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spectators who had witnessed the chase, and who received us with open arms"

spectators who had witnessed the chase, and who received us with open arms"
 "It was a nip-and-tuck race, captain" remarked the reporter. How did you feel with the shells bursting abou, you !'
 Well, about as do now,n was the re- ply, as the complacen, captain stood with his hands in his pockets, quietly smoking his cigar. True, there were about two hundred pounds of powder under the bridge where stood, but it's all in a lifetime. There's no use getting excited v
 We lay in port about eighteen days he returned, discharged our cargo and reloaded with cotton, when we again put to sea and passed the squadron without being molested or intertereu with. Every thing went smooth until about sixty miles of. Cuba. when we broke our crank-pin, and SO disabled, were picked up by the Federal cruiser Metacomet, commanded by Captain Iewett, and taken 10 philadel- phia was tried there in the Federal courts. and the Susanna was condemned IS government prize.
 The seminole, which figured in the above affair, was employed blythe nited ] States government during the war Tn I tloHS tiiC sVu+I sNAiiHii- aHA Gulf coasts Tn search of tbe many enter piising blockaders with which the eoas, and West India waters were infested She captured and a,s;s,ed in the capture of number of vessels. in which several of our citizens were interested al thai 1 time. After the war she was sold to the l \ickerson line and ran as a merchant steamer between Boston and Savannah for a number ofyears.
 She was taken off a little over a yea, ago to give place to the new steamship: City oi Columbus and Gate City. Her engines were taken out and she has since been used as barge. The following paragraph of marine intelligence records her last run:
 Birge Seminole. from Hoboken fol Boston, coal ladeR, while in tow ef ths steamer Prof. Morse, sunk on the morn ing df November B. four miles from Handkerchle light-ship. Crew saved.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-02-23
Boys.
Robert 1. Burdri,r.

Cain was the tirst boy. and all his edu- cation depended upen his inexperienced parents. There were no other boys in the republic to teach Cain how 10 lie. smoke. drink. fight chea, and steal
 There were no country relations upon whom little Cain could be inflicted for two or three weeks, when his wearied parents waated l,t,le rest, don, won- der ,ha, Cain turned out bad. always said he would. We all have our own boys to look after, as your neighbor has boy whom you can look after much more closely than his mother can, and much more to your own satisfaction than to the boys comfort. Your bo, IS like Adam $ boy he asks questions, and if there IS any truth in the old theory of tranSmigra,ion of souls. when boy dies he will pass into an interrogation point The older he grows the more questions he asks. The oldes, boy ever knew was ST years old. and went 10 school 10 him :; and he did ask the longest. hardest. creokedest questions tha, ne boy could answer. And nov your boy. teasing ;o ask questions, begins 10 answer them. until you stand am .zed at the breadth and depth of his know ledge He wants ,o be missionary or a piia:e. Sn far as he expresses any preference he would rather be pirate, where there gre more chances of making money and fewer foi being devoured.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-02-23
A cHILD's THOUGHT.
' cary sun was crawling

The weary sun was crawling Down the vests capacious throat: The evening dew was falling, Like promisSory note. While from the thousand chambercd Mansions of the burning west, Crimson splendors swept and clambered D the heavens ihrobblng breast LIitic Peter M<Gui'e
 Leaned against the window bars, And watched the ioamlng fire,
 As Il leaped among the stars. Then he asked, Mha, IS that wonder - Angels, dear his mother said He looked up in childish wonder: Are the angels heads all red "
 -D,ake'5 Yy3.eierI' Mga=fa,
The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-02-23

you are 10 have husband who will trust you to carry the family plate and ward robe"
 And so, out into the gold and gray morning light and along the frozen and cheerless road. the two unfor,unates trudged into the dim distance and grad ually faded from the sight while the kindly officer gripped his cane and turned away thinking tha, he would have liked to give two dollars and half for the priv ilege of taking of his official coat and whaling the life out of that brute. John Ryan.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-02-23

Iowa IS said to be ou, of debt. Sae ought to change her name then P6i...- dslbkia CaX
The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-02-23

Ambition Is vanity Even Sullivan cannot krecS he spots of the sun.- Chisaso he,a.a
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1884-05-16

TO AND FROM THE DEPOT.
A GOOD TEAM is always ready to take all
persons to and from the Depot and Hotel free
Of charge.
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RATES OF ADVERTISING:
One Square 10 linss) first insertion. 80 80
Each subsequent Insertion, per square. 1 oo
liberal reduction to regular advertisers.
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THE SILVER STATE.
PUBLISHED VERY DAY SUNDAYS E8-
CEPTED) BY
j. j. EELL & CO.

