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Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-30
Sournal alto Courier.
Saturday Morning, July 30. 1881.
BANK TAXATION.

One of the important matters which will be discussed by the bankers at their conven- tion at Niagara Falls next month is the un- reasonable and oppressive taxation which is still inflicted upon the banking business. The taxes now paid by the banks were i'm posed at time when the government was placing extraordinary burdens on the busi- ness and industry of the land. Sales were taxed, many occupations were licensed, va rious manufactures were taxed incomes were taxed, and also carriages, pianos and watches. All these burdens have been removed, but the taxes on the banking business remain in spite ofthe geaeraI recognition of their in- justice.
 The Bankers' Magazine has an interesting article concerning what has been done con corning bank taxation and what ought to be done. It says the American Bankers Asso- citation has opposed bank taxes, not simply on the ground that they injure the banks, or their stockholders, though this is an impor- tant reason for abolishing certain bank tax es, and especially those on capital and de- posits s'The broader and more important reason is that such taxation infiicts irrepar- able injury upon the commerce and trade of the country, and upon the great national interests that are carried on by means of the banks. Our industrial progress and material growth depend upon our banking system and bank taxation letters and contracts the ability of the banks to afford facilities to their dealers and the public. It is by this and like arguments that the American Bank ers' Association at Washington and else where has assailed with so much force and success the mischievous system of bank tax ation, and little doubt is entertained that these taxes will, at an early period, be taken of. Since the last convention of the associ- ation our chambers of commerce and boards of trade throughout the country have united in a general effort to se- cure this repeal. A larger number of peti- tions were presented to Congress last year than ever before in favor of bank tax repeal, and public opinion is growing more enlight- ened as to the absolute necessity, with a view to promote the commercial and industrial in terests of the country, that Congress should delayno longer the passage of law relieving the banks and the public from these mis- chievous and unnecessary burdens"
 The bankers ought to have the help of the entire business community in their efforts to get rid of their heavy load Business men have quite great an interest in having these taxes repealed as the bankers them selves.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-30
Price Four Cents.

forest ten years ago the wayside hedges hs- ing literally feathered with fox gloves, pink,
 white and yellow; now yellow fox glove is rarity. But irrespective of the loss of natural beauty, the economic question forces itself upon the mind. Will it not be the work of some philanthropist in generations yet unborn to replant what was once the Thuringian forest with the fast growing Flu calyptus globulus, or some tree possessed of equal virtue? Fuel is already dear in Ger many, though cheap by comparison with the price of other countries, and, of course, the faster the trees are cut down the dearer it must become, so long as wood forms the staple fuel of the community. Such consid- erations damp the enjoyment of these cool, umbrageous resorts, while a little incident which occurred on our way brought out pain fully the difference existing between the German and the French peasant. Passing an aged woman laden with frewood, my German friend threw toward her little roll of white bread, which was eagerly picked up and eaten. In rich, happy France the peas ant eats white bread every day of his life, and<the first fruits of the earth besides but coarse rye bread still forms the chief food of the peasants here.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-30

not be overcome by him. The Standard says: 'He may institute any number of suits, he may call any number of carabineers, he may put upon the file any number of 'aff- davits, he may employ not only Colonel Barnes, his present lawyer, but also the ens tire available talent of the English bar, and he may tattoo himself to the requisite acre. age and in the requisite spots. He will be met at the very outset by wretched techni- cality known as 'estoppel' It will be re- membered that after the conviction of the Tichborne and Doughty estates had incurred large expense in contesting the original claim of Arthur Orton, and afterward in prosecut- ing him. Accordingly, in the year 1874, there was passed private statute, The Tichborne and Doughty Estates Act, the ob- ject of which was to enable the trustees to exceed their ordinary powers by selling DOT ton of the estates, and thereby raising funds for the legal expenses which were outstanding. The preamble to this act, which reads as a part of the act itself, sets out all that is necessary of the history of the Tich- borne family, and, among other things, it expressly recites that Roger Tichborne died without issue; that Arthur Orton, alias Thorn as Castro, endeavored to personate him and that the present Baronet is the legitimate heir to the title Indeed, the present Sir Henry Alfred Joseph Doughty Tichborne is, we be- lieve, the only baronet whose title is statata- ble, and consequently beyond dispute, and whose identity for the same reason, is equally incontrovertible. We need, conse- quently, be under little apprehension that the new claimant will involve us in third Tichborne trial. Whatever step he may take, or whatever proceedings he may institute this unfortunate act of Parlia ment will stand in his way Apparently the only course open to him is to carry through the Legislature 8 private act of his own repeating the Tich- borne and Doughty Estates act of 1874"
Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-30
How n WhaIer Got R Full Fare.


