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Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-07-12
0 7 FROM TAYLoR's.

UuIS rnUM IHIIOn y,
ED. EAGLE: Your correspond
ent from Taylor's. has ceased to
wander and in the future will
endeavor to chronicle for you
events transpiring in and around
our little village.
The Methodist and Baptist
churches have organized here
under favorable auspices. Our
community begins to give visi-
bic manifestations of the Holy
Spirit.
Now and then trade and traf.
fic appears to be dull but had
you witnessed the natives car
ry away goods from our mer-
camille houses on Saturday last
you would have thought the
flush times of Mississippi had
revived.
Visitors in our city are toe
numerous to mention, embracing
from the fair young maiden to
the intellectual lords of crea
ton.
Our school has made hand
some beginning under the SUI
pervision of Mr.. p. A. Rush,
that prince Of educators.
The corn and cotton crops
are making rapid strides to wards
and abundant success.
Parson Houston gave us an
able discourse from Revelations
proving plainly that the promise
of salvation was in the reach of
all who had a desire to flee from
the wrath to come
DR.. Wheat and Col. Lamar
paid us a flying visit on Satur-
day and we expected to have
heard the Dr., but were disap.
pointed.
Mr.. Dalton is visiting Capt.
j. T. Avis and his estimable
family.
w. H. Carothers, Jr., our r.
r. agent, reports the sale of
over one hundred tickets for
our north-bound mail train
on the 4th inst. This shows
that his success as an agent is
nearly equal to his popularity
and financial ability as a mer-
chant.
Miss Georgia Paris has again
commenced to learn the 'syoung
idea how to shoot,n and we are
informed gives universal salts
faction.
Mr.. Dan Fry and j. @. Morri.
son, Of Water Valley, honored
us with their pleasant counte-
nances on Sunday last.
Our community was intoxicat
ed with joy at Judge Hills de-
clsion in the Watson case.
Turner, Mitchell and Carotll-
ers seem to be as happy as
birds and thank Judge Hill for
his unbiased decision.
/ On Saturday we had a lively
court, his honor, Esq. Brewer,
presiding. One case, wife beat.
ing, robbery and pugilistic per-
formance, all we're disposed of
according to law and gospel.
Messrs. Jones and Logan were
around shaking hands. Our
able and popular candidate for
reelection, the Hon. L. B. Jones,
is again abroad, showing the
good people of Lafayette, as we
verify believe, their next faith
full representative.
1t still rains, giving us from
the smiling April shower to the
up of the great deep.
We have some sickness most
y flux, but so far our doctors [
nave been able to control the
dangerous disease.
On the 18th, two miles FROM s
Caylor's, we will haye a grand {
barbecue.
Last though not least, our old +,
Ike Lee and lady, are {
listing their relations and ac- ]
Luaintances. Ike is the same
Tar.n Our hearts beat
for his success and hap /.
,iness in life. F.
My communication is now {
Dnger than intended but we :
gill permit you to manipulate !
he article if you cannot give it :
pace In your columns. !
:
TaylOr's july 9th. 1883. :
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-07-12

larI o,t.,;ora 80 Its ,or NJ.
ncstnt" i "-s
Th- ELECTION CASES.
The election cases which have
been pending in the United
States District Court at this
place, were brought to q sudden
close, by the decision Of Judge
lf4ili, upon a motion to quash an
information against Il. M. Wit
son and others. The decision
was in effect that the facts
charged in theInformation con.
stifuted no offence unsler the
election laws OF the United
4 Sfetes. and therefore the Infor.
matioh II muetEN DO, quashed.
fWhefeap0n District Attorney
! ChsHdlef, moved that. he be al
Lowed to Gle another sInforma-
tion, athefcourt declined TO grant
the order, stating that the Grand
gary was I'M session and that
the District Attorney could
bring the facts of the case be-
fore that body for it's action.
DISTRICT Attorney Chandler rose
III apparently some excitement,
aud declared that he could not
be dictated to by sh6 court as
to the courses he wonld pursue
In these election cases, aud that
he would not carry these cases
20 the Grand Jury Hc made
reference 70 the Star Route tri.
ii, and said that tho defendants
ia that notcd case. had been &C.
by the uncovenanted
mercies Of the Jury. and that
the di6erence would not be ma
tey,a1 il tb6se defendants should
III oF ~ lie uncoyenanted
ofthis court. ne reit.
= h;s nurnose 81 mot sub.
u.,tt;rr ,hs matter. * hand 10
~ XII
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-07-12

