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Year: 1877

OF h's or her imprisonment either within OF
without the Jail, and whenever any person
snslI hereafter in any court in this county
% eonvicted sf any ofense and sentenced tc
pay dne and shalt in default OF payment
OF such fine be committed TO Jail, and said
court shall further order that such convict
De kept at hard labor during tho term OF
such Imprisonment for the default of pay-
ment of such 6ne the Sheriff or keeper OF
the county Jail shall be and he hereby is,
required to employ within the limits Of JET
isrson county, il such manner appropriate te
70 tho sex aud physical condition of the
convict, a. ia the judgement OF said Sheriff
or Jail keeper shall seem to be most advAn.
tageous to, and profitable for said county.
and said Sheriff or jail keeper Is hereby
furtaer required to take such precautions as
shall prevent such convicts while 80 EN-
pioyed from escaping from custody.


Further, that said sheriff be and he here
by is required TO collect and pay into the
the county treasury the avails Of the labor
OF such convicts, and that at each and every
session of the County Board of Supervisors,
he present full aud complete report of ali
proceeding had under the provisions of this
resolution.


0. P. Dow offered the following resolu-
ton No Is, which was on motion adopted.


Resoloed, That the Sheriff of this county
be and is hereby instructed that whenever
1t shall seem to him practicable to utilize
the labor OF such convicts as are subject to
labor under the law in saving wood for the
Jail, repairing the fences about the court
house, and cleaning up the court yard and
IN such other labor as may seem to him to
be necessary to be done tor the benefit to the
county.


Chas. Woolensack offered the following
resolution No. l6, which was on motion
adopted.


Resolved That the County Treasurer be
and IS hereby instructed to pay out to the
treasurer of the town of Jefferson the sum
OF S9O.28 which sum accrued from a special
assessment upon lands in said town for the
purpose OF ditching and recla Inning the
same, and that said sum be paid out of the
town Treasury upon town order drawn by
town board Of Supervisors for the purpose
OF dltching and reclaiming the lands assess
ed as aforesaid.


G.. II. WOLLENSACK


Committee appointed to compare list of
orders remaining two years uucalled for
offered their report which was on motion
OF Mr.. Greene adopted by the Board as re-
ported by the committee.


TO the Board of Supervisors, Jeferso
County


Your Committee appointed to examine
and compare County Orders remaining two
years in Co. Clerks Office uncalled for. would
respectfully report, that we have examin ned
ana compared such order with descriptive
List prepared by County Clerk, and find
them correct We have cancelled all such
orders aud hereby present such List and
orders SO cancelled for the action OF this
Board
Year: 1877

WHAT PoLlTICs REALLY ARE We are
told that religion has nothing to do with
politics. 1 would ask, what are politics
bot the collective morals of men living to.
gether in society7 The moral laws which
govern man as an individual, govern him
if he be member of a community, wheth-
er it be- the community of household or
the community of a state. l can find no
distinction between morals and politics
bns this, that politics are morals upon a
large scale. If you cannot separate politics
from morals, and cannot separate morals
from religion, then it will be very difficult
to separate politics from religion. In fact,
they make one whole, and hence revelation
and the divine law enter into the whole
range of political science. do not mean
to say that revelation has to do immedia-
tely with questions of excise or with the
penalties for smuggling. am not speak:
| ing of politics in that minute sense, but OF
| the great constructive laws by which hu.
man society is held together.-CardinG
Manning.
Year: 1877

The hard times have had the effect of
compellius a large number of the working
people to leave New York. The tenement
houses, w'lch. few years ago, were
crowded, are now half empty, and bills
"To Let" in numerous quarters show that
better class of dwellings are not all occu


pied. The inexorable law of political
economy by which locality which cannot
furnish employment is deserted for another
which can, is exerting itself there, and if
not interfered with, will alone do great
deal toward solving the difficulty. New
York will lose just 90 much of her popula


tion as she cannot fnd work for, and then
the remainder will take care of itef.
When, too. any particular occup ,tion be
comes unremunerative, those engaged in
it are driven to invent another, and this,
too, helps to tighten che load of distress.
Year: 1877

THE DEMOCRATS OPPORTUNITY.
GOVERNOR sRYMOUR's vIFws-HARMONOUs ACTION


ONLY NECESSARY FOR TRIUMPH.


lFRon AN OCCASIONAL coRREsPoSDEST oF rHg TRIBUNE.


