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Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-12-01
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VIM. H. StOwell,
Assayer, No. 8 Main street, Eureka.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-12-01
NOTICE.

TOHN e. BRAY IS MY AUTHORIZED
81 agent to collect all bills due me.
DR.. ]. A.. NE6BITT.
Ruby Hill, Nov. 16, 1883. nol7tf
The Osceola times., 1883-09-01
JUST LIKE LINCOLN.
Mr.. NorveIi Tells Flow He Saw stanton and
"Old Abe"

Mr.. NorveIl Tells Flow He Saw Stanton and
"Old Abe"
81. Louis Rep.
II was dull at the cotton exchange
yesterday afternoon, and when Mr.. L. c..
Norvell, the veteran story teller of the
exchange, stretched out his legs, leaned
back in his chair and pulled a bit of
pasteboard from his pocket, everybody
drew near to lhten. The pasteboard
bore the inscription, in bold, round
hand:
''Pass Mr.. Norvell from New York to
Savannah, Ga.
December 20, 1854"
"T he children found that the other
day ri minaging around an old trunk"
said he. 81 was in Washington in 1864,
and wanted TO go to Savannah. | had
letter TO Edwin NJ. Stanton which was
warranted 20 get the pass. / presented
it to him. He read ii and looked up at
me.
"Where do you want to go, sir?" he
said, as gruff as you please.
'To Savannah, sir"
"What do you want to 90 there for?n
"0n business"
"Well, you can't CO."
''lle didn't tell me 10 ge. out, but he
looked it, and | left the office quick
enough. | went outside and asked some
one if | could see the president. | was
told might try. did try, and got in.
fIe had his legs stretched over chair.
"Well, sir, what can | do for your" he
asked.
81 told him | wanted to go to savan-
nah.
"Then why don't you see stanton?" he
asked
"I've seen Stanton" said |.
"WeA," said Mr.. Lincoln.
"And he says shan't 60 to Savannah -
said |.
ale laughed, and said it was like him.
well | don't think you would hurt us
any if let you CO." and wrote me that
pass.
when ] got to Savannah Sherman
was there and Stanton had come around
to hold conference with him. / saw
Sherman, who said would have to get
right out, rs they were having every
body arrested. had some fine wine
brandy and whiskey and | made him
present oft, sending it up the next day.
When | saw him again he reconsidered.
Stanton was with him. He looked at
me narrowly.
what are you doing here?" he said
finally as gru6 as before.
Attending to some business" said l.
"Ilow did you get here?'
"Mr. Lincoln passed me-"
Hump" growled Stanton-'thats just
like him. He tells me not to issue
another pass and then gives one himself
to the first man who asks him"
Everybody looked at Lincon's sigma
ture and then while they were waiting
for the New Orleans close, listened to
Mr.. Norvell while he demonstrated the
proposition that Pontius Plate was the
first Greenbacker who ever existed
The Osceola times., 1883-09-01
SCIENCE AND ART.

Milwaukee artists are complaininl of
their difficulty in obtaining models.
The Bartholdi statue pedestal will be
designed by .1r. Richard Hunt.
Two fine statues have been discover
ed in Rome, in the excavation of the
Esquiline Hill
Thomas Rel, the sculptor, has rented
the Boston studio occupied last winter
by Herbert Herkemer.
The prices of American water colors
on exhibition ia London are declared by
the English TO be too high.
F. S. Church has just finished what is
probably the best and most complete
picture he has yet produced. The
scene is under the sea, and beautiful
mermaid is seen riding q sea-wof.
The portrait Of John Brown IN the
July Century was composed from various
photographs and other likenessos. Tie
portrait shows Brown without a beard.
:. T. Woodman is the artist.
From reports made by G. V. Riley,
eutomologist OF the Department of Aeri-
culture. it appears that kerosene oil is
valuable agent for the destruction of
all insects and bugs inimical to vegetable
life.
The telephone has been successfully
used in France to communicate between
a vessel being towed and one towing.
The wire was carried along one Of the
hawsers, and the circuit was completed
through the copper on the bottom of the
hips and the water. Conversation was
carried on distinctly.
A certain fungus tArchorion Schoenli.
The Osceola times., 1883-09-01
C0lSS MADE OF WOOD.
Ingenious Nanrer in Which n Dank Was
Boistered into Public Confd nc
San Francisco Bulielii

