Weekly Reno Gazette (Newspaper) - February 26, 1880, Reno, Nevada VOL RENO WASHOE COUNTY NEVADA THURSDAY FEBRUARY 26 1880 NO 45 Reno Weekly GAzette PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY 1J TERMS OF Bally one year by 08 Weekly one year by mull 250 Dally delivered by carrier In Reno at 25 cont per week THE RIGHTS SOCIETY Men who sell firearms should take to prevent accidents Those PUT IT IN TITE LIST who soil deadly drugs to prevent Thoso who sell ing drinks to prevent making ards It would bo highly for a gunsmith to encourage duels or to surreptitiously put bullets into revolvers in his show ease It would be dastardly for a doctor to give his patients something to make them sicker in order to increase his It would be inhuman and ish for a saloon keeper to press the cup to the man's lips who hud all ho could do to keep his family in com- fort There are plenty who want liquor and are willing to pay for it to support the saloons and it is fair and legitimate for each one to try and get his share of the business Thoy have paid their license and tho law allows them to sell to any man or woman who wants to buy No matter what destitution a man may bring upon his family no matter how many families are distracted and rendered miserable no matter what wives are treated with violence what children starve or grow up in ignorance and crime no ter what mother may agonize over the loss of her son or sister blush at her The newspapermen are making a combined effort to have printers type placed on the free list Type formerly paid a duty of twenty-five per cont tour years ago it was reduced to ten and the foundries done well Tho business is monopolized by a few firms only four being largely engaged in manufacturing and teen or fifteen others being dealers To support these few men over master printers with employees nro taxed This burden touches the people at large in a vital spot for everybody reads newspapers and the cheaper the materials the better we can make the papers on tho same port The of typo from the United States are throe times the value of the imports so it would seem that this small business lias been protected already The loss in revenue to the Government would be less than a year and with lower prices the demand would in- crease so fast that our typo men would be as much aa anybody else THE ARTESIAN WELL BUSINESS The Enterprise recommends that in- stead of boring experimental artesian wells the government patents covering two or three thousand acres to any parties who will bore flowing wells We are compelled to diner with our valued contemporary upon this matter for several In the first place don't believe the offer of a reasonable amount of land would tempt capitalists to invest money enough to make thorough tests If any one desires to try it he can now take up a section acres ing 25 cents an acre and having thiee years to experiment in Then again no one would want to go twenty miles back from the railroad and within THE REASON brother's shame the law gives the that limit the government could only give six hundred and forty acres in a body the alternate sections having been granted to the Central Pacific railroad There would be difficulties and complications in the way of ing right to sell and if the present race of sellers retired others would ly take places Thoy may fit up elegant saloons and make a tempting display of their wares and no one can deny their rights But when they nse art to stimulate the fiery thirst violate the sacred law of society Whon they try to men from their own firesides when they try to break men of their steady habits in order to swell receipts they commit a next door to murder Such a the tion of every respectable man and woman in tho land and every pressure should be used to tho sale of liquor in its proper place Boys should be carefully excluded from saloons and men who do not to go there should not bo influenced in any way Ic is no argument to suy that the man who yields to pressure is not worth saving The pressure comes in many forms and often in tho most effective form and the poor man who yields is often well worthy of a bettor fate TUK OF THE The papers throughout the state are endorsing the proposition made by the to those in favor of reducing rates by law to give their the public The Journal ARTIFICIAL DIAMONDS It is now announced and officially too for this time Prof of the British Museum is authority for the statement that J B Hannay of Glasgow has succeeded in making diamonds Hannay's process will soon bo described to the ety The Prof has seen some of the minute diamonds made by und he says there is no doubt ever that Hannay lias succeeded in crystalizing carbon Chemically the diamond is much the as a lump of charcoal However Hannay has so succeeded in making very small diamonds only Whether chemists will ever be able to tuin out diamonds of large size is yet a matter of doubt If success still attend efforts the commercial value of diamonds will sink to the cost of artificial production and the brilliant stone will lose its pUce as tho rust of gems As yet the holders of dia- monds need not be in a to soil WILL NOMINATED railroad plan to faros and freights are to be let bills bo prepared and and tho public will be bettor to judge how one section can be benefited without another section being injured The Lyon County Times in com- menting upon the above remarks Now h the timo to publish the bills so that they can be indorsed or rejected by the county conventions which will meet it a few months When some is endorsed lot the nominees of the convention indorsing it pledge themselves to vote for it and dp all-in their power to procure its passage They will then have no reasonable excuse for failing to keep their pledges and will besides not be held responsible if the afterward proves objectionable We believe that Legislators would rather stand by their constituents than not if they only knew beyond a doubt the wishes of their constituency Let railroad bills be prepared published and discussed without further delay Let us hear from tho wise men who can regulate the universe so easily and i completely It looks as if there were no chance of Samuel 1 the Democratic nomination for the dency Tilden and John Kelly are at sword's points and Kelly has de- his power to defeat any Democratic ticket in New York state The split in tho New York state ocracy which Kelly caused