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Arizona silver belt., 1879-05-16
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Now Vlile pedeslrianisin is q sur
 face Sopies story is told of a swif-
 Norwegian, who performed mar
 vellous ieats Of running in the
 early part of the present cen-
 tury, and whose long dis
 tances and time beat anything done
 by the leg champions of these days. lis name vas Eruesr Mensen. He WAS a Norwegian sailor in the Bri-
 tish navy He was long known
 among tns shipmaEes IS an extraor
 dlnary runner, bu. made | first pc
 desuIan recorl Jy ranniug from
 London 70 Portsmouth, g miles. in
 nine hours, on g wager that he could
 not to 1t in ten. He next ran from
 London to Liverpool. 150 miles. in
 thirty-two hours. h 1S17 he be-
 came a professional runner, ana vas
 employed 5y kings and governments
 1srun iher errands all over Europe.
 At long distances he could fer cut strip any of the then known methods
 of locomonon. He ran from Paris
 to Moscow. T6 miles June. 1881,
 n thirteen days and eighteen hours
 This feat gave him a wide European reputation, and he vas emp oyel to carry dissatchss and eonQras..i..ss.is
 from court to court and couLtry to country. He was also matched
 against regular mountain carriers,
 and always beat them. Relays of horses were nowhere m his Eramps of
 thousands of miles He carried with
 him 8 nap and compass, and as many 5lscuits and ounces of raspber- y syurp as he calculated days to be occupied in tue journey. In winter he took with him a pair of long, slender Norwegian snow-shoes, and
 took the most direct roate, climbing the mountains and swimming the rivers in his course. lie never walk ed but kept ID q long swinging lope. One biscuit and an ounce of rasp- berry syrup per day vas his only
 fare, and two stops of fifteen minutes in twenty four hours were his only rest. He took these rests standing and leaning against a tree or rock or wall, with lis face covered by baEd- kerchief, and these short maps sufic- cd. h 1883 he carried dispatches Erosn the king of Bavaria to his son, the king of Greece, and delivered them seven days earlier than they could have been done by the regular 1 post. In 1886 he was in the employ of the British East India company, and carried dispatches from Calcutta to Constanunople through Central Asia, 5,6l5 miles. in iifty-nine days. i Mersen was at last employed to ex. plore the river Nile to it's sources. He started from Silesia in May, 1872. l and ran to Jerusalem, thence 60 Cairo, and up the western bank of the river into Upper Egypt Near the village of Syane he was seen to stop and rest against palm-his face with a handkerchief. He made long rsss. The villages at length tried to waken hiin, but he was dead They buried him under the palm--it was months before bis friends in Europe knew what had be- come of hia expedition np the Nile. The champion runness Of the present bad better harg their heads and ihackle tlseir feet. Menson's achieve nsnEs were of practical use.
Arizona silver belt., 1879-05-16
Trouble in sl.sI Camp.

Things are not altogether lovely in lhe Republican can p. Here IS sLe Cincinnati Commercial talking in shis fashion:
 Th- eail for Grant is first and ivudest from the persons who inter- est themselves in administration for mouey ma. ing purposes. They would like 6rant lurlng life. and for his son to succeed hfn Then their sea sons of profit would not be United by elections. If Grant is neeslei fer 18S0. still msre wlll he be needed for 1881 The nomination of Grant IS the one man capable of saving the country ls uufepublican. and insult ing to the public intellIgene. If we can imagine such preposterous chapter ln our afaiFs. we may be sure of the programme of personal government.
 And the San Francisco Argonaut in th.s style:
 If we cannot elect a Republican president without Iyng aOuut th- South. and Rith0ut dragging from It's sepnlchre the skeleton of the ciysl war. without excitng sectional jealous cs, aul stirring the angry pas ioas of another internecine strife, we had better suffer defeat. lhis journal intends 10 support Republican candidate for president. We hope to take an active part in an honorable campaign. Ye shall be : lad to discuss uaUonal questions in q digui6ed and honorable way but we give notice now, early in fhe con test. before our batIle- blood is warm ed by the excitement of the strife. that We hope our party headquarters at Washington will send US 10 stink pots. for we wil not hclp to explode them No bloody shirt for this side of the continent. No negro perse- ] euuou stories For us. Of this kmd of politics ve are altogether dls gaslea" "
Arizona silver belt., 1879-05-16
MI.sellansa... Paragraphs.

