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Arizona silver belt., 1883-06-16

The secretary OF an Indian gold
mine, having sent an imperative de.
mand to a certain shareholder for the
payment of a 'call, " receiysa, says St,
Stephens, the following reply: "Dear
Si:: have Your latter OF this date.
and note that your directors propose
to proceed against me. Your pros.
pectus stated that one of the objects of
your company was to seek, win, and
work gold in India and elsewhere.
Things not turning out well in India,
your directors apparently consider it
their duty to seek, win, and work gold
elsewhere that is, out of me. | can
assure you, however, that | am not an
,auriferous vein; the only lode | pos
sess is load OF debt, and as gold
mine / shall be failure. Your pros
spectus estimated a yield of one ounce
Of gold per ton on thirty thousand
tons of quartz crushed per annum-
El0,50O sterling per annum. You
may crush ne, but you will find that
! will not yield nearly so much. My
person (Which, for the purposes of this
calculation, may be considered quartz
weighs, roughly speaking, ten stone,
and, if crushed Immediately, l esti-
mate that it would yield as under
Gold nil, silver IS, copper 44d,--total,
3. AID. Deduct cost Of crushing-say,
.f5 IS. Yours faithfully, -"
Arizona silver belt., 1883-06-16
NEusOnic!

Regular communication Of White Noun
ta:n Lodge, No. &, A. +. e 4. VI. meets
Thursdays On or succeeding each full
Moon SECURING Brethren in good stand
ing cordially invited.
BY order Of the w. NJ.
CHAS. A. FISK,
aug Uil Secretary,
Arizona silver belt., 1883-06-16
/. d. d. +.

Regular meeting Of Globe Lodge No. G. |.
o. Q. F., on saturday night of each week,
at Masonic Hall.
All brothers in good standing are cordially
invited. JAS. REED, n. G,
w. II. Cook, sec'y,
Arizona silver belt., 1883-06-16

A sallow-iaced woman, with a
wealth Of frecklcs on her long nose
and snuff stick in her mouth, en-
tered an Auatin-3treet car recently,
says Texas Slftings. There were eight
or ten wsll-dressed gentlemen in the
ear, but none Of them showed any in
clination to give her seat, After she
had waited reasonable time, she re-
marked with asperity:
"Ef any ofyou galoots air waitin'
for me to squat on yorr laps, you air
u sucked in crowd, for ! want you to
understand l am q lady from the
ground mp"
A dread that she was not in earnest
about not sitting in their laps caused
sir Of TIE c,u:lamon Ia leave the car.
Arizona silver belt., 1883-06-16
saturday. June. 10, 1853.
Detroit Free Prcss.

Detroit Free Preas.
In the suburbs of Natchez ! found
a Northern man. He was digging
worms alongside the fence and getting
ready to so fishing, and his wife sat
on the back steps smoking a corn-cob
pipe and kicking with her bare feet at
the chickens whenever tAbf caaae too
near. The man had BLACK patches on
the knees Of gray pants, I lexaher belt
in place of suspenders, xsdAs. thcwed
plug tobacco and squirted ths juice
around with vigor which would
have earned him two dollars day in
any ether locality. There was only
one room to the house, and the furni'
ture would have been no load at all
for a skeleton mule.
"Yes, I'm from the North-from
Illanoy," he said, as we sat down in
the shade for talk; land l made a
great mistake in moving down here
"How came you to move?"
"WelL some OF the folks back there
got down on nc because they missed
some hogs, and 1t got so hot con-
cluded to move"
"And how do you like the Southp'
"Not a bit. It's no country for a
go-ahead man. There'nothing here to
rouse mans ambition to rip and tear
and bust things. I've accumulated
four dogs, three fishpoles and shot
gun since striking this country, but |
feel homesick and discouraged"
"How does your wife feel?"
"Clear discouraged. Why I'd hardly
know her to be the same Sarah Jane
Baker. She's run right down to a
skeleton, and she's got heaps on her
mind"
Say, we've been here better'n g
year, and not one of the ladies in
Natchez has called on her!'
MOT
"Solemn fact, stranger! When We
first came she CREASED her shoes and
washed her best calico and called on
every lady in town, to show EN- that
she wasn't proud nor stuck up, lut
nary one of them has returned the
call. They know we are from the
North, you see, and they cut us on
that account. | tell you, the North
ern family has to suffer down here.
They are entirely ostrichcized from
society. Sarah, Sarah Jane!"
Sarah came around to our side of
the house in answer to his call. | am
a married man, and therefore compe-
tent TO judge, and | remember that |
judged she had on Just the single gar
ment OF a@dfess, and nsIf the buttons
were missing from that. Her bare
feet went spat! spaT spat! and l
further judged that tbey hadn't been
washed since the winter breakup.
"M.Ll.a4-a"-.~-r-ssznr99 she growled
out.
Say, Sarah, haven't we been os-
trichcized here in Natchez, cause we're
from the North?"
Dead right you are, old man." she
replied, as she blew cloud of smoke
from her mouth, "but what do we
keer? We kin hold our heads up and
bust around fur all that. If they
don't like us, let 'em look t'other way.
Come, ye'd better be off to the river
after suckers. Isye don't get fish to-
night, 80 20 to bed with a stomach as
empty as yer wallet" i
Arizona silver belt., 1883-06-16
The Great English EsgEnG.Sy.

