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Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1885-08-06

A SITUATION IS WANTED BY A MAR.
IA ried woman. as housekeeper or nurse.
For particulars. apply next door south OF the
harness shop on North Main street. my26.tf
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1885-08-06

rVNHE COMMITTEE OF CITIZENS AP-
poinled July "A to take measures for the
proper observance of the ~obsequies OF the late
General u. s Grant ON Saturday, the 9Th inst,
in Eureka, announce the following programme
of exercises for the day
President OF the Dayton. NJ. d. Foley.
Chaplsin-Rev. A. G. Dutton.
Orators Hon, Thomas Wren. Hon. Geo. W.
Cassidy, Rev. Father kiley, Hen. d. 4.
Hon. R. M. Beatty.
Officer of the Dsy-Gen. 81. Fl. Conklin.
The procession will form on the west side
Of Main street, the right resting at the Court
house, in the following order
General Il. Il. Oonklin and STAFF.
Centennial Guard Band.
Centennial Guard.
Union Guard.
Oatatslquo.
Pail Bearers from Upton Post
u. A. r.:
J s Burlingame, Z Rose,
Mat schatzlien, Bidweii,
G. III Thoma, 4 Burns.
s Beebee, w Ii Tyler.
Upton Post, G.. A. r..
Ex-Soldiers and Sailors of the U. 8 A. and N.
Eureka Hook and Ladder Company.
Knickerbocker Hose Company.
Rescue Hose Company
Hose Company.
Mob Hill Hose Company.
Secret Societies.
Eureka County Ofncers.
Citizens on Foot.
Citizens IN Carriages.
The procession will move up Main street,
couutermarch through town, and will be
halted ut the Opera House and there dismissed.
The Exercises
At the Opera House will be In the following
order:
Dirge-Centennisl Guard Band.
Opening Address by the President OF the
Day.
Prayer by the Chaplain.
Music by the Choir.
Addresses:
HON. THOS. WREN.
HON. GEO. W. CASSIDY.
Music by the Choir.
Addresses:
REV. FATHER KILEY,
HON. H. X. MITCHELL,
HON. R. NJ. BEATTY.
Music by the Choir.
Benediction by the Chaplain.
Music by the Band.
The church and fire bells will be tolled, and
minute guns will be fred while the procession
is in motion.
All companies and associations are requested
to hold themselves in readiness to move at 10
O'Clock, that the procession may not be delayed.
H. II. Conklin. officer Of the Day.
Eureka. Nevada, Aug. 6, 1885. au6-td.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1885-08-06
Warrington Intelligence.

WASHINGTON, Aug. - Secretary Endi-
colt to-day issued an order directing the
Chiefs of the Bureaus of the War Depart
ment who are army officers to attend the
funeral of Gen. Grant.
General Sheridan and staff left Washing
ton for New York this evening.
John G.. Thompson, of Ohio, has been
annointed az q Special Agent for the Gen
eral Land Office to investigate fraudulent
land entries.
President Cleveland to-day informed the
delegation representing the cattlemen that
he would not modify his recent order for
the removal of cattle from the leased lands
in the Cheyenne and Arapahoe reservation
within 40 days from his proclamation.
Mrs. Grant still at MT. McGregor.
MT. MoGREGoR, Aug. 5.-Mrs. Grant
still remains here, and does not expect to
90 TO New York with her friends. Her
family will join her on Monday next.
An Appointments.
WASHINGTON, August 5.-The President
to-day appointed William Jones, OF Kan
sss. to be Marshal for the District Of
Kansas.
An Excitement.
Harris & Mathews removal sale Is Great
ing quite an excitement among the pur-
chasers of dry goods in this community,
and it will only last until the 10Th OF Au-
gust.
New Torchon lace-st Harris & Mathews.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-23
A Singular Race.

In Sumatra there is very singular
race, called the Kubus, who are too shy
to mix with the other races of the island,
and dwell in the recesses of the forests.
They are looked on as interiors by the
Malays, and thought to be little better
than beasts Such is their shyness that
they will never willingly face stranger.
Their trade with the Malayans is conse-
quently carried on in a strange manner.
The trader announces his arrival by beat
ing a gong, and then retires from the
place of rendezvous. The Kubus ap-
proach, put their forest treasures on the
ground, beat gong, and retreat. The
trader returns and lays his commodities
down in quantities sufficient, as he thinks,
for the purchase of the goods on sale.
Then he retires, and the Kubus reappear
and consider the bargain. And so. after
more Withdrawals and approaches and
gong beatings, the respective parties
come to an understanding, and carry of
independently their bargains. The Ku-
bus in their wild state do not bury their
dead. They live on snakes, -grubs, fruits,
and the flesh of any deer or pigs they
can slay. They are skillful spearmen,
and throw stones with marvellous accur-
acy. They know of no state after death.
In some physical respects they assimilate
closely to the anthropoid apes.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-23
A Chinese Gambling Den.

