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Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-05-01
TELEGRAPHIC.
Construction and Repairs
Of Rivers and Harbors.
TIE ENGINEERS PLANS APPROVED
BY SECRETARY LINCOLN.
The Work Ordered in AL
but Nine Cases.
THE SECRETARY DOES NOT AUTHORIZE
CALIFORNIA EXPENDITURES.
Another Devastating Cyclone at
Meridian, Louisiana.
FEARFUL EXPLOSION AT THE
KEYSTONE O0LLIERY.
A Meeting to Consider Arch
bishop Woods Decree.
FEARFUL EXPLOSION AT THE
KEYSTONE OOLLIERY.
A Meeting to Consider Arch.
bishop Woods Decree.



lsPEcIAL TO THE s~ENrrNEL.l
WARRINGTON, April 30.-The Act OF
August IS, 1882. making an apportion-
ment for the construction and repair Of
certain works on rivers and harbors. and
for other purposes, known as the River
and Harbor bill, provided for the expend-
iture u e18. 7ss. SIS upon 432 separate
works and improvements. The plans of
tho engineers have been approved by Sec.
rotary Lincoln, and the works ordered in
al but nine cases, in which the apportion-
ment aggregated $S1s. 900. The principal
item Of this amount is s210, 900, for the
Improvement and protection Of the naviga-
BILE channels Of the Feather and Sacra-
mento Rivers. Secretary Lincoln declines
to authorize the expenditure of the $780,
900 included in the first item, because the
improvements and protection OF the chan
nels Of these rivera by the erection Of
restraining barriers upon the Yuba, Amer
lean and Bear Rivers. tributaries OF the
Sacramento and Feather, to hold back the
flow Of debris caused by hydraulic min
ing, would cause the expenditure within
the next eight years Of q million and :
half dollars, with doubtful results, aud
would 1t beat prove but = partial remedy
il hydraulic mining should continue.
a rerribls Cyclone.
NEW ORLxAHs. April 30.-A Times
Democrat Meridian. La, special says: A
terrible Cyclone visited this parish and
the country for seven or eight miles above
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-05-01
FIRST STRAWBERRIES

TINE FIRST STRAWBERRIES OF THE
season were to-day received by b. Lscfr.
man from the California fruit shippers, W.. J.
Wilson i Bon, OF Newcastle, Cal.
The aforementioned arm have, through the
aid Of their indcmitable skill and persevsring
business energies, become famous snd their
name widely Known - fruit packers and ship-
pers Of green frn1t.
Not contenteA with psf achievements 81.
ready acquired, they, ~ their enterprise -
and an equal to all. That they have proven
successful in their endesvofs 20 stain such IN
end no one can for . moment dsny.
With . view 70 more easily and quietly serve
their PATRONS nsy have sEsctsd : very large
md handsome building ample and commo-
dices saoueh for al pn.pcss.; in CLOSE Prox.
Unity and almost oppcette Wells Fargo ! %.
snd b Q. 2. ?. Z. freight oaaes. Being %
vexy conveniently sitsatsd. and having their
building connectsd b. plAtforms TO those Of
the O. p: n B. Ooy al joltins necessarily
caused otheFwfse Will be dispensed with and
the fruit trueked IN perfect exdsr from their
building e the Q. r.. q. b. depot, whore u 70
losdsd on The cars By competent hands skilled
In that line. = eent for ward In condition %
undergo IT. Journey. n cArsfuliy handled while
eu route. In perfect safety.
''ysesh fruit veil sud casAfully packed" -
their motto, ana shsy make - : part Of thety
businsas 70 So that Ill fruit 10 foxw asded %
the same day IN order may have been received.
Their melket eoveFs . very lafee Areos -.
eludin1 the Territories.
our-nerohAnts vill do we'll to rive xsssrs.
". wfLooA = son . fats trial. ap12tf
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NEW TO-DAY.
Annual Meeting.

