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The Elk Mountain pilot., 1881-12-01
police toreee thc ground Asl A CIAN70lS INCIDENT
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City. He has another name, but no
body seems TO know what it is. It
has been torn off the wrapper some
way, and so the boys call him Calam
lty. He IS man of singular mind
and eccentric constructions.
ihe most notable feature about
Calamity is his superstitous dread of
muscular activity. Some people will
not tackle any kind Of business enter
prise on Friday. Calamity is even
more the victim of this vague super
stitlon. and has q dread Of beginning
work on any day Of the week.
Last spring he had a little domestic
trouble, and his wife mate complaint
that Calamity had worn out an old
lc'ng-handle shovel on Ter, trying to
convince her Of some abstruse theory
Of his.
The testimony seemed rather against
Calamity, the miners told him that as
soon as they got over the rush little
and they had leisure, they would have
to hang him. They hoped he would
take advantage of the hurry Of bust
ness and go away, because they did
not want to hang him SO early in
the season: But Calamity didn't 30
away.
He stayed because It WAS easier to
stay than to go. He did no; ,of course,
pine for the notoriety Of being the
first man hung in the Young camp,
but rather than pull up stakes and
move away from place where there
were so many pleasant associations,
he concluded to stay, and meet death
calmly in whatever form it might
come.
One evening, after the work Of TIE
day was done, and the BOYS had eaten
their suppers, one OF them suggested
that it would be good time to hang
Calamity. SO they got things in
shape, and went down to the Big Lar
annie bridge.
Calamity was with'them. They got
things ready for the exercises TO be-
gin, and then asked the victim if he
had anything to say. He loosened
the rope around his neck with cne
hand, 50 that he could speak with
more freedom, and holding his panta-
looms on with the other, said:
Gentlemen Of the convention,
call upon you TO witness that this pub
lie demonstration toward ne is en-
tireiy unsought for on my part.
"Plugging along in comparative
obscurity is good enough .or nc. This
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1881-12-01
BUNDERDTSS BILL FROM B0DlE:

"Well, Blunderbuss Bill, what have
YOU to say why You should not be de-
clared vasafond? You are not ar
Indian, are yoa?'
81 am, Sir, to a certain extent, toT
the dark blue blood Of Powlattan's 5
fourth cousin flows IN crimson streams
through the many narrow-gauge con-
nections with my heart, and Under
the act I claim immunity as q consti-
tutiona! right" said the athletic say
age-looaing prisoner.
"The Court rules that the Statute
Of Limitation bars the Indian in this
case, but as DO not wish to be hard
on an T. T. VI If you can show me
where you have tolled during the last
ten years / will lei yon oil. y
The prisoners face clouded for d
moment, but like 4 fash Of lightning
it frightened up, and h@ said:
"I used to clean out saloons over
in Bodic and Virginia City"
ssWho employed you?' II
4" No one. ! did it because I liked
she work"
''What did you cIean them with
broom F"
"No."
!. sc.ubbing brush -? -
"No."
"WclI, what did you use, then ?"
Sometimes I sIA-sAOUter and now
and then bowie knife, and once l
remember using shotgun.
" Twcnty-four hours with freeck
loading mop and doublc-barreleo
spittoon," laconically remarked III,
Honor; and the mountain whirt-wihd
was lead below to swell the ranks OF
the "Cuspidor Brigade "-SaH Fran
fisf0 EsamHer.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1881-12-01

A piece of ore was recently taken
from the Bassick, Rosita, Colorado.
weighing 80 pounds, which ran at the
rate c. $50, 600 to tho ton.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1881-12-01

and when he got the pick he began to
whack II into the ground and tear up
Shc virgin soil, partly fer fun and part
ly 10 kill time.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1881-12-01
4 NEW EASTERN BONANZA.

