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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-05-24
A SUSPICIOUS LETTER.
Tive Men Who CLAIM to be Cattle Thieves
rs it q Job to Liberate Coombs.


Yesterday the following letter wa
received at this office from Reno:
RENO, Nevada. 1881, May IA.
To THE EDITOR OF THE CARSON AP
PEAL: DIR Sir
Please insert few lines in your pa.
per and oblige me for bennifit of a poore
unfortunate man Mr.. John Coombs
believe is his name on or about the fit.
teenth or sixteenth Of March sold him
sixteen head of cattle or rather to his
wife for the sum Of one hundred and
twelve Dollars Gold Coine and also
gave him my concent to use my name
in any way he mite see fit Gather YER
hal or other wife and my Pardner also
sold her ten head for the sum Of sixty
Dollars Gold Come and there was one
small one that he threw in which mad
in all eleven head that he sold her
which made twenty-seven in all we
hath sold her, and seeing by the p !perS
that he is under arrest for steeling those
Cattle make this statements for his
benefit for the simple reason that we
t'1C wv FttA tlVo liIdt ID SuItJ IL tlIcIc Is
any guilt attached to any one and not to
him as we will probably be beyond
your reach bef,re this reaches you, is
the reason of my taking those steps and
you will see by the bill of sail that we
gave to her that my statements is cor
rect in every respect. l make this
for the bennett of him as
he has been wrounged in this matter
and hoping that this will wright the
CRATE wrong that we have done him we
are willing to submit this to print in
the cOlumbs Of your neuse paper and
wish also that other papers will copy
the same for the beniiit Of those that
have been SO sourly wrounged as he has
been for he is Innocent of the charge in
every respect as ills will bee left in the
hands of an agent it will not bee mailed |
Or number Of days after we leave this |
Dlace and We will be entirely beyond |
your reach. I will also write letter |
o him stating what we have done i'm
lis behalf and hoping that this will bee
he means of setting an innocent man
rec and at liberty we will submit this
IS testimony in his behalf. Very re-
pectfuly yours,
e.. NJ. WILLIAMS.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-05-24

The grasshoppers are devastating the
crops about Reno, aud are said to be
more v0racious than every known be-
fore.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-05-24

Our evening contemporary Is In
formed that we expect to order some
new type as soon as its bills due this
office for job work are settled.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-05-24

The rule has been established at Win
ston's that when a man plays markers
he is paid in markers.
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STOCKS

S1OChS
40 Ophir-s ~.
135 Hexican-11A
60 Gould and Curry
500 Best and Belcher-13s
$50 California-120
800 Savage-3a
12O Con. Virginia-2 IS
4l0 Chollar-245
465 Potosi-29h
700 Hale and Norcross-3 s.
60 Crown Point-2 80
20 Yellow Jackets 30
400 Imperial-2O
% Ken'uck-l75
2lO Beloher-2 IS
600 Sierra Nevada-15t
so Utah-94
200 Rnllion-6O
10 Exchequer-1 So
100 Overman-l %
255 Union C"n.-12s
So Alta-3 80
100 Curtis-5
$40 Andes-2
80 Ward-2
800 Scorpi"n-71 IS Q
900 Jnstice-aO
S30 B. nton-65
100 Golden Gate-2
500 New Wells Fargo-5Oc
$50 n Elk Utah-95
EVENING BOARD.
10 Northern Belle-2l
$50 DAY. %
400 Argenta-3Oc
100 Wales-13
55 Bodie-6b
100 Albinn-345
1000 Holmes-lOc
100 Bnl~.r-3 O5
200 S. B. ,die-oO
$50 Mnno-2 20
1850 s. Bulwer-25
100 Summit-4Oc
$50 North Noonday-1
100 Oro-&5
$50 Tiptop--4
175 s. Kin9-224
2lO Head Center-l4
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e.. NJ. WILLIAMS,
WILLIAM II STEVENS.
mark

