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Year: 1877

It is not often that we are accused of

 misrepresentation, and when such an accu-

 sation is made it is pleasure to know that

 our accusers, and not tho MINER, are in the

 wrong.

 On Saturday we were rather glad, for his sake, that Anton Wcis, who had attempted to kill himself, had the excuse of drunken ness to account for so rash and unreasona-

 ble an act, Accordingly We said that he

 was "a victim of whisky without pretend ing to know what brand of whisky, or who sold it or gave tito him All We attempted to tell. as a matter of news, and ip justice to the victim, was, that he had been drunk the night before, and as a result ol said drunkenness had become tired and dis gustcd with life, and shot himself in the head.

 To this view of the case some of our neighbors took exception, and seemed Co think we had started out to run muck against whisky. Now the fact lA we did not blame the whisky, nor the man that made it or sold it. Everybody knows what whisky will do if il has g chance, and the man who drinks it is the one to look torIt, but sometimes they fail to Use the neces- sarv precaution until the habit of drinking becomes disease as was evidently the cese with WeiS. and it is a comfort to know that he had such q disease, rather than that be should have gone in his cool senses and tried to take his own life.

 Our subsequent investigation has proven that we were entirely right in the premi-cs, and that he was not only noisy and drunk the night before but had Co Ue taken away from the gambling tables down town, where he was making SD much disturbance that quiet, well disposed persons were unable 10. gamble in peace.
Year: 1877

TRIED TO BREAK JAIL.-M. A. Vance convicted last week of robbing the stage and mail at Woolsey Canyon, last winter, and J. A. Lewis. accused by the Grand Jury of numbering his wife. were discovered this morning m the act of trying to escape from the County Jail The logs of which the floor is constructed, as We have several times had occasion 10 remark, are quite rot- ten. and can almost be dug away with the naked hands. These two prisoners were aware of the vulnerable characterof the bar rier that stood between them and their lib. erty. and had by some means become pos scssed of an old knife-bsde with which they succeeded in removing a section of the floor, large enough to admit the body oi a man. and had worked like beaver digging away the dirt with their hands m order [" get hole open tO the outside, and had sue ceeded in getting daylight through when the guard, (kog,tcadt, whom they supposed 10 be asleep. but who was, m reality, watch ing them all the while, told them they had gone far enough, and would have to give ua the job.
Year: 1877

Ne have suggested to Judge Tweed the propr:e,y of having Anton Weis arrested on q charge of attempting to commit the crime of suicide. provided he don't die. in which case he wifi have actually committed the crime, but will be beyond the reach of the Court.

 The Judge seems to be of the opinion that if he survives the shot he ought to be killel in some way, but is If doubt as to the ,,ower of the Court to order il done.
Year: 1877

Felix Dees, advertises his tonsorial parlors to-day. He has established himself near the Court house where he is prepared to do strictly first class work. All he asks Is that people will give him trial so that he may prove to them that he is thorough in his business.
Year: 1877

Parties who purposely or through care lessncss put out fire in the woods should remember that there is strict law for their punishment. and if they are found out at il there are plenty of people sufficiently inter csted in the preservation both of the grass and timber to prosecute them to the extent of the law.
Year: 1877

Joe Forshee has been out hunting for a bonanza, and has brought in some speci- menS for analysis, but is not sure how valu- able find he has made as yet. Joe is an old bird and not easily caught with chaff, therefore if he plants on discovery it will be apt to be a good one.
Year: 1877

Henry Herbert is in from Bradshaw and says Holm's machinery will arrive this week and they will be ready to go to work on the Tiger next Monday. This is business, and the first steam hoisting works ever brought into this part of the Territory, if not the very first in AriZona.
Year: 1877

William Gilson, of Date Creek, Is iu Prescott and represents the country all alike where ever he has been, that is to say dried np Cattle and other stock are confined to narrow ranges where they can get water, and this is shortening the feed and cattle are getting thin.
Year: 1877

