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Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-05-05

CINCINNATI. April 4.
Captain j. w. Lees, Chief OF the san
Francisco detective force, is here, and
pronounces Doe, the forgeT, arrested
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-05-05


A large proportion of the American people
are to-day dying from the effects Of dyspepsia
or disordered liver. The result of these di-
senses upon the masses of intelligent and val
uabie people is most alarming, making life
actually a burden instead OF a pleasant exist
ence of enjoyment and usefulness, as il ought
to be. There is no good reason for this, If
yen will only throw aside prejudice and sReI-
ticism, take the advice of druggists and youl
friends, and try one bott e OF "Green's August
Flower" Your speedy relief is certain.
Millions of bottles OF this medicine have been
given away TO try its virtues, with %satisfac-
tory results in every case. You can buy a
sample bottle for ten cents, to try. Three
doses viii relieve the worst case. Positively
sold by oil druggists on the Western CONT
neut.
Agents: Crane & Brigham. wholesale
druggists. San Francisco. mh2l-oow
WATCHERS AND JEwELRY neatly repaired. If
you want to have your watches and jewelry
repaired in a workmaniike manner, go TO Z
STELER'S jewslry store. one door south OF
5. Ashim Il Bros, Main street. iy3tf
Stili Doing I'll
Selling an IMPORTED HAVANA CIGAR. for /
bit. at the Miners and Mechanics Trade De-
pot. Try one! ap3
Telephones!
Lovers Telephones for sale ut The MIN
EkS' AND MECHANICS TRADE DEPOT.
APPS
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-05-05
RESCUE HOSE COMPANY.

THE REGULAR MEETING OF .sNNA
L Rescue Hose Company will befsxfF9Au
held on MONDAY EVENING GTE
May 9Th, 1878. at ~ O'clock. A
full attendance Of members is desired.
NJ. u. FOLEY, President.
THos. HAIEv, Secretary.
Eureka, May 4, 1878. my5-lt
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-04-12
A PhilOsophic Tramp.

In the hip pocket of an old vagrant,
pulled in by the police the other night,
says the Detroit Free Press, was mem
orandum book full of his own writing
with pencil, and some of his philosophy
is good enough to be preserved. His
first paragraph reads:
Drinking bad whisky, because it is
offered free, is like getting in the way of
bullets purchased by an enemy"
\ second reads:
Honesty is the best policy, but some
folks are satisfied with second best 1t
is hard to be honest on an empty
stomach.
A third reads:
A dry plank under rain-proof shed
is better than feather-bed in Jail, and
one isn't annoyed by the iailer bringing
in square breakfast"
A fourth says:
Pay as you 60. If you haven't any
thing to pay with, don't go. If you are
forced to go, record every Indebtedness.
and let your heirs settle the bills"
The fifth explains:
I'VE should have charity for all
W ucl tIlc WlHtcI WluuS UlOW COlu anu
drear we vags should pity the poor fel-
lows in India, who are having red-hot
weather"
A sixth is recorded:
"Politeness costs nothing, but it is
not to be expected that you will wake a
man up at midnight to ask permis-
sion to go through his hen-house 1t is
more courteous to let him enjoy his
needed reposc.
The seventh and last was noted down
as follows:
When you pick up an apple-core do
not find fault because it is not the apple
itself, but be satisfied with the grade of
descent Do not be ashamed of your
profession. We can not all be lords,
nor can we all be vagrants. As l can
not be a lord | should not lament at be-
ing vagrant. Be truthful and outspo-
ken. That is, tell EN- you are Chica-
go fire sufferer. Keep seasonable hours,
or some other vag will get your plank
first. Be hopeful, cheerful and good
naturcd Growing won't cure a sore
hanl
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-04-12

A SAM-Let us give thanks unto the
mud. For the rain produceth it for
ever.
1t lieth in wait on all the streets.
Yea, it pileth itself on every crossing.
The curb stones are sunk out of depth
thereof.
The fat man waddleth along and
curseth, yea, he snorteth in the extrem-
ity of his rage And every passer-by
waggeth his head, raileth at him, and
yelleth:
"Oh, luke at them butes!
The floods have come down and over
whelmed him, and the streets are like
beds of mortar On every hand there
is nothing but mud Mud, woe and
wickedness prevaileth.
Who shall pluck us out of the pud-
dies? Who is strong enough to waddle
through the thickest of it?
1t is conundrum too deep for our
souls. Lo, and behold, we give up en-
tirely.
The latter rain has come and come
again until we are weary. And we cry,
"Oh, Tice, let up! Give us some other
kind of weather.
But old 7. sitteth and laugheth at us
Yea, he maketh mock of our sorrow
full wailings.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-04-12
Proceedings of the Board of Supcrvis-
Ors Of Buchanan County at their
April Session, 1878.

