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Year: 1879

X NEW school law was passed hy our legislature. One of it's good provisions is the apportionment of the school fund to the various districts in proportion to the number of children in each. Formerly the apportionment was based upon the number of child ren in actual attendance during cer- tain months. If, therefore, any dis trict should run short of funds, and could employ no teacher during those months, it would get no share of the school fund at the next succeeding appOrtionment.
Year: 1879

Miner says: We are informed that the post-ofiice department will, at an early day order daily seevice on the route between Prescott and Phenix via GiIlett. F are also authorized to state than Messrs. kearns and Griffith will make the line in every particular the best that has ever been established in the territory. New coaches and the finest stock will he one of their efforts in the direction of making this the star line of Arizona.
Year: 1879



 The United States offer the best 'homes for immigrants, after1all. Some time ago a num- Der of English artisans chiefly mill hands, left Massachusetts to return to the old coun- try but men of the same trades are now flock ing hither from several parts of England and Scotland. Somewhat earlier, number of persons of various nationalities hoping to bet ter their condition, formed small colony to go out from New York to Brazil. The whole colony, or those who survived of them, return cd here much wiser, but not quite so rich as when they left. Last week another expert ence was exemplifed of the same sort. A party of Russians arrived at this port from Rio after sojourn in Brazil that led them to believe that even Siberia must be preferable to it. Land was indeed given them for nothing out there but nothing would grow on it. So now they are all very glad to come to Ameri- ca, and they are going out to Kansas to make as they hope, permanent homes Russians make very good citizens, especially when they have no knout or exile to be afraid of, and America will be glad to welcome as many of them as may have the power and the will to emigrate to her hospitable shores.
Year: 1879

Postmaster General Key, in q. recent con- versation about his summerstrip in New Eng land. said: *8 465

 Il had never heen in New England untH recent years and never spent much time there until this summer. 1 confess 1 had no concep- tion of the natural beauty of the country, the wealth of the population, taken as a whole, the extent and perfection of the machinery which drives her vast manufacturing interests. In fact all the machinery ever saw in my life before seems ridiculous when compared with what saw in New England. It was reve- lation. These people are of the same general stock as the rest of us but they are immsnsely aheads They have made it themselves. A large majority of the men with whom I was thrown in contact--the originators, owners and directors of this vast manufacturing sys- ground and built up, and I cannot see that they had one particle of advantage over any other section of the country to begin with"
Year: 1879

The Rev. w. H. H. Murrays eastern friends have heard nothing from him since the publ- cation of hls open letter. Some three years ago. in the course of a conversation with an intimate friend upon his future prospects in life and the vicissitudes of fortune peculiar to the times, feeling of sadness seemed to come over him, and he remarked that if ever any misfortune should overtake him he would abandon civilization, and with rod and gun would seek out some wilderness, far from the haunts of men, in which to pass the remainder of his days. It IS surmiseds that he may be carving out this plan. s-sa-
Year: 1879

SAMPLES of the artistic work of
JAS. V. Dabb, photographer, found
their way to the critics table of the
"Practical Photographer" a journal
published at ST Louis, and devoted
to the elevation and advancement Of
Photographic art. The criticisms,
which appeared in the February
number, were outspoken and brief,
givinS jimmy great praise for his
work and taste. A few defects were
referred to, but on the whole the
work was acknowledged to be above
the average, and intimated that with
proper attention to the business
our young friend would rank among
the first artists of the country in a
short time.
Year: 1879

A PRINTER who is acquainted with
business man that don't advertise
gives this portrait of said individual:
Talk about woman without ba-
by, a man without q wife, a ship
without a rudder--what is the lack
of these individuals or thing to that
of business man without an adver
tisement? He is hopeless cuss, a
'goner,' in the community. Talk of
being successful in business Might
as we'll talh Of ascending to the
moon on a moonbeam. People point
at him and say Poor fellow, he has
a lean and hungry look 1t may,
however, be consoling to him to re-
feet that when he dies be will be
advertised at last, aud gratHitously
at that"
Year: 1879

THERE was trial brought up be-
fore Justice Thomas Monday,where-
in plaintiff demanded of defendant
the sum of twenty cents, which is
claimed was due on four glasses of
beer sold some three or four years
ago. At that time defendant was a
amor, and ere the matter is settled
its likely the plaintiff viii wish he
had not begun. The trial was put
off till next week.
Year: 1879

