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Year: 1879

A few nights before the coup d'etdt
which made him emperor, President
Louis Napoleon gave grand ball at the
Elysee. The wealth and fashion of Paris
were represented there. Perfume of
flowers and strains of sweet music filled
the air. Magnificent as the scene was,
the president tired of it and longed to be
out under the calmer light of the stars !;
so taking his friend, Edgar Ney, the
Duke of la Moskwa, by the arm, he
started out through the conservatory for
the cool gardens. As he stepped through
the doorway picture met his gaze that
almost took away his breath, and for
moment he stood as one in dream. 1t
was not long, however, before he saw
that the beautiful vision was reality.
Standing before mirror in the conserva-
tory was the most exquisite creature he
had ever seen in his life. A young lady,
whose golden hair had fallen from its
confining comb down over her white
shoulders, was trying to arrange the tru-
ant curls with nervous fingers. The gal
lantry of Frenchman would not permit
him to stand staring in the doorway even
mt so beautiful sight; so, stepping
quickly to her side, the future emperor,
with courtly bow, offered his arm to
his future bride and conducted her to II
dressing-room where she could repair
the ravages of the dance. 1t was IL case
of love at first sight, and the ardent Ma
poleon hastened back to the ballroom,
where he awaited with impatience the
return of the beautiful EspagnOle. Nor
did his regard for Mile. de MOntijo prove
transitory. His attentions became so
marked that one day Nine de MontiJo
asked private audience of the prince,
and told him that his attentions to her
daughter were the subject of comment,
and that she thought they had better
leave France. This was at st. Cloud,
where the mother and daughter were
both paying visit No doubt the
prince had made up his mind what to do,
but princes cannot always lay bare their
plans. The mother was told to stay un-
til the next day; that he would have
something of Importance to communi-
cate or the morrow. Did the ambitious
old lady suspectP-Ne10 York. Herdld.
Year: 1879

There is an italian in Nevada City
who owes fortune to a drink of water.
AS the transcript relates the incident,
he arrived at the Golden Gate in quest of
a fortune and found his way to the
Sierra Butte mine. where he failed to get
employment. After receiving numerous
rebuffs, he started to return to the lower
country again. He became so weary,
footsore and disheartened that he began
to wish himself back to sunny Italy once
more, among the vines and olives. He
grew feverish thinking of his trials and
tribulations, and stopped at a spring to
moisten his parched throat. Cattle had
been that way short time before, and
with their feet stirred up the limpid
water until it became thick with mud


The Italian scooped out the basin and
waited until the sand should settle to
the bottom, that he might slake his
thirst and bathe his brow. By-and-by
the water became clear as crystal, and
he stopped to drink. An astonishing
sight met his eyes. The bottom of the
spring was strewn with bright yellow
particles that glittered i'm their watery
bed. With all his ignorance of mining
he knew he had found gold. He rushed
tXcitealy to a camp where lived some Of
his countrymen, and told the storyot his
discovery, but they were incredulous,
saying that some miner had stopped at
the spring to drink and lost what was
found from his purse. One of them,
however, volunteered TO help prospect
the claim, although he had no confidence
in developing permanent or profitable
one, The first day panned out 800.
Since then they have worked it con-
stantly and on an extensive scale, II
has paid handsomely from the first.
Last year they took out $40, 600, and sold
one-quarttr interest for S20,O0 more.
Year: 1879

Adversity is the balance to weigh
friends.


Ignorance is a subject for pityi not
laughter.


A knowledge of mankind is necessary
to acquire prudence.


Choose those companions who admin
lister to your improvement.


Truth is hid by great depths, and the
way to it does not appear to all the
world.


Conversational powers are susceptible
of great improvement by assiduous cul-
tivatiOn.


The frienships of youth are founded
on sentiment; the dissensiOns OF age re-
suit from opinion.


Flowers sweeten the air, rejoice the
eye, link us with nature and innocence
and are something to love.


The business of life is to 90 forward;
he who sees evil in prospect meets it on
the way; but he who catches it by retro
spection turns back to find it.


