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Year: 1877

NEARLY S0,0OO pounds of concentrates from the Silver King mill are now on the road down here. They have been made since the new concentrating tables were put in and are estimated to be nearly twice as rich as those shipped heretofore. Late shipments have been assaying about 5000 per ton. At this rate the stuff now en route has value of nearly $15O,OO0; and the mill keeps pounding away.
Year: 1877

LAST Friday night the heavy rains on the California desert proved too much for the railroad track. It was washed away m more than one hundred places, varying from little gaps that could be filled in a few moments to openings calling for a days work of twenty men. At one place the water had damned up and flowed across the track for half mile, cutting little gullies between the ties. When in the vicinity of Volcano the engine and some of the cars broke through and got off the track. Amid the racket an old express messenger awoke from dreams of stage riding and road agents, stammering out "D-d-d-d-on't shoot! Here's the express box!!" The train was running at about usual speed, 15 miles an hour. Fortunately no one was hurt. The engine had got across the worst place before getting off the rails. She was set on the track again and ran a few miles when tie road was found worse than before. From there a hand car was run to Yuma, about 60 miles, bringing Dr. and Mrs. Thompson and ex. press messenger Gould, who had $5OOO in greenbacks for paymaster Nelson and who perhaps, did not want to tempt train hands with that much money. Men were sent out from Los Angeles and Yuma and the road was soon repaired for the passage of the train. On Monday night the rain again did great damage. The Yuma bound train was ordered to stop at Dos Palmas until the arrival there of the construction train sent out from here. It finally got in on Wednesday night. From Ogilby to Frink Springs, about forty miles, the road was washed out at every few hundred feet and the culverts foated off. Ties were sent out from Los Angeles and the worst places cribbed up so that now trains pass in per feet safety. Pile drivers have been ordered out and many of the former culverts will be replaced with trest.e work. It will take about month to fully repair all damages.
Year: 1877

ASTONISHING, how prompt the railroad folks are about collecting. About paying they take their time and send down a pay car every few months only. They collect bills like taking overdue tribute; they pay them like dispensing doubtful charity.
Year: 1877

THE Colorado river has fallen inches during the last days, as per water mark on the bridge. The Cocopah could only get within four miles of Hardyville as there were but 14 inches of water in the river up there. The fall is due to cold weather and freezing up of water at the head of the river.
Year: 1877

THAT porch in front of Humboldt's old building is regular man-trap and should be taken down before, rather than after, some one gets killed by its fall. Just such another old rookery behind the house fell down last spring and broke the old mans
Year: 1877

Apple pomace is very largely eaten by
cows, horses, and pigs, and is doubtless
good for the animals, if not very nutri-
tious, as a laxative diet. We have al
ways preserved the pomace in barrels for
this express purpose, feeding pailful
to each animal as long as it lasted. Its
money vaIne is not much; probably ten
cents for a barrelful would be all that it
is probably worth. We would advise
all those who r2ake cider to bring home
from the mill and preserve the pomace
for their animals; it is at least worth
that trouble, if only to see every sort of
animal about the farm enjoying a mess
oc it. Ii packed tight in barrels it will
keep some mOnths.-N. Y. Times.
Year: 1877

The Scientific american notices the
new utilization Of seaweed, in the man.
nfacture of fabric TO which the name
of vegetable leather has been given. In
its production sheets of carded wadding
are placed on hot polished metal plates,
aud coated with a concentrated decoc-
ton of seaweed, lichen, pearl moss, or
other mucilaginous vegetation. The
sheet is then dried quickly, thus giving
to the surface applied to the metal plate
a gloss like that of leather. Rolling and
COMPRISING between heated cylinders
follows, and then coating of boiled lin.
seed oil is applied. After this thin
coating of wax is put over the substan-
ces as thus prepared, and another roll
ing. to soften the sheet finishes the arti-
Gle. when it is ready for bronzing, or
any other treatment.
Year: 1877

