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Year: 1878

We are equally surprised ard delighted


at the stand taken by Mayor Patton in the
matter of licenses. This is barbarous
essentially uujlet, and in its effects de =
! structive of prosperity. 1t is unjust,


becanse it is absolutely i'm mpossible to make
it bear equally on ALL A man who EN-
ploys not more than one tenth the capital
of another, aud does only one-tenth as
much business as he doee, must pay exactly
| tho same amount of tax for the privilege
OF course the burden is for him tenfold
more heavy than for the other. 1t is also
destructive to prosperity because enter
prize is repressed by it. Small dealers are
choked eff by demand which for them
amounts to a Prohibition, while it is
scarcely felt by stIesg, we'll established
house. Yet tie wontd.te beginner may
have more energy aid more busint 50
capacity than his older and more prosper
GUS rival.


Human exertion sh ould rever be taxed,
because it is the mother of prod ucton. 1t
is the creative power of wealth. Wealth
is the true object Of taxation and the
"lsest system OF taxation l5 tQaC Wnlch
encourages its formation. The tax which
will not wait for tt at era is premature and
destructive of its own erd. Toll taken
from the mature crop is manifold greater
tEan if taken from tie seed corn.


We know that uow is most inopportuDe
moment to urge reform in this particular.
When the treasury already, every year,
falls very far short of the demands upon it,
how can We propose to cut If one of its
principal sources of supplyf But it must
be remembered that correct priuciples-of
finance as of every thing else-are always
applicable. 1t may eometimes lcok like
bad policy to do right, but it never is.
Better let the city GO without revenue than
to get it urjustly or unwise!y. Accord
ipgly We hope that Mayer Patton's
advanced and liberal views will find
hearty sympathy among his colleagues
and an endorsement in their joint action.
Year: 1878

limits marked put by necessity. Cut down


expenses inexorably to the figure of reve-


nue.. Diminish the police force, curtail
the number of teachers, extinguish half of
the gas lights, check street improvements.
No one is obliged to do more than he can
do If you have a million, spend it if
you have half a million, spend it; if you
have only enc hundred thousand spend
just that and no more. Who can be
blamed for living within his means.


Ah! say our sanguipe friends, but we
always intend to do that, and always make
a mistake. We always collect less taxes
than we calculated op- Then profit by
experience. Calculate so judiciously and
cautiously that you cannot err, that you
will be certain of the amount of revenue
claimed in your budget, and then bring
within that limit. If at the
end of the year there is q surplus fund on
hand it will be SO m uch the better for the
next year.
Year: 1878

Canton Advocate.


Notwithstanding the wheat crop in Da-
kota has not resulted o. favorably - was in
dicated before the hot weather occurred, yet
it is the opinion of gentlemen who have
Travelled through the county that there is .
larger surplus Of wheat in Lincoln county
than ever before raised. From fifty 10 sew
enty-ive per cent. more acreage was sown
this spring than any one season before, and
some estimate that double the number Of
acres was put under cultivation, but care
full and general inquiry Of residents of diff.
ferent portions of the county leads US to
conclude tha: as too high an estimate. Had
favorable weather ensued the heaviest yield
on record would doubtless haye been &C.
cured, but the extreme heat that prevailed al
the time it did ripened the grain prema'
aturely and shriveled the berry. This fact
together with that Of the stalks breaking
near the ground and aattening the grain
rendered some fields useless and their cut
ting was abandoned. But as whole Lin
coin county will have large surplus to dis
pose Of
Year: 1878

You deserve to suffer, and if you lead
q miser able, unsatisfactory life in this
beautiful world it is entirely your own
fault and there is only one excuse for
you,-your unreasonable prejudice and
skepticism, which has killed thousands.
Personal knowledge and common sense
reasoning will soon show you that
Green's August Flower will cure you of
Liver complaint. or Dyspepsia, with all
its miserable effects, such as sick head
ache, palpitetion of the heart, sour stom-
ach, habitual costiveness, dizziness OF
the head, nervous prostration, low spirits,
&c. Its sales now reach every town on
the Western Continent and not Druggist
but will tell you of its wonderful cures,
You Can buy Sample Bottle for 10 cents.
Three doses will relieve you.