Affections, like spring flowers, break
through the frozen ground at last, and
the heart, which seeks but for another
heart to make it happy, will never seek





1t is very pleasant to see some men
turn round, pleasant as n sudden rush of
warm air in winter, OF the flash of fire
light in the chill dusk; they shed radi-
ance on all around them.


All useless misery is certainly folly,
and he that feels evils before they come
may be deservedly censured, yet surely
to dread the future is more reasonable
than to lament the past.


Mountains never shake hands. Their
roots may touch, they may keep together
some way up, but at length they part
company, and rise into individual, iso-
lated peaks So it is with great men.


The beginning of hardship is like the
first taste OF bitter food-it seems for a
moment unbearable: yet, ifthere is moth
ing else to satisfy our hunger, we take
another bite and find il possible to go
on
Year: 1879

A correspondent of the New York
Commercial has interviewed Miss Ander-
son, who made such a sensation at New
port with her big trunk. BY actual
measurement he found the trunk to be
seven feet nine inches long, four feet two
inches wide and five feet three inches
deep. On the top of the trunk is the
following: Baggage Smashers; If you
can't lift me, call for more help. Swear
ing won't make me bulge an inch. Re
member the Commandment: 'ThOy
shalt not take the name of the Lord thu
God in vain
Year: 1879

OF all the aerial phenomena with
which the Northwest has been visited
this summer, perhaps the one that
struck New Ulm, Mimi, caused the
most laughable scare. The citizens of
New Ulm, as well as those of the neigh
boring towns of Renville county, had
Just supped, when the air suddenly grew
hot-not with the heat of summer-even-
ing sultriness, but with that of fire. So
intense was the heat that people at first
thought their houses ablaze, and after
ward that some tunnel communicating
with the realms below had blown out
its terrestrial end. The blast of air
passed from lsouth to north and lasted
pected that the Biblical prophecy about
the destruction of the world by fire was
being fulfilled were soon enjoyinga q cool
breeze that followed the remarkably hot
one.
Year: 1879

During the three days which followed
this midnight adventure, ,Storport was visited
by a deluge of rain, but on the fourth
morning looked from my window TO find
the earth basked in summer sunshine. The
sky was a vault Of throbbing blue, ilecked
here and there with waves OF summer cloud,
the stretches on sand grew golden in the sun
rays, while the saturated hills were bright
as if from the smiling OF the sky. The sight
reyivifed me, and as soon as my breakfast
was over l whislled up my dogs and
strolled cut into the air.
Year: 1879

Farewell, my love-" tile Rover said,
"My good ship sails to-day,
And often think Of me, my love,
When am far away;
And may our God in heaven above
Bless YOU my darling, my hearts hrst


love"


The good ship sailed: the Rover was


gone,
Perhaps to return no more.
And tear was in the mnidcn's eye
As she turned from the dark sea shore,
Her step was slow and her brow was


sad,
As she brcathcd a prayer for her sailor lad
And the Rover roamed mid c,untrie S


new,
Where all was light and gay;
But he alone was dark and sad
His !.cart was tar away.
SO the good ship scilcd the sea once


more,
With the Rover to cross to his native


shore.


But, alas. for human hopes and fears.
Before the sun had set,
The storm come on. The ship was


wreck
And his corpse, all stiff and wet,
Was laid by the waves ut the maiden


door.
And thence the maiden smiled no more.
Year: 1879

Boston, June 14.-Goldsmith, the
Swede, and his wife, who some time
ago announced that they would cross
the Atlantic in boat eighteen feet
long, six feet four inches wide and three
feet two inches deep, have been miss
ing ten days. They had with their boat
been on exhibition two weeks, and be-
came disgusted at the lack of patronage.
They thereupon resolved, as Goldsmith
said to a friend, to begin their trip,
even If they had to live on bread and
water; so at $3.50 on Sunday morning
they quietly launched their tiny boat
on Charles river. At 8 O'Clock the
same after noon. they were seen off Bos-
ton light, and since then they have not
been heard of. 1t is generally believed
in the city that they have been lost in
one of the two severe gales which have,
since their departure, swept over this
coast. When they put to sea their only
provisions were small quantity of
bread and two gallons of lager. Their
only ballast was two bags of sand, and
the rigging of the boat was not set up
for heavy weather. Goldsmith's last
words were: s'I'm bound for England
or h-n ,,
Year: 1879

