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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-09-01
Beware of tho Alta Deal.

There is every indication that an
other swindling deal is contemplated
iE Alta. With the memory of the
odorous swindles which have so fire..
4uently been perpetrated in the mine,
it would seem superfluous to warn the
public of another boom in the rotten and
worthless stock. With hardly pound
Of ore in the mine the managers have
managed to unload their stock over and
over again upon the public at high fig
ures and the looms bite as readily as
ever. The Post sounds a note of warm
ing:
Dummy manipulatOrs will direct the
coming Alta deal. The real manipula-
tors do not want to be known in the
matter, or held responsible for what oc-
ours; hence their withdrawal from the
Board of Directors, and their contem-
plated trip to the East. When the deal
collapses and the money is gathered in
we suppose Geographic transfers on New
York will command big premium.
The probabilities are that the same
class who have been taken in before
will meet with their old experience.
People who are too poor to subscribe
for daily newspaper lose thousand
dollars or SO every year in stock dab
bling.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-09-01
Out With the Name.

The Chronicle Of last night says: A
prominent business man of this city is
charged with having assaulted and
cruelty beaten a respectable married
woman living in the southeastern part
of town, on Friday last. A Chronicle
reporter to-day called on the injured
woman and found her in bed, severely
wounded. The matter is to be brought
into the courts, when the details of the
affair will be published.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-09-01
-rHE VOICE OF THE STARS
skull and Cross Bones Beck

"The Voice of the Stars pamphle
published by Prof Grinmer Of Sal
Jose, has been left at the APPEAL Office
for review. 1t is an astrological work
and claims to foretell future events by
a study of the movements Of the stars.
1t shows by quoting from history that
the plaques of the world happened
when certain planets were ia perihelion
On reading the book one is perfectly
astounded at realizing how certain grea,
events in the worlds history are in
f1uenced by the positions OF the planets.
If the author had simply contented him
self with a review of historical facts his
book would have been 4 startling sen
sation. He branches out in prophetic
vein and announces that in 1880 a ter
rible plague will deVastate the earth
and sweep away 15,000,0G0 souls. He
also puts down Grant as President and
goes on to show that sS1 viii be the
iLloSt cNCHttul ttsI pi t4lc "OllA .
history. The United States Will be
overrun with leperous Cinnamon spread
ing disease and death and there will be
hell in the heavens and the earth and
every city in the Union will lose about
two-thirds Of its inhabitant by fire,
tempest and pestilence. The authors
description of the general state of af-
fairs read like De Quincy's "Phantas-
magoria." Bloody wars showers of
fire, bowling lunatics and armies of
and assassins running loose
over the country are the least of the
horrors of the situation. The failure of
his prophesies stamps the book as unre-
liable and the language is SO direful
that anyone who believed in the work
would go crazy. Such publications,
while looked upon as the harmless
work of lunatics, are nevertheless far
from harmless, as superstitious people
in whose hands they may fall are often
frightened into sickness by placing i'm
piicit belief in the arguments and asser-
ions advanced.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-09-01
THE PRESIDENT.

| WASUISGTON, August 30-l:30 A
M.-Dr. Boynton says that while there
has been no materia! gain in the Presi.
dents strength, there has been a marked
improvement since the recent crisis
He now takes food with as much relish
as at any time during his illness. Nc
marked change is expected at once.
"All we can reasonably expect" he
says, "is that the patient will hold his
own few days. If he makes even a
slight Improvement it will be perfectly
satisfactory" The Doctor says he has
not noticed any symptoms of another
crisis. The prospects for his final re-
covery are very fair, but in a case Of
that kind, no one can say positively
that the patient will recover. There
lore he could not make any definite pre-
diction or that point.
Last Saturday morning the President
was at his worst. Nearly all hope Of
his recovery had gone. DR.. Hamilton
fingered after the morning dressing of
the wound and made the discovery that
the yolks of eggs, which had formed
part of the enemata for several days,
had not been assimilating thoroughly, if
at all, and were poisoning the system.
Without waiting to make known his
discovery or to consult with his associ-
ates, he rushed to a drug store and pur-
chased a supply of powdered charcoal
He Immediately administered an injec-
ton containing large proportion of
charcoal. The effect was apparently al
most Immediately, and the incident
marked the turning point in the Presi-
dents condition. There is scarcely any
doubt that the presence of this undi-
gested mass was the cause of the gland
ular affection which came SO near ter
minatiDg the life Of the President.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, $3.50 A. M
No material change has occurred in the
Presidents condition since last report
He is sleeping well.
TThe wires being down no further
news than the above has come from the
White House.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-09-01
Notice.

