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The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1884-08-17

Virginia Ghronicla Mr.. q. W. Dry
ant. formerly of tile Carson Mint, has
just teen elected President OF Banning,
a colony in which quite a number O!
I arson people are interested, and situat.
ed below 1iyersidc. on the S. p. Il. r.
AMI about 30 miles east of 60 ton. The
projectors Of this enterprise think there
is millions in it," '7H"
Ex-Governor Dladsel has let q ron.
tract for siuSing n doub'c.conptrtment
SHIFT on the Humboldt mine. at aurora.
Esmeraldl county, at the rate OF $40 per
foot for the first hundred { 1t. II looks
az II they we're trying TO do something
out III tn It count.y.
Any person kno wing the wherenhout ,
Of Frank NJ sdden, a typo, who was in
Tuscarort two years ago, will confer II
favor on his parents and friends by ad.
dressing Ddttou Maiden, Paterson,
Juniata county. Pa.
About moo Friday q shocking acci.
dent occurred in Virginia City. The
threc-year- old sou Of q. u. Ifobling was
at the house Of a neighbor, about two
hundred yards distant. where with some
other children he was playing in the
yard with some matches. II appears
that the children had built n fire OF
chips aud shnvipgs; and in SOME way
the clothing Of the child took fire. He
at once started TO run home with his
clothing all In llnm,s. A, he ncarcd his
home his screams brought To his assis.
lance his father and oldest sister, who
Logan tearing of the little fellows blnz.
ins garments. Bv.ore they had sue
cccded Ia this both father aid daughter
had their hand. badly burned. The child
was terribly burned and il IL feared that
his injuries will prove ietal.--Ieno Jour.
ual.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-12-13
LATE NEWS ITEMS:

WHILE the Jackson Fire Company, No.
Is, of New Orleans, was serenadlng tr1ends
on Saturday night, difficulty occurred IN
which John Fisher was stabbed to the heart
and killed by A. A. Labusar. Both were
members of the same company.
In an alteration on the 9Th, John Rogers,
colored. stabbed M. F. PEBBLES, appointment
white citizen of Northampton County, Va.
PEBBLES died from the effects of the wound.
Rogers is atlarge. Considerable excitement
prevails, and lynching party is in pursuit
HENRY C. REN1cK, a young farmer OF
jackson Township, Ohio, was ferociously
attacked by vicious bulldog and his arm
and legs lacerated in a horrible manner,
and would have been injured worse had 10
not been for his superior strength in over
coming the brute by kicking and choking
him to death.
THOMAS HEATHERBY was arrested at
Litchfield, H., on the 9Th, on the charge OF
counterfeiting silver dollars. Spurious CONS
and moIds were found in his house. Barry
Beaverton, supposed accomp1ce, was
arrested at Alton.
| JOHN B. SIMPSON, Superintendent at the
Belmont Oil-works, Philadelphia, was kill
ed on the 9Th, by cap blowing of boiler
| from which steam was escaping Hugh
Gantz and Joseph Tulley were fatally burn
ed by escaping steam.
Cook TEELs, convicted of numbering his
young wife by administering poison year
ago, was hanged at Owen Sound, Ont, on
the 5th. He declared himself innocent, and
requested the jail officials to have the cere-
mony as short as possible.
THE London Times says the prospect that
America will put a stop to the coinage OF
silver by repeating the Bland bill mas un-
settled business in India and caused Cal
cutta exchange to decline to Is 9 7-8d.
/ ADvrcEs from the western coast Of Africa
state thattwo Mohammedan tribes attacked
the King of Talaba in his capitol The
Kings household and officers were blown
up with gunpowder.
THE Tariff Committee Of the Ontario
Manufacturers Association strongly de-
nounces convict labor.
GEORGE SNYDER, a farmer, aged 40 years
living near Darrtown, Q is in jail charged
with the murder of his mother, aged q
years. Mrs. Snyder had a mortgageon hel
sons farm, and went to collect the interest
He paid her $125. His story is that h
started with her the next day to the railroad
station, when two robbers demanded ne
money, and, upon her refusal, killed he
/ and made him promise under penalty Q
death to say nothing about it. He SAT-
they buried her. The body was disinterre'
and found in her night clothes. The sup
7 position is that he killed her in his owl
house.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-12-13

