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Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1883-03-17

The above trains are run daily, and make
close connection at Mound House with trains
of v. st Il. H., for Virginia and Reno, and
with the Central Pacific railroad at Reno, Wis.,
v. g. T. II. Il. for all points East and West.
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IL q IL N.

LoTHkOP-in Dayton. Thursday. March Is,
TO the wife of John LOthrJp. son. Weight
nIDe pounds
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Carson & Colorado U. U.
TIME TABLE.

Taking Effect Saturday, January goth, 1882
BoDIE and CANDELARIA EXPRESS.
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Total over $40, 900. Iss 149 1856 i5s ia ll3
The monlhly snocnt Of loss since January
Let, at Gres, was, in ] January, So, SOC, 600; Feb
rusry, IS. 300, 600; March, S7,25O,0Oo; in
April there were ten fires, With loss 10 each
OF at least 100000, fetal tof the month, So
SOC, 900, in May nine hres amounted to 8 loss
of Sl95, 900, the total loss of the month ST..
100000; in june there were nine 6res with a
loss of S2,225,000; total 10 = 10 June. 81, eee,-
600, making a total fer the six months Of
S44, 000,00e, 100000 less than for the cor
responding time in 1882, but that half year
the loss was unusually large. According to
the Chronicles FIRE tables he ssefega ate Ere
loss for the 6rst ssx riarths of each of the
past eigh. years has been az follows: 1882,
s45, 221, $50; 1881, i39, Gas, 100; 1880, $40, $685.
300; 1879, $50 s7S. 800; 1873, s34,79 600;
1877, $50, 54S 800 (including the 1872, 900 zoe
loss by the fire at St. John, N. b.; 1876,
$780, 2l 100; 1875, S44,4O2, $50. This Shove
an average OF S44, 100000 burned PIP during
the frst half of each year since 1875, inc'ud-
ing the s.. John fire. The last six months,
it will be zee, has fully ms;r:ained its aver
age, and there is nothing to lead to the hope
that our people have gained in csrefuluese.
We complain OF taxes, but what a mighty
tax the country is entaiIing upen ltaelf by
the want of personal cafe, and by want of
holding the occupants Of houses on FIRE
bound to testify as to The cause Of tbs dis
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FIXES AND THEIR COST.

Among the many things demanding earn
est public attention, is the vast loss the coun-
try annually endures from fires and the loss
is absolute. When a bank or a jewelers.
store is robbed of $4,000 o we have much to
say about the .loss, but if the thieves spend
the money here the country has lost nothing,
although the owners Of the property have;
but when q Ere occurs not only has the
owner of property lost, but the country also.
A portion of the country's wealth ia gone.
The ewners get their insurance, but the loss
to the country is complete. Yet while the
country is Sd careful in its attempts to punish
theft, by which it loses nothing absc=
lutely, il is not careful 10 check
fres, by which il toses all that is
lost. The great and very simple 6cst
proceeding toward a remedy is to
require that the occupants of a house that
has been on FIRE shall be called upon TO ans
swer before a magistrate how it got on FIRE, or
all they know upon the subject. Such a sort
OF coroner's inquest makes every citizen feel
his responsibility in case OF FIRE, and be is
careful accordingly. During the last six
months, in the United States and Canada,
the losses by FIRE were to the following
amount, as reported BY the New York Baae-
tin, the loss at pons Of the 6res there report
ed bsing less than $4,000: The uumber Of
ares, where The los has been less than $40
900, recorded 10 its columns during the first
ak months Of 1888 has ben e39, a. follows:
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A Reverend Represate.