rtn ! IFhuoScp Blilclus
"You see" said the man on the wharf,
"Fm a carpenter, and when landed in
San Francisco ! opened shop and did
better than some buckles in the mines.
] did mostly fine jobs, such as fitting mp
saloons, cabinet work and making gam
bling tiuck-the last queer things, tell
you, full Of tricks to cheat the greenies
"0ne day got an order fora lot OF
wooden adobes. 'Adobes were gold
pieces Of the value of $50 each, and the
man who gave the order the played
out secretary how hauling up a tom-cad
yonder-wanted 1000. smellod rat,
but kept mum, as secrecy was the key
stone of half my trade. | set my lathe
to work in a room carefully locked and
in due time had the contract filled.
Now want you to gild these slLgs,'
said the secretary, and send them down
to Adams & Co.'S Office about the time
the mail steamer gets in. Keep dark
and send in your BILL ] did. Old
Noise let me have one of his gliders and
he did the work in good style. But for
the weight you would never have taken
those 'slues' for anything but simon-pure
article. In the drawers they made fine
display, looking what they were intend
ed to represent-S50,0 600 in gold box
ed them up, and sent them TO Adams d
Co.'S under cover of night and read in
the papers next morning of the arrival
OF $4,000 in 'adobes,' consigned to the
banking house of-W ,, you know the
place on Montgomery street near Clay.
AS for the name, thors nothing-it's
as dead az the bank, H. president and
board Of directors. ] smiled and said
nothing. The addition of those 1000
'slugs' helped the concern amazingly. 1t
was only three months old but il stood
on its legs at once. | took some pride
IN the affair myself, as was the creator
Of its financial support"
The Osceola times., 1883-09-01
General Truths.

A soft answer doesn't turn away the
hard question.
Ifyou feel angry, beware lest you be-
come revengeful.
A man is never so fortunate or unfor-
tunate as he thinks.
Every mans virtue is best seen in adj
versity and temptation.
Nothing helps the memory so much as
order and classification.
lie keeps his road well enough who
gets rid of bad company.
One day is worth three to him who
does everything in order.
Consolation consoles only those who
are willing to be consoled.
The reward of doing one duty is the
power to perform another.
No persons are more empty than
those who are full of themselves.
Honest worth clothed in poverty often
trembles upon approaching vice throned
in wealth.
If we cannot live so as to be happy let
us at least live so as TO deserve happi-
ness.
One true friend adds more to our hap
piness than a thousand enemies to our
unhappiness.
Whoever sincerely endeavors to do
all the good he can will probably do
much more than he imagines.
No man ever regretted that he was
virtuous and honest in his youth, and
kept away from idle companions
The Osceola times., 1883-09-01
THE STAMP TAX.
The Law Reducing Internal Revenue
Taxes Fully Carried Out.


Taxes Fully Carried Out.
Chicago Times.
Since the new revenue law reducing
the taxes on tobacco and abolishing the
tax on bank checks and proprietary
medicines went into effect, the office of
Collector Harvey has been quite filed
with business, but it is believed now
that the changes under the new law are
quite perfected. The claims for rebate
upon manufactured cigars and tobocco
filed in the FIRST district of Illinois on
hand May l, 1883, the date the new law
went into effect reducing the tax, call for
Sl62,450 72 in the aggregate. 1t is
thought that the payment of these re-
bate claims will be one of the first things
the next congress will provide for The
largest claim filed with collector Harvey
called for $4,000, on rebate of tax on
100000 cigars on hand.
A great many of the banks in Chicago
have forwarded to Washington large
quantities of their check books which
has the revenue stamps imprinted on the
checks. These checks are in some in
stances finely gotten up in the matter of
engraving, and where they are received
on or before the last day of the month
the books will be returned to the banks
If it is so desired. A great many bank
ers are inquiring at the collectors office
rs to how long time they have to send
in their stamped checks for redemption
The instructions are that the be given
three years TO file such claims, but after
the last of this month the blank check
books will not be returned to the owner,
the government undertaking to do moth
ing more than redeem the stamps.
The act above quoted relieves the
banks from paving a tax on capital and
deposits, so there is less work for the
Collectors force than before.
The internal revenue officers returns
concerning the distilleries in this dis
trict show that they are all doing a good
business--that is, those that are running
and it is said that the, are reaping rich
profits, but it appears the owners are
sharing a portion of their gains with
those lying idle, those in operation pay
ing the idle ones TO keep closed, so that
the productive capacity of this section
NAV be maintained at a fixed figure and
the market be not overstocked The
Garden City distillery, which has been
Idle over a year and supported by the
ones in operation, is now about to resume
working
The Osceola times., 1883-09-01

Mil produces in rodents fatal cutaneous
disease, and Drs. Joseph and Crampe
propose taking advantage of this fact as
a means of destroying field mice. They
would apply the fungus to the skin of
captured mice, and then turn the cap'
tives loose to spread the infection.
The French astronomers are talking
about the possibility of interplanetary
signalling, concerning which 7. W. Tobin
saws: at is certain that we are on the
eve of grand discoveries, grander than
the world has yet seen or dreamt Of and
the inter communion of planetary in
telligence cannot be among the least of
such revelations from the Creator to his
beings"
The Osceola times., 1883-09-01
ALMOST A TRAGEDY.

