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Year: 1877

THE BLAND SILVER BILL The Senate
committee on finance agreed this morning to
report favorably the Bland silver bill with
amendments. The only change of import
ance In the bill as adopted by the Boos6 was
the inst rtion of q substitute introduced by
Senator Allison In place of the free coinage
clause ofthe bill struck out by the commit
tee at It's first meeting. This substitute di-
reefs the Secretary OF the Treasury to create
q bullion fund of i've million dollars for the
purchase OF bullion. Silver bullion Is to be
purchased by the Secretary and coined in
amounts OF not less than two millions nor
more than four millions per month. Toe
proceeds OF the sales Of coined silver is to be
used In maintaing the bullion fund and the
profits OF coinage accrue to the government.
An amendment was also adopted for the ap-
pointDent Of . commission to correspond
with oiher nations using the bimetallic stan
dard, and confer with any ylikecommissiou OF
. foreign country In relation 10 the relative
values OF the precious metals and the bime-
talltc standard.


HGeorgia win realize sl,500,ooo out Of
dy1ed peaches this yeaI,
Year: 1877

Here is an argument with which the
WOman's journal stumps the opponents of
female suffrage: "Why is il that woman
can pin on mans collar at the first trial,
when the very same pin, engineered by q
man, would double up and run backward
to stick in his thumb?'
Year: 1877

A gentleman on board a steamboat
asked the man who came to collect the
passage money, if there was any danger OF
being blown up, as the steam made such a
horrid noise. Not in the least" said the
sharp conductor, "unless you refuse to pay
your fare.m
Year: 1877

All who entitled to receive this elegant and use
full Premium can do so compliance with the fol-
lowing conditions: Send your name and post-oflice
address, together with your express office, to the
Union Silver Plating Company, 70l Chestnut Street,
Philada, Pa together with the following Premium
Coupon, and inclOse with your order - cts to pay
cost of engraving your initials express charges box
ing and packing and you will receive by return eX-
press (or by mail if you have express office full
set of extra plated Silver Spoons free of any charge
Is cts and the Spoons Will be delivered to Won FREE
Ifyou do not desire to have the spoons engraved you
are only required to send 60 cts to pay eXpreSSage
and boxing. The coupon must in all cases be sent to


indicate that you are entitled to this premium this
very liberal offer is not extended to any who is not
spoons is S400, as the following letter will show
Year: 1877

case the Territory shall be absolyed from all
liability to deliver said bonds not delivered at
the time such failure shall take place, and
said times limited shall be deemed of the
essence of this contract.


SEC. 20. Any county or incorporated city
desiring to bridge, grade and furnish ties for
a branch of said road may by the duly quail
ified electors thereof contribute thereto upon
the proposition and conditional contract
entered into therefor not exceeding $4,000
per mile of the distance, which contract shall
be made by the City Council, if of any incor-
porated city, and by the Board of County
Commissioners, if of county, which con-
tracts shall be of no validity unless ratified in
the manner provided by such Council or
Board of County Commissioners by the elec-
tors of said city or county, and the method
of such submission shall as near as may be
practicable be the same as is provided in this
act for the submission hereof and the duties
of county and election officers as is herein
provided, and all the laws applicable to gen.
eral elections shall be as applicable to elec-
ton officers of an incorporated city or of a
county on such elections as they are to gen.
eral election aforesaid, and all the penalties
and restrictions thereby imposed shall be ap-
plicable to such elections.


SEC. 81. That the propositions made in the
foregoing provisions in this act contained are
made upon the hypothesis and presumption
that the distance between the said town of
Franklin and the said terminus within five
miles of the mouth of Pipestone creek, in
Jefferson county, Montana, is three hundred
and thirty-five miles, and if the said distance
between the two points named in this section
shall exceed said distance, then the sum men,
toned in section two of this act shall be in
creased in proportion to the increase of said
distance by the nearest and most practicable
route for said road, and if the ditance between
the said points shall be less than three hun
dred and thirty-fve miles, then the sum men
toned in section two of this act shall be de-
creased propertionately, and all the provis-
ions of this act shall be interpreted in accord
ance herewith
Year: 1877

At St. Mary's church on Sunday morning,
Father Scanlan delivered very interesting
delivered very interesting sermon ON Chris
tian Marriage, but while we cannot agree in
all particulars with the reverend gentleman.
in the main, the Catholic doctrine we hold to
be correct, Upon the stability of marriage,
as an institution, and the sanity of the union
depend the safety of society. The purity of
the family relations have long since been
deemed the great safeguard of society, and
when that purity has been destroyed, social
corruption and national ruin have followed.


