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Mohave County miner., 1882-12-10
MINING ITEMS.

The McCracken mill and mine have changed hands and the property desded and mortgage assigned to new. company. Nothing definite is known as to who com pose the new company but it is rumored that Haggin and Tevis and Geo. Hearst are interested partieg. It will be a good day for MOhave county when these gentlemen own some of it's mines.
 Don't forget that we have 8 quantity of location notices on hand at this office, which We will furnish at reasonable rate.
 Belden and Conkey are taking out some splendid ore from theiE claim on the sum- nit of the range back oflChloride.
 The Blackberry mill and mining company offer to mill all classes of ore for thirty dollars per ton and give so per cent of the assay value.
 The Southwestern mining company of Fl Dorado Canon are now milling free ore at thirty dollars per ton and oreg that re quire to be roasted for forty dollars per ton and are paying from 75 to 85 per cent of the assay value.
 petition has been circulated and signed by all the county officers asking the ap. pointment of Otto F. keuncer as U. s. Deputy Surveyor for this county.
 The Gray Brothers have returned from the Ivanpah district where they have been doing assessment work on some copper claims which they own. They report one mill running at Ivanpah and about thirty men at work chloriding in and about the camp. We learn from them also that the country all around there is fast filling up with prospectors,
 Johnson nd Sample are working on the c. O. D. mine and are taking out some good locking ore.
 The editor of this paper has visited and taken notes of number of mines during the past geek and takes this opportunity of
Mohave County miner., 1882-12-10
CHRISTMAS TREE.

The suggestion in last weeks Alta that some steps should be taken towards getting up Christmas Tree entertainment for the little one is decidedly good and we will do anything in our power to help it along Christmas comes only once year and is the holiday of holidays devoted especially to the little folks, who one and all look for ward to it as a season of happiness and pleasure. Let us not disappcint them in this but devote a little of our time and money to this laudable purpose and not de- lay everything to the very last minute, as was done last year. We suggest that MT. Hamilton call a meeting of those interested at ali early day and have tie necessary ar arrangements made
Mohave County miner., 1882-12-10

mentioning that descriptions of all claims that he visits will appear in this paper very shortly after his visits to them, and that parties must not feel offended if the de- scriptions are kept back two or three weeks, as it is not always convenient to insert them at once.
 Dave Southwick is striking it richer and richer on his gold ledge, the Star Spangled Banner, on Stockton Hill.
 L. c. Welbourn is working on the Morn ing Sun and has a pile of about twenty tons of chloride ore on the dump, which ought to assay away up in the hundreds.
Mohave County miner., 1882-12-10
LIES OF THE DAY.

It is not true that Otto got away with all the Signal whisky.
 It is not true that Bucksbaum got those fine Havanas at Signal.
 It is not true that Otto fell over head and heels in love on the Sandy.
 It is not true that Southwick was mis- taken about the vote for Councilman in Yuma.
 It is not true that Fisher carried home Sl0G of specimens from Cole & Gallery mine.
 There will be d turkey shoot Christmas. Be on hand with your long toms and take them in.
Mohave County miner., 1882-12-10
Bl lliard and Pool Table

Would say to my friends of Mohave Co. that am ready at a Il timesfto SUD-
 ply their wishes.
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THE PRINTERS DOLLARS.
what Are They +!

A dollar here and dollar there
scattered all over the country, miles
and miles apart; how shall they be
gathered together? 90,
The paper man, the landlord
the grocer, the. merchant, and
all assistants to him in CARRYING
on his business, have their demands
hardly ever so small as single dol.
lar.
The mites from here and there
must be diligently gathered and pa.
tiently boarded or the wherewith to
discharge the liabilities will never
become sufficiently bulky. ~
We imagine the printer will have
to get up an address to his widely
scattered dollars something like the
following: p "f .f-
"Dollars, halves, quarters, dimes
aud all manner of fractions into
which you are divided, collect your.
selves, and come home. You are
wanted. Combinations of all sorts
of men that help to make the print
er proprietor gather in such force
and demand with such good reason;
your appearance at this Office, thai
nothing short of you will please
them. Collect yourselves-for yaIu.
able as you are, you will not pay
the cost of collecting. Come here
in single file, that we may form you
in battalion and send you forth to
battle for us and vindicate our fee
BILE credit" Ifl
Readers, are you sure You haven't
dollar or two of the printers dol
lars sticking about your clothes !
If you have, order them home i'm
MISUNDERSTANDING. f
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STILL VERY GLOOMY
Is the Situation in the Valley.
Black aud Tensas Rivers Again Ris-
ing Rapidly.
Every Effort Being Made to Relieve
the Distress.