On the east side of Dupont street, near
Clay, building is being altered for the
purpose of establishing restaurant in it,
and in connection Herewith there is be-
ing fitted up room which will be used
by Chinese gamblers. The room is
twenty-five feet wide by eighteen deep.
The studding has been covered inside
and out with grooved and tongued pitch
pine. The outside of each partition is
covered with sheet iron one-eighth of
an inch thick. and fastened hy means Of
round headed carriage bolts, set about
five inches apart. The only entrance
from the street is through narrow door
set in the western partition, and hid
from view by broad staircase that leads
to the upper floor. The casing OF this
doorway is covered with steel strips a
quarter of an inch thick and several
inches wide, which are as we'll secured
to the PARTITION by iron bolts as possible.
On the floor, in place of the ordinary
threshold, there is thick iron plate
From the interior the door is fastened
by means of swivel bar, which fits into
the sockets. and in addition thereto
there is heavy iron bound piece Of tim
Der six feet long, which, if occasion re-
qulres, may be thrown against the door
as a brace from floor hold. The door
itself is of three-inch pine, covered with
quarter-inch steel plate, strongly riv-
eted. In the rear partition there is a
door that opens into large kitchen con-
nected with the restaurant. The kitchen
is in room the walls of which are of
brick. Two windows light the room,
but each of these las heavy iron gratings
set in them. This place is so strongly
fortified that, under the most favorable
circumstances. officers having wedges.
axes, pinch-bar aud iron mauls could
not effect an entrance into it under an
hours very hard work. The purpose
of the door opening into the kitchen is
that in case raid is made, the players
may carry the evidence which, if found,
would lead to conviction, into the cook
shop, and destroy it by throwing it into
the furnace. San Francisco Call.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-23
The Great Eastern and NOah's Ark

The exact size of Noah,s ark has not
been determined definitely, but, accord
ING to Sir Isaac Newton's calculations,
based on his estimate OF the length of q
cubit in feet and inches, the historical
barge must have been 1852 feet long,
s5. "a wide, and 51.56 deep. The meas
ured tonnage of the ark was 18, 232. The
Great Eastern was $50 feet long, 83 feet
wide, and 53 feet deep, and she measured
%, O93 tons. Although the Great East
ern was not SO well proportioned as the
ark she probably had double the carrying
capacity, if her coal and machinery were
left out of her, because she was made of
iron end the ark was wooden ship
Neu YorE Sua.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-23

II want to speak to all of

of his voice. II want to speak to all of
you"
The fast increasing crowd gathered
near. Then the judge ordered the con-
stable to tell the story.
''Duck Buzzard jugged-hurrah J"
shouted the crowd. ''Let's go for him,
boysT'
Hermann was liberated there and then
without waiting for legal forms. ''I
will fetch your wife; wait at my house
for her." said the judge, kindly.
And here occurs the strange part of
the story. Why or how it was the mar
rator cannot explain, but Hermann abso-
lutely refused to see the woman. He
went to the railroad station and sat in q
dark corner until train came along
Nearly two years passed. About a
month ago he met his wife accidentally
In Chicago. Old acquaintance was re-
newed and the old love reasserted itself.
The marriage license and the marriage
followed in due course. That saved
troublesome explanations. And if Her
mann had any superstitious ideas that the
fates had decreed against his union to the
one woman the world had for him they
are all gone. Chicago Tribune.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-23
RaYNnl the Veil

