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Year: 1878

-The capital question has been a disturbing element in the politics and Legislation of this territory from its organization. In the near future this question will be settled, and that too in fav5r0f PhcniX or Prescott. Which shall it be is the question for Us to decide.

 As fur as the prosperity of our own town is concerned, I regard it as the leading question of the coming legis- lature. Right here some one says, The capital will be of no particular value to you" admit that the sim pie meeting of the le erislature once in twe years, d short session of the su- pfc1le court once a year, and the resi- deace of the federal officers at this place, is of no great value; but with the location of the capital is connect ed the idea, that goes out to slla world, that the place of it's location is 10 be the future central business point of the t.rritory; mn of capital come and locate as permanent citizens, in vest their means in lands, water ditches, machine shops, mlnufac,ur- ing establishments and mines, and thrift and prosperity spring up at the touch of industry. All industries are social, and one assists the other. Should this place be the capital !! We give two reasons why it should be:

 1sh N is in the great agricultural ceRr4 valley of she teFritory-of the ! fd,ure State6f Arizona. Its growth in p0pulation and wealth will be gradual, ,bht iperm1nelt. Our water supply igabundant and certain. Our soil is good, and with proper care in cultivating and blowing under, green crops may be improved far beyond its present fertility. We are not subject to the uncertain and precarious eXiSl- ence of mining town, which today is all life and tomorrow is like Gold smiths Deserted Village"

 Give Us the capital and in the near future our agricultural lands through out the valley will command good price; comfortable homes will dot our valley over, surrounded with or chards, pasture lands and vines, in closed with durable fences, and all those things which make home com fortablc and life desirable will follow in its wake.

 The second reason why Phoenix should be the capital, is: That it is about the geographical centre ef the territory, and easy of access to all. And as the meetings of the legislative body and of the supreme court arc now held during the winter months and probably will be so held in fu, ture, and as our winter climate is fine and as mild and delightful as South. crn Italy or Spain, therefore it is the most appropriate place in the terri tory for the capital. As it is m ami fest destiny that the capital will come to this place sooner or later let il come now, that the vexed question may be forever settled. To this end let Us have an earnest, honest, intelli. gent, influential, able and true work ing delegate in congress, rather thar talking machine. We have toe many of them in the States. W, want more docrs, actors, and thinkers Then should we get the capital locat

 cd here, we may be able to get an an propriation to construct capital build ings. X. D. LEMON.
Year: 1878

MUCH of our space this morning is
given up to the detail of the yellow
fever epidemic in Southern cities.
There is so much suffering and destitu-
tion. and all that is terrible in an epi-
demic, that the people are naturally
more interested in that than in anything
else. Columns might be written, but
the sad story could not be brought out
more forcibly than upon perusal of
the startling facts set forth in our tele-
graphic columns.
Year: 1878

SHOULD the annual list of drownings
at the seaside resorts continue to show
up SO ghastly year after year, it will
have the effect of killing those fashion
able watering places. Prof. Baxter, of
Harvard, is the latest victim.
Year: 1878

PARLIAMENT will be dissolved, and
it will not be dissolved. By putting it
in this shape we are sure to get equal
with the cable man who plays Katy-did
on this question. The latest is that
the London Post officially announces
the prorogation.
Year: 1878

is the currency plank of their platform:


