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Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-07-19

SAN FRANcIsco, July lS.-The Directors
of the Union Con. to-day elected officers
as follows: Robert Sherwood, President;
j. NJ. Burlington, Secretary; Nevada Bank,
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-07-19
Eisht Buildings Burned.

SMARrsvILLE tCal.), July 1S.-The fire
this morning destroyed eight buildings.
The total loss will reach So, 900; total in
surance, SO, 200. One man was severely
burned while escaping from his room. 1t
is thought he will die.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-07-19

BAxrRsr1ELp tCal.l, July ls.-Wm. A.
Menchin. conductor on Il freight train,
was fatally hurt at Caliente to-day. The
cars backed upon him and drove q coup
linz min thronph hia body.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-07-19
Another ShipiOad of Chinese.

SAN Francisco. July 1s.-The British
sea tramp Malabar arrived to-day from
Hongkong, She brings 97b Chinese pas
ssngers. The vosse! has been temporarily
q~uarautined. pending the inspection OF
the passengers by tho health officers.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-03-08
ASSAULTING PRESIDENTS.

In the letter which ex-senator COnk-
ling wrote to Attorney General Nc
Veagh two or three days after the late
president was shot, expressing his ab-
hOrrence of assassination and his con-
dolence with the president and Mrs.
Garfield, he suggested that "a man
who attempts the life Of the president,
If morally responsible, commits an Of
Tense which the nation ought to guard
against and punish by the exertion of
all the power which civilized nations
may employ" This sentiment is COM
mon to the whole American people,
but what has congress done, or is it
going to do, to give expression to it in
the form of law? 1t should not take much
time, or require more delay than par
liamentary forms impose to pass bill
making any attempt to assault the
president capital and punishable with
death. Every congressman who does
not yield private and local legislation
in order to pass such national act de-
serves the unfriendly notice of the
country, and one who votes against it
should be made PIE ident and provid-
ed with his Cutie; u.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-03-08
A POTATOE QUESTION.

Scotch Irish potatoes are trelghted
to this country this winter as ballast.
They far exceed in quality as all tor
eign Irish potatoes do, the best Amerl-
can varieties. What is the reason that
in this country we can not, or do not,
grow Irish potatoes, of as gooda quail
ity as can be imported! We know of
no reason, but can imagine one. We
imagine it is less because foreign soil
is better adapted. to it than that the
foreign labor motor is SO. Here, in
the eye of tie agriculturalist, the pota-
toe is like Peter Pindar's razor, some
thing to sell, there it is, something to
eat. Here the farmers anxiety is, to
get to market in the quickest time;
there it is to do his work in the best
manner; here a barrel of potatoes re-
presents SO much money; there it re-
presents besides the farmer as a
farmer; here the question is solely as to
the quantity, there it is as to quality as
well-and so on. 1t is the fatal pur-
pose of getting rich in year, or few
years, that kills everything American.
1t is a law of American life that moth
ing is to be enjoyed without more
money than one actually wants, which
is called just what it is not, wealth.
The divine gifts that surround us, the
blessings of Providence that stock our
lives with their abundance, which are
ours without money and without price,
which are made for us to enjoy as we
for their enjoyment, and our capacity
for enjoying which is diminished in the
degree to which we resort to artificial
means or methods of enjoyment, are
unrecognized. We live and die with
out learning the way to be happy, and
usually pass out just at the time we
we have discovered it. The
only way there is is never considered.
1t is not learned till too late that con-
tent is better than houses and lands,
and clear conscience than millions of
money.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-03-08
THE KITE AND THE TAIL.