M. scHENCK has been elected President
Of the Swiss Confederation for 1885.
THE Virginia Senators strongly opp Csc
the confirmation of Hugh McCulloch as
Secretary of the Treasury.
RAYmER, SEAGRAvEs & Co., bankers
Toledo, O., assigned on the 9th. Liabilities
$500, 900; assets nominally equal.
DEACON TERRY, who ran away Win
minister's wife at Long Island on the Atm
has written his better half that ne IS
happy in his new relations, and his ola
haunts will know him no more.
THE Attorney General has been request
ed by the Committee on Expenditures Tor
the Department of Justice to produce all
correspondence between the Department
and United States Marshal Wright, Of Gin
cinnati, in reference to the employment OF
Deputy Marshals at the October elections
9sTHR King of Burmah, against the advice
IF his ministry, has employed a French
Company to manufacture firearms al
! Aandalay.
REV. DIR. j. NJ. ARNOLD, editor OF the
Mtchiqdp 4Advocate, formerly in charge Of
the Methodist Book Concern in Detroit
Mich, dropped dead in the street on thf
afternoon of the 9th.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-12-13
LAYING sPooKs.

The Mystery of Mystic on the Sound Salts
factory Solved-A Valiant Youth in Fee
male Attire Captures Ghost and Lands
Him In the Arms of the Law.
NEW LONDON, CONN, DEFENDERS.
Three ghosts have been frightening the
women and children of the quaint little
village of Mystic on the Sound, eight OF
ten miles east of here, for several weeks
Women and girls were at first pursued
almost nightly by tall, white figure that
rose up suddenly from the way
side, and seemed to their alright
ed vision to float swiftly on the
wind toward them. They sped
down the street closely chased by the ap'
partition and dashed into their homes out
of breath and fell on the floor. At length
the terror became SO general that few
women and girls ventured out of then
houses after dark, and when they did SO,
hurried along their roads, often turning
an affrighted glance over their shoulders
lest the three ghosts might steal on them
| unawares.
Next company of young men was or
ganized to lie in wait, with loaded shot
guns, for the ghostly disturbers of the
peace, and several parties staid out all
| night fora week or more at different points
about the village, lying on the frosted
grass behind walls and fences, or in the
shadow of unlighted buildings. No spec
ter appeared in
THE SILENT STREETS,
and the watchers went home and
thawed out in the chimney place with
draughts of hot cider. Thereupon
committee of two or three young men
arrayed themselves in hoop skirts
dresses and bonnets, and after dars
minced coquettishly up and down
the sidewalks hoping to lure the ghosts
into pursuing them. For two nights
the ruse was without results, but
few evenings ago one of the ghosts was
tempted out. He sprang at on
of. the masqueraders, who a
first fed, leading the ghos
on, until he suddenly wheeled, ana
throwing his arms around the ghost, hell
him In merciless hug. The captive wa
1ugged before a police justice, who ma,
him locked up. The ghost was Albert Z
Briggs, q jack-of-all-trades of the village
He was sentenced to thirty days in jail 10
disturbing the peace. Who the othe
ghosts are is not known, as Briggs refuse
to expose them. They have not zee!
seen since his arrest.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-12-13
YERsoNAL AND POLITICAL.

Levy, the cornetist, has again committed
matrimony. He was united to Miss Stella
Costa at Erie, Pa, on the evening OF the
4th. The lady is No. 4.
BoNCHEA, the Cuban agitator, was cap
trred on the 4th with his band, two OF
whom were killed.
AT Omaha, Neb., on the 4th, man was
arrested who was thought to be Pusey, the
defaulting chief clerk of the Kansas State
Prison at Leavenworth.
ON the 4th the electoral votes of the sew
eraI States were received by the President
pf the Senate, the first to arrive being that
of Pennsylvania.
MRS. Downs, wife of Rev. w. A. Downs,
Of Riverhead, Long Island, eloped on the
4th with Deacon G.. Mitchell Terry, leaving
behind two young children.
THE friends of General Grant do not
favor the pension project. They desire
that he be placed on the retired list OF the
army.
AT Toledo, o., on the 4th Neville, the
bigamist, was sentenced to seven years
with hard labor in the Columbus Peniten-
iary, the full extent Of the law.
STANLEY, the explorer, opened the ses-
sion Of the Geographical Society at Edin-
burgh on the 4th.
Mr.. CLEVELAND, it is said, will resign
the Governorship Of New York January
6th, and viii then turn his attention to
matters of National import, such as Cabl-
net-making, etc.
COLONEL OYAMA, the japanese Minister
of War, arrived in Washington on the
4th.
IT is reported that Teemer, the oarsman,
has quarreled with his hackers and man
ayers. He says that of the nine rsces
rowed the past season, only one was for
a stake as advertised. He is particularly
anxious to row Jake Gaudaur again.
THE notorious Mother Mandelbaum, her
son Julius and her clerk Stronde, charged
with receiving stolen property IN New
Work. and who were under heavy bonds
failed to respond when their cases were
called on the 4th. 1t is supposed they have
skipped to Canada.
TIE Willard Paxton elopement a
Washington, D. c., is the topic Of the day
IT the Capital. It was complete surprise
10 everyone, more particularly the mar
Miss Willard was to have married.
THE man arrested at Omaha supposed t
he Pusey, the defaulting Kansas Prisol
Clerk, proves to be another man.
On the 5th the convicted polygamists
amman III. Tenny, Bishop ?. ]. Chistoffer
son and C. J. hump were sentenced
Prescott, Ariz., TO pay fine of $500 eac
md be confined for three and half year
zach in the Detroit (Mich.l House OF Coz
9ection.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-12-13

