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Year: 1875

LAND PArENrs.-There are over
three hundred thousand patents to
land laid away in the General Land
Office at Washington during the
years that have elapsed since the or
ranization Of the Land Office. The
first issue Of patents for land was in
Ohio. These patents are valuable as
evidence Of conveyance Of the land by
the Government to the original owner,
and the title on which the validity Of
subsequent transfers depend. 1t is
true 4 record Of issue is kept at the
General Land Office, but Che procure
Year: 1875

People ask US sometimes why we do
not attack the gambling institutions in
this city and try and break up the bust
ness of the gambler? Our answer in
variably is, (Which ?'' We think it is
plain case that almost everybody in
Storey county is gambler. And it is
not confined to Storey-it is the occupa-
ton of the coast. True, all people do
not patonize Slim Jim, nor take the chance
of fair buck at faro, but they gamble just
desperately at plenty Of other games.
They every day bny stocks in mines that
they know there is not pound of pay
ore in, they buy other stocks in mines
which are good, but which are managed
Just as Slim Jim manages his little card,
where the chance to win is almost as
vague in one case as the other. Men do
this who would not like to be called gam
blers; women do it who would tell you,
were you to ask them, that if their hus-
band was gambler they would not live
with him an hour Young ladies who
are shocked at the thought that there are
men who make a living by gaming are
not Indifferent to the knowledge that
their sweethearts are carrying Consoli-
dated Virginia instead of East Belcher
Little boys express their admiration fo1
man by saying. He has got Califor-
mia. he has, . and the prayer pious moth
ers teach their isping infants is:


Now lay me down to sleep,


pray the Lord to Ophir keep;


Make it higher ere / wake,


And God forbid that it should break


With society in this state, we do moi
feel like censuring severely a class who
put up honest twenty dollar pieces and
give outsiders free lights and fire to buck
by. By the way, this reminds us that
we have little stock ourself. and it rates,
to-day at figures that it won't do to speak
about. Virginia Chronicle.
Year: 1875

RETURNED. "A Detroit boy who scraped
two or three dollars together last week
and started for the Black Hills was yes
terday morning found on the front door
steps by the family. There was dust on
his clothes. straw in his hair and a sad
look in his eye, and as the old man
reached out and hauled him in he re-
marked g Father, you may talk about
quartz mining, shaft-sinking and lodes
and veins all your days, but | tell you
there's no place like home, even if your
mother is homely and lame. ''-Detroit
Free Press. 4
Year: 1875

A YOUNG Galena (Ill.) wife left this
note pinned up in the house, addressed
to her husband Precious, have gone up


to mothers to get something good to eat;
be sure and take the medicine out of the
right tumbler, and don't let the fire go
down. Bring home my new bonnet for
Sunday, or I'll quit your bed and board
forever. Did the sedlitz powder do you
any good? Don't get any dirt on the
floor, and save this big pin. Your own
Chunk ----
Year: 1875

The bees have become very bold in. Ell
Paso H., and cluster around the beer


faucets in the beer shops. A thirsty man
whowas drinking glass Of beer, the
other day was Mortified to feel one of the
insects fly into his mouth, apparently in
tent on having sip Of the beverage be-
fore it disappeared down his throat. He
has not been able to taste anything since,
and his tongue has swollen SO as to be
with difficulty confined behind his teeth.
Year: 1875

In Texas it is not uncommon to have a
snake for bed-fellow. Not long since one
Mr.. Harrison woke in the middle oflhe night
and found huge snake coiled beside him.
Not daring to move he lay still until morning
with wide open eyes for, five hours. The
snake was not squeanish and slept as SOUND
as a dormouse.
Year: 1875

PHrhADELPHIA is congratu,ating itself as
the first Metropolitan scene in this country
of the evangelical labors of Messrs. Moody
and Sankey A better field and one more in
want of successful laborers could scarcely be
found.
Year: 1875

ONE of the Democratic orators in Ohio
had the impudence, in addressing an audi
ence the other day, to speak of France as an
example of the prosperity which paper mon-
ey brings. Of course he entirely ignored the
fact that contraction of paper money is stead
lily going on in that country, and that busl-
ness 1ourishes without any attempt to
''make and keep a currency equal to the
wants of trade"
Year: 1875

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily tor publication
but as guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used.
Year: 1875

ana heroic endeavor, with faith in himself and
women.