TIME ANNUAL MEETING or TIE ADAMS
Hill Consolidated Mining Company. for
the election Of Trustees to serve for the en-
suing year and the transaction Of such other
business - may be presented, will be held 1t
the onco Of the Company. Room 4. No. 4O1 Cal
iforniA atreet, San Francisco, California. on
MONDAY, THE TWENTY FIRST DAY OF
MAY, 1888, at IL O'Clock noon.
D. A.. JENNINGS, Secretary.
San Francisco, April 20. 1898. my1td
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II An0AeHInE AID 0T11B CIJ00D, ALL
- sisss; 1ishh. Wig. upanGlsa. cola M
silver Laess. Tsnborisess Danios. IAIaD-
STONE JxW1LnY fee nAhssup. ~ svsky.
thing fos Minstzsls snA 1Aee3sss. N nnyD
BIT MAIL on o. o.. p. ~ 81 oooAs semo
direct fson 1ussps. ~ 49, ssmpsh6sa h
ths United statss. nsnA fes ys1ess. Ma.
THAN J01BPUs el1 Clay stroo1,
saa yzansisso. cai. sseiyaAw
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NEW TO-DAY.

AUCTION!
VIII eli = nne line Of
Household Goods,
....oN....
Saturday, May 8, 1888.
Sale viii At 1 O'Clock P. NJ. at my
my1td J. n. KEEN, A~uctieneer.
"A N d
4
MILITARY BALL!
70 Be GIVEN AT THE
Miners Union Hall
....BY THE.
Centennial Guard
'''0S''-
uOOuQy way OOOs
"
TSeut n r MuIIens liant n Novra.ou
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0fC1DU1asdD

TH1 ooYAnrHmanIp Hm1Toyon1
i!., sssstans saa ds,sc : asesss! tssn.sg
Ann nAns Of n6sWast6 o.. anA ccnposel e
~ following named pssgo1si .. Dtevort
md =. Hverts. Il this day dissolved BY mutual
consent. 2. xvsrts rsttslng from he business.
Eureka. April Il. 1855. splklm
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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-31

prisoners at Maiden. For every scalp
taken a premium was paid by the Brit
ish.
The bodies of the slaughtered were
mostly left to illustrate the beautiful re-
mark of Goldsmith: ether, is no tears
so precious as those with wrnch heaven
bedews the brow OF the urburied SOL
der" The middle o. October following
the massacre, a detachment of Ken
tuckians, returning VIGOROUSLY from the
battle of the Thames, stopped at French
town to mourn their dead, and collect
and inter the skeletons of IS of the hap
less victims. Thirty-six years later, in
September, 1S49, by order of the legis-
lature of Kentucky, a quantity of bones
disclosed by the grading of street in
Monroe, were borne to the state ceme-
terry at Frankfort, and buried with fit
ting rites. With them went a box of
bones which had been picked up by a
Monroe man, and Kept for time in De-
troit. All skulls found, it IS said, were
cloven with the tomahawk. In Febru-
airy, 1871, another &C find was made III
Monroe OF 30 skeletons. 1t may now be
hoped that the last of these sad remains
rests in peace.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-31
A Destroying Land lord.
ICorres. New York Tribune.l

There Is an injunction now against
the working of all California hydraulic
mines which run their debris into rivers
the waters of which find their way into
the San Francisco Bay. This action,
which was only secured after hard le-
gal fight, renders valueless nearly all
the great mines in the state, into which
millions of dollars have been put in the
shape of costly machinery, long tunnels,
and miles on miles of fumes and ditch
es. The agricultural interests of the
state are so great, however, that no one
for moment can question the Justice OF
this measure of protection for the farm
ers. All along the rivers in the large
valleys the rich bottom land is covered
in many places with deposit of mud
and gravel, which under the hot sun of
California dries into the hardness of an
adobe brick. No crop can be grown,
for this deposit-which is the debris or
"slickens" from the mines hoated down
by the swollen rivers and left here dur
ing the winter and spring hoods-is so
deep that it can not be turned under.
The farmer has no other recourse than
to abandon his land-turn it out to old
fields, as the southern planter used to
do when he had taken the lie out of
the soil with many successive crops of
cotton and tobacco. But the worst ex-
ample of this destruction is seen on the
great fruit ranches. Here not only is
the land ruined, but the trees, which
cost small fortune, are witbered and
dead as though the breath of a big for
est fire had passed over them. One
may see to-day the famous Briggs ranch,
of more than 5000 acres, all planted in
fruit trees, given over to this deadly
invasion of debris. Ten years ago it
produced the royal income of $3.50, 900
a year; to-day it is practically worth
less
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-31

