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The Russellville Democrat., 1878-08-29
 EXPLANATORY.

Our attention has been called to the fact that in noticing the pefsonel of our county ticket last week we said nothing about the nominee for County Surveyor. We are certainly much obliged to the friend who call ed our attention to the omission, which we can assure our readers, as well as the efficient and well qualified recipient of the nomination, was en- tirely unintentional. The office, al- though generally considered minor position, is iu reality one of the most important on the ticket; and there is no office on the County ticket where it is so essential to look to the qualifications and competency of the aspirant. In fact a man who can fill this office as it should be fill ed would fill creditably any other office on the whole County ticket. We are proud to say that the noni- nee, MT. James Potts, IS fully up to the standard required for this office. He has already served two terms and perhaps no man ever held the position and gave the same sat isfaction that he has. He is per haps the best qualified man Tn the County for the position.
The Russellville Democrat., 1878-08-29
RAILROAES IN ARKANSAS

We fully coincide with the senti- ment expressed in the following ar ticle clipped from the Spirit of Ar kansas: t.. ,.
 There should be no misunderstan- ding, 20 antagonism between the farmers, or grangers or merchants and the railways ill this state.
 They are mutually dependent-- one on the other, and the people and the State government should do all they can to encourage the building of other roads.
 The roads we have are aiding i'm mensely In developing our State, and if extended and some of them aided, it will enable them to reduce fares and freight. It should be borue in mind that new road through new country--a large part of which is without inhabitants cannnt afford to carry passengers and freight as cheaply as they can in New York ol Ohio.
 If for instance, the Fort Smith and Little Rock railway were con nected with a completed road to Pine Bluff aud the Mississippi river, and also with another through the coUn- ties of the north west, and with the NJ. K. & T. road it would vastly ben eft the whole State and enable the Fort Smith road to do better part for itself and it's customers. EXten- sions, branches or feeders are essen tial to the prosperity of the present roads and to the people and it is to be hoped that the next assembly will do what can be done to further these ends.
 We are all aware of the financial condition of our State and the power ty of our people as regards money capital, but friendly legislation which injures no one may sometimes greatly assist in the development of the agricultural and mining inter ests of the country; and in no way so efectually as by the extension ol railways to points where farm pro ductlons and the rich ores can be reached in no other way. c. k. T.
The Russellville Democrat., 1878-08-29
OYertasking the Energies.

It is not advisable for any of us to Overtask our energies, corporeal or mental, but in the eager pursuit oi wealth or fame or knowledge, how many transgress this salutary rule. It must be matter of great importance to all who do so to know how they cah regain the vigor so recklessly eNpend- ed. The remedy is neither costly or difficult to obtain. Hostetter's stomach Bitters is procurable in every city, town and settlement in America, and it compensates for drain Of bodily or mental energy more eilectually than any invigorant ever prescribed or ad- vertsed. Laborfng men, athletes, stu- dents. journalists, lawyers, clergyman, physicians, all bear testimony to it's wondrously renoyating powers. 1t in- creases the capabilities for undergoing fatigue, alid counteracts the injurious effects upon the system of exposure, scdcntary habits, unhealthy or weary ing ayocations, or an insalubrious eli mate, and is a primo alternative, diiuctIc and blood depurent.
The Russellville Democrat., 1878-08-29

oldsct ons the ground that the people cafinot afford to build a new house. One gentleman even appeared in print and said it would entail debt upon us for future generations to pay. This is the weakest objection we have ever heard. The town of Russellvillc offers to give the county enough money to build house if it is located here, so how can objectors urge the people to vote against change on this ground2s If the County Seat stays at Dover the peo. pie are as sure as fate to be taxed to rebuild the old house. So you see that the men who argue that they oppose the change to keep taxes of the people are putting up 2 great deception on taxpayers, for they are pursuing the very course to put q tax on the people. But it is urged that it will be a hardship to the citi- zens of Dover to take the Court house away, from there. To this objection we simply ask if the wei fare and private interests Of q few men in Dover are paramount to the welfare and public interests of the county at large? If so the sooner we know it the better.
 N We leave the subject with the voters of the county only asking them to weigh carefully these facts and to then go to the polls next Monday and vote as tlley conscien- tionsly believe to- be best for the interests of the county.
The Russellville Democrat., 1878-08-29

