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The Arizona sentinel., 1880-07-03
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REPUBLICAN, PLATFORM.
Resolutions Adopted by the Re publican Convention at
 Chicago.

Following are the resolutions adopted by the Republican National Convention:
 Republican rule has restored upon a solid basis payment in coin for all the national obligations, and has given us a currency absolutely good and legal, and equal in every part ot our extended cOun- try. It has lifted the credit of the nation from the point where six per cent bonds sold at S6- 10 that where four per cent bonds are eagerly sought at premium Under its administration railways have in- creased from 2l 900 miles in 1S60, to more than S2,000 in 1873. Our foreign trade has increased from $700O00,000 to SI, l50 ,OOO,- 600 in the same time, and our exports, which were S20,000,0 900 less than our i'm ports in 1860, were S264 ,000, ,000 more than our imports in 1870. Without resorting to loans, it has, since the war, defrayed ordi- nary expenses of Government, besides the accruing interest on the public debt, and disbursed annually more than $30000, 900 for soldiers pensions. It has paid SSS0,- 0O0,0O0 of the public debt, and by refund ing the balance at lower rate, has re- duced the annual interest from nearly S151 ,O00, 900 to less than $39 ,000 900. All the industries of the country have revived labor is in demand; wages have increas- ed, and throughout tine entire country there is evidence of a coming prosperity greater than we have ever enjoyed. Upon l this record the Republican party asks for l the continued confidence and support of l the people.
 ENUMERATION AND PRINCIPLE.
 First-We affirm that the work of the last twenty-one years has been such as to 1 commend itself to the favor of the nation, and that the fruits of the costly victorie, which We have acheived through inn mense difficulties should be preserved. 1 That the peace regained should be cher | ished. That the discovered Union, now l happily restored, should be perpc:uated, and that the liberties secured to this gen. eration should be transmitted unjiminish. cd to future generations. That the order established and the credit acquired should never be imperiled. That the pensions promised should be paid. That the debt so much reduced should be exiting guished by the full payment of every dollar there of. That the rcvivirg industries should be further promoted, and that the com. merce already so great should be steadily encouraged.
 Second-The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law, and not mere compact. Gu. of the Confederate States
 it made sovereign ration. Some pow
 CTS are denied to the nation, while others
 are retained by the States; but the boun
 dary between the powers delegated anC
 those reserved is to be determined by Ma
 tional and not by State tribunals.
 Third-The work Of popular education
 is one left to tho care of the several States
 but it is the dutv of the National Govern
 ment to aid shat work to the extent of 1t
 constitutional ability. The intelligenc,
 Of the Nation is but the aggregate of tn,
 intelligence in the several States, and tn,
 destiny Of the nation must be guided, no
The Arizona sentinel., 1880-07-03
Going to a Fire.

One of the most exciting sights stranger can witness in the low CT part of New York city is the fire department responding to an alarm of fire in the daytime. A representative of the Fireman's Journal describes a scene familiar to all our citizens, but one that many of our readers have proba- ply never witnessed. We chanccd to be on Broadway day or two since, says the writer, when the street was crowded with vehicles of all kinds, and the sidewalk with regular procession of pe- destrians. Suddenly the gong of an approaching steamer sounded with its sharp, sudden, and contin- uous jingle :; there was rush of teams to clear the center of the street, and a rush of policemen to aid the drivers in getting their vehicles against the curb then came a fireman running for deal life, shouting, "clear the road, " and right behind him came the steamer, the horses on the g2l. Top, and a cloud of smoke issHine from the smoke.stack a moment
 and she was gone. Then came hook and ladder truck, with
 sounding gong, horses on the jump, and the members of the company clingiug to their pecarl- ous perches on top. Next came
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the Salvage Corps, gong sound
 ing, horses running, and men
 urging them as if their lives de-
 pended on their speed. It was an exciting'event, lasting but a
 moment, but quickening the pulse of the laziest On-looker. Thousands of persons had stop
 ped to catch a glimpse of the passing firemen, and for over a mile Broadway was damned with vehicles and pedestrians, all of whom had turned out to make room for the firemen, on whose speed might depend the property and lives of some of our citizens. To a stranger the sight must have been thrilling one, and impress ed him with the efficiency of our fire department. We know that to our soldiers the heavy rumble of the apparatus seemed like the movement of artillery to the front and to presage an impending bat tie. And so it was a battle-a fight between the trained fire men and an enemy as old as the earth or the h eaven, and one that has scourged mankind since time was.-"Scientific American:"
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RAIN UN THE ROOF.
BY COATES KINNEY.