ResolUed, That we congratulate our fellow
citizens, on the uumistakable evidence appar-
ent in so many directions that the business in
terests of the country are recovering from the
long depression brought on by overtrsdi1g and
excessive speculation, and on the certainty that
this recovery is to be made enduring by the re-
sumption of specie payments, now, happily,
within immediate reach, and certain to bs ac-
complished without shock either 70 industry
or commerce; that in financial as in other mat
ters, the world is governed too much, and the
pressing need of the time is stability upon
which to build confidence, allowing the natural
laws of trade to assume their healthful opera
ton; and that, In common with the best inte!li-
gence of all parties, we rejoice in the early ad-
journment OF Congress, aud the respite it will
afford from the reckless and mischevous
schemes of ignorant legislators, made formida-
BILE by the despotsms of caucus. We de-
nounce reputation in every disguise. We re-
gard the plighted faith of a community bind
ing upon all its members, aud failure to fulfil
public obligation as stain upon both public
and private honor. We insist that the debts
of the Nation shall be paid with the same fair
ness and integrity with which the honest man
seeks to pay his individual debts We assert
that no prosperity can be real or durable that is
founded on fictitious standard; that the value
os paper currency, whether issued by the Gov
ern ;uent or banks is derived from its promise
to nay and the credit that promise Is worth ;
that the full benefits of such currency cannot
be realized unless it is convertible on demand
into gold AMI silver; that a circulation of pape
and coin interc asngeable at par and at the will
of the holder has been proved by experience to
be the best known to commerce; that this
country is too great to suomit 70 suooruiuste
place among commercial nations, and its peo-
Die too honest to be content with unredeemable
promises, and in the name of all the producing
classes and every honest w'orkingman we de-
mand currency that is worth rot only It's race
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respect, recognition and its full valua IN every
market of the world
Year: 1878

WHY doesn't the Potter committee find
out who is responsible for the attempt to
bribe members of the Louisiana electoral
college? The story that the offer was made
by gamblers has not been substantiated. Were
it true the Democrats would at once hasten
to prove it and so clear themselves from the
charge OF bribery. Their silence in the mat
ter is a confession of their guilt.
Year: 1878

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate couDtersignec by Stanley T.
Pullen, Editor All railway, steamboat and hote


managers will confer favor upon US by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent our
Year: 1878

THE Lancashire strikers are gradually re-
sumng work at the ten per cent. reduction.
A majority of the operatives are in favor of
resumption, but some Of the younger men
are still in favor of holding out.
Year: 1878

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


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used.
Year: 1878

estimony taken. McLin, in addition to ad-
mitting the truth of the letter he wrote
Noyes, swore that he only knew of the
statements in his so-called confession from
hearsay, and that if he had now to make a
canvass of the State over again, he would be
obliged to make 1t exactly as he did before.
Year: 1878

President Hayes recently re.
ceived a letter from an innocent old
Vermonter, who wrote: "Desiring
to see Washington to the best ad +
vantage, 1 write to ask you if
can make my headquarters with
you at the executive mansion, as I
have a prejudice against stopping
at hotels, and the private boarding
houses are not quite up to my style
of living"
Year: 1878

The facilities of the HERALD Steam
Printing House for doing job work are not
surpassed in California outside of San
Francisco and Sacramento. All work en-
trusted to us will be executed with neat
ness and dispatch at the lowest living
rates.
Year: 1878

Correspondence vi Jno 0dLCtbO'


CHESAPEAKE TOWNSHIP,
NEARFoRTRRss MONROE, Va. Dec.l4.


To THE EDITOR OF THE GAZETTE
Sir Il notice in your issue of last Satur-
day, the 9TH, long missive from an ad-
vocate of "fiat" money. l sympathlze
with the man. He believes, and honestly
so, that Uncle Sam should keep print
ing press going, sending forth strips of
paper with U. s. and One Dollar indeli-
bly, marked on them, and l presume he
prefers that the back OF them should be
green although would advise him and
all the apostles of rag money TO vary the
color of the national cash and scatter a
few yellow backs, blue backs, and mix a
few blood red backs among them.


But let us consider his panacea for the
present dali times. The misguided man
imagines there is a deficiency of capital
to carry on the business of the country.
He should compare the amount of paper
money in circulation at the reaking out
of the late war, with the amount in cir
culation at the present time, and not get



men of this country desirve to try the
experiment of laboring and toihng, and
receiving this fancy colored back paper
money in return for their labor.
Now, Mr. Editor, let me talk to you a
little and will be very brief. You can
rely upon 1t that the most sure and di-
rect way to permanent prosperity is to
get our federal taxation and expenditures
| cut down about seventy-five millions or
one hundred millions annually Il mean
the Internal Revenue taxes) We then
get rid of an army of office-holding
leeches.


