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The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1893-07-05
HALL FOR SALE.

Aone-half interest in Music Hall for
sale. A valuable hall at a reasonable
figure. Apply by letter or person.
MRS. M. A. Gown, Wadsworth, New.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1893-07-05

WEDNESDAY,. JULY s, 1893,
BREVITIEs.
---==@EzEaesg@za-
Flies. 554
Squirrels.
Mosquitoes.
New houses.
Hay still $12.
Summer you bet.
Half this year gone.
Peaches and cream.
This is the day after.
Nevada mines closing.
Colorado mines closed.
Montana mines closing.
England wants Hawaii.
Hot Springs celebrated.
Plenty potatoes this year.
Cigarette Law is in effect.
Silver is the talk of the day.
We feel that way ourselves.
The glorious 4th has passed.
'Curran-O'Farrel wedding day.
Good fishing in the Carson river.
Still snow on the ground at Bodie.
Promising copper find at Lovelock.
Where's the pay car? is the question.
Heavy shipments of wheat to Europe.
Obi What a difference in the morn
ing.
The Examiner children are back from
; Chicago.
Few of the boys and girls went to
Truckee.
Indian Pow-wows at Lovelock and
Carson.
He only values money who has to
earn it.
About 10000 people visited Reno
yesterday.
eff you want to feel heroic rescue
yourself"
The smell of new mown hay greets
the nostrils.
$4,000 per acre has been realized from
strawberries.
Wadsworth was deserted yesterday
sure enough.
Mitchell and Corbett fight in Decem-
Der for 445, 600.
The Comstock mines will close down
next, we judge.
Some stunning pink costumes OH the
streets yesterday.
T. W.. Fitzgerald is moving into a
house OH Mob Hill.
Ed. Emmons of Lovelock has 800
stock cattle for sale.
Mrs. Will Hunt went to Sacramento
for summer vacation.
The granite walk is a fine boulevard
for a midnight stroll.
Riley and Hardin, cattle kings, have
dissolved partnership.
The Sunset miners went to Virginia
tospend the 4th at home.
A bachelor is not only a knot on a log,
but a very lonesome knot.
Game that can be picked up is left by
the wayside by all true hunters.
Will Hunt went to Chicago last Mon
day where ne will spend a month.
$500 reward for the man who shot
Brakeman Bruce and Sheriff Paseoe.
Orange shipments from Riverside
this season amounted to 2 200 carloads
,Currant, raspberry and ~gooseberry
hushos ara handing IN the ground with
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1893-07-05

Late Arrivals at the Nevada House.
PJ Miller, San Francisco.
Jno Griffin
c M Martin, City.
A w Card
G Nelson &
VIM. Taylor
] w Freeman, Saltwater.
D NJ Sanford "sa,~es qs:
"A Read, Hong Kong. 20
Thos Mctirath. Jr., Hot Springs. ~
] w Smith
G IT Smith =" +" %
G w Perry, Reno.
c E Shottenkirk, Clinton.
w d Epperson and family, Soda Lake
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The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1893-07-05
BANK NOTICE.

COMMENCING MARCH IL, 1893,
~ The First National Bank of Reno,
Nevada, will make no charge to its
customers for exchange on Sacramen-
10 and San. Francisco.
Commencing April l, 1893, the
Bank will issue time certificates Of
deposit bearing interest at the rate OF 4
per cent, per annum.
CHAS T. BENDER, Cashier.
RENO, Nevada, March 10, 1898.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-06-15
FISHING BY HORSE POWER,
& SiXty-fve Pound Bass Landed on the
Beach near San Francisco.