Henry Wickenburg brought a load of po- tatocS to town on Saturday and took the first offer, eight cents per pound. Robert Gar side followed him but few hours with another load and by looking about little, before selling. easily got ten cents for his

 The moral of this is: Always look before you leap" Two cents per pound on a load ,f potatoes, say forty hundred amounts to eighty dollars, a sum worth looking around
Year: 1877

From a private letter written to us by our old friend Thomas Graves, we learn that he is furnishing the King mine folks and the citizens of Pioneer district with fat beef. NIT. Graves thinks the prospects in that dis trict are looking up
Year: 1877

We are freqre ltly asked if D. Goodfel- low Is still in the practice of medicine, of course We presume he is. thoug! no public announcement is made of the fact or of where he may be found.
Year: 1877

Filth and offensive afiiuvia, as all the doc tors agree, are very detrimental to health, and it is suggested to us by some of the medical profession that people ought to be reminded of their duty to clean up their premises and haul the filth away. Vaults should be frequently attended to during this dry hot weather. Lime and coperas should be freely used and whitewash resorted to as much as possible. Dry earth is an excel lent absorbent, and where lime is hard to get use dirt and cover up such deposits as cannot be removed conveniently. Toomuch care cannot be taken in order to prevent sickness.
Year: 1877

Anton Weis, who shot himself in the head on Saturday with suicidal intent, seems to have made a failure of that as of everything else; at any rate Dr. Day informs us that he is up and walking about this morning wi,h, al least, an even chance to get we'll |.

 Perhaps this little experience may do him good, and make man of him. The ball is still in his head. and the Dr. thinks it would not be good surgery to go cutting after it, as long as he seems to be recovering, and re- tans his senses. IL is evident that the brain has not been touched, and as the ball is a small one, it may have lodged where it will do no special harm.
Year: 1877




This morning, about nine O'clock terrible accident
happened ut the steam saw mill OF NJ c. Hamilton,
OF tho city, resulting IN the instant death OF
William Knowlon, an cmploye Of the mill


Hs was engaged At the time IN running tho circular
saw, which Is about three ect diameter and which
toll motion. II appears that he went 10 20
around the saw, In close proximity IT, 10 pick up
belt that had been broken, anu OF his feet slipped
on the lumber, which caused HIM 10 lose his balance
He throw out hts lett hand 10 recover his
and IN DONG 80 It camo in contact with
tue saw, which cut off his little finger
and manglcd the Land terrible manner nsckin it
into shrcds To himself he ,hrow out Ia rght
arm, which was also struck by the saw ana tho hand
WAS instantly instantly severea IRON the orm
the wrist Tho unfortunate man then lost all control
himself anu Tell hexdlong against tho saw striking
the same with his head Tho victim dropped upon tho
hoor nieicss anu almost headless man. More than
halt OF MS head had disappeared. The right half
oI his head, from the back through to the nose. n-
GLIDING tho right check and the right half tho chin
and from the Top Of tho head to mock, had boon
sawed OF and hts brains had been scattered all through
she mill What remained OF his skull was scoopod
out and nothing but tho hali-shon was lefL
Year: 1877

fNorR.-Letters intended Tor this column must %
accompanied by the writer's full name and address 10
insure attention Compiainants who are unwilling "a
comply with this rule simply waste time in writing
Write only side OF the paper.-ED. HERALnl
Year: 1877

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-


II all very well for the police to arrest bathers
whom they find IN perfectly nude 0taie along The
rvor but when they Interfere with those who clad
suits appropriate to their persons it Is, think,
quite unjust In IL would bo wise Tor the police
moiest save those that make themselves Ofcn
sve II they adopt thus plan they Will find that in the
Of time all swimmers will be properly attired


IL x
Year: 1877

HOW TO ABArE TnE EAST RIVER NursANCEs.
TO THE EDITOR OF TIE HERALD:-


The nuisances In Kings Queens county ON the
banks OF the East River complained OF your
paper be cectuaLy abated by indictment in the
county Of New York. under the provisions OF chapter
AIS Of the Laws Of 1851, section Of which as
follows


