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Connecticut western news., 1884-03-19
The Military Squabble.

The New York military and the vet erans are having little squabble among themselves and bitter controversy has arisen. Gen. Shaler explains matters as follows: 'In the first place the officers saw that these uniformed battalions were drawing away men from the regiments who otherwise would have remained with them. In the active regiments, as you know, there is a great deal of hard work. Now none of us like hard work. Of course there is great deal of pleas ant social intercourse, a great deal of fun and much enjoyment; but there is also a great deal of work, and young men seeing these organizations, where it is all fun and no work, resolve as soon as possible to join one of them. By do- ing so they see they can at once attain to a rank which they could not have se- cured for years in the active service, and the officers wanted very naturally to put a stop to this. Then again, they ob- jected to the use of the uniform, as making it too common. know men who served four years in the field during the war and did not rise to rank higher than a captain, but here is a young fel- low, if he is gifted with good address, and has plenty of money and can tell a good story, who can be colonel at once, after five years of service in the ranks. For in these uniformed battal- ions it is not the man that has served the longest, or that is possessed of the most military knowledge, that is elected as colonel; but it is the one that can the oftenest set up the champagne for the boys, and it belittles title which we ought all to respect as a mark of honor, renders it valueless and of no account in the public estimation. think that if this is properly set before the members of the veteran organizations that they will see its force. You go into a hotel, and it is, How are you, Major z How are you, Colonel?' Come, General, what will you takeT Ask one of these military gentlemen, Are you Q colonel p
 ooh, yes
 "'Of what regiment ?
 'So-and-so Veterans.
 "Have you commission ?
 "'No. I have no commission, but the boys elected me colonel; guess I was a good fellow and able to set it up for 'em.'
 "Ts it at all wonderful that men who have won their honorable distinctions by years of service to the country feel lit- tie sore when the whole value of them is taken away; when a man in the ranks to-day can be a msior-general next week ?"
Connecticut western news., 1884-03-19
Heat from Red Hot Bricks.

"Yes, I've lived out West for ten years, '' said traveller, who was bearded like Q forty-niner; "I mean on the peraries of Newbraska. Great country, too."
 "What do the folks do for fuel?"
 "WelI, nowadays we're following after the Rooshuns, the Rooshun Menonites, you know, in the fuel business. They are right smart ingenious in some things, and this is the way they get over the fuel difficulty: They build their houses of four rooms, all cornering together in the center. Right there they put upa great big brick oven, with thick walls. From the furnace door back to the backyard is passageway. Every morning, noon and night they lug a jag of straw in from the stack and burn it in the furnace. The thick brick walls get red hot, and stay so for hours, warming every room in the house. Even in the coldest weather three fires a day in the furnace will keep the house warm. For the cooking stoves we burn cornstalks to get meals with, and thus our farms raise our fuel as we go along. Pretty good scheme, ain't it ?"
Connecticut western news., 1884-03-19
THE CLOUD ON THE BROW

The sky may be clear
 And the landscape look bright And full of good cheer
 In the suns golden light, When over the scene comes an ominous cloud The prospect serene in deep darkness to
 shroud.
 But the clouds that appear
 In the world out of doors, Though the storm be severe
 And B tempest down pours, Will do us less harm, every heart will allow, A cloud on the face
 Of friend that we love Will hide every trace
 Of the sunshine above, Fill the heart with it's gloom, and the atmos-
 phere chill, Like a shadow of doom, the foreboding of i'll. The infant will smile
 In the fond nurses arms. Who strives to beguile
 And to soothe it's alarms, But soon ill at ease, it's distress twill avow Whenever it sees there's cloud on her brows Ah, many will roam,
 Seeking places more fair, When the gardens at home
 Need their culture and care; And many bright flowers a brief race have run BecsuSe for long hours kept out of the sun. Let the sunshine come in
 It will do us all good; Its way let 1t win Where the shadows now brood And, once in the heart it will manage somehow To dispel with weird art every cloud from the
 brow.
Connecticut western news., 1884-03-19
Tempering the Wind.