Father Scanlan briefly reviewed the loose
marital relations which existed in the Roman
Empire, with their disastrous consequences,
and pointed to the fact that America is fast
settling down to the same low plain of free
loveism, which, ultimately must bring its
punishment Matrimonial unions to which
single hearted sanctity is not attached by the
contracting parties, and the exceedingly loose
system of divorce so prevalent in the States
of the American Union, are growing men,
ace to the life of the nation, and in them
selves contain the seeds of the decay of the
race. One love, pure and undying, is the
first principle of Christian marriages, and
indissoluble monogamy the consequence OF
course we cannot be with our Catholic friends
in the belief that their church alone has the
right to solemnize marriages, nor that these
contracts should be indissoluble under all
circumstances. AS to the sanctity and mono-
gamic features of matrimony, however, there
can be no division of sentiment in the minds
of civilized people, and our shockingly lax
divorce law in this Territory, which un-
doubtedly is the concomitant of polygamy,
should be assaulted from the Christian pulpit
and the press with as much force and deter
mination as polygamy itself.


In the treatment of this subject Father
Scanlan introduced the novelty of reading
from the first volume of Kent's Law Com
mentaries. Next Sabbath on the same
general subject he will speak of the plurality
of marriage-SaH Lake Tribune.
Year: 1877

A complete outfit went through Ehrenberg last week, bound for the San Francisco river. The own, CTS are well provided with piping and everything necessary. There is a fine field in this county for an enterprise of that kind, handled Icy men who understand the busi. ness. The old placers about Gila City are far from being worked out yet, as is proven by the good strikes made there every few weeks. They are extensive, lie on the bank of a permanent stream and have never been worked on any extensive scale. Enormous amounts of gold were taken from the surface dirt, but the bedrock is still virgin. The Pot Hole, La. guna and Las Flores are all easily supplied with water from ditches, to say nothing of the immense gold fields near La PaZ, which at one time made that town our county seat.
Year: 1877

Surveys are being made by T. F. White on the valley of the G lila near Agua Caliente. He section lzes everything as he goes and leaves It ready for location and occupation. He expects to get through, and connect with sur. veys made here two years ago, in forty or fity days. From the Mar icopa line down this way are thou. sands of acres of magnificent land susceptible of easy yirrigation from the Gila river, which can be brought onto the surface without very great expenditure. Land on the same tract and of the same kind is cultivated and irrigated with water from the Agua Cali, ente springs; it shows what the soil will actually produce, and that is everything that has been tried on it. Grapes do finely; orange trees set out last spring have grown thriftily; fruit, vege tables and cereals of every kiud are grown very successfully. The land and water are unOccupied and open to settlers.
Year: 1877

Prescott boys have "struck if big" in the SENTINEL. Quite a lot of little Compositions " on this paper have been handed in to the Miner :; some of them are quite cunning, and one or two are nearly as good as a grown man could have written. One young ster, with the thOughtless ndiUete of childhood, alludes to our type and leads. Sonny, that is like pointing to the rent in some poor mans coat; gentlemen don't do that. Boys are turned loose from West Point too young anyhow.
Year: 1877

THE MCCRACKEN.-A gentle man just from that mine tells us that on the 90 it. level they have over 40 feet of clean ore, which is turning out $1OO0 per day in their ten stamp mill. The dumps are all full of ore and waiting for more machinery, which is in cOntem- plation. The ore is all good but should be assorted fOl milling and for smelling, as some of the strata carry antimony and lead.
Year: 1877

