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i i WEEKLY NEVADA STATE JOilNAL. Malice toward none, with. Charity to all, and -with Firmness in the 12. RENO, WASHOE COUNTY, NEVADA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1881. NO 3, Fabllihed every Bttnidi; morning C.

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P. FISHES, Advertising Agsnt, tktnt'i Exchange, Bui Francisco, IB aathjrlzsd to nceire tdvertisements lor the columns ol loll THELASD QUESTION. We remarked some time ago that the question ol the tenure of land was looming up out of the obscurity of a few minds who ate called, as usual "fanatics," (what a bandy word that is and has been) and becoming one of the great questions ol the hour. Even now the "pooh pooh!" stage is over and the opposing forces are setting themselves in array for the coming battle. One of the recent notable events is the decja- ration by A State Land League composed of men of thought and influence that the land belongs to God and the use thereof to' all of his creatures equally.

This is only a reassertion of an old doctrine in regard to the ownership of land--that the eminent domain is in the government, and the government should so partition the use that person who wished might have the use of ft suitable portion. This doctrine does away with all large ownership, or in fact any ownership, and prevents even Urge holding on any terms. It goes farther: it says that when a man is done with the use o( the land the government may assign the uie to another. It is a little singular that after nearly four thousand years the advanced thought of even careful men is coming back to the point from which it started so long ago. In that wonderful code of laws given by or through Moses to the tribes of Israel before they went into to possess the Promised Land, this identical idea was a part of the laT.

God said to the Israalitts: "The land is mine and ye are sojourners in it with me." So ersxy fifty years every man's portion of land that he held at the beginning of that period returned to him. The price of land was according to the number of years that must pass before the next year of jubilee. No absolute title in fee could any possible circumstance or act of any body, but each family possessed the use of a definite position. Ont most important matter in this connection should receive the earnest attention of the next Congress. How to divide the enormous tracts thai have been acquired by a few men for purposes of speculation, into small holdings for the use of actual settlers.

It is said by men who have examined the matter that there is not a single quarter section ol timber land within sixty miles of Beno that is not now held; and ninety nine hundredths of all this immense body of timber is owned by two firms. On the border of this great timber belt lies a tract of country that will be soon covered with farms, but the fanners will be at the mercy of the timber monopolist for fuel, fencing and building material. This ought not be. This timber should be taken by the government and held for the use of the men who settle on the contiguous farming land. LAXB THAT IS KEPT FBOM SETTLEMENT.

The Legislature ol Washington Ter- itory is appealing to Congress for the edress ol a grievance. A memorial re- ently adopted declares that more than fifteen years ago the Government of the United States granted to the Northern 'acificJBoilroad Company a munificent iortion of the public domain, to secure a transcontinental railroad from Ltike Superior to Sound, one of the onditions of this land-grant being that branch of the railroad should be built irectfrom the Columbia river across Mountains to Puget Sound; hat the Company now hold some five million acns ef land, granted in con- ideration of the promise to build the ranch; that the time allowed for the 3nilding of the road long since expired, yet work upon it has not been begun; nd that the chief officer of the company has announced that the early be- inning of said work is not contemplat- d. Under these circumstances, the egislature represents that a vast ex- ent of public land is thus left desti- ate of transportation facilities, millions acres being retarded from settlement, nd the title thereto being clouded, nd Congress is asked to take such ac- ion in the premises as will cause the peedy completion of the load. The San Francisco says this is getting a eozamon form ol complaint. Land in ail directions is tied up by Congressional grants to the railroads, ud, although the railroad companies neglect to comply with the conditions annexed to the grants, there is no re- Ireis obtainable, territory memorial nto some Congressional pigeon-hole, to leep company with many dust-covered petitions that have preceded it.

