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Year: 1879

There will be large excursion and pic
mic at Parlor Grove tomorrow. One of the
attractions will be twenty-five mile walk
ing match.


The Pioneer Society of this city'have ac-
cepted an invitation by the officers of the
Southern Road to participate in an excur-
sion to the High Bridge on the 9TH of Sep.
tember.
Year: 1879

Tne Mount Auburn Street Railroad Company
was granted permission to change the curve at
Court and Main streets.


In regard to the claim of John Crotty of sis7 63
lot work done on Columbia avenue the sum of
s3S, t3 was ordered to be paid to the claimant


The permission granted to the Newport Street
htiWay Company to make connection with a
switch on Fifth street, east of Walnu was recnn
sideied, and the matter made the special order for
next Tuesday
Year: 1879

pended destitute sailors was SO small
that IL would not go very far toward their relief.
sible to discriminate between the deserving and I'M
deserving. especially as the report for last year
showed that only $5 05 had been disbursed Tor the
relief of destitute He was ashamed that the
Board could not show better record in relieving the
wants the sailor. He did not believe In disbursng
$1,000 to a secretary and for Office hire in order ~
distribute SIS among poor sailors. Commissioner
Ferris expressed the opinion that all the FUNDS
should be devoted to the beneht OF the sailor, and
purpose of distributing the same. The Secretary.
Commissioner Wells. thought it was as much benefit
to the sailor il he obtained good to sleep in
to furnish him with suit OF clothes and the money
last year was expended in looking after boarding
house Keepers ana making them Keep thelr houses
he was in favor of going to the full extent OF the
fund in the of distributing relief to the desti
tute sailor. Commissioner Ferris amendment was
then adopted.
Year: 1879

To THE EDITOR OF TIE HEnALD:-


AS veteran of the old Sixth Army corps cherish
pride for the red cross. under which served In
tho campaign Of 1864. The Sixth corps purchased
that and paid for 1t on many bloody field of
the late civil The fields Of the Wilderness and
Spottsylvans bequeathed to the right of heritage
that badge, with which the Twenty regiment
N.G.S.N.Y. now decorate their equipments. Though
the war drum throbs no longer. and our battle flag
is furled, that Is by fading vision.
for we revere it's memory when we saw 1t floating
in the air. do not desire to deprcciatc the citizen
soldiers, for their ranks have produced heroes yet
do protest against their wearing of which the
old Sixth corps is alone the heir.


ADJUTANT FIRST DIVISION.
Year: 1879

me in behalf of the bank The proceeds Of this
property are necessary enable me to declare the
dividend spoken OF. l hope to receive title during
the present week. deem for the best interest OF
the depositors to sell the remaining property and
make final dividend from the assets. which hope
to be able to do toward the end of April After that
time whatever the depositors may receive will come
out OF the suits now pending against the trustees.


WILLIAM J. BEST Receiver.
Year: 1879

FILTHY CONDITION OF PRINCE STREET.
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-


Please call the attention Of the Street Cleaning
Bureau to Prince street. between South Fifth
and Charlton street. The police have not en-
forced the law about removing tho ico from the gut
ters; in fact, they have not cleaned the gutter in
front OF the station house. The street s of
mud and filth aud there number of scarlet fever
cases in these blocks, especially Mscdougal
street. Please throw little light this dark spot
Yours truly, PARENT IN TROUBLE
Year: 1879

tNorE-Letters intended for this column must be
accompanied by the writer's full name and address to
insure attention Compainants who are unwilling to
comply with this rule simply waste time in writing.
Write only on side of the paper.-Ep HERALD
Year: 1879

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-


Why are not the ashes and garbage removed from
West Forty-ffth street The ash cart comes around
sometimes once in two weeks. sometimes oftcner
but never regularly. II has not been around for a
week and would like to know when TO expect
another visitation RESIDENT.
Year: 1879




Bayard street is in filthy condition. Why don't
those who the cleaning of the streets about
ty II is filled with holes and filth and IL should be
attended TO at once. PROPERTY HOLDER.
Year: 1879

For Burns Strong, fresh, clear lime
water mixed with as much linseed oil as
it will cut; shake the bottle before apply
ing; wrap the burn in cotton wadding
the saturated with the5!otion; wet as, often
as it appears dry, y,withoutIremoving.cotton
from burn for nine days, when new skin
will probably have formed.


