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Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-06-25

All of the old California mining towns
are in decayed or decaying condition.
Some of them, most fiourishing from 1S49
to 1854 or 1856, are blotted from exist
ence and lost TO memery, save in the inn
mediate neighborhood where they once
stood Nearly every one of the placer
mining counties has some such melan-
choly unwritten histories of its own.
Perhaps FL Dorado, where the first placer
was discovered, has the most. In 1850
there stood an exceedingly lively town
on a stream known as Matthew's creek, q
tributary of the Consumes, which
s'forty miners christened bv the preten-
tious name of AuIum City. The country
was full of cities in those early days.
Beside Sacramento City the county
of Sacramento had place to=
ward its eastern line called Prairie City,
which lasted till about 1865 and then
vanished out of sight, since then out of
memory. In 1855 the place known as
Mormon Island, three miles east of Gran
lite, was a large town. At present 1T is
a mere shadow of what it was. In
1851 Aurum City contained population
of 1900, and that in those days
implied /, $50 active workers IN the
mines, at an average earning of ten dol
lars to an ounce per day to the worker.
In 1856 Aurum was in the list of de-
caye6 towns and ten years later it had
ssgone glimmering amid the dream of
things that were" Even the name of
Matthew's Creek is now extinct, save in
FL Dorado county, where it constitutes
an election precinct, or did few years
ago: and the Costumes is now the mod
ern substitute for the ancient "Macon-
suman river.a Nobody from 1S49 TO 1884
called Placerville by any other name
than "Hangtown, which it earned at
the hands of mob and by-and-byc ex-
changed for its present more euphonious
name. As early as the fall of 1913 pros
pecting ad extended from Coloma, on
the South fork of the American. over to
Weaver creek and northward TO the Mid
die ana North forks, and eastward to
Weavertown, and the following winter
up 70 Placerville and Kelsey's Within
a radius of fifteen miles from Coloms
there were existing in the summer Of
1850 not less than twenty towns. 'scities'
and camps, the largest being Hangtown
Diamond Springs, Mud Springs. George
town, Uniontown, Spanish Dry Diggings
Ringgold and Weavertown. All o
these. save three or four. have gone ou
of existence, and the three or four re
manning are now chiefly supported b.
orchards an0 vineyards. San Francisc
Chronicle
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-06-25

III. Joannes Chatin has found para
site In the common onion that gives rise
TO disease. NJ. Pasteur, who has exam
med 1t, finds it similar TO the parasite of
mildew in wheat, but with less vitality.
The affected plants should be pulled up
and burned.
An American observer finds that the
planets, taken in order outward from
Mars to Neptune. show five OF the seven
spectral colors, and in their proper order
Mars, red; Jupiter, orange; Saturn,
yellow; Uranus, green; and Neptune,
blue The arrangement is singular,
though, of course there is nothing really
significant in the correspondence between
the distances of these five planets from
the sun and the tints of the solar spec
trum; nor does Mr. Maxwell Hall, who
notices the relation, suggest that there is
any physical significance in it.
Vegetable tallow, which is obtained
from tree Of the genus Hopea, growing
in the south OF Borneo, has been recently
studied by Mr.. Fielding, and found to
keep solid ut a temperature Of 1875 Cen
tigrade, and m-lt at 44.4 Centigrade. 1t
dizsolves in cold ether and in hot acetone,
alcohol and turpentine. 1t is obtained
from the fruits of the tree by terminating
them in a humid place and then drying
them in the sun, and boiling out the
grease. The tallow thus made in Java
and Sumatra is now used for greasing
machines, and in the manufacture
of candles 1t also yields glycerine and
soap.
An ingenious way Of turning an or
binary watch into an Illuminated clock,
for showing the time by night, has been
arranged by M. Joyeux. 1t consists in
projecting an image of the watch-face
on screen, which may be semi trans
/. parent The lamp is an ordinary oil one,
and it is placed in small box fitted
with an object glass which can slide out
and in little. in telescope fashion, TO
adj just the focus The size of the re-
fiected image of the watch, which is hung
within the box behind the object-gIass
and illuminated by the lamp-light is de-
termined by the power of the lens ana
the distance of the screen.
Professor Thomson, in a recent lecture,
informed his audience that the magnetic
pole is now near Boothia, Felix, or more
than 1000 miles west of the geographical
pole In 1867 the magnetic pole was due
north, it having been eastward before
that year Then it began to move west
ward until 1916, when the maximum was
reached. This is now being steadily di-
minished, and in 1876 it will again point
due north. Professor Thomson says that
the changes which will have been OBJ
served not only in the direction, but in
the strength of the earth's magnetism
will show that the same causes which
originally magnetized the earth are still
at work.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-06-25

Remember the poor" says an e..
change We will. We do. We can
forget him. He charged us 81 corr
for saving wood and cut every last stlcA
of it four inches too long for any stow
in the house. We remember him. AM
he'll remember us, if we can ever nnu
him, and hire man to hold him wniS
we starve him to death. Haaoksye.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-06-25
Statistics Of Religions Seets.