"A REWARD OF S5,UUU mas peeu oAeAoH
by the Citizens Committee of Chicago
for she detection of the perpetrators OF
the election frauds in the second preclnc5
of the Eighteenth Ward.
THE centennial Conference of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church began in Baltimore,
Md, on the 9th.
AT South Norwalk, Conn.,, the matters
are on strike, and had become so demon
strative on the 5th that the Governor was
called upon for troops.
In the Hooking Valley nominal peace
prevails, but no compromise seems prob
able. The operators say it is merely
question of time when the miners will be
compelled to surrender to their terms.
ON the 9Th the Narragansett Park prop
erty at Providence, R. l., was sold for $780,
900. 1t was bought by syndicate who will
apply for charter and run the track.
STRONG opposition is manifested by the
fishermen of Gloucester, Mass, to the
restoration of the fisheries clause in the
treaty of Washington.
MUNITIONS of war for China are being
loaded in ships at London.
INSTEAD of discharging employees dur
| ing the winter, Cincinnati planning mill
men will keep them at work on lower
| wages.
| NEW YoRK business men are pleased
with the treaty just signed between the
| Dominion Republic and the United States.
THE French Government will hail with
| delight the proposed attack by the Chinese
| on Admiral Courbet's feet. Ii that is done
| there will be music on the waves.
A SURFACE railway will be constructed
on Broadway, New York, after all, as the
Board of Aldermen have passed the Dill
over the Mayors veto.
The trial of eight anarchists accused
of being in the dynamite plot against the
lives of the Emperor and Crown Prince,
was commenced at Leipsic, on the 9th.
THE proposition to restrict the produce
ton of pig iron by banking the furnaces
for a month or more has been allowed TO
die. Reports received at Pittsburgh are
more encouraging.
From reports received at Cleveland, o.,
twenty five iron mills have resumed with
in a month, giving employment to 12,175
men: and in thirty nine establishments
wages have been reduced on an average OF
u 1-2 per cent, and twenty-seven estap-
lishments have closed down entirely, throw
ing 1920 men out of work,
THE pay of the Germans on board the
Chinese fleet, includes an indemnity OF T.
900 taels to their relatives in the event OF
their being killed.
Fifty mounted rebels advanced to with
in 500 yards of the Egyptian forts at sua.
kim on the 9TH, killing several men and
women and capturing forty-two camels
Property and life is insecure outside the
guarded portion of the town.
THE report of favorable mention of the
Nicaraguan Canal scheme in the American
. Congress, has caused great satisfaction
throughout Nicaragua and neighborlng
Republics.
THE question of improving commercial
relations with America is exciting muet
interest in the British West Indies, and
some progress has already been made IL
negotiations to that end, which the British
Foreign Office is conducting.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-12-13
nrTsCELLANEoUs.

NEAR Worcester. Mass, party OF boys,
the Oldest only about twelve years of age,
NEecently built den in the woods. Whea
{ scoyered, on the 4th, they had plenty OF
reRoIYers and ammunition, and were de-
veloping into first-class gang Of despera-
does.
THE proposition to adjourn Congress and
that al hands go to the New Orleans Ex-
position does not meet with general favor
among Members, many of whom think
there is tGa much important work needing
attention. e ~
A RUMoR[gas current on the 9th that the
Weste UhL On had absorbed the Postal
Telegraph, I'D later the rumor was denied,
tn British House of Lords passed the
franchise bill b the 9th.
ON the 9Th i le annual report off p Sec
retary Of tn Navy was made public.
THE busir Issfailures in the United States
numbered q l during the seven days ended
the 9TH ai n a g an r ,s1saFs Of sew
THE cleo Connecticut have inaugu'
rated a crusase against Sunday traffic or
the railroads within the State.
AN investigation $50 be made into SOM
serious allegations ofSTegularities in tn
Office of the Comptrollef Of the Treasury.
TIE Memphis district cotton repor
shows a decrease in the yield Of abou
fourteen per cent.
In portions of East and West Sand
| witch, Ontario, a malignant epidemic Q
diphtheria is causing serious mortality.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-12-13
CRrMEs AND CASUALTIES.