zen. JOhn X baylor, III HIS auuieSS
to the people of Uvalde, on his candl'
dacy for the state senate, said that the
western section or district, west Of
San Antonio, was the tail to the San
Antonio kite, and he was infavor OF
cutting the tail off and making con-
gressional district, leaving San An
tonic cut of it.
Now we beg to differ with General
Baylor in his view of the question, at
the same time to draw attention to the
probable apportionment of congress
sional districts and how they will affect
our city.
San Antonio is the central city of
southwest Texas, its growth and lnfu-
ence is looked upon with some jealousy
by people having interests in other
towns and neighborhoods, but we wish
to say that to the district we shall be
assigned; our good luck and fortune
shall innure. The petty ambition of a
few politicians who have their eyes
fixed on prospective advantages will
not interfere with either its material
welfare and its deep interest in the
prosperity of the wide section from
coast to frontier in which its own pros
perity is Graded. But if there is a
section to which San Antonio natural
ly belongs it is the frontier; the mill
tary establishment with its headquar-
tiers makes our city both the kite and
string that flies the tail of the Texas
military establishment.
San Antonio is the peculiar CONNER
cial center of the west-particularly
the section General Baylor speaks for.
But General Baylor would link US to
the coast, and cut US off from the grow
ing, prospectively great frontier, SO
far as political significance is. con-
cerned.
San Antonio,must hunt profit or pleas
ure with Seguin, Gonzales, Cuero, VIC
toria and Corpus Christi, while Uvalde
Castrovlle and Bracket seek the sport
i've society of Ell PAso. Fredericksburg,
Mason, Boerne and all our old COM
panions are not only to be cut off from
US but are to be turned over to the ten
der mercies of strangers to the north
OF them.
There is a good deal of underground
work going on about this appOrtion-
ment business.
A line must be drawn somewhere,
and the great 9th district must be sew
cred in two, andif the people of BeXar
were asked when they should 90 they
would say with the west.
We have looked at the political as
pect of division, and we are satisfied
that it will make but little difference
how the line is run; it will necessitate a
readjustment of parties and we believe
+lo+ =, 10 u
republican or at least independent. In
Justice to the material interests of the
people it should be strictly republican,
and we should like to see San Antonio
in that district.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-03-08
Wednesday, March 8. 1882.
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS.

A COLD, wet norther is prevailing
throughout the state.
A COFFEE exchange has been nau-
gurated in New York.
The democratic municipal ticket was
elected IN Mobile yesterday.
Alta MEETING of the stockholders of
the Texas Western Narrow Guage rail-
road company, at Houston, 1t was de-
cided to extend the road to Sealy, fifty
four miles.
ALL advocates of free trade get their
arguments from English sources; Eng
land is more interested IN having
American labor destroyed than any
other nation.
So far Coke's speech has met with
the favor of majority of the Texas
democratic press. So we may expect
the next state convention of that party
to declare for a tariff for revenue only.
We are in receipt Of the Texas Rail
road Review printed at Houston. 1t
is as neat paper of the kind printed
in the union. w. T. Harderbrook is
editor and manager, w. H. Coyle,
publisher, and.W. f. Hutchinson, gen.
eral travelling agent. If it were not
for the head, we should judge it to be
devoted strictly to Houston from the
opening words of the editor, "Hous-
ton, the birth place Of the Texas Rail-
way Review, the great center OF the
railway system of the southwest, holds
the key to the situation" Come, we
have a key to one situation that Hous-
ton don't command; come examine
our key-hole to Mexico, California, and
to northward.
THE cont, m2lated GROWING of the
Royal Imperialist Of Russia at Moscow
is not happily prefaced by the Star
Chamber rigors of the Nihilist trials at
St. Petersburg. Is there yet no con-
seriousness in the imperial mind Of the
quickening might of NH st resent
ment of imperial injuries, or of the in
vinc,ble tenacity Of the Nihilist purpose
whatever dangers oppose it, or at
whatever cost of life it is to be carr ed
through. More imperiOus than lmpe-
rialism, that indeed trembleS IN palled
fear before it, has it not yet taught the
doomed Russian royalist the simplest
lessons of prudence? Does it invite the
intervention Of a tragic episode at
Moscow at the very crisis of "crown-
ing2"
THE late Dr. J. G. Hollands manu-
scripts have furnished the press with a
posthumous work, just published, en-
titled Every Day Topics" In it he
condemns the indiscriminate abuse of
theatres and, himself a professor of re-
lgion and strict church member, cen
sures the pulpit for its ,proscriptive de-
punciatons Of theatrical amusements.
"Life is so.overburdened and full he
says, "that the thing men most need IS
to find forgetfulness Of care in inno-
cent pleasure. He declares that there
is an increasing attendance upon the
theatre among refined and religious
people, and that the effect of this is
being felt in the moral improvement of
the entertainments given. So that the
doctor held that driving good people
from them is an injury to both morality
and religion.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-03-08