TIE Courier-journal has made and published the remarkable dis coyory that Dennis Kearny IS . col. lege graduate in disguise, and has only been playing the working-man. It's basis for this discovery is the eloquent phrases in his Boston speech. The C..J. is evidently not mp to the histsry of the times, or it would know that these outbursts of oratory arc clean, complete plagiar- isms from the sbecch of eloquent Tom Fitch in eulogy of Blaine, dc llvered about ten years ago. - Capi- tal
The Russellville Democrat., 1878-08-29

A vote will be taken in Pope county as to the removal of the coun- ty site from Dover to Russellyille or Atkins. Russollyille will probaly be the luckey town, in case 1t is remov- ed, and we believe It would be the more suitable place but it is so great trade center as Russellville. At any rate, hurrah flor the place which may chance to win.--Lewi sburg State.
The Russellville Democrat., 1878-08-29

While Gen. Lewis and iami4 were on route to Texas last week, 2 son, aged Is years, who IS addIc''I to sleep waIkinN got up and waIh'g, ', off the train while it was under lu' headway and was not missed '" some time, Upon the fact being H' covered the train was backed s-'' al miles, and the boy Was diaoo't.'' uniniurcd. The joy of the "~'' caa better he imagined tAaA a-+--''' cd.--L. k. Gazette
The Russellville Democrat., 1878-08-29
"A New York paper gives th

A New York paper gives the information that there are scarcely any old maids in Russia, and we do not wonder at it, Russia is a cold and disagreeable country. Most any man would forswear his liberty sooner than get up and kindle fires where the mercury stands congcaled nine months in the year.
The Russellville Democrat., 1878-08-29

---"When 1 cortcd her." said Spreadwatcr,," took lawyers ad- vice, and sIyued every letter to my love, Yours, withoat prcjudlce''
The Russellville Democrat., 1878-08-29
IT Is FINISHED.
The Great Mass Convention of UnteIrified LabOfing Men and Free Independent
 GrcenbackerB.

It is not a Wolf in Sheep's Cloth ing, but Simply d few Quiet, Harmless Little kepubli- can Lambs which come
 out and lie down
 with a few disc0n-
 4 tented Demo- sM s cratic Lions. kRk
The Russellville Democrat., 1878-08-29

Fishing IS mostly Aet ptoAt'
The Arizona sentinel., 1878-07-27
Drowning Of Lieuts. Rucker and
 Henley.
Especial to the Star

The details of the drowning of Lieuts Fucker and Henley, at Camp Supply, on the 1lth inst, came to the Star by tele- graph. They met their deaths in White River Cahon Henley had been scoutin q between Camp Supply and Ratchet (Hua- ehneg0 Mountains, and had returned wis his Indian company. His command lie Had stationed in the canon in the vicin- ity Of Point of Rocks, when he started on horseback up the caslun toward Supply Camp. Twice he had succeeded in cross ing the fearful torrent of water that was rushing maGly along its course, carrying everything with it that came in reach, and arriving about opposite Supply Camp he made third attempt to cross the angry stream. Reaching the rapid current his horse lost his footholu in the bed of the stream; when Henley was plunged into the water. He swam with the current for a considerable distance, when his body was thrown against tree with great force, far out in the stream. The blow he re- ceived rendered him helpless. Lieut. Rucker; who was near at hand, mounted his horse and rode rapidly short distance below, and plunged into the stream, hoping to catch Henley as lie fioated by But, alasi the fate of noble Ruckerl He, too. was separated from his horse; imme- diately sank in the roaring, rumbling cur rent and was seen no more alive! Buck CTS body was found at ' o'clock the same evening. about a mile down the stream, and at 10 o'clock the same evening the body of Henley was found near where Fuckers was taken out. Henley's skull YVES fractured, and it was thought ty the surgeon that death ensued immediately after the fracture was received, which was probably at the tree or stump described above. Efforts at resuscitation were thoroughly made, but death had claimed its own. Phe bodIes were sent to Bowie on the t9th, snd buried on the 18th at that post Fhe funeral was one of the most imposing ever witnessed in Arizona, the officers and men performing the last sad rites.
The Arizona sentinel., 1878-07-27
DOrrfngtGn.