Pittsburg special: A sensational story
comes from PerryopOljs, a email town near
the Baltimore and Onio road, about four
miles from this city, in which a Methodist
Episcopal minister, the Rev. Joseph A. Ebert,
is charged with cruelty and an attempt TO
commit an assault on his eldest daughter, an
Unmarried woman OF thirty eight years OF
age. A cerrf spondent who visited the home
of the Eberts, intervieR wed The daughter, who
was found 10 her bare feet and with unkempt
hair. The story she told is as follows: Ny
father has always been cruel to me, and
especially since mother died, a few years ago.
He hiss often called me hard nance, and
hen he would never give me clothes sufficient
to dress respectfully. l haven't had a pair
Of shoes for over two years, and it is
now fifteen years since | was at q
church meeting OF any kind for the
reasons l have given. 1t is also
true, as reported, that he entered my bed
room at unusual hours of the night. ]
never said anything until about Two weeks
ago, when / told one OF the ueighbors. Mrs.
John Ebert, wife of a son Of thu Rev. Ebert,
who wss present, corroborated this story.
Mrs. Ebert ssid that she (Mrs. Ebert) has
been afraid TO remain in the house alone
with her faiher-io-law, the Rev. E ,ert, and
tina since the occurrence mentioned above
she and her husband have concluded to leave
shortly, and neither of the pair has spoken
to tie Rev. Ebert since that time. The
neieh5ors co:rooorate this statement, and
there Is great excitement in the surrounding
country over Tue affair. The Rev. Ebert de-
nice the story, aud says his daughter is crazy;
but lhis persons acquainted with the family
say is untrue. Mr.. Ebert's family consists Of
himself and three sons, one of whom is quite
young, and the daughter Martha. who is
thiIty-eight years Of age. The family is
in quite comfortable circumstance, having
inht a n &c farm from relatives of his
wife. There have been no legal proceedings
en- cred vel
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NJ MISS.
Resolution Of Respect 20 the Memory
of tue Late Col. Richard Abbay.

From an Appeal Correspondent
COMMERCE, July 12.-At q meeting of the
citizens Of Tunica county, Miss, at the court
house at this place to-day, called by the
sheriff of the county to commemorate the life
and death Of Col. Richard Abbay, the follow
ing resolutions were unanimously adopted:
WHEREAS, Tunica county is called upon
to mourn the death of her oldest citizen, Col.
Richard Abbay. He settled in this county
forty-seven years ago, and departed this life
last night at the age OF eighty-seven years,
beloved and respected by all who knew him.
We, who were his %neighbors and friends,
houored and respected him for his virtues as
a citizen and his worth as a Deighbor and
friend, and We loved him for his hospitality
and kindness. Coming to this county when
it was a wilderness, the bome of the Indian
and wild beasts, by his honesty, industry
and good judgment he hewed out of the
wilderness one of the finest landed estates on
the Mississippi river, and lived to see the
county improved and we, his neighbors, settle
and grow up around him. Feeling amply
our loss, and desiring 10 give suitable ex-
preston to our feeling,
RESOLVED, That we mourn the death of Col,
Richard Abbay as that of q father, d neigh
Dor and a friend, and that we tender to his
bereaved family our heartfelt sympathy.
Resoived, That the secretary of this meet
ing present to the family of the deceased a
copy of these resolutions and that the Mem
phis APPEAL be requested to publish the
same.
E. A. COLE, Chairman.
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FORT SMITH, ARK.
New Gas Works and Street Railways
The Louisville Exposition
Crop Reports
From an Appeal Correspondent.I

