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Year: 1877

SEEKING A COMPROMISE.


It has been decided at the last Cabinet
Council that the present Cabinet will re-
main in Office till November 5. After the
elections to the Councils General the gov"
crument will find itself In the presence of
two extreme polIcles-one of resistance to
the Chamber of Deputies with the support
of the Senate, the other of complete con-
cession, bringing into office Ministry COM
posed usiys1y Of the Left. The present
disposition of horshsl AscMahon does not
admit Of the latter policy. However, the
President IL willing to see If 1t be not posi-
BILE to arrive At some kind of transaction by
which the left of the Chamber of Deputies
and the Right Centre of the Senate may be
represented in tho Cabinet, thereby estab-
fishing harmony between the two houess.
Year: 1877

"A singular fatal accident occurred in a
saloon at San Francisco the other day.
An old habitue of the saloon, called
"Sleepy Tom" had just lain down on
lounge near the door to take a nap, when an
individual entered the darkened saloon,
stumbled over the unconscious sleeper,
and fell heavily upon him. The shock
threw both men on large earthenware
spittoon and crushed it. When "Tom T"
was extracted it was discovered that the
vertebre had been pierced by broken
piece of the spittoon. The unfortunate
man struggled for few minutes, and then
all was over. Everything possible was
done for the sufferer, but without avail.
Year: 1877

A man in Cheyenne, few days ago,
went into store to buy barrel of apples.
He bit into an apple, concluded TO take a
barrel of twenty ounce pippins, went
away, and, after being absent an hour or
so, came back and asked to see the apple
he had bitten into. On being asked why
he wanted that particular one, he said that
he had lost his false teeth somewhere, and
ne rather thought he had left them stick
ing in that apple. His surmise turned
out to be true.
Year: 1877

We interviewed Gum Kee this morning on the subject of the China murder at Lynx Creek last night. He professed to know but little about 1t, in fact he said it was too far away from his house for him to getthe news correctly. but he judged it to have grown out of business complications. The deceas- ed Sam Lee and his slayer An Buck were partners, he said, not only in the Lynx Creek station, but in a woman whom they owned together. and whether one or the other was appropriating 10 his oWn use too much of the profits of the station, or had secured the lions share of the affections of the woman in question Gum Kee was unable to state, but he had no hesitation in saying that this joint ownership of woman was very dangerous partnership.
Year: 1877

C. P. Stanton, of Antelope, who is about as good a single hand talker as can be found anywhere, and. by the way, who always talks sense, is in town. He comes in obedi- encc to a subpoena 10 give testimony before the grand jury, in the matter of the Part ridge-Wilson homicide. He was not at home at the time of the killing but is fa miliar with all the circumstances that are supposed to have led to the killing of Will son by Partridge.
Year: 1877

Capt. A. Jackson, who came to Arizona from Washington Territory, about eighteen months since, is now the happy owner of q valuable ranch on Oak creek, tributary of the Verde, where he has plenty of water to irrieate his fine farm. The Capt. took out, last winter, a large irrigating ditch, which cost him heavily, but it was an investment that will pay him the principal back this season, besides leaving him large profit and the owner of a valuable ditch, an article indispensable in this section of the world. The crops on the different ranches. some twelve in number, arc reported excellent. The health of the settlers Is good; owing probably to the fact that they enjoy the privilege of drinking about the purest wa ter to be found in Arizona.
Year: 1877

Providence Is constantly prompting u. and impressing upon us the fact that there is no Paradise on earth. just as she insists that humanity is not infallible. No sooner had the Plymouth congregation. in Brook . Iyn, come to regard their pastor as a God taan he was tempted to conduct himself so unmistakably like a man that they were obliged to recognize his humanity, give up the idea of his divinity and accept him as simply a superior mortal. 50 when the in habitants of Prescott had become convinced that this was the pleasantest as well as hcalthiest spot on earth, Providence steps in again and gives Us hot, dry season that would make Yuma or the San Joaquin ashamed of themselves, and an epidemic to remind us that we cannot all live forever, even in Prescott.
Year: 1877

The assessment roll of Yayapai county for 1877 has just been figured up and the taxable property is found to be Sl,7Sj, ,'30.6l, to which is 10 be added small supplement tal assessment, which has not vet come in. The apportionment of taxes Is not yet made
Year: 1877

w no arc indebted to MS for PROvIS-
IONS orPIIOspHATES, VIC would respect
fully call attention, that your bills arc due
on or before tho first of November. We
re depending on you for payment AT
in eNCE, to enable us to ncot obligation
made to assist you, and which arc due at
that time.