The Board of Supervisors of Buchanan
County, Iowa, met in regular session, at
the Court House in Independence, at IL
o'clock A. NJ, Monday, April 1st, 1878.
Prescnt-H. M. Coughtry, II. Highly,
G. W. Buttertield, J. G. House, Alden
Whitney.
Absent. w. Foreman, Isaac Mum
cey.
The journal of the proceedings at the
January session was read and approved.
The official bond of Walter II. Patrick
as Clerk of Sumner Township, was read
and approved.
The Auditor reported that at the Febru-
airy term of the Circuit Court, Judge Bagg
decided that james Dalton was legally
elected Justice of the Peace for Perry
Township, as successor to j. ID. Laird, for
the term ending December 31st, 1878, and
that his bond should have been accepted
by the Board; that the Chairman of the
Board took the responsibility of approx
ing the same on the announcement of this
decision.
On motion the Board concurred in the
Chairman's action in the matter
Adjourned to Il o'clock P. NJ.
Members all present at the afternoon
session excepting Isaac Muncey.
A letter was read from the Secretary of
State, giving the number of miles of Rail
road in the County, and the value per mile
as fixed by the Executive Council, for the
year 1878, as follows:
Illinois Central r. r., SO miles, S.
800 per mile.
Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern
r. r., $3.50 miles, 5000 per mile.
On motion it was ordered that the Rail-
road assessments for the several Town
ships and School Districts be us follows
TOWNSHIPS
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-04-12
EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT.
VIM. ELDEN, Editor.
A School Boys Essay.

Thinking is very important part Of
our lives. A great many, when they do
a thing which is not right, they say, Il
didn't think" 1t is quite possible l am
one Of that kind. But | think that when
a person is in the habit of speaking
carelessly, or before he thinks what he
is saying, then if he forgets once in
awhile, and has to write an essay for do
ing so, | think it is pretty thin.
But may be mistaken, for, as we all
know, the best of people will make mis-
pie will say It is Blessing % in ",is disguise uiS
for us poor boys to write what they call
essays.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-04-12

Dear .Siir::-I understand you are
about to employ new Principal for the
High School in your city | have had
charge of the High School in this place,
but it does not continue through the
summer. | have had much experience
in the work Of the schoolroom, and
should like to correspond with you in
regard to your school. l have taught
more than twenty terms, and frequently
several terms in succession in the same
place. My age is just 49, | claim to be
one OF the best teachers of Reading.
Eng. Grammar, and Eng. Composition
that you can find in the State. [ have
reputation as writer for music,
which is not surpassed by that of any
person in the United States. | have
perhaps written more than any other
person, in the same length Of time. |
began. six years ago.
Hoping that you will drop me line
and tell me all you deem necessary
about the school, | am
Yours sincerely.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-04-12

A few years ago Maine was the great
est numbering state in the Union, but
now she is the sixth on the list, and the
business is rapidly falling off by reason
of the wasting away Of the forests and
the competition Of western men. Ship
builders at Portland say they can get
pine masts and spars from the Pacific
coast cheaper than they can cut them
in their own woods.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-04-12

One of the most urgent needs of our
our county schools is fit men for direc-
tors, men who know something of the
wants of the schools under their charge;
men who are heads of families, and
therefore will take living, personal in
terest in the schools; men who can real
ize the Importance of hiring efficient
teachers, who, if the township board fix
wages at so small figure as to drive all
competent teachers to go elsewhere or
seek more remunerative employment,
will circulate subscription, as direc-
tor in Buffalo did not long since, and
raise sum sufficient to hire teacher
who can do good work. For when in
competent teachers are employed, what
ever their salary may be, it is money
thrown away.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-04-12