SRcrIoN Whenever any nuisance shall be erected
continued on near the boundary lines Of tho coun
ties OF New York, Westminster and Queens the same
and tho persons by whom such nuisance shall have
been erected or continued may be indicted in either
county injuriously affected thereby; and thereupon
proceedings shall be had and taken, and the
sentence OF the court may be enforced In the same
manner If the said nuisance situated within the
county In which the indictment found


Section enacts that conviction the nuisance
shall be abaied by tho ShoriK OF the county whore
situated


No doubt the District Attorney Of Now YORK
promptly act In this matter upon responsible COM
plant LAWYER
Year: 1877

WEO SHOULD PAY FOR PAVING SECOND AVENUEf
To THE EDITOR HERALD


Some years ago Second avenue was paved and the
property owners assessed tor It, Now, It right that
tho property owners be taxed by tho Second Avenue
Railroad Company Tor the repairing OF the pavement
between their racksY The property owners paid Tor
the work once before. A RESIDENT
Year: 1877

To THE EDITOR THE HERALD


Please call the attention OF Captain Washburne TO thu
gang Of oafcrs who nightly congrcgale at the south
west corner of Thrtysixth street and Eighth avenue
and who mako u practice OF insulting every female
passing by who happens to be unaccompaned ny
gentleman, FATHER
Year: 1877

CHEsTER, Pa, May % The inquest
in the case OF the,victims of the Saratoga
launch began this morning. A large
number of witnesses were examined who
test fed that every possible precaution
was taken; that the men were warned
in time to get beyond danger, and that II
the vessel had not been cut loose at the
tine she WAS, many more lives would
have been lost.
Year: 1877

BY the advice OF the Executive Council, do here
by appoint Thursday, the twenry.ninih day
of November, instant, as a day of Public
Thanksgiving and Praise to our Father in Heaven
for his great goodness to the people Of this State in
the year that is now closing While uniting with our
fellow countrymen upon that day, at the invitation
of the Presiden Of the United States in solemn a
knowledgment ofthe Divine favorwherewith our land
has been blest, let the peace and prosperity and
exemption from every ill which our State has enjoyed
in marked degree, be specially remembered before
Him with reverent thanks and gladness. May the
hearts Of all be moved to make this customary
vice an earnest offering Of gratitude and devotion
and an occasion for bsfriending those who are in
need.


Given at the Council Chamber, at Augusta this


eighth day of November, in the year OF our Lerd
one thousand eight hundred and seveuty-seven,
and Of the independence OF the United States Of
America the one hundred and second.


SELDEN CONNOR.
b the Governor:


S. j. CHADBoURNE, Secretary Of State.
Year: 1877

In Turkey the recruiting officers have a
curious way OF determining. the age of youth
full volunteers. They lAeasure the recruits
neck with a string. If the circumference is
more than the length of his face they deem
him fit for campaigning. They apply the
same test to captured Bulgarians, but they
tighten the string until it stops the breath
The captives are never thought good enough
for service-in this world.
Year: 1877

A STRIKING illustration OF what is coarsely
called Boston conceit appears in the book
reviews of the Atlantic. The critic in speak
ing of an etching by Unger after Rembrandt
portrait says with enthusiasm that it is 'of
such Puritan delicacy that one looking at the
yonng man with his delicate, winning smile,
full of refinement, cried out that he was like
the best sort of Bostonian."
Year: 1877

THE latest biographer OF Shelley announces
that the poet had a strange taste for turpen-
tine. The taste may be strangs in England,
but it is not uncommon in this country.
Here however they call the turpentine gin
and think it sweet by that name.
Year: 1877

IF those Southern mail contractors are to
be paid for their services in 1861 would
it not be gracious thing to go farther and
pay them the money they would have received
had the contracts been renewed? Doubtless
they were eager for renewal, aud but for
the war would have secured the contracts
again. In the interests of conciiation their
will ought to be reckoned deed.
Year: 1877

The chief of the Scottish Catholic hier-
archy will be styled archbishop of st. An
drews. That title has tragic history con-
nected with it, but in these days when words
are the only weapons in theological dispute
the new primate has no reason to fear the
fate of bis most noted predecessor.
Year: 1877

We do not read anonymous etters and commun-
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as a guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used.
Year: 1877

A boy borrowed 8 tool from 8 car penter, promising to return it at night. Before evening he was sent away on an errand, and did not return until late.

