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Year: 1877

SENATOR BAYARD INTERvIEwED.-.The
Richmond (Va.) Enquirer reports an inter-
view with Senator Bayard, of Delaware, who
is now in that city. In regard to the
public debt Of Virginia, Senator Bayard is
represented as saying:


" Colonel Holiday, as the representative
of the debt-paying element of this State,
should receive the cooperation and support
OF all who have at heart the welfare Of this
Commonwealth. \ State has no foe more
dangerous than the man who seeks to
depress her credit He may say he is the
friend of the community, but he isn't
Civilization in its broadest, highest sense is
indissolubly connected with credit When
that is gone the State is paralyzed, and the
community must suffer If Virginia re-
fuses to recognize her legal obligations it
will be Il serious step in the wrong direc-
ton. A State, like Il man, must recognize
lawfully contracted debt. Without such
recognition neither can do business long
nor successfully. Any suggestion of posi-
bic repudiation can only operate to the
disadvantage Of your people, and lie must
be blind who does not see its fatal effects
upon the prosperity of a community
Mr. Bayard is also quoted by the En-
1uirer us follows in answer to the question of
what he thought about the policy of Presi-
dent Hayes 81 thank God for it, He has
disposed of the only obstacle that stood
between the suffering South and the full
enjoyment of her constitutional liberties.
He has not only carried out the derno-
cratic policy, but he has carried the republi-
cans with him. | think he has the cordial
support Of fully seventy-fve per cent. of
his party. Many who were doubtful at
first now see that the time was ripe for the
full restoration of every Sothern State to
selfgovcrnment under the constitution.
The history of the States since the troops
were removed is one of the very best argu-
ments why republicans and democrats
should approve Mr.. Hayes's policy on this
subject"
Year: 1877

An Oxford undergraduate, who was
reading for Holy Orders, recently applied
at the Bodleian Library for a copy of
The Priest in Absolution," but the
Librarian refused to let him have book
that was by reputation indecent and
obscene. The student carried his grievance
into the newspapers, and the librarian was
made the target of considerable abuse.
Whatever may be the rules of the Bodleian
it seems plain that candidates for Holy
Orders can study their Bibles to more
profit than such sensational works as
The Priest in Absolution."
Year: 1877

1t is not often in the worlds history that
a monument is raised to commemorate a
speech. At Bismarckstine, the Canossa
Column is to remind future generations of
the Chancellor's words in the German
Parliament, defying the Pope and daring
him to bring another German Emperor to
Canossa. Prince Bismarck will not be
present when the column is dedicated. In
letter of regret to the committee in
charge of the work, he expresses the hope
that the German mind will never tolerate
any kind of foreign bondage.
Year: 1877

Simon Garnett, who has been lodged in
Jail at Oxford, Ohio, charged with an out
rageous assault upon married woman,
was on Sunday at noon shot by mob OF
infuriated men who broke into the jail.
The wound was not Of fatal character,
and the Jail was broken into a second time
at noon next day, and the victim of Lynch
law was dispatched.
Year: 1877

REGISTERED DRINKs.-A recent decision
sustains the Virginia authorities in the use
of what is known as the liquor bell
punch." The contrivance is mechanically
not unlike the clock-regiSter,' in service
on some of our city railroads, for checking
nossnnGers' fares. The bartender is re-
duired to pull the register, and thus record
every drink that is sold. On each glass of
LIQUOR the State collects tax of two and
half cents. 1t is hoped that threcquarters
of million dollars may thus be provided
annually for the treasury of Virginia.
There is naturally wide difference in
public opinion as to the excellence of the
law, and it is live topic of debate in the
State canvass. Two or three different
courses are open to the liquor-seller whose
trade is thus taxed, but the drinker is
likely in the end to pay the tax.


