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Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-10-17
The Georgia NIlnstreIs.

/ Sprague's celebrated Georgia Minstrels,
the great organization of colored min
strel stars, will pay Washington a visit on
Monday, October 21st, when they will
appear at Music Hail for one night only.
We clip the following from long list of
complimentary press notices of this COM
pany:
F'During the current season we have
been visited by all the famous minstrel
troupes, but without any exception, the
Sprague Georgia troupe, at the Opera
House last night-and tonight for the last
time during their engagement-is the best
of them all pertaining to legitimate min
strelsy. This troupe is large one, en-
ploying eight double ends;' the instru-
mental and vocal music is of the very best
character; the first part, and in fact the
whole programme, is just as entertaining
as it can be- The concert at the close of
the first part was wen worth the price of
admission and going to see. Mr.. Layton's
banjo solo was the best thing of the kind
heard here this season. The Jokes and
specialties were all new and admirably
perpetrated. The audience were greatly
pleased throughout .''-Rochester IN. W
linton. =
Mr.. Sam. Lucas, the great colored char
acter artist, has lately connected himself
with this troupe, and his many Washing
ton friends will have an opportunity of
hearing him in his character songs on the
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Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-10-17

THE MERCHANTS AND FARMERS
BANK,
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Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-10-17

For :the best Crate coalin the State, ~
90 to 45tf J. w. GILLESPIE.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-10-17

Trade dollars taken at par for goods at
Antram 6 Eycke's.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-10-17
Peoples and DrOvers' Bank, !

or WASHINGTON c. H., 0.
tsuceessor 70 FIRST National Bank.)
Capital 100000.
SURPLUS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 100000
UNDIVIDED PROFITS .--------. zA,OoO
The Arizona sentinel., 1878-02-02

wait for the deacon's wife to come over aud show him how to harness, for he did notkHow bits from crupper.
 khow army officers who, out of the army, are only fit to carry entrails to q bear, and not much of bear either.
 Every man should know not only how to do one thing right well, but he ought to be able to do several things tOlerably well. Every wise farmer has principal crop; but he also has a little of something else, so tat if his main crop fails he will have sor.~thing to live on. Don't carry all your egg. in one basket. Don't put all our n .y in one pocket. To get along well 1rt of work to get living by and 1i 1rts of work to get along with when 70 one sort of work gires out. Work is -lethlng that needs to he done, and B. ( knows how to do most will have the best chance to make money or, what is better still, to make himself feel like useful man.
 This is court of insects; Its mem bers are bugs. You see, if man feels ttat he is of no use in the world, tbat he is mere bug in crack, to be scared and drop if his crack widens, to be pinched if it closes, he is always anxious about that crack, fearing that something may happen to it, to leave him out in the cold or jam him. Such a man can never be happy, because he can never feel that Le amounts to much.
 The proposed consolidation of the army will, in the first place, open the crack; and courts martial will continue to contract it on some unfortunate fellow, while all the other poor bugs are straddling around try ing to find new cracks. Do you ever hear an old army officer confess that he is fit for nothing but the army, that he couldn't earn his salt out of the army, etc? When such woful admissions are made, do you ever think Of my bug g-ln-the-crack and that 'twould have been better for him and the world if he had early learned to do all sorts of work and to keep his eyes and ears open; if he had drank less and studied more, gambled less and thought and observed more? A soldier never knows where duty may call him. The man that knows how to do the most things is the best soldier; that is to say, the most of man. Any man who thinks he can't do it." is generally more than half right Don't leta sense of official dignity restrain you from work. There is great deal of dignity in this world that is composed entirely of dignity and nothing else. TELEPHONE.
The Arizona sentinel., 1878-02-02

WILLIAMS, BLANCHARD & Co. of San Francisco, who recently purchased the Little America and other copper mines about twenty miles southwest of Sweeney's Picacho Station, have made arrangements with Lord & Williams to have the peces- sary assessment work done; and on Tues cay, men, tools and supplies were sent for the work. Williams, Blanchard tE Co. ex- pect to largely operate these mines as soon as the railroad extends far enough this way.
 Col. c. w. Tozier arrived here Sunday, attended church and next morning early left for the Aztec works, of which he is superintendent. He has the right kind of capacity and unbounded energy. It is un- derstood the Aztec Company will soon erect reduction works lear the mines, at which ores from other mines may be re- duced to the great advantage of the con- munlty.
 A E. Sake has established a tri-weekly express line over the Pinal range from Silver King to Globe City-[Citiz.n.
The Arizona sentinel., 1878-02-02
The Great Chemical Bank.

