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Year: 1877

Congressman McCrary, one of the fathers


OF the bill, has a thousand times more faith


that Hayes would be elected under Il than If


the two houses came together with no under


standing whatever. He will not accept a
place on the commission himself


Now" said Mr.. Conkling, "no senator
concerned in framing this bill now before the


Senate holds any other doctrine than this of
Mr.. Pinckney--that it is the duty of Congress


70 ascertain what the state has actually done.
. hnls nriounai can 40 no more, except by


trampling the constitution under foot.n
Because mean to maintain at every stage


OF these proceedings that the Republican


candidate has been chosen president, because
believe him patriot and good citizen.
therefore wish to take title for him which


snail be SO clear that no one can say that he


has clutched power.-Senator Conkiing.
We believe Hayes and Wheeler were fairly
elected. We believe the commission will de-
eide the disputed votes in their favor. Until
it decides otherwise, we shall not admit that
Republicans can lose anything BY fair arbi-
tration. If it should decide Otherwise. wa
hope to be able to yield gracefully to n iudg-


ment OF higher authority than our own
Boston Advertiser.


An influential New England manufacturer


now in Washington is credited with the state


ment that if the electoral bill become a law


and the Presidential difficulty is thus peace


ably and honorably settled, an immediate and
general revival of business will directly fol-
low, and that this will continue and grow up
into lasting prosperity il Congress will fol-
low up this work with a sound financial
policy.


The Persians have fable OF poor man
WHO sa t down at the gate of Paradise for
thousand years on the watch for IL to open;
then, while he snatched one little nap, it had


opened and shut! The fabulist must have


had forecast of the United States waiting


through long period of depression for a


happy opportunity, which, when it comes.


finds it engaged in miserable strife, which
prevents its receiving the full benefit of that
opportunity. The exchanges of European


capitals have eyes like ElJah's to detect the
omen oil little cloud; and since the cloud of


war was seen in the East, the drawing in of


sails, the return of enterprises, has been


tremendous. If it had not been for the Presi.


dental trouble in America the flow of money


westward would have risen to flood. Now


a vast deal OF the money which has ebbed


from Spain, Turkey, Austria and Russia has
crept into holes, there to abide for some time


TO come.-M. ID. COn,vGy.
Year: 1877

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate countersigned by Stanley t.
Pullen, Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon us by demanding
credentials Of every person claiming to represent
Year: 1877

The passage of the plan for the tripartite
commission by both houses of Congress by
SO large majorities is subject for profound re-
joicing. Even those who opposed its passage
did so in no rancorous spirit, and are dis
posed to rejoice over the success Of the bill
though they were unable to vote for it.
They will rejoice with its friends if it accom-
plish the desired object. Should the event
justify the hopes Of the friends of the meas
ure, to the Joint committee the credit will
be given for plucking the flower safety from
the nettle danger; for it is not to be gainsaid
that the country was in peril, and that hasty
and ill-consdered action on either side might
have precipitated conflict which would,
evenif it had not forced resort to arms,
have seriously weakened republican form
of government in the affection and respect of
the people. That an agreement was possible
in the excited state OF the public mind goes
far to demonstrate the superiority of the re-
publican over other forms of government; for
ip case of disputed succession elsewhere
war would in all probability follow.


The Republicans have evinced patriotism
and unselfishness in this matter which were
to be expected from them but which are on
that account none the less to be commended.
Even those Republicans who opposed the
plan did not object to the result aimed at,
but were in doubt as to The legality of the
means employed. Whatever credit may
come to the bill is due to those representa-
tives of the Republican party who proposed
and carried it through. They have set an
example of unselfish patriotism which has no
parallel in history. That it will result in
their temporary disadvantage even is not to
be feared. For the strength and justice of
their case is so apparent that there can be
little doubt as to the decision. The Repub-
licans will hold the government by title
which even the most cavilling cannot ques-
ton.
Year: 1877

SINCE TIE electoral bill was reported the
Southern Investigations attract little atten-
tion. The general feeling is that as matter
of constitutional law the tripartite commits
sion will decide that there is no power in
Congress to go behind the certificate of the


state, and that, therefore, the Investigations
into the election will not affect the decision.
Year: 1877

We DO not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used.
Year: 1877

Editor DemOCrat-In sending your reporter
to look into the matter of forming criminal
juries you have touched subject of vital i'm
portance to this community. You have given
us an abstract Of the law; now please go on
and give us full account of the practical
working of the same. It is OF the utmost inn
pOrtance to know:


l. Not only the names but the antecedents
and present status of the men who hold the
position of commissioner.