Matthias Ketchera, hostier of the
Seal Rock House on the ocean beach
near San Francisco, has caught the
largest sea bass that the coast has seen
for many long day. 1t is KetChera' s
business to rise early each morning
and, hitching horse to a wagon, pa
troll the sands for a couple of hours in
search of driftwood. When he has
collected his daily pile he returns to
the hotel unhitches his horse and
awaits customers. But, the Examiner
says, Matthias, or Mike, as he is more
Familiarity termed, has other callings.
He is the ''lone fisherman" of the beach.
Every knows him for he is famous
Each day he scOurs the beach for wood
he takes a long line with him, which
he throws out into the sea and awaits
results. A few days ago he got more
than he bargained for. Matthias had
scarcely thrown his line when to his
establishment, it was pulled from his
grasp. He had some to spare, how
ever, and grasping anew endeavored
to land his prize. Soon the jumpings
oAINl NIlIhhSo VI 81 I'LL sc oOJCCI CtlAIe W
his vision and Matthias concluded that
he had hooked come sea monster. Pull
as he would he could not haul in the
line. Then his iventive genius assert
ed itself. Hastily making fast the line
to the axletree of the cart he yelled
for his horse Pompey to ''Getr' Pom
pey got. The result was that the prize
was landed and proved to be an enor
mus sea bass. Matthias put his catch
into his wagon and started for home.
There his fish was weighed. 1t proved
to be 4 feet Z inches in length and
sixty-fve pounds in weight, the largest
fish of it's kind that has been caught on
this part of the coast.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-06-15
RULES FOR CAMPING OUT.
What to Do and What Not to Do on a
Gypsy Trip.

The first thing to be done in planning
gypsy trip is to choose the kind OF
country and the season you can most
enjoy. Then decide whether to tramp
with your baggage on your back or
drawn in a horse wagon; whether to
camp in one spot, or move from place
to place; and whether to spend much
money or little.
1t may be taken for granted, says
the New York Recorder, that the COM
pany is made UP Of good-humored per-
sons, that maps of the route have been
studied thoroughly, that the leaders
word is law, and that each comrade
will give UP his own wishes and COM
fort for the good Of all.
You will have, to begin with, a rare
chance to wear out old clothing
Long, loose, wooden shirts, with collar
bands of silesia, on which separate
wooden collars can be buttoned, are the
best; wear one, and carry one or two
more for a change, or to wear double
in cold spells. Use loose, wooden draw
ers, worn inside out, to keep the seams
from chatting you, and shoes that lace
above the ankles, and have been thor
oughly treated with neat's-oiI.
Let them have iron, not steel nails.
Use false soles, if you like, and wear
socks or stockings of wool or merinO
rather than of cotton Pantaloons
should be loose, high at the waist, and
of rather heavy cloth. If you have
been in the habit Of wearing sl1spenders,
don't leave them off now; you can hide
them very well by passing them
through holes cut low down in the
shirt. Wear what you please, if it be
comfortable
Don't try to carry more than twenty
pounds apiece or to go more than ten
miles a day on foot with pack. This
is fully hard enough work, if you wish
to enjoy youself without risk of illness
You will find the "roll' better than the
knapsack in the long run, and it is
lighter by at least two pounds and a
half To make the roll, lay out the
blanket fiat and roll it as tightly as
possible without folding it, putting in
the other baggage as you proceed; tie
it in several places, and tie or strap
the ends together Wear the ring thus
made over your shoulder and around
your body. You may find it better to
fold the rubber blanket about the roll,
or roll it by itself, so as to carry it
linked with the other roll: you may
need it before camping, and will thus
save undoing the big roll.
The roll Is easier to carry than is the
knapsack, and is readily shifted from
shoulder to shoulder, or taken off; then,
too, you can ease the burden a little
with your hand. Besides this, you save
carrying the weight Of the knapsack.
But, if you take a knapsack. let it
have broad straps. A haversack you
must, of course, have.
Besides a rubber blanket, half a
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-06-15
RECKLESS BICYCLE RIDING.
Officers of Clubs Should Call Down
Careless Wheelmen.