 Those who believe that there is no ill but results in some corresponding good will sure ly seq the working of some law of compensa- ton in the events attending the late cruise of the Thomas Pope. The vessel sailed from this port and after a short absence the small pox broke out on board and many were down sick with this terrible disease. The captain and officers took excellent care of the sick, and all recovered without losing single man. In the meantime the vessel touched off Honolulu, but was not allowed to enter the port, having some cases yet on board. By reason of this visitation she did not lay the usual time at the Hawaiian Islands, but head ed away for the Arctic, although by all for mer calculations she was much too early to enter Behring Strait Her course seemed to be urged by the stern necessity of the case. Upon arriving thus early at the North, Cap tain Willard found that the past winter in the Arctic had been the mildest and most open ever known, more resembling that of 1867 than any other. During January and February the ice in the Arctic basin broke up, and the sea was more or less open for two months, although in portions of Russian Siberia, toward the European frontier, the winter had been reported as un- usually severe. The year 1881 has been most remarkable one all over the world for the excessive atmospheric and climatic varia- tions which have existed in locally clrcum scribed regions. The Thomas Pope, thus favored, entered the Arctic unusually early in the season, long before the balance of the whaling fleet arrived, and found open water and whales quite plenty. She filled up full of oil, without competition from other whal- CTS to make whales shy, and, as others reach ed there to begin their seasons whaling. she sailed out southward through Behring Strait for oUr port with full and valuable cargo of oil and whalebone. Now her cargo will be shipped to New Bedford, and within fort night the captain, having communicated with inc owners at the East, will fit his vessel away for another Arctic cruise this season. By means of his return we were enabled to hear of the whale ships Vigilant and Mount Wollaston. and, sad as may appear the re- ports at first sight, those best informed and capable of judging are not without hope that the crews of the missing whalers may yet be found by the relief vessels on the shores of Wrangel Land, and the three dead bodies re- ported on the Vigilant prove to be only those of shipkeepers left in charge of the vessels when frozen in the ice.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-30

The extent of the emigration from saxony is indicated by the fact that during the first four months of the present year the amount paid into the savings banks of that little kingdom has been less by 2,O0O, 900 marks than for the corresponding period of 1880, and the amount withdrawn greater by 8, 7Oo,- GOO marks
Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-30
The spIrtt .of Exarrera1ion.

The spirit of exaggeration is necessary to perfect human happiness. No man has yet been found from the beginning of the world
 who could tell what happened to him with out increasing the size of the story every tune he told 1t. If he happens to have fallen out of the first story of his house and to have landed on hay mow uninjured, he makes the incident more interesting by historically re-
 moving the hay nov and substituting a hard
 brick sidewalk when he relates it to his neighbor- The next time he tells it he fell from the second story window and after that
 nothing will satisfy his own idea of the mo-
 mentousness of the event except to declare that he fell from the roof of a four-story dwelling into well seventy-ive feet deep. The old adventurers of the fifteenth century were fond of this kind of exaggeration. When they came back from the odd corners of the earth they told the most wondrous stories of what they had seen and heard and as there was no one to contradict them they were nat urally believed. One of the most curious of their yarns was lately met in musty vol ume. They visited Patagonia, and on their return to England declared that the inhabi tants were all dwarfs, about four feet high, and that they were characterized by the i'm mensity of their ears, which were frequently so long that when the people went to bed at night one ear served as mattrass, while the other was used as a blanket Thus 1t will be seen, without reference to our own personal experience, that to tell lie is one of the in alienable rights of human nature, without which life would become vanid and prosaic.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-30

Mahogany and rosewood ties for railroads would be s'quite too too" for these parts, but it is found cheaper to use these costly woods for sleepers on railroad now building in Mexico than to get other sleepers from the TTnifed States
Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-30
DIVIDENDS.