2. Whether said Commissioners make every
effort to furnish juries of respectable men, or
whether the disreputable do not preponderate
in the wheel.


8. Whether there exists among the legal
profession that absolute faith in the honest
working OF the jury business which is essen
tial to we'll ordered society.


These are some OF the points to be inquired
into; otherwise your work is useless.


Laws are one thing; the proper execution
OF the laws another.


torney General and other lawyers whose part
it is to work in the interest Of the State as
against criminals. Inquire into the general
drift of public feeling. Turn the matter ''up-
side down" and inside out" You can do it
well if you try, and you can't do society a
better service.


For my part, so well satisfied am that the
working of the law is bad in the extreme,
feel sure that may be murdered this day
by the highest man in the community and
my murderer will go "scot free, IF he
has money. And, on the other hand, | feel
assured | could exchange places with the
murderer and go ''scot free" If | have the
money. This is no bald idea we have proved
the truth of the proposition over and over
again, and we are going to continue to prove
it if matters are not changed.


One of the most important trials that ever
has occurred in any nation is close at hand
that of Wells and Anderson. If these men
are not guilty of the crime charged, then it
is absolutely necessary to society that an
honest and intelligent jury should so decide;
on the other hand, if they are guiIty-if the
guilt is proved is fully as necessary that
they be so pronounced by a jury of honest
men. AS matters now stand, [ predict the
formation of jury to acquit, or at least to
disagree, no matter how overwhelming the
testimony. BEUTUs.
Year: 1877

Never use lady's name in an
improper place, at an improper
time, or in mixed company. New
er make assertions about her that
you think untrue, or illusions that
she herself would blush to hear.
When you meet with men who do
not scruple to use a woman's name
in a reckless manner, shun them
they are the very worst members
of the community; men lost to
every sense Of honor, every feeling
of humanity. Many a good and
worthy woman's character has been
forever ruined and her heart broken
by a lie, manufactured by some
villain, and repeated where it should
not have been and in the presence
of those whose little judgement
could not deter them from circulat-
ing the foul and Dragging report.
A SANDER is soon propagated, and
the smallest thing derogatory to a
woman's character will fly on the
wings of the wind and magnify as
it circulates, until its monstrous
weight crushes the unconscious
victim. Respect the name of wom-
an. Your mother and sister are
women, and as you would have
their fair name untarnished, and
their lives unimbittered by the
slanderer's bitter tongue, heed the
i'll your own word may bring upon
the mother, the sister OF the wife
of some fellow creature.
Year: 1877

"To the memory of Patrick Con-
nor this simple stone was erected
by his fellow workmen."


These words you may read any
day upon white slab in cemetery
not many miles from New York
but you might read them a hun
dred times without guessing at the
little tragedy they indicate, with
out knowing the humble romance
which ended with the placing OF
that stone above one poor and hum
BILE man.


In the shabby frieze jacket, and
mud laden brogans, he was scarcely
an attractive object as he walked
into Mr.. Bawn's great tin and hard
ware shop, one day, and presented
himself at the counter with an
Year: 1877