WE THINK we discover the fine 1tal-
ian hand of Colonel Blanton Duncan in
the article in this mornings Express,
headed, The Wonders of Astronomy
OF the Zone of the Earth. :"
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-03-08
FORT WORTH TO GALVESTON
And BELT0N to GALVESTON,

Has opened an OUTLET TO THE SEA, and its
connections at Galveston with the different steam
ship lines secures to the people OF Texas unbroken
access % the commercial Centers of the United
States, Europe and Mexico This line connects
AT GALVESTON with Mallory Line Steamers for
Key West and New York with Morgan Line
Steamers for New Orleans, Indanola, Corpus
Christi, Brownsyi lie, ana Vera Cruz, Mexico,
and steamers for all parts of the word.
AT ROSENBERG with G.. H. & S. R'y. for San
Antonio and all points on that line, with Star
and Crescent Route at Houston for New Or
leans and all points an the Southeast.
AT BRENNAN with H. & f. c. R'y. Western
Branch) far Giddings, Austn and all points
on that line.
AT MILANO with !. & G. N. R'y for Hearne,
Palestine, RoCkdae, Round Rock George
town, Austin and all points on that line.
AT BANKS with Texas & St Louis R'y. for
Waco, Corsicana, Tyler, and all points on
that line
AT MORGAN with Texas Central R'y. for Waco,
MARIN, Hico, Dublin, Cisco and all points
on that line.
AT CLEBURNE with c. I. & NJ. c. R'y. for
Alvarado, Dallas and all points that line,
AT FORT WORTH with Mo Pacific, and Texas
& Pacific R'ys. for all points these lines,
as well as to St. Louis, Kansas ity, rhicago,
New York, and all points North, East and
West
Ss"See that your tickets read over this line.
EPFor full in for nation address
Oscar q. Murray, Genl. Pass. Agt.
2-25-Iy GALVESTON, TEXAS.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-09-07
HOW TARANTULAS FlHnT
\ Hattie which Lasted Six Hour.
and Then the VictOr DcvOurcd Iii
Luckiess Victim.

There was recently received in
Denver, for stora exhibition, two full
grown tarantuias, one of the brown and
the other of the black variety. The
brown fellow was Gagged in common
cigar box and the black one in a 81 :ss
jan. AS they could rot be exhibited to
advantage IN contrivances Of this kind,
and as they were not very pleasant
company to have running about loose,
a box almost two feet square with a
glass top was procured, on the bottom
of which layer of sand was spread to
make the animals feel at home. The
cover was then drawn and the spiders
itched into it from their seperate
cages. No sooner did the one discover
the others presence than they rushed
at eacn other rs vlciously rs two panth
ers, and Immediately closed in deadly
embrace. They came together with a
bound, and then twinipg their long
hairy legs about each other rolled over
and over in the sand, biting each other
savagely, and then Juggling with all their
might as if endeavoring to crush each
other by sheer muscular power. In
Ni''ipiS 90 AZ may SttiiI, tlilS SDIb VI
warfare was kept up for six hours, dur
ing mos; OF that time it could not be
seen that either was gaining the slight
est advantage, neither showed any sign
OF disposition to end the fight except by
the death Of his adversary, at last the
black one sucumbed and rolled over
dead on tho sand, while the victor i'm
mediately proceeded to reap the
spoiis of his long battle. Selling MS
vanquished enemy with his stout horns
or pinchers, or whatever contrivances
he has tor that purpose, he rapidly tore
him limb from limb. and cody pro
ceeded, in true cannipalistc fashion, to
make meal of him. In a very short
space of time nothing was left but a
little pile of legs and pieces Of shell to
mark the spot where one tarantula had
fallen and another had dined .-Denuer
Tribune.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-09-07