The estimated number of religious de-
among English speaking
throughout the world Is
given by Whitaker as follows:
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-06-25

England's army contains 90, O50 Eng
lishmen, 14,415 Irishmen and 2.456
scoschmea.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-05-10
The Mutual Self-Endowment
and Benevolent Associa-
ton of America.

The grand central Office of the Mutual Self.
Endowment and Benevolent Association OF
America, formerly located in I.ongview. Tex
Is now permanently established In our city.
Their receipts on yesterday were s2OB2. n
s2li.20.
The membership of the association now
numbers something over IL 90 !, and Is inc e
ing AT an average of about 600 per month.
Their college fund now amounts To- sl son
ana is rapidly increasing. The object Of the
iund Is TO enIow college to educate the
minors of deceased members,
The order has divisions, to-wil:
Pacific coast-J. N. RUSSELL Jr San Francis
co. Cal, secretary.
Nebraska division-W. s. Bacon, secretary
Omaha, Neb.
Kansas department-Fred Williams. score.
tary, Emporia, Kas.
Georgia department--W. d. Burkhead. sec.
rotary, Atlanta, Ga.
Arkansas and Tennessee department-I
Il. Morrison. secretary, Little Rock, Ark.
Alabama Departmental. ID. Ragiand secre.
tary, Huntsville, Ala.
The association has paid over $4,000 in
dement's, and Is not yet three years old. and
assessments. i"e
Their medical director, DIR. j. Il. Field has
tons. ' "Ppie"
DIR. Ogilvie and Rev. Mr.. Way are now do
ing the Fort In the Interest OF the order. and
u Their success Is in keeping with what IL has
oeen In provincial towns, we look 10 See
.hein not only capture but to permanently
hold the fort"
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-05-10
SHERMAN.
An Explanation The Challenge OF Labor
League Jurors.
Closed by Creditors -Deagan's Condition
"A Festival.
Special to the Gazette.

SpcciHl 10 tnc V"@otVS'
SHERMAN, May Owe are told to-
day that the statement made yester-
day in regard to Judge Dearmond
challenging jurors in the district court
who were members of the labor league
was not exactly correct. The jurors,
after stating they belonged to the or
der. were not accepted in the panel,
but were not challenged. The simple
created no little excitement,
and our version of it came from
members of the league, who were in
dignant at such a question being put
to them as jurors.
The goods and effects of ID. II.
Thompson, proprietor of the Binkley
house saloon, were attached by cred
itoIs this afternoon, and the place
closed by the sheriff. The levies so
far made amount to about $1,000.
Thompson owns the Turf saloon in
Dallas, and has spent large sum in
fitting it up and supplying the place
with fine liquors. Reports say
lie transferred the title OF
the Dallas establishment to his brother
few days ago, and this fact led nc
doubt to the action of his creditors
here. Capt. Jot Gunter Is the largest
creditor, and made the first levy OF
the property.
The condition of Hugh Deagan wa.
improved this morning, and hopes arr
now entertained for his recovery.
The charitable ladies of the city ar
holding g strawberry festival at tn,
opera-house tonight, aud everybod.
who has spare quarter will go t
spend it, as the object is to raise fun'
for Identifying the cemetery. MI
Kells of THE GAZETTE is among tn
strawberry eaters, and gallant gentle
man he is too among the ladies.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-05-10

