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Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1889-08-17
NEW THIS WEEK.
Notice to Creditors.
Estate Of E. McColl, Deceased

Notice is hereby given by the undersigned
Executor and Executrix of the estate of E. Nc
COLL deceased, to the creditors of, and all per
sons having claims against, the said deceased
to exf ibit them, with the ne essary vodehers
within three months after the first publication
of this notice, to the said Executor and Execu
trix, at their residence at Wellington, Lyon
county, Nevada
FRANK RIVERS, Executor. and
CATHERINE M. RIVERS, Exc
cu.rix of the estate of E. Nc
Coll, deceased
J. r. JUDGE. Attorney for Estate.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1889-08-17
SUMMONS.
IN THE JUSTICE COURT, SILVER
Lefty Township, state OF Nevada, In and for

IN THE JUSTICE COURT, SILVER
Lefty Township. state OF Nevada, In and for
the County of Lyon
G. M. STEWART. Plaintiff.
vs.
T. p. HAMILTON, Defendant.
The State of Nevada sends greeting TO Z. p
Hamilton, defendant. You are hereby sum
moned to appear before me, at my oifi,e In
Silver City .ownshp In the county OF Lyon,
state of Nevada. on the 3lst day Of August. A.
ID. 1889. at o lock P. M in the action brought
AGAINST yon BY said plaintiff, 10 answer the com
plant of the alb I'VE named plaintiff herein on
fie Said &C ion Is brought to re over Of you
defendant, the sum o. one hundred and six
teen dollar and seventy Ave ents t$llh 7i) for
wines. liquors and cigars. sold and delivered
to you, defen, ant, within the four years last
past, by +. Cbevalier IL Co, at your special in
stance and Request, and which laid lain was
for a valuable consideration, sold and assigned
to defendant herein. all of which will more
fully appear by reference to the complaint on
file herein, or judgement will be taken against
you for said amount In u. 4. gold coin, togeth-
er with costs Of suit and damages II you tail
TO appear and answer. 10 the Sheriff. or any
Con.table ~ County, greeting: Make legal
service and d 10 return hereof
Given under my hand this eighth
day OF May. A. d 1889.
J. d. BLACKBURN,
Justice OF the Peace
Morning journal and courier., 1889-04-04
Popular Errors About Snakes.
 TTra,,, fha 4oIroe No;IJ


 King solomon acknowledged that there were "three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four things which I know not, and one of these was ''the way of @ serpent upon rock" and for years the mode of pro- gression of snake remained to men of soi- ence as much mystery as it was to Solo, mon. It is thought that the absence of limbs is great disadvantage to snakes, but the fact is their ribs take the place of limbs, so that instead of having two pairs they sometimes have over two hundred. Aristo- tie thought they had as many ribs as there are days in the month, but in fact the num- Der varies, and reaches four hundred in py- thons. The movements of the snakes ribs have been hkened to those of caterpillar's legs. Each vertebra supports pair of ribs, which act like pair of legs, having the ex- tremities connected together by broad plate; the hind part of this plate is free, and when the ribs are moved forward this end is raised so that it takes hold of any roughness or irregularity of the ground. When rapid motion is required some portion of the body in front gains a purchase by means of the ventral shields on some projection in the ground, the ribs are drawn together on alter nate sides, throwing the body into alternate curves, some portion of the hinder part of the body gains purchase and the fore part is strengthened out. It is an error to think that they move forward in a series of verti- cal coils, or that they move with rapidity. I once followed a large snake and found smart walk sufficient to keep up with it.
 Nor do snakes exercise any fascination over their victims. Pepys alleges that they eject ed poison on larks in full flight so that they feli into their mouths; but in fact chickens, rats, guinea-pigs. rabbits, hens, show no fear of snakes when given to the latter in cage. A hen has been known to roost on python, and another to peck at snakes tongue in
 motion, evidently taking 1t for an insect or | worm, When it has killed it's prey either by constriction or poison the snake is supposed to salivate or lubricate the meal by means oi its tongue. This is not the case, as the
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NO. 30