The New York World, in chronicling the the death of ohm Quentin Jones, president of the Chemical Bank, of that city, gives the following history of the soundest tinan- cial institution in the United States:
 In 1883 the Chemical manufacturing company was incorporated by an act of the legislature, with banking privileges. The manufacture of the chemicals was carried on in building on Thirty first street, near the North river subsequently, bought by the Hudson River railroad company and turned into depot. The barking busi- ness was done in building where the Park Bank now stands-216 Broadway. Mir. John o. Jones was superintendent of the Chemical works, and John Mason was president of the Chemical Bank. Mr. Ma son died ill 1889 and Isaac Jones, his son. in-aw, and cousin of John Q. Jones, suc- ceeded him as president, he having been the cashier of the bank for several years. On the election of Isaac Jones to the presi- dency, John Q. Jones succeeded him as cashier, and by them the affairs of the bank were managed until 1914, when q complete reorganization took place under the general banking law passed that year.
 John Q. Jones was elected president of the bank. The capital stock was S3OO,OOJ, Jones, Oh his succession to the presidency
 was surrounded by coterie of rich and influential men, and c. V. s. Roosevelt, John David Wolfe, Robert McCorkry, Peter Goelet, Robert Goelet and Joseph Sampson became his associates in the management of the bank These men held shares in
 the bank and deposited their money in it. Among the depositors were the Lorillards, tue Stuarts and many of the leading New York merchants ot that day, including the late Alexander T. Stewart who, however, could not be classed among the leading merchants at that time. MT. Jones had a settled plan from the first and stuck to it. If was to do business with small capital stock, maintain a large surplus and con- mand the confidence of the public. Most of the shareholders were already rich, and it was agreed that the profits of the con- cern, instead of heinz paid out in dividends, should be used to extend its business Thus for five years-from 1S44 till lS49- no dividends were paid out. At last the surplus became so large that MT. Jones became embarrassed and asked the advice of some of his friends who were interested as to what ought to be done By one of them he was told that the safest place for him to put these large accumulated profits was in the pockets of the shareholders A
The Arizona sentinel., 1878-02-02
Antiquity Of the Telephone.

When King Solomon said that there was nothing new under the sun, it is hardly likely that he had the telephone in his mind. That, at least, is modern invention. So one would have thought. But it ap- pears from correspondence lately pub lished in the London Athen3um that its claims to novelty are not quite so we'll founded as its inventor and admirers would desire The following is an extracts from the correspondence: "Just210 years ago Robert Hooke, Fellow of the Royal Society,publish- ed work entitled '3Iicrographia; or some Physiological Descriptions Of Minute Bo- dles made by Maguiiying Glasses, with Ob- scrvations and inquir.es thercupon."
 This, the first English treatise on the uses of the microscope, is still in high es- timation In the preface occurs the follow ing remarkaple paIa5, .r.... And 's glasses have highly promoted our seeing, so 'tis not improbable but that there may be found many mechanical inventions to i'm prove our other senses, of hearing, smell ing, tasting, touching lis not impossible to hear a whisper at furlong's distance, it having been already done; and perhaps the nature ot the thing would not make it more impossible, though that furlong should be ten times multiply'd. And though some famous authors have affirm'd it impossible to hear through the thinnest plate of Muscovy glass; yet know way, by which 'tis casio enough to hear one speak through wall yard thick.
 It has not been yet thoroughly examin'd how far Otocousticons may be improv'd, nor what other waves there may be of quicknlng our hearing, or conveying sound through other bodies then [thanl the Air: for that is not the only medium. can as sure the Reader, that l have, by the help of distended wire, propagatcd the sound to very considerable distance in an instant or with as seemingly quick motion as that of light, at least, incomparably swifter then [than] that, which at the same time was propagated through the Air; and this not only in straight line, or direct, but in one pended in many angles"
The Arizona sentinel., 1878-02-02