afternoon OF the 0tn.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
FIRE destroyed six business buildings at
SCHUYLER, Neb., on the I'd; loss, $4,000.
On the I'd the Bauer Cooperage Com
panv's works at Lawrenceburg, Ind,
burned. Loss, $4,000; fully covered by
insurance.
on the night of the I'd J. & G. Fishers
piano factory in New York was damaged
by fire to the extent of S125,0OO; only par
TALLY insured.
On the I'd the body of man was dis
covered in the reservoir at Reading, Pa,
from which the water supply of the city IS
furnished. The remains were those OF
VIM. Mckinley who had been missing
twelve days, and they were badly decom-
posed.
FIRE destroyed Peter Schroeder's brew
ery at Perham, Mimi, on the Sd; loss,
900.
ON the evening Of the ID building in
which the Salvation Army We're holding
meetings at Biddeford, Me-, was fred by
incendiaries The building was cleared
without panic
ON the Sd two miners named Sharpless
and Boyle, were fatally injured by an
explosion of fire-damp near Coal BLUM,
Pa, the gas igniting from their naked
lamps.
ON the 4th the buildings, nearly all the
cars and fifty horses belonging to one OF
the Baltimore street railway companies
burned.
A TERRIFIC explosion occurred at the
powder magazine at the Virginia Military
| Institute on the 4th. No one killed.
On the 4th three young boys We're
drowned at Rondout, N. Y, by venturlng
too far on thin ice, which gave way be-
meath their weight.
on the 9TH Cook Teets, the blind wife
murderer, was hanged at Owen Sound,
Ontario.
AT Strafford Corner, N. H., the house OF
Stephen Young was blown to pieces the
evening of the 4th by dynamite explo-
sion. One person was instantly killed and
eight were more or less seriously injured.
On the 9Th Captain Herman Giseke, an
old and well-known citizen of Omaha,
Neb.. committed suicide by shooting him.
self in the head.
AT Salinas, Cal, on the 9TH, Solomon
Torres ana jose AIduuS1 hoOeO WOAC AAeNAAso ~
for the murder of All Din, Chinaman, OF
December goth last.
ON the 9Th fifteen business houses were
either destroyed or damaged by fire a
Myersdale, Pa.
on the 9Th the thirteen persons who wer
poisoned with arsenic in their food a
Greenbrier, White Sulphur Springs, w
Va, on the 4th, were pronounced out o
danger.
A THRILLING story Of jealousy and muir
der came from Walworth, Neb., on the 9TH
+ Thomas Furquin shot and killed Mary ant
Fanny Finley and their attendant beaux
named John Williams and Charles Wat
kins, just as they had returned from
dance. He then Drained the father of tn
girls with the butt of his gun, and rounde'
up the tragedy by killing himself with
: pistol shot.
} JOHN PURscHT, native of Vienna, re
} siding in st. Louis, Mo-, hacked his hea
with an axe and took oxalic acid on tn
5th. He succeeded in ending his career.
) LEO HELLER, young iron-worker, at
: tempted to kill Miss linn in Justice
Office in Cincinnati on the 9TH, and bein
prevented, he killed himself,
l
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-12-13

{ C0Rsdssased On SfSsR F0ge' ]
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-04-30

ii
Nashville Banner As to- the
preference for Bate, tits based prin-
sipally upon feeling Of courtesy,
or one of obligation There is a
strong sentiment amongst the DEM
scrats to the effect that if a man
serves satisfactorily or fairly well on
first trial in Office he should have
the honor ofan endorsement by re-
nomination for the same position.
Wa. rsgret that this is the only rea-
son given for the unanimous choice
of Gsv. Bate as his own successor.
There is not an informed maH in
the State who would say that the
governor is the best fitted for The
strongest candidate in the coming
canvass of all Democrats in the
State, yet all cencede him the place.
The large personal following made
Gov. Bate, under all of the then ex-
listing circumstances, the most avail
able candidate in 1882, but with
many others we believe that Ten
nesSee Democrats will make mis-
take when they place the standard
in his hands this year. 1t will be
done however. Aab
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Gov. VIA. II. Bate wis vi ] be the
BominSs sf tho armecrstic parry tn
meet p. T. Reid. has been celebrated
for bits hunAre Treatment Of the color
ed pseple --hEaE. 1FibWhe.
"a Daniel yea, Daniel I" We
suppose the Tribune has in Us minds
eye, among his ether humane
treatment Of oolorsd people and
white people, the recommendation
of Governor William b. Bate, ina
4 special MESSAGE to the last leg.
islSture, that It should pass n bill
authorizing him TO appoint a negro
Assistant Superintendent of Public
Instruetisa. The humanity ofthis
proposition consists mainly in an
attempt 70 hoodwink and capture
the negroes, to lessen the dignity
and influence Cor coed of the States
best and most efficient officer and to
have every county superintendent
and public teacher ranked by a ne
gro, who il was to besuPpOsed would
thereafter Hsleep in the leaves" with
Bate. The Recommendation was so
thin, transparent, demagogical and
diaaentiouH that the legislature put
the special message in n pigeon belle
and il is probably there yet But
we are curious 20 know il this rec
ommendation Of the special mes
sage viii not be incorporated 10 the
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next platform erected by Gov. Bates
admirers, aud if not, why not (?