One could hardly imagine prittier
sight than Mrs. Rhoderick Grafton in a
dainty white morning dress and coquett.
ish bow of apricot satin.
IF there is any thing in this world
that hate,' observed Mr.. Khoderick
Grafton, with an ugly frown on his
handsome face, "it's a married woman
who flirts."
II agree with you, Rorie," his wife re.
piled, as she dropped another lump of
sugar into his cup.
Il can't help it, Bonnie" he said brok-
enly. II know Pm a jealous brute.
You ought never to have married me.
love you too much. 1t fairly maddens
me to see you flirting with other men
and you my wife tso!"
"But don't flirt, Rorie," she insisted,
combing her slender fingers through his
beard.
"Call it what you WILL" he answered
with q slight frown. "You know what
I mean. never was 80 miserable in
all my life as / was last night, Bonnie,
What made you act so?"
"So!" she echoed. How? Now, Rorie
do be reasonable for once! | only dane
ed twice with Archie O'Hara and both
dances were quadrilles."
at wasn't dancing; it was the way you
looked and smiled on him. You are SO
pretty, Bonniel Any man would jump
at the chance of flirting with you. They
do Jump at it, and II wish you would
never look or smile on any one but mep
Mrs. Rhoderick laughed in a bewitch-
ing way.
"You dear, old jealous goosep she cri.
ed, kissing him at the adjective. "I
didn't mean it; indeed, / never thought
o. such thing!"
Il know ! am a fool" he admitted
with amiable canaor. "And l know II
is q natural for you to flirt as it is for
you to breathe; but, Bonnie, please don't
do it any more than you can helpl'
II WON'T" she said, laughing. "Now
Rerie, do come and eat your breakfast" !"
So he allowed her to WOO him back to
the table.
She and Rorie had tender parting
scene that morning. 1t would have been
more so If they had known that they
would not meet again that evening az
usual.
1t was O'Clock in the afternoon when
Rhoderick's office-boy came out from
town with the following note:
"MY DARLING LITTLE WIFE:
have just received telegram from Bos.
ton calling my immediate presence there
win you please pack my valise and give
it to Charlie! Put in my gray suit, foul
shirts, etc., etc. II almost
breaks my heart to go away without
bidding you eoodbv, but ] haven't mo.
ment to spare. You may look for me
home on Saturday, am very sorry
that you won't be able to 60 to Mrs
Wyld's on "Wednesday. BIT never mind
darling! Ill see iff can't find some.
thing in Boston TO pay for the lost pleas.
ure. Gcod-by. sweet wife! Yours al.
ways and deso;ediy. "Rorie."
SO RhodericL went to Boston and left
hip pretty wheat home. But contrary to
his expectations, the business that call.
Cd him there was all settled up by Tues.
l&y niGht and ON Wednesday morning
{ u G1nf1Q4 - Aew York.
IL 3 l1D th1n Wfll b 3 Bon.
~ - - : - - dFovu
The Osceola times., 1883-09-01

Says the Philadelphia Telegraph: A
minister laboring in the mountain dis
trlcts of Fayette county, w. Va, gives the
following conversation he had with
woman there recently: 'Ts your husband
at homer" mo, he is coon hunting. lie
killed two whopping big coons last Sum
day" docs he fear the lord ?" 81 guess
he does, cause he always takes his gun
with him" Have you any Presbyterians
around here2' 81 don't know ifhe has
killed any or not. You can 90 behind
the house and look at the pile of hides
70 see il you can find any Of their skins"
II see that you are living in the dark"
Yes, but my husband is going TO cut out
a winder soon." Now It's an internal
shame that n clergyman should lie like
that. Why, that alleged conversation
antedates the memory of George Wash
ington.
The Mormons will test the constitu-
tionality of the Ed.nunds' bill.
The Osceola times., 1883-09-01
WHAT Is FLIRTAIION?
ELLA WHEELER.

