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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-03-06

1t was not yet so dark that David's
eyes, peering at her from beneath their
projecting buff awnings, could not see
the sudden agitation caused by his
words, and he took courage.
Because, if you've no specific OBJ
iections against matrimony generally,
and feel friendly toward me individoo-
ally, and I'm so disposed, 1 don't see,
Lovisa, what's to hinder our making a
bargain"
ooh, 1 couldn't, Mr.. Yopp-I couldn't
anyways, though it's very kind in you
to mention it." she faltered, incoherent-
ly, while her face, usually like wax
yellow wax-glOwed a lurid red.
MAYBE you're afraid l shouldn't
make you good husband, Lovisa, be-
cause Pm getting along in years, and
never had any experience" suggested
he, turning his averted face toward her
with curvilinear jerk; "but I'd do
my best, and mother always gave me
credit for being willing. Actooally,
now, Lovisa, it does pear to me
'twould convene both on us if you
was to make up your mind to have
me-"
Again she shook her head, but more
slow this time. David almost fancied
the motion might be only the dying
vibration Of her former negative, and
went away not altogether hopeless.
At FIRST, as we have seen, the thought
Of matrimony had been to him rather
distasteful than otherwise, but Lovisa' s
persistent refusal aroused the latent
combativeness of his nature. The
more she would not marry him, the
more desirable she seemed to him, and
he never let slip an opportunity for
pressing his suit till he had wrung
from her a promise to reconsider his
proposal.
With this weighty subject on her
mind, she came to visit us and help
about the currant jelly-and precious
little help she was
81 feel so exercised, Mrs. Farms
worth p she confessed to my mother,
privately. "Do you think it would
make great deal of talk if | should
get married? ?" The second week she
was lamenting that Mr.. Yopp was not a
professor. Might she not be the chosen
instrument to lead him to the light ?
By the end of the third her sympathies
had gone out to the blind old father in
need of woman's care, and she was
querying where the duty lay. Ought
she not to ask the presiding elder?
Having sounded her by a few adroit
questions, that reverend gentleman
smilingly advised the union, and this
virtually decided the matter for Lovisa.
[ will so to you, Mr.. Yopp-that is,
if it will be any accommodation" she
said, timidly, when, at the close Of the
month, David came for his answer.
They were married the following
Thanksgiving, in the brides small
parlor, while the stumpy little teapot
in the kitchen gurgled and choked with
glee And, the service over and the
wedding picnic discussed, my father
lent his horse to David, and the happy
pair drove away on their bridal tour,
and were gone at least three hours,
during which the nuptial guests trans
ferred LOvisa's modest spinster belong
to her matrOn home.
For thirty years these mature lovers
lived together like cushat-doves, and
never to the day Of her death did
Lovisa regret the hour when she mar
ried David, "just to accommodate"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-03-06

Amt of claims for unpaid
Losses and all other Ii
abilities. $500. ..... 50, 296 %
Capital and Prem. Notes 1870, 119 73 Sl33, 415 81
Surplus, including Reinsurance 1926 So
Amount at Risk 81 1888 0OO
Amount required to Re-insure the same, S45-
031.4.
Reinsurance Fund deposited in State Treasury
A NEW HAT.
The old Madison" recognizes the
fact that the people Of the West have
generally become dissatisfied with the
Mutual SYSTEM and prefer to know what
they are to pay. For this reason the
name and style is changed to Madison
Fire Insurance Company.
It has added 100000 paid up capital
to its other assets, and embarks in a
modest way in general insurance bu-
siness.
It will continue to deserve public pat
ronage by promptness and hberality.
We have reduced our amount at risk
and increased our surplus. We shall
continue to write at as low rates as 1uiW
pay, but shall not write for less, as no
Policy will be issued that cannot be re-
deemed.
1aaE B. E. HUTCHINSON,
Secretary.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-03-06
OUR DAILY RECKONING.

five sit down at set of sun,
And count the things that we have done,
And, counting, fnd
One self-denying act. one word
That eased the heart of him who heard;
One glance most kind,
Tibet felt like sunshine where 1t went.
Then we may count the day well spent.
But if through all the live-long day,
We've eased the heart by yea Gr nay;
lfthrough it all
We've nothing done that we can trace,
That brought the sunshine to face;
NOact. most small,
That helped some soul, and nothlng cost.
Then count the day as worse than lost.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-03-06
g FALLING STARS