In intensity of dramatic action, in fneness
of execution, in color and style "St Sim on's
Niece is certainly one of the most notable of
American novels, and an earnest of rare capa-
bility. The ouly bemish of execution, it seems
to us is in the very closing paragraph of the
book. A few lines back the author left Marian
and Roland pacing secluded garden walk.
Why did he ever bring them forth again? Why
did he not let the readers unassisted imagina-
tion do the rest? To those of us who desired
another wedding the circumstances were GER
tainly propitious. To those of us who did not,
the uncertainty was comfort. The walk in
the garden was certainly hint enough of COM
pensating affection. Anything beyond that,
with the memory of Fanny yet fresh, suggests
doubt of Roland's constancy. The new love
is natural enough, but we do not want too
much of the natural in a book
Year: 1875

There is funny side to even so sad a case as
the abduction of Charley Ross. The father of
the lost boy tells the story to reporter OF the
philadelphia Times. While in Canada, re-
Gently, he saw a circular of circus manager
announcing wax figures of the Ross family, to-
gether with an offer from the manager himself
of reward of $4,000 for the discovery of the
boy Mr. Ross went to the circus and saw fig
ures of himself and wife, and Charley, none of
which bore the least resemblance to the origi-
nails Without making himself known he talk
ed with the exhibitor, who told him he was
frequent visitor to the Ross household, aud that
all the figures were strikingly accurate Ike
nesses. When Mr.. Ross made himself known
the man was dumbfounded for moment out
immediately expressed bis deep Esympathy, de-
claring his willingness to pay the $1,000 reward
and offered, 10 case the boy were found' 70 give
the father $1,000 a week for thirty weeks, for
the privilege of exhibiting him!
Year: 1875

The old-time complaint of men regarding
the burden of ladies in general conversation
is mostly obsolete. In our day, women, on
the whole, talk in society quite as well as
men. They are not quite SO epigrammatic,
and sometimes lack condensation; but they
are decidedly more sprightly, and tell any
story which requires quiet dramatic express
sion good deal better. Their grand de-
feet in conversation is obligingness, with a
show of interest that is visibly pretense and
a series Of replies which are as vapid as the
white of an egg. Nor man talks as badly as
most women on subjects they care nothing
about, for no man who, under those cir
cumstances, talks at all, hesitates to be a
little bitter-and vanilla, be it nice or not,
has at worse more flavor than cream-cheese.
But the serene, equable flow of woman's
talk helps nightly to prevent conversation
from degenerating into intellectual duel
ing-which, though amusing for two min
utes, is WEAKNESS after five, and to be
perfect should be arrested after two shots
each. Women, morever, wake up the talk
ativeness in the men-an attribute the
men too often overlook.
Year: 1875

1t is edifying to see how cheerfully the
society girl doffs purple and fine linen for
sackcloth and ashes. She does not fast, for
that is $50 very trying, you know, al
most as bad as sitting up every night till 8
o'clock-and then nobody is obliged to fast
until she's twenty-one. She has lovely
missal, however, and goes to church twice
a day-especially in the evening, when the
young men are at leisure. She dons de-
mure black dresses, with innocent lace frills
at throat and wrist. She makes charlotte
russo for the washerwoman and her five
children in the alley, who have not tasted
any meat for a week; and when, with her
person adorned with a guileless white
apron, she explains to her morning caller
how size is engaged, the young man of the
period becomes victim on the spot, and
wishes it were "Lent" all the time, and
that he could "borrow' it. She visits the
poor, too, and takes the young man with
her to elevate his devotional spirit. He
thinks the washerwoman is brute for
screaming, instead of accepting it as a
modification of the flesh, when the young
lady spills not soup over her. Then she
and her friends organize sewing circles,
where they meet regularly every week,
equipped with those charming little chate-
laines. At Q o'clock the gentlemen come,
and they dance-very soberly and quietly, of
course. One of these little aoteries of last
season manufactured one shirt and five


sleeves; but as none of tho members knew
how to work buttonholes, the garment was
not distributed. Finally, with Easter bells
ringing, she goes to church to display her
new suit, fully satisfied that though her
ashes were ashes Of roses, and her sack
cloth cut in the latest style, she has done
all that was required of her Washington
Letter.
Year: 1875