The letter WAS shown to the Sheriff,
! who said Coombs had received one of a
similar purport. He did no believe
either letter Was genuine, but simply a
little job put up by Coombs' friends
Although the APPEAL letter bore the
date Of May 18th, it Was not received
until May 22nd. The matter, however,
will be more fully Investigated and Mr..
Coonbs can depend upon getting a fair
show.
COOMBs' STATEMENT.
Yesterday Coombs sent for AL AP-
PEAL reporter and showed him letter
from the same parties about in the same
tenor as the one published. He said
that he received permission from
Williams to use his name and did so
because he owned considerable money
and wanted to protect himself. He
called the reporters attention to the
fact that Duffy testified that his cattle
were on the ranch at IL o'clock on the
morning Of April ist and his hired man
corrOborated him. Barnes, the livery
man at Dayton, testified that Coombs
brought the cattle to his place on March
3lst and kept them two days. Neal
MOhr testified that he met Coombs ON
the road between Empire and the
Mound House with q drove of cattle
which he (Coombs) said were Dufy's
stock. This statement the prisoner
characterizes as a "black lie."
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HEADQUARrERs ON CARSON u.
SOUTH 9, arsAa

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The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1881-07-13

AN EARTHQUAKE HoRRoR.-M.
de Chivry, q Paris wine merchant,
who VAS travelling in Scio when
The earthquake occurred, has
written q vivid description of the
catastrophe in which his wife and
four children were killed. He
himself escaped with his youngest
dhild and a nurse. He writes
that the first shock was by
far the most violent. The house
oscilated from its very fopnda-
zion: the piano, probably one of
the upright instruments, tumbled
over against the window and a
heavy clock was upset into the
fireplace. A second shock brought
the house down, crushing to death
the four children and their mo-
ther, and breaking their fathers
arm. N. de Chivry, with the
nurse and infant passed the nightin
the cemetery. The following morn
ing he could find no trace OF the
house or of the street on which It
stood. He remembers being more
deeply impressed with horror by
the shrieks Of the people and the
believing Of the cattle than by
the crash Of the falling walls and
the dull roar Of the earth. His
reason so far deserted him for
moment that be fancied the
screaming inhabitants were en-
deavoring 10 kill him. but the
sight of his child and the nurse
restored his mental balance.
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gsIsetsb. gtorp.
1 COLD DAY FOR ABBATUCCI.