From an Appeal Correspondence
Fort SMITH, July 12-The Federal Court
for the Western District of Arkansas ia now
10 session at this plsc'. The number OF wit=
nesses in attendance at this term Is lsrger
than usual.
Many Of our citizens have gone to Eureka,
Hot Springs and other watering resorts OF
the State to spend the summer.
Great interest is being taken by the poop e
of this city and county in The Louisville Ex-
position, and it is probable that no county in
the Union will make a better display of her
ores, fruits, vegetables, etc. The county of
Sebastian is one of the best in the State. The
soil is f~erIle, every kind of vegetation can
be raised here, and there are inet 'austlhle
bed. of coal Of a very superior .usl ty.
The street railway track is nov be ng laid
on Garrison avenue, and the car vii be put
iu operation on or before the 9th The
work ct trsck-layiug will cCptinu q It'll a
line of four miles is laid through usp incl
pal streets of the city.
The cornerstone of the new gas works was
laid this morning in the presence of The
mayor, City Council and leading c~itizsus.
The streets will be lighted with gas by the fret
Of September. This, of course, will be a
great improvement to our growing town. No
town is making greater progress than Fort
Smith. The growth is an healthy one. All
business houses now being built are three
story, with large cellars. Business of every
kind continues good and, though it is now the
dull season, our merchants are pleased with
the amount of business being done In the
mercantile line.
Crop prospects are good. A rain on last
Saturday was sufficient TO make 3 good corn
crop, even if We have ne more for several
weeks. Our farmers, as a rule, are out of
Hahf and thia vaar,. GOOD corp .haat ord
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made in Crest Britain, snd it would be folly
10 question the fact. The art OF steel making
has been brought to great perfection IN fItts,
burg; and while it i true that som old
houses consuming steel still prefer sud use
the Eaglish, 1t Ia as much because they are
unwilling to make any changes IN material
and methods ss because they conslder En-
glish steel really better" While thus admit
ting The excellence of our material, this
writer says that in "fnish" our best speci-
mems Of cutlery are certainly unsurpassed by
the choicest Sheffield goods. Perhaps If En-
glish authorities give such testimony to The
intrinsic quality and finish OF the goods
turned out by our factories, 1t Is not strange
that our own people are slso at last hndlng
out their excellence. The "shoddy" view
that nothing can be good except what N
from abroad AM always last or be spplled
to everything. Az 8 matter of fact, the sta
tisticians cay tina about half Of the whole
conzun ption Of cutlery in this country Is
now of domestic manufacture, while the
other half consists largely of inferior quail
ties OF goods, which are 30 cheap and poor
that it would not pay to attempt to make
them here. 1t is cur machinery that gives
rs the pre-eminence, and that would enable
US . held our own now against the cheaper
labor Of foreign manufacturers, even without
tariff help. Our largest manufactures are
in New England, Massachusetts taking the
lead,
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American Cutlery.

1t is Dot so very many yesrs since ii would
have been Inc literal truth to say that all the
cutlery used 10 this country was imported;
it is still lever years since We got from
abroad all that could make any pretensions
to being FIRST quality. We had neither work
men nor material for producing al article
equal to the best English and German
makers. But now, even our competitors be-
ing judges, : large proportion of our product
is az good as Ih- best. A~eorrespondent of q
London paper in a recent issue sage: "About
tn only advantage which English cutters
can claim over American competitors is thst
which attaches o the traditional reputation
Ii il a mistaken nouiou hat the former have
sry sdvautsg yver tn ialler iu the matter
of STE. An e'f o. made FIR cutlery
and TOOL pJl steel
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HYDROPHOBIA.
A Roy Dies I'm Terrible Agony From h
fseas

New York special: An aggravated case Of
hydrophobia has appeared in The villsge Of
Fort Hamilton, r. /. About six weeks ago
Peter j. Byrnes, aged sixteen, living on the
Shore road, was playing with the family cat,
when he was badly scratched in the face.
She aftervard acted go strangely that she
was shot. No importance was given to the
boys injuries, and the scratch soon healed.
o. Friday last he was seized with dizziness
and severe pains in the throat and Jaws.
These became rapidly worse and delirium
set in. On Saturday when water vss offered
him his avs became rigid and he had severe
psroIysms. The physicians summoned de-
ciared him 10 be suffering from hydrophobia.
He was treated with hypodermic injections
OF morphine and was considerably improved
yesterday. As the noise of the waves seemed
to sggravate the trouble he was taken away
from the shore. The boy was taken much
wore yesterday afternoon, and had violent
convulsions until his strength was entirely
exhausted, and he died from exhaustion late
in the day. He was attended on Saturday
by DR.. Demund, and on Monday DR.. Volmer,
the surgeon at the fort, was called in. he
found that the hydrophobia was too far adj
vsnced to be checked. The boy at times
barked like a dog. showing intense aversion
to water. He employed every possible means
TO save him, but without avail. DR.. volmer
said last evening that he did not believe the
scratch of a cat, even if she were rabid,
would cause hydrophosia. His view of the
matter Was that the cat must have had q
fight with q rabid dog and got some of the
poisonous mucus on its claws. This view is
strengthened by the appearances Of the cat.
which had scratches and wounds on its head
and face as If it had a desperate encounter
with some animal. There was never any
idea entertained by the boy or his friends
that the cat scratch would produce any seri-
Gus result. Another boy named Despsrd,
who was scratched by the cat, was taken BY
his parents TO Newark as soon as young
Byrnes was taken ill.
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T.KIrF