order OF heaviress, and his powers are
measured by bis success in doing SO
Thus one man will appreciate differ
ence between numbers one and three.
while another more obtuse will only find
u difference Of weight between, say,
numbers one and five. Mr.. Cation
mentioned some general results of this
system which are interesting. Men
were found, for instance, to discriminate
better than women, and men of intellect
ual attalnments better than those not in
the habit OF employing their brains
much. Again, women Of morbid sensi
tlveness were found by this apparatus to
be by no means remarkable for their sue
cess in discrimination. This curious
system OF comparison of weights appears
therefore to be test, to some extent, of
intellectual capacity, and in its results
IS somewhat similar to q clever appara-
tus shown some few years back at the
South Kensington Scientific Exhibition.
In this latter apparatus, If we remem~
ber rightly, the rush of blood to the
brain could be approximately calculated
during mental effort. 1t therefore be-
came possible t. indicate, during the
h1ChU'VA lAdLSIdLlCl VI IL pbS6aBb IEOh
one language to another, whether the
person tested was familiar with the orr
ginal tongue or had merely school
knowledge of it. In the first case the
mental effort would be small, but in the
latter very much the reverse. Another
method of dealing with mental impress
sions was experimentally demonstrated
some time ago by DR.. Burden Sander
son, who was able to measure the small
fraction of time occupied by the trans
mission of athought to the brain, excited
by some external influence by the ear,
sight or touch. 1t would therefore seem
probable that at some future time a
complete set OF tests may be devised by
which the mental capacity of an indivi-
dual can be accurately gagged. The mere
circumstance of successful examining for
a competitive examination will then 40
longer be considered testimonial to
mans brain power.-L0ndon Graphic.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-31
Iumned into the Fire

A sad disappointment befell youth
full bankrupt, who, failing IN business,
sold all he had and went to Queenstown
with the proceeds, hoping to get off
safely to America. He forgot that in Ire
land there was a coercion act, and soon
found himself arrested as s. suspect. -
Communications with Scotland yard re-
vealed that he was not a rebel, only an
absconding debtor. His G215-all he
in the world-was taken frem him, and
his creditors hint that unless his father
who is solvent-otfers satisfactory
terms, he may even be charged with frau
dulent disposal of the property.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-31
A twenty-five Cent Story.
(From the Boston Globe

Four clerks in Summer street whole
sale drygoods store were lounging about
after lunch one day not long ago when
business was dull. They got to telling
stories.
"The other day." said one, ga New
York business man started from here in
a hurry to the Providence depot. He
wasn't sure of the way, and when he got
to the corner of Washington street he
asked boy. The boy directed him and
got ten cents for his trouble. At the
corner Of fremont and BoyIston street
he got stuck again, and asked another
boy which way to go. The boy told him
and the New York man gave him ten
cents also. Arriving at the depot all out
of breath, be asked a third boy what
time the next train started for Provi-
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-31
A Colorado Editors vaIedictory.
(From the Tin Cup Record.

In retiring from the editorial and bust
ness management of the Record we en-
brace the opportunity extended Us to
say that we do so withouta single regret.
If we've injured anyone during our brief
journalistic career we are glad of it, and
If we hurt anyones feelings we did so pur-
posely. If we owe anybody we are will
ling and ready to pay, and if anybody
owes us we shall insist that it be paid In
stanter. Wedon't know anything about
the newspaper business, and never did
and never want to, and are glad to get
out Of it,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-31
SNOWFLAKES.
BY J. T. BURTON woLLAsToN.

Through the chilly Winter morning,
Through the gloomy veil of mist,
Came the snowfiakes, thickly falling,
Hiding everything they kissed
Every window-sill and doorstep,
And the stones beneath the feet,
Till pail of perfect Wilderness
Covered all the busy street.
Soon the feet of busy people,
Passing to their daily toll,
Trod the whiteness out, and marred it
With the grimy stain OF soil:
Till the trampled mass presented
But a sad and painful sight
Painful in its wretched contrast
With the snow of yesternight.
In the chilly Winter morning
Came little soul one day,
Sweet as any mountain daisy
Growing in its bed of clay,
Fair the face that shone above it,
1.-the the limbs that made it's prison;
1t was fairer than the snowflakes
Ere the morning sun had risen.
Soon the hasting feet of Passion
Trod the soul and beat it down;
And a sinful hand defiled it
In the markets of the town;
Till the face had lost it's beauty,
And the limbs grown worn and thin,
With the wretchedness that follows
In the deadly track of sin.
Sullied snow is never whitened,
Never can be fair again;
But there is a purifying
For the sinful souls of men;
And the print of evil footsteps
In the downward path we trod,
May be plotted out forever
BY the mercy of our God.
Chambers Journal
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-31

dence. The boy told him and the man
gave him five cents. What time was it?"
Two and ahalf, said one of the three
attentive clerks.
a quarter past" suggested The sec
ond
"A quarter to three" exclaimed the
third triumphantly.
"Keerect! said the fiend who perpe-
trated the yarn.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-31
DOMESTIC ECONOMY.
BOILED PARSNIPS.