 Before going he was told that his brother should see that the article was returned. After he had come home he inquired and found that the tool had not been sent to it's owner. He was much distressed to think his promise had not been kept, but was persuaded to go to sleep and rise early and carry it home the next morning. By day light he was up, and nowhere was the tool to be found. After long, fruit less search he set off for his neighbours in great distress to acknowledge his fault. But how great was his surprise to find the tool on his neighbours door stone. And then it appeared, from the prints of his little bare feet in the mud that the lad had got up in his sleep and carried the tool home, and gone to bed again without knowing it. Of course a boy who was prompt in his sleep was prompt when awake. Respected while he lived, he had the confidence of his neighbors, and was placed in many of- fees of trust and profit. If all grown persons felt as this boy did there would be great many tracks of bare feet found some of these bright mornings, and what piles of books and tools would be found at their owners doors !!
Year: 1877

You have seen the pincbed- d-faced old woman who sits on the street corner with the little old hand organ which has been in use so long that it's notes cannot be heard ten steps away? She has been in Detroit for two or three years, seldom losing day off the street and her patience has won her many friends. Yesterday forenoon as she sat on the ground near the Soldiers Monument one of the bootblacks halted and saw her wiplng the tears from her eyes. She is stranger from over the sea, and the bright spring days must call up recollections of home and bet ter days. The boy felt this, perhaps, or he reasoned that her poverty was distressing, and he scarcely heard the music as he watched her face. Pretty soon he turned and hurried away, and going to the fower-market he laid out eight cents ln the purchase of a small but bright flower. When he returned he held out the fower-pot and said |:

 ''Mebbe that will make you feel bet ter."

 A glad smile swept over her face, and catching the boys hand in both of hers she almost drew him over the organ as she poured out her thanks in broken words.

 ''Let up on a feller-everybody looking p he exclaimed as hedrew away and he hurried into the crowd out of sight.

 Thousands passed the woman with the flower sitting on the organ, and no doubt wondered how she came to buy it. She seemed highly delighted over the present, and no one had ever seen her face wear such a pleasant look. When street boy will exhibit such feeling and sentiment, one should not say that the world is altogether cold and heartless.
Year: 1877

The present is the pocket age; the idea of pocket has entered into almost every phase of life; and we can hardly dive very deep into our pockets with out causing our souls to vince! We are moved by two-fold impulse-to discover pocket analogies in Nature and the world, and to reduce Nature and the world to pocket compass. In obedience to the former we talk of nights dark as a pocket, of pocketing affronts, of pocket conscience, 8 pocket sheriff, a pocket hero; call Mon acO 8 pocket kingdom, and in short, thousand changes ring on the theme, such as will recall themselves to any one, In the other direction, besides our old familiar pocket Bibles, pocket pistols, pocket dressing cases, and pocket overcoats, we are getting pocket bath tubs, pocket easels, pocket bed stead, pocket canoes, and pocket shell ter tents. At this stage we need no prophet to herald the man who shall live in we'll furnished pocket mansion, drive out in a pocket steam carriage, profess a pocket religion, yield up a pocket ghost. and be inferred in a pocket coffin. A forminable monster, truly, is this Pocket-a sort of Frank enstein which we have set agoing, but cannot control. In order to realize the fact that our pockets are, in reality, our own selves (and not our secondary selves either) we have only to imagine the reception an individual destitute of pockets, and of what goes in them, would meet with in a civilized commit nlty. He would be lost, summed, 8 pariah, an Outcast, unsuccored and unbelieved in.