SCOTS knowledge of the forgeries has
been used to influence Pratt. Scott
says the latter proposed the robbery 70
him, and tainted him, when he re-
fused, with being afraid to take the
risk. he was aware of the intention
to rob the bank, but knew nothing of
the actual deed until he read of it it in
the newspapers. He asserts that
the letter he addressed to
WEIGH Mt Peoria, which first
gave the Pinkertons their clew, was
merely intended 70 warn him of the
danger, and to suggest the necessity of
getting out of the country. SCOTS wife
left for her parents, in kewaunee, last
night, and he will be taken there to-day.
lie processes to be ignorant of the
identity OF Welch's companion. This
mysterious individual viii hereafter be
the center OF interest in this case. 1t
has been learned that there is another
commercial traveller who was party
to the plan. He weakened and refused
to have anything to do with the matter.
Then WEIGH picked up third COM
merclal man, VINO bad nerve enough to
take hand. 1t is presumed that he
has been putting good distance be-
tween himself and the state of Illinois,
and, II WEIGH concludes to reveal his
identity, he will be safely across the
border. The Pinkertons have, up TO
date, recovered about one-hali the
original suns 500 from WEIGH and
$4,000 from Pratt.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-09-07
Canning Corn

On this subject the Michigan Farmer
says: Sweet corn Is one Of the most
diff, things to can. II must be
cooked for long time, IN order to
thoroughly cook the corn, to destroy
all germs of ferment, and every par
ticle of air must be expelled In can
ming factories the corn is cooked, on
the cob, in boiling water for five min
utes, which sets the milk. The corn
is then cut off, pressed into the cans
and the covers soldered on, n small
hole bling made in the cover to allow
the air to escape, and the cans are
then boiled in solution OF chloride Of
lime, which boils at much higher
TEN perature than water, and the
greater degree of heat cooks the corn
thoroughly in thirty minutes. If cook
ed in water they require boiling for
five hours. The cans are then wiped
dry and a drop Of solder fixed over the
opening. The drying Of sweet corn is
a safe and less troublesome process
than canning, and enc which we found
in orr domestic economy to give rs de-
sirable results. A friend who is a
model hou-ekeeper, prepares corn as
follows: Boil till the milk is set, cut
from the cob and scrape the cobs light
" to get the germs Of the grain. Then
pack in stone jars in layers with salt,
finishing with layer Of salt, and
cover closely. When wanted for use
soak in tepid water until fresh enough
to suit
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-09-07
- -
JONES' DAUGHTERS.
The Alleged Cause OF the Hostility of
The New York Times" 10 ex-Sena.
tor t0nGIinx

~
tor ConHIing.
A Washington.dispatch to the New Or
leans Times Democrat says: The bitter
attack of the New York Times on ok.
Senator Conkling in an article entitled
jay Gould's man." revives A story
once current here in Washington, which
explains the hostility of tbs Times to
Conkling. Several years ago George
jones, the proprietor of the Times, was
ON his way to the national Capitol with
his daughters, and Conkiug was n pas
senger on the same train. Jones was n
warm personal friend and admirer of
Conkling and had utilized every oppor-
tunily to say n kind word about him in
his paper. Conkling, during the Jour.
ney from New York to Washington,
passed through the car in which Jones
and his daughters were, Conklin
stopped moment to speak to Jones,
and Jones seized the opportunity to in
troduce Conk,ing to his daughters.
Conkllng barely recognized The intro
ductIon and, without speaking word
to the voting ladies, passed To another
car. Jones was mad, so mad, indeed,
that he could scarcely give utterance to
his anger, There was no reason why
his daughters should he treated with
such indifference. They were not par
ticularly noted for beauty, but they were
tine-looking and stylish, and had the
reputation OF being very aimable and
remarkably bright. Jones said to Tom
Murphy the noted New York politician
who WAS "A RpprtatOr af tho srun, that
Conkiings manner amounted TO UNI
pardonnble rudeness and shat the time
would come when Conklipg would re-
greet 1T. Murphy went into the car
where Conkling was seated and endeav-
, ored to induce him to go and make
amends for his ungratious conduct;
but Conkllng was too proud to admit
that he had done anything that .equir-
ed the appearance of IN apology.
from that time to the present the Times
have lost no chance to assail Conkling.
When ,Conkling had his Canonchet
trouble and was driven of the Sprague
premisee by Sprague with shotgun,
all the New York papers suppressed the
story the next day except the Times.
ConkI knew better than to ask
favor of Jones. He knew that tn story
was TO be published IN the Times, and
he was SO anxious about it that he
waited until o'clock in the morning
to get proof-slips of 1t from the Times
Office, which were brought to him by n
friend. 1t Is probable that Conkling
has wished many times that he had
been more gracious to the Jones girls.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-09-07

