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The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1885-08-22
General Grants Unconditional Surren-
der-Letter."

When the Century published Grants
article on Fort Donnelson, in Decsm.
Der, 1884, it contained an autograph
copy of the famous unconditional>
surrender letter. The article said no
one knew where the original letter
was: The letter read
HEADQUARTERS OF ARMY IN THE
FIELD, Camp near Donnelson, Feb.
Is, 1S62.-To General s. b, Buckner,
Confederate Army-Sir: Yours of
this date, proposing an armstice and
appointment of commissioners to set
tie terms Of capitulation, is just re-
ceived. No terms except uncondi-
tional and immediate surrender can
be accepted. propose to move i'm
mediately upon your works. am,
sir, very respectfully, your obedient
servant, U. s. GRANT,
Bfigadier General.
Lawyer n. G. Kilbourne, of Litch-
field, saw the article and wrote to the
publishers of the Century that he
knew where the original letter vas.
DR.. ]. X. Wallace of Bantam, near
Litchfeld, married a Danbury lady.
who was a cousin of the wife of Gen
eral Rawlings, Grants chief of staff
and secretary Of war. When General
Rawlings died in July, 1879, he was
attended by DR.. Wallace, and the doc
tor says Rawlings gave him the letter
in November, 1878, with the remark
that it would some time be valuable.
The Century sent to Kilbourne and
secured it for one day and had fac
simile made. G. L. Webster, of the
firm which is publishing Grants mem
oirs, came here yesterday and drove
over to Bantam in the morning to see
the letter. DIR. Wallace said he once
had an offer of 81 for it, from New
York man, now dead. He refused
$3.50 for it, which was offered him by
the Webster publishing company.
Webster yesterday offered him 5000
for it, which was finally accepted.
Webster returned to New York to-day
with the valuable letter.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1885-08-22

THE PROJECTED TOWER OF PARIS.
Besides the gigantic tower that M.
Eiffel proposes to erect for the Paris
Exhibition of 1889, the center of civ
ilization is to have another great
tower, which is to bo used for scisn-
tific purposes. M. j. Bourdais has
presented to the French Society of
Civil Engineers project for the srec-
ton of masonry tower 994 feet in
hight. After an examination of the
different geometric profiles realizable,
NJ. Bordais has adopted the column a.
being more apt than any other form
to satisfy the rules of aesthetics, and
also as being the most stable. In
fact, the highest chimney in the world
that of ST. Rollox, near Glasgow.
433 feet in hight-has been submitted
to numerous storms without suffering
from them, and as other chimneys ex-
posed to great wind pressure have
never given rise to any accident, it
would seem that cylindrical form 10
one that should be adopted. NJ. Bour-
dais's structure would consist of base
216 feet high, in which is to be estab-
lished permanent museum of cleo
tricity. Above this would rise a six
stored column, surmonnted by roof,
forming n promenade and capable of
accommodating 1000 persons. The
central granite core, 90 feet in diameS
ter, would be surrounded with an orn-
amental framework of iron faced with
copper. This would be divided into
six stories, each containing 16 rooms, 16
feet in hight and so feet square, de-
signed for erotherapic treatment.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1885-08-22

The SQUIRREL PEsT.-Mr. Byrne
of Independence Valley, informs the
Tuscarora Times Review that the
squirrels this year have been more
disastrous to the crops in this vicinity
than ever before. They have nearly
destroyed his wheat which will hardly
pay for harvesting. They dcvoured
fully onc-half OF his cabbages and
ma le serious inroads on his potato
crop and played havoc with all of his
other vegetables. The pests have been
equally destructive at nearly all of
the ranches in the northern part of
the county. Mr.. Byrne has used a
large amount of poison; has shot,
drowned and trapped legions and has
- cats on his place which have ins
dustriously hunted the pests, but all
these expedients made no perceptible
diminuition in their number. He es-
Inmates that he has killed upwards of
5000, and his neighbors have been
equally persistent in their endeavors
to rid themselves of the rsvenous
rodents. Unless some means arc de
vised to exterminate them there will
be but little encouragement to farm
ers to put in crops in this vicinity In
the fure.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1885-08-22

