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The Arizona sentinel., 1873-07-19
Railroad Matters in Mexico.

1 At the last hour Congress con-
 ceded to MT. Plumb the right to construct a railroad from the City
 of Mexico to Lagos, and thence
 north to MatamOras on the Rio
 Grande, and south to the Pacific, the said contractor receiving con- siderable grants of vacant lands,
 but no pecuniary aid. However, i the Government has accompanied
 the concessions of other lines to Mexican companies with a liberal subscription, the Pachura and
 Mexico Company receiving S5, ,OOO
 per kilometre, and the Puebla-
 Yzucar line $2,OOO; the former opens the mining region of Real del Monte and Cimapan, the lat ter the sugar plantations of Gu antla. Another projected line from the Capital of Mexico to To: luca-will most likely also receive a subscription in money.
 The Railroad Company of Tom- bay has got permission to lay, also, rails through the streets of the City of Mexico for an omnibus line to the Paso de las Vigas and to Fl PeravillO. Several new tele- graph lines are also ill the way of construction.
 The branch railroad from Vera Cruz to Jalapa has been finished as far as the Paso de Ovijas. The representative of the Mexican Government at London for at- tending to the railroad affairs, Juan N. Adorno, has made ar- engagements to exchange the prin- cipal European papers against those published in Mexico, to fpr- ther mutual acquaintance with the political and commercial con- dition of the respective countries. l
 The sum of S15,000 has been i granted to the State of Sonora for the port of La Libertad, which would be the nearest road | to Arizona. In future all goods ] bound for said Territory must be provided with an extra Spanish manifesto, besides the usual tran- sit Spanish invoices.
 Zamveana has left for Washing ton, taking along with him Eleu. terio Avila as Secretary, though Congress had specially fixed a salary of $1,000 for Carlos Molla, who acted before in said capacity, and whose services received due acknowledgment.-C0r g.. .F. Cali.
The Arizona sentinel., 1873-07-19
YUMA. A. T.
SATURDAY, JULY I9, 1873.
Solomon Ray.

A hard, close man was Solomon Ray, Nothing of value he gave away;
 He boarded and saved,
 And he pincbed and shaved And the more he had, the more he craved The hard-earned dollars he toiled to gain Brought him little but care and pain;
 For little he spent,
 And ali that he lent He made it bring him in twenty per cent. This was the life of Solomon Ray, The years went by, and his hair grew grey,
 His cheeks grew thin;
 And his heart within Grew hard as the dollars he worked to win. But he died one day, as all men must, For life IS fleeting, and man but dust;
 And all the heirs were gay
 That laid him away; This was the end of Solomon Ray. They quarreled now, who had little cared For Solomon Ray while his life was spared;
 His lands were sold,
 And his hard-earned gold All went to the lawyers, I am told Yet men will pinch, and cheat, and save Nor carry their treasures beyond the grave;
 All thelr gold, some day,
 Will melt away, Like the selfish savings Of Solomon Ray.
The Arizona sentinel., 1873-07-19
Correspondence.
YUMA, A. T.,

1 1O3 AOtos
 ED. SENTINEL-Being an ole resident and a taxpayer in thi:
 county for the past ten years, and consequently. feeling an interest in the welfare of said county, (at least as to how and where the money goes), I would like to in. quire if it is not possible for the official proceedings of the Board ofSupervisors to be published, so that all those whose money has to pay for the doings of said three acise men might know for what they have to pay such exhorbi- tant taxes, the county still sink ing deeper and deeper into debt every year.
 It may be that we have an ex. cellent Board, but there are such things as "penny wise and pound foolish" men, and from the do- ings of the Board last week, I am convinced that one member, at least, is of that stamp, and the other two acquiesce in aW he de- cides upon. What I want to see, and there are hundreds like my self in this county, is that the full and odicial proceedings be made public, either by posting in three places, or publication in the county newspaper, setting down the amount paid Smith, or Jones, or Brown, or any other man, and for what services ren- dered. By this means the tax payers might form an idea as to how Meir money goes, which I maintain they have perfect right to know. Also, when we, the taxpayers, have to pay S5 per 1iem to each member of the Board, we want to know whether )r not that $5 is earned. In the 1 three days proceedings published n the SENTINEL last week, as in 1 previous sessions, a great deal more time than was actually ne- has been taken up by the Board. Fifteen dollars a day for is rather an expen- ;ive luxury for a county which is 5000 in debt, and it's scrip at 50c. on the dollar only.
 TAXPAYER.
The Arizona sentinel., 1873-07-19

