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Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1882-04-08
Humbug Advertisements.

The time never has been and new
er will be when the people of this or
any other country can buy a gold
dollar for seventy five cents. Neither
can you, dear reader, purchase an
organ worth three or four hundred
dollars for $50. This is all nonsense.
Still we have no objection to other
people doing their business just as
they see fit. We are selling good,
honest made piano at from S1S5 to
1915, aud good, honest organ mot
all stops) for from $4S to $475. All
our goods are made upon honor, and
we send to any part of the world on
test trial, and if no pleesee no keepee
as the Chinaman would say. For the
past ten years we have sent both
pianos and organs to every part of
the world, and our instruments give
the most universal satisfaction. If
you wish good instrument, one that
will always last you, we shall be
pleased to send you our catalogue
and prices; and if you purchase one
of the Thomas Brothers Silver Tone
Instruments you will get what you
requ ireland one instrument sold in a
neigbborhood always sells US more.
Address for prices, etc,
JAS. II. THOMAS,
Successor 10 Thomas Bros
Catskill, N. Y, U. s. A.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1882-04-08
"A GREAT many who feel Il

"A GREAT many who feel that
the politics and politicians OF the
present are corrupt, content them
selves with saying let us purify the
ballot. A pure ballot means votes
cast by citlzeLs uninfluenced by I'M
worthy motives. 1t means votes cast
by citizens who think more of their
own country than of any other, and
who hold the we'll being of their
country above preference for indi-
viduals or party prejudice. So long
as each year brings millions of new
material out of which to make votes
pure ballot cannot be obtained.
But small proportion care anything
about being citizens, they only come
to better their condition, and accept
citizenship sometimes because they
acquire property and sometimes be-
cause they wish to obtain land or
mines from the government, mostly
because just previous to election some
office seeker pays the expense of get
ting out their papers in consideration
for their vote, aud seldom because
they have become imbued with the
spirit of our institutions and realize
the value of the privileges which our
forefathers provided for US, and which
we have freely allowed them to share,
and so freely that but few appreciate
them.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1882-04-08
Grateful Women,

None receive so much benefit, and
none are so profoundly grateful and
show such an interest in recommend
ing Hop Bitters as women. II is the
only remedy peculiarly adapted to
the many ills the sex is almost uni
versally subject to. Chills aud fever,
indigestion or deranged liver, con.
slant or periodical sick headaches,
weakne in the back or kidneys,
pain in the shoulders and different
parts of the body, feeling of lassi-
tude and dependency, all are readi-
ly removed by these Bitters.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1882-04-08

-THE Reno Journal has entered
upon its seventeenth volume and
ninth year. 1t says it is doing as
we'll as can be expected under the
circumstances. 1t is to be envied,
for those Reno fellows expect so
much.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1882-04-08

-THE Reno Times asks if
America has any rights. The actions
of many politicians, Office holders
and office seekers, lend color to the
suppos ton that she has none that
foreign immigration agents and nat
uralized members of piece clubs are
bound to respect.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1882-04-08

--THE Chinese agitation is bur
the beginning of the end. Since tie
bill has been vetoed it will be neces
sary to make a clean sweep, and it
may be better in the end. Had the
bill become law the next cry would
have been, there are too many Portu-
gese or there are too many Italians
coming here. There are, in fact, too
many of all classes, and it will all
probably be stopped at once.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1882-04-08
SERGEANT Mason is less

SERGEANT Mason is less de-
serving of sympathy than the COM
mon felon. He betrayed trust
con6ded in him by the Government
and dishonored the command to
which he belonged. There was no
patriotism in his crime. There was
nothing but au unworthy seeking for
aotoriety. This he has gained and
is even now turning it into money.
Subscriptions have been started for
his benefit, and he will probably re.
alize a handsome profit from his
criminal investment. A bushes firm
has engaged his services as salesman
at a salary of $500 per year, ex-
pecting that foolish public will go
to see the man who shot at Guiteau,
but possibly forgetting that the das-
tardly cur who would commit a
breach of trust in shooting at pris-
oner whom he was bound 10 honor
as a soldier to protect, would be
strongly tempted to rob his employ
ers should opportunity offer.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1882-04-08

