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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1891-05-19

AU on one side
the offer that's made by the pro-
prietors of DR.. Sage's Catarrh
Remedy. It's $500 reward for
an incurable case of Catarrh, no
matter how bad, or of bow long
standing. They mean what they
say they're responsible, and the
offer has been made for years.
It's all on your side-you lose
your catarrh, or you're paid $500
for keeping it. But it's safe for
them, too-they know you'll be
cured.
DIR. Sage's Remedy produces
perfect and permanent cures of
Chronic Catarrh in the Head, as
thousands can testify. "Cold in
the Head" is cured with a few
applications. Catarrhal Head
ache is relieved and cured as if
by magic. 1t removes offensive
breath, loss or impairment of the
sense of taste, smell or hearing,
watering or weak eyes, and i'm
paired memory, when caused by
the violence of Catarrh, as they
all frequently are. Remedy sold
by druggists, SO cents.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1891-05-19
Rare Chance for Investment
A FINE RAJ. Gil WELL STOCKED
At A b. GAIN.

/ have for sale the following described
property situated in Independence Valley,
ElkO County, Nevada to-wiG:
1,4OO acres of land, 800 acres of which is
meadow. Cuts 400 tons of red top, timothy
and alfalfa. All under good fen e. Plenty
of water and a clear title to same.
40 cows and heifers, graded Durhams.
Is calves and several yenrlings
II Thoroughbred Short Horn Durham COWS
with pedigree
Thoroughbred Kentucky Short HON bull
with digree
broodmares; 5 ofthem weigh !, 4OD pounds
of them 1000 to LOO pounds.
l stallion sired by Blackhawk, dam a
Rather mare, We 1850 pounds.
13year.oId stallion.
42-year-old FLIES and 3-year. FLY.
large work horses.
3yearling colts.
knowing machines.
hay rake.
2plows.
harrow.
Lig thing hay press (new).
threshing machine.
Jingle driving cart and harness.
speed wagon.
2Schutlcr wagons; and 4-horse wagon.
fcur-horse set OF Concord team harness.
two-horse buggy andharness.
Forks, hay-knifc, shov Lplows snd other
farming implements Lh o, in
This Is the best opportunity for sheepmen
In the State. Fine range, etc. All of
when VIII be sold OIL terms which render
This rare chance for profitable Investment
Call on or adore,
F. Z. CHAGNON,
TuscRrors, Nevada.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1891-05-19
NEVADA VOLUNTEER.
The Standard Trotting Stall
lion Nevada Volunteer,
will make the season of
1891, May lst to
August lst.
DESCRIPTION and PEDIGREE

Volunteer was foaled in 1885, stands 16
hands high, weighs l,125 pounds, and is a
horse OF magnificent conformation. He is u
beautiful bay wit three white legs and a
white strip in his fnce He is remarkably in
telligent, of good disposition and high spir-
tied, well boned and muscled up, speedy and
game. Of the many graEdly bred SONS of
Landmark none have n greater Inheritance
of trotting blood than has the young stallion
owned by Henry Berry and II: Robinson, of
Eureka. When purchased in March, 1885, of
the estate of 1. T.. Crofut, then year old
unbroke colt, he was waywised to harness,
but vas never handled for speed.
He was sired by Landmark, 1905. Land
mark was sired hy Volunteer, IS, the sire OF
st Juliun-IecOrd, 2:llL; of Gloster. Ply;
Alley. 2:19. The dam of Landmark was
MedOra. Landmark sired KitefoOt, record
2:1714; Jose s, 2:2212; Mabel 8, 2:221S The
dam of Nevada Volunteer was Bay, 291, by
Star Of the Union. He was bred by Henry
Hamlin, Clay, New York. Registered in
Wallace's American TrOtting Register. Vol 6,
Ruler. tSee tubulated pedigree with horscj
Service, $50. SeaSc n, $50, with privilege to
return next season II did not catch. Terms
cash.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1891-05-19
THE BOOK OF MORMON.

