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Year: 1877

! PECK MIIL--Thc mill heretofore known and talked of as the Black Warrior alias

 the Murat Mining Company's mill has been purchased by the Peck Company and will hereafter be known as the Peck mill.

 The mill k to be up on War Eagle Creek. at the Peck mine, and within one hundred

 yar'ls of the main working shaft. The mill 1t will be remembered is l0-stamp silver

 mill of the latest and most approved pat-

 tern for handling silver ores wet or dry. with double discharg mortars and comb. nation pans with a Whites furnace for trent ing the ores before crushing and has also n sawmill attached making it q most fttipo and complete piece of machinery for Ari zona. Where now stands the little town of Alexandra will soon be seen the structure of this mill and will be heard the merry greeting of the steam whistle and the town will spring into place of considerable i'm portance. With this valuable acquisition the Peck Company will bc able to ship at the least calculation $125.000 per month Their checks will become numerous and hard times now being felt will be one of the things of the past.
Year: 1877

AzTIAN MuL.-This old mill which has been doing excellent work for the Peck Company is not to be taken down and nov cd to the Peck mine, but will remain where It Is. IL k true that the Company voted on a resolution to remove the mill which was carried but resolutions hitched to a quartz mill don't at all times haul them over the tops of mountains and innumerable ravines and such Is the case with the Aztlan mill The company are going to improve the Azt- Ian mill by adding new pans and will make it complete gold and silver mill.
Year: 1877

NoNEY-Thc Southern Pacific Railroad Company have, heretofore. made it the i'm. pcrative duty of their agents to accept gold coin or currency only in payment for freight Now we learn through W. VI. Buffum that they arc willing to accept the Peck Com pany's check Tn pay for their freights We conjecture the time will conc when these checks will he worth premium. We con- sider this pretty good for company who have only been working about year and started from below bedrock. All owing to good management.
Year: 1877

Hereafter the Board of Supervisors will only audit accounts against the county at the regular quarterly meeting on the first Mondays of January, April, July and Octo- Der of each year. Heretofore the Board have been in the habit of auditing accounts at any time they might be in session which seems to be little irregular although noth- ing particularly wrong.
Year: 1877

BLACK WARRIOR MnL-According to ru

 nor the owners of this mill have concluded not to put itu on Turkey creek. but probably adjacent thereto where it will not only bC convenient to the Goodwin but will also bC Tn close proximity to other valuables mines
Year: 1877

SILVER KING.-By late telegram from Florence We learn that a rich body of ore has been found in the south shaft of the mine, demonstrating beyond doubt that the mine is a true Assure vein. Until recent developments there seemed to exist in the minds of the many that the King was not q true vein. but large deposit of ore thrown into bulk bynaturc's law. Now. however. the opinion has changed and all admit the permanency and well defined existence of a genuine lead
Year: 1877

Our Plaza will soon be the scene of life and activity, and in the very short time in- tervcnlng between now and the 22d day of February, 1878, will spring up a building made from granite stone that will be an or namcnt to our village.
Year: 1877

Hunt was sentenced this morning. by Judge Tweed, to serve out a term of six months in the county Jail and to pay fine of $500, and, in case the fine is not paid, to remain in the county jaii and receive credit on account of s1 per day Thus, it will be seen, that Hunt gets about two years imprisonment, unless he manages to get out of the jail. He still retains the jewelry presented to him by the Sheriff.
Year: 1877

Alone in the boat, the Captain
looked with a misgiving mind a; the
flashing Of the volcano on the main
island.


Ifevents had favored him lie would
have removed AimstG to the shelter
Of The ship on the day when be saw
the emptied basin Of the lake But
the smoke of the Priests sacrifice
had been discovered from the main
island and the chief had sent two
canoes with instructions to make in
quiries. One Of the canoes had re-
turned the other was kept in wait
ing of the cape, to place q means Of
communication with the main island
at the disposal of the priest. The
second shock CT earthquake had Eat
urslly increased the alarm OF the
chief. He had sent a message TO the
priest, entreatins him to leave the
island. The priest refused He be-
lieved in bis gods and bis sacrifice
be believed he might avert the fatal
ity that threatened his sanctuary.
Yielding to the holy man, the chief
sent reinforcements Of canoes TO take
their turn al keeping watch Of the
hesdland. Assisted BY torches, the
islanders were on the alert Gin super.
siiiions terror Of tie demon Of The
propheey,) BY night as well as bJ
day. The Captain would have riskec
certain death if be had ventured x
approach the hiding p.aee in which
be lad concealed his canoe. H'
aiIed and watched. Il was only
after Aimata had left him as usual
TO return to her father at the close o