IF the Chinese could vote
most of those who think European
immigration is a benefit to the count
nv would take an aesthetic pleasure
in the contemplation of pig tails and
dilate ssgely upon the vast assistance
they have rendered in developing the
country.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1882-04-08

--Ir is time the old parties
were given up. The issues are all
dead upon which they divided. The
interests of the nation demand the
formation of new party, the men,
bers of which will be intent upon i'm
proving the condition OF the country
and not upon keeping certain men
in office.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1882-04-08
.OFE1cE seeking politicians

-OFFIcE seeking politicians
dare not give up the old party organ
izations. They know that it is not
upon the popular vote that they de-
pend for nominations, but upon the
manipulations of conventions. After
a ticket has been selected the party
lash is applied, and by this means
more than halt the time men VINO
are not really the choice ofthe people
are elected. The leaders of each
party will oppose the Native Ameri-
can party not because they do not
sympathise with the movement but
because they fear that they will not
be able to control primaries and con-
yentions. A new class of men will
be elected at the primaries new as
sociations will be formed and n new
set of wires will have to be worked.
If the present set OF seekers tor state
and county offices were assured that
they could pull the wires under a
new party name as under the old,
three fourths of them would clamor
for the organization, but knowing
that they must force themselves up
on the people by means OF their
ability to persuade the men who year
after year are delegates to their re-
spective party conventions and not
knowing who would be delegates
under the new order they will cling
tenaciously to old methods and men.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1882-04-08

JESSE JAMES has been killed,
and the country relieved of one of
it's worst men, but persons Of decent
proclivities will! he surprise | at dis
covering after due thought that they
have more respect for the dead rob
Der than for the live blood money
assassin.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1882-04-08
IMMIGRATION is overcrowdin

--IMNIGRATIoN is overcrowding
the country, reducing wages and
giving us more workmen than there
is work for. The natural conse-
quence is that monopolies flourish.
When an attempt is made to check
them at the polls their employees are
subject to coercion, for they know
that numbers sta i ready to take
their place should they be discharg-
ed. And the numbers of unemploy-
ed are more easily approached by
bribery either in the form of a d.
rect payment or the promise of work
than would be men earning good
wages and secure in their places.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1882-04-08

-THE vote on the Chinese bill
and the veto show the uselessness of
party platforms where the party or.
ganization is only maintained for the
purpose of keeping the managers in
power.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1882-04-08

AN American is imprudent il
he acknowledges his nativity while
running tor office. He must catch
either the Irish. German, or some
other foreign vote in order to be
considered in the field.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1882-04-08
NONE but a hypocrite or O