The ultimate working of this law is a
matter of curious speculation. At first
sight, it seems a cumbrous and unpromising
experiment. Suppose, for instance, that
the customer who drinks beer finds that he
has to pay more, by one half, for every glass
that is registered. Obviously it will be for
his interest to wink at neglect of registry
by the bartender Moreover, the beer
drinker may feel aggrieved that he has to
pay as heavily on each glass of a cheaper
beverage as the man who indulges in the
more costly liquors, or requires the prepa-
ration of an elaborate mixed drink.
There is evidently temptation to the
liquordealer to make his supplies 60
further by adulterating them, but that per
formance has, in general, been carried
already as far as the customers will permit
it. Unless there should be some new dis
covery in chemistry, liquors are not likely
to be much worse than they are at present
even in Virginia. There is possibly some
saving to the liquor-seler who is not his
own bartender, by the cheek that is OBJ
tanned on the operations of the latter
functionary, both as to the cash accounts
and the habit of creating" his friends
Considering, however, that all our street
car companies admit that the best Of the
contrivances for checking passengers fare:
are more or less modified failures, it would
seem premature to build large hopes on the
liquor,register After all, the principa
question seems to be whether the size of 3
drink in Virginia will be affected by the
system.
Year: 1877

On our first page we publish cllp- ing from THE ARIZONA CITIZEN in which it is stated that Gov Stafford and Adiutant- General Hughes organized and equipped three more companies of Arizona Militia and that two more companies will soon be organized. This move is one which comments itself to every citizen of Southern Ari- zona and it is to De hoped that this citizen soldiery will be successful Tn giving peace to that distracted country, Agent Cum has shown a becoming zeal in that behalf and, perhaps, has done more than any other man similar ly situated to check marauding ln- dians. The breaking up of the Hot Spring reservation and taking the In dians that were fed and supposed to answer roll-call there, to the San Car los agency, will have salutary in fluence upon the peace of the country. At the Hot Springs the Indians were not restrained; they were as tree to go and come as the agent himself, which will not be the case at San Carlos-and if they steal off they will be pursued by scouts as swift of foot as themselves, and as well versed in wood-craft by men who know the country perhaps better than they, and who will not soon tire upon the trail.-Silver City Herald, May ,.
Year: 1877

PARTIES anxious for mail contracts, will find the opportunity offered them by the Postmaster General in to-day's CITIZEN. Something over year ago, proposals were asked for service from Goodwin via Apache to connect with the overland route to Albuquerque, but no bids were made and hence no ser vice on that route to this day. The people along the line felt greatly dis appointed, and yet not one of them of. fered to perform the service at any price. This fact should incite people interested In the various routes to eith- CT propose to perform the service or see that somebody does, for if no bids be made under the present offer, it may be a year or more before the Depart ment can be induced to consider the proposition of putting on service.
Year: 1877

JAMES QUINLAN who left with hls freight train early in the week for Yuma, says he has never known so much grass along the Gila valley as at this time. This being the case, stock sheep and cattle. can be brought up the valley with ease and no danger Of loss.
Year: 1877

town this week on a business trip. He Is and has been for sometime past engaged in trade in the Gila valley near Sweetwa- ter and we are glad to know that fortune has been dealing rather kindly with him.

 He says the small -pOx has disappeared

 from Florence and along the valley.
Year: 1877

MIR. THOMAS STEEL was in from the Santa Rita placer mines yesterday. He says about sixty men are mining and for the number are taking out much gold. The scarcity of water prevents many hundreds more men finding pro pitable employment there. There is a vast area of ground rich in placer Eold.
Year: 1877

DANCE at Levin's Park last Saturday night was a great success, and another will come off tonight. Levin knows how to make people happy in his umbrageous park. Good beer and other comforts al- ways ready on call.
Year: 1877

MRS. JUDGE FRENCH and son left by stage on the 9th. She goes east via Sacramento to make q visit after many years absence, and also to place her two sons In school. Along in the Fall she will return to her home in Tucson.
Year: 1877

thing at him, !" che knows better" One
miner told me con6dentially that he
had at last found out what it was used
for; says he, "they make nickles out
of it ~