eyening, tbs. the chances declares
Year: 1877

The night had come, and the Cap
tain had not left the island. Aimsls's
resolution to send him away in the
darkness was forgotten resolution
already. She had left him persuaded
her that he was in 10 danger so long
as be remained in the hut on the cliff;
and she had promised at parting to
return to him, while the priest was
still sleeping, at the dawn Of day.


He was alone in the hut The
thought of the innocent creature
whom be loved was sorrowfully as
well as tenderly present to his mind
He almost regretted his rash visit TO
the island. II viii take her with me
to England" be said to himself
wv hat do | care for the opinion of
the world Aimsta shall be my
wife,


The intense heat oppressed him
He stepped out on the elf toward
midnight, in search Of breath of
air. The first shock of earthquake
(felt in the ship while she was inside
the reef shook the ground be stood
on. He instantly thought of the vol
cano Oh the main island Had he
been mistaken in supposing the era
ter to be extinct Was the shock OF
earthquake that be had just felt a
warning from the volcano, communi-
Gated through g submarine connee-
tion between the two Islands He
waited aud watched through the
hours of darkness with a vague sense
of apprehension, which was not to be
reasoned away. With the first rays
of daybreak be descended into the
forest, and saw the lovely being
whose safety was already precious
to him as his own, hurrying to meet
him through the trees.


She waved her hand distrsctedly,
as she approached him GO n she
cried ''go away in POUR canoe be-
fore the island is destroyed y


He did his best to quiet her alarm.
Was it the shock of an earthquake that
had frightened her 1t was not on
ly the shock of an earthquake, it was
something more ominous still which
had followed the shock There was
lake near the temple, the waters Of
which were supposed to be heated
by subterrsnean fires. The lake had
risen with the earthquake, had bub-
bled furiously. aud then melted away
in the night Her father. viewing the
portent with horror, had gone to the
cape to watch the volcano on the
main island, and TO implore, by pray.
ers the sacrifices. the protection ot
the gods Hearing this, the Captain
entrested Aimats to let him see the
empsied lake, in the absence Of the
priest She hesitsted but his influ,
ence was all-powerful. He prevailed
on her to turn back with him through
the forest


/ Reaching the farthest limit Of The
trees, they came out upon open, rOczy
ground that sloped gently downward
toward the centre Of the island
Having crossed this space, they sr
rived Q. q natural amphisheatre o
rock. On one side of it the Temple
Year: 1877

A Kentucky weather prophet says
that we are to have an unusually
severe winter, the latter end of it
especially hard. According to this
meteorological authority, December
was to be ushered in by sepll of cold
weather which would not last long,
and a pleasant Christmas was predic-
ted. The New Year is to be welcom-
ed by bright weather, which will be
Of brief duration. Intense cold will
set in befo! the middle of January,
which will last until March-the
most severe weather we have had for
years. Snow is to fall in the lap of
spring, and March will get her skirts
wet. The Kentucky people are ad-
vised to lay in a good stock offueI,
food and warm clothes.
Year: 1877

lffom the GAINESVILLE Times.


On Saturday evening, November
3, little George Boston, son of Will
liam *. Boston, went out in the
Santa Fe swamp, near his fathers
place, in Alachua county, Florida,
and came suddenly upon large pan
ther making meal Of some nice
pork. Little George Being an ex-
pert with his gun, crept up as near
as he could and fired upon the beast,
striking him with seven or eight
buckshot, one of which entered the
right eyeball, The panther got
caught in a grape vine. George fired
again, but this time it was small
shot. The panther then turned and
took to a tree. George had three
buckshot and bullet left, so he load
ed again as soon as possible, and that
discharge brought the beast to the
ground, dead. All this time the
mate to this one was only short
distance in the swamp from George,
growing fearfully. George said that
if he had had any more buckshot he
would have attacked the mate, but
not having any, he skinned the one
he had killed. | saw one of the pan
theirs paws, taken off at the ankle,
and am confident it would have
weighed two or two and a half
pounds. l think his track, while run
ming, would have covered a space the
size of dinner plate. The panther
measured eight and a-half feet long.
His skin is now to be seen at VIM.
X. BOston's.
Year: 1877