The reckless rider is. first of ALL
says British Sport, "a danger to the
pubhc, a fool to himself and an un-
nnCgated nuisance to none more than
Ills fellOW-Wheelmen The first he
frghtens, but otherwise does little
harm to; he jeopardizes his own necl,
(Which, it may be remarked en- PEASANT
is never above the average in valued
and plays the very dickens with the
affections of his fellow-sportsmen by
invariably hugging the curb on the
wrong side when he is not lurching all
over the road. 1t is to be feared that
the law will never be able to suppress
him, for the simple reason that he is
hard to catch and the police are pro-
verbally slow as runners. We shall
probably have to endure the reckless
rider as long as our cycling lives last.
and that in spite of the higher educa-
ton and university extension lectures.
The nuisance can be mitigated, how
ever, by the use of a little moral sua-
sion, and in particular officers of clubs
might do much towards the CONVEX
sion of men whose recklessness is not,
after all, necessarily born so much of
innate caddishness as mere high spirits
or ignorance, allied to thOughtlessness
Let officers of clubs never weary OF
impressing on their young members
the necessity of observing the rules of
the road, the truth of the old axiom.
More haste, less speed and the very
of oh, "a; ~,
streets and even suburban roads, and
at least some good will of necessity ac-
crue. For the writer's part, he has
made up his mind that the next time
he is run down by a rider hugging the
near side curb he will have the law on
him for assault, and be bothered
to the freemasOnry of the wheelr -
A Russian started out recently to
break a road record. He was arrested
on the road and locked UP for half
a day. In the evening he was released,
and told to show the magistrates how
his wheel worked. He did so, and the
simple people haven't seen him since.
The builder of Herne Hill track says
that at present it is five seconds faster
than last years surface, and when
some heavy rain have played upon it
and consolidated the base upon which
the battens are laid, other five seconds
will be gained.
obtaining the mastery of a squirt, which
up to the Toronto Wanderers meet
last September he never before gave
evidence of.
The Michigan Athletic club, Detroit,
will continue the feature of bicycle
races by electric light this season, and
the track is being put in shape for the
first one on June Z.
The city of London has donated a
$3.50 cup for wheelmen to race for.
How long will it be before an Ameri-
can city ever does such a thing?
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-06-15

shelter tent, and ropes, you must have
stout wooden blanket, with a lining
sewed to it along one side; but button
ed on at the ends and other side. You
can dry it, when wet, better than If it
We're sewed all around The items of
personal baggage are as follows.
Rubber blanket, IL; wooden blanket
and lining, 4 II pounds; haverSack and
canteen, L IL pounds; drawers. shirt,
socks and collars. pounds; half a
shelter tent and ropes. > pounds;
towels, soap, comb, toothbrush, salve,
alright match safe, knife, fork, spoon,
dipper, stationary, Il good book, etc..
II pounds; food for one day. 8
pounds; total, Is pounds. Besides
these, each must carry his share of the
company baggage: Frying-pan, coffee
pot and pail, 3 pounds; Ratchet. tent
pins. sheath-lnife. case and belt, 4
pounds: clothes-brush. mosquito net
| ting, strings, maps, pounds; total, 10
pounds.
You can do a great deal of cooking
with a frying pan and coffee, pot
after little experience Have coffee
pot with ball as well as a handle, and
with a lip rather than n spout OF
course you will know enough not to
put Your pot or pan on the burning
wood, and not to use pitchy fuel. or
! let the handles get hot or smutty.
Study a cook book, and practice well
at home first, or you will have to go
hungry when you least expect it.
Start a short time after breakfast,
while the day is yet young and cool,
but don't hurry or work hard at it. On
the march it is well to rest for short
spells-say. ten minutes out Of every
hour. Drink good water as often as
you feel thirsty, only not much at a
time, and bear in mind that often you
can stop thirst by rinsing the mouth.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-06-15
THE FIRST BUTTERFLY.

Bright f1utterer, with golden name,
Freckled from gentle dun to flame,
How hast thou dared to venture out
Ere the buds begin to sprout?
When underneath the sheltering
bower,
Arbutuls hath not shown her flower,
Creeping from the modest moss,
With her brilliant leaves of gloss;
When as yet within the brook,
Leaves lie pressed as in a book.
Held within the Ice Kings arms
Clasped about their frozen charms;
Why vert thou not wise to wait
Till King Frost should abdicate?
Till the bluebirds pipe in tune,
Till the May looks on toward June,
Till the dandeiion's yellow
Lends the lawn a radiance mellow?
These few hours of sunshine warm
May prelude a fatal storm,
Bringing frost or bringing snow;
Where, then frai1 one, wilt thou go?
Robins forty times as strong,
Yet we did not hear his song.
Edward SCreamer in New York Sun.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-06-15
PERSONS AND THINGS.