A star falls IN the sky;
They say IA birth
Is registered on the earth,
To live and die.
o star! IN thy descent
DoSt thou bring love
From worlds above,
Or discomfort?
Stars falling from on high,
Bringing to earth
Celestial birth,
Dost thou not sigh?
So many stars must fall!
Some 60 astray.
We only pray.
God find them ALL
-Sap ah JeaUen, in NeW York World
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-03-06

A MATTER OF DUTY.-It is the solemn
duty of every grocer to refrain from sell
ing to his customers an article Of food
which he knows is positively injurious
to the health, and he is deprived of all
excuse for SO doing when better arti-
Gle for the purpose can be readily OBJ
tanned at the same COST Now the Best
Chemical Saleratus, made by B. D. De-
Land & Co., can always be had, and
this is known to be pure and free from
all deleterious matter. No grocer who
regards the welfare of his customers
will fail keep it.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-03-06

sLoAN's CONDITION PoWD
EVERY PACKAGE OF

Given to your Horse, Cow or Hog,
return many times its cost in the
provement Of the flesh, and healtl
your stock.
The horse will show more life, and
complish more work The COW
produce more and richer milk. The !
will take on flesh, and prove less liza
to disease. Slo0n's are the only Condat
Poaoders compounded upon scient.
principles. Your horse having work
hard for you during the past season,
is your duty to take good care Of
animal after the service ne has perform
for you. Plenty of warm bedding, sc
feed, and a bran mash once q week, w
some of SIoan's Condition Pouders,
out him in good order for next season.
If your Druggist does not keep
'owder, send % or 90 cents, and you
.ceive a package by return mail.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-03-06

powers to their FULL vigor, and the mind to its
nal cheerfulness and strength. The Doctor'ss
with the Turkish and Sulphur Baths canno
eXcelled in the healing art.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-03-06
ESTABLISHED 1861.
ELECTRO MEDICAL INSTITUTE

Nervous and Rheumatic
ferers from early indiscre;
should not fail to consult &C
dentlalIy DIR. MCNAMARA,
BROADWAY. He has re
dies with the aid of elect,
ty) that will stop those nigl
emissions, remove all ire
larities attendant on Fem
at puberty, monthly perio
marriage; build up the q
GUS system, restore the sc.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-03-06
HllnlOr.

George Washington was brave man.
10 begin with, he married Widow
Buffalo Erpress
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-03-06

LIABILITIES.
Amt of claims for unpaid
Losses and all other Lii
abilities. ...... ....... So, 296 90
Capital and Prem Notes. 13O 119 73 S133, 4t5 81
The weekly Arizona miner., 1878-05-10

The 'true inwardness" of the other paper crops out Tn its treatment of the Miller Bros, now that they are ''broke." It never lets slip chance to hit them a sly, mean dig.-[Eterprise.
 Broke! ha-ha! Not much. Forty thou sand dollars worth of honest peoples money don't generally break men. The head of the above firm drew on us for over five thousand dollars, two thousand from poor widow, and many others whcrewith to make himself independent, and has the brazen- ness to get drunk and make his boasts about the amount of money he has on hand It is just as we'll for the Enterprise to drop the wild idea of ofattempting to draw sympa- thy by trying ts create feeling with peo- pie that the Miller Bros. are being per secuted. If the Enterprise had lost one- half what the MINER man has. nothing would have been too low for that paper to have said about them. The people under stand you, old man.
The weekly Arizona miner., 1878-05-10
GREENBacKs AT FAR.

