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Year: 1879

A MUSICAL Trick OF CHoPIS's st
is related that Frederic Chopin
could always quiet his fathers
pupils, no matter how much noise
they were making in the house.
One day, when Professor Chopin
was out, there was frightful noise.
Barcinski, the master, was at his
wits end, when Frederic happily
entered the room. Without delib-
Grafton he requested the roysterers
to sit down, called III those who
We're outside making q noise, and
promised to improvise an interest
ing story on the piano if they would
be quiet. al was instantly still as
death, ard Frederic sat down to the
instrument. He described how
robbers approached a house, mount
ed by ladders to the windows, but
were frightened away by noise
within. Without delay they fled on
the wings of the wind into a deep,
dark wood, where they fell asleep
under the starry sky. He played
more and more softly, as if trying
to lull the children to rest, until he
found that his bearers had actually
fallen asleep. The young artist
noiselessly crept out OF the room to
his parents and visitors, and asked
them to follow him. When the
family had amused themselves with
the various postures of the sleepers,
Frederic sat down again to the
piano and struck up a thrilling
chord, at which they all sprung up
in d fright. A hearty laugh was
the finale OF this musical joke.
Year: 1879

\ letter just received from PatagO- mia says that considerable assessment work is now being done on the mines in that district. Many people are go- ing and coming, only few seem set tied. Our cOrrespondept says that what they most need in the district just now is a mill and shelter con- bined. With such aid he thinks the District would at once make rapid strides forward and ere long would not be far behind the Tombstone dis trict m the matter of business and prosperity. We hear many assert that there are extensive bodies of good ore all through the district, but these are neglected because Tombstone ores happen to be little richer We have no doubt that little capital judicious- ly expended in machinery for Patago- nia district would immediately benefit the miners, make a fortune for the capitalist and very soon develop a grand mineral section.
Year: 1879

We have heard some murmurings about town to the effect that letter had been received by a prominent gen. tleman which indicated that the rail. road authorities had about concluded to run their road on the line three miles north of town. In this cOnnec- ton we will simply state that we have the very latest and most definite in formation from the best authority to the effect that Mir CrOcker and others of the Company are greatly pleased with the cordial reception extended to NIT. Gray and others by our people, and the harmonious and satisfactory arrangements made for the location of the road through Tucson. and they have no thought of locating it on any other line.
Year: 1879



 From the Miner we learn that east ern capitalists will take hold at once and build a narrow gauge railroad from MaricOpa to Prescott. This pre- sents fine prospect for the country over there" and we devoutly hope that no grass may grow until the enter prise is commenced. This must he the business upon which Vanderbilt and Gould were coming back with the Governor. That they did not come, and that the railroad is to be built show cOnclusively that they were con yinced that it would he all right, with out personal inspection. We suppose the Boards of Supervisors of MaricOpa and Yavapai will be sharpening up their old pens to sign those bonds $30O0 per mile; for William H. and Jay are not the boys to let slip any such chance as is presented in the col lection of say, SlOOO a day, while their road building goes on.
Year: 1879

MT. Adams, who represents San Francisco capital, recently returned to that city after a careful examination of the Globe District, and particularly the Mexican mine. From what we can learn his report will be of q most en- couraging character. He was very enthusiastic over recent developments in the Mexican and carried with him some magnificent specimens of chloride ore that would doubtless assay so per cent. silver. He had one specimen boxed that would weigh about 25O pounds and will give the people in side an idea of what this mine can produce. Messrs. J. Collingwood & O., of Florence, are the fortunate owners of the Mexican, which will doubtless yield a handsome fortune to each member of the firm.
Year: 1879

 Weep not that we must part: Earrings are short, eternity is long. Life IS but one briefstage, And they that say love ends with life ar,

 wrong.

 List to thine own hearts cry Love can not die.

 What though so far away? Thy thoughts are stIll with me. and ,rI,l

 thee mine,

 And absence has no power To lessen what by nature is divine. List to thine own hearts cry Love can moi die.

 Then weep no more, my love. Weeping but shows thy trust in me ,s

 small.