But there is one circumstance that
puzzles all alike. 1t is the fact that
these mines were worked many hun
drcd years ago. Every mine Of promi-
nence throughout the mica region
bears the undoubted and indisputable
indications. AT the first miueoper-
atediby Heap & Clapp there was sue
cession of old holes and upon the
dumps of earth that came out of them
trees were growing, and being cut
down by the miner they indicate an
age of FIVE or six hundred years. At
the Buchanan mine slinholes were
much larger, being from forty to six
ty feet long, twenty feet wide and ten
to twelve feet deep. The depth to
which these ancient miners worked
can be easily traied to the
very point where they left
off, sometimes q great depth below
the bottom of these sinks. Their tools
were principally made of stone, such
as picks and axes, but they had no
means of blasting or otherwise work
ing rock. In one instance | saw
where they had worked down TO the
rocks and finding a large crystal of
mica that they had hammered and
battered attempting to get it out, but
failing in their effort laid their stone
axe down by the side of the mica for
US to pick up. Who were those an
cient miners? From whence did
they come? And whittier have they
gone? These are questions for future
wiseacres to answer. The Indians
that Columbus found here and that
have been driven to the land or the
setting sun, were evidently not the
miners, as they have no tradition
whatever on this work But it may
have been the work Of the mound
builders, ior in the Mississippi Valley
there are found side by side in the
same mound native copper from Lake
Superior, mica from North Carolina,
shells from the gulf and prophyry
from Mexico. But who were the
mound builders? Echo answers who!
Year: 1877

The story published in to-day's HERALD
in relation to the fees of the New York
coroners will renew the regret generally
felt by our citizens at the failure in the
Executive Chamber of the bill passed by
the Legislature last winter regulating the
Coroners' Office and reducing its expenses.
It seems to be quite unnecessary that the
business done by four coroners should cost
the city ninety thousand dollars a year.
Aside from this there are evidences
of very loose and irregular manage
ment in the Office. The coroners
are paid by fees, and it is remarkable
that every year the number of inquests
upon which payment is made by the Comp
troller exceeds the number duly registered
and reported by the Board Of Health by
from two to five hundred, with the single
exception of the year 1874. That year
Comptroller Green caused every inquest
which the coroners claimed to have held to
in that year and that alone the number re-
turned by the Board of Health agreed with
the number paid by the Comptroller. It is
significant, too, that the expense of the Of
fee has swelled from fifty-fve thousand
dollars in 1868 to nearly ninety thousand
dollars in 1876.


Massachusetts, last year abolished the
Office of coroner. and the example might
very we'll be followed in this State. There
is strong suspicion that exorbitant fees
are not the only or the most Objectionable
feature of that Office as it exists in New
York. This suspicion may be unjust, but
at least, the Office has too little response
bility and is too free from check as it
now exists. There can be no objec-
ton on the part of honest officials,
in that or any other position, to
have wholesome safeguards thrown about
their duties, and certainly there ought to
be no question rs to the advisability of re-
ducing the expenses Of an Office which pays
tour incumbents ninety thousand dollars q
year for comparatively light services which
could be nt least as satisfactorily performed
for third of that amount. It is to be
hoped that the figures given in our columns
will be accepted as proving the necessity
for the passage, at the next legislative ses-
sion, of bill regulating the Coroners' Office
and for the Executive approval of the law.
Year: 1877

At an early hour yesterday morning the sky
on the east side of the city was Redeemed by
the reflection of what was evidently large
fire, and many persons who happened to see
it concluded thatit was in the city, and were
almost panic stricken by the apprehension
that it might turn out to be another Chicago
calamity. 1t proved to be on the other side
of the river but the fear it excited was
novel thing in New York, where we have
heretofore had confidence that our excel
lent Fire Department could at all times
secure us against the disastrous spread Of
confagration. The alarm was due to the
knowledge that our water supply is wholly
inadequate to the suppression of a fire that
might once take a firm hold in any of the
combustible portions Of the city. AS they
watched the glare in the sky men thought
of the thin stream Of water that comes
drbbllng through the pipes in the second
stories of buildings, and dreaded fate for
great part of New York similar to that
which has attended Boston and Chicago.