Among the educated classes of Europe great curiosity. exists as to American climate and produc- tions. An English or Scotch no. bleman wishes to know of his American guests how the trees of his park compare with American trees.
The Arizona sentinel., 1873-07-19
A Peoria woman lately

A Peoria woman lately sent 11,500 old postage stamps to a friend in New York, to make up the number of :, 1000, ,000, for which number a gentleman had agreed to build an Episcopal chapel in her neighborhood. They are util- ized in Europe in the manufac- ture of a special quality of papier- mache.
The Arizona sentinel., 1873-07-19
Feminine Personals.

The Blond-in Yuma is all the
 rage here.
 Queen Victoria has outlived of-
 ficially twelve of her premiers.
 Girls are taught type-setting at an industrial school in Vienna. Maria Parker, of Stamford, Vt. has ten sons and sixteen daugh- ters.
 Mrs. Lydia BIankinship,of Mer- | ton, Mass, goes to church regu- larly at the age of 99.
 The wife of Arthur Arnold, the editor of the London Echo, is translating Senor Castelar's work on Rome into English. A Philadelphia belle has been counting her fans, and she finds that she has 605, all presented by her admirers.
 The ladies of the harem of ths King of Siam have taken to wear ing the European costume. No harem, perhaps, in that.
 Three-fOurths of the women in Boston dare not sneeze with their mouths open, owing to their ina bility to hold on to their teeth.
 Two eminent English ladies' Mrs. Henry Wood and Mary E.. Braddon-entertain the idea of coming to this country to lecture.
 Alphonso, the dandy clerk of Brooklyn, says he has yet to see the first woman come into the dry goods store where he is employed who knows just what she wants.
 Vassar College girls are said to be quite profane this summer, "by graci0us,n ''mighty nice," and T'darn it;,' being among the mildest of the explosives freely used.
 A feminine Arkansan, Emily Sarah Lord, has been a resident of ten States and the pOssessor of nine husbands, three of whom have died suddenly and four have been divorced.
 A coquette of Fond du Lac ac- cepted the matrimonial offers of six simultaneous sWatns, and then made them fight for the pre- ference, in order to show the neighbors how much she was it for.
 Queen Victoria's chief physi- elan says that "housework is ad- calculated to preserve 8 robust woman, and to strengthen one who is weak An hour in the laundry is better than 8 vial of ir0n."
 Pauline Markham, of "vOcal velvet" and voluptuous limb memory, who has been so long reported as dying ofconsumption, is winning fresh laurels in the role of "Venus," at the Academy of Music, New Orleans.
 The young people of Ft. Wayne do their counting in the ceme- tery. They sit on the graves, telling their loves and secrets with the utmost freedom, trust- ing implicitly in the robbers
 +l,o& ssIoaI ,,,an tall m
The Arizona sentinel., 1873-07-19

They call it "naivetee" in Scran- ton when a young lady, while waiting for ice-cream, playfully places a spitte0n on the table.
The Arizona sentinel., 1873-07-19

New Orleans claims that her annual exports of produce exceed $l00, ,0O0, 900.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-01-04
SluWest Railroad Ever Heard of.

"John" writes to the New York San
from Syracuse as follows
A railroad runs from Oswego to SYRIA
cuse 1t is thirty,six miles long. |
rode on it, and those cars moved so
slow that if you want the draft in
your face you have to ride back
ward to get it. They never have hot
journals on the road; the great danger
Is, the stufting and gravy around the
axles will freez,. The screech of the
locomotive is very faint, kind of like
the warble of four year old boy, blow
ing through knot.hole in board
fence. 1t is capable of giving a grass
hopper thrill of alarm, but
won't scare COW worth leather cuss.
The conductor, engineer and fireman
always walk ahead of the train to look
for broken rails, and the COWS always s
run ahead of them to keep out of the
dust | have tried an experiment. Two
trains were passing, and stuck match
out of the window and let the head of
it rub against passenger car. 1t went
50 slow | couldn't strike light. If you
ever take trip from Oswego to Syracuse
over that road you want to ttke lots OF
clothes, a whole ham, and barrel o!
corned beef along with you.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-01-04
Foreign Gossip.