lisa reycr-i2iilDE cure iof
Nervous debility, exhaust
ei Vitality, seminal weak
ness, SpcrMatorIhG, lcsT
MASHCGp, impotence.
Paralysis, PrCs.atC!IhGc,
and all the terrible effects
If Sclt.abusc. youthful fol
lies. and eAcesscS in n.s.
tlrer yeaTs-such as less
% L!einory, lassitude,
NUciU ma emissions, aver
Arizona silver belt., 1883-06-16

Professor Of Chcmistry-"Suppose
you We're called to patient who had
swallowed heavy dose Of oxalic acid,
what would you administer2" X.
(who is preparing for The ministry,
and who only takes chemistry because
it is obligatory)-"I would administer
the sacrament"
Arizona silver belt., 1883-06-16

Puck says: aged fishermen are
usually the most successful. Long
years Of practice makes prerarication
perfect, 49,"
Arizona silver belt., 1883-06-16

OF vision, Noises in The Head the vital fluid pass.
ing unobserved in the UrEc, and many other Gis.
eases that lead Ia insanity ard death.
DIR. MlNTIE will agree 10 forfeit FIVE 1T SrErc
DOLLARS for case Of this kind the VITAL EI%TORA
TIN (under his special advice and t;eatmeD viii rct
cure, or for anything impure Injurious found in it
fully without mercury son>SEEa;E0n Free.
Thorough examination and advice, Including analy.
sis OF urine, So 00prce al HlTAL RESTORATIVE IS 80
bottle, or four times the qua:;ty SO o. sent TO
any address upon receipt OF price C. o. h., secure
ircm observation, and in private nSmc il desired ~
A.. r.. hESGsE, "a. -
Arizona silver belt., 1883-06-16

This great Tonic has been introduced to the people
Of the Mississippi Valley for the past thirteen years
with unbounded success and popularity
There is nothing Of the kind extant that equals rs
a stmulant, APPETIZER anti-dyspeptc. II Is par.
ticularly adapted to malarious districts and asa
PRETENTA7ITE Of CHlLLS IL kEJER
is not surpassed.
1t Is endorsed by the best chemists as the most ei
iacious strengthening Tonic this country has ever
produced, the value Of which will be recognized by all
who may use theta
Private citizens Of Arizona visiting ct. Louis have
expressed their convictions that Il is peculiarly adapt
ed TO the wants OF that Territory, and nceis only
trial to insure its speedy Introduction there.
Orders addressed to TIL WEST INDIA NANUFAC
TERlNG COMPANY will hr " ,p"!y eiGagfya
Dc" 49,:
Arizona silver belt., 1883-06-16
"A. %. L. w.

Silver Wreath Lodge. No. o meets every
Tuesday evening, IN the Masonic Hall at
p. NJ. ~ ~
49,. \. rnUGf Recorder
Arizona silver belt., 1883-06-16

DIR. HfNTiE'S Kidney Remedy Ne.
~ticpu. cures ali kinds Of Kidney sRd bi3ddeI
fctnplaints, CoHorrhoa, elect l.eucGrrhGa FCrssls
by all druggists; 81 90 bottle Fix bottles for IS &C.
DIR. MIN7fE'S pandefiau RiiIsare the
best and cheapest DYsrRTIC and BILLou cure in tie
market. For sale all druggists an 1T
sS-sAMrLE BOTTLE, FREE. Sent or apple,
cation By letter stating symptoms, and age
Communications strictly confidential.
Arizona silver belt., 1883-06-16

And we will prove that our goods
are the best, and our prices the
Lowest.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-04-16
DYNAMITE LEGISLATION.

