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Year: 1877




ready for defensive fighting, but
even the "fretful porcupine" does
not constantly keep his prickly
feathers set ready to puncture ever
thing and everybody that approach
es. He waits for offences to come
and then prepares quickly to repel
them. We like to do battle for the
right; to set forth plainly all griev
ances and to exponse the cause Of
those who are wronged. This is ma
tural inclination. But as we grow
older we learn by experience that
excessive zeal, even in good cause,
is not always con,mendable. 1t
sometimes Injuries those in whose be-
half it is exerted, and prompts them
to exclaim, "Save me from my
friends. In this Ii ght we regard
communications which we have re-
ceived recently touching matter
that occurred in this city two weeks
ago. We fear that their publication
will injure those whom they are in
tended to befriend, and have, there
fore, laid them aside after mature
deliberation.


Reports from Europe so far
verify our prediction, that Russia
would not find the conquest of the
European provinces of Turkey a
holiday affair, if even the latter were
left to contend alone with her pow
erful foe. The Turk is not SO i'm
potent as has been told nor is his
government so utterly impoverished.
The facts which are developing show
much that is contrary to previously
prevailing notions, and even the
anti-Russian party in England con-
cede that there is no imperative ne
cessity for rushing Immediately to
the relief of Turkey. Russia's move
nents have not been sufficiently
rapid to take the Turk by surprise
and the latter shows himself to be
vel! prepared for the war. AS yet
it is impossible to conjecture the
duration of the contest, but the in
dications are that it will not be so
protracted as was first believed.


We publish this week a supple
n,ent containing letter of Senator
Smith, of St. Paul, on the bond
question. 1t is we'll enough that it
should be attentively read, for the
people ought to. understand this
question thoroughly before they
vote upon it. And we may remark
here that this is our excuse for de-
voting SO much space to it this
week. : We do not ask any man to
vote for or against the measure.
Every one ought to make up his own
mind, and our aim is only to give
them such information as will en-
able them to do this. Having been
cognizant Of every phase of this
question from its inception to the pre-
sent day, we feel thatsitis a duty we
Year: 1877

Z
Thsugh We have quaffed the bitter cup
Held by thy stanger hand,
The law inviolate keep,


And spurn thee from the land.
We stand beneath the Union flag,


Still trusting in our right;
But press us not; people wronged


May show peoples might.
No Estate rights heresy" now clouds
The justice of our cause;
No shade Of slavery now dims


The lustre of our laws.
Go back to thy far Northern home,


Thou thing that freemea hate!
Go live, the scorn Of honest men,


Debaucher Of the State
The clouds that on our hopes you cast
Time soon shall drift away;
The morning light is breaking fast


On new and brighter day.
Here where you sowed the seeds Of strife
Two races blessed shall stand;
Their lights inviolate maintained,


While justice rules the land.
The law supreme in peace shall sway


The soldier and his sword
And all shall bless the happy day


They trusted Hampton's word.
Year: 1877

A Long Island Judge thus settles the
question ofscholastic corporeal discipline,
not forgetting that he was once a boy =
"No hard instrument, such as ruler or
ferrulc, should ever be used in furnishing a
pupil. A tough whip should be used, but
not on the hands, nor feet, nor head, and
if common sense, natural instinct, or some
dim recollection of tho past does not call to
mind the suitable place Of application the
teacher should study anatomy and find out. u
Year: 1877

A witty writer has observed, with much
truth, that every man is, in sense, three
different men. Ir the first place, he is the
man he thinks himself to be; in the second
place he is the man other persons think him
to be; and, finally, he is the man that he
really is.
Year: 1877

LAND AND WATER Elsewhere we
have given brief sketch of the fearful
railroad accident in Ohio. and the same
mail brought the details of fearful loss
of life by shipwreck off the coast of Long
Island. The ship CfrcaSSian was wreck
ed on the night of December 30th and OF
the 80 persons on board but four were
saved. The remaining % lashed them
selves to the masts, which were of iron
and when by the violence of the waves
the masts went over the sides they sank
Immediately with their loads of human
life. The shore, only six hundred feet
distant was lined with men anxious to
give relief, but every boat that was
launched was driven back upon the
beach, and their exertons thus rendered
poweress.
Year: 1877