Bury all of our statesmen way out in the woods In great, deep, dark hole in the ground Where the owland the rat, Where the skunk and the bat, And the strsddle- bugs tumble around.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-30

It is significant that of forty thousand citi- zens of Boston who pay taxes this year on personal property all but six thousand have preferred to submit to the valuation of that property by the assessors rather than make their own returns. The policy of the assess ors is said to be to make an annual increase turn until they are induced to make 8 state ment.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-30
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Chief Justice Gray of Massachusetts is talked about in connection with the vacant chair of the late Justice Clifford
Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-30

Representative Edward s. Bragg expresses himself as very confident of the speedy formation of an independent party in Wis consin that will exercise very great infu- ence in the coming State elections. lie is able to see already Gan ostensible disrup- tion" of the Republican party of the State, and believes the new party, as the advocate of civil service reform, modification of the tariff, the improvement of the transportation laws, and the more effectual control of the giant monopolies, will march forward to vic- tory.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-30

At the opening of the Manchester (Eng- land) Assizes recently Lord Chief-Justice Coleridge expressed the opinion that the crime of perjury was on the increase. This conclusion had been forced upon him by his observations from the bench. After point ing out that if the oaths of witnesses could not be relied upon the courts themselves must become instruments of oppression, the Lord Chief Justice remarked that he should not think ill of law which made the possi- ble punishment of perjury heavier than it now is, for seven years of penal servitude might be totally inadequate punishment for the mischief which 8 perjurer might con- init
Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-30
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OLAIRyOYANT.

RERs. J. A. WRIGHT, ss Orange street. New MI Haven Conn. Advice given concerning busi- ness nerriage, lawsuits, etc. Disease located by look of hair Examinations of health. and Business aiffinas s1 Communications by lock of hair $2 r1<I951o 6o1rz Q n m. to pl n Rp15
Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-30
Earthquakes in June. From the London Times.

Our Geneva correspondent writes under date June 25: Prof Forgel, of Morges who keeps a record of Swiss earthquake shocks, and of all which occur elsewhere that come to his knowledge, has published an account of those of the present month, es- pecially of the considerable one felt in Switz- erland on the 9th. The region of this shock was the Lower Valais, Vaud, Geneva, the Pays de Gex, the district of Gruyere Neu- chatel, and part of Savoy. The extreme points at which it was felt were Sion, Ak les Baines, and the Valley of Joux in the Vaudois Jura. The shock was most in- tense in the eastern part of the valley of the Leman, and Prof. Forel places the centre of the disturbance on the Val dIlliez or in the Alpine chain which stretches from the Dent du Midi to Buet The earthquake consisted of several distinct oscillations-a slight one at 12:30 a. m., strong one eight minutes later, another slight one at 1:3O, and fourth and still feebler movement at 4:3O. The principal shock consisted of one undulatory movement and eight or ten lateral oscilla- tions. The direction of the disturbance as from the centre of circle toward its per iphery. From these indications Prof. Forel draws the conclusion that the shock was caused by 8 rupture of strata in the neigh borhood of the Dent du Midi, and that it ex- tended in concentric rings after the manner of water when stone is thrown into it. As the movement was
 