To relieve us of the monosonous
weather experienced the past week
or two, rain stepped in Monday
morning and continued nearly all
day, and was followed on Tuesday
by a driving snow-storm.
Year: 1879

IT is estimated by different parties
that there is in this city at present
enough wood to do its citizens from
two TO three years. The like was
never known in the history of Min =.
eral Point.
Year: 1879

WE hear and read about in the
local exchanges good mining pros
poets being struck in many different
localities in Southwestern Wiscon-
sin. and in our immediate vicinity. Its
cheering to all classes as well as the
fortunate individuals themselves to
note the revival of such prosperity.
Year: 1879

LoNnoS, December 23.-The announce.
nent was made yesterday and extensively


circulated and placarded in London and
provinces stating that the Attorney GEN.
eral having granted his fat for q writ OF
error IN the case Of the Tchborne claim.
ant, en- association Is being formed to as. as
sist In the prosecution Of the fat TO obtain


q remission Of the sentence against the
claimant, to promote the passage OF a bill
In the forthcoming session Of Parliament
for the reversal Of judgment In the case,
evidence on points of mistaken identity
being forthcoming, and for the restoration
Year: 1879

The officers of The Law in Cedar Creek
Hundred sold a poor mans household
goods few days ago, under distress
for rent, and would have taken them
away while his wic was SO sick in bed
that she could not sit up, had not a
friend come in and entered security for
the payment of the rent inside of six
months. This is done under our sys-
TEN of lesslating for the rich and
against the poor. 1t is but fair to say
that the landlord who pushed the claim
to such an extent was not man,
"Miliori News"
Year: 1879

The great revival Of last winter, dur
ing which some forty new members
were taken into the church here, have
nearly all gone back into the world.
Some of the professed converts now get
drank and are no better in their lives
than they were before. Doyou think
they We're ever really converted! We
would answer oar own question III the
Affirmative, with the qualification, in
their heads but not their hearts, -
"MilfOrd News"
Year: 1879

There is not enough care taken on
the part of many parents and teach
ers TO be civil tochildrcn. Children
are taught-or have been and ought
to be-tb be respectful to their par
entS and older people; but the con-
verse obligation is not often enough
insisted on or practiced. There is no
reason in this. If there is more in
older persons to call forth respect
which, may uot always be true, there
is always with them or ought to be
more capacity for showing respect,
more knowledge and judgment and
practice in courtesy. They are thus
booked upon with propriety by the
themselves as models in this partic,
ular. The pattern is often II poor
one. There are teachers in our
schools who have yet much to learn
in this matter. They will fndt them,
selves repaid, they may be sure in
many ways, apart from the public
benefit, if they will be civil to their
scholars, after the most genuinefash
ion, and with most scrupulous care.
Year: 1879

Never cast aside your friends if by
any possibility you can retain them.
We are the weakest Of spendthrifts
if we let one friend drop off through
inattention, or let one push away
another, or if we hold aloof from one
for petty Jealousy, or from needless
slight or roughness. Would you
throw away diamond simply be-
cause it pricked you2 One good
friend is not to be weighed against
the jewels Of all the earth. If there
is GOODNESS or unkindness between
US, let US come face to face and have
it out-quick, before the love grows
cold. Life is too.short to quarrel in,
or to carry black thoughts of friends.
1t is easy to lose a friend, but u new
one will not come for calling, nor
make up for the old one when he
comes.
Year: 1879




1t is curions thing that among
the Russians the father and mother
ofan infant not only cannot stand as
sponsors TO it, but they are not allow
ed to be present at its baptism. The
godfather and godmother, by answer
ing for the child, become related to it
and to each other, and lady and
gentleman who have stood as spon-
sors to the same child are not allow
ed to marry each other. In christen.
ing, the priest takes the child, which
is sQuite naked, and, holding ii by the
by the head, so that his thumb and
finger stop the orifces of the ear, he
dips it thrice into the water; lie cuts
off a small portion of the hair, which
he twists up with 4 little wax from
the tapers, and throws into the font;
then, amounting the baby's breast
hands and feet with the holy oil, and
making the sign of the cross with
the same on the forehead, he con
cludes by prayer and henediction.


