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Mohave County miner., 1883-10-21
TerritoriaI Clippings.
Yuma Sentinel.

Yuma Sentinel
 Papago Indians are bringing in great deal ofgold.
 The three new prison guards will be ap pointed from other towns in the territory outside of Yuma.
 All United States conviots from Arizona sentenced 10 one year and under go to Yu una; all two years and less go to Laramie all over two years go to Detroit.
 The appraisers of the Blythe estate ar rived here this week, and immediately left for Lerdo. After completing thelr work al the colony they will go to the Blythe place opposite Ehrenberg. Phenix Herald
 Mayor Porter on Saturday last had all addition to his family Of q ro4sing ten pound daughter,
 Major w. B. Hooper has arrived in TQc son from Guaymas. He has fully recovered from his attack of yellow fever. We are informed that the last smallpox cases Eill be discharged from the pest house at Mesa City today and tomorrow.
 Attorney General Clark Churchill arrlYet from Prescott this morning and will be il attendance at court during portion of the term.
 carp was taken from Dr. Jones', pond yesterday. nineteen inches long, He wal put in last February as small fry, just re ceived from the Fish Commissioners.
 The population of Pheuix is increasing with astonishing rapidIty. No wonder buildings are going up all over town ant the demand fer rooms and residences Ii rapidly increasing. Six babies in two weeks
 MT. T. Simms of Albuquerque, arrived yesterday, He is here for the purpose O securing a contract on the Arizona canal He has been contractor on the A. < P road and alao on the LOrdsburg and Clifton
 Prescott Miner. | From rumors several divorce suits are Ql the tapis. and rich, rare and racy revela tions will be in ordar during the next tern of Court,
 From private sources we learn that Nil Wm. Wilkerson will arrive here abO4t tk 18th instant. His eyesight is reported tr have been greatly benefited by the med ical treatment be has received while in Sal Francisco,
 At present there are the following stand ing rewards for the apprehension and con viction of mail robbers: By Wells, Fargo Co.,, $500: by Yavapai county, $2OO; by tn | United States, $200. aggregating ill al S7O0.
 Uncle Ike Bradshaw, JeE QaVis and Bi Randall, of Copper Basin, lately tooF weeks hunt at the head of Slate Greek, bt eides several deer and lots of smaller game they killed two large bear. and now Cope Basin has fresh bear meat
 Frank F. Carnduff, who arrived in Rrei oott yesterday, favored the Miner with
Mohave County miner., 1883-10-21

Powers James Payne Jas M P9tro O Park l. w P, rec N [ Ritter Geo Ross Wm Rasby WIS Relh.'n r SImms c B SwiSher E R Sawyer Isaac Short Isaac Smith Dan Strong Salah A Tomlin Mrs Iarb X Geo Futile W Tonge k H Warren Sayle Welch c Fl Wilson Wester Gust Wilson W E Wee1 EO Van Horn " c Varuey James Van Coy James Walker Ed Ware Joseph Walsh Patrick
 M ABERNETHY, P. M.
Mohave County miner., 1883-10-21
Railroad Items.

The time from Ash Fork to San Francis % by the new schedule adopted to go into effect October 21st, will be thirty-three hours.
 A train of no cars was pulled out of Port Costa the other day by locomotive Forty eight"
 The surveyors were busy at the depot yesterday getting things ready to run @ a;dInc in from the north side of the depot
Mohave County miner., 1883-10-21

In chronic dyspepsia and liver complaint, and in chronic constipation and other ob. stinate diseases, HoStetter's Stomach Bit. ters IS beyond all comparison the best rem- edy that can be taken. As a means of re. storing the strength and vital energy of persons who are sinking under the debilita- ting effect of painful disorders. this stand ard vegetable invigorant is confessedly un- equalled.
 For sale by all Druggists and Dealers generally. 1marS3v1
Mohave County miner., 1883-10-21
MOHAVE COUNTY MINER.

Special notices in the reading columns of the MINER will be charged at the rate of Ten Cents per line for each insertion.
 J. Weyl. Notary Public, room 3. Bank of Arizona Building, Prescott, Is the author ized agent of the MoHAyE COUNTY MINER in Yavapai county.
Mohave County miner., 1883-10-21
MINERAL PARK, OCTOBER 21, 1883.
ARRIVAL & DEPARTURE OF MAIL.