The sun, as it fingered on the edge of
the MISUNDERSTANDING so slowly that one
might say it regretted to leave the
world in darkness-lighted up his face
until the grandchild asleep on his knee
would hardly have recognized him had
she opened her eyes,
Old and feeble and gray-ready to bid
farewell to earth-he was child again,
and his mind had the thoughts of a
child. The sun had gone down and the
dusk had come on for him ten thousands
of times without question, but this time
he felt afraid and whispered:
ooh! sun, do not leave me just yet.
Wait until am man, and shall care
not whether it is day or night"
And the sun whispered back to him:
81 have seen you pass from childhood
to manhood and back. You cannot
travel the path again"
''But wait little longer. When have
grown to be youth the coming of night
will have no terrors for me-"
| ''Alas! old man." answered the de-
| clining sun. "a grand old tree cannot
become shrub again. 1t may be splin.
tered or uprooted by the hurricane, but
it must die as tree"
''Then remain with mel" pleaded the
old man. ''My limbs are feeble, and
your light will safely guide my foot
steps,"
| "That cannot do, but will send the
moon to cast her rays upon the earth and
| soften the darkness of the night
And when the moon came the old
mans locks were changed from the gold
OF sunset to the silver of evening, and
the burrows of age were melted and soft
ened until they could no longer be seen-
And he whispered to the moon:
! ''Do not leave me tonight, for am
/! old and afraid of the darkness of night. ,
II cannot stay beyond my fixed time, ,
; answered the moon, "but when l go
will send the stars to keep you company
Il had a -children-friends
Bring them back to me from the mys
| terious unknown"
''Alas! but the dead a.e deadr' AnG
! the moon went away and the stars came
and the old man pleaded:
81 am old and lonely. Bear me com
pany during my brief stay on earth"
And one bright star answered for all
| the rest:
| GA hand greater than mans controls
our movements. Look beyond u.s."
And the stars drew aside the mystic
veil, and the old mans eyes looked be
hind it. They lighted up with the fire.
of youth--of hope-of anticipation-o
deep satisfaction. His aged face grew
young-his limbs regained his strength
his blood coursed as in the veins of
man in his prime. The stars held thu
1 veil aside but moment, and yet he had
seen enough.
The child slept on, but the arms
1 around it gave up their strength.
The night-winds toyed with the ole
mans gray locks, but he gave no heed
A hand was laid on his shoulder and {
voice whispered in his ear, but he gave
no sign. The grand old tree had giver
up its life on earth to begin anew behino
| the veil.-Det7oit Free Press.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-23
Historic Buildings in Washington.

The old capitol is thing of the past.
The building has been transformed into
three private residences. An army Off
Ger occupies one and a justice of the
United States supreme court another.
The old capitol was built in four months
and cost 5000 On the Fourth of
July of the year 1915 there was crop
growing on the ground where on Mon
day, December 4. of the same year, Con-
gress met. The British destroyed the
capitol in 1914. They also partially de-
stroyed the white house the same day,
August "a The following Congress met
at Blodgett's hotel, which was located
OF the present site of the postoffice de-
partment building. After the capitol
building had been rebuilt the temporary,
or as it has ever since been known as the
old capitol, was turned into boarding
houses. They were most patronized by
Southern congressman. John G. Cal
houn died in one of them.-New York
Herald.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-23
Where Congress Met.

The first Continental Congress assem-
bled at Philadelphia September 5, 1774: :
the second at Philadelphia, May 10,
1775; the third at Baltimore, December
20, 1776; the fourth at Philadelphia,
March 4, 1777; the fifth at Lancaster,
Penn, September 81, 1777; the sixth at
York, Penn, September 30, 1777; the
seventh at Philadelphia, September 2,
177S; the eighth at Princeton, N. j.,
June 80, 1888; the ninth at Annapolis,
November s6, 1888, and there December
23, 1888. Washington resigned his Office
as commander-in-chief of the army; the
tenth at Trenton, N. j., November 1,
1884 the eleventh in New York, January
II, 1885, when the new government was
or ganized and Washington, the first
President, was inaugurated. The Fed
eral capital remained at New York until
1890, when il was removed to Philadel-
phia, remaining there until 1900, when
it was permanently established at Wash
ington, D. c., Congress first assembling
in that city November II, 1900.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-23
TWICE M ARRIED.
A STRANGE BUT TRUE STORY,