James Stockdale, we'll known
sporting man, died al Tucson, Arizona,
on the 9TH, from the effects of con -
tnued use of morphine, and probably
an overdose OF the dangerous drug.
He walked into the Fashion Saloon
shortly after noon and sat down in a
chair. lie was shortly afterwards
noticed gasping for breath, and slight
nervous spasms were observed. He
was past all assistance, however, and
died an hour after being taken TO his
room ut the Cosmopolitan Hotel.
At 2 80 o'clock Saturday afternoon
the Thermometer registered 102 de-
grees in the shade.
Al. Underhill, of the Argus Min~
ing Company, is quite i'll in Eureka.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1885-08-22

THE LAST CHANCE. The people of
Taylor and vicinity are hereby Motif
ed that on the Goth | will close my
photograph gallery and leave for Eu~
rcka. Call and examine the local
photographs, and you will be satisfied
with the character of my work. New
ones arrive by every mail.
L. Monaco, Photographer.
Chicken dinner at Wheatley's res
taurant every Sunday.
John Henry announces to the citi
zens of Taylor that he has 1000 cords
of wood to give away, and those
wanting it will do we'll to call on
him.
Leave your orders with Sol. Hip.
Goods not in stock will be sent for.
Ladies' straw hats at Mrs. J. F.
Cupid's.
Nuts from all chimes and candies of
the choicest at Mrs. j. F. Cupid's.
A large and varied assortment of
fresh candies at Mrs. j. F. Cupid's.*
A fine stock of ladies' goods can be
found at Mrs. J. F. Cupid's.
Sol. Hip has received a new sup
ply of hats, caps and straw goods. To
arrive this week: Clothing, boots,
hoes, etc.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1885-08-22

mes-Review: "Archie," our
Juniors hunting dog, has been trained
to carry written messages to different
places in the town. Yesterday his
master sent HIM to Peltier & Cos with
n note requesting them to send by
bearer n package of concentrated I've.
In about ten minutes the animal re-
turned with his tail between his legs,
and, with an abused but protesting
air, meekly deposited at the feet of
his owner a copy of the Tuscarora
Times>Review. There is a warm
corner in sheol for tho perpstrator of
such cruel joke on O poor dumb
animal.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1885-08-22

A New York dispatch of the 18th
saws the World "has successfully conn.,
pleted its task of raising 100000 for
the Bartholdi statue pedestal. The
Washington cent was sold to Miss
Helen Douvray for $3.50. The total
amount collected was $102,066.30,
which was contributed by over 1907
900 persons.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1885-08-22

ANCIENT PEsTILENcEs.- Long be-
fore the Christian era, pestilences.
which were known by the local names
of the sweating sickness" the
''blacK death" and the like, at fire.
quent but irregular periods swept
over the countries of Asia and Eu-
rope, causing widespread destruction
of life. Commencing in China in
1888, the pesticnce marched steadily
westward, until all the then known
world had been covered, not except
ing the island of Iceland, in the
Polar Sea, where the mortality was
frightful. This plague reached Eu-
rope in 1347 aad ragged up to 1850,
period of 81 years from its first APP
pearancc in China. The accounts of
the mortality seem incredible, but
there appears no reasan to- doubt The
statements of historians of the period.
In Cairo the death rate was as great as
10000 daily. Towns and whole dis,
tricts We're nearly depopuated, and
ships without crews were driven ON
the shores of the Mediterranean aud
North Seas, all hands having perished
with the plague 1t is estimated that
Europe lost in that visitation 25,000,-
900, or one fourth of the total popu-
lation. China suffered to the extent
of 13,000,O00. and the balance of Asia
lost 23,000,000, total of 61,000,000
deaths attributed to this wave of de-
struetion, passing over all that por-
ton of the earth's surface where in-
tercourse and association for the pur-
pose of commerce existed.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1885-08-22

tits now claimed that the first time
the expression Eureka was used was
when Socrates sat down on tack for
which he had been looking Carson
Appeal. Under the circumstances
there was no necessity for anyone to
tell him where to stick it, Tuscarora
Times Review.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1885-08-22
EVIDENTLY BELIEVES IN "SHEoL. 4"

EVIDENTLY BELIEVES IN "SHEoL. F"
He looked earnestly at the two
glass hand grenades that hung on the
walls of the corridor ofthe theater.
How thonghtful,n he said, "of the
management to provide bottles of
water in case of faintness among the
ladies'
"Them's fire extinguishers," inter
rupted the attendant. "When a fire
breaks out you throw bottle on it
and that puts it OUT
"Any kind Of fire."
"Yes; big or little"
"Then I'll have half dozen put
into my coffin"
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1885-08-22
Col. Fred. Grant Speaks.