One copy, one yer, by mail. .............SS 50 90.
One copy six moths, by mail. 90
One copy, three months, by mail. ....... so.
Delivered by C,rrer. rs Cents per week,
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1884-05-16

Forty-three designs for the Garfield
monument, of which eleven are models
and thirty.two drawings, were received
by the Garfield Monument Association
on May |. The designs are from
France, Italy, Germany, England and
the United States. They are now be-
ing arranged in the art gallery of Mr..
J. F. Ryder. The designs will be ex-
amined and passed upon without know
ing the names of the artists who made
them. The collection is varied and
elaborate.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1884-05-16
SATURDAY. MAY 3Ist, 1884,

For the purpose of electing seven Cd Delegates
to the Democratic State Convention. 10 be held
at AUSTIN, LANDER COUNTY, NEVADA, on
TUESDAY, June 10th 1884, to elect Six Dele
gates and Six Alternates to the National Demo
cratic Convention to be held at Chicago July Sth,
1884, to nominate Candidates tor President and
Vice President of the United States, and for the
nomination of a Candidate for Member OF Con-
gress, Candidate for Justice of the Supreme
Court, Three Presidential Electors, and for the
election of a State Central Committee, and such
other business as may come before the Conven-
ton.
The qualifications necessary for voters are the
same as required by the Election Laws of the
State, together with the party test, viz: Are
you Democrat? And will you support the
nominees OF the Democratic National Conven-
tion and the Democratic State Conventionf
That the Election Board of each District
shall consist of three (3) Judges who shall be
sworn, and who shall appoint two competent
Clerks, who shall also be sworn. Where Del
egate or Delegates shall be elected by the votes
of more than one district, the certificate of
election shall be made by the County Central
Committee; but where elected by the votes OF
one district the certificate shall be made by the
Board of that district. In all cases returns of
each district must be made to the Chairman OF
said Committee. II any of the persons named
as members OF the Election Board be not pres
shall fill the vacancy, as provided by law.
The attention of the Boards, as well as of all
voters, is called to the law governing Primary
Elections-page %, Statutes OF 1888.
This Committee would suggest that for the
guidance of Delegates who may be elected each
voter write on his ballot his preference for
President, where any preference exists.
The said Primaries shall be held at the fol-
lowing places, and the hours shall be from to
7, p. NJ.
Paradise Valley: At J. B. Cases Office.
Judges j. b. Case, b. T. Riley, 5. b. r.
Pierce.
Willow Creek: Willow Creek Hotel Judges
H II. McColley Charles Mcconnell, Frank
Snapp.
winnemucca At District Attorneys Office.
Judges-Daniel Harkness, General Buckner, C..
A. LaGrave.
Lovelock Station: Hills Store Judges: Geo.
Heating, L. n. Carpenter, John Reed.
Unionville: At Office of Justice of Peace.
Judges Henry Fellows, John Mcclure, L. F..
Dunn.
That the County be divided into Five Dis
tricts, and Delegates be apportioned as follows:
DISTRICT 40. Paradise Valley, Spring City,
Willow Point, Eden Valley; two Delegates;
polls at Paradise.
DISTRICT No. 2-Willow Creek, Rebel Creek,
Bartlett Creek, Fort McDsmt; one Delegate;
polls at Willow Creek.
DISTRICT No. Winnemucca, Dun Glen,
Mil City, Golconda, Stone House; two Dele
gate; polls at Winnemueca-
DISTRICT No. 4-Loveiook Station oreana,
Rye Patch, Humboldt House, Suphar; one
Delegate; polls at Lovelock Station
DISTRICT No. 5-UnionvilIe, Pleasant Valley,
star City; one Delegate; polls at Cnicnville.
RICH'D W. LEWIS, Chairman
Democratic County Central Committee.
winnemueoa, New, April 26, 1854.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1884-05-16

In some recent lectures on pharmacol-
ogy, Prof. Binz of Bonn points out the
danger of comparing the effects of
opium on animals with that upon man.
The senstiveness of the protoplasm OF
the nerve cells of the brain of the latter
being very much greater. He also
shows that the action of opium upon
Asiatics differs so entirely from that
upon Europeans as to be of no value as
a guide for treatment.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1884-05-16
DEMOCRATIC
PR !: T W NJ !! A. !. r T Els.