Probably the most striking instance
of speed in the English Parliament was
made in the passage of the bill to sup
press dynamite explosives. Nothing
could more forcibly Illustrate the tenor
of feeling on this subject in England
and how thoroughly the dynamite pot
tiers are detested and repudiated even
by the Irish National members.
At q single sitting the bill passed
through all its stages in both cham
bers. 1t was introduced by the Home
Secretary in the Commons, read 3 first
and second time, referred TO the Com
mittee OF the Whole, considered in
committee clause by clause, reported
back to the House, read third time
and passed. Then it went over to the
Lords, where the whole procedure WAS
rcpeated. While the bile was before
the Con. mons, the Irish members, il
they had been so inclined, could have
checked it, progress in some degree at
every stage, aud during its consideration
in con nittte. wide field was gwen for
di!atcry tactics. But nothing was done
f. r,tvrd CT amend the measure. On
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-04-16
rHsupPLEnENrAL ASSESSMENT.

In this issue of the REGISTER Is
printed the main portion ofan editorial,
taken from the Point Pleasant Register,
and another from the Greenbrier hide
pendent, taking opposite views upon
the recent action of the Governor and
Auditor instructing assessors to place
on the tax duplicate articles which had
heretofore been exempt from taxation
by act of the Legislature.
The editor Of our Point Pleasant
name-sake evidently writes with some
passion for he bliAdly exelaims: "The
Wheeling REGISTER cannot place the
Democratic party in a false position
upon this subject"
Just why the Wheeling REGISTER is
referred to in this way we are quite I'M
able to comprehend, as this paper has
not sought to "place the Democratic
party in a false" or any other kind of
position upon this subject.
A gentleman wrote to the REGISTER
enquiring what the supplemental as
sessment meant, and in endeavoring to
give the enquirer light upon the subject
we printed the letter of the Governor
directed to the Auditor and the Audi
tors instructions in accordance there
with TO the assessors together with an
explanation of the decision of the SUI
preme Court of Appeals, upon which
these proceedings were founded. This
was done as a matter ofpublic infOrma-
ton. 1t does not matter to the
Wheeling REGISTER what opinio
any Democrat-or any Republican for
that matter-holds upon the particular
subject; whether he thinks the Cover
nor should execute the laws as he finds
them-the obnoxious as well as those
which are not obnoxious-or whether
he thinks the Legislature did right or
did wrong in failing to submit an
amendment to the constitution changing
that provision which requires that all
property shall be taxed uniformly.
We respectfully suggest to our Point
Pleasant contemporary that there are a
great many subjects legislated upon
and acted upon by public officers from
time to time which are not necessarily
tenents of party creed.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-04-16
Property Exempt From Taxation.
GreenJrier Independent.


Considerable inquiry and some dis
satisfaction has been caused among the
agricultural portion Of our State from
the fact that the assessors, in their
rounds, have been listing property for
taxation that has hitherto been exempt
ed, The farmer apparently has been
singled out, and everything he has
must be brought into the tax schedule
down even to the sucking calves,
the pigs, and the colts that gambol
upon his meadows.
Some Republican papers, either
through ignorance or desire to mis-
represent, have tried to Undue the
farmer with the idea that Democratic
administration had singled out the
farmer to make him bear the chief
burden of taxation, but, mark, how
plain tale shall put them down.
In March, 1865, an act was passed by
the Legislature of this State, IA Repub-
lican Legislature eXemptiHg the Ches-
apeake and Ohio Company, then called
the Covington and Ohio Railroad Com
PAW, J from taxation until the profits of
said Company shall amount to ten per
cent on its capital. Now, the first Con-
stitution of the State as we'll as the
present says that "all property, both
real and personal, shall be taxed i'll pro-
portion to its value, but property used
for educational, literary, scientific, re-
ligious or charitable purposes. all ceme-
teries and public property, may, by law,
be exempted from taxation"
1t is well known to our readers that
strong efforts have been made OF late
wears IN fax the DrODerty OF the CheSa-
peake and Ohio railway. The Supreme
Court of Appeals Of this State last year
decided that the act exempting the
property of that road from taxation was
unconstitutional, and that the Legisla-
ture could not pass an act eXempting
any property from taxation unless it
comes under the head of one of the eX-
ceptions in the above quoted sentence.
Now, the same decision that brought
the property of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railway into the tax schedule also
brought some minor productions there
also; but where is the farmer that will
not rejoice at the news that the property
of this gigantic corporation is at length
to be subject to taxation?
Instead of Singing the farmer out to
bear the burdens of taxation" this de-
cisiOn of a Democratic administration
looks as if it was going to relieve the
farmer of part of his burden by trans
ferriug it to a wealthy corporation, eX-
empted so far by the act OF Republican
Legislature.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-04-16
Personal.