The New York World of the 10th
prints the following:
Colonel Grant, after having ridden
to Riverside Park with his relatives
yesterday, spoke very sorrowfully
about his fathers loss, and very
proudly about the great tribute which
the people had paid his memory. 81
consider that greater Difference was
shown fathers memory yesterday
than ever has been shown to any other
American citizen" he said. at was,
OF course, mournful satisfaction TO
me. TIE family fully appreciate the
spirit which prompted the great pro
cession. We did not see or hear any
thing that marrcd the obsequies. If
father was so much to the world, who
barely knew him, you can perhaps
imagine how much he was to the
family. His official career was not
his greatest. He had a side to his
life which very few can appreciate. :"
"Was it a matter of satisfaction
that the Confederate Generals took
partp
Certainly. Nothing would have
SO gratitied father as to have known
that all sectional feeling was forever
buried at his grave. He had very
great respect for the Southern Gener-
ais. Some of them were his most
intimate friends. 1t was at our re
quest that they were invited to attend
the funeral, and | am very glad that
they were present. The demonstra-
tions throughout the South are also
very gratifying, for they exhibit a
spirit which my father had always
hoped for
Twill the Generals book be pub
lished at once2'
II think it will appear before long.
We do not yet know exactly what or
how much manuscript there is. The
last pages father wrote have not been
looked over, and there is a large
amount of matter now in form for
publication. On my return to Mount
McGregor | shall devote the next four
weeks to looking over the manuscript.
shall make copies of all his papers
and preserve the originals. | am not
yet sure whether or not there will be
enough matter for two volumes, but
what there is will be published, with
as little revising as possible. The
story will be brought down to fathers
death, and when this has been done
whatever there is will be printed"
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1885-08-22

r. M. Whippls of Chicago, Illinois,
says the Belmont Courier, has pur-
chased the mining property of the
Twin River Company, Ophir Canyon,
from A. Lognoz. The price paid for
this valuable property was S25,6l4.99.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1885-08-22

The prisoners in the Winnemucca
Jail have concerts almost every after
noon, in which Clarence Gray, who is
under sentence of death for the MUIR
der of II. H. Scott, takes the lead.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1885-08-22

Elko Free Press: James Clark of
the Depot Hotel, received from his
brother residing at San Diego, an
ostrich egg which measures 16 by 10
inches.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1885-08-22

TIVE wagon loads of water>melons
hauled into Fresno, Gala, the other
day numbered but IS melons, but they
weighed upwards of two tons.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1885-08-22

An attachment has been put upon
the Presby terian Church by the Eu-
reka & California Lumber Company,
says the Sentinel, for S53, interest
from 1881 and cost of suit.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1885-08-22

Bob Lowery, Speaker of the Nevada
Assembly in 1871, died in San Fran
cisco few days ago.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1885-08-22

N. end Of the present month the
;n,ed vii. sever his connection
ln nd ~ nrinting business and make
'lit w m. SO prepare to "punglc."
clean 'f r. w. SIMPSON.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1885-08-22

tits said that piece of zinc placed
on the Goals of hot stove will clean
out the stovespipe. The vapor pro-
duced carries off the SCOT by chemical
decor position.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1885-08-22
,I5Ille and Archie Williams,


