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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1885-11-05
PACIFIC COAST fTElss

San Bernardino is projecting a
cable road.
The new jail at Helena, NJ. T.,
cost $4,000.
Diptheria is prevalent in the
country adjacentto San Jose on the
southwest.
John 7. Carroll committed SUI
eide at the San Jose lnfrmary Sat
urday night.
Robert Sedan is the latest con
yiction at Salt Lake on the charge
Of unlawful Capitalization.
Vlce-President Van Horn will
drive the last spike on the Canad-
ian Pacific Friday morning.
The telegraph line form Victoria
to Montreal, through British terri
tory. will be completed today.
A reward of $1,000 is offered for
the arrest of the party who set fire
to the Court House of White Pine
county,
Thomas Bremen fell from the
l,0O0-foot level cage in the Ontario
shaft, at Park City, Utah, on Satur-
day night, and was crushed to death.
4 boulder rolled down the hill at
Thistle, Utah, last Saturday and
killed Elliot, the discoverer Of the
marble quarries at that place.
The avenue to lead from the de-
pot at San Fernando direct to the
Sierra Nadre, and through the new
colony, is now graded for two miles.
W. A. Leonard, while practicing
throwing a ball previous to the
baseball match at San Jose Sunday
fractured his right arm above the
elbow.
Perry Bayne, charged with par
ticipating in the massacre of Chi
nese at Squat, W. T., was acquitted
yesterday after a trial lasting eight
days.
A man named Hugh Sullivan
fell from I wagon loaded with hay,
on the Norris grant, near Sacra-
meuto Monday, and was run over
and killed
K. G.. Flint, an old resident Of
San Luis Oblspo county, and one
Of the wealthiest, died Monday at
his old home near San Miguel. He
was seventy years old.
Prescott and Myers, who were
convicted Of robbing the Yosemite
stage, were Monday, at San Jose,
denied a new trial and sentenced to
twenty years imprisonment at San
Quentin.
Negro children in the schools at
Fresno have caused dissatisfaction
among white parents. and although
there are but five such children
the proposition to rent room and
hire a teacher for them is seriously
entertained,
The suit of Mrs. Jane L. Common
against the estate Of William Jar
Wis at Sacramento for $4,000,
which old man Jarvis had agreed
to give Mrs. Connor, if she would
marry him, was decided Saturday
in favor Of the defendant
O. Dixon, the Principal of the
First Ward School at San Jose,
who, with the other teachers, test
fed in the school investigation last
year that coercion had been prac-
ticcd to obtain money from the
teachers for the purpose of buying
newspaper by private iudivid-
ual, has made a written statement
shat the charges Of coercion are
false.
Jack Dempsey knocked Dave
Campbell out in the third round
in a match Saturday night, thirty
miles down the river from Portland
Or, in Washington Territory At
forwards Tom Ward of Astoria and
Larry Sullivan of Scranton, Penn,
fought prize fight with bare
knuckIes to the finish, for $3.50 a
side. Seyenty-seven rounds were
fought. The fight lasted one hour
a,l onI
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1885-11-05
Furnished Rooms t. Let.

Furnished rooms to rent, en- suit
or single. Inquire Of Mrs. Dan
Able, corner of Curry and John
streets, between Judge Belksap's
and judge MurpAy's. az q
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1885-11-05
Acy I

W. Fl. Chedio has just received
fresh BALTIMORE oysters By express
direct from Baltinsrs,
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1885-11-05
BLU MENTHAL e COINS
CLOTHING EMPORIUM
SEE WHAT WEHAVE TO SAY

First-Paying Cash for our goods we undersell ev-
erybody.
Second-We propose to stay in Carson, therefore
will keep nothing but the best
Third-Among our latest you will find all shades Of
Scotch and American TWeeds and English CassiTneres
for gentlemen and youths The Puritan Hat, the
Waukenphast Shoes the Pepper Scarf, the Lewis S.
Cox Cardigan Jackets, and large variety Of Furnish
ing Goods, Shoes, Trunks, etc.
n<9=~It will pay you we'll to inspect our Fall ia
voice. We guarantee satisfaction 10 everything.
BLUMENTHAI.& e. COIN.
County Building, Carson, Nev.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-15
He Got to Know Him.
A LITTLE STORY ABOUT A COLONEL WHO
WANTED AN OFFICE.