In order for us, rs VOL as you, to main
tain our credit, it is necessary to meet our
promises promptly,
Year: 1877

Think of how much happiness You
convey to others by kindly notice and a
cheerful conversation. Who does not
icel more cheerful and contented tor re-
ceiving "A polite bow, genial good
morning" II hearty shake OF the hand !?
Who does not make himself the happier
by these little expressions Of fellow
feeling. OF goodwill? Silence, and
stiit. unbending reserve are essentially
selfish and vulgar. The generous and
polite man has pleasant recognition and
cheerful word for all he meets. He scat
lers sunbeams wherever he goes.
Year: 1877

1t was onlya few years ago that swine
breeders were vieing with each other
for the greatest weight of carcass; but
this is now all changed. Hogs that will
weigh 300 pounds are sold at a less
price per pound than those OF 25o pounds
weight And this tendency of the mar
ket to pigs well iattened but of small
weight, is Just what the farmer should
encourage tor it is exactly in the line
of his interests. 1t costs more to make
the second hundred pounds OF a pig than
the first. and still more to make the
third hundred pounds, and every pound
added becomes more expensive.
Year: 1877

Aggregate obtained standard
2042l50 tN


From this table, it will seen, that the total
number of troops serving at different times in the
Union army during the late war was two million
six hundred and ninety thousand four hundred
and one. This includes those men who served
for three, six, and nine months, and those who
enlisted for two or three years, or the war.
Thus, for the purpose of calculation, it is estl-
mated, that from April, 1861, to April, 1865, a
period of four years, two million forty-two thou
sand one hundred and fifty men were called to
serve three years. AS some enlisted early and
others towards the close Of the war, the question
arises: How many enlisted men actually served
three years? 1t is the opinion OF prominent
army officers that not less than one half of the
entire army served for this length of time and
they give, as the average force of the army, from
the beginning to the end of the war, one million
Year: 1877

The only argument that is brought against the
passage of the bill to equaze the bounties of the
soldiers of the late war is, that it will take more
money from the Treasury than the Government
can spare. But this argument has been met
again and again by the testimony of men who
know, and by statistics from the official records
of the War Department. Some of the enemies
of the measure have asserted that three or four
hundred million dollars would be needed to ad-
Just the bountes of soldiers with the fairness that
should be given to all, but this is absurd


Adiutant General Townsend, who is more
competent to give an opinion on this subject
than any other man, because he was In charge
of the Adiutant Generals Office in Washington
throughout the war, and superintended the rec
ords of enlistments, gave as his testimony before
the Committee on Military Affairs of the House
of Representatives in 1874, that, as nearly as he
could calculate, from the records of the depart
ment the aggregate amount of money necessary
in order to equalize bounties under the bill pro-
posed would not be much more than twenty
millions


At the beginning of the late war, the accounts
of the army, and the payments made of bounty
and pay to soldiers were kept as if the war were
to last only sixty days SO, at which time it was
supposed the accounts could be easily examined
and adjusted. A defective system, once started,
was hard to change, SO that the war was closed
before the bookkeeping of the department be-
came anywhere near as accurate and methodcal
as it should have been at its commencement.
Then the work of classification became one OF
enormous proportions, and even now cannot be
accomplished at oil satisfactorily. Had the system
of records been more perfect we could have told
exactly how much this equalization measure
would cost, but in the confusion, it can only be
approximated, using the best data that can be
obtained, as General Townsend has done
The following table will show the number of
troops called for, and the number actually OBJ
| tanned at each of the calls during the war:
Year: 1877