Daily, said Mrs. Dalrymple 10
her husband as be was perusing the
columns of an esteemed contem-
porary, What: is the news this
morning? Who is married ? Who
is dead? Has Fertsel got his
divorce ?
Hush, Tillie,' said Dahlgreen'
and he read a second time this
local hrevity:
Abbatucci Tambourini, an 1tal-
ian peanut vender in Mulberry
street, was yesterday assaulted
by Poindexter Ryan, who upset
his stand and robbed him of 1922.
Ryan was arrested and will be
tried this morning for the larceny
and assault.
ltso happened that Mr.. Dalrym-
pie sat among the spectators IL
court that day when the case was
called. He had a sublime respect
not uncommon among those
unfamiliar with it's workings-for
the administration Of justice, and
be expected confidently to see
Tambourini's goods restored to
him and Ryan sent to deep
dungeon cell. He listened, and
this is what he heard.
Counsel for Tambourini, rising,
said ...
lift may please the Court, the
prisoner at the bar is charged with
aggravated and unprovoked as
sault upon my client but, in con-
! sequence Of the repeal of the
statute of 1871 by the new general
law of l873-an error, as your
Honor will remember, until after
the negatory act had passed both
houses of the Legislature and OBJ
tained the Governors signature
there is no law covering this case.
You will find, however, in an act
passed in 1943, and entitled, AN
Act to prevent mock auctions and
to secure efficiency in the Nation
al Guard q clause in the second
section of the third amendment
which bears directly upon this
matter. 1t has been held Drown
Us. Brown, 25, IS, Maguiness j.
that an assault upon the person OF
an alien is a misdemeanor. Though
Abbott Gin Blake rs. Snoogles,
40, II, 49, held otherwise. In
an act passed-in 1885, entitled An
Act to withhold water franchises
from the Union Ferry Company
for ninety nine years. it was pro
vided that where robbery follows
assault, the power OF the Judge
shall be discretionary. But where
they are coincident, his power Is re-
stricted to: "A fine Of $50, or more
or less, or six months imprlson
ment, or more, or less, or ooth' OF
neither And we find that at'com
mon law the same rule holds
Esto quod esse viderls. | admit
that in the present condition O.
, the statute it is impossible to say
whether an offence Of this nature
is, technically, a misdemeanor
However, it must be clear tha
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another leg, which that excellent
woman promptly did. The usual
suit for $4,000 was brought, and
the otel,keeper, fearing that the
u0toriety of the suit would iniure
his hotei, was glad TO compromise
Oy paying IS O0O~ BY this time, it
is understood, Mrs. M'Ginnis was
willing 10 retire from business, bat
her husband had set his heart on
making $4,000, and like 4 good
wife, she consented 10 break some
more bones. 1t should be said
that there was very little pain at
tending Ii fracture Of any one Of
the !ady's bones, and that she did
notin the least mind the monotoDy
OF lying i'll bed while the broken
bones knitted together. There
can, therefore. be, no charge Of
cruelty brought against the hus-
band. Indeed. shc herself entered
with hearty goodwill into the
scheme Of making 4 living with
her bones, and would 60 out to
break 4 leg with as much cheer
fuLness as if she was going to q
theatre. In March, 1872, Mrs.
Wilkins-hitherto known as Mrs.
NJ Ginnis-walked into an open
trench in the street in ST.. Louis.
and broke arother leg. This time
the suit brought by Mr.. Wilkins
against the city did not succeed,
and the inquiries which were put
on foot as to the antecedents
Of the Wilkinses fairly fright
ened them out Of the city.
They turned up q month later IN
Detroit, where the weather was
still cold, and much snow had re-
Gently fallen. There were still
$4,000 to be made before the in
dustrious pair would have the
whole Of the desired $4,000, and
it WAS decided that Mrs. Wilkins
who had changed her name to
Mrs. Baker-should fall on the icy
pavement and break both arms.
This. it was estimated, would be
worth at least $4,000 and it was
hoped that the subsequent judi
cious breakage Of two legs on the
premises Of a Canadian railway
would bring in $4,000 more, after
which the Bakers intended to re-
tire from business. Early one
morning Mr.. Baker took his wife
out and had her fall On a nice
piece Of ice, where she broke both
arms. Unfortunately, she fell
more heavily than was necessary,
and in addition broke her neck
and instantly expired. The grief
Of Mr.. Baker naturally knew no
bounds, and be sued for $4,000 all
of which hereco7ered. He had thus
made s59,5OO by the aid of his
fragile wife, and demonstrated
that, as a source Of steady income,
u woman who breaks easily is al
most priceless. Still, nothing,
could console him for the loss of
his beloved partner, and he is to-.
day q lonely and unhappy man,
New York TEmes>
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a PRICELESS WOMAN.

The late Mrs. Baker for that
was her latest name-was not so
fragile that she could not be han
dlcd by a careful man. bat still a
very light blow would usually
break her. She was very proud
Of her fragiIity. and by its aid her
husband managed to amass com,
Portable fortune within three
years after their marriage. She is
perhaps the only fragile woman
On record Of whom II can be said
that her whole value consisted in
her fragility but, as her story
shows, her fragiIity was the sole
capital invested in her husbands
business. In January, 1870, Mrs.
Baker-then q single woman, as
to whose maiden name there is
some uncertainty-Was married to
Mr.. W heelwright-James 6. Wheel
wright, of Worcester, Mass. Her
husband married her on account
of her welI-known fragllity, but
he. treated her with such kindness
that iu the whole course OF their
married life he never once broke
her, even by accident. In Feb.
ruary, 1870, the WhceIwrighss re-
moved to Utica, n. Y, and one
day NJ. Wheelwright took his
wife to the railway station: and
had her break her leg in a small
hole in the platform. He at once
sued the railway company for
$4,000, being the value set by
himself on his wife's leg, and ten
days afterwards accepted $4,000,
as i compromise, and withdrew
the suit. The WheeIrjghts left
Utica in Juue 1870, and in the
following August the dutiful Mrs.
Wheelwright, who now called her.
self Mrs. Thomas, broke her other
leg in a hole in the platform Of
the railway station at Plttsburg.
Again her husband sued the rail
way company for $4,000, and
compromised for $500. The leg
was mended successfully, and in
July, 1871: we find the Thomases,
now passing under the name Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Smiley, at Gin
cinnati, where Mr.. Smiley, after
long searching, discovered piece
Of ragged and uneven sidewalk,
upon which his wife made a point
of falling and breaking her right
arm. This time the city was sued
for 5000, and Mr.. Smiley prov"
ed that his wife was q school
teacher by profession, and that
the breaking Of her arm rendered
it Impossible for her to teach, for
the reason that she could not
WELD rod or even a slipper. The
city paid the $4,000, and the
SmiIey's having by honest indus
trv thus made S26, 900, removed to
Chicago, and entered their names
on the hotel register as Mr.. ana
Mrs. M'Ginncs, Of Portland. Me.
On the second day after their
arrival at the hotel, Mr.. M'Ginnes
found an eligible place on the
piazza for Mrs. M'Ginnes to break
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JOB PRLg"TGV'G

