The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1883-11-02
NEWS AND COMMENTS.

trying to place the stock Of the Albu-
querque system of narrow gauge rail-
ways. Hope he will succeed.
Albuquerque is battling with the
question: "Shall We have Mining
Exchange" 1t probably makes little
difference how it Is decided as far as
the mines are concerned.
The presidents thanksgiving prOcls-
nation has made its appearance. This
festival comes on the 29th day of this
month this year. About the only thing
that the people in this country have to
give thanks for is mere life and even
that is hardly worth graclas senior.
Silver City has established a pest
house for smallpox patients and $50
has been appropriated by the city coun-
I'll to provide vaccine matter for the
free use Of the people. The city will
likewise have hospital built. Silver
City believes in locking the barn ere
the horse is stolen, which exhibits WIS
dom on its part.
HIS contemporaries are giving C. W
Greene of the Kingston Tribune an
unprecedented amount OF free adver-
tising. If he don't work into an ex-
cellent business in bis new field it will
not be their fault. When so many edi-
tors are hammering at single one lof
their number. the public knows that
the object of their wrath must amount
to something and they patronize him
accordingly.
The Kuklux outrages in the south
have been dealt death blow by the
conviction at Atlanta of eight prison.
ers, members of this order who COM
mitted outrages on poor negroes because
they voted for an opposing candidate
The prisoners were among the wealth
lest and influential of their district.
The south must be changing greatly to
make such conviction possible.
The second jury trying Scott and
Casey the American Valley murderers,
at Albuquerque, have duplicated the
verdict of the irst-can't agree. A new
trial cannot he had until the May term.
Public sentiment is against the men
throughout the territory and reader
Of the published testimony cannot un-
derstand how any other verdict than
guilty as charged" was arrived at.
Daniel B. Vermilye of Chicago IS in
considerable trouble. His wife is suing
him for divorce; Gen. w. Myers is su.
ing him for $4,000 libel and also for
$4,000 misappropriated funds, and the
Western Stone and Marble company
has him under arrest for the embezzle-
ment of $l50,O0O of the company's
funds. Mr.. Vermilye appears to be an
active business man in the fullest
sense of the term.
The telegraph brings the news that
the cold wintry weather is driving the
hostile Apaches back to the comfort
able San Carlos reservation and the
United States forces having received
word of their coming has gone to meet
them with the prodigal calf and oys-
ters. The frontiersmen whose families
have been murdered and whose stock
has been stolen will feel cheerful and
pleased to see such justice meted out by
Uncle Sam. He knows that too high
living is liable to produce gout and
dyspepsia.
The supreme court of the United
States now says tnat the civil rights
bill. which at the close Of the war stat
ed that a niger was just as good as
il white man, Is unconstitutional and
without effect except in the territories.
The general government has, in other
words, right to make this state.
ment in It's exclusive dominion but has
no power to make the sovereign states
agree with her. Here is the old states
rights cropping out. Despite the
law the fact remains that the well
behaved negro is better than the white
person who feels himself degraded by
his company.
Mark Twain disposes of some Of the
modern scientific methods in the fol-
lowing very true and effective vay
AIN the space of 1875 years the lower
Mississippi has shortened itself 242
miles. This is a trifle over ~ miles
per year. Therefore, any calm person
who is not blind or idiotic can see
that in the polite Siln rian period, just
100000 years agoin November, the low
er Mississippi was upward of 100000
miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf
Of Mexico like a fishing rod. And by
the same token any person can see that
742 years from now the lower Missis
slppi will be a mile and three-quarters
long, and Cairo and New Orleans will
have joined their streets together and
be plodding comfortably along under =
single mayor and board of aldermen
There is something Fascinating about
science. One gets such wholesome re-
turns of conjunctnre out Of such tri
fling investment Of fact"