1 When the starry vapors gather over all
 the starry spheres, And the melancholy darkness gently weeps
 in rainy tears, 'Tis joy to press the pillow of cottage chamber bed, And listen to the batter of the soft rain
 overhead. Every tinkle en the shingles has an echo
 in the heart, And thousand dreary fancies into busy beSng start; And thousand recollect'ons weave their
 bright ;hnes into wool, As listen to tlae batter of the soft rain on
 the roof. There in fancy. comes my mother, as she
 usedto years agoue, To'sufvey the infant sleepers ere she left
 them till the dawn. I can see her bending o'er me, as I listen
 to the strain Which is played upon the shingles by the
 batter 0f the rain. Then my little seraph sister, with her
 wings and waving hair, And her bright-eyed cherub brother "a
 serene, angelic pair,- Glide around my wakeful pillow, with
 :heir praise or mild reproof, As listen to tAe murmur of the soft rai2
 on the roof. And another comes to thrill me with her
 eyes delicious blue. forget, as gazing on her, that her heart
 was all untrue I remember that I loved her as I ne'cr
 can love again, And my hearts quick pulses vibrate to
 the batter of the rain. There is naught in arts biavuras that can
 work with such Q spell; In the spirits pure, deep fountains, where , the holy passions swell, As that melody of natere,- tbat subdued,
 subduing strain, Which is played upon the shingles by the
 batter of the raia.
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The Marshals Bflt and the Veto.

This is pretty keen exposition of the weakness of the. hftS anh' the utter inefficiency and worth lessness of the officers whom 1t creates. It shows how in&eni-- ously the Democrats eontriyed. the bilt to retain little of the efsce os speea. Depuly Marshals except the name, aud to make. those officers powerless to. per- form any of ths duties with which they are supposed to, oe entrusted. Bat tine true animuz 0s the bill is shown in the assault Wh ich it makes upon the func- tions o& the National Government. 1t deprives the Unitea States of the power to- exercise over nation. al elections the same supervision and protection which State officers uniformly exercise over. State elections, and this discrimination against the general government is violation of the true princf. pies of the Constitution.
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REESE RIVER DISTRICT, NE vADA.-Austin, the capital or Lander county, and the centre Of the Reese River mining district, is reported to show signs of it's old activity and prosperity. The chief cornpanyin the district, the well-known Manhattan, has al. ready produced some s20,Ooo.0O from a small part of the famous Lander hill. It is now sinking a great working shaft.. known as the Lander shaft, which at last aceeunts was $50 feet deep. The Nevada Central Railroad ought to increase the importance of Austin, for within a radius of 25 miles are situated the districts of Yankee Blade, New York Canon, Amador, Ravenswood, Big Creek Washington, Bunker Hin, King ston and Birch Creek.
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President upon solid South, will
 adops their habitual attitude Of
 incred1lity when confronted with facts of this disgraceful character. They can scacely be expected to feel any great amount of genuine indignation at the adoption of measures by their ex-Confeder- ate allies without which certainty three, and possibly i've, Southern States would return RepubEicaD majorities.
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An Ominous Beginning.
From the S. P. Chronie'e,l