The fact that only one silver dollar has as ! yet been paid into the Custom House for duties, and that one silver dollar was paid only because a one dollar in gold was not
 readily obtainable, is a curious subject for
 thought When the Silver bill was under
 discussion. it was generally thought that its
 passage would cause silver dollars to lose
 value in the market relatively to gold. But
 the contrary has resulted, at least in this
 market, where silver is held at par with
 gold, at the present stime. But it is with
 currency at par that causes more particularly
 the memory to recall its history ofa few
 years ago, As the war progressed, or rather continued without much progress apparently, toward ending, the currency kept depreciat- ing. until in 1864 dollar in greenbacks was worth in the market only trife over thirty
 five cents-gold being at 2.65 Then was the "Winter" s'of our discontentn But time works its revenges, and now it is made glorious Summer by bringing up currency to par with gold. Then, it was doubtful whether We had country; at any rate its chances were shown by the price of its cur rency in market, viz: thirty per cent.
 A history of our currency during sixteen years last passed would necessarily be a his- tory of the country, of it's wars and its battles, its hopes and its fears, its chances of success and defeat--in fine, of all the sad and mis- erable record of those days when brave men of the same race stood up face to face, and toe to toe, ready to kill each other upon what they considered principle, in the de- fence of which life was secondary consid- | eration. But fourteen years have made 1 great changes. From thirty-tive cents on the dollar, currency has advanced pretty | regularly, until now, in this city, if one needs currency instead of gold, he must put | down dollar for dollar. In some cases, premium of one-half of one per cent, in gold | ias been paid for currency. The present price of currency, compared, or rather con- .rasted with that of fourteen years ago, would furnish a vast field for discussion, were one disposed to a consideration of the 'ubject. At present the general talk is of iard times; but, judging by the condition of 'ur money market-our three kinds of money, gold, currency ana silver-one
 hould say that our hard times and doubt ul future was reached fourteen years ago, md that, notwithstanding depreciation of cal. estate from imitation prices, and re- iuction of wages, the country is, year by rear, progressing in prosperity.-TAlta.
The weekly Arizona miner., 1878-05-10
CAUSE FOR COMPLAINT.

A correspondent in the Yuma Sentinel has the following in regard to mail facilities in Mohave County:
 "Cuss" the Postal Agent, who lately came into office with such flourish of trumpets with what he would do for us. wonder if that consists in running down to Yuma and back in palace sleeping car and viewing Arizona with his prophetic eye"
 The maiI between Aubrey via Signal, (the most important places in the county) to Cerbat has been discontinued for months, and the postmasters at the end of the routes have neglected to put on service. One post master has run away, and one post office (the Cerbat) closed for weeks, and no postal agent. The mail from Prescott to Hardy vile, arrives Monday and lays over until the following Thursday. Signal, the McCrackin and the Sandy country with 1900 inhabitants, have no mails at all, except what their money pays for. Blackberry and vicinity, with about 300 to 400 people, have none, while Fort Mohave and Hardyville, with few in- habitants, have more and better mail facili- ties than all Mohaye county put to- gether. have resided in Mobave county for several years and have never known of postal agent putting foot therein during that time, nor do believe there ever was one (for this do we draw our salaries0
 A SWEARING MoHAvE.
The weekly Arizona miner., 1878-05-10
THE LATE HON. COLES BAsHFoRp.

The Arizona Citizen of May 2d, after re viewing the public life of Hon. Coles Bash ford, deceased, in an article of a columns length, pays the following we'll deserved tribute to his memory:
 His rapidly increasing business demanded his whole attention He often said in later years, that he was tired of the vexations in. seperable from public life. In attending to his public business in the early days when the hostile Apackes were active in three fourths of the Territory, he took risks and endured hardships, which, if truly related, would seem incredible to majority of our citizens to-day.
 Some years ago, he permanently located with his family in Prescott, where his larg- est interests were. He had strong hope for many more years of quiet, happy and pros porous life, and Lis apparent health seemed to justify his hope. We are informed by those who saw him a few days prior to his death that he looked splendidly, and never more hopeful and cheerful. He was good friend to his deserving acauain- tances. He often repeated that remarkable adyice of Polonius to his son Laertes. dwell. ng upon these lines:
 The friends thou hast and their adopsion tried
 crappie them to thy soul with hooks of steel"
 Ills mind was richly stored with past and current history and literature. His taste md Judgment for the fine arts were excel ent. It will be readily seen that an inti- nate personal acquaintance with him was ource of continual pleasure and benefit. He vas full of the higher order of wit, both 'riginal and acquired. It would be presumption to speak of his | iomestic life, part of life that but few if | my, outside the family circle can know much about and none but those within can l tightly estimate, but his kind and genial | Iature strongly implies that few husbands | T fathers were ever more sincerely loved by rife and children.
 All in all, it is doubtful if the Territory | 'ould have lost more in the death of any ther one of its citizens.
The weekly Arizona miner., 1878-05-10