tongue is too small to lubricate the tiniest
 bird. The snake moves its head about the
 prey, feeling with it's tongue for the right
 part to begin upon, and when that is in it's mouth, but not till then, the salivary elands
 begin to aid deglutition. The functions of a snakes tongue have also been the subjects of
 popular error. Job speaks of the viper's
 tongue staying one, and Shakespeare is full of similar remarks. The tongue is really
 very delicate organ of touch, for the eyes are so placed that the snake cannot see in front or below, and by means of it's tongue it lite rally feels it's way. The stories of two- headed snakes owe their origin to the exis- tence of species, Bungarus fasciatus, which possesses an abrupt rounded tail that is sometimes mistaken for second head. The popular notion that every snake is poisonous is of course absurd, and the proportion of
 poisonous to harmless snakes is much less
 than is generally supposed. In India only
 one genus in ten is poisonous, and the same
 proportion is probably accurate as to indi-
 vidusls also. In all southern India there are
 only twelve kinds of poisonous snakes, the
 largest being the hamadryad, which reaches fifteen feet in length. A bite from one of these would probably produce death in three minutes; it has the reputation of being fierce and ready to attack on the slightest molestation. The cobra is timid; the charm CTS who play 8 pipe in front of it do not att tract it by the music, for it is nearly deaf, but by the peculiar movement from side to side which Is always followed by the snakes
Morning journal and courier., 1889-04-04
Postal CurIosieles.


 The curiosities of the postal service are multiform. Extraordinary addresses, extra ordinary misspelling of words, extraordinary articles sent by post, extraordinary com plaints and requests, extraordinary coinci- dences and mistakes, are furnished in abun- l dance in MT. Hyde's book [''The Royal Mail" Among queer addresses may be noted that of a letter to "Mr. Owl O'Neil, :" which was intended for Mir. Rowland Hill, and was eventually delivered to him. An other letter addressed by American gen. tleman to his sister, Upper Norwood or elsewhere" was delivered to the addressee on the top of stage-coach in Wales. The sender of the letter wrote to express his ad- l miration of the means taken to deliver it, and added f'that other country could show the parallel, or would take the trouble I at any cost" Of the extraordinary things sent by post, Mr. Hyde gives long alpha betical list, beginning with beetles and in- cluding gun cotton and revolvers; but he does not surpass in this respect the articles quoted in recent report of the Postmaster General, where live mice and dead kittens are mentioned as among the articles sent by post. In the drys of franking, ambassadors | had considerable franking privileges, of which they did not fail to avail themselves; l among the articles franked in those good old | times were such items as two laundry maids: 1 a COW and eleven couples of hounds.
 1 Many curious complaints are poured into | the sympathetic ear of the Postmaster Gene ! ral. One was from gentleman who protest ed that he could not sleep at night in conse- quence of the electricity "thrown off" by the telegraph wires; he requests that they may be carried hundred yards further from his house, where they would "electrify nothing but fields" A farmer writes re- | questing a country postmaster to find him a 1 customer for thirty stone pig ''now quite
 ready for killing" A correspondent from 1 Tennessee also wishes to transact business through the English postal officials; he be- | gins: "I want you to do me kines;" he l wishes for an instrument 'maid to find met l tel-gold or silver-that are in the ground. | If it will attrack it. A instrument for that perpos." And, in order not to place himself
 under too great an obligation, he concludes,
 "I seud you stamp" Another American
 correspondent is vastly annoyed because an
 English postmaster had not complied with
 his request to be supplied with tobacco leaf.
 "Tbe commoEest person." he writes re-
 proachfully, "in America (my country) can
 speak to General Grant, and there is noth-
 ing said wrong about it." Another Ameri
 can correspondent Ca lady) writes that some
 people might call "a nice chatty letter." full
 of autobiographieal detail, to the Postmastel
 General of England; after two or three pages
 she is good enough to say. "Well, as I hav' 1 said much as you will care to read, vii l stop" but she adds expression of hel
 willingness to correspond on topics of gene ral interest
Morning journal and courier., 1889-04-04
Thursday, April 4. 1ssO.
A CMEERING DECISION.

