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Year: 1879

The greenback party as a party will
probably not figure in the national contest
next year. but Price, of Iowa, and Car
penter and the rest of the stalwarts seem
very anxious to get astride of the fence
rail, 80 as to be ready to jump when the
time comes and gobble the remnant of
the greenback party following.
Year: 1879

The Louisiana election was the most
peaceful in years--not a single outrage
anywhere. This is sad blow to the stall
wart editors of backwoods towns who
hoped to ring the changes on the terrors
Of solid south.
Year: 1879

The Chicago Times is in favor of de-
stroying the legal tender status of the
sreenback and of discontinuing the coin
aye of the silver dollar 1t also favors the
continuation of national bank currency.
and gold as the only legitimate currency
of the country.
Year: 1879

The cow ordinance forbidding animals run
ming at large was extended to the Sixth ward.


William Leonard was the lowest bidder for
fire cisterns in the Fifth ward.


The council was invited to attend the Pioneer
Relief society's annual celebration on the
Fourth. Accepted.
Aid. Bell reported resolution, which was
adopted, covering an agreement with VIM.
Lindeke, whereby the city is not held for dam
ages in the destruction of his water power by
the condemnation of land for the Northern
| Pacific road.


The board of public works were ordered tc
open the alley in the rear of the Fire 4 Marine
block.


The Opera house license was fixed at $75 TO,
| the wear. +s& Ii
Year: 1879

dissolve one ounce of the cobalt of the shops in
pint and a halt of water, and mix it with molass-
es or osher syrup, bottle 1t and drop II through
gum INTO the heart of the blossom, It should be
done about sunGown, and the poisoned flowers
pulled of next day. otherwise plant will be de-
stroyed 1t has been found that this weed treat
eo planted around the edge OF the tobaccS and
mere and there through patch, will pre- vent to
g eat extent the ravages of the tobacco worm All
the pianterss however in one neighborhood must
act together and this can be arranged through the
local agricultural club.
Year: 1879

A barge arrived this week from Castle Dome, with fifty tons of sacked ore. The barge was loaded with wood for Chimney Peak, when passing Silver District, and so did not stop there though there is con siderable ore awaiting shipment.
Year: 1879

Mir Beachum who is starting station near the Point of Noun tain on the Black Canyon route to Prescott, and has been digging for water, has been rewarded by striking a subterranean passage with 8 great flow of water.
Year: 1879



 Monterey Ditch Co. commence action against the Grand Canal, Mesa Canal

 and Tempe Canal Companies to re-

 strain them from using water from

 the Salt River until they arc supplied.

 They claim prior right to the same.

 At meeting of the County

 Board of School Trustees of District

 No. 1, held at the office of A. D. Lem

 on, Clerk of the Board, on September

 9th, Mir R. L. Long was elected

 Principal of the School and Mrs

 Susan Cox, Principal of the Primary

 Department The school will open

 Monday, September 22d. The pa irons of the school may congratulate themselves upon having in charge of the school, teachers of the highest character and long experience as teachers, holding first grade certiti- cates after careful examination. Ii is the earnest wish of the Trustees, that all parents will assist the teach CTS in building up first-class school in our town. The Trustees further say that the records of the proceed ings of the Board of Trustees, and all matters relative to the building of the new school house are at all times open to the inspection of the public, at the office of the Clerk of the Board.

 The following petitition to the Board of Town Trusteee is being l many circulated Tn town and signed by property holders: 'We the undersign- ed residents and propertyholders of the town of Phenfx, respectfully request that you furnish for the information | of the residents of the town of Phn- nix a tabulated statement of the lots in said town, sold by you since vour election to the office of Trustees. The amount received for said lots; manner in which said moneys have been expended and the amount of money remaining in your hands as such Trustees; also, the date of your or appointment as Trustees, and for what length of time you were elected or appointed" The request is made especially for the purpose of knowing whether or not the town as sociation is in condition financially to assist in boring for an artesian well on the public plaza in the town of Phoenix.
Year: 1879

No employee of this office, agent other person is authorized to make purchases or contract debts for and on account of the HERALD. No bills against the HERALD will be recognized except for purchases and con tracts made by the proprietors personally or upon their written order
Year: 1879

The SPEED OF A LocoMorIvE.-"How
last 40 you think we are travelling ?"--
Charley Fraser, one OF the oldest engineers
of the New York, Lake Erie and Western
Railway, asked a San reporter as thew
were standing together on the foot board
OF locomotive No. 300, rushing over tn.
meadows toward Rutherford Park.


