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The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1895-11-08
Hopeless.

Hillsboro Special Correspondence.
The democratic powers that 30 are
mixing up business, pleasure and poll
tics in a trip through southern Sierra
county. The results of last election
for the democrats were not at all what
were expected. 1t was great expec-
tations and no r~ealizatious. Day
dreams of success and night sweats Of
anxiety. GOingin at The big end of the
horn and coming out of the small end.
Now in the Imagination of the demo.
Gratis this is all to be changed next
time, and Governor Thornton Is down
here to teach the leaders a trick or
two, with a hopeful idea that if a com
bination among the democrats and the
pOpulists and the mugwumps, can be
effected that then everything will be
as lovely as a rainbow, and things
will move as swimmingly for the de-
m~ocratic nominees as a log raft on the
Missouri in food time. But the great
trouble is in parceling out the offices
and effecting the combination; the de-
mocrats have more aspirants than
there are places, the populists have
more office seekers than there offices,
and the mugwumps, not only want TO
take the cake, but to run away with
the whole bakery. The problem is
more difficult to solve and success is
further off than the futile attempts of
the democratic lawyer politicians of
Santa Fe to silence the republican
press, or to ruin Mr.. Catron the re.
publican delegate elect to congress,
The democratic Office holders have a
look of despair upon their faces, like a
man who IS sinking for the third time
without a straw in sight to clutch at
They can not bunco steer the people
into believing they are for free coinage
of silver. Their cas- is hopsless.
GENERAL.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1895-11-08
Santa Fe and the Mogollons.
GENERAL.

From the democratic Santa Fe New
Mexican, Aug. 1895:
IF there are any populists left in
New Mexico they had best make up
their minds to get together with the de-
mocrats and work unitedly for free
coinage equal taxation and other re-
forms. They were played fordupes by
Mills and the republican leaders during
the last campaign. Possibly they have
learned something by experience"
From BLACK RANGE Mogollon cor
respondent, Aug. %:
"Some parties have fitted in and out
of here from Sierra county being birds
of passage, not to say cuckoos. They
tried to get in some political work of
the democratic populist order suggest
ed By the Santa Fe New Mexican, but
as some of them were grub-staked by a
democratic Office holder their combine
was not effected. Their work was too
coarse"
From BLACK RANGE Mogollon COR
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1895-11-08
HAS An EAGLE EYE.
An Eccentric Detroit Millionaire His Own
Night Waterman.


"There goes a man, said a passenger on
a Fort street car TO a Detroit Tribune re-
porter, as he pointed to the occupant OF a
handsome carriage rolling rapidly along
penlnu TWO noDIe-IooKIng sUeeus, wnUm a
good many people, if they knew his pc
culiarities, would call a crank.h
Chow soin asked one who had often no
ticed the gentleman riding by with folded
arms and impass1ve face,
"Well, you know he 10 the proprietor Of
a large factory in the western part of the
city, and resides in a palatial residence
about a half-mile distant Everysnight, ex-
actly at nine O'Clock, rain or snow, winter
or summer, he visits the factory with a
lantern and scours the huge building from
basement to top floor to see that every
thing is properly placed. In the most freez-
ing cold of winter and the most suffocating
heat of summer this same journey and ex-
animation are accomplished. Should any
workman be careless or unfortunate
enough to mislay his tools or put any thing
combustible in proximity TO danger, he is
speedily reprimanded and often summary
discharged. This odd task he has performed
nightly for nearly fifteen years.
"He pursues a similar course with regard
to his home. Generally he sits reading in
his library until midnight, and Immediately
before retiring he makes q thorough inspec-
ton of the house. Every nook and corner
is faithfully scrutinized, and woe unto the
servants, to whom he is ordinarily very
kind and indulgent, if they have been re-
miss in their duties.
"But his peculiarities do not cease here.
Although he is very wealthy-the rumor cir
culates that he has so much ready cash that
he is at a loss to know what to do with it
he has not and will not invest one cent in
railroads. He owns and is erecting hand
some and substantial buildings in all parts
of the city; he is adding improvements to
them continually; he is purchasing desir-
able and central sites, and all for the pur-
pose of decreasing his large bank account.
But railroad stock is severely Stunned.
Yes, he goes further than that. / have
heard some of his friends say that he has
never ridden on a railroad train in his life,
and very, very seldom does he board a
sfroot-car
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1895-11-08
respondent. Oct. Is:

