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Arizona silver belt., 1895-09-07
NEW AMONG NATIONS.
Facts About the Azores, to Which For
 tugal Has Granted Autonomy.

Facts About the Azores, to Which For
 tugal Has Granted Autonomy.
 Portugal has recognized the Amer ican principle of lotal self-goyernment in granting autonomy to the Azores, and that interesting little community of rather less than three hundred thou sand people will soon be legislating for itself doubtless at Angra, the almost uplSnown capital of the group. The Independent blue flag, with tho white hawk and the nine stars, displayed by the Islanders of San Miguel when the good news came from Lisbon, contains a sort of brief history of the group. It tells there arc nine islands sown thick in the blue midoceau. and that the emblematic hawk reminds the world that the name Accr, Portuguese for hawk, was conferred on the islands because of the great number of those birds found there by the navigator sent out from Portugal to talee possession of the group. One story of that quest is that Vanderberg, Dutch merchant, being driven out of his course, ehanced upon tho islands, and reported them when lac touched at Lisbon. Another is that Dom Henry of Portugal, having an old map upon which the islands were laid down, dispatched Gonzalo Velho Cabral to search for them. At any rate, the navigator reached the islands in l4S2, tho very date inscribed to Wander berg's adventure, and twelve years later took possession of San Miguel. All the nine islands had been rcdiscovered by 1457, and colonization soon began.
Arizona silver belt., 1895-09-07
muLTum IN PARvo.

wAE'has its laws as well as peace Hume.
 AJp he that lives to live forever never fears dying. Penn.
 WHERE there is no hope there can be no endeayor. Johnson.
 HpNoR is the offspring of a sympa- thetie fancy. Henry Giles.
 HUMILITY, like darkness, reveals the heavenly lights --Thoreau,
 IDEAs arc ofttiInes shy of the close furniture of words. -Tupper.
 WE have more incidence in the mind than in the body ,-ROchefoucauld HUMASrrY is tho peculiar character stic of great minds, s,-CbesterGeld MEN may be mgratetul, but the hUman race is not so.-De Bouillers INTELLECT is the simple power an- terior to all action or construction Emerson.
 LESIrY has almost always wisdom and justice on its side.-Ilosea Ballou.
Arizona silver belt., 1895-09-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

TOWN a wager, . painter in Saco, Me. sucked thirty-six eggs in seven minutes and afty-five seconds.
 TIE electric. cooking stove roasts and bal,es to perfection. The cost of run ulng it is seven cents m hour,
 SCALES for weighing diamonds are so dclicately poised that hair a quarter of an inchlong will turn tho balance,
 Ir is advisable to open canned fruit at least an hour before it is to be used. The oxygen from the air improves the favor
 TuE tallest tree in the world is the great eucalyptus, in Gipsland, Aus tralia It is four hundred and fifty feet high.
Arizona silver belt., 1895-09-07
osonlntion nrnr no n crimo.

h nearly every country stealing kisses is illegal, and in some it is held to constitute m assault. But such thefts do not always land the thief,in prison. There are authenticated instances where the thief has been rewarded with the heart and hand of the uniniurcd party. In case recently reported in the papers, the name of the thief met the eye of a wealthy relative, who made him his heir, and the fellow mar ricd the woman in the case, and now they arc rich and happy.
Arizona silver belt., 1895-09-07
OLD AND spRY.

. ,.Al.oS@a \ HUSTIH,ys assascYenty-four, has arrived iu Morley, Mich, having walked the eR,ire distaaee grofm Coun-
 aEDiTon,B, B stoofe, of the Niles (Mich.lsNfirror, has been aprinter sixty siS years He is now eighty years old, but enn stick type us rapidly as my ,ompositor in his office.
 N. IT. WALLACE has been the post. master of fIIammoudsville O., since lsS0. ae l.as served under thirty-one post. masters general aud probably has the record among United States post masters.
 JOHN HALL an elghty-three-ycar-old resident of Portland, Me, who seems to be something of phenomenon even ip that country of spry and agile old folk, issues challenge to wrestlc my man in Cumberland county without limit of weight or age.
 Miss REDEcCA MING, of Mendham, N, J., is ninety-seven years old, is healthy and active, has never had the services of n doctor, and yet has never travelled on railroad train, and never been more than five miles away from the place where she was born.
Arizona silver belt., 1895-09-07
A eouR.ceNT FEE.
Perhaps the Smallest Commission Ever
 Paid n Lawyer.