Fall River, Mass, June 1.-THE
meeting of the spinners committee
held last night was nearly unanimous
in the opinion that all the mills should
be struck. At the general meeting of
spinners tonight the whole body is
expected to take action on this ques-
tion. 1t is stated that there is little or
no doubt, however, but that the senti-
ment will be for such strike. 1t is
further possible that the strike will
begin next Monday, instead Of waiting
until July first. Several of the COM
miteee this afternoon expressed them
selves in favor of striking at once,
without giving any notice, but the
committee were not unanimous on this
point. Secretary Howard said that he
personally favored giving notice, but as
some wished to strike at once, the ques-
tion would be submitted at to-night's
meeting.


The meeting will undoubtedly be a
large one, as numerous committees are
to report. several resolutions are to be
voted on, and grave questions, throw
ing fifteen Thousand persons out of
work causing loss of 100000 as
wages per week, will be thoroughly dis
cussed. Secretary Howard states that
the spinners are in good condition for
strike, having several thousand dol
lars in the treasury, and no outside aid
yet received.
Year: 1879

London, June 14.-In the final sit
ting of the international literary con-
gress to-day, De Lesseps said in order
to prove the reality of the interest taken
in the construction of the projected
Panama ship canal, and to prevent an
undue advantage being taken by possi-
considered desirable to call for the first
subscription of 100000 in shares of
5,000f, and although the decision had
only been taken three days ago. he had
just received from his ssh in Paris in
formation that the whole sum had been
subscribed. 1t would now be possible
for him, he said, to obtain the balance
and commence the undertaking.
Year: 1879

Washington, June 14.-Leading re-
publican senators have to-day privately
informed some of their outside party
friends that it is not intended to carry
the republican opposition to the present
army appropriation bill, in the senate,
to such a point as would make its sub
sequent signature by the president a
cause of real or apparent schism in the
party Their object, they say, is to put
themselves on record against acquies-
cence in the doctrine that majority
of congress have the right to attach to
appropriations granted nominally, in
accordance with existing laws, any con-
ditions intended to nullify one OF more
of them, and at the same time they
expect, by offering various propositions
amendatory Of the sixth section of the
bill, to force from the democratic ma
jority some votes or declarations which
will be useful, in party point of view,
hereafter.


Those best informed, therefore, have
settled down to the belief that the
president will probably approve this
bill. There seems to be hardly any
room for doubt that he will veto the
judicial appropriation bill upon grounds
which have already been indicated in
these dispatches, but it is now somewhat
uncertain whether he will consider it
necessary to reconvene congress for the
purpose of providing appropriations for
the contingent expenses of the courts,
in case all other necessary appropria-
tions are approved this session.
Year: 1879

In Macys dry goods storo yesterday afternoon
Central Office Detective Ferris arrested woman
who gave the name of Lizzie Merritt whom he de-
tected In the act OF picking lady's pocket. When
the prisoner searched at Police Headquarters
were found in her possession. In one Of the pocket
books found card bearing the name A. Leonard
while another was written "Good GIRL" Lizzie
will be lodged in the Central Office until articles
found on her have been claimed She is unknown
to the police although the detective says shs is Al
expert pickpocket.
Year: 1879

THE four pound package law whereby
merchandise up to that limit can be sent
by mail FOR one cent per ounce, and regis
tered for ten cents additional, is 4 great
boon to the general public. But it is
greatly abused by merchants living in sit
uations remote from railroads. We have
seen as high as eight tic sacks, weighing
nearly ton, pass through here on one
train bound for Arizona, and nearly all
consigned to merchants. Uncle Sam car.
ries this stuff for Is cents pound when
freight charges would be almost double
that, and express charges four times that
much. We have no remedy to propose
but merely call attention to the fact that
such practices crowd the mails, put vast
amount of labor on Route Agents and
seriously delay the letter mails, because
contractors cannot take all that
comes.
Year: 1879