There we're twenty-six cases
of Aunstrokc in New York City
on the Bth INST, add three of
Them were iAtai, ! !. a,ei
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1883-05-11

them made themselves scarce by EN-.
barking for Minnesota. 81
The-riyer is falling rapidly, and the
Drayton mills will soon be in operation
again.
Rev. James Woolner, brother of Mr..
D. Woolner of this town, is coming out
from England in June next with his
family and viii join the Methodist con-
ference of this district. He will proba-
bly, take up his residence in Dmyton
until the meeting of conference. Mr..
Woolner has been in the ministry
about twenty-four years and for num-
Der OF years was a missionary in Eastern
Africi.
Mrs. Lynch is building a new home
on Main street.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1883-05-11

SHILOH'S VITALIZER is what YOU
need for consumption, loss of appetite,
dizziness and all symptoms of dyspepsia.
Price 10 and IS cents per bottle. For
sale by +. WILKExE.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1883-05-11
sTRAYED,

From the premises of the subscriber
on April 18th, two SOW pigs eight months
old one white and the other black with
white strip in face. Any person giving
information that will lead to their re-
covery will be rewarded.
LEWIS ABRAMS,
39-tf Stutsmap Street, Pembina
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1883-05-11

I have OH hand large lot of Farm Machinery
OF all kinds that must be sold at once regard
less Of price.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1883-05-11
TYNER.

On the ED of April Mr.. Gilvey's stable
was destroyed by fire. A large quantity
Of grain and horse were in the stable
at the time and were destroyed. The
fire, it is supposed was kindlcd from a
spark from the stove pipe.
Mr.. Syminston is again before the
Methodist people telling them how they
SHOULD live. He preached his first SER
mon this year at the residence of Mrs.
Adams. Subsequently service will lie
held in the scloolhouse every Sunday.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-02-08
ssDEFENTIA.''


EUREKA, Feb. 7, 1883.
Ed. SENTINEL: Will you be good enough
to throw some light upon the origin of the
word "Defentia," which I see used in the
Evening Leader? Is it Hebrew, or Greek,
or Choctaw? l know you are not familiar
with the latter tongue, but l thought you
might have some clue to the roots in that
jaw-breaker, as you have the keys to so
many other things (no trifing allusions).
Please Yours, In TROUBLE.
We have to admit, and we do SO with
the utmost candor, that "Defentia" is en-
tirely outside of any vocabulary accessible
to ourselves. 1t is probably intended as a
snatch from the Latin; if so it is from
the Latin Of a very modern period, dating
back not longer than a week. I have
made most diligent research in order to
comply with your prayer for light, and l
had almost despaired of being any help
to you when l got at what is doubtless the
etymology Of the word by inspiration
coupled with the sounds that used to greet
my ears years ago in>the land Of ''hog and
hominy," the South, in which section of
country the negroes retained many words
of African lingo, and sounded English
words to suit their own ear for melody.
''1he fence here" would be rendered by
them. "De-fen. tia," de-fence-huyr. With
the African origin Of the term ''Defentia"
so near by we ought never to have travelled
abroad to dig up its etymology. 1t is a
convenient nom de plume, and was doubt
less adopted for the reason of its conven-
fence. The writer may be on either side
and still cry out de-fence-hur, and I'm not
on it either,
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-02-08
ALL SORTS OF ETEMS,

Prince Victor, the eldest son Of the
Prince of Wales, is an inveterate cigarette
smoker.
A salt we'll is reported to have been dis,
covered within the corporate limits Of
Tucson, A. T.. The man who found the
we'll is now waiting for some one to come
along and show that he has been for ages
the owner Of an old grant that takes in
the whole find.
At the carnival in Montreal over 5000
decorated sleighs were out in procession,
some having four horses and others six
Next came a steeple.chase across Noun
Royal by snow-shoers. At night the ice
palace was illuminated with electric lights
and red fire.
Boston Corbett, the man who killed thu
assassin Booth, is living in Kansas, en-
gagged in the cattle business. He has be
come a religious enthusiast, and in a re
cent letter to a friend in Camden he say
that he had been directed by God to in
fict a daily corporal punishment upor
himself as a penance for having taken hu
man life.
When John Eicholtz died at Urbana
Ohio, he left behind him the accumula
tions Of 40 years. On his farm were 10,
900 bushels Of barley, thousands Of bush
els of corn partly rotted, old horses tina
had never known harness, vehicles will
sslid wheels cut from logs, and among tn
c~uriosities was an old pump mounted OF
wheels like q cannon,
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-02-08
PERSONAL.

