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Year: 1877

ond Judicial District of the State of Nevada in and
the county of Ormsby Roger Crow, plaintiff, ]. L.
Clegg and Florence Clegg and A W. Pray defendants
Action brought the District Court of the Second Judicial
Omsby and the complaint filed in said county of Ormsby


in the Office of the Clerk Of said District CourThe State
Of Nevada sends greeting to j. L. Cegg and Florence Cgg
and A 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
Omsby and answer the complaint filed therein "a copy
of which accompanies this summOns) within ten days Tex
elusive Of the day of servce after the service you
this summons served within this county; if served
this county, but in this district within twenty avs
otherwise within forty days-or judgment by default will
close certain mortgage executed by defendants J. L.
and Florence Cegg to said plaintiff on lot No Q in
block No six co. in Rice Peers addition to the city of
Carson in Orsby county, Nevada; which said mortgage
given to the payment OF promissory note
made by defendants j. L. and Florence Cegg the goth
day of May, A. d. 1885, to plaintiff for the of six
hundred dollars and interest thereon at three @ per
per month all in gold coin of the United States And
plaintiff asks decree of foreclosure of said mortgage and
that the moraged premises be decreed to be sold and the
proceeds applied to the payment of costs attorneys fees
taxes insurance and the principal and interest
said note in gold coin of the United States and found
insufficient that Judgment be dockeed against the prop
erty defendants L. and Florence Clegg for any bal
ance found remaining due plaintiff All of which is
fully set forth in plaintiffs complaint file in my Office
And you are hereby notified that you fail appear and
answer the said complaint above required the said
plaintiff will apply to the Court for the relief demanded
So Given under my hand and the seal of the District


Court of the Second Judicial District of the State


LID of Nevada, in and for the county of Ormshy this
*r* oath day of August in the year Of our Lord
thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven.


au25-law6w ALFRED HELM, Clerk
Year: 1877

In preparing the present edition for the
press, it has accordingly been the aim of
the editors to bring down the information
to the latest possible dates, and to furnish
an accurate account of the most recent dis
cover!es in science, of every fresh produc-
ton in literature, and of the newest inveu-
tions liz the practical arts, as well rs TO give
a succinct and original record of the prog
ress Of
Year: 1877

The work has been begun after long and
careful preliminary labor, and with the
most ample resources for carrying it on to
a successful termination.


None Of the original stereotype plates
have been ssed, but every page has been
Year: 1877

THE revival of dry goods manufac-
turing at Fall River is hailed all over
the country as prophetic of the ap-
proach of better times It is to be
hoped that some encouragement from
political centers may reach industrial
circles and give us a general awaken
ing in our material interests.
Year: 1877

A correspondent of the Elmira Farmers
Club writes from Arkansas, extolling the
merits of Bermuda grass, and sends the
following letter from some one in Whar.
ton, Texas, as reported in the Husband.
man.


''Ihere is probably two varieties of this
grass, both of which are said 70 grow in
Louisiana and Texas; but my acquaint-
ance is only with one, the short Bermuda
grass. BY whom or from whence the
grass was introduced into this state is NOT
known TO me, but it was to some extent
used as a yard grass in this country pre-.
vous to my coming to the State in 1S45,
This grass blooms but has no seed, or at
least have never been able to detect a
seed. We propagate it by setting small
pieces of the sod four feet apart, or by
chOpping the sod with an ak and sewing
it broadcast and narrowing it in. One
single spear will grow. 1t runs on the
ground, forming new roots at each Joint,
and thus runs about two feet in one sea-
son. There are pastures in this country
that have been standing fifteen or twenty
years constantly and heavily grazed 1t
forms a strong turf, so that heavily.
loaded wagon will not cut through it
when the ground is wet 1t can be set at
any time when the ground is moist, from
the first of March until September. When
once set it is always a good pasture, from
the last killing frost in the spring until
the first killing frost in the fall, which in
this latitude, about 80 deg, is usually
from the 1st of March until November.
Immigrants from Georgia and Alabama
are afraid of this grass, and say it has
ruined many plantations in those States,
as they can never get rid of it. But this
must have been the other variety, for it is
here easily exterminated, either by cult
vation or by shading. All kinds of stock
are exceedingly fond of this grass, and
fatteu rapidly on it. We sow on the
same ground yellow clover which comes
up with the fall rains, grows through the
winter and spring, and seeds die late in
May. These two grasses some years give
US continuous good pasture the year
round. But when we have an early frost
and dry fall the Bermuda fails about
month before the clover is sufficiently up
for pasturage. Kentuckians who have
seen these pastures sag the blue grass of
Kentucky does not equal them. There
are other winter grasses that will COM
bine with the Bermuda as well as the
yellow clover.
Year: 1877