The monopolis,s are in fear. They know
that the people have become tired Of paying
war taxes in peace times, and they are afraid
abe people will insist upon a lower tariff.
They know also that many who nave hitherto
shown no opposition 10 the tariff are now
prepared to do go, because it is ~iniuring the
business by which they live by its taxing the
materials upon which they expend their labor
and skill. Prices have fallen, and therefore
il is necessary 40 buy close" In very many
instances the tariff makes close buying i'm
possibie. TEs ~ % ~. m s,sri.i 10 50
large that ready-made articles in many it,
stances can be got from abroad for less
money than to make up here from
the first material costs. Besides this,
the high price Of first material shuts
out completely all recourse to the
here they cannot sell outside. They are,
therefore, compelled to be sod here, and the
goods godown in price and the profits fritter
down to nothing. Many eyes are opening to
the wrong estimate they bad given to the
tariff, and the m~onopolists are strainipg
S'NAJ W FhS'S SnobSO VI WuAt
makes them millionaires and condemns their
laborers to poverty. What they most ar
IDENTIFY desire is to lake the tax of whisky and
tobacco, 30 that sugar and many another
necessary may be kept dear. The people
will not swallow such a bsrefsced wrong az
that, however, and the monopolists want to
find some way by which the expenses Of the
country may be much increased, 30 as 10
render a heavy tariff necessary as
a means Of supplying money to
pay these : immenss expenses. Some
of these ~nonupolists, not the wisest
of them we must acknowledge, sctu ally pre-
pose that the full product Of the present
taxes shall continue to be collected, then The
overplus to be paid back to the s ates. That
Is a splendid project, for what nice pickings |
might be got out Of that surplus that tho |
country must first pay TO have collected, then
pay 10 have distributed-who can tell? To
have the money taken from one Of his pock-
es by a paid agent, then what is left Of it
put into another pocket by smother paid
agent, is a scheme almost TOO palpable to
De made with a straight face, while the citi-
zen would be apt to ssy-let The money lie
IN the pocket where 1 put it, and "turn the
rascals out"
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MRNPUS PEA
SATURDAY, : JULY IA, 1888.
RIvEk REMEDIES AND PALLIA
TIVk6.

The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, of Sun
day, says it wishes to call the attention Of the
Memphis APPEAL to the fact that it is in fa-
vor Of the improvement of the Mississippi
river, and sage: "We do not believe in the
recommendations of the Mississippi Z YER
Commission" The Commercial Gazette pro-
ceeds TO say that it believes in pulling out
snags, lighting, and a powerful dredge-
boat or two where there is psrplexity "might
assist nature" but the jstty system with its
willow walls and wire banks it regards as a
costly failure "in every respect" except its
expense. This way Of desiring river i'm
provement is like the position Of the doctor
who was in favor of cooking so iood intended
for human consumption, but he did not be-
lieve in subjectipg any food intended to the
operation Of neat. There lie no other way
known Of efectually improving The Missis-
sippi river but the ietty system. An out
let plan has been proposed, but it is
30 manifestly wrong in principle that
able and unbiased engineers, who have
been called upon, have been compelled 10
pronounce against il. What the jetty system
Sdu W 10 bR0bulDk cNlu6uCe LO-udy
below New Orleans TO show where ships of
tweuty-six feet draft pass where, before the
"willow walls" were constructed there was a
depth of only eight AMI a half feet. This
evidence is demonstrating, and if the Com
D1eTelaI Gazehe is unable to appreciate demor-
siraIed fsct, the fault does not lie in the Jet
tie', they plainly tell their own story. The
the Ihings The Commercial Gazette does believe
in are not remedies, they are merely palli-
atives. Removing snsgs and lighting the
banks at proper places are excellent and nee.
essary things, but they do not touch, much
less remedy, the main evil, which is the ex-
istence of shoals and bars. What is meant
by river improvement is a permanent depth
of ten feet at the least from the jetties to s.,
Louis, and five feet thence 10 st. Paul. There
is water enough TO give those soundiDgs,
but the bars and ehoals that exist here
aud there do not allow of the water being
made fully available. A dredgeboat could
cut q way through a shoal or q bar, but IN
doing 30 it would not assist but oppose ma
ture, for as nature has formed the river these
are as inevitable as rises or falls on a high
road when nature has placed them there.
But IL a channel is dredged through a bar,
violated nature will ELL it up again, there
fore what is wanted and what the jetty sys-
tenn supplies is a removal Of the causes
which form shoals and bars. Those causes
removed, the work is done once for all, and
the continued labor of bred .eboats rendered
unnecessary. We are glad 10 nave the Com.
mereiaI Gazstes assurance that it ldesires
river improvement, and we hope it will yet
perceive in what any permanent improve
ment must consist.
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late with little reference TO many time-hon =
ored maxims, and they are energetic admin
istrators. In 1870 New Zealand was worth
about $1,000 per capita, now more than
$1,000; in 1870 Texas had a fraction more
than 1888 per capita, new dividing the as
sessment Of 1882 by the population Of 1Ss0)
less than 1854 per capita. If Texas is a
Furnishing State, what is New Zealand? In
all this We see a proof Of the differing quail
ties Of race. The negro could be made a
slave, bat slavery kills out the Indians. The
indians can accumulate nothing, but the
Maori, by innate energy, no sooner had the
opportunity thsn he showed himself pos
sessed Of unusual and striking quslitie..
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NEW ZEALAND.