Desires to inform the public that he has again
taken possession Of his old stand, next door to
the Gazette office, on Prince street, and will be
bsppy to see all of his former patrons and any
BODY else who wants pleasant and artistic
SIX VEor HAIRCUT. jan 3U-tf
Year: 1877

SHALL WE BUILD UP "MONIED''
ARIsToCRACY?-Whi we know there is
no real aristocracy in the world that is
not based on money, and therefore we
might well dispense with the word "mon-
led" in the heading of this article, yet we
prefer to use it to conform to the New Eng
land habit ofthe use of words that serve to
catch the ear in tine hope that 1t may cap


tivate the senses. Shall we build up II
IN onied aristocracy through the appreci-
alton of property in the war bonds of the
nation? Shall these bonds be elevated
above all other property 10 the depression
of all otner property by taxation To pay
them while they are exempt from any tax
alton? These are questions that are now
appealing to the sense OF our people for all
answer. We are required by The Sacred
Word to love our neighbor as ourselves
Put nowhere in the word of Holy Writ are
we asked to love our neighbor better thar
ourselves And we cannot see the sense
of property holders diminishing Their owl
property by heavy taxation to raise tn,
value OF that ofthe bondhUlders, when tn


property in the latter Is already vastl!
higher and mole reInunerating than an.
Year: 1877

other property, real or personal, while 1t
was purchased at a price far below that
paid for any other property.


II has been the effort of every Congress
that has assembled since the surrender OF
the Confederate armies, to increase the
value of the public Indebtedness by magni-
flying the intrinsic worth of the government
bonds. We should not object to this If 1t
had not been done at the expense of all
other property. But here is the terrible
effects of this work. by making these bonds
payable in gold instead of currency, they
have been withdrawn from our ewn people
in immense numbers and sent to Europe
where they drain this country of all our
precious metal, especially gold, TO pay IN
terest.


The effect of this change was to cause a
boarding of bonds, they were formerly a
part of our currency, and a bond of $1,000
would buy house worth $1,000. Since the
change in the bonds by which they were
made better than so much in gold the effort
has been 10 depress the widows cottage
who may have bought 1t with bond saved
from the pension for a dead husband killed
in battle, until the house wi not sell for
more than 5000, while the bond she gave
for II is worth, as purchasing medium,
$500 to $4,000. And there is not farm or a
house or lot anywhere that has not been
depleted in just about this ratio, by this
disastrous measure by the Congress OF
lS73 and which added to the operation very
largely was the additional act of demone-
tizing silver; that is in plain words making
real money more scarce. II, when the
bonds were made payable in gold, they
had also been made subject to like
taxes with real estate the change from cur
rencj bonds to gold bonds might have
been excusable. But as these bonds now
exist payable in go d only with silver de
monetized, there is being built up in the
country an aristocracy of wealth who add
nothing to the general prosperity and are
mere cormorants to be supported by tax
alton drawn from labor of thr masses. To
sustain this class everything is taxed. L
| spoon 1t is taxed, If with Il silver one il
taxed, If with pewter it is taxed, If with
iron 1t is taxed. There is no escape from
the cradle to the grave; all things are mort
gagged but for the benefit of that one class
the aristocratic bondholder And these


bonds are held manly in Old England


New England and by the Holland bankers


If a young farmer wants TO marry he find


the lands that yielded to his ancestry whel


young handsome remuneration, and en-


couraged his father to take unto himsel


q wife are mortgaged to the boHdholder in


sum that robs them of nearly all renta


value, he turns to his stock, his cattle AM


his sheep and there is no escape anywhere
and rather than live in poverty with
j young family on his hands, gives up eve
the plain duty enjoined. These reflection


are by no means encouraging; and ar


operating to place our dear country in tn


condition in which parts of Germany an
other aristocratic countries are found wher
wedlock is too expensive, and must b
avoided until the government is given tn


best end of the young life.
Year: 1877

LoNd BRANCH, August O.-The train
leaving Jersey City at 7:45 this morning
on the Central Railroad Of New Jersey
consisting Of an engine, baggage car and
four passenger cars, met with \ serious
accident at Ocean Port Bridge. Through
some unknown cause the engine jumped
the track and running along the ties
plunged into the bank, tho sudden Jar
throwing the baggage car and three pas
senger cars over the side Of the bridge
into the water, which was about three
feet deep. As far as known there are no
lives lost, but several very seriously in.
iured. Some OF the injured were brought
10 Long Branch and are now being at.
tended 10 at the depot here.