GAPEs IN PoULTRY.-ln recent con-
versation with an experienced chicken
grower, he informed us that he had been
very successful in copquering that pre-
carious disease in his young fowls by the
application of air-slaCked lime. As
soon as manifestation of gapes in his
fowls appears, he confines his chickens
in box, one at time, sufficiently large
to contain the bird, and places a coarse
piece of cotton or linen cloth over the
top. Upon this he places the pulverized
lime, and taps the screen sufficiently to
cause the lime to fall through. This
lime dust the fowl inhales and causes 1t
to sneeze, and in a short time the cause of
the gapes is thrown out in the form of a
Shiny mass or masses of worms, which
had accumulated in the windpipe and
smaller air vessels. This remedy he con-
siders superior to any he has ever tired,
and he seldom fails to effect a perfect
cure. He has abjured all those mechani-
cal means by which it is attempted to dis
lodge the Entozoans with Instruments
made of whalebone, hogs brlstles, or
fine wire, alleging that people are quite
as certain to push the cape worm further
down the throat of the fowls as to draw
them out.-LaacaSter Farmer.
Year: 1877

A GooD SToRY.-Perhaps the most
curious of the stories told by Hutton re-
lates to his own ancestors. A soldier in
Cromwell's army, passing with his COM
rades over Derby's St. Mary's Bridge,
observed young girl lading water from
the river. In the spirit of frolic and mis-
chief, he threw large stone, intending
it should startle her by making sudden
splash. But it struck her on the head,
and made hideous wound. She fell
into the river. The soldier did not wait
to see that she was rescued. He galloped
on, feeling that he had been guilty Of a
wanton murder The unknown conse-
qsences of his folly preyed upon his
mind. His conscience was always up
brading him. Years after, when dis
charged from the army, he settled down
in Derby. He took public house in
Bridge Gate, and after short acquaiDt-
ance with woman of suitable age, got
married. Very soon after their wedding
he saw his wife combing her hair, and
inquired how she got that great scar
which disfgured one side Of her head.
She replied, "Some wretch of a soldier
had once nearly killed her with stone,
but if ever she caught that man she would
pay him off for it, 1t is not recorded
how she punished her husband when he
confessed being her assaiant, or how
great was his relief when the haunting
thought of a wanton murder was removed
from his mind. He was one Of the five
troopers who rode under the oak where
Charles was hidden at Boscobel; and
cordially recommend Hutton's quaint
story to novel-writers in search of such a
plot.
Year: 1877

WEALTH and want equally harden the
human heart, as frost and fire are both
alien to the human flesh. Famine and
gluttony alike drive nature away from
the heart of man.-Theod0re Parker.
Year: 1877

PERSONS who prac tice deceit and arti.
flee always deceive themselves more
than they deceive others. They may
feel great complacency in view of the
success of their doings; but they are in
reality casting mist before their own
eyes. Such persons not only make false
estimate of their own character, but
they estimate falsely the opinions and
conduct of others. No person is
Obliged to tell all he thinks; but both
duty and self-interest forbid him ever to
make false pretences.
Year: 1877

An Italian priest at Vineland, N. j., has
recently notified an Italian woman in that
town to come and take the body of her
husband out of the Catholic cemetery there
because deceased had neglected his Easter
duties and, though sick eighteen months,
had not called for the ministration of a
priest. Vineland is excited, and the widow
has employed counsel to take measures for
preventing the priest from carrying out his
threat of having the body disinterred if
she does not have it removed. The priest
must be very foolish and lily advised
man to attempt anything that would create
such indignation as would an act like this.
Year: 1877