respondent, Oct .:
The political workings which Thorn.
ton and Ferguson started when they
were over here. and the political seeds
which they strewed about last election
time, have fallen upon siouey ground
and 10y the way SHE; vet some of their
disciples, Of the demo pop order, are
carefully nursing the stunted. growths,
and hope TO make them bloom with
proper irrigatiOn al next election"
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1895-11-08

shekels in existence, but this particu-
lar one owned by Mr., Israel is perhaps
one o.. the rarest in the world. 1t Is
of silver aud is very heavy. There are
Hebrew letters inserted on both sides
which translated mean rShekel of Isrsr
ell, coined in the holy city of Jerusa-
lem" On one side is also engraved a
cup of.incsnse and.on the oiher a tree.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1895-11-08

"The e~X-president of the Pardon Brok-
ers Exchange. in which pardons and
combinations were procured at the
lowest rates known to the trade, sud-
denly disappeared from his usual
haunts Immediately after the awful
disbarment explosion in Santa Fe aud
has not been heard of since. The ex-
president was a very small micr0be
with a very large opinion of himself"
The aboYe is the Introductory SEN
tence of an item that appeared in
the Albuquerque Citizen headed
Lost or Stolen" We have recently
been told of a fellow, who answers
the description somewhat, that was
lately hunting bar in the jungles of
the Black Range. Maybe he's the
chap that's lost.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1895-11-08

The receipts of the government
for September somewhat exceeded
expenditures and every democratic
paper and cuckoo Office holder howl
ed with delight and pointed with
pride TO the democratic party and
the pro British Cleveland democratic
administration; but when the 0cto-
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1895-11-08

r;el personally has had the CON about
% wears. but it has been an heirloom in
his family for several hundred years.
IL is supposed TO date back TO the time
of Abraham, but just when it came
into his family the owner cannot say.
There are, as a matter of fact, very few
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1895-11-08

Editor Faulds, Of Stevensville,
Montana, having criticised the con-
duct Of the supreme court Of that
state now finds himself with a "con-
tempt suit on his hands.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1895-11-08

]. Israel, says the San Francisco Ex-
aminer, who has a cigar store at the
of Bush and Kearney streets, 10
the proud possessor of asbekel whose
Yalue 10 him is inestimable. Mr.. Is
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1895-11-08

The verdict of the people, Tues
days elections, did not sustain the
stuffed prophets Thanksgiving ha-
Tangue about peace, plenty and pros
perity.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1895-11-08

Tie Secretary of war has ordered
the abandonment Of Fort Stanton /;
the evacuation will take place this
week. Fort Bayard will probably be
the next post TO be abandoned in
New Mexico.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1895-11-08

Der expenditures exceeded receipts
by 100000 there was a dead
silence. and not a word was said.
even the yip-yap Of the red crested
cuckoo failed to make itself heard.
Strange, isn't it,
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1895-11-08

A Spanish colony in New York has
purchased a large steam tug for the
purpose of protecting Spanish COM
mercial interests in Cuba.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1895-11-08

With Durrant and Holmes both
found guilty of murder in the first
degree, and Corbett and FitZsim-
mons declaring that they have
thrown up the sponge, the country
will soon enjoy a much needed
rest.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1895-11-08

The ultimatum sent by England
to the King of Ashantee has been
rejected. The dusky king prefers to
have his shantee plundered by meth
DDS Of war rather than to quietly
submit to English tyranny.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1895-11-08

