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Year: 1878

THE Pos'-erior, which has devoted much
Of its space since its advent in SIis city to
gross personalities, shameless traductions,
and dirty assaults upon tho editor of THE
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN, and has been
taught that there are blows TO receive as
"well rs blows to give" now virtually
throws up the sponge and retreats from the
field Of its own discontinue with promises
of its future good behavior. We hope its
reformation is real, for it affords us no pleas
mc to even allule to u journal that evnces
neither manhood, sense Of justice, nor a
regard for truth in its conduct and it may
rest assured that, while we have sought no
controversy with it. We have not shrunk
from any encounter 1t has rendered, and
shall not in the future, uupalatahle as the
character Of its dirty warfare may be. If it
had devoted the space that has been dedi-
Gated to personalities in this direction to
matter more consistent with common fair
ness and dcccncp, it would have added to
the measure Of its respcctability as n public
journal; but it has chosen the field and the


weapons, and if it has got hurt, it is tic
| part Of wisdom to retreat.
Year: 1878

THE Gnimus of BEN HILLS late assault
upon the President is apparent. His coll
league, Senator JACK Blows GORnOY, hay-
ing received more recognition at the hands
Of the Administration than he has it be-
came necessary for him to take the lead of
the Bourbon element of Georgia or follow
in the wake OF GORDON. who Is now the
acknowledged leader ofth sham Conserva-
tive wing Of the Democracy in that Stlte.
lie tried to OUtdO GoRDpN in his insidiOusly
selfish sycophnncy to the Administration
and failed. even altor he had gone to the
extent of opposing the TiIDEN l.iihustr.ing
conspiracy. and earning n reputation in the
North, among the drluded mud~ills Of that
section, as a reliable and truly reconstruct
ed or Conservative Southern Democrat.
But his recent hostile cbullition against
President HAYES has served to expose the
hollow insmccrity OF his class. Such men
are to be trusted only while they are
within sight and hearing.
Year: 1878

A FEW weeks ago Ben HILL boosted, by
means Of a convenient and carefully.revised
interview" that he had been mainly in
ftrumental in breaking up the Gllibustcring
conspiracy of the Democracy to prevent the
counting in" Of President HAYES. Now
lie practically denounces that breaking up
MS an infamous act, productive of infamous
results. A very strange constituency HILL
must have, if they tolerate such palpablc
Inconsistency much longer.
Year: 1878

unpreiudiced man in the country will ad-
nit that it is false. HILLS claims upon
Executive patronage were based upon his
political services to the Executive If they
were proper so were also the similar claims
of the men who secured the election of this
slmo Executive. 1t is a poor rule that will
not work both ways.
Year: 1878

JOE BLACKBURN has declared himself in
favor of burning all the bank buildings and
custom houses in the country. What an
ensanguined wretch! He was at one time
in favor Of demolishing the Government
but it wasn't done.
Year: 1878

THE Fiatists although they failed to poll
4 respectable number OF votes can consist
emily claim triumph. All they have to do
is to say, This is our victory and it will
be the same as ii they had won.
Year: 1878

II is evident that the Administration did
not act any too soon in its effort to assert
the power of the General Government for
the protection of the purity of the ballot in
South Carolina. Relying upon the assump-
ton that it would remain an Indifferent, if
not inactive, observer Of the progress of
political affairs in that State, the Palmetto
bull-dozers and rifle clubs had made their
accustomed arrangements to carry the COM
ing fall election by virtue Of force and fraud
Of the most outrageous character 1t re-
mains to be seen whether even now this
legitimate interference by the Government
will produce the desired effect, however for
the columns Of violence and oppression are
already in motion, and it may DC impossible
to stop them. That our readers may fully
understand the basis Of this fear we append
the following extract from a recent editorial
of the Charleston N,~, and Courier, printed
the day before Attorney-Gcncral DEvENs'
letter to District-Attormey NOETHRUP was
made public. The extract requires no ex-
PLANTATION, other than the assertion that
AIessrs LEE aud SwAILs are "rascals" only
in the sense that they are opposed TO the
continuance of mob rule In the State OF
their nativity


The canvass has been conducted with mod
Grafton There are specks Of trouble in
Sumter aud in Williamsburg growing out
Year: 1878