THE debt of Tennessee seems to rest upon
different basis from that assumed by the
Legislature, for no less lawyer than Charles
OConor has given an opinion that the rail
roads of the State, valued at something like
hundred millions, are liable for the full
amount of internal improvement bonds is
sued to them, and amounting TO about fif-
teen millions with overdue interest. The
State proposed to fund these on the same
conditions as the rest of the debt, but Mr..
O'Conor says that the railroads can be made
to pay. II this view is sustained by the Su-
preme Court Of the. United States, it will be
good news for the bondholders, and it will
put the State in very sorry plight.
Year: 1879

The familiar give twenties" will now
drop from the Stock Exchange lists. The
success ofsthe four per cent loan has been SO
marked that all six per cents subject to call
will be cancelled within ninety days, the linn
it allowed by law. The ''fve-twenties" were
legacy of the war: their replacement by
bonds bearing two per cent. less interest is
one of the quiet victories Of peace. 1t is a
subject for congratulation that the country's
finances are on such healthy basis.
Year: 1879

EX-SENATOR BARNUM of Connecticut,
chairman of the Democratic National Com
mittee, who has been assisting Speaker Ran.
dali to arrange the standing committees in
the interest of party harmony and to secure
a contract for supplying marble to be used in
the new government building at Harrisburg,
Pa, talks with much freedom regarding the
political situation. He says that the Demo-
Gratis have injured the party greatly since the
present session began by their unwise course
in the House regarding the army bill, having
raised an issue which will not stand before
the people. he believes that the Democrats
in the Senate committed grave bunder in
filling the two most important Offices in their
gift with men whose past records are not
pure or free from stain. The Senate Demo-
Gratis should have chosen men against whose
integrity no charges could be brought. Mr..
Barnum does not consider the outlook for
Democratic success in the future as be-
ing very bright.
Year: 1879

The Mark Lane Express, the leading an
thority upon The British grain trade, says
that the weather has greatly delayed the
spring tllage for wheat, and that the acre
age sown this year will be less than the aver
age. The Express anticipates very large
demand for American wheat and -four, al
though supplies are beginning to reach the
United Kingdom from Germany and South
ern Russia.
Year: 1879

THE Democrats who have been telling us
how kindly the negroes were treated in the
South, and how much they loved their old
masters, find it rather difficult matter to
explain away the present alarming exodus of
blacks 10 the West.
Year: 1879

We do not read anonymous letters ADD 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 CON-
municatons that are not used.
Year: 1879

The report presented by the President of
the Portland Institute and Public Library at
the animal meeting, Monday, is of general
interest. The condition of the institution is
in many respects satisfactory, but it is still
sadly wanting in many of the requisites of a
good public library. The deficiencies are
quietly set forth in the report, and though
no distinct recommendations are made and
no requests preferred, the illusions to the
aid rendered by other cities less wealthy and
less populous than Portland to their libraries
indicate very clearly the opinions and wishes
of the directors.


The directors have certainly carried along
the institution as we'll as could be done un-
der the limitations imposed upon them. 1t
is not, they will readily acknowledge, as
good library as town of the wealth and
general culture and aspirations of Portland
ought to support. The pecuniary aid given
it by the city is small, and as long as it is de-
pendent upon subscriptions it must necessa-
rily pay more attention to fiction aud light
literature in general than to works of solid
worth and enduring interest. The directors
have done the best they could under the cir
cumstances, and while endeavoring, as is
their duty, to please the patrons of the Lii
brary, have managed to devote considera-
bic portion of the funds at their disposal to
the purchase of reference books and STAN
dard works. While supplying present call
they have kept the real objects of public
library in mind, and so conducted the insti-
tuition that it may easily and with compara-
lively small outlay become a store-house of
information to which anyone in seach of
printed information can confidently turn.
Certainly as soon as the financial condition
of the city will permit the expense a liberal
appropriation should annually be made for
the support and increase of the Library, so
that it shall no longer be dependent for rev.
enues upon the contributions of novel-read-
ers.