ALBANY, Sept 2S.-Ex-Governor Seymour
paid a visit TO Governor Robinson this morning, and had
long consultation with him. II IL very generally I'M
derstOod that the subject Of discussion between The two
gentlemen related chiefly tho policy impoloy Of
nominating the straight old ticket at the coming conven-
ton Governor Robinson left his Office for lunch. soon
after the conference aud could not be ExGoyer-
nor Seymour found . later hour at the Dcavan
House, and said, In substance, that while he was ndis-
posed to speak generally upon political affairs. be
would say that he In favor OF peace and
advocate OF harmonious State ticket. lie felt the
Importance OF eiectng Democratic Legislature.
beyond the securing OF any personal interests on tho
State ticket and after consultation with the delegates
should very strenuOusly oppose any nomination which
might tend 10 weaken the democracy throughout the
state He declared himself full accord VITA Governor
Robinson upon the importance Of Democratic Legts-
lsture. He aud the Governor both believed that an
excellent opportunity now offered the Democracy
for trump0 In that regard winch should not be hglty
thrown away. Harmony In council alone necessary
old feuds should be closed up aud ended ani The best
and far opportunities OF the State depended upon that
alone, and personal interests should stand IN tue way
oiit


The Governor has been suffering somewh hat In health
lately but looks exceedingly we'll and thinks that no
will certainly be here at the convention on "Wednesday
Year: 1877

And this is life: to live, to love, to losel
To feel joy stir like unsung song,
The deep, unwrit emotions of our souls;
Then, when we fain would utter it, to find
Our gladlips stricken dumb.


To watch hope
Climb like rising star, till from the heights
Of fair existence it sends lustre down,
Whose radiance makes earth's very shadows shine,
Then suddenly to see it disappear,
Leaving bleak, appalling emptiness
In all the sky it did illuminate
To build up, stone by stone, a temple fair,
On whose white affairs we do burn our days;
To form its arches of our dearest dreams;
To shape its pillars of our strongest strength,
Then suddenly to see that temple fall,
broken and irreparable wreck
Its shape all shapeless, and its formless form
In ruthless Ruins unrelentiug grasp.
To veil our shrinking eyes, lest they should see
Life's grim appraisers Death and Burial,
Come down the path that leads across our hearts,
To wrts US Paupers in the Book of Love-
To dream, in all life's happy arrogance,
Life's proud proportions limitless, then find
Life's limit limited by one fresh grave -
To stand beside that new made mound and feel
Within that cell is locked forever up
The precious honey, gathered drop by drop,
From outthe fairest fiower-fieids Of our souls;
Lonely and desolate to cast ourselves,



In some White City of the Silent, down
Beside some cold, forbidding marble door,
And feel ourselves forever shut away
From that which was our dearest and our own -
To know, however earnestly we knock,
That door will neer be opened unto US
To know the dweller there will never step
Beyond the boundary Of that cruel gate;
To know, howe'er we plead no lip therein
win break int its old accustomed smile,
The folded hands stretch out no welcomings,
The fastened eyelids never lift themselves
Again in answering anguish, or glad love,
From cut the frozen bondage of their sleep.
> lis thus to love, and bury out of sight
Some precious darling OF our dearest years;
Some far outstretched root of our own hearts
Some tiowery branch that We had hoped to train
Along the loftiest trellses of Hope
Life, Love and Loss! Three little words that make
The compass Of that varied road which lies
Stretched out between our swaddles and our shroad
Life, Love and Loss! Three Hpples on one brock;
Thence widening branches of one mighty stream;
Three stemless currents emptying themselves
Into one vast and vague Eternity.
Year: 1877