A marriage license was issued in Chi
cago short time ago, connected with
which there is story as strange as any
ever conceived in the brain of profes-
sional story-teller. 1t is a story which
requires not the art of the story teller to
make it interesting; the bare facts are
enough. The parties to the contract were
married over seven years ago, we're never
divorced, and yet procured license to
get married again. To begin at the be-
ginning:
In the spring of 1878 Wilhelm Her.
mann emigrated from his native home in
Nurtemburg, Germany, intending to set.
tie with some relatives in a small town
in the State OF Louisiana When he got
as tar as New Orleans he decided to stop
there some time, and about two months
after his arrival he was married to Amelia
Rettich, the daughter of an old German
resident of that city. Three DAYS after
hls marriage he was enticed by chance
acquaintance into one of the low beer
saloons on the levee at New Orleans, was
orugged, robbed and carried aboard
German trading vessel bound for New
castle, England. 1t was eight months
later before the vessel reached that port.
Immediately on gaining his liberty Her
mann sought the German consul at
Newcastle and narrated the story of his
wrongs. He begged the consul to assist
nm to return to his wife and home at New
orleans without delay; but the consul
refused, saying that, as Hermann had no
naturalization papers or anything in the
way OF legal claim on the United
States, he was still German citizen.
linen the consul sent for the captain of
the vessel and compelled him to deliver
Hermann to the German authorities. On
DIS arrival at Berlin he was pressed into
the army, and bound over to four
Years term of military service. He un-
aer~es' 'he drudgery and severe disci-
PINE to which unwilling recruits are SUBJ
lectsd In the German army for space of
nearly th-se years, when, seeing chance
10 escape frem the country, he deserted.
All this time he had been constantly
.ooklng forward with an all-abiding
iaith, and love, and hope to a reunion
with his bride. He reached New Or
leans exactly four years after his first ar
,i'al In that city. He then learned that
us Vile, thinking he was dead, had
married again and had left the city, no
oue knew whittier. He started out to
search for her. For nearly year he
SsA.1 Sandered over the greater part of the
nSi1 nIa.hern States, following many clews
%n'ch turned out to be false, until al
.' .as. ne recived letter from herself. She
,oau ,oau nim that she had given him up fol
,;se ,Ese until she CHANGED to see his adver.
NSAent New mt, Tor her ON stray page of 6
mes. NV orleans newspaper; that she had
oliieo aaon William Chapman; that hc1
,u" Soao husband had been rather unfor
n,aa 'nate In business, and had changed hi.
f,aIe OF residence several times hoping
set.,s cot ne,ter luck; and that they had nov
We ..leo dawn in a small frontier town il
cbaa cbuseern Kansas. She proposed to leav,
'p"an and go with him, her Owl
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-23

reached again. The congregation num-
bered 10, 900 more than before. Heav-
ems! what swell of sound The very
air seemed to quiver with the concussion
the stockade wall to tremble. The
guards .on mount stumbled with Won
derment. Wirtz, who had reached the
great gate, stood stock still as if para
lyzed. The soldiers forming the square
were all now facing the prison.
''The storm lulled, the speaker sought
certed Wirtz was moving nervously
about, but essaying nothing. They
heard the breeze of song sweeping the
lines of the third stanza, but knew it
only foreboded the return of the tempest
And now it comes:
The star-spangled banner
''There are twenty thousand throats
swelling the call of the pennant under
which they had fought, and five thousand
more joined in the invocation
20 long may it wave,
Ger the land of the free and the home of the
"The echo of the last word has but
struck the branches of the pines, when
they begin to repeat Higher, wider,
deeper, stronger, louder. the swell! 1t
peals-it roars-it booms-it thunders
1t is an artillery of song! The speaker
outside stands transfxcd. He has heard
the anthem before, but never as now.
Perhaps it is reminding him of the high
position he but lately held under the
flag it defines The listeners appear
almost panick ed. , A guardsman's gun
drops from his hands without his mis-
sing it.
s'Again they repeat, and now the scene
Crews wild. Thirty thousand voices arc
changing the chorus-thirty thousan d
bosoms swelling with thought of coun.
try and flag and loved ones from whom
they are parted. Men with but one leg
Chamber UP and, supported by their
| stronger comrades, wave their caps a'ofl
and join the chorus:
The star-spangled banner, o long may il
Ger the land of the free and the home of the
| brave.
"Once more they repeat, and now all
the prison is in the sky-rending peal
the very walls, the gound. Poor, fever
wasted frames, within an hour of disso
luton from their spirits, half uprise ano
propping upon one hand raise the with
cred fingers Of the other aloft while they
unite their cracked voices in the refrair
! they will hear never more:
The s:ar-spangled banner, long may ii
Ger the land Of the free and the home of the
/ brave"
-"kob Roy," In Indianapolis Journal
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-23
NUMBER IS.
ELIZABETH ZANE.
This dauntless pioneer maiden's name