NONE but hypocrite or one
who does not understand what he is
talking about, will get excited over
the veto of the Chinese bill, and still
say be favors European immigration
Tho Chinese themselves understand
the effect of restriction placed up.
on further importations from China,
and being alive to their own interests
hoped it would become a law, al
then competition in their lines OF
business would be diminished and
their wages would approximate those
paid to white men. Competition is
the foundation of the agitation. All
talk of immortality and disease is
emily thrown in by those at first who
came here as strangers, as did the
Chinese, and needed reasonable ex-
cuse for attempting what Americans
in their blindness have been slow to
see the necessity of, self protection
The claim of foreign born citizens
echoed by demagogues of American
birth, that the young people of this
Coast have become vicious and i'm
moral through the presence of the
Chinese is true, but not in the sense
in which it is advanced by Irishmen
and other foreigners who see that
they need an excuse before asking
Americans to discriminate in their
system of immigration laws between
one class of foreigners and another.
That the Chinese are immoral and
vicious to degree is also true, but
their corruption and vice are not even
indirect causes of our social misfor-
tune known as hoodlumism. If each
Chinaman who comes hero was en-
dowed with the highest moral attri-
butes the result would be precisely
The same. They do the work which
the young men and women should
do, and owing to their training and
hereditary habits of economy are
able to do it cheaper than they can.
In consequence the young people
thrown on the resources of idleness
usually verify the proverb which
SAYS, "the devil finds work for idle
hands" The injury inflicted by the
Chinese element of our population
comes solely from competition IN la
Dor. They may impart some of
their peculiar phases of our immor-
atty to our idle white population,
but where by their competition they
enforce idleness pom large numbers
o large criminal element would be
the result il every Chinaman was an
Eaoch in godliness and 81. Antho-
ny in virtue. 1t is time for Ameri.
cans to begin to protect America
against the curse of both Europe and
Asia, a surplus of labor and the con-
sequent low wages, meagre living OF
the masses and immense centralized
welth of a few; and it Is we'll to be-
gin with the Chinese the baneful ef-
fects of whose presence are apparent
to all, but let it be done under the
honest motto of self protection and
not under the byrocritical cry of
immortality and non assimilation.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1882-04-08

THE Esmeralda Herald has
Just entered upon its tenth volume.
1t is now and always has been one of
the best weekly papers in Nevada.
We wish it continued success.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1882-04-08
NEITHER party has any pl

-NEIrHER party has any prin
ciples which need assertion. The
organizations are only kept up for
the purpose of giving power and
place to the leaders and their plat
form are only meant for use during
the campaign.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1882-04-08

db0ASa week In your own town. s. out
en- ODht free No risk. Everything new
Capnai MT required. We will furnish you
everything. Many are making fortunes. La
dies make AS much as men, and boys and girls
make great pay Reader, If you want bust
ness at which you can make great pay all the
time you work, write for particulars to II.
HALLKTr b Co.. Portland, Maine.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1882-04-08
AudstOr's Financial Statement for
the Year Ending 1881.

To the Hon., the Board of County
Commissioners of Lyon county Ne
vada:
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1882-04-08

NOTICE is hereby given that the following
Vpersons, locAto's OF the Mining Claim
known as the silver Leaf Gold and Silver
Mining Company's claim. situated and being
In Lyon county, state Of Nevada. To Emelia
Rich, wife of A. J Rich. W. X. King, lssdore
Rich, 3. Galland, and p. Geyer. locators oil
said claim, that p. Gsyer, as one OF the ioca-
tors of said claim 10 protect his interest III
said claim, caused work to be done ON said
claim to the amount of Sl26, and paid for the
same the amount pro ratio assessed 10 the
affore mentioned parties in so each. This Is
notice for said Emela Rich, ". X. King
Isadore Rich and S. Galland to pay TO r. 1ey-
er the amount expended by him ON eaid claim
on or before ninety days from date hereof or
in failure to pay suit amount the interest OF
said parties shall revert to said p. deyer AZ
the expiration of said ninety days. 80 provided
by an act OF Congress approved May 10; 1879:
Jan. IA, 1882. I. dEhEh.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1882-04-08

Reorganization.
Cash in treas Jan 1881 1886 90
Receipts during the year. 74.06l Is 77.9OS %
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-03-31
4 Royalty Fight.

st. Paul, Mimi, March 23.-The
visit of Mr. Charles Callahan, OF
Chicago, to this city and Minneapo.
lis to-day was, it is understood, fol
the purpose of demanding of the
Minneapolis harvester works in the
name of G. II. Mccormick, of Chi
cago, Norman c. Thompson, and
Helen A. Gorham, of Rock ford, Ill.
royalty of SO upon each Irvine
binding harvester that said company
has made or will make. This claim
is based upon the patents which, af-
ter several years of controversy in
the patent Office, were in 1880
granted to Marquis l.. Gorham, OF
Rockford, and it is claimed by the
parties who demand the royalty
that they own and control all the
patents relating to the automatic
binding of the bundles of grain.
The Minneapolis harvester works,
the William Deering company, of
Chicago. the Champion Reaper CON-
pany of Springfield O., the Esterly
Harvester company, Of Whitewater,
and all Others that are using twine-
Diners made under the Appleby pat
ents are to be proceeded against by
the parties controlling the Gorhan,
patent, The attorneys who have
been engaged by the Mccormick fac
ton are George Harding of Phlladel-
phia, T. y. DickeTson of New York
NJ. D. Leggett of Cleveland, O..
and Parkinson 4 Parkinson of Gin
cinnati.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-03-31