The GAINESVILLE Chronicle devotes
a lengthy and able editorial 10 an
endorsement of the Blaine Eduea-
tiOnal bill which recently passed the
Senate aud will sson be discussed
and voted upon in the House. We
quote from tbs Chronicle few of
its reasons for hoping the House
will pass the bill: The principal OBJ
isctions urged against the bill i'm the
Senate, where the debate was very
able. and the ablest arguments
against it, strange to say, made by
Southern Senators, were urged on
constitutional grounda- Those who
favored a strict construction of the
constitution opposed the bill, while
others whe yield at least TO the more
liberal and freer construction o: that
clause permitting appropriations,
voted for the bill. 1t were idle 10
attempt here any constitutional ar
Sument. Suffice it to say that IL
can not be denied that there exists
the same warrant in the constitu-
ton for this appropriation as exists
for appropriations made for many
other aud less msrit0rious purposes.
Whether the clause should be strict
ly Or literally construed is not now
the question. 1t has been construed
80 AS to permit appropriations which
are not SO meritorieus a. this, and
the construction heretofore given IL
will cover this appropriation.
1t has been further urged that if
the several States receive and apply
the sums TO which they will be en-
titled, at the expiration of the eight
years through which these apprs-
priations run the States, having
been trained to look TO the Federal
government for funds to sustain
common schools, will permit their
public school system TO languish for
lack OF means, rather than impose
tax on their swn people. We do
not believe this. When, after the
war the public school systems were
inauguratcd in the South great OPP
position arose, but rs the masses
became better educated, this Oppo-
sitiOn died out, until now no tax is
paid with less opposition than the
school tax Eight years OF good
schools will educate one generation.
At the end of that time We would
not look for any trouble in raising,
by direct taxation, q sufficient sum
10 sustain the public school system.
Besides. the bill requires each State
receiving money under its provis-
ions TO raise themselves 4 certain
amount by direct taxation.
We have seen several statements
of the amounts Tennessee would re-
ceive the first year, none OF which
we boliovo " be correct. We pre-
sent below a carefully prepared
tsble, showing facts which will be
interesting 10 our readers. These
figures show the ratio of illiterate
whites the total ratio Of illiterates
and the total number of illiterates
ia some of the Southern Statos.
They further shew, what is Of more
interest to Ten aesseans, the amounts
for the several years,
and the amounts Tennessee will re-
ceive for each Of the eight years.
a
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Al $50 s'eloSk the morning 81
the Pad, an earthquake shock OF
considerable fierce was felt IN the
eastern counties OF England. Lo-
ealities in Essex and Suffolk, were
scenes sf the greatest disturbance.
At Ipswich, capital of Suffolk com
", the shock was ~ severe that the
walls of houses were pereeptIoly
shaken, plates were ratified, and
bells rung. The people were
thrown into such n state of constor-
nation that business was for time
suspended. The shock was still
more severe Mt Colchester, Essex.
The coRcussisH lasted halfa minute.
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On the 22d, the House Commit
tee on Territories, by a vote of q to
), adopted the substitute offered by
Mr.. Alexander TO Mr.. Cassidys bill
providing for tho appointment by
the President of a commission To
govern Utah. The provision relst-
ing to marriages requires that they
shall be aslennized by a minister,
judge or justice of the peace and the
person officiating shall file = certifi-
cate OF marriage Before the County
Recorder OF Lands within thirty
days after the ceremony. a failure
to file MI record is punishable by a
fine of $500. The substitute makes
the sslemnization Of marriage, when
either party to be married has a
husband or wife living, misds-
msAnor, punishable by imPrison-
ment in jail not less than six months
nor more than twelve.