last fall gave the state to the Republicans Kelly is irreconcilable to Tilden and tho cannot afford to nominate any man whom Kelly is bound to oppose Kelly has not the power to win a victory in New York state but ho has the strength to insure the defeat of any Democratic date to whom lie is opposed The battle ground of the ial election will be New York The party which carries that State fleets its President land in case of disputes And worse in favorable localities one rich man could gather up the whole country and give us a taste in a small way of the evils of land On the other hand if the government will bore one well in Valley one in Eagle Valley one in Cottonwood and so on going down far enough to make the tests final a man can tell just what he has to do make him a home Suppose it should be shown that a good well could be gotten in Lemmons Valley for ten thousand dollars There are sections ot land in that valley that would be worth that the minute they were wet It might be that sufficient water could be got tor ranch loss to irrigate forty or eighty Alter tho machinery was on tho ground and the character of the different strata known the work bo contracted very cheaply In the San Joaquin valley wells have been bored two or three hundred feet deep for five and six dullars a foot and at Battle Mountain for oven less Now if wo knew that a well three hundred feet deep would irrigate a quarter section of land any one who wanted to do so could enter his application under the desert land act and thus secure his land from any complications and then go ahead with his well digging If ho got water he could pay the dollar an acre and get his patent But until the doubts are solved poor men will not go into the business The Independent Republicans arc denouncing the nomination of Grant on the ground that it would bring back the abuses which disgraced his Administration and disintegrated the Republican party and that of Elaine on the ground that he is the chief representative of those abuses whose objectionable political methods demoralizing the public con- science made possible in his own State the wilful outrages of the ionists The Nation says that the public ought to be reminded just now that Mr Elaine enjoys tho miserable distinction of being the one Speaker of a great legislative assembly who in all legislative history has been convicted on the evidence of his own letter fully claiming his reward of having ruled in the chair in favor of tor's with the object of being consider a partner in their venture Yet this is only a small part of what he would have to face in Ms canvass EDITORIAL NOTES The Western Union Telegraph Com- pany has issued an argument in form on Senator Salisbury's to the courts from issuing dragnet for telegrams The company desire to have tho same rights granted to telegrams as is now given letters in the mails When the receiver of a letter breaks the seal tho b w may oblige him to disclose its contents but the Postmaster never 1 If a Postmaster reads a postal card he dare not in court or out of court dis- contents The company asks the pertinent question why should the communication which haste com- pels a man to send by wire not be equally Twenty million patrons Why? The Italians are building two more even and more costly than these Tho table giving treasure shipments from San cisco from 1870 to 1880 The grand total is over three hund red and forty-five million dollars The year 1877 has the highest average New York was the destination of over two hundred and nine million eight million nearly Japan over sixteen Convention will be instructed to vote for Grant Conkling controls the New York Republican Machine and Conkling is for Grant million and England a few hundred thousand less These figures do not include what went through the mails or was carried off as personal baggage This week's Harper's contains a sarcastic cartoon on the Navy and Merchant Marine question The United States is represented as an un- protected but very confident female armed only with an umbrella and her She is an object of the greatest cariosity to John Bull the Turk Italian Prussian and others who gather about her navies be- ing represented by steaming pipes full of navy and cigars which they smoke very industriously Tho Nihilists still persist in at- tempts to annihilate the Russian al family An explosion occurred in the Imperial Winter Palace at St Petersburg last Tuesday evening ing eight soldiers and wounding five The Royal family were not blown up however though doubtless the Royal nerves were badly shaken How uncomfortable it must make a Russian feel to bo closely attached to tho person of the Caar Pra a Siamese nobleman married an English woman while ing as ambassador at the court of St James This was against the Siamese laws and on his return to Siam Pra was thrown into prison After eight months of imprisonment the unhappy man received 100 lashes and was beheaded Russia is notoriously a cold try but is certainly getting hot for tho Czar The seems to be in constant danger of being blasted Tho explosion under his winter the other day was caused by dynamite fired battery It now appears that the fire which destroyed Trinity Church in York last week was caused by the ig- of some in contact with warming pipes full of super- heated steam ENTERPRISE VS IDLENESS Tho Enterprise says if Tilden was a poor man there is not a man in his party who would consider him an able candidate and then it ately We most sincerely trust that the present color blindness of the racy may continue and that Mr den may bo If poor old Sammy has to stand an- other Presidential campaign the gles and anxieties will wear him out There wout be enough left ol him to furnish a model for Nast's mummy He is more fit for the homo for aged women than for the trustees ought to Weston the and the have long been to measure legs with each other but Weston has always insisted that the match should take place in land while maintained that American is good enough for the purpose At last the two champions have agreed to walk a match in San Francisco during the second week in March A SUGGESTION The Jaw nal suggests that an ad- ad mission fee of two bits be charged to the Saturday evening meetings of the Reform Club A small fee would be advantageous in several ways It would prevent such jams as have filled the rooms all winter and add to the revenue of the Club If tickets