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Year: 1877

ed by false systems of industry and-ed-
ucation, all those facts show more than
labored argument that we change or
perish.


l trust that 1 am not. forgetful of the
great debt we owe the ancients, but we
have derived the best we ever shall
from them. Further mining in that
field should be the work of specialists.
The present hour is so pregnant with
principles, so stocked with phenomena
and so rich in raw material, that we
should try to express its meaning and
imbibe its lessons. France and Ger
many can tell us more now than Greece
and Rome. Science calls on us with
piquant intrusiveness to unlearn our
old traditions in mythology and tradi-
tions, and, unless we do it, we shall
perpetuate the race of learned fools,
and make but halting progress in ma
terial prOsperity
Year: 1877

Ey While schooner from Vallejo
was dropping anchor in San Francisco
harbor the other day a rope attached
to the chain caught by the leg sea-
man named Hughes, and dragged him
overheard. AS he went rushing feet
foremost to the bottom, he drew and
opened pocket knife, and with one
desperate effort of strength against the
pressure of the water he stopped down
and severed the line, having to cut
deep into the flesh of his leg to do so.
AS he shot up almost as swiftly as he
had gone down, he returned the knife
to his pocket, and when he reached the
surface was picked up with only a
lanced ankle as the result of what would
have been dive to death but for his
GOODNESS and nerve.
Year: 1877

The Lewiston (Me.) Journal tells the
following: son Monday evening a
young man of meek appearance called
at clothing store on Lisbon street and
said, Il would like pair of pantaloons.'
The trousers were produced, and the
meek customer pulled off his boots and
got into the bifurcated apparel. He
seemed pleased. Il would like to try
on vest Likewise well-fitting vest
pleased the meek youth. Had the firm
good coat p A nice coat was fitted
to him. sAnd an overcoatT p He was
clothed in very natty over-garment.
AS it did not purport to fit very well,
the gentleman in waiting was asked to
go and find garment little larger.
The garment little larger was brought
Year: 1877

The Boston Journal is publishing
many letters from the people regarding
cheap living and how to get along these
hard times, with reduced salaries and
low wages. This is one:


In a previous article 1 stated that the
average monthly cost of the food con-
sumed by our family of four persons
was $l3.44, and that we had plenty OF
wholesome aud palatable food.


As some of your correspondents wish
to know its variety | give below the
items during the month of October
Roast beef, corned beef, sausages, beef
Year: 1877

Economy is the order of the hour,
and every expenditure, however small,
is expected to give a return in full
value. Every family requires one good,
reliable family newspaper. If such au
article can be procured for less than
one cent for each working day of the
year, we are not aware of it. A family
newspaper should contain carefully
prepared summary of all the news of
the day, both religious and secular and
if arranged so that the two departments
may be separated and read by two in
dividuals at the same time, so much
the better. The family newspaper
should have attractive reading and in-
formation for the various members of a
household. Some portion of the paper
should be devoted, every week, to re-
ligious and moral improvement, to cur
rent secular news, to agriculture, COM
merce, markets, finance, to general
literature, etc., with special depart
ment for the young. Above all, the
family newspaper should be perfectly
pure, and free from any communicating
influences in its reading matter or in its
advertisements. Too much attention
cannot be paid to this feature, when the
press is flooding the country with so
much that is vile and pernicious. To
crown all, the family newspaper should
be untrammelled by any affiliation with
sect or party, and should be free to give
all the good news from and about all
the world. If such family newspaper
can be had for one cent day, it should
be taken by every family in the land.


Such a family newspaper, in every
respect, we find in the NeiU York Ob-
seruer, now commencing its fifty sixth
volume. Progressive, comprehensive,
sound, reliable, pure, it is just what is
needed in your household. Send $3.I5
for a year to the NeaO York Observer, 81
Park Row, New York. Sample copies
Year: 1877

The season of the year is now upon
us when people every rywhere will be tax
ing cold, and in many cases they will
suffer much and die. A little care
would often prevent it. In the first
place, as one of the means to prevent
a cold, the daily bath in Il warm room,
with much friction, is very important.
In no case should the body be chilled.
Use much friction over the chest and
throat, and snuff into the nOstrils lit
tie of the water warmed to comforta-
BILE temperature.