With the present issue the WEEKLY


TRINI1Y JOURNAL enters upon its Twen-
ty. Second Year and Volume. In the
past, we believe the JOURNAL has ever
compared favorably with its cotcmpor-
aries not more favorably situated, and
has gained for itself the reputation of be-


ing the best local paper ofthe State. To
maintain this position will be our aim in
the future, and that we may be enabled
10 do so, we invite the cooperation OF the
people of Trinity County. Much OF the
prosperity Of community depends upon
the efforts of its local paper, the success
of which is necessarily governed by the
patronage it receives. For the liberal
support given the Journal IN the past,
we are truly thankful, and respectfully
solicit continuance of the same during
the year upon which we have just entered.
Year: 1877

A RADICAL CHANGE.--A special cleo
ton was held in Senatorial Distrlc; OF
Indiana last week to fill vacancy caused
by the death of the former incumbent,
the District having heretofore been Dem
ocratic. The complexion of the State
Senate depended upon this district, giving
the control of that body to whichever par
ty carried it. The election resulted in
favor of the Republican nominee one of
the counties, which gave Tilden 800 ma
jority, giving the Republican candidate
majority of 100. Perhaps the Hoosiers
do not like the war talk INDUCED in by
the Democratic leaders in Indiana, who
are "willing for any peaceful solution
Of the question provided it results in the
inauguration of Tiden and took this
manner of showing it.
Year: 1877

SOME persons seem utterly incapable
OF approaching generous act. Merely
because Il young man calls on a young
lady half dozen evenings during the
week, and occasionally drops in between
meals, there are people mean enough to
insinuate that it means something besides
anxiety about the heath Of her sick
mutLer.
Year: 1877

THE postmaster Elector complication
of this campaign ought to be of great
benefit to the female population. 1t will
be necessary hereafter to fill the post
offices with women. who are not likely to
be nominated as Electors. This is the
true idea of civil service reform.
Year: 1877

Miss SUSAN TREwELLA, young lady
living on Ridge street, Virginia City,
near the Julia mine, met with serious


accident the other day. While swinging
she lost her hold and fell to the ground,
breaking both her legs above the knees
and fracturing her jaw bone on the left
Year: 1877

PARIS has grave difficulty to solve,
what to do with her dead. For ten years
has this subject been under consideration,
and Baron Haussmann complained that
the dead gave him more trouble than the
living
Year: 1877

TURKEY refuses to accept the PROPOSE
tions brought forward by the conference
of the Powers, and the situation is said to
be critical. War appears inevitable be-
tween Russia and Turkey.
Year: 1877

IN giving the value of packages de livered to express companies for car riage, it is better to exactly give it than to underrate it. The United States Circuit Court in Louisiana recently rendered a decision against a bank and in favor of an express company, for the difference between ihe charge on 5000 and $l0,O0O-the latter being the true value and the former that giv- en by the bank. This decision estab- fishes the fact that an express com pany can collect charges according to the true value of a package. no matter whether the shipper gives it or not.
Year: 1877

THE ALTA reports D. D. Co'ton, a director and the financial agent of the Southern Pacific railway, as saying:

 Business has become, temporarily, so dull, in consequence of the short crops. that it has been seriously pro posed to cease all railroad construction for twelve months. And thIs will quite likely be decided upon, with the exception of finishing the new line from BantaS by the Bay shore.

 And yet we hear very close observ- CTS say the company will soon build eastward to Gila Bend or MaricOpa Wells; that they have the rails and other material on hand, and that the advance will be made to efiectually set tie the question of Arizona freights against the New Mexico route
Year: 1877

In Tucson, July 3l, 1877, Don Tomas Or tiZ.

 We are informed that deceased was born at Tubac in this county, and al the time Of his death aged 5; and that he was, in his active manhood, a man of great influence among his people. He was ev- idently a man Of superior ability. We are informed that he was the original grantee of the Arivaca land grant in this county At times he lived and dId business in So- nora, but as whole his life was spent in he was nearly blind and much crippled, for some cause, m his lower limbs.-ED.
Year: 1877

FOLLOWING Is an extract from a Florence letter to the San Francisco Post:

 There are no reduction mills in eiih- CT the Pioneer or the Pine Grove dis lriciS for custom work, and a mill of ten or twenty stamp capacity would net fortune jO any company that would erect one near these mines Miners are now paying from SjO 10 $50 per lon fir having their ores reduced at Globe City, according to the grade of ore, and are willing and anxious to pay the same for reduction in the Pic ncer district There is plenty of work there fol two such teu-Stamp mills. and properly handled Such a mill would yield the owners large income even on low grade ore at $50 per ton. So anxious are the miners that many of chem offer one-half of their ore for the reduction of the other half, and it k probably $500 or S400 ore
Year: 1877

The Board of Education will hold spec
ial meeting this evening at 80 o'clock, for
the purpose of coming to some conclusion,
in regard to heating No l School during the
present winter. "'
Year: 1877

It was at midnight on Friday
when some citizens attention was
attracted by the drawing up in
front of the st. Louis Hotel OF a
peculiar looking vehicle.


At first it was thought that the
wagon was carrying arms into the
St. Louis Hotel, or provisions.
But a very few minutes had
elapsed when three bodies were
brought out on litter aul placed
in the wagon. These citizens at
once believed that some horrible
tragedy had been committed
within the building and the per-
petrators were shielding their
crime by the darkness OF the
night.


Being impressed with this be-
lief, they were determined to fol-
low the wagon, which they did
and were very much surprised
when they saw it halt in front o
the Smallpox Hospital, and th'
| living freight transferred from the
wagon into the hospital known az
Year: 1877

The special committee OF the Brooklyn Board OF Ed
ucaton, appointed TO consider the question Of now
schedule OF salaries Tor public school Teachers has 70.
ported IN reduction OF ton per the
salaries OF oil teachers" Tho committee recommend
also trat tho salary OF FIRST assistants should be $50
In advance OF tho grade salary Of the classes
In charge OF such teachers This reduction IS
urged ia view tho fact that the Board OF Estimate
has made a reduction IA tho tcm OF teachers wages
amounting to fss Ill 9S. As majority OF tho teach
ers IN tho primary grades wBero tho classes
usually large, receive but $500 year, the loss Of $40
from that slender will be severely felt thoso
affected by the ton per cent reduction. Action will DO
taken upon tho report OF tho committee AT Tho next
of he upaFd
Year: 1877

Make home pleasant place for


your boys. Do not be SO afraid of
your best parlor that they may not
use it. Let them have plenty Of
warmth and light, and entertaining
books to read, and musical instru-
ments, and any parlor games they
like. Girlswill stay at home if home
be the dullest place under the moon,
but boys will not. If their young
companions are banished, ifthey are
checked when they laugh, or sing,
or make a noise, if they may not
have the innocent freedom that they
need, under their parents roof then
they will have freedom Of some sort
elsewhere. And there are always
enough ready tobeckon them to places
where the bloom is brushed from
youths round cheeks. A young man
will squeeze a little "fun" out of his
life, and, you want him to be a cred
it to you and to himself, make it pos
sible for him to enjoy himself in
his home. Let the home be q place
to live and breathe in, not merely u
roof under which he may eat and
sleep. a95 q rtm
Year: 1877

I'm sitting at'dusk meath the old beechen tree,
With Its leaves by the autumn made ripe;
While they cling to the stems like old age unto life,
dream Of the days when I'll rest from this strife
And In peace smoke my brierwood pipe.
Oh my brierwood pipe of bright fancy the twin,
What a medley OF forms you create;
Each pun Of white smoke seems vision as fafr
AS the poets bright dream, and, like dreams fades


in air.


While the dreamer dreams on OF bis fate.
The neecy white clouds that now float to the sky,
Form the visions love most to see;
Fairy shapes that I saw in my boyhood's first


dreams
Seem to beckon me on, while beyond them there


CLEANS


A bright future in waiting for me.
Oh my brierwood pipe ne'er loved thee as now
As that fair form and face steal above;
See, she beckons me on to where roses are spread,
And she points to my fancy.the bright land ahead,
Where the windwhistles nothing but love.
Oh answer, my pipe, shall my dream be as fair


When 1t changes to dreams OF tho past7
When autumns chill winds make this leaf look rs


sere


AS the leaves on the beach tree that shelter me


here.