Frank T. Gilbert is no longer in our
employ, and has nothing to do with any
of our various historical publications,
either in Nevada or California. All COM
munications pertaining to them should
be addressed to us at Oakland, Cal.
THOMPSON & WEST,
Publishers.
Oakland, Cal, August %. aug30-lw
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-09-01
Change OF PrOprietOrship.

l.. T. Olson, who has been with Mr..
Tobriner for nearly five years, has pur-
chased of Mr.. Gregovich his entire
interest in the Monarch Saloon. Mr..
Olson, whose advertisement appears in
another column, will enter the business
with large per cent. of old customers
and lively sprinkling of new ones.
The reputation of the spot for pure
liquors will be no way endangered by
the new proprietor.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-09-01
Light for All.

Mrs. August Mayer of San Francisco,
trance speaker, test, healing and busi-
ness medium, is stopping at the Els
worth House. The public is invited to
test her wonderful powers. Consulta-
tons daily circle every Wednesday
and Friday evenings at eight O'clock.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-09-01
A New Dodge.

! "Talk is Cheap butin the earlier and
less palpable stages Of bummerism and
dead-beatism it is sometimes profitable.
| Suggests the Homer IaGer: Let two or
three "retired miners (retired from
| work. go into Bodie and lay claim to
large interest in some valuable outside
mining property that is being rapidly
developed by muscle and money and let
them add that The rascally company
owning and developing such property
owes them (the retired miners) large
sums of money besides, and for which
they intend commencing suit and at
taching the property at once. Let them
attend faithfully to these details and
their Summers supply Of whisky is as
sured-and of course 10 one would eX-
pect them to work during the long and
Indictment Winter The same means of
obtaining livelihood may also be re-
sorted to with some degree of success
in Lundy, or any other camp, so that
care be taken not to attic npt the game
in the same camp where the accused
companyis operating. The coop erative
plan also works admirable in this
line of business-that is, by having a
separate set Of bummerS in two differ.
ent camps at once cooperating against
the same property Or company in a third
camp.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-09-01
Gnai Mineral Water.

The Glen Alpine Mineral Water sold
by Doe Benton is now commanding "a
ready sale wherever it is introduced,
and physicians are prescribing it for
their patients in cases of Irregularities
of the liver, bowels and kidneys. If
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-09-01
Respectfully Connected.

"Press,',' said man who was trying
to pass the ticket taker at the theater.
s'With what paper are you con-
nected %
..The one across the street; I hold a
mortgage on the office"
He was shown seat in the front row.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-09-01
To Rent or for Sale.

On liberal terms, the house lately &C.
cupied by Judge Beatty. The house is
partly furnished and has block OF
ground attached. Apply to Jame-
Fraser, County Building. au9lm
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-09-01
Seven Years.

Yesterday Sheriff Williams brought
down from Virginia the three burglars
who robbed Manning's jewelry store on
the 18th of July last. They are each
sentenced to seven years term in the
State Prison.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-09-01
STOCKS.
MORNING BOARD

MORNING BOARD
900 Ophir-64
$50 Mexican-lO
$50 Gould and Curry-7x
$50 Best and Belcher-lz14
800 California;
3i5 Con. Virginia-@
30 ChOllar-2 30
$40 Savape-3l{
300 POtOsi-3 20
100 Hale and NorcToss-3 %
20 Crown PoDi-2
100 Yellow Jacket--5ss
400 lmperial-I0c
% Kentuck-2 10
20 Alpha--3 So
go Belcher--2 80
60 Copfidence-3 80
$50 Sierra Nevada-j54
80 Utah-l0M
100 Rullion-I 10
80 Excnequer-lH
800 Overman-l 80
100 Justice-Sfc
go UniOn-l2as
100 Alta
$50 Ju!ia-4Oc
$50 Silver Hili-l0c
$50 Lady Washington-l5c
200 New York-l5c
$50 BentOn-95c
$50 Scorpion-1 80
l25 North Elk. Utah-S0r
800 New Wells-Fargo l;c
100 Curtis--14
S56 Andes-l oS
EVENING BOARD.
SO Euraka Con.-26a
so Jackson-60c
leo Beimont-5Hc
100 n. Beile-lGk
100 Manhattan-2
600 Grand Prize-30c
400 Argenta-l5c
35G Star-30
200 Belle Isle-20c
$50 Albion--l IS
$50 Wales-60c
80 Mt. Diablo-6
200 +. Mt. Diablo--l6c
200 Beiding-Jp
2i0 Bodie-9H
800 Bechtel-l 05
10 Tioga-4Oc
325 Bulwer-cH
300 McClinton-l0c
100 Syndicate-45c
900 Blackhawk-20c
500 GoOdshaw-45s
100 South Bodie-5c
$50 Mono-3t.
100 Con Pacific-50c
300 South Bnlwer-20c
so NOOndav-95
so North Noonday-5O
100 Tiptop-54
30 Head Center-1
200 Giant and Old Abe-2E
100 Silver King-19H
so Belvidere-25c
ESQ Oro-45
700 Addenda-20c
200 Sulphuret-3
100 Tranquility
$50 Navajo-60c
$50 TuscarOra-S0c
$50 Day-21t
500 Summit-25c
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-09-01