At a meeting Of the Humboldt County Dem
ocratic Central Committee, held at Winnemucca,
Nevada, April 18th, 1854, it was
Resolved, that the
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1884-05-16

Having built aud fitted up in the most com.
modious style the largest and finest Hotel in
Winnemucca, with large and airy rooms, the
Proprietor is prepared to receive and entertain
the travelling public with accommodations al
good as can be found in this section of the coun-
try. The TABLE will always be literally sup
piled with all the substantials OF life, and with
to the Hotel is FINE BAR, where the choicest
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1884-05-16
Dissolution Of COpartnership.

The firm heretofore existing under the name
and style OF Twist & Sadorus, doing business IN
the town of Paradise, Humboldt County, New,
is this day dissolved by mutual consent, W. f.
Twist having purchased the entire interest of
Charles Sadorus in the concern.
w. +. TWIST
q. w. SADORUS.
Paradise, April 30, 1854. my2.lm
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FASHION SAMPLE ROOMS,
BELL g. BURNS. .Proprietors.

BELL g. BURNS. ..Proprietors.
AT JAIL ON IN
CT II r b II SY B'Si"
And try our celebrated J. r. Cutters old
Bourbon, Old Virginia, White Rye, Golden
Thistle. old Bourbon old Pioneeg,
Our Fauorite, Rock and Rye,
and Orange WHISTLES,
Imp0rte sazera COgnac,
Imported Green Seal, Imperial, Zinfandel Claret
and all other kinds of choicest
F-EN-E-W-I-
Soda Waters!
MILWAUKEE, BEER.
C-0-N-G-R-E-S-S--C-
Made in the latest style known TO the art, and
eoncocted OF the choicest materials by the
most celebrated Archeronian Mixologist Of an.
cient or modern age.
The highly celebrated
NJ oUNTAIN
-PRETENTILJIO-
--ORozzIMERoP-
COCKTAILS
Served at all times during the day and night
DOMESTIC AND IMPORTED CIGARS
D. P. and S. II. p. players can be accommo
dated at any time
MONEY LOANED WITHOUT INTEREST
There's millions in it.
EyA luxuriaBtly furnished private CLUE
ROOM, FOR the use Of the Winnemucca Cincf
Club, with private entrance.
BELL BURNS.
Winnemucca, April IA. tt
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$500 REWARD (!

The above reward will be paid for the arrest
and conl ction Of any party or parties found
guilty Of stealing, killing, or running Off alter
ing brands or marks OF any live stock, belong
ing to any member OF the Nevada Live Stock
Association.
Z. w CRUTCHER, President
y. ID. SwEErsER, Secretary.
winnemueca, April 10, 1854. II
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1884-05-16
DOMESTIC AND IMPORTED CHGAn

MONEY LOANED WITHOUT INTEREST
There's millions in it,
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Fine Suits of Rooms for visitors and
families, at the LAFAYETTE HOTEL.
dl-tf
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To Whom 1t May Concern.

|, C. P MOORE, will not pay any debts con.
tracted by my wife, Sarah Z. Moore. after this
date.
winnemucca, March 81, 1884. arl II
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Primary Election

Be held by the Democratic Party Of Humboldt
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Il. kANDULSKI.
MER RELIANT EOR,
Bridge Street, winnemucca, Nevada

.. | have just received a fine lot WIN.
% TER AND SPRING GOODS, and will
~ warrant to give the best OF satisfaction
-NN TO my customers. intend TO do bust.
ness only for cash, therefore will do work at
the lowest possible price.H
ja7-tf T. KANDuLSkL
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AG EN- T s:

c. W. CRANE, 31s Pine street and 10 Leides
torff street, Room 80, San Francisco
W. A. CAswELL, Sacramento, California
B. 4. RILEY s authorized TO collect and re
seipt for subscriptions TO the SILVER STATE in
Paradise Valley.
8. K. Y0UNs is authorized TO collect and
receipt for subscriptions to the SILVER STATE az
Big Meadows
A. GNz Is authorized to collect and recelp
for subscriptions to the SILVER STATE In spring
City.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-02-20
THE FRENCH ACADEMY.