Sold by Mills s. Purdv
Year: 1878

FIGHTING JOE HOOKER Is not
willing that Grant shall annihilate
the "battle above the clouds"
The ex-President of late has be-
come as garrulous as he was form
erly reticent. He should remember
that if speech is silvern silence is
golden. He has given Gen. Hook
or an opportunity to administer to
him a just rebuke. In his issues of
personal veracity Grant has not
been specially happy, as witness
his controversy with President
Johnson as to the terms on which
the former took possession of the
War Department, and the later
controversy between himself and
Mr.. Fish and the friends of the late
Senator Sumner, Chairman of the
| Senate Committee of Foreign AT
fairs. Grant will find it just as
difficult to abolish the "battle
above the clouds" as to prove that
he would not have been annihilated
at Pittsburgh Lapding had it not


been for the timely arrival of Gen.
Buell..
Year: 1878

WILMINaToN shows every sign
of a marked revival. This is owing
to the extensive area of farming
lands which are being cultivated in
its neighborhood, to the steady inn
provement of the channel and to
the brighter railway prospects at
that point. We note with pleasure
advances in any section OF this
county, and we should be only too
glad to know that Santa Monica
will make as rapid headway as her
ocean neighbor. Just now the lat
ter port seems to be under a cloud,
but we trust it may have q silver
lining.
Year: 1878

The reception of the Chinese embas-
sy here next September will not be ex-
ceptionally elaborate. The Chinese en-
bassador and suite will be received by
the President and Cabinet in the same
manner that other foreign ambassadors
are received. The President docs not
anticipate any trouble in being able to
convince the ambassador to take the
same view he maintains on the subject
of Chinese immigration, and it is not
thought that China is opposed to the
emigration of her people to this coun-
try. Minister Seward will be here at
that time to facilitate business between
the Representatives of the United
States and China.


The naval register just issued shows
the total number of all branches of the
officers in all branches Of the navy
and marine corps, active and retired,
to be 2,067.
Year: 1878

The very gratifying intelligence is
published in our telegraphic columns
that the striking shoemakers have got
their own figures (S12.0O per week. at
one factory. 1t is gratifying, because it
shows a favorable state of trade, and


because it will save great deal of
rough handling Of the Chinese question.
Year: 1878

SPAIN has done the square thing by
Cuba The island is to be represented
in the Cortes and all property embar-
COED during the insurrection is to be
restored. The Ever Faithful Isle''
will likely remain SO now.
Year: 1878

Missouri is unfortunate in having
treasury which is hollow and sad. The
interest on the State debt now due
can't be paid. The treasury has all
along carried as assets a worthless
check on the Masten Bank, Of Kansas
City. This too, was accepted by an in
vestigating committee, SO it is thrown
on the State. --s
Year: 1878

PART OF the new machinery for the go 1"
mine has come in, and gone forward. 1t
was on the train that got ditched week
before last and part of it was SO badly
damaged, that it had to be sent back TO
San Francisco for repairs. 1t comprises
ten horsepower hosting engine, COM
plete; No. 3 Sturtevant blower, which
will be geared TO the hoisting engine and
be used for ventilating the mine. The
mill is of five stamps, to be supplied with
ore by an automatic feeder, and to be run
by twenty-four horse power engine The
boiler can make steam for thirty horse
power, is tubular, and supplied with three
more tubes than is common to boilers of
its size. All the battery blocks and frames
were got out and dressed in San Francisco
and shipped down. Everything was in
readiness for shipping and erecting the
mill without delay, when the railroad ac-
cident happened and occasions great delay.
Year: 1878




MEssRs. EDIToRs:--I would like to ask
"Catholic" who is defending his church
against Bishop Lee, a question or two


Ii the Pope infallible apart from a
General council or in other words, can
he declare new dogma without the
sanction of council or does he inter-
pret the DEGREES that council may
pass upon


Is any doctrine valid that council
or Pope has not declared to be trueY


Can Catholic teach what has not
been declared to be the doctrine of the
church by q council or Pope!


If We understood the Bishop Alright,
he said he had no right to preach or
make doctrine for his feet to walk
in 7 These must be decrsed by the
church in some lawful way.