SITUATION IN BLACK AND TENSAs.
New ORLEANS, March 24.-Black
and Tensas rivers and Bayou Macon
are rising rapidly, and fears are en-
tcrtained that the stock scaffolded
along those streams will be
drownded. The loss of stock now
is estimated at fifty thousand dol
lars, and the loss of fences
at one hundred thousand dol
lars. About tifty-eight thousand
people live along these streams
and cultivate hundred thousand
acres of land. s
The overflow in Concordia parish
extends from the Black to the Mis-
sissippi river a distance of thirty
five miles in Tensas parish from
Tensas river and Bayou Macon to
Mississippi river distance of
thirty miles, in Franklin par
ish from Tensas west to
Ouachita river, a distance of ten
miles; in Madison Parish, from
Bayou Macon TO the Mississippi
river, a distance of thirty-tive miles ;
in East Carroll, from Bayou Macon
to the Mississippi river, ten miles;
i'll the upper portion of Franklin
parish, west of the hills of the len
sas, which skirts Bayou Macon,
the flood extends to the Ouachita
river, distance of fifteen miles.
The Tensas river since Saturday has
risen five feet, and is still rising at
the rate of eleven inches in twenty
four hours. The water along the
Tensas and Bayou Snawr is three
feet higher than in 1874, and the un-
precedented flow is accounted for
by breaks in the levees at Millikin
Bend and Goodrich Landing.
Rations which have been SEM
up in this section are suffi-
cient to supply the wants of the des-
titute people Tor quite awhile. unless
the flood becomes more disastrous
The people are all in good health
and say that If the water subsidies by
the middle. of May, they will make
full crops, and they Will make half a
crop if it goes in the early part OF
| june .. E-. .,.-.
THE CONTRIBUTIONS.
NEW ORLEANS, March 24.-So
far the relief committee report
$12, 1000 in cash contributions besides
lumber and other supplies. They
propose at present to raise $4,000
most of which will be invested in
forage for stock if the issue of gov.
| eminent rations is continued. The
commissioners have asked the secre-
tary of war for 100000 more ra:ions,
to help them,to be delivered here by
the twenty-fiith and the balance by
the first proximO.
The crevasse at Mound plantation
Oh Crosse rete bayou, is reported to
be doing great damage to the sugar
plantations in that section. The
overflow of the bayou is caused by
wafer from the Point Coupee Gre
vase.
A dispatch from the president Of
the police jury of West Baton Rouge
parish, concerning the overflow
says: The river shows one-half incl
decline since last night. We are
becoming well fortified all along the
lines, and hope to hold out against
all that may come. Constant watch
ing is necessary to prevent accident
A letter received to-day reports
the washing away of several houses
by crevasse below Waterproof, OIL
the 21st. DO. 80.
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TEXAS SECTION HOUSE,
As Described by a Correspondent.
who Makes a Living by
Writing for the

The STATEMAN is in receipt of letter,
accompanied with an original story. We
extract from the letter, but give the sto-
ry, Oerbatinn, ct punctuatunu, ct hterdtuna.
81 write you, few Lines asking You,
to Receive, My, Description of A Sec
House, far the benefit of Your, paper.
Blease, Except, with My Many, thanks,
l would like to tell You, that do, Like
TO write for The, Paper, Twice a week.
You Must Not Judge, from, what have,
Written. That, can not, Write Good
Stories, which Ill. Prove to You, if
you, are willing. to Pay Me Some thing.
this is the way am To make My Livin
Please anser just as soon as possible.
fore the Statesman.
BEAUTY OF TEXAs-THE LIFE AND CLINE
OF A SECTION HOUSE.
1t was OF the 0 of Jan 1882 that en-
tered the sec House, to offer my service
to the Madam, of the house. 1t was My
first visit to a place lik This, the GENES
out Side were beautiful and enturtsting,
though there were Holes in the Houese,
that, you or eney other good Large ec
could y rail- through, there were Rats a:
Large as 2 year Old dog, 81 of corse
Plenty of cock Roches, as Texas can wei
afford them To My Horrow when
would turn a a Round, my foot would
slip through hole in the floor, not be
cause my foot was small, for 1t is fal
from that, Though SIMPLIFY because the
holes were so Large When it Rains WI
all get texas shower, both for theTt
isn't eny Top Scarceley left, sence. those
Last, high winds, this is the beautefu
Texas, wee hear So much bout, before
wee come hear, where Milk s. Honey
flows, & when emmy of us. get. Sick, ii
is Root, hog or die No Honey, no morn
cry aud no friends, Just make, one visi
to sec House, s. Drink, your coffee on
of Rusty lineup, and stir it With your
fingers. If you can get eny Sugar, Il
put in it. Just take peep, no Roof oil
the House cows dogs s. Horce, at TIL
door chewing Bones, Sadie Harness,
Cotton seed on the front Gallery Thi
is Your Texas, stile my paper will no
allow me to say more"
1t may be gratifying to the readers o
the STATESMAN to know the author o
the above brilliant effusion has been en-
gagged at very high salary, not to writ
any more.
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TRICKS OF THE TRADE.
How Immigration Agents Delude
Innocent People Into Leav-
ing Their Homes.


