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The St. Johns herald., 1892-09-01

Among the earliest efforts of the
 Americans for cultivation in Arizo-
 na was that of F. Brill, on the Has,
 sayampa, at Wickenburg. He open-
 ed about fifty acres for gardening and
 planted, perhaps, the first orchard in Arizona as early as 1864. During that year and the next several ef- forts were made-King s. Woolsey, on the Agua Fria, about fourteen miles Prescott, with a result of sev- eral hundred acres w. H. Kirkland and J. McAteer in Kirkland valley, and A. H. Peoples in Peoples val ley. The mining then just com- menced in the Bradshaw range SUD- ported and made profitable the ef- forts, prosecuted under the most trying circumstances, under the works established by these pio- neers. The Upper Verde valley, near Fort Verde, has for some years maintained a farming community settled on several hundred acres. This is also true of other mountain valleys, notably on Tonto creek, commencing about 1880, and the various creeks eastward to the Lit tie Colorado, where in 1877 the Mormons established themselves, and, together with other settlers, now have in the vicinity ofSpringer- vile and St. Johns some thousand acres under cultivation, watered from the Little Colorado river and it's tribHtaries.-R. J. Hinton in the Irrigation Age.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-09-01

Here IS a recipe that can be tried at very little expense, and if it proves to be a good thingit is worth a great deal to a majority of fami- lies: Anybody can freeze his own ice cream ill five minutes, and for an expenditure oftwo or three cents. If the preparation desired to be frozen is placed in a tin bucket or other receptacle, it can be readily congealed by putting it in a pail containing a weak dilution of sul- phuric acid and water. Into this throw handful of common Glauber salts, and the resulting cold is so great that bottle of wine will be frozen solid in a few minutes, and ice cream or ices may be quickly and easily prepared"
The St. Johns herald., 1892-09-01

A man at Burlington, N. C., has a dog and a calf that have formed strange attachment. Lately the dog has been given bread as diet, and as soon as he gets his rations, he hunts up the calf and gives it the bread, which the calf eats and seems to relish. When the cali is fed the dog receives a share of the meal or bran The only explana- ton for this attachment is. that they have been kept ill the same stall for some time.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-09-01

In Maine a physician made ges- lures when giving nurse directions for a patient, and his horse, notic- ing them from the street, made straight for the window, thinking himself called to share in the con- sultation. He broke several panes of glass before he could be con- trolled.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-09-01
Lynching.

The alarming frequency of lynch ings in the United States demands
 more active and more concerted
 measures for theirsuppression. The
 better sentiment of the country con
 demns them. They have been de-
 nounced through the press, from
 the pulpit, from the platform and
 in legislative assemblies. But de-
 spite these opposing moral infu- ences the evil grows, nor is it's ex- tent measured by the actual loss of life involved. These acts of sum- mary vengeance beget a spirit of lawlessness and a disregard for con- stituted authorities which lead to increased crime in every direction. Those disposed to evil feel less re- straint, and those who have yielded passive submission to the law grow lax in their obedience. The effect is so demoralizing that where lynch ing is once indulged in it seems to be recognized as the means of deal- ing with certain cases, and the grav- ity of the ofenses which incite it grows constantly less.
 Those who incite these lynchings and assist in unlawful executions are murderers in the sight of the law and should be treated as such. It is high time that this class of off, lenders be brought promptly to ac- count and such examples set as will deter others from the commission of like acts. The delays of the law in criminal cases are frequently censurable and vexatious, but they cannot justify still greater crimes on the part of those who assume the functions of judge, jury and ex- ecutioner, frequently adding the of fense of violently destroying pub lie property and endangering inno- cent lives.-Detroit Free Press.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-09-01