THE Paris Chief of Police writes fash.
ion articles in his leisure moments.
The cable dispatch about the Boston
fire cost the English press about 5000.
The Duke of Sutherland and the Mar
quis of Butte have each an annual in
come of 81: 100000.
BETWEEN the years 1910 and 1872 no
fewer than l,SO0 public officials o!
France have become deranged.
JoHN WALTER, ESQ, of the London
Times, recently had all its literary and
mechanical statt-over three hundred
in number--at his country seat, Bear
wood Hall, and gave them a grand ban
quet.
SOME one who has been writing about
royalty, lately, says that Queen Vic,o-
ria's horses are worth 100000; Kaiser
Williams, 9l300O; the Austrian En-
peror's nearly ESQ 600; King Leopola's,
ELS, 600; and the Sultan's, 100000.
PURDY BEY, who commands the Egyp.
tian expedition into Central Africa, is
E. Sparrow Purdy, d native of New
York, and son of Gov. Samuel Purdy,
of California. He is "a years old, and
entered the service of the Khedive two
years ago, rising rapidly 20 the position
of Chief of Staff of the Viceroy's Engi-
necr Department.
In a characteristic note to the Pail
Mall Gazette explaining his position on
the subject of capital punishment. Mr..
Ruskin says: "lf ever murder any.
body-and indeed there are numbers OF
people should like to murder won't
say that l ought to be hanged; for
think nobody but bishop or Il bank
director can ever he rogue enough tc
deserve hanging; but particularly, ano
with all that is left me of what | i'm
agine to be sound mind, request that
may be Immediately shot,
BISMARCK was recently called upon by
a Russian lady, who asked him for hi
autograph. After the Chancellor hat
cmplied with her request, she said t.
him: "Prince, may use your auto
graph for noble purpose?" Certain
ly," he replied "but what is it?" an.
brother has been exiled to Siberia; le
me write an application for his pardon
over your name, and the Gar will gran
it," Bismarck consented, and Alexln
der ii. informed him, when at Berlil
recently, that the pardon had beel
granted.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-01-04
A Slim Chance for a Poor Man.

There may be some truth in the talk
of aristorcracy in churches, judging from
the result of recent sale Of sitting at
St. Bartholomew's Protestant Episcopal
church, at the corner of Madison ave-
nue. and Forty-second street, New York.
There are two hundred pews in the
church, and the valuation is $4,000
the lowest being valued at $500. AT
the sale the premiums for choice rang
ed from $40 to 81 800, the latter price
being paid by Vanderbilt for the first
choice, who paid also for the second
choice, $l,l0O Nineteen pews sold fol
| S32, 900
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-01-04
Current Items.
TEXAS has 5000, cattle.


| Nosru CAROLINA raises vegetable
wool.
The annual yield of elliott pens is
l5O,000,000.
They have 'po; sum lunches at church
festivals in Georgia.
GREEN BAY, VII, is the largest shin
gle mart in the world.
| The first American newspaper was the
Boston Newsletter, tegun April "A, l704.
VERY short wedding trips are in fash.
ion just now, and very short engage.
ments.
VIRGINIA, which didn't have a cotton
factory before the war, has erected twelve
of them since.
THERE arrived in the United States
during the year ending June 20, 1872,
4Ol,S66 emigrants from foreign coun-
tries.
Godey's Lady's Book has been pub
lished forty two years, In all that time
it has had the same editors and pub
fishers:
TwENTY,FoUR square miles have been
laid out on the Kansas Pacific railroad
for the site of an English city called
Victoria.
TIE mills Of Capt E. B. Ward, at Lud,
ington, Mich, cost $40S 900. Capt. Ward
owns 10000 acres of pine lands, located
from II to IA m les from that village.
THERE were printed 7S6 900 volumes
Of Congressional documents for the past
year, costing 81 .SO2,3 You see part
of the crumbs go to the poor printer
A LITTLE girl at Walpole, N. H., fell
while playing the other day, and dislo
Gated he elbow. A surgeon was sent
for, but just before his arrival she had
another and luckier fall, which set the
dislocated joint.
PENNSYLVANIA proposes to amend her
Constitution SO as to prohibit her
judges from indulgng in gratuitous
rides upon Railways, and to permit her
juries to render valid verdict by two.
thirds majority.
The New York Tribune, in an art t:cle
reviewing the insurance question, proves
that there is q strong tendency among
all the leading companies to distribute
their risks, and guard against all future
Boston and Chicago contingencies.
The female convicts of the Maryland
Penitenti,ry are being taught to do
plain sewing of all kinds done on sew
ing machines, in place of the old trade
of box making Sewing gives them
reader means of support when once
more left to depend upon themselves.
That waddling bird, the goose, has
at last furnished an item. The periodi-
cal plucking of feathers from this
aquatic fowl has suggested the possibil-
.ty of performing the operation by
other means than by hand. Certain
scientific and humane men propose to
meet in convention at Chicago soon, and
devise better methods for picking, and
also to consider how the disagreeable
smell emanating from recently plucked
feathers can be prevented.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-01-04
NUMBER Is.
The BOYS.