VIII the trees heart be chilled by the bast7
While muslng has gathered around me heap


or the leaflets all dying and dead;
And ] see in my reyerie plainly revealed
The slope OF te's hill in my boyhood concealed


By the form that fair fahcy hath bred.
While sit on the banks Of the beautiful stream,


Plucking roses that bloom by its side
know that the shallop viii certainly come
When the roses are wlthered, to carry me home,


And that life will so out with the tide.
Oh my brerwood pipe may the heart be as light


When memory suppants the bright dream;
When the sun has gone down, may the sunbeam
remain,


And llfes roses, though dead, all their fragrance
retain,
TIL they catch at eternitys gleam
- Cincinnati Gazette.
Year: 1877

sf
walked down the Valley Of silence
Down the dim, voioeless Valley ;-Alonel
And hear not the fall Of footstep
Around me-save Gods and my owni
And the hush OF my heart is as holy
As hoyers whore Angels have flown.
Long ago was weary ofyolces


Whose music my heart could not win
Long ago was weary OF noises
That fretted my soul with their din
Long ago was weary of places


Where met but the Human and Sin.
walked thro the world with the worldly,
craved what the world never gave;
And said: "In the world each Ideal
That shines like star on LIES wave,
Is toned on the shores OF the real,


And sleeps like dream in the grave"
And still did pine for the Perfect,
And still found the False with the True;
sought mid the Human for Heaven,
Buteaught mere glimpse offs blue,
And wept when the clouds of the Mortal
veiled even tho glimpse from my view.
tnd / toIled on, heart tired Of the Human,
And moaned mid the mazes OF men,
TIL at length knelt at an altar


And heard a voice call me- since then
walked down the Valley of Silence
That lies far beyond mortal ken.
Do you ask what found in the valleyY
It's my trysting place with the Divine
And fell at the feet Of the Holy,
And about me q voice said ''Be miner
And then rose from the depths of my spirit
IN aoho .-.uAft haarf abau ha TThfpa
Do you ask how live in the valley?
weep, and dream, and pray;
But my tears are as sweet as the dew-drops
That fall on the roses In May;
And my payer like perfume from censer
Ascendeth TO God night and day.
In the hush ofthe Valley ofsIlenee
dream all the songs that sing;
And the music hoats down the dim Valley
TIL each finds a word for q wing
That to men, like the Doves of the Deluge
The message Of Peace they may bring.
But, far on the deep there are billows
That never shall break on the beach,
And have heard songs in the silence
That never shall float into speech;
And have had dreams in the Valley
Too LOFTY for Language to reach.
And have seen thoughts in the Wiley
All me, how my spirit was stirrdi
And they wear holy wells on their faces,
Their footsteps can scarcely be heard;
They pass thro' the Valley like Virgins,
Too pure for the touch Of word.
Do YOU ask me the place Of the Valley?
Ye hearts that arc narrowed by care?
Itlieth afar between mountains,
And God and his Angels are there;
And one is the dark Mount Of Sorrow,
And one the bright Mountain Of Prayer.
Year: 1877

THE Olympia "Transcript' contains
the following sad account; On Monday
last, two children OF Mr.. Probe, on Lin
coin Creek, the eldest aged about eight
years, were missing from the house about
quarter OF an hour when search was in
stituted for them, and they were found
clinging to each other in the bottom Of the
creek nearly under foot log. 1t WAS
not till after crossing and recrossing the
log several times that the bodies were dis
covered. 1t is not certain, but the circum-
stances indicate that they were crossing on
the log, and that the smaller fell into the
water, when the larger boy plunged In to
assist In rescuing him, and both perished
In watery grave. The water was only
about four feet deep. .... ......
Year: 1877

WE learn that the Goals had hardly
cooled on the ground of the burnt district
of Olympia before some of the parties had
made arrangements for rebuilding. This
is strong evidence that the land owners
have confidence in the prosperity Of that
place. .. .
Year: 1877

No sooner is the daylight let into one gigantic
and fimsey fraud, than our honest, unsuspectng
farmers of Kennebec county are ready to be en-
trapped in the meshes of another. The moving
machine humbug has been exploded, and the
spring bed humbug is now on the carpet; and
there is good deal Of similarity between the op-
erations Of each. A fellow comes along to the
farmer and offers him the exclusive agency in his
vicinity for patent spring bed. The article ap-
pears to be good thing; no money is to be paid
Year: 1877

Clapp has at his store on Water street large
tssortmeEt Of fireworks, which he has laid in for
those who desire to celebrate the Fouth OF July
After the old fashion. OF course the boys should
understand that they ought to exercise the great
est care in thei use of fireworks, that we shall
rot be startled by Q confagration.
Year: 1877