This dauntless pioneer maiden's name
Is inscribed in gold on the scroll of Fame;
She was the lassie who knew no fear
When the tomahawk cleaned on the far
frontier.
If deeds of daring should win renown,
Let us honor this damsel of Wheeling town,
Who braved the savage with deep disdain,
Bright-eyed, buxom, Elizabeth Zane
II was more than hundred years ago,
They We're close beset by the dusky foe;
They had spent of powder their scanty store,
And who the gauntlet should run for more.
She sprang to the portal and shouted, 81;
It's better girl than man should die!
My loss would be but the garrison's gain.
Unbar the gate!' said Elizabeth Zane.
The powder was sixty yards away,
Around her the foemen in ambush lay:
AS she darted from shelter they gazed with
awe,
Then wildly shouted, ga squaw.'; "a squaw"
She neither swerved to the left or right,
Swift as an ante,ope's was her flight.
.sQuick, Open the door!' she cried, amain,
'Fo: a hope forlorn. :s is Elizabeth Zane."
NO Time naQ Sfle TO Vaver or WalC,
Back she must go ere it be too late;
She snatchel from the table its cloth in haste
And knotted it deftly about her waist,
Then filled it with powder-never, ween.
Had powder so lovely a magazine;
Then, scorning the bullets, a deadly rain,
Like startled fawn, fled Elizabeth Zane.
She gained the fort with her precious freight,
Strong hands fastened the oaken gate;
Brave mems eyes were suffused with tears
That had there been strangers for many years.
From flint-lock rifles again there sped
'Gainst the skulking redskins q storm OF lead
And the warwhoop sounded that day in vain,
Thanks to the deed of Elizabeth Zane.
Tall not to me of Paul Revere, ...
man, OH horseback, with naught to fear;
Nor of old john Burns, with his bell-crowned
hat
He'd an army to back him, SO what of that
Here S to the heroine, plumb and brown.
Who run the gauntlet in Wheeling town.
Hers is a record without stain,
Beautiful, buxom, Elizabeth Zane
john S. Adams, IN st Nicholas
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-23
VOLUME /.
THE LIBERTY BELL
I.-PHILADELPHIA, 1Uo'

| ssouarely prim and stoutly bliI.
Free from glitter and from gilt
Plain-from Intel up to rooi -'iee anu " ooi-
fry bare and brown
Stands the hall that hot July
While the folks throng anxious by
Cbere the Continental Congress meets with
in the Quaker town.
Hork, a STIR a sudden shout,
And a boy comes rushing out,
s,gualins to where his grandsire in the bel
Try. waiting, stands
Ring lie cries: "the deed is donel
Ring they've signed, and freedoms
won."
And the ringer grasps the bell-rope with his
strong and sturdy hands;
While the bell with joyous note
Changing from its hrazen throat,
Rings the tidings, l-exultant-peals the
news to shore and sea:
rMan is mau-a slave no longer;
Truth and Right than Might are stronger.
Praise to Col! We're free; we're free!'
H-NEw ORLEANS, 1885.
Triumph of the builders art,
Tower and turret spring and start
As if reared by mighty genii for some PRINCE
of Eastern land;
Where the Southern river flows,
And eternal summer glows-
Dedicate to Iabor's grandeur, fair and vast
the arches stand.
And. enshrined in royal guise,
Flower -bedecked meath sunny skies;
Old and time Stained, cracked and voiceless,
but where allmay see it well;
Circled by the wealth and power
Of the great worlds triumph hour
Sacred to the cause of freedom, on its dais
rests the Bell.
And the children thronging near,
Yet again the story hear
OF the Bell that rang the message, pealinp
out to land and sea:
Man is mana slave no longer;
Truth and Right than Might are stronger
Praise to God! We're free; we're freey"
Prize the glorious relic then,
With its hundred years and ten
BY the Past priceless heirloom to the Flu
ture handed down.
Still its stirring story tell,
Till the children know it we'll
From the joyous Southern city to the North
ern Quaker town.
Time that heals all wounds and scars,
lime that ends all strifes and wars
Time that turns all pains to pleasure, and
can make the cannon dumb,
Still shall join in firmer grasp,
Still shall knit in friendlier clasp
North and South land in the glory of the
ages yet to come.
And, though voiceless, still the Bell
Shall its glorious message tell,
Pealing loud DER all the Nation, Lake to
Gulf, and Sea to Sea:
"Man is mana slave no longer;
Truth and Right than Night are stronger
Praise to God! We're free; we're free!"
e S. Brooks, IN ST. Nicholas
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-23
The Bear and the Wolf.

The Bear and the Wolf had been
Warm Friends for many years when the
Wolf one day asked for Loan to help
him out of Tight Squeeze. To his ut
ter Astonishment the Favor was Prompt
ly Refused.
.Haven't we been Friends?" asked the
Wolf
''Truly, we have"
''And don't you wish to be in the Fu-
ture?''
''It is Tor that reason," answered the
Bear, 'that I refuse the Loan. If you
have no Trouble in repaying me you
will Depend upon me in all Future
Emergencies. If you Fail to repay you
will become my Enemy for Life"
Moral-Go to your Friends for sym
pathy-to your Pawnbroker for loans
Detroit Free Press