The Census Bureau has issued
 bullentin 159, under date of July
 14th. giving statistics of the colored
 population of the United States for
 the census year 1890.
 This bulletin contains not only
 the negro population, but Chinese, Japanese and civilized Indians sep arated from all tribal connection. They are figured out as follows: Of African descent, 7,47O,040; of Chi nese, 107,475; of Japanese, 2,039 ; of civilized Indians, 5S,S06.
 The persons of African descent are further classified according to the numbers each of blacks, mulat- toes, quadroors and octoroons, but the superintendent of the census admits that considerable difficulty was encountered in prosecuting the special inquiry as to the mixed bloods, and as consequence the figures obtained are only approxi- mately and not accurately true. It appears, however. that there are in the United States 6,337,98O pure blacks, 956,9S0 mulattoes, 105,135 quadroons. 69,936 octoroons.
 Massachusetts has population of African descent as follows: Pure blacks 14,108; mulattoes, 6,815; quadroons 728; octoroons, 493. It there appears that while the pure blacks number 14,10S, the mixed bloods foot up S,036. Thus it will be seen that the mixed bloods are in the proportion of 57 per cent. of the pure blacks in Massachusetts.
 In Ohio there are 5O,O78 pure blacks and 37,O35 mixed bloods. The latter constitute a proportion of "A per cent. In Indiana the pure blacks are 31 ,557, and the mixed are 13,6S5. The proportion of the latter is 43 per cent. In Illinois the percentage of mixture is Al per cent. in Kansas 1t is 35 per cent.
 In the Southern States the per- centage of mixture is very much smaller. In Virginia, where there are 519,997 pure blooded negroes, there are 115 Al mixed bloods, or p per cent. In South Carolina the pure blacks are 621, ,781. to 67,153 or only 10 per cent. In Georgia there are IT per cent. of mixed bloods, in Mississippi they are 13 per cent. and Tn Louisiana they are 19 per cent.
 Thus it will be seen that the per ,entage of miscegenation is notably l larger in the old free states than in | she old slave States of the South.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-09-01

Judge Kibbey was in the city yesterday direct from Prescott. He had not seen his family for a long time and started for Florence on this mornings train. Whilst here the Judge was spoken to relative to the chances of the North and South railroad as he understood it in the northern section having just come from where the road is making it's initial steps. He replied "I have held conversations with several &C., tive and prominent men in the now railroad building section of Arizona where there is a great deal of vim and commendable push being ex- hibited in putting She road through to Phenix. I spoke with MT. Frank Murphy who is most thoroughly ac- qualnted with the projects and ul- timate designs of the road now be- ing built and he asserts positively that it will extend to Florence and Tucson. From all that I have seen with my own eyes and from that which has been confded to me by those who are in a positive position to know I say that Tucson can rely on the North and South railroad as only a contemplated but an early completed tangible fact.-Tucson Citizen.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-09-01
"The Plaint Tools of Pluctocracy."

In admitting the Carnegie mer
 to bail, Judge Ewing, before whom
 the cases were brought, said: l I think if the story in the news
 papers is true none of the mer
 charged in the information can be
 held for murder, and certainly no.
 in the first degree. The men in the barges had the right to use all ne. cessary forceto maintain their right. ful possession of this property.
 This indicates much graver danger for the liberties of American workingmen than the discharge of the Pinkerton assassins. It is that the judiciary is in full accord with the red-handed assassins and bold ly proclaims in advance of any trial that the interpretation of law will be given in favor of the alleged owners of property in the use of all necessary force to maintain their side in the dispute. It is an extra judicial swing of the plutocratic arm of despotic power, and sum- mary notice that the cause of labor will be driven from the doors of so- called justice.
 The last pillar of civil liberty has fallen before the advance of organ ized plutocracy. Mir. Prick testified before the Congressional committee that he secured the Pinkertons be- fore the lockout, and because he distrusted the power of both the sheriff and the militia as being suf. fcent for his purposes. And this Judge Ewing hastens to say in ad- vance of trial that this is right. He proposes, so far as his authority is respected, to enthrone the Pinkerton assassin as the arbiter of right. If this is to be the state of affairs, it is time for the American workingmen to take hold of the judiciary at the ballot box. Everywhere the two old parties are proposing to fuse on judicial nominations and elect the pliant tools of plutocracy. Is the name of Jeffries to shine as an angel of light in contrast with the Ameri- can judiciary? Let even judges be- ware !-The American Noncon- formist.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-09-01
Ratios of nlegitimacy.

