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Year: 1877

This present Presidential result is q
fitting climax of the daring designs Of
the money power upoE popular rights
NJ. Tilden, the choice of the, people bv
an admitted popular majority of over a
quarter of a million of votes, would have
been declared to be President but rail
road subsidy corporations and national
bank bondholdars decided otherwise.
He was at the mercy of base band OF
heartless financial oonspirators. They
were not exclusively Republicans, but
mixed with stoekjnbbing and money,
loving, would-be national Democrats.
They saw and felt that the reformation
outlined by Tildeh was death-kpsIl to
their bright visions of further gigantic
steals and unjust manipulatious of the
Federal Treasury Hewitt, Fernando
Wood and Sam Randall and other lesser
lights among the Democrats were used
as suppliant tools by the avarieious horde
Of gilt edged moutebanks As swilI-fed
cattle these money monoplies have
gioated unto fullness upon Federal
pap, and when the hour seemed to draw
near that would end their royal winnings
they eonspirsd to suppress the will of
people and to rrolong their own rule.
even if the liberties of the country be-
come imperilIed or even perished in she
Conflict The people lost and they wo~.
constitutional freedom as an exile is still
in the wildsTness doing penancs, but
still hopeful of future deliveranee from
the meshss of the wiley foe The,e no.
nopOIies viii have to be routed horse.
foot and dragoon, or the rights of the
great producing classes will be forever
crushed


The imperial strides of tbs money
power have DOst-signally advanced upon
the very inner works of constitutional
liberty. Dethrons this tyrant and all
viii be well.
Year: 1877

The House By formal vote declared
that the Tildsn ticket was regularly and
triumphantly elected and thus entered
protest against the usurpation of Hayes
and have placed upon record this en-
phatic avowal of well~knogn fact. Il
is unprecedented to see the popular
branch of Congress SO positively arrayed
against an iuco ming Administration and
so determined to publish to the world
that President is s!ected by fraud AMI
hOlds his Office By virsae of perjury and
basest peryersion of mere legal techni
calities. This step by the House was d
wise investment to establish the histori-
cal vindication of Democrats integrity
and at the same time to show that che
Radicals have effected the most gigantic
steal under cover of law known in the
annals of any age or country.
Year: 1877

The sum of ell infamies and vilIianies
is an accomplished fact. In opposition
to the emphahcaliy pronounced popular
verdict IN favor Of Tilden as the Presi-
dsntiaf choice Of the people, the EleC-
toral Commission, BY that same eight to
seven vote, decided that Hayes should be
inaugurated. When tho Republicans
saw that the Democratic leaders pre-
ferred Hayes to risking plunging the
country into open revolution, they clear
ly saw that they could safely force the
Democracy to sacrifice Tilden. hewitt
and other Northern Democratic leaders
were more in love With the preservation
of the financial status of their United
States bonds than with the preservation
OF popular rights. They cared more for
stocks than the Vindication of the will
OF the people. The endorsement of the
COmPromiss Commission was a surren.
der OF the Democratic position. The
Radicals saw it and hence pushed the
Democrats to the extremity of accepting
Hayes or involving the couotry in
the msshss of An angry partisan con-
hict.


In order to eonsummate their pur.
poses, the Republicans laid violent hands
upon the Supreme Court aud forced
many of its members to drag the eruined
honor of that hitherto spotless judiciary
in che vile mire of unscrupulous political
fraud. rhe main pillar upholding our
national integrity is fallen. The House
and Senate have both felt the withering
presence of Republican conspir.to tors,
bat not until this hour did Radica1ism
dare 90. openly to debauch the Su
prems Beach. To the chagrin and
shame of the natioa, it now can be said
that kspublicaRism has eliminated in
converting the whole machinery Of gov-
ernmsns into an engine Of practical DO
Iitioal Imperialism.