4 NEW EASTERN BONANZA.
The recent discovery, near Thebes,
Of bonanza Of ancient Es, ptians is
one Of the most important discoveries
OF the century. Surface indications of
lhummies and Other objects of archie
oioglcal interest had been known to
exist for some time in a mountain
gorge about four miles cast of the
Nile, and Herr Brugsch OF the Boulak
Museum made d prospecting tour in
that region last June. On exploring
a pit IS feet deep he struck vein of
enormous richness, which has since
been worked for distance Of 200
feet. This vein consists principally
OF Egyptian Kings, Queens and Prin-
cesscs, Of whom Sc have already been
taken out. With these dead Egyptians
are also fo'jlia a large quantity of
manuscripts. jewels, gods, and other
useful and interesting o4]ects \
saEsful ssiS l,.1s assay sA92at that l4s vci4
l,t ssven fns'miSesto the
ton, together with about 50 per cent,
by weight, Of gods and manuscripts.
In point of richness this vein-or
rather pocket-has hitherto never
been eqaaled in the anasls Of arche-
illogical mining.
The discovery OF this great Esyp-
tan bonanza ought to attract the at
tentlon of those ingenious persons who
are constantly forming silver mining
companies to the richness of the Egyp-
tam Deposits. Royal mummies and
ancient papyri are Of more value than
their weight in silver, provided they
are judlclously put on the market, and
the Valley Of the Nile is probably rich
IN sphlnxes, obelisks; temples and
other archaeological treasures. Mining
Is inexpensive in Egypt, since there
are no rocks to blast, and nothing to
dig through except sand. 1t would
pay to work vein yielding only one
mummy to the ton, but as matter OF
fact mummles arc always found in
ie"elry-bearlng strata, SO that after
the mummles are taken out the sand
can be profitable worked over for gold
and silver ornaments and small gods.
Any mummy mining company that
make satisfactory arrangement with
the hhedive, and begin work almost
anywhere in Egypt, will be reasonably
sure to strike mummies and papyri in
paying quantities, and to make dlvi-
dend within six months after driving
the first spade into the ground.
As field for mining speculation
Egypt is vastly superior to Colorado,
and the man who could no. write
convincing prospectus for a mummy
mining company would lie utterly
lacking in lmmagination. According
to the best Eyptolosists, the Egyptian
monarchy came into existence about
eight thousand years ago, sothat there
is little fear that the mines of mum
mied kings can be exhausted in one
day. No time, however, should be
lost III organizing mining companies
and selling sock, for if England and
France jointly occupy Egypt, free
mining will not be tolerated.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1881-12-01

Is the first tins | ever addressed an
audience. That is why l a;n e.ahar-
rassed and i'll at ease
"You have brought me here to
hang me because | seemed harsh and
severe With my WIFE louhave enter
cd the hallowed presence ofmy home
life, and assumed the prerogatlve oi
subveFting my household discip'i1e'
I" It is well. do not care - 1--we
50 long as my authority Is questioned
You nave already changed ms sub
missiyc wife to an arrogant and SELF
reliant woman. Yesterday told her
to 90 cut and grease the wagon, and
she straishtencd up to her full height
and told nc to grease it myself;
Il have always been kind and
thoughtful TO her. When she had to
so up into the gu'ch in shc wlnte'
after firewood, my coat shielded her
from the storm while | SIT aloite III
the cabin through the long hours: l
could name other instances of unseli-
ishncss on my part, but viii not take
nm ,Cur lime She uses nv smoking
tobacco and kicks my vertebra up INTO
my hat Oh the most unlocked ior oc-
casions. She does not love me any
more, ard life to me is only hollow
nociery.
death, with lis wide waste OF eter-
nal calm and It's shorelcss sea of rest,
is glad relief to me- | go, but | leave
in YOUR midst a skittish and able
bodied widow who will make Rome
howl. ! beQueath her to this camp:
She Is yours, gentlemen. She ,s all |
have to give, but in giving her to tor,
feel tina. my antlmcly death will al
ways be looked upon in this gulch as
d r. calamity.
The day will come when you viii
look back upon this awful night and
wish that was alive again. but it ~'ll
| be. too late. | Will be far away. My
ts.n.sa I! = =. .,she.s oneAs
jinfelicity and cold feet can meyer en.ea!
Bury rle at the foot of Vinegar hllls
where the sage-hen and the fuzzy bum
ole-bce may gr1nJol Ger ry iowly
grave
| When Calamity had finished, an i'm
promptu caucus was called. When 1t
was adjourned, Calamity went home
to his cabin to surpris,: his wife.
She has not yet fully recovered tom
her surprise. Bill Njt.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1881-12-01

Leadville has twenty-sx furnaces,
with daily capacity OF 100 tons :;
and ninety-fve stamps Of 200 tons
daily capacity.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1881-12-01
HELP YOUR LOCAL PAPER,