were sold good for one person at the rate of three for a quarter or ten cents apiece even that price would pay expenses and more too The tickets could be small or they could be printed in sheets and sold five or ten together and one torn off for each admission Tho trustees we understand are very much opposed to charging any fee but it looks as if it must come to that sooner or later Since writing the above we learn that the Club has decided to charge a small fee and helpless White House The attend to his case The people are agitating the question of a railroad to tho mas Eureka mines Such a load would open up an immense timber belt as well as tho farming country in Sierra and other valleys Reno hns many advantages over as the terminal point for such a road It would have no such high mountains to cross with immense banks of Tho line is shorter and equally good forests and as fine es Reno is 35 miles the ber market than and has a better cattle and grain market than her sister town If Reno lots got a line to Wadsworth one to Walker Lake and one to Oregon she will remain the village she is instead of the city she might be If she had shown enterprise two years ago she would now have a to Virginia City which could be extended to Bodie very cheaply Then it could be run to the Colorado and we would get our freight for ten or fifteen dollars a ton and have a bigger town than Sacramento in five years A requiring tho names of the authors to be affixed to newspaper articles has been introduced in the Legislature That is tho tom in France It is a help to but greatly weakens the power and influence of newspapers The im- personality of a great newspaper is one of its main elements of strength one ot its mam elements 01 Tho individual opinion of a writer for tor he had slandered the London Times would not pass for Lher and ruined her reputation Amid much in England but all Englishmen excitement she was finally will read with deference anything that -1 The latest electrical invention is de scribed as the telephote It is said to be a means of transmitting over a telephone wire the likeness of the son who is speaking into the trans- mitter so that the person receiving the message can distinctly see an im- age of the sender The telephote is very likely to prove a At least one Maryland woman revenge for it is telegraphed that at the lynching of Page Wallis at Point of Rocks for outraging Miss Marmon the latter was allowed to fire fourteen shots into the dangling form as it swung Two negro murderurs were to be hanged at Nashville Tennessee day and physicians have obtained permission to attempt to revive the bodies The result of their ments will make an interesting A Washoe zephyr is a slight thing compared to that storm which blew down a house in Cincinnati on day burying under its ruins the dead bodies of a father aud his child Tho announcement comes by tele- graph and with a considerable ish that General is for Grant he is He was for Jeff Davis once He has mSdc an- other mistake that is all Oregon is strong for Inter- views with twenty members of the State Republican Committee which met at Salem on Wednesday shows that every member favored Blaino for tho the Presidential date Interviews with fifty ans of Corvallis county show 42 Elaine and 8 ng Of 30 Republicans of Harrisburg Linn county 19 are for Elaine 9 for Grant and Sherman It is related by an Eastern paper that while the Rev Mr Broadway was conducting revival services in his church at Ont and was kneeling in prayer Miss Clinch strode tip the aisle with a shawl over her head and began to pound the It is not strange that political ex- is not running very high in New York considering that the cury is down so degrees be- low zero being reported It is astonishing what a noise quantity of dynamite can make in world Only four pounds of the ex- plosive wore used in the recent at- tempt to elevate the Czar of Russia The Edward Icy who starved and ill-treated tho childron in tho Shepherd's at New been convicted and will shortly be sentenced the Thunderer may have to say It is probable that the California will be defeated Among yesterday's telegrams was one stating that an Ohio man had dis- covered and that a machine of his invention would start itself and run on forever It is prising that anyone can be found at this late day sufficiently credulous to give currency to such aa absurd story Perpetual motion has long been proved to be an absolute impossibility The idea implies a contradiction o immutable natural laws tied out Miss Clinch is 50 The New York Times one of the ablest and most influential Republican journals has announced on the ity of a near personal and political friend of the that should the Republican National Convention nominate him in the same manner as any other candidate would he would deem it his duty to the country and the party to accept A great shrinkage of the mercury is reported from Dakota Never be- fore has the wind blew so hard or the snow boon so deep The 0 I has never scon anything like it They have their little freshets in Illinois sometimes for the Little ren river lias just swept away the town of Osceola destroying property worth Uncle Sam is willing to let Lesseps build a canal across the Isthmus but Uncle Sam must first be consulted and must afterwards be allowed tobosa the whole business The Italians have to-day most powerful ships of war afloat The ilio and the are each 339 feet long steam at a speed of 14 knots cost each and every time one of their guns is fired the cost is for powder and shot Their range of nine miles A certain Congressman thinks that Congress could adjourn on May 1st any rate by the middle of May No doubt but will There are two big conventions to come off this year and if Congress adjourns before they are held it will do something that no American Congress ever did before A Saw The Republicans of New York hold their State Convention next day the inst There is little doubt that the delegates to tlic National From the Sacramento A rail-cutting saw erected some Lime since but not yet used was being tested at the shops yesterday The saw is made of hardened steel is about nine feet in circumference and a quarter ot an inch thick and day made revolutions per ute The edge of the wheel is smooth but it melts itg through an iron rail in a short time and does Dot itself become heated though the friction causes a stream of fire to roll forth