A single tobacco plant will produce
100000 seeds.
In one summer the descendants of a
fly will number 2OSO,320.
A Minneapolis paper claims that
there has been bank failure in that
city.
A Pottstown, Pa, farmer keeps a
large number of snakes on his place
for the purpose of killing rats.
Last year 1850 persons sent in claims
for the maple sugar bounty offered
by the Government. This year 1850
persons are entitled to bounties, and
they will receive in the aggregate about
$4,000.
Mrs. Proctor, widow of the late Rich
ard A. Proctor, the famous astronomer,
and the principal assistant in his pro-
fessional work, has been appointed
curator of the Proctor observatory at
San Diego, Cal
Some one of a curiously mathematical
turn has calculated that a pound of
spiders webbing unWOrnd would be
long enough to reach around the world,
with enough left over to reach from
New York to San Francisco
The contest for the Gram medal at
DOwner college, Fox Lake, was won by
Miss Mabel Hillman, of Richland Cen
ter. The judges were Edmund Gram,
Milwaukee, donor of the medal; Mrs.
Jaeger, Portage; Miss Alice Bundy, Of
Wayland academy, Beaver Dam
Whenever an admirer of Ellen Terry
writes to her for her autograph the
actress eXactS in return 2 small cOntri-
button for what she facetolsly calls
her autograph cot" a bed she intends
to endow in a London hospital. Miss
Terry has already been able to send
check for that purpose,
Colonel r. I. Flemming of Washing
ton has bought the former country
residence Of President Cleveland, and
about two acres of ground. The price.
lit is understood, was $4,000. Mr..
Cleveland paid about $500 an acre for
the property in 1856, or $21, 800 for the
twenty-siX acres. j..
Col. Richard NJ Johnston will stay
in Baltimore most Of the time this sum
mer, working upon new short stories
and arranging for the publication, In
book form, of his novel Pierce Amer,
sons VIII, and another collection Of
printed stories. He is to give a series
Of lectures on literary themes before
the Catholic summer school at Platts-
burgh, n. Y, and may read at a few
summer resorts
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-06-15
"WHEN ARE WE LAD1ES?"
Mrs. John is Surprised to Discover
That 1t Is Not All Of the Time.

Il had an experience today" said
Mrs. John as she broke off a bit of her
soup bread last night and began dain-
tily to sip her cream of asparagus.
You have so many" 1 replied, that
it should be no novelty. And they are
all interesting" l finished invitingly,
though L knew I should get the Eek
perience" without this little sop.
Mrs. John merely arched her eye
browS
1T was a small one" she went on,
''but it is one to so many similar that
it set me to thinking afterward dur
ing my ride UP town."
/ waited.
Il was in a shop near a crowded
counter, to which | vainly tried to get
access, when l saw woman complete
her purchase, pay her money and
stand waiting for the change. I
thought this an opportunity and l
spoke to her; May l have your place,
please, if you are through?' Not until
am through, she replied, coldly,
without even turning her head, and she
stood there nearly five minutes longer
before parcels and coin We're handed
to her"
Il think" I replied, "she was a tele-
phone girl
''She was a very disobliging woman,
certainly" said Mrs. John, land at the
elevated station I met another
[ was carving the joint, so I only
scOWled.
L stood waiting my turn in the
line with two men before me-" contin-
ued Mrs. John, when this woman
walked up and along the line, and
calmly thrust herself before us all"
We'll, isn't that what you call wo-
mans progress?" I couldn't help in
quiring
1T was one woman's progress re-
torted Mrs. John, land everybody hated
her for it,
Then she dropped her vehemence and
became discursive
1T was this double experience which.
as said, set me to thinking. l began
to wonder when we are 1adies'-if at
all.
1--WE are not certainly when we do Ell
ther of these unjust and selfish things,
nor pushing and scra1nbling around abar
gain counter, nor spr aiding out skirts
over two seats in n filling street car.
We are not when, in church or else
where, we are overcome with the con-
sciousness of being better dressed than
our neighbor, nor when we are de-
vouring bit of gossip, repeating and
enlarging upon it; nor, indeed, when
we are scolding the children, quarrel
ing With the servants, or regarding.
if we are boarders, our landlady as a
natural enemy
Nor when,'' helped Mrs. John, s.as
last summer in the mountains that
healthy young woman refused to give
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-06-15

It is the custom of Russian ladies to
receive their dinner guests in a recep-
ton room warmed by great open fires,
and then to offer each lady a gorgeous
ly embroidered fur cloak or robe to slip
on during the courses of the dinner
should the decollete dinner dress prove
too cool. Polish ladies open a luxurious
little room filed with divans for weary
guests to rest upon, if they feel that
their tired nerves require repOse be-
fore entering upon the ordeal Of a long
Russian dinner. People that have
travelled in the cars domain testify
that Russian hospitality is the most
magnificent in the world, and that the
banquets given in st. Petersburg and
Moscow are unrivaled in splendor In
Paris or London.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-06-15
FINANCIAL FIGURES.
Gold Holdings and Deposits Both De
crease.