The Washington will deubtless go A LVIS6 COTEM. Some time ago the JOURNAL notified he press that the "Ozone" advertisement they were publishing might be mid lor, but that the firm from which had been sent out had dishonored a ight draft from this office. At that ime the JOUENAI hud the '-Ozone" ad. hand, with the offer of $100 for hirteen insertions, and by the way, it only three days ago that we received a letter from Freshman asking us why we had not accepted their proposition. We have been running Hos- etter's Bitters and another ad.

on con- ract with them. Two or three months ago we forwarded a bill for the amount due. They did not reply. Subsequent- we drew on them, bet the draft was dishonored. We then wrote them a letter, to which they did not reply.

Upon seeing the notice in the JOOBNJJ. the wrote them about the matter, (lor the Gazette would squeal longer and louder at losing a dollar, than the JOUBNAL would at losing ten), and from what it publishes, it concludes by intl mating the dirty lie that the JOTTBNAL attempted to get advertising by black- map. Bloody Work The course NOTES. Gold Hill News says in dne of time the decision of the Judges will be rendered in On Orphan Asylum matter, involving a new and litherto not allowable drain upen the State Treasury. It involves also a decision as to whether the Orphan Asylum and school at Virginia City, so many rears under the exclusive control and management of the Catholic Church and Sisters of Charity at that place, has ost its established identity and is no longer a sectarian institution.

At a recent meeting ol the California iailroad Commissioners, General Stoneman offered a resolution, providing the railroad companies shall carry second- class passengers at rates not exceeding 60 per cent of those charged to first- class passengers; that second-class passengers shall not be required to travel in cars, and that they shall have the same right to lay-over tickets as first-class passengers. The Gold Hill News says: The scarcity of school funds will necessitate the losing of the public schools of Storey county for a month before the expira- ion of the present school year. The Joard of Trustees of Virginia District have decided to have the vacation there daring January. The Gold Hill Board lave not determined upon the exact ime the vacation will occur here. The Bnlwer Consolidated Mining Company has declared its first dividend of lOc per share, payable at San Francisco and at New York on the 12th.

The mine is at Bodie, Mono county, California, and the total amount of the dividend is $10,000. There has been one assessment of $30,000, levied four years ago. It is reported that arrangements are made for memorial services in lonor of the late President Garfield, to held fn both houses ol Congress, and that they will be very simple, consisting of orations and a poem, interspersed with music. The Modoc Independent, an excellent local journal, has just entered upon ts eighth year, and is doing a good Business, which we hope the enterprising proprietors may continue to be favored with, as an appreciation well merited. Three Chinese lepers have been discovered At San Jose, California, at an old building which had evidently been erected by the Chinese for such use.

The discovery has caused excitement and alarm. The Appeal says real estate owners at Empire would be glad to realize ten per cent, of the original cost of their possessions. It is a sad eight to see the decay of that once thrifty village. The Standard Consolidated Mining Company, as hinted a few days ago, has declared its regular and also an extra dividend, each of 75e per share, both payable on the 12th, Postal savings banks, should they be established, would be one of the most popular bureaus of government. Grant having $100,000 on his life, the thinks he is greatly KEWS ITEMS.

Florida expects to market fifty million oranges next season. Therewas a terrific thunder-storm at Panama on No vernier 22d. The Scottish land agitation is assuming important proportions. The United States Depository at Tucson has been discontinued. Secretary Folger is reforming in the Treasury Department.

The number ol telegrams sent in this country list year was 33,155,991. The Chileans have taken steps to prevent a Bolivion invasion of Peru. The Ameer has promised to do nothing without the consent of Great Brit- The telegraph line from Tientaing to Shanghai is completed. For the expenses of the Navy De- parmeiii this fiscal year $29,013,716 is wanted. The of the Earl of Crawford and Bolcarres have been stolen at Aberdeen, Scotland.

The report of the Controller of Currency discusses mainly the responsibilities of bank directors. Stocks are depressed in New York on an unconfirmed rumor of the serious illness of Vanderbilt. It is said that neither Brady nor Dorley will be indicted by the Grand Jury now in session at Washington, The subscription for the Garfield Memorial Hospital in Washington already aggregates $80,000. It looks like a success. It is said that Canada will allow no railroad but the Canada Pacific to run within fifteen miles of the international boundary.

