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The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1884-10-31

of County Commissioners notice is hereby given
that
On TUESDAY, November 4th, 1884,
At the following named Precincts in the County
of Humboldt, State of Nevada, to Wit:
Big Meadows Precinct, No. /,
Rye Patch Precinct, No. s,
Mill City Precinct, N. 8,
Star City Precinct, No. z,
Unionville Precinct, No. s.
Dun Glen Precinct, NO. 10,
Winnemucca Precinct, NO IL,
Golconda Precinct, No. IL,
Bartlett Creek Precinct, NO. IA.
Eden Valley Precinct, NO. Is,
Paradise Precinct. No. 10,
Fort McDermit Precinct, NO. II,
Rebel Creek Precinct, NO. Is,
Humboldt House Precinct, NO. q,
Stone House Precinct, NO. %,
Spring City Precinct, NO. a.
Willow Point Pl ecinct, NO. Is,
An Election Will Be Held
FOR STATE, COUNTY AND TOWN.
SHIP OFFICERS, to wit,
Three Presidential Electors.
One Member OF Congress-,
One Justice of the Supreme Court
One State Senator;
Three Assemblymen,
One Sheriff,
One County Clerk,
One County Recorder,
One County Treasurer,
One District Attorney,
One County Assessor,
One County Surveyor,
One Public Administrator,
One County School Superintendent,
One County Commissioner Cong term).
One County Commissioner (short term)
One Justice of the Peace for each township,
One Constable for each township,
Two School Trustees for each school district.
One Road Supervisor for each road district,
For Constitutional Convention;
Which E.e ton shall be opened at s O'Clock
A. NJ, and shall continue open until 9 o'clock
T. N. OF said day.
All elet tion tickets, or ballots, for the ensu.
ing General Election. in Humboldt County.
Nevada, shall be printed, or written, on a good
quality of plain, white book pap, r, and said
tickets shall be four by twelve inches in size.
[sEALl Witness my hand and the seal OF
the Beard OF County Commits
sonerS, at Winnemucca, Nevas a,
this 9th day of October, A. ID.
1884
A. T. gibson, County Clerk.
And Ex.otficio Clerk OF the Board Of County
Commissioners OF Humboldt County Nevada.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1884-10-31

The undersigned will pay a reward OF $3.50 for
the arrest and conviction OF the person or per
sons who feloniously, or for the purpose OF
playing practical joke by alarming the town
made fire near the dry kiln OF the Winnemucca
Reduction Works ON Friday night, September
10Th, 1854.
ALEX. WISE
Winnemueca, Sept. Is, 1884. s20-lm
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-07-31
Texas Beef.

The great reservoir from which has
been drawn the bulk of the cattle which
are now becoming so abundant in all
our Western Territories is the State of
Texas. In 1870 one-seventh of the
horned cattle in the United States was
found within its borders, and it out
numbered the aggregate of those of
all the other States and Territories
west of the Missouri, California and the
Pacific coast included. This ratio was
slightly changed by the statistics
of 1880, the State representing
somewhat less than one-eighth of the
whole number, while it still contained
more than all the others mentioned
above. From this source of supply has
been drawn the great bulk of the range
cattle now to be found on public
lands east Of the Rocky Mountains
industry which has grown to huge pro-
portions, and yet dating back In these
States and Territories few years only.
As an evidence of this, we note that in
1870, the number given for Montana,
Wyoming, and Colorado was little
less than 100000. Ten years later
Wyoming alone equaled this, while
the three together aggregated nearly
100000. We do not doubt that
an accurate census taken to-day would
more than double these figures.
To Texas, then. we must look for
the supply from which to draw recruits
to further develop the capabilities of
the northern ranges. Like the tide Of
immigration. which is daily landing
thousands of foreigners on the shores
of the new worlh more than equaling
the relative birth increase, so the an
nual cattle drove from Texas must vet
be the base of supplies for all the coun-
try north. George Pomeroy Reese,
IN HdTpeI's Wd1azine.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-07-31
Protecting Dogs and Cats.