County Superintendent: Why do the
meridians come nearer together as they
approach the pole?
Applicant for Certificate: Because it
is colder as we 60 north and warmer as
we go south.
Supt.: Were the earth axis perpen-
dicular to the plane of the ecliptic, what
would be the result?
Applicant: Why, think we should
all fall off
The above questions and answers may
be found on record in our County Su-
perintendent's office. Now, what do
they show? Evidently that persons are
applying for certificates who themselves
are yet sadly in need of primary instruc-
ton. But how came these young per-
sons to be ignorant of things which
school boy nine years old ought to know
by the time he has studied geography a
week? There can be little doubt that
the primary instruction which they have
received was at fault. Their teachers
must have been inefficient. Must such
state of affairs continue to exist? If
not, what is the remedy? Surely, there
is remedy for all this, one remedy,
and only one We must have more eff
cient teachers in our primary and mixed
schools, teachers who have had exper-
ience and success in the work wherever
this is possible Always those whose
scholarship is accurate and sufficiently
extensive, who are able to apply and ex-
plain what they know, are apt to teach,
and who have had some special training
to fit them for the teachers work. In
these primary and mixed schools the
foundation for all culture is based, and
if this foundation be insecure no solid
superstructure can be erected 1t must
be remembered that schools are not IN
stituted for the benefit of those who
would get little money by teaching,
but that teachers are employed, or
should be employed, to serve the best
interests of the schools. To such, then.
as can serve these interests we'll, and to
such only, let the sacred duty of edu-
eating the young be entrusted.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-04-12

a MASS meeting was held at Cooper
Union recently, presided over by Cyrus
W. Field, to protest against proposed
reduction in teachers salaries Among
other utterances on the subject were
the following wise words of VIM. Cullen
Bryant:
| am heartily with you and other gen
tlemen who demonstrate against the
proposed reduction of teachers salaries.
We want the ablest and best men and
women in the community to engage in
the vocation of teachers. To reduce
their compensation will cause many of
this class to resort to other occupations
and will prevent many of them from de-
voting themselves to the instruction of
our youth. In this way it will cause
the degeneracy of our school system,
and have most injurious effect on the
generation which is to take our place on
the earth. Again, the poorer class, the
class for which our public-school system
is mainly adapted, have deep interest
in this matter 1t is important for them
that the teachers should be of that class
who are the most skillful in communi-
eating knowledge, and training their pa
pills to habits of order and diligence.
This cutting down of the salaries will
cause many of the best teachers to open
private schools, and thus pass them over
to the richer class, depriving the body
of the people of the advantages which
the law was supposed to have provided
for them.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-04-12

County Auditor Geo. B. Warne in
forms us that the semi-annual appor-
tionment of the school fund just made,
gives to Buchanan county S5,3333324, Of
which the independent district of indie
pendence gets $94615. This is seventy
six cents and fraction for each person
of school age.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-04-12

Farmers better not set all their eggs
under one goose this year--especially 1t
that goose is called wheat.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-04-12

After hearing the above application
read, one member of the board was
moved to pray From all such, good
Lord deliver us. To which the amen
was unanimous.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-04-12
Too Much Ego.

The following is an exact copy of an
application which came before our
school board the other evening:
March cS 70
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-04-12
RATES OF ADVERTISING

Legal and Official Advertisements, One Dollar
per square for the first, and Fifty Cents per
snuare for each subsequent insertion, up to
four insertions square is equal to ten lines
of Brewer type, or eight lines OF Nonpareil,
the type of this paper
year.
Marriage, Death and Religious Notices insert
ed without charge. Obituary Notices ten cents
Der line.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-04-12
ATTORNEYS.
i. E, COOK, 4,
II. w. HOLMAN,

A TTORNEY AT LAW. INDEPENDENCE
n Iowa. Office over A. II. Franks Kestau'
rant, Main st.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-04-12

SUCCESSOR TO ]. S. WOODWARD,
A TTORNEY AT LAW AND COLLECTION
IA Agent Office over Tabor & Sons Drug
Store, Independence, Iowa.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-04-12


next to the river.
JAS. T.. JEWEL,
T AWYER OFFICE IN MUNSON'S BLOCK
IL with Lake g. Harmon, Independence, Iowa.
Collections speciality. Will practice in all the
Courts of this State and Federal Courts Col
lections and conveyanceS made, taxes paid,
houses and land rented or sold. All business
in city or country, and before Board of Super
visors will receive prompt attention Also
agent for Equitable Life Insurance Company,
of Des Moines, Iowa.
ID. ID. HOLDRIDGE,
4 TTORNEY AT LAW, NOTARY PUBLIC
"A and Land Agent. Office over TaylorS
Hardware Store Independence, Iowa.
LAKE & HARMON,
A TTORNEYS AT LAW. INDEPENDENCE,
"A Iowa. Office in Munson's Block. Main st.
JED BAKE. NJ. W. HARMON.
BRUCKART & NEY,
A TTORNEYS AT LAW, INDEPENDENCE,
IA Iowa. Office over MOrse's Store. Consul
tations in English and German.
ID. W. BRUCkART. JOHN j. NEf.
W. G. & j. Il. DOMAIN,
T AW, ,CONVEYANCING, WAR CLAIM AND
IL Land Agency Office Office in First Nation
al Bank building, Independence, Iowa.
The Arizona sentinel., 1878-03-23
Steamboats,.