Some land in Paris has been sold at the late of $2,000,000 per acre; London lor $5,000,000 per acre; in New York lor $8,000,000. William Prescott and Walker Elaine will be sent to Chile and Peru to arrange the troubles which have recently arisen with the United States. Secretary Lincoln, in his report, recommends that thejarmy be increased to 30,000 men, and that our coast defenses be strengthened. There is a fair prospect that within twenty, il not ten years, the United States will stand at the head of the nations in Cotton manufactures. Bing rule is expensive.

The City Administration of New Zork asks far $30,000,000 to defray the exxenses of Mn- niciparGovernment for the next year. The shipments East by the Central and Southern Pacific Bailroad companies for the first eleven months of 1881 footed up 206,277,810 pounds against 129,180,810 pounds for the same period of 1880. From STATE NEWS. 'NewtonBooth has bxcome the sale owner of the Arizona mine at Unionville. C.

W. Hinchcliffe, Secretary of the Nevada Central, left for the East on Sunday. He will return about the 13th instant. Gilmer Salisbury are going to put on a in-weekly stage from Deep Wells, on the line of the Carson Colorado Bailroad', to Grantsville. The copartnership of Payne and Mafsden, in the publication of the Ruby Hill Mining News has Mr.

Marsden has purchased the interest of Mr. Payne and will hereafter publish the paper on his own account. Wallace Goodall has arranged to pnt a force of miners at work on the Golden Crown mine, situated in Bernice District, in the Clan Alpine range of mountains, Churchill county. The mine shows a very fine prospect, and Wallace proposes to further develop it, of the prominent wheat raisers of Paradise Valley have organized a company for the purpose of building a grist mill at some convenient place in that neighborhood. It is said that articles of incorporation have been drawn up and signed, and sufficient stock subscribed for to insure the erection of the mill.

SICKENED WITH TMDE SACK. Two Old Who Know the Power of Cash. Not long ago an old resident of Stockton delivered a lecture before a club in that city, and the following extract is made from the Mail report: "Ij honestly believe that there are some people in San Joaquin county who despise me, and who would spit upon my old battered dusty hat, and well worn clothes if they dared, merely because I am saving, and peddled fish on my wedding trip, my money sack sick," But I can take out and make them all The Eureka Leader is not in lovi with Speaker Heifer. It says he is on of those lamb-like Bepublicans whi used to drink tea and play croquet a the White House when Mr. Hayes wa occupant of the establishment, and he prided himself on taking all the hard knocks which that Administration used to get in the Home, and which Keif er would humbly content himself with receiving instead of returning.

Guiteauknew when he killed Garfield that he was doing wrong, that he was violating the that he was committing the highest crime known to the law, and that the crime was punishable with death. Having committed the crime with that knowledge he ought to die. A Leadville dispatch of the 5th says The Gold Park Mining Company is a a furor of excitement. Four days ago Harry Westoc, foreman of the Golc Park Mining Company, was shot and killed by Bayley, a discharged black- smith. Bayley also made an unsuccessful attempt to shoot Superintendent Turney.

He then fortified himself in his cabin, which was immediately rnr- rounded by a mob. The cabin was besieged for eight hours without dislodging its occupant. Finally a large quantity of giant powder was placed near the door and ignited. The explosion which followed tore the cabin to pieces, and Bayley was found with a bullet hole orongh his heart, having evidently ommitted suicide. Bayley had several ympathizers who threatened Turner's life, and a strong guard surrounds lis cabin night and day.

Jack White and Bayley's other friends were ordered out of town by the Vigilantes. The Sayleyites paraded town all day with cqeked revolvers looking lor the Vigi- Louisville Post ever insured. Allen G. Thurman will practice law at Columbus until his country calls again. Heppner, Oregon, has hoisted the flag.