The great vivisectionist, DR.. Claude
Bernard, was married to young wom-
an who was exceedingly fond OF dogs
and cats. AS may easily be imagined,
the Doctor and his wife did not agree
Driypn to fall, the poor Doctor was
obliged to choose between the wife and
science. He chose the latter, and q
separation from his wife followed.
Thenceforward Nine. Bernard gath
cred together all the homeless and
friendless dogs and cats that she could
find. A singular idea moved the wife
of the illustrious apostle of vivisection
in this popularity. She wished to pro-
tect as many dogs and cats as her hus-
band killed, so that when she would
meet him IN the other world, she could
display the superiority of her work.
After the death of her husband, Nine.
Bernard continued her labor of love.
She retired to Bois- Colonies, and
sheltered in her house all the vagraat
dogs and cats of the neighborhood.
The neighbors were highly amused at
first, but finally they began to think
that the thing was q nuisance. They
complained to the,Mayor, who ordered
the lady to close her establishment.
This she refused to do. Then she was
brought into q police court and fined
five francs for violation of q town or
dinance. She appealed to higher
court, but the Judgment Of the court
below was confirmed, and all her dogs
and cats were turned out upon the cold
and cruel world.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-07-31
peroxide Of hydrogen in bottles, and no
patent on IL.

A CIRCULAR railway has been built at
Ponce de Leon Springs. Ora. The new
railway is wooden structure, forming
circle, being four feet high and five
hundred feet long. inside Of which is
laid the track for the cars, and is SO
graded that the cars run themselves, the
highest point above the ground being
twenty-five feet six inches. and the low
est point touching the ground. Mr..
Wood, formerly poor carpenter of To-
ledo, Ohio, is the inventor of the circu-
lnr railroad, having conceived the idea
from witnessing children slide down
the hills on their slide-boards, he argu-
ing that if they could slide down hill
they could also slide up hill-a demon
stration of which is Witnessed in the
circular railway.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-07-31

The young men of the country are
still accepting" positions. business
men of all kinds are overjoyed to ST.
cure their services. When one man
resigns" general regret is felt by the
pro rietor of She establishment which
he leaves, but there are sounds of an
enthusiastic reception in the estab-
lishment where he has accepted o
position"
The other day young man entered
an Arkansas newspaper Office, and
said to the city editor: by the way,
l have resigned my position Mt Jack
sons, and have accepted position
around at Hilkins'. Wish you'd make
note of it; Just throw off little
article, you know. something to make a
fellow feel good"
All right" rejoined the city editor.
with n merciless grin; "but first let's
understand this business. have Just
received orders from the manager not
to allow anything but the strictest
truth to so In our columns. les!er-
day left out the most interesting part
of sermon because it did not read
like the truth. You see, the entire
country is undergoing change. I'll
investigate this matter of yours and
publish the truth. was in Jackson's
the other day when he told you that he
would give you two days to secure an
other place, and that If within that
time you failed, he would give you
what is termed the resignation in COM
mercial circles, but which III news
paper Office is known as the bounce"
"Well, I'll tell you. We had fall
ing out. Don't say anything about the
resignation. Say that have accepted
a position at Hilkins'."
"All right"
will it be in the next issueT"
Eyes"
wish you'd save about dozen cop
les of the paper"
But you know I'm instructed to adj
here strictly to the truth. Yesterday,
while was at Hilkins', you came in
and declared YOU must have place.
and when Hilkins said there was no
vacancy in the store, you declared that
you would work for $40 month. Hill
kins still declared that he did not want
you, but after persistent pressure he
agreed to keep you one month for your
board, and that if you suited him he
would keep you at the same salary dur
ing the busy season. Yes, I'll write it
up for the next issue, and / have no
doubt that your many friends all over
the country will be pleased to hear of
your success, and that the commercial
community, generally, will congratu-
late Hilkins upon the acquisition of so
value BILE factor of trade
well, say" remarked the young
man, you needn't say anything just
now. L don't like to see my name in
the papers, anyhow, and 1 only came
around because 1 thought you wanted
all the news items you could. "--4rk.
Trn1,pler
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-07-31
Old Times in WASHINGTON.