BOILED PARSNIPS.
Cold boiled parsnips, cut in slices and
fried In butter, make a good side dish.
If the family is large, and tits of impor-
lance to economize butter, take one or
two thin slices of pork, and fry them.
When they are almost done, put the
pieces of parsnlp In frying-pan with
the pork, and brown them. A lump of
butter can be added to give flavor to the
fat.
NEW WAY OF SERVING OATMEAL.
Take dessert teaspoonful of oatmeal,
place it, IL the morning, III a tumbler,
and fill up with new milk; LET it stand
all day, and take it for supper or a night
cap. The grains will nave been softened
by their long soaking in the milk, and it
can be eaten with a spoon. This is said
by it's advocates to be a specific against
neuralgia, and is also soundly recon-
mended for sedentary folk.
WASHING FLUID.
A washing fluid which, it is said, viii
not rot or in lure clothes in any way, is
made of one pound of potash, one ounce
salts of ammonia and one ounce salts OF
tartar; dissolve the potash in three
fourths of gallon of water and let it
come to boil; then add the salts of am
mOnia. Put in jug and then add the
salts OF tartar, and cork the jug. a half
teacupful should be used for the first
boiler full of clothes, and for the second
boiler add just little more.
TO CLEAN PAINT.
Tea leaves may be saved from the
table for few days, and when suf-
fcient are collected steep, not boil, them
for half al hour in a tin pan. Strain
the water off through a sieve, and use
this tea to wash all vanished paint. 1t
removes spots and gives newer, fresh
er appearance than when soap and water
are used. For white paint, take up a
small quantity of whiting on damp
piece of old white flannel, and rub over
the surface Lightly, and it viii leave the
paint remarkably bright and new.
GRAVY.
Good gravy can be made ut any time
if you have some nice pieces of coldroast
meat. Put them In a saucepan, and
pour about pint of boiling water over
them; cover the saucepan, and let the
meat and water simmer on the back of
the stove for an hour or more; then
strain it through a fine sieve, add butter,
pepper and salt; thicken with -four. If
lamb or mutton make the foundation of
the gravy, flavor it with tablespoonful
of Worcestershire sauce, or with the
same quantity of parsley, chopped fine.
OYSTER oMELETTE.
Stew a dozen oysters in their own
liquor, if possible, If not use very lit
tie water; roll two or three Jumps of but
ter the size of butternuts in -four, and
put it in and let it come to boil; salt it
well, and add black or cayenne pepper to
suit your taste. Take out the oysters
and chop them, and if necessary to make
it thick add a little -four to the sauce,
then put the oysters in, and set the
saucepan in which they are on the back
part of the stove. Beat your eggs until
very light, and add to them two table
spoonfuls of cream or rich milk; fry in a
well-buttered frying-pan. When done
remove to hot platter or deep plate,
and pour the oyster-sauce over it. Serve
while hot.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-31

JUDGE ROBERT E. FARMAN, of War
saw, who represents the United States
In the international court of Egypt,
will return to his post, sailing for Alex
andria from New York, February 3D..
1t is said h finds dealing out justice Tor
the Egyptian government an exceeding
ly agreeable task at 81, 500 per annum.
He was Garfeld's last designation for a
foreign post. The late Egyptian wal
rendered his vocation dangerous one,
and may dissolve the court.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-31

DR.. Shearer, of Berks County, Pa,
claims that he has employed cola water
spoDging and ice bags to the throat in
severe cases of scarlet fever during
twenty years, and with such good re-
suits that he considers the treatment
not only permissible, but actually
necessary where the symptoms are
ALARMING
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-31
The MUSCULAR SENSE.