REPRESENTATIVE S. J. RANDALL helped
the Newark, n. j.. Democrats to observe
the Jefferson anniversary.
SENATOR PALMER, of Michigan, has sub.
scribed $4,000 towards the erection of a
$4,000 art gallery in Detroit.
MIS-. PRESCOTT, who died at Deer Island,
in the Merrimac, few days ago, was the
mother OF Mrs. Harriet Prescott SpOford.
&C. TRoBErDGE, the last member OF the
Lewis CaSs exploring expedition, who died
in Detroit, last week, had lived continuous.
ly in a house that he built there ftty-seyen
years ago.
GEN. JAS. S. ROBINSON, one of the Ohio
Representatives in Congress, said to a New
York reporter that, in his opinion, the
Congressional Record is useless and ought to
be abolished"
JUrGE DAWN DAVIS propo 5 to turn
hurley Hall" the principa house Of
amusement at Bloomington, ILL.,. into a
business place and to bu id in the same
town a theatre that shall surpaSs anything
of the kind in Illinois.
Miss BELLE CUsHMAN EAroY, a grand
niece of the famous Charlotte Cushman. is
said to be preparing to go upon the stage.
She is seventeen years old, lives in Boston
and appeared as a public reader for the
first time few evenings ago.
ELI PERKINS, of whom the wide world
has heard before this, was trounced severe
ly by the proprietor of hotel in Buffalo
on Thursday night. Tne thrashjng was
given the humorist not because of his
many lies, but because he growled about
his hotel bill.
Miss LILLE c. DAEsT was one of the best
known persons in Ohio. She edited the
Circleville Herald and made it a strong
paper. Moreover, she stormed the political
citadel at Columbus recently and was
! elected engrossing clerk of the Ohio Senate.
Her death occurred in Chica go on Wednes-
day.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-04-16
Thn WEST vInoINIA NEnSPAPER

The FairmOnt Inter, in ITS last issue,
makes modest announcement Of its
prosperous condition in this way:
With modest pride We announce that the
next issue OF the Index will probably be
printed on a new CinCiEnati Cylinder
Press. This heavy, handsome and costly
piece Of machinery arrived here this week,
snd is now in place in the basement OF the
. In deX building.
This is but one more instance of
similar announcements that We are glad
To say are occurring with unusual fire.
Quency in West Virginia; AMI we are
moved to congratulate, not the Index
alone, but the press and people Of the
State on the evidences of general pro-
gress that is never mole accurately re-
Elected than in the progress and pros
perity ofjournalism.
The newspaper is the recognized
pioneer of modern civilization. 1t Is
the infalliGle monitor of either the de-
cline or growth of a State or locality.
The character and condition of a people
cannot be more certainly measured
than by CHANGING over the pages of the
newspaper that reflects their business
enterprises, their industrial interests, and
their social life and character in all their
phases.
When the newspaper i making adj
vauces in West Virginia. we can take
for granted the StateHs making adj
vances; the people are becoming more
intelligent; business is more prosperous;
public spirit is being aroused and in
quiry to know what the world is doing
and what is going on in the neighbour
hood, is Indicative Of life and progress
among the inhabitants.
The county newspaper has had a
struggle against large odds in West
Virginia. Great credit is due those who
have, with 50 little encouragement and
under great sacrifices, Persevered in
maintaining enterprises Of this kind.
They deserve all the prosperity and
profit that may come in the future.
We hope it may be larger than their
expectations and we believe it will.
With the increase of railroad facilities
there will be an increase of population,
of business, of wealth and of all that
makes a State, and We are sure the
newspaper will be the first to share
these improved conditions.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-04-16

the contrary, the legislative programme
of the Government Vas accelerated.
Sir WILLIAM HARCoURT only asked
to have the bill carried through the sec.
ond reading and referred to the COM
mittee. But the Commons ran away
with it, so to say, and rushed the bill
through all its stages.
1t would seem by the report that not
a voice was raised in behalf Of the dyn-
amite gang. Conservatives, Liberals,
Radicals, Home Rulers and Parnellites
all appear to have Joined hands for once
in legislative work, and as the Queens
assent was given by telegraph, the bill,
within twenty-four hours of its intro
duction, was enrolled among the laws
Of the land.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-04-16

The following is paragraph from
the proposed regulations now under
consideration 10y the Commissioner Of
Internal Revenue in regard to the pay
ment Of rebate to manufacturers Of to-
bacco: Tobacco, snuff, cigars, &C.,
will be regarded as held by a manufae-
turer where they are goods of his own
production in his possession, either in
his factory, in warehouse, or other
place where they are held by him in
storage only, asprOvided in section 1926,
United States Revised Statutes. On
goods so held.the rebate may be paid in
stamps, and payment will not be made
in stamps on any other goods"
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-04-16
The Supplemental Assessment