81 should think we were going nearly n
mile minute"


"a mile minute!" said Fraser. "I
doubt it you ever rode a mile n minptc
Few locomotives have driving wheels over
live feet, and [ have my doubts if five
foot wheeler can be pushed mile a minute
People have very erroneous idea of tho
speed of railroad trains. We are not 90.
ing now more than thirty fivc miles an honr
and this is very fast. Few trains make
this speed. The passengers in the cars
would think we were going mile minute
sure If was to pull out the throttle so as
to send her forty miles an hour. The ex-
press trains make no such time as the local
trains. Where We lose is with so MANY
stops. No man could stand on a platform
car and face the wind going a mile a min.
ute and live. The breath would actually
be blown out Of his body. You couldn't
count the telegraph poles going mile a
minute: Talk to an old engineer of that
rate being made by passenger train. and
he would laugh. made mile a minute
once, however. 1t was when was but 1S
years of age. was an engineer then, in
charge of fine six.foot wheel locomotive
There were lot of railroad moyuls on
board, and the object was to make the best
time we could. They were to ring the cope
when the speed was mile minute
thought We were making it for some time
before the bell rang. At length on down
grade, with full head of steam, when wo
were spinning along as if we were all GOING
to destruction, and tho motion of the piston
going over the centre could no longer he
distinguished, the bell rang. We had
reached the rate of mile a minuto r.
was the fastest l ever rode before or since.
| tried hard to make mile a minute ON
subsequent miles, but lacked it three or
four seconds every time. couldn't squeeze
another mile inside of the sixty seconds
When you hear man telling about riding
IN passenger train that ran a mile n min
ute, don't say anything, but mentally
sefatch of 4 good AlloSahce.--N. z. S,1s.
Year: 1879

| The DEAFC HEAR BY MEANS OF THEIR
TEErH!-The audiphone, an instrument in.
vented by Western Yankee for aIleviat-
ing the misery of deafness, is simply a
sheet of vulcanized rubber, about 1-22 of
an inch In thickness, set firmly in handle
of the same material. In the upper rim
of this sheet are pierced some holes through
which passes silken cord. This goes down
on the inner side of the sheet, to tho han.
| die. through slot in which it passes. By
pulling this cord the sheet is bent over at
any angle which the user may desire
Each person has to ascertain for himself
what kind of a curve Of the rubber sheet
will enable him to hear best Generally it
Is very sllght-only about ten or twelve
desr though apparently the dcafcr the
person the greater the curve must be-
When used, the person holding it simply
touches the upper edge of the fan, or audi
phone, against the teeth of the upper Jaw.
The voice of the speaker strikes upon this
tense sheet of rubber and communicates to
it vibrations which are in turn impaired to
the teeth. and then pass to the auditory
nerve. With this operation the outer ear
has nothing whatever to do, the delicate
machinery through which sound passing
from without makes an impression upon the
auditory nerve is not used at ali. The
outer ear may be stopped up entirely, so
far as it is possible to do it, and yet one
hears distinctly the moment the audiphoue
is applied to the teeth. 1t is necessary to
use the teeth of the upper jaw for the rea-
son that they are more nearly in contact
with the auditory nerve; nor does it make
much difference whether the teeth be ones
own or artificial, so long as those artificial
teeth are tightly fitted for when that is
the case the vibration is impaired about as
we'll as when they are natural teeth. The
inventor is deaf himself He happened
one day to hold watch between his teeth,
and noticed that he could distinctly hear
its ticking, though when he held it to his
ear no sound was audible This set him
to thinking that pos .iby he might be able
to invent some device by which the sounds
OF the human voice could be transmitted to
the auditory nerve through the medium of
the teeth, just as the ticking of the watch
had been.
Year: 1879