A committee at the United States
naval institute Of Annapolis, Of
whom Mr. Hamilton Fish was one,
has awarded prize to Lieutenant
Kelly, of the navy, for an essay en-
titled Our Merchant Marine-The
Causes Of its Decline, and the
Means to be taken for its Revival. !"
The lieutenant handled the matter
without gloves. The responsibility
for the decline of American shipping
he placed upon congress, which, i'll
order to protect selfish ring of
ship-builders, or more properly, to
weld this as one link in the long
chain Of protection, has made navi-
CATION laws which have had the eff
feet OF sweeping American bottoms
from the ocean, and despoiling
Americans who are entitled to take a
place in the carrying trade to which
the commerce Of the country entities
Ihen. America is the greatest con
tributor to the ocean carrying trade,
and yet has the least share in it's
transportation and the profits aris-
ing therefrom. The paper dwells on
the necessity of free ships, and re-
reform in the matter of measure
ments, consul fees and local taxation.
But SO long as the protectionists are
knit together in congress and the
lobby, each bound by 4 tacit treaty
to stand by the other in the great
industry of robbing the American
people and SO long as the dominant
party holds to its practices in this
regard no one need entertain any
hope of reformation of the naviga-
ton laws. On this subject of ships
most protectionists are agreed that a
great injury is done the country by
conceding the demands of a few
ship-builders who are satisfied with
a monopoly of the inland and coast
wise ship-building, but they will
not knock out that brick lest the
whole line follow they will not
pull out that prop lest the whole
structure of protection be weakened.
Some time ago, congressman Farwell
introduced a bill for free ships, but
it isn't supposed that he has the re
hottest hope it will become a law.
Remove all other interests and let
the navigation laws of America
come up for consideration upon
their naked merits, and they would
be repealed within a week. But
protection is a colossal combination
of back-scratching. You scratch
my back, says the iron man to the
ship-builder. and Ill scratch
yours SO it runs through them
all. When one is in danger the
other rallies to his support.-Times.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-03-31
Educational Department.
Conducted by J. H. Terry. Principal of Minera
Point Public Shoots.
IMPORTANT CHANGES IN THE
SCHOOL LAW.
From the Journal of Education.

The legislature this winter has
made two very important changes
in the school law of the state. The
acts provide:
1st. The annual school meetings
Of all school districts in this state
will hereafter be held on the first
Monday in June in each year. The
school officers whose terms of office
would have otherwise expired at the
time of holding the annual meeting
in August or September next, OF
within ten days hereafter, will con-
tinue to hold the offices until the
annual meeting in June, 1888, and
SO those expiring in August or Sep
TENDER of each of the two following
years, will hold the offices until the
annual meeting in June following
the year in which their terms would
otherwise expire. This applies to
all school districts III the state, and
provides for all annual meetings to
be held upon the same day. There
is no longer provision for districts to
elect upon which of two days they
will hold annual meetings. The
law does not effect cities, however
which make reports directly to the
office of the state superintendent
and whose school affairs are man
aged by q board of education, ac-
cording to provisions of special char
tiers. The law also provides that
school district boards shall meet an
nually, on the Saturday preceding
the first Monday of June, and settle
with the district treasurer, and
make up a financial report to be
presented to the annual meeting on
the Monday following.
End. The census Of the school
population in this state will hereaf-
ter be taken on the last day of May,
annually, instead of the last day OF
August, as heretofore. The reports
of district clerks to town clerks are
hereafter to be made between the
tenth and fifteenth days of June
each year, the reports of the town
clerks to the county superintendent.
are to be made between the tenth
and fifteenth days of July in each
year, and the reports of the county
superintendent to the state super
intendent are to be made on or be-
fore the fifteenth day Of August
each year.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-03-31