havinga an eye to pelf, all these, taking
advantage of the popular grief and
rage when Lincoln fell, filled the cap
ital and renewed the war against the
vanquished, helpless South. The con-
stitution was amended again and again
by the bayonet held at the throats of
bleeding and finally murdered states.
And then, and not till then, was the
Union destroyed. To degrade and in
suit and humiliate brave foemen of
Union soldiers, 1t was sought by cow
ards to subordinate these Confederate
soldiers to their former slaves.
Nothing has given me sincerer salts
faction than the constantly repeated
statement made by South ern soldiers,
THAT the men who fought them never
sought to degrade or humiliate them.u
Therefore have representatives of the
South in congress, gone with those
who have gone furthest in h0noring
and in voting pensions to the soldiers
OF the Union. The South under the per
petuated war revenue system, paws
more than its proper share of these
pensions sand receives nothing; and vet.
confessing the generosity of its van
quishers, comedies all and even more
than is asked by the manned aud
helpless heroes of Northern armies.
THE TOMB OF SHERMAN AND MALONE
And while John Sherman and Ma
hone fiaunt the bloody shirt, and pant
breathlessly after each unavailing eff
fort to re-excite sectional passions, how
infinitely well pleased am / to find
that Northern soldiers are not to be
outdone in generosity, as they were
not in valor. The prouIest victory
ever won over the soldiers Of the South
by those of the North, will be ceie.
6rated when we have reared for our
former enemies in the field proner
sylum, even In the whilom Confeder.
acy's capital, for the helpless and
MANNED soldiers Of the South. In its
cornerstone let the bloody shirt re.
pose and far down beneath this stone
Sherman and Malone.
FOUL FALSEHOoD.
do not abh0r these men becapse
they are Republicans, or because they
would perpetuate the war tariff md
me domination Of the country by The
banks, and by the powerful governing
classes, aggrandized by the central
government. The fact that thew are
monarchists or imperiallsts, signifies
nothing. But l must confess that
an eAhsPeIateu When i fiud these
senators toiling to re-excite Sectional
passions, that the Union, which /
fought TO perpetuate, may be rent in
twain by base prejudices and false.
moods to which they appeal. Thev
would make the North hate the South
when l do know that every action
ana word designed for this purpose'
Is as foul a falsehood as ever blist,,
ered the throat of foulest perjury.
CINCINNATI AND THE souri,
1 have lived since the war, aimost
continuously In a Southern cltv' I
nave seen how federal place-hoiders
are appointed and salaried and ra'
Mined, simply because OF their skiIl
as invent Is and decorators of The
bloody shirt. The false representa-
lions OF this class have resulted in
greater detriment to the material IN.
teiesls OF the South, In excluding i'm
migration and capital, than even tha
war itself. Not less than three iho ne
sand Republicans from the Nnrth
sharp, shIewd fellows, are hired viii,
FEDERAL offices to furnish blood curd linz
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-05-10

negro murder stories, for the eminent
~ godly Republican bloody-shirt
newspapers of the North; and am
only amazed that these Republicans
preying upon those they reviie, do not
put 10 death, at least on paper. ms
many negroes each year In the south.
where there are about six millions
blacks, as fell of whites on a single
day liz Cincinnati.
ILLUSTRATIONS.
l nave seen Southern city plum
ueIeu 10 poverty and hopeless bank
Iuptcy, and the people taxed Oh per
cent. by scoundrels invested with
power py Wholesale ignorance. I have
a sc sne CITY government finally
a ae, ana turned over to syndi-
cate created by the governor. even as
here In Washington, the neonla 60 60
dread negro supremacy that thsv sph'
mt 10 presidentcreated desnoi;. al
solutism. l have seen a negro GOV
efnor of n Southern state na,t fo
.pg murder for $500 herora
the murderer was tried. The
lian VINO paid the cash is now in this
Guy. i have seen negro. goyernad
county taxed five per cent. bv ita no.
slocnosen white and black masters
ana the value Of land reduced by
naeg,o sway from $50 10 SIS per acre.
Anu these are only specimens of facts
,uunliess and universal wherever nm,
,utoIea, simple negroes are herded ana
voted ny INSCRIPTIONS knaves. have
zen ns former slaye-dealer and keeper
" aslaye pen. who was fiercest of 90.
Gnessionists, and the executor of Jetr
LAVE naVis eonscript act, robbing the era.
u,s ana the grave that the IJnlon
~ pe destroyed, filling every Office
y, noh3r and profit, In a country I'm
SWnicn blacks out number whites as
h,a 70 one. and then these innocenf
t u,acAs navellnduced the innocent Ar.
unur 70 make this man
postmaster Northern man as i am
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-05-10

stateswlll arrive here per the Texas q
Pacific railroad at Ga. m. tomorrow.
me excursionists cone with q view
to Investing In land. They will 70 as
IA far west as big Springs. They VIII be
m ~" at the sale Of lots at Midland
On The l3th and l4th.
The people Of Grapevine nave ca .,..',
n mass meeting for Thursday, evening
Nav Is, to discuss the outlook ior rail-
rNad connection with Dslias. Messrs.
Zeb Jenkins and Tack t. Wall are IN
the city to-day and have secured as
sneakers Col. w. l.. Crawford ana
Messrs. lSawnie Robertson, ROBBERY
Cowart and others. The people, OF
Grapevine mean business, and VIII go
TO tie extent of their means to secure
n railroad from Dallas. II there Is any
business in the talk Dallas has been
doing on the subject Of railroads, now
let her show 1t. ~,
Tomorrow Is the last day OF the
March term Of the Dallas county dis
trict court, and the May term Will be-
gin Monday, when new grand Jury
will take the place Of the old one ana
proceed to investigate the cussedness
of the community.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-05-10