When the alternative was oFsrsd 70
tbe Democrats to accept or reject, wise
counsels ruled the hour and our marty
resolved to accept the bitterness of that
decision and appeal to the people to con-
denim the iniquity OF that result In
the life of q government four wears ara
bat day. We can afford to wait and
let ths futcre establish the tight.
Year: 1877

And in accordance with law and order OF the Board of
Trustees made and entered the 14h day of August A
D. 1877, many of such designated shares of stock be-


longing and standing in the of the shareholders
aforesaid shall and will be necessary to psy the
ment upon all shares held and owned by such shareholders
standing in their upon the books of the company
will be sold at public auction at the office of said company
in the office of Trenmor Coffin in Carson City. Nevada
Year: 1877

People who have warm friends are


healthier and happier than those who


have none A single real friend is a


treasure worth more than gold or pre-


ciouse stones Money can buy many


1hiDgs, good and evil. All the wealth Of


the world could not buy you friend or
/ pay you for the loss of one. Il have


wanted only one thing to make me hap


py," Hazlitt writes, "but, wanting that,


have wanted everything And again,


my heart. shut up in prison-house


Of this rude clay, has never found, nor


will il ever 6ud heart to speak to. :"


We are the weakest of spendthrifts if


we let our friends drop of through in
attention, or let one push away another,
or if We bold aloof from one for petty
jealousy, or beedly slight or roughness.


Would you throw away dimond be-
cause it pricked you7 One good.friend
is not to be weighed against the jewels
Of the earth


Don't live for yourself alone; better
take wife and raise family Don't
Cypress the poor; remember that you
are simply "a tenant at will'' Don't
commit suicide, the world recognizes
the right of fool to live. Don't de-
spise your ueighbor on account of his
poor clothes you were not born in a
velvet jacket Don't dream that you
are wiser than yonr associates dreams
Ego by contraries' you know Don't
practice deceit; be whe wears two faces
is self-deeeiyed. Don't fail to rest on
the Sabbeth, but don't let your Sabbath
last the whole week Don't spend all
yonr time saying sweet things life is
stale without little tonic Don't jump
at conclusions; a shoemaker may be
proud, though be is often at your feet.
Don't slander man simply because
be is public servant; even Ofice-hold-
ers have rights that the people should
respect.


You are tender hearted, aud you
want to be true, and are trying to be
learn these two things never be dis
couraged because good things get on so
slowly here; ard never fail to do daily
thst good which lies next to your hand.
Do not be in hurry, but be diligent.
Enter into the sublime patience Of the
Lord. Be charitable in view of it, God |
can afford to wait why cannot we,
since we have him to fall back upon
Let patience have her perfect work, and |
bring forth her celestial fruits. Trust
God to weave your little thread into the
great wed, though the pattern shows it
net yet When Gods people are able |
and willing thus to labor and wait, re-
membering that one day is With the
Lord is thousand year. and a thous-
and year as one day /; the grand harvest
of the ages shall come to its reapings
and the day shall broaden itself to
thousand years, and the thousand year,
shall show them selves as q perfect and
finished day Nc Donald.
Year: 1877

DEAD CONF TO LIFE. "A young


scapegracs who had left his fathers


house in this city under a cloud, and


had exhausted his credit in Virginia


City, New, telegraphed recently to his


father to this effect Your son Walter


was killed in the Consolidated Virginia
this morning by falling cage What
shall we dc with the remains?' To re-
sponss a telegraphic order for $3.50 was
received, with the lQcorie request,
Bury them The young scamp took
the money and had an elaborate spree.
When he was in a condition for writing
be sent BY mail to his father the follow
ing note L have just learned that an
Infamous scoundrel named Baker sent
you a fictitious account Of my death
and swindled you out of 800 He
also borrowed S85 from me and left the
country. | write to inform you that |
am yet alive and long to see the old
parental roof again. ! am in somewhat
reduced circumstances, the accumula-
tion of the last Eve years having been
lost-a disastrous stock operation-and
if you would spare me 5000 | will be
ever thankful for your favor Give my
love to ALL A few days later the
young man received the following: =
my dear son, / have buried you once,
and that's an end Of it. | decline hav-
ing any more transactions with a corpse
Yours in the flesh, Father
Year: 1877

New York Street Lamps in 1897 Bnd 1876.


It appears that in the seventeenth
century, when the city Of New York
was but little more than a village. there
was for long time no system Of light
ing the streets. On dark nights each
citizen who ventured out-of-doors was
expected to provide himself with Ian
tern and at long intervals one might
see lighted lamp hung in front Of the
door of some wealthy citizen.