insane As it happened there was
no harm done, and there is real
cause for congratulation in that Nc
Lean is not an Irishman. Thanks
giving services were held in all the
churches and chapels on Sunday,
and foreign governments have been
very prompt in sending in congrat-
ulations on the providential escape
of Her Most Gracious Majesty
The Empress of Austria left
England yesterday afternoon, hav-
ing cut her hunting visit short
1t is said that the farmers in
Cheshire. where she was hunting,
made such complaints about the
way their growing crops were dam
aged and fields cut up. that it wa
considered best for her to leave Oh
course such an august personag-
drew crowds Of people whenever she
rode to hounds, and one can not
blame the farmers for objecting T.
having all these people gallopins over
their fields. The Empress is a
grandmother, and that fact hard
ened the people against her. What
business they said, had a grand
mother out fox-hunting every day?
Perhaps that was entirely her own
business. A fox-hunt is one of tn,
prettlest sights in the world, and is
no doubt very enjoyable to those
who are in it, with the exception OF
the fox. but after all it is cruel.
brutal sport, and deserve to rank 10
higher than coursing, which consists
in chasing to death, poor terrifie,
rabbits or hares, by means of trained
hounds. f. NJ.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-03-31

of its depth, is unquestionably the
most spacious. the best fitted, the
most convenient, and the most at
tractlve office of the sort, not in this
country only but in the world.
The business offices of nine Amer
lean newspaper offices out OF ten
could be put into the lobby re-
served by the World for the public,
and there is room for two more such
offices behind its counters. AS the
counting room is lofty aud glazed to
the very ceiling, it is perfect in light
and ventilation, while its cool tiled
floors and polished coanters, with
their neat glass panels and shining
brazen gratlngs, give it an agreeable
and tasteful appearance without any
sacifices If its business character.
Here, as elsewhere throughout the
building, practically and solidity,
combined with simple good taste,
have ruled all the arrangements and
made them successful. Another ad-
mlrable innovation in newspapering,
following upon the Worlds employ
ment bureau and system of summer
resort registers and school registers,
has been introduced in the form of
an Information Bureau, where are
kept on file circulars, catalogues and
plans supplying all the information
concerning advertisements in the
journal which the advertisers them
selves could supply.
In the rear of the counting-room
are the wrapping and mailing de
partments, where the papers thrown
off from the new and magnificent
Hoe presses beneath, at the rate of
more than 10000 copies an hour,
are finally distributed to news-deal-
ers and carriers, to the post office
sorterS, or to the Worlds own
agents, whose neat light vans, drawn
by strong express wagon horses,
may be seen in the early morning
bowling along the streets up town
or in the adjacent cities.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-03-31

The Downfall OF Protection
was the subjcc Of 4 lecture delivered
on "Wednesday night at the Art
Association Hall, in Brooklyn, by
Henry J. Phlpot, associate editor
If the Iowa State Leader Mr.
Beecher presided, and in introducing
the lecturer said The work of the
Brooklyn Revenue Reform Club has
been like a spark; 1t has caught and
spread. and now from all over the
country come requests for its doc
uments. When knowledge spreads
protection is doomed" Mr.. Philpot
was warmly received. He said that
the free-traders had not learned to
handle their weapons very well yet;
but, nevertheless. they always gil
the decisions in their favor. In
Iowa thousands of converts had
been made TO free-trade doctrines,
He was sure that free trade would
come, and was surprised there were
not more free-traders in New York
Protection would yet be laughed
down, as Greenbackism had been
Protection was bare-faced tyranny
Chicago Tribune.