 Faith is by caImness proved. For know this truth: thou canst not love

 at ell

 Unless thine own heart cry Love can not die.
Year: 1879

MoHAvE is to have no District Court in May, or in July, to which the May term was ordered adjourned, because the officers to whom Judge Silent left the matter of the aGOurnmentd did not attend to business. nor until October whereat there is vexation and 'vrath on the Colorado. Bui Mohaye should not murmur, for it has always been our understanding that that county was to be most directly interested in the de- velopmeRts to follow upon the judi cIal- -gubeTnatorial visit East.
Year: 1879

A SHORT time ago we had reason to believe that the editor of the Prescott Enterprise had become monomaniaC on the subject of Indian wars, but it's local contemporary, the Miner, now has the lead in this matter of lunacy. From the tone of the last two issues we judge that its editor has gone mad altogether-with everything and every body. Twas ever thus. "Time at last sets all things even" The evil that men do oftimes preys upon the mental and physical systems until both are destroyed. They may be objects of mercy, but not of pity So let him pass.
Year: 1879

PUBLIC SENTIMENT AND LAw.-The action
of the authorities of Wilmington, growing
out Of the incident connected with the
Demby murder, goes to show that where
there is a purpose, there can be executed
law. Not only were the young men who
perpetrated the terrible deed speedily ap
pretended and incarcerated for trial, but
the brothels that educated them for de
bauchery and murder have been closed,
and the keepers held for trial at the next
term of court. The speedy but proper
action on the part of the Mayor of Viii
mington shows what the officers of the law
can do when they are disposed, and though
il may be spasm Of virtue, it is enough to
snow that public sentiment controls the
administration Of justice as we'll as the
morals of the people. There was no more
force in the law in relation to these Illicit
dens the day after the assassination than
there was the day before the action of the
authorities was from the propelling force of
an aroused public sentiment. The law in
relation to the suppression of vice and
crime is always the same, but its execution
is lax or direct as the public sentiment in
regard to vice is weak or strong. We have
in our community an instance of this
The keeper of an Illicit shop is skulking
before the officers and has not visited his
home only by stealth for several months,
who, until the past year, piled his illegal
traffic in utter defiance of the law. A
strong sentiment against an evil nerves
the arm of the officer to abate it, and to
produce and firmly plant this sentiment re.
quires an indiridua} standing out for the
right by every man who has and acts on his
convictions rather than to leave few men
to bear the brunt Of upholding and en-
forcing public sentiment.
Year: 1879

The necessities Of the negroes who have
blindly rushed to Kansas are exciting the
practical sympathy Of the benevolent in
many parts OF the country, and organized
effort is being made to relieve their more
pressing wants. Another proposition, which
should be Immediately acted upon, is to
send intelligent and honest men to their
several proposed places of settlement to
as st them in the beginning or their ltbors.
Whether or not the action Of these coloreti
people has been wise is not now the question
1t is enough to know that they are suffering
10 insure them aid at once.
Year: 1879

Apparently General Grants friends are
finding out that his enemies in the RI pub.
lican party are aiding and abetting the
dangerous prominence Of his Presidential
candidacy. As a consequence, they are be-
ginning to withdraw him in a measure
They declare that he refuses to allow the
use Of his name 0s y candidate: that he is
tired and sick Of office; that he has no
further ambition for public service of any
kind, and that he asks for the privilege of
privacy and the calm Of retirement.
Year: 1879

For the third time since he ascended the
throne the Gar of Russia has escaped the
assassin's bullet. One of the previous
attempts was the works of madman, the
other was the outgrowth of dangerous
conspiracy. What political significance
attaches to the affair Of Monday is not yet
disclosed. It is probably little more than a
continuance of the regicidal epidemic
which began with Hedel's attack on the
Emperor William in May of last year.
Since then Moncasi, Passananti and Noeb-
ling have made bad shooting, and in neith-
er case has any important conspiracy been
revealed. The Nihilists hate the Russian
authorities, but this attempt does not look
like their work the would-be assassin was
arrested too easily.
Year: 1879