Ohio will not down. Hail Keifer! -antes, but left at night. 3 anticipated. Active, intelligent young men eught to steer clear of Government clerkships; they are not profitable. In the long run they are invariably detrimental to those who get them.

Ohio ought to have the Speakership of the House ol Bepmentatives. It is BO seldom that she a good thing. The census has tost $4,000,000, but it was a tremendous job, was well done, and is well worth the money. There ii a lot of foolish ttlk going the roundi ol the press about a war between the United States aad Chili. Somebody ii trying to get up a boom for George H.

Pendleton for Much trouble AearBeld Amarblo tablet has been placed in the ladies' waiting room of the Baltimore and Potomac depot, to mark the spot where President Garfield was shot The tablet is of American marble, aud consists of a sill resting upon two cor- nels, outside oi which are two pilasters representing an ax and fasces. Two draped flags form a canopy over the inscription, in gold Garfield, President ot the United States Assassinated July 2, 1881." The whole is surmounted by an eagle, with outstretched wings, holding in its Ulons a bundle of rose and laurel leaves. The President is sot making haste to remove officials appointed by his prede oessor. It is his purpose to make no remcwls until the official terms expire unless for good csase shown. He ii The Salt Lake Tribune says this calls to mind an incident iu the early history oi San Francisco.

There was an old man known as the 'Gutter who went round the streets picking up refuse matter and eating it. He lived in a little dirty room like a beast in a pen and ate only what he could find in the gutter, always refusing charity and A SPIRIT'S MISTAKES. pitied the man's misfor- poverty would frequently BATES OF POSTAGE The Reduction Made Since the Organization of the Government In no department of the Government ave the changes been so marked as in hat of the mail service. When the 'ostoffice Department was established 1789, the rates of postage were, for a single letter--that is, one composed if a single piece of paper, as envelops were not then invented--under 40 miles, cents; under 90 miles, 10 cents; under 300 miles, 17 cents; and under 500 miles, 25 cents. In 1816 these rates were modified as follows: A single etter not over 20 miles, cents; over 30 and under 80, 10 cents; over 80 and under 150, cents; over ISO and under 400, cents; and an additional for each piece of paper.

If the letter weighed one ounce, lour times the rates were charged. Again, in 1845, the rates were lowered. For a letter not exceeding half an ounce in weight, wder 300 miles, 5 cents; over 300, 10 cents, an additional rate for each additional, ball-ounce or fraction thereof. Old Colifomians remember the time when they had to pay 10 cents on ordinary letters to the States. The present rates of postage were adopted in 1863, though the postal card of much later origin.

It is quite probable that within three years the ratei on letters will be reduced to 2 cents for each half-ounce, regardless of distance, as experience show, that every redaction increases rather thandi- miminisheg the revenue from the mail service. good authority it is learned that the Oregon Bailroad Company will dispatch from New York and Philadelphia, within the next year, over 50 vessels for Tacoma, W. and also to Portland, Oregon. The Texas and Pacific track connected with the Southern Pacific track at Sierra Blanco, ninty-five miles east of El Paso, Texas, at seven o'clock Thursday evening, December 1st, making a through all rail line to New Orleans. Up to the 1st strawberries have been received in San Francisco every day, since about the first of last February.

Thursday was the first day in that period that no arrival was noted. Prices have recently ranged frod $8 to $15 per chest, the average being about $10 or $12. The Central Pacific surveyors arrived at Yanktown, Dakota, on the 1st, from the West, and drove their stakes down Seventh street, the centre of the city. This completes the survey from Corinne, Utah, to Yanktown, and here the surveyors halt lor further orders. The line crossed the Missouri fifty miles above Yanktown.

John W. Mack'ay is in New York, and may be seen daily at the Bank of Nevada. He sails lor Europe on the 14th instant. He saya there is nothing for him to do in this country and he might as well enjoy himself abroad. There were no developments in the Comstock mines.