| The New York correspondent Of the


Boston Saturday Gazette tells some amusing


stories concerning street masquerading OF
girls in good society. The other night, he


says, two of these young women dressed up


in some cast-of clothing, and went out on


the street to beg. They were long time


in getting up enough courage to ask any


one for money. Finally ,one of them went
up to lady and asked for something to get


food with. The lady looked at her mo-


ment, and said My dear, you are much too


pretty to be begging at this time of the
night and of the same time handed her
two cents. The girl flung them at her feet,


and told her II she could not give more than
that, she need not give any thing, and the
two ran off before the lady could recover
from her surprise. They stayed out until
10 o'clock. and by good luck, met with no
serious adventure. Three others, moving
in the tsame circle, dressed up-one as a
half growagirl, and the other as respect
able wom8a of the working class, This
party took 5he day light for their skylark-
ing. They pretended to have come from
the country, and stopped ON the first corner
for quart of peanuts. They then went to
Woods Museum to see rather sensational
play. They palavered with the ticket man; !;
wanted to know if tickets had't riz, and


if the half-grown gal couldn It get in for
half-price.' They united their money from
the corner of their hankerchlefs, and bought
front seats, made comments on the audience,
wept at the pathetic parts, roared at the
jokes, and made audible criticisms on the
actors. Iforgot to say that two lady friends,
who were not disguised, kept near them
all the time and it was as much as they could
do to keep from laughing aloud. They
walked down Broadway, and passed any
number Of persons they knew, who looked
right in to their faces and had no idea who
they were. The 'half-grown girl went up
to one Gentlemen whom she asked for
penny. He gave her 25 cent note, and
told her not to spend it all in candy, with
out once suspecting that she was Miss,
whom he was going to take to the opera
that very night. The strange part of it is
that the only change she made in her face
was to comb her hair straight back, and
put dull sort of half-witted expression into
her face. One of the other ladies wore a
IA gged veil, and the other merely combed
her hair down over her temples; but the
disguise was complete. They vent to
photograph gallery and had their ferrotypes
taken in a group. wish could reproduce
it in these columns. You could scarcely be-
lieve that those three common, countrifed-
looking females were three of the prettiest
and most stylish young ladies in New York.
Their acting was perfect, and would do
credit to the stage. They say that no one
can imagine what q strange ensation it was
to feel that they were OF no consequence.
They would walk along as they pleased, sit
down ON a step when they got tired and feel
no more concern than any old washerwoman.
No one paid the slightest attention to them
and they felt as Independent as beggars.
Year: 1875

:, "A soldier of the Union mustered out"
Is the inscription on an unknown grave
At Newport News, beside the salt sea wave,
Nam eless and dateless. Sentinel or scout,
Shot down in skirmsh or disastrous rout
or battle, when the loud artillery drove
lts iron wedges through the ranks of brave
And doomed battaltons storming the redoubt!
Thou unknown hero, sleeping by the sea
In thy forgotten grave! with secret shame
feel my pulses beat, my forehead burn
When remember thou hast given for me
All that thou hadst, thy life, thy very name,
And can give thee nothing in return.


The Ark.
Year: 1875

The Opeioscope is very simple instru-
ment for writing or picturing sound. 1t
consists of tube of any metal one or two
inches in diameter and from two to twenty
inches long. Over one end is pasted a
piece of tissue paper, thin rubber, or gold
beater's skin, and in the center of this bit
of looking-glass, perhaps an inch square.
Hold this end in the sun and the other at
the mouth, and sing or speak into it. The
ray of light reflected from the mirror
falling on white surface in the shade
describes curves and patterns, differing
for every pitch and intensity, with the same
conditions giving uniform results.
Year: 1875