"Up in New Hampshire, where 1
used to live when boy" says Gov.
Noyes, "there was an old deacon
who was a great deal more pious
than honest. He was an old hy-
pocrite, and when he had done a
particularly mean thing he eased
his conscience by going out into a
field, along one side of which was
a stone wall, and kneeling beside
it praying the Lord to topple it
over on him if he had done any
thing offensive to him or wrong in
his sight. Well, we boys found it
out, and one day when we saw the
deacon making for the stone wall,
we got on the other side and wait
ed. He knelt down according to
his usual custom, anu went through
his usual formula, closing with the
petition to have the wall topple
over il he had done wrong. And
we toppled it. Jumping out from
under the stones, the old man cried
out in tones Of mingled distrust
and alarm: "Good gracious can't


you tell when a man is joking"
Year: 1877

One night early in the weei, Colonel Bar ney's corral was burglarized through the large gates opening on First street. A quantity of flour and provisions was taken but no clew was obtained to the thieves About two o'clock on Thursday morning another burglary was attempted through the large gates opening cut toward the express office. One of the employees hap pened to be awake and hearing a noise stepped out, gu. in hand. As the gates opened man stepped in and, making no reply, was treated to the contents of the gun. He ran about twenty yards and fell Constable St. Clair appeared promptly and the burglar was found to be an Indian He appeared to be dangerously wounded and was carried up to the jail on dray A charge of burglary was entered against him, but later in the forenoon he died and was turued over to the Indians.
Year: 1877

No steps whatever having been taken for preventing the spread of small poX here, we still have it among us. Unfortu- nately it does not kill or even sickcn its pvictims. The doctor says the disease is small poX, but most of the patients are al ways up, dressed and about half the time around the streets. If they would only get sick enough to die or to stay at home, there would be less necessity for taking precautionary public measures. Los An geles talks about Investigating Yuma and putting us under quarantine. We wish she would. If small poX is here we want to know it and to have police regulations adopted for putting a stop to it. Last summer we had d panic and burned up Squire Walkers clothes and smoked him, before allowing to come into town. This winter the doctor has been preaching small pox at us for six weeks, the patients are said to be right here in town, and we smoke nothing.
Year: 1877

which poor men have no business. The gravel for mile below it has been worked by dry washing, i. e. by agitating it by hand, picking off the stones and allowing the wind to blow away the dust. But this process is far from being an exhaustive one andfor hydraulic washing the gravel is practically virgin. The gold bearing ground on the north of the river is much larger, extending for several miles. Gila City Station, in charge of the new proDric- tor MT. Brown, we found provided with ample comforts and a pleasant resting place for weary prospectors.
Year: 1877

RAILROAD improvements here continue just fast enough to not got too far ahead of Congress. Grading for passenger plat, forms goes on near the end of the bridge the earth being distributed along Madison avenue, on both sides of the track. Heavy timb.rs have begun to arrive for construct ing steamboat ways and repair yards at the bank of the river, just above the ferry. The water tanks are finished and the plans are here for laying the pipe. It is sur missed that residents of Yuma will he allow ed to purchase water by making pipe con- nections as their own expense, The water will be raised by steam pump run from the foot of Main street. The same boiler will run a steam windlass for loading and unloading the steamboats. At Dos Palmas a new water tank is being built, to be filled from the well there. Between Yuma and Mammoth Tanks are being put in new culverts and trestle work, to guard against repetition of the late wash out.
Year: 1877

ATTRACTED by good reports and rich specimens brought in from around Gila City, the editor went out there this week in hopes of striking something that would pan out better than printers ink. We found T number of miners and dprospcctors ont there, waiting for the gravel to get dry enough to work. Six Papag0 families were camped near the station and have been bringing in about ten dollars day tor several weeks. One Indian had been mining on bar down the river below the station, getting four to six dollars a day for some time. Sherman and Donaldson had gone over toward the Colorado. Tine rich diggings south of the river extend from Gila City to Oroville, a distance of nearly three miles; this distance is by the stage TO Id which describes nearly semi circle. Across the heads of the gulches there cuts q great ledge of decomposcd quartz, crossing the radii of the semi-cir- cle and cropping out for mile and half. Below this ledge has been done all the min ing; above it there seems to be no pay; the natural inference is that from it has come all the gold. We failed to find very rich quartz upon its surface, although ev- cry piece we prospected gave from one to several colors. The ledge is so large, so of the projected Southern Pacific Railroad and within twenty miles of it's present ter minus, that there is no doubt it will soon be worked upon large scale. It is one of those lodges that reward capital, but with
Year: 1877