SALE OF CATTLE -T. J. Butler, Assigned of the estate of Miller Bros, bankrupts,
 this morning sold to J. P. Hoyt, J. J. Cos
 per and J. E. Anderson, the stock of horses, cattle, colts and calves-three hundred head of branded stock, more or less-besides this seasons increase, together with the assig- nee's title to the ranch known as the Coyote Holes, for the sum of $4,500, cash. This the estate, inasmuch as it takes with it the Miller brand and lets of the expense of catching and venting each animal, which been cut up into small lots and sold to'dif- ferent parties. Besides it was found to be i'm possible to get the stock all together at present, where water is to be found all through the mountains and valleys, and small lots are scattered in all directions.
 This fact would have deterred any one from buying the brand after others had DOT tions of the stock, which would of course have strayed back to their old range. and created a conflict of ownership. Now the purchasers are at liberty to gather up the stock wherever it can be found. or wait un- til the outside water dries up and they come in of their own accord, with no conflicting interests to interfere with them.
 The trade is an advantageous one for the buyers and at the same time is no doubt the best that could be made for the estate.
 The Assignee's Sale advertised for to-mor- row will take place at the corral of the Plaza stables, where some thirty head of milk cows and stock cattle, two horses and a wagon, harness, iron plpe, etc., will be off, fered for sale.
The weekly Arizona miner., 1878-05-10
HUME e MrNEs.

A friend, wri ing from Gillett, has tho following on the mining outlook in that section:
 The Tiptop never showed so we'll as now, being wider aud better. They are working 90 men, most of them on s-hour shifts. The Foy is reported as looking exceedingly well. They are taking out very rich ore and working 30 men.
 Quite q little town has sprung up at Grape Vine Springs. There is a hotel, saloon and butcher-shop opened, and the work of building still goes on.
 The Green Horn mine, owned by Vim. Gillespie X Co, is being worked by the icssces, Messrs. Simons. Austin & O.. and is creating quite sensation The shaft is down 50 feet showing sulphurets ia inches in width, ranging from $s00 to $f,eo0 per ton. They have five ton out.
 Mitchell is down 4e feet, has good ore. and fiattering prospects.
 Thermometer indicating sS to 100 in the shade. Health of Camp good. No. candi- date for Delegate here, and very few ssold- liners lounging around loose.
The weekly Arizona miner., 1878-05-10
THE SCANDAL MANIA.

An old Bishop, seventy years of age, in
 Michigan. by the name of McClosky, is ac-
 cused of crime similar to the one charged
 against Beecher. His parishioners excuse
 him on the ground of second childishness,
 while the wicked worlds people contend
 that it is no child's play. So much has
 been said and written concerning the
 Beecher and similar scandals by those who
 affect Co be nauseated and disgusted with
 the details of the disagreeable business.
 while at the same time they help to keep
 the matter alive by publication and con-
 stant agitation, that one is naturally led to
 ask, "what of it." Suppose they are all guilty as alleged, and what does it signify
 to the world more than thousands of similar cases reported in the Courts, and other
 thousands that the public know nothing
 about. Of course these thousands are not SO prominent in the Church, or perhaps in society, but they are human, and Bishops and clergymen claim to be nothing more. | They are not infallible, neither are they in- vulnerable. All men and women, in health, | who retain their natural faculties, mental | and physical, are similarly constituted, not | in the same degree, it is true. as to particu- lar attributes anc passions, but they are all | "of the earth earthly" subject to tempta- tions ana liable to fall into error, or give way to special weaknesses, and when one in high position in the Church does so fall. why should it shock the moral or religious world more than if it had been the hum blest member of the congregation. He was no God, that men should worship him, or regard him as incapable of sin. We have thought that the Churches sometimes need ed lesson to teach them not 10 worship their pastors as deities, but to make them understand that no one on earth is infalli- ble, if we except the Pope, and there are those who even doubt his divinity.
 We are not prepared to sit in judgement md say that either Beecher or the old Bish- op are either guilty or innocent, but in ,ase they are both guilty as charged, and he one denies it, while the other owns up. ve should rather take chances on the one vno tried to lie out of it being ultimately ( 'ardoned and reinstated to the favor of his 2 >reator, than upon the one who turned | 'tates evidence, a. it were, and laid bare I he disgusting details to feed the vitiated s petites of gaping slander-mongers.
The weekly Arizona miner., 1878-05-10