The Wabash Railway Company
has ordered that no work be done on
Sunday that can be performed on the
secular days of the week.


a Philadelphia physician asserts
that tobacco is us injurious as whis.
ky. Perhaps it is but it does not
make your nose so red,


1t is better to hang around a sensi,
Ill lLlllLLLLlmllmLIIlH
Year: 1879

AN ACT to amend section one hundred and thir-


teen, chapter ten of the revised statutes of 1878


to furnish stationery to the chief clerk and SER


geant-at-armS of the senate and assembly, to an


eral duties.


The people of the State OF Wisconsin, represented


in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:


Section l. Section one hundred and thirteen of
chapter ten of revised statutes of 1873 is hereby
amended by inserting in said section after the word
lowing: "AlSo sufficient stationery to the chief
clerk and sergeant alarms of the senate and as
Semely to an amount necessary to the discharge of
their several dutieS SO that said section hun
statutes of 1875 shall read as follows: Section ia
The superintendent of public property shall fur
nish annually stationery as follows: To the lieu
tenant governor, each member OF the Legislature,
chief clerk and sergeant at arms, not exceeding
thirty dollars in value; also sufficient stationery
to the chief clerk and Sergeant-at- arms of the
senate and assembly to an amount necessary to the
discharge of their several duties. To one reporter
proceedings of the legislature, twenty dollars in
value; such stationery to be furnished to such re-
porterS only upon the certificate of the publishers
of such newspapers that they have employed the
the entire session of the legislature and that they
will publish in their papers the daily proceedings
of the legislature, With the Endorsement thereon
of the presiding officer of the house in which such
ing his duties. But one person shall be entitled to
draw stationery as reporter of any newspaper, and
noIperSOn shall draw stationery from more than
one branch of the legislature; and such superin-
mitteeS of the Legislature upon the written request
of the chairman thereof, the necessary amount OF
stationery, not exceeding five dollars in value, to
each such committee.


Section 2. This act shall take effect and be IN
force from and after its passage and publication.


Approved January l6, 1872
Year: 1879

at is not mush and milk, nor honey,
nor molasses," says calmly and crit1-
cally Cincinnati journalist of the sing
ing of an operatic star, "but as sweet to
the ear as the product of the flower to
an appreciative and industrious bee
so soft and sweet that it seemed as a
chain, linking time to eternity, and
whose links were forged on the silver
anvils of concord with hammers ofgold."
And Bloomfield lind. paper remarks
on the subject of capital punishment,
"Call conclave of hell's friends and
offer salvation as standing prize
through all eternity tothe goblin damn
ed that can devise an instrument more
hellish than the gallows, and see if our
dear old Christian gallows will not bear
of the prize against all the inventions
of hell for ages. The Democrat has
spoken"
Year: 1879

A GERMAN physician maintains that
both the vegetarians and meat-eaters
are on the wrong tack, that vegetables
are not more wholesome than meat or
meat than vegetables, and nothing is
gained by consuming a compound of
both. Whatever nutritive qualities
they possess, he says, is destroyed in
great measure, and often entirely, by
the process of cooking. All food should
be eaten raw. If this practice were
adopted, there would be little or no
illness among human beings.
Year: 1879

A JUDGE in Maine has decided that
a stake put up as an election bet can be
recovered, provided that notice be Civ
en- to the stakeholder ere he has paid
the money over to the winner
Year: 1879

THE Canadian government has de-
manded from Morse & Co., who nave
sent in the most favorable tender for the
Pacific railway contract, statement in
detail Of the method in which they pro-
pose to carry out the work. The reason
for this course is said to be that the en-
gineers of the departments do not be-
lieve it possible for the contract to be
completed for the sum rendered for.
Year: 1879

ANACT appropriating twelve hundred dollars to


the state board of health.


The DeopIe of the State of Wisconsin, represented
in Senate and assembly, do enact as follows:


Section l. The secretary Of state is hereby au-
thorized to publish such number OF the annual
reports of the state board Of health for the year
1873 andI of each Of its annual reports hereafter.
and Of such reprints of separate articles from any
state board of health: pTouided that the number OF
it annual reports thus published be not more than
eight thousand copies in any year. which shall be
in addition TO the number provided Tor in section
three hundred and tnirty-six OF the revised stat
utes of the state. The secretary OF state is also u
thorzed to to be bound in cloth not TO exceed
two hundred copies OF any of such annual reports,
for the exchanges of said board.