THE railroad and steamboat warehouses and freight sheds are not nearly large enough to accommodate the increasing freights of Arizona Consigned goods are drayed away to warehouses in town until they can be loaded on teams for the inte- rior. For all that goods are piled up in a confusion apparently ineXtlicable. The clerks are the hardest worked men in this Territory, and if business does not fall of the company will have to hlrc more help or get men that can work 30 hours a day. Their charge for storage is twenty-five cents per ton per day. At these rates it seems as if they could afford to build ware houses large enough to accommodate y,atrO1S
Year: 1877

THE railroad bridge is not toll bridge nor can any tolls be legally collected for crossing it. But it is placed in charge of the ferryman, who allows teams to cross ii on payment of the regular charge for fer riage. No charge is made for footmen. The California legislature made Jim Farley a senator; perhaps they can be induced tc make ours a toll bridge, if the railroad folks ask that also.
Year: 1877

CASTLE DOME still stands to the front. A number of mining interests up there have been consolidated and taken in hand by the Castle Dome Smelling & Mining Co.,, a strong corporation having head quarters in San Francisco. Their works will be on the bay. The difficulty of buy ing silver ores down here for working with the rich lead ores of Castle Dome makes it more profitable to smelt at San Francisco. This was always advocated by Vim. P. Mill CT and should have been done years ago. We are glad to see him connected with the new enterprise.
Year: 1877

A MAGNIFICENT meteor fell near Yuma last Friday afternoon, aboutan hour before dark. As 1t struck our atmosphere it be- came incandescent and during its fall glowed with an intense white light. It converted the atmospheric moisture into steam, leaving behind it a straight white line. This was soon curved by air cur rents and floated away. The meteor itself must have been body of many tons weight and seemed to fall among the hills around the Pot Hole, near the Colorado river
Year: 1877

THERE is a complete quartz mill here of three stamps, pan and all complete. A good stout mule could pack the whole outfit. It

 is perfect and complete in all its parts and is either designed for prospecting or is something that Santa Claus is giving one of the good little boys of Prescott. Our children got nothing larger than tool chests, with tn hand saws. The capacity of this little mill is said to be half ton a
Year: 1877

The little brass knob on the steamboat t warehouse is rain guage. Its record is kept by the telegraph operator and shows that Dec. 15 there fell .S4 of an inch and Dec. IS 09 That i. the entire rain of the season
Year: 1877

WHEN the wounded Indian burglar was dying at the jail, word was sent to Pascual, chief of the Yumas, to send and get him The old man disowned him for having backslid and disgraced the tribe; he sent word that we could throw the d-d thief into the river.
Year: 1877

A FEW days ago couple visited
Truckee on their wedding tour. They
were married in Virginia City. The
husband was a large. good looking white
man; the wife deiicate, fragile-look-


ing japanese woman. The advent of
this strangely assorted couple produced
considerable comment. The man be-
ing interviewed, stated that he was le-
gaIIy married and that it was a love
match. The couple seemed to be very
fond of each other and did not seem in
the least to mind the curious stare of
the crowd that watched their movements
as they passed along Front street. She
had discarded the peculiar costume Other
nation and was arrayed after the manner
OF white woman. After remaining a
few days in Truckee, the happy couple
departed for their home in Virginia CITY.
-Iiuckee Repu6hcan.
Year: 1877

z A MAGIC CURE.-A weary wife in
formed her husband the other morning
that she was working herself into the
grave for want of Il hired girl, and rs he
went out she leaned back and fell to
weeping. The children were making a
noise in the hall as he passed out, and he
called out " You ought to stop this rack
ct Your mother won't live week. and
when you get a stcpmother here next
Spring she won't put up with any such
fooling !" When he came home to din
ner his wife met him with a smile and
said +" Isn't ours cozy home, Richard,
with only our own little family to look
after ~
Year: 1877