Csrlotta of Aastr,s an Mexica has been transferred to her new sabode. but is qaite unaware oF the change She never speaks aml can wth lifheuity be persuaded to take food.
 Says the Cheyenne Sun: < lise- stock man yesterday sssertel that from bis nine han.ired eoss on the range he will ges at least seven han- dred calves this year
 Pennsylvania IS suffering greatlv from the tramp nuisance. The pA- pers complain that the stringent llws of New E.4glan l have driven the,a into Pennsylvania.
 The preachers who compose the presbyterv that IS trying parson T. mage in Brooklyn, style the tribunal the Court of Jesus Christ 2
 \ nice young couple recently mar rie,i in Connecticut-M ss Julia Eye- line Smith, of Glastonburg, tp Amos G. Parker. Both bride ard groom are in ther STih year
 According to the commissioae of agr'culiure, tie number Of hags in the Unlted States. on ,he 6rst of January. was 55, ,68l. GOO of which 21 .915 800 were owned in thirteen Western States.
 The ioy who can look yoa square in the face and le without fiachine, says the Wheeling Leader. is sure to make his mark as politician
 \ Chinaman put m an appear anee at Leadyilie. but the arstocTacy rallied with slung shots and pawug stones, and drove him out of town. The people d,n'I relish Chinese com petition They sAnt none but the superior race to do the starving to death.
 The Democratic papers made a terrible howl over Wash Jones vose FIth the Republicans on seating Florida member. Nov what are they going 10 do with Gen. Joe Johnson vho voted with the Repub- licans on the army bill
 Brains arc well in their place. but all Congressmen are on the same level when they reach for mileage of sev- eral thousand dollars with one hand and paper of garden seed for a constituent Tisn the other.
 When the Confederate army was on it's shortest rations General Lee re- monsuated one day with a straggler For eating green persimmsns. and asked him if he did not know that they were unfit for food. sIm not eating them for food, General, g re- piled tbs man, but for the sake of my stomach up fit nay ra- tiens.
 Another rival to the lyric iunatic of the 0koloRa Southern States looms upon she political horIzon-this tune in the columns of tke Bucyrus (0.9 Journal. The opening stsrzas, of which the Pungent afiatus could oaly nave been inspired by the atmosphere of the Western Reserve, reads as fol- IoEs:
 Rise, rise, soldiers and patriotsl
 Stand for your principles promptly in or
 der.
 Rise, rise, freedom and fsIgitiyes.
 Al the eonfederates are over the border.
 Many rebel blast
 Boasts of the bloody past; Murder and massacre made them victorious,
 Naiuly our Unionmen
 Put down rebellion, when Treason and treaehery only are glorious
Arizona silver belt., 1879-05-16
gshn l.aEan,a eeurae an lsea.

EDiToR ST. LOIS REpl BLIcAx- l see that Senator John \. Logan appears in the public prints iz de- fence of his Loyalty in 1861, and am reminded Of ] bit Of history which ] believe has not yet been written
 In the summer of 1881 met a gentleman Vho vas tken q member og Congress and who has since held high official sIauon in Missouri, and whose
Arizona silver belt., 1879-05-16

Ex-Senefol Pauefson. of Soush Carolina, and chief If the late lux urious expedition to the Indian Ter ritorY, admits that he male all he cOold out of t, and dou's cure a damn who knows 1t. We arc soon to have Ex- Senator atiers0n in this Territory. He is the leader of the party recently formed in Washington City aud bound for Arizona. They have their pass words, signs and grips and art sworn to stick togeth- CT for two years an ] a day anu divide equally in selything, even to the exna shirt and box of mercurial ointment.
Arizona silver belt., 1879-05-16
St Louis Republican
TERNs-Ix ADVANCE.