John SHERMAN is not insensible to
the dangerous position he finds himself
in by his crimes. He is audacious but
not so cool as was Tweed, and does not
ask as the latter did, "Well, what are you
going to do about it." On the contrary
like common culprit he hurTies before
the public in an insolent letter, in which
he declares his innocence but at the
same time, begs the Committee Of Inves-
tigation to permit his counsel to be pres
ent at all their examinations. Could a
guilty thief have done more? 1t is the first
thought of an intelligent knave to secure
the aid of learned and skillful counsel;
and John Sherman has followed in the
course Of all great rascals.


He does not dare to await the result of
investigation. He acts like man self
convicted hurrying forward to secure the
aid of friends with his protests Of inno-
cence. But why is his cause found inthe
hands of counsel already on the trail of
the committee before it is even organized?
1t is because of conscious guilt. No
horse thieves were ever more disreputa-
bic than the public believe these men to
be. They are enjoying the fruits of ofli-
cial patronage because of their own work
i'll robbing the voters of Florida and
Louisiana of the weight of their sutfrages,
and thus counteracting the due course Of
the organic law of the land. Like Tweed
these men should be made to suffer. 1t
is impossible, if they are proved guilty
that they shall escape the punishment of
ordinary traitors. Mr.. Hayes may be
and is no doubt free from crime, and if
SO, his abandonment of the White House
is all that the people will demand.


he committee should give the counsel
of Sherman to understand that he must
wait until his client is brought into court.
Year: 1878

JOHN SHERMAN, the fraudulent official
accident of Fraud, is reported as declar
ing that the Potter resolution means and
and is war, and adding in explanation
that Hayes will not leave the White
House i'll any event unless he shall be
expelled by superior physical force. This
bluster is silly. If it shall be lawfully as
certained and declared that HAYES is a
fraudulent intruder in the White House,
there will be no difficulty in getting him
out, and no blood spilled in the process.
But the insolent threat comes at good
time to illuminate the folly of those Dem
ocratic Congressman who have shrunk
from reducing an overgrown standing
army, whose heads acknowledge the
Fraudulent Hayes as their Commanders
in-Chief
Year: 1878

A CONGRESSIONAL EXCURSION to the
farls Exposition is talked of in Washing
ton. The idea is excellent. BY all
means let the whole Congress go-and
stay there five or six years. That is the
opinion Of the \. Y. Herald to-day. 1t
may change tomorrow. But there are
hewsp 'pers that would not object to elect
ing an entire new set for Congress; and
thuS sacrifice the good to get rid of the
bad,
Year: 1878

So GREAT is the demand for the DAILY
GAZETTE that it is only with great exer-
ton we get enough printed to supply the
carriers and make up the mail in time to
secure its delivery. 1t is now regarded
as the cheapest and also one of the mo>t
reliable political papers in the country.
Its course on all the great leading peliti-
cal issues has been right;and had its voice
been needed there would have been no
salary grab" the army would have been
reducedand hundred millions thus saved
lnthe last five years; and another hundred
millions fromreductions in the Naval and
the Civil and Diplomatic appropriations
Year: 1878

Eleven thousand five hundred dollars
were allowed yesterday by considerate
Jury to a gentleman injured on rail-
road car. If this is to be the scale of
compensation there will probably be
fewer accidents.
Year: 1878

IT is only eight months before the
next election and the regular attempt to
make Geo. G. Gorham a living issue Of
the future canvass is being made. An
outsider m ght suppose that the effort to
Or ing man not citizen OF the State in
to the issues of a canvass nearly q year
before the canvass begins, was. in the
language Of the street, stretching things
little. But those who know anything
Of California politics know that any
election not heralded year in advance
by prophes les and threats Of Geo, c Cor
ham, would be no election at all. They
are just as necessary rs the Governors
proclamation. There is only one issue
in this State and that is Gorham. De-
mocratic or Republican success is of the
smallest Importance; the Administration
policy is not worth considering; the f.
nancia question is frivolous. Gorham
Is the only issue worth considering that
the Republican party in the State has,
and that is important enough to last
through all times and seasons. The
Republican who refuses to recognize that
the all absorbing and only issue worth
considering for moment, is Geo. G.
Gorham, is net worthy of the name
Vai!cjO Chronicle.
Year: 1878