Were we rightin our conclusioni


e ''' METHODIST.
Year: 1878

In old times, and in some places, even


in these times, an engagement, or, as the


besutful old phrase has it, betrothal,


was and is only one degree less sacred than


marriage. In the South of Europe it is
still fenced in by all sorts of formalties,
which in many cases are only formalities,
and often prove az annoying in practice as
they are Objectionable in theory. Still
that is only saying what is true of every
remnant of old customs. 1t is sure, when
pushed into 9 state of society whose grad
ual changes are in reality undermining lite
old authority without yet openly challeng-
ing it, to appear awkward, and. under
certain circumstances, to work stiffiy, and
even cruelty. Yet the principle presented
by these dying but tenacious customs, is q
sound one, and remains q model to such
nations and societies as have gone too far
on the opposite stack" England and
America claim to have enfrapchised
the carrying out OF breaking of marriage
engagement as much, practically, q matter
of choice with her, as the person of the
lover to whom che has engaged herself


There is much unconscious Significance in
the gradual disuse of the word betrotbal,
and the setting in its place of the word en-
gagement. The former meant the solemn
giving of a promise-the fealty, the loyalty,
sworn to lord ; the latter is only an
adaptation OF business term common to
many other barg aims, q contract between
equals, o worldly arrangement which either
party is tacitly entitled to break, aud to
be considered honest in breaking, if due
warning be given, or compensation made.
Some people may think this too broadly
put; it is only the truth, without the polite
wording, which carries out Talleyrand's
maxim that language was given to man to
hide or disguise his thoughts. The old
conception of an engagement was that of
an almost indissoluble tie it involved GER
emonies nearly az important and as bind
ing as the marriage ceremony: in some
cases it sanctioned the giving over of the
person of the bride to the care of the BRIDE
groom's female relations, who educated
her and provided for her as one of their
own until the time appointed for the mar
riage itself it threw over the breaking of
an engagement an air of Importance scarce
ly lees than that of a divorce, or what was
as guilty in theeyes ofthe medi@val world
q breach of honor, Withdrawal of ones
plighted word. In some countries in Eu-
rope, much of this spirit is kept up, and in
all ranks of life, (for even among the peas-
antry the formulas are often as rigtdly ad
Year: 1878

Says a Southern paper: There was a romance connected with the death of Zack Oliver, the Memphis letter carrier Ten days ago, while on his way to This lodgings, he encountered, very i'll with the fever, young Jew ess, PhGbe Mendleson, who had come into the city to inquire for letters which were expected from her pa- rents, who had fled to some northern city when the fever first appeared. The young lady had remained with some friends who had removed to the country. Seeing her condition, kind hearted Zack took her to his room and went in haste for physician, whom he secured, and by his attention to her, in conjunction with the nurse furnished by the Towards, the young Jcwess was saved from death. Three days ago she had so far convelesced as to be able to sit up. when Zack was attacked, and, although feeble from her illness, she aided in the nursing of her friend, who fingered few days and died in the arms of her he had saved.
Year: 1878



 The Indianapolis Ne,rs tells of q wholesale merchant in that city (namc not given who was approached by a well-dressed young gentleman in New York week before last, who claimed acquaintance on the ground of belong ing to the same church in IndiaDapO- lis. The merchant accepted him on his introduction as MT. Johnson, and at his invitation the twain spent the evening at the theatre, where the merchant inadvertently remarked that he should leave for home the next evening, taking with him S10,0G0 worth of checks and drafts. The next evening, therefore, he was met at the depot by MT. Johnson and hand somely-dressed lady, whom he intrO- duced as Mrs. Johnson. He would be delighted if his friend would take charge of his wife until they arrived at Cleveland, where she would visit some relatives" The merchant was charmed with the prospect, and after a nasty adicu, Mrs. Johnson was left in his company. The lady proved as entertaining as her husband, and so improved her time as to receive the confidence of the Indiana traveller, and he reiterated to her the statement made to her husband regarding the wealth he was carrying home. Dur ing the evening she asked him if he was sound sleeper. He thought he would be able to sleep until morning. no matter what happened. They had adjoining berths, both lower ones. After retiring, he took the precaution to place his watch and money under his pillow. He awoke in Buffalo the next morning at s o'clock to find his pocketbook and the fair female both gone She had got off at Rochester in answer to a telegram from her hus- band, and, not wishing to disturb her tired companion, kindly let him sleep on, so the conductor told him. The authorities of Rochester were put on the track of the lady, and she was ar rested, with all the money in her pos session. Her pseudo husband was not with her, and thorough search in New York failed to discover his whereabouts. Not counting that pecu- liar kind of fame that he would re- ceive in a prosecution, the fair but fragile female was allowed to depart, and the gentleman returned to his store wiser and more cautious man.
Year: 1878