Section = There is hereby appropriated annual
Iy sum which shall not in any year exceed twelve
hundred dollars (fl20s), for the printing binding
and distribution of the reports and reprints from
reports hereinbefore provided for and Tor the fur
ther aid OF the board in making such sanitary In
yestigajons it may deem for the Interests OF the
health and lives of the people OF the state


Section J. This act shall De in force and take ef-
feet from and after It's passage and publication.


Approved February IL. 1878.
Year: 1879

We have just had foreign guest of
our house in,whom we were all much in
terested-a young Japanese, the son of a
gentleman in northern Japan. He has
been in California more than a year,
and came East with the embassy, pass
ing some days with them at Salt Lake
City, of which place and its people he
says many very funny things. But what
we are going to tell you now is how the
boys sometimes amuse themselves in
Japan. He says that on his fathers place
which is on a large plateau surrounded
by high hills-is an artificial fish pond.
In it are great many fish of species he
has not seen here, that are about foot
long, and very beautiful in color and
form. They are as playful and as tame
as the kittens on our hearths. One of
his favorite amusements was going to
this pond and knocking on the edge of
the tank with some hard substance to
make noise, when every head would be
turned in the direction OF the sound, and
every fin employed in making for him.
the fish expecting some treat from his
hand. If, to tease them, he threw moth
ing in at first, but put his empty hand
into the water with his fingers all spread
out, they would all gather round it and
seize his thumb and fingers in their
mouths, till he had as many fish as he
had thumbs and fingers, playfully snap
ping and biting at them, as we have all
seen puppies do.


But this paradise of the Japanese fish
was often rudely broken in upon. for it
was not kept expressly as plaything
for boys, but was the source which sup
piled the fish for the table. Whenever
fish is wanted for the dinner, the cook
goes to the tank and knocks, and when
the poor unsuspecting things swim up to
her, she catches such of them as please
her, and before they know where they
are going, she has them in the pot or pan
on the fire.


This young Japanese expressed much
surprise at seeing cranberries eaten at
table, and said that in the mountains of
Japan they grow very large and beauti-
full, but are never cooked. Some old man
occasionly goes up to the mountain and
picks large basket of them, which he
brings on his shoulders down to the
town. Here the boys gather about him,
and for small coin purchase the right
to crowd their pockets with them. And
what use do you think they make cf
this otherwise useless fruitP The boys
blow the glowing berries through rattan
tubes, as our boys blow white beans
through tin ones. That's what cranber-
ries are used for in Japan, where they
grow in great perfection.
Year: 1879

Up to this time the girl had not borne
any weight on her feet for two years and
two months. During the hour that
prayer was being offered in her behalf,
the nurse says, great change was per-
ceptible in her color, circulation and
pulse. Miss Judd then referred to her
diary, which was kept by Mrs. Handle
ton, and read the following entries:


Feb. 81 "This afternoon after sitting
up she walked from her chair to the bed,
distance of eight feet, by taking hold of
my arms" Feb. %: Il gave her a
sponge bath, and could not help but
notice the change in the color of her
flesh; instead of the yellow, dead look,
it is pink and full of life." March l:
"This morning she drew on her stock
ings." March Q: "Her chest and lungs
have been strong. She has talked aloud
a good deal, appetite good, color fresh
and clear"


In three weeks from the day the girl
began to improve she was able to walk
all over the room without any one near
her, and in four weeks she was able to
go down stairs with little assistance.
She could walk steadily from the first.
She improved so rapidly that the SWELL
ing of the muscles were almost percepti-
BILE. On the first pleasant day in April,
Miss Judd called at neighbor's, and
everybody rejoiced.