GTATE OF DELAWARE,


y EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.
WHEREAS, 1t appears by the affidavit of Mary A.
Smith, that on Tuesday, the twenty second day of
May A. d., 1877, an unknown white man, about five
feet six to seven inches i'll height dark complexion
and dark hair. and wearing dark clothes, patched
pants and an old hat with torn rim, did, at KentOn
Hundred i'll the county of Kent and State of Della
ware, make an assault upon her and did then and
there teOniOuSly fOrciby and against her will ravish
and carnally know her the said Mary A. Smith. And
WHEREAS, 1t is represented that the said unknown
white man has fled from the justice of this State Now
Ther fore, l. John p Cochran Governor of the State
of Delaware i'll accordance with the provisions of the
act of the General Assembly passed at Dover March
49, 1877 entitled AN act to provide for the arrest of
persons vioaOng the laws of this State and to appro-
pirate money to pay for such arrest do hereby offer
reward of three hundred dollars to be paid by the
said State as provided in said act for the apprehen
sion and delivery of the said unknown white man
into the custody of the Sheriff. at the common Jail of
Kent county aforesaid, at Dover, at any time within
SIX months from the date hereof.


And do hereby request the SheriifS of the several
counties o. this State their deputies and bailitGS and
all other police officers within the State to be vigilant
and to use every exertiOn and all lawful means to
his delivery as aforesaid.


In testimony whereof have hereunto set my hand


and caused the great seal of the State to be
SEAL affixed, at Dover this fourth day of June in


tho year of our Lord one thousand eight hun
dred and seventy-seven.


JOHN T. COCHRAN
By the Governor,


IGNATIUS C. CRUDE,


Secretary of State, iune Cow
Year: 1877

Gen. Lew Wallace delivered the Decora.
ton Day address at New Albany, Ind, and
it was y noble plea for reconciliation and
peace. The keynote of the whole is in the
following extract: 81 move a call for a
convention of the citizen soldiers of the
North and South, participants in the late
war, to consider how full, hearty, per-
fected reconciliation can be effected between
the sections. A few weeks ago | met an
excellent Confederate soldier in the ante
chamber of the White House. We talked
over a battle in which we had been engaged
on our respective sides. AS we were
separating he held my hand and said :
Sir, if they would refer the business to us,
we soldiers could soon settle it, The
speaker was Gen. John B. Gordon, now a
Senator from Georgia. My motion is his
thought put in practical form. Will the
Confederates meet us in convention? If
they do not, we have demonstrated our
good will toward them, and, if the day OF
calamity come again, the reference will
serve us well. If they do meet us-and
believe they willard we resolve ourselves
into some permanent association-as | be-
lieve we can-whO shall refuse our example
five who fought each other in the field, can
forget our enmity, and of our battles even
make bonds Of renewed fraternity, the
civilian and stay-athome will not cry out
against us-he cannot for shame.
Year: 1877

test of fire apparatus which must be Of interest
to all who paronze the theatres In this city, took
place at tho Union Square Theatre yesterday afternoon
The test was OF apparatus 80 inches In diameter
by feet high, and holding 100 gallons OF liquid,
structcd by tho Protective Fire Apparatus Company,
and made in the presence OF Chief Gicque OF tho
Fire Departments Mr.. Palmer, OF the proprietors
OF the theatre, and number OF gentlemen Interested
in guarding places OF public amusement against 1re
The apparatus is placed at tho back OF the STAGE aud
from pipes under the along tho line Of the
dressing rooms the stage proper and to the 1es
and roof, with hose attached. The hrcmcu
present used tho hose leading 10 the fires, with
which they could only apply stream to
any point that portion OF tho theatre but also throw
two streams from the window out the root aud
$50 feet clear the roof Of waacks Theatre
adjoining. 1t took about fifteen seconds to on
to exhaust the apparatus The luid used was water,
impregnatcd with cnrbonic acid gas, which Is con-
sidered to be tho prompt and effective fire cxtin
guisher known 10 science With an apparatus or this
class It Is claimed that fire happen ing anywhere In tho
theatre will be either cxtiuguishcd at once, or kept
under control until tho Fire Department has time to
get It's engines in position and at work. Chief GicQucl
those present regarded tho test with entire sats
faction and the former added his official opinion that
the theatre had in tho OF this apparatus. fully
complied with all the requirements of the Fro De-