Carlisle's vote didn't rescue the
Bourbon state from the clutches of
the republicans.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1895-11-08

What the democratic administra-
ton needs in Its makeup is a little
Ashantee backbone.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1895-11-08

Tuesdays elections indicate that
the people have not lost faith in
the G. o. 2.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1895-11-08

Eugene Field, the poet and journ-
alist, is dead.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1895-11-08

Boss Germans own county went
republican BY 500 majority.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1895-11-08

Tamnany yet lives and Grover
smiles accordingly
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1895-11-08

The democratic religious campaign
in Utah was a losing game.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1895-11-08
Maryland, my Maryland.

Utah will go in as a silver state.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-04

c. Ward has obtained situation in Au-
gusta.-Mrs W. W. Huntoon and Miss
Susie have gone to Providence, r. l.. tt
visit relatives.-Next Friday evening
Hobbs military band intends to give
every lover of music a treat. They will
chrsten their new band stand by giving
a concert in twill Foster has gone te
Old Town to work in barber shop.-Geo
Williams of Pittsfeld, was in town last
week.-Several members of the A. o. u.
W., accompanied by ladies attended the
A. o. U. W. Memorial services at Skow.
hogan. Sunday.-Rev. Mr.. Williams OF
Winslow occupied the Congregational
pulpit, Sunday. Ernest Gilman has re.
turned to Benton IF. G. Holt was In
Boston last week.-Mrs. c. A. Harring-
ton is visiting in Woodfords. james In
gals has obtained situation in Bangor.
LIBERTY.
The summer visitors have began to
come for their summer vacation, the first
are Mrs. A. Fl. Pulsifer, son Charles and
daughter Edna, from Brooklyn, N. Y
Mrs. W. II. Hunt and daughter Grace, have
arrived home after winters stay in
Massachusetts, Mr.. George Hill of Bos-
ton, is stopping for few days with j. J..
Walker and family.-Miss Susie A. Copp
of Augusta, Is at home for few days
with her mother, Mrs. Julia Copp. John
S. Aver, proprietor of Hotel Waldo, has
sold his horse, young Heraldson to F. H.
Berry of Rockland. - Miss Annie
Twitchell who has been confined to the
house for over a year is improving in
health and takes daily walk to her MILL
merry store.-Memorial services were held
by Il. III. Brads5reet Post, G. A. R., in
the usual manner The address was de-
livered by Miss Blanche Moody and much
credit is due her for the able manner in
which 1t was delivered. All who heard
1t are highly in praise of her.-F. A.
Doty of Montville has Is dogs training
and boarding for Boston parties. Mr..
Doty is considered an expert at the bust
ness.-Oscar Blackington and Harvey
Addition of Rockland, We're in town last
week fishing in Georges lake. They re-
turned home Saturday. Knowl-
ton who has been in the tin business for
a number of years. is very sick and his re-
covery Is doubtful. w. I. Neal has
rented his farm to Leslie Il. Nash for a
year. Mr. Nash has now seven horses
training for the track. There will be a
trot here June %, classes 2. so, 237 and
2.30.-Hon r. S. Aver who was confined
all winter to his house, by sickness has so
improved that he is on the street again.
The party who caught the twelve and
half pound salmon IN Georges lake,
has had the head mounted by A. C.
Crockett, taxidermist.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-04

A novel argument for cremation was
made ut the meeting of the New England
society last week. 1t was that 1t is i'm
moral to bury the dead and erect costly
monuments over their graves because the
money should be expended for the living
This argument, however legitimate, is moi
calculated to exert so much influence ii
behalf of cremation as do the facts that
cemeteries are menace to health, that
burial in the earth is unpleasant to con
template and that there is almost certain
ty of tho bones of the buried being cx
humed in years to come or the graves
flasacrated
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-04