NEARLY EXHAUSTED The appropri-
alton made by the last Legislature for
the payment Of expenses of the Consti.
tutional Convention was Sl50,OO0. This
amount has been so nearly exhausted that
only enough now remains to pay the run
ming expenses for the first three days of
next week. After that the members and
attaches will have to work for "glory''
and trust to the libsrality of the next
Legislature for more substantial remun-
Grafton. A San Francisco daily lately
suggested that the Convention botter ad-
iourn as soon as the money was used up,
as Indications were that the new Consti-
tuition would be dear enough Mt the con
tract price. Under the Act calling the
Convention, the Delegates will dodbtle,s
be entitled to pay for 100 days, if they sit
so long, but nothing after that. The
Convention has been in session So days
up to the end of this week.
Year: 1878

IMPORTANT TO SETTLERS. Tn the
report Of Senator Booth on the Senate
bill to offer relief to settlers on public
lands, the difference between pro-emption
and homestead laws is stated as follows :
Entry under the pre-empton laws is a
final proceeding, while entry under the
homestead laws is a preliminary proceed
ing. Entry cannot be made under the
homestead laws till after survey, because
there can be no certain description given.
while pre-emptor can settle before and
is allowed three months after survey to
file his declaration, and his right dates
back to that date. Booth urges that the
hOmesteader be allowed the same right to
ssttle before survey and file his declara-
ton three months after survey. There
is great hardship to the homesteader
because after survey he is held to have no
rights, but is considered trespasser.
The land is given to the first settler under
the pre-emption law.
Year: 1878

THE STOCKTON independent, referring
to the Constitutional Convention and de
bates on the Chinese question, remarks:
There have bsen some good arguments
made during the debate, and some Of the
most arrant nonsense uttered ever before
heard in a public assembly. 1t is moth
ing less nor more than downright waste
of public money squeezed by severe and
cruel pressure from the industry OF the
producing classes, to pay anything at all
for the time spent by windy blatherskites
in decorating their vapid balderdash and
ding donging their sensecss stuff into
the ears of n common sense people. The
people of California understand very
well that it is utterly out Of the power OF
State constitutions masters to make opera
tive any SO called organic law that con-
traverss treaties under and by the author
ity Of the General Government"
Year: 1878

THE Convention on Monday adopted
the report Of the Committee on Chinese
as it came from the Committee with
slight changes. The article as it now
stands is in utter defiance of the Federal
Constitution, and il adopted will invite
a collision and civil war between Cali
fornia and the United States. That is
not all. 1t robs American citizens OF
their personal rights. Ii this article does
does not help defeat the Constitution it is
useless to speculate as to what odlous
measure will. If a reasonable anti Chi
nese clause had been adopted by the
Convention it would have helped carry the
Constitution through when submitted for
ratification .-MorysUtlte AppeGI.
Year: 1878

THE Convention fund will hold out at
present rates to and including Tuesday
next, but no longer. There are two
classes Of Delegates who may not be able
to tarry much longer-those who have
so arranged thsir bus siness as to be pre-
sent to attend thereto at the end of the
one hundred days and those who cannot
afford to remain without pay, or on the
bare hope of the passage of n relief bill
by the next Legislature. But, notwith-
standing the exodus that may be exp ect,
ed by these two classes, there will pro-
badly be more than a quorum left who
will remain at their posts until Consti~


tuition shall have been agreed upon Bee.
Year: 1878

BLAME kicks up row every time he
enters the arena, and he bids fair to have
the Senate in "A hubbub before many
days. On the one hand there jspo doubt
that the Maine statesman has been rath-
er overriding the thing, and again there
is no doubt that the Southern Senators
are rather disposed to fight shy of him.
One speech made Tuesday was like the
sniveling complaint of children at play
of ssme one who had interrupted quiet
and peaceable game. The worthy Whyte
said thare was always good order in the
Senate before Blaine was traRsplanted
from the lower House, and he really
hoped the gentleman would not disturb
the quiet there by stirring up old political
issues. But Blaine will continue to stir.
-Bee
Year: 1878