Fifty or sixty years ago our fathers occa-
%sionaliy saw a man at a show who had been
cast ashore 10 New Zealand, and the people
there had taltooed them as they tatsooed
themselves. Innumerable blue lines, all
curved and often quite gracefully arranged,
wandered all over the face, bent with the
smile OF the mouth, assumed all manner of
risky expressions with the g~lancings of the
eye, meandered in initiative grace about the
shell-like windiHgs of the ear, and upon the
obin became coiled like lines the sailors have
wound round from a center upon the ships
deck. The strange people who made these
curious ornsmentations of the human face
divine, are to-day known a. Maoris, ami in
them the keen Auglo Saxon finds his match in
skill, in self-control, in courage, and, strange
TO say, also in business. The consequence is
that New ZEALAND is Aourishiug as no other
colony lie, and her people nave more wealth
in proportion to their number than any
other under the sun. The area of the land
is lo5,342 square miles, while all Great
Britain is 120,789 miles. These enterpris-
log people have 1888 miles of railroad, and
AhOAo OuAuAhkJ anu buC IOduo OciOu8 10 the
country, as do the telegraphs also; they are
not made over to discriminating, stock-ws-
teriug, dividend-pocketing companies. They
have \ national life insurance, and contem-
plate requiring everyone in the country able
to work 10 belong to il, so that in sickness,
accident and death there is no possible dis
tresr, but au income without any dependence
or charity, and every widow is to be entitled
to a pension. Though rich, the islands Dor
row freely to build works mat shall belong
to the people and pay amply back the capital
they cost. Profits that go to companies and
speculative rings with us, in New Zealand
20 to the people, because they have kept
privileges IN their own hands other coun-
tries give away in charters and then
are opposed and gone to Law with by the re-
SEWERS OF their gifts. There are $1,000 saw
ings bank dsPositors, and we have not yet ar.
rived in this country to the establishment of
postal savings banks. The public revenue
amounts to sl7,0OO,OOO and the exports to
$~30,0O0,o0o, $~16,OOO.000 Of which are in
wool. The people ignore tradition and legis-
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A M adman,s terrible Crime.

DWIGHT, ILL, July 13.-Andrew White, a
wealthy farmer living near this place, was
recently placed in q private insane asylum,
owing TO the impairment OF his mental iacul-
ties caused by close attention TO the details
OF MS ousi"~~-. lie mere became strongly
possessed with the halluclnation that his
wife and children desired to rob him of his
properly, He escaped from his retreat two
days ago; proceeded to his home, and arriy-
ing there; IN The middle of, the night, waited
till morning, when he called to his wife to
come and welcome him. His wife and two
children, aged ten and twelve years, came at
once, and he allowed each to caress him. He
then drew a revolver and ehot and Instantly
killed his vile, and followed this by the
murder of his two children. He made the
tragedy com plete BY killing himself.