If horse steps short and carefully,
the difficulty is from Inflammation of
the shuttle bone. The middle finger
fairly represents the foot of the horse;
the knee corresponds to the human
wrist. The human hand has two sets of
muscles, one to extend, and the other 10
bend or hook up the finger, and the leg
and foot OF the horse j. the same
When inflamed, the shuttle-bOne is dry
and irTitaies the muscles as thev move
over it, hence the horse bends up his
heel and stands on his toe. The only
remedy is prolonged rest and this should
be either in a moist pasture or in sta.
bic where the stall is well bedded with
moist earth several inches in depth so
that the horse can rest his foot without
straining the inflamed parts. Another
disease is where horse steps long and
rests on his heel witt, the toe up. This
is fosnder in the feet, or inflammation
of the lamiBG. that sensitive portion of
the foot which lies in corrugated folds
between the internal bone and external
she'll or hoof This disease is caused by
putting up the horse. after hard driving
and heating, giving it grain and other
feed, without proper rubbing and blan-
keting, and this neglect leaves the legs
TO cool quickly, contracting the blood
vessels OF the legs so that the blood with
which the feet are gorged cannot get
back to the body where il belongs. In
this state Inflammation ensues. aud if
not speedily cured efTusion takes plase
in the lamiRa, which in time may be-
come foul matter or pus, and work it.
self out near the heel in what j. known
a. thrush. To cure this founder the
animal should be taken into q warm
room and with aconite or other rene
dies be given "a sweat Ii eiiusion
has taken place, as the swollen, round
ed appearance of the under surface Of
the foot will show, take a fine saw and
make an opening into the toe as though
YOU were going to split the foot like
that of an OK. and saw Just through the
she'll or hool and the watery efiusion
will escape and the foot may l'e healed.
\ lonndered horse should be shod with
the heel calks low and that on the toe
high, while the shoe on one with inlam-
ed shuttle bone should be high at the
heel and low at the toe.


The wolf-teolh j. milk tooth which
was not she'd with that set. II i in the
hog under a year old and is in the cow
Just the same. and is shed in most cases
in all these animals. 1t Is usually pull
ed 10 cure blindness, but il has no con
neciion with the eye; il has no nerve or
nerve cavity. But pulling or jerking
the bit irritates the gum, and SO | pull
them. a Michigan physician took pains
to examine one thousand cases of wolf
tooth and found no connection with
blindness.


Never burn or cut out the lampass,
hut feed shclled corn or something OF
that ki.d.-Er.
Year: 1877

they are competent for the duties they are called
ON to perform.


So far rs our personal acquaintance goes with
this class of officers, we have found them and
believe them to be honest and efficient. But
the Commissioners bill directly discredits all
this numerous body of professional men, and
stands wholly upon the unwarranted presump-
ton that they are incapable of intelligent dis
charge of duty or that they are improperly in
fuenced in some form in the statements which
they render. We do not believe it to be true
in fact, and the slur thus cast upon whole
class Of men is, in our judgment, unwarranted.
The Commissioner appears to be governed by
the notion that from ties of neighborhood and
other like causes they (the examining surgeons)
are incapacited from making reports which
would do justice to the United States.


cause examinations to be made by surgeons be-
syond the limits of their special locality and
where these causes do not exist.


He has or can have advisory boards entirely
separated from these local influences.


But what, after all, is the complaint? 1t
seems to be that on these examinations a suff-
cient number or proportion is not dropped from
the rolls or reduced in rate, and special atten-
ton is called in the Report to the results of the
results of the special mission of DR.. Almon
Clarke, in contrast with the results given by
the regular officials.


1t is needless to say that any man, selected as
DR.. Clarke was for the express purpose of prov



ing theory, would almost inevitably do his
best to fill the purpose for which he was sent,
and that it is scarcely possible but that his
knowledge OF the end and object of his mission
would largely influence his opinion. 1t would
have been a much fairer test to let DIR. Clarke
go over the ground formerly traversed by the
examining surgeon and report, as did the for
mer, the facts developed by the examination,
and see how far, if at all, he differed from the
previous statements made by the regular officers.
These cannot materially differ as to the FACTS
preeented on examination, though they may
differ very widely on matters of opinion based
upon the same state of facts; and so wide and
SO innocent may be the division of opinion that
it would be impossible for Mr. Bentley to send
another surgeon, no matter how great may be
his eminence and experience, who, following
over the same ground covered by DR.. Clarke,
would concur with him in any universal extent
in the matters of opinion as rendered by him.