Deodorizers. pail of clear water IN a
newly painted room will remove the
sticking odor Of paint. Coffee pounded
in morter and roasted on an iron plate.
sugar burned on hot Goals. and vinegar
boiled with myrhh and sprinkled on the
floor and furniture OF the sick room are
xcellent:deodorizers.


Liqht IN the Sick Room.- .--Alpheus has
been having a long spell Of tever, and it
was necessary to have a light burning all
night in his room. We live out in the
country, so 20 gas was accessible. Candles
fickered disagreeably, and a kerosene
lamp when turned low always had an
annoying smell for an invalid, so I
bethought of light my mother used to
improvise, when I was a child. before
kerosene, with its attending dangers,
was known. It was made by taking a
saucer of lard, and cutting piece of
newspaper in circle about three inches
in diameter, then twisting the center of
this up to point and burYing all but the
tip in the lard. It will burn all night
shady dim Highland in our case proved
real comfort. Some of these homely
facts are we'll worth remembering
Prairie Former.
Year: 1879

How much the heart may bear, and yet not
How much the flesh may suffer, and not
lquestion much if any pain or ache
VI soul or body brings our end more nigh,
Death chooses his own time; till that is worn,


All evils may be borne.
We shrink and shudder at the surgeonss
Each nerve recoiling from the cruel steel,
whose edge seems searching for the CULVER
ing life:


~ Yet to our sense the bitter pangs reveal
That still, although the trembling flesh be
torn,


This also, can be borne.
We see sorrow rising in our way,
And try to flee from the approaching i'll,
We seek some small escape-We weep and
But when the blow falls, then our hearts
Not that the pain is of its sharpness shorn-


But think it can be borne.
We wind our life out another life
we hold 1t Closer dearer than our own
Anon it fairts and falls in deadly strife,
Leaving us stunned and stricken and alone
But ah! we do not die with those we mourn


This also can be borne
Behold, we live through all things-famine
thirst,


Bereavement, pain! all grief and misery.
ALI woe and sorrow, life inficts it's worst
On soul and body-but we cannot die.
Though we be sick and tired and faint and
worn;


Lo! al things can be borne.


Good Words.
Year: 1879

BY JOHN BOY LIE ORElLL1.
Where the foot ofthe rainbow meets the field
And the grass resplendent grow,
The earth will a splendid treasure yield,


As the olaen story goes.
IN crystal cup are the diamonds piled
For hill who can swiftly chase
Over torrent and precipice Wild


To find the rainbow's wandering base
There were two in the field at work one day,
Two brothers, who blithely sung
When across their valleys deep, winding way,
The glorious arch was flung,
And one saw naught but sign of rain,
And one feared for his sheaveS inbound;
And one is away, over mountain and plain,
Till the mystical treasure is found.
Through forest and stream, in blissful
The rainbow lured him on;
With a sirens guile it lotered awhile,
Then leagues away was gone.
Over brake and brier he followed heet
The people scotfed as he passed;
But in thirst and heat, and with wounded feet
He closed on the prize at last.
1t is closer and closer-he wins the race
One strain for the goal in sight;
Its radiance falls on his yearning face
The blended colors unite
fEe laves his brow in the iris beam
He reaehes-Ah, woe! The sound
From the misty gulf where he ends his Dream
And the crystal cup is found!
'TiS the old, old story. One man will read
His lesson of toll in the sky;
While another is blind to the present need,
But sees with the spirits eye.
You may grind their souls in the seif-same


mill,


You may bind them heart and brow;
But the poet will follow the rainbow still,
And his brother will follow the plow
Year: 1879

his wife greatly changed and took {
strong dislike to her. So he spent the
whole day in a room apart, with his child
One DAY little bird flew into them arc
tondled them both with it's wings, ano
then it began to sing:
! Sweet be the SUMMERS of the king!
| Night bear his child on downy wing!


But let the gypsy woman lie


Full many an hour with sleepless eye!


One day the false qneen heard the
words and she said to Basilopoulo:


care you not going to tell some one tc
kill this bird. which deafens us dav afte,
day?"