Washington correspondents are telling
stories of aspirants for office, and dig up
that of Colonel John Mcpherson OF
Page county, Va. Soon after the cleo
ton of President Pierce, Colonel Nc
Pherson turned up in Washington. He
was a fine old Virginia gentleman. Ar
raging himself in purple and fine linen
and armed with q magnificent gold
headed cane, he appeared at the White
House and procured an interview with
the President, who blandly asked what
he could do for him.
Colonel Mcpherson replied that he
had been a warm supporter of the Presi-
dent, and that he desired a consulship
in salubriOus climate, where the pay
was good and there was little to do. The
President informed him that his case
should receive attention and invited him
to call often.
BE did so tho next day and on many
succeeding days. He would say: Good
morning. Mr. President" and the Presi-
dent would reply, Good morning. Col
onel Mcpherson. After some days the
President cordially invited him to return
to his home, and assured him that his
Use would receive consideration at the
proper time
Weeks passed, and as no message
came from the President, Colonel Nc
Pherson returned to Washington and
again appeared at the Executive Man
sion. With some surprise Mr.. Pierce
greeted him, and asked what he could
do for him. Colonel Mcpherson replied
that he had come after that consulship.
The President regretted that all the
places had been filed. After Colonel
Mcpherson had cooled off he said to Il
friend: "Wtn, I'll be hanged if the
President didn't get to know me, any
how T.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-15
Newspaper Making in Texas.

The Milsap Times says:-The pub
fishers, the past week, have had to do
their own cooking and washing, besides
carrying fuel from the woods and getting
ont the press. The editor of this paper
is affected with rheumatism at intervals
that is sometimes very painful, and he
requests his friends to not hustle him
about so roughly when they become a
little frolicsome.
The Suing Wasp says:-C B. Collins
IS editor-in- of this paper, and we
have quite corps of assistants. The
local editor is an observant young man
of varied attainmelts. The agricultural
editor doesn't know pumpkin from a
potato bug, but he will learn during
next crop season. Our musical critic
rms q genuine CremOna in the orches-
ira at Bowers Hall, and orr marine
editor has a scow on the San Marcos
River Oar distinguished war CORE.
spondent Sir Garnet Wolseley, is now in
London, while our political editor has
gone to interview Mr.. Cleveland, We
have no religious editor.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-15
STATING THE CASE.
The Armor that New England ReviyaIist
Put on FiRhLIn.

Put 10 FiRhtIn.
When the late Elder Swan, of Connec-
ticut, was conducting one of his great
est revivals in New Haven, the fruits of
which were more than l ZOO conversions,
the deacons of the church waited upon
him and said that much fault was found
with the style of his sermons-they were
too radical in tone and too outspoken;
and they suggested that he should
'draw it milder." The Elder heard
them through and made them this re.
ply: "Well, brethren, it may be as you
say. Now, [ want you to let me preach
one sermon tomorrow night in my OVID
harness. and1f that doesn't suit you
will preach heHafter in the regulation
style, or will lSave the pulpit for some
body else. y Ts>s deacOns agreed, and
the next Sundssy evening the Elder took
I-as his sui ect thaacomhat between David
tine giant who clad III his armor of
brass, defied Ne armies of the living
God, as like untp minister clothed with
Then he intro uced David as rosy
checked falm'hoy who had come to
camp to bring Crackers and cheese" for
elder brothers who were serving IN the
army of Israel He gave quaint and
original version of the conversation be-
tween David and the King when the
former proposed to become the champion
of the hosts of Israel and accept the
challenge of Goliath. The King he rep
resented as looking with undisguised
contempt upon the son of Jesse, aud
saying "You, you little brat You fight
Goliath What are you talking about
He'd make mince meat of you in no
time" Then he described the putting
OF the Kings suit of armor on David to
prepare him to do battle with the Phil
istine. ''Why," said the Elder, "when
he got that Princeton and Andover
pharaphernalia on, David felt as though
he was In a straight jacket. He ripped
the whole thing off and told the King
I've got to fight in my own harness."
When he came to the point where David,
sling in hand, confronted the PhiIistine.
the Elder gave such a realistic picture
Of the scene that when he raised his
long arm and swung it vigorously over
bis head as If in the act of hurting the
smooth stone that laid the giant low.
nearly every one in the congregation
lodged. sit struck him straight be-
tween the eyes" shouted the Elder,
land killed him deader than hammer"
Then he capped the climax and pointed
the moral of his discourse as follows:
Brethren, I'm like David. Let me
fight in my own harness, as he did. and
+ l don't drive the devil and all his imps
out of New London inside of three
months, III pack up and go myself"
go it, Elder Go it, Elder" with a
volley OF ''Amens, was heard from all
parts of the church, and after that the
deacons were never known to take any
exceptions to the pastors style.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-15
MEXICAN CHRISTENING RITE.
An American Describes the Scene as He
Witnessed Ii.