Next, after the bath, take daily exer-
else in the open air, neither too much
nor too little; exposing the body some
what to the cold and sun for short
time, but never exhausting it. One
chief danger from colds is the exhaust
ed state of the body that first ascurs,
so it is not able to resist unfavorable 10
fiuences People who are not very Wig
orous should avoid over exertion and
keep the strength up to the highest
point.


1t will help those prone to a cold to
sleep all they can.


Another cause of colds is eating too
heartily after days work, when there
are not forces enough to digest the food
and keep up the circulation. Eat mod
erately at night, if you would avoid a
cold.


A cold in it's early stages may be
broken up by hat foot baths, warmth
to the body especially hot pack or a
hot bath in the middle of the day, with
much friction and quiet in a comforta-
BILE room. 1t is not advisable to take a
hot bath at night in such cases.


When you have cold don't eat much
or work much unless you have great
physical strength, when a hard days
work may be good thing to equalize
the circulation and restore the action
to the skin, which always suffers wher
one takes cold.-HeroM Of Health.
Year: 1877

with his head on little bundle of his
own. The Chinese are an initiative
race, and like to do as others do, you
know. The lady, as soon as she dis
covered that she had bed-fellow, got
up a little wildly and started for the
next car, to the infinite amusement OF
the passengers, who had been watching
the little scene with some interest.
John took no notice of the fun he had
created, but went TO sleep with the
whole bed to himself.
Year: 1877

forward, but when it came there was
no meek customer there. He had slid
out of the door very noiselessly and
slipped into an alley-way, clad in the
suit and overcOat of the clothing firm.
He left his old clothes in exchange
Year: 1877

The st. Louis Republican says


there lies at the morgue in that city
a corpse, the appearance OF which is
just little more shocking than that


presented by any which has been ex-
hibited there in many months. It's
trunk is intact and bears not even an
abrasion. Its head is wherethe hor-
TOR comes in. The top part OF it has
been crushed entirely off at line
Just above the upper lip, and the ex-
expression of the mouth and chin.
as they remain, would cause ones
flesh to creep. The man was seen
walking among the railroad cars OF
the North Missouri road in the vi
cinity of Wright street. and now
that he is dead some of those who
at first saw him remember that he
seemed very much preo coupled III
mind. Switch engine No. 81 was
running at moderate rate of speed
on one of the tracks between Wright
and Palm streets, and the man stood
by the side of the track and watched
it's approach. He was bent on self
slaughter, but no one suspected it.
It would hardly be sure thing to
throw himself in front of the pilot.
as he might only be crippled and
showed off, so he waited till the pilot
had passed and then plunged head
long forward. His head alighted on
the track just in front of the pom
derous driving wheels. there was a
horrible crunching of skull bones,
the blood and brains spurted across
under the engine to the other track,
the arms and legs worked convul-
sively a second, and all was over.
The engine ran few yards before
the shocked engineer succeeded in
bringing it to q standstill, andsthen
its works were besmeared in dis
gusting manner.
Year: 1877

The New York Heralds Washing
ton correspondent says it is curl
ous fact that in the Republican spec
ulations about the efctions, a Re
publican victory in New York is re-
garded as q defeat for and rebuke Of
the administration.
Year: 1877

DRIFTING sand, out on the Colorado desert, is often serious annoyance to the Southern Pacific railroad people. The co : stantly shifting dunes, are frequently heaped up right on their track. Then the train stops, all ha.:ds turn out to shovel off the sand and the cars come in late, unless the time can be made up, Little blows are attached to the COW catcher of the engines Hey ale let down, by apparatus worked by the engineers foot to within hairs breadth of the rail and can dispose of two or three inches of sand, but more than that calls for Shovels- The wear on wheels and rails is immense, to say nothi g of injury to axles from fine sand getting into the journals.
Year: 1877