Mineral Park to Kingman and all points attand west, daily, except Sundays. Arrives Il a. m., leaves ? p. m.
 Mineral Park to St. Thomas-ArrlVeS Monday and Thursday at 6 p m., leaves Sunday and Wednesday at p. m.
 Mineral Park to Signal-Arrives Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at Il a. m., leaves Monday, Wedn esday and Friday at . p. me
 VIM. KR1DER. P. NJ.
Mohave County miner., 1883-10-21
Blackberry Letter List.

The following is a list of letters remlin- ng in the postofice at Hioko9rry for the month ending September 30, 1883:
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-08-23

gilded sham. You don't pick me up
| for a Prince in disguise,or art or nsor'
atty going incog. l do not fly the
skull or crossbones hid behind a holi.
day flag till l have grappled and
boarded you. I've got regular old
Deaths head nailed to the mast, and
| | am a pirate from keel to center
board, and if you don't want that
sort of company blow me out of the
water"
He had the whole force on deck at
this point.
i've got no off-hand preamble to
my bloody work. l do not lead you
through the fowery paths of ease to
where I've got the trap sprung. l do
not beguile with anecdote, inspire
with eloquence, soothe with persua-
sion or pique with local gossip. was
not directed to you as leader of
culture or person who'd be likely to
buy. won't show you list of high
toned decoys who have put their
names down to get rid of me and to
draw you in, 1 don't show the work
I'm selling, and I have never been
able to learn the idiots soliloquy
that explains the pictures"
Here he paused while the manager
called for the cash-boy.
That's about the size of me and
my business. The book is right here
fifty parts, fifty cents part, plenty
of pictures and big type for the read
ing, written by somebody or other
and means $40 clear money to me
every timeI work one off. Do you
take, or do 1 go?"
"By this time eleven copies of the
first part were ordered, and the "elev-
en- able resumed their work, while the
office boy indites this tribute to man
who amt ashamed of his little racket.
atlanta Consultation.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-08-23
How CandOr Pays.

I'VE had better understand each
other he said deprecatingly, as he
shambled into the editorial room. "be-
fore we begin. I'm book agent"
Unmindful of the groans that met
this statement he went on:
I'm not a white haired philanthro-
phist from New Haven, who has
come South through sympathy for
your striker people. I'm a fair,
square, bald-headed book-agent."
Encouraged by the reception of this
frank avowal. he took a seat, and,
dropping his feet into the waste bas-
ket, SAID:
81 am not a retired clergyman who
seeks to scatter religious instruction
while he builds up his worn out frame
IN your balmy chine. I'm not an
apostle OF AIT vino mas consented to
seek your benigl5ei region and ed
ucate your people by parting with
few picture books IL parts. I'm not
a Temperance lecturer from Bangor
who pays expenses 5y dispensing lit
erzture while ne regeaerates the rum
sucker. / am rot all Of these-nOr
either. I'm az uu~cdiied book
agent, with none c. tie corners round
81. RAINING On caesL IL pursuit Of
tn"
Here's canicr a. least. remarked
tie young man who writes the puts
fOT hardware stores
Yes; csndOr a. bsst. In not 8
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-08-23
Does the Day Become Longer!

It is well known that Professor G..
Darwin has associated what may be
regarded as new theory of cosmical
evolution with the gradual retardation
of the earth's rotation spin, and con-
sequent frightening of the day. Mr..
E. Stone, formerly chief assistant at
Greenwich, and now the head of the
Radcliffe observatory, Oxford, has
Just published some calculations,
which, though they do not actually
disprove the change in the EARTH ro-
tation rate, throw grave doubt on the
only direct evidence ever recognized
in it's favor. When it was found that
Hansens lunar tables do not accord
with the evidence respecting the
moons movements derived either
from actual observation or from the
study of ancient eclipses, it was sug-
gested in explanation of the discrep-
ancy corresponding to an apparent
gain Of the moon on her calculated
place. that may be apparent only,
and due to the change of the rate of
going of our great terrestrial time
piece, the earth, by which, of course,
we time the moon S movements. De-
laney showed that, owing to the
movements of the tidal wave in d.
rection opposite to that of the earth
rotation, the rotation rate must di-
minish, though very slowly. Sir
George Airy, going through the same
process of inquiry, obtained at first a
negetive result. but later recognized
the existence of certain terms indicat-
ing retardation. Since then it has
been regarded as an accepted doctrine
that the length of the day must grad
ually increase until the day is as long
as the lunar month. Nay, Professor
Ball, astronomer royal for Ireland,
goes further than this, and considers
that the solar tide must eventually
lengthen the day till it is equal to the
year, overlooking, apparently, the fact
that the lunar action will prevent any
increase beyond the length Of lu-
mar month. But Mr.. Stone has found
reason for believing that the discor-
dance between theory and observa-
ton which has been thrown on the
earth rotation, does not exist, so
that $50 far as we know at present,
the time of the earth's rotation is
constant. If his calculation should
be confirmed it would not prove that
there is no retardation of the earth's
rotation, but that the length of the
day is changing much more slowly
than had been supposed-too slowly,
in fact, to be recognized-Contem,o
rdry RerieW.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-08-23
That Settled 1t.

