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Year: 1879

RICH CEMENT.-F Fred Haas showed
us some specimens of cement, taken from
his claim near Junction City which were
marvellously rich. Specks Of gold are
freely visible. contrasting brightly with
the dark blue color of the cement. The
gold is rather. coarser in character than
the general run Of river gold, and un-
doubtedly found its way into the claim
frsm Oregon Gulch. We are not much
ota hand to bet, but we will wager plug


hat against pair of boots that Fred de :
yelops the best claim in Trinity county.
Year: 1879

The VoTE.-As will be seen by the
official count, the vote upon the new con-
stitution was a very little different from
the published returns. We gave the vote
last week upon the best information OBJ
tainable, and it proved correct except in
the case of two precincts. Cox's Bar
gave straight vote against adoption, but
only 2l ballots were cast instead of %.
Hoboken was reported to us as for the
Constitution by six majority, but the Of
fetal count shows the majority to be five
the other way. The total m ajority against
the instrument Is SO, instead of SO which
were eur last weeks figures.
Year: 1879

DANCE AT DOUGLAS CITY.-Mr. III.
w. Leonard will give ball at his hall
in the Douglas City Hotel next Friday
evening, May 3Oth. To those who have
attended the pleasant parties for which
Douglas City is noted we need not say
go" but we do give that piece of advice
TO those who have not yet had that pleas
ura
Year: 1879

DANCE AT JUNCTION CITY New
Constitution men at junction City cele-
brated the adoption of that instrument by
a ball Friday night. The dance was CIV
en- in the Temperance Hall, at which there
was quite turn out.
Year: 1879

FIXING UP.-Hindley is fitting up the
Mountain Market in excellent STYLE
The Zimmerman Brothers are doing the
work. A large meat safe, large enough
to hold "meat for the million," is one OF
the features OF the improvement.
Year: 1879

ST. LOUIS, August l9.-The colored
excursiOnists who passed through here
a few days ago from various points in
Mississippi, en- route to Kansas, re
turned this afternoon, and will leave for
their homes tomorrow. ii. j. Hub
bard, of Janesville, Mississippi, who
accompanied the party, says the trip
was very pleasant, and they were well
treated wherever they went. lie thinks
Kansas a magnificent country, but does
not think it adapted to scolOred men
born and raared in the South. Those
who have money enough to take up
land and provide a living for themselves
till they could raise crops, he thinks,
might get along, but he says 1t Is no
place for those not so supplied. Regard
ing the emigrants already in Kansas, he
saws that great many of them are
hanging about the cities and towns in the
eastern part of the State and that their
condition is bad. The emigrantS general
lv, he thinks, fully realize the fact that
they must work for their living in Kansas
as we'll as elsewhere, and believes the
large majority Of them would gladly
return to their homes if they could
obtain free transportation or had money
to get tickets. About half a dozen OF
the party remained in Kansas with re-
latiOns, but they brought back more
than that number and could have
brought back hundreds ifthey had room
to accommodate them on the train. Mr.
Hubbard thinks the trip will be the
means of stopping the exodus from the
South for a time at least, for
many of the colOred men with the
party are men of influence in
their localities and he is satisfied that
their accounts of Kansas and the con-
dition of the colored people now there
will deter others from leaving the South.


Interviews with number OF cOlOred
men and several whites OF the party,
elected about the same general opinion
that while Kansas is a splendid coun-
trv, il would be foolish for agricultur-
lists to 90 there unless they were pro-
vided with money or other means TO
support themselves the same as white
emigrants. Able bodied men could
probably obtain employment as labOrers
on farms or in cities, and do well,
but old or feeble people could
find nothing to do. There is
also strong belief that the colOred peo-
pie cannot stand the rigors of a Kansas
winter and the sudden changes in the
weather which occur in that State. The
weight of the testimony is decidedly
against the emigration Of poor negroes
TO Kansas.
Year: 1879

less than one hundred dollars worth of labor shall be performed or i'm provemenls made during each year. On all claims located prior to the

 tenth day of May, eighteen hundred snsl scventy-;wo, ten dollars worth oi labor shall be performed or iInpror- mcnts made by the tenth day of June eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and each year thereafter, for each one hundred feet in length along the vein until q patent has been issued therefor; but where such claims arc held in common, such expenditure