Judging from the following extract from the Falls City, Nebraska, Journal, our townsman is having a gorgeous old time of it, back East.
 "The reception given to John ". Dorring- ton, of Yuma, Arizona, brother -in-law of Judge Isham Reavis, of thIs city, at the elegant residence of the Judge, on Chase Street, on Wednesday evening, was an un- usually pleasant and enjoyable affair.
 The invited guests, upon their arrival, were ushered into the commodious parlors and presented to MT. Darlington and his two brothers, with their wives, after which they roamed at will through the parlors or sought the cooler air and bright moonlight of the spacious grounds about the resi- dence, where they chatted and promenad- ed and listened to the stirring music of the Falls City Cornet Band. or the softer strains waited from the piano on the inside. Sumptuous refreshments were passed around and partaken of with relish. As the hour of midRight approached, the guests bade edieu to the host and host ess and departed for their homes, feeling that the occasion had been truly delight ful one and will not soon be forgotten Elsewhere We give an account of the re- cent reunion of the Dorringtcn family, whose members had been, for years, scat tered far snd wide in almost all parts of our country, end now, ia the years of ma ture manhood and womanhood, meet again, with not single member missing and we are assured, that all, who enjoy the acquain tance of this accomplished and fortunate family, will unite in wishing them many more long years of prosperous life"
The Arizona sentinel., 1878-07-27

THE appointment of an Agent for the Indians of the Colorado River Reserve is matter that interests us. These poor wretches (some l,200 or 1,500 of them) have been hustled out of 400 miles Of river-country from which they used to make a good living, and huddied together upon reServa- tiOn. For several years they have managed to eke out subsistence from such seeds and roots as are afforded by the country around their reservation and by making little gardens, But this Spring smallpox scourged them, and in their sickness they ate up their little store of seeds, and are nearly destitute. They now need an Agent who can represent their condition to the proper authOri ties, and secure for them a stock of tools and seeds, and obtain for them instructors who can bring these poor savages out of a moral condition that disgraces the Gov ernment that has now held them as wards for fifteen years. No stranger will find it easy to do all this. Few men are willing to do it. MT. Henry k. Mallory has been among them for several months, assisting his brother, the lately deceased Agent. If this gentleman IS willing to accept an appointment, we believe he will make a better Agent than any man likely to be sent out here from the East.
The Arizona sentinel., 1878-07-27
YUMA ARIZONA SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1878

MACHINERY must go, because it does labor cheaply. All cheap labor is degrading. Machines do not make homes among us. They never become citizens, nor become imbued with the true spirit of our institutions. ReaperS are particularly objectionable, because they throw out of employment thousands of white gurrls. In Europe, particularly, the reaping of grain was chiefly done by wo- men until machinery came in to take the bread out of their mouths, and to drive those who wont work into lives of prostitution or something else even less agree able. Machines must go! They work too cheap, and do not pat ronize our saloons. They are often dirty, and so stink of rancid oil that no white man can associate with them.
 A righteous crusade against ma- chinery has already begun in Ohio, and let's hope to aid the good cause in Arizona. Noble citizens, whom cheap machine labor has compelled to travel by capturing railroad trains, and to subsist by frightening food and clothing ont of the wives of bloated machine owners, have already banded themselves together to burn up the loathsome, hell@born reapers. Illinois and Ohio are once more seeing their grain garnered by Caucasian labor, more or less nat uralized. Machinery must go! '! Peacefully if it can. forcibly if it must.
 What! Some good in ma chines.l Then you want your daughter to marry a moving ma- chine, do yer? Yes you dol You lie! You doll"
The Arizona sentinel., 1878-07-27
The Arizona Gsiia Monster.
From proceedings of the California Aca
 demy of Sciences