The Emperor Jahangir was man of
considerable ability and perhaps kind
By nature. He might have been a
good man and an able ruler but for
drink. This was the bane of his fami-
ly; his two brothers died of delirium
tremens and be must have had a mar
velous constitution to have survived
till the age of fifty.nine. Roe, the
English Ambassador, gives vivid pic.
ture Of his mid night orgies, when he
and all his courties were drunk; but he
his remorse and ''some of his mobiles
who were so imprudent as to allude
to an overnight debauch were scared to
death" Jahangir's own account of
his potations is something Incredible.
He says that at one time he fused to
drink as much as six quarts of spirits
in a day." but by the advice of his
H. aaus IaI anu under the control of
a spirit ana aDdnf nfwseefgg gFSr5y'BF5PITM: ;
describes his liquor as double distil-
ed" what it actually was it is hard to
say. as it is called by the somewhat
elastic term sharab, commonly mean
ing wine. The effects of this drinking
were such that he says he could not
lift his cup to bis mouth or sit upright
till fortified by liquor. The man who
in this debilitated state and at the age
of forty.seven could in great meas
ure shake of his vice must have had
strong, determined will.
Year: 1879

Since the Ute outbreak, the Nez
Perces at the Salt Fork Reservation
have repeatedly threatened Agent
Chapman's life. Last Monday Mr.
Chapman was told to stay away from
the councils, IS they did not want him.
But Chapman seized occasional oppor
tunities to secretly listen to their talk
ing around the council fire, and by his
intimate knowledge of their language
soon learned that their purpose was to
kill him that night to facilitate their
escape from the reservation. Oae In
dian avowed bis Intention to shoot him
with a revolver, several of which had
been secretly retained by the Indians.
Mr.. Chapman went at once to his tent,
occupied by squaw for cook, pour
ed a wash pan of water on the ground
and with the mud smeared his face to
dise uise his color, took the squaw's
blanket and put it on, OF the same time
drawing it up over his head squaw
fashion. Thus attired, baving divest-
ed himself Of his usual apparel, Mr.
Chapman sailed forth and passed pur'
posely close to the council FIRE, still
surrounded by Indians, and made hi
escape into the brush without attract
ing any attention. Once out of sigh
he made all haste to reach the stool
ranche of the Dem brothers, on Sal
Fork, where he arrived after som
hours in an almost exhausted condition
SCARED and bleeding and his shirt i
Denver Tribune.
Year: 1879

Perhaps in some isolated instances q
man may become wealthy through q
series of circumstances very much re


sembIing "luck," but, as rule, those
who would enjoy success must work
hard for it. Twenty clerks in a store,
twenty hands in printing Office, twen
ty apprentices in a ship yard, twenty
young men in a village-all want to
get on in the world, and expect to dc
so. One of the clerks will become 8
partner and make fortune; one Of
the composi.ors will own newspaper
and become an influential citizen, an6
one of the apprentices will become {
master builder; one of the villageri
will get handsome farm, and live lik'
patriarch-but which one is th'
lucky individual? Lucky! There i


rarely any luck about it. The younl
fellow who distances his competitors j


he who masters his business; who live
cleanly and purely; who devotes hi


leisure to the acquisition of knowledge
who gains friends by deserving them
and who saves his spare money. Their
are some ways to fortune shorter tha


this old dusty highway; but the stauncI
men of the community, the men VIII


achieve something really worth havin
good fortune, good name and seren
old age-all travel along in this roaC
Year: 1879

Suppose one Of the Southern States in
Constitutional Convention should
frame such proscriptive articles against
the blacks as the California Convention


has framed against the Chinese-denying
them opportunities to labor, to hold real
estate, to inhabit any places in common
with whites, to fish anywhere in waters
belonging to the State, or to enter the
service ofaBy corpora ion in any capacity,
however humble, even as ditchers and
hod-carriers-how Senator Blaine &
tongue would blaze with indignation
But is not the yellow man as much "a
man and brother" as the black man
Year: 1879

