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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-07-24
The Fete of st. Fiacre.

Not the least interesting of the many
curious customs of the world is the fete
celebrated annually in France, in honor
of St. Fiacre. The saint is the especial
patron of flower dealers and gardeners,
and the festival, which occurs in Sep
tember, is celebrated throughout France,
with great honor and beauty; no orna-
ments, however, being allowed, unless
composed of flowers and evergreens.
On the day of st. Fiacre Paris is
wilderness of flowers, every doorpost,
pillar and portico being twined with
gay wreaths. The tables are loaded with
bouquets, and wreaths are about all the
wine cups, and pendant from the ceiling
of every public room. A castle, built
entirely of the most fragrant flowers,
enshrines the small. mean-looking
statue which is his saintship, st. Fiacre.
All the gardeners contribute to this grand
castle, which is wonderful piece of
architecture. There are pillars, pyra-
mids, domes, temples and arcades, all of
the most magnificent description. All
the floral beauties of the flower dealers
and gardeners are brought out to pay
homage to the patron saint.
The saint does not always appear the
same. Sometimes the insignificant statue
| is arrayed in rich apparel, and wears a
|
is dressed as an old man, sometimes as
a tonsored monk, while again he is not
adorned in any way. His name always
appears in letters of brilliant flowers be-
meath the richie where he is enshrined.
and, also, the words, " Priez pour ,aous!"
1t is the usual custom, on the first day
of the fete, to bear the flower castle and
its ugly little image to the church, at the
head of grand procession. There grand
mass is celebrated, and the cure blesses
the image in his most solemn manner
Upon the altar are laid offerings of beau
tiful flowers and rare fruits, and thu
church walls are festooned with flowers
while punches of ripe and luscious
grapes are twined about the altar rail
) ing. When mass is over, the castle an,
saint are borne from door to door, an,
| every one is asked to contribute money
; The sum thus obtained pays the ex
, penses of grand ball, to which all til
: florists and gardeners have free admit
/ tance, and this winds up the celebratio
S of the saints birthday.-Portland Irar
script.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-07-24
How to Swim,

The editor of the London Truth, after
observing that probably not one in
twenty of the persons who indulge in
boating on q holiday can swim, proceeds
to tell his readers how to acquire this
accomplishment. lNothing, he says,
is more easy. When the air is out of a
body its owner sinks; when the air is in
the body its owner floats. Let any one
slowly draw in his breath as he draws
back his legs and pushes forward his
arms, retain it while he is preparing for
the stroke which is to propel him, and
sfswly allow it to go throug gh his lips as
his arms are passed back from before his
head to his sides and his legs are stretched
out. The action of the stroke should
not be quite horizontal, but should be
made on slight incline downward
The real reason why people take weeks
to learn how to swim is because swim
ming professors either do not know or dc
not choose to teach the philosophy Of
breathing so as to render the body buoy,
ant would engage to make anyone {
tolerable swimmer in an hour, unless h,
be congenital idiot.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-07-24
UnShOd Horses.

1t has been before stated that an ex-
perienced farrier in England was advo-
eating the abolishment of horseshoeing,
and now writer in the London Times
has been trying the experiment, and thus
reports: When my pony's shoes were
worn out | had them removed, and gave
him a months rest at grass. with an oc-
casional drive of mile or two on the
high road while his hoofs were harden
ing. The result at first seemed doubtful.
The hoof was a thin shell, and kept
chipping away until it had worked down
beyond the holes of the nails by which
the shoes had been fastened. After this
the hoof grew thick and hard, quite un-
like what it had been before. / now put
the pony to full work, and he stands ii
well. He is more sure-footed; his tread
is almost noiseless; his hoofs are in nc
danger from the rough hand of the
farrier; and the change altogether has
been clear gain, without anything to
set against it. My pony, may add, was
between four and five years old-rising
four, | fancy, is the correct phrase. HI
had been regularly shod up to the pres
ent year.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-07-24
NO. %.
Little Barbara.