The Gosper organ is "lost to truth and memory dear," when it says we are com promised to Col. Woolsey. The Col. laugh. in his sleeve at the organs nonsense.-[En, terprise.
 Really does hea We had the Enterprise mans own words for it, still that was very poor authority. We ought to have known better than to have made the assertion, know. ing from whence we derived our information. Now, however, we have it from a better source. Col. Woolsey has called on us this morning, May 10th, 1878, and says he is in the field and will remain there until late in the evening of November 9th, even if he is laughing in his sleeve"
The weekly Arizona miner., 1878-05-10
special to the Miner.

May 9th, 1878, 12M.
 TRANSIT OF MERcURy.-In accordance with previous calculations by Lieut.. E. D. Thomas, Chief Engineer officer, Dept. Ari- zona, and his two assistants, Mir. Riecker and Mir. Fischer, the planet mercury entered the suns-disk frst exterior contact at hrs. 46 min, 46 sec. A. M., Prescott mean time: first interior contact at 7hrs. AZ min-, 5s sec. A very successful obser- vation of this important astronomical event the result of which will be sent to the Wash. ington Naval Observatory. The exit of mercury will occur at 3hrs. Is min. P. M. and the event will not again occur for num- Der of years.
The weekly Arizona miner., 1878-05-10
A MINE OF PURE NATIVE SILVER.

Edward Golan and Daniel May, two pros
 pcctsrs, arrived few days since at the
 Agua Fria Smelter, twenty miles east of this
 place with 2s0 pounds of orc interspersed
 with native silver in the shape wire, spikes
 feathers, daggers and all conceivable forms
 twincd in together, or standing out in spires
 etc, constituting the handsomcst lot of silver
 specimens ever found in any country. MT.
 Symes, the smelter at the Agua Fria, put the mass through the works, and after refining 1t the result was 1l0 pounds of fine silver, which is now in the safe of Wells, Fargo & Co.
 We interviewed Mr. Golan this morning and ascertained that they have found a new silver mining camp, between 30 and 40 miles south east from old Camp Reno, in the Sierra Ancha Mountains, that there are some fifteen men in the camp, which is sit usted near the head of creek called Cherry Creek.
 Messrs. Golan and May found large dyke capped over with iron, and about twenty feet from it, and running parallel with it, stringer which showed chlorides and con siderable horn silver. They began to open it and found the rock very much decomposed on top and quite rich. They took out per- haps ton or ton and a half which they considered worth three orfoui thousand dol lars to the ton before the rock began to harden, but at the depth of a few feet the ledge or seam became solid, the carbonates and chlorides gave out and bright native silver made its appearance. At ono point it | was four inches in thickness, wedge shaped, | with.the big end up. They took out the tke most of what they could find of this | character and brought it Tn as we have stat 1 cd. They now propose to return and sink | from seventy to hundred feet ou the string | CT. when if it does not at that depth join the | main ledge they will GU across into it and | explore it below the iron cap with the ex- pectation of finding a rich streak some | where Tn it. The ledge matter in the string | CT contains native silver in small quantities | throughout but not enough to make it much | of an object to work for that alone. It is | quite likely that in sinking this streak will | open out again, at least such is the hope of | the discoverers. The no pounds of re- fined bullion, brought in from the shelter last evening by Col. Wood and MT. Symes is a beauty of itself, and as bright as the new standard coin.
 By the way, Mir. Symes has proven him. self number one shelter, as good as they have anywhere, and all that is needed here are machinery and other appliances to work with, and he can handle smelling ores just IS we'll as they can be worked in San Fran cisco or elsewhere.