 minutes after it was felt in the Val d'Illiez it must have travelled at the rate of 300 to 500 metres a second, about the rate at which sound travels. The shock was accompanied in many places by subterranean noises, and although no material damage to buildings en- sued, it affected many people very painfully, causing feeling of nausea not unlike sea sickness. Prof. Forel concludes his observa9 tions by remarking that we seem to be enter ing another earthquake period. For the three months between March and the begin ming of June the only shock of importance recorded was one in Croatia, region where they are of frequent occurrence, but between the 10th and 20th of this month no fewer than six shocks occurred-on the 7th, St South Aliras, in Algeria on the 9th, very violent one at Van, in Armenia (on the same day was felt the shock in Switzerland and Savoy just deseribed) on the 11th, a violent shock at Chios; on the 14th light shock in the Bernese Oberland on the 18th, 8 smart one on the Val de Rug, Canton Neu- ohoka
Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-30
A Mexican IiOJeI.

lCcrrespondence of the St. Louis G1obe-C ocratl |
 The Mexican hotel furnishes lodging that Is all. You engage your room by the day or month, and you get your bed and toilet Of course we ring for the ice water, and the waiter brings water without ice; we ask if we can't get ice, and are told we can if we send out and buy it. Before going to bed my chum bethinks me of his physic, and asks for warm water; the waiter can't get us any warm water, because the only place to get it is at the bathing establishment, and that is closed at $50. We need spoon and send boy for one; he returns and reports that the restau- tant is closed, and the cafe wouldn't trust him with spoon. I am going down to the cafe when the proprietor, a very polite Frenchman, says: ''I am very sorry to give you the trouble to come down stairs; am very glad to lend you anything in my -estab- llshmeht, but have lived too long in this country to take the word of one of these fel- lows for spoon"
 The force of the hotel consists of a sad looking clerk, who writes the names of the guests in chalk on a blackboard melan- eholy custodian of the keys, two barefooted Comanche boys for general utility, and two walters on each floor. It is owned by the 1torhes, who are the richest family in Mexi- co, They paid $13O,O GOO for the property, and make $40, ,OOO to $5O,OOO a year from it. They own the whole block, the Hotel Bazar, the Hotel San Carlos, and whole blocks of the best property in the city. There are two of them and their fortunes are estimated at $20. 900, 900 apiece
Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-30

A commendable law against the adultera- tion of articles of food and medicine went into effect in Illinois on the first of the cur rent month. It prohibits the mixing with any food or drink ingredients that make it injurious to health or depreciate it's value, that no person shall offer such adulterated articles for sale; and the law prohibits also injurious adulteration of medicines. As to adulteration with articles not of a harmful character, it provides that the true names of articles mixed with the food or drink shall be stamped on the package, or that the pur- chaser shall be informed by the seller what ingredients have been mixed. The penalty for the first offence is fine of from $25 to $200; for the second of from $1O0 to $2o0, or confinement in jail for not more than six months: for the third offence fine of from $500 to $1 ,o00 and Imprisonment for from one to five years.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-30

American silk goods seem to be apprecia- ted. During the fiscal year just ended the importation of foreign silks was $50. 501, $50, against $50, 596, 5o9 for the preceding year, a small decrease in figures, but very significant when taken in connection with the increased business of the country. The chief single article of import is in dress silks, in which the American manufacturers are not yet ready to compete with the foreign makers. In ribbons, handkerchiefs, and the lighter articles of silk, the American manufacturers are rapidly coming to the front. The fact that only $53, ,0e0 of handkerchiefs were im- ported last year shows how the American goods are meeting the home demand. In the matter of embroideries, mantiilas and vest ings, the total value of imported goods in six years hardly exceeds $5,O0O. American sewing silks and braids very nearly monopo- Izs the home market The growth of the home manufactures may be inferred from the fact that the import of raw silks has in- creased from about $5, ,50o, 900 in 1575-6 to over $10, 5OO, 900 in 1sso-1.
 The London 5tGadard points out diff. cuIty of legal character in the way of the new Tichborne claimant which it fears will
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1881-01-16
rh, rr.a,y Vvi,h th,,.