We arc in a most dangerous position
in regard to our water supply, and to
trife with the situation now is to court
calamity. 1t is outrageous that city like
New York should be LETT in such q condi-
ton, when comparatively trifing expendi-
turo would insure us water enough for
population of two or three millions and
enable us, with an active efficient Fire
Department., to render the spread of fire
almost impossible. Our citizens probably
have but little idea of the danger they are
now in. In order to get anything like
| good force into the mains it would be
necessary to use pumps at the reservoir,


and then there is the risk that the pipes
might not stand such pressure as would
be applied to them. The inconvenience
| experienced by the insufficient flow is only
a small part Of the evil. There is the dan
ger of sickness from the want Of proper
washing out of the drains and waste pipes.


Above all, there is the peril of fire. The
engineers of the Fire Department have
long since warned MS that there is not q
sufficiently strong supply in some of the
most hazardous districts to give the depart
ment chance Of struggling successfully
with FIRE if the flames should once get the
mastery, especially if q storm should prevail
at the time We are now in much worse con-
dition than we were when this warning was
uttered. II is q picayune and may be a
fatal economy to hesitate about placing the
metropolis beyond the risk OF water
Year: 1877

famine, no matter what may be tho cost.
We can draw our supply from three or four
sources if we are wise enough to do so, and
then we shall not have to depend on any
single source of questionable capacity. The
subject is not one to be trihed with, and the
Board of Aldermen, the Mayor and the
Commissioner Of Public Works should
unite promptly and earnestly in an effort to
rescue the city from its present perilous
position.
Year: 1877

WoRKMEN have been endeavoring to raise
the wrecked steamer Massachusetts, for the last
twenty-four hours, but tho result of their labors
thus far leaves it in doubt whether their efforts
will be successful or not. With favorable
weather she may possibly be saved, but in tho
event Of q storm her total destruction would be
inevitable
Year: 1877

CONGRESS will assemble this day week. The
deserted capital is already beginning to fill up,
particularly with candidates for the handful Of
Offices in the gift of the now House. The local
ity argument in the selection Of doorkeepers is
one Of the amusing features of the contest.
Year: 1877




AS the great American debating society
will soon convene the suggestion of topics
for discussion may now be considered in
order. We suggest that some of the amiable
gentlemen who charge themselves with ar
ranging work for Congress introduce bill
to punish obstructors of railroads.


A bill to Iepress railway mobs will be an
excellent subject for debate in Congress, be-
cause almost every member can air his pet
views. Constitutional lawyers can read
long citations; the protectionists and free
trade men can bring forward the paternal
and the non-interterence theories Of govern
ment; the State rights men will find oil
their old speeches come in use; subsidy
hunters and land grant grabbers can spread
themselves upon the great topic of our rail-
way system and the duty of government
to foster and protect it. In short, everybody
comes up in Committee of the Whole.


One great speech against the bill will be
that what the American people want upon
business matters is not more laws, but
fewer and better ones. This is sound doc
trine, but the friends Of the bill will turn it
to their advantage, for they will show that
there are at present probably thirty odd
systems of State laws upon this subject of
obstructing railroads A law of Congress
would dispense with oil of these, would SUBJ
stitute ono uniform code applicable to the
whole country in place of a confused variety
of laws which now exist. Take the case Of
q railway train which leaves New York city
for the West. 1t runs. perhaps, for few
hours in New York State and under the pro-
lection Of the law Of New York. That
is q good law; it gave the State pence and
safety in last summers troubles, and our
people are proud Of it and Of its en-
forcement. But its influence expires at
the State line. The trnin will run
onward into Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois, and ut each invisible boundary line
it will come under a new system of law for
protecting it from violence. railroad trip
from the Atlantic to the Pacific runs under
O dozen systems of law, unless, perhaps,
some Of the States through which 1t runs
may have no law at oil in its behalf. Now,
there is no reason nor use for such COM
plex, heterogeneous condition of things.
One law and better one is precisely what
the bill in Congress would accomplish.
Moreover the experiences of the summer
have shown that for the enforcement Of the
law, whether State or national, the depend
ence of the people in any extended emer-
gency is upon the federal authorities and
forces. A United States law would receive
prompt and uniform enforcement by the
power Of the United States directly, with
out being dependent SO much upon the
varying temper and views of State authori-
ties