Col. WoOLsEY's name appears in the Miner under letter about the SENTINEL, which he says he has seen, although we do not find his name on our subscription list he probably borrowed that paper from somebody. He calls us'.juven- ile," and it makes US feel awfully. However we do not propose to indulge in personalities. Colonel Woolsey's record as a legislator belongs to the public, and we pro- pose to review it whenever public interest seems to require it, and not till then. His allusions in this connection to Hon. J. M. Redon. do are ungenerous and uncalled for. Redondo is not in town, and we have not heard him say much of anything about Woolsey-prob- ably there was very little worth saying. This letter we refer to is in fair English and the spelling is very good. Wonder who wrote it? As an electiOneering document we doubt its value. What else it can be intended for is a cOnun. drum. Why Noolsey should pitch in to the SENTINEL, we can not see, unless it is because its editor is an easy man to scare or get away with. and in bull dozirg as he could get a maximum of nOto- riety with a minimum of risk. As to our honesty. our record speaks louder for us than Woolsey's dec. lamation does against us, or for himself.
Year: 1877

The rates from Baltimore are cents
less on the first and second classes, and 8
cents less on the third and fourth classes
than the rates from New York. From
Philadelphis they are six cents less on
the first snd second classes, and cents
on the third and fourth classes. The
tariff on wheat by rail from Buffalo has
been advanced to II cents bushel, an
increase of one cent.
Year: 1877

A special dispatch to the REGISTER
from Charleston, last evening brought
the intelligence that the Episcopal Con-
vention IN session in that city, has Sc
lected Rev. JAMES A. ECCLE EsToN, of
Newark, New Jersey, as Bishop of the
new Diocese of West Virginia. The
selection was made on the fifth ballot,
but was finally made with complete
unity and good feeling.


The selection of Rev. EccLEsToN is
regarded by the members Of the church
who know him IS an especially fortunate
one. He is in the prime and vigor of
manhood, active, energetic and untlring,
A man OF liberal education and strong
common sense, he has, by his ability and
fsithfulness to duty, achieved his
exalted position without any extrsneous
aid Earlier in lite we believe be filled
a position as express messenger; and he
has worked his way up from the ranks
He Is native OF Maryland, and lis
father was for years Judge Of the Su-
preme Court of that State.


The action of the West Virginia cIer-
gy and lsity in selecting their Bishop
will now have to be passed upon by vari-
ouG standing committees OF the many
Dioceses throughout the country. If ne
receives the endorsement OF q majority
OF these committees, he will then be duly
commissioned by the presiding Bishop of
the Un ted States. His conservation, by
ceremonisls participated in by two
Bishops, will follow, and then he
is ready to assume the duties
of his new position. We have no
information as to the probable length OF
time that will be consumed in this rou.
tine proceeding. We take it for granted
that Rev. EcCLEsToN will run the gsunt-
let of the various committees, as we know
OF no objection that is likely to be raised
against him. We presume he is ortho-
dox upon all the questions about which
there is any radical difference of opinion
in that church.


The people OF Wheeling will give
hearty welcome to the new Bishop.


THERE is talk Of tscking the Silver
Bill on to the Appropriation Bill, in the
House. This is to flank the Presldenrs
threat to defeat it by the use OF the veto.
AS silver was demonetized by trick and
a fraud, there seems to be an approprl-
steness in the representatives. of the peo-
pie resorting to even extreme expedientS
TO secure the triumph of their will.
Year: 1877

for the staement that the New York
nominations will be- sent to the Senate
again; that Packard will not be made
Collector at New Orleans; that Law
renee will be again nominated for the
latter Office, and that the report that


overtures have been msCe to Senator


Conkllng by Secretary ESsrts is untrue.
Year: 1877

is still maneuvering, in the hope OF get.
ting an anti-Texss Pacific man in as
Chairman of the Pacific Railroad Com
mitLee, knowing that such Chairman
would do nothing more than lead IN n
minority report.
Year: 1877

The House Committee Sn Foreign AT.
fairs have authorized their chairman to
move at the first opportunity, that the
House concur III all the Senate amend
ments to The Paris Exposition bill. The
motion will be pressed for action unders =
demand for the previous question.
Year: 1877

which are punishable by fine less than S100 ought to be left to trial by Justices of the Peace. The punish ment of Sabbath breaking ought to involve much heavier penalty than it does, or else all cases for a viola ton of.the law should be triable by Justices of the Peace.