TERMS CASH.
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We should always DO the best
we can in the circumstances in
which We are placed, not idly
dreaming Of the great things we
would do if they were different.
Those who would do much else
where accomplish little any
where.
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poetrpp.
THE AMATEUR FARMER.

THE AMATEUR FARMER.
dreamt Of a beautiful time
When the world shall happy be!
When the elephants and hyenaS
Shall blossom on every tree;
When tamariuds and potatoes
Shall cease their dreadful roar,
When turnip trees shall blossom
In the garden for ever more.
dreamt of 8 great republic
When the. people shall all go West,
Sow plums and reap tomatoes
In the land they love the best;
When pig iron and molasses
Shall bloom on every hill.
And chickens low in the barnyard,
While gooseberries toll at the mill.
I'm weary Of seeing the cabbage
Handle the rake and the hoe:
I'm weary of watching and waiting
For the grassbopper bush to grow;
lcIg for the time when spinach
Shall cope with bread and milk;
When hens shall lay potatoes,
Aud horses spin raw silk.
OH sweet we're the vanished hours
When wandered down the glen,
And wreathed my brow with tomatoes,
Or plucked the ripened hen;
When the donkey twined up the treliis,
And the cucumber chirped in the grass;
And the sweet potato whiStled
To its mate in the mountain pass.
But gone sse the days of childhood,
And manhood's dreams are mine;
Yet long for the by-gone hours,
AS / sit meath this Turkish vine.
Oh! wreath your blossoms about me
And soothe my aching breast;
While gooseberry plain lively MARBLES
And lulls me into rest.
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covers this case. We may be per
mitted to amend the complaint by
substituting in tor at mean
while it may stand pro torn'd.'
:Theu We except, and reserve
right to appeal
Exception noted and right to
appeal granted
We said Tambourini's counsel,
Except to the exception, and re-
servo right to appeal from the ap
peal
so ordered said the Judge. i
do not believe that there is any
statute DECISION governing the
case. Mon lur, sed cruz. Judge
O'Reardon, on the day before his
impeachment, held that redress
for injuries to the person, where
accompanied by robbery OF pea
nuts, comes under the act Of 1911,
entitled: AN act to protect INA
riners on the high seas, and to Sc
cure minors pending the probate
of contested Wills In the Z3d
clause, which relates 10 codicils,
it is said: The law does not pre-
suppose violence when none ex-
lists. But evidence on this point
is only admissible in quo war;
ra77to proceedings, and then may
be stricken from the record on
motion ofopposing COUNSEL Story,
in Muldoon Us. Gilhooly, 2, 40 S. h.,
holds that peanuts being contra
band, trade dollars must be &C.
cepted in payment, though it is
true that this is not altogether
analogous to the present case.
Mems sana in c0pore san0 | so
held in Percival rs. The Pythago.
ras Art Association, but was over
ruled. There is another Judge on
the bench of the Appellate Court
now, so | will risk the decision
again
IF your Honor please said
Tambourini's counsel, Ryan is a
bigamist.'
'O! said the Judge, that alters
the case entirely. Justum ct ten-
acem propositl vlrum7.'
This is collateral evidence,' re-
sponded Ryan's counsel. Tam
bourini is judgment.debtor.
What standing Can we have in
conrt? Besides, be is lltlgous
person, and is defendant in the
case of Sam Yong, Wah Lee ct
al. Us. Tambourini, in the matter
of the Mulberry Street Empire
Laundry
Can you prove it?' asked the
Judge.
Your Honor, it is a matter of
record
Then l don't see that Tam
bourini has any case against
Ryan
There was a brief consultation
between Tambourini and his
counsel. The latter, rising, said
= The case, your Honor turns
Upon whether the laundry is in
corporated. In Magoon Us. Apga-,
Burke Z to s, Radclif's Reports,
it was held that the articles of in
corporation are necessary to the
suit.
Relying on the decision of WAL
Ter, in McGlannahan rs. McGlab-
berty, 1881, under the statute Of
frauds, according to the act OF
1869, entitled: AN Act to pre-
empt homesteads and reclaim
waste lands we rest our case
The Judge wrote on a visiting
card: will be with you directly
and handed it down from the
bench. He then rendered this
decision
Ryan is to be released pending
the framing. Of a new complaint,
the preseat' one being defective.
Tambourini is sent to the House
of Detention till the case is called
up again in the August term,
Ryan is to hold the peanuts. The
Court stands adjourned.'
"A cold day for Abbatucci: mur-
INJURED Mr.. Dairy mple. sadly, as
be left the halls of justice and got
into bobtailed car.-Ea1nest
Harvler, In Puck.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1881-07-13

