29 May 1879
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Newspaper
Weekly Reno Gazette
Location
Reno, Nevada, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1879
Page
1
A reflection on how evidence shapes belief and the dangers of opinionated minds. It argues that truth-seeking should override personal bias, while noting enduring human passions slow change. The piece contrasts private wealth rights with the communal moral claim to land, asserting equal inalienable access to natural heritage.
The writer argues against land monopoly as a political evil and urges subdividing large holdings into many small farms. Citing France’s six million small farms, the piece claims small farms boost cultivation, employment, and prosperity, making each farmer feel patriotically tied to the country. It asserts larger farms hinder progress and national wealth.
The East hosts varied conventions across professions from merchants to railroads. Masters of machinery and master car builders meet to standardize locomotive wheels, axles, boilers and fuel use with steel boilers endorsed. Conductor and engineer gatherings focus on wages, life insurance and social improvements, with engineers notably benefiting.
The article notes a reversal of a prior flow of Black migrants to Kansas, with many returning to cotton fields. It argues Kansas remains an agricultural region suited for the industrious, while unskilled laborers could depress wages and provoke resistance, and warns skilled workers would face underemployment if inequality persists.
A playful remark notes the phrase insane grounds may reference editorials in the stock exchange section, distinguishing between play grounds burial grounds and coffee grounds. It treats the term as a contemporary usage rather than a key event or person.
Letters question Madden five year prior robbery conviction. Vexed readers demand clemency causes and whether verdict was just. Gardace proclaims Madden innocent in court, noting accomplice and circumstantial evidence. Rails at violence and politics thread through Ohio race and national implications.
The Genoa trial of druggist R. C. Gulinda on bigamy charges ended with Judge Rives declaring no case and ordering acquittal, but the jury, after many ballots, stood seven for conviction and five for acquittal. The impasse risks another county trial and raises questions about juror sentiment. E. K. Hyndman, Baltimore and Ohio official, passed through Genoa en route to California.
Freight worth 100000 pounds awaits shipment to the Plumas Eureka mine. Nevada County Workingmen primaries will select delegates for the county convention meeting May 31 at Nevada City. Jack Campbell renovates his Sierra Valley hotel for June visitors. Wages at Sierra Buttes mine are 40 to 50 dollars monthly with board. Superintendent Preston welcomes visitors to a well-furnished camp with wholesome food. FH Oliver promotes a popular benefit society offering two thousand dollars to families at death.
The New York Sun reports Catholic children at the Michigan State Institution for the Deaf Blind and Dumb were expelled for refusing to sing a Mozart mass with Protestant students. Their priest advised against joint worship, saying it violates church law, and six children were expelled, prompting likely legislative inquiry.
Irwin and Devlin rig a large copperbed rocker washing dirt from the dump pile at Young America hoisting works. Water from Independence and Diana mines feeds the pan process. Dint may yield 3 to 4 cents per pan. Irwin estimates 15 to 20 dollars daily once plates are set. Spectators include old Californians recounting past forty nine days.
Court reporter C F Reynolds telegraphed the Carson Appeal that Charles Buck once book-keeper for the Northern Belle mining company was convicted of murder in the second degree. Federal Judge Hughes rules Virginia may regulate citizen marriages under its constitution. If not reversed, Kinney and his wife face five years in Virginia state prison.
A Philadelphia Meeting Telegraph writer signed as J. W. F. argues that Grant whiskey, not Hayes lemonade, disrupted Republican strength. He cites 1872 and 1874 state results showing Democratic gains in Massachusetts New York Pennsylvania Ohio and Illinois, attributing the shifts to whiskey rather than policy.
A Boston inventor promotes a blue glass color theory for medicine. Sunlight passed through colored lenses supposedly imparts healing powers to water and balances body colors. He outlines red, orange, yellow as warm and blue violet as soothing, prescribing color harmony to treat disease.
The New York Sun notes Judge Drake proposing a resolution in the Saratoga general assembly condemning theatres. After tabling an amendment condemning opera as undeserving of Presbyterian patronage, the assembly sent the matter to the appropriation committee. The piece questions grounds for disfavoring theatre but not opera. It argues consistency would extend to books and hotels.
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