A COMPLETE pan with all its gearing5 is now here for t anspOrtation to Aaron Ma son, of Pinal county. It will be attached to the little mill near Hughie's station, on the Silver King road. This mill was started couple of years ago by a locomotive en- gineer and conductor. Boiling water and knocking down fares were things they knew all about, but grinding quartz was something new, at which they failed ignc- miniously. Mason bought the outfit. The engine is good one; the mill consists of d cylinder in which an armed shaft revolves several hundred times minute, stirring up the quartz and powdering it by percussion kind of patent chlrn-bLt it pulverizes ore very wei. The former owners tried to amalgamate the pulp with machine for cooking" it. Mason is now going to try the ran process. It is sad that the first ores woI ked are to be from Whitlow'S mine, the Silver Bell.
Year: 1877

THE new iocomtive house at the upper end of town is now in an advanced stage of erection. It is about D feet ill depth by about 100 on the back, or longest, side and is designed for four ea zines with their tenders. It is built along the rim of il circle having the farther edge of the turntable for its center. Being thus built along curved line, the ridge of its roof presents a sway backed appearance-l:ke the back of an old COW. Seen from distance this peculiar effect would be lost Foundations have been eycavated for three more en- g,ne stalls, but no building is being put up over them. Near by are the timbers, slaves and hoops for an immense water tank.
Year: 1877

AT the new warehouse are some doors for an ice house to be put up by the rai.- road company. They are simply, but strongly made over lining of saw dust and will be fitted into a room of similar construction. At Bakersfield and other points along the Tulare valley the con- pany had ice all through the past summer, which was shipped from Laramie. lee was put in the water-cooIerS of all their pas senger coaches, and now we can look for the same luxury to soothe the hours of travel out here. It is to be hoped that the new ice room will be made large enough to hold ice for sale to our people.
Year: 1877

TIE tramps a e beginning to reach us. California Las been full of them, but so far the Colorado desert has been barrier to their migration to Arizona. They are de- veloping wonderful skill in beating their way on railroad trains. A favurite dodge is to get locked into freight car. Then they ale carried through to the ears desti- nation without molestation. When dis covered, no fuss is made about it, as con- duCtors would get an overhauling from headquarters were it known that such advantage had been taken of their negli- gencc
Year: 1877

MR. F. E. OGILBY has been down here and selected site for the new Carga Mu- chacho mill on the right bank of the Colo rado few miles below town. Surveys and c 'timateo showed that it would cost over Sl5,000 to iay pipe for pumping water out to the mine; hence the idea Cf erecting the mill out t..ere was given up. By laying a side track about 3 miles, they can haul ores all the way down to the river by rail road. As it is tie road can bring their ores miles out of ten. Ogilby has gone back to SaIi Francisco and will ship the mill down at once It is all ready, has been set up for trial and has already crushed some 50 tons of the rock which were sent up there for q working lest. Survey i now being made by Van Arsdale and Townsend for patent
Year: 1877

SONORA is encouraging the re::lrn of her wandering children. Two wagons left here last week loaded with passenger s; two more aIe now here for load. These wagons arc sent h re at public expense and convey passengers back free of cost. Besides tl.is, a bonus of ten dollars in cash is given to every person brought in by the wagons Those, who have gone, are principally women and children. Olc man took down five motherless children and another took four. We have not yet learned whether this expense is borne by the public treasury of Sonora; or whether it is paid by sub- scription of citizens of the district of Altar. Probably the latter.
Year: 1877

THURSDAY was All Saints day. There not being days enough in the year to go around and give each Saint one apiece, this day is set apart every year for all hands, includ- ing those who have not been given day to themselves. In this way none of them can feel sighted. Yesterday was "L La fiesta de los dfuntos '-The feast of the detuLCt, or something like that. It is day set apart for remembrance of and prayers for the dead. Tn custom is commerdable one and might well be followed by other churches than the Catholic. Thursday night the cemetery was illuminated with candles, lanterns and fires.
Year: 1877

SOME years ago one man took 35,0O0 out of the GIla placers in five days. There are men vet in this town who know all about it and will vouch for it. That was done by dry washing. Suppose that man c,uId have turned Little Giant nozzle onto his claim!
Year: 1877

JOHN LEE and his gang of pile drivers were sent in on Wednesday to Anaheim to do the only piling required on the new railroad line to Santa Ana. It is over little stream close to the latter place.
Year: 1877