Henry ThurstJn, of White creek, Texas who stands seven feet six inches high thinks he is the tallest man in the Union He is well proportioned, as strong as a giant, and enjoys the best of health. He fought in the Confederate army, and after the war, while passing through St. Louis attracted such throng that he could scarely walk the streets. Being modest he has refused very reasonable sums of fered by showmen who wished to exhibit him.
The Arizona sentinel., 1878-02-02
DEAR SENTINEL:

DEAR SENTINEL:
 The anomaly of an army officers at tempting to increase his understanding by giving of his time and means to duties not prescribed by the Army Regulations, or enjoined by orders from the War Depart ment, startles me into paraphrase of Po- lonius to Laertes, which may be termed the
 soLILoQUY OF COURT MARTIALED MAN.
 My son! have more than one string to your bowl! Behold ye army officers. Be- hold they scarce do toll or spin
 I am always sorry for man who knows how to do but one thing. 1 am now look ing Che stares at the courO at many such men. I once gave ten dollars to a man who could speak and write five or six lan- guages and translate elegantly; but in the middle of hard winter he could not make living. I remember man who had preached twenty five years, till his throat failed him, and he used to go around look ing very blue and sad, until people pitied him and made little donation parties for him, because he was good for nothing ex- cept to preach.
 know man that wants to keep store and he sits with his thumb in his mouth waiting for store to come and be kept.
 I heard of a minister who, when his peo- pie gave him 6 horse and buggy, had to
The Arizona sentinel., 1878-02-02
Private Land Claims in Colorado.
 New Mexico and Arizona.

The Commissioner recommends the re- peal of the jurisdiction now vested in the Surveyor General and the appointment of three or more Commissioners to hear and decide upon The validity of these claims. The present method of surveying these claims is defective and a remedy is demanded
The Arizona sentinel., 1878-02-02

dividend WAS declared accordingly, and since1S49 dividends have been declared re- gularly For many years these dividends have amounted to 100 per cent per annum, The system has been to pay dividend of fifteen per cent every two months which, in the year, would amount to ninety per cent; but, just before Christmas, an extra dividend of ten per cent would be paid out, making Up the full amount of 100 per cent per annum. The present market value of the shares cannot be told for the reason that they are not in the market. The last that was sold brought s16OO per share of s10G Although paying out these enor- nous duidends of 100 per cent every year, the bal5 las surplus of S5,0O0000.
 For many years the Chemical Bank has been regarded as one of the soundest fnan- ciaI corporations in the world. During the great panic of 1857 and the crisis of 1861 it was the only bank in this city that maintained a gold basis. In 1873 it could have done the same but was forced to suc- cumb owing to the great pressure made by the other banks. The business of the bank increased so rapidly that three years ago it became necessary to have an en- larged space for carrying it on. A build ing on Chambers street was leased and connection made with the old building so as to form an L. The banks list of depos- tors, although, of course, greatly increased, has not changed in character. It includes a large proportion of the wealthy real es- tate owners, retired merchants etc.
The Arizona sentinel., 1878-02-02

ARTICLES of incorporation of the South Tiger Mining Company have been filed, the object being to operate in the territory of Arizona, with capital stock of s1OOOO,OOO, in s1O0 shares. The Direc- tors are A. J. Holmes, A. D. Allen, W. II. Sears, J. II. Helm and George F, Glover.
The Arizona sentinel., 1878-02-02