The Democratic party can obtain SUI
preme control of each branch of the
government, at the next Presidential
election, only by bringing through both
houses of Congress measure of the
above purport. Because if the fraudu
lent President should dare to veto q
measure reducing taxation, the party tc
which he belongs would lie doomed tc
certain defeat at the coming genera
election.


see nothing to secure victory for the
Democracy at the coming great nationa
lpohtical contest, hut demonstration il
favor of reduced taxation. The people
need electrifying these depressed times
and there is sure to be three parties IL
the field, and great uncertainty will b'
the consequence.


| A NEW YORK DEMOCRAT.
Year: 1878

a CERTAIN publication, notorious
as defamer Of character, wonders
why it is that the notices Of its libel
SUIT are all SO nearly alike. No one
else, however, has any difficulty in
understanding how 1t is that public
sentiment is all one way. Its cen
sure is as richly merited as it is uni
versally bestJwad.
Year: 1878

hair. blood and offal of slaughtered ami
mails. carcasses of dead animals, fish,
dish water, chamber ley, coarse stable
manure, swamp muck and other mate
rials ordinarily thrown away and wasted.
Such is compost heap, and no farmer
should be without something of the kind
from which to pay back to his soil the
fertility of which it las been de-.
priyed in the culture of crops; and
now is a good time to be commencing
one. If the farmer is not able to
purchase other and more expensive
fertilizers he can at least be scraping
together all such decomposable materials
as are lying around loose in every direc-
ton, and be making just such a
heap. In the north nothing of that
kind that can be thus appropriated
and utilized is lost, and it is rather
a poor commentary on the farmers
of the south to see the vast quantities of
worn.out land lying idle and perfectly
useless, when there are SO many mate.
rials ready at hand to reclaim and rem
der them productive. In building a
compost heap it is we'll to add a little
lime occasionally to hasten decomposi-
ton of the coarser materials, but not to
apply it in such quantity as will drive off
the ammonia. In heaps containing much
animal matter (and therefore the most
easily decomposed) considerable caution
should be observed and but little lime
applied, otherwise the ammonia will be
rapidly evaporated and lost. A bushel of
uuslacked lime, well-incorporated with
the heap, is amply sufficient for cord Of
deconposable matter; and then, il the
LIQUID manure from the stable-yard be
carefully saved in pit for the purpose,
and occasionally added thereto, the value
of the heap will be considerably en-
HANGED. On almost every farm there
are enough of such materials, if proper
ly utilized, to prevent deterioration Of
the land, and the farmer who neglects to
50 appropriate them shows a degree of
carelessness and 1--WE were going to say
a lack OF common sense not very COM
mendable; SO that every farmer should
make it point to build up one or more
of these heaps on his premises"
Year: 1878

As there is much soft corn, or corn the
cob Of which is not thoroughly dry, the
farmers should use great care in selecting
only the soundest and dryest ears for
seed, and store it in dry, airy place.
Do not put in the granary or over grain,
as the sweating of the grain destroys its
terminating qualities, and good crops
can not be raised without good seed.
Only save the best of everything for seed.
If the tools are not under cover long
before this, lose no time in putting them
there. Look them over and see if they
need repairing. It so, have it done the
first spare day, so that they will be ready
for the early spring work, as much time
and money is lost by the delays caused
by broken and rusty tools when most
needed. Stock OF all kinds should be
provided with comfortable quarters; it
does not pay to keep stock standing in
mud or snow. Itcosts more to feed them
than it would to provide shelter. Care
should be given to the poultry. Build
them good, warm house, with plenty
of room. Have good, clean nests pro-
vided, and give plenty of light. This,
with change of feed occasionally and
plenty of good, fresh water, will cost but
little, and they will pay you well by a
supply of fresh eggs for the table, or to
sell, nearly all the winter, and at this
time of the year they always bring a
good price,. Nothing on the farm pays
better than poultry in proportion to the
expense, and nothing is more neglected.
And now that winter is here with its
long evenings, be sure and supply your
self and family with plenty of reading
matter. Have at least one good paper;
it is almost as necessary in these days of
railroads and telegraphs as good seed or
tools.
Year: 1878

To REMOVE dandrutf, wash the scalp
frequently with bay rum and borax,
which will raise a Iather, and rinse off
with cold water.


