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Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1881-08-12
Boise City to Quartsburg.
Route No. 142.1O4.

The history of this route-Boise
City to Quartzburg, ldaho--for the
last eight years is quite interesting,
although the methods exemplified in it
are now familiar. Under the adver.
tisemcnt for the term 1918, this
route, which was substantially the
same as now except that the "speed"
was only J miles per hour, was awar-
ded to William De Lacey, whose bid
was $4,000. De Lacey failed five
months after the beginning of his term,
and the department went up the list
for a contractor. Fifteen bidders
would have nothing to do with the
work. These were the palmy days of
straw-bidding. At last the route,
which had been let to DR.. Lacey for
$1,000, was awarded to the sixteenth
on the list, A. d. Smith, $l0,545. In
the meantime the powerful combina-
ton of Barlow & Huntley carried the
mails for two months at $4,000 per
year. Then Smith began service and
continued through his term. 1t is DIFF
ficult to avoid the suspicion that Smith
and De Lacey were merely the agents
of Barlow in the whole transaction.
Smiths contract term ended on June
80, 1878 Before that time the route
had been advertised for the ensuing
term. the record il as follows:
Route No. 142, l04--Boise City to Quartz
burg, Idaho, three intermediate stations.
Distance--51 miles.
Servce-Seven times a week
Time-l2 hours, or Al miles per hour
Bond with Bid-$9,0 900
l. A. Al. -
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1881-08-12

IT the contract had been awarded at
all it would have been given to Nor
ris. Bnt it was decided that the route
should be advertised again because
there must be different time schedule
1t had been advertised for Il hours it
was decided that the schedule ought
to be IA hours in Summer and Is hours
in Winter. Was it necessary to wait
several months and advertise again
solely on account of this ehange? Gen.
Brady thought so. His opinion was
worth something to the Barlow party,
and was decidedly Improbable to the
Government, for the postponement of
the advertisement gave Barlow &
Huntley three months temporary SER
vice at Sl0,545 per year, the sum paid
to Smith up to that time. The route
was again advertised, with the follow
ing result:
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1881-08-11
p E D / G X E E :

"LORD WELLINGTON is a dark brown,
stands 10 hands inches high, and Is rising
years old. Lord Wellington was sired by
Youngs imported draught horse Young, Wei
lingtoH. Young Wellington imported from
Scotland by William Young, of Erin; Is of pure
Clydesdale Dreed, heavy draught, stands l64
hands high, Is Of q bright bay color, and pos
sesses superior strength and action. He was
bought OF Mr.. Samuel Clark, of Manswarie, Kill
burchan, who Is W II known as perhaps The
largest exporter of horses in the country,
Young Wellington being the one hundred and
sixth exported by him for breeding purposes.
Young Wellington was got by Old Wellington
that stood 10 hands inches high, and was dis
tinguished for his great strength and action,
and at the age of two years was awarded tbs
first prize at the Ayrshire Agricultural Show.
Old Wellington was got by Young Clyde, that
at four years Of are was awarded by the Lothian
Agricultural Society the first prize, OF the value
of E25 Stg. In 1852 he was awarded the first
prize o. E25 at HaddingtoD, and III the follow
ing yea, 1858, he was again awarded the hrst
prize by the same Society, and the third prize
by the Highland Society. In 1854 he was also
awarded the prize of 40 sovereigns by the Dal-
keith Agricultural Society. Young Clyde was
got by the celebrated horse Plofer, bred by Mr..
Howden, Stonelaws. North Berwick, that was
sold for exportatioR when three years old
at large price. His grandsire, Muircock,
gained number OF prizes In Ayrshire and In
kenfrewshire. His great grandsire, Old Clyde,
was awarded nine first prizes one OF which was
the first prize at Mid Calder of f40 Stg., at Gas-
gov, open to Great Britain Wellngton's dam
stands II hands high; has been exhibited ten
times at Agricultural Fairs, and been awarded 3
first paees and one second Lord Wellington's
dam, by Old Sir William Wallace; grand dam,
by Ceur DE Lion; great grand dam by Old st.
Lawrence Tippin, Laprairie, Quebec. He took
first prize as the best Canadian draught AZ the
Dufferin Show, at shelburne, 1878, and first
prizes at Shelburne Spring Shows in 1879. He
also took a prize at the shelburne Spring Show,
In Iss0 ap15-n
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1881-08-11
DELINQUENT SALE.
wild Goose Mining Company.