A corpulent old German who had
been doing a thriving businessin little
town in Indiana, suddenly refused to
pay his debts. The commercial trav-
elers who sold him goods, have payed
him frequent visits in fruitless at
tempts to collect the money due their
firms. The other day a long-leged
dude, representing a Cincinnati dry
goods house, walked into the estab-
lishment presided over by the cratic
merchant, and presented a statement
amounting to $530.
"Ich got no money" said the Ger
man as he balanced his abdomen on
a cheese box.
THE devil you haven't" roared a
presumptuous collector, slamming his
valise down on a cracker barrel. No
monkey business about this thing
This is the fifth time l have come
here for that bill, and propose to
have it!
vel, mein trent" replied the mer-
chant, Il little uSconcerted, lcn don t
know how you VII git him."
The drummer drew himself up to
his full height, and, assuming the air
of prize fighter, leaned over the
counter and whispered at the top of
his voice:
"Say! Do you know that l killed a
Dutchman once?"
Och! So? Dot is yust der reason
w Ich left Sherman"y meiu self
already retorted the old teuton, as
he reached for convenient at han
die.
The drummer paid a small boy
half a dollar to 60 back and rescue
his valise.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-08-23
A Modern Samson.

Professor r. A. Proctor has dlscoV-
ell in Nevada being who claims to De
the strongest man i'll the world. Ills
name is Angela Cardelia. lie IS al
Italian aged IS, and stands five 1 ,e6
ten inches in height, weighing Loo
pounds. His strength was born WIN
him for he has had no athletic tfaill-
ing. He differs from other men cillelii
in his osseous structure. Althou5n
not Of unusual size his spinal colui ~.
is double the ordinary width and MS
bones and Joints are made on siinI "a.
large and generous scale. de can III
a l. al OF two hundred and fifty poIntLss
with the middle finger OF his IIs .
hand. The man stood with one looi
on the floor, his arms outstretcheu ai.,,
his hand grasped by two persons
balance his body. Cardelia then s.OO lp-
Ell down and placed the third me- Is.
Of his right hand under the man - 81
and with scarcely any perceptlDle e. e.
fort. raised him to a height OF tour Ie..
and deposited him on a table near .
hand. Once two powerful men We
iavei CoIdelia with the intent 70 L. -
him. Int he seized one Ia e-cl =. - 49,
aud Ia-.rl,red them together iiiil - =
life ras nearly beaten out Of -;
H Z. Of a 1uiet and peaceful dlsPy e
tior and I,i1 strength i inherited -
6,. .-.s.-, lis father Is more PoNe--
Ian himself.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-08-23
THE WILLIAM GOAT.

Mary hal william goat
Aud he was black A jet;
lie followed Mary round all day.
And liked her! you just betl
lie went with her 70 school one day,
The teacher EioAel him out;
II mado tho children grin, you know
To have the goa; about
But though old WLac!'em Sieked'im out
Yet st!l he fingered near
IIe waited just outside tho door
Till Whaekem G!d appear,
chen william ran 10 meet the man
He ran his leye. best;
And met him just behind, you know,
Down just below the vest
old whackem turned a somorsault
The goat stood On his head,
And Mary laughed herself 30 sick
She had 20 50 to bed
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-08-23