The health of Gen. Jackson, after
the election of Mr.. Van Buren, as his
successor, failed, and when Congress
convened in December he was confined
to his room and saw only his most init
mate friends. The New Years recep-
ton was omitted, ostensibly on account
Donelson, the private secretary of the
President The gay season was, how
ever, opened on the 9Th of January, by
large party at the house of Mr.. For
syth, Secretary of State, followed by
another the next night ut the residence
of Mr.. Dickerson, of New York, Sec
rotary of the Navy. These were fol-
lowed by parties at the house of Maj.
Gen. Macomb and other prominent
men, each in numbers and guests al
most repetition of the others. Mr..
Van Buren,, the Presdent-elect, was at
all of them, shaking hands with every
body. glad to see everybody, asking
after everybody's friends, and trusting
that everybody was we'll. The Vice
President-elect, Col. Richard M. John
son, was also to be seen at all public
gatherings, looking in his scarlet waist
coat and ill-fitting coat, not as the killer
of Tecumseh, but as the veritable Te-
cumseh himself. Mr.. Webster was sell
dom seen at public parties. and Mr..
Benton generally preferred to remain
a. home preparing his ponderous
speeches. Messrs. Clay, Calhoun, and
John Quincy Adams were generally
present, with the foreign Ministers and
their suits, who were the only wearers
of mustachios in those days. There
were the magnates OF the Senate and
the House, each one great in his own
estimation, with the cheUdliers din
d,tstrje, who lived as by their wits
upon long credits and new debts, and
there we're strangers congregated from
all sections of the country, some hav-
ing business before Congress, and 9TH
ers having come to see how the country
was governed. Every one, on their
arrival, would take carriage and
leave cards for the heads of depart
ments, foreign Ministers, leading army
and navy otcers, and prominent mem
bers of Congress. This would bring
in return the cards of these magnates
and invitations to their next party
Ben: Perlev Poore.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-07-31
Chihuahuan Women.

chihuahua is innocent of sidewalks.
Mud is scarcely known, as rain falls
only sufficient b moisten the earth,
except in the month of June, when, as
if 10 make up for its feebleness at other
times, it almost delugcs the town. fall
ing TO the depth of thirteen or fourteen
incnes. 1t rushes down the mountain
in q torrent, floating off carts, barrels,
chairs, and chicken-coops, if the latter
are sufficiently modern to be made of
wood. The coops are usually mud and
stone, hastily thrown together.
The Mexican women are wonderfully
graceful. This is partly due to the man.
ner of carrying baskets or bundles, be-
gun in early childhood. l watched q
Mexican girl carry ON immense basket
of clothes home to be laundried. First
she selected from the basket towel,
and twisting it tightly round and round
until the circumference was the size of
her head, on which she placed It; then,
helped by companion, she lifted the
basket, weighing at least thirty pounds,
on top of the roll. She balanced it by
touching it lightly, first with one hand
and then the other. After she had
gone short distance she folded her
hands in her shawl, walking with the
greatest ease and Inconsistencies. She
looked back smilngly at me, showing
her pretty white teeth, still amused at
the sonora who thought her task diff.
cult. -Wheelin1 RegiSter.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-07-31

A REMARKABLY laughable incident
occurred near Oil City, Pa, during q
thunder storm, a few days ago. The
workmen who were stringing tele-
graph line had coil of wire partly up
on the insulators, while the main coil
was still on the reel in the wagon
There was vivid fash of lightning.
and the man who was attending to I'M
coiling the roll of wire was seen to
spring from the wagon, drop upon his
knees in the muddy road, and, amid
the descending torrents of rain, was
heard to pour forth fervid prayer
and ut the same time confess his past
sins. 1t took the rest of the gang some
minutes to convince the man that he
was not struck with lightning. but had
been merely shocked by an overcharge
of electricity.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-07-31
A Story OF Tom Benton.

The last night of the second session
of the Thirty-eighth Congress was a
noisy one in the House OF Representa-
tives. The Senate sent over 14o amend
ments to the sundry civil appropriation
bill, and 1T was o'clock in the morning
before they were disposed of by a COM
mittee of conference. Mr.. Pratt then
asked whether it would be in order to
have the restaurant servants bring in
breakfast. Let me amend the ques-
tion," said Mike Walsh, "by havicg
cocktails and whisky punches intro
duced also" A conversational debate
followed, during which some very clever
things were SAID, ana at last the Ser
geant-at-Arms reported quorum pres
ent. Several bills were then passed un-
der q suspension of the rules, and, dur
ing the taking of the yeas and nays, the
Clerk called Mr.. Benton's name, when
that gentleman appeared at the door of
the main aisle, aud prot sted, with vio-
lent gesticulation, against his name be-
ing called. He said he was an ex-mem-
Der, and that the session on that day
was a libel on tho Sabbath. Some con-
fusion followed this episode, when the
Speaker pro tenn, Mr. Orr, told the
gentleman he was out of order.
Mr.. Benton-I am not q member.
The Speaker-Then, if the gentle
man is not member, the doorkeeper
will put him out.
Loud laughter followed. with excla.
nations OF Pretty good. That's the
talk !"-Be1l: Perley Poore.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-07-31