There seems no likelihood of grain
becoming scarce in the market. Our
Consul at Odessa reports that the
grain crop of South Russia has been
larger this year than any harvested
within twenty-five years. The loss
Of labor caused by the war was made
up by the introduction ofagricultural
machinery, so that the crops have
nearly all been saved. There are also
large quantities Of grain on storage
which were purchased in view OF the
war, and which, when commerce is
reopened, will be thrust upon the
mark ct at lew costa fact which
will probably have depressing ef
feet upon prices everywhere,
Year: 1877

The New York Trjbl0le is friend
to the administration, but it says
"The President cannot afford to be
supported by Democrats. Other
things being equal, an administra.
ton, to deserve support, must make
appointments that will strengthen
its supporters. If that support is to
come from the Republican party,
then the Republican party must not
be broken down by needless quarrels
on points where the administration
is not living up to its own declared
policy. Let us have peace!"
Year: 1877

A terrible calamity occurred
Thursday evening of last week, III
New York, caused ty the explosion
of a boiler in the basement of the
Barclay street front of the extensive
confectionery establishment of
Greenfield & Sons. The explosion
demolished the entire front of the
building, as well as the three aGjoin
ing, two on the lower side and one
on the upper. In the confectionery
building Il large number of boys and
girls We're employed, day and night,
during the present busy season, and
the explosion occurring about the
time the day hands We're leaving and
the night hsnases spsnmencing work.
many were in the doomed building.
1t is supposed about one hundred and
ten were in the building ; fifty are
said to have escaped by the back out
let on College Place; a small number
got out through the skylight in the
roof, and reached the ground through
the adjoining buildings; several
jumped from the second story and
were caught by the crowd below.
The number that perished can only
be ascertained by searching the ruins.
On the first floor a large number of
young girls were engaged in selling,
asserting and packing candies. None
of them are known to have escaped,
and as the boiler was located imme-
diately beneath them, there is but
little hope that any had the opportu-
nifty to rescue themselves The low
est estimate is that from forty to fifty
haye persisted. The estimate of the
number that have perished ranges
all the way from twenty to seventy.
Those who witnessed the scene de-
scribe the girls on the upper floors
running to and fro in mortal terror,
until hid from view by the flames
that ascended from cellar to roof
with lightning-like rapidity.
Year: 1877

have been robbed of two dollars If thirty


million tons of coal are burned at five dollars


a ton where they were previously burned at
seven dollars. ton here are sixty million


dollars absolutely flched, abstracted, bull


dozed out of the pockets of the speculator.
This is great deal of money. Shall the
speculator look on calmly and stand
this? Shall he possess his soul in
patience with all this money carried
by his door, rs it were. and none thrown in 2
Is this possible? Sixty million dollars is q
fund sufficient to inspire grand schemes on
the part of coal projectors, and, in view of
the cupidity, ingenuity and enterprise that
will be enlisted in the cndeavor to bag
considerable portion of this sum, it will be
strange if the people should have another
winter Of cheap coal for o great while.
There is only one hope for the people in
this respect, which is involved in the lesson
that great transportation companies and
their managers may draw from the conse-
quences of former coal combinations. In
former times the fund to which we refer did
not greatly enrich the real owners of these
lines but it debauched the management,
and perhaps the calamity of New Jersey
Central may induce them to keep out OF
great coal schemes.
Year: 1877

