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Year: 1877

Conclusion Of General Jubal A. Earys
letter on the report Of his soliciting an Office
under President Hayes: TO those who
have thought proper to amuse themselves at
the very idea of my having been rendered
federal Office have 10 say that tha, MAJ he
good fun TO them, bu, il is no fun 10 me, or
the public either, TO observe the very persist.
ent pursuit of Office displayed by them and
very many others besides on all occasions
when there is any place, great or small, to 10
filled. Certainly modes,y is not one of the
weaknesses Of our public or aspiring men,
and if their ambition is not always gratiied
it is not from the failure to keep their CLAIMS
before the people,"
Year: 1877

ond Judicial District of the State of Nevada in and for
the county of Ormsby. Roger Grow, plaintiff, J. L.
Clegg and Florence Clegg and A. w Pray defendants.
Action brought in the District Court of the Second Judicial
District of the of Nevada in and for the county Of
Ormsby and the complaint filed in said county of Orr lsby


in the Office of the Clerk of said District CourThe State
of Nevada sends greeting to j. L. Clegg and Florence Ceg
and w Pray, defendants You hereby required to
appear in action brought against you by the above
named plaintiff in the District Court OF the Second Judicial
District of the State of Nevada in and for the county of
omsby and to the complaint filed therein "a copy
Of which accompanies this summons} within ten days lex
elusive of the day Of ervice after the service you of
this summons- I'd within this county, or if served
out of this county, in this district within twenty days
otherwise within forty days-or Judgment by default will
be taken against you The said action is brought to fore
close certain mortgage executed by defendants j. L.
and Florence Cegg to said plaintiff lot No. one O in
block No six 6 In Rice Peters addition to the city of
Carson in Orlnsby county, Nevada which said mortgage
was given to secure the payment of promssory note
made by defendants j. L. and Florence Cegg the goth
day of May A D. 1875, to plaintiff for the of six
hundred dollars and interest thereon three @ per cent
per month all in gold coin of the United States, And
plaintiff asks decree of foreclosure of said mortgage and


that the moaged premises be decreed to be sold and the
proceeds applied to the payment OF COSTS attorneys fees
taxes insurance and the principal and interest on
said note in gold coin OF the United States and If found
insufficient that judgment be docketed against the prop
erty of defendants L. and Florence Clegg for any bal
ance found remaining due plaintiff All of which is more
fully set forth in plaintiffs complaint file in my office
And YOU are hereby notified that if you fail appear and
answer the said complaint, above required the said
plaintiff will apply the Court for the relief demanded
Given under my hand and the seal of the District
Court of the Second Judicial District of the State


Lo of Nevada in and for the county Of Ormsby, this
49, oath day of August, in the year Of Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven.


au25-1aw6w ALFRED HELM Clerk.
Year: 1877

SONS REVENGE ON HIS FATHER.


[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.


NEWPORT, X. l., Jan. II, 1871


Grc with loss Of life, occurred this morning at tho
farm house of Henry Brown in the town OF Middle.
town, which adioins Newport. Henry Brown was the
sole occupant OF the house and has pershcd Crcum-
stances looking very suspicious the HERALD
spondent, he endcavored to make clear the mystery
Nothing was found of the house but
Of cnders Everything else COM
plctey burned up Tho OF the
deceased which burned were found smoking and
although 1t was six hours after the fire effort had
been made the part his three gather those
remains for inlerment prominent citizen Of the
town remons rated with the eldest for his ndier
The son replied that 1t was not his place to do
anything about It, Finally the citizens who were
friends of tho family gathered the burning enbers OF
the bones OF the deceased which did not half n the
water pail. For some time Brown and his youngest
son Charles have lived together alone, the vile ana
mother being dead. They nave been known OF late
10 frequently quarrel and light Mcnael Donahue,
VINO called TO their father last night, states that
the father and mis- son were quarrcling and lighting
then. IL appears that the iather decided him his farm
last summer totally Ignoring the claims OF his other
children and that OF late the favored acting
as he should the iather threatened to take the deed
from him. The son replied that neither no or any
else could have the deed; that was his intention
to put MN (his iatber in the poorhousc. This was