Another great speech against the bill will
be that it is nm unconstitutional invasion
Of State rights But here, again, the friends of
the bill will have the best of the argument.
Congress has power to regulate commerce
Year: 1877

TIE WEATHER.-From the Mississippi Valley
eastward the pressure rises very rapidly to the
area of highest barometer over the Middle and
New England coast States. Yesterday morning
tho pressure attained to over 1880 inches,
which is among the highest records for the year.
Two small depressions moved eastward and
northeastward from Nebraska and Texas re-
spectivcly, and now united in the Missis-
sippi Valley, forming a shallow baromotric
trough, which extends from the upper lakes
to the Gulf This depression may de-
vclop into a storm of some energy.
Rain attended both dcpressions during
their progress and now prevails along tho whole
eastern margin of tho area Of low barometer.
Tho Texas depression was the most energetic
and now dominates that Of Nebraska within the
srca. 1t was accompanied by thunder storm in
thc Southwest Owing to the relative positions
Of the areas of high and low barometer the
winds prevailing in all the districts east
of the Mississippi are southcastcrly and
easterly, with cloudiness extending to the
northern Middle States and the lower lake
region. The following winds behind the low
area are horthwcsterly with clear or fair weather.
The drift of the area of high pressure is north
easterly, in the track Of Thursdays great storm,
which it follows as a natural consequence. From
this fact we expect that heavy gales from
the northwest to the southwest pre-
vailing in the Atlantic immediately after
the storm, and which will do much damage
ON the European coasts. The temperature
throughout tho country is comparatively low,
but has risen slightly in the Eastern and far
Western districts. The weather in New York
and its vicinity to-day will be slightly warmer
and cloudy or partly cloudy, probably with rain
Aeward night
Year: 1877

THE POLICE COMMISSIONERS will fail in their
duty to the public and to the respectable men on
the force if they neglect to investigate the brutal
case of clubbing elsewhere reported. Mink, the
guilty officer, if the opinion of those who know
him is to be relied on, is not fit to wear the uni
form. The Justice before whom he appeared
with his prisoners told him so adding that he
tremblcd whenever nc saw him In court. This
Is severe condemnation, especially so ns it comes
from o magistrate who is necessarily familiar
with the rougher and darker side of criminal
life. 1t is to be hoped the Commissioners will
not allow the charges against this very inhuman
so-called guardian of tho peace to be smothered
Year: 1877

Economy is the order of the hour,
and every expenditure, however small.
is expected to give return in full val
lie. Every family requires one good.
reliable family newspaper. II such an
article can be procured for less than one
cent for each working day of the year.
we are not aware of it. A family news
paper should contain a carefllly-prcpar-
ed summary of all the news of the dav.
both religious and secular; and if ar
ranged so that the two departments
may be separated and read bv two in
dividuals at the same time, so much the
better. The family newspaper should
have attractive reading and information
for the various members of household.
Some portion of the paper should be
devoted, every week, to religious and
moral Improvement, to current secular
news, to agriculture, commerce, mar
kets, finance, to general literature, &c.,
with special department for the
young. Above all, the family news
paper should be perfectly pure, and
free from any contaminating influences
i'll its reading matter or its advertise
ments. Too much attention cannot bc
paid to this feature, when the press is
flooding the country with so much that
is vile and pcrnicious. TO crown all.
the family newspaper should be un-
trammelled by any afiiliation with sect
or party, and should be free to give all
the good news from and about all the
world. If such family newspaper can
be had for one cent day, it should be
taken by every family in the land.


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sound, reliable, pure, it is just what is
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