1t seems that tbs engine after running
short distance on the trestle work, tSle.
scoped the mail aud baggage car and
rolled over an embankment at the edge
Of the water. Three cars in the rear Of
the mail and baggage car, fell on their
sides in the water. The rear car al
though thrown from the track, remained
'Standing on the bridge, The passengers
at once left this car and began the
rescue Of those in the river. The train was
fully loaded, containing 200 passengers.
Those in the cars in the water were in 4
state OF the greatest CONSERVATION, cry
ing loudly for help. Those who could
stand were about waist deep in water,
while others were Clinging to seats, win
dows, &c. One after another they were
taken out Of the car windows, until it is
believed every passenger was rescued.


Conductor HettieId telegraphed to Long
Branch for special train and medical
assistance, which were promptly sent, and
those able to be removed were taken to
Long Branch and Ocean Grove.


From the best information obtainable
it seems safe to say that not more than
40 Of the number dangerously. Among
the injured are Mr.. Remsen and wife
and his niece Alice and Miss Kate Tut,
all Of Augusta, Maine.
Year: 1877

DIDN'T STAND THE TEsr.-A young


man read in a paper few days ago


that if you wanted to find out if the


woman you had selected for your fu-
ture spouse had good temper you
ought to take occasion to step on her
dress, or snap the sticks of her fan, on
in some way annoy or discompose her.
eff" said the great authority who pre-
sides over the column of advice, "she
betrays no sign of ill-timper, she will
prove model wife," Accordingly
the young man seized an opportunity
when his sweetheart was rugged III
her most killing array to step on her
trail and pull out about three yards of
gathers, with rid like a peal of thun-
der, exposing about three-quarters of
the frame work that makes her dress
stick out behind. But instead of
the accident with perfect
equanimity, she turned round and
jabbed her parasol in his eye, called
him long-haired leper, and asked him
why he didn't wear his feet sideways.
He expressed himself thankful that he
didn't marry the girl before finding
out what sort of a temper she had;
but the doctor doesn't think his eye
will grow out again.
Year: 1877

her way home again, when her rela-


tlves took her to see DR.. Cote. Her


experience with physicians had


aroused a feeling of distrust and aver
sion of the profession, aud she was


very loath to put herself under treat


ment At that time-it was in Sep


tember last-she had not eaten any


thing but few morsels of candy since


the July before. Her case excited the


Doctors greatest interest He at
once made diagnosis, and after much
persuasion induced her to agree to re-
main in the city, under his care for
few weeks, so that he might have an
opportunity of fairly beginning the
work of restoration This she agreed
to do, and that was the last the phy-
sician ever saw Of her. When he
called at the house where she had
been stopping, on the following day,
the family had gone.


Reasoning from the examination
that he had time to make, DIR. Cote
arrived at the conclusion that the
girls trouble was in her nervous sys-
TEN. The diagnosis was sufficiently
thorough to convince him of that,
though the particular cause Of the de-
rangement of the nerves he did not
have an opportunity to determine,
Her existence for so long a period,
despite the suspension of the vital
functions of her nature, was of course
a matter demanding careful investiga.
tion, and the sudden departure of the
girl was a source of painful disap
oointment to the physician. The pop
llar impression that person so situa-
ed existed upon his or her fatty tis-
sues, the doctor said, was a mistaken
one. Life was preserved by absorb
ion through the cellular tbs. ues.