Charles is known 10 have been about the house tnrcc
times before ten o'clock last night. In reply to ques
tions asked him by your correspondent TO the
Of his not being at the house he said that he
stopped all night at the residence OF his married sis
ter some distance from his lather's house That at
o clock this morning he bright light In mis-
fathers room. called his brotherinsw and both went
To tho burning building. Upon being interrogated
how he TO the light that
early hour, he said he watching with his sister,
who sick, and that, upon gong into adjoining
to get glass OF water for her, he the light.
He admitted that II was queer idca Tor him 10 DO
watching with his sister, who was not dangerously III,
and her husband aud several lady occupants of tho
house asleep. His face shows plainly the marks OF a
deadly scuInc, IN which he and his father without
doubt participated last night. TO his brother
inlaw and others he told different story
TO that told 10 your correspondent. Tbs
brother n-aw denies that hc watched with
his WIFE Told him that he was up at about two
O'Clock and discovered the fire. The he gave
him saying all nignt with his father was that
when he went nome he found the door locked. From
hs room II was impossible To see the ouding and,
he ana HIS brothcrinaw reached the hre they
called up the occupants of the house tho road
occupied by I.al Justice Brown. rbc latter &C
companied by his hired man, Michael Donahue, mon
toned above. The party OF tour got ladder TOR tho
purpose of reaching tho window OF tho deceased but
were unsuccessful
Year: 1877

The PieayuNe yesterday attempted to
give its readers the benefit of its enterprise
in the publication of the new Superior
Civil Court bill. Unfortunately, the docu-
ment published is not the bill that passed
the Legislature at all. Il was an original
draft, which had been very much altered
and cut down before being put on its pas
sage through the Legislature. The true
and coEreet bill viii be promulgated in the
REPuBLIcAE in day or two, and the Plea
y,sas can then copy it with perfect safety to
itself and ite readera
Year: 1877

Eal impression is that the "five


'estamo levied by the Democracy


xpayers will meet with very lit


n . few days the State licenses


d to collectors. Under the Law


it can do business without a


10 courts will seize for violations


and if the Democratic sheriff
DO his duty he must be legally


by one who will. This is the


customary method of enforcing
SO under like circumstances in
hse payers know this, and will
Pc to pay duplicate bills. Real
are not exigible for some time
Year: 1877

An Incident of the Night After the


Battle OF fredericksburg


Judge Rozo in Philadelphia Times.l


When, on the return to Marye's
Heights, the command first filed in
from the road, there appeared to be
thin line Of soldiers sleeping on
the ground to be occupied. They
seemed to make a sort of row or
rank. 1t was as if line of skir-
mishers had halted and lain down
they were perfectly motionless; their
sleep was profound. Not one of
them awoke and got up. They
were not relieved, either, when the
others came. They seemed to have
no commander - at least none
awake. Had the fatigues of the
day completely overpowered all OF
them, officers and privates alike: +:
They were nearest the enemy,
within call Of him They were the
advance line of the Union army.
Was it thus that they kept their
watch, on which the safety of the
whole army depended, pent up be-
tween the ridge and the river? The
enemy might come within ten steps
of them without being seen, The
fog was a veil. No one knew what
lay or moved or crept little dis
tance off. The regiments were
allowed to lie down. In doing so,
the men made a denser rank with
those there before them. Still those
others did not waken. If you
looked closely at the face Of any
one Of them, in the mist and dim
ness, it was paid, the eyes closed,
the mouth open, the hair was dis
heVeled besides, the attitude was
often painful. There were blood
marks, also. These men were all
dead. Nevertheless, the new. com
ers lay down among them and rest
cd. The pail of night concealed
the foe now. The sOmber uncer-
tainty of fate enveloped the morrow.
One was saved from the peril of the
charge, but he found himself again
on Marye's Hill, near the enemy,
face to face with the dead, sharing
their couch, almost in their en-
brace, in the mist and the Deccm-
Der night. Why not accept them
as bed fellows? The bullet that
laid low this one, if it had started
diverging by ever SO small an an
gle, would have found the hearts
blood of that other who gazed upon
them, 1t was chance or provi.
denoe, which tomorrow might be
less kind. So they lay down with
the dead, all in line, aud were
lulled asleep by the monotOny of
the cries of the wounded scattered
everywhere.
Year: 1877