There is a beautiful assortment of
steel-keyed concertinas, price SO, at
Uncle Harris, 22l Kearny street, be-
tween Suffer and Bush,
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-09-01

Virginia City as sanitarium Resort

The Chronicle thus sets forth the
claims of the Comstock IS sanitarium
retreat:
Stunted tourists from Boston; angular
Immigrants from Philadelphia: bilious
wrecks from Chicago; enervated specu-
lators from st. Louis and puffy Cock
neys from Albion's sea-grit shOre-all
agree in the verdict that here are the
ruddiest children, the finest specimens
of manhood and the loveIiest women,
| whose swelling contour of form de-
! mands no extraneous aid to perfect its
symmetry. All that is really needed to
insure perfect happiness here is an old
time whoop up of stocks, based on an
actual bonanza.
Now, as a matter of fact, there is no
place in Nevada more unhealthy than
Virginia City. The people, fe on the
vilest whisky known to the trade
and sease-impregnated swili milk, are
constantly ailins, and doctors of every
grade make two fortunes year. In the
winter rheumatism becomes epidemic
and as one walks along G street an army
Of cripples obstruct the way. Nearly
every man walks lame and as for such
diseases as pneumonia and bronchitis
they have a mortgage on every man,
woman and child in the city. n day
when two funeral professions do not
file over the Gieger Grade is considered
worthy of newspaper notice. Aside
from the army Of poor old rosy-nosed,
whisky-livered Ine5riates, who are
marching ON toward the Putters Field
in the rear of the County hospital, there
are scores of men lying hidden in back
rooms patching up bullet holes in their
carcases and trying to die OF mountain
fever that their death may be looked
upon by their Eastern relatives with
some degree of sympathy and respect.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-04-08

Mr.. F. c. Newell experienced sim
gular mishap, some days since, which
he thought, for q time, was destined
to terminate his earthly career. He
paid visit to the country recently, and
while looking over the farm and in
speeding the grain of one of his farmer
customers, he carelessly tossed aAhand-
full of wheat into his mouth and proceed
ed to chew it up. The beard adhered
to the grain and the ticklish little thing
lodged in his throat. In day or two
afterward Frank began to feel consider
able pain in his throat, which was fol-
lowed by swelling of the tonsils. The
trouble increased until Mr.. Newell could
not eat or drink, and for time could
scarcely breathe. Two physicians were
called, and after consultation concluded
to subject the patient to thorough
sssteaming," which had the desired eff
feet of reducing the swelling and caus-
ing a relaxation of muscles. Mr.. New
eli was out on the streets yesterday, but
saws he don't want another such ex-
perience very soon, and that in the
future he will give nice-looking wheat
the go-by.-- Council Bluffs Nonpa-isl.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-04-08
Prosecuting q Government Claim.

