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Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-01-11

DETE MAaLAY WILL RANCH HORSES
IL and cattle at a reasonable figure by the
month. at his Antelope Springs ranch. II is .
good winter range. and will take stock from
town every two weeks. returning them when
desired. oI9-kf
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-01-11

ALPHA LODGE NO. L, A. q. U. w.
MEETS AT THE FOLEY AND RIcKARD
INl building every Tuesday evening at 8
O'Clock. Sojourning brethren In good standing
are invited to attend.
Examining physicians DIR. NJ. Rockman and
DR.. g. II. Thoms.
GA. FLETCHER. N, ",
l. O. O. WHIrMoRE, Recorder
Enreks. Jniv IA. tsssn. jyas-tf
St. Landry democrat., 1881-12-24

son. His lady mother deigned her but
the most distant nod if by chance they
met in town. Gossip had blown TO her
ears-ah! fatally easy it is for gossip to
connect by an invisible telephone with
her victims.-the lady sisters supercil-
ious remark: "Of course if Frank had
not already gone so far, if he did not
feel in honor bound, there could be
nothing more between them. Why!
they've had to sell everything, posi-
lively ever, thing, my dear. down to
their sleigh-bells. But, as it is. Frank
being the soul of honor, it's very lucky
for her, certainly, and doubtless she
will take every pains to hold him fast. y
Unlucky stamp of his masters pet
horse that Kathleen herself in other
DAYS had named Pride! Frank Cola
| more drove him fast and far that day.
disappointed, wrathful man. ltgoadec
him to hear the sweet-toned bells, anc
/ am afraid that both to him and tt
Kathleen Christmas that year meant Sc
little goodwill that they took YER,
meager pains to have it afford to those
about them peace.
St. Landry democrat., 1881-12-24
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

A writer having excited the wrath
of Mr.. Browning. Il should like, . saiu
the poet, ''to rub that man nose III ni0
own books
The late Sidney Lanier published
short romance, called Tiger-lilles, ABOUT
fifteen years ago, which appears to nave
ESCAPED the attention of his biographers:.
Along with much that was youthful anu
crude there was also much that was
striking and fine.
The Princess Beatrice's birthday
book has been published. 1t consists
of twelve tastefully arranged groups
and garlands suitable to the months
they represent, with appropriate quota
tons from the poets. The illustrations
are the Queens own designs.
Oscar Wilde has received the I'M
| kindest cut of all from Prof. Mahafty,
who has cruelty utilized the college ca
reer of the lily and sunflower poet at
Dublin as an illustration OF the thesis
that stupid boy gains more than
brilliant one from university training.
1t is almost pity to spoil the tine
story that General Lytie wrote ms
"Anthony and Cleopatra the night
before he fell at Chickamauga, and that
it was found in his pocket saturated
with his blood, but the poem appears
in Coggeshalls Collection, published III
1860, three years before Chlckamauga'
and it was not then new.
-Litta, the opera singer, who maze
| an artistic success in Europe and here'
seems to have failed to turn her fame
J to financial account She is now at her
| home in Bloomington, H., in impover-
ished circumstances. After repaying
, the money advanced by friends for her
musical education and supporting her
} mother and several sisters, she says that
| all her earnings on the stage have been
4 absorbed.
t john J. Piatt and his wife, the
poets, are now in Boston. Nora ferrv
e thus deccribes them: "Mr. Ila!t' l!
T NAV be recalled, was the early friend
It of MIR. Howells when Mr.. Howells was
o still living in Ohio, and the two pub
q lished modest little book conformity;
e under the title, Poems by Two Friends;
$ Mr. Piatt now has something the look
d that Mr.. Howells had before he gre"
II broader and stouter. without, however
Mr.. Howells' prominent chin. Boti
; have the most kindly and delightful 0
r smiles. Mrs. Piatt is the erGbodimen
e of her poems. She has a rehned' sen
Is sitive face, capable of expressing ever.
g variation of feeling; in figure slight
or of medium height, and conveying IN ne
~ whole personality the woman by an e.
u ement which is so largely maternal l
Ae her poems.
St. Landry democrat., 1881-12-24
A Mennonite Scene.