This Is the season of discomfort of
the publishers of papers in the mining
camps ii the mountains of Colorado.
With 4 few exceptions the mines are
closed, business is dull, and a large
proportion Of the population is seeking
winter quarters at lower levels. The
latter class are too prone to forget the
enterprlslng publisher who remains be-
hind IN the mountains, struggling to
maintain himself, that he NAV adyer-
tlse the camp and benefit the very men
who in their comfortable eastern homes
are forgetting "that little bill" for
printing, and do not have sufficient
thoughtfulness to remit the amount OF
a years subscription, Or of inducing
nelshbors OF friends interested in the
district to Go SO.
No camp has ever yet become prop
erly known or fully appreciated, until
1t had its own paper. The men who
own Or operate mines are benefited
more than any other class b.! these
weekly publications. They reap the
benefit of the editors labors daily. Yet
the large proportion OF them do moth
ing to support him. The business men
too often say "adyertlsing does not
pay and the fact Is that the town in
which they do business would be un-
known, the railroad over which thev
ship their goods would iJe rnbuiIt, and
themselves unheard of, if it were not
tor the newspaper, which they say does
them no good. The local paper, as
serts the Printers CutHiar, is of ad-
vantage to every man IN the commus
nifty, and when a man refuses to con:
tribute to the support Of the paper on
the ground that it "does him 20 good"
he might just as well refuse to pay tax
cs for the supper. Of the courts and
police torceeon the ground IT he
!'ll(llli' ! Y 's1t.! '''':'s !! ~ 5 !
lieve themselves to be honest and pi-
Gus, who are doing business id every
community, and every day appropria-
ting to their own use the fruits of 9TH
or rmen's labors BY reapins the benefits
Of the newspaper without contributing
cent to its support, and yet they
would be terribly shocked ifthey should
be charged witt, stealing wood from
their neighbors. But the principle is
JUS, the same, the only difference be-
ing that in one case the law can reach
them, and in the other it cannot; but
morally, it is just ss dishonest to steal
the fruits of your neishbor's enterprise
as to steal his fuel or chickens. Too
much credit cannot be given to the
weekly paper for the work that it has
done and is still dong for the benefit
of this country.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1881-12-01

The bullion output OF Colorado fot'
the year ending 1881, will it Is thought,
aggregate 25,ooo,ooo, an excess OF
$1,000. 900 over last years prcdns
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-12-08
wHOLEsALE and RETAIL
FURR0I T(DRE WAREROOMS.
O. f. ToI,T,Y
ays the Leader Of Low Prices in Furniture in this State

the public that he ENLARGED
enabled to carry the LRGEsT STOCK FURNITURE THIS VIM d1 m
all descriptions which SEN chen
%One else. 80 ~AS'''oF ehan
~lh ss ana cso complete 9 upwards 500
bought @ m f me Rs a 10e c ap at sne Cane Chr per Cane
arch standad large frame and $3.50 and upxs 81 yes
STANDARD and glass plate four one Cane Soa @
$50 and ng ee proportion Tin Safes and drawer
SIX INCHES VWH"r
win pGI W Sbo
On Iot
and from s. 100 90 Coffin % to the finest Glass
that CANR0r AND @ wna NOT BE UNDERsOLD My Wareoos
OlSQ0
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= Cadet Whitaker says that he will
try to enter.the British arm y"ifjustice is
denied" him in America.
= Eighty Ohio capitalists are figuring
on the purchase of large body of land
in Corsicana county, Texas, with the
view TO open an extensive sheep rancho.
= The Langley Manufacturing Com
pany run the public schools four months
in the year at their own EXPENSES and
give two hundred dollars annually to the
ministers who ofIiciate at the beautiful
Union Church, which has been lately
built.
= The Christian Lnteligencer is re-
sponsible for the statement that 81 cents
year has been the average offering for
ten years per member Of the Evangelical
denominations of this country for For
eign Missions; and 2S cents for Home
Missions. Now divide 50, 700, 900, 900 by
5O,OO0,000 and you will have the pei
capita contribution to the wEiskey busi-
ness. Equal to about $54. Truly, we
are Christian people!
The Pittsburg Sunday Leader quotes
Mr. Martin Karg, Silver Creek, Mimi,
cured badly wounded horse with ST.
Jacobs Oil.
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he court then adjourned.