THAT A PRETTY FOOT should cause
considerable amount of misery to one or
two admirers, is one of the frequent oc-
currences in the yearly events that may
be calculated upon with reasonable cer-
tainty. But the case of the killing of
young Curtis, in Richmond, on Tuesday,
an account of which will be found in
another column, conveys one of the most
shocking warnings that has fallen under
our notice for some time. The parties
concerned, we apprehend, have reaped
an amount of pain and remorse that will
60 with them to to their graves and the
only one to escape already sleeps in his
grave. The young lady that brought
about his death will never cease to regret
her conduct. II she was offended at
Curtis attentiveness in the shoe store
where he was employed, and did not like
his compliments of her ''pretty foot" or
want him to see it, she should not have
returned to the place Of business where
he was. She was perhaps right in con-
sidering his attentions an affront, but for
that very reason dignity and gentility
both dictated that she should have kept
herself out of his presence when she
wanted to have her foot neatly fitted
One will find it difficult to excuse Cur
tis' friend who urged him to the course
which resulted in his death. He GER
tainly proved anything else then peace
maker.
Year: 1879

For once the Democratic party in Con-
gress, by its aggressiveness and determin-
alton in behalf of the right, is in a posi-
ton to command the respect Of the
country. 1t was resolved by the Demo-
cratic House that henceforth elections in
this country should be free from the in
terventlon Of armed soldiers and that
ballot-boxes should no longer be at the
mercy Of bands of Federal Supervisors
selected to manufacture victories for the
Republican party. In other words, it
was agreed that the infamous political
machinery set in operation by the Re-
plblican party to secure its own perpe-
tuation should be swept from the statutes.
Clauses seeking this end were attached to
two of the most important Appropriation
bills-the Array and the Legislative
Executive and Judicial-and a Republi.
can Senate was asked to decide whether
it would submit to the wipins out of its
odous legislation or sacrifice the Appro.
priation bills.


True to their instincts, the Republican
leaders clung to their political safeguards
knowing full we'll their yalue-and per
consequence, We are to have an extra
session of Congress on the 18th. The
new Congress will meet and adjourn and
wher it adjourns there will be no Jurors
test oath, no soldiers to yex electors at
the polls and no voice of the Federal
Supervisor, at five dollars day, heard in
tle land. OF course the Republican
organs will denounce as revolutionary
the conduct Of tho Congress just closed
will predict diretul results and will make
a disagreeable noise in the political will.
derness but the fact will remain that the
Democratic party has been once more
united and inspired with hope. 1t.
representatives have shown something OF
the spirit and FIRE which should actuate
leaders of naturally brave and hones
organization. 1t has seen its old enemy
bound and gagged in the halls of legisla
ton. 1t will see in two or three week.
the Republican party shorn OF the powel
which i. cruelty set up by tyrannica
means to divert the will of the peopl
and thus inspired and rejuvenated it will
60 into its next battle with vim an,
ardor In fact We may say that th
Democratic party feels to-day like gian
refreshed with aquart of new wine.-
Bait. Gazette.
Year: 1879

TALK, READ AND WRITE ENGLISH.
We lake the following wise and excel
lent advice from the Reading Eagle. 1t
could not have emanated in a source bet
ter prepared from experience to give it :;
and it comes in time when 1t is needed.
We have in Wilmington quite large
German population, and we find mauy of
our most influential and best citizens
among those needing just such advice as
t le Eagte has laid before its readers.-
The German population of Reading and
vicinity is very large, and yet the Ger.
man language is passing away. The in
PRODUCTION OF German into the public
schools would therefore be unwise and
expensive. If the teaching and speaking
OF German in Reading, or the efforts to
retain the German language has been
failure there and is found to be unwise
It must prove more of failure here


aud we believe it a duty to Germans who
are raising children to suggest to them
the Importance of abandoning the idea OF
teaching their children German in school,
until they have first learned the English
language. The Eagle says:


Advocates of The German language
claim that more people in America speak
Year: 1879

The first explosion in the Steam Heat
ing Company, in New York, has thrown
Gen. Spinola out in the cold. His politi-
cal influence was used to get the fan
chise, but as the business men of the
company think it best to have no polti-
clans connected with it, they have given
him round sum to withdraw.
Year: 1879

When man is young he spends much
time In parting his hair In tho middle.
When ho il old and bald he wastes much
more time In trying to makp the ends ct
his sparse locks meet on tho polished
crown above.
Year: 1879

Tho little boy who tried to rest II big
melon on tho park railing on last even
ing sadly remarked when IL dropped TO
the sidewalk, "Thnfs party sick look
In melon, but tain't nothing near M bad
brolon up M I'll bo when got home
without IT,"
Year: 1879

Our regiment was charging up q side
hill, raked fore and aft with batteries
and sharp-shootcrs. One fellow near me
dropped on his hands and knees, and
erawled on in that position towards the
enemy, when the colonel caught him in
the rear with the fiat of his sabre. Get
up, you darncd fool DO you think you
arc cavalry
Year: 1879

The Latest Device OF the Money Power.