1 A table of statistics of illegiti
 macy in Europe, purchased by Dr 1 Albert Leffingwell, shows the Irish
 to be the most virtuous of all the
 people, the ratio of illegitimate
 births among them being twenty-six
 in every thousand. The English
 rate is forty-eight, and the Scotch
 eighty-two per thousand. Thus we
 may roughly say that for every
 child born out of wedlock in Ire
 land two are born in England and
 three in Scotland. In Europe at
 large, Ireland is closely followed in
 it's place of honor by Russia, with the low rate of twenty-eight per thousand, and by Holland with the rate of thirty-two per thousand. The Italian and French rates are respectivelyseventy-fo and eighty two per thousand, comparable with the rate in Scotland. Among the countries that show the highest pro- portions of illegitimacy are Swe- den, Saxony, Bavaria and Austria, in which the rates range from one hundred one hundred to one hun- dred and forty per thousand. Aus tria is at the opposite pole from Ireland, and takes the lowest place in morality among the European nations, with rate of one hundred and forty-six per thousand. The inquiry into the causes of these varying rates of illegitimacy raises complicated and interesting prob lens. The causes generally sup posed to be principal factors in the matter are poverty, ignorance, and the contamination of great cities. Examining the influence of these, pr. Leffiingwell finds it very slight. In Ireland, the lowest rates are in the poorest countries; and the au- thor affirms that "there is nowhere such uniform relation between the indulgence of people and the prev alence of illegitimacy as to justify the hypothesis that this phase of moral delinquency in any district or country can be accurately de- scribed as caused by it's poverty, As little can the influence of great cities account for the prevalence of illegitimacy. Education and creed appear to have little influence, We must seek the real factors ill race and heredity, legislative restraints upon marriage, social usage, and other like circumstances" ."-Popu- lar Science Monthly.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-09-01

The bugler who sounded the fatal charge at Balaklava is still living and in full practice of his profess sion. His name is Landfried and he is now the bandmaster of the First Sussex volunteer artillery.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-09-01

Cotton is now grown in Turkes- tan and the Russian provinces of Central Asia, the quantity produced being 32,65O,OOO pounds, or say SO,- 900 bales in 1888 and 52, ,56O,OO0 pounds in 1889.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-09-01

Most of the emigrants last year came from Germany, the fatherland furnishing 135,OOO. Ireland sent 6O,000 and Italy a few more than that number.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-09-01

A curious idea is one to make water of utility as fuel by separa- ting it's hydrogen from the oxygen and utilizing the infammable quail ities of the hydrogen.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-09-01

The latest novelty in jewelry is the honeymoon brooch" It con- sists of a diamond half-moon with an enameled honey bee perched on one of the points.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-09-01

In New Holland the women cut themselves with shells, and keeping the wounds open for a long time, form deep scars, which they con- slider highly ornamental.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-09-01

The Chinese have their tombs built in semi-circular form, like horseshoe, and the Moors use the same form in their architecture.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-09-01

The hydraulic railroad now daily operated in Paris consists of four carriages or cars. each having a ca- pacity of twenty-five passengers. The train runs as smoothly as a boat on water.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-09-01

It is stated that among every 1000 bachelors there are thirty-eight criminals; among married men the ratio is only eighteen per 1000.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-09-01

It is proposed to rear insects for ornamental purposes the same as foreign flowers and plants are ac. climatized in hothouses and gar dens.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-09-01

A little white, enameled slipper hung from two diamond or pearl hearts is the latest novelty in gifts for bridesmaids.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-09-01