 may se made upon any one claim and upon a failure to comply with these conditions, the claim or mine upon which such failure occurred shall be open to relocation in the same manner as if no location of the same had ever been made, provided that the original locators, their heirs, assigns or legal representatives, have not resumed work upon the claim after failure and before such location. Upon the failure of any one of several co-owners to contribute his proportion of the expenditures re- quired hereby, the co-owners who have performed the labor or made the improvements may, at tho ex- piration of the year, give such de- linqucnt co-owner personal notice in writing, or notice by publication in the newspaper published nearest the claim, for at least once a week for ninety days. and if at the expira- ton of ninety days after such notice in writing or by publication, such delinquent should fail or refuse to contribute his proportion of the ex- penditurc required ny this section, his interest in the claim shall become the property of his co-owners who have made the required oxpendi- lures.
Year: 1879

Alta parliamentary soiree lately in
Berlin the chancellor said that par
tial disarmament was impossible
He said that Germany had to show
front in four different directions
and could trust none Of her neigh
bors.
Year: 1879

JAMESTOWN, ". T.


EDrroRs REpUBLIcAN This place is
growing rapidly, Improvements are going
forward on every hand and among Others
county buildings are to be erected, a
want much needed, but the location is
unwarrantable.


The commissioners or rather one one Of
them, {has left town, and the other be-
ing brother in law Of the one doa't dare
to say aug ht, located the site, three blocks
north Of the depot, in behind u store and
other buildings. on low piece OF ground,
and paid to the railroad company five dol
lars 10, for three lots when land Of sut-
jcient size, high and dry, (the highest
point IN the village propcr) could have
been had, and was offered for nothing if
they would locate on it, but as one man
power was doing the business, nothing
could be done. Unless the lo"ation is
changed the parties who have located it
will live to see the day when they will be
ashamed of their act As our country is
fast filling up with that class Of people
who want the best in the best place and
are willing to pay for it and will not he
run by any clique or set Of men. w
hope for the future Of jamestown they
will see tit to change the location.


JUSTICE.
Year: 1879

In answer to the article above, brought
out an article signed "Justice," sharply
crticising the action { f the County Board
Of Stutsman County. for their selection Of
the site for county building.


The great crime charged is, that they
paid for place only thee blocks from
the railroad depot, e., the business cen
tre of the town, the enormous sum of
SIS dollars, while another place was offer
ed, gratis, but the fact that this generously
offered place is nearly = mile from the
depot is covered with silencG The fact
is, that the offer was made by party
~hich last winter, laid out an addition to
the town site Of jamestown, and naturally
tries all means to enhance the value of this
new town site, and leave it to any fair
minded man. If the County Commissions
ers did right to refuse this bribe of. $15,
the acceptance of which would placed the
county building away from the business
part of town. That the county board ad J.
ministers the county affairs most econ,mi.
cally, is proven by the fact they have Kept
the county out Of debt. Can Justice u
or the party whose mouthpiece he is, say
the same thing Of his administration of
the affairs of Green Bay, Wis.:?. Stuts.
man county never was run by single man
or clique, AMI your correspondent my
Year: 1879

We hereby notify oul friends and the public generally that from this time forth we will cease to sell for credit on any terms whatever. We are aware that in order to do this we will have to sell cheaper than our neigh bors, and we are prepared to do so. AS we are building we are very much pressed for cash, and therefore 1t will be better for us to sell for cost than to sell on ever so short a time, no matter how good the buyer. The facts in the case are just these: it is a necessity with us to have our goods or to have the wherewith to buy Of course we do not expect to do so much business, but we are de- termined to do what we can.