 Crops in this county are reported good, and the people are looking forward to more prosperous times when their crops are taken to mar ket and disposed of.

 As l found in Pope county, so I find in Conway county, many hand some ladies. Indeed pretty woman seem to be Q natural outgrowth of Arkansas, for in all parts of the State I find numbers of them. Al though 1 am Tn the sere and yellow leaf, I am still appreciative of female loveliness, and although nearly all the ardor of youth has passed from me, 1 am still susceptible.

 My next may be from Little Rock, but more likely from St. Louis CT Louisville. No matter where for tune may direct my steps, l shall have good words to say for Pope county and it's hospitable people.

 SAXET
Year: 1877

Texarkana Democrat: The peo- pie of the State are wrangling over the disposition of the States indebt- edness, created under radical rule and in defiance of the peoples rights. We are not informed on the subjcct--do not know whether ''scal- ing or repudiation is the wisest policy. But as principle regulat- ing our own action, if satisfied that any bond or indebtedness was 6 fraud on the people, we should not dignify it by scaling" but would ''repudiate" it in toto, looking to God for approval and not to the bondholder. We would "scale," if satisfied that any part was honestly appropriated for the benefit of the people, the scaling to descend to the lines of profit received by our people.

 "Repudiation' of radical rascali- ties have no terrors to us, either in this life or that which is to come; the only question to be decided IS of justice and right. We do not know even how the sealing or the repudia- tion is proposed to be done, done, but we hope it will be done by such authority as will be final and effectual, and in that sense and by that light, we want it well done.

 Let us not scale dollar nor repu- diate dime that was in good faith used for the benefit of the State, but everything else let us kill to dead to skin, without even the benefit of clergy.

 Independent Arkansian: As we have no interest in this matter save as one oi the people of the State and a taxpayer, we have no pet scheme to press upon the people. We would maintain the honor of the people and the dignity of the State, and accept fair and equitable comprom- ise, if the compromise is not all in favor of the holder of these corrupt and fraudulent bonds, then we would stop and enquire if the people have no rights that should be respected We would know whether or not the taxpayers are to be crushed to death to pay fraudulent claims agalnst the State to save it's honor. We have no objection, if the holders of acknowledged indebted ness want to get the bad bonds out of the way, to them buying them up at market quotations and having them cancelled in order to make the good bonds better This is matter for them to attend to and not us, be- cause these disputed bonds were ob- tained under false pretenses, the State received no consideration from them. We don't owe them. On some the courts have decided and that settles the question, so far as we are concerned.

 Lonoke Democrat: We have care fully read all the pro and con that has come unuer our observation relative to the payment of these bonds, and so far have not seen a single ARGUMENT in their favor-it is all the same cry of the disgrace that attaches-pIsGRAcE because a power ty-stricken people refuse to be fur ther robbed to pay that which they do not owe. We are willing to as- sume our part of the responsibility for the disgrace, but to pay these bonds we say NEVER, NOT ONE CENT.

 Hot Springs Telegraph: The more we look at and examine this Adams Redfield scheme the more we are convinced that 1t is an un- mitiuatel fraul and Hnmhnol
Year: 1877

The Tennessee Legislature, having reach
ell no result in the settlement OF the State
debt, passed a resolution yesterday to adj
journ sine die at noon to-day. The Senate
bill TO compromise the State debt at ffty
cents on the dollar, with graded interest at
four, Ave, and SIX per cent, was defeated
in the House, after an amend m ent 10 make
the interest four per cent Tor the first 10 and
six per cent. for the next IS years, the high
tax men voting against 1t because It was
was not in compliance with the proposition
of the bondholders, which was fny cents
ut six per cent, interest.
Year: 1877