Pretty Barbara, ripe and red,
With sweet small mouth like the bees abed,
And full OF nectar and honey-dew;
So pretty thing, dare not swear
To the art of the ribbon that ties her hair
Or the buckle that binds her shoe;
So like her each trinket she has to wear,
1t seems just as if it grew,
Like lose in its petals and pollen dust,
That wears its beauty because it must,
And something like Barbara, too.
AS sle dips her small tin bucletin
The little fountain OF woven glass,
Like webs that the spiders weave and spin
To hang on tine shining blades of grass,
face as bright and happy as hers,
In the nets of the silken gossamers,
Looks out OF the waters smooth eclipse,
As il it was happy to hold within it
The soft verbena red of her lips,
And kiss and caress her just for minute,
In the arms of the dimples, smooth and still
Ere it goes and soberly turns the mill.
For life to her in the honey-dew
Is nothing yet but the wayside spring,
Between the upper and under blue,
That makes a fiction OF everything,
AS perfectly like as if it grew;
And she is too happy to see within it
The shape OF her small sweet self a minute,
From the bow in the hair to the tie of her
shoe,
To know that the marvellous shadows mean
The simple inner beauty that shows
But now in the color OF q rose,
And now like the waters smooth eclipse,
In hearts that hold her picture still,
As we go and soberly turn the mill.
Harper's Magazine.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-07-24
A Case of Suspended Animation.

Emil Bausch. of Williamsburg, n.
Y, who has been suffering for some
time from heart disease, sat down to his
dinner table one day recently, seemingly
in his usual health. After partaking
heartily of the viands placed before him
he rose from the table, but was taken
with what he thought fainting fit, and
said he felt sick; then, throwing up his
hands, he fell on the floor, The family,
thoroughly startled, though they had
long been expecting such an occurrence,
hastcned to his relief and bore him to Il
sofa, where after two or three efforts to
articulate both respiration and pulsa-
ton apparently ceased. The family
physician was sent for, but being absent,
word WAS left for him to call immediate
ly on his return. Meanwhile no signs
OF life were visible in Mr.. Bausch, and
the family convinced of his death sent
for an undertaken. who came and was
also convinced of the death of Mr..
Bausch. Before going back to his store
for ice and box with which to preserve
the body until the time for the funeral
he attached the usual Grape insignia OF
death to the front door bell.
He was gone an hour, and then when
he reached the house and prepared tC
remove the body to the box the jar ol
removal startled the supposed corpse into
life. Sneezing first, he gasped for breath
and in n few moments circulation thai
had been temporarily suspended resumed
its course, and, though weak, Mr.
! Bausch became once more man among
the living. The family rejoiccd at tht
recovery, overwhelmed him with atten
ton, and even the undertaken felt pleas
ure in the unusual termination to Iii
services and joined in the congratula
tions. He quickly FASTENED the remova
OF his paraphernalia, the last thing #
take down being the badge of Grape from
the door. which for two hours had beer
suspended there.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-07-24

/ Go to Bed.

When have lost all faith in man,
Or failed to consummate some plan;
When women lair are cold, unkind
And things accord not with my mind,
1 do not rashly seize my pen
And in furry there and then
Declare this gladstone world to be
One endless round of vanity;
All! no. for this were mockery--
/ go to bed.
When through my head there darts pain
And life seems an increasing bane,
When friends their patronage withhold,
And creditors become too bold,
1 do not in seclusion mourn,
And curse the hour when l was born
go to bed.
When some d. d. deserts his creed,
And quacks their many victims bleed;
When editors write sharp replies,
And moneyed men keep back supplies,
1 do not then, in prose and verse,
Implore the gods mankind to curse
go to bed.
When couples marry in great haste,
And servants pilfer, fret and waste;
When general courts their terms prolong,
In short, when things get somewhat wrong,
] do not bite my lips and scowl,
And at the children snap and growl-
l go to bed.
go to bed and soundly sleep,
While friendly angels vigils keep;
But if, however, awake
Before my ailments me torsake,
I do not OF my lite complain,
But try the remedy again
And back to bed,
Ye who have griets (and who has not?)
Let past prescriptions be forgot,
My panacea for old and young
Is given in the English tongue,
1t hath to untold millions wrought
Sweetest relief, nor cost them aught;
And now if you, like those, would be
From every pain and trouble free,
Light small lamp and come with me-
go to bed.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-07-24