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 St. Louis. Mo.
Arizona silver belt., 1879-05-16

Michigan Creamery Butter at Weatmeyers, 50 cents a pound, if you ever try 1t you viil buy no other.
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portion of our city. proposes expert
ments which he kindly says will
do no harm, even if no good
results. He desires to move
those now sick to hospitals beyond
the suburbs. In view of the fact
that persons suffering with yellow
fever require above all other things
undisturbed quiet, equable tempera-
ture, and the most delicate attention
from watchful nurses, it would be
infinitely better by way of begin
ming for the kind doctor to start a
dozen men under his personal leader
ship, each armed with an ak, then
visit the sick rooms and knock in the
head every individual to be found
prostrated with fever. 1t might not
be a popular experiment but it would
certainly end the misery of the pa
tients now on hand as effectually as
the plan he suggests and it would do
it more speedily. The friends Of the
victims might rebel, but science
would have fresh topic for discus
sion and the members of the National
board of health could report that
they had done a little toward earn
ing their pay in thus adopt
ing truly heroic style of treatment
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-12
DOUBLE DOSES.

1t is time for the one term fallacy
to be exploded as far as yellow fever is
concerned. There are twenty or more
persons now living in this city who
have suffered two well marked attacks
of the malady in several seasons, and
several can be pointed out who have
had it three different times. 1t is
well known to experienced persons
that sailors suffer with it when they
happen to enter a port where it RACES,
often four or FIVE times in series of
years. Our medical advisers may deny
this as much as they please, but any
man who has had Yellow Jack cannot
be mistaken when it catches him the
second or the third time. He knows
his feelings full we'll, and if he hap
pens to be a sufferer when his doctor
tells him he certainly did not have real
Yellow Jack the first time, he will
smile incredulously and he may keep
his own counsel, but at the same time
he processes to know thing or two on
his own private account. 1t has been
stated that a prominent physician Of
Havana, Cuba, has recently asserted
through an experience of some thirty
or more years at the head of hos
pital in that city, he has never known
of well defined second attack of yel-
low fever. Possibly this is true among
those who are acclimated to that torrid
latitude but itcertainly will lnotapplyt to
places in this country where yellow
fever periodically appears, because We
have people an Ong us who know how
near Yellow Jack came to crossing
them over Jordan's shores. on more
than one occasion. If there are any
who doubt this, names and dates car
be given.
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yellow Fever in Memphis in Is2s.

In 1923, when Memphis was an
inconsiderable village, with, as DR..
Drake remarks, scarcely any popula-
tiOn in its rear and so little com
.merce or social intercourse with New
Orleans that steamboats, seldom
stopped, and a fortnight frequently
elasped without a single landing, the
yellow fever made its appearance
there. For some time" DR.. Drake
adds, "before the fever broke out, no
steamer had stopped. The fever that
year was epidemic in New Orleans
and sporadic in Mobile, but no case
was landed at Memphis" The first
cases were a man and wife, and two
children. The five or six eases
lodged in house about one hundred
yards from the others. The next FIVE
resided and worked at the distance of
a quarter of a mile from the preced-
ing, and had had, so far as could be
ascertained, no communication with
them. The disease spread before the
death of those noticed, and invaded
every part Of the village. Out of a
population of from 25O to 300, 40
were attacked, and one-half of these
died. 1t was undoubtedly OF local
origin. y La Roche.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-12

SOME idea of the rapidity of the
growth of the population of London,
from natural causes alone, without
adding the increase of immigration
from the country districts, may be
formed from the registrar general s sta
tistics for the week ending July 10Th.
In that week the births were 2,48S,
and the deaths 1890, the former being
93 above, and the latter 400 below, the
average of the corresponding week of
the past ten years. The annual death
rate is thus only 1902 less than it has
been since July, 1860, when, as during
the past month, there was an excessive
rain fall.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-12

NEWMAN HALLS case is closed.
In certain circles he has long been
looked upon as a burning and shining
light, but, although he has obtained
his divorce, not one man in a thousand
will believe that he has passed through
the ordeal with clean hands. If a
human tribunal could unravel the
secrets of all and mete out the proper
punishment to each individual sinner,
it is scarcely to be doubted that the
scarlet letter, now attached by the
judgment to the dress of his wife,
would be pinned at least as conspicu-
ously to the coat Of the preacher.
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A Turtle One Hundred and Sew
enty nine Years Old.