A meeting of the Irish Rifle Association
was held yesterday, under the Presidenc
of the Lord Mayor, for the purpose of re-
ceiying the report of the recent Interna-
tional Rifle Match in the United States.
Major Leech, the Captain of the Irish Team,
made an interesting statement respect
ing the origin Of the match and proceed
ings of the Irish Team in America, warm
ly acknowledging the hospitable and hearty
reception given them by tile citizens of
New York. He stated that in consequence
of the defeat of the Irish he had addressed
a challenge to the Captain of the American
Team to shoot q return match in Dublin,
and the challenge having been duly accept
ed, team Of American Rihemen will come
here in June next to renew the amicable
contest with their Irish competitors. Major
Leech expressed hope that the reception
Of our American friends will be of char
acter suitable to the occasion, and we are
satisfied that he will not be disappointed.
The citizens Of Dublin will, we are sure, do
their part in repaying tho courtesy, atten-
tion and hospitality which were lavished
on our countrymen during their stay in
New York. On the occasion Of the Inter-
national match, the Gail Ireland Challenge
Shuld'' hitherto open to Ireland alone, will
be opened to Americans and to no other
nationality. Major Leech proposes that,
whoever may win the International match
in June, return match shall be shot in
Philadelphia, in compliment to America,
during the year 1876-the centenary of the
establishment of Americas Independence.
The Lord Mayor expressed his sympathy
with the Irish Rife Association, and said it
would give him great pleasure to cooperate
with Major Lseoh and the other members
of the Association in giving their warm
hearted American friends the welcome they
SO richly deserved. Votes of thanks were
passed to the Civic authorities of New York
and Brooklyn, and to the members Of the
Amer lean Rife Association for their kind
ness and attention to the Irish party dur
ing their visit to New York. Dublin Reaos
Letter, Feb 6.
Year: 1875

From the Detroit Free Press
Some five or six weeks ago. Young


man named Charles Perrin. TWENTY


three years old and a carpenter bv


trade, fell in love with a good-Iooking


girl whose parents live on Orchard


street. Charles has red hair and a


ireckied lace, and although the Young


lady treated him courteously when be
| called at the house, she had Eer mind


made up that she could never wed a


red beaded man. After an acauaint-


ance OF three weeks he asked her to


become Mrs. Perrin, and was greatly
taken down when she told him that
she couldn't think Of such a thing


Charles then sought to have the old
loIkS put IN a good word for bin, but
tney declined 10 interfere. He con-
unued bis visits, perhaps hoping to
soften the girls heart, but Thursday
evening the crisis came. He went to
the house with bottle of acid in his
pocset, prepared to spoil her beauty
II she did not give him a favorable
answer. There was no one at home
but the girl and her mother, and
Perrin first wanted the girl to take a
walk with him. She refused to 90
and he asked TO see her alone. She
also refused this request, end the lover
had just got ready to draw the bottle
from his pocket when something bit
him. He thought it was dog, but
it wasn't. The cork bad worked out
OF the bottle and bis coat-tals were
turning brick color at the rate of a
yard miSGte. The acid wasn't
content with the coat-iails, but struck
out for flesh, and in about q minute
the young man was dancing around
the house as if to escape a bullet
Shouting and wbooping be got out of
doors aud threw of most of bis
clothing and rolled in the mud, and
1t was some time before any one
could lind out whether he had snakes |
IN bis boots or had sat down on a |
brad-awl. He wss so badly burned
that two men bad to help him TO bis
clearinghouse on Fifth street, where
physician dressed the burns. There
is good deal of laughing at bis
expense, and if he makes bis appear
ance at the house again be viii! be
arrested, as be told one of the men in
advance that be meant the acid for the
girl.
Year: 1875

LONG LAMP WICKs.-tram all the
wick you can-ihat is, make your
wick as long as you can-in your
lamp, fill up the spaces with sponge,
and then pour in the kerosene or coal
oil. until the wick and sponge are
filed, and the lamp will hold no more.
As long as any oil remains in the wick
or sponge the lamp will burn. This
makes fireproof or safety lamp. If
your lamp is broken, or tipped over,
no accident can happen, nor will it
soil the carpet or even table cover.
As the wick burns away, add more
sponge. and keep the lamp full of it.
Year: 1875

A Portland man, standing on a
hotel piazza smoking, who had the
cigar shot out Of his mouth, was not
disposed to grnnbie until a fellow
rushed up IL bin aud oiTered to bet
two TO one that he could DO i, again.
Then be took off bis coat and vest
and maGie'i that man, and stepped on
him aud rolled him over, and finally
jammed hin into pos:-hy!e before
be felt just light.
Year: 1875