ItH Historical Information OF the Sort
known us "!r,:>;'t mt If True"
Out lii Iowa new kind of Mormon
ism has appeared, says the New York
Sun. The church of the Latter-Day
Saints is now old enough to indulge in
seccssions and sects. For many years it
has had tie Josephitcs, composed, ac-
cortling to brigham Young, of such as
had ''sourcd on Zion" They renowned
Young and all his works, particularly
polygamy; but the Whitmerites, it
seems, now go further, and rejecting
all later revelations, even Joseph
Smiths, rs apocryphnl, found their
theology on the bedrock of the words of
Mormon and the other prophets whose
books are collected under his name.
The time is suspicious for primitive
faith, polygamy being doomed if not
dead, and it's practices discountcnanced
and disowned even by it's former vota-
ries.
Mormon was n prophet inspired, ac-
cording to the records attributed to him,
to write an app cndix to the Scriptures.
Unlike MOhammed, his actual exist
ence as u historic character is accented
only by those who are called after his
name. His work was written, OF
craven, nearly fifteen centuries ago on
thin metallic plates, about eight inches
long by seven wide, held together by
three rings. 1t was sealed up in the
year 42O A, d., and deposited ON the
west side of hin, along the base of
which in the fullness of time, when
America should have been discovered
by Columbus, and De Witt Clinton
should be governor of New York, a mail
road was to run between the town of
Palmyra and the village of Manchester.
Tho historical information in this rec
ord, which comprises sixteen distinct
books, by different persons, was of the
sort known as important if true
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1891-05-19

THEHE has been discovered I'm
Augusta, Ga, wonderful spring which,
cures any kind of nausea and other
stomach troubles Bts cures are pro-
Aounced Immediate and remarkable.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-07-31
A Wonderful Press.

The New York Herald has been getting
a new printing press which is mechani
cal marvel. According to the Herald
''its consumption OF white paper is so
astounding that even the imagination
grows tired and sits down to catch its
breath. 1t is fed from three rolls, each
being more than five feet wide. When
it settles down to show its best work it
will use up in one hour nearly twenty-sir
miles of this paper, or, to make the
matter more significant, it will use up
about ffty-two miles Of paper the ordi-
nary width of the Herald every sixty
minutes.
-"Our readers will be startled to learn
that it can pint and fold ninety thou
sand four page Heralds in an hour. This
is to the mind which is not versed 10 the
problem of rapid printing, feat which
makes Aladdin's lamp an old wonau's
fable. Ninety thousand per hour means
fifteen hundred copies per minute, or
twenty-five copies for every second Of
time ticked by the clock in Trinity's
steeple."
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-07-31
Wood Paper.

Ordinary printing paper IS now made
almost exclusively of wood fiber, instead
Of RAGS as formerly. The wood fiber was
formerly prepared by wholly mechani-
cal process, the wood being ground or
raspcd of from blocks by action applied
obliqueIy to the grain. In place of the
old mode OF obtaining wood pulp, chemi-
cal treatment of the wood is now in vogue.
As formerly, the bark is stripped from
the wood to secure fiber of uniform quail
ity. All dscolored or decaycd parts are
removed for tue same reason. Then the
wood is cut across the grain into thin
chip,. which are carried to the top oil
the mill and dropped into large drums
about fourteen feet in diameter, and
twenty.fou- feet long. The drums are
made strong enough to bear pressure oil
from seveuty-fvc to 200 pounds to the
s,uare inch. When drum is packed
full of chips it is filed with sulphuric
acid and other chemicals. The wood is
converted into cotton-like product,
which is thea pressed dry and mashed.
II is next mixed with water, rolled fiat,
and cut into shape for bundling. In this
condition it is said to be made up OF
sixty per cent moisture and forty per
cent fiber. In this shape it goes to the
paper mill. 1t is found better to pay
the freight on the contained water than
to cheaper the cost of transportation by
pressing out the water, for the pulp packs
hard when it is dry. One cord of spruce
wood is estimated to make 1900 pounds
of dry fiber, worth from 81 to Sl.5O a
hundred pounds. A sulphite plant that
will use up from eight to fifteen cords OF
wood every twenty -four hours costs about
$40 .OOO.--Nep Orleans Pieayune.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-07-31
Washington.

A STATEMENT prepared at the Treasury
Denartment shows that the receipts from
customs at the Port Of New York during the
first twenty days of July we're 81. 705, 4s7, or
50. 265. 55i less than the receipts at the same
port during the corresponding period OF last
year.
THIRD ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL
HAVEN has prepared a statement showing
the number and value OF postage stamps,
stamped envelopes, newspaper wrappsrs aud
postal cards issued by his Office. and the cost
Of procuring the same during the fiscal year
which ended on June 30. The total number
of articles furnished was 3 400, 406 273, OF a
total face value Of $64. 100, 400.
THE Secretary Of the Treasury hgs ap-
pointed Dewitt c. Wheeler Superintendent
Of the New York Custom House, vice Joseph
A. Murray, resigned.
The first lot OF continued AZ per cent.
bonds, aggrezaating 81, ,50O,0 0Oa, was mailed
from the Treasury Department.
A STATEMENT prepared at the Postofic,
Department shows that tho number OF post
Offices In the country on June 80 1891, was
GA. S91, as follows: First class. ll6; secont
class. $50: third class 2276; fourth class,
81. .440. This is an increase OF 1000 offices
during the year.
FARMERS ALLIANCE leaders have issuei
from Washington circular to the wheat
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-07-31
A Wonderful Story of a Cave.