Location of principal place OF business, Win
nemucca, Nevada.
Location OF works, Mount Rose Mining Dis
trict, Humboldt County, state of Nevada.
NOTICE There are delinquent upon the
following described stock, on account Of assess
ment No 2, levied on the 9th day Of April.
1851, the several amounts set opposite the
names Of the respective shareholders, as fol-
laws-
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1881-08-11

TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION:
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1881-08-11

CITY BRE w RY!
Second Street, Winnemucca, Nevada.
JOHN DIEHL. ......... PROPKlETOk.
beg leave to inform the citizens OF Winnie
mucca that am now established in the BREW.
ING BUSINESS, and will Keep constantly on
hand q frst-class article OF
PURE LAGER BEER!
Made from the best quality of malt and hops
Lager Beer Delivered Daily
To customers in all parts of the town OF Win
nemucca.
fBOrders from points along the railroad or
elsewhere will be filed without delay.
f1ySend orders to
JOHN DIEHL, City Brewery.
Winnemucca, May II, 1881. ml4-u
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1881-08-11

And In accordance with law and an order of
the Board of Directors, made on the 3d day of
August, 1881, 50 many shares of each parcel
of such stock as may be necessary will be sold
at public auction, at L. Renhart x Cos Store,
winnemucca, Nevada, on WEDNESDAY, the
7th day Of September, 1851, at the hour of
2 o'clock y. ii. of said day, to pay said delin-
quent assessment thereon together with the
costs OF advertising and expenses of the sale.
j. II. JOB, Secretary.
Office: At f. Reinhart X Co.'S store, Winnie
mucca, Nevada. au6-td
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1881-08-11

HNT n Yourselves by making money
NIIt when golden chance Is offered
thereby always keeping poverty
from your door. Those who always take al
vantage OF the good chances for making money
that are offered, generally become wealthy
while those who do not improve such chances
remain in poverty. We want many mea,
women, boys and girls 10 work for rs right u
their own localities The business9wil pay
more than ten times ordinary wages. We fur
nish an expensive outfit and all that you need,
tree. No one who engages fails to make money
very rapidly. You can devote your whole tine
20 the work, or only your spare moments. nau
Information and all that 70 needed, ssnt ffge.
Addrers gTINSON q CO,
al POstaasA ralna
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1881-08-11
ST. NICHOLAS HOTEL.
PARADISE, NEVADA.

The proprieters of the st. Nicholas take pleas
ure in announcing that the above favorite.
Hotel has been handsomely furnished and reno
waited throughout and it has now first-class ac-
commodations for families and others
TINE TAIL
Will be kept supplied with every article the.
markets afford, prepared by the most experi-'
enced connoisseurs.
THE ROOMS
Are large and airy, and the Beds clean and
comfortable.
THE BAR
Will be found stocked with the choicest brands
of
Wines, Liquors, Cigars and Lager,
At prices to suit the times.
Persons visiting Paradise, who desire good
Meal, Drink Cigar or Bed, are referred to the
ST. NICHOLAS HOTEL.
fE The travelling public respectfully in
formed that, although the st. Nicholas is not
the Stage Depot no better accommodations can
be had at any Hotel in the country.
CRAWFORD & ABEL.
Paradise, May 80, 1881. my30tf
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1881-08-11
PRACTICAL WATCHMAKER
N ELo Law,

A. N + L q q Av,
Practical Watch and Clock Maker, in the "Old
! Postofiee Building" Bridge Street, Winnie
mucca,
Will give prompt attentSen to the Repairing Of
Watches and Clocks
All work guaranteed
ordsrs from abroad will receive prompt at
tention4 myi9.tf
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1881-08-11
LORD WELLINGTON {:
This Celebrated Stallion
WILL STAND FOR THE SEASON,
AT MARZEN'S RANCH.

Near Lovelock Station, Humboldt county New.
The proprietor, JOSEPH MARZEN, will fur
nish pasturage tos mares at his ranch at reas-
onab4s rates.
Terms for the season, s2O.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1881-08-11
THE SILVER STATE.
PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING tSUNDAYS
EXCEPTED) BY
j. j. HILL Il CO.

TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTIONS:
One copy, one year, by mail SO 90.
One copy six months, by mail ........ 90.
One copy, three months, by mail. ...... So
Delivered BY Carrier. s5 Cents per week,
RATES OF ADVERTISING:
One Square 40 lines) first insertion. s2 20.
Zach subsequent insertion, per square 90.
A liberal reduction to regular advertisers.
AGENT
c. W. CRANE, 3lS Pine street and 10 Leides
dorff street, Room 80, San Francisco.
GEO. NJ Morr, Sacramento, California
b. F. RILEY is authorized to collect and re-
ceipt for subscriptions to the SILVER STATE in
Paradise Valley.
H. G. MARKER Is authorized to collect and
receipt for subscriptions to the SILVER STATE at
Big Meadows.
A. GIxTz is authorized to collect and receipt
Cor subscriptions to the SILVER STATE in Spring
City.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-07-07
The Danger to Roads.

Our public roads are in L peril
Gus situation. They have to be
worked at frequent intervals to keep
them at all psssable, and the pros
pect now is that work will be so
long delayed on most of them that
the bottoms will fall out. The peo-
pie are slow to take hold OF tue new
law. In fact, as WE said when it
was first promulgated. there is lit
tie to take hold Of The law is
cumbersome and lacks in ways and
means of doing what it proposes.
We have little doubt that good
roads could be gotten out of
that system--but We have less
doubt that better system could
have been devised. As it is, it is
the only law we have, and to save
ourselves from sinking into bottom
less mud holes, we had better make
the best of it. Good roads are
above all other things needed in
Giles. We'd like to get them by
the most direct and least expensive
methods if possible; but if we can't
get them one way, let's try another,
and get them by some means and
by all means. The CITIZEN appre-
hended Just this state Of affairs and
pointed them out when the pike
project was foored and sat down
upon early this spring. Those who
then thought that they could build
roads by consenting to it are now
buried meath their own folly. 1t is
not the easy thing some imagine.
There is but one help now, and the
CITIZEN urges it upon the people.
The roads must either be given up
in general or they must be worked
by the people in the different neigh
borhoods, without waiting to be
warned in. The roads are in abso-
Lutte danger and the insufiiclency of
the new law in providing immedi-
ate relief has brought it into such
odium with the people that it is
wholly imperative, even if it could
be made to work. Work your
roads then, until another legisla-
ture, providence, chance or some
smartie shall deliver US.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-07-07
Franklin's Poor Lawyers.

The following paper received by
the committee of lawyers in Pulaski
is too good TO he laid aside. tick
plains itself:
POVERTY Row, FRANKLIN, Tenn,
GENTS: June 2lst, 1881.
We have the honor for lawyers
have some honor in spite of what
the world says about us to receive
your invitation to Ell,mont Springs
on the evening ofthe 23rd inst. To
your declaration of hospitable in
tents, we are under the necessity of
pleading SIN confession and avoidance. 7"
.Giep1,---ih. onei1ior1, "'Sss sae s'st.i''
tautoIogy unnecessary with the
initiated we plead:
"No assets and fully admin
istered.''
The plea is humiliating, and is
not plead without a struggle. We
caused a meeting to b. called OF our
"clty fathers" and informed them
that the lawyers were going to hold
competitive drilP' at Elkmont
Springs, and called upon them to
furnish the sinews of war. But the
"conscript fathers were like Mr..
Venus sweetheart; "they could not
see it in that light" We then
urged upon them the tremendous
moral hygienic effect upon our
town and community of getting rid
at zone fell swoop" of all the
lawyers in it. They admitted with
singular unanimity that the scheme
as ''coup d scavengerie' had its good
points, but stated that for sometime
past they had adjusted the system
of gradual starvation, and 1t was
working so well they declined to
make any change. The city fathers
thus remaining "deaf to our charm
ing" we resolved ourselves into a
committee on ways and means.
We had no trouble about the
ways, but the means foored u.s.
We found by an examination OF
your bill of fare that "champaigne
on toast" would be the order OF
the day, and the ''QuartuDa constitif
was too appalling. Let the pleas be
entered, and we consent that s
judgment by default may be taken
against US with stay of execution
until the next term.
With bowels yearning after the
"fesh pots" of Egypt, we are
Yours impecuniously.
r. M. E.
Corresponding Secretary for the
Fellows of the "Outer Temple,
Poverty Row, Franklin, Tenn.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-07-07
George Whitefeld.