Never lose your temper, for the moment
you do so, you ut the same time lose the
advantage which you should always have
over him In handling colt remember
that you are forming the future horse, and
care, now taken either in his appearance or
character, is by no means lost by the time
he is year old, he should allow you to
to place light articles on his back without
any resistance, and should be taught not to
be afraid of straps hanging loose either
about the body or heels. This education is
best done in the winter, and should be re-
peated until perfectly broker, and when
ssrassssd tss Ass. asss .!Ips si,kassslis
horse. +During the operation Gffs haiteir..'
breaking, great care should be-. taken to al.
ways make him walk fast Fast walking
(thc best gait. of liorse) should be part of
his education and he will never forget it in
his after life. We haze had a wide expert
enee with colts, and have yet to find one
which could not be made good walker if
properly trained when young but this is Il
fast age, and walking is too slow to keep up
with. With reference to balky horses,
there are more balky drivers; hence the
driver shall be addressed rather than the
horse, which can be well done by the fol.
lowing from the Farm Journal:


eff you have balky horses, it is your own
fault and not the horses" for if they do hot
pull true there is some cause for it, and if YOU
remove the ssasssrskAasetFscs will cease,
. ass ~ fSsa s6ss "a ID! al ss 81. ! I;ssIs
excited, stop him for five or ten minutes !;
let him become calm, and as soon rs he is
over his excitement he will, in nine cases
out of ten, pull at the. word Whipping
and slashing and swearing only make the
matter worse. After you have handled h iu
a while, and his excitement has cooled, take
him by the bits, turn each way few min.
utes as far as you can, pull out the tongue,
gentle him little, uurein him, then step
before the balky horse and let the other
start first; then you can take them anywhere
you wish a balky horse is always high.
spirited and starts quick half the pull is
out before the other starts; by standing be-
fore him tho other starts first. BY close
to this rule you can make any
horse; pull. If . horse.>has been badly
rpUffed, y6u-snpusd nrst <Hifdn- -ftm 10 81.
'enpty wagon, and let shim draw it around
for q while on level ground; then put on
little load and increase it gradually, carcss.
ing as before, and in a short time YOU can
have good work horse. TurE, Field and
Farm.
Year: 1879

Don't live in hope with your arms folded.
Fortune smiles on those who roll up their
sleeves and put their shoulder TO the wheel
that propeIs them on to wealth and happi.
ness: Cut this out and carry it about with
you In your vest pocket, ye who idle in
bar-rooms or at the corners of the streets
Year: 1879

The gallant Hood is no more He died
Of yellow fever in New Orleans-bis wife
having died of the same fatal disease few
days before him. How mysterious are the
providenccs of God.


The brave soldier passes through the
carnage of battle unhurt, where thousands
fall around him, and is struck down in tho
time OF peace, in great city-onc, of u
very few, who fall before the ravages of dis
ease


Gen. Hood was gallant Captain in the
late war. always conspicuous at the post of
duty and danger. He was Kentuckiau
. by birth land agraduate. of West Point i'm
Year: 1879

There were only two cases at the police
station and both ofthem were dismissed.
The first was that of Lewellan Laws U.s..
James l.. Bailey, both col. Laws charged
Bailey with assault and battery, but said
he did rot know whether he was in
earnest or not


The other was that of q lady and two
small boys who were rarged with Gas
sault with intent to KILL" by some per-
son who was ashamed to put In an ap-
pearance after having sworn out the
warrant.
Year: 1879

The Washington correspondent of the
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin" under
dat- of December lO.h, says Very few
of the leading Democrats want to talk
about the Presidential nomination by
their party next year, but those who
are willing TO say anything are quite
emphatic in declaring that Tilden will
have no support whatever in the
National Convention, and that the con-
test will be between men who have not
been mixed up in political intrigues in
the past to obtain the domination. The
sentiment here is running very strong
Iy towards Bayard, except among the
Greenbaok element in the Democratic
ranks, and this is fierce IN danounoipE
his course and predicting that he will
receive no support from the West when
his name is presented to the convention
next year.
Year: 1879

Ex Senator Stockley, OF Sussex Co.
recently killed black snake, halfway
down towards the tail Of which was a
large bump. The reptile was cut open
and found to contain a porcelain egg
which it had stolen from nest during
the summer.
Year: 1879

Camp Vincent is now the permanent
name Of the place where the Associa-
ton of young men known as members
of the "Gold Room," encamped for so
many days recently, and of which a
full account has been given in this
paper. Two picnics have been held
there and in their letters the parties
have spoken Of the camp Of the above
name.
Year: 1879

Thomas Riley was given hearing at
the police court last Saturday evening
for being drunk. The prisoner said
that he supposed he had been drinking
little, though he knew nothing about
it. The usual fine 80 cents and costs
was imposed.
Year: 1879

This New Gin, under tho Super
intendence Of Captain LITTLE
JOHNS now receiving and undel
full headway. The Gin is new
and complete, with the latest i'm
droved machinery. As good turn
out as any Gin in the County.