Judge ]. w. Perry, OF Owen County,
tells wonderful story of a cave found
on his farm in Morgan County. 1t was
found in a traditional way, by party OF
fox.hunters. They were pursuing
quarry, aud had arrived at high edge
when suddenly the baying of the hounds
ceased. Searching about to discover the
cause they found hole in the rock.
They procured torches, and followed the
hounds for two miles, but could not
overtake them. The cave inside con-
sisted Of beautiful rooms adorned with
millions of crystals of all kinds. In one
of the rooms is an artificial wall seventy
Yards long, four feet thick and four
high. Mspy people think this to be ths
famous Syift cave, where Swift mined
and coined silver a hundred years ago.
-LOuispiM Ky Courier-J0ur"dI'
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-07-31
THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
Eastern and Middle States.


THE Naval Reserve and tho Squadron OF
Evolution united in drill on the water in
New York Harbor.
A SPECIAL session Of the General Assem-
bly, OF Rhode Island was convened at Provi-
dence. the primal object being action upon
the bill recommended by the commission on
the revision of the judiciary system Of the
State.
Mas. E. L. DAVENPORT. the widow of the
tragedian, f. L. Davenport and herself an
actress Of deserved repute, died at her hcms
in Canton, Penn.
Two men engaged in conversation the
clerks of the Easton tPenu.l National Bank
while confederate stole 5000 He might
have carried away $1,000.
THE Government of Venezuela appointed
Dr. Jose Alfonso Ortega acting Consul
General at New York, vice DR.. Rafael
Villaviencio.
THE Rapid Transit Commission of New
York City decided upon a route for four
track underground railway for the East
Side.
THERE was an interesting spectacle at
Hough's Neck. Quincy. Mass, where the old
United States warship Brooklyn was burned.
The Brooklyn was a well-scarred veteran.
She was built in 1863.
SAMUEL ALEXANDER, an insane weaver in
the Dwight Mills at Chicopee, Mass, killed
James Nesbitt in the street, and shot Mi
chael Markley twice.
CONTROLLER STAUB, of Connecticut. re-
fused to honor Quartermaster-Ge General
Rudds requisition FOR $4,000 for military
expenses.
Mas. EATON the Presidents sister, arrived
n tha poffaSo of ana Nav n II for n nrO-'
tractel visit.
JUDGE COKE, of the United States Circuit
Court New York City, has decided that
Charles F. Brush's patents on storage bat
teries are valid, thus giving him the sole
right to manufacture and sell them.
C. MASON MOODY, the defauting County
Treasurer OF Greenland, Mass, has been
sentenced to five years imprisonmenta at hard
labor
THE Naval Reserve nod its second days
drill in New York Harbor with the Squad
ron Of Evolution, in equipping boats for
distant service and using the electric search
lights.
TIE last Pickering fame in the fatal Hilr
Farm PENN mine, wnch burned a year
ago, has just been extingushed.
THE boiler Of Lees steam saw mill at
Ninevah, \. V, exploded, killing James
Shaw. Frederick Wheeler and another man.
The bull lding was blown TO atoms and the
bodies of all the men were torn TO pieces.
CAMPBELL & ELLIoTTs immense cotton
ard woolen mil at Philadelphia, Penn, was
completely destroyed by fire. The loss was
estimated at between 5000, OO0 and $3.50, COO.
The first tweye-inch breech loading rifle
ever Iilt in Am erica was tested at Sandy
Hook, n. j., with satisfactory results.
A RECENT investigation at the Boston
Mass Postofice, has developed the fact that
out OF seventy -nina scales in use in the CEN
trail o:i:e thirty-1ye were Incorrect
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-07-31
CURIOUS FACTS.