1t has transpired that after leaving
his city the girl put herself in care of
Dr. Martin, of Philadelphia, but it is
aid that there has been little improve
nent in her condition. Now here is
he most astounding fact in the whole
:ase: The girl is still alive, and her
appetite has not been restored. Her
External appearance has undergone
title perceptible change, but she has
so weak as to be confined to
er house.
Year: 1877

HORACE GREELEY once said that per-
severance was only another name for
genius. 1t would amaze Horace if he
could only come out West now and
see the amount Of genius developed u
the. young men, keeping out Of tue
way Of men with tailor's bills.
Year: 1877

WASHINGTON, Nov. 27;-Harian will have to try
again II he wants TO ST on the Supreme Court
bench. Those who have opposed his confirma-
ton are now confident Of his defeat. They say
that Senator Edmunds has said that he would
not report, Harians name during this extra
session Of the Senate. In proof Of this they
show the fact that Edmunds has gone to Vir-
ginia for weeks visit. under plea of needing
of Texas. Nothing but a pressing desire upon
the part Of Ed munds to avoid any possibility
Of being asked why Harlan's name Is
delayed could have inspired the departure
of the former from the city last evening A
member Of the Judiciary Committee says that
the whole matter Of opposition to Harlan kas
narrowed to his connection with Hayes Lodisi-
ana commission and prominent advocacy Of
the new Southern policy. As no report is to be
made In Harlan's case. his nomination will fail
with the adjournment of the extra session.
There is no reason to suppose that the Judicial
ry Committee will be discharged from the
consideration Of this case before the adjourn
ment. To discharge a committee Is grave
matter. that requires always some extraOrdi-
nary political pressure TO force. This pressure
can hardly be brought in favor Of any of the
nominations TO which Republican objection has
been made. 1t fs possible that the objection
able nominations will be allowed to fall with
the extra session.
Year: 1877

Father Secchi, writing to friend in Bel
GUM, aludes in striking terms to the remarkable con
ncction between the magnetism Of the earth and the
changes Of the weather He says that the variations
shown by tie magnetic instruments are themselves sur
hcent to indicate the state Of the sky. Even where
there is no great movement OF the barometer following
such magnetic disturbances, there are especially in
sumner changes OF the wind aud sometimes storms.
Year: 1877

The following is an extract from
speech made by Bob. Ingersoll, and
published in the Colorado Springs
"Gazette," F." of the 5th inst. eff there
is young man in this audience l
beg of him never take a clerkship
in the city of Washington Don't
you do it Never do you put your
self in a position where you have to
duck your head and take off your
hat to everybody else. Don't do it !
Don't put your happiness-don't
put your fortune-in the power of
another mans breath. Don't you
do it. You never will have any
manhood; you never will have any
vertebra; you never will have any
real, square spunk; you cannot have
it; and you will begin to lose conf
dence, and you will begin to think,
if you cannot have a regular pay
ment each month of $94.75, that
you cannot possibly make living in
this world. 1t will take all the pluck
out of you. l beg of yon not to dis
count your future; beg of every
young man, have the courage to take
what comes, let it be feast or famine,
but don't sell the gift that fortune
may have in store for you for a pet
ty salary of $50 or $40 or 800 per
month. Don't do it. Go west l
would rather have forty acres of land
and log house with one room-yes,
and the woman that | love, and some
latice-work over the window, so that
the sunlight would fall checkered on
the baby in the cradle, and a few
hollyhocks at the corner of the
house, would rather have that, and
a nice path leading down to the
spring, where l could go and hear
the water gurgling; l would rather
live there and die there than be a
clerk Of any government on earth.
Year: 1877

A dumb wife is a disgrace to her
husband. An independent wife is
his glory If she never differs from
you, it is because she is a serf and
you are a despot. She ought to be
your best adviser. She ought to be
your most confidential counselor.
The self-conceit ofanan amounts to a
genius. There are many husbands
that would as soon think of taking
advice of their wives as of their
children. But it is only the fool who
is too wise to seek counsel.
Year: 1877

Said a woman speaker in a New
Haven suffrage meeting, "Woman is
in every respect the equal CT man.
Her reputation for heroic bravery
at that point mouse ran into sight,
and the orator jumped on the table
and screamed.