Judge Keeney and wife, formerly OF
Elko, have gone to Socorro, New Mexico,
to live.
Russell Bassett has been engaged to take
Nat Goodwin's part in the ''Black Flag"
next season.
J. r. Townsend and J. Fl. Lockwood
came over yesterday from Hamilton in
private conveyance.
Maggie Duggan, the high kicker, has
made a hit in the pantomime of ''Sinbad,
the Sailor" at Sunderland, England.
Ex-County Clerk G. J. R. Buttlar is
with a view Of permanently locating there.
Charley Lautenschlager left this morn
ing for California. He goes for the bene-
fit of his health, being afflicted with rheu-
matism.
NJ. p. Freeman, formerly in the banking
business at Elko, is at present engaged in
a general banking. brokering and insur-
ance business at Tucson, Arizona.
Prof. Becker, the highest-up rock sharp
of them all, left us on Sunday after a sat
isfactory inspection OF the local geological
work of J. S. Curtis. Mr.. Curtis also
leaves in a few days.
1t is not strictly true that the Chinese
never advance or improve. They may
have been at a standstill in most things
for many centuries, but their frecrackers
of this (China) New Year are certainly
made of better powder. They never made
such Internal sounds before.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-02-08
A New Cartridge.

An entirely new departure in cartridges
for guns was shown at the Seventh Regi-
ment armory recently. The inventor
claims that his cartridge will not heat the
gun, that it ia self. ejecting. has twice the
propelling force of powder and is much
cheaper. 1t will also, he says, cost very
much less than metallic cartridges of gun
powder, and it will not be injured by
water. In appearance the cartridge looks
like a Chinese ire-oraoker with the red
paper taken off. Its materials and mode
of preparation are secrets, but it looks like
paper pulp soaked in some explosive mate
rial, and pressed into a hard roll. The
ball is attached to the end of the roll, and
the whole thing leaves the gun together on
the 'sky-rocket principle" 1t can, he
says, be adapted to any gun, and will rev.
olutionize the ordnance departments OF
the world. The inventor fred one of the
ball cartridges into a spruce log 8 inches
thick. The ball passed entirely through
the log and a two-inch plank behind 1t,
and fattened against a stone wall. After
firing twelve rounds out Of the same gun
there was no apparent heat and no fouling..
A moro scientific and satisfactory test will
be made at the State Arsenal of New York,
probably in a few days, before Government
and State experts.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-02-08
FLUE DUST.

Scraps from the Notebook of the
se~ntinei's Reporter.
The District Court meets at 10 O'Clock
this morning.
The Grand Jury will meet at 1 O'Clock
this afternoon.
Eureka Lodge No. 81, 1. o. o. f.. meets
at 1880 this evening.
For wood at reduced prices call on Jerry
Ahern, South Main street.
We hear of another wholesale liquor
| store about to be started in Eureka.
'sThe Eureka & Colorado Railroad will
be built without asking a cent or any
one."-Tom Wren.
R. Sadler yesterday received the patent
papers for the Sunset mine, which is stu
ated on Prospect Mountain.
Eureka Con. shares were yesterday
| quoted at So Is. This is the lowest price
the stock has been quoted for a number Of
years.
Senator Mcconnell has introduced a
memorial to Congress to provide food for
the Indians now dying of starvation in
Nevada.
County scrip, in amounts OF S100 and
over, will be cashed at the banks for one
pei CCAbs cOI CpbOA WV POA
cent is charged.
The Reno Gazette tells of a hog shipped
from Big Meadows that weighed (the hog,
not the meadows) when dressed 800
pounds. A whopper.
Our dispatches this morning tell of fear
full floods in the East yesterday. The
representations of the Canadian prophet,
it seems, are being verified.
DR.. Thoma has removed his Office from
the SENTINEL building to Ryland's build
ing on Bateman street. His private resi-
dence will be at Schwamb's on Mob Hill.
One of the saddest results OF the modern
study Of Comparative Philology is the fact
that the word "honeymoon" has nothing
to do with honey. The etymology of the
compound was hjon, an Icelandic word,
meaning a welded pair.
A quarter ante, dollar limit, poker game
causes more excitement nowadays in Eu-
reka than was felt whom yellow 500 pieces,
in the early and better days, Q into the
pot by the handful. Then the players
were calm, while now even the outsiders
tremble while looking on.
By request we republish 'The Mining
Engineer this morning. 1t was pub
lished in the SENTINEL about two years
ago, but it will be new to many Of our
readers and agreeable to all. Mr.. Nc
Grath's wit flashes out in several places,
notably in the couplet: II can overthrow
the Bible with the fossil of a snail, I can
recognize a mammal in a BONE" while the
whole piece is lively, readable and humor-
DJlq.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-02-08
A Diatribe Against Triple.