1t was not until 1897 that the alder
men were charged to enforce the duty.
''that every seventh householder. in the.
dark time Of the moon, cause a lantern
and a candle to be hung out Of his win
dow on a pole, the expense to be divid-
ed among the seven families"


This was probably cobsiderd an ex-
cellent way of street lighting at the
time. But what a change would one
Of the alderman of 1897 fnd, could be
now follow on some dark moouess night
the double line of gas lamps extending
from the Battery to Fordham, a dis
tance of fifteen miles! Who would not
like to accompany him as be silently
passed over the well paved ways, once
50 wild and swampy. and to see his
astonished gaze as the long lines Of
lighted lamps revealed tall fronts of
stately marble stores and brown-stone
houses and on through the beautiful
Central Park. and-still further, over
we'll. made roads-out into the open
country beyond it, yet within the
city's limits? Do you think that the
ancient alderman would recongnize in
he great new city the quiet village that
be once knew and loved st. Nicholas
for Feb.
Year: 1877

TINE FOR PRUNING In 1876, /"
says q correspondent of The Gardner :
Monthly. Il had young orchard which
| began to prune in February and con-
tinued at intervals till August; and
those pruned in June did better heal
ing over sooner, than any pruned either
before or after that period. In 1871
began to renovate an orchard ten years
old. that had been trained according to
the absurd fashion of low heads that
prevailed at that time. 1t took great
deal Of cutting and trimming, but | was
determined, and persevered the result
was that every wound made in June
the time the work was done-began at
once to heal over, and by the time
growth stopped in the Fall every place
where branches had been cut Of had a
beautiful ring of new bark and wood of
from one-third to one-half inch wide all
around it, and they are still doing well
Year: 1877

At eighteen. a young lady will visit
Cape May twenty-five times during one
season, and then kick over the wash
stand because she can't 60 the twenty
sixth; at forty, the same individual, if
still unmarried. will sit out on the
back porch aud she'll beans, and abuse
her young nieces for 'gallivanfin' of
to the seashore just to eat wOrmy huck-
leberries and wish they we're at home.
Year: 1877

May they always live in peace and
harmony was the way Yankee mar
riage notice should have wound up, but
the printer, WbO couldn't read manu-
script very we'll, but in type and hor-
ri6ed the happy couple by making it
read thus


May they always live on peas and
hOminy.'
Year: 1877

When be invited her to marry him,
she gazed into his face and tenderly in
quired if he knew what a costly thing
be had asked for-a Woman's life, a
womau's woudrous love. Four months
after the wedding be climbed through
the scuttle on to the roof, and when a
nsighbor came with ladder to take
him down, he put it to him. as a fellow
creature, whether it wasn't a mans
duty to run whom a woman rose up
after him with hot tea kettle in her
hand.
Year: 1877

A thirsty topper, in bar room, flung
down bis sixpense and then filed his
glass to the brim with whiskey Hold
on ! exclaimed the bar tender, in ap-
parent astonishment, there is a chrome
goes with that drink 7 and tearing off
a portion Of the end Of cigar box, be
politely handed it across the counter.
Year: 1877

A man came to the Duke Of Weeling-
ton with a patented article What
have you to ofer?' "A bullet proof
jacket, your grace Put it on The
inventor Obeyed The Duke rang
bell. An aid-de-camp presented him
self. Tell the captain Of the guard to
order one of bis men to load with ball
cartridgsr The inventor disappeared
forthwith, and no money was wanted
on that invention.
Year: 1877

Been in general use for twenty years. Everywhere
proved the most SAFE, SIMPLE, ECONOMICAL and
EFFICIENT medicines known. They are just what
the people want, saving time and money averting
sickness and suffering Each single specific the well
tried prescription Of an eminent physician.
Year: 1877

There is no royal or short cut TO
heaven. If you want heaven fol-
yourself in the world to come, pre-
pare it for yourself in the life that
now is. You have no reason 70
think you will enter upon the next
life in anywise changed in character
from what you are when you -ieave
this. "He that is unholy. let him
be unholy still" And the character
with which yon leave this world will
be the slow and natural growth Of the
years of your whole earthly life, and
cannot be the result of anything else
the teaching of any theology to the
contrary Notwithstanding. The true
conception of human existence
doubtless Is as one In this world
and the next-this the rill, that the
river; this the dawn. that the day
this the bud, that the flower; this
the blade, that the full corn in the
ear. Heaven is not something tc
be won, or bought, either by our
selves or somebody else for us; but
it is something to grow into. In
the next world you are simply your
self, only moved on and moved up