A D1LAToRY CoNGREas.-It is now
sixteen days since Congress assembled.
OF these sixteen days, FOURTEEN have been
devoted to work and two to preliminaries
for work. Both Houses have voted to
adjourn on Friday of this week-the
eighteenth day of the session-till the
9Th OF January. That will count up
sixteen days, or just as many as they
have been in session, and as many day as
they will have worked up to the day of
adjournment. From the 9th of January
TO the 4th Of March, when the session
must close, there will be but forty five
working days. In this short time all the
Impartant appropriation bills will have
10 be debated, amended by the Senate and
passed for not ono of them has vet left
the House. Besides, there are other
pressing subjects for legislation, such as
ihe Chinese question, the Texas Pacific
Railway bill, the Electoral Count bill,
and financial questions almost sure TO
come up and demand the attention OF
Congress after the first proximo, when
the Resumption Act of 1875 takes effect.
U! course there will be no time left for
action on any important matter outside OF
the appropriation bills and the country
will have to suffer because of the neglect
and cowardice Of its Senators and
Representatives. Their pay, however,
will go on all the same a. if their work had
been honest, and we shall not fail TO heer
from them the usual amount of severe
criticism upon other officers of the Gov
eminent who do not earn their salaries
snd upon great many who dos. r.
Chronicle.
Year: 1878

MANY of the Yuma Indians were
employed IN the construction of the
Southern Pacifc railroad across the
California desert last year, and were
found to be good workers. Employment
is to be given then in continuing the road
from Yuma eastward.
Year: 1878

THE North San Jaun Nevada county,
independent says: A society for the
cultivation Of social and domestic virtues
and tho suppression of Immortality and
vice might be established here, and we
know Of no place whore there is better
field for tho operation of such society.
The harvest truly is great; the laborers
are few
Year: 1878

In the Buckeye District, Yolo county,
grain is actually suffering for want of
rain. Most of the Yolo farmers say that
it is not suffering yet in other parts, and
that it can stand another week, or even
two, Of fair weather.
Year: 1878

CoNKLING says he will not be q candi-
date for next President against Grant,
but will support the General should he be
nominated. Roscoe, however is said to
believe Grants nomination impossible,
in which case it is thought he will not
refuse the nom ination.
Year: 1878

FARMER Down, says: II can make
but little difference to the democratic
party. what the profession of the COVER.
nor ia. provided he is q good democrat. /"
Not bit, but should the governor hap.
pen not to be- a farmer. wont it make
great difference with Farmer Down,
and few of the leading lights Of the
grangers2 Do you propose to act fair in
the thing. or kick out of the democratic
tracesf Speak up.
Year: 1878

During the past two months the wife OF
Mr. Snider, of the firm of Snider & Sons,
the Walnut street paper dealers, has been
receiving letters from man named G. W.
Engle, in which he threatened that unless
she would make an appointment with him
he would make known some questionable
actions of hers with man whom she had
met while out riding on the avenue.


After discussing the matter for some time
with her husband, it was reported to Chief
Zieger, and Officer Ramsey was detailed to
work up the case. Last Monday another
letter was received, making last demand
for meeting, and accordingly personal
was put in the paper making an appoint
ment on Prices Hill at clock yesterday


The parties all repaired thither. The
man was met and when the demand was
made for money, the lady, according to
agreement with the officer, gave him her
ring instead. The officer, who was near by,
was then signaled, and Engle was arrested
without making any resistance.


He did not deny the charge of sending the
letters or of attempting to obtain money;
but stated that he had befriended her by
keeping the matter secret, and simply
wished to borrow few dollars.