William Myall writes of White
field: "With no companion but his
bible, and no object but the saliva
ton of sinners from the dreadful
fate which he believed to be i'm
pending over them, he plunged fear
lessly into trackless forests, over
untrodden mountains, across unfre-
quented seas, through threacherous
morassee, and swamps reeking with
deadly miasma. Thirteen times he
crossed the Atlantic Ocean, when
steam navigation was unknown, and
the perils of the deep struck terror
even into Wesley. Almost as many
times he penetrated the tremendous
solitude OF those majestic forests
which then covered so much even
of the eastern portion of the United
States. Twice he preached through
Ireland, fourteen times he trav-
ersed Scotland, one visit he made
to Holland, one to the Burmudas,
and pilgrimages innumerable into al
most every county in England.
. He was in the habit OF
speaking within the compass OF a
single week, and that not once or
twice, but continually for many
weeks, sixty hours per week and to
audiences Of many thousands oil
Joan Wesley, dur
ing a ministry of fifty-two years,
travelled over two hundred and
fifty thousand miles, and preached
over forty thousand sermons, max
ing an average of about eight nun
dred every year. Exceptlngsm es-
ley, it is probable that no man ever
preached so many sermons as
Whitefeld. Indeed 1t has been
said, and the statement is war
ranted by facts drawn from sources
SO various and trustworthy that
they cannot be questioned, that If
the time spent in travelling ard
some brief intervals of repose be
subtracted, his whole life may be
said to have been consumed in the
delivery of one continuous and al
most uninterrupted sermon.
There was a gener-
al complaint that all labor was
practically suspended at White
field's approach. Stores we're closed,
shops deserted, ,factoMes abandoned,
while rude mechanics and unlet-
tered laborers, neglecting the daily
Toll upon which the support of
their families depended, ,coule think
of nothing but hearing sermons or
discussing those great psychological
problems which lead only into a
labyrinth of reasoning too intricate
for even an Aristotle or Bacon.
So great was the enthusiasm
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-07-07
Sounds from Home,

We would not mention it until
Pulaski got over it, lest we stop
immigration. An Italian organ
grinder, with greasy sox and lamp
black behind his ears, ground his
measley concern in one place all
dav, the first Monday in June. 1t
was at Ist street boarding house,
just 81 yards; 2 feet. 4 I inches from
this office. The thing alternated on
Dixie and The Sweet By-and By,
and it would crawl from one to an
other like a buzz saw through a
knot. We had to stay in the office
that day, expecting a man who
promised to pay US thirty cents ad-
vanced for him at Hancock rally
last summer, but we got sick at the
stomach to see the flesh crawl of
of one of the boys bones and
sneak around behind an ink-keg to
hide. We sent down and got some
gate-post pins and drove them into
the boys ears and poured ours full
of roller composition, but the infer
nal thing screaked like threshing-
machine that hadn't been creased
since the war, and bored into our
ears like a tuneless oorkscrew.
We loved Dixie almost as well as
beans and onions. but we could not
prevent the boys tearing a $4OC
chrome of jeff Davis down from
the wall, punch out his other eye
and clean the greasy cog-wheels of
our Acme press with the priceless
canvass. Then when The Sweet
By and-By came in at the window
the 369th time like sugar mil
dying with the Jim jams, the boys
reached up for an elegant portrait
of Robert Gotothedevil Ingersol
that we got at grand bargain from
blind negro who was starving tc
death for fifteen cents to have hi:
photograph taken, and they en-
shrined it on the end of a box and
bowed before it a1d worshipped it
crying Bully, bully, thrice bully
for the man who wiped up The
sweet by -and-by with the dishras
of sciencer' This didn't stop the
diabolical machine, however, but il
gave an additional squeak tina
sounded like the grating of the gait
hinges of hades when they opened
to let Brownlow in. We wen
down and found the fellow hat
agreed to grind there week. 70
forty cents. We hired him for for
ty five, ccaxed him up stairs
nailed the doors up, run the smut
ty nerve murderer through tn
press 70 times until he was fla
enough tc fold up and direct
mailed him to Chicago (there's n
direct mail line between Pulaski
and Brownlowville), and then til
boys split up his flesh crawling oil,
sound guzzler into splinters, put
in the roller moulds with 9 pound
OF powder behind it and shot
over towards New Mexico, wher
the greaser- killer roareth and tn
stage robber mourneth for a whit
cravat and q hymn book.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-07-07
The State Normal.