A tall, elderly, refned-looking gentleman
recently went into a small post-office in a
rural region of England. lie asked some
question relative to the registering of let
ter, and was very sharply, rudely and un-
necessarily snubbed by young woman in
attendance. He asked her if She thought
that was proper way to answer an inquiry
in public Office. She said she thought
that she had been quite civil enough for
him. He asked her, with an ominously
increasing mildness of manner, if she would
favor him with her name. She emphati.
cally declined to do so. He then said he
thought he would tell her his name, which,
however, she declined to hear, saying that
his name was no concern of hers. He
calmly replied that he thought it was, for
his name was John Manners, and he was
the Postmaster-General.
Year: 1877

Foutz's Horse e. Cattle Powders are re-
nowned the world over for preventing and
curing disease-iti is therefore unnecessary
to give them any farther recommendation.
Farmers and stock owners should more
fully acquaint themselves with their merits
by actual experiment on their stock. If
they will give the powders to one animal
Tor short time and note the improve
ment in its condition, they will appreciate
them as they deserve, and use then ac-
cordingly.
Year: 1877

SUGAR.-The spectators who have been
holding up the price of sugar are now suf.
fering and everybody is glad Of it. The
stock on the market has accumulated until
1T IS 40 per cent. greater than last year, and
this largo stock is crushing the market.
Sugars are declining and our IA cent sugar
now can be had for l24 cents. This is very
sweet news to the bulk of the people
Year: 1877

No STEAM IN NEw YoRK.-The officers Of
a number of street railroads in New Yorl,
have been interviewed in regard to the
probable attempt to introduce steam on
their roads, and the general expression was
elected that no such attempt will be made
for some time at least. The managers seem
very well satisfied with horse power.
Year: 1877

THE New PARTY.-There is said to be
alarm among the politicians of Ohio. Both
parties have eaten great deal of dirt in
the hope of concilating the working classes.
Both have committed themselves to decla-
rations of which they are already ashamed.
Both have affronted the decency and com.
nonsense of the country and discredited
the Republic in the eyes of foreign nations,
for the sake of catching the votes of a few
thousands of trades-unionists, labor agita-
tors and misguided strikers. And both are
beginning to feel that their humiliation
has been in vain. They have done enough
to shock the better classes of society, and
even to disgust themselves; but they have
not done enough to win the workingmen.
On the contrary, both have lost greatly by


aping the tricks and manners of the dema-
gogue. The wOrkingmen, looking the two
conventions in the face, have said to them
selves, "These fellows must be very much
afraid of us;" and thereupon, satisfied of
their own political strength, they have
begun to build up new party, and to cut
loose from all connection with the old ones.
Year: 1877

The Greenbacll party in Pennsylvania is
making vigoraus effort to rouse the dis
contented laborers into an alliance with it.
1t is said that twenty new clubs have been
organized in the vicinity of Pittsburg during
the past few days, and around Pottsville
similar activity is perceptible, Mr.. Francis
w. Hughes being, as usual, at the head of
the disturbance. At a recent meeting
Hughes told the crowd of laborers that the
hard times were due to bad financial legis
lation, and that the "remedy is not violence,
hut combination of the people to rise
above party, to appeal to Congress, and
exert an action and influence that cannot
be ignored by the body. We must have an
increase of the medium of exchange, or
fall" This is the cheapest sort of dema-
sOgueism, but the audience greeted it with
yells of delight. There are indications in
other States than Pennsylvania that the
workingmen will constitute a voting ele-
ment this Fall which the regular parties
will be good deal crippled with.
Year: 1877

At the sessions Of the Colorado Methodist
Conference, held in Denver last week, a
resolution was offered requesting the bishops
to send to it nothing but able-bodied men,
and TO give each transferred minister a
trlal of one year, in order to test his ability
to perform frontier work.
Year: 1877

Unremitting application will induce
disease unless the blood be kept constantly
pure and rich. For all hard workers the
remedy to keep the blood in the best con
dition is DIR. Bulls Blood Mixture.
Year: 1877