In one of Mexico's interior towns at
seven o'clock one evening--an hour
when most American babies are indoors
1T was our pleasure to witness christ
en1ng ceremony in the 'Parroqula
church.
A crowd of beggars, mostly women,
from wearers of black shawls to those OF
rags and dirt, congregated around the
entrance and carriages, as IS their Gus
tom at christenings, expecting that the
hearts of the godparents will be softened
and their purses opened wide, sprlnk-
ling the new coins generously.
Having to wait long tlme-tor to be
Oh time is not customary IN this country
we had the opportunity OF observing
some of the preparations.
Although there is SO much ceremony
in the churches here, there is, after ali,
but little reverence for the sacreGness OF
the place or the paraphernalia OF their
worship.
Small boys came in carrying uandles
three or four feet long, which were taken
from them by men in surpllces and
placed in some gilt candlesticks; all this
being done in careless, irreveraLt way,
save for the Bonded knee every time one
had occasion to pass the Virgins pic
ture.
After much confusion and running
about, the priest, infant and godparents
arrived.
The priest, fat, smooth-faced man,
looking well kept and not overworked,
seemed in hurry to get through with
the business. They are not usually q
hurrying people, "manana" (to-morrow)
beino their word on all occasions where
putting off is possibility.
/ The godmother, after much unwind
| ing of the nurses ''reboso" (lOng mantle
worn by the lower class over the head,
and the long end thrown over the left
sin 1s--4s2ducst- the mite CT baby
The priest read the service in Latin,
the small bovs and men in SUPPLIES
coming in with the amens at the proper
time.
oil on its chest, back, forahead ana
cheeks. Then the little thlng mad coid
water poured on its head, to which 1t
loudly protested. Its patience was wea-
ried out with so much turning and rub
bino Init it still had to endure having
tia head dried with Turkish bath towel
rather a rough first experience of the
world, having ones hair rubbed up the
wrong way with coarse towel; but if
the flashing diamonds OF the godparents
and the many new silver pieces lavishly
scattered amidst the crowd were precur-
sors of his future, this worlds goods
we're to be his in abundance.
Upon arriving at the house we were
each presented with pretty card, fold
ed like a little book, upon one page Of
which a gold dollar was fastened, and
above it the names of this mite of hui
manity. At this stage of his existence
thew seemed more than he could well
carry.
But Jose German Fernando Rafael
was all unconscious.
The godparents are not such in name
alone in that country. Many an orphan
finds a home and parents love with its
godparents.
champagne is the usual winding up of
such an affair.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-15
An Interesting Account.
stone In the Bladder Expelled by Using
DIR. AcnGedy's "FAVORITE REMEDY"