Some one tells q story of London coclSney, who, while out shooting in India, came upon a large tiger, and thereupon began loudly vociieratinR for cab. Another sort of species ia tho wife of a settler on the limo of the South. ern Pacific, whose house was submerged by the recent floods. Her husband was absent at the time, and for five days the plucly woman lived upon the roof with five small children, and snbsistinR upon few potatoes sho hnd carried up from below in tho confusion. When roscuod by a relief boat, she was asked by n re. porter whether she had not suffered Q grent deal.
 "wen, yes" she replied; 'it was pretty rough, that's fact. The nights were awful cold, and we only had one blanket between ms, md that wns wet After the third day the children kept crying all the time for something to eat, and when I divided the last potato I most gave up all hope. On the fourth night tree came floating by with a big wild.cat on it, and the creature jumped on our roof, too"
 "Great heavens what did you do then ?" exclaimed the mortified listeners.
 "Why," she replied, simply, 'I just nailed down through the trap door and got Tim's gun oii the rnftcrs and shot the varmint You bet we had n feast then. made a fire with some shingles, and we lived on the meat until the boat came. An gentlemen, you can say what you please. but heaven docs temper the wind to the shorn lamb.
Connecticut western news., 1884-03-19

| the back of my head that all the sur geons in creation couldn't close up again. Let me die in peace"
 "Why, it is Jotham Peck p exclaimed Gervaise, recognizing the lawyers voice, husky and faint though it was.
 "Yes, Gervaise Colton, it is I, fal- tered the dying man. "Go back to Elsie Miller and tell her she is penniless once more. have risked her fortune in railroad shares, and lost it; but if had succeeded-and they looked promising they looked promising--I should have doubled it for her. was on my way to Europe. I dared not look in her face, and tell her what am telling you. But it is all over now. God will judge me more charitably than man would have done; and meant we'll indeed-indeed, meant well. For"
 There was choking sort of gurgle in his throat-a rush of crimson blood over his ips-and the next moment Gervaise Colton was holding a dead mans head upon his knee.
 "Lost My fortune all lost Stop a moment, Gervaise, and let me collect my thoughts-my head is growing dizzy, I think"
 Elsie Miller had cared as httle'for the money glitter of wealth as woman could, and yet this shock came to her sharp and sudden. No more luxury, no more indolent indulgences, no more day dreams. She must turn once more to the hard, dusty high-road of work-day life; and oh how lonely and desolate she felt in the contemplation of that new existence.
 "Oh, Gervaise, Gervaise, what shall I doP"
 The words broke almost in voluntarily from her parched lips; there was an imploring gleam in her blue eyes
 "I will tell you, Elsie," he said, gently taking both her cold, futtering hands in his. "Trust yourself to me-give your future into my care. And may Heaven be my judge if ever I fail in the charge it has committed to me p
 "Gervaise-I-I am little bewildered by this strange, sudden calamity, and I do not quite understand you."
 "I love you, Elsie-I would fain make you my wife. That should surely be plain enough" he said fondly.
 "But my money is all gone. am poor as the beggars on yonder pave ment."
 1T rejoice that it is gone, Elsie. Your wealth has been a barrier between us long enough-now may dare to speak out what has been in my heart for years Thank God that you are poor, Elsie."
 She looked at him with new light breaking in upon her mind and memory.
 ''Oh, Gervaise, how cruelty you have misjudged P
 "That's not the question, Elsie," he answered, tenderly. "Will you be my wife? Will you give me the right to care for you and protect you always?"
 She laid her hot cheek upon his shoulder.
 "I have loved you Gervaise, as long and as faithfully as you have loved me-" The barrier was broken down at last, and heart met heart.
 '1 am poor tonight" said Elsie, half iestingly, as she sat in the twilight with her hand close imprisoned in Gervaise's tender clasp, "but think am richer than have ever been before."
 She was an heiress no Ionger-she was only plain little Elsie Miller; yet how unspeakably precious in Gervaise Colton's eyes
 And Jotham Peck might have rested easier in his dishonored grave, knowing that he was forgiven
Connecticut western news., 1884-03-19

BAD L1ouoR. Having had occasion 10 visit number of country towns in Ohio recently, says Gath, and to be kept up travelling in the nights, expressed my surprise nt tho bad quality of liquor everywhere found outside of the large cities. Agontleman spoke up md said "Sir, the temperance cause ip getting more assistance from the bad liquor kept in this State than from all the temper ance societies that exist. A mn who knows what is iit to drink prefers Go ab. stain altogether rather than be poisoned by these compounds of yarninh and vitriol." 1 was told that in the whole State of Ohio there were but two dietill. cries that madoa pure article of whisky.
Connecticut western news., 1884-03-19