There are tricks in all trades, and the
tricks resorted to by immigration agents
are no exception to the rule. Below will
be found copy of a letter in the posses
sion of an old gentleman from England,
now in this city. 1t was given to him,
doubtless, and held out as an induce
ment, for him to immigrate to this coun-
try. Following is the letter:
4344 LANGHAM CHANGERS,
Merchant St., London, England.
18th May, 1876.
To His Excellency, the Governor of Texas:
SIR-The bearer, Mr., is an immi-
grant by the steamer st. Louis, and wishes
the grant OF land due to him.
l have the honor to be, Sir, o.
Your Obedient Servant.
+. IL. RELPH, +. n.
The party holding the above arrived in
Texas in 1876, and located at Dallas. He
came to Austin some time last spring, and
has lived here ever since. 1t is not known
to the STATESMAN whether the old man
paid his passage from England or not,
but il is pr sumed that he did, and that
the letter to the governor was first given
him as blind, by thieying agent, who
got a commission from the railroad and
steamship company which trans 5orted
the emigrant. 1t is despicable sort OF
way of drumming up immigrants, but
we are powerless, at this standpoint, to
prevent such proceedings. We can only
protest against it.
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EDUCATIONAL.
Complete state school Directory.

Hon. o. n. HoIlingsworth, secretary
of the state board of education, has pre-
pared the following valuable information
for the public:
STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION.
o. NJ. Roberts, governor, ex-oficio
president.
VIM NJ. Brown, comptroller, ex-off1cio
member.
T. H. Bowman, secretary of state, ex-
officie member.
o. N. Hollingsworth, secretary.
UNIVERSITY REGENTS.
Col. Ashbel Smith, president, Cedar
Bayou, Harris county; DIR. T. d.
Wooten, Austin; Smith Ragsdale,
Weatherford J. L. Camp, Gilmer L.
Norvel, Jasper w. II. Crawford, Dial
las.
AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COL
LEGE.
Postoffice-College Station, BRACES
county.
Directors ]. d. Thomas, president,
Bryan George Pfeuffer, New Braunfels;
G. G. Wiggin, Houston L. M. Scott,
Melissa Jas. G. Garrison, Henderson.
Faculty-Col. John G.. James, presi-
dent III . II. Dinwiddie, J. r. Cole, L..
L. McInnis, G. Gartner, +. VanWinkle,
G. Georgeson.
PRAIRIE VIEW NORMAL SCHOOL.
Postoffice-Hempstead, Waller county.
Directors of the A. and NJ. college
supervise and control this school.
FaGulty-E. H. Anderson, Principal
| S. B. Scott, Miss NJ. b. Ewing.
SAM HNUsToN NORMAL INSTITUTE.
Huntsville, Walker county.
This institute is under the control of
the state board of education aud local
board
Local board-Colonel L. A. Aber.
crombie, president DR.. Il. NJ. Mark
ham, G.. w. Grant.
Faculty.. B. Baldwin, president e.
P. Estill, 1. r. Dean, H. Carr Pritchett,
Miss L. w. Elliott, Mrs. A. A. Rey
nolds, Miss o. A. Baldwin.
COUNTY SCHOOLS.
County Judge, ex-officio county super
intendent.
Postoffice-county seat.
CORPORATION SCHOOLS.
Galves:on-H. B. Gwyn, superinten
dent.
Houston-W. H. Foute, superinten
dent.
San Antonio-W C. Rote, superin
tendent.
Austin-J. B. Winn, superintendent.
Brenham-John Hand, superintendent.