Mr.. S. W. Hicks, of Pleasant Valley,
Dutchess Co., N. Y, the son of Mr. E. S.
Hicks, whose name may have appeared in
THIS Journal in connection with an article
similar to this, was, like his father, afflicted
with Stone in the Bladder, only that his case
was more serious than his fathers. On the
appearance Of the disease the father advised
Ghe son to write to DR.. David Kennedy Of
hondcut, N Y, who, he said, would tell him
what to do. DR.. Kennedy replied, suggC St
ing the use of "Kennedy's Favorite Rene
dy," which had worked so successfully in the
fathers case. Mr.. Hicks, who had been
assured by the local physicians that they
couId do nothing more for him tried Favor
lite remedy" at venture. After two weeks
use OF it he passed a stone % of an inch long
and OF the thickness of a pipe stem. Since
then he has had no symptoms of the return
of the trouble. Here is a sick man healed,
What better results could have been ex-
pected? What greater benefit could medical
science confer! The end was gained; that is
surely enough. DIR. Kennedy assures the
public, by reputation which he cannot af-
ford to forfeit or imperil, that the ''Favorite
Remedy" does invigorate the Blood, cures
Liver, Kidney and Bladder complaints, as
well as all those diseases and weaknesses pc
culiar to females CDR Kennedy's Favorite
Remedy" for sale bv all druggists
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-15
A Nice Little Brick.
TT is OF SILVER AND WEIGHS OVER TWO
TONS.

Much interest was excite at the New
Orleans Exposition by the unloading of
the silver brick from Mexico. A gang
OF men equipped with puileys and ropes
dragged the monster across the main
building between files of sdmiring visit
ors. The brick proper is feet long, 81
feet wide and inches thick. lis upper
surface is almost entirely covered with
model three feet i'll height, tapering to
a point III imitation of two hills i'll the
State Of Chihuahua where the metal was
mined. The sides of the brick bear each
The inscription, "Mexico q ado Chihua-
hua Para la Exposition Nueva Orleans,
1884, " together with medallion head
inscribed "Hidalgo." The whole is of
solid silver and is valued at 5000, 600. 1t
will be placed in the iron Mexican Build
ing on massive pedestal of amethyst
and onyx, a symbol of the barbaric
wealth of the country from which it
comes. 1t proved an interesting prob
lem TO the railroad people nearly all day,
obstlnatelY refusing to be unloaded eX-
cept ut great peril to the men ard Con-
siderable wear and tear to the machinery
employed. No less than three trucks
gave way under its ponderous weight of
400 pounds.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-15
Catching an Octopus.

The Portland OregOaidr says: On
Monday an octopus was caught in Com
mencement Bay in about three hundred
feet of water by fish hooks. When
brought to the surface it was almost
unmanageable, and it was only by a
severe struggle that it was hauled into a
boat and brought ashore. Once it seizad
upon the bottom of the boat and no eff
fort could loosen it, until it did go of its
own accord, after the vessel was set in
motion. One of its fee ers came in con-
tact with one of the boys arms, and it
was Only induced to let go by beating
the feeler to jelly with a club. It is
plenty large enough to master a man
and would be a dangerous customer to
meet in the water. 1t was a monster
specimen, having arms or feelers four
feet long. The arms are eight in num-
Der and are each supplied with 100 pairs
of suckers, by which they seiza and hold
their prey. Its body is purse-shaped,
without fins, and is foot long and near
ly the same in width.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-15
Lost Its Place.

Chatting with General w. T. Sher-
man the other day, says a newspaper
correspondent, he said few pretty hard
things of newspaper men, though he adj
mitted that there were exceptions. To
illustrate how his kindness had been
abused at times, he said : "When the
dispatch came to me about the Custer
massacre l called the newspaper boys all
IN together. Now says, here is the
dispatch. 1 put You all on your honor
to copy and return it to me. Then I
gave it out two pages TO this one, two
pages to that one, so they could all work
at once. / turned my back, and whisk
Jack Robinson-the dispatch was
gone. 1t never turned up, either, and
1t is in consequence absent from the
place it ought TO occupy in the official
records.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-15
WIND AGAINST STEAM.
Rum .s the Ice Yachts Find IL on the
Hudson.