Pcrhaps The smallest Commission Ever
 Paid Lawyer.
 One of the smallest fees ever received by any attorney was received the other day by Daniel ] O'Brieu. who received a check from the United States navy office. drawn on the assistant United States treasurer at New York, for tho sum of four cents.
 This check, says the Albany Argus, has story attached to it, During the war of the rebellion Mir 0'Brien was an officer on a cruiser of the northern army, on which Richard w Allen. also of Albany, was ian,lsinan, At the close of Che war the government distributed among hcseaDJen Of the navy theprize money made by selling vessels captured during the war. Ia this distribution Allen. who, with O'Bricu. left the navy at thc end of the war, was omitted
 oDricn, acting as Aliens attorney, sent in 9 claim for prize money 10 the navy department in lsG7, and since then, through the succeeding twcnty-eigat years, he pressed Aliens claims nt in tervals. To each demand sent in the navy department responded that the matter was under consideration.
 The postmaster handed Mir. o'Brien letter from the nary department. Mir. O'Bricn opened it, and there lay the cheek he had been expecting for twenty eight years.
 He glanced hastily a, the fguFes on the precious slip of paper, andthought -.f- Al letter accompanying it, and read that the amount was four cents for at torncy's fees
 Mr. o'Brien sought his client Allen, and found him gazing at a cheek for thirty five cents, his prize money, which he had received few days before, and had had framed and hung over his ghipfppx--uiapq
Arizona silver belt., 1895-09-07
snIcon Instcna of Charcoal.

Men arc composed chiefly of charcoal and water As beings of this compost. tion cannot exist in any heat great enough to set Che charcoal on fire in spite of the water, the scientists are now speculating as to the possibilities of the hot stars being inhabited by ami mals with silicon substituted for char coal. Silicon is sand, or at least it bears much the same relation to sand that carbon docs to charcoal.
Arizona silver belt., 1895-09-07
Mada n Goddess.

IL is possible for any chinaman, or even any Chinese woman, to become a deity by paying for fne honor A few years ago sich and devout Chinese lady died in Soochoo. Her friends thought that an apotheosis was no more than her due and communicated withtho priests, who interviewed the gods on the subject and discovered tl,at the God pf the Left Little Toe Nail had no wife. Tie old lady was accordingly married to his godship and is nov enrolled d tllc "Goddess of the Left Little Toe Nail The honor cost tbe old lady's estate over hvc thousand dollars
Arizona silver belt., 1895-09-07
ALL- soRrs oE oppIrIEs.


 GRAsv1LLE H1doAsoS, JR., of Greens. burg, Nv, is twenty-orie years old and only thirty-oighti inches high.
 A cLUn of wheelnen hnd decidcd to attend a Brooklyn church in Q body. The clergyman was highly delighted, and decorated his pulpit with two 6icyles, in honorof their visit. ] A TltAmp was arrested at Sioux Falls, $. D., a tiw days ago for breaking into svnagogue and stealinga lot of prayer books, which he subsequently, tried to petldle on the streets of the town.
 A YOUNG man, tweuty-eight years old, weighing four hundred and ninety six pounds, died at Fortune, Humboldt county, Cal, recently He was six feet two inches high, and his immense bulk was symmetrieally distributed.
 IT is said that the wild lettuce is s0ne of two weilmarlsed compass plants and that it has the property of twisting its leaves until they point straight upward, with the edges direct north and south.
 il is said that if two tuning forks of the same pitch are placed facing each other the one sounding the other silent in few seconds the silent one will be giving out distinctly audible note
 FARMERS in Mexico use oxen of one color in the morning and of another color in the afternoon. They have no reason for doing 90 beyond the fact that their forefathers did 1t. and they con clude it must be the right thing to do.
 PRoF. C. V. RILEY, the eminent ento- 1nologist, who studies the habits of hugs for Uncle Sam, has advanced 8 theory ot teiepathy among insects-a sixthseuse, whereby they are enabled to communicate with one another at great distanras
Arizona silver belt., 1895-09-07

SorT newspaper is excellent to cleanse windows or any glassware.
 YAsELyE makes the best dressing for Epsset shoes.
 SPnITs of tzrpcutino is the thing with which to cleanse and brighten patent leather.
 MoDERArELg strong salt and water taken by thc teaspoonful at intervals is cure for catarrhal cold.
 "A LgyEI teaspooufpl of boracic acid dis 5lFsd in . pint of fre.hly boiled water aud implied cool ls the best wash far iaiiah,ed sore eyes or granulated lids, aud an excellent gargle for in. famed sore throat.
 I)csarted Yiilaaes ara comnpu enough iii thc cast, bat from other causes than Igrst boolils tap,nonlts DamariscOve. Ne. lias nor nofnhsbi,ant bht light- ho,,se keeper, though some summer houses are tIls y.sss to ne built Two hnndred yeaca ago, in arranging for the Indian campaigns, Damariscoye could furnish . company of mon,t
Arizona silver belt., 1895-09-07
velocity of met,orItes.