The Commissioner sent DR.. Clarke for the
purpose of test of his system. 1t is little
doubtful from what section of the law he gained
the right to employ this agency, and we have
no certain knowledge of the cost of the expert
ment but believe it to have been one thousand
dollars. We have the Commissioners opinion
that he was competent to review the action OF
the local officers, and perhaps he was; but, after
all, the law does not make him the reviewing
officer, and, on the doctrine of probabilities
neither DIR. Clarke nor any other one man is
likely to know more of has duties than the 157e
regular examining surgeons of the office.


r. e oo.o
Year: 1877

Messrs. Editors 1t has been suggested
that as the State Fair is to he grand sue
cess this year the public schools should be
closed for t,co days instead of one, as here
toiore. This can the more readily be done
without much interruption to the lessons,
as Thursday is the day usually set apart for
closing, and the day following being Friday
it seems scarcely necessary to call them in
for only one day. The teachers and pupils
have been working hard and getting along
we'll so far this session, and now need Il little
recreation; and this is just the way to give
it to them. Will the School Board take this
matter under advisement and give it careful
consideration? L.
Year: 1877

MOONLIGHT DRILL OF THE FIRST REGI-
AENT.-The First regiment will be drilled
tonight on Broad street near the City Hall.
The soldier boys should all be present, as
the ladies will be there to watch the pro-
ceedings, and each company should desire
to make good appearance.
Year: 1877

The following remarks in the London
Standard are rot at all original, but they
serve to throw some light on the blue
glass theory. Even colorless glass will


prove e. blessing if it induces habit OF
bathing in the sunlight:


1T IS known 10 every person ,pretend-
ing } education tEat an animal ar plan,
|deprived for many hours of all access to
fresh air would perish bya kind of suff0-
cation. But 1t is much less generally
known that neither animal nor plaht can
flourish or enjoy heslth in darkness Ger
tain blanched flowers aud vegetables are
obtained by the very. process of rearing g
them IN darkenrd cellar. but their white
ness is itself disease. and Indicates the
destructive effect produced by lack of the
vital element of light. Bright, clear. full
sunshine for many hours daily is essential
to real health"


1t is stated on the authority of Sir James
Wylie, THAT the cases OF disease on the
dark side of an extensive. baTrack at St.
Petersburg have been uniformly for many
years. in the proportion of three to one ,
to those on the side exposed % strong
light"
Year: 1877

A plan IS on foot fol- providing place
for Grant which promises to secure him


a POSITION and to keep him still. in one
St y. In the service of the country. 1;


has long been intended when the rest OF the


National debt come to be refunded, that the
syndicate assuming the work should be


under American control and it ls now
proposed that some strong New York
bank, either the Bank Of America Or The


Bank of Commerce, be organized as a


National bank, with capital Of ten to
twenty millions, for the purpose of con-
ducting all further operations for refund


ing the National 4. .bt, with representatives
in The boarIo directors from all members
Of the present syndicate, and also from
the houses of Brown Brothers, Barings,
aud Won Hoffman. The plan procee Is
upon the idea that Grant could be chosen
and could be in uced to accept the presi-
dency of this bank. This would give
aim an assured income with an occupa
tion sufficiently dieniGed anal agrees bic,
while it would crafty his family feeling
by fixing his future residence near that of
his sons. Ulysses Grant, jr., hiss been in
New York for a day or two con ulting
with bank officers on the subject, and
there is stroug disposition among some
of the moneyed men, with whom the mat
ter originated, to carry it through.
Year: 1877

The greatest misfortune Of all Is not to
be able 10 bear misfortune.
The reputation of man is not safe un:
til the man is dead and has no further use
for it.


4 Wisconsin lumbcrman offers $50 In
cash for "a rat,lns good wi!e-one who
lis not too high toned to grow ist on bean
SOUP


Men who believe, or affect to believe,
in nobody :nd nothing else, are noted for
ia marked degree Of belief il themselves.
find that successful exertion is a pow.
'crful means of exhilaration, which dis
charges itself in good humor upon Others
tt c man that cannot laugh is not only
fit for treasons, stra'agems and spoils;
hut his own v hole life is already treason
and stratagem.