MmK.-In the course of recent lee. ture in Baltimore on the subject of food and the markets in relations to munic, ipal hygiene, Dr. John $. Billings af. frmed that fifty-three diphtheria epi. denies, seven scarlet fever epidemics md twelve typhoid fever epidemics ir England had been directly traced to thS milk supply. - Dr. Foote's Heai1 MopfhLu,
Connecticut western news., 1884-03-19

UNLESS Congress takes immediate and decisive action silver is going to give us a great deal of trouble" sayH promi. nent banker. It is the absence of silver that causes us a great deal of trouble.
Connecticut western news., 1884-03-19

WHEN is baby not babyP When it's little cross.
Connecticut western news., 1884-03-19
ADVERTISING RATESt
BISMARCK ON LASKER.
THE GREAT GERMAN ruANCEIIsoH
 EXPLAINS tItS REGENT ACTION

Questions at Pniicy-Mr. uchiitrec's Hcseiu- tians Regarded ar Expressions at tssod Feeling.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-05-24

The subject OF this paragraph came 10
Eureka some three months ago to engage
in business and with the hope Of improving
his health. He was afflicted with con-
sumption, however. and shortly after his
arrival here became 30 i'll that he had to
take to his bed, from which he never got
up. The immediate cause OF his death
yesterday was consumption. The deceased
was a native of Smithfield, Va, but
has resided many years on the
Pacific Coast, mostly in California,
following the printers trade. He
was a quiet, worthy, honorable man, re-
spected by all who knew him. he was q
knight of Pythiss, a member or Charter
Oak Lodge No. 90, Stockton, Cal, and a
member of the Red Men and A. o. U. W.
fraternities, Sacramento. Cal. During his
long illness here at the residence OF ~. e:
Phillips. he has had the tender and faithful
nursing of a devoted wife, and has lacked
no attention or kindness from Mr.. Phillips
and his family. Two Knights OF Beatiic
Lodge, Eureka. NJ. B. Bartlett and A.
Hintze, sat up with the remains OF the de-
ceased brother last night. As announced
elsewhere, the Knights Of Eureka will es-
cort the body to the grave tomorrow AFTER
noon.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-05-24

In the Indian Territory the Choctaws
continue to administer justice in their own
way. When an Indian commits q theft he
is given 80 lashes on the bare back, pro-
vided it Is his first offense. If it is his
second ~offense, he receives 80 lashes, and
should it be his third ~offense, they stand
him up and shoot him like a dog. The
fellow who 10 so unlucky as to be con.
demned to be shot for stealing is permitted
to select his executioner, and he generally
chooses his nearest and best friend. The
victim is stripped to his waist, and Q black
spot il made on his breast over his heart.
The executioner stands off six or eight
PAGES with a navy revolver, and sends q
bullet crashing through the thief's heart.
The victim is never bound or blindfolded.
He stands up bravely, without a sign OF
iinohing, and, in fact, rather seems to
like it. An Indian who is sentenced to
die in this way knows that if he exhibits
the slightest sign of fear, or lakes his
escape, he will ever afterwards be regarded
as q coward, and in his eyes this is q far
more dreadful doom than death itself.
This being the case, no attempt is ever
made to escape. No Jail is needed to
confne q victim. He is allowed the free
dom of the Territory until the day Of his
death, when he always turns up at the
appointed hour and place and takes his
little leaden pill with as much %unconcern
as you would q dose of salts.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-05-24
o

Mrs. Joe Mendes returned yesterday
from q visit to California.
Hon. Gabriel Cohn came in on yester-
days train from San Francisco.
P. Steler, who has been visiting Elko
and Wells, returned home yesterday.
William Il. Corbett has been appointed
Treasurer Of 0rmsby county in place Of
James Fraser, deceased.
Eugene N. Robinson arrived here from
Hamilton yesterday by private conveyance.
He will leave this morning for New York.
M. L. Wines arrived yesterday from
California. whore he has been attending
Berkeley College. He comes TO visit his
parents.
Ferdinand Ward, OF the late banking
firm OF Grant l. Ward, was put in Jail in
New York yesterday in default OF $780,
900 bail.
Rev. George l.. Harding Of Eureka,
New, is at the Metropolitan Hotel-Salt
Lake Tribune. Has our handsome Super
intendent OF the Eureka Con. reduction
works slipped over to Salt Lake and got
taken for Q parson2
James Hager. who accidentally shot
himself in the hand Wednesday evening,
10 suffering considerable pain from the
wound. The ball entered near the middle
OF the palm and went upward, lodging in
the bones of the wrist. DR.. Hagar will
perform the necessary operation TO extract
1t 10 soon az the swelling goes down sufii.
GENTLY. The patient will have g bad hand
for months.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-05-24
Eugene Blair Dying.