II shall never give you that pleasure,
replied the King, ''for I while away my
time with that bird"


But the Queen pressed him every day
to kill it, and in the end, wearicd out. he
let her have her way. She instantly
ordered her servants to seize the bird and
kill it, but they were to take care not tc
let single drop Of its blood fall to the
ground.


The servants did not attend to her. and
drop Of blood fell down, and from this
drop tree OF great beauty grew up.


One day the King went into the garden
and seeing this wonderful tree, sat down
under the shade of its leaves. Then the
tree dropped down its long branches, clos
ing them about the King: and the King
was so much delighted that he did moi
move from it, and returned every day to
sit there with his son.
The Queen also took it ito her head to
sit in the same place, but the tree, drop.
ping its branches, parted its leaves and
pricked her with it's thorns


Then she turned to the King and asked
him to cut it down.


At first the King refused, but at last
he ended by consenting. So she ordered
her servants to cut it down by the roots,
and not to give the smallest piece to any
one.


An old woman, who was passing, ask
ed them to give her branch to light her
tire. but in vain. Then the old woman
snatched branch and ran away.
When she got home she forgot to put
1t Oh the fire ana left it in the corner.


Every morning the old woman went
out marketing. One day, when she came
back, she found the house put straight,
the lire lighted and the floors swept. She
asked her neighbors if they had not seen
any one enter the house, but no one had
dene so. On the following day, and
every day afterwards, the same thing
took place. .


Once she pretended to go out, and hid
herself in the house, in order to keep
watch. Then she saw woman, as beau
tiful as Nereid, coming out of the
branch; and she Immediately clasped her
in her arms.


After that these two women remained
together, and the elder one felt great
love for her companion, who was so
beautiful and so good.


The news spread about that the old
woman haG in her house lady as beauti.
ful as a Nereid. The King himself heard
OF 1t and sent for the old woman to aues-
ton her. Then the old woman told him
all that she knew.


Basilopoulo at once guessed that it was
his wife, and he sent for her.


So she told him from the beginning all
that had happened to her, and he i'm
mediately ordered that her sister should
be tied to two strong horses and that the
horses should be whipped until they had
torn her to pieces for having pretended
to be the Queen.


And they lived very happily.
Year: 1879

Progress in this section is not alone confined to mines, merchandise and railroads. Agriculture is already an important industry, and we believe the day is not far distant when it may be a matter of prominent consideration. If artesian water could be obtained. ii would greatly promote the interests of our farmers, but even without this there seems to be a large amount of avail. able land still unoccupied. For in stance, until recently it has been sup posed that the mesa east of Tucson was entirely useless, except for the lit tie grass and wood which grows here and there on it's surface. About two weeks ago an enterprising Mexican went about two miles out on this mesa and began sinking a well for the pur pose of brick-making To the great surprise of many, he has found excel lent water and plenty of it at a depth of only SiXty-six feet He is in the midst of grassy plain, where the soil is apparently rich enough to pro- duce any class of vegetation. The proposition of raising the water to the surface is a simple one, for windmills can be employed as etfectually as they are in California. Sixty feet is an in considerable depth, and with a supply of water for irrigation there seems no reason why hundreds of acres in that vicinity could not be converted into productive gardens and grain fields.

 We know of other sections that are equally susceptible of reclamation, and from this it would appear that it will only require big muscle and small capital 10 convert many thousand acres, now considered desert land. into rich and valuable farms
Year: 1879

The statement of the Enterprise that there is no law in this Territory to prevent the legislature from granting .divorces is being quoted "outside ' with appropriate comment. So far as the statute book goes, the Enterprise lis right, and it might say further that there is no law printed there which can restrain the legislature from pass ing any damnable act it may in the density of its ignorance or the corrup. tion of its intentions choose to pass. It may enact that A shall have the property of B without any compensa- tion; or that c shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary or hung without hay ing committed any crime, and the sta tutes will be silent, because they are " repealed by implication every time the legislature which makes them pass es an act which contradicts their terms. But, thank God! there is some power and law higher than the Acts of a Territorial legislature, or even than an Organic Act; and that power and law are vested in the courts, securely, so that any one suffering wrong at the hands of legislature, in life, liberty, property, or vested rights of any kind can have redress, all the statute books to the contrary notwithstanding.