The big female African elephant of the
Philadelphia Geological Garden is dead.
Investigation showed her stomach to be
filled with pebbles, sticks, bones, wads
of paper, etc., that had been given to her
by visitors and were the cause of her
cath.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-07-24

At this time ofyear dish of ofice-cream
in the hand is worth two in the freezer.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1879-04-05

to all, but which the solitary observer
alone could never think of undertaking
unless the data have been thus laid down
before him. The United States need the
data for themselves, and they help be-
sides all international union of brains as
well us hands.
For nearly six years this exchange,
originated and conducted by the Signal
Service Of the United States, has been per-
fectly successful. almost every civilized
nation north Of the equator has taken
part in it. 1t has made possible for the
first time in the history of the world the
of Il daily simultaneous map
of the northern hemisphere, at Washing
ton, this also is sent to each observer0
and has probably advanced the study of
practical meteorologv as far as any one
in the last century.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1879-04-05

Mr.. NocETTI, of this place recently
bought in Sierra Juarez. Ga mountain
range in northern Sonora) ten pounds of
gold quartz for 500; he sent one pound
seems hardly credible that quartz, under
any circumstance should be worth more
than gold: but this lot Is SO beautifully
white and so plentifully seamediand sprlnk-
led with gold us to bring the price paid.
Mr.. P. Gdn6r of Los Angeles buys selected
specimen gold-quartz, paying sometimes
as high as SD per ounce OF quartz, SO
selected. 1t is shipped to France and
used for jewelry.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1879-04-05
A SPLENDID BILLIARD TABLE.
Furnished Rooms
THE MORENO MINING COMPANY.

THE MORENO MINING COMPANY.
i -Loration Of principal place Of bust
ness, San Francisco. California Location
of works, Plomosa Mining District, Yuma
County. Arizona Territory. Notice is here
by given, that at meeting OF the Board
of Directors, held on the twenty fifth day
of March, 1879, an assessment mo. u Of
Ten Cents per share was levied upon the
capital stock of The corporation, payable
Immediately, in United States gold coin
TO the Secretary, at the office of the Com
pany, Room 3. No. 2l7 Sansomr street,
San Francisco, California.
Any stock upon which this assessment
shall remain unpaid on the TWENTY
EIGHTH DAY OF APRIL. 1879, will be
delinquent, and advertised for sale at pub
lie auction; and unless payment is made
before, will be- sold on Monday, the Nine
teenth day of May, 1879, to pay the delin-
Quent assessment, together with costs OF
advertising and expenses Of sale.
By order of the Board of Directors.
E.. POPE,
Secretary.
Office-Room 8. No. 217 Sansome street,
San Francisco, California. Sat
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1879-04-05

tn. party repairing the Military Tele.
graph line found, on Wednesday last, tie
body of IL man at FilibuSter Station: it
was hid under some hay in the corral,
some horses ran in there, and the man
going for them discovered the body. The
skull was crushed in and the body much
dccompOscd. 1t was OF Il man about five
feet six inches in height, IL stout, heavy
man, with grey hnir--hr had on white
canvas oScrallS, with blue and br.fwn
checked pants, and black vest; there
was nothing in his pockets hut wooden
ripe. Hugh Henderson and C. w. MAN.
d,.rfrldt buried him between the stable
and the house.
Henderson, who lives at Antelope, six
miles east Of Filibustcr says there have
been no travellers by for some time, up or
down, save about two weeks Il 20 three
men who refused To stop ut his station,
though he told them Fllior~ttr ~aS aban-
doned, nsisting upon pushing on To that
place; they had money and bought pro.
visions of him. 1t seems evident that ii
MURDER has been committed; ought not
our Coroner to look into the matlerY
Perhaps SOME clue might be obtained by
which the murderer or assdssins could I've
identified.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1879-04-05