W. E. Griffin received . dispatch yester-
day morning from s. d. Brsstow, Wells,
Fargo 4 Co.'s Superintendent, San Fran
cisco. to the effect that Eugene Blair, in
times past u Of the company's most fear
lss and valuable messengers. could live
bnt . day or two longer. at most. Supt.
Brastow also requested Mr.. Griffin TO tele-
graph at once 10 A. j. Blair, at Bristol. to
go 70 his brother at San Diego immediate
" II he would see him again alive-which,
Of course, Mr.. Griffin did. For more than
. year Eugene Blair has been an invalid,
from the effect Of wounds he received from
falling out OF a lumber wagon. In recog-
milton Of his former services TO them in
those times when men Of the pluck and
spirit Of Eugene Blair were needed TO in.
sure the safe transportation OF their
treasure box, the company have been very
kind to him since he sustained the injuries
that disabled him. The many friends and
admirers Of gallant Eugene will regret 10
hear OF his critical condition and probable
death at an early day.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-05-24
FLUE DUST.
scraps from the Notebook Of the
SemtfneI's Reporter.

AeCVDThfFs
Travel on the E. Il P. R. R. has greatly
improved during the past 10 days.
The attention of the Knights of Pvthias
Is called to q funeral notice elsewhere.
Thursday last Wells, Fargo A. Co.
shipped 16 bars Of bullion, valued at
$29, 981 81.
A called convocation Of st. Johns Chap.
ter No. 8. r. A. M, meets 1880 O'Clock this
evening for work.
The Humboldt is said TO be a foot lower
now than in June, 1876, in which O
1t usually reaches it's maximum hight.
From all parts Of Nevada come reports
Of an unusually luxuriant growth OF
grass, with very few cattle TO feed upon it.
A local composer has just completed a
song which he has named 1.-The Dudes De-
light" 1t consists Of three signs and q
fainting spell.
1t Is reported in Virginia City that W.
Z. Sharon is likely to be appointed Super
intendent of the Yellow Jacket mine on
June 1, in place Of Charles Forman.
An old farmer who wrote an editor ask
ing how to get rid Of moles, received the
reply: "Plow them out" answered back:
"Can't do 1t. It's on my gals nose."
1t is reported that J. F. Triplett is to be
appointed detective for the Nevada Live
Stock Association. Triplett was with
Willard In the capture Of the Presootts
and Steel.
Among the appropriations for Indians
which passed the Senate, were S23, 900 for the
support Of the Nevada Indians at Pyramid
Lake, Walker River and Duck Valley Res
ervations.
The tributers at the Bald Eagle mine,
on Prospect Mountain, have commenced
shipping ore TO the Richmond furnaces.
They have 40 tons to ship. The ore
from this mine is usually Of very high
grade.
Apolitical mathematician at Hawthorne
has figured it out and says there will be
II applicants for each county Office
Reyeille. The saloon men at Pizen Switch
ought to put up q job and get them all to
run independents.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-05-24

Louis Monaco is taking some Of the fn-
eat outdoor Photographic views that we
have ever seer. His work is very superior
to that Of the %itinerant who came here q
while ago and packed off 3 sack without
saying thank you. We saw yesterday q
photograph taken by Mr.. Monaco Of "the
gang" who mess together at the residence
Of Judge Rives, along with q guest or two
Of theirs and the Chinaman cook, who
ornaments the entrance to the front door
with q water think OF 10 pitcher in his
hand and q childlike smile on his face.
The Chinaman is not Of the mesa and ap-
pears only as q background relief and TO
show that water is one OF the elements
used straight at the festive board inside.
Sitting and standing ON the porch are
Hon. Thomas Wren, Judge Rives. Col.
VIM. o. Mills. Jr.. E. h. CARRIER, Mr..
Mckenzie, M. McTurney, P. knight, John
hcGrath and Mr.. Waite. The attitudes
are good and the faces taken very clearly.
Fine likeness all through.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-05-24
THE STATE.