Two cases of sun-Stroke occurred
at San Antonio on the Both of July, one
man, the other a woman. Both
cases proved fatal.
The famous Bidwell Bar orange
tree i'll California is twenty-five inches
in circumference. 1t bore last wear
2,0I5 oranges.
Fort Worth Ga-otte:-Mr. James
Gibson yesterday made q curious find.
While rowing in the lake about three
miles from Fort Worth, in the Trinity
Bend, he came across an alligator :
nest filed with eggs. He camel
away a large number Of them, and
gave one to Nh. VIII Billings. The
egg Is about two inches and a half in
length and Is Of oblOng shade. The
shell Is very hard and rough. 1t was
inspected BY great number Of people,
who al voted Il a curiosity.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-08-23

| the steamer ana saved. Alter the
ntorm it was several days before
relief boat was sent from the Techer
and it was difficult to obtain provisions
before relief was sent.
Many bodies OF those lostin the storm
were driven out TO sea, and as the
wind changed they were brought back
and thrown upon the beach by wind
and tide.
No soldier in battling for home and
country ever deserved higher praise
than Capt. Smith is entitled to for
his heroic struggles in the Last Island
storm. No man could show more
courage or GOODNESS in dangers that
encompass the noblest heroes in perils
of the battlefield, storm, fire or floods,
than Capt. Smith showed in COM
manding his men or in meeting per-
sonal danger. History may embel-
lish, and lionize, and immortallize
the heroes of Greece and Rome and
of our American revolutions, but none
of them could behave more nohlJ or
defy death or danger under the most
trying circumstances more bravely
than Capt. Smith Oh the occasion
mentioned in the foregoing narrative.
Had he been favored with a few drops
of royal blood in his veins, or had he
possessed an estate of few millions
when he battled with the fierce ele-
ments like the noblest knights in the
noblest cause, he would have had
place in history, and would have been
dramatized on the stage instead of
living almost forgotten, in poverty,
in an humble cottage in New Iberia.
I have always considered Capt. Abe
Smith one of the bravest men in
America, and I take pleasure in re-
peating here what have often writ
Ell and published before. Capt.
Smith, 1 think, came from Ohio to
Louisiona not many years before the
Last Island storm. He was 25 years
old in 1856, and is now SO. He was
six feet three OF four inches high and
must have weighed $50 pounds, well
proportional, with a noble and manly
bearing, strong and generous, as well
as brave, when he acted the heroic
knight among the women and chill
dren of Last Island.
He now carries magnificent gold
watch, in which the following testi-
monial is neatly engraved:
The Sufferers during the Last Island
Disaster,
To Capt. Abraham Smith,
Testimonial of Gratitude.
August 10th, 1856.
An ounce of heroism creates more
admiration and newspaper talk in
one man than pound in another.
Peabody, in his easy chair, with mill
ions in bank, has more public honors
showered on him than Howard in his
poverty, who lost his life in visiting
prisoners in a dungeon. But pearls
are pearls, thong at the bottom of
the ocean, and diamonds are dia-
monds, though buried in a noun
tain. DAN'L BENNETT.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-08-23

"Doy'T give me away" pleaded an
empty-headed swell, who had been
guilty OF a breach Of etiquette. "Nev-
er fear, cLeerfully responded his
friend, Il don't give nothing away.
His reply may sound ungrammatica!-
but il Is not.
"GETrISG as much gOOd out life IS
l can was General Grants comfort
a be answer 20 a friend who asked,
"What are are you dong nova
days?"
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-08-23
A Frontier Lynching Bee.
Texas sitdgns,