The Mennonites intend keeping to
themselves, and have no intention OF
marrying or giving in marriage with
the children of the land. At firstsome OF
the girls went out to service, but one
having got married the order went
forth that all the others were to return
home at once which was done. AS a
race they are thrifty and industrious
but their neighbors say that the women
do most of the work. An open ditch
about a mile in length, beautifully dug,
and with the turf neatly banked up OF
each side, was said to be all women
work. Large numbers of women were
also to be seen the tlelds.-Re0. Prof
Grant in Manitoba.
St. Landry democrat., 1881-12-24
How the Japanese Value Human Life.

In our items from the native papers
will be found one which discloses what
appears to be an ordinary miscarriage
OF Justice. For some time attempts
were made to oyerturn the train near
Kioto by placing large stones on the
track. Every effort to detect the das-
tardly perpetrator-as it was evidently
the work of a single individual-proved
Intellectual, until at last one night ne
was caught in fagrante dellcto' and
marched off to jail. 1t will be noticed
that sentence has now been passed
upon a rutfian who more than once at
tempted the destruction of a train.
with its living freight, and the Judge.
has marked his sense of the gravity OF
the crime by inflicting a fine OF two
ven and twenty-five sen, equivalent to
about five shillings. -Hiogo (Japa")
| NeWS :~-..
St. Landry democrat., 1881-12-24
A VISIT FROM ST. NICHOLAS.

4Twas the night before Christmas, ~neh I'LL
through the house ,o,,so.
Not creature was stirring not ess ;r,nv with
The stockings were hung by the CHIMNEY "''n
In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there;
The children were nestled all snug III '"'''
While Visions of sugr-plums danced through
their heads; WV oan
And mamma in her ferchief, ana III inter, MY ts
Had just settled ourorains for long "iii'o'
When out on the lawn there arose such cla'-
1snrang from nv bel tosee what was the mat
Away to the Window flew like fash L. ,.s,
Tore open the shuttes and tnfe" w III nnn snow
The moon on the breSs of the new i leI, sno"
Gave a luster of midGE to objects peloW,;a on
When what to my wanering eyes should ap-
put q miniature sleiga md eight tiny reindeer
With little old drive.so lively and QUICK
knew in moment must De 81. N NICE. 20 mo
More rapid than eaglehis courseTs thes tram tham
And he whistled and stouted, and calico theli
Nov, Dasher! now, lancer! now, prancer'
On Cn nus on .t Cupid pn, Donder and Bit
ro the ,op of the porcato the top of the wall;
Now dash away dash .}ay oasn i, ava, ,r ra
n,, ny $yhev meet with obstacle, mount to
oIn.
With the sleigh full otoys and et. Nlcho'aS'
+ ~, in a tvinklind heard on the roof
The prancing and pawn OF eacn llt.le ,a I'M
As drew in my head al was turning ar I.;th
=Down the chimney 81. tcholas caIhe "t'A
bound. i - hi.
He was dressed all III 1ulroih LIS no"u -
foot, =, ., osba
And his clothes we're allarnished with asne'
,,,,'dIa If rows he hadh1ng on his back,
IA no looked like paler just opening nj
His eyes h how they twnA ID: his dimples hoV
Tia c he were like res, his nose like
re-, acn ns1 month watrawn up like a bow
nd the beard on his cnlfas Us "nite as III
s snu", Of pipe he b tight in his teeth
a tha Smoke il encirsd his head like
wreath. ou,,
hhad broad face and title round belly. Z,
Tt shook when he 1aued IKE a DOW IL
Hwas chubby and ma right jolly oil
AM laughed when ssVim, in spite OF m!
Awk of bis eye and q TT of his head
Sooraye me to know nothing to drea'
He sake not a word, bus snt straight "
And lied all the stockingthen turned wit
And, Wing his finger asidf his nose,
And Sing a nod, up the mney ne rose.
He sIang. to his sleigh his team gave
And a .ss't they oil flew 3 the down of
But hard him exclaim' he drove out
"Merrychristmas to al'ad to all so'
h'A'' -pnent c. Moore.
St. Landry democrat., 1881-12-24