Swedenburg somewhere gives a rep
resentation of persons who had died
and did not for a considerable time
even know they were dead. Their
old thoughts and feelings. and loves
and desires of an earthly life re
NAMED, and the world which they
had entered did not at first seem
different from the one they had left
only it was spiritual instead ol
physical. Hence they went on in
their old pleasures. Only by de.
grees did they perceive their change
of states-and that as they them
selves became by natural processes
OF growth and development, capable
Of deeper seeing and higher knowl-
edge.
Year: 1877

Il am glad 70 learn, my dear
Patsy that you are employed in
things new and good. or all the
cankers OF human happiness, none
corrodes with so silent yet so bale
full an influence as Incidence. Ex-
ereise and application produce order
in our affairs, health OF body and
eheerfulness Of mind. II at any
moment, my dear, you catch your
self in idleness, start from IL as you
would from the precipice Of gulf.
| do not like your saying that you
are unable to read Liyy but with
the aid OF a master. II is q part OF
the American character 10 surmount
every difficulty by resolution.


my expectations from you are
high. but not higher than you may
attain. Nobody in this world can
make me 50 happy or miserable as
you can. Thiak nothing Is insur-
mountable and you win be All that
I wish you 70 be. Afectionktely,


IT. y
Year: 1877

1t will not do to say that all men
are Dishonest who fail to pay their
debts. That is drawing it rather
ine. If man has not the means,
and cannot get them, how is he to
pay? Many an honest man has
made debts that he could not pay
he made them on the promises of
dishonest men, and because he
fails to pay, it does not necessarily
follow that he is dishonest-if he
manifests desire to pay, and uses
his exertions in that way, he is just
as honest, in our estimation, as the
man tn At can and does pay his
debts. If man is able to pay his
debts and refuses to do so then he
may be called dishonest,
Year: 1877

/Subscribers who are already in


/arrears need not expect to have
4 the CITIZEN continued to them
! after Christmas, unless they pay
up before that time. We are always
willing TO extend reasonable ae-
commodations TO our patrons, but
they must also show a disposition
to respond TO a reasonable demand
We now ask every one TO pay up
by the first Of January. We can
say truthfnlly that ne believe we
have the best subscription list OF
any country paper in The State, II
not in the country. Every man is 4
solvent. honorable. and as a gen
eral thing prompt. and we do not


often have 70 make such appeals
Year: 1877

1t seems to be pretty well under
stood that the bill repeating the Re
sumption Act and also the repeal of
the law demonetizing silver viii
both pass the present Congress. 1t
is feared the President will veto
both bills. We hope he will not.
Year: 1877

The present financial condition OF our
country should teach us the true value
OF our economy. No man or woman


who can buy one dollars worth OF goods
with iiity cents should think OF spend
ing the dollar, yet it Is done every day.
Bsiley's Saline Apperient is warranted
equal to the best in size and quality and
issold at only 50 cents. Ii is just as


pleasant as soda water. no29-4t
Year: 1877

We neglected last week even to
call attention to the announcement
of Ii. c. McLaurine for Sheriff, and
in as much as we did this we will
take the liberty to say just this one
time of any candidate that he is
clever enough for any office.
Year: 1877

The pencilmar you see around this
paragraph (thus) mean that your sub
scription isout or unpaid, and that you
are requested to pay up at once. We
would take great pleasure In extending
credit TO our friend AMI patrons, but
cash alone will Yay our expenses, and
we are forced to adhere 10 strict cash
rule. We hope you will comprehend
and appreciate the necessity Of such a
course, and renew your subscription
without delay. We solicit Jour favor.


t8 We enter no new names on our
books without the money in advance.
Year: 1877




When the late General Forrest
was slave-dealer in Memphis, it is
said that he was always kind to the
human beings he sold; he never
separated members OF family, and
always told his slaves to go out in
the city and choose their own mas
ters. Not one ever took advantage
of this permission to run away.
Forrest taught them that it was to
their own interest not TO abuse the
privilege, and he also taught them
to fear him greatly, To some men
who had the reputation of being
cruel masters, he would never sell a
slave.
Year: 1877

SLuiiceTv Clerk.