It is no wonder that stones which fall from the regions of space are fired by the impact when they strike our at- mosphcrc, Astronomers estimate that they fan with velocity of at least sixty thousand yards per second. This extraordinary speed is best understood by comparing it with 2 ball from a modern cannon which never travels with a speed greater than six hundred yards per second,
Arizona silver belt., 1895-09-07

Iy Switzerland ono hundred of every one thousand stone cutters die of con sumption; in England tho rate is Sio deaths per 1000.
Arizona silver belt., 1895-09-07
POINTS FOR HouseKEgPERs.

LEsIrY has almost always wisdom and justice on its side.-IIosea Ballou.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-01-08
THAT REAL ESTATE EXCHANGE.

II &c gratifying to know that tue iea'
oetatc men of Richmond have TAKEN IVY
- tho idea Of an exchange and SAFES
room. and have appointed a represe'i'a'''
committee to investigate ana repor' Va
the matter practically.
During the recent severe sPeh VI
weather we have thought what would De
~. e0ect upon the crowd Of possible
buyers Of an open-aar sale.
The property might be well known anu
there might be many who would be Will
ing to invest money. but not risk their
lives. and so. under such conditions,
sale would have either TO so by default
or be postponed.
The preponderance Of reason and argu-
ment is overwhelmingly on the side Of
the exchange and salesroom; but. when
one Is chosen it should be conveniently
located. and as accessible as possible
The expense would be but trile COM
pared with the benefits, and might be
met in the first instance by d small con-
tribution from each member of the ex-
change, to be returned by the payment
of an insignificant charge upon the sales
which take place in the salesroom. The
amount would be less than the cost OF
hiring vehicles 10 go to sale. We merely
suggest this, bat are sure the committee
Will work out a good plan. 1t Is certain
that nothing will more quickly tend to
make real estate live asset than 10 adopt
agreeable and convenient methods of buy
ing and selling It,
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-01-08
A CORRECT VIEW OF THE GAZE.

The Washington correspondent of the
Alexandra Gazette writes his paper:
ut is currently reported at the Capitol
to-day that Mr.. Cleveland SAYS If the
Democratic majority In Congress suppose
he is going to prod them to the perform
ance of their duty, they will be very
much disappointed; they know, he says
the urgency of financial legislation as
well as he does, and it is for them to
enact it,: he will see TO its execution"
We hope most sincerely that Mr.. Cleve-
land has at last concluded that this Is
the true theory of the relations that
should exist between the President and
Congress. There have been occasions In
the past when he is supposed to have
taken a very different view of tine case,
and seemed to think that it was part
of his duty to stand at the back OF GER
tain measures and put them through
Congress as administration measures.
But we hope he has lost all propensity
for that sort of thing. The President Is
the executive head of the Government,
and Congress deliberates OH the laws we
should have and eracts them according
to its judgment. II Mr.. Cleveland VIII
accept this as the true theory of our
Government and leave Congress alone
hereafter to deal with questions OF leg
islation. he will find that all parties Will
get along much better together.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-01-08
HUSIINGS 90 4 rs i.
The Grand Jury OF the January Term "e'''
and Finds u Number of lndlctment-'

The grand jury Of the Hastings Court
convened yesterday for the January term
Of the present year, and elected Mr. D. b'
Mosby chairman. After duly considering
the various papers laid before them, anu
hearing the various testimony they re-
turned the following true bills oL lndlct-
ment:
For Felonies-Mary Allen, GeorsIaha
Brown alias Puss Brown, Richard Brown,
Almond Brown, Martha Booker, Edward
curtis. Thomas Corbin, Harry Carter,
Temple Christian, Charles Cox, Margaret
Glasgow alias Florence Carter, Joseph
Hill alias Charles jackson, William Haw-
Rins. Albert Kelly, Collin Lewis, Pinkey
T. Mills, William Morris. Clinton Nor
gan. Victor Rohan alias Victor Parham,
Burton Smith, Joseph Smith, John Team
ster. Paul Williams, Spencer Williams.
For meanors-Georsiana Brown
alias Puss Brown, Hays Brooks Gwol,
Samuel Blanks, ID. G. Berrand, William
Coles alias r. r. Coles, John Coleman,
w. II. Coles, William cambridge six,
J.hn Fisher, Robert Hines. James Hop
kins. William Hawkins, Adam Jasper,
Mary Johnson, George Jones, Collin
Lewis, Edwin Lewis two, A. Loyenstein
Pinkey r.. Mills. Melvin Meadows, the
National Building and Investment Com
pany, Thomas Oliver john W. Price
(twO), l.. Raggh.anti.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-01-08
AIrhMpYED 10 ESCAPE.
Four Prisoners in the cry Jail Came Near
Getting AWAY.