The West is little apprebensive ovel
the outlook for the Erie canal. The last
few months very little grain has beer
shipped by way of it. This is because Of
the low rates by the railroads, the slow
methods of transportation upon the canal
and the fact that the canal is not large
enough to permit the use of electricity as
motive power to advantage. Either the
canal must be improved at large expense
or grass must grow in the bottom of what
Vanderbilt termed "the old ditch" This
latter event is what the westerner fears,
believing that the railroads freed from
water competition would raise their rates
and have him at their mercy. 1t certain
ly looks as if the amount needed to bring
the canal up to modern demands would be
so large as to deter capital from making
the venture.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-04

The President has not yet announced
what sort of revision Of affairs to pro
duce the needed revenue he will sanction.
OF course he will not favor increasing the
tariff for that purpose and will logically
prefer taxing tea or coffee or some other
household necessity which it is impossible
for this country to produce. In that way
he oan nearest approach the principle OF
an income tax and his predictions fol-
free trade
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-04

Puck is receiving just condemnation
from the press quite generally ON account
of the insolent cartoon In it's Memorial
day number representing the veterans as
out simply for pension spoils and as having
pauperized the country they saved. The pa
radc Of Union veterans on Memorial day
was the subject of the car toon and the
banner I'm der which they marched bore
the inscription 1--WE will continue to save
the country so long as there is dollar in
the treasury" A more vicious, libellous
picture could not have appeared in the
fankest rebel sheet during the war. Even
the rebels at that time did not ascribe mer-
cenary motives to the northern soldier,
whose bravery they were forced to admire.
1t was ridiculous to think of the thou
sands of volunteer soldiers enlisting for
the sake of the paltry $l4 month, and
they could not have had the matter of
pensions in mind. But thirty years af-
forwards Puck assumes to do this. 1t
does not select any class of veterans on
which to vent It's malice but includes all
in Its malevolent attack. Honest men
may have thought there were many pen.
sion frauds until a hostile administration
In control of tho pension department and
imbued with a zeal for discovering such
fraud failed to produce proofs Of It's asser-
tions. Honest men may now think some
of the pension laws too liberal but they
would not for that reason represent Union
veterans as bummers, whose only concep-
ton of patriotism was a desire to rob the
United States treasury. Such course
would be too silly, too indecent to CON-
mend itself for an instant to any sensible,
fair minded person. But it remained foI
an alien publication, with a zeal born OF
petty malice not tempered with shrewd
ness, to lend itself to such a disgraceful
attempt, to describe which Gen. Algel
said. words are too feeble" Fortunately
for this country it will not be compelled
to rely In time of trouble upon such
The mind that could conceive such
an attack in time of peace, in time
of war would impel its possessor to take
to his heels or else to go over to the enemy
where he belongs
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-04

The Chicago Democrats got their paper,
the Chicago Chronicle, started none too
soon. The Republican mayor not expecting
to take prominent part at the Gresham
funeral was clad in light suit on that &C.
casion. Such a breach Of prophecies was OF
course objectionable in a Republican. Here
was the yawning need of a Democratic
paper in town and the Chronicle rushed,
70 all 1t. The Chronicle does find space,
however, in which to say respecting the
free coinage convention Of its party in
that state that it is precipitated, un.
timely and unfortunate proceeding which
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-04
DESTROYS ali chance OF the selection Of an
IIIinoisan for . Democratic presidential
candidate

The New York Sun is asked If D. B.
Hill is not the logical candidate OF the
Democratic party for the presidency and
ii there Is any doubt about his being
elected, if nominated. The Sun unhesi-
tatingly declares that Mr.. Hill is the logi-
cal candidate but says that there is doubt
about Mr.. Hills election in event of his
being candidate, giving as its reason
that MI Cleveland has SO broken and be
devilled the Democratic party that 1t is
doubtful If it can elect its candidate.
Wonder If the Sun attributes Hills defeat
in New York to Mr.. Cleveland? To do Sc
would be acknowledging that he has an
influence in that state which we suspect,
the Sun would be 10th to concede.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-04