The Gulf of Mexico has risen over a
foot since 1852.
A fish with two tails is the chief curl
osity at Madison, Penn.
Brass bands are not allowed to play in
the streets OF Nashville, Tenn.
Ten days per annum is the average
amount of sickness in human life.
There are about fourteen hundred
places of worship in London, England.
There is difference of only twenty
two square miles between the areas of
England and Iowa.
Francois Coppee, the French author,i is
fond of cats that surround his desk and
nibble at his pen when he writes.
Camden, N. j., boasts of blind bar
Der who can shave as we'll as if he had
perfect sight. He works every day and
makes regular wages.
Alabama has new religious sect, one
of whose tenets is to pay no taxes to the
support of a secular government, even to
the extent OF dog tax.
Girls are no longer tc be logged in the
industrial schools of Kirkdale, in Ian
cashire, England. Such is the order of
the Local Government Board.
The King of Ashantee is allowed 1888
wives. Many of them are the daughters
of the chiefs of tributary tribes over
which the King has jurisdiction, and are
sent to him as hostages.
The chimney is a modern affair, being
not vet seven centuries old. In the thir-
teenth century chimneys were allowed
only on religions houses, manor houses
and nobemen's castles.
A church was being moved across the
railroad track at Oakdale, Washington,
when a special train came along, and be-
fore the engineer could stop his engine
it struck the church, cutting it in two.
Chinese dentists are said to possess a
wonderful powder, which is rubbed on
the gum over the affected tooth. After
an interval of about five minutes the
patient is told to sneeze, whereupon the
tooth falls out.
A tailor of Koenigsberg, Germany,
demonstrated an enormous muscular
mower before the class Of students. With
one hand be lifted heavy chair, On
which sat 2OO-pound student, from the
floor to the table.
A Connecticut River shad dressed re-
Gently at New Haven had in its stomach
railroad spike five inches long and
weighing seven ounces l"c SP'N0 ""'
rusty, and the liver aud side of the fish
were coated with rust.
A young lawyer of Savannah, Ga,
swan across the Savannah River five
times one day last week for wager OF
$50. The river at that point is 2O5
wards wide and twelve feet deep. Fully
5000 people watched the performance.
A lobster has been caught in Penob-
scot Bay which weighs twenty two
pounds. Its size has procured for it
certain immortality. In place OF being
eaten it will occupy a shelf of honor
among the exhibits of the Smithsonian
Institute at Washington.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-07-31
The Story of a Genius.

fHo OhSiJ " - NN'
When Sidney Thomas was seventeen
years of age his father died and the youth
was obliged to give up his dreams of
matriculating at London University and
becoming medical man. For some
time he took a classical mastership in a
school, and then accepted a clerkship at
the Marlborough Street Police Court.
While conscientiously fulfilling his
duties he was at the same time an earnest
student of science.
Up to 1855 the finest steel used IN
England was of Hindu make, and it is
said to have been quoted at $50, ,OOO a
ton. Cort made discovery, however,
by which he produced equally good steel
a. prices ranging $3.50 to $500 ton.
Then Bessemer came; but even after his
discoveries there was still great desld-
eratum of the highest practical impor-
tance, namely, the elimination OF phos-
phorus from the process of converting
nir.iron into steel Sidney Thomas
made this notable discovery, bat when
he announced it at the spring meeting OF
the Iron aud Steel Institute in 1878 he
was received with sncers and smiles OF
incrcdulity.
But everything comes to him who
knows how to wait, and Thomas finally
perfected his invention. The discovery
made him suddenly famous, and the
steclmasters of Belgium, England and
the United States raced each other in
their efforts to benefit under his patents.
Splendid pecuniary results followed the
discovery, but, alas they were pur'
chased at the cost of the inventor
health. His hour Of triumph found him
with physical strength rapidly declining.
He accordingly went abroad, visiting
Switzerland, the Cape aud the United
States. lie also went to the Maurltlus,
India, Ccylon and Australia. His diary
and letters describing these travels are
most interesting, and many OF his OBJ
servations testify to the singular Keen
ness of his mind. As a last resort he
spert winter in Algiers, then he moved
homeward, but on reaching Paris died
there. on February /, 1885. He was
thus not quite thirty-fvc years old, an
age which has proved fatal to so many
men of genius.
Sidney Thomas's life speaks for itself,
but in connection with his great dis
covery one fact of moment may be men
toned Whereas in 1878 there was not
even in existence any public record OF
successful dephosphorizatiOn Of pig-iron,
in 1890, only twelve years later, the pro-
duction of basic steel under the Gilchrst-
Thomas process was no less than 2,6O3,
0S3 tons.-L0adon Chronicle.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-07-31
A Chin on the Old Block.