The result Of thelabors OF the Chi
nese Commission according 10 what Is
regarded AS ;he mon reliable authority
yet given, has been more gratifying than
there was reason h expect It would
prove. 1t appear that two treaties
were effected with tie Chinese Govern
menti one with respect 10 the sub
ject of immigration 70 this country, and
the other relating sdelS to questions OF
commerce. That nlating to immigra,
tion. however. Is the only one In which
the MASSES OF the people have fen a
deep and profound iuter>st. at,l accord
ing TO tho statements Of the New York
Heratd's Shanghai correspondent, the
regulation OF Asiatir Immigration 10
this country by the provisions Of the
treaty now rests With our owl Govern
men.. and it only remains Il be seen
whether the Congress and President OF
the United States will take tlp necessary
steps for the prompt suppres,fon oI the
evil which there has been SC long a lust
cause of complaint. ...-...
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1881-01-16

The Senate will lose its .'watch doc
OF the Treasury" if Mr.. Edmunds
should go On the Supreme Bench.
Don't you know" said Washington
lobbyist, "that. when that old cuss
comes in the Senate and sets down and
lets his right eyebrow drop down about
three-qusrters Of an inch lower than the
left, hell is always to pay? He is the
meanest old cuss about obj. citing to
everything, anyway; especially anything
with money in it; but when he hangs
down his right eyebrow he'll object to
the Lords prayer" Bf.
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1881-01-16

SAYS the !Siirer State: Some Sho.
shone Indians brought fve fne deer
here on to.day's passenger train. They
We're taken eff and laid upon the plat
form. and. M might be expected. at.
tracted a good many Indians, and the
Indiana attracted a good many passen
gers. As the train was starting. a bomb
exploded on the truck. and horse at.
taehed to the City Bakery wagon started
off on the run, upsettiug the wagon.
The passengers thought the Indians had
shot somebody. and the citizens thought
the passengers were shooting at each
other and all wero more or Iess excited
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1881-01-16
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The Carson Tribune says the faraous
Mademoisselie Aibern Combination will
give one Of ihei- chaste and Unique per.
fofmAnccs at Moore's Theat~s next Sat.
urday evening. Mile. Albern 10 de.
scribed a. tho "handsomrst formed
woman on earth" n. B.-=No ladies
admitted. Front seats reserved for
bald-headed gentlemen. tits expected
that there will be a great many meet
iues of Legislative Committees next Sat.
urdnS evening. It is annonac.d that
the show will be an eIhibitiou OF vo.
luptuousness and beauty. mid sneh an
announcement cannot Iaii 70 draw TO
the house an aggregation OF tire best
men in Catson, including the ucmbefs
OF the White Pine. EIko. Eureka and
Lander delegations. who are all n,en of
culture and nsthstic tastr. aud take a
special delight in statuary. particularly
il it is nlive. .fa'fo ...... .-.
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1881-01-16

One rarely NESTS a bit OF more touch
ins romance than is found in the fol,
lowing story. that comes from Wales:
Years ago some Welsh miners, in ez-
pluring an old pit that hal long been
closed. found the body OF young man
dressed in fashion long out OF date.
The peculiar action OF the air of the
mine had been such ms to preserve the
body so perfectly that IT appeared asleep
rather than dead. The miners were
puzzled Ht this circumstance; no ono in
the district had been MISSED within
their remembrance. and ut last Il wns
resolved to bring tho oldest inhabitant-
an old lady past her eigbtieth year. who
had lived single in the village the
whole Of her life. On being brought
into the presence OF the body a strange
scene occurred; the old lady fell on tho
corpse, kissed aud addressed Il by every
term Of loving endearment, couched ia
the language of by.gone generation.
He was her ouly love: she knew that he
had not forsakeu her. The old woman
and the young man had been beirothed
sixty years before. The lover had dis
spp' ared mystrriously, and she had
Kept faithful during that long interval.
Time had stool still with the dead man,
but Lad left its mark on the living
woman. The miners who were present
were rough set, but very gentle. and.
with fearful eyes, they fenov, Il the lady
to her house. and the saae night her
faithful spirit r.joiued that Of her long.
lost hover Etehdng~. ?