-. country where bovincs
..nort that rattlcsnakes-of
'o'pag ces the most honest--are here,
SUI. and everywhere. They aver that
lns,' e IN all of fifty, but after that,
fhei MI" got surfpit Of rattle,
an% ~. ~ tbeg passed them UNDECIDED by,
NM :, vas too big contract to take
\. lives of all they saw.
TIL. stand and other fixtures on the
.a.cue grounds were burned on the
'.htofthe 18th. This scribe was on
.ad and fired two hand grenades into
l'" aamrs but without effect. Before
"",nc loo much faith in this means
r .ytingnishing a fire the judicious
49, M do would be To give them IA
, , test and get acquainted with
them.
Wm. Read, Foreman IF the Eber-
had, Mining Company, arrived from
Hamilton Thursday. He comes for
the oarooss of examining the Monitor
Minis .ludging from the way 1t look"
I'd tho last time We saw 1t It VIII bear
f the closest scrutiny.
George Cochran, son of NJ. II. coch-
ran of Taylor, has been at the point OF
death in Cherry Creek for the past two
weeks with typhoid pneumonia. For
time his life was despaired of, but
he isnow out of danger.
Samuel Liddle, who had stroke of
PARALYSIS in Hamilton few days ago,
we are pleased to know is out of dams
gsr. Samiyul, my boy, brace mp even
II you think you are going to die.
All freight consigned from either
the East or West 10 Taylor, Ward,
Bristol, Phoebe. 0sceoia, and other
settlements in those parts is how taken
IN from Toano on the G. p road.
Sol Hip, agent 10. all high explos
size powders for this section has re,
ceiFed kilograms from headquarters
stating that the price has been raised
cents per pound to take effect on
and after the 20th of August.
NJ. II. Cochran, who rrrived from
Cherry Creek Sunday reports that the
Star Mill is running with $50 tons of
ore ahead and more in sight in Tie
mine.
R. A. Riefe of Phoebe, has purchas-
ed john Wheatley's restaurantand now
holds the works Dick knows how to
keep hotel if any one does.
Steps are being taken to incorporate
the "Old Channel Gold Mining Com
pany in Osceola. by Robert Briggs,
W.N. McGill and Charley Wisel.
A. d. Campbell gives notice in
another column that he has taken up
on his ranch Mt Shoshonc seven head
OF horses. For marks and brands see
advertisement.
James Fitzpatrick returned from
Royal City, Lincoln county. Tuesday
lasf, where he has been To look after
his mining possessions.
N
v b. Sabin left Taylor Wednesday,
Tor the purpose Of smbarking in the
mill busin ,ss Ia Oseeola with VIM. b.
Ennis.
The Argus Mining Company ships
pea on tbs 18th four bars of bullion.
valued at $0,721.53; aud ON the 2lst
'our bars valued at $0,406.s1.
{ + Meyers, member of the last
assembly from Lincoln county. pass.
~ n. this morning on his way
Members of I. o. o. z. met in the
Opera House Sunday evening for tbs
In Taylor.
D. f. Cupid is erlarging hi. place of
S ou',neSs rs though he had unboundcd
''""oenee ia this country.
W. L. Davis of the News and j. B.
=. of Cherry Creek arrived in
taylor Monday Inst.
The 0sceola mill has been reoaircd
S Sau VIII be reudy to start up in a few
Is reported that more men have
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1885-08-22

A little boy, hearing some one re-
mark that nothing was quicker than
thought, said, II know something
that is quicker than thought "What
is it Johnnie2" asked his papa.
"Whistling," answered Johnnie,
"When I was in school yesterday I
whistled before l thought"
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1885-08-22

All kinds of fresh fruit at Mrs. J.
F. Cupid's.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1885-08-22
oosroFFICE HOURS.

.assA N. and closes 10P. NJ.
NsllI i0,ppr rsd mail closes at P. NJ
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1885-08-22

THIRTY-sIx YEARS AGo.-The fol
lowing document is on file in the
office of the County Clerk of ST. Louis
county, and is labeled application of
u. S. Grant for the County Engineer
Rejected"
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1885-08-22
ST. LOUIS, August Is, 1s40.

lion. County commissioners, ST.
Louis, Mo.-Gentlemcn: l beg leave
to submit myself as an applicant for
the Office of County Engineer, should
the office be rendered vacant, aud a.
the same time to submit the names of
a few citizens who have been kind
enough to recommend me for the
office. / have made no effort to get
a large number of names; nor the
names of persons with whom am not
personally acquainted. | enclose
herewith, also, n statement from Prof.
J. j. Reynolds, who was Il elassmate
of mine at West Point, as to qualiti-
cations.
Should your honorable body see
proper to give me the appointment, |
pledge myself to give the office my
entire attention. Very respectfully,
your obedient servant. L. S. GRANT,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-30
Cabbage-WOrms and Lice.