Among those whose business renders
them familiar with the Capitol and with
the incomings and outgoings of Con-
gress, the owner of a claim against the
Government which must receive Con-
gressional sanction before it can be paid
is known as an unfortunate individual.
The claim often proves curse to its
owner, to his family, and frequently to
his descendants. Regarding it as just,
the owner feels and believes that Con-
gress must and will pay it. He attends
session after session, Congress after
Congress, always persuading himself
that he is making progress; that his
claim failed at one session because of
some little hitch which was unlocked
for, and that it evil surely 60 through
next session." An illustration of the
disastrous effects of one of these claims
was presented last Thursday. Many
years ago the late Thomas H. Benton
introduced in Congress a bill to pay
claim of Mr.. Joseph Clymer, a resident
of a Western State, and then in the
pride and strength of early manhood.
Mr.. Clymer had transported army sup
plies for the Government across the
country ID FL TdSO, Gnou away Out upOu
the frontier, and he claimed that bal
ance of S1S,325 was due him from the
Government. Clymer was worth at
that time the snug fortune of about
$4,000 or $50, 600. Mr.. Benton said in
substance to him: "Clymer, certainly
will introduce this claim for you, and
do all in my power to pass it; but let
me tell you one thing: If you press the
claim it will ruin you; it will make you
a poor man, and will destroy your peace
of mind before you get the money-if
you ever do. But I'll fight it for you, if
you say So" OF course Mr.. Clymer did
not believe anything of the kind, and,
therefore, he insisted upon urging his
claim. Last Wednesday or Thursday
the claim was passed and signed by the
President for the original sum. 1t had
gone through one house or the other of
Congress repeatedly, but could never be
got through both in the same Congress.
Mr.. Clymer, when he finally got his
money, was an old man, and, as Benton
had predicted, he had spent all his for
tune in pressing his Washington
Star.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-04-08
FoREIaN GOSSIP.

"A Partisan paper asserts that Amer
lean ladies are queens Of the skating
club; that no French woman can equal
them in grace and agility.
The London Times says that Is Rel
atives, though they do not make mar
riages in England, are as anxious about
the circumstances of marriage IS is
family council in France"
Spanish women are famously viva
cious. "There are no such huttering,
chattering, laughing beings in human
form when they are young; and when
they advance in life, age and flesh do
not appear to affect their volatile spir-
it's"
Mrs. Langtry is credited with max
ing "the high-heeled, low cut patent
leather shoes, short skirts and amber
colored silk stockings with bright gold
clocks, acceptable and fashionable,
even to those of good taste and quiet
dress.
Heinrich Stephan, the Postmaster
General of Germany, is the son of q
tailor, and almost entirely self-educated.
He has made a study of the postal serv-
ice, and has been the leading spirit in
the formation of q postal union which
some think may ultimately bring about
federation of the world.'
London is afflicted with o lot of
@sthetically diseased male and female
idiots. who 60 dawdling, and mouthing,
dreaming, and dressing themselves up
as guys of centuries departed. The
do In
cause they bang their hair all over their
eyes, and get themselves up like medi-
@val Ladies of Shallot.
Adele Terchout, a beautiful girl who
flashed through Paris in the last year of
the Second Empire, under the title of
La Comete, with dresses from Worth,
portraits by Cabauel, sonnets from
Theophile Gautier, offers of marriage
from ancient Dukes, mansions in the
Champs Elysees, equipages and dia-
monds, died week or two since. of o
lupus, in a hospital.
The Empress of Austria is pic
turesque woman in her hunting dress.
Her dark blue habit, having trimming
of fur round the collar, is perfection,
fitting her elegant figure with the ut
most precision. Not a crease or q
wrinkle is to be seen. She rides mag
nificently, with yielding suppleness at
every stride of her horse, and with q
hand as light as silk but as strong as
iron.
The conflict of race and languages
in the Austrian Empire is triangular,
being shared with equal intensity by
Germans, Hungarians and Bohemians.
In Hungary it cost bitter struggle to OBJ
tain license for theater where per-
formances may be conducted in Ger
man, while in Bohemia village authori-
ties refuse to recognize the Teutonic
tongue in official communications.
Still, the German is steadily encroach-
ing upon its rivals.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-04-08
Side.shows in Queen Anne's Time.