Learning without knowledge IS
but bundle of prejudice a num-
ber ofinerJ matter set before the
threshold of the understanding, 10
the exclusion Of common sense.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1881-07-13
AN APOLOGY

is needed because / have taken YOU
from New York at a time when ali
that is fashionable has fed. Next
month I will tell you what is going
on at Saratoga. 1t present, life at
Rich6eld Springs is charming enough
and / wish my readers were all here
to enjoy it likewise. Since last season
tue American House has been virtual
y rebuilt by Mir. Welch, Of the New
York St. Nicholas. Walls are newly
papered and painted, floors recarDeted,
beds and bedding fresh aud clean.
The old kitchen aud laundry are de-
noIishcd and new ones are located at
the end Of q wing two hundred feet
loag Adjoining is the dining room,
while leading to it is grand hall If
teen feet wide by ore hundred and
fifty long. The old bar room is taken
from the piazza and instead is wine
and reading room an Intermediate
space, formerly used as sort of gen
eral receptacle, is DOW a pretty park:
while for the little people a 'childreu's
ordinary" is set apart, where; as a
cunning idea, the walls are covered
with successive pictures aod nursery
rhymes so prettily done that grown
up child might spend hours in study
ing them. Lucy CARTER.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1881-07-13

Apparent evil so often turns out
to be positive good, that we should
be very slow to condemn an oc-
currence even though it seem to
have 10 cheerful side.
Daily Republican., 1881-04-09
R1audsomc Postal Car.

The Jack son * Sharp Company ship
ped three very handsome postal cars last
night to Atlanta. Ga., Ivy way Of Rich
mond Va, for the Atlanta and Char
lottr air line railway. They or" named
respectively thr IhGraugr kry West
and Toccoa. The inside istini~h"d with
every moiern conveyance and with
safety lamps from the Adams \ West
lake Manufacturing Company Tn"
Win>lo" sataty cab stove ha, ai~o been
provided Underneath thi, ,lnyr Is a
boiler kept constantly tulI OF water,
that should an accident occur the water
will Immediately drown ont tit" fire
The Company have nearly finished a
number Of magnificent Wagner ~irrp-
iug ears for the New York Central rmI-
Daily Republican., 1881-04-09
Died this Week.

There were % deaths this week, rs
compared with l6 and . deaths for the
corresponding weeks of the years 1880
and 1879. The deaths by wards was as
follows: First, .; Second, | Third,
:; Fourth, 1; Fifth, 2; Sixth, /; ScT-
enth, 1 Eighth, >; Tenth, ); Eleventh,
,. OF those who died twenty-five
were native born and WAS born in Ire
land. II were white and black; 13
were males and 10 females. The c"ro-
ncr had 3Cases. ; 3pcrsons were brought
here for intermcnt and were sent away
for tho same purpose. The causes of
death were: Accident, atalectasia
pnlmonum, ; cancer, |; catarrhal
Group, |; consumption, : dropsy, ! :
general debility, |; hydroprrr rordium,
heart disease. ! ; measles, menin-
gifts, | Old age, /. paralysis, ! scar
let fever, ! varioOid, l.