THE AnaLeim branch of the Southern Pacific railroad is apout finished, and the construction force will be brought back here the coming week. Orders have been given for the massing of iron and ties on this side of the Colorado.
Year: 1877

We are assured that Mr.. Hayes and all
his friends are violently opposed to the
electoral bill, while Mr.. Tilden seeing in
it scheme to elevate him to the Presi-
dency meekly expresses his acquiesence
in the twill OF the people"


Mr.. Eaton, of Connecticut, appears to
have been the only Democratic Senator
too dull of comprehension to see in this
bill trump card for Tilden; consequently
he refused to assent to a measure which,
in his opinion, violates the constitution,
disfranchises the States, and gives to Con-
gress the absolute right to elect the Presi-
dent of the United States. No convoca-
ton of the States General of any European
State or kingdom ever exercised more ab-
solutely the control over the election of a
reigning prince than this bill gives the
Congress of the United States. 1t is not
designed to be permanent. It's provisions
in express terms limit it to the present
election. At the end of another four years,
however, it can and probably will be re-
pealed; q new act will be prepared which
may or may not, according to cireum-
stances, throw the election of President
into the hands of a joint committee
of both houses, or in those of an
umpire, an outsider, perhaps, selected
in an arbitrary manner. The princi-
pie once established that Congress
can throw out the vote of State and
substitute something else, and that
tribunal unknown to the constitution,
composed of members selected from the
two houses, with one or more other per-
sons to be joined to them, and it will not
be long before the expense of popular
election may as well be spared. This
year it is established that committee OF
five of each house and five other desig-
mated persons may elect the President.
Next year it may be the committee of the
two houses especially if the same political
party shall have a majority in both will
be thought sufficient for the purpose; or a
committee composed exclusively of out
siders, or, perhaps, there may be no un-
necessary circumlocution about it, and
Congress declare some aspirant the Presi-
dent This year, there is no doubt, it
will favor the pretensions of Tilden; the
next time it may result in the choice of
some man who, like Peter Cooper, did
not receive an electoral vote.
Year: 1877

American statesmen, humiliated by the
fraud and violence which have pervaded
the country, listen with modified arrogance
to the petition of the women to be allowed
permission to restOrn the natural calm and
character, through the universal suffrage
of all adults, without regard to class, color
or sex. 1t was an impressive message from
the wives and sisters. Seventeen Senators
rose one after the other, each presenting
and reading the title OF petition to the
above effect Senator Sargent expressed
the opinion with some timidity that
female influence would purify elections and
secure a better class of officials. Mr..
Dawes thought it time to consider the
question upon its merits. The other con-
script fathers were meek and mum. The
lady memorialists were surprised at the
cordial reception they received, instead of
the ridicule to which they have so long
been accustomed.


Nobody seems to anticipate how female
suffrage would purify elections and secure
better class of officials. 1t would be be-
cause of the impossibility of organizing
this suffrage upon any party basis. No
partisan or politician would waste his time
in attempting to influence a vote at once
inaccessible from it's social surroundings
and incapable of being concentrated on the
basis of distributable spoils. These pch-
ticians have been building q tower of ras-
cality SO high as to escape the rising
tide of popular retributiOn. Female
suffrage would, perhaps, come with
such a confusion of tongues as to
disperse the impious builders and
suspend their work forever To pour seven
or eight millions of votes into the muddy
contents of the electoral urn would be like
putting pound of alum into a jar of Mis-
sissippi river water at high tide. Wishing
to see woman maintain her appropriate
position in the affairs and affections of men
it would still be funny to witness the dis.
may and desperation of the Hewitts and
Wash McLeans at the destruction of their
occupation by female suffrage. Perhaps the
Electoral College would never trouble this
land again.
Year: 1877