To CURE weak eyes, take rose-leayes -
the more the better-and put them into
a little water then boil; after this, strain
it into bottle, and cork it tight. You
will find this liquid very beneficial IN
removing redness and weakness from the
eyes.


To STOP the flow Of blood, even from
a severe wound, bind on the wound the
fine dust of tea. After the flow has been
staunched, laudanum may be applied
with advantage.


A SIMPLE and safe vermifuge consists
of powdered rust of iron. 1t expels tie
worms and strengthens the constitution,
To child six years old, twenty grains
may be given. An adult may take
quarter of an ounce. 1t may be given
in molasses or in beer. Followed always
with an aperient--senna for child, cas-
tor oil for an adult.


For bleeding at the nose, the best
remedy, as given by DR.. Gleason, in one
of his lectures, is vigorous motion of the
jaws, as if in the act of mastication. In
the case of cAild, wad of paper should
be placed in its mouth and the child in
structed to chew it hard. 1t is the
motion OF the jaws that stops the flow
of blood. This remedy is so very simple
that many will feel inclined to laugh at
it, but it has never been known to fail in
a single instance, even in very servere
cases.


To CURE vertigo or dizziness, arising
from dyspepsia, eat food that is easily
digested, avoiding pastry and fat meat.
Sometimes it is.occasioned by costiveness,
and in this case the remedy is to keep
the bowels open with gentle physic
Avoid coffee, ardent spirits, late suppers,
and 90 to bed and rise early. Take
plenty of outdoor exercise.
Year: 1878

Quite stir has been made in New
York state by the farmers, who have
organized what they call the FARMERS
Alliance an association having for it's
object the banding of the farmers into q
semi-political brotherhood. The alliance
differs from the grange in that its meet
ings are open and its objects avowed on
general, political and governmental ques-
tions. The society attacks openly the
nomination of what they call "tricky
lawyers" to election for Offices wherein
they will be required to legislate for the
farmers. Rum-sellers also come in for a
portion of the wrath of the members.
Then quack>doctors, undertakers and
graveAdiggers are denounced as "priv-
ileged classes" who exact most exhor.
bitant charges. They set apart personal
property holders as privileged" be.
cause they eYade taxation. The custom
of assessing the nominal owner upon the
whole of his land, although he may owe
for more than half, is disapproved.


Railroads are next taken to task, and
get share of abuse. The alliance
seems to be taking deep root
among the farmers of the empire
state, and may become quite formida,
BILE as a political power.


Some Of the objects are set forth in the
following extract, read before the late
state meeting at Syracuse: 4


First: That every species of property
should bear Its just and equal burden of
taxation.


Second: That the insurance law of the
state should be SO amended that the
farmers can secure themselves against
loss by FIRE at the actual cost Of such pro-
lection, by forming companies for mutual
insurance.


Third: That the farmers OF the state
of New York should no longer be taxed
to carry grain of the west to the sea-
board; and to this end the railroad com
panies Of the state shall not discriminate
against local freight, and that they shall
be prohibited by law from charging more
ON freight for short distances than for
long distances.


Fourth; That q state board of agricul-
ture should be appointed, recognized and
maintained as department of the state
government.