During the last session of Con- gress and the one that immedi- ateIy preceded it, whenever allu- sion was made in the course oi debate to the suppression of free political discussion at the South, terrorism at the polls and inter. ference with Republican meet ings, Hill, Lamar, Gordon and other prominent Southern leaders indignantly denied that any such terrorism or interference existed. They boldly and positively affirm ed that perfect freedom of politi- cal action prevailed in all the Southern States, and that the narratives put in circulation tend. ing to produce a contrary impress sion were the manufacture of a Republican outrage mill. The occurrence at Montgomery, Ala. ., on Saturday last, furnish a re- markable commentary upon the assertions of the Congressional Brigadiers. On the evening of that day, the 18th of June, the Republicans of Montgomery at tempted to hold a Garfield ratifi- cation meeting. This was too much for the patience of the chivalry of the capital of Ala bama. They rallied in force at the place appointed for the meet
 ing, armed with pistols, knives and shotguns. and with an ample supply of more offensive, if less dangerous, arguments against Black RepubIicanism in the shape
 of rotten eggs. According to the
 dispatches, knives and pistols were displayed for purposes of intimidation, and several persons were wounded. The press of
 Montgomery are said to be guard
 edly reticent on the subject, with
 the exception of single paper,
 which contents itself with the quiet remark that the bank build ing, in front of which the meet
 ing was held, was found the next morning to be extensively smear ed With traces of the unsavory iusilade to which the speakers had been subjected. If such out rages as this are perpetrated Tn the capital of the State, before the campaign is fairly opened, what may be expected to occur in out-of-the-way places, where the lawless elements will be under less restraint, at a latter stage of the struggle, when evil passion shall have teen thoroughly arous.
 ed by the excitement of the con-
 flict? Of course the Northern
 Bourbons, who base their main
 hope of electing Democratic
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The Classic Drunkard EeEee
 Fate.

The bar keeper was about ft close up. He had said SD several times, and had put out all the lights but one. The old fixtures had shook the sawdust from Il. cir feet and reluctantly directed their footsteps homsward. Only a stranger remained, a dark, sad uened man, who sat on stool and kept his thumbs revolving around each other, like white mice turning a wheel.
 When the coast was clear he stepped up to the bar and said softly: "May I whisper a word in your ear?"
 You may, mister, if you will be quick about it." said the drink mixer, with his hand on the lamp screw.
 "I want you to fill me flask of your best whiskey for family sick ness," said the stranger, drawing out an ancient wallet with twenty fathoms of leather string wound around fla well worn wallet, that looked as if all the waves and pillows of bad luck had beat upon it, and gone over it, and through it, and f1attened it. and washed it out clean.
 The bar man filled him up a pint, shoyeu the cork down until it squeaked, wiped the bottle dry and set it on the counter.
 "The autumnal air is getting a trifle tartish," soliloquized the stranger. "WouId you have any objection to my taking a little liver padder from my bottle?"
 He filled the tumbler quite full, took it as he did paragoric in the days of his infancy, and then re- marked:
 "Perhaps, on the whole, as the night has far waned, and my family are on their spiral springs end ia the trundles, you had bet ter put my bottle away on the upper shelf, and when Phebus Apolo begins to canser his golden prancers along the avenues of the purpling east, l will call fer it, and you may then assess the ap' propriate amount of ducats."
 The bar.keeper sprang over the bar and began to kick him.
 "What :" he said sweet!y, you kick ne after I have drank? Don't you know better than that Kick me with both feet-I cannot feel you even then. Before l took that glass, if you had but shook your fist at me you would have wounded 'me-hurt me; but now I scorn your physical pun ishment. Good night" he said as he stood on the door step. "I see by the shadow on the side walk that you have kicked me again. You should remember, my irrascible publican, what the dear old poet said: 'Fate cannot harm me now, I have dined to- day. So say I. have drunk to- night. Good night, taverner! How much the sparkling tirma- ment looks like a far off city, llt up for festal night. Farewell I will see you later H'-Providence Journal.
 A Cincinnati p,ula has commit. 1
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A Cincinnati Inule has commit ted suicide, and the Boston Post says that even a mule gets tired of living ill Cincinnati.
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The biggest sponge ever seen Tn New York, has just arrived lt IS eight feet in diameter.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-03-25
LIVE LONG AND Be HAPPY,