Rochester UniOn.l


1t is evident enough that the rep.
utation of Harvard College is run.
ming down rapidly. Added to the
charges, openly made, that the most
audacious, free thinking rhetoric i;
indulged and the moral standard oi
the college is lower than ever before
in its history, and that it is ac.
knowledged to be the mostimmoral
extravagant and unchristian insti-
tuition in the land, is the open
charge of the commonest sort oi
rufiianism. Less than a month ago
the Harvard students visited Bos.
ton, and entering the hall where a
convention Of New England free
lovers was being ,beld, INDUCED in
such acts as to break up the meet
ing. While it may be true that these
free.lovers have no respectability,
or at least SO little that they forfeit
the favor Of the Boston police, the
fact does not relieve the Harvard
students of q disgrace attaching to
such q rufiianly act,


A later rutlianly act committed
by these students was throwing a
mattress from q dormitory window
upon a throng of people below,
striking a woman on the head, fore
ing a comb into her skull and in.
juring her so severely that she has
been confined to her bed ever since
and is in 0 very critical condition.
The latest not Of blaokguardism
was that Of the Harvard students
while at Springfield during the re-
cent regatta, of putting the follow
ing signboard outside their quar-
ters: REPORTERS and other loaf
efs not wanted here" True, this
act may have been that of a black
guard who vent to Harvard as
such, and who will come away and
remain such all his life, but the
other students gave that silence
which was assent to the act, and it
reflects upon them all, Taking any
view of it, tho act was the most
contemptible and insulting that
could have been committed and
contributes largely to the support
of the assertion that the moral
standard of Harvard is at a low
ebb, and the immoral and ruflianly
at high tide.


Tho Boston Transcript makes
the charges, and that paper has
ample means of gotting at the truth
and is noted for the fearlessness with
which it uttors it, During the past
year or two the student at Harvard
has had no keystone of religious
faith for his intellectual arch, and
hee.thinking Of the Bradlaugh type
has become there the formidable
rival of all orthodox theology.
Works Of what are called indirectly
in6del in character, pretending to a
scientific basis, are freely circulated
among these students addicted
to or tolerant of mere religious
speculation, and the certain drift Of
it all is the assailing of mems dearest
beliefs in the coarsest manners Of
the students in their daily life. The
writer in the Transcript asserts
Year: 1877

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. May lS.-Ihe follow
ing invitation from ct2cus has been extended to tie
President and his Cabinet and their Wiycs The people
OF Chattanooga without regard TO party lines hereby
invite you to attend the decoration OF the graves Of the
Federal dead III the National Cemetery near this city, by
the late soldiers both armies on the 3Oth inst; and
also on The same day, dinner at the stanton House
in this CITY, given to commemorate this union OF the
slue' and gray decorate the graves Of our dead


with liberty peace and prosperity nauguratcd by the
Southern policy and new South" Extensive prepare
tou are being made 10y the 10 assist on
tb occasion and OF the most prULincut men III the
couuiry v present dni participate III The exercises
Year: 1877

SpRINGFILLD, IL, May I6.-olnce the un-
fortunate accident to the Rockford Courthouse ana
within the last few days particularly inc question
whether the new State House in this city is Sale LAS poc


exciting the interest and attention OF the people III u


frent portions OF the State In many respects the new
Captol buiduR is considered the finest ia the country
vet few practical architects whose skl ana hbiity
cannot be questioned have expressed various opinions
which refer particularly 10 the construction ahu
present safety OF the DOME believing that II docs not
have the necessary support The dome Is ABOUT nail
completed ana satisfy people OF s safety the LesS
lature before final adjournment the 24th INST, WIN


,ee for an immediate examination OF the
entire structure 10 determine II there II any cause Tor
Year: 1877