What is lirtation? Really,
How can answer that7
Yet when she smiles see It's wiles,
And when he IFS his hat
'Tis meeting In bail room,
'Tis whirling in dance;
With something hid beneath the lid
Besides simple glance.
lis walking in the hallway,
lis resting on the stair
'ris bearded lips on finger tips
tTfmamma is not there.
'ris going out for ices,
ris buttoning on glove:
'Tis lips that speak Of plays next week,
And eyes that talk of love.
It's tucking in a carriage,
Tis asking for call
'Tis lifted eyes and tender sighs
And that is-no, not all.
lis parting when It's over,
And one goes home TO sleep
Ira la, my friend, best joys mrst end
But one goes home to weep.
The Osceola times., 1883-09-01
A Young Couples sad Death.
New York World.

A party of young people, including
William II. Hosier, aged twenty-three,
of No. $500 Lorimcr street, Williamsburg,
and Miss Mary Burke of Greenpoint,
started on Sunday night to walk from
Smiths hotel at Maspeth, to Greenpoint.
To shorten the distance they walked on
the Long Island railroad track. When
they reached the Grand street crossing
two trains approached from opposite di-
rections. The party scattered, and, as the
train came nearer, the women screamed
and the men appeared to lose their wits.
Hosier and Miss Burke were together
All hands managed TO get out of the way
of the trains but Miss Burke and Hosier
They did not realize their danger until
it was too late. To escape the east-bound
train they stepped on the other track,
but were struck by the express train
from Patchogue and instantly killed.
The friends of the unfortunate couple
yesterday visited the Hunters Point
morgue and claimed the bodies. They
we're engaged and were soon 20 have
been married. Their remains viii be
buried together.
The Osceola times., 1883-09-01
Quick Growth OF Csn.ury Plant stalks.

In z. W. Garfield's yard, north of
of Napa, Cal, there are two century
planis growing and about to blossom.
They were transplanted from small pots
eleven years ago, and are of immense
size. Only a short time ago stalk from
the center of each plant began TO shoot
upward until they are twentv-seven and
twenty eight feet in height respectively.
In enc day one of these shoots grew
nine inches! From the tops of these
shafts the blossoms will soon appear and
then the plant win Gle, never to bloom
again.
The Osceola times., 1883-09-01

In recent treatise, DIR. G. Manouvrier,
French craniologist, states that the
Uranium is heavier in negro races than
in any Others that have been subjected
b. comparison, so that the proverbial
thickness of the negro's skull has foun-
dation in fact. The skulls of Papuans
and natives of New Caledonia are
heavier than those of parisians, while
those of the American abonginies and
Of the Bengalese are lighter. The weight
Of the female czanium is about one-sevs
eatk leo than that Of the male.
ppnbuzy CO.. Neshedisss ere psayine
The Osceola times., 1883-09-01
1.-THE PINE AND THE PALM.
BY LAMoNTE.

From cold and shrouded northern skies,
That wrap the world in mantle dun,
Ny soul ON fancy's pinion flies
To sask beneath kindlier sun.
From torrents hoarse resounding roar,
And dirgelike wail Of moaning pine,
To where upon tropic shore
The tumbling breakers roll and khine.
thread again the hot white sands
whereon warm tides press foamy lips;
Beyond the ses-walls clasped hands
Securely rest the weary thips.
The sail droops IDLY 70 the mast,
"why should We rover the sailon say.
The future Is not, nor the past,
Time reckons only BY to-day"
Beside the bay city fair
Lies dreaming In slumbrous calm,
All guarded from the roontide glare
BY groves Of tamarind and palm.
No sound, save where khe dips her feet,
The lazy lapse of drowsy waves,
while court aud hall and grassy street
Are stiller than Ephesian caves
The palm trees in the burning moons
Like sentinels stand 1.-THE and tall,
And ali the landscape reels and swoons
Az straight the fierce white splendon fall.
Far out at sea with white sails set
see three stately vessels ride,
BY meeting currents sore beset,
And drifting with the changing tide.
In darkling thickets where the birds
SIT silent through the noouday heat,
In sighs more eloquent than words
Thepafth's impasioned pulses beat.
All spicy perfumes round me float,
Tnnce-like. in bliSnnl dreams lie,
While far away ON shores remote
The worlds rude clamors hush and die.
Yet even while encompasssd round
With tropic gardens deep In balm,
With nothing ru1er than the sound
Ofspice winds In the tuned palm,
A murmur strikes my drowsy sense
Like elm echoes far and fine.
The sweep Of winds through forest dense,
The dirye-liKe wall of moaning pines.
sull through the song the sirenes sing.
hear the low and measured beat
OF misty billows a. they ning
Their tangled fiotssm at my feet.
And ever in the sounds hear
The mingled tones together run,
They swell upon my listening ear,
Two mighty strains blent into one
o, sacred are the fields and fair,
Where the pale northern roses grow,
And dear the fervid sunlands where
Ny southern oleanders blow.
And in my dreamland where abide
Earth's treasuretrove, and all is mine.
In beauty, standing side BY side,
They grow, the palm.tree and the pine.
The Osceola times., 1883-09-01
Mystery of Feathers.
Martinsville (Va.) Herald.