CASH and the highest marke
price paid for Seed Cotton. I
Year: 1879

The City Treasurer and his clerk are
busy to-day in preparing fol distribution
among the purchasers the city bonds, the
issue of which was recently ordered by
the City Council for the benefit of the
Board of Education. The amount is
S24 900.
Year: 1879

Between three and four O'Clock this
morning, a large fire was noticed over in
Jersey, about the neighborhood of Penns-
vile. The fire appeared to be quite ex-
tensive, as the blaze could be distinctly
seen by persons in this city.
Year: 1879

We watched q young friend the other
day ~ he hit Of the pasted end OF bis
cigar and fumbled in his pockets for
lucifer and found none, tried to borrow
. light irom every one in the room aud
failed. and still kept bis temper. cool as
an Ice house. all the while. Here nj
Last, thought We, is q matchless man.
Year: 1879

From the Cincinnati Commercial, Aug. "a
The veritable Nasty had an expert


ence last evening, just such one as


he probably never had in all his Cross


Roads life before. The story is beet told


In the form Of an interview. The Rev.


Petroleum started in about as follows


~ had been in the Enquirer Office ar


ranging for an advertisement, and was


waiting for . proof from the printer,


Willing away the time, as the Office


was unbearably hot, with cigar at the


door. A man approached me and asked


what l was doing there. Ireplied that


| was attending to my business, where


upon he said | must get out of there.


| replied, 4 am attending to my affairs


here; ! have nothing to do with you,
and will not get out Of here Where
upon ..e said, Young man, you come
with me- and he displayed a badge
and exhibited himself as a policeman.
He told me to come along. said, 4
will go with you, as you seem to repre-
sent the law, but l don't know Why
you are taking me. can walk as far
you can, but if we get tired I will hire
a hack So away We went. He took
me up the street few blocks, and
finally landed in the station house.
There l underwent singular expert
ence.


'Unbutton your vest,' said one of the
officers. | unbuttoned 1t and two able
bodied officers proceeded to search me.
They put their hands into every pocket
had, and took every thing l had, even
to my worn-out toothpick, my pocket
book, watch, eyeglass, pen knife, the
ring of my fingsr-sverything, in fact,
l had, and it was duly invoiced on pa
per and laid away il a drawer. Then
the Lieutenant sent me inside TO the
'lock up and was inducted for the
first time in my life, into a cell, and
took look through the bars. told
the Lieutenant had business on hand
and must attend to it, and asked him
to telephone to the Commercial Office
or to the Grand Hotel. He was very
gentlemanly about it, and did all he
could. They telephoned to the Com.
mercial office, to the Enquirer offivs,
aud to the Grand Hotel, to know who
was, and then the Lieutenant ssnt for
me to the office, returned my property
in full, took receipt for it and dis
charged me.


81 don't know what the arresting OF
icer told the Lieutenant, but there was
no charge made against me at all. The
Lieutenant simply found out that my
lrrest was groundless and told mo to
70 home. l said: Il am going to see
What l was arrested for. don't propose
% lot this matter drop right here not
much. l was dragged here without the
highest reason in the world, and
intend to see about it, Then the Lieu
enant repeated his go home business,
md left. Thanked God the affair
lid not happen in New York, for If it
lad never would have got my proper
q ha oh ,,
Year: 1879

be ripe in about three or four wee As,
Our orchard is young and will only
bear US about 200, as it is the first
crop. Next year We shall have
1000 or 5000, aud the next $4,000
to 10000. The increase is very rap
id. The shooting here is superb
quails by the million, and large game
plenty in the mountains ten miles
away"
Year: 1879

ITs beyond possibility to make
mention Of every individual who
came among friends in Mineral Point
to spend the holidays, but we can
extend to them happy New Year,
and as much good cheer as they may
mind to measure out. Will be glad
to see each of you, give US call.
Year: 1879