Those who eat tripe are men who have
had their stomachs play mean tricks on
them, and they eat tripe to get even with
their stomaohs, and then they go and take
a Turkish bath to sweat it out Of the sys-
tenn. Tripe is a superstition handed down
from q former generation Of butchers who
sold all the meat and kept the tripe for
themselves and the dogs, but dogs Of the
present day will not eat tripe. You throw
q piece of tripe down in front Of a dog. and
see II he does not put his tail between his
legs and 60 off and hate you. Trips may
have a value, but 1t is not AZ food. 1t
may be good to fill into a burglar-proof
safe, with the cement and chilled steel, or
it might answer to use as a breast plate in
time of war, or 1t would be good to use for
bumpers between cars, or it would make q
good face for the weight of a pile driver,
but when you come to smuggle 1t into
your stomach you do wrong. The tripe
league Of New York should have been
arrested, and their banquet sent to a glue
factory. Tripei bahl A piece Of Turkish
towel, cooked in axle grease, would be pie
compared with tripe.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-02-08

JOSS.
The Chinese Festivities-Their Tenn
pie and It's Secrets.

The Chinese Festivities-Their Tenn
pie and Its Secrets.
A great many curious people went last
night to see the Cinnamon in their Joss
house. They, the Cinnamon, bowed and
acraped and made sounds that could be
music to none but Monaghan ears. In
other words, they w%orshiped a horrid inn
age with as much earnestness, cheerful
ness, sincerity and faith as the devotees Of
any so-called orthodox creed. Next
Wednesday will be their "all eat day"
They are going to cook everything they
can get in the way of rice and chickens
Qook to your coops), and anybody will be
welcome to a seat around the board and a
pair Of chop-sticks. Next Wednesday
week comes the grand Chinese contest for
the prizes, the same that took place last
year near the old Matamoras furnace, and
winch attracted SO many spectators from
among the whites. The new feature in
the joss business this time is the fortune
telling that the bearded god of the Chi
nese Will do for the pale faces at four bits
q mead. We have heard Of several young
ladies, and gentlemen too, that expect let
ters to-day, written to their address in
chinese. telling them what will be their
future life.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-02-08
The Orphans Home.

The recent report Of the Directors of the
State Orphans Home shows hat out OF
the total number Of orphans admitted to
the Home since its founding up to Dec. 81,
1882, only 20 were whole orphans, 26S out
of the 297 being half orphans only.
Neither Humboldt, Nye, nor White Pine
County has over sent on orphan to the
Home. Storey and Ormsby have contrib
uted most generously of their orphans, the
former being accredited with lat inmates
and the latter with 80. Washoe comes
next with "a, then Eureka 10. Elko IA,
Lyon IA, Douglas II, Lander 8, Churchill
4, Esmeralda 8, Lincoln 8. There are AZ
children in the Home at present. Forty
six have been indentured, 4 have died and
1879 have been discharged, taken out by
relations, adopted or have gone out to
shift for themselves after receiving the
rudiments Of an English education and
being pretty well grown up.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-02-08
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.