 Let Us see one of those divorces tried, even in our own courts, and find out what it is worth.
Year: 1879

TOMBSTONE, March 24-

 Our camp seems to have put aside the idea of blowing mp the mines, and has put on its working clothes and gone steadily to work to develop the prospects already discovered. This is the best thing that has ever happened Us: for now, instead of lot of wonder fully ricn surface prospects, that cap italists like to look at, but are afraid to purchase, I think l can safely say that we have some wonderful mines. They have been tested to depth of 100 feet and have proved to be richer than they were on the surface. In the Contention alone as far as the present work goes. there is at least one mil lion of dollars in sight; it is however reasonable to suppose that the mine will yield more than that, seeing that the vein at the north end of the drift is over II feet wide of rich paying ore. The Lucky Cuss is opening up in the tunnel wonderfully rich. The Old Guard has been worked on and the Lucky Cuss ledge has been struck in this claim and the present shaft is all in rich ore, no walls being yet visible. Work has been suspended on the Mer- rlmac for d few days; the reason is that the prospecting shaft has been sunk over one hundred feet, and the owners are now satisfied that they have a mine and are going to sink perma- nent working shaft, and carry on work again in real earnest. Work was commenced on the Emerald yesterday. This claim is situated immediately south of the Grand Dipper. Work has been done on the Revenue mine and some splendid ore at the mouth of the shaft. This claim is situated on the Lucky Cuss lead. The Calista and Morganza have been prospected and worked on, and show a rich vein run ming through both claims. There have been but few visitors during the past week and general business has been dull. VERITAs.
Year: 1879

There is a material and curious diff ference of opinion among those who ought to know, as to the contents of certain ores from Sonora recently ex- hibited here as tin ores. It was stated in one of the assays made that sixty odd per cent. of the ore was tin. and the button was exhibited. but it is as. serted by experts that the "tin" but ton is really composed of a very large per centage of arsenic. and that the ore should more properly be called an arsenic ore. After the arsenic was driven of, only some five or eight per cent of tin would remain. This is in accordance with the yield of tin in the large mines of Europe, where from three to six per cent. of tin is found. There is probably misunderstanding about it
Year: 1879

The farce of Investigating the Che yenne massacre at Fort Robinson has been brought to an end, and as a mat ter of course the guilty parties have been eXouerated. In these matters there seems no longer to be even the sense of shame, and Boards composed of United States officers will find against the evidence, .when Outrages upon Indians are concerned, as reck- lessly as a DeadwOOd jury. The testi- mony taken in the case under notice was in direct conflict with the find ings. It was proved that the Indians had been treated with extreme in humanity; that they had literally been forced into revolt; and that they had been brutally butchered, without dis tinction of age or sex. Yet in the teeth of this condemnatory evidence the Board has dismissed the command ing officer who is responsible for the massacre, and who ought to be hOoted out of the army as a cowardly mur- derer of women and children, with a mild and insignificant reprimand. couched in language which is almost imbecile. The Board thinks it pro bable that mo one of equal experience or judgment would have done any better; which is a perfectly self evident proposition, and equivalent to expressing the opinion that an equally brutal and stupid officer would pro bably have acted with the same bru- tality and stupidity. IL is, however, quite useless to protest against this sort of thing. Nothing that is done to the Indians is ever punished. They are pariahs and outlaws, whose situa- tion exposes them to every insult and injury that poltroonery in power can intiict, and as they have no votes they cannot secure the assistance of poll tical demagogues to redress their wrOngs.-Record- Union.
Year: 1879

Republican paper gleefully announces that
q fund of over thirty thousand dollars, for
use in Ohio, will be raised from this source.
This gives fair idea of how the Republi-
cans propose to conduct the compsign. In
addition to the ordinary and legitimate ap.
piiances, they intend to go into the bust
ness of purchasing votes by the wholesale.
The candidates on the State ticket are all
wealthy, and the State is crowded with fed
eral officials who will be forced to contribute
to the general fund, and to take an active
part in the canvass, while the whole power
OF the government will be employed to bull
dose and persuade voters.