Sometimes the melody is smooth and
sweet; sometimes it is janglng and
harsh. | fancied-l know it is only a
fancy-that | could hear our future
lives coming up through those sounds,
trying to express themselves through
them. There are some merry bells,
like laughter; and again tinkling bells,
like pleasures; and others that sound
soft and kind like friends voices. But.
then, some make painful discords. and
| heard-Oh! there it is again" the
blind girl shivered, "do you hear them,
too? How strangely heavy and hoarse
and slow those bells ring, and what
creaking, funereal tone they have! New
er mind; underneath them all hear our
own sweet, steady bells, so dear to my
ear. so true and clear, like one deep,
perfect, sure joy, underneath the con-
fused, conflicting, changing over-cur-
rent always"
"Well done, dreamern' laughed Dick,
albeit q tritie huskily, "whoever would
think of all that but you?'
And Kathleen. radiant, willful kath-
leen. with her bright cheeks, her shin
ing eyes, her half-de6ant ways, pressed
reverently the blind girls hand. She
was not over-tolerant of other people or
their fancies, and sentiment she de-
clared she despised. But she never
held lightly any word that Snowflake
said; Snowflake was the one unearthly
thing that among saints, angels. myth;
and goddesses she believed in, she said
81 suppose these thoughts she ha;
come to comfort her in the dark she
thought.
Dick ratified on. He had a boy hor
ror of an overdose of sober talk. Per
haps at some ages, indeed, it woult
!, prove fatal.
I'm swear by the sleigh-bells
5 Snowflake, that when I've made III.
fortune out in India with Uncle Lane
. the sleigh bells themselves shall an
nounce it to you. You shall hear then
IS come jingling madly down the stree
" and up the avenue to the door wher
YOU have been faithfully waiting for m
d like my true little lady-love, as you are
', Then, having thus prepared you, WI
e rush in, throw my gold bags at you
b, feet, and 80 devote myself and them
you that you shall live ever after in on
perpetual concert of sleigh-bells, tn
i'll year roundr'
u Dashing across the corner an
~ through the avenue as he hnishe
y speaking, Dick drew up with resonal
clash of bells before the broad door
d. the coraely old house which people
lis general called the Square House, or i
tn dividuals, in case they were punctlllou
the Squirrels House.
St. Landry democrat., 1881-12-24
HUMOROUS.

cara cheerful countenance. II
your mirror won t smile on you, now
can you expect anybody will?-Bosso"
Transcript.
Lacking confrmation-Ihe report
that the remaining banks OF Newark
will import Egyptian mummies for d.
rectOrs.-PucG.
Will the coming man shut the door
behind him? is the latest inquiry. IL
is to be hoped that he will; for the 60
ing man seldom does.-so"'srr'|1e Jour-
nul
-"Who wrote the Book of James,
in the New Testament?' asked sun
dav-school teacher in Missouri village;
and a little fellow at the foot OF the class
shouted, 1.-The James Boys!'-Chlcago
| Tribune.
"A German sat on the bank OF
river watching an Englishman who was
6shir = Finally he exclaimed: "Here
| hay, been for four hours watching
this man holding his line; strange that
he does not lose his patience''-Neue
F'reie Presse-
i Mary Jane wants recipe for pre-
serving the hair. Certainly. Use white
sugar, "pOunu loi pouiia, "oo
water to make heavy sirup, add the
hair, and four ounces oleomargarlne'
boil, strain and put up in glass or stone
Jars Hartford Times.
a boy at Columbus swallowed
twenty feet of red ribbon in order that
he might afterward pull it out OF his
mouth, coniuror fashion, and astonlsh
the family. The result did not, how
ever, astonish the family half so much
j as it did the boy.-Boston fost.
, Young man, don't turn up your
, elegant, snobbish nose at your mother,
, if She does take little unkindly to
, YOUR cigarette. smoking innate ways.
She has watched you very closely from
, the day the light was too brig Mt Tor
? YOUR eyes, and it pains her heart to see
. YOU blooming out into swell IDIOT
? New Haven Register.
t IL am thirty-two years DID, bru'
Y nette, and have $350,O00 in my OWL
t RIGHT. VIII you marry me?' wrote
y Brooklyn IN. " woman to Mayor
J. Carter Harrison, of Chicago. Western
Mayors enjoy opportunities for mash
ing that seldom fall to the lot OF then
brothers in the bleak New England
me.-Hartord Post.
St. Landry democrat., 1881-12-24
CHRISTMAS SLEH.BELLS.
In Three Jiles.
JINGLE FIL