\ short time since a gentleman living
in the Horse Pasture district near Stan
ley's mill, saw six white cranes about the
mill-pond. On the morning following
he saw but five one of the number hav-
ing been killed during the night by fox
or mink. The dead bird was found, and
the gentleman sends to the Herald a
number of feathers taken from one Of its
wings. On the feathers sent us are vari-
Gus names of towns printed, written and
neatly marked n different colored inks.
We find on one feather Columbus" in
red ink, on another Cressen, Penn, on
third Millerburg, Penn. New Hampshire
aud other names appear on several more
We find but one name of man, William
Bennert, Newark, n. J. How did these
feathers become SO lettered? Is the ad-
dress Of William Bennert n fraud :?
Wonder if the New Jersey papers can
help us to trace this crane which carried
his learning on his wing?
Nearly 81 500 has been given by prom
iuent people in New York. st. Louis and
Cmcaro through tt c efforts of Mrs. Mor.
itla llNNH NlpIflN tDNtrl tTttlinp n nome
for girls of the Dakota tribe of Indians
at Sisseton Agency, Dakota. This is the
tribe 10 which Longfellow's heroine
Minne-ha-ha belonged. The object OF
the home is to teach them the principles
Of Christianity, the ordinary branches
of study and practical housekeeping
The sum is about half of what is needed
for the enterprise
Nature never moves by jumps, but
~ =. \
The Osceola times., 1883-09-01

Nature never moves by jumps, bul
always in steadv and unsupported cd
yancee.
The Osceola times., 1883-09-01

The San Francisco Dank Vault Filled
With Opium.
San Francsscs chrorie.e
Since the Chinese opium importers Of
this city began TO rush the drug into the
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-07-27
TOM THUMBS FUNERAL.
Thousands Of People Follow His Rc
mains TO the Grave ut bridgeport.

The remains of Charles Sherwood Stratton
Gen. Tom Thumb arrived in Bridgeport,
Conn, from MiddeseE, Mass, Wednesday
night, and were met and taken charge of by
a delegation of the Hamilton Commandery,
knights lemplar, and escorted to ST. Johns
Episcopal Church, where the body was taken
in charge by an undertaken, who placed a
q watch upon the remains for the night. Hun
drcds of people assembled at the depot. On
Thursday the body lay in state at the church
from 10 to IL O'Clock, and fully 10, 900 people
llocked to the church to take last 10 ok at
the remains, many coming from surrounding
towns. The casket, which was made IN Boston
exprts sly for the occasion, was three feet ten
inches in length and covered with black
broldclpth with silver trimmings aud Mason
c emblems. 1t bore silver plate with the
following inscription "Charles 5. Stat
ton, aged 45 years, 6 months and ii days. -
The funeral services were held in the church
at 2 o'clock, Rev. Easion w. Laxey, rector,
officiating assisted by Revs. l.. n. Booth and
George ). Pine. AT the close of the services
al the church the remains were taken charge
of by the Hamilton Commandery and escort
I'd TO Mount Grove cemetery, where the
burial took place. The floral offerings were
profusc and handsome, the largest piece be-
ing an anchor and cross combined of white
roses and carnation pinks, sent by p. L.
Barnum.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-07-27
THE ADE.DOLLAR'S STATUS.
Secretary FOlger's Interpretation of the
Dollars History.

WAsHINGTos, d. c., July 23.-Secrelary
Folger recently received a letter from Dr.
Hallock of Brooklyn concerning the status IF
the trade dollar Hallock claimed the Pres-
dent had authority to order the receipt of
trade dc liars at the treasury the same as the
standard silver dollars. Replying Secretary
Folger says; SIN this think you lack the
support of law. feel quite certain YOU
lack that of legislative intention. The name
given to the coin by the coinage act of 1873,
the actual use to which it was first put, in &C
cord with the Anticipation of the lawmakers
of what the use of it would be, contemporary
discussion and comment upon it
when it was created, the readiness of Con-
gress to take away its legal tender quality
when it was put to different use, the usage
of the government through the period of its
existence, all tend strongly to show it may
not now by mere executive order be en-
dowed with that which you attribute to it,.
In view of these facts l should hesitate to
advise the president to exercise the power
you assert for him rather than await the re-
assembling of Congress and such action as it
may choose to take"