The admissibility of Chinese as wit
nesses has been affirmed by the Criminal
Court of Baltimore, after consideration
of a letter by S. Wells Williams, for
mer resident and official in China. Mr..
Williams says the Chinese are not sensi-
BILE of the obligations of an oath, no
matter in what form it is administered,
but he also says: In general the wit
nesses ina native court give as fair an
account of a transaction as they give it
in their common intercourse with each
other; they have learned by experience
that in order to get along in life GER
tain degree of truth Unnecessary, but few
or none of them would expect that an
invocation or oath to or before an idol
would have much weight, or carry a
sanction to make man speak the truth
when otherwise he would lie. The cere-
mony of killing a cock is rather an i'm
precation of like punishment on himself
than a call on spiritual being who
knows the heart and whom he fears, to
attest the truth of what he says. Con-
sequently such ceremonies are not gen.
eral, for they do not carry much weight,
and yet believe the experience of con-
sular courts in China is favorable to the
general credibility of the testimony.
Year: 1877

1t will be recollected that, not long
ago, in the case of Hood vs.. the State of
Indiana, Judge Roberts, of Dearborn
County, decided that Hood, who had OBJ
tanned divorce from his first wife in
Utah and married again, taking up his
residence in Dearborn County, was guilty
of adultery, and Hood appealed to the
Supreme Court. On the trial it was
shown that the divorce was obtained by
a Chicago lawyer, one of the disreputable
class who obtain divorces without pub
licity, ETC., and that Hood was never a
resident of Utah. The question for the
Indiana Supreme Court to decide was
the validity of divorce granted under
such circumstances The Supreme Court
has decided that the Utah court had no
jurisdiction. A statute of that Territory
provides that where person applies for
a divorce, if the court is satisfied that
the applicant is resident of the Terri


tory or wishes to become one," the
court may grant a divorce. The Su


preme Court hold that this statute is
ultra wires and void, and that court in
Utah cannot thus obtain jurisdiction o.


non-residents. The decree of divorce il


therefore void. 1t is believed that thi


decision will have the effect of breaking
up the business of obtaining such di
vorces. Other States will doubtless fol
low the example of Indiana in their de
cisions on this important question.
Year: 1877

The brilliant successes which have of
late years been gained by the Germans
are, it is now generally recognized,
mainly to be attributed to the careful
provision with which the organization of
each of the separate parts, which, when
united, form an army, has been perfected
beforehand. Every detail is arranged
during the years of peace; nothing has
to be improved in haste at the moment
when it iswanted. The invitation, there
fore, which has been recently sent to all
the civilian medical practitionersinB inBerlin
can only be regarded asa part of the gen.
eral system. Every doctor and surgeon,
namely, residing in the German capital
has been requested through the police to
inform the authorities on the following
points. He is to state, in the first place,
whether, in the event of his country be-
coming involved in war, he will be pre-
pared 10 serve during the whole cam
paign, or during any period of it of less
duration than six weeks, in the field hos
pitals of the active army; secondly,
whether, if he is willing to undertake
this duty, he will consent to serve in the
reserve hospitals not situatedin the town
in which he resides; or, thirdly, whether
he will be disposed to render medical
service in reserve hospitals in his place
of residence. In the event of his de,
claring himself willing to serve in any
of these ways, the authorities undertake
to consider, as far as possible, any wish
he may express as to the place in which
he would prefer to be employed.
Year: 1877

A world of trouble is occasioned to
young girls by the indecision of charac-
ter of young men. A pretty girl is living
in the neighborhood of half a dozen
young men. She is not only beautiful,
but she is good, we'll educated, and ac-
complished. Perhaps there is not one of
these young men who would not take a
peculiar interest in her, for she is gen.
eral favorite, but they observe that one
of their number seems to gave got the
start of them; he is regular and fire.
quent visitor, and his attentions do not
appear to be at all displeasing in the
quarter where they are bestowed so the
others fall back, or turn their eyes else
| where.


The young man who has brought all
this about goes on from week to week :;
from month to month it may even be
from year to year, without any definite
plan of the future, or so much as any
clear decision in his own mind of what
lady; he knows that his visits are pleas
ant to himself and acceptable to her he
| would not like her to receive particular
| attention from another yet he says not a
| word about engagement and marriage, the
end and aim of a woman's life.