It was me OF the fewys of perfect
.sleighing which could Expected dur
ing the whole winter, it was the
day before Christmas. " the sleigh
bells kept carnival in thGeets! How
mad the echoes were How, from
morning till noon, fromon to night,
the clashing melody tioa on the air.
then, as you listened, d away like
the trailing off of a whiteoke-wreath
in the distance, only to ev and grow
again, with the same neag, nearing,
the same receding, reced.
Snowflake, you're ttstill for a
.sleigh-ride. You leave thleen and
me to do all the talking. wv can any
body be quiet when tBleigh-bells
Jingle like this? Listenr'
The school-boy brother &c a whistle
and a touch which the spirl horse un-
derstood perfectly. With answering
toss of his head he sprangf at a pace
which shook out of the str of sleigh
bells every particle of mt they had
in them.
"There, now,' merry D. went on,
81 know you'll answer yourself
after that" But he bentsward the
pale, pure face with q gen motion,
and drew closer up the VIII wolf-skir
around her. Few indeed softeneC
their voices in speaking her, fol
Snowflake was blind.
II forgot to talk, Dick, believe, -
she answered in her low vol Il wa
really dreaming, in spite ofle sleigh
bells"
Dreaming! Out here ibis wide
awake day? Dreaming ADD what?
wondered Dick.
"A dream Of sleigh bells, said thu
blind girl, slowly.
And Kathleen at her sidehsweret
with Hash of her great TX eyes
''Oh! could dream about I sleig b
bells myself. Don't they souEay an
victorious and successful? bbody'
bells are like our bells, the SIR bell
that grandpa bought becas the
pleased your ear, Snowflake, thChrist
mas when you were little gin
"Ah! grandpa spoiled M sal
Snowflake, smiling, and was t youn
to know how unreasonable wi to as
such Christmas gift. But le TIL
string of sleigh-bells just as NH as
did them
"And have them hung the ye-oun
in your own room," finished Ksleel
"Yes, I know, and no wonder ty sa
pleasant things to you. Even khe
they shook and jingled SO, thont I
myself of professions and conero
and good fortune and grand ito
coming home from the wars toai
their lady-loves. y
"Ah! and what did Snowflake dan
I wonder?" queried Dick, curisl
.curbing his horse SO that the bellar
more softly.
II was listening TO all the bells.r
piled the blind girl. "Hark, :
bark, Kathleen! DO you notice
they cross each other, how they mil
how they blend or else disag
St. Landry democrat., 1881-12-24
JINGLE SECOND.