The bloated and tyrannical Money Power


has again tightened its grip on the throat of


an impoverished and downtrodden people.


The fiendsh plan it has contrived for the
subjugation of the poor is minuteIy set forth
in the circular put out a few days ago by that
heartless aristocrat, Jack Sherman. the
fraudulent Secretary of the Treasury. The
circular announces the terms on which the
$40 certificates of deposit, authorized by
the last Congress, can be purchased. These
certificates draw interest at the rate of fou,
per cent. per annum, and they can be pro-
cured at par on the day of issue at the United
States Treasury, the various Sub-Treasuries.
and such national and private banks as COM
ply with the statutes on the subject, II pur-
chased after their issue on April 1, they will


costs par and accrued interest at the rate
named. They are convertible into United
States 4-per-cent bonds at any time in sums
of $50, or multiplies thereof, with accrued
interest. In appearance they are very
similar to ordinary Treasury notes.


The object OF this cunningly conceived
plan is apparent. 1t Is to build up priyi-


legged class of ten dollar capitalists, whose
interests will be with the Money Power and
against the people. 1t will create a strong
party in favor of an honest payment of debts.
party determined and clamorous for the
faithful keeping OF pledges, party that will
insist upon taxing the people and reducing
the national debt and sternly oppose all
the brilliant transformation tricks by which
one form OF indebtedness is assumed to be
discharged by change into another. It will
in fact, breed a race of Shylocks living al
ease ON the earnings of others and sucking
the lifA-blood of the people, a kind OF finan-
cial vampires tanning the country into deeper
slumber while they fatten on the sleeper.
The dangers of this privileged class, and the
extortions practiced by them, have been so
fully and energetically set forth by Greenback
journals that it would be superfuous to repeat
the exposition here. The great number tba,
are unable to accumulate ten dollars each.
are to be made to support their craftier fel-
lows in wanton luxury.


1t must be confessed that the plan is
shrewdly devised. On its face it appears to
be wise and kind. 1t seems to furnish a
safe and convenient savings bank for small
depositors in which they can put their scanty
earnings and draw interest thereon, 1t
would appear on careless examination to be
promotive of economy and thrift, to tend to
the encouragement OF habits of industry, to
be in the interest of good morals and sound
government. But on reflection it will be
perceived that the effect of the certificates is
to create faction of men having direct
pecuniary interest in the solvency of the
Government, the maintenance of its credit
and the preservation of its hcnor-there is
the danger--for any man who has a pecuni-
ary interest in anything or in the preserva-
tion of any form of credit, belongs, as the
Greenback papers and orators never tire of
telling US, to the dangerous classes of the
community whom it is the duty OF eyery
good citizen to put down.
Year: 1879

WASHINGTON idlers-unofficial idlers-
amuse themselves nowadays by watching
Democratic Senators who skulk through the
streets and turn no more the head for fear
the frightful office-hunting fend doth close
behind them tread.
Year: 1879

A MISSING orphan girl is advertised for in
New Orleans, and among the marks of iden-
tiication given is "a scar on the top of her
head, where her stepmother smote her with
an axe" No wonder she is missing.
Year: 1879

The New York Mail does not look for
ward to the extra session with altogether
gloomy anticipations. 1t believes one months
session ofa Democratic Congress will give
New York Republican Governor. That
means Republican President.
Year: 1879

JUST 6675 Chinese arrived at San Francisco
last year, and 6071 left for home. The 6O4
who remain constitute our present danger
and put us in as great fright as were the
four and twenty tailors who went to fight
snail.
Year: 1879

THE Old Guard are on deck. A Congress
man OF forty years ago would be Secretary of
the Senate, and the Chaplain the Senate
had twenty-five years ago is again candidate
for the position. Its as though the fossils in
some museum had come to life.