THE new Governor General of Canada is
not having very enjoyable time in his in
tercourse with the Dominion Parliament.
He finds the people he has come out to gov
elm very much inclined 10 manage their own
affairs. The removal of Lieutenant Govern
or Letellier was so strongly demanded that
Sir John A. Macdonald was forced to inti-
mate to the Marquis that it would be wise to
let him 60. But His Excellency very dutifuI-
ly replied that he would see what the Home
Government had to say about it. The his
ses which created the announcement were,
no doubt surprise to the Queens son.in-
law, but they showed unmistakably how lit
tie our Northern neighbors relish the inter-
ference of Downing street in their affairs.
There is much excitement in the Dominion,
and the Premier is openly charged with hay
ing acted in bad faith. 1t is held that he
should have insisted on the removal, and re-
signed if his wishes were not compiled with.
The Governor General is now in the unpeas-
ant position of resisting the suggestions OF
his Cabinet and the demand of large por-
ton of the House of Commons. The peo-
pie across the line are evidently in no mood
to be trifed with, and these agitations will
certainly not bind them closer to England.
Year: 1879

The following table shows the state Of the
thermometer tFahrenheit) at sunrise during
the month OF October, the course Of the
wind. and also the highest and lowest points
OF temperature reached each day
Year: 1879

OFFICERS FEEs.-If any member of
the Legislature is apprehensive of the
county officers charging higher fees
than the laws prescribe, would it not be
well 10 pass resolution requiring the
Secretary of State to have the fee bill
printed and supplied to each officer, and
that the officers be required to keep it
hung up in some public and convenient
place in their respective offices. The
fees are plainly laid down IN the Revised
Code, and it is presumed that the lawyers
who transact much of the business with
the county officers are well posted in re-
gard to such charges.
Year: 1879

GENERAL SHIELDS, the soldier with a
silver tube through his lungs to fill up
the gap made by a rifle ball received in a
bloody engagement in Mexico, as the L.
S. army fought its way to the halls of the
Mon,ezumas, is coming to take his Sc at
in the Senate again. He is one of the
heroes of which our people are proud.
Year: 1879

Since the greenback has been declared equally valuable with gold the pubic mind has settled down, and paper currency has rather the preference over the metallic sub stance in circulation throughout the cOun- try. The minds of the people are at rest as to the value of the different classes of coins, notes, etc, authorized by our Govern ment as legal tender for all debts. private and public. A great change, indeed. during the last decade. When gold was selling at 2S5, there were men who believed it would never fall below that point. They were de- ceived. They believed the Republic was doomed. They were sadly mistaken. They thought greenbacks would continue to fall until a cart load woald not be enough to buy sack of flour. They lacked conf dence. It was a great contest in those days between the faithful and those who had no faith in the American Government, the most powerful of the civilized world. The whole history of the rebellion was written with the changing gold quotations On the first day of the new year 1879. Our money is all right. How is it, however. with that of our sister Republic to the south Mexican dollars are quoted n San Francisco at 8 cents, while here in ArizOna they are passed for 100 cents. If our people continue 10 receive the Mexican dollar at par, schemers will sead them in, food our market with them, take away our currency, and the re- suit will Do that some Ons will bo loser finally, from the fact that when we become necessitated to pay our dobts with Mexican silver dollars. our best offer will be just what they are worth in San Francisco. IL is time that action was taken in the prem jses which will have q tendency to place this foreign money at a value certainly not in excess of what it Is worth. Since our mines are producing ib.o the millions an- nually. ii seems bat proper that some meas ures should be instituted looking 10 the es- taLlishing of Mint in the Territory at some available point. Wiih Mint at home, and the general increase of bullion from our wonderful deposits of gold and silver, it would be but a short time before our Territory would be full of American dollars, and the cry of hard times and for eIgn coins would be subjects Of the past.