|
 demy of Sciences.
 Another reptile, large lizard from Ari- zona, has the advantage over the Aniella of possessing an English name. The lizard is Of rather large size, about eighteen in ches long, with thick, stout body of a bright yellow color, mingled with brown, and has altogether most unattractive as pect, which doubtless accounts for its title of "GIla Monster" as well as for its un- enviable reputation as a poisonous reptile. He little merits this character as will be evident if we remember that there does not exist in nature such thing as pois- onous lizard. Not only is the creature in nocent of venom, but 1t appears to be al it IS exceedingly slow 'n it's motions, and when closely pursued will stop and show fight Tn a feeble kind of way.
 MT. !. F. Scupham, who collected and presented the animal, states that from its comparatively large size, conspicuous CO., Tor, gn6 lack of ability to seek safety in flight, 1t will before many years probably become extinct-another species swept awny, like the dodo, the solitaire, and the great aak, by the murderous destructive ness of the ignorant self styled "lords of creation"
 Of course the Giia Monster cGn bite$ all lizards so common on the San Francisco sand hills (Genrhonotus) call bite till they draw blood, as I have experienced
The Arizona sentinel., 1878-07-27
Che Thousand Neglected Indians .--Aband 5ne6 Wards of the Gov ernment---PitifuI Attempts at Farming.
COLORADO RIVER INDIAN RESERVE,
 ,J1lv 18th. 1878.

COLORADO RIVER INDIAN RESERVE,
 July 18th, 1878.
 EDITOR SENTINEL:-Knowlng the in terest you have ever manifested toward the Indiars of this Reservation, and feel ing that to great degree, they are in debted to your personal exertiOns for the late appropriation for food, at time when they most sadly needed il, think an out lire of a visit I made to their farms may interest you.
 Yesterday, in company with the inter preter, visited the Indians farms on this reserve, and found they have been busy during the past month in planting what land could be found wet enough, from the overflow of the Colorado river, to produce crops. Such land is only found in low places along the river banks ant in sloughs extending back into the bottom. Owing to failure of the river to rise this year to its usual height, the amount of land farm ed by the Indians will be limited. But, in conversation with them, I learned that land enough lad been moisttned to re- ceire the scantv supply of seed they had to plant. They further told me that their supply of corn and wheat for planting had been eaten during tine late epidemic among them of smallpox, and that their pumpkin and melon seeds had been used in making an ointment to prevent scar ring of the body by that disease. Govern ment not doing anything for them, they had to eat their seeds or starve.
 We visited about a dozen farms varying in size from one to twenty-five acres. The land, having been overnowed for years past, is as level as New England meadow, rich and fertile, and perfectly suited for cultiyating any crops that mey be desired The best farm saw covered about 9 acres, but might have been enlarged to 100.
 The mode of planting is very crude, but owing to lack of tools and means of irri- gating, no other is practised. They dig holes in the ground, about two feet deep, using stick and their hands for that pur- pose: at the bottom of the holes they plant the seeds; and as these grow up, they fill the holes up to the surface, thus insuring depth of root, in order to utilize the mois- ture as long as possible. There is no uni formity in fields or rows. The hills are sometimes as near each other as three in- ches; at other times twenty feet. They crowd from ten to twenty stalks of corn in each hole. The crops have just started and are only few inches high. estimat- ed their cleared land to be about 100 acres, about half of which was planted: But the planting was so scattered, that few acres, under modern cultivation, would yield as large crop. These Indians carry water from the river, in ollas, for watering seeds planted on higher grouna-and all this for such scanty return. They have plenty of land, and were they furnished with an irrigating ditch, and with seeds, tools and instruction, few years would render them self supporting, and advance them in knowledge and virtue. They are now on the rotrograde. x%*
The Arizona sentinel., 1878-07-27
Farming by Irrigation.

Farming by irrigation is a science that the most experienced farmer by other methods must acquire by slow and patient investigation and experiment, and varles greatly with the varying quantity Of the soil. Those who have heretofore pro- jected irrigation works ill this valley have. as q general rulej held the judgment ot their own unskilled eyes in preference to the instrumental accuracy snd precision of the professional engineer. The result is that hap hazard canals, having in places too much grade and in others too little, with varying cross sectional areas end veloclties of current, have been built, giving results far from satisfactory and throwing unjust reflections upon the prac- tical value of irrigation in general
 The foregoing practical comments are from the Stockton Independent, an enter prising paper that has given much atten- ton to the subject, and has contributed largely toward developing the farming interest, of it's vicinity
The Arizona sentinel., 1878-07-27