The campaign promises to be vigorous
one. The Democrats have nothing to op-
pose to the immense corruption fund of
their opponents save the merits of their can
dldates and the justness of their cause


These will not, We are sure, be without avail,
for though we recognize the power of money,
We are not destitute of faith in the integrity
OF the people. We are hopeful of the best
results, and confident that the schemes of
the Republican corruptionists will fail.
Year: 1879

Colonel Coons, of Louisiana. Colonel
Coons however, soon died, and in the course
of time Allen renewed his suit and was ac
cepted. During his second term in tue SEN
ate the wedding day was appointed, and
every thing made ready for the marriage
just about this time the Texas annexation
question came up, and he wrote to his affi-
anced. who was at that time living in Cincln
natl, asking her to postpone the ceremony
until that question was decided. To this she
consented, and the nuptials were celebrated
as soon afterward as he Guild leave. He took
bis bride back with him to Washington, and
for nearly two years life was to him but q
long summers day of happiness. Never was
husband loved more faithfully or trustingly'
than he by her; never wife more tenderIy
and affectionately than sue by him. In Jan
uary, l847, his wife died, leaving an infant


'hild, the daughter who has since grown up
to be the head of his household and of her
husbands. At the time of his wife's death
there were,no railroads connecting the CAPT.
tai with the west. The fond husband would
not think for moment of consigning the
remains of the one he loved and held most
dear to grave .mid strangers and so he de-
cided to transport them to Chillicoth for
burial. So he procured the services of an
undertaken ana started with them, he riding
behind on horseback. When night would
overtake them they would stop at the nearest
hotel, and he would have the coffin taken
from the herse and borne to his own apart
ment, where he kept watch over it until
morning came and time to start again. More
than week elapsed in this mournful trip;
yet at no moment during that time was his
mournful gaze taken away from the last re-
mains of her whom he had loved 80 dear ly
in life. and could scarce part with in death.
After her burial he returned to Washington
and finished his term of Office, and then he
betook himself with his child to the home at
Fruit Hill, near Chillicothe, where he remain
ed in retirement until 1873, when he was
nominated and elected governor by the Dem
ocrats.
Year: 1879

| POLITICAL ASSESSMENTS FOR OHIO.
At the extra session of Congress the Demo
Gratis sought the passage of law forbiddiug


the levy or collection of assessments for


political purposes on any officer or employe
| of the government, and prohibiting them


from contributing to such purposes on any
pretense whatever. The bill was vigorously
| opposed by every member of the Republican


party in Congress, and by dint of filibuster-
ing they succeeded in delaying action upon


it. It was argued by the Democrats that the
system for so long in vague of calling upon
clerks and officers in the employ of the gov
eminent for certain per oentage of their
salaries to assist in carrying the elections was
simply system of blsckmail, and that the
pretense that these contributions were vol
untary was sham. The fact was and is
that any person neglecting or refusing to
contribute when requested has been
promptly dismissed from the service.


We perceive by the dispatches from WASH
ington that the practice, which has met the
condemnation of honest men of all parties,
has been resumed, and that the clerks are
being called upon to defray the expenses of
the Maine and Ohio campaigns. The chief
of the treasury department, whose political
success in the future depends upon victory
for the Republican party in Ohio, has been
especially active in laying blackmail upon
his subordinates, and has thus far collected
over seven thousand dollars. He is a man
who has made an immense fortune out of
public Office. and could we'll afford to pay all
the expenses of the campaign out of his own
pocket. Instead of doing so he taxes clerks
who. receive salaries sufficient only for
bare sustenance, not for any
public good, but to advance
his own political ambition. The other de-
partments, too, are being raided, and one
Year: 1879

A FEW idiotic Republican editors are try
ing to alarm their readers by hints of the
political aspirations of jeff. Davis, most of
them asserting that he will probably be sent
to the Senate from Mississippi, while a few
boldly declare that he will be the ne1t Dem
ocratic candidate for President. As Davis
is not citizen of the United States, and
never can become so, it is difficult to see
how he can become a candidate for either
position. To speak of him in such con-
nection is an indication of hopeless imbe-
cility.