Meanwhile the fiances have escaped into
the back parlor.
virginia--Where are You leading me
to, john?
John--I wish to tell you, while 9th
ers forget us, how happy l am to marry
you-you, so winning, so witty. the
gem OF Va sar College
Virginia - Oh! how many compli-
ments to poor graduate who only won
the premium of rhetoric. and was Soc
ond best in geometry.
joint love you, and worship you
Just as you are.
V.-Oh, my friend. how anaphorical,
and especially how epanaletical.
il don't understand.
VI mean that you repeat yourself.
It is the custom of lovers to abuse
the Georgia figures from the very
prosasis and exordiim.
il love you because you are ac-
compl.shed and perfect.
N.-Did 1 not know you, should
think that you favored asteisin and
ethossoia.
J. Somewhat abashed)-Ah! do you
see
w. w ny ILLS upOSiOpcSSs
J.-Aposiopesis
V.-This reticence?
J.-That is clearer. / acknowledge
that the expressions you use annoy and
trouble me.
V.-You, on your side, speak u Ian
guage stamped with schematism, while
to be correct. even in making love, your
| language should be discursive. Allow
me to tell you 80 frankly.
Anyhow. you do not doubt my
love?
VI pardon the epitrope, but pray
use less metaphor and more liotes in
the prosopography you dedicate to my
modest entity.
What will you? Men love wom-
en-; 1 am man; therefore, love YOU
V.-Your syllogism is perfect in it's
premises, but the conclusion is false.
J.-Oh.! you are cruel angel!
VI like that catachresis; but, once
again, repeat, am practical, and pre-
fer synedoche.
j. Very much perplexed) will
you continue the conversation in the
garden?
Yves. They go into the garden. ]
| Look, here is very lovely parallelo-
gram of green surrounded by petasites.
Let us st unter those maritamboucs
Will you?
J.-Willingly All here am happy
My heart fills with JOY; it seems to me
it contains the universe.
V.-You are speaking pure Spinoz-
ism.
J.-When I think that you will be
my wife, and 1 your husband! What
will be our destiny
V.-The equation being given you
are looking for the unknown quantity.
Like you, shall await the coefficient.
j. who is determined to follow out
his own thoughts With the world of
consultations above us, and nature sur
rounding us, admire with me those orbs
sending us their pure light. Look up
there at that star.
VT is Allioth, neighbor to the
polar star. They are nearing the cos
mical moment, and il we remain here n
few moments longer the occulation will
take place.
j. (Resignedly) And there those
thousands of stars.
VT is the galaxy. Admire also
the syzygy of those orbs.
j. (Exhausted)-And the moon; do
on see the moon?
VT is at its zenith; it will be at
its nadir in fifteen days, unless there
are any OCCUPATIONS in the movements OF
that satellite.
J.-How happy l am.
They 60 indoors.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-07-31


Highland has 400 acres of cucumbers.
Hudson farmers complain Of weevil in
the wheat.
Sunday closing.
--Greenville has voted to bui'd no school,
house this year.
Adrian will use $i3, 900 for school pur-
poses this year.
Lowers 4 White, Ovid bankers, have
closed their doors.
-Durglarious tramps still make things
lively at Kalamazoo.
--Schoolcraft has secured the location Of
cigar factory there.
-Tecums n will buy 800 feet of new boss
for her fire department.
Adrian has voted $4,000 for school
purposes the ensuing year.
"A monster serpent is said to be roam
ing about the East Saginaw City Park
M. p. Christian. Of Detroit, has
worked fifty-two years ct the printers
trade.
The Village of Mecosti has bought a
stump machine and will clear out tho
streets.
A great many farmers nre haying about
Cheboygan. The crop is light but Of good
quality.
Joseph Chapman died ut Bun Lake
from injuries received in falling from
cherry tree.
-Seventaen bears have been killed by
hunters this season in Town 30, range 3
east Gladwin County.
The entry books of the Allegan County
Fair open Sept. /, and the promise is for a
good list Of contestants.
Edward Culver, Bay City lad, was
smothered by some material burning in the
room in which he was confined.
The Congregational Society at Grand
Blanc is about to publish history of it's
origin and growth through period of fifty
years.
The State Fish Commission are digging
bitches and making ponds preparatory to
establishing their hatchery at the Agricultu-
ral College.
The 9-year- old son of Peter Thaddeus,
Of Saginaw City, fe.l from lumber pile
and broke his skull. The doctor hopes to
save his life.
The well at the Kalamazoo paper mill
is now down 800 feet thick stratum of
hard-pan with powders has again been
struck, but no bed rock as yet.
Rudolph Hagerman, who had been VOL
unteer cook in the Monroe County Poor
house since August, 1859, died suddenly at
that institution, falling decd at the break
fast table.
Jacob Naskaze, an Indian, walked off
the bridge between the depot and Front
street, in Traverse City, and was drowned.
He WAS 25 years old, and unmarried. The
bridge was being repaired, and had been
left open.
Ferdinand Krause, aged &c, member
of the Saginaw National Guard. was tend
ing target for the rifle team of that company
in East Saginaw, when he was accidentally
shot through the left lung by William Bush.
and died in fifteen minutes.
--Heistermann's Island. in Saginaw Bay,
has been bought for 81, coo by East Sagi-
nav and Bay City people, who are trans
for the dwelers in Saginaw Valley. About
thirty acres will be laid out in parks, drives,
and lots for cottages.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-07-31