The first step towards making man of
your son is 70 train him to earn what hi,
spends; the next best step is to teach him
how to saye his earnings.


This is just the time to go cut wolf
hunting. Nothing will give you higher
OF real satisfaction than chss-
ing the wolf from your poor reiyhbor's
door. Try and see.


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Each grave en- the broad breast of the
wh ole tar;h, whether men have marked
il or forgotten it, is in Gods keeping,
briers and weeds cannot hide it from his
eyes. neglect aud desolation cannot cover
it from his care.


God pity the poor girl or woman whose
name becomes the subject of gossip among
her SEX, AMI is baudie about from mouth
to mouth. An cnvous or malicious w0-.



man IS an imp of hell sent to increase the
worlds misery.
Year: 1877

The greatest agent to produce pow
erty among farmers, or any other
class, is debt. Many farmers will get
q deed of small piece Of land, enough
to support themselves and families,
and lay up small income. But that
is not sufficient. They run in debt
for more land. and become slave to
debt. They pay interest on money
borrowed, which will soon consume
the little property they possess. Such
proceeding engender a spirit Of dis
content, they lose faith in farming, and
try TO sell their farms in order to get
to town and enter into other business.
In nine cases out of ten, every farmer
who is doing well, but goes to town,
fails outright. Having no faith i'll
farming, and no breath ofunderstand-
ing, they buy the poorest tools and the
mcanest stock, and drive poor teams
before poorer wagons and agricul-
tural machinery. In the fall and win
ter they feed poorly, just enough to
get their live stock through the win
ter into spring. Then it takes all sum-
mcr to putSon that flesh that was lost
in the winter by poor shelter and bad
food. They never put out any trmt
or shade trees on their farms. They
always sell their best lambs and cat
tie to the drovers, and keep the poor
est at home. They send their children
to school but little, as too much learn
ing is dangerous thing. They do
not take agricultural papers, or be-
lieve in book farming. They never
give their children cent of spend
ing money, as it makes them eXtrava-
CANT. and they become spendthrifths.
In short, they are the most miserable
people in the world; would not keep
money if they had it. Such farmers
are poor, and will remain SO to the
end of their day.
Year: 1877

HATE NoT.-it is not worth while
Your life is not long enough to make
it pay to cherish ill-will or hard
thoughts toward any one. What If
that man has cheated you; or that
woman has played false with you?
What if that person you considered
friend has forsaken you i'll your time
of need, or that one, having won
your entire confidence, your warmest
love, has concluded that he prefers
to consider and treat you rs stran-


ger? Let it all pass. What differ
ence will it make to you in n few
years when you 90 hence to the sun
discovered country" All who treat
you wrongly now will be made more
sorry for it then, than you, in your
deepest disappointment and grief, can
be. A few more smiles, a few more
tears; some pleasure, much pain, a
little longer hurrying and worrying
in the world, some hasty greetings
and abrupt f;Tewells, and this life
will be over, and the injurer and in
jured will be laid away and ere long
forgotten. Is it worth while to hate
each other


An attempt was made between one
and three o'clock on the morning of
the 18th inst, to set fire to part of
the business portion of Jefferson City.
The fire was discovered and extin-
guished before any serious damage
was done. This is the second
attempt inside of a month, at incen-
diarism. The laboring portion of
the citizens are opposed to the system
of working the convicts in repairing
and erecting houses, and is insinuated
that among a portion of this class the
feeling of opposition is so strong as to
lead to this resort.-Ex.
Year: 1877

@The Law permits no subscriber %
discontinue his paper until al srrearsges
are paid. II subscribers refuse to pay
what they already owe, they cannot
avoid the payment for subsequent num-
bers BY rcfusing to take then out Of the
Office. There il but one legal way for a
delinquent subscriber to discontinue his
paper and that i 70 pay for the numbers
already received.
Year: 1877