Which certificate shall be given


IN duplicate, one of which shall be


handed to the party producing and


filing the evidence of such payment,


and the other he shall forward to


the auditor, and if any portion of
the taxes shall remain unpaid the
same shall be certified by the
chancery clerk and the party in
terestcd shall receipt for the same
in duplicate, and shall give to the
person paying the same, one re.
ceipt, and the other shall be for
warded to the auditor; and all that
portion of the taxes due to the
county shall be paid by the sheriff
to the county treasurer, and his re.
ceipt endorsed on the receipt for.
warded to the auditor, as evidence
OF the payment of the same, and
the auditor on the receipt of such
receipt shall charge the sheriff with
the amount Of taxes paid, to be ac-
counted for on his next monthly
settlement, and shall issue and for.
ward to the chanccry clerk a GER.
tificate releasing the title of the
state to the lands, which certificate
shall be in the form and to the Of.
lect following:


81 hereby release to ---th the
litlc OF the state of, Mississippi TO
Year: 1877

The following article from the Dal-
| las Texas Herald should be read by


every person contemplating moving 10
the Lone Star State:


'"TO the young man with his hair


parted in the middle, who is about to


put his college education and sole


leather trunk aboard the Texas bound


train, we say stop! To the clever
artist and honest mechanic, who


thinks he will fly from the hard times


where he is, to imaginary well paid
employment i'm the Lone Star State,


We also say stop! TO the adventurous
rustic who wishes to leave the turnips
of some New York farm to find soft
thing in this land of prairies, we en-
phatically repeat-stay where yOu8re


We would he inhabiting the earthly
elysium that few Texas papers say we
do, but we don't. From the bottom
of our heart we would he glad TO think
that there was plenty and prosperity
for every one who seek tOsettle among
us, but all the same there isn't. We
do possess something of the approach
of the eternal summer and the marvel
Gus growth the east is SO tired Of hear
ing us brag abont, but isn't all. SOOth
to say there is no chance here for men
without money, all the eager, new ar
rivals to the contrary notwithstand-
ing.


In plain English, the papers that
speak of the magnificent opportunities
this State presents TO the new conner
lies, and lies in a very gratuitOus,
criminal way indeed. The unvarnish-
ed truth is, that our labor market is al
ready stocked to Overfiowing, and
every fresh arriving train but adds to
the miserable multitude i'm our midst
that suffers, staTves, and finally fights
its way back east again.


Before the door of nearly every
house in this city there daily begs
swarm that would sadden tile heart of
a satyr. Men of brain and culture,
good clerks, excellent accountants,
business men Of undeniable energy,
mechanics of ability, walk the streets
i'll dumb despair, and finally take
those that lead to the chaingang and
the work-house. The writer of this
cannot remember one evening for
many that he has not been asked for
money to buy a meal, or bed, 10y men
who would have sooner died on the |
rack than to have asked aims in the |
light of day. And some of them do |
die on the rack-the rack OfcOntinued
disappointment and misery. Yet
some Journals calmly sing the same
old siren song, and still this over
crowded, over traded, and financially
prostrated community is held up with
fatal pcrsistency as the proper Mecca
of the American youth.


We beg the Journals in the east and
north to copy this. We ask that the
truth and the whole truth be told
there as a simple duty to humanity.
In the name of the distress we see
around us and are powerless tOrelieve,
in the name of the tramps and va
grants that fill our cities and towns,
we sOlemnly warn intended emigrants
of all classes, except farmers and men
with money to invest, that we are
oveTstOcked with labor, and will he
for the next four or five years. Though
his ticket be purchased and his trunk
be packed, we say to the man looking
hither for emplOyment-gO back.
Year: 1877

The following intelligence concern
ing Senator Morton appeared in the
indianapolis Sentinel recently:


The general opinion is that Senator
Morton will die at Il very early day.
Reports were ON the streets yesterday
that death is steadily advancing upon
the citadel of his vitality. We were
informed that his body is encircled by
a blue mark, which indicates the adj
vance of death towards the region OF
the heart and brain--a most singular
phenomenOn--and one that must ex-
cite the most painful interest to those
who watch the upward movement of
the death line. Possessed OF wonder
full vitality, the SentOr may live a cou-
pie of weeks longer, but his friends
should hold themselves i'm readiness to
hear the announcement Of his death at
any time.