William Hawkins. John Coleman. Col
lin Lewis and William Robinson. four
negroes who are confined in the city JAIL
ATTEMPTED on Sunday morning. about !
o'clock. 10 effect their escape. Saturddy
night the men were, as usual placer
i'm their cell. which is No. Z. on me
ground floor. The negroes would HroDa-
Div nave succeeded in getting OUT but
Jailer T. p. Saunders, who was maxine
his rounds. heard a noise in the cen a."
proceeded to make an Investigation ne
negroes had selected that corner OF lil'
vail which is concealed by the closet ~
the brick-paVed corridor as the point TOT
their work, and had burrowed tnroueH
about half the thickness or me ptIShS'
which left an opening about DN-o iicne9.
seeing, that detection was inevitable thcy
I.ft The hole before the jailer discoYtied
Them and crept back into their cell
through the opening they had made ABOUT
four feet from the ground To sam access
"a the corridor The hole cut from III
side If the cell was diaGonally tpr9'I II
the thick partition between that am t We
next cell on the west sloe. Inc ID !e er,a
we're removed with a stout piece OF IRON
about six inches long, which had prth
broken from the closet fixtures ana SINUS
gIed into the cell during the day. -
the men were all IN for Ione terms
The prison officials seem 10 thlnk INA
the escape was planned by ha"hihS'
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-01-08
Southern Election Reform and the Negro,

There is some disposition to msunder-
stand the movement for election reform
al the South, so far as ii relates to the
political status or the negro. The inn
preston has TO some extent got abroad
at the North that these southern ex-
pressions Of regret at the bad character
OF the election methods which have been
almost universally practiced in southern
States since the war, are to be taken
as pledges that under the new Oruer of
things the negro's vote is TO be wort n
as much In determining the result of an
election as the white mani. SO far as
this impression has extended IL is wholly
erroneous. There is no intention In the
South 10 legislate so as 10 imperil white
supremacy, or TO give the negro majority
in certain sections the political power
TO which it Is entitled. There is no in
tenfiOn TO give the negro representation
in the State Legislature or the local gov
ernments In proportion 10 his numbers,
or TO give him any larger part than he
has now in the management of public
affairs. The government OF the South is,
as has been often boosted, a white mans
government, and so II is intended it shall
remain.
We are not commenting or criticizing,
only stating a fact which IL is necessary
10 keep IN mind in order 10 understand
the situation at the South. IL Is agreed
all over that section that present election
methods cannot continue, that they are
unsatisfactory. Inadequate and danger
GUS, mat practices winch nave come TO
be regarded as essential TO the successful
operation OF these methods are democrat
iZing and fatal to popular government,
and that so long as these methods are
persisted in, honest elections, even with
the negro eliminated. are impossible. For
these reasons new election laws and new
election methods are imperatiyely. de-
handed, and in several States the prob
lem of how 10 get them Is being seriously
studied. The existing southern election
laws and methods are declared by the
advocates OF change In them 10 be at
best only temporary expedients, devised
to keep the negro vote under control.
They were invented in the heat of the
struggle caused by the enfranchisement
of the negro and his prominence in the
reconstruction period, and are, therefore,
crude and harsh. AS the Baltimore Sun
puts II: I'm the struggle that ensued for
the supremacy OF the fittest, the fittest
naturally resorted at times TO extreme
measures TO save themselves from SUBJ
mersion." Submersion of the fittest Is
no longer TO be feared, and these cleo
ton methods, which have been prevalent
for twenty years, having served their
purpose, can be safely abandoned.
The problem which these southern cleo
ton reformers are trying 10 solve there
fore, Is this: To enact election laws which
shall be substantially fair in their APP
piication to all citizens black and white,
and which shall at the same time keep
the Government under white control.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-01-08