A FEW years ago Daniel Drew was worth five or six millions. The other day judgments against him amount. ing in the aggregate to S155,25S 15 were sold at auction in New York for 5000. If Uncle Daniel had had the forcthought to break hIs neck six weeks before the date of his last visit to Wall street, and had thus kept out of the way of the bulls or the bears, whichever it was that gored or floor ed him, he would have been a rich man today.
Year: 1878

TIE Buffalo Express declares, with out ever limiting at the evidence upon which the declaration is based, that " Eve induced Adam to eat the apple by threatening to go off and get di- vorce." These are dreadful times i'm deed, when lovely woman finds even in age no protection against the slan. ders of d licentious press.
Year: 1878

Now that the harvest is nearly over it Is ascertain ed beyond a peradventure that the wheat and barley crop in Salt River Valley is large. The Gila Valley usually produces an enor- nous quantity of that grain but this year very little has been raised there, ow- ing to the lack of water for irrigation. The late abundant rains will insure fodder in the Northern part of the Territory but 1t has come to l@te for the corn, so that crop will be nearly a failure this year. This state of affairs in the surrounding country will give the farmers of Salt River Valley a market for all their grain at remuner- ative prices. Barley has advanced a quarter and wheat half a cent since har- vest began, with an up- ward tendency.
Year: 1878

Who keep at their old stand on the west side of the plaza being in unison with the best interests of the country, will continue to supply their patrons with anything usually found in a

 GENERAL MERCHANDISE Store at the very lowest price possible. They do not sell many times for cost but they sell at such a small advance on cost that all who desire to purchase will find it to their advan- tage to go there and buy. Having purchased the en- tire stock of the late firm of A. NJ. LANES x Co.,, they are prepared to sell many things at
Year: 1878

BERLIN. June l3.-The government,
with view to the repression of social
democracy intend to enforce a more rigid
application of the passport regulations and
similarly strict enforcement of the laws
relative to the press, and public meetings
will also be eDjoined upon all authorities
10 the country.


A woman and two men were to-day
sentenced to imprisonment for treason
able utterances against the Emperor
the woman to four years. one of the men
two years, and the other to eighteen months
Year: 1878

The prevent drunkenness. don't drink;
but if you have been drinking, more of it
will not sober you. While you are shaky,
nervous and distressed, have resort to
Simmons Liver Regulator, as a tonic to
arouse your torpid liver to action, enliven
your spirits, dissipate the blues and drive
away despondency. Nine cases out of ten
it is yonr heavy liver that causes your de-
sire to get rid of yourself in intoxication.
We know hundreds that have tried our
remedy, and it has proved their salvatiop.
Year: 1878

al do not mourn, sweet wife of mine,
Because those ruby lips of thine


That marble brow
Were kissed by one who might have
been,


Had not chanced to step between,


Thy husband now
Il do not grieve because thy heart,
Ere Cupid touched with my dart,


For him would beat:
Nor that the hand which owns nv
ring


Osce wore bis gift. 'mizpah' thing


1t was but meet
Il sigh not that his arms were placed
Some score of times aronnd your waist


So sweet and slim
All, no. my love! the woe you see
IL mine, because YOU welded me