THE representative of the Signal Ser.
&C at Yuma has our thanks, for the fol.
lowing communication which was ac
com panied Ivy specimen of the Inter:.a-
iional Weather Charts:
The permanent committee of the
Vienna Meteorological Congress have iasl
paid the Unitcd States the high rompi-
ond Congress tt: ulpDtiol titrptclDlt
the world Of ii plan tor exchanges of data
for Simultaneous weather maps or other
| purposes, similar t. one irSt orstuilcd
| for the United States by General MYEa,
the Chief Signal Officer, in 1878, and
which his been cDlti luDl|ly pursued by
the Signal Service to this day.
The features uf This exchange, as set on
foot by the United States, are as follows:
1st.-rhe Signal Office of the United
States asks all countries to make record
udiiy VII ldnu anu oOh, OIO olti III ''tHO'uo
wheather observation at the same exact
instant of tune.
2rd.-The United States then exchanges
with each country separately, making an
especial request of each to establish such
exchange.
d-Each country sends to the United
States every fifteen days its own ohsrrvl-
ti0Is; all are thus received ~ the United
States.
4th-The Sigrnl Ofee of The United
States then colates and prints all, its own
co-incdcnt observations included, and re-
turns in this shape To every regular OBJ
server, who has sent continuously sim
gle report, the reports gathered from al
most the whole northern hemisphere.
For one report sent regularly ny any reg
ular observer anywhere, ON shin or shore,
he receives 800, and these so surround
and cover nearly the northern hcmi
sphere. 1t has been the theory OF the
Chief Signal O.ilcer tlitt, with such in
formation SO widely diifd ,et, IL great deal
of work will he dre bv separate ob5c'-
vers in every country which will be of use
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1879-04-05

A BOARD OF officers has been appointed,
and will meet on The 18th, ut Mcdowell,
to purchase cavalry horses for Company
], of the Sixth Caval"y. The horses will,
perhaps, Ire found growing un the eacti
in the neighhOrhOod. The Board will re-
ceive Instructions then and there. We
hope they will not have to junket about
the country Ill summer, reporting no
horses obtainable, and at considerable ex-
pense to Uncle Sam for mileage.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1879-04-05
Posters are out, in English, Spanish

POSTERS are out, in English, Spanish
and German, calling upon all liable to Al
special Internal Revenue Tax to make
application Tor stamps and pay for the
same. The year begins May LIST. George
Tying is the Deputy Collector for this
District. Retail liquor dealers, and deal
ers in manufactured tobacco, especially,
should attend to this matter in season,
and thus avoid considerable annoyance
and expense
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1879-04-05

Mr.. A. LORETTE leaves soon on iaunt
for business and pleasure Into northern
Sonora; after attending to some matters
in Altar and Cahorca, he intends TO build
and establish store at Qutovaquta, in
the Sonolta Valley bnt in Arizrla, and
will endeavor to cUlunise that town Mr.
of our community during long resi-
dence, and We wish him all prosperity in
his new undertaking.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1879-04-05
Notice In Bankruptcy.

This Is TO GIVE NOTICE-THAT
i on the l1th day of March. A. d. 1879,
a Warrant in Bankruptcy was issued
against The estate of \. Townsend, of the
County of Maricnpa. Territory of Arizona,
Who has been adjudged Bankrupt on his
own petition; that the payment-Of aIy
debts aud delivery of any property be-
longing to such Bankrupt, to him, or for
his use, and the transfer Of any property
by him, are forbidden by law; that meet
ing of HE creditors OF the said Bankrupt,
To I;ruve their debts and to choose an as
signee of his estate. will be held at
Court Of Bankruptcy, to be holden at the
Court Room. at the Court House in the
village of Phoenix, County of Maricopa,
in the Territory of Arizona. before the
Hon. DeFores; Porter, Judge of said
Court, on the FOURTEENTH DAY OF
APRIL, A. d. 1879, at ten O'clock, A. NJ.
&. p. DAKE,
United States Marshal and Messenger.
By ANDREW TYNER.
4o-td Deputy
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1879-04-05