..K.thleen, Kathleen, you cannot,
YOU will not break my hearth
Kathleen's lip quivered. her eyes fell
before the half-commanding, halt-be-
seeching gaze that rested with such IN,
tensity upon her face. For second
she was honest with herself, and owned
silently that if she broke this manly
heart it was breaking her own. too.
Then there rang out on the clear,
frosty air of the star-it Christmas eve,
and penetrated keenly into the breath
less hush Of the room where Kathleen
and her sutton had finished hanging the
Christmas wreaths he had brought her,
an hour ago. peal of sleigh bells
the very same old, silver-volced pens
that the blind girl had loved, shaken oy
the impatient stamp of the coal olacN
horse standing at the gate.
Not at the gate of the old 1air hohe'
.the 'Squire's House." but before a
cramped, brick tenement in dull city
street. Full of hope and courage, DICK
had left the beloved Square House
and gone out to Uncle Lane and India
when he had finished school. Upon
his fathers sudden death and the al
most simultaneous disaster which swal'
lowed up many more fortunes than
this one. Dick, at whatever sacrlhce,
would have fastened home but tol
Kathleen. =. .,
But kathleen, strong and self-willee
as ever, would not hear to her gentl'
mother, would not for once hear u
Snowflake.
"Uncle Lane writes, and Dick him
, self writes, that Dick fortune is mad
if he can remain at his post givel
space of time. Remain he shall,
vowed Kathleen, clenching her hands
r ..and he shall know so much only OF GU
losses as is necessary. He shall hay
} every chance to gain the fortune n
3 used to laugh about, but which ma
now hecome a matter of such bite
need" =,
, Kathleen's real force and faculty cal
RED their credentials with them, an
q drew over to her side friends and helf
ers by whose aid everything, was sole
YES, even the silver slelgh-bells' &c
j: Snowflake insisted on ia transfer e
: fected to this changed home, and Wor
d found for Kathleen that the mother an
s her daughters made brave efforts
s call the equivalent of their living O.
y penses.. ,u,r ~, ,,onf,,7
at his far-off toll, saddened, indee'
d but unsuspicious that Kathleen's lie
o tiers LETT the half untold of their rever
< es and sill the stint and suffering Their
is by entailed.
I Courage. then, whitest Snowfall
dearest lady-love!' he wrote, bi'thel
ID Il IL claim the sleigh bells yet"
q. Poor, naughty Kathleen! What
" change that jingle of the sleigh-bells
n the gate wrought in her soIten
to thoughts!
rs So it was Frank Collamore who ii
rs brought Snowtlake's silver sleig h~bell
M She had not kno wn, had, indeed, trl
not to know who had bought them.
n, twinge of unreasonable anger stung h
v, at the discovery now. 1t was we
lg timed discovery, she thought in tas
She had been on the point OF forgettl
e. quite that this could never again be
k! kathleen Morris of old times-this "
w poor girl, girl who worked for /
e, living-and Frank Collamore had
ep right to he cnnuetting with such a p'
St. Landry democrat., 1881-12-24

-Alphonse Daudet says of his wife
that ..she is an artist herself. There
is not page which have written that
she has not seen and retouched, where
on she has not thrown her delicate
| pow der OF blue and gold.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1881-01-17

CUNDENSED TELEGRAMS.