Bryan-V. p. Pennypacker, superin
| tendent.
Navasota-J. w. Clark, superinten
dent.
Palestine-W. II. Colman, superinten
dent.
PEABODY FUND.
General and Financial Agent-Dr. J.
L. NJ. Curry, Richmond, Va.
State Agent-O. N. Hollingsworth,
Austin, Texas.
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of February, 1882, and payable on
the first of February, 1922, with IN
terest at the rate of six per cent.
payable semi-annually.
CoMPTRoLLER's OFFICE.
Oflands sold in Hardin county in
the year 1873, for taxes, 1929 acres
have been redeemed, the Tax on same
amounting to $S5 Sc.
On the list of occupation taxes
paid into the comptroller's Office for
the year ending September so, 1881,
the following Counties take the lead
Bexar, S22,279; Galveston, 49,
1884 04; Travis, $l3.243 80; Graysou,
$11,4I9 05; MeLennau, $1O,S5S !;
Tarrant, 1856; Robertson, So
ia IL; Bell, $6,2S5 80; Collin,
$5,67S IS, Lamar. SIS, 3S9 20, Fay
cite, $685.; Harris, $4,612 IS /;
ThrockmOrtOn county foots the list
with $53 10.
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.
Hon. o. N. Hollingsworth, secre-
tary of the state board of education,
and state agent of the Peabody
fund, informs the STATESMAN that
he has received from Hon. j. l.. NJ.
Curry, general agent, since January
4, the following sums, for distribu-
ton among the public free schools
of Texas, and that the same have
been RENTED to the points named :
Schools at Galveston, last sent,
$1,000 total $500. Schools at Aus
tin, last sent, $1,000; total, $500.
Schools at Houston, last sent, $1,000.
Schools at Navasota, last sent, $500.
Schools at Sherman, last sent, $500.
Schools at Bryan, last sent, 5000 ;
total, $500. Schools at Palestine,
last sent, $l75: total, $500. Schools
at Comanche, last sent, $500.
The above distribution closes
the appropriation from the Peabody
fund for Texas for the current year.
In addition to the foregoing, there
have been RENTED to the Sam Hous
ton Normal Institute, at Huntsville,
the following sums:
January 2, 1882, $500. February
4, 1882, $500. Donation to the Sam
Houston Normal Institute, 1925.
Donation for Texas scholarships in
the Peabody Normal College, NASH
vile, Tenn, $4,000.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Adjutant General King an d Cap
tain Caldwell left yesterday for San
Diego, to be absent several weeks.
Hon. T. III. Bowman, secretary of
state, is still suffering from the eff
fects of fall caused by his crutchcs
slipping from under aim. His III
iuries, though painful, have not pre-
vented him from attending to his
officicial duties.
Colonel Spaight, commissioner of
insurance statistics and history, Is
busy preparing his report for the
legislature. twill abound with many
interesting but carefully prepared
facts connected with his office.
Mr.. Abner Taylor, of the capitol
syndicate, is expected to reach Aus
tin by the first of next month.
Major Holmes, acting attorney
general, expressed the opinion yes
terday, in answer to the question,
"Can a county be sued outside of its
own boundaries ?" that it can, and
cited instances where it had been
done.
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GEMS OF THOUGHT.