The Company had lost about $4,000,000 in the past two years; and there was nothing in view at present of sufficient importance to keep him in California. It is believed that Secretary Folger will deal plainly and directly in his report with the silver question. It is said he is in cordial agreement with IhS views ol Director of the Mint as to the bad result certain to follow the oon- tinnence of the present rate ol coinage oi standard dollars. There appearing those who tunes and throw bread' and meat in the gutter for him to find. One day he picked up a quarter of a dollar, pouncing upon it like a hound upon a hare.

"Go and get a square meal," said a bystander. "I aad rather save the money," was the reply and he fell to picking up the scraps again. At this the crowd laughed derisively and the "Gutter Snipe" taming upon them said: "You think that I care for money. I'll throw single handed more $20 pieces in the bay than your crowd can combined." They thought it would be a grand sight to see "Gutter Snipe" throw $20 piecesinto the water, and they went down to the foot of Commercial street wharf where it was agreed they would throw away as much as he. The old man opened the ball by casting five twenties into the water.

The astonished scoffers held back, bat the crowd laughed and jeered, and they were obliged to follow suit. The old man instantly pitched five more gold pieces into the water, at which his tormentors paused and then slunk away up town. As they turned away he hurled another $100 into the water as if he caied much less for the gold than the garbage he fished up from the gutter. Then he turned away remarking, "I can make 'em all sick." Preparation for Winter oil Fnrni. the A Few Blander! by an Immortal Sonl.

The Banner of Light, the Boston Spiritualistic organ, publishes the following message, purporting to come from George F. Hayward, who was killed on the Virginia Truckee railroad near the Vivian Mill some 18 months ago, as given through the alleged me- dinmahip of Miss M. T. Shelhamer on October 21st last: 'I am hardly pleased with this feeling of pressure w'tiieh comes over me, but I desire to return to mortal life for a few moments. If you will, sir, kindly allow me to my story, I feel it is possible it may be seen and accepted as coming from me by my friends who are in the form.

My home was iu Nevada, far away from this place, yet it was congenial to me. I have friends in Virginia City whom I trust I shall be able to reach. A little event happened to me--I call it an event or an because I have learned that there are really no such things as accidenU-- which carried me out of the body in something of an unpleasant manner. I was a road-master; aud in pursuing my duty and avocation, was traveling upon the engine of a down freight train. I was on one that was borne by two engines, and was upon the forward one.

When we turned the bend near the If er- rimao Mill, near Virginia City, we encountered a huge stone. As I perceived that we should certainly strike the rock, I jumped very naturally; but the engine in sinking the bowlder, hurled it from the track and it fell upon me. That was the cause of my departure from the physical. I was not prepared to go; I was not prepared in any sense, as I feel it now, to pass from the mortal to the immortal side of existence. There was very much that 1 would have performed settled myself had I known that I was going to leave the body; there were friends I would have wished to communicate with ere this time arrived; there were directions I would like to give; but that was not to be; consequently I am obliged to be satisfied with things as they are.

I am so, to a certain extent; and if my friends can realize that I have the power to return, to watch over them, to perceive their doings, to understand their interests, I shall feel better satisfied. If they seek out a medium--as you call those instruments--for me to come to them and hold private and personal interviews, I shall be fully satisfied; for I perceive this spiritual world is a good and glorious one, and it presents opportunities to the spirit to employ its energies and capacities to the fullest extent. The occurreuce of which I speak, which sent me out of the eighteen months ago, and after this lapse of time I find myself Boston, seeking to manifest to my friends as a spirit--not without a body, for I am in full possession of an organism in the other life--but as a spirit disembodied of the physical frame, yet intelligent, conscious, nctive amd earnest, who desires to reach them, to send them his love, to assure them of his safe arrival and welfare in the spirit world, and of his desire to meet and converse with them in private; also to assure them he is satined, that he will meet and greet each loved one, in the immortal life, some time in the future. I may not have expressed myself very clearly. I feel that if I can do so in any degree it will be a pleasure and gratification.