Fifth: That as the common district
school is the only means of education to
large majority of those living in rural
districts, we demand that the common
schools of the state shall be maintained
free to all, and that they be placed for
ever beyond partisan OF sectarian control
by the organic law of the state.
Year: 1878

An old woman who went into the
poultry business some time since, under
the expectation that size could make a
fortune by selling eggs, Las quilted it in
disgust, because, as she says, "the hens
will never lay when eggs are dear, but
always begin as soon as they get cheap"
Year: 1878

a CONVENIENT apparatus for the sick room
where cold drinks are wanted is recommended
by Lies Mondes." It it is made by placing two
vessels presumably Of glass; ono within tho
other, and filing the inner vessel with solu'
ton of nitrate of ammonia. The outer vesso(
may be goblet, and the inner vessel is formed
in the shape of an inverted truncated cone, and
has cover that is large enough to cover the
goblet For goblet of water $50 grsmmes OF
The nitrate of ammonia are placed in the inner
vessel, and water is added till it is filled. To
hasten the action, the solution should be stirred
as the water is put in. The water in the goblet
is soon reduced about u degrees Fahr., when
solution again it is only necessary to spread it in
the sun till the water evaporates and the nitrate
recrystallizes. .-.Scri5ner for Feb. .r
Year: 1878

"Only baby is dead" you say.
B ut the grief is wearing my heart away.
"Only baby" that is all
That lies beneath that little pail.
"Only baby Oh you so brave
Did your heart e'er break DER baby's


grave?
"Only baby" do you know
What It's to have baby go?
Only the hope of future years
Has flown and leaves the bitter tears,
Baby was all on earth had,
And the heart she's left is sad.
s'Only baby is dead'' you say
But the grief is wearing my heart away.
Year: 1878

which all business men concentrate, and no
doubt there is an advantage in bringing
cheap, easy and rapid means OF communi-
cation as near that spot as possible. Horse
cars and rapid transit lines now carry pas
sengers from the immediate neighborhood
of the Post Office on all the streets and
avenues on both sides of Broadway. But
to 60 up Broadway itself from the Post
Office to Union square it is necessary to
ride in a numbering, jolting, lettering ten
cent stage or to hire hack. The advocates
of horse cars insist that this leaves the
principal thoroughtare of the city, with it's
fine, commodious buildings, at disadvan-
tage, and that a surface railroad, with COM
Portable cars run at a good rate of speed, is
needed to keep up the value OF property
on that part Of Broadway They argue
that Sixth avenue was made one OF the
principal business avenues of the city
through good surface railroad, and that
what has been accomplished in the past for
Sixth avenue is now demanded Tor Broad
way. 1t is certain that the violent oppose
tion to Broadway railroad, which was
prompt to show itself on every appearance
of that project few years ago, has now
moderated considerably, it, indeed, it has
not entirely disappeared.
Year: 1878

We print this morning special cable
despatch to the HERALD from Berlin stating
tha. the German and Swedish friends Of the
famous leader Of the Swedish Arctic expe-
dition, Professor Nordenskj5ld. are much
alarmed by telegram to the HERALD from
San Francisco, which we printed on De-
cember IL, announcing that his ship was
probably beset in the ice above the East
Cape. We suppose that the receipt of the
HERALD in Berlin gave the first intimation
Of the danger that possibly surrounds


the Vega and her gallant party. The
San Francisco despatch. which we find
quoted by cable, states ~ 'that . ship,


believed to be the larger Of the vessels Of


the Swedish Polar expedition, is blocked in
the ice above the East Cape" OF course
there is no absolute certainty that this ship
is the vega. Yet, judging from the recently
reported movements OF the Swedish expedi-
tion, the Vega would be about in the
position mentioned IL she failed to pass
through Behring Strait into the Pacific
Ocean. Whatever ship has been seen she
is in the Polar counter current flowing
from the northwest toward Behring Strait,
and Is likely to be held by the Ice folds
that would extend southeastward from Kel-
let Land and Herald Island toward the East
Cape. To test the truth Of the San Fran
cisco whalers report the friends of Professor
Nordenskj0ld are fitting out an expedition
for the discovery and relief OF the Vega.


Following the northward course of that


branch of the Kuro Siwo, or warm


Japan current that penetrates the Arctic


Ocean through Behring Strait, relief ship


can easily reach the Asiatic coast close to


the East Cape, whencs relief can be sent to
the ship beset in the ice. After the glori-
Gus efforts Of Nordenski5ld to accomplish