having fought four years against
the South, would fight another iotr
years rather than see my former enc,
mics, " no surrendered to me In good
faith, subjected again to the domino,
ton of ignorance and vice. II l had
the right to speak as Southern mAn
and for Southern men, I would pro-
claim it everywhere that prefer Q
military despotism to the supremacy
of those invested with power by igno'
rance, stupidity and. vice. no mGe
American would submit tamely tosuca
governments as have been inautu.eu
by this falsely.called" Republican'paII
ty in the South, and rather than .oa'
crate them, speaking for myseli aion =,
would compel the interyentioh ~
the federal army. The bayonet %
master Is more tolerable than ,ne uu
PRAYED vampires and their toois an'
dupes.
My friends say that i am an eAr
tremist. They do not know VIVA.
know, and have not seen what nav
seen during these past twenty year.
In the South. L tell Of poiiticM auu
personal facts quorum para jul; tney
have only read of them. They nav
seen the South through eyeglasses
made and distorted aud c0lored ~
these three thousand hired place,noiu,
ers sent into the South and PAID y
malign and reyiIe and misrepresen';;
They have blackened the fame ~
states and people, and Tightening
away wealth and progress and crown
ing barbarism with power have De,
gotten poverty which they rob ,,,b -
penury, and then, with baseness win,
opt parallel, do they I'LL the pres, >
the country and mouths Of howiinY
1arty leaders with sickening lies tnAs
fhe North may be compactly arrAye"
against the South, aud po~e
In the hands "
the worst enemies
the American Union. The Union Wa
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-05-10
sam ANTONIO.
4 Reign OF Lawlcssuess and Terror ~
Del Rio.
Death Of Gen. Grcgoro Soto T Local Items
ofInterest
o,so,a, 10 the Gazette

epecia, TO the Gazette
SAN ANTONIO, May o.-rassenger !,
who arrived to-day from Del h'o lepo''
the reign Of perfect lawlessness Stree
Tuesday nights assassination wnel'
Henry Griner was killed and Two
,,omen shot. The greatest excitement
has reIgned all along both sides OF the
Rio Grande, and the Mexicans nave
threatened to come over ana
hurn the town. A h.gr99'
rhoae name was not ascertaineu,
was last night stabbed and killed ny
Nfayicans. A troop of cavalry, unuer
command of Mai. Carahan, ere
patrollinr the town. Capt: Woodhnii;
,ha senior member Of the firm CT
Woodhull Bros, came near being
mohbed last night while on his way
n The cars. under the presumption
that he was a Mexican. lie wore u
hroad.brimmed Mexican sombrero;
When he gave his name, the squad
which stepped him apologlzed. one
of the Mexicans, who was with the
,noh which made the attack when
Er,ner WIS killed, died
today at the Mexican village opposite
noI Rio. Mexicans living in the
vicinity adjacent to Del no are mt re- e
ported as leaving the country. .ns
towns on the Mexican SIDE are ,soia'eo
from telegraph and raiiroao inter,
course, and but little can be heard
from them. though it is known the out
look across the river Is very serious.
IL is reported that detachment from
Col. Pedro Valdez's command Will be
sent dowh to stop any further attempt
to raid the Texas side, but
this is hardly necessary,
as the ITexans are prepared for any
small invasion. The Mexican consul
in this city knows nothing Of any in
ternational business.
The two women wounded in the
fight at Del Rio have been brought to
San Antonio. One had her arm am
putated, and the other is with heI
mother. shot through both legs.
Fred Sohle, a clerk In the commits
sary department at the United States
quartermaster's department. charged
with purloining one hundred and fifty
pounds of bacon, has skipped out.
Gen. Gregorio Soto of the Mexican
army died here this morning Of hear,
disease, aged IS years. He formerly
commanded the Mexican and Rio
Grande frontier division, and has nu
merous relatives In this city. BY ordel
of Gen. David $. Stanley, now in com
mand of the military department, thu
honors due n brigadier-general will b,
extended to deceased at his funeral to
morrow. Eleven guns will be fired
and the officers of the department ant
troops will escort the remaius TO thu
Mexican Catholic cemetery, where the.
will find a place of rest. Decease'
was born in San Antonio.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-05-10
w. "a n
Wholesale Dealer in
HARDWARE, STOVES AND I'm
Queensware, Crockery and Glassware,
COR. SECOND AND HOUSTON STREETS. FORT W0RN]
SIlII SHOOT.