There come the boys! Oh. dear the noise
The whole house feels the racket;
Behold the knee of harry's pants.
And weep DER Berries jacketl
But never mind. if eyes keep bright,
We'd rather lose the trees whole bark
Than find ansouud the timber!
Now hear the tops and marbles rolll
The foOrs-0h woe tetide theml
Ana must watch the banisters.
For know boys who ride them
Look well as you descend the stairs.
often md them haunted
By ghostly toys that make no noise
Just when their noise is wanted.
The very chairs are tied in pairs.
And made to prance and caper;
What swords are whitfield out of sticksi
What brave hats made OF paper
The dinner-bell peals loud and well.
To tell the milkn8ns coming:
And then the rush of steam car trains,
Sets all our ears humming.
How oft say. what shall do
TO keep those children quiet?"
IF could find a good receipt.
| certainly should try it.
But what to do with these wild boys.
And all their din and clatter.
Is really quite grave affair
No laughing. tlifing matter.
BOYS will be boys"-6m not for long:
All could we bear about US
This thought how very soon our boys
Will learn to do without us!
How soon but tall and deep voiced men
will gravely call us Mother"
Or we be stretching empty hands
From this world to the other.
More gently VIC should chide the noise,
And when night queils the racket,
Stitch ia but loving thoughts ani prayers
While mending pants and jacket.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-01-04
Beer Drinking.

We read that the excessive beer drink.
ing by the Germans in the United States
is gradually producing consumptive
symptoms, and that the Germans, here
tofore rated as a remarkably healthy
people, are showing radical indications
of constitutional arrangement; and,
furthermore, statistics go to show that
not half so many Germans are acquiring
homes now as there were ten years ago
in proportion to the aggregate number
of German adults.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-01-04
VOLUME III.
Before the Burial.

Earth let thy sofest mantle returning
This weared child to the rest,
Whose youth was nurtured att t.y breast.
Who loved thee with such ten Ter yearning-
He knew thy fields and woodlawn ways,
And deemed thy huubest son his brother:
ASLEEP beyoud our blame or praise
We yield aim back. . gentle Mother!
81 praise. of blame he drank he nil
wv Whs 10, 10 not re red q. shs 7asf-:Srys
The man was dea. CT than bis ct tcry.
An1 r.ow to us arc l.ft alone
IN e closet whore his shadow iinges..
Ipe can't Chair that was thrcn,-
The pen just fallen frer. AsS hngcrs
wrath Tha CHANGED te Mrsness on that pen;
Though a ppea "a sall it flowed with honey;
one Hash from pes he cloud, and then
the. the skiss S'la smile and jest were sunny;
unats he saroiy lacked the art.
"A, 40 mado his enemy his lover:
" reverend head and Christian heart!
where now their like the round world over2
IHe saw the goodnes not the taint,
In many a poor, do nothing creature,
And Eavc to sinner and to SAINT,
Bus Fept his faith in human nature;
ifeRSpS nee he IVES not WORLDLY y-wise
q 1t we who noted. standing nearer,
A'ks shrewd. kind twiL kle in his eyes.
D-or every weakness held him dearer.
Alas! that unto him who gave
SO much. so little should be eiven!
Himself alone, he might not save
OF all for whom his hands had striven.
Place freedom, lame. his work bestowed.
Men took. nd passed and lett him lonely
What marvel, if beneath his load,
AT Times he crayed tOr--justice on'yi
Y ct thenkksssrcss, the serpent's tooth,
HIS lofty Iurpose could not alter;
Voil had ne power to bend his youth,
-, Or MARE his !usty manhood falter;
lsrom enyy's sling. from slanders dart.
Ibst armored soul the body shielded.
ttik one dark sorrow chilled his heart.
And then he bowed his head, and yielded,
Now, now. we measure at its worth
,,r The gracious pre,ence gone foreverl
The wriDkled East, that gave him birth,
Laments with every labOring river;
Wild moan the free inds of the West
For him " no gathe ed to her prairies
The sons of men. and made each crest
nae haunt of happy household fairies;
And anguish sits upon tho mouth
or her who came to know him latest:
his heart was eyor thine, SoGthi
He was thy truest friend. and greatesti
He Stunned thee in thy splendid shame.
He stayed thee in thy voiceess sorrow;
The day thou shall forget his name.
Fair South. can have no sadder morrow
The tears that fall from eyes unused
,,i ne hands above his grave united
NE words OF men whose lips he loosed.
TGuld he out know. and rest with this
Yet stay. through d. ath's low-lying hollow.
His ooe last foes insatiate hiss
In that benignant shade would follow!
Peace! while We shroud this man of men
>, Let no unhaliowed word be spoken
he Will not answer thee again,
His mouth IL sealed his wand is broken,
Some holier cause. some vaster trust
beyond the vail. he doth inherit;
y gently. Earth. receive his dust.
And Heaven soothe his troubled spirit!
-ka""nd Q. Stcsman in the Neo York Tribune.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-01-04
VarictiPS.