Gov. Jackson and Auditor Miller
have inaugurated a new order of things
in the system of taxation, in this State,
and gives as authority for this new de-
parture decision of the Court of APP
peals, in the case of the Chesapeake
and Ohio Railroad against the Auditor.
The decision having been rendered in
April, lSS2, the Governor should have
called the attention of the last Legisla-
ture to the subject, and so radical a
change as is now proposed, emanating
from the law making power of the
State, might have been received with
some small degree of satisfaction. As
the Governor had to borrow so largely
of the school fund to keep the wheels
Of government moving, it is a little
remarkable that be shonid have forgot
ten in bis message these new sub
IectS of taXstion. He had approved
the assessment law of 1881, anC
seems never to have had any constitu-
tiOual scrupleS TO overcome until this
new light was shed upon him by the
Court of Appeals. Governor Mathews
in a message called the attention of the
Legislature to that provision of the con-
stitutiOn, and recommended that this
same departure be made under his adj
| ministration, but the recommendation
was unheeded, and that too, because it
was no new subject, but one that had
been thought over and discussed in all
its bearings, time and again, our people
having settled down to the conviction
that such exemptions could not only be
made under the constitution, but were
demanded by every consideration of
fairness and justice.
We remember we'll that JudgeWoods,
in bis able review of the present consti-
tuition, said, "by comparing the first
section of article eight of the existing
constitution with the first section OF ar
ticle ten of the new, it will be perceived
that no change Whdteper the italics his
has been made in the system Of taxa.
lion.
The Judge evidently sought to make
the impression that none would be
made under Democratic administration.
1t now being too late to discuss the SUBJ
jeet of taxation, We shall content our
selves with saying that when such law
years rs Judge Ferguson, Judge Lamb,
and Others, could consistently with the
oath they have taken, enact a law
under the constitution of 1868, making
the exceptions referred to, and when
the same law has been on the statnte
books from that day to this, and
when the last constitutional convention
after terrible wrangle upon the SUBJ
ject Of sdvalorem taxation, concluded
THAT it would be the part OF wisdom 20
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-04-16
DIED.

GORRELL.-On Sunday, Aprli 10, 1853, at
his home. in Bsllaire Ohio, JAMES b, Ger
RELL.
HAMILTON.-On Sunday morning, April
Is, MARY EDNA, infant daughter or John >.
and Rosie Hamilton.
Funeral this afternoon at o'clock. from
the residence, No. 90 Eighteenth street
Friends OF the family invited.
GARY.-Sunday, April Is, 1883, at ) o'cloc k
p M, AyELIA, wife Of Fighter \. Gary, IN
the 2ith year OF her age.
Funeral notice hereafter.
The maid on whose cheek, on whose brow, in
Shone beauty and pleasure her triumph
are by;
And the memory OF those who loved her and
praised,
Are siike from the minds Of the living eraced.
tbs tue wink OF an eye, It's the drawing OF a
breath:
From the blossom OF health to the palenesS
of death,
From the gtlded saloon 20 the bier and the
Shroud-
Oh, why should the spirit OF mortal be proud.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-04-16

leave the subject where they found it,
with the recognized construction that
had been given the old constitution by
our lawmakers, 1t Is not remarkable
that complaints are loud and deep. The
Wheeling REGISTER cannot place the
Democratic party in a false position
upon this subject. The party Is In no
manner responsible for the mistakes Of
individual members, but will continue
to live Icing, long after Governor jack
son and Auditor Miller are forgotten.
The complaint is that the Governor
was q little too willing.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-04-16

THE alarming reports of conspiracies
and dynamite explosions that are daily
cabled from the capitals of the Old
World cause little or no excitement in
America propOrtionate to their effect
in the old countries.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-04-16

THE annual election in the Office of
the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette re-
suited in half-breed victory, three Of
the directors chosen being old associates
of Halstead, and two old.time cronies
of Deacon Smiths,
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-04-16

SOMETHING serious must be the mat
ter either with the young lGen or the
honest industries of Ohio, when nearly
5000 applications from that State are
on file for positions in the postal railway
service, in which the salary is only $500
at the start
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-04-16

CONSIDERABLE fuss is being made
over the cents surplus in the United
States Treasury that cannot be account
cd for. Turn it over to Jay Hubbell as
q nest egg for next year.