 The city of Pesth has almost accomplish ed the task of obtaining an unlimited SUD- ply of nearly boiling water, which will be available for public aha private use. The ready heated fluid is obtained from deep artesian well, from which, when completed, the water will issue in a mighty fountain, to the height of nearly fifty feet. The deepest artesian well in the world has hitherto been that at Paris, which meas ures 1,794 feet in depth. The Pesth we'll has already attained depth of 3, l2O feet, and will, when bored the required depth, be more than double the depth of its Paris rival The water now issuing from the bowels of the earth, three tifths of mile below the surface, has temperature of l6t degrees Fah., and the work will be prose cuted until warmth of IFS degrees Fah- is obtained. The meaning of these figures will be better understood when it is re- membered that the temperature of Il ho. bath is 9S degrees, while that of boiling water is PIP degrees. The daily supply is already 175,000 gallons, quantity which will be greatly increased at the enhanced depth. The work progresses at the rate of 90 feet month, and recent Improvements Tn the mechanical appliances render pos sible a still more rapid rate of working This remarkable undertaking Is being car ried on partly at the expense of the city and partly at the expense of the engineers, Messrs Reigmondy.- Building News
The Arizona sentinel., 1878-02-02


 The idea that Indians have no rights which white men are bound to respect has just been exemplitied in this county. The Coahuilla Indians have from time imme- morial had settlement called Potrero, ID the San Gorgonio Pass. Here they have cultivated the soil. built houses, anu en- deavored to initiate the white man in some ago the government secured this tract of land to these Indians as reservation. A short time since. however, white man happened along who cast covetous eyes on the fair fields of the savages. He ascer- tained that portion of the reservation, from which the water supply was derived for the entire settlement, was located on a school section. He immediately applied for and purchased this section rom the State, and then, in order to more fully dis possess the rightful owners of the soil. he took up two sections adjoining, under the desert land law. At first, in the benevo- lence of his heart, he offered to sell to the Indians what they had been in undisputed possession of for years, but upon the ad- vice of white friends they refused to nego- tiate with hlm. He then brought suit to disposess them from the property which is theirs by all moral as well as (we hope) by legal justice. Able counsel have been engaged on behalf of the Indians. and the government at Washington has been com- munlcated with. Several friends of the Indians are moving in the matter, and it is to be hoped that this bare faced attempt at swlndling will be speedily frustrated, and the Indians be secured in their title to the lands which they have held so long. It is hard to realize how whi.e man, calling himself respectable, can lend himself to such an endeavor to swindle these poor savages, especially when they are making an effort to make some little progress in civilization.-[ San Bernardino Times.
, 1878-02-02
The Cleveland Leader of Jan

The Cleveland LeGder OF Jan.
uary 10th says: "Last evening
a young tramp attempted to out
rage the person of Miss McDon-
aid, aged 16, the daughter of A.
J. Mcdonald of Huron, this
county. The girl was returning
home from the district school by
an unfrequented route when she
met the tramp, who made an in
sulting proposal to her, seized
her and attempted to throw her
down.. She struck the tramp a
stunning blow in the face, knock
ing him down. She then choked
and kicked him till he was in
sensible. A man happening to
pass along at that juncture, ar
rested the tramp and took him
to the village lookup. There is
great excitement at Huron and
vicinity over the affair and some
threats of lynching."
, 1878-02-02
THE EASTERN WAR.

LONDON, Jan. 2S.-The Times denies
that part of the Russian army will em-
bark at Coustantinople for home.
A special dispatch says the Russian
demands will encounter serious opposi.
ton from England and Austria. The
latter is opposed to retrocession of
Bessarabia and to any condition doing
more than to cripple Turkey.
Up to Saturday evening Savet Pasha,
acting foreign minister, persisted in his
refusal to inform Layard, British am-
bassador. of the terms of peace. shows
ing the Porte has been pledged to keep
them secret.
The Servians have defeated the Turks
in q four days battle near Rotscharink.
In the house of commons to>day, Sir
Stafford Northcote asked a vote for sup>
Elementary supplies. to give the con-
gress of nations to understand that En-
gland is prepared for any emer 5ency.
as the question of the Dardanelles can
not be settled between Russia and Tur>
key.
Russian scouts have arrived at Chor>
lus. 70 miles from Constantinople.
LONDON, Jan. 30.-In the house of
commons this evening, Prime, conserv-
ative member for Gravesend, gave no>
tice that he would move tomorrow that
the house. while giving the government
due cretit for maintaining the policy
determined upoa, after the solemn as
surances of the czar that he desired on
ly the immunity of the Christian SUBJ
iects of the Porte and aimed at no sg~
prandizement whatever, is Of the opin.
ion that those assurances are being de-
liberately evaded by the proposed terms
of peace and the advance of Russian
arms, and believes the time has come
when immediate action of England il
an absolute necessity. and requests
forthwith estimates for placing the CT
my and navy on a war footing.
tits alleged. on the authority Of Rus
sian newspapers. that the typhus PIE
walls among the Russian troops in eau
casus and Armenia to such an exten
that it might be called plague.
, 1878-02-02