The State Shoot for the
Gun CLUB of Texas 1OiW
come off at Fort Worth
June 24h to eth, inclltS-
iUe, under the auspices of
the Fort Worth Gun Club.
Clubs from other states
are mUited to participate.
Pigeons 1U0nteG 0t Fort
Worth.
For further information
address STUART HARRISON.
Sec. Ft. Worth Gun Club.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-05-10
A DAY AT DALLAS.
A Clear Case OF Jim-Jams-The New
Street Railway.
Burglary in Daylight An Illinois Fupi
tive Arrested.
Railroad Talk-A Midland Excursion
Party.
Special to the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette.
DALLAS, May &C.. II. Anderson
was locked up to-day on the charge of
drunkenness. He is stranger, well
dressed, and has the appearance of
being travelling man. He went into
Main street saloon this morning and |
attempted to commit suicide by cut
ting the veins in his wrists. Parties
caught him, and his knife was taken
away from him. He then raved like
mailman, and fought every one in
sight till the officers got hold Of him.
He says he Is desperate, and that a
woman is the cause of 1t.
The Knights of Pythias picnic next
Tuesday night promises to be an ele-
CANT affair.
Iron rails for the Belt street railway
were received last night, and workmen
began to-day putting them down
along the entire route. The road will
be finished and the cars running by
the first of next August.
The foremen engaged in rebuilding
the Texas compress walls, destroyed in
the late big fire, were arrested to-day
for building the walls across the line
and into Camp street.
A bold burglary was perpetrhted in
broad daylight In a populous neigh
borhood ON East Ross avenue. Be-
tween the hours OF and y. m. the
residence Of Mr.. Frank Field, during
the absence Of the family from home,
was entered and ransacked, but the
burglars seemed TO have penchant
for jewelry, for while they inspected
everything In the house, including the
silverware, they only stole the jewelry
amounting in value to between $25(
and $780, The robbers eff.
fected an entrance by pricing
open, by means Of chisel, the back
door. When Mrs. Field returned
home at 6 o'clock she discovered, OF
viewing the topsy-turvy condition o
the contents Of the house, that tn,
door OF the clock was open and tina
the tlme-piece had stopped at th,
hour Of five. It is supposed that tn,
visitors had opened the clock In search
OF valuables therein. This is tn,
boldest burglary Of the season. 1t i
strange some one In the neighborhoot
did not see the burglars going to o
coming from the house.
Deputy Sheriff Baldwin of Macoupii
county, ILL.,, arrived here Yesterday il
search of John Howerton, the arch
horsethief of Central Illinois, havin,
received information that John wa
sojourning In this part OF the mora
vineyard. Accompanied by Deput,
SherifIs Lewis and Jacoby Mr.. Bald
win took the south-bound train las
night for Hutchins. near which plac
ton the farm OF old man Sim
mons) John was at work. The officer
remained overnight at Hutchins ant
this morningrepalred to the SimmonI
ranch. where fhey came nnnf
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-05-10

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Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1884-01-08
That Baby Carriage.

The readers of the TINES will
doubtless remember that, last March,
ii. Il. Burkhart & Co. offered a baby
carriage as prize for the heaviest
baby born in this city in December,
1888. The heaviest baby born in this
city during last month was T. H.
Brews. 1t weighed 8! pounds, and
the carriage awaits the claimant at
Burkhar & Co.'s.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1884-01-08
THE TERRITORIAL SUPREME COURT
Its Session May Not Begin Until Week
from Next Monday,

1t is quite unlikely that the Terri
torlal Supreme Court will convene at
Boise next Monday. Judge Buck
commenced holding term of his
court at Lewiston on the 9TH ultimo.
and the latest advices from there are
to the effect that he will probably not
get through before the 10th instant.
AS it takes nearly a week to come
from Lewiston to Boise, it seems un:
likely that Judge Buck can reach the
Capital before the 2lst or 22d instant
Chief Justice Morgan, it will be re-
membered, fell on the ice while skat-
ing, and sustained severe injuries that
have kept him laid up in bed eyer
since. 1t is therefore unlikely that he
can get to Boise at all, this term.
In the absence of Judges Morgan
and Buck, Judge Pickett will be com
PEELED to adjourn the court from day
to day until one or the other of the
Judges puts in an appearance, and
thus forms quorum. 1t is therefore
probable that the Supreme Court will
not be in session until week from
next Monday.