The Colorado was on the ways all last
week and received thorough repairs. Ev-
cry defective plank was taken out of her
bottom and replaced with new one. Her
seams were re-caulked and pitched, and
her bottom painted with coal tar. While
she was out of the river, good many tons
of water dried ont of her, and she now
floats as lightly as ever The planks at
the knuckles, or edges, of her bottom are
put on with long screw bolts and large
washers. Two great knobs bolted under
her counters attracted our attention; in
quiry developed the information that they
were put on there to keep drift-wood from
getting among her rudders. She now goes
into commission again under Captain
Meeden
On Monday the CHA sailed for Aubrey.
On Tuesday the Colorado sailed for Au-
brey.
The Cocopah arrived on Tuesday from
up-river, and on Thursday sailed for Cas-
tie Dome to bring down a load of lead-ore.
A boat is advertised to sail for Aubrey
and way landings on the 2Sth.
The Arizona sentinel., 1878-03-23
A Cast-irOn Editor.

To edit paper in Yuma, it needs man
who can exercise q self-control and for
bearance verging on stolidity or coward
ice: we are the man. But this week it
began to look as if we had better hire the
job out to some one else. A citizen called
in and incidentally alluded to his feelings
toward us; we smiled. He was only an
attorney, but we are not very select. He
appeared to have derringer, but as he
has never learned to shoot anything short
er than regulation musket, that didn't
count. He called US q durrthy liar" but
we knew he was only joking. Swindler"
and other pet names fell like summer
shower: we pretended to like it. He
boosted of q knowledge of our crimes and
gloated in threats Of exposure. All that
was nothing. He declared his purpose of
driving us in disgrace out of the country:
thought of the wife and babies depend
ent on our humble efforts stirred US a
moment, but we still kept cool. Finally,
he addressed us as George"
That phazed US!
Not knowing the "number" by which
he used to be designated, we may hence.
forth know him as "Jecms,"-or for short,
Jim"
Republics breed familiarity.
The Arizona sentinel., 1878-03-23
Painting the Railroad Bridge.

The Southern Pacific Railroad Company
evidently has no fears of being compelled
to remove their bridge across the Colora-
Go river at this place, and seems to con-
template with Indifference the "bucking"
of the Secretary of War about their tres
pass on q military reservation. Painting
the bridge appears trifing thing, but in
fact it involves an expense of nearly $1,000.
Though similar in color, this paint differs
from that used on all their buildings here
The latter is an ochrous earth brought
from point on the Central Pacific road
and mixed with oil and water, an alkali
being added to convert the oil into soap
and effect its solution in the water That
used on the bridge is regular metallic
paint ground in oil. Some 200 pounds
of it, in $50 gallons Of oil, will be needed
to finish the job, which has been vigorously
pushed by Mr.. Andrews, who superintends
it. Those Southern Pacific people are
fixing themselves to stay.
The Arizona sentinel., 1878-03-23
The Arizona MinstreIs.

Last Tuesday afternoon arrived
the Cocopah with General Kautz,
Eighth Infantry band and part of
the late staff of the Whipple Thea
tire, en- route for their new station
at Angel Island. Some of our cit
liens gathered at the beau-oo-oo-
tiful river" to hear music or to
tender free use of the Courthouse
for an histrionic performance: they
were disappointed. The band had
been playing Cpd like to be an
angel, and on Angel Island stay"
till they were out of breath; and
some of the star performers had
Kautz-uch a cold, that they
couldn't declaim.
Ta-ta! Brevet.G General.
The Arizona sentinel., 1878-03-23

Transportation.


jerks train arrived on Sunday with
over 10000 pounds of Silver King concen-
trations, and 400 pounds of choice speci.
mems in boxes.
Barnett is soon due with $4,000 pounds
of concentrated ore from the Silver King
and 1000 pounds from the Belcher and
Crown Point. He will probably take back
a load of machinery for the Silver King
mine.
Lutgerding and Breckenridge, Of Phe-
nix, have loaded $4,000 pounds for A.
Goldman and 10000 for Lutgerding.
Sanborn left yesterday with $4,000 for
Goldman, of Phoenix.
Brown, also of Phoenix, is here waiting
for load Of 10000.
John Boutot came in on Wednesday,
with an eight-mule team, for freight where
wanted.
Samaniego's train leaves to-day with
full load for Tucson. Fields 81 Morgan
will load next with 10000.
Mr.. D. Neahr reports heavy consign-
ments of freight en- route from San Fran
cisco, including $4,000 pounds of machin-
cry for the Haskins Company.
The Arizona sentinel., 1878-03-23
improvements.