An Act Requiring Them to GIVE
Bonds for Good Faith In Office.
Senator Foley has introduced a bill re-
quiring County Commissioners to give
bonds and providing for additional Sc
curity for the proper disbursement Of pub
lie money.
Section first provides that the bond to
be given by each Commissioner shall be
$4,000 the bond to be approved by the
District Judge. Any Commissioner fail
ing to file approved bonds within 80 days
after the passage Of the law forfeits his
Office. This applies, of course, only to
Commissioners now incumbent.
Section second provides that any money
illegally paid out by order of the Board
may be recovered by suit against those
Commissioners voting to make the illegal
order, against them or their bondsmen.
And that such actions may be instituted
and controlled by the District Attorney OF
the county without the interference Of the
Board.
Section third provides that the Board
shall not employ any additional counsel
without the approval Of the Judge, nor
shall more than $500 be paid for such
services.
Section four provides that any taxpayer
who deems money paid out of the County
Treasury without the warrant of law shall
be entitled to maintain an action against
the recipient of snch money in the name
of the county, .and if the action results in
the recovery of the money, all costs and
reasonable counsel fees advanced shall be
returned to the prosecuting taxpayer out
of the moneys recovered.
Section five is a fearful tumble of words,
Oh. Of which we pull the idea that the
District Judge may require the Board to
employ extraordinary counsel i'll actions
in courts of record when he thinks that
the county or State demand such succor.
Section six provides for returning money
recovered to the proper fund.
Section seven provides that the bill be
enforced from and after its passage.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-02-08
PIOCHE PICKINGs.
Record of Feb. 8,

Wild ducks are being sent in by the
load.
roche is well supplied with -four. The
brethren have been rushing in of late. and
"a was sold from the wagon at 90 D5 and
% per hundred. The millers in Utah are
now making aour equally as good as the
II ranchers, both throughout Utah
s sh TINS vicinity, are complaining about
t tnn scarcity OF snow, there not having
, v;o;n TINS Winter at any one time in this
saclhity enough snow to cover the ground
70 the depth Of half an inch, TInIess con-
siderable snow falls during the next two
nouat II Is feared that many of the
muuhtaln springs will become dry and
; iaarners viii be unable to secure water for
tbaf seu purposes. The quantity Of snow
S oMa, ,eii last Winter was such that grain
voaia have been cultivated in n q our
valleys without irrigatinr.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-02-08
The Mistakes Of Officials Who Are
Paid for Making Correct REPORTS.

The Mtstake s Of Officials Who Are
Paid fol- Making COrrec Reports.
j. r. Dodge, Statistician Of the Agri-
cultural Department at Washington, a
gentleman who is paid a handsome salary
for compiling the statistics of agricultural
products, and whose reports are official
and should be correct, or nearly SO, does
Nevada an injustice. In his report of the
harvest of 1882 Mr.. Dodge credits Nevada
with having produced only 49, 900 bushels
of wheat. The report of the Surveyor
General Of Nevada, which is compiled
from County Assessors reports, shows
that in 1882 Nevada produced 3O7, $50
bushels of wheat. OF this quantity Elko
is credited with 1873, AIS bushels, Eureka
with 10000 bushels, Humboldt with 112,-
500 bushels, Lander with 1000 bushels,
Lincoln with 2,027 bushels, Lyon with
4,454 bushels, Nye with 1925 bushels,
Washoe with 80, geo bushels and White
Pine with 2 1902 bushels. Churchill, Doug
las, Esmeralda and Ormsby, each and all
of which produced more or less wheat last
year, are not reported. This show5, says
the Silver State (Winnemucca), 25S, $50
bushels more than is credited to the
State by the statisticiau of the depart
ment, whose reports, if as much in
error proportionately regarding the pro-
ducts of other States, are worse than
worthless. As a matter of fact, there are
three Touring mills in this county-Kem-
ler's in Winnemucca, the Silver State on
Marten Creek and the Farmers on the
Little Humboldt. We are unable to state
the quantity of flour made by the two last
named in 1882, but the books of the Win
nemucca mill show that it manufactured
247, 500 pounds Of flour last Fall, and it
will make another run and grind about a
million pounds of wheat this Spring.
Hundreds Of tons of wheat have been ship
ped from Loveloek to Port Costa, Cal,
and the Elko Touring mill, James Davis
proprietor, is running steadily now and
turning out 25 barrels of -four daily. |
There are other mills in the State, but we
are unable to give their product in -four in
1882. Sufficient is shown, however, to
prove the falsi:y Of the figures Of the Sta
t~istician of the Department of Agriculture,
30 far as it relates to Nevada.