Palatka Fla.) Herald.l
We received a turtle a few days
since which had marked on his back
the date of 100, and also the Spanish
coat-of-arms, indicating that this old
resident was in existence 179 years
ago. What changes this old fellow of
the deep has seen The rise and fall
of empires, and the continent on
which he lived, emerged from the
thraldom of despotism, with the rise
of a republic that has become the
great conseryator of freedom, the ad-
vancement OF civilization and the
glory of the world. A few words in
Spanish on the she'll were translated,
which say: Caught in 100 by Her
manda Gomez in the St. Sebastian,
and was carried to Mantanzas by In
dians; from there to the Great We
kiva" { which is now st. Johns
river. On Tuesday, the 18th of
June, the turtle was turned adrift in
the st. Johns river at Palatka, with
the inscription on his back " Eastern
Herald, Palatka, Florida, 1879" 1t
may be supposed that by this time the
old fellow has scented salt water and
gone over the bar at high tide, and
probably few generations hence may
take him up at a Spanish port on the
other side.
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NOTES FROM OTHER POINTS,

OF seventy-fve yellow fever deaths
in Hayti, up to last accounts, eleven
were Americans.
Sixteen cases of smallpox prevail at
San Antonio, Texas, imported from
Mexico. No deaths for more than a
week.
Havana had ninety-three deaths
from yellow fever last week, de-
crease of forty compared with the
week before.
Cholera prevails at Monterrey
Mexico, with the death rate at 100 per
day and the news causes uneasiness in
Western Texas.
The New Orleans doctors all con-
cur in the opinion that there is no
danger of an epidemic arising this
summer from past or future cases.
In the opinion of Postmaster Gene
raj Key, the defeat of the proposal to
compromise the State debt means that
o majority of the people of the State
of Tennessee favor reputation.
A lot Of wheat having accumulated
at Cairo, the steamer CITY of Helena
was permitted to land there as che
passed up last Friday, thus relaxing
the previous stringent quarantine reg
ulations.
A telegram from AaE Orleans on
Saturday last says there had not been
q case Ofyellow fever in that city for 15
days and that The entire South with
the single exception Of Memphis is
remarkably healthy for the season oi
the year. The lines of railroads are
all reported totally exempt from sus-
picion of yellow fever.
A party Of refugees from New Or.
leans passed through Washington City
yesterday, and were inspected by the
National board of health. They arc
on the watch trying to earn a part Of
their SO a day and expenses added
Finding the sanitary condition of the
squad all that could be desired, tn,
board of health fellows let them al
pass with a clean bill.
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Seal Catching.
Santa Barbara Cali Press.l

Santa Barbara Cali Press.
Nearly all the live seal, sea lions
and sea elephants that have been sent
to the Old World and the Eastern
States during the last fifteen years
have been captured from the Santa
Barbara islands, across the channel
from this city, Every year more or
less of these animals are captured on
the islands, for the purpose of supply
ing menageries in the Eastern States,
and parties engaged in the business
always come to Santa Barbara to Sc
cure men who have had years of expe-
rience in capturing them.
Three or four expert vaeqqeros ap-
proaOh the animals that are out on the
rocks near the beach, select, perhaps
from q hundred or more, the big bull,
which usually starts for the water,
and, when the bull arrives at q oonve-
nient place on the sand, three riatas
are, if possible, thrown simultaneously,
one over the animals neck, enc over
either of his front fippers, and one
over his rear flippers, making a spread
eagle of him instantly. The riata that
holds the bulls rear tiippefs takes
away his motive power, and while his
other front fipper is lassoed the riatas
are all fastened to the rocks or tree,
near BY, or held by the men engaged
while the large box-Which has already
been made-without the cover is
brought and carefully stood on END
close behind the animal, unobserved
and, With o man on top Of it, is dropped
suddenly over the sea lion as he lios
stretched at full length on the sand
Small ropes are worked under the boz
and animal, and lashed to the top o
the box, and at a given signal the rIatal
arc laoseped, the box turned over, anC
the animal held on his back in the bot
tom of the cage until the cover j
securely nailed down, when the rope
and riatas are loosened, and the ANNA
free to move around in his cage at will
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less than the corresponding period
last year. One million chetwerts of
this decrease was in wheat and 100000
in oats. Ghe export of grain for the
present year was 13, ,949,579 chctwerts
against 1911 $50 chStwerts for the
corresponding period last year.
Three million chetwerts Of this de-
crease was in wheat
Russia will surrender Kuldja in
return for certain concessions from
China favorable to Russian commerce,
but there are signs that Chinese
troops will not be able to maintain
their ground there for any length Of
time.
Obstacles to General Lazareffs for
ward march in Central Asia are too
formidable. He must restrict himself
to strategic points calculated to facili.
tate the advance on Nero, if such
movement should become necessary.
The London correspondent of the
Daily News at st. Petersburg hears
from a good source that, in conse-
quence of the concentration of Turk
ish troops on the ROumelian frontier,
Russia has addressed the Powers.
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ExpER1MrNTrNe W1TH THE s1cK