| icAas olluShS'
The latest lynching episode oc-
Cured recently out on the scientific
frontier of Texas. Kosciusko Dali
rymple was q hard character, with a
reputation as big as courthouse
but not SO symmetrical, perhaps, and
at times he was looked upon with
longing, avaricious eyes by the vigi-
lantes. One day they nabbed him
under suspicious circumstances, hur-
ried him out of town to a neighboring
grove for the purpose of helping him
over the gravelly bed of the shining
river of light. On this involuntary
trip towards eternity, Kosky earnestly
and eagerly protested his innocence of
the express crime charged in the rude
indictments land when the party arrived
at the grove and took breathing
spell, Kosky got his second wind and
commenced to harangue the multi
tude with all the vehemence of Mark
Antony over the corpse of Caesar, if
not with that distinguished Romans
eloquence and address:
Gentlemen" he said, liam hard
citizen"
1.-The point is well taken," said the
chairman of the committee, "tell us
something new"
eyes I'm tough. You all know
about me | suppose; know my record
andhave got me down pretty middling
fne?"
"Weare on to you,K osky, this time
for fact"
eyes, gentleman, you have now got
me at disadvantage. I'm bad man
from away back, but l just want to re-
move one stain from my reputation.
1 want to say one word before l am
swung up, and it is not that am
a-going to glory and play on an or
gazette. 1t isn't one last word to
my poor old mother, for she has been
dead these twenty years, God bless
her. 1t isn't to confess and tell young
men to let whisky alone and never
learn the difference between a nine
spot and lady card. No, gentlemen,
none of these things agitate me now
at this supreme moment of my life.
But what 1 want to know gentlemen,
is this. They say 1 stole Gabe Run
nel's horse"
"Thats the charge, Kosky," said
the chairman.
"That's what you are going to do
for me now [ SUPPOSE"
"That's about it.
Gall right, gentleman. Do any Of
you who have known me off an on
for four Oh five years believe I don't
know good horse from mustang,
from a broncho, from a scrub colt
with the CHAMBERS, an old watch-eyed,
sweenied, poll-evil animile with his
shoulder knocked down, and thrushes
in all four feet, name reached with
jack knife and saddle gals as big as a
platter?"
"You always was good Judge of a
horse, Kosky."
81 WASP"
eyes, I'll say that much for you"
"Well, that's all I've got to say,
gentlemen. Now, if I look like a man
that would steal any of Gabe Run
nels stock when there was plenty
good horses not forty rods away;
if I look that mean, ow-down, and
insignificant, wopple-jawed and
freckled, why, gentlemen, it was high
time 1 was hung high. If I am that
low down in the scale of humanity,
why, pull me up to glory, and let me
die like a chicken thief.
The chairman ordered the rope
thrown off Kosky's neck, covered him
with Winchester rife, and said, la
conioally:
"Skip!"
And Kosky was off like the wind
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-08-23

WzEs a politician says he s..- h
uucn ms principles, be sure "a 80 =
Stszro. mean that be trzmPle' l's-
-L5eT lis feet.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-08-23
STORM OF 1856.

ras Heroic Acts Of Capt. Ale Smith and MS Elem
or The steamer star, In the Midst o; aSlorm.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-09-13
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

PRESIDENT ARTHUR reached WASH
ington on the 7th.
ENGLISH harvest work was being Sc
riously retarded by wet weather.
TEN leaders of the Vienna working
mems riot were arrested on the 9Th.
The steamer Lilley recently exploded
on the Saskatchewan, 600 miles west of
Winnipeg.
ADMIRAL PIERRE, the recalled French
commander, was reported dying at Mar
seilles on the 9TH.
FRANCE was mobilIzing her transport
service, but hoped the trouble with China
might be compromised.
LATE estimates placed the Michigan
wheat crop at 23,OOO,O0O bushels, being
slightly less than the July estimate.
Mrs. JULIA p. SMITH, novelist, was
killed by runaway horse while driving
at Hartford, Conn.,, on the eth.
REV. THos. OAKLEY, delivery clerk
in the Cleveland Postoffice, was arrested on
the 9Th, charged with stealing postage
stamps.
THE musicians quarters at the Long
Branch Hotel burned on the 7th. One man
was burned to a crisp, and several were
saved with difficulty.
Mass was sung in the Milwaukee
Cathedral on the Sth in memory of the 800
persons lost on the Lady Elgin twenty
three years ago.
A PARIS dispatch OF the 9TH says both
Governments, France and China, are equal
ly DESTROYS of securing a peaceful solution
of the Tonquin question if it can be done
with honor. The general sentiment favored
the hope that all issues involved might be
admitted to the arbitration of England.
A CONGRESSIONAL election has been
ordered for the First District of North Car
olina on November p TO fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Walter F. Pool
THE city of Pensacola, Fla, was re-
ported on the 9Th as still healthy, but
yellow fever was on the increase at the
the Navy Yard, eighteen new cases having
been reported within thirty-six hours.
No deaths.
AT the meeting of the American
! Social Science Association on the eth. Mrs.
Sarah K. Bolton, of Cleveland, read paper
on Employer and Employed"
The National Prison Association was
reorganized on the 7th At Saratoga, and
Ex- President Rutherford B. Hayes elected
President. Papers were read on preven'
ttion of crime and prison reform.
4 RUpoLPH SCIIEGEL, who said he had
Ileft his home IN Chicago on account of fam
ilv trouble, shot himself at East Cleveland
the night of the 6-h and lay down in field
/ to die. It was thought the wound would
] prove fatal.