The strange fact of the walking is made
appreciable when it is known that the
spine and large joints had become so
weakened by the hyperasthesia that
they were like cartilages, and if she had
been placed on her feet when in that
state, she would have settled all out Of
shape. They, however, became strong
and firm at once, and have continued to
strengthen every day. Now Miss Judd
can walk long distances without fatigue.
She teaches her class in Sunday school
every Sunday. and her friends say she
looks better than ever before in her
life
Year: 1879

The Dignity of Labor.
Those who toll to earn their bread
Need not blush to own their lot;
They in noble footsteps tread,


And claim to live have got.
Toll is not the wage OF sin,


For in Eden work was given,
Man was made to work and win
Spoil of earth and bliss of heaven.
He who at the anvil stands,


Striking while the iron glows,
Though he works with horny hands,
Nobly strikes the ringing blows.
Atthe loom, and in the field,


In the shop, and on the soil,
Where men wisely power WELD,
There is dignity in toll.
He who works with throbbing brain
Thinks to teach men how to live,
Writes, that others good may gain,
Speaks, to truth fresh zest to give.
He con claim the manly right


With the sons of toll to stand,
He asserts his mental might,


Helps to bless his native land.
He who lives a life of ease,


Idly wasting all his days
Aiming only self to please,


Filled with pride and counting praise,
Call him not noble man,


Such existence is a shame;
And when ends life's blank span,
Soon will die his empty name.
Labor brings reward and rest,


Educates the latent powers;
And he serves his age the best


Who employs his golden hours;
Working not beyond his might,
Toiling not against his will,
And beneath his masters sight
Glad his mission to fulfil.
AL things labor for our good.


He who made US never sleeps;
He who tills the ground for food,
For his pains harvest reaps.
None who work need teel ashamed,
AS they do what good they can;
lis an honor to be named,


AS we toll, GA workingman."
Year: 1879

The GRANT boom is now booming al


never before. The refrain is taken up Will


vigor all over the country, and the Demo


Gratis are Ginning in the chorus with won


derful zeal aud fervor There are more


Democrats to-day booming the GRANT boom


than are found booming the booms of all


the Democratic Presidential candidates put


together Democratic booms sing exceed
ing small beside the GRANT boom. SEY-
NioUR is nowhere, BAYARD recluso, TIL
DEN silent sepulchre, THURMAN a fugitive
in expatriation and DAVID DAVIS a dead
weight in the Democratic anthem of booms.
| East, West, North and even in the South
the boom comes up in full chorus and seems
to as far exceed all other booms in volume
and power as the artillery of Heaven ex-
ceeds the explosive reverberatons of the
Chinese drecrackcr.


Perhaps the GRANT boom is receiving its
sudden impulse from the fact that the
Democrats have taken hold of it by way of
experiment. as very little In that line can
he done just now on their own side.
STEPHENS and GORDON are booming for
GRANT in Georgia, aud their kindred spirits


in tho other Southern States are beginning
to tune their voices to that lay. 4 WAT
TERsON the last remains of the 'TILDEN
BOOM has recently commissioned jour
neyman boomer to visit Chicago and
tap public sentiment there in regard to
the next Presidency. The result of this
effort is spread over three and a-holf
columns of its space to show the peo-
pie Of Kentucky how the land lies and
what the Presidential outlook now is.
Nearly score of public men, many of
whom are stanch Democrats, were subjected
to the extractive power Of the syphon,
and it was GRANT! GRANT! GRANT, from
DooLITTLE to CARTER HARRISON, includ-
ing SPRINGER and THOMAS HoYNE and
others, who agree that GRANT is "a grand,
" great man. This is the spread that WAT
TERsoN furnishes the people Of Kentucky
as send.olf to the GRANT boom in the Blue
Grass section, and all of Kentucky Bourbon
as it is from centre TO circumference, is bound
to take taste and see how good the GRANT
boom is. If the Democrats have taken
hold of this matter as a mere experiment
OF for the fun of the thing, they will find
that it will stick like wax and they cannot
shake it off at pleasure. Such are the pres
ent aspects of the GRANT boom, and those
who first set this ball in motion have now
only to look on comnlacently and see 1t
boom on to victory. 1t can no more be
90 I,n ;gf, 10 Of Ia.
flood at the cataract of Niagara eau be
made to reverse their action and turn their
current up the stream.
Year: 1879

have strong charms for the Southern mind
The Advetiser and Maa bolts the GRANT
boom, and rebulxes the suggestion of an
Empire, in this wise


The South is neither debauched nor demor-
allied. The South is not ready for GRANT
and the Empire She will never be


The Courier-Jounal must pick Is flint
and try again.