He has gradually won her affections,
until he has become the ocean to the
river of her thoughts" She could not
bear to break off with him, to be sepa-
rated from him for she loves him as She
fondly believes, and perhaps truly, as she
can never love another! But how har-
rowing is the state of doubt and uncer-
tainty in which she drifts on?


Reflection should make young men
careful how they win the hearts they do
not wish to wear. They have no right to
monopolize a girls society so long as
they are in state of entire indecision as
to their own wishes and purposes.


But while the fault may lie with the
young men, the folly rests as much with


the young women. They should be early


wise; and guard their affections from be-


coming fastened upon young man from


whom they have no assurance and of


whom they know nothing more than that


he is an agreeable companion. They


should beware of young men of indecis.


ion of character, who having once in.


gratiated themselves into favor, will


dawdle along, as if it were no part OF


their duty to give to the future, and


to the happiness of others, a single


thought.


1t is rarely undecided associations are


productive of permanent good. There


are many circumstances which intervene


in the progress of time, and render then


highly I'M furious to both parties As il


the one case the eligible young men keeI


their distance for fear of intruding, so il
the other the undecided young man il
looked upon by young girls in the neigh
borhood as partly, if not wholly, en-
gagged; and it is only in the case of ;
flirt any attempt is made to draw hin
away; but, should his attentions ceas,
for any cause, he finds it difficult mat
) ter, indeed, to reinstate himself else
| where.
Year: 1877

The servant girls who escaped from the
Southern Hotel while it was in flames
tell singular story about the premOni-
ton of fearful disaster. The girls oc-
cupied three different rooms on the
sixth floor, and about eleven o'clock,
after they had ali retired and most of
them were asleep, a cat came, scratched
against the door and mOaned pitifully


As a cat had never been seen in that
part of the house, many of the girls were
frightened. Lizzy Leary, girl strongly
superstitious in her inclinations, woke
up the other inmates of the room in
which she slept, and told them there
was cat at the door acting strangely,
and she could not drive it away. She
expressed a belief that it was the sign of
something terrible going to happen, at
which the other girls laughed and ridi


culed her. When they opened the door
the cat mewed, and refused to come in,
and in moment retreated down the hall
as if badly frightened. About twelve
o'clock all the girls in that room were
awakened by the noise of cats at the
door. On opening the door they discov


cred four felines crouching against and
scratching the wall, and moaning low,
as if in terror. They procured broom
and endeavOred to drive the disturbers
down the hall toward the stairway lead


ing to the floors below, but they refused
to go in that direction. While making
the effort to drive them away the door
of the adjoining room, where the other
girls slept, was opened, whereupon the cats
| made frantic rush into the room, and flew
under the beds, where they crouched to-
gether. By this time dozen of the girls
we're awake, and highly excited over the
| strange action of the cats. The cats
refused to move from their position un-
der the bed, neither blows or persuasive
calls having any effect on them. All the
cats were recognized as those belonging to
| the cellars and ON the lower floors, where
they were used as mOusers, and their
sudden advent to the sixth floor, to-
gether with their unaccountable actions,
very naturally aroused the fears of the
servants, and the more nervous ones
| could hardly be persuaded to retire to
bed again. 1t was concluded to allow
the cats to remain under the beds, and in
half hour quiet was again restored.
When the alarm of fire came, the cats
were still under the bed, crouching and
mewing, and there they stayed until the
girls were rescued by the memorable
courage of Michael Hester.


1t is said that all the girls now have a
firm belief that the visit of the cats was
a warning of impending danger, and that
they were sent there by some mysterious
agency to give timely premonition


The proper theory, doubtless, is that


occupying that part of the lower build


ing where the fire first started, and where
it spread and groaned and cracked in &
smothered way, perhaps for hours before


the general alarm was given, the cat:


became terror-stricken and sought safety


by flight to the upper stories. They stop


ped at the servant girls room because
that was the highest point that could b.
reached, and here they conducted them
selves in maner which the girls, very
excusably, considered altogether prefer