Charges appear in the HERALD to-day
against two charitable associations, and
complaints, more or less distinct, have of
late been made against others. If the
secular and religious managers of organized
charities are wise they will discern in these
complaints the real trouble that calls them
out and make haste to rectify it before tho
poor ore relegated to their worst sufferings
by the discouragement of the benevolent.
In plain English there is q great deal of in
competence visible among the distribu-
tors of the larger charities, and this
disgusts the would-be giver almost as
deeply as dishonesty can do. We have no
doubt that the societies have among their
working force hosts of warm-hearted, SYM
pathetic souls but tenderness toward
human woe never Of itself enabled man to
buy supplies at bottom prices or to devise
the best plans for making little money go
q long way. The best business talent
should be secured by each of the societies.
There can be no doubt that in these cases
the best is the cheapest, even if its posses
sors are as heartless as the directors Of horse
car companies. Why is it that certain men
in New York can always obtain promptly
whatever money they ask for charitable pur-
poses? Simply because no one doubts that
the money will be used to the best possible
advantage The societies should remember
that in city so full of tricksters as New
York is dishonesty is the first cause sug-
gested for whatever transactions seem irreg-
ular, and that no amount of explanation
will satisfy the man who has seen his money
misapplied. Let the societies show beyond
a doubt that they do business as well as
mean business, and they need never ask in
win for money.
Year: 1877

While we hold, with General Newton, that
the filing up of this rocky, shallow, and
therefore useless channel will have no
injurious effect on the navigation of the ad-
jacent waters of the Harlem and East rivers,
we have some serious doubts as to the abil-
ity of the Police Department to prevent on
this new site repetition of the horrible
Harlem fats nuisance. The profound con-
tempt for the rights of the community ex-
hibited by tho Street Cleaning Bureau since
its organization has been illustrated
from time to time in the most offen-
sive manner At the Harlem flats
vast bed of the foulest refuse
that could be collected in this city wns
spread for the action of solar and atmos-
pheric influences between two thickly set
tied parts of New York. For this abomi-
nable compost, which the Street Cleaning
Bureau called s'clean ashes free from gar
bage," the sum of ten cents per cubic yard
was paid by the contractors, who received
in return from fifty to eighty cents per yard
from the city. If we are to have O repeti-
ton of this outrage on common decency and
the laws of health in the carrying out
of tho new scheme of filing Little
He'll Gate, then it is better to allow
the tides to flow with free but untainted
currents through that channel. But if the
commonest precautions are taken by the
health and police officials to prevent the
mixture of garbage and street filth with tho
ashes collected in New York, and used for
filling, then really advantageous work can
be accomplished at comparatively little cost.
On no account must the Kills be filled up
or contracted in any manner. The resolu-
tions of the Board Of Aldermen, as adopted
on Thursday, we're evidently prepared in
utter ignorance of the requirements of navi-
cation in the Harlem and upper East rivers.
While they contain the redeeming sug-
cestion to fill Little He'll Gate they call for
the destruction of the Harlem River by the
closing of the Kills. Should such work be
ever carried out it would reduce the navigablc
nrea of the fine basin between Fort Schuyler
and Randall's Island by gradual extension
of the shoals of the Westchester shore into
the channel way and the choking OF the
lower Harlem River with mud. The func-
ton of the Kills current in preserving ex-
isting navigable channels Is highly i'm
portant and should never be interfered
with.
Year: 1877

improbable that he will support them in
the weaker aspects of their case. 1t is still
in his power to make Mr.. Tilden President.
but if he had any intention to do SO he
would have voted to admit the evidence of
fraud. which alone gave Mr.. .Tilden's claim
o strong foundation. In any event it would
have required high moral courage for Judge
Bradley to go against his party, and had he
been willing to do so he would have per-
mitted the introduction of the only evil
dence which could give him q strong
justification in the moral sense of the
country.
Year: 1877

One of the topics that the Municipal
Society has very pertinently taken up is
that of the necessity of reorganizing oil the
operations of the coroners' Office for this
county. There is no doubt that this office
is o cover for great abuses. The charge
that many verdicts are held on mere con-
structive necessities simply to add to the
fees, and not because they are needful to
the security of the public, is one that lies on
the very surface. But the incompetency
tho. commonly prevails in this Office to in
vestigate the cases that come before it, or
even to comprehend the principles on which
they should be investigated, is perhaps the
most glnring defect in our whole local adj
ministration. If the Municipal Society can
provide remedy for this evil it will
be fairly entitled to public gratitude.
Perhaps the most promising step in tho
matter is to endeavor to change the
manner in which the Office is filled.
So long as it is elective it will
remain as it is now-one of the makeweights
in local political bargains-and will be filled
with regard to party expediencies, and not
with regard to the requirements and
duties of the Office. 1t is one of the
offices that should be altogether taken out
of the hands Of county conventions and
Tammany caucuses and be filed by ap-
pointment at the hands of some responsible
authority. With that done we might have
Coroners at least as capable, efficient and
honest as they are in most other cities.
Year: 1877