The little six-year old daughter OF
Buffalo lawyer extricated herself from
difficulty the other day with tact. She
has Just recovered from a long illness,
aud sat bolstered up in bed fecbly count
ing her pennies. She decided that there
were twenty-nine, aud her papa gave her
another to make the number thirty.
Later her mother helped her to count
them and they found thirty-one. The
father then entered protest and asked
her to return his penny, as she had OBJ.
taincd it under false pretenses. She
looked up in doubt from the little pile
of pennies to her father aud then said
81 'dess can't give it back to you, for
can't tell which one you gave inc. -
Buffalo Eaquir~.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-07-31
His Watch Charm Once Saved His Life.

Colonel A. d. Gwynne, OF Memphis,
carries a charm that has history closely
interviewer with his own, for it IS Ieiic
of the battle Of Shiloh, and brings to
mind time when the gallant Colonel
might have yielded up his life in the
cause of his country but for the same but
ton.
Il was an old brass button Of the Fed
eral pattern, for at the time the battle OF
Shiloh was fought the Confederates did
not possess a button peculiar to their own
uniforms. Colonel Gwynnc keeps it
brightly Furnished, aud its every linden
tation is as plain as or the day 1t was
turned out of the factory. In the pride
of its youth it was pulled out, that is, it
was olobular in form in the middle, but
as it appears now the conceit has been
taken out of it by the ball that struck it
and fattened it.
At the head OF the Twenty sixth Ala
bama Regiment of cavalry Colonel
Gwynne took a foremost part in the bat
tic of Shiloh, and it was in the thlckest
of the fight that, when leaning over in
charge, a ball tore through the front OF
his cap, grazed past his nose' aud struck
the first button on his coat, glancing
thence to his right arm, which was shat
tered, so that for some time he was laid
up for repairs. But he never forgot the
button that saved his life, and ever since
it has hung from his watch chain, slight
ly dis6gured, but therefore the more
honored. Memphis Appeal Aralanehe.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-07-31
THE LABOR WORLD.

STEEL rail- exports increase.
NEW YORK has 5000 sweaters
AUSTRIA has 90, 900 union men.
THERE is an electric carpet-beater.
ELECTRICAL cranes gives satisfaction.
INDIANAPOLIS sewing girls organized.
FRANCE has 4, 22O, O0o industrial workers.
BOSTON has an Independent Labor party.
ILLINOIS has adopted the weekly payment
law.
INDIANAPOLIS carpenters have formed
band.
WORLDS FAIR buildings employ 1900
hands.
INDIANAPOLIS hasn't a non-uuion stone.
cutter.
New JERSEY Socialists held State Con-
ventlon.
DENVER ice-wagon drivers gets s55
month.
DRUMMERs in Brooklyn must wear a IL
cense badge.
some New York horse-cer men get 81 for
sixteen hours.
THE Order of Railway Conductors has
1900 members.
Frances worxingmen average twenty
eight cents day.
CHICAGO shopgrls' pay averages from
$3.50 to 81 weekly.
AT Boston seamen on steamers get s25
month; firemen, so
A CONVENTION of green-giass blowers was
held recently at 81. Louis.
STRIKING furniture workers In New York
get 50 week from the union.
NEw YORK knights ask the State TO BULL
hail for free public meetings.
IS Sweden competent servant girls receive
the enormous salary OF si4 per year.
The Cigarmakers' Union paid $4,000 in
sick and death benefits the past year.
CALIFORNIA glassblowers want the limit
Of weeks work fixed at thirty-six hours.
THE average daily wages OF the French
agricultural laborers amount to twenty-five
cents.
BILL-PosTERs have organized a national
union. A million dollars is invested in the
business.
The entire number Of wage-workers in
France is IA, 76S, 900, among whom 4,4l5,0oO
ore women.
AMONG the exiles in Siberia are forty-fve
compositors who were sent there for working
on Nihilst papers
1T is said that harvest hands in Minnesota,
the Dakotas and Montana are being paid
$50 to $3.50 per day and board.
A PULLMAN sleeping car porter gets SIS
month and is charged seventy-iye cents
day for his meals, SO at the end OF every
month he owes the company some q.
Mosr OF the trades unions in Australia
having obtained the eight hour worxday,
they now demand one half hour after dinner
for smoking. And they will get it as their
organizations embrsce almost every worker
In the ie
THERE is brewery concern In Milwaukee,
Wis, whose business has incress II 10 such
an extent that ths proprietors are now
building glass WORKS TO manufacture their
own bottles. These glass works viii en-
p.oy about 1000 men.