F. Vinton Blake contributes capital
story of ice-yachting on the Hudson to
the January st. Nicholas, from which
we print the following vivid account OF
a trial of speed between an ice-yacht
and the fast express:
s'There is a roar and rush behind
them. What next?
"The down train The boys LOOK
over their shoulders as the big black
monster shoots past. The whistle blows
sharply; there are handkerchiefs waving
from the windows. The ice-yacht Is
Just now holding nearly across the
river. H.
"sA race! a race, boys ! cries the
skipper, as he gives quick turn OF his
hand. and with q sheer and a spring
they are off after the train.
siNow the race-the race, boys
Steam against wind ! How they fly
Everything is blurred and melted to-
gather and indistinct. The ice is all
6Iuish white haze, with that diamond
sparkle from the runners blazing up.
"The windows of the train are filled
with heads; they seem to shout at the
partv on the ice-yacht, who hear only
the rush and roar of the wind and the
runners. The wind increases; the boat
rears higher; the windward runner cuts
fiercely through the air, and the crushed
ice flies in a shower. Almost up with
the train, now; and creeping on
evil the wind hold? But never
fear: this is no flaw, but a steady gale.
1t seems as if the black train were slow
ing up; vet not is the yacht which is
flying faster, literally on the wings of
the wind. And nova crack in the ice
ahead
1.-THE skipper raises himself and scans
the les with an eagle eye. An old hand
at ice-vachting is he.
"'We can do it, think, he says.
"Now, brave 'Rondina + And the
train sees the crack, too; the cars seem
alive all their long length with heads
and gestures and warning shouts. Do
they think everybody is asleep there on
that light, flying, feathery wanderer?
"The upper edge of the crack is
higher by full six inches than the lower;
and between swirls the black, treach-
erous water. They are upon it.
"Whiz Splash las the edge,ice
Says and the runner catches the cold
tide. There is wild, tremulous swing
and sway, toss of the windward
runner, and the crack is far astern.
How the train cheers And look, now,
the black, snorting engine falls behind
Wind against steam Give them three
cheers, boys, and swing your caps, and
hold fast while you are about it. The
track is clear ahead; the locomotive
whistles and snorts and shouts in wild
salute at the yachts victory, Faster,
faster. till there is only the ring of the
runners, the roar and rush Ct the wind,
the tremble and leap and swing and
sway of the hayward craft.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-15
Happy Over 1t.

The Director of Paris prison, the
other day, apprised prisoner that he
had inherited fortune of 1000, 900
francs and magnificent estate in
Switzerland. The authorities of the
locality where it is situated forwarded
with the title deeds to the property, a
photograph Of the mansion. the Joy of
the prisoner at the intelligence conveyed
was so great that he registered vow in
the presence OF the Governor of the jail
10 live an honest life henceforward.
Before, however, he can enjoy the wind
fall he has three years of prison regime
TO undergo.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-15
Who Killed TecumSeh +?
f'Shout and sing, Iumpsy, tumpsy,
Col johnson killed Iecnmsnh -

Col. Johnson killed Iecumseh."
Benz. B. Griswold in a letter to the
Century Ndgazine says:-Havipg OBJ
served III one number OF your admirable
monthly, not very long ago, aquery and
reply in reference to the killing of
Tecumseh. I have ever since intended to
add a remark of my own. The purport
Of the reply, to the best of my recolec.
ton, was that it ha j generally been sup
posed that Colonel =. chard NJ. johnson,
Vice President during Mr.. Van Buren's
Presidential term, had slain Tecumseh,
in personal encounter, during the bat
tie OF the Thames; but that some degree
Of doubt still rested on the fact. This
reply recalled TO my mind the circum-
stance that about 1912 I happened to
be present where Colonel johnson was
giving a graphic account of the whole
battle, and in particular of his hand-to-
hand conflict with a powerful Indian,
whom be finally killed. The colonel
then remarked that for some time a
doubt had existed whether the Indian
killed was really the formidable chief or
not; but he added, in terms entirely I'm.
qualified, that recently developed cir
cumstances had removed all uncertainty
IS to this fact. He gave no information
showing what circumstances had deter
mined his question, but simply spoke
with positiveness on the subject.