 Our Lumber Yard is now full and nearly com Dlete.
Year: 1879

George C. Swan Of Paradise Valley, near the city of San Diego, has a secdling lemon tree in bearing the fruit of which was recognized in competitive test at Riverside and Los Angeles last March to be of superior quality The rind of the fruit is very thin, but thick enough, however. tN bear shipment. It proved to be less hitter than any other seeding lemon submitted to the competitive list mentioned above. It had also the largest per cent. SS of acid of any of varieties passed upon by the Commit tee The great merit claimed for if, aside iron It's general superior ap- pearance, is that it has very little bit terness-so little that the majority ot the committee making the test al the Riverside Fair failed to detect any whatever Its three copetitors at Los were grown on foreign stocks.
Year: 1879

Fitz Hugh Ludlow, in his narrative Of
travel in The Heart of the Continent, tells
of an eccentric genius who improved on the
old yarn to the,,effect that the weather would
have been colder if the thermometer had
been longer by saying he had been where
it was 80 cold that the thermometer got
down of the nail.'
Year: 1879

The following is the statement Of the opera
tions of the national bank redemption agencies
for the month and ten months ending this day:
IS compared with the corresponding periods OF
notes at for circulation. assorted and returned
Year: 1879

1880, and nobody could tell who will be the
candidate. He inclined to the belief that when
the nominating time came candidates would
be selected less with regard to fitness than
availability. To Tribune representative he
said the outlook In Ohio was cheering and he
was hopeful. To Herald commissioner he
remarked that Grant is the strongest Repub-
Iican candidate In Indiana, and that the peo-
New York politics. To the San ambassador
he reaf1irmed that under no circumstances
would he consent to become candidate for
second place on the ticket. He accepted be-
be the case
Year: 1879

Manton Marble has married Mrs. Lombard,
a widow, forty and rich. Jenny June says:
"The lady's income is very large, but it dies
with her, and she therefore secures the future
of her husband by driving with him, immedi-
ateIy and secretly, to the office OF the Mutual
Life Insurance Company, where she executed
a policy upon her own life, in his favor, for
100000 They then started for Europe. This
generosity on the part OF rich woman offers
a fine contrast to the way in which rich men
often tie up their money SO that the wife, who
has been their dependent while they live,
shall benefit as little as possible by their
DEATH
Year: 1879

road could not be turned over to the new COM
pany until the court should decide to whom it
belonged He WAS then asked whether he had
any expectation that he could pay out Of the
earnings OF the road the interest on it's debt
The chairman SAID he need not answer this
question, but the witness stated that under
favorable circumstances the road might be
able to pay interest and dividends at some
future time. Witness was examined at length
as to the Irregularities in the accounts OF the
road during the Gould and Fisk adntntstra
tion
Year: 1879

The Memphis negroes who were unable to
support themselves in case of being attacked
With yellow fever, and who refused to go into
the camp, should have been gently but firmly
led there by the ear and compelled to remain.
Year: 1879

Reader, did you know that for
thirty feet the bowels are lined with
a net work of fine sensitive nervcsY
This surface is quite delicate, and
frequently by the use of strong or
violent pargatives this tract is hor-
rlbly torn, irritated and convulsed
by their gripping action, which af-
iects the whole system. You do
not need pills, but you need a gen
tie invigorating tonic action, some
thing that will give new vigor to
the stomach and general system, by
gently clearing the bowels and liver
of all waste matter. By using Bal.
ley's Saline Aperient you have the
pleasant cathartic action desired
By its Saline action it is a wonder.
full preventative against diseases,
having their origin from exposures
OF hot or cold climates.


For sale at Jno l.. Driver 4 Cos
Drug Store.
Year: 1879

DR.. F. l.. James has just com.
pleted a Map of the County, whicl,
in its entirety, is a choice specimen
OF rare skill, and for beauty of de.
sign and execution can hardly be
surpassed, eqqalling the finest spec
lmen of hthography. This map is
designed for the use of the Engin-
GERS engaged IN the U. s. survey OF
the Mississippi river. 1t is some
four feet square, and drafted on a
scale of one inch to the mile. From
this map, which is as correct as 1t
is possible TO make it, We obtain
the following interesting facts :
The river front of Mississippi coun-
ty in the meanderings of the river,
is 81 miles on direct line, it is
only ~ miles the average width
Is Is miles I; Little River from the
foot OF Big Lake to the point where
1T makes 1t exit is IL l-2 miles, on
a direct line but Is. There are %
Lakes in the county that average 4
miles IN length. Buffalo Greek is
the only perpetual running water
stream in the county.


Fine growing weather, Cotton
and Corn doing fine.