The forty immortals of the French
Academy rendered tardy justice to
high talent, a few weeks ago, by adj
hitting M. Edmond About to one of its
vacant .faetteuitS. The election of the
veteran De Lesseps, the most famous Of
living engineers, which is now said to
be certain, will dc the Academy equal
honor. The preiudices which used to
sway the elections of this august body,
seem happily to be fast passing away.
M. About's freely speaking book about
Rome kept him outside its doors for
more than twenty years. NJ. Renan had
been for an equal period the most dis
tinguished writer in his field In Europe,
before he was allowed to enter its circle.
The greatest authors and scholars used
to be excluded on account of political or
religious opinions. But the majority Of
the AcademIcians has become more
liberal, in harmony with the times; and
certainly two men more worthy to sit
among the select forty could not be
found than the author of "The Man
with the Broken Ear, and the protector
of the Suez canal.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-02-20

crested waves changed into a glossy
swell, and the wlde-spreading film
formed a perfect breakwater. But 10y
far the most interesting and useful ex-
periments were with the oil proiectiles,
designed as a life-saving appliance, not
merely on the coast, but in cases of
shipwreck and rough weather at sea.
The proiectile, not unlike an ordinary
oil-can, is made of iron one-eighth of
an inch thick, and holds nearly a
gallon. Two time-tuses connect with
a small metal chamber at the bottom,
for the explosive charge of gunpowder.
The shell is thrown from a mortar, and
bursting, scatters its shilling contents
over a radius of many hundred feet.
Sailors have long known the value CT
whale blubber or bags of oil in easing
their wave-lashed vessel, but their rude
methods have necessarily proved
Ineffective in cases of shipwreck, or
where emergencies have exposed the
ships boats to the fury Of raging sea.
Still another invention--one more es-
pecially adopted to shallow WATERWAYS
tried. This appliance consists of long
flexible gutta, percha tubing attached to
a solid iron cylinder of seventy pounds
weight. The latter was fired from q
mortar out at sea, and, sinking, kept in
place the tubing, through which the oil
was now pumped, to rise Immediately
from the valves or opening to the sur
face, making perfectly smooth channel
way and temporary breakwater. Gould
any one of these appliances have been
brought into use at the Gay head dis
aster, it would doubtless have been the
means of saving a great many lives.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-02-20
Old and New Military Rifles.
(From the st. James Gazette. I


The grand contest which has been
going on in Switzerland between the
new and old patterns of military rifle is
not yet concluded, and the federal as
sembly has lately voted more money for
the purpose of continuing the trials.
But enough has been done in 1883 to
demonstrate pretty clearly the superior
ity of the Rubin system over that now
employed for arming the troops. A re-
port by Col. Feiss presented to mil
itary society at Berne declares that the
new arm is superior both in ac-
curacy of aim, power of penetra-
tion and fairness of trajectory to
the older weapon patented by Vet
teri. Mr.. Rubin, who is director of
the federal laboratory at Thun, reduces
the caliber of the barrel by one-tenth of
an inch, or even more; that is to say,
from TO- 4 millimeters to and rs. The
cartridge he uses has a metallic case,
and contains a little bullet nearly II
inches in length, iDclosed in covering of
galvanized copper, requiring no grease.
In order to keep the length of the whole
cartridge within reasonable bounds, COM
pressed powder is used, and it is ex-
plored by central-ire action. The in
1tial velocity of the ball is found to be
$40 meters for the rife of s bore, and
sos for that of rs bore, whereas the
Vetterli system gives a velocity of only
403. The penetrative force of the pro-
jectile carries it at 10 meters through
plate of zinc more than I inch thick;
and at 800 meters it has still velocity
of 305 against 292 of the old bullet. Its
accuracy of aim is said to be 33 per cent.
CRATER than the Vetteri, and it makes
pattern on the target up to 2, 1000 meters,
whereas the other can not be depended
upon to do so over l, 900 meters. In the
matter of trajectory the Rubin weapon
is equally superior. With the Vetterli
rife the ground covered by it's range,
and called the dangerous space" is
about $50 yards; with the Rubin 8 bore
it is increased to 400 yards, and with the
rs bore to nearly 500 yards. The new
rifles has four shallow grooves. equal in
width to the space separating them,
and these have twist more than twice
as rapid as that of the Vetteri grooves.
The next experiments are to be con-
Quoted with q view to establishing the
relative merits of the Rubin system
and that of NJ. Heller, a professor OF
Zurich, who has also invented a new
smaIl-bore rife,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-02-20
BANKRUPTCY.

There is almost universal dissatis-
faction with the working of the various
state insolvency laws-which are very
dissimilar and not few of which con-
tain numerous glaring defects-and the
feeling among all classes of business
men in favor of enacting a uniform
bankruptcy law grows stronger every
day. The pending Lowell bill is gen
orally approved by commercial organi-
cations throughout the country. Ger
tain amendments have been suggested
which it might be well to adopt. But
the important thing is for Congress to
take hold of the subject with as little
delay as possible and decide whether we
are to have uniform insolvency law OF
stick to forty-three different systems.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-02-20
PORK IN FRANCE.