A man named Samuel johnson, who
was about forty years of age, and had
charge of the restaurant connected
with the Ridgway House, at the foot
Of Market street, Philadelphia, was
admitted to the Pennsylvania Hospital,
with symptoms of hydrophobia, and
died there on Saturday afternoon. He
was bitten on the hand by strange
dog which entered the restaurant nine
months ago, and it WAS several weeks
before the wound healed. About ten
days since he accidentally struck the
hand which had been bitten against
some hard substance, and shortly after
wards felt sharp pain in the locality
of the wound. This was followed by
shooting pains up the arms and in the
body, intense nervous excitement, and
finally hydrophobic symptoms. Dur
ing the intervals of his agony he was
conscious and rational. He was mar
ried, and is stated to have been sober,
steady man.


johnson was takon with violent
symptoms last Monday, and day OF
two after he become fearfully affected
at the sight OF water. While turning
on the water at the washstand in the
bar room of the hotel to wash himself
last Thursday, he was seized with
spasms, and from that time until he
died he became frantic whenever
water was placed near him. On Satur
day morning no became so violent at
the Hospital that it was found necessary
to bind him fast, and he became like
a raving maniac, and was in this con-
dition when death ended his terrible
suffering.
Year: 1875

New ALBANY, IND, March 24.-The
Ledger Staadard this evening contains an
account of an attempt on the part OF Mrs.
Borden, wife of the Assistant State Ge-
ologist of Indiana, to commit suicide, at
her residence, Providence, Clark county,
by taking opium. There have been some
difficulties between the lady and her
husband, which have been made public
through the local courts and public
prints, which have probably led to the
action. Prof. Borden was about leaving
home yesterday, evening to visit this
city, but the conduct of his wife aroused
his suspicious, and he remained at home
and watched her She went TO her room,
locked herself in aud took dose OF opl-
um. Her husband finally went to her
room, and with the assistance of ser
want girl, burst open the door, and found
her in supplied condition. A physi-
clan was summoned and the proper rem
edies applied. II is believed she is now
out of danger. She is highly educated
and accomplished lady, and her trouble,
whether real or imaginary has the SYM
pathy of large number of people in the
neighborhood of her home.
Year: 1875

An act to increase the revenue of
the State and to encourage wool
growing.


[ SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the
General Assembly of the State of
Tennessee, That hereafter the keep
ing Of dogs shall be a privilege which
shall be taxed as follows: Every
owner or harborer of a dog or dogs
shall pay one dollar on each dog
for the privilege of keeping a bitch
| the owner or harborer of the same
shall pay a tax of five dollars for
each bitch SO kept, except spayed
bitches, which shall be taxed as 9TH
er dogs, to be collected and paid in
to the treasury as other moneys by
the Revenue Collector. s


SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That
it shall be the duty of the Tax As
SCISSOR to enumerate and assess, as
herein provided, every dog and bitch
within his district at the time he as
sesses other property, and the Reve-
nue. Collector shall collect the same.
Tue Assessor shall cause each per-
son assessed to state on oath the
number and kind of dogs owned by
him.


SEC. 8. Be it further enacted, That
if any person shall keep a dog or
hitch, that has been assessed for tax
es under this act, or shall have failed
to pay the same for ten days after
demand of payment is made by the
Tax Collector, or his authorized dep
uty, he or she shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor, and upon conviction
shall be fined not less than five dol
lars and costs for. each dog or bitch
so kept and not paid for; Provided,
that the owner or person against
whom this tax is assessed may, upon
demand of payment of said tax, be
relieved from payment of the same,
if he or she will then and there inn
mediately kill any dog or bitch upon
which he or she fails to pay the tax.


SEC. 4. Be it further enacted. That
it shall be misdemeanor in any per-
son knowingly to keep sheep kill
ing dog, or one that has been know D
by the owner TO wound or chase a
sheep, and upon conviction npon pre-
sentiment or Indictment the guilty
person shall pay a fnle Of twenty
five dollars on each dog, to be paid
into the county treasury.


SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, That
in payment of the dog tax wolf scalps
shall be received at two dollars, and
each bear, wildcat and red fox scalp
at one dollar, and each gray fox scalp
at fifty cents Provided that each an
imal shall be captured and killed in
this State.


Passed March 10, 1875.