The manner in which the Democrats
traded with Hamlet, of Ouachita, is
shown in his running as Democratic can
didate for the place he once claimed in
the Senate. Both he and Meredith, de-
ceased, were candidates in November for
Senator in the district composed of Cald-
well and Ouachita. Pending the canvass,
Mr.. Hamlet rarely visited his home, as
he feared or pretended to fear the Dem
ocrats would kill him. He received q
majority of the votes cast in Monroe, and
as the Returning Board rejected all the
boxes in the parish, outside Of that town,
Hamlet was declared elected, took his
seat in the Senate, and the oath of office,
and made pretense of discharging the
duties of Senator for few days, when,
not required to wait at the bedside of his
sister, who fell sick on one occasion just
before an important vote was about to be
taken. Hamlet soon after retired from
the Senate, without resigning, and ap-
peared in Odd Fellows Hall, where he was
permitted to make a personal explanation,
and perhaps some kind of a. bargain,
the nature of which may possibly
be guessed at by his now sp-
pearring as the sole candidate for a
pretended election to the place he already
claims. Democrats are asked to
vote for him by the party or
gan on the ground that he has
deserted his party and those who once re-
posed confidence in him. There is an
other Senator with somewhat similar
history. He, too was returned by the Re
turning Board, appeared in the Senate,
took the oath and participated in the pro-
ceedings for few days when he was lost
to sight in the foggy labyrinths Of Odd
Fellows Hall As his contesting rival
has not died, there is no may to placate
him Ia Hamlet II either he or the DEM
ocratic party desired such a solution.


In a few days we shall see Mr.. Hamlet
return with double-barreled credentials
those he already holds from the Return
ing Board and such as the status quo Off
cials of Ouachita viii give him as the re-
suit Of a moot election, whichw we learn is
to be held to-day. Mr.. HamIet's great
virtues were never discovered by the De-
mocracy until he deserted from his party
and bis friends in dangers hour and
broke quorum in the Senate.
Year: 1877

of industry and the camp of enterprise
and progress.


We can see no other basis than this for
adjusting the bitter and bloody strife
which the attack and defense of the
spoils had engendered. The basis will
be either attained by the reforms referred
to, or it will come as the decision of the
famous cause in chancery, by the absorp-
ton of the subject in the costs of the con-
troversy. We have no hesitation or
temerity of making this announcement
upon our own responsibility, and we think
instructions from that element of our own
party whose views we have expressed.
To an adjustment on the basis stated
the REPUBLICAN commits itself, confident
that it will be sustained by the best sense
and sentiment of its own party and the
highest interests and intelligence OF the
whole people of the State
Year: 1877

An assistant organ charges the Demo-
cratic leaders with having hired tele-
graph operator to betray the confidential
communications which were sent over the
line between here and New York in the
fall. Unfortunately for the success of
this rather discreditable transaction, it is
impossible to find all of the alleged dis
patches which the informer reports hav-
ing passed through the Office at Chatta-
nooga. They are not in themselves ofmuch
consequence, as it can make very little
difference to the Republicans of Louisi-
ana whether certain parties here and in
Washington have or have not sent i'm
proper suggestions by telegraph. If the
correspondence OF politicians is to be
used to defeat the popular vote, there
would soon be an end of free suffrage.
Year: 1877

sequence to provoke direct attack,
though it is more likely the assailants are
afraid to ridicule the representatives of the
party that may yet (who knows?) have the
power to dispose of the public printing.
While there is life there is hope, and
the law has not yet been changed and the
contract with the Democrat has not been
formally executed; hence the discretion
which observes silence in respect to the
Odd Fellows Hall, and makes up for it by
the liveliest chatter about the dead lock
in the Legislature.
Year: 1877




sal-volatile, or har,shorn, will restore colors
taken ou; by acid.


CAmphor placed in drawers or trunk viii
prevent the mice from doing them an injury.


To cut whalebone easily bold it in the hamo
Of lamp NJ instaut and you can cut it with
shears


70 stain OAK color, take equal parts Of
American potash and pearlash, two ounces
each, to one quart Of water. Use carefully,
as il will blister the hands.


Ink stains may easily be removed from cot
ton or linen by washing the spot that is stain
ed in saltwater. This should be done previous
to being Washed with soap, for soap sets the
color.


The upper part Of kerOsine oil lamp after
standing short time frequently gets oily from
the condensation Of the vapor Of the OIL
This will be greatly, II not entirely, prevented
by taking a piece Of felt aud cutting bole in
It so as to ct exactly round the socket trim
the felt so as TO leave rim about half an inch
vide, and place tits felt ring on The soese,.