Mr.. Francis Cation, F. R. S., to whom
the scientific world is already indebted
for several novel methods of research,
lately brought before the Anthropologi-
cal Institute some apparatus for meas
uring the relative delicacy of muscular
sense. This apparatus consists of box
containing trays of small weight ar
ranged in sequence, and numbered one,
two, three, etc. The person whose mus
cular sense has to be tested is told to ar
range given set of weights in their true
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-31
PERSISTENT HBRBAIIsTs.

The evening primrose and the mistle-
toe share alike with horsemint and bears
foot the honor of having been recently
transferred to the dispensatory as cures
for something or adjuvants for some
thing. Even iron wood has not been able
to withstand the knife of the herbalist,
while the wild bergamot, sundew, and
heliantheia have bowed to the fate
which places them among the appalling
list of new remedies
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-31
ELECTRIFYING A RATTLKsNAKE,

The southern rattlesnake, as well as
his northern relatives, is capable of
sending thrill through the nervous sys-
tenn of man by the mere sound of his
rattles. He is himself of a very low
nervous organization. The writer once
submitted moccasin to the influence of
electricity, and though the entire charge
of battery, of fifteen "Leyden jars, :"
was passed through him, no other effect
was produced than to make him raise his
head, and hiss, and yet this charge
Etantlu
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-31
CURIOUS, USEFUL AND SCIENTIFIC
THE SAND BATH.

From time imme mortal chemists have
ueed sand-bath where the temperature
is 10 be obtained higher than that of the
boiling of water or of oil The method
Is not wholly rational, however, sand be-
ing very bad conductor OF heat. Herr
Kristalba has lately recommended the
substitution of pounded fragments of
graphite; they let the heat pass much
better, do not oxidise, and 90 not soil the
inclosing vessel.
National Republican., 1883-11-03
TIE COMMISSIONERS.
Current transactions at tho Various Dis
friCt Omces.

Commissioner West has made comparative
list of the revenues received by the district
for the frat four months ofeach year for three
years back. The list shows that for the first
four months of the license year of 1872
$l53,519.I5 were received. For the same space
of time in 1882 1858, 79i.06, and for 1894
sl9D, 1876. The collector states that the
large showing of 1928 was due to the fact
that by act of congress in this license year
back taxes wore received without the ordinary
penalties and costs, and taxes duo wero 70.
ceived at u discount OF 9 per cont. The re-
ceipts of tho Office yesterday were very large
John Feely has been appointed an addi-
tional private.
B. II. Warner, president of tho school
board, has recommended to the commissioners
that the owner of the Larner school building
be compensated for damages done that build
ing while it was occupied by the public
schools.
Mr.. Irwin b. Linton has petitioned the
commissioners to release from all liability on
account of tax sales made by the collector of
taxes, lot 66 in sub square 620 The commis-
sioners decided to receive the taxes without
the penalties.
The Postal Telegraph company have begun
laying the conduit of wires.
The commissioners yesterday addressed n
note to Comptroller Lawrence, stating that u
SUIT had been entered against tho bond of the
contractor who laid the Baily French pave
ment for repairing which claim of 81 ,312.30
had been filed by Messrs. Crawford & Filbert.
The commissioners in the letter record their
emphatic protest agaiut the action, based
upon an opinion Of the first comptroller, by
which the security of the 10 per cent. guar
antee, provided by law to meet the very
emergency that has arisen in this case, has
become lost to tho district.
o. f. Pulaski and others want the alley in
square So opened.
Citizens want trees planted on the west
side of Ninth, between l. and NJ streets north
| west.
Mr.. w. NJ Gait has been refused permission
to erect gate across the alley in the rear OF
Masonic temple.
No trees can be furnished to the people of
| Hyattsville, Nd, as they request.
The lack of surface drainage in square S29
| has been abated and complaints have ceased.
Building permits were issued yesterday to
| N. I. Haller and o. S. Morrison to build two
dwellings on n street, between Eleventh and
| Twelfth streets northwest, to cost $4,000
| New York avenue church, to make repairs to
cost 81 200; Sulick Palmer, to erect stable
in rear of 9l2 Nineteenth street northwest, to
cost 81 300
The following applications for liquor Ii.
cense were granted yesterday Catherine
Buchler, Christopher Bartelmus, Hilarious
Fesenger Edward Fitzgerald, G. w. John
son, Alice Kelly, Dennis Murphy, Edward F.
Woody, and George Schwertzen. The appli
cation of Daniel w. Twomey was disapproved