THE permanent pacification of the
country upon such principles and by
such measures as will secure the COM
plete protection of all its citizens in the
free enjoyment OF all their constitutional
rights is now the one subject in our pub
lie affairs which all thoughtful and patri-
otto citizens regard as of supreme import
ance--Inaugural Address of President
Hayes, March 4, 1877.
Year: 1877

THE FATHERS ON THE SILVER DoI.>
LAR.-lt appears from the evidence lust
discovered in tine books of the mint that
the fathers cared so little for the silver
dollar that during almost the entire pc
Rod from 1907 TO 1873 the manufacture
OF the coin was suspended by authority.
The reasons, were, first, that nobody
wanted TO lug about silver dollars sec
ond, that they could not be Kept in cir
culation if they were issued, and third,
that gold was the real standard value
then, as 10 is now, and as it always will
be, unless We discontinue our intercourse
with foreign nations.-Bdltimore Sun.


That will do to tell the marines. Every
Intelligent citizen who reads the constitu-
tion, the work of the Fathers, will see
the falsity it. The people of their day
as the people of this do not care tor the
single coin denominated "dollar :" what
is desired is specie basis, which cannot
be had without silver, and they will not
have silver demonetized for the people,
and gold a legal tender for the bondhold-
ers. The circulating medium, whether
as single silver dollar or two half dol
lars or gold dollar, should be a legal
tender and should be equal in value ;and
that no legislation shall be attempted to
destroy the quality given either of them
by the Constitution to benefit the brokers
or any other class of people. There are
too many editors in this country who are
80 thoughtless as to commend anything
that will please the rich and opulent and
secure to their journals a rich harvest in
large advertisements at high rate of paw
per line. cold and silver were legal
tenders before the war, and there Is more
need that they should be so now. Then
even the small pieces of silver, quarters.
dimes and half-dlmes, to the amount Of
80, were legal tenders. And that should
be the case still. But as debts are scarcely
ever paid in coin at all, and nearly al
ways by checks or bills of exchange, there
IS no reason why the silver dollar and
nall dollar coin should not be rated as a
legal tender. If that is made the law of
the land We will soon have a uniform
value in our circulating mediam be-
cause no one will want either gold or
SILVER after they are assured they can get
1t on demand in exchange for paper.
Year: 1877

The New York World says, in relation
10 VIM L. Chandler's late letter, that
$50 far as President Hayes is concerned
the only effect of this demons TT att on will
De TO intensity the demand which the
good citizens of this country of both
pa'-es are making upon him to show
himself sternly and firmly in earnest in
the work ofpurifying the public service. .
Year: 1877

General Thomas Ewing made a speech
TO large assemblage at Louisville, XIV,
last evening, on the.occasion OF serenade
in which he denounced the eastern press
with the bitterest emphasis. and spoke OF
his perfect faith in the passage OF the specie
resumption repeal bill by the Senate and
isapproval by the President.
Year: 1877

permission, the other day, for three thou
sand Of the men under his command TO
land at Buyukdere, with orders to be on
board at sunset. At the appointed time
every man had returned to his post,
They spent their leave in drinking coffee
and singing the monotonous chants in
which they delight, but none got drunk
or otherwise misconducted themselves.
The strict sobriety and abstinence Of
these Mussulmans give them an immense
advantage over Europeans, They live
contontedly on fare on which the Eng.
lishmen would starvc. Their fatalism
again gives power to their chiefs and
though in the open field their lack of en-,
ergy would put them at disadvantage
behind fortresses they would be as exec
lent as any troops in the world. 1t Is
not, therefore, to be wondered at that
the Turks have confidence in the result
of a conflict with Russia. But can they
rely on being opposed to one enemy
aloneG The war would infallibly spread,
and the Ottoman might find himself en-
compassed by foes on every side. Nor
could he confide in the power which has
hitherto always stood by his side. Al
though the agreement of the great pow
ers implies no solidarity in the event of
war let US hope that the negotiations
still going on may clear up the Difficult
ties of the situation. Diplomacy must
be sadly at fault if the representatives OF
all Europe and half of Asia can sit round
a green table day after day and separate
without devising some scheme for avert.
ing, for a time at least, the unutterable
horrors of warof fanaticism and of race


-PerG Cor. London Telegraph.