PRICE OF BUTTER.-A great deal has
been said during the past six months or
year concerning the rapid increase of
the dairy business in the Northwestern
States, until it was generally supposed
that the present season would show an
immense production of butter and
cheese over previous seasons, but the
facts do not warrant the supposition.
The reports from the factories and
creameries generally agree that the
production is from one. quarter to one
third less this year than last, and
among the reasons which may be as
signed for the short production is the
continued high price of beef cattle,
which induced many dairy farmers to
sell thoir cows in the early spring, and
their INABILITY to replenish their herds.
linen, too, the June grass as a whole,
was of an inferior quality, and did not
produce as much milk a. usual The
high price of feed during the past win
ter deferred many farmers in the sum-
mer dairy districts from feeding liber.
ally, and their own COWS came out in
the spring in rather low condition
These and other reasons may be given
as the cause OF the short produ ction.-
Elgin Adu0cdte
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-09-07
An Eloping Girls Joke.
indianapolis News.

An elopement occurred in the city
last evening which was planned in a
very novel manner. The parties to the
somewhat sensational affair are Arthur
w. Robertson, son Of James r. Robert
son, president of the Franklin Fire In
surance company, and Miss Addie VIII
son, the seventeen-ycarol daughter of
Benjamin A. Wilson, the real estate
agent, who resides at 1888 North West
street. fne girl, yesterday afternoon,
visited quite number Of her lady and
gentlemen friends and invited them TO
her nome in the evening to take sup
per. she sad she was preparing II sur
prise for her father and mother ana de-
sired III some way 10 have them leave
home long enough for her to complete
the arrangements and have all in read
mess. In this dilemma she was ac-
commodated by a young lawyer, who
summoned her father away from nome
on a pretended business transaction,
while lady friend quickly volunteered
her services in having her mother leave
home to make call.
At the appointed time the guests be-
gan to assemble, and the young lady's
parents also returned home. Instead
of finding a tempting meal awaiting
them, there was no one ut home to re-
ceive them, and the surprise, instead of
being "a happy one, was OF very diff
ferent nature. 1t was soon discovered
that the young lady, in the absence of
her parents, had packed her trunk and
fled with her lover, the young man
named above. The mother WAS al
most crazed with grief, and the father
became highly indignant over the af-
fair. The guests were dismissed, not,
however, before the elopement had
leaked out, and afterward a warrant
was obtained for young Robertson's ar
rest on charges OF abduction and grand
larceny, the latter consisting of the al
legged theft Of the trunk and clothing.
No trace of the clipping couple had
been found at late hour last night,
aud it was the opinion of the officers
that they were either concealed in the
city or had departed in hack for the
purpose OF catching late train at one
Of the adjoining towns The parties
belong to highly respectable families,
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-09-07
The Zulu Kings Allowance OF Beef.

The ex- King Cetywayo still sticks to
beef as the chief article OF his diet ;
our beef he considers good, bat no! so
good as that of his own country, for
there is too much fat aooutit. The
other day fourteen pounds bad been
prepared for bis break fast and that OF
his three chiefs. The latter ate thir-
teen pounds before Cetywayo made his
appearance, 50 fresh supply had to
be cooked.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-09-07

If John Hay be nominated IN tie
Cleveland, Ohio, district, as Bob Hit
has been in the Freepcrt, Illinois, dis
trict, young men with an ambition to
go TO congress will note the ladder by
which these youth climbed. Each was
n journalist, each a secretary of the
American legation at a European cap
ital, each the first as istant secretary of
state at the department at Washington.
Both had sustained close clerical rela.
tons to President Lincoln-Hitt as a
reporter of his speeches during the de
bate with Douglas, Hay as private
secretary during the campaign of 1860
and subsequently in the white house
Hit, however has never been accused
of writing poetry, and hasn't had the
fortune of marrylRg a million. Both
young men are natives of Illinois, and
each loves his country. Hay has an.
other advantage over Hit, who never
has been honored with the mortal chal-
lenge Of Bombburster jeremiah Dono-
van. of Rosa aod Coney Island.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-09-07

lonable Sammer resorts, says: "The
season Is closing carly on every hand.
Already there are many people back
III town. Hotel. keepers at the sea side
resorts arc looking for general exod-
us to take place the first week in Sep
tember,"