A foreigner after visiting the World
Fair declared that the trouble with
Americans was that they didn't realize
their own Importance as a nation and IT
was plain that he had in mind those well
known symptoms of paresis known as
anlgomania And in this connection it is
worthy of comment that an eminent Eng.
lish statistician can make such statements
as did Mr. Mulhall in the North Ameri-
can Review without being accused OF
americomania. He says that there is
nothing in history to compare with the
physical, mechanical and intellectual force
of the United States at the present time.
The American people, he says, possess
three times the effective force which they
had in 1860, and as much energy as
Great Britain, Germany and France to
gcther An ordinary farm hand in the
United States raises as much grain as
three in England, four in France, five in
Germany or six in Australia. No other
nation, in the opinion of Mr.. Mulhall,
ever had Al, 900, 600 instructed citizens.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-04

The bicycle railroad is to be put to the
test of practical results 1t appears. Certain
capitalists propose to contribute enough
money to build one to Far Rockaway on
Long Island. Some Of them are so san
guine as to predict one hundred miles an
hour for this road
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-04

The report that Chief Justice Fuller
would like to leave the wool sack for the
empty honor OF being a Democratic can
didate for President Is not creditable to
his good sense
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-04

Another physician has got his name
into the papers by announcing that cleo
trocution does not cause death, which re-
suits from the surgeons knife that fol-
lows. As there Is little likelihood of the
test being made, such assertions are safe
though disquieting to murderers and their
friends
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-04

A municipal legislator of Chicago, has
discovered as tho animus behind the BIZ
cycle bloomer craze an innate desire on
the part Of the women to don the breeches
and 80 he introduces bill to prohibit the
wearing Of them.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-04

The Lewiston Journal, Saturday, had
very pleasant words for some Of Augusta s
talented women. The article was contrib
uted by Miss Olive E. Dana and tho only
thing to regret is that sketch of the
career of the talented author could not be
included in the list. Augusta is proud
of her women and she has reason to DO.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-04

Rev. W. L. Brown of Newport, COM
pleted record this year that few Memo
rial day orators have made. For the fifth
consecutive time he delivered the Grafton
before Borneman Post, No. 70 Of Wash
ington. Mr.. Brown is not only an enter
tanning speaker but an eloquent one.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-04

Rockland boasts pastor who not only
refused call for bigger salary but also
the offer of his congregation to pay his
expenses for European trip. If Rockland
is wise she will do her best to have that
minister continue his work In that city.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-04

The May Of New England has always
come in for considerable unfavorable com
mont. Even Lowell said, May is pious
fraud of the almanac" But SO far June
has not been above reproaoh. From the
hottest day of the year to one that set
ones teeth chattering was but the work
Of a few hours Sunday night.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-04
Need no Costly Monument.
portland Express. }

cortland EXPRESS
Nathan and Henry B. Cleaves need no
costly monument to perpetuate their
memory among their fellow citizens, all
of whom, especially the members of Bos-
worth Post, will hold them in grateful
remembrance Away. Still the touching
evidence of their esteem for the soldier
and their regard for his career of honor is
appreciated
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-04

The japanese are reported to be enraged
at their government for yielding to the
demands of Russia They better store their
wrath for the Russians and hold up the
hands of their rulers who have acted wise.
ly and temperatcly under the strongest
temptatiOn to act otherwise
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-04

The day for making almost instanta-
neous fortunes from a gold cure is past
but think of the dollars In store for the
inventor OF silver cure!
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-04

1t is practically decided to build a
bridge across the Hudson at New York,
the cost not to exceed $25, 000,00 New
York can at least beat Chicago In the
matter OF bridges.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-04

Hill attacks Sherman on the latter s
position relative to the currency. Mr..
Sherman is to be congratulated by the
way what is Hills position on that i'm
portant question?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-04

1t is suspected that Grover Cleveland Is
convinced his administration must simu-
late little Amcricanism and is looking
for secretary of state with that end In