How MANY peas are there in pint
One p.
A LEADING article--A blind mans
poodle.
FEE sIArLE-Money given to quack
doctor.
UNDER GROUND doings-Working in
the tunnel.
The right of weigh-What we don't
get at many shops.
MONEY skin is the fashion in furs this
winter Young bloods with hair parted
in the middle, be forewarned
VETERINARY surgeons smoke fifteen
cent cigars and wear beautiful snuff
colored plush ov ercoats since the epl-
zootic came to hL p them.
AN innocent minded Brooklyn girl
said 10 gentleman, the other night:
"The mosquitoes are terrible. ] wish
YOU could see my back y 81 wish |
could" was the quiet reply.
THE following notice is posted con-
spicuousIy in the office of renowned
poet: "Shut the door, and as soon AS
you have had your say, please to serve
your mouth fin the same way
A CERTAIN newly elected Irish Mayor,
speaking of certain articles in aviyacious
newspaper, observed: Il despise those
underhand attacks. When write an
anonymous letter, | always sign my
name to it,
A YOUTH entered into a bookstore
and asked " What kind of pens do you
sell here, mister?' san kinds, you
young rascal answered one of tie
clerks. "Do your said the little chap,
",hen give me ten cents worth of pig.
pens"
A FELLOW in an Obvious state took up
kir lodgings in the street. Ilo woke
next morning, and Strengthening him.
self up, look ed on the ground on which
he had made his couch. and said "lf
had pickaxe would make up my
bed!'
AN awkard compliment-Mrs Flirt-
in gton (coquettishly) y" Pm afraid you
are bored, Mr.. Amoret! You would
sooner be walking with some young
| lady !" Mr.. Amoret with native readi.
ness and gallantry)-"O, no, indeed,
Mrs. F.irtington. III much prefer
he older ones ~
AN editor announces the marriage ofa
friend thusly: He has read himself
out of the jolly brotherhood of bache.
lols, sold his single breasted lounge,
pack ked his baggage and checked it for
Glory, walked the gang plank of court
ship to the vessel of matrimony, and is
now steaming down the stream OF bliss
by the light of the honeymoon"
TIE characteristic of the umbrella is
its power of changing shapes. You can
leave a bran new silk with an ivory and
rosewood handle at any public gather
ing, and within three hours it will trans
form itself into light blne or faded
brown cotton, somewhat less in size than
q circus tent, with handle like tile.
graph pole, and five fractured ribs.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-01-04
Patent Medicines.

A recent German work gives the ro-
suit of the authors analysis of SOM of
the most widely-known patent medi.
cines of the present time. 1t appears
that the famous Morrison pills, two and
one half grains each, consist of aloe,
kind of pills contains the same ingredi.
ents, beside gamboge. Holloway's pills,
about equally famous, are composed of
aloe, myrrh, and saffron. Brandreth's
pills showed resin of podophylium,
thickened juice of poke berries, saffron,
cloves, and oil of peppermint. con OF
Horse. Chestnuts," by Genevoix, of Paris
is not at all the oil of the horse-chest
nut, but another non-drying oil, altered
by the heat so that it has acquired {
darker color, pungent odor, and ar
acrid taste.
A TABLE of interest is the Dime