I am, G. F. HAYWABD. The Virginia Chronicle says: As the medium's description of the accident, so far as the killing of poor Hayward and the location of the disaster are concerned, is entirely incorrect, the natural inference is that the inspired female in question has been misinformed on the subject and mistook the rec- collections of a muddled memory for spiritual utterances. Furthermore, the late Mr.

Hayward in life was not the kind of a man to confide in spiritualistic crank to such a wordy and blather- some degree. Mediums should read their old newspaper cuttings more carefully before grinding them out as heaven)j outpourings. THE NORTH ESTD MINES. tiood lor the Development of an Ore Body. 3d.) Mining men who have kept close watch ol the ground passed through by the various drifts, crosscuts nnd winzes at the north end have observed, (and have governed themselves accordingly) the frequent seams and streaks of oro cut at all points.

Taking account of only one winze or drift these streaks of ore might not have possessed much significance, but when they were found in all the openings and were always seen to bo dipping one direction they appeared to possess value. They have all Wn All that has bei.n out in winze's, drifts and other op-wings has been going to the eastward, and as everything is going in thtt direction there must be a place somewhere in that direction where all the seams, stringers and feeders will unite in something of valus. We think the time is not far distant when the mother vein toward which these feeders are tending will be reached, and when reached we believe that a bonanza of great value will be found. On the 2500 foot level of the Union Consolidated a vein of ore was cut which was twenty feet in width. This, on being followed upward, extended but twenty-eight feet.

It has never been followed downward, bat from its rapid widening it has always been supposed that it made a very large body of ore below the 2500 foot level. The question has been whether it would reach the 2700 level, on which the drift east from the Union shaft and drift west from the joint Sierra Nevada and Union Consolidated winze was being run. It is now pretty certain that it does not reach this level, and it is for this reason that the stock of the Union Consolidated is rapidly advancing. The drift from the Union shaft and that from the Sierra Nevada and Union Con- eolidated winze now lack but fifty feet of being connected, and on both sides are now being found rich scams and feeders of ore, all of which are making to the southward, in which direction the large body of ore found on the 2500 level is expected to come down. As soon as connection is made between the two drifts a crosscut will be started south for the ore body, which, it is now conceded, extends down to the 2700 if it does, it is easy to see that it is no small body.

It was thought that the bulge of this ore body would be found on the 2600 level, but the very strong seams and feeders cut in the drift, all of which are making to the southward, seem to show that the ore body not only comes down to the 2700 level, but will there be found in great width and strength. The air is good in both drifts, therefore, after connection is made there need not be nn Hour's delay before starting a crosscut southward toward the point where the ore is supposed to lie, The management assure us that active prospecting operations menced as soon as this will be corn- connection is made. The ore body now about to be found is but the front vein. There is still to be locked for the vein, seams and stringers of which have been cat in the joint Sierra Nevada and Union Consolidated winre aud in the east crosscuts in the Sierra Nevada. Notwithstanding the present long continuing fine weather, every fanner should keep constantly in his mind the fact that Winter with its cold storms and disagreeable weather for outdoor work, will soon be here.

Net a moment should be lost in preparation for the change. The barn and house roofs should be examined and repaired where necessary; the loose boards should be fastened on, and every precaution taken to keep out the storm and prevent damage. It should not be forgotten that although our winters are comparatively mild, still stock require shelter about as much here in the colder- climates, when snow cavers the ground and the soil is frozen to the depth of two or three feet. They need not be so costly or so completely inclosed, but they should be of a character and form aa to break the prevailing winds and keep the stock dry. A cold rain is more to the constitution of an animal exposed to it than a cold snowstorm.

The rain and chills the animal while the snow scarcely weti their coats, and does not produce that extreme chilling. It is economy to any tanner who has good stock to provide shelter Irom the severe storms ol the winter even in this State. Less food is required to keep them in condition when sheltered than when exposed to the weather. The food is a matter that has to be provided every season, whereas a good shed once built and taken care oi will last a lifetime and more, and the saving ol food but for a few yean will pay the cost el the ihed. A Queer Elopement.