have been bothered very much, in
raising cabbages, by worms and lice;
and though having used nearly all the
various remedies, have never had
what might be called eTcellent success
in raising cabbages till the present
season, all or mainly from the ravages
of these pests. Make the ground as fiji
as | might, take the best of care, hoe
ing as often as / pleased, would al
ways, heretofore, in spite of salt, pep
per and mustard, and all the other
spices and devices, lose many, if not
most, of my cabbages by means of these
COMPOUNDED insects. And / am not
alone in this experience. / am aware
that there are many good farmers who
are unable to raise a good crop of cab
bages. on account of the worms and lice.
But this year have cleaned them out
by using a remedy that, while it may
not be new, is one which have never
seen in print that | can remember of.
The idea happened to strike me, and l
reduced it to practice, with what seems
to me fine results, and | hasten to have
my remedy placed before the public, or
at least that portion who have never
known of it. / do not claim to be the
first man to use it, though l never heard
of its being used. 1t is simply this:
Sprinkle little sulphur on the heads
of cabbage where the insects are, and
see how quickly they will leave. l have
put it on three times during the season,
and deliverance came every time at
once, and it is natural enough to sup
pose the sulphur did it. AS yet l have
seen no ill effects from it. 1t made the
leaves curl little, and, where l put it
on thickest, discolored them bit; but
they keep right about their business of
growing, and the prospect now is that
/ shall have the best cabbages this fall
l ever raised, and the most on the
same ground planted. have planted
many more some years than this, and
have got sometimes many less. l hope
others will try this, and that it will do
as much for them as it has done for
me-. -Correspondence Home Farm.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-30

ease and less nightmare than by the
rest of humanity. A little of the finer
and more carefully-made sorts of cheese
may be eaten with impunity by others,
and some can eat cooked cheese
{" WEIGH Rarebit " who cannot en-
dure the least morsel in raw state
Nevertheless, there is nothing more
certain than the fact of the indigesti-
bility of cheese to the majority of
people. Much of the cheese made
in America is unfit to be eaten by any
one at any time, for it is so poorly
made and badly handled afterwards
that the worst kind of dyspepsia is the
fate of every one with less than the
digestion of an ostrich who tries to
make it a leading article of his diet.
Well-made cheese, eaten as relish by
people with sound stomachs, is to be
commended and enjoyed, with or with
out doughnuts, but the poorer kinds
are only fit for exportation-if any
foreigner is fool enough or hungry
enough to buy them.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-30
Hot Milk as a Table Drink.

The injury worked to health, espe-
cially to people living an indoor life,
by tea and coffee is well known to all
intelligent physicians. The New York
ETdminer has an article on the use of
milk as beverage-especially hot milk
and gives the following among sew
eral cases where the result was ex-
tremely favorable: " A lady sixty-fve
years of age, worn down by domestic
trouble and protracted night-watching,
who it was feared would be insane. an
piled to her physician for something
to make her Sleep She said she went
to bed only to think, think through
the live-long night Her cup of tea at
supper was dispensed with and hot
milk substituted. The tranquilizing
and recuperative effect of the substitu-
ton was so great that she did not re-
sumo her favorite beverage" The
chief difficulty met with by adults in
the use of milk as a common drink is
its difficult digestibility and its consti-
pating effect. Hot milk is much more
digestible than cold. Buttermilk is
also very digestible, most Of the butter
having been taken from it, and it is
rarely constipating. Baked apples with
milk keep the bowels in good order.
While milk is not a cure-all," nor a
medicine, nor diet suitable for every
body, yet vast amount of good would
be worked to the world if it were sub
stituted for the pernicious tea and cof-
fee with which millions conscien-
tiously ruin their constitutions.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-30
Hardness of Lilies.

One of the principal causes of failure
in the cultivation of lilies lies in over
estimating their hardness, their power
to endure the rigor of our winter, and
failure wholly due to this is attributed
to some unknown cause. Mr.. G. l..
Allen, who has made a specially of lily
culture and who has devoted consider
able study and careful observance to
this subject, considers these mistaken
ideas about the hardness of lilies as
the greatest impeachment to their more
extended culture. 1t is generally sup
posed, he said before the New Jersey
Horticultural Society, that all the vari-
Gus species of lilies, with few eXcep-
tons, are perfectly hardy" because
they are natives of cold or temperate
climates. A more erroneous opinion,
or one fraught with so much danger to
the plant, could not be entertained.
The species that are truly hardy in this
climate, other than those indigenous to
the soil, are but few; indeed, they are
the exception, not the rule. While it
is true that some of the species are
found in the coolest parts of the habit
able globe growing most luXuriantly,
it is equally true those same species,
grown here, are not hardy to that de-
gree which renders it safe to plant
them in our borders without protection.