It seems to have occurred to the
French government that the opinion of
the highest medical authority in France
would be worth having on the question
of pork importations. Accordingly the
minister of commerce has Intercepted
the Academy of Medicine and has been
informed that the admission of foreign
salt pork could be permitted without
fear, and that it has been clearly proven
that no danger to the public health has
been caused by such Importation. AS
this fact-it is not merely an opinion
has been known to the government for
at least two years, it would be rash to
suppose that its assertion by the Acad-
envy of Medicine will produce any
change of policy. But it will afford an
excellent excuse for change If the
government has concluded that public
opinion requires one.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-02-20
Red Headed "reminiscences.
[From the Glasgow (Ky.) Times. ]


While Messrs. Bud and Billy Land
rum, of Peters Greek, were chopping
down a large sycamore tree they came
across. five or six inches from the outer
rim of the sycamore, a three-inch red
oak pin, on the end of which was a
good sized bunch of red hair. The
Landrum boys were at first considerably
nonpIused over their find. One of
their neighbors, however, explained it
to them on the ground that many years
ago an old gentleman by the name of
Borders was famous faith doctor in that
neighborhood, and that one of his most
efficient means of cure was to take
lock Of his patients hair, fasten it to
the end of wooden pin, bore hole in
a tree, insert the pin on the hair and
close the hole up. It is supposed that
the fiery lock found in the interior of
the tree is the last relic of some one of
Mr.. Borders red-headed patients.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-02-20
An OLD CLAIM.

Claims grow old, like persons. They
outlive their welcome. A claim for the
value of 80 hogsheads of tobacco, de-
stroyed in Maryland by the British on
their way to attack Washington during
the war of 1912, has come up regularly
since that time. The grandchild of the
original sutton now presents the claim.
IF all reports and speeches made on it
could be collected they would not fill
a hogshead, TO be sure, but the monu-
ment to wasted efforts would be impress
sive. Anti-tobacconists would be glad
that the weed was burned but other
moralists will sigh over useless work in
seeking payment for it.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-02-20
Deeds of Blood.

Thaddeus Avery, jealous husband, cut his
wife's throat and then his own at Chichester,
n. Y, on the 18th. Avery was alive at last &C
counts, but bis wife was no more.
Mrs. Carrie Hunter, the young and beautiful
wife OF a wealthy stock-raiser at Rogersville
Junction, Tenn, was shot dead by an unknown
person who fired at her through a window on
the 10Th inst.
John Schneider, aged Is. who, in December
last, shot and killed his brother in a quarrel,
at Newark, N. j., was sentenced to six years.
imprisonment for man slaughter on the 10Th.
Daniel Flynn committed suicide with carbolic
acid at Chicago on the 14th.
Mrs. Emma Uhler, made notorious last year
by figuring in the Conkling- Haverstick case,
which made a great sensation, died from NOR
phine-poisoning in the New York hospital, on
the 18th.
Three attendants in the State lunatic ayslum
at Utica, n. Y, were arrested on the 18th, for
causing the death by violence of Evan D.
Hughes. a patient.
-Four prisoners escaped from the parish Jail
at Vermillion, Tex, on the night of the 18th,
including one murderer.
J. L. Wilson and his wife, living at Win
netka, near Chicago, were found murdered in
their home on tho 18th. Robbery was the ap-
parent cause, as the house had been ransacked.
When the Blsbee murderers were arraigned
for sentence at Tombstone; Ari., on the 18th.
motion was made for new trial. This will
give them another year of life, and hemp
stretching bee is feared as public indignation
is strong.
A woman attempted to kill man in a car on
the elevated road in New York city on the 18th
and then blew her own brains out. The man
was seriously wounded.
E. ". Feltges, who killed Mrs. Lizzie jose
phine Aiken and then shot himself, at Chicago,
died on the 18th.
August Schmidt, IS years DID, hanged him.
self on the 18th inst, at Rosch's hotel, Walnut
and Third streets, Milwaukee.
While out driving together at Norwich,
Conn.,, on the 10th, F. V. Conant shot and
killed his friend Alfred Mcclellan. There is
s opposed to be woman in the case.
In quarrel between Alpheus Wilson and
his son Frank. in North Union township, near
Uniontown, Pa, on the 9th the young man
shot his father dead.