This morning the charge was easily
proved against him, and he was given the
full extent of the law-$500 fine and thirty
days imprisonment
Year: 1878

The journeymen stone-cutters engaged
in preparing stone for the basin of the Eden
Park reservoir, to the number of over eighty,
struck this morning


The Board of Public Works fixed the
price of their labor at cents per foot, in
stead of 81 25 per day, as they were here
tofore paid, and the men claim that at the
new rate they can not make over 81 rs or
81 80 per day Regular wages, they say, in
yards, are So 50 per day, and it is urged that
the heat of the season and the bad quality
OF stone they work make their labors worth
fully what they have hitherto been paid


They complain very bitterly at a disposi-
ton to increase the salaries of city EN-,
ployes whose duties are not so arduous, and
to cut down the wages of the hard-working
mechanics and laborers At meeting OF
the stone-cutters this morning committee
was appointed which conferred with the
Board of Public Works. The Board stated
to the men that they could let out the whole
contract at cents per foot, but if the men
would go to work at 8 cents and could not
make fair wages, the Board would endeavor
to do better by them. AS the men refused
to comply with this proposition they will
be paid off this afternoon, and work on the
reservoir will be suspended for the present.
Year: 1878

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE l Third Judicial District, Territory of Arizona, County of Mohave

 Nancy A. Pierce, plaintiff vs.J. T. Pierce, defendant.

 Action brought in the District Court of the Third Judicial District, in and for the County of Mohave, in the Territory of Arizona.

 The Territory of Arizona sends greeting to J. T. Pierce: You are hereby summOn. ed and required to appear in an action brought against you by tEe above named plaintiff, in the District Court of the Third Judicial District, in and for the County of Mohave, in the Territory of Arizona, and answer the complaint filed with the Clerk of this Court, at Mineral Park, Tn said County Ca copy of which complaint ac companies this summons), within twenty days Exclusive of the day of service) after the service upon you of this summons, if served in thls county; but if served out of the county, and within this District, then within thirty days; in all other cases forty days.

 The said action is brought to obtain a decree of this Court dissolying the bonds of matrimOny now existing between the Plaintiff and Defendant, and giving the plaintiff the care, the custody and educa- ton of the minor children of the parties, and for general relief.

 And you are hereby notified that if you fail to appear and answer the complaint as above required, the Plaintiff will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in said complaint, and costs and disburse ments in this behalf expended Given under my hand and the Seal of the said District Court at Mineral Park, this 24th day of June, A. D. 1S7S CALDWELL WRIGHT, Clerk. w. G. BLAKELY, Attorney for Plaintiff.
Year: 1878

CONSIDERABLE gold has been received from the new placers above Aubrey and reports that come in are very favorable. Francisco Sierras, who worked so many years for I. E. West, went over there and is said to have made as high as SIP per day. Finkler took up another flaming machine from the Indian Reserve. The sensational story about Americans being driven out by Mexicans appears to have had little foundation, and was probably set atloat by miners to keep more men from going in there. A saloon has been started at the river, near the mines, and we may soon look for the homicides that usually follow placer diggings and whisky.
Year: 1878

Thus saith of it the Tucson Star:

 The rotten telegraph line is down, and has been for weeks. Hence no report A small boy near Stanwix wanted fishing pole, and helped himself to telegraph mesquite timber" His mother used it up over his back. Repairers are on their way to the break, and hope to secule an other pole before many days.
Year: 1878

IT does not look as if the Quarter masters depot here is to be broken up or abandoned. All army freight for every part of the Territory is to be reshipped at Yuma. Orders have been issued for building four new wagons at Yuma depot.
Year: 1878

CAPT C. VIC. HOWELL might as well come back here tO live. There is scarcely a lawsuit of any importance here that does not cause him to be retained as at torney. He wac here again three days this week.
Year: 1878

A NEW steamboat agent is to take the Ehrenberg office. L. B. Allen went up there on last boat to clean up old business, turn over and quit. Allen has been a good agent for the company and for the nuhlic
Year: 1878

THE late rains have not done much dam age to our new Prescott road. It is one of the best roads in the Territory, though, of course, it still needs little more fixing and will get it.
Year: 1878

money seek investment in real estate and
Legitimate business pursuits-and we
may confidently rely upon great improve
ments in business and general prosper.
ity.


The facts which we have cited afford
much food for the reflection of those who
have control of public expenditures.
They suggest the absolute necessity of
cutting down salaries and the avoidance
of unnecessary expense. Let no new
debts be created where it is is po sihe to
avoid such result. Better bear the ills
we have than fly to those we know not of
better endure inconyeniences aud get
along, for time, without such improve
ments as may be dispensed with,--ToIedo
Blade.