WIN. SILVER IN TROUBLE.-Wm. Silver
member of the Legislature of this State III
1870 has been sued by his wife before the
court in Philadelphia, where he now
resides, for desertion and maintenance.
Mrs. Silver's testimony was to this effect
The parties had been married twcnty-elght
years, most Of which time they had spent
in Wilmington, Del. He had been
dcscrtcr of but one years standing. Their
union had been blessed with several
children; but only one now remains living
The wife said that she and her husband had
been living in Philadelphia for the past
eighteen months, she living III one oil his
houses and he in another. For some ulnc
past she and her daughter had suffered 1of
the common necessaries OF lltc. lie oWned
thirty-five houses in Wilmington, as well as
a large hotel, and valuable farm IN the
same locality, besides being the possessor oI
hotel and several houses in Philadelphia.
Tho one he is living in himself she visited
the other evening, and from the nelghbors
learned that he was keeping ganother woman
there. In fact, she saw this with her own
eyes.


| Silver, in his defense, said that 1t was true
that he owned most of the property that it
was said he owned; but there were heavy
mortgages on it which would more than eat
it up if they should be fOreclosed. At one
| time he was in aflluent circumstances, ano


kept his wife and children magniiccnt.y al


his country seat near Wilmington. Every


thing prOspered for a while. He said


however, that he could not live with hi


wife as she had such an ungOvcrnabl'


temper; and that, although he was natu


rally n peaceful man, lie was fearful that sin


might work him up to such pitch tha


he would lose control of himself and do he


injury. lie could not pay the ten dollar


per week that his wife sought to Obtain


from him, but lie would try to furnish ne


with another house and pay her whatcye


he could. Ifthe Court would order him t


pay five dollars, he would not only pay he


that, but more if he could spare it, for tha
was the kind of man he was. lie still


loved his wife and daughter, and neither c
them should want if he could prevent it


but if the Court insisted that he should pa
ten dollars per week, it was positively MOI
than he could pay and would have to 90 t
prison. The woman that he was livn
: with was Just as virtuous as his Honor fC
aught he knew, and the assertion that h
; was living with her as man and wife W;
false. The truth Of the matter was that. |
rented the house to her and he boardc
with her. He admitted that he had bee
: a drinking man for a short time, but i
had quit and now believed himself to be
reformed man. Judge Ludlow orderC
: him to pay seven dollars per week to su
q port his wife and daughter until the cXa
! condition of his affairs could be ascertaine
Year: 1877

DRIED FRUIT.-The New York Tribune
thinks that the time is coming when the
fruit evaperator will be as indispensable to
the farmer as the cidcr-mill and the cheese
factory. 1t builds its prediction upon the
rapidly-increasing foreign demand for this
fruit. The preservation of fruit by me-
chanical process-canning and evaporating
seems to be an untried experiment in
Europe, and the demand for it over there
has increased more than four fold within a
year. Thus, the exports of it for the year
up to the lst Of this month amounted to
$2,5OO,O0O, whole Of the amount shipped for
the year ending June Ist, 1876, was only
100000, according TO the Tribune. But
much of this was canned goods, it must be
remembered. This is surely hopeful out
look, for the makers Of the machinery, if
not for the preservers of the fruit But
should the export demand continue to
grow it will not be long, we imagine, before
the machinery will be sent over instead OF
the goods, and the manufacture be carried
on there as here. Until that time our fruit
packers may do we'll with as much Of their
goods as they can put up, but after that
they will have to look out for an over
stocked market The early bird will catch
the worm in this business, we think, if it is
yet to be caught. We publish the Tri6unc'l
article
Year: 1877

THE Rual Ncio Yorker thinks it will be
no trouble for Delaware to grow sugar beets
successfully, but we will find it rather hard
work to manufacture the sugar profitably.
The State should have made the appropria-
ton for the machinery for the extraction of
the sugar rather than for the growth of
the beet from which it is to be extracted.
The province of Quebec, Canada, has hit
upon the plan. The authorities have voted
a bonus of $4,000 to the person or corpo-
ration that will put up factory.
Year: 1877

TIM Joint Convention Of the Senate anil
House OF Representatives will assemble OH
Thurslny noxt for Tho purpose Of counting
tho Electoral vote. Before tlat day tho
Arbitration bill will lnve received the sigaa-
turu Of the President and become law, so
tint disputed questions upon which tho
Jo:nt Convention is nnable to agrco may DO
ut once referred to tho Trapartito Commits
sion and considered mid decided on In timo
TO admit Of tho declaration OF tho result
prior to tho 4th of March.