The steamboat company is making val
liable Improvements near the new ways.
A new blacksmith shop is being erected,
twenty-five by fifty-fve feet; single roof
and fire-proof paint. 1t will be furnished
with an engine and boiler, which will sup
ply blast to the FORCES and run line of
shafting for lathes, etc. Two FORCES will
be put in; one stationary for heavy work
and one portable for smaller jobs. Out
side of it there will be a large coal-bin
and a covered iron-rack.
A carpenter-shop is to stand near the
blacksmith shop, twenty eight feet by six
ty in the clear, with broad caves projecting
three feet on each side. Shafting will con-
meet its lathes and saws with the engine.
When both these improvements are finish
ed, the company will be ready for beginning
work on the two new steamers it contem-
plates building this Summer.
The Arizona sentinel., 1878-03-23

THE Tucson Star of March IA, came to
us in its true inwardness-its patent out
side of corresponding date has gone astray.
1t feels ugly and growls at the mail con-
tractors. From personal knowledge we
can assure the Tucson brethren that the
mails by stage leave Yuma as fast as de-
livered by rail. The "wheelbarrow sar-
casm is misdirected: Kerens 81 Mitchell
have done their whole duty-and done
it pretty well.
The Arizona sentinel., 1878-03-23

The Enterprise advocates the
transfer to Yuma of Prescott's
western railroad mail terminus.
An excellent road can be made
from Yuma to Castle Dome Land
ing, by expenditure of a few hum
dred dollars at the Laguna, and
less than a hundred more at a few
points above. From Castle Dome
Landing excellent natural roads
lead to an intersection of the pres
ent road from Dos Palmas to Pres
colt. The total distance from here
to Tyson's Well is between eighty
five and ninety miles; we have
been over the route repeatedly
and know it to bea excellent one
for wheels. From Dos Palmas to
Tyson's must be nearly 120 miles;
we have been over that road also
and believe the western and long
est part of it to be the most disa-
greeable on earth. From Dos Pal
mas to Tyson's the present stage
time cannot be far short of forty
hours; from here to Tyson's is an
easy run of eighteen hours, when
ever the road is opened. From
Castle Dome Landing to Ehren-
berg there is an excellent natural
wagon road through Weaver Pass.
The Arizona sentinel., 1878-03-23

PATENT to the Cupel mine, in Mohave
county, has been applied for.
Judge Weber informs us that the South
ern Pacific Railroad Company confess to
the fact that they should have to run their
road to Ehrenberg or the Needles, instead
of to Yuma
George Fields was married at Kenyon
Station to Miss Mary j. Hudson. (No
date given.)
Gid. Cornell arrived from Signal and
says the t MeCra "a company has several
Signal company is taking out more ore
than it mills Enterprise.
The Arizona sentinel., 1878-03-23

"How doth the little busy bee" enjoy
travelling along the ella road? A wagon
load of well-stocked hives is now on its
way from here TO the interior. They came
from San Diego. The careful observer
will be surprised to find how many flowers
and other bee-foods are now to be found,
even on the most forlorn-l looking, stony
mesas: while along the rivers, the quanti-
ty of willow and mezquite blossoms ought
to make bees happy.
The Arizona sentinel., 1878-03-23

PIUs TX, late Pope of Rome, in
sisted upon mariolatry, or the ador-
alton of the Virgin Mary; the
present Pope, Leo, deprecates it.
Which is right? We are not dis
putting papal infallibility, but we
want to know which is to be con-
sidered the genuine, simon-pure
Old Infallible.
The Arizona sentinel., 1878-03-23

THESE Yuma Indians will work-some
of them quite faithfully. But it sometimes
shocks a new conner, who has hired an In
dian to saw wood, to find him clad in no.
thing but six-inch strip of calico (not
SO very long either) and tow string; his
bronzed hide glistening with perspiration.