The decision of the Chancellor of Alabama in the case of the Memphis and Charleston railroad will be encouraging to many stock holders in railroads who greatly need encour- agemsnt just now. In that case the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad, having acquired controlling interest in the stock of the Memphis and Charleston rail road, is charged with operating that road in the interest of the owners of the majority of the stock, so that the minority of the stock holders gre deprived of the advantages of its situation in obtaining traffic with all roads with which it connects.
 The court says that this is all wrong, and by it's decision practically disfrsnchises the stock held by the controlling railroad as Q voting power in the management, and places the control of the Memphis and Charleston railroad in the hands of it's individual stock holders, who hold it for the purpose of in- vestment. The following explains the grounds of the decision: If corporation can purchase any portion of the capital stock of another corporation it can purchase the whole, and invest all it's funds in that way and thus be enabled to engage exclusively in business foreign to the purposes for which it was cre- ated. A corporation may, without express authority, acquire shares in another corpora tion in payment of or as security for claim which is in danger of being lost through the insolvency of the debtor corporation, and having acquired the stock it may collect the dividends, but it is not authorized to vote upon the stock. The directors of corpora tion have no right under any circumstances to purchase shares in the company with the companys money for the purpose of control- ling the election of officers.
 Many stockholders have been deprived of their rights by such performances as that which has thus been pronounced illegal. A few more such decisions will make them feel safer. As things have been going the small stockholders who have invested their money in good faith have been treated with con- tempt when railroad could make anything i,vi
Morning journal and courier., 1889-04-04
The mahdiss Coinage. From the London Daily Telegraph, Suakim Corr

spondence.
 The Mahdi by the capture of Khartum not
 only acquired an arsenal, but what is equally
 important, nowadays, to whoever aspires to
 rulership, mint. True, the later was little
 more than type foundry, at which Gordon
 cast the pewter medals he gave to his men who distinguished themselves-promising them, at the same time, to replace these, whenever it was in his power, by silver ones. The self same influences that have from time | immemorial led other and equally pretensious \ potentates to issue their own currency, have | induced the Khalifa to set about coining gold | and silver. Some of these pieces have found their way to the coast, and come into the hands of local traders through the ordinary | operations of commerce. have managed to secure two of the new Mahdi dollars, and ! have seen their sovereign or pound. The coins have all apparently been cast and sub- 1 sequently "milled" with file. Still, the ! work is by no means badly done, and, what | is rarely the case with new and needy rulers, the coinage is not debared, for the metal in
 both issues is of sterling quality. The Nah | di has taken as the models for his money the Turkish or Egyptian pounds and dollars, CT ' med djidiehs. Around the border on both sides
 there are little wreaths of geometrical pattern, | and on the body of the coin on either side ! Arabic writing. On the oldest of the two dollars before me there are the words, ''Du- I raba fl Higra" (coined at the Shrine), mean ! ing, of course, the Mahdi's tomb at Omdur- | rhman. On the reverse of the dollar is writ | ten "Biamr ell Mahdi" (by order of the Nah di. and the date, 1902 Higca (Hegira). The
 newer piece has the words fairly stamped on
 8 space about the size of shilling, not cast | with the coin as in the first. These are ''Du- | raba fl Omdurrhman" (coined at Omdurrh-
 manl, and the date, 1904. On the reverse is
 "Makbool" Qegal tender) and "Hamsa Senna" (ffth year of the reign). What pages of his
 tory, growth. order, emerging from chaos,
 are here suggested! But the lovers of numis- 1 matics will in due course deal with Sudanese
 coins and medals, from Gordon's pewter to- kens, or own silver, and the Egyptian bronze 1 specimens, to the Mahdi's dollars.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-04-04