THE Masonic installation al the
Masonic ball on Thursday evening
was greatly enjoyed by all who par
sicipated The committee of ar
rangements succeeded admirably in
making each and all feel perfectly
at home.
Year: 1879

A Massachusetts teacher writes to the
National Journal OF Education describing
an experiment in the school-room which
seems to be successful. Instead of facing
his pupils he has his desk behind them,
and thus overlooks them to n great ad-
vantage. The naughty little ones, not
knowing when his eye is upon them. dare
not whisper and play. They have" he
says, so frequently come to grief in at
tempting to calculate chances, that they
have concluded to make virtue of neces-
sity, and give up play in the school-room
rs Improbable, costing more than it com es
10. Another decided advantage of this
system is that it completely isoates classes
reciting from the rest of the school; the
recitation benches being in front of the
teachers desk, between him and the
school, and the back of the pupils being
toward each other. communication by look
or sign is out of the question. The only
special rule made is that pupils should not
look round"
Year: 1879

LIrEGIyING VAroEs.--A stranger
would imagine that a hospital for con-
sumptives had been established at the
Belmont oil works when passing there on
u fine spring day. Sickly looking men,
more shadow than substance; sparsely
built females, and mothers with delicate
little ones may be seen passing up and
down in front of the works, their mouths
continually open, rs though they desired
to inhale all the by no means fragrant
vapors which proceed from the stills. Such
in fact is the reason for their presence in
the neighborhood. 1t is the theory that
the vapor gas from the boiling oil is a
sure cure for sore throat and lung dis
eases, and numbers 90 to the spot each
day. The employees of the works are
among the strongest advocates of the
theory. About fifty men are engaged al
the refinery, .and although they are sub
jected TO all the vitissitudes of the
weather, and work in the open air the
winter through. pulmonary complaints are
unknown among them. This is true also
of the four hundred people employed nj
the Standard works at Point Breeze The
people in the vicinity of both refineries
also enjoy remarkably good health. 1t is
stated on good authority that some years
ago, when the small pox was raging in
the city, the neighborhood adjacent to the
refinery, which was then situated at Hes
tonville, was exempt from the contagion
and that no signs of it appeared along
the streets under which were the drains
through which the refuse from the stills
passed. Crude oil is also stated to be q
good remedy for pulmonary complaints
Formerly large numbers Of consumptives
were in the habit Of obtaining supplies
from the relineries, and some wonderful
stories are told of individuals on tht
brink of the grave who have been brough
back to the vigor of manhood by clos,
application of the greasy, coffee coIoret
liquid. Philadelphia Record.
Year: 1879

A Boston correspondent of the London
Guardian, a church of England organ.
who is evidently little sensational,
writes: The number of unemployed
clergy is becoming public scandal.
Many of them with their families. are
reduced to the greatest distress. They are
forced to give up one place, and 60 almost
hat in hand. begging for some other
degraded in the sight of the community,
and, most of all, in their own eyes. Cler-
gv in the east are writing to the west to
try try and find something to do there; clergy
from the west arc coming back to the
east to besiege worried and helpless bish.
ops for vacant parishes here. And clergy,
both east and west are beginning to talk
seriously of the necessity of giving up the
ministery and returning to secular work
for the support of their families
Year: 1879

WHAT MAKES THEM HUM.-Most boys
believe that the humming sound made by
the telegraph wires is caused by the mes
sages hurrying along to their destination.
Most men believe that this sound is
caused by the vibration of the wire in the
wind. A writer in an Austrian journal,
however, calls attention to the fact that
one who gives close observation to both
the wire and sounds will find that the lat
ter made themselves obvious likewise
when there is Il total absence of wind ;
and in quiet morning in winter, when
the wires appear covered with frost to the
thickness of finger, they nevertheless
carry on lively vibrations and swinging,
while the air is totally quiet According
to this writer, therefore, The vibrations are
due, not to the wird, but to the changes OF
atmospheric temperature, and especially
through the action of cold, rs II lowering
of the temperature induces u shortening
of the wires, extending over the whole
length of the conductor. A considerable
amount of friction is produced on the sup
porting bells, thus inducing sound, both in
the wires and the poles.