From the Knoxville Chronicle, June %.
State Superintendent w. 5. Doak
writes us as follows, with the re-
quest that our exchanges through
out the state copy:
The State Normal Institute in the
University at Knoxville is fully or
ganized for the most complete and
thorough work. Several of the best
teachers in this and other states
are engaged for regular service, also
a number of able men for occasional
lectures. Professor Soldan, of st.
Louis, a gentleman of large expert
ence and national reputation as a
most successful Normal instructor,
will be present. Commissioners
Eaton has agreed to aid this work
by securing the services of some OF
the most distinguishes educators
in America for lectures. Such an
opportunity, IN the shape of an In
stitute, has never before been offered
to the people of Tennessee, and it
may be many years before such can
be offered again. 1t is rare chance
for the teachers of Tennessee to
secure for very small outlay what
in other states has cost hundreds
of dollars. 1t will be good thIng
for the state and for every public
interest, if every teacher In the
state, and every county superin-
tendent can attend this Normal
Institute. The friends Of education
throughout the Union will watch
the effects of this Institute on our
state, and it is most earnestly
hoped that, whatever others may do,
the teachers OF Tennessee will not
fail to improve this extraordinary
opportunity for benefitting them
selves and the whole state.
To encourage attendance upon
this Institute. it has been ordered
that all applicants for teachers
certificates shall be excused from
compulsory attendance at County
Institutes. Satisfactory arrange
ments with regard to certificates
will be made at the State Normal at
Knoxville.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-07-07
Eight Months Without Eating.

Chicago, June 2S.-A Battle
Creek, Mich, special reports that
Miss Nellie Ingram has been unable
to eat since October last. She is
SO years old, twice married, and
has been possessed of an unusually
robust constitution. October llth,
1880, she weighed nearly $50
pounds, but having suffered from
an aching double tooth, she got II
extracted that day, and during the
operation became very nervous and
excited, and was taken home in a
state of prostration. From that
time on she has loathed food, and
it was a torment to her to attempt
to eat. She has taken nourishment
several times, but always with a
result of intense pain and deathiy
sickness, followed by spasms. Her
life had been sustained by injections
and baths in nourishing liquid.
She now weighs less than so pounds,
She has of late lost her voice,
Medical men are greatly interested
in the case.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-07-07

now that the old lady is gone, l
sorter feel as if the insect had-well,
had outlived his usefulness, so to
speak. So suppose 1 just have this
box hauled around to your show
after the performance this afternoon,
and see if can't strike bargain"
Gall right" said the manager.
"I'm going up Salt Lake after
awhile, and perhaps can work him
off for big money to some OF the
Mormon elders"
"There's a mint of coin in him as
family pet," said the other ear
nestly.
And after striking the circus pro-
prietor for season dead-head, the
widower shouldered his umbrella
aud drifted sadly Gown the street.
San Francisco Post.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-07-07
Shiloh Settled Il.

The battle of Shiloh has been
spoken of by many commanders and
writer's as a battle that decided
nothing. Sometimes it is referred
to as battle that dissipated all
doubts in tue minds of the southern
people as to the "staying qualities"
OF the yankees, who got the worst of
it one day, and yet managed to drive
the coniederates from the field the
next. Possibly it also did do much
to bury the absurd idea that one
southern man could lick five yam
kess, but there were other examples
equally as forcible as the fighting at
Shiloh. JEFF. Davis, it seems, does
not slight Shiloh. He makes much
of it, attributing what has very
generally been regarded as an indie
cisive battle. as the turning point
of the war, because the confederacy
lost In that battle Albert Sidney
Johnston.
Mr.. Davis says of this soldier
I'm his fail the great pillar of the
southern confederacy was crushed,
and beneath its fragments the best
hope of the southwest lay buried.
Not for the first time did
the fate of an army depend upon q
single man. and the fortunes of a
country hang, as in a balance, on
the achievements of a single army"
Thereupon he proceeds to cite in
stances where the success of a
great cause depended upon one
man. The high estimate placed
upon Gen. Johnston will not be re-
garded as misplaced by those best
fitted to pass upon his merits. The
officers Of both armies with one ac-
cord yielded to Gen. Johnston the
first place. In the sense that the
loss of the ablest soldier who served
lthe south was irreparable Mr.. Da-
Wis conclusions will not be ques-
toned.