EXPERIMENTING WITH THE SICK,
The febrile malady now moving
mysteriously among the people of this
city, picking off victims in every
neighborhood, battles the skill of the
learned and the unlearned in medical
science. A prominent physician re.
marked a few days since that his pro-
fession had learned nothing in respect
to its cause nor to effectually check
its ravages during the last two hun
dred years. Another of the same
calling stated last fall to O meeting of
his professional brethren in another
city that he had treated patients here
with various remedies during the
SEQ urge of last summer and with bad
results in almost every instance, until
he tried the no-treatment policy, when
he was remarkably successful in his
practice. This statement was made,
as he thought privately, and was not
intended for public circulation, but it
happened that a newspaper reporter
was there and he published the news.
AS soon as discovered he was hustled
out Of the meeting without ceremony,
being regarded as an unwarranted
intruder, but he had taken notes
of this much Of the proceedings
before he was found out, What tales
were told after he left the medical
mems gathering will never be known,
except to those who were in the secrets
of the society. Enough, however, was
made known to the world to show that
many of the suffering here had been
victims OF experiments, and that those
who were not experimental upon by
various nostrums stood much better
chance to recover than did those who
were dosed with quinine, drenched
with cold water, or rubbed down with
lotions. A new experimcnter has now
appeared within our midst, in the per-
son of DR.. Jerome Cochrane, of Mo-
bile, who comes to us wearing the
garb of a National board of health
official He gets his ten dollars day
and travelling expenses throSn in; ar
rives month after the yellow scourge
and when it has spread to almost every
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-12

IT isa somewhat noticeable fact
that the men who are the fercest in
their denunciations of the American
citizens who live south of Mason and
Dixon's line are those who never
shouldered a musket or handled a
sword during the civil war. The
sutler, shoddy and contractors
brigades are the bloody-shirt wavers
Of to-day.
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The Actor Fenhter nend

,QUAKERTowN, Pa, August g.
Charles Fechter, the actor, died at
ten O'Clock last night at his farm at
Richland Centre, lie was ffty-four
years old, and had been ill since
early in the spring with a complica-
tiOn Of diseases Of the liver and kid
neys; The immediate cause of his
death was dropsy and jaundice
Fechter was also afflicted with par
alysis, His remains will be conveyed
tomorrow to the residence of his
mother-in-la Mrs, Susan Price,
Philadelphia,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-12

A colored boy from Perry, Ca, re-
Gently arrested for stealing, declared
that he derived his kleptomaniacal
propensities from wearing a pair of
old shoes which had belonged to
convict, and that the said convict had
put a spell on him. This plea was
considered sound by tho Intelligent
court and jury before whom he was
tried, and he was diseharged,
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GARD.

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early decay, loss Of manhood, ETC., will
send recipe that will cure you, FREE OF
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a self.addressed envelope to REV. JOSEPH I.
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SILVER LOCKING UP.

Germany has notified the United
States that she is officially willing to
cooperate in the establishment of
bi-metalism. We may now confidently
look for an appreciation in the value
of silver bullion, as it looks to the
unity Of gold and silver never more to
be divided.