THE patent gold washer that takes gold out of sand and gravel without the use of water, is now doing its marvellous work opposite the postoflice, at the fruit stand of Hummer & Weaver. The incredulous can go there and sprinkle gold in the sand and MT. Blair will run 1t throgh the ma chine and return every grain of gold to the owner. It is curious but true.-L. A. Re publican.
The Arizona sentinel., 1878-07-27

THE value to mining country of a newspaper that describes mines intelli- gently, is incalculable See what the Star" has done for Pima County. Some times that paper enters into details rather unnecessarily. As, for instance, when it tells us that the Turquoise District, in the Dragoon mountains, is so called from the quantities of tufquoise-shells found there. Every schOol-boy knows that atturquois-shell is used for combs and knife handles, just as he knows that tortoises are blue stones that are often cut and set as jewels.
 The water from Hancock's well, as per published analysis, contains 042 grains of " Lop," which is new.
The Arizona sentinel., 1878-07-27

delivered for intervals of from two days to two weeks.
 Yet Arizona had a Delegate to Congress who was at Washington when these fraudulent bids we're accepted, who is credited with sense enough to know what their consequences must be to his cons stituents, and who is not known here to have lifted his voice up against these patent frauds, or to have asked the Postofiice Depart ment to make any special pro- vision against certain failure Of straw contractors.
The Arizona sentinel., 1878-07-27
-
 Gold.

The recent discoveries of rich placer mines on the Colorado, about two hun dred miles above Yuma, are attracting a great deal of attention, At present the precious metal is obtained by the use of the dry washer, or blast, but with the use of capital large ditch can be made from the Colorado, and regular placer washing be carried on. On the Gila are very yalu- able beds of gravel, that only require a ditch to render them very prctitable.-Re publican.
The Arizona sentinel., 1878-07-27

CHEAP-AND-NAS mail con- tractors are DOW the scourge that atfiicts Arizona. Total failure to place service occurred this month on several routes; and even where no actual failure took place, some mails are being carried in shab- by and scandalous manner. The great daily contract between Yuma and Fort Worth was taken at $l34, 4,000,-a sum less than half of actual cost Of carrying the mail decently. At several points along this route mails have failed to be
The Arizona sentinel., 1878-07-27

THE special Agent of the U. s. Treasury, who has been inspecting the books of the Depository, in this city, pays Claude An derson, the present, and Frank Staples, the former clerk, a handsome compliment have been ke eot-Tucson Star.
The Arizona sentinel., 1878-07-27

THE Commissioner of the Internal Reve- nue has given as official that six hundrtd d millions of dollars worth of distilled liquors are drank in year in the United States. There are in this country nearly quarter of million of liquor dealers.
The Arizona sentinel., 1878-07-27

WE are informed that MT. A. N. Sterling, of St. Louis, and J. L. Ward, of Yuma, have taken possession of Government Spring and adjacent land for mill site, and that they have men on the ground erecting bulIfings.-Globe Silver Belt.
The Arizona sentinel., 1878-07-27

THE great rains in Pima county have done an immense amount of good. The earth has been thoroughly saturated, thus ensuring good grass, and ample SUD- plies of water for mining and irrigating, for long time to come.
The Arizona sentinel., 1878-07-27

TEE Quebec rioters who broke into flour store and stole 400 barrels of four on pretence of being in danger of starvation, sold It to gfocers for S1 50 barrel, and used the money in buying whisky.
The Arizona sentinel., 1878-07-27

TIE Brooklyn Union has discovered the difference between the weather and the baby: "One never rains but it pOurs; the other never pairs but 1t rOars."
The Arizona sentinel., 1878-07-27
For Amateur Editors.

Tickle the public and make It grin The more you tickle the more you'll win But teach the public-you'I never grow
 rich, But live like a beggar and die in ditch.
The Arizona sentinel., 1878-07-27

OMAHA Herald: Judge Dundy, United States District Judge, says there is one thing about the dashed old fraud, Hayes no one is naming babies after him.
The Arizona sentinel., 1878-07-27

"There aint nuthin so good for a fools talk, nor liars, like hullsome lettin alone"
 Josh Billings gets off many good thing
The Arizona sentinel., 1878-07-27

THE Feast of St Augustine will be cele brated at Tucson August 27
The Arizona sentinel., 1878-07-27

Goods sold at greatly reduced rates
 Highest prices paid for all Arizona pro-