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Show OPIUM SMOKING. The Nevada legislature has a 'bill-before 'bill-before it to suppress opium smaking. I A terrible pieiure is drawn by the I Carson Tribune of the horrors witnessed wit-nessed by its editor in India, on account ac-count ot the excessive indulgence in the practice. He thinks ardent spirits ' may ba used habitually and inordi- j ualelv without Droducinir anvthinir t like the evil efTecls arising either to body or mind which attend opium smoking. 'Ihe Tribune Bays: We have seen a little bit of a Malay under the influence of opium, who ordinarily did not possess the strength of a twelve year old American, overcome over-come a whole boat's crew of his countrymen, coun-trymen, at the port of bamarang, IsUtid of Java, and after killing every one, cut bimsflf literally in pieces and diev And again: We knew one of the brightest gentlemen, gen-tlemen, who lived in a city on the South African coast a leading member mem-ber of society and a wealthy mau-r wio by a Malay servant was iuduced to smoke opium to allay the pain arising from a sore on his linger, who took so great a likine to the drug that hi: gave up home, family and station, and after ignoring his religion and embracing the Mahometan faith, lived for two years among the Malaya, auu uieu a raving maniac Tne Chinese of this state consume large quantities of opium, and resort to every conceivable device to smuggle smug-gle it ashore' from the ships free of duty. There is little doubt but many of the deadly assaulrs upon each other made by these people are prompted .while uuder iU crazing influence, and if law ia demanded in Nevada to restrain its use, it is much more needed, in California. Call |