= General Hancock expects to start
shortly upon tour Of inspection of the
Southern posts in his command.
= Bishop Pierce, in his address at the
recent opening of the North Carolina
Conference, NJ. E. Church South, said
that Bishop Wightman, of South Caro-
lima. was sick beyond recovery, and
Bishop Payne is very i'll also. Bishop
Payne is a native Of Person County,
North Carolina. There are but three
Southern Methodist Bishops now able to
do regular duty. 1t is thought that at
least three or four Bishops will be elected
at the session of the General Conference
TO be held next May, and among those
mentioned in this connection are Rev.
DR.. A. W. Wilson, of the Baltimore
Conference, and Drs. John E. Edwards
and j. O.. Cranberry, of the Virginia
Conference.
When lecturer has worked the ladies
of his audience so near to the weeping
point that they have gotten out their
handkerchiefs, and then suddenly changes
his tone and speaks of the merits of DR..
Bulls Cough Syrup, he is bound to rouse
a feeling of indignation.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-12-08

WAsHINGTON, November 30.-The
court room packed this morning, rs usual.
Guiteau resumed the stand and identified
several papers. He was questioned as to
the religious tenets of the Oneida COM
munity, and said he had the same belief
as was entertained Mt the community, and
also stated what was the belief of the
community. He then gave his expe.
perences for tho past four years, how he
tramped around, trying to lecture and sell
his book. He also gave an account of
his visits to the white house and state
department in search of n consulship, ard
related how he received the inspiration
to remove the President.
At IL o'clock recess was taken.
After the recess the prisoner again
took the stand, and was questioned by
Mr.. Scoville as to. his experience with
special providences.
have always believed most decidedly
il 9 special providence There are four
distinct times in my life when 1 claim to
have had special inspirations. The first
was when 1 went to the Oneida commu-
nifty the second when left the commu-
nifty to go to New York to establish a
theoretic paper, to be the organ of the
lilcly w tuIS WOiiu tu0 thltu WAS VhCu
| left good law business in Chicago to
go out lecturing and working for the
Lord, and the fourth time l claim to
have had special divine authority was
when | attempted to remove the Presi-
dent. These are the four distinct times
when claim to have had inspiration.
mean g special providence for your pro-
lection. / had abundant evidence of
the Lords protection all the time 1 was
in the theology business lecturing around
the country. Two or three times came
near meeting with serious accidents. but
the Lord spared me. Since have been
IN Jail have been shot at three times
and missed"
"What special occasion before you
were arrested were you protected by spe-
cal providence"
~ think the preservation of my life at
Newark was one, when l jumped from
the train, which was going thirty five
miles an hour. Another was when was
on the 'Stonnington,' when we were all
| in momentary expectation of going down.
1 remember praying TO the Lord that he
might spare my life, but I felt perfectly
willing to leave it to the Lord. felt
happy that had been faithful servant
of His by trying TO teach the gospel. !
remember / thought il my time had
come 1 could go with good heart
Since my arrest it has been my constant
feeling all the way through. When was
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-11
THE FUNDING BILL.


The debates on the Wood funding bill
in the House have thus far developed a
good deal of unorganized and discordant
opposition. Judging from the character of
the views expressed by many members
we should suppose that they had been
following the celebrated example of Sena.
tor Logan, and devoting foltnight's
study to the mastery of finance. The
Greenbackers of course continue to air
those peculiar ideas which they are be-
lieved to evolve from their inner conscious
ness, seeing that they are in no way in.
debted to the past experience of mankind.
The real conflict, however, is in regard to
the rate of interest to be paid on the new
bonds. Mr.. Sherman is understood to be
very doubtful whether three per cenk.
bond can be hoated az the present time.
and most of the men who are authorities
on finance appear to hold the same
view. OF course it would be
great misfortune to fix upon three per
cent. as tine rate, and then to find that
the bonds were not taken. 1t is desirable
to secure the best terms possible, and it is
the duty of Congress to do this, hut at the
same time it must be remembered that no
three per cent. bond has ever yet been
held at par, and that therefore, no matter
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MR. KaNFIELD's ASSURANCE.