De man dat is always in debt, deah breddren, is like a bob tailed hoss in fly time; his time is occu- pied in an endeayor to make bofe ends meet dat is as comical as it is fruitless.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-09-01

A Western girl who married a dull English lord, thus describes her daily life: Ut is nothing but violet, velvet and veal one day, and mauve, moire and mutton the next" !"
The St. Johns herald., 1892-09-01

An engineer has recently devised a new electrical machine by which weeds and obnoxious grass can be in 8 minimum of time.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-09-01

Carriages fitted up with electric lamps were used by speakers during the recent campaign in England.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-09-01

"Webster's unabridged diction- aries at four cents pound," is the sign outside of secondhand book store in Philadelphia.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-09-01

An ordinary day coach weighs about 50,O00 pounds; Pullman sleepers weigh about 74,000 pounds.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-09-01

A Philadelphia barber displays a show card reading: ''Hard cheek shaving a speciality"
The St. Johns herald., 1892-09-01

Once every eight years all locks on the United States mail bags are changed to insure safety.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-09-01

The man who loses his temper in an argument usually fights with his left hand.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-09-01

A cactus plant in a house at Newportville, Pa, last winter grew so fast that it-is too tall to be taken out of doors.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-09-01

Lake Erie, it is said, produces more fish, to the square mile than any body of water in the world.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-09-01

There is man in Manchester. N. H., named Will Knott. When in hurry he signs his name Won't.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-03-10

Let It BE Made Memorial TO Rev. DIR.
Petcrkin.

itN ~ DC hhut "a 10 htFs III.
Peterkin.
RICHMOND, Va. March Q, 1892.
Editor Of The Times:
Though not a member Of st. James church
/ take the liberty Of making a suggestion
through your paper to the friends of that
noble man OF God who was to-day carried 10
Hollywood Rev. Joshua Peterkin.
AS Uy the published request OF the family
many have been prevented from testliying
their all ection for ir. Peterkin by sending
flowers to be laid on his grave why would il
not be well 10 show our veneration for him
by endowing the Shelterlng Arms Hospital Us
memorial 10 him?
/ AIN sure that If anything done on earth
can give JOY to the redeemed in heaven. moth
ing that his friends could do in his memory
would be so pleasant TO him as the endow-
ment of this institution. which would enable
1t for all time TO minister TO the suffering. es-
pecially as this hospital was originated by his
sainted daughter
Mr.. James 1. Gray is. | believe. treasurer
OF II. james church. would therefore sug-
gest that any renlttances for this object be
sent TO him. If the contributions prove 10 be
inadaQuate for the endowment of the hospital
there might be enough contributed TO en-
dow one or more rooms TO be called the Pc
terkin rooms. G.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-03-10
FREE SILVER.
A Series OF Conundrums on That Very I'm
portant subject.