Sunday evening. Lydia Ann
Eliza Soper, aged sixteen years,
the only daughter of Elijah Sop
er, a farmer at Baldwin's, Long
Island, is said to have eloped
with man named John Bedell,
sixty years of age, who for some
time had been paying attention
to the girl against the wishes of
her parents. Mr.. Soper endeav-
ored to track the pair, but with
out success, although it was re-
ported that they had been seen
in Grand street, this city, on
Monday by an acquaintance, to
whom they said that they were
to be married in the evening. On
Monday morning Mr.. Soper
wanted to pay a bill, and on look
ing for his handbook on the
Booklyn Savings Bank, In which
he had deposited $500, and a
sum Of money that was in the
book, he found that both were
gone.
, 1878-02-02

The following is from the" drawer"
of Huper's Magazine. The Justice
Snyder mentioned was at the time q
resident of Portland, Oregon, and is
now serving in the same capacity in
this city. 1.-The simplicity of legal
proceedings is one of the felicitous
peculiarities of Washington Terri
tory. though the law, so far as di-
vorce is concerned, is not quite so
timber as it is in Indiana. We have
from the Territory of Washington a
letter from young man who seems
to have suffered a little from the
pangs of matrimony, and wishes to
obtain a "deviorce." For that pur-
pose he puts himself on paper to a
Justice of the Peace of that region,
suppssing him to have the requisite
dissolving power; and his way of
doing it is SO simple and candid as
to command our admiration:
JUSTICE SNYDER:
Dear Sir-I believe one year ago
last September You married me to a
girl by the name Of either Mrs. Rosa
Kayser or Rosa Heis. She left me
about three months ago. now I
wish to get Deviorce. how will I
come about it? l wish for you to
inform me and what way I shall pay
you for your trouble. pleas answer
right off and you will oblige
NEWTON SwINEFORD,
Poste Scrapt.--If you can't do
what want can't you send me some
other girl that will do better for me
and wont leave me. That will do.
MS.
, 1878-02-02
Millions OF Stolen Money.
From the Hartford Times.


The thirteen life insurance
companies which have collapsed
since that sort of thing began
are still in the hands of receiv-
ers. There is not the least prob
ability that any of the bakers
dozen will ever get a fresh start.
Each proved SO utterly rotten
when daylight was let into it
that it could never again get
business, even though the insur-
ance department gave permission
to go ahead. The whole thirteen
companies are managed Cor ma
nipulated) by respectable men
men of good social standing
who attend fashionable churches
and think it would be good
thing to take the ballot away
from the working classes. Not
having the figures at hand just
now, L cannot say exactly how
many millions these respectable,
religious, suffrage restriction
gentlemen have stolen, or per-
mitted to be stolen, from the
confiding policy holders, who
were credulous enough to trust
them. But the gross amount IS
no trifle. The liabilities of the
Continental foot UP $1,000, 900,
and the receiver thinks that if
the policy holders live long
enough they may ultimately get
thirty cents ON the dollar. The
liabilities of the Security amount
to something over 81, 900, 900, and
it is doubtful if over twenty
cents on the dollar will ever be
paid. 1t would not be much out
of the way to put down the ag-
gregate of misappropriations, or
whatever they may be called, at
S15, 100000. A large part of
this sum was unquestionably
squanderedin in loose management,
but another large part was GER
tainly spent by the officers in
extravagant living.