We learn that at the Murphy
meeting on the Bayou last Sunday,
a gentleman OF note and influence
IN that community. took the speak
er's stand and openly denounced
the movement in an elaborate set
speech. We are glad to hear this,
and hope that all who are opposed
to the Temperance movement, an d
favor the demon, intemperance,
with ITS train of evils, will follow
suit and openly support and defend
their cause let them marshal their
forces and openly defend their side
of this momentous question. No
one likes to fight hidden foe, and
we feel satisfied when the full force
and power Of reason is brought to
bear upon the votaries ofintemper-
ance, they will be made to yield to
the benign influence of sobrlety and
moderation, and the time will be
hastened when total abstinence and
prohibition will obtain throughout
the lenghth and breadth of our fair
country. Marshal your forces, and
be prepared for the final blow at
this, the greatest of evils, Strong
Drink.


Choice Honey for sale at Stow
ell Il Heinz.
Year: 1879

KELLY's ISLAND, Ohio, March 24.-The
steamer Golden Eagle struck about mile from this
place while trying te work her way through the ice to-
day. Sho sprung leak. and Is sinking directly in the
steamboat PASSAGE between here and Sandusky In about
twenty feet OF water Her passengers ana baggage
nave been safely landed here, and the mail boat has
gone after her crew.
Year: 1879

Russian merchants recently returned
from the interior Of China to st. Peters
burg have furnished terrible details re-
specting the famine which has for some
time prevailed throughout provinces
of the Celestial Empire. They depose
having seen people die in the streets Of
many towns and villages, and state not
only that anthropophagy is practiced
upon tho bodies of the dead, but that
famished men attack the living and
prey upon them with all the ferocity
and greediness Of the fiercest carnivOra.
One Of them alleges that he was pres
ent at the examination of a medicant,
who had been arrested for some petty
theft, and in whose professional wallet
the mangled remains of an infant were
discovered. This man confessed TO the
magistrate that for some time previous
to his seizure he had lived exclusively
upon the fresh flesh of human beings,
as he could not surmount his antipathy
to that of dead bodies. Another ap-
palling case which came under the no
tice Of Russian merchant was that ol

q young man who had pursuaded his
father to assist him in numbering and
subsequently eating a young girl tc
whom he was betrothed. Men have
been executed for killing and eating
their own children, and sons have slair
their fathers in order to Appease th'
pangs of hunger. In some of the north
ern districts wholevillages stand empty
their inhabitants having one and al
perished for want Of food. Some Of tn,
incidents recounted by these CONNER
cial travellers are too horrible for repro
duction, but the above details will con


vey some idea of the awful suffering


by which the population of China ha


lately been, and indeed still is affiici
ed.
Year: 1879

Young man, save some Of your
strength FOR old age. Il Is curious
but true, that bottle OF champagne
at 20 may intensity the rheumatism
of three score. 1t is fact, that over
tasking the eye at IA may necessitate
the aid of spectacles at 40 instead of
80. We advise our young readers to
be saving of their health for their old
age, for the maxim holds good with
regard to health as to waste
not, want not. It is the greatest mis-
take to suppose that any violation OF
the laws of health can escape. Ma
ture forgives no sin, no error. She
lets of the offender for so years some.
times. but she catches him at last,
and iBfiicts the punishment just
where, just how he feels it the most.
Save health as we'll as money.
Year: 1879

At a recent meeting of the Com
munistic element in New York figures
were produced which show that the
cost of furnishing the unemploy ed ol,er-
atives at Fall River with food IS ouly
$4,000 per week When rent, fuel
and clothing is added, the total viii be
nearly double the above figures. The
strike has now lasted eleven weeks, so
that the expenditure for food alone
must have been $4,000. Ii must
have cost nearly as much more for other
necessaries, making total of not less
than $4,000. To this sum. must be
added the loss of wages, SO that the to-
tai loss by the strike thus far cannot
be less than $4,000 or ST., ,000 II
the loss by mill owners is taken into
consideration, the aggregate will double
the above figures. To sustain the
strike the Trades Union and commu-
nistic societies have drawn upon the
wages of their members, and taken
that which should 60 to the support of
their own families. When the strike is
over it will be found that nothing has

been gained. Those of the strikers
who apply first can get employment at
their old rates, while those who return
later will find their places filed and
will be without work. Those who get
wages will at once be assessed to restore
the relief funds of the Union. So il
appears that the strike has resulted
thus far and will end in decidet loss
to everybody interested in the business
except few agitators, who manage tbs
miserable business and who thrive By
, it. 1t would seem that it is about tim'
that these miserable fomenters Of tloa
BILE should be seen in their true light hy
/ laborers who have been so frequently


duped by them Boston Journal
Year: 1879

A man who fails enthusiastically to
recognize the distinction with differ
epce there is between the touch Of q
woman's hand and the hand Of another
man is material wasted. He ought tc
have been born dosrknob.
Year: 1879

The 1Fdlls of the Guiary MtU FaU-One


Nan Killed and A,.Other Injured.