Washington, June 1O.-An abstract
of the reports made to the comptroller
Of the currency, showing the condition
of the national banks in the United
States at the close of business on the
fourth day of May last, has been made
public by Comptroller Eckels.
AS compared with similar statement
made March 9th last, a net decrease in
gold holdings is shown of 100000
and individual deposits Of nearly ST.
100000.
The increase il undivided profits was
100000 ad in the surplus fund
nearly $1,0O0,OOO is shown. Loans and
discounts increased i$3,0OO,O00; real
estate and mortgages owned decreased
100000 and legal tender holdings in
creased $13,OOO,OOO. The net gold hold
ings of the treasury at the close Of
business today was S90,609,OOO.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-06-15
AGONIA.
When our delight is desolate,

When our delight is desolate,
And hope is overthrown;
And when the heart must bear the
weight.
OF it's own love alone.
And when the soul, whose thoughts
are deep,
Must guard them unreVealed,
And feel that it is full, but keep
That FITNESS calm and sealed.
When loves long glance is dark with
pain
With none to meet or cheer;
And words of woe are wild In vain
For those who cannot hear.
When earth is dark and memory
Pale IN the heaven above
The heart can bear to lose its joy,
But not to cease to love.
For what shall guide the choice within
Of guilt or agony
When to remember is to sin,
And to fOrget-tO diei
John RuSl1in
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-06-15

up her big room over Sandal TO &C
commodate four persons with no other
shelter, while a perfectly comfortable
single room was at her disposal, and
it had been in the bond of her con
tract at low rates that she should oc
casionally, if required"
No, indeed, ecnoed Mrs. john, who
was one of the unhappy four, ! shall
never forgive that girl
Then she caught my eye and we
both laughed.
Its no laughing matter" she fin
ished detiantly, then or now 1t is s
pity rather that there should be sc
many women who would sco1n not to
be called ladies who have only a
thin parlor veneer OF manners"
And / said, so it is
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-06-15

Signora Duse was obliged to post
pone her first appearance in London on
account of an illness contracted on her
voyage thither from this country. AS
finally arranged she was to appear in
Camille last Wednesday at the Lyric
Theater.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-06-15

More than two-thirds of the male
prisoners in the States prisons Of the
various States are under 80 years Cf
age.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-10-30

An ANCIENT MULE DEAD.-"Fan-
ME" was the name of the mule that Mr..
Philip Honey, of Stafford, took with
him in the Confederate army, and on
which, at the surrender Of Gen. Lee, he
rode back home. This venerable ami,
NAL has been looked upon by thousands.
Its owrrer, Mr.. Honey, rode it in the
procession in Richmond at the unveil.
ing OF the Lee memorial and also at the
reinterment of the remains of President
Jefferson Davis. 1t has been photo
graphed and probably its picture may
be found in thousands of albums and
hung on many parlor walls. 1t was,
in truth, an interesting war relic, and
wherever it appeared was the observed
of all observers. Fannie" departed
this life few days ago, at its home in
Stafford county, aged SO years.-Fred
ericksburo Star.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-10-30
FINANCIAL.
ALEXANDRIA BOARD.

ALEXANDRIA BOARD.
A local Board of THE EASTERN BUILD
ING AND LOAN ASSOCIATION. Of Syra-
cusc, n. Y, has been organized in the city OF
Alexandria, Va, and the local business Is nm-
der the supervision OF the following OFfI-
GERS and DIRECTORS:
OFFICERS-I. G. O'Neal, President; f. ).
Ballenger, Vice President; Thomas II. Bayne,
Secretary and Treasury, and Leonard Mar
BOARD OF DIRECToRs-L C. C'Neal. Of
O'Neal e. Lunt, Real Estate, No. 81 King
street; J. A. n. Curtin and Calvin Butts. OF
Curtin & Butts Iron Founders. cor Royal
and Wilkes streets; Leonard Marhury, At
torney at Law. 212 King street; F. $. Bal
leuger and p. NJ Bradshaw Of Ballenger &
Bradshaw, Shoe Merchants, $40 King street |;
A. A. Warled. General Insurance Agent. 3oo
King street; Thos. II. Bayne. Real Estate,
Insurance. Building s; Loan, 81 King street
For full particulars apply to any member OF
the Board, or
THOS. II. BAYNE, Special Agent,
Office: 3l1 King street, Alexandra, Va.
I OctlO