This gentleman enlisted I'm the Confed-
crate army as private and fought MS
way up to a brigadier's commission.
He Is brother of that charming gen
tleman. Major J. G. Hemphill, the man
aging editor of the Charleston News anu
Courier. The advocate Of womans SUI
frage In 1892 introduced a bill IN the
South Carolina Senate TO allow the ia''
sex to vote and to hold office. The propo-
stion was defeated by vote OF Il 10 H.
The Atlanta Journal, speaking oil Ten
eral Hemphill. says:
His marriage has been very snappy,
and. as might be expected in chanplo'i
of woman suffrage. he adores MS dausn
ters six blooming girls, one OF "no,n'
MISS Hannah Hempbill. now MIS-. ooie
man. a beautiful woman. was on tne ~
dustrjal college commission sent North w
the State in 1891 TO investigate Io' ~.
methods. with a view TO introd1S,n lbs rnI
hest into the South Carolina Noih'a,
and Industrial College for Woinen' ,,'ss
in contemplation. Associated WIZ. yna ret,,
IIemnbilI was the lamented Mary ie"i e"''
also a woman suffragist
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-01-08

There is an influential and growing wing
of ,nese reformers. which is principally
anxious 10 keep the control OF affairs In
intelligent hands, regardless Of color,
but in the feeling of the majority is that
nothing which has been accomplished by
way of suppressing the negro as a factor
in politics shall be abandoned. The con-
sequence Is that substantially all the cleo
ton reform legislation which has been
enacted in southern States dscrimnates
In some way practically, If not avowediy.
against the negro.
This Is the case with the new Consttu-
ton of Mississippi. in its UNDERSTANDINGS
the Constitution clause. which gives eiec-
ton officers an excellent opportunity 10
reject negro applicants for reg s.oi
with the poll-tax requirement In the rem
nessee law. some provisions OF ,d ,ne a asa
There are some southerners VINO "ou'1
discriminate only against ignorance ORANGE e hni
untitness in the new election iams, d en-
it is 10 be expected that the pre.eaesI,e
already established of discriminating
against the negro will be geheratS In
lowed in future acknowledgements 'u
Republican.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-01-08

convert them into gold. The people u
Richmond have entire confidence ID '"e"
banks. and. II they. should Issue "o'e'
the people OF Richmond would nave
actIy the same confidence in those "o'e'
that they now have In the cer''"e'
checks OF their banks or the dep"s''' '"s'
have with them. The Richmond oa""e'o
would not turn gamblers ana spee""'F
merely because they were give" a"'"o'"'
10 issue notes They would be the same
nrudont. conservative business men theh
tina. they are now. and they would put
out no notes that they were MOI ent'e's
prepared to take care of. and the people
OF Richmond would have entire commence
that that was the fact. Consequently MI
Moore's wholesale grocer would never
think OF going with the State banks note
TO its counter and asking for gold Tor ~
He would take 1t to his own bank along
with his other receipts during the day
and deposit IT. and that bank would pay
Il out again to the next person VINO came
along and wanted currency.
If Mr. Moore will take his mind OF OF
the subject OF currency with strings 10
1t and will apply Ct TO the financial MS
tory of his country he will hnd that from
1887 down TO the war the paper currency
of this country was State bank notes
only. He will also find that they maze
a most acceptable currency for the peo-
pie. which kept away from the money
centres and staid at home, where IL was
wanted. He will find, also that under
that system there were no very rich men,
but that prosperity was diffused generally
amongst the people, and all were well 10
do. The Secretary OF the Treasury mas
recently sent TO the Senate a communica-
ton which gives very full information
concerning the coin. capital and circuia-
ton of the State banks for thirty years
before the war. We have already pub
lished this. as IL refers to Nlrginias
banks. but we print again the condition
Of those. Here it is:
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-01-08

purest motives, a patriot attached 70 the
welfare OF the plain people by the s,rons ,
est ties of sympathy and brothernoou
Was he the dangerous demagogue Oh the
f'ederalistic fear. or was he the great
champion OF Democratic faitn!
Atlanta Constitution: a recent articie
In the Chattanooga Tradesman, by sena-
tor Warner Miller. shows In very con-
vincing way the importance OF the Mica
raguG canal to the South.
The Senator makes II PLAIN that ,he
South will reap more benefit from me
enterprise than any other region IN tne
world. although the North Atlanuc anu
Pacific States will greatly proht py ~.
The canal VIII give the eastern states d
route TO Japan and China ana AusIrala
that will be several thousand uiiie 20
shorter than the route from L'Verpooi "
those countries.
But the most interesting part OF me
article Is that which discusses sou lteI = =
interests. All the South Aalantlc POI -
will be about 1000 miles nearer ,k
canal. than New York and other North
Atlantic ports, and i'm these days Will
the percentage OF profits on Dig u h"a .
actions Is very small an adVahtase y,
1909 miles in transportation means
great deal.