Two Chicago experts arrived at Love
look last Thursday and left for Cotton.
wood Canyon to examine the nickel mines
belonging to Bell, Curtis 4 Co., and the
cobalt and nickel mines Of George Love
lock.
The Humboldt is booming at Lovelocl
and the lake is filling up very rapidly
The county bridge near Theis' ranch ID
submerged and impossible, the water hav'
ing washed around one end Of it. 1t ID
feared the Oresna bridge will be washed
away too.
Notwithstanding the backwardness Of
the season, alfalfa is further advanced thar
usual in Humboldt county, and is now
from q foot to eighteen inches high. Grain
and other crops are looking well, and
promise an abundant harvest.
There is an insane Piute Indian in the
Asylum. There is no hope for q recovery,
and the authorities are about to transfer
him to the tender mercies Of the United
States authorities at the Pyramid Reser'
walton.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-05-24
Keen uhe Daily Up.

The Bodie Free Press having been
forced to come down to a tri-weekly issue,
the Times-Review says:
We trust, for the sake Of Tuscsrora. that
The Times-Review will not be reduced 70
the same necessity, and II the business
men of the place consult their own inter
ests, II will not be.
Our contemporary Is right. People who
do no not stand up for their paper. which
Is standing up for them all the time. are
pretty near being guilty Of suicide. Throw
Oh on your paper and, as little as you may
think OF 1t, the first consequence Of II Is Z
big blackeye for the camp.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-05-24
p. PASSENGERS TRAVEL.
HeteI Arrivals.

Jackson House-A. Dennery, Sacrament
10: ], Solomon, San Francisco; Eugene N.
Robinson, J. r. Townsend, Hamilton;
Bernard Mayer, George Fl. Wood, Phillips
burg. $3.50
Parker House-Gabriel Cohn, s. Heit-
aim, San Francisco; r. II. Davidson, A..
W. Avery, city.
Bureau Hotel Angus Mcdonald, p.
Walsh, citg; Charles Turner, Silverado.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-05-24
MAJORS
Protsstation or Innocence UP 60 n
Last Moment.
ESPECIAL TO THE s~ENTIEEL.I

ESPECIAL TO THE sENrIEEL.l
San Francisco, May 23.-Lloyd l.
Majors, implicated in the murders Of Re-
nowden and Mcintyre, heal Lexington,
Santa Clara county. last year, was hanged
this morning In Oakland at II minutes
past IL O'Clock. He protested his limo
cence up to the last moment. In con
versstion with J. B. Renowden, o brother
Of one of the murdered men, he said:
"You may draw the life-blood from my
arm, and with this pen l will write my in
nocence OF all connection with the crime
in my own blood" As he spoke he ap-
pealed to heaven to witness the truth OF
his statements. Although still suffering
from the effects Of his late desperate at
tempt to escape, he walked from his cell
to the scaffold with a firm, u~nfinching
tread. About 400 people had gathered in
the jsilyard, and the roofs Of the surround
ing houses were covered with people de-
sirous of witnessing the execution.
As the condemned man approached
the scaffold he looked up then,
without q moments hesitation, he
ascended the steps and took up his posi-
ton firmly and erectly IN the drop. A
slight swaying Of the body was apparent,
but no signs of fear or weakness was mani
tested. Contrary to expectation he made
no speech from the gallows. maintaining
from the first q stolid silence. When
everything was ready the bolt was pulled,
and Majors went down with q dull thud
from the tightening of the rope. Eight
minutes after the surgeon pronounced life
extinct. A few minutes later the body
was cut down and placed in a coffin for
delivery to his relatives. The crowd with
in the yard maintained q respectful silence,
which was only broken by the shouts of
the crowd outside, as the fact was an
nounced that Majors had ceased to live.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-05-24
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Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-05-24
The Duck valley settlers.

The bill introduced by Representative
Cassidy to pay the settlers on the Duck
Valley Reservation, in Elko county, for
improvements made on the land before it
was set apart for an Indian reservation,
has passed the House OF Representatives.
II provides for payment to the several
settlers, who first occupied the lands, and
made improvements thereon, Of the sums
agreed upon by the commissioners ap-
pointed to apprise the value Of such i'm
provements.