meeting of the cotton exchange was
held Saturday afternoon, at New York. to
protest against the monopoly of the gigantic
| telegraphic combination
No agreement has been come to in regard
| to the collective step at Athens on the Greek
| frontier question. but negotiations are pro
| ceeding. ~
Another cold wave entered the Hudson
river valley after the severe storm of rain
and snow, Friday. Mercury on Saturday
morning was A. below. A gale is blowing.
Maynard's cotton mill at Preston, Eng, is
| burned. Loss f2i,0o0.
British ship Leonoire sunk off IIartepool
| in collision with steamer John Dixon of
Liverpool. Nine persons were drowned, in
cluding Capt. Bailey of the Lenora.
A boiler in Watson's bleachery, at Passaic,
exploded Saturday, killing Owen Gartling
and fatally injuring another operative.
Secretary Sherman arrived at Cleveland,
O., Saturday en route to Mentor, where he is
Garfield's guest. He returned to.Cleveland
Sunday afternoon.
Senator Allison. an asprant for Office of
Secretary of the Treasury. was at Cleveland
O., Saturday. He was at Mentor on Mon
day.
A twelve years old son of Lyman Bursee,
of No. Adams, Mass, had his skull fractured
and was fatally injured, Friday night, by a
kick from horse.
George Franklin, aged l2, of IIinsdale
Mass. was instantly killed by a train on the
Boston & Albany Il. r., Saturday afternoon
The Vienna Presse SAYS it is proposed that
the powers take an identical step to
avert war.
Reports have reached two foreign embassies
at Constantinople that Greece intends attack
ing Turkey at the end of January.
w. II. Vanderbilt denies that the New
York Central railway has leased the Canada
Southern railway, as reported Friday.
Ernest Courais, demented, in the Hebrew
orphan asylum, New York, last night set fire
to her clothes, purposely, and was so badly
burned before she was rescued. that she died
BY an explosion at Stafford, Eng, to blow
up the army infantry barracks. one woman
and boy were fatally injured. Several
thousand stand of arms were in the armory
Gen. Grant has directed such repairs upon
his cottage at Long Branch, n. j., "a are
necessary. to put it in complete order for his
occupancy the coming summer.
The ice embargo OF two months existence
broke away Saturday night from the point Of
| the Hook to the Highlands. " J. Numerous
vessels were stranded and suffered consider
ably by contact with the ice
A Washington special says Levi. y. Nor
| ton will consent to go into Garfcld's Cabinet
as secretary of the navy.
In the Chamber Of Deputies at Madrid the
Minister announces the paciication of Cuba
as complete.
Greece is negotiating for the purchase OF
four unarmored cruisers.
Advices from Vienna, state that the En-
peror has accepted the resignation of Baron
Won Strict as Minister of Justice, and Herr
kremer Won Auenrode as Minister of Com
| merce. DIR. Prazatt will succeed to the
Ministry of Justice, and Baron Pine the
Ministry of Commerce.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1881-01-17

How many of our readers know that
Augusta has firs,-class public library,
open to all upon the payment of mere
y nominal sum ? Judging from the
limited number of those who choose
TO avail themselves of the privilege of taking
Books we should say that most of our peo-
PIE had not discovered the fact The Augusta
Library, in Bradbury's block, has about 5000
volumes on its shelves. 1t is open Saturday
aiternoons and evenings. Miss Julia Clapp
y the Librarian. The terms for taking out
books are $500 year, or sl.00 for six
months. Two volumes can be Withdrawn by
one person at one time. The books in the Ii
ofary are very carefully selected and comprise
mevery cream Of American and English litera-
wfe' There "a large number Of choice novels;
and oil the best works of the best authors
poets, essayists, historians, political econo-
misss. and travellers-can be found on its
shelves. 1t seems too bad, when many of
oar people have so much time for readin G
nat this library should be no better patron
i,ed
Daily Kennebec journal., 1881-01-17
WARRINGTON.
The Ship Canal.


WAsHING1ON, January Is. s. S. Phelps,
this morning, ofore the Ship Canal Commits
mison, presented figures to show that there
will be enough travel over the Nicaragua
route to pay per cent. on one hundred mil
lions. The committee adjourned to Monday.
1t was agreed that ex-Secretary Thompson, AS
the representative OF the Panama Company,
shall have hearing Monday, and probably
Edes.
The New National Museum Building.
The new fre-proof building for the Nation
al museum was completed to-day, and turned
over to the building committee. 1t will be
formally opened to the public March 4th, upon
the occasion of the Inauguration ball.
Committee on Census.
The Senate Committee on Census, agreed
to recommend the passage of q bill appro-
priating $780, 900 additional for the complet-
ing of the work of the Census Bureau They
have also decided to report bill authorizing
the Superintendent to contract with private
parties for printing the Census reports, in
order to hasten their publication, as the
government printing Office is already over
burdene,l with work.
Petitions for Repeal Of Tax
JohnP Gould Of New York. is here, with
petitions bearing about 10000 signatures
from nearly all the states, to be presented to
the House Of Representatives, and referred
to the Committee on Ways and Means; pray
ing for the repeal of the two-cent stamp tax
on. bank checks, and also for the repeal Of
the tax of one and q half of one per
cent. per annum on deposits now paid by
National, State banks, trust companies, and
all other banking institutions.