A GOOD actress, but extremely stou
was one night enacting part in meIo-
drama with Taillade, the original Pierre
OF the Two Orphans who had at one
portion to carry her fainting off the stage.
lie tried with all his might to lift the fat
heroine but although she helped her lit
tie comrade by standing on tip-toe, in the
usual manner, he was unable to move her
an inch. AT this juncture boy in the
galley called out, Take what YOU can
and come back for the rest 2
Year: 1877

A YOUNG man in Troy, New York,
short time since dreamt he was destined
to become a gambler. 1t made so deep
an impression on him that he went down
to his fathers store in the morning, built
fire in the Office, swept out the store,
wrote letter to his family, sending kisses
20 the children, took off his coat aud
waistcoat and shot himself. He bundered
in his aim and is left to wrestle with his
destiny as best he can.
Year: 1877

A YOUNG Baltimore man told his wife
that he bad embezzled several hundred
dollars Of his employers money, and she
said that by close economy they could
save enough to refund the amount, and
thus save his credit. When they had,
by hard pinching, accumulated the re


quired sum, the husband added that to
the stolen money, and eloped with girl,
rs he had intended To do from the first.
Year: 1877

IT now appears as if war between Rus
sia and Turkey is almost among the Ger
tainties. Russia is evidently stripping
for the fight. All her war vessels in the
Pacific are being concentrated in the Bay
of San Francisco where they are being
dismanted
Year: 1877

A TORONTO paper has just disgusted
the fashionable world Of that city by in
sertng a mysterious paragraph announc-
ing stylish wedding for given morn
ing. The church was fairly jammed with
arstocracy that crowded TO assist at the
nuptials Of a Pullman car conductor and
Il laundress both colored.
Year: 1877

A CERTAIN community resort to what
they call "cure by criticism" when any
of their band is sick. They get around
his bed and faithfully tell HIM all his
faults, as far as known, and this. they
say, throws him into profuse perspi-
ration, usually resulting in speedy re-
covery."
Year: 1877

AN unexceptionably able physician has
said that mental labor Lever alone pro-
duces disease OF the brain, but that 'wor-
ry' is the chief source of softening of the
brain, and of that paralysis which is dis
tinct from apoplexy.
Year: 1877

ANY man who is working for dollar a
day and saving ten per cent Of his wages,
is laying by more solid blessedness than
any ten men who are making ten dollars
a day and letting the lay-by" take care
of itself.
Year: 1877

A SOFT HOMEMADE DISHCLoTH.--A
nice, soft dishcloth can be made of can
die wicking loosely knit or crocheted on
large afghan needles.


The secret OF managing children, is to
teach them to amuse themselves. A
busy child is always happy, and a happy
child is never naughty.


PIE-CRUsr for berry pies cannot be
made that will not soften after standing;
although, if very little shortening is used
in the under crust, they will keep bet
ter.


VARNIsH FOR WHITE WOODS. Dissolve
three pounds of bleached shellac in one
gallon Of spirits of wine; strain, and add
one and half more gallons of spirits. Ii
the she]lac is pure and white, this will
make a beautiful clear covering for white
wooden articles.-C Cooperative Journal.
FRUIT stains may be removed from
white clothing by rubbing the spots in
sour buttermilk. Grease spots are taken
from carpets by laying upon them a
good supply of fullers-earth. Ii one ap-
plication is not sufficient. make another,
brushing the clay off when it has alb
sorbed all 1t viii.


RHUBARB PUDDING off the thir
skin, cut the stalks in small pieces; cover
the bottom of a buttered pudding
| with pieces of bread well buttered; covel
with rhubarb and sprinkle abundantly
Year: 1877

with sugar; then put another layer of
buttered bread, and SO until your dish is
full. Cover the pudding dish and set it
in quick oven for half an hour. Re
move the cover and bake until brown.


BOILED MUrToN.-Break and turn in
a shank bone into a saucepan with a
couple of carrots and two or three tur-
nips, two bay leaves, two or three sprigs
of parsley, some whole peppers and salt,
quantum SUI; pour i'll boiling water
enough to cover, boil slowly from one
and half to two hours; served garnished
with carrots and turnips and with caper
sauce in q boat.