In this Department everything will be found from
French China Tea Sets and Decorated Toilet Sets
down through Granite and C. G.. Ware in infinite
variety, to Common Stone and Red Earthen Ware.
Stove Pipe Guards Specially. Flower Pots.
Year: 1877

ANOTHER CREMATION The latest
cremation experiment ut Washington,
Pa, was an ignominious failure. A
Granger residing near there found
live and risky potato bug wandering
about bis premises without any visible
means of support so he captured the
beetle, bottled him up and buried him
IN snow bank. At the end of five
weeks he was released from his prison,
and appeared as full of life as a tramp
is of impudence. Then the Granger
took the bug over to DR.. LeMoyne's
furnace and subjected him to heat Of
400 degrees above zero for ten hours,
aud when the oven was opened that
bug smiled sardonically, tapped his
wings and few away TO parts un.
known. The cremating process mere.
ly thawed him out and made him feel
good-and if this story is not true
and we admit that il has dime novel
flavor about it-it is the bugs fault,
and not ours Norristoion Herald.
Year: 1877

Philip Gilbert Hamilton, in his
admirable papers on intellectual
Life, thus talks of "the paper :
Newspapers are to the civilized world
what the daily house talk is to the
member of the family-they keep
our daily interest in each other, they
save us from the evils of isolation.
To live as a member of the great
white-race that has filed Europe and
America, and colonized or conquered
whatever territory it has pleased to
occupy, to share from day to day its
thoughts, its cares, its inspiration, it
is necessary that every man, should
read his paper. Why are the French
peasants so bewildered at sea? It is
because they never read a newspa-
per. And why are the people of the
United States, though scattered over
territory IA times the area of France,
so much more capable of concerted
action, so much more alive and mod
ern, so much interested IN discover
les of all kinds and capable of select
ing and utilizing the best of them E?
It is because the newspaper pene-
trates everywhere, and the lonely
dweller on the prairie is not Until
lectually isolated from the great cur
rents of public life which flow thro'
the telegraph and the press.
Year: 1877

Mr.. P. T. Barnum is a temper
ance reformer on a small scale
When he was in Detroit last Sunday
valet, whom he had discharged
years before for drunkenness, solicit
ed a re-engagement. Said Mr.. Bar
mum: "Bob, if you will join the Red
Ribbon men, and at the expiration OF
three months give me proof that you
have kept the pledge, I will take you
back in my service, give your wife q
good situation in my family, and en-.
ter into q written contract to employ
you both as long as I live" The
grateful fellow eagerly promised tc
sign the pledge, and started home
ward to tell his wife the story of his
happy turn of fortune Elk.
Year: 1877

It seems to be the aim of the Re


publican leaders to get rid of the
greenback, non-interest bearing cur
rency, and substitute for it an inter
est bearing currency, the currency
furnished by the National Banks.
This policy is too plain to admit OF
of denial. II Brown Co. News.


The aim of the Republican party,
as we understand it, is to redeem the
promises of the Government by pay
ing the greenbacks in lawful money,
that is, gold and silver coin. Every
greenback is an irredeemable "prom-
ise to pay" so many dollars, which
the Government is unable to pay,
and it is the Republican policy to &C
cumulate gold and silver enough by
the 1st Of January, 1879, to pay
these notes on presentation.


The Supreme Court has decided
that the issue of greenbacks was only
justifable as a war measure-tbat
they were really unconstitutional,
but the Government had to resort
to them to carry on the war, and
hence they were necessary. The
war being over, the necessity which
created them no longer exists, and
the great problem has been how to
redeem them. By careful manage
ment, the Republican administration
has brought up the value of the
greenbacks to within about 5 per
cent. of specie, and the prospect now
is, that by the 1st of January, 1879,
the date fixed for resumption. they
will be worth their face in gold or
silver coin. They will then be re-
deemed when presented, and not
again issued, their place being sup
piled by specie. Thus the amount
of money in circulation will not be
reduced by the redemption and re-
tirement of greenbacks-it Will on
ly be substituting coin for the notes
of the Government, which will then
be taken up and destroyed, just as
an individual pays his individual
notes and cancels or destroys them.