Instead Of him
Year: 1878




In one of the towns of England there is
beautiful little chapel, and very touching
story is told in connection with it. 1t was
built by an infidel. He had praying wife,
but he would not listen to her, would not
allow her pastor even to take dinner with
them, would not look at the Bible, would
not allow religion even to be talked of.
She made up her mind, seeing she could not
influence him by her voice, that every day
she would pray God at twelve o'clock for his
salvation. She said nothing to him, but
every day at that hour she told the Lord
about her husband. At the end of twelve
months there was no change in him. But
she did not give up Six months more
went past. Her faith began to waver, and
she said, "Will have to give him up at
last Perhaps when | am dead he will
answer my prayers" When she had got to
that point, it seemed Just as if God had got
her where he wanted her. The man came
home to dinner one day. His wife was in
the dningroom waiting for him, but he
didn't come in. She waited some time, and
finally looked for him all through the house
At last she thought of going into the little
room where she had prayed SO often. There
he was praying at the same bed with agony
where she had prayed for so many months
asking forgiveness for his sins. And this i,
lesson to you wives who have infdel hus
bands. The Lord saw that woman's faitl
and answered her prayers.-Moody's Chiic
Stories,
Year: 1878

There are hundreds of families among
the better classes of society, who, in these
times, are simply pulling through great
mass of difficulties. They are rowing up
stream. Before them, for all that they can
see, lie night and darkness Still, pride for
bids them to make any public complaint,
and they veil their anxieties, and meet the
world with show of courage. 1t is not
always easy to do so.


There are two or three suggestions which
are not impertinent, and may be helpful to
those in such strait. First, have nothing
to do with the false pride. Do not be dis.
turbed because Others have what you cannot
obtain. Be contented to appear poor. Do
not be ashamed to wear old clothes. Do not
shrink from letting friends know that you
are pressed for money. If you cannot con.
tinue to live in the desirable neighborhood
where your present home is situated, move
to an obscurer one, where rents are lower.
If you cannot send the children to private
school, place them for while at one of the
excellent public institutions. Just here,
however, remember that you can least afford
to let the children suffer- so far as their edu-
cation is concerned. 1t is better, always,
to make great sacrifices in other directions
than to sacrifice in that which effects the
intellectual and moral development of a
child. There is dignity in accepting the
situation in which you find yourself, and
greatness of soul in being equal to it. So
The wise heads of households will not sit
down with folded hands, when the emer-
yency is alarming; they will look about
them, take account of their environments
and adjust their actions accordingly.


Stop all little leaks. The most provident
If us, in this land of plentiful harvests, have
still TO learn frugality from the people of
older countries A great deal can be saved
by care for small things, by refraining from
wastefulness and by judicious contrivance


Do not go in debt if you cannot afford
to buy bread and meat, and pay for both,
buy only bread. Determine that you
will not pile up rocks in front of you. 1t is
quite enough to surmount the obstacles of
-very day, without the added burden of
ever-accumulating obligation.


Take the children into the family conf
dence. | know that many loving parents
dislike to overshadow with the least anxiety
the sunny sky of their childrens lives. But
it really protects boys and girls from some
sharp stings of annoyance, and uplifts them
to level with the dear father and mother
who are fighting life's battle so bravely, to
know all about the state of affairs. The
most open candor will but kuit the young
hearts closer to each other, and to you.


Finally, do not neglect any of the usual
means Of grace. Go to church and to prayer
meeting You will often find comfort
awaiting you there Read the Bible and ap-
propriate the promises. Every one of them
was meant for you. Meant, too, for you
and for me, and for all Gods children in
their times of trial, was that precious assur-
ance of Jesus, Your Father knoweth We
have need of all these things" Trust him,
and by his grace you will be able to over.
come
Year: 1878

Their is a touch of pathos. about. doih:c
even the simplest thing for the last time
1t is not alone kissing the dead thai
gives you strange pain: You feel if
when you have looked your last time ul'
on some scene you have loved-whe:'
you stand in some quiet city stree!
where you know you will never stan''
again. We put away our boyislS
toys with an odd heartache: We wer"
too old to walk any longer on our stills
too tall to play marbles on the side
walk. Yet their was q pang when We
thought we had Played with our merry
thoughts for the last time, and life
serious, grown-up work was waiting for
us. Now we do not want the last toys
back. Life has other and larger play
things for us. May it not be that these,
shall seem to the light of some far Oil
day as the boyish games seem to our
manhood, and we shall learn that deatls
is bat the opening of the gate into tho
new land of promise