A queer lawsuit over pew in church has recently been tried in England before the Master of the Rolls and Lords Justices Bowen and Fry. MT. Halliday claimed that, ss his family had possessed the pew in question, in Wsrminster church, for more than two hundred years, the wsrdsns had no right to take it down, and he showed re- ceipt, dated in 1887, for the purchase money of the pew. The wardens contended that the pew could not have been granted ss pri- vate property, since it was in one of the aisles, part of the church that would not, in those days, have been used until the nave was full. This argument was ovsrruled, however, by the Master of the Rolls, who pointed out that pew in the aisle was 6 more desirable one to sleep ir than one in the central portion of the church, and that, in fact. for that reason the squires' pews were generally in the aisles. After long ar- guments pro and con the judges decided in favor of Ms. Halliday's absolute ownership ot the pew, and restrained the wardens from distuabing it. The case will probably be appeared to the House of Lords for final ad- indication
Morning journal and courier., 1889-04-04
THE PAPER AGE.
A Time is Coming When Paper Will
 Run the Earth.

| A
 Run the Earth.
 The world has seen it's iron age, it's stone age, it's golden age and it's brazon age, says the Paper World. This is the age of paper We are making so many things of paper that it will soon be true that without paper there is nothing made that is made. We live in paper houses, wear paper clothing, and sit on paper cushions in paper cars, rolling on pa- per wheels. We do paper business over pa per counters, buying paper goods, paying for them with paper money or charging them up in paper books, and dealing in paper stocks on paper margins. We row races in paper boats for paper prizes. We go to paper the- atres where paper actors play to paper audi ences. We elect paper men with paper votes on a paper issue to represent paper con- stitueney in paper Congress and make paper laws. As the age developes, the con- ing man will become more deeply enmeshed in the paper net. He will awake in the morn- ing and creep from under the paper clothing on his paper bed, and put on his paper dress ing gown and paper slippers. He will walk over paper carpets down paper stairs, and seating himself in paper chair, will read the paper news in the morning paper. A paper bell will call him to his breakfast, cook ed in a paper oven, served on paper dishes, laid on a paper cloth on paper table. He will wipe his lips on paper napkin, and having put on his paper shoes, paper hat and peper coat and taking his paper cane, he will walk on paper pavement or ride in 8 paper carriage to his paper office. He will go to Europe on paper steamships and navigate the air in paper balloons.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-04-04
GLOVE DEPARTMENT.

Kid Gloves (our own impor- tations) in all the new shades and latest embroideries. We of fer a Special drive in 4 B, Spring shades, new embroidery, at 5ec per pair. These goods are worth and ought to be sold at 75c, but we have decided to sell them 6c a pair under the market just for an April leader.
 Most of our staple and popu- lar Gloves are marked at lower prices than last Season.
 Evening and Graduation Gloves in all lengths; best quail ity at lowest prices.
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BLACK GOODS.

Extraordinary bargain in Black Silk Warp Henriettas at 8ec per yard. These goods will count as fine as most Henriettas at $I.25.
 Examine our all wool Black Tricots at 25c per yard. All wool Serges at 38c. All wool CaShmeres at soc.
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the monogram on the corner was "good joss," satisfied him completely. For our en- tertainment we left a few dollars in the treasury, the amount, attested by our auto- graphs, being solemnly and elsborately en- tered in the great ledger of the monastery, and when at noon we mounted our ponies, 6 hundred of the white-robed, much halted priests, led by the venerable Abbot himself, came little way down the hill with us to give rs good bye
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read clover, hop vine, and yellow water iris have been turned to the same use. In Demerara good paper has been made from the plantain. In France a patent has been granted for making paper out of leaves, which have been cut, pressed into cakes, and reduced to pulp by being steeped in lime water.
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VOL. LVII.
9r15 6nnds.
Howe & StGtSOl
WHITE GOODS.