GEN. SHERMAN was great favorite
in Washington society. In converse
ton he was quick, social, and winning,
conveying an idea in very few words,
never experiencing embarrassment in
his selection of words to give his
thoughts expression, and in language
so clear that no one could we'll mis-
understand him. His small, piercing
eye took in more in On instant than
most mems do in q month. His fund
of general information was great and
his remarkable memory enabled him to
contribute interesting information, no
matter what the subject of conversation
might be. Few undertook TO under
stand him. but all who knew him al.
mired and respected him.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-07-31
Female Tenacity of Life.

1t appears from the gathered Stats
tics of the world that women have a
greater tenacity of life than men. Nat
ure worships the female in all its varie-
ties. Among insects the male perishes
at a relatively earlier period. In plants
the seminate blossoms die earliest and
are produced on the weaker limbs.
Female quadrupeds have more endur-
ance than males. In the human race,
despite the intellectual and physical
strength of the man, the woman en-
dures the longest, and will bear pain
to which the strong MN succumbs.
Zymotic diseases are more fatal to
males, and more male children die than
females. Deverga asserts that the
proportion dying suddenly is about 100
women to 100 mon; 1.0S0 in the United
States, in 1870, committed suicide, to
2S5 women. Intemperance. apoplexy,
govt, hydrocephalous, affections of the
heart and liver, scrolula, paralysis, are
far more fatal to males than females.
Pulmonary consumption, on the other
hand, is more deadly TO the latter. Fee
males in cities are more prone to con-
sumption than in the country. All old
countries not disturbed Ivy emigration
have a great majority of females in the
population. In ROYAL families the sta
tistics show more daughters than sons.
The Hebrew woman Is exceptionally
long lived; the colored man is excep-
tionally short lived. The married
state is favorable to prolongation OF
life among women. DR.. Hough claims
that there are from to per cent more
males born than females, yet there are
more than per cent. OF females in the
living populations. From which stats
tics we conclude that all women ought
to marry, and that as men are likely to
become 80 scarce they can not be suffi
GENTLY priced by the othor sex.
Courtship of Young yassar Girl.
The parents and the old relatives are
clhttino over Their dorlinU,s fat4va
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-07-31

THE only portrait missing of all the
Speakers of Congress is that of Ma
thaniel Macon, of North Carolina He
had constitutional objection to having
his lineaments transmitted for the view
of postarity and steadily resisted all
attempts in that direction. Indeed, il
is said that he once caused the destruc-
ton of a sketch which an artist was
discovered making of him while pre-.
siding as Speaker. He left at his
death particular directions that no
picture of him should be retained, and
that his grave should be unmarked by
any monument except pile of stones,
to which each person visiting the grave
might be permitted to add a stone.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-07-31

The rapidly with which one may
learn foreign language is demonstrate
ed by Mr. Howard Vincent, late Di.
rector of Criminal Investigations al
Scotland Yard, London. On his arri
val III Russia he advertised for Rus,
sian family W ere he could be received,
versed in the language, and allowed tc
study Russian to his hearts content
He employed four tutors, each with O
different system, with whom he stud
led eleven hours day. In six week;
he was able to converse in Russian with
fuency and accuracy.