Inc senate cnomOcr OF tQo Oulteu oCaUes
would not generally be regarded as favora-
BILE hunting ground for the sly spcrtsman
Cupid. Yet it seems that the mis-
chievous little god laughs at years and
dignity as he laughs at locksmiths,
and rejoices at crying ''havoc" among
our highest law and treaty making
powers Nor does he seek his victims
among the Roscoe Conklings and Logans,
the Adoniscs of the body, but gathers them
from those on whom Father Time has laid
his frosty finger whose summer leaves OF
life lie rustling on the ground; whose limbs
have lost the suppleness which lifted tho
Montague to the Capulet's balcony, and the
moisture Of whose eyes is not attributable
to the pleasant tears of budding affection.
Before Loves wonderful power we have re-
Gently seen the sexagenarian Christiancy
reverentially bend, and now, If the fair
Widow Oliver speaks truthfully, the ripe
Simon Cameron closes up his seventies with
q tribute to the urchin's power


Simon does not stand alone in his liability
to the soft impeachment. That he has
plenty of company the history of oil ages
and of every cline will attest. The case of
David has no doubt suggested to millions
of venerable gentlemen, during the worlds
progress the advantages of keeping the
heart warm and young even in the extreme
winter of age, and as our Simon is great on
supporting the constitution the example of
the Psalmist may have drawn him toward
the fair Oliver. Coming down to q
modern date there is the affair of
my Lord Palmerston, who, at the re-
spectacle age of eighty-two, was called to
account for trifing with the affections of q
young person of the opposite sex. a thou
sand such instances might be cited for
Simon's consolation, if not for his justifca-
ton for, as Mrs. Cluppins remarked in an
other celebrated breach of promise case,
"The old 'uns are the wustr'


And this brings us down to the fact that
Simon is accused not only of yielding to
Cupid's magic influence and insinuating
himself into the affections of Widow Oliver,
but of breaking his promise to that injured
Treasury damsel, for which she seeks the
healing plaster of fifty thousand dollar
verdict. Now, Simon Cameron is sly old
fox. Everybody has heard of Simple Simon,
who encountered vender Of pies on his
road to the fair, but he could not have been
of the Cameron family. Our Simon always
has his penny in his pocket and pays for his
pies. Then he is familiar with the nature
of contracts-no one more so-whether for
guns or matrimony, and would scarcely
make one that could not be broken if desir-
able 1t is not easy to get ahead of the Winne-
bago Chief In the threatened suit he is likely
to give the fair plaintiff Roland for her
Oliver. It may be possible that the disap-
pointment of widow in the prime of life
who misses second comforter and guide
of the ripe age of seventy EIGHT may be
damaged to the extent of fifty thousand dol
lars That is for the jury to decide. All
the good luck we can wish Mrs. 0. is
that if she RECEIVERS verdict the case may
not be moved into the Supreme Court by
the order Of some United States Circuit
Judge, on the plea that it affects the inter-
ests of United States official
Year: 1877

Evidently the plotters are uneasy over the
fact that the people have had cheap coal this
winter. From their point of view this is an
outrageous robbery. Schemers of every
stripe, organizers of corners, manipulators
of railway and mining shares and gentry of
that sort generally are of opinion that wher-
ever ton of coal has reached the consumer
at soy five dollars ton, there these persons
Year: 1877

WHILE TILE BOARD OF EDUCATION is in the
investigating mood, created by the charge made
against q teacher for over severe corporal pun
ishment, it might do well to discover in what re-
spect certain schooroom regulations differ from
physical cruelty. Unchauging positions at the
desk are to most pupils species of torture which
they would gladly exchange for sound whip
r,ur.
Year: 1877

RECEIVER PARKER, of the New Jersey Mutual,
is promised the assets of the company, and thc
public hopes he may get them. There is great
deal of cxcusable curiosity as to what they
really look like.
Year: 1877

IT IS SAID THAT CORPORATIONS have no souls,
but New York appropriated ten thousand dollars
for charity yesterday. What was done in the
same direction by those who claim to be all soul !