually and slowly,
but surely; poor kitty was engulfed, the
batter closing over it and leaving no sign.
When morning came the bread was baked
and brought in hot to breakfast. Imagine
the. scene-all the boarder seated at
the table-when the loaf was broken
open! They left in body.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-01

In the reign Of Charles II. it was Gus
tomary, when gentleman drank lady's
health, to throw some article of dress
into the flames in her honor, and all his
companions were obliged to sacrifice a
similar article, whatever it might be.
One of Sir Charles Sedley's friends, per-
ceiving that he wore very rich lace era
vat, drank to the health of certain
lady, and threw his own cravat into the
fire. Sir Charles followed the example
very good-naturedly, but said he would
have his joke in return. Afterward,
when he .dined with the same party, he
filed bumper to some reigninga beauty,
and called on dentist to extract a. de-
cayed tooth which had long panied him.
Etiquettedemanded that every one of the
party should have tooth extracted and
thrown into the fire; to which they all
yielded, after many murmurs about the
cruelty of the thing.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-01

ism. jackson was a Methodist and died
in the communion of that church. Van
Buren, was brought up in the Refermed
Dutch church, but afterward became in
clined TO Episcopacy. Harrison favored
the Methodist. Tyler was an Episcopal
liam. Polk was baptized by Methodist
preacher after his term of Office had ex-
pred. Taylor favored Episcopacy. Fill
more attended the Unitarian church.
Frank Pierce was q member of the Con-
gregatonaist society III Concord, though
not Al communicate Buchanan was a
Presbyterian. Lincoln attended Cur
ley's church as often as he could, but
was not member, though his religious
convictions were deep Washington
Leffe,.