We may smile at the following list Of
wild beasts on show, but we must
recollect that it is not so very long since
we were without geological gardens, and
the only wild animals to be seen were
the lions, etc., in the Tower, the coli
lection in Exeter Change, and the trav-
cling menageries, which, indeed, arc
even now the only means by which the
larger proportion of people in this coun.
try can have practical illustration OF
natural history. First let Us take " The
old she dromedary, lately arrived from
Tartary, and her young one; they are
headed like q horse, ey'd like an OK,
nos'd like deer, clOven-lipt like hare,
also neck'd like q swan, tail'd like q
mule, and cloven-foOted like q cow"
"The noble peccary which is very much
admir'd by the learned. The noble
Jack Call, the lions provider, which
hunts in the forest for the lions prey.
A small Egyptian panther spotted like .
leopard. A strange mOnstrOus creature,
brought from the coast of Brazil, having
a head like child, legs and arms very
wonderful, with q long tail like q SER
pent, wherewith he feeds himself as an
0lcpu6uL uOlu Will ulS III uAh. W.
wood monsters from the East Indies,
male and female, being the admirablest
creatures that ever was seen in the king
dom. Also, little marmoset from the
East Indies, which, by great deal of
pains, is now brought to that perfection
that no creature of his kind ever per-
formed the like; he exercises by the
word of command; he dances the
Cheshire Rounds; he also dances with
two naked swords, and performs several
other pretty fancies. Likewise noble
civet cat from Guinny, which is admired
for its beauty and that Incompatible
scent which perfumes the whole place.
Also a mutosh from Rusty, being very
wonderfully marked. Also a helliscope
from Angler, being the beautifulest crea-
ture in all the world; specked like q
leopard" A monkey is described as q
wild hairy man from Bengal; it danced
on a rope, drank a glass of ale, and
"smoaks pipe of tobacco as well as
any Christian. This noble creature
filings strapader," etc. There was
also a wonderful animal, the "man
teger, lately brought from the East
Indies, the like never seen before in
England, it being of seven several colors,
from the head dOwnwards resembling q
man, its fore parts clean and his hinder
parts all hairy; having long head Of
hair, and teeth two or three inches long;
takes a glass of ale in his hand like
Christian, and drinks it." There was q
leopard, ga beast of excellent beauty,
presented to an English merchant in
TnrLov nv tho Kiuu Of tho Arabs 40 a
particular mark of favor for eminent
services performed, who for the main
tenance of it in its voyage from Aleppo,
gave 100 of the best and latest fowls"
|-AW the Year Round.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-04-08
CHAPTER w.

The Raveley family had invited all their
friends to grand dinner. The Raveleys
were an aristocratic "set," as "sets" were
graded in the little village of Sonora, and
this banquet was to be fully as aristocratic
as the "set" from which it originated.
Covers were laid for twenty people, exclu-
sive of the family, and the silverware that
giittered on the table was an heirloom in the
Raveley family, having been presented about
the time of the Revolutionary period to the
paternal great-great-gran upon the
occasion of her wedding.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-04-08

people. England would thus have an
nexed the Transvaal only to create the
Trans-Limpopo, and the barrier OF Beers
between the British and the natives
would still remain.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-04-08

Gov. John C. Fremont, of Arizona,
may serve as model for brevity to YER
bose statesmen. His last annual mes
sage was one-half column in length.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-04-08

Gen. Grant hes arranged to remove
to his Long Branch cottage June l, and
remain there through the summer.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-04-08

IL
chuck in pint or two o. this. Thet'll fetch
him. Every drop o. tibet whisky is with a
twenty dollar gold piece to ev'ry one of us,
but eff one swig'd save ev'ry life in this yer
Shebang, not one o. We should hev smell till
we fetch Oh Tom through"
The whisky revived the old man, and be
opened his eyes. In few moments more
the floor a great spontaneous shout went up
from the little crowd of starving men.
Their, while preparations for the feast were
in progress, old Tom told the story of his
perils and hardships-how he had braved
the tempest through the gulches of the
Creek meadows, how he struggled through
the shifting drifts Of Tamarack flat, and then
now he nearly lost his life swimming the
raging waters of the Tuolumne. Then he
related how he dragged himself from the lev
torrent, and not daring to rest for an instant,
battled en-, on, on through the night, until he
reached the snow belt, slipping and sliding
through snow and slush, his ankles swollen
by the leathern straps of his snow shoes,
|, chilled TO the bone, his hands so numb that
he could scarcely WELD his long, heavy guide
pole, until he reached the welcome shelter
of Northup's just as the gray dawn was
breaking through the clouds to the east
ward.
cit was q terrible trip, boys, but made
it, he continued; sam it would have done
your hearts good to have seen the boys at
Northrup's hustle round and organize a re-
lief party as soon as 1 told them how we were
fixed. They're coming, boys-they'll be
here in q few hours. 1 couldn't wait for
them, and came on ahead. They've got to
lied it in, and where there is no trail IT'S
slow work, you know. But they are coming,
and we're saved. The trip back wasn't so
bad, but think broke my ankle coming
over Grizzly range. slipped and fell, and
when / got up nearly tainted with the
pain. 1t was the pain that made me faint