A MAN came III OH the train Thursday
whose appearance tailed 50 exactly with
Il description given of person suspected
of being the murderer of The man, (the
finding of whose body at Fllibu>ter is re
lerred 10 in another place. that he was
arrested, aud is now in Jail. The body
found is supposed to be that Of II man,
commonly called "Scotty," who has work
I'd at Tip Top, and who was engaged by
Hugh Henderson to work on his ranch,
at Antelope Peak, and who started on his
way, and WAS last seen in Company Of the
person suspected of numbering him.
The man arrested gives the name OF
Michael Martin, and WAS found, lost. by Il
son of WIN. Burke, and directed to the
railroad. He says he has been al work at
Tip Top. We understand an exalliiEii-
ton will b: had as soon as the presence
of Mr. Henderson can lie obtained.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1879-04-05

= =; Territory Oh ArlEOHd
Be Il Enacted By the 1t ysslatire assembly %
ArizonG Territory
SECTION l. 1t shall he lawful for. and
the right, power and authority is hereby
granted for the I.eriud of twenty years
from the first day of February, 1879, to the
Arizona DevelnLment Company--a cor
poration organized and existing under
and nv virtue OF the laws of the Tern itury
of Arizona-and its assigns. 10 give public
lotteries, at which, or ny means Of which
money may lawfully be disposed of 10y
chance, anything in tie laws of this Ter
ritory to tie contrary Notwithstanding,
ETC., etc.
SEC. O. The Governor of the Territory
of Arizona, and his successor in office, and
I'm the event of the abseiice, Disqualified.
ton or death of the Governor-hIS legal
substitute is hereby appointed Com
missioner to superintend the drawing ur
distribution of prizes in said lotteries, and
each of them, aud certify to the correct
ness thereof, etc, etc.
SEC. g. All lutteri0s drawn under the
provisions of this Act, shall be drawn IN
some public place to be designated by the
Commissioner, between the hours Of zen
O'clock A. NJ, and five O'clock P. NJ, and
in a manner to be approved ty the Com
missioner.
SECS. 4 5 and 6, provide for the collec-
ton of ten per cent. from all prizes and
the payment of the same into the Capitol
and School Funds.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1879-04-05

We have received No. II of Il valuable
pamphlet journal, published in Boston
and called The Economist il is an investors
and mining paper, issued weekly and il Of
sixteen pages, all save one being reading
matter, which we find very interesting.
Considerable attention is being directed
toward Arizona in Boston and New Eng
land, considerable eastern capital is being
invested in our mines, which means the
development of them and not, specula-
lions and deals" on California street
only.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1879-04-05
A ZURE KING MINING COMPANY

n ZURE klNG MlNlNG COMPAN1.-
n Location of principal place OF bust
hess, San Francisco California. Location,
of Works, Silver Mining District, yuma,
Arizuha Territory. Notice is hereby
given, that ut Il meeting Of the Board Of
Directors, held on the sixth dcy of NJ ,rch,
A. d., 1879, an assessment mo. u of Five
cents (5c) per share was levied upon the
capital stock of the corporation, payable
immediately in United States gold coin.
to the Secretary at the office of the CON-
pany, No. 81 Academy Building, $50 Pine
street. San Francisco, California.
Amy stock upon which this assessment
shall remain unpaid on the Fourteenth
day Of April, 1879. will be deemed delin.
Quent, and advertised for sale at public
auction; and, unless payment is made be-
fore, will be sold OH MONDAY, the FIFTH
(5th) day Of MAY. 1879, u pay the deIin-
quent assessment, together with cost Of
ard expenses of sale By
order of tbs Board of Direc,o lois.
j. II. SAYRE,
Secretary.
Off1ce--No. 50 Academy Building, No.
$50 Pine street, San francisco, Cal.
49-td
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1879-04-05

IT is reported to US that the Tax CO...
lector Tor IA Deputy has left Yavapai
County with funds So collected. Taxes
have been p land receipts produced that
are not e edited upon the tax books A
lot of cHttle were assessed, taxes paid and
receipt given in presence of witness =.
and now his tax is claimed To be deiin
quent, and suit TO recover threatened.