Why shoHld not everyone live out their full al
lottod time, enjoy good health and be happyi
Surely there is no good reason, and yet many will
allow impure blood, weakness Of the kidneys,
imperfect digestion, and urinary troubles TO IN.
dermine and break down their general health,
and carry them TO premature grave. Some seek
relief among mineral poisOns, in pill form, etc.
others resort to extensively advertised alcoholic
beverages and fermented liquors, only to feel
themselves for time somewhat better, but after
awhile much worse. Now, why should this be
sol II Is well known by the intelligent portion
OF our community that DR.. Guysotps Yellow Dock
and sarsaparillG will surely remove all these dis.
orders. This medicine IL the wonderful dlseov-
cry OF an eminent French physician, and has
proven itself In thousands Of instances to be the
best vegetable blood purifier known to medical
men. II never fails to effectually cure scroiula,
syphilitlc disorders weakness Of khe kidneys, ell
nervous disorder and debility, aud ell urinary
and digestive troubles 1t makes the old feel full
Of youthful vlgor, and tha young energetic and
gay, restoring peiect manhood and womanhood,
especially when the disease has tendency to
weaken the mind, body and nervous system. Do
not despair. A single bottle will convince you OF
Its great merit as health renewer, for 1t begins
at once to give new life and vigor to both body
and mind, never failing to remove all symptoms
Of any and every disease that can be cured by
cleansing, renovatlng, purifying and strengthen
ing the human system, driving out, as II by mag
ic, the many ills that flesh is heir to- and building
up new health new vigor and new life. Large
quart bottle, s1OO. DURBIN & WRIGHT,
II W! Ilesale and retail agts, for Stark Co.
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WHAT'S IN A NAME.

When Lord Dundreary gave his ser.
want half a crown to buy three "ten-pen-
ny nails" he displayed no more than
pardonable simplicity in accepting the
literal Interpretation of the name given
to the particular article he desired to
purchase, and probably few of those who
have laughed at the famous joke could
correctly fix the origin of the term ten
penny" as applied to nails. 1t means re.
ally, that the nails weigh ten pounds to
the thousand, the original expression
being ten pound nails;" this in time got
contracted to "ten-pun nails" and this
in turn corrupted to ten penny nails"
"sixpenny" and "fourpenny" are nails,
weighing six or four pounds to the thou
sand. There are many other similar
terms, familiar as household words"
which are in daily use, and convex an
erroneous idea if accepted literally A
scientific contemporary takes the trouble
to give list of many household articles
whose names, when analysed, go far to
Justify the skeptiCsl inquiry of the am.
orous Juliet. Salad oil, for instance, is
| HOb ull lOI LnahlnB oalhupj Dub Oll AOA
cleaning sallades, i, e., helmets; while an
equally familiar instance of incongruous
ideas is presented in the use Of the term
German silver" this metal being nei-
ther silver nor an alloy of silver, and not
having even been invented by Ger
man. Ladies who button up the dozen
or more buttons Of their gloves, probs'
bly, seldom pause to think that their
"kids" are more likely made Of the skins
of lambs, or even of rats, than Of young
goat skins. And still less likely is the
young housewife, or even the house.
maid, to reflect that the common black
lead is as innocent of lead as it is ofgold;
or the knowing city clerk to consider
that his black lead pencil contains nat
ural composition of carbon and iron. In
stances Of the misnaming of things could
be multiplied from among objects in dai-
ly use, whose names are accepted and
passed from mouth to mouth, with hard
| ly moments thought of their incon.
gruity or origin. Dictionary of Slang.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-03-25
THE HUMAN EAR.

Imagine two harps In roomy with the same
number Of strings, and each string perfectly at
tuned to corresponding string in the other.
Touch string In one and the corresponding
string in the other will give out the same sound.
Try another string and its corresponding tone will
be sounded, So with all the strings II would
not matter how you played the one harp, the 9th.
would respond, as regards pitch aud quality
would be almost perfect. Now substitute for one
harp human ear, and the conditions would. &C.
cording to theory. be the same exceptthat the re-
sponsive mechanism Of the ear is much smaller
than that Of the responsive harp. In the ear there
are minute cords, rods, or something in such Q
state Of tension as to be tuned to tones Of Variou
pitch, sound and tone, its corresponding rod oI
cord In the ear will respond, perhaps ieebly, but
still with energy sufficient to excite the nerve
filament connected with 1t the result is nerv'
GUS current Of the brain, and sensation Of a tone
Of particular Pitch Good Words
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GENTS.