 Men are suspicious of the most en- gazing stranger until they have at least figuratively, picked his pockets; and would look askance at their best friend where he to turn up some morning pOcketless. More surely than the ap- parel the pocket now claims the man. We know one another through our pockets; we love. and marry, and are divorced through our pockets; we fight or abstain from fighting, at the in stance of our pockets; in difference to our pockets we murder, Steal, and lie. When dead body is found, we look to indentify it, first in it's pockets, and only afterwards inits face; and suicide must indeed despise life who will empty his pockets before committing the rash act. A prisoners pockets are searched as a sign that he is henceforth deposed from his position as responsible being. The test of our power over a man IS our hold upon his pocket; and there are probably few slaves so abject as not to possess at least one small fob unrif1ed, It is remarkably anomaly in our code of justice that pocket picking IS not made capital offence, since it is the pickpocket who iDjures us in our most vital part. He is the bane of our gen. eration; he commits the unpardonable sin; his hand is against every man, and every mans hand is against him. His most appropriate and most terrible punishment would be to be cast adrift upon the world forever disqualified from wearing pocket; but such a sen- tence the sternest of judges would shudder to inaict, and the wretched criminal would plead for mercy and 8 halter.
Year: 1877

 Don't ever go hunting for pleasures, They cannot be found thus. I know; Nor yet fall digging for treasures, - Unless with the spade and the hoe. The bee has to work for the honey The drone has no right to the food; And he who has not earned his money Will get from his money no good. The ant builds her house by her labor; The squirrel looks out for his mast And he who depends on his neighbor Will never have friends, first or last. In short, 'tis no better than thieving. Though thief is hard name to call, Good things to be always receiving, And never to give back at all. And do not put off till tomorrow

 The thing that you ought to do now, But first set the share to your furrow, And then put your hand to the plough.
Year: 1877

CAUSE OF SICKNESS IN HoUsEs.-At a meeting of the New York Public Health Association, paper was read by Col. Waring on "The Sanitary Condition of City and Suburban Houses" A suita- ply built city house, he said, suitably arranged and surrounded, was probably the safest of all human inhabitations, but such a domicile was probably the rarest of all works of human construc- tiOn. On the other hand, the generality of country houses had all the advan- tages which were not possessed by city dwelling houses, such as an abundance of sunlight, pure air, and good founda- tions. In city house which possessed good walls and good foundations, there was little to be feared from exhalations from the ground. A house located upon an improper site, as over swamp or pond, unless it's foundations were securely inclosed by closely cemented walls and paved with tight floor, would be subject to eXhalatiOns from the soil. These exhalations cause de- bilitating effects, such as headache, nausea, and intermittent fever. Persons becoming enfeebled by these means were far more susceptible to malarial diseases than robust, healthy persons. It was coming to be well recognized fact that diphtheria, typhoid and cerebro spinal meningitis were more or less caused by impurities in the air. In the country, there was less danger of dis eases being caused by foul air than by foulness of the water. The ground air might be excluded from our dwelling houses by carefully laying the founda- tion floors and the surrounding walls. Human ingenuity had thus far been unable to devise no means for thoroughly removing the refuse liquids of the house in an automatic manner, and the ele- gantly finished work of the plum Der was too frequently the outward mani- festation of q hidden danger. It was a common practice to attribute all sewer gas to the public sewer; but the vast amount of disease and death caused by sewer gas could not always be laid en- tirely to them, as the waste pipe of the house was often productive of equally deadly results. Lead soil pipes were very commonly used, and it had been proved that they were not serviceable owing to their extreme liability to cor rode. The speaker recommended the substitution of cast and wrought iron pipes for the leaden ones, and said that by the introduction of fresh air into the street sewers, by means of open man traps in the street, and by other patent appliances in dwelling houses, foul air might be prevented from accommodating in the sewers, and there would be no danger to be apprehended from allow ing the sewers to ventilate themselves through the houses.