Aspiring beggary is wretchedness 1t
self.
Venerate an honest obliquity of under
standing.
The beggar is the only free man in the
universe.
DIsproportioned friendships ever ter
inmate in disgust.
Let us draw upon content for the def.
ciences of fortune.
Good counsel rejected returns to enrich
the giver's bosom.
Marriage, is by its best title, monop.
oily, and of the most invidious sort.
Riches in general are in every country
another name for freedom.
That virtue which requires to be ever
guarded is scarcely worth the sentinel.
Cheerfulness was never yet produced
by effort which is itself is painful.
Epistolary matter usually compromised
three topics: News. sentiment and puns'
The first fault Is the child of simplicity
but every other the offspring of it.
Man little knows what calamities are
beyond his patience to bear till he tries
them.
Man is not a creation of pure reason, he
must have his senses delightfully."- appeal
ed to.
In this life, It appears that we cannot be
entirely blest, but yet we may be com
pletly miserable.
The human species is composed of two
distinct races, the men who borrow and
the men who lend.
No man is so fond of liberty himself as
not TO be DESTROYS of subjectlng the will
of some individuals in society to his
own.
That single effort by which we stop
short in the down hill path to perdition
Is itself q greater eXertion of virtue than
u hundred acts of justice.
The honest man, who marries and
brings up large family, does more SER
vice than he who continues single and
only talks of population.
After men have travelled through few
stages In vice, shame forsakes them, and
returns back to wait upon the few vir-
tues they have still remaining.
Nothing is more dIstasteful than that
which beam in the countenance of a
newly married couple-in that of the lady
particularly.
What woman should demand of a
man in cOurtship, or alter it, is first-res-
pect for her, as she Is a woman; and next
to that-to be respected by him above all
other women.
The possessor of accumulated wealth
when furnished with the hecessaries and
pleasures Of life, has no other method to
employ the superfiuity OF his fortune, but
in purchasing power.
Ceremony is an invention to take of
the uneasy feeling which we derive from
knowing ourselves to be less the object
OF love and esteem with fellow creature
than some other person is.
A child's nature is too serious a thing
to admit OF its being regarded as a mere
appendage to another being, and to be
hated or loved accordingly, they STAND
with me upon their own stock as men or
women do.
The consultations of philosophy are
very amusing, but often fallacious. 1t
tells us that life Is filed with comforts III
we Will but enjoy them, and on the other
hand, that though we unavOidably have
miseries here, hfe Is short and they will
soon be over.
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Catho1ic Churcha News.

Mr.. Horace w. Greeley, an accom-
plished journalist, is editing and pub
lishinga paper at San Antonio, called
the Catholic Star. '--
A rumor comes from Rome that the
present diocese at San Antonio will be
divided and Very Rev. Canon Johnston
is spoken of as the future bishop of the
new diocese of Eagle Pass.
A circular has been sent to all the
Catholic clergy of the state requesting
them to meet in Galveston before the
Both of April to take preliminary steps
for the organization of a grand process
sion in honor of the new bishop, Rt Rev.
N. A. Gallagher. 1t is not as yet known
who will otflciate at the conservation,
but Bishop Neraz, of San Antonio, is
spoken of as the one who will perform
the ceremony. Rev. Father Spillard,
of this city, will attend. %
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Gnats killing stock.

The STATESMAN has been shown pri-
vate letter to MIR. w. N. Ramey, written
by Hon. James W. Truit, representative
from Shelby county, from which we have
been permitted to make an extract Mr..
Truit has been rafting down the Sabine
river, and writing from Logansport, La,
says Every one l meet is complain
ing of hard times, present and to come.
| think the complaints are based on solid
grounds. The long wet season has
brought its multiplied millions of buffalo
gnats into this section, killing many
horses and mules, and are SO troublesome
to pillow stock as to almost stop the plows
In the river bottoms they are as thick as
l ever saw bees when swarming, the
bushes and low limbs of trees being lit
orally covered with them l never saw
anything like it in life."
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WHAT TO TRY.
Recommendations from n Jour
nal of Health.

Try popcorn for nausea.
Try cranberry for malaria.
Try a sun-bath for rheumatism.
Try ginger ale for stomach cramps.
Try clam broth for weak sromach
Try cranberry poultice for erysipelas,
Try garghng lager beer for cure of
sore throat. 4,s- ~ ...
Try wet towel to the back of the
neck when sleepless. .''E'
Try swallowing saliva when troubled
with sour stomach. ''' ..
Try eating fresh radishes and yellow
turnips for gravel. - -r
Try eating onions and hOrseradish tc
relieve dropsical swellings. 81
Try buttermilk for removalOf freckies
tan and butternut stains. ~
Try a hot flannel over the seat of neu
ralgic pain, and renew frequently.
Try taking your cod liver oil in tomato
catsup, if you want 10 make it palatable
Try hard cider-a wineglassful three
times day-for ague and rheumatism
Try taking.a nap in the afternoon i
you are going TO be out late IN the even
| ing.
Try breathing the fumes of turpentinC
or carbOlic acid to remove whooping
cough.
Try a cloth wrung out from cold wa
ter put about the neck at night for sor,
throat l.. .Hl"a. -tl'N
Try snuffing powdered borax NJ
the nOstrils for catarrhal "cold in tn
head ,fr t
Try an extra pair of stockings outside
of your shoes when travelling in COLI
weather.
Try walking with your hands behind
you if you find yourself becoming ben
| forward. MA.
Try saturated solution of bi-carbon
ate of soda (baking soda) in diarrhG;
troubles; give freely,
Try newspaper over the chest, il
you don't owe for it, beneath your vest
as chest protector in extreme colo
weather ......