We do not understand what
Brother Leeds is driving at, when he
calls National Bank notes an Gin
terest,bearing currency" Will he
please explain? ?


The National Bank notes are am
ply secured by the deposit of Gov
ernment bonds, and form as sound
and safe currency as we have ever
had in this country. Everybody
knows that National Bank note of
any State is good from one end Of the
Union to the other and there is no
doubt about its being constitution
al"-which greenbacks are not.


As regards substituting National
Bank notes for greenbacks after re-
sumption, we see no harm likely to
result from that, as the National
Banks will be compelled to redeem
their notes in greenbacks or coin,
when presented, and greenbacks
will then be as good as coin.
Year: 1877

Secretary Schurz has notified all
the heads of the bureaus of the In
terror Department that during his
administration of its affairs there viii
be no removal of clerks or other en-
ployees except "fOr cause andno pro
motions except for merit. It will
therefore be useless for persons to
file papers soliciting clerical appoint
ments or promotion on merely per
sonal or political grounds, and in ad-
dition to this, it can be stated that
there are at present no vacancies of
any kind to be filled.
Year: 1877

The Murphy movement is making
good headway in Cincinnati, in spite
of the tremendous power of the beer
and whisky interest. Over 10000
have already signed the pledge and
the meetings are growing in inter
est. The Temperance people claim
that the Murphy movement in Ohio
has already hurt the wholesale liquor
trade of Cincinnati seriously.
Year: 1877

The OREGON LIQUOR Law is the
last novel device to keep men sober.
Here it is:


Every man who drinks is required
to take out a license costing five
dollars a year. Unless armed with
this document he cannot get his
bitters at any hotel or saloon, for it
is a penal offence for the -prOprie ors
of these establishments to sell to
any person without a license. Every
six months the names of the persons
who take out these licenses are to
be published in the local papers, so
that the public may know who arc
not authorized to drink.
Year: 1877

The Legislature at its last session
passed a law authorizing County
Commissioners to offer n reward for
the detection of horse thieves. On
conviction of a horse thief, or any
person aiding or abetting in stealing
horses, the Commissioners are au-
thorized to pay such reward out Of
the County Treasury, but no part Of
any such reward shall be given to
the owner or owners Of any stolen
horse.
Year: 1877

Unto the good little boy shall be
given a picnic ticket, but the wicked
son shall recline on his mothers knee.
Verify, in the day when she waxeth
it to him with her slipper, his heart
will be full of repentance, and his
bowling shall disturb the ncighbOrs.
II Rome Sentinel.
Year: 1877

An Iowa youth invested one dol
lar and q half in a New York firm to
discover 'How to appear well in so
ciety p The recipe which he receiv-
ed by returning mail was short, sim
pie and easy to understand. cal
ways keep your nose clean, and don
suck more than one finger at a time.
Year: 1877

Senator Dawes thinks we have
reached the bottom plank in our
financial difficulties. He is not alone
in this belief. Trade all over the
country is reviving, and before next
fall we will witness increased ac-
tivitv.I
Year: 1877

Fred. Douglass talked right out to
the colOred people the other day
even about their sacred preachers.
He said


'Their preachers tell them more
about what to do and less about what
to feel. They should cultivate their
brains more aud their lungs less.
They should not depend upon being
helped, but should do for them
selves. He was tired of Ethiopia
holding out her hands. They should
not depend upon the Lord for every
thing. The Lord is good and kind,
but is of the most use to those who
do for themselves.
Year: 1877

Of Francis Murphy, the great
Temperance reformer, the Colum-
hus Journal says:


"Any effort to portray his elo-
quence or powers Of description
would be doing injustice. The spell
bound audience and the tears on
every hand, spoke louder than words
Of the power of speech and elo-
quence which is dealt out to few
men in such a liberal manner as it
has been to Francis Murphy. He is
not of the studied or acquired type
Of orator, but rather of that class
which uneonsciously gives forth the
words of truth from bountiful nat
ural Gift"