We have just received an other lot of the Celebrated "Po5 nemah Mills" remnants, latest patterns in Lace, Cheeks, Stripes, Corded Nainsooks, Figured P. K.' s, handsome Plaids, etc., etc., at 12Hc yard for choice. Many of these styles retail at 25c.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-04-04
The Best Spring Medicine.

"In the spring of 1887 was all run down. I
 would get up in the morning with so tired a feeling, and was so weak that Icould hardly get around. Iboughta bottle of Paine's Celery Con- pound, and before had taken it a week felt very much better. can cheefully recommend 1t to all who need building up and strengthen ing medicine" Mrs. B. A. Dow, Burlington, Vt.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-04-04
CLOAKS.

Correct styles, perfect shapes and lowest prices. Our Jackets at $3.75, 3.98, 498, 500, $50, $6, 7.5o, 1000, IT, 50 and 15.oo each, are selling rapidly.
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RtscRIla11gpms-
Report of the Hoard of Compen- sation on the Layout of tho ExsensfOn of Stanley Street.

TTNO the Honorable Court Of Common Council Of
 l the city of New Haven:
 The Board of Compensation to whom was re- day of December, A D. 1Ss7 directing the assess ment and determination by this board of all dam ages benefits accruing to an parties interested from It's present westerly terminus to the proposed Boulevard, the same WAS adopted by said court, hereby respectfully report that they have attended to the duty assigned to them.
 That they caused reasonable notice to be given to all persons interested in the said public improve ment. in all r spects pursuant to the provisions
 and be heard in reference thereto; and they fully
 heard at the time and place specified In said notice
 all persons who appeared before them.
 the benefits and damages to all the parties inter
 ested in the said public improvement are equal.
 All T Sf which M is respectfully snhmistgSS; So.ra
 MICHAEL FITZPATRICK, of SYLVANUS BUTLER, Compensation In Court of Common Council-Read, report ac cepted.
 Attest EDWARD DowNEs, City Clerk The following is a description of the above ex- tension:
 The northerly line is direct extension of the present northerly line of Stanley street from it's present western terminus to the proposed easterly line of the Boulevard
 present southerly line Of Stanley street from its present westerly terminus to the proposed eastery line Of the Boulevard. The said northerly and southerly lines are paraI l Tel and sixty feet perpendcularly distant from each other.
 l The amount of land taken for the said extension
 fully shown upon map of ,he ssms on Ille .s as lSS7 and numbered No. 557, and said map Is made part Of this layout. Attest: EDWARD DowNEs, ! k.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-04-04
HOSIERY.

Ladies' Black Spun Silk Hose, high spIiced heels, our own inn portation, only o8c per pair; reg ular $I.25 quality.
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sprine medicine means more nowadays than it did ten years ago. The winterof 1sss-s9 has!eft the nerves azl jagged out. The nerves must be strengthened, the blood purified, liver and bowels regulated. Paine's Celery Compound the Spring nsedictsse of fto-1ay-does all this. as nothing else can. Prescribed by Physicians, Recommended by Druggists, Endorsed by Ministers, G,,o,nrseed bu the Maaufacturcrs to be
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Paine'S Celery Compound

is a unique tonic and appetizer. Pleasant to the taste, quick in it's act1on, and without any injurious effect, it gives that rugged health which makes everything taste good. It cures dyspepsia and kindred disorders. Physicians prescribe it. s1.oo. Six for $500. Druggists
 WELLS, RICHARDSON & Co.,, Burlington, Vt
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EDITORIAL NOTES.

The Nebraska Supreme court has decided that barber must not refuse to shave a negro if the latter demands it. Probably few will demand it.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-04-04
Miscellaneous.
It M akes
 You Hungry

ny Compound and it
 has had a Salutary
 effect. It1nvigorat- ed the system andI feel like a new man. It improves the appetite and facilitates diges- >t1on." J. T. CoPE- LAND, PriunuS, s, c.
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LAcTATED FOOD as rfsss6as goas g5a5oTs
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nrsnoua nvro Color onuthing a1y color VfAMUHV UIES Neper FdIEe9 Al1Udys sure!