Mr.. Richard Grant White wittily remarks that
gents" and pants" belong together, for the for
mer always wear the latter. If"gent" is TO be
tolerated by careful writers, then let us accept
pants" for trousers, "transpire," for happen"
or occur" and in brief, sdopt all the vAriegated
and wonderful vocabulary Of the average news.
paper.
The word gen" however, does desrlbe class
When you see greasy young fellow who seems
a cross between rustic and negro minstrel of
duty-s person with cap set far back on his close.
cropped head, tight trousers that grow suddenly
full at the ankle, and shoes with turned up,
pointed tips-where does ne get those shoesl--
when you see this vulgar little object you see a
gent" You will encounter him on street cor,
neis in shabby neighborhoods, gazing admiringly
at the lithograph of some famous clog dancer or
cheap blonde In drinking shop window you
will meet him there but heaven preserve you
from ever meeting him In decent literature. at
ld1ltic M0nthly
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WHAT MRS. GRUMPY SAYS.

That this is the kind Of weather in which to
take cold.
That people should not put all they've got in
the psrlor windows.
That street fashions are entirely too loud to be
altogether genteel
That modistes predict that the Spring fashions
and styles will be the handsomest that have ever
been Been.
That thieving servant girls are unpleaSantly
numerous just now. u
traced directly to the clubs.
That Delmonleo's Is engaged for four large pri'
vate balls to be given during Easter week.
That 1t ia now regarded as excessively common
to order ones bridal trousseau In Europe.
That fashionsbles manifest more interest in re-
ligIous matters this Lent than ever before.
That jewelrY shops are overrun with young mel
making selections Of diamond engagement rings
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THE TWO MYSTERIES.
MARY MApEs DODGE.

hAbr hAPHS DODGE.
We know not what It Is dear, this sleep so deep and
still;
The folded hands, the awful calm the cheek SO pale
and chill
The lids that will not lift again, though we may call
and call;
The strange white solitude Of peace that settles over
all.
We know not what 1t means dear, this desolate
heart-pain,
The dread to take our daily way and walk in 1t
again.
We know not to what sphere the loved who leave
usgo,
Nor why we're left to wonder still, nor-why we do
not know;
But this we know Our loved and lost, fthey should
come this day.
Should come and ask us, "What Is life ?" not one Of
us could say.
Life mystery, as deep as ever death can be;
Yet oh, how sweetlt is to us-this life we live and
seel
Then might they say-these vanished snes-and
blessed Is the thought,
$50 death is sweet to us, beloved, though we may
tell you naught;
We may not tell 1t to the quick, this mystery of
death
Ye may not tell US, If ye.. would, theymystery of
BREATH"
The child who enters life comes not with knowledge
or intent;
So those who enter death must go as little children
sent.
Nothing Is known, But believe that God is over
head.
And as life is to the living 30 death is to the dead.
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poor woman much given to gossip, but anx.
ious to soar to higher things Is explaining to Miss
Hopkins her means for Kidding her house OF the
neighborhoOd. In answer to remark OF Miss
Hopkins, that The Bible bids as 10 be courteous,
and that o turn folks out Of our house, however,
much in the way they may be, Is apt to look
rude" she replies: 1.-The first thing did was to
get the brush and dust PAN and lay them handy
against any neighbor coined In, Soon in pops
Mrs Smith. MIS- Smith, says l, you won mind
my doing a bit of dustin, will you, while you're
talkin'T 0fCOurse she couldn't but be agreeable
TO that. so down on my knees 1 goes, and be-
gins to dust with all my might But somehow,
1t was a very curious thing, and the dust allus
would gather just under the chair my ne.ghbor
was a.slttin on. She'd shift and Shift but I'd
allus be arter her with my old dust.pani and the
dust 'ud get up her nose, and she'd begin to
sneeze ever so-ketcher ketcherl--and soon she'd
say, Well, think-ketcherI-Tl call another
day, Mrs, Simpson, as see you are ketcher /
busy, and so, In less than week had busted all
my neighbors out OF my house."
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taken. The doctor replied, one.third down,
the rest In six and twelve months with interest"
An insurance agent seeing would.be insurer
had, In filling up the proposal form, answered the
questions, Age of father, II livingP" "Age Of
mother II livingS" by making the one 1l2 and
the other lO2 years old, congratulated him OH
coming OF such long.lived family. "Oh," said
the applicant my parents led many years ago,
but II living, would be aged as there put down."