A Series OF Conundrums on That Very I'M
portant subject.
Editor of The Times:
Illness has prevented thanks for prompt
reply to my request for information about
silver and asking for further light.
Your reply in substance that when two
currencies of unequal value attempt 10 cir
culate side by side that the dearer disappears,
leaving only the cheaper 10 circulate. and IN
your editorial OF the 4th you wrote that a
fall in value Of the smallest fraction of a
cent? saw One-tenth of per cent. which is
by no means the smallest fraction" would
cause the total disappearance Of the dearer
currency.
Now. granting that in pure theory that this
is the logical result the practical question l5
When under the present laws governing
the interconvertibility of gold and silver cur
rency will any divergence. even the slightest.
arise in their yalue>n The when" would
probably long since have made it, advent
even under the restricted coinage Of 2i.OOO-
600 annually. except for the powerful balance
wheel provided namely That silver dollars
we're made receivable az par for all dues to
the Government. Now. as long as such a
balance-wheei exists is 1t possible for
the coinage of silver ever TO become "unreg
ulated and unrestricted :" and If not possible,
when will the When" cast its fearful shadow
over society and II the When IS remote,
if ever. why al these fears Of the gold men;
As long as the Government will receive al par
between four and five hundred million silver
dollars annually in liquidation Of its dues It
seems to plain businessman that these
anxieties are at least premature
SO. Mr. TIMES. what would be glad to
know is las long as the Government agrees
TO receive at par 400 00O, 600 of silver
when will this divergence arise 1t seems
reasonable that the legal tender quality OF the
silver dollar must be destroyed before there
can be real danger of the disappearance or
gold. 4.
/ do not understand you literally to mean
that fall IN value OF the smallest fraction
of Il cent" will operate the total disappear
ance of the more valuable currency. but do /
understand you to say that premium for
example Of d per cent. IN New York Will
cause gold 10 disappear in Richmond. when It
costs the whole premium TO send the gold TO
New York. which is the financial regular Of
values for the United States. or that Il
premium Of ! per cent. will cause disappear
ance of gold in cities where the cost OF send
inc gold T. New York would absorb the
premium? If this is your meaning please ex-
plain why.
Pardon my troubling you, but the impor-
lance of the silver question. which seems 10
be involved in so much uncertainty. If not
mystery. Will am sure be ample apology h a
lover Of truth like TaE TINES.
DIsCIPULUs.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-03-10

this uranium y, cold in tho United States
That is the question.
In Mexico free coinage of gold and silver
exists and 20, there is no gold in circulation
only silver. The financial requirements o'
the business OF that country are not equal 70
absorbing all the silver that Is coined, ana
large quantities of it is shipped abroad, as
coin. merely for its bullion value.
OF course. if this is true in Mexico of the
silver dollar. it is true Of the gold dollar, and
between the two. no man there would pay
debt in gold legal tender when silver legal
tender worth 80 per cent. less would pay the
bill. Ho would keep the gold for export.
II it should prove true that tho financial
requirements of this country can and VIII
absorb not only all tho silver dollars that can
and will DO coined under free coinage law
but will also have use for, and demand the
gold dollars too, then the two kinds of dol
lars will continue to circulate side by side as
now.
But If there should be a demand for gold
specifically for any purpose-either TO pay
debts contracted in that coin in this country.
or for shipment abroad to pay debts else
where-and a person having silver dollar
should demand from the Government, or
from anybody else q gold dollar Tor
it and find himself unable to make the
exchange at par. instantly gold would be at
q premium-nobody would pay out gold
dollar who could pay silver dollar.
and gold would disappear from ordinary
Z 70 ha
in ordinary transactions. Ii would be bought
and sold as it WAS before the resumption OF
specie payment in 1879.
The present strain to keep tho two kinds OF
dollars together is great. You cannot now
draw gold from the United States sub-treas-
ury with coin" note You will receive
only silver unless you bring a gold note.
The true criterion of equal value of gold
and silver dollars for financial purposes is
their interchangeability. AS long as they are
interchangeable there is no danger Of either
coin disappearing. As soon as this inter-
changing ceases one or the other goes.
1t was the silver dollar before 1873. which
was then worth more as bullion than as
coin and so did not appear as money of ac-
count.
1t is now the gold dollar which is the most
valuable.
il is our belief that the gold dollar is kept
a6oat because there is such demand for money
in the affairs Of this country that it is more
profitable to the owner of the gold dollar to
lend it out here, than to withdraw it to lie
idle or be sent elsewhere. But if enough
silver Is coined to supply the place
of the gold dollars land that
will not be difficult as money is getting
cheaper the gold dollar will 20 where the
silver dollar cannot. and. ceasing to circulate
here. we will be on silver basis. VIII Dis
cipulus" say that result is desirable?
As to the Government taking in s4OO 0OO 900
Of silver annually, it not only pays it out
promptly but under the appropriations OF the
billion dollar Congress" can't keep II. But be
it remembered the effort OF the Government
has been and still is to keep the silver dollars
outside the treasury vaults and the gold
dollars inside. Both operations have proved
difficult