The most disastrous catastrophe occurred
yesterday afternoon, which has happened in
this city since the terrible mill disaster last
year, and in which it is thought several lives
are lost After the great mill explosion at
tempts we're made to throw down the stand
ing walls of the wrecked edifces and those
of the Galaxy mill were practiced on with
dynamite, and after blowing away
at them for time it was de-
termined to let them stand and
patch them up for a new mill. Messrs
Cahill d Fletcher accordingly, three weeks
since, commenced operations, and from that
time some fifty men have been employed
upon the dangerous and threatening ruins
dangerous because the heavy walls towering
up seven stories in height had been shaken
by the explosion, and further weakened by
the attempts to cast them down, and threat
ening, as all could see, from one wall bullying
at least five feet from the perpendicular.


Yesterday afternoon there were fifty men
ment, others laying joists in the second
strengthen the bulged side. All the men





little dreamed of danger. Mr.. Cahill had
just left the building when one of the hods-
men, Mike Walsh, noticed mortar dropping
from the new wall, and as he watched
small stone rolled from its place. He shout
ed an alarm. The men for mo-
ment looked around them, and they
saw the towering mass of stone
rocking and swaying to and fro above them.
Not moment was to be lost, and the men
rushed frantically from the impending dan
ger. Two men, Solson and Mckenzie,
sprang from their scaffold upon the wall
they were building. Some rushed to the
front. Others succeeded in getting outside
before the laundering mass came crushing
down like an avalanch, carrying with it the
beams and joists of the floors; the scaffold-
ing, crushed to splnters, was buried beneath
the heaped up debris. Some of the wall
fell outward, crushing the timbers of the
Eastern railroad. The scare and fright sub
siding little, it was soon discovered that
one poor fellow at least, was sacrificed to a
false economy. Michael Farrell was found
crushed and mangled and lifeless. One leg
was torn from his body. the top of the head
jambed off, and his side mangled in a
were removed to Wallis Office, where an in
quest will be held over them this
morning. The unfortunate man
was from Jersey City, and
was boarding at the Avenue house. Mr..
Hurd, another employe, was lucky enough to
escape with confused shoulder and some
bad bruises. Mike Connor was not so for
tunate, and it is thought his injuries may
prove fatal. He is under the treatment of
DR.. Dunsmore, at the hospital. He is injur-
ed about the head, and greatly shaken
Several men we're at work in the basement
and it is thought that some of them
are buried beneath the mass of stone and
mortar. Workmen will clear away the de-
bris to-day, and go on with the building
Mr.. Fletcher estimates the loss to the firm al
$4,000. The injured man, Connor, is from
Hudson, Wisconsin, and yesterday was the
first time he was at work on the mill.
Year: 1879

the Plaintiff Little Encouragement.


MILWAUKEE, April 23.-In the case of VIM
Barnes mortgage on the Chicago, Milwaukee
& St. Paul Railway Company, Judge Drum
mond to-day delivered an extended opinion
After full review of the past litigation, he
held that the first plea to the bill was valid
and the second invalid, or, in other words, that
only those bondkolders who, upon organization
of the old Milwaukee and Minnesota company,
did not voluntarily surrender bonds and take
stock in that company could derive benefit OF
the present bill. The question LETT to be de,
cided is whether certain of the bondholders did
not surrender their bonds under coercion.
Complainant was granted leave to file an ex-
plication to this plea, that the case might 60 to
a master for proof By the decision the bond
holders have the right to show before the mas
ter whether they surrendered their bonds and
the stock voluntarily or under coercion, or such
circumstances as would render the surrender
negatory Thus this Important case is to en-
gage the courts while longer.