A New York dispatch of the 5th says: About two years ago the daughter of Ames Steliman eloped with W. S. Guild. Miss Steliman was only about 16 while Guild wai 70. After a private marriage ceremony they slipped away to Europe, without the knowledge of relations or friends.

Things were not just what the young bride thought they should be, and in four days she became homesick aud upon Guild to return. When they reached the wharf in New York he hired a coach aud sent her home, while he got upon another steamer and set sail for California. For one year he remitted bit young bride $13 per week, and then the remittances stopped. Now she sues him for a limited divorce on the ground of abandonment. It is understood that he claims that she abandoned him.

On Saturday a motion was made by her counsel for counsel fees and rlimony. It was opposed by counsel for the defendant, who said his client was in California and would have to send affidavits to him. The case was postponed. in In looking over our old files, sayg the Austin Beveille, we came across the stock quotation in its issue of July 3, 1867, as follows: Yellow Jacket, per foot; Savage, Crown Point, Gould Curry, $755; Kentuck, $540; Chollar-Potosi, $450; Belcher, $470; Overman, $220; Ophir, $350; Imperial, $220; Bullion, $54; Justice, $30; Sierra Nevada, $20. Savage was at that time paying a monthly dividend of $300 a foot.

It was all feet those days. About the 1st of Aug. 1807, Savage was cut up into 20 shares to the foot. Vary shortly afterwards the foot business was set aside and stock watering became ol frequent occurrence. Some of the stocks were watered to such an extent that they sank out of sight under the treatment.

A Bank has been instituted at Benicia, California, to be known as the "Bank of Benicia," for the purpose of carrying on a general banking business. The articles of incorporation filed in the office of the Secretary of State show the Directors to be W. F. Goad, B. B.

Bedding and J. D. Bedding, of San Francisco; J. E. Crooks, of Benicia and W.

C. Belcher, of Marysville. The capital stock is $200,000, divided into shares of $100 each. The Elaine boom seems to be 1'icresj- ing, but it is premature. well It btfia to beaa tod It don't do to be tittle ground for hoping (or any international agreement respecting the coinage of silver at a fixed rate, the Secretary does not consider it profitable or safe to longer continue effort to depreciate the value ot silver.

-It is thought by stopping the coinage in this country we may compel other Govern- aadmtMtfing, Men need not distress their souls and work themselves into a state of excessive anger and indignation aboat the Guiteau trial. The assassin will be put to death in one way or another. It is almost certain that he will be hanged according to law as he ought to be. Sceville is pretty shrewd--but his shrewdness will hardly avail. The cost ol the business block now in process oi erection in New York city, on the corner ol Broad street and Exchange Place, by D.

0. Mills, will be fully $2,000,000, scarcely a year's income of that capitalist, who is estimated to be worth at least On Sunday a fire broke out in the milling district of Minneapolis, destroying before it was subdued four large flouring mills and one cotton mill, and causing the death of at least four men. Senator Miller's bill ior restricting Chinese immigration covers the entire ground, and the Jomnuz. hopefc it will be promptly passed by Congress. The Alice Dates Comic Opera troupe, now playiny a very successful engagement at the California Theater, will probably appear soon in Nevada.

The yield of the Idaho mine (or the month oi November was $48,000. The usual monthly dividend of $7 50 qer share will be the 148th dividend of the mine, aggregating $3,101,250, out of a grow product of about $6,763,000 EWSPAPEk PAT OF SRUTOBS un An inquiring subscriber is informed that the pay of the United States Senators and Members oi Congress is $5.000 per year. In addition they are allowed mileage oi 40 per mile lor one way only, based on the distance from their district to Washington by the nearest mail The mileage oi representatives from this State amounts to about tne distance to Washington being estimated at a UUle exceeding 2,700 miles. iVVSPAPfe-RI.