A bill has been introduced to the State
Legislature to enable State Controller Ken.
field to sue the State to recover SO much
of the salary of j. W. Vaudeville as was
drawn by the latter prior to his death.
Mr.. Kenfeld has no more title to the
money he thus seeks than he has to any
part of the funds of the State, outside of
his present salary, now lying in the
Treasury. He was not in Office during the
time for winch ho seeks to receive pay
He performed no services whatever TO the
State. He has no claim either direct or
indirect which viii stand an instant's ex.
animation. His bill in fact is one of the
most impudent propositions we have heard
of for long time, and it ought to berejected
emphatically and swiftly. We under
stand, however, that Mr., Kenfeld possesses
quite peculiar ideas of the obligations the
State is under to him, and that as one
proof of this he puts his wife on the pay
roll of his office, and draws salary of
SLY a month in her name, though she per-
forms no service whatever. There are
cases in which the wives of officials do
full clerks work, and in such cases no OBJ.
lection can be made to their drawing the
salary. This, however, is not such case,
but it is one which calls for rebuke almost
as much as the audacious bill which Mr..
kenfeld has seen fit to insult the Legisla-
ture with. The Republican party cannot
afford to make itself responsible for such
proceedings as these, and it appears to us
that the Attorney-G General would be justi-
fed in bringing suit against Mr.. Kenfeld
for recovery of the moneys he has drawn
from the Treasury in his wife's name.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-11
Fire and Loss OF Life
MYsCELLANEOUs.

Ex-Asssmblyman Thomas Costigan has
brought action for libel against the New
York EreAiag Express. the Tanmany Hall
organ. Costigan is the anti Tammany
leader.
The Treasury has transferred 81, S04 90S in
gold bullion from the New York Assay Office
to the Philadelphia Mint, to be coined into
eagles and halfeagles.
A Chicago TriJune's New York SPECIAL
says: Fire insurance men are anxiously
scanning balance sheets, and annual reports.
Investigation shows that only half dozen
companies have done well during the year,
aud they are mostly European.
The balance of gold bullion on hand at the
NV York Assay Office to date is S63, &c.
5SS.
Ric ard J. Walsh, city agent of the Beef
Can mag Company at ST. Louis, shot himself
fatally, Sunday, on account of financial
troubles
The President has nominated D. B. Sacket,
Senior Inspector-Geueral of the Army, with
the rank of BIigadierGeneral, and Captain
James c.. Breckenridge, Second Artillery,
Assistant Inspector-General, with the rank
The resignation of Marshal Fitzsimmons of
Georgia is daily expected at the Executive
mansion.
Robinson's storage warehouse in Brooklyn,
n. Y, collapsed yesterday, under the weight
of snow and rain. Less heavy.
The new Oxford University boet-house,
with many valuable boats, has been burned.
An attempt was made to fire the Custom
house, Saturday, at Woolwicb, Eng.
Frauds have been discovered in administra-
ton of the naval station at Havana. Eleven
employees have been arrested and closely con-
fined on board of a man-of war.
Baron Jacob Schroeder, a prominent Ger
man in his country and in this, and once edi-
tor of the Cincinnati VoLkSbiGtt, died Sunday
at Independence, ..
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sUPERFLUoUs STATE REPORTS.

Whoever turns over the pile of State
reports to which the local government has
now attained, must come to the conclusion
that there is great deal of wasted space
IN them. Every year the State Printing
ottlce turns ont thousands OF these thick
and thin pamphlets, but it would be diff
cult to say what good end is served by
their publication. Hundreds of pages in
them are filed with statistics, with elabor.
ately drawn accounts. with frivolous details,
which are Of no possible value to ANYBODY.
In nine cases out of ten the reports might
with great advantage be reduced to a
1.-THE of their present volume Take
for example the report of the State Agri-
cultural Society, which has for many wears
been conspicuous example of extrava.
gance In this way. 1t is filled with the
most valueless and often with the most
publishing matter Long, involved, vague
and wandering accounts of this or that in
dustry; speculative and discursive papers
In regular newspaper style inconseouen.
tial and disconnected statistics. Rung in as
though with hay-fork make up the
greater part of the large volume which is
every year published at the expense of
public that neither needs nor reads it. In
all such cases what is required is condensa.
ton and system. Notwithstanding the
multitude of reports published, it is diff. |
cult to ascertain such practical facts as are
often needed in estimating the progress of |
the State. A great. crude, undigested |
mass OF matter is of no use to the public.
and it costs great deal of money which |
might very well be saved The printing
of these reports ought in fact to be sub. |
jected to some kind of regulation and re. |
striction, and the useless matter should be
vigorously excluded. Government is ex-
pensive enough when none but necessary |
outlay has to be met, and every effort |
should therefore be made to stop useless