And this is life: to live, to love, to lose
To feel q joy stir like an unsung song,
The deep, unwrit emotions of our souls;
Then, when we fain would utter it, to find
Our glad lips stricken dumb.
Year: 1877

It is astonishing how many people
are unpunctuaL Thousands have failed
in life from this cause alone. It is not
only a serious vice in itself, but the
fruitful parent Of numerous other
vices, so that he who becomes its victim
is soon involved in tolls from which it
is almost impossible to escape. 1t
makes the merchant wasteful Of time,
saps the business reputation Of the law
yer and injures the prospects Of me-
chanics, who might otherwise rise to
fortune; in a word, there is not pro-
fession nor station in life which is not
liable to the canker Of this destructive
habit.


Many of NapOleOn's great victories
were won by infusing into his subordi-
mates the necessity Of punctuality to-
the minute. It was his plan to ms
neuvre over large spaces Of country,
to render the enemy uncertain where
he was about to strike, and then sud-
denly concentrate his forces and fall
with irresistible force upon some weak
point Of the extended line OF the foe.
Execution Of this system demanded
that each division of the army should
arrive at a special spot punctually, for
if any part failed to come up, the bat
tie was lost. 1t was by initiating his
plan that the allies finally succeeded
in Overthrowing the Emperor. The
whole Waterloo campaign turned upon
these tactics. At Mt St. Jean, Blucher
was punctual, while GrOuchy was not,
and the result was, Napoleon fell and
Wellington triumphed.


In mercantile affairs punctuality is
quite as important as in military.
Many are the instances in which ne
glect to renew an insurance policy
punctually has led to serious loss.
Hundreds of city merchants and man
ufacturers and publishers are now suf-
fering in consequence Of want Ofpunc-
tuality among their country customers
in paying up accounts. 1t is sound
policy which moves the banks to In
sist, under penalty of protest, upon the
punctual payment of notes; for, were
they to do otherwise, commercial
transactions would fall into extricable
confusion. Many a time has the failure
of one man to meet obligations brought
about the ruin Of a score of others,
just as the topping down of the FIRST
in a line Of bricks causes the fall fall
therest.
Year: 1877

An English farmer has recently
been compelled to pay the costs of a
practical joke. He was sitting in the
barroom of the Greyhound Inn one
night and taking his usual tankard of
ale, when his eye chanced to fall on
the sleeping form Of a man with a long
beard. He went to the fire, and, light
ing piece of paper, deliberately ap-
piled it to the sleeping mans beard.
There was bright rushing fame for
a second or two; the man sprang to
his feet in agony; the joke was COM
plete, and the farmer roared in ecstacy.
The unfortunate sufferer, who hap
pened to be the village tailor, knew
that the farmer was a man of substan-
tial means, and acted accordingly. He
brought an action for $3.50 damages
in the Malmesbury County Court in
due course. According to the plain
tiff's evidence his beard was eighteen
inches long when he lay down, after
having some ale. The next thing he
remembered was his face being on fire,
while a man helped to put out the
fame. The defendant sat in his seat
roaring with laughter, and did not
offer any assistance, nor did he tender
any apology for what he had DONE
His lips were burned severely, his face
was blistered, his head, eyebrows and
eyelashes were burned to the skin and
one eye and one ear were scorched.
The magistrate awarded him $3.50 and
costs.-&. Louis Globe Democrat
Year: 1877

partners Office, he raised his eyes from
the desk, and looked steadily at me.
I was surprised to find there was no
sternness nor indignation in his cOun-
tenance.


O." he said, in a kind tone,
"you do not look at all well this morn
ing. Is there anything the matter
with your"


I caught at the idea, and said | had
not felt well for the last few days.


q thought not" he said "and only
sent for you to say, if it were the case,
you had better return home and take
a day or two's rest. You will then be
better, and we can do very well with
out you for that time"


A reception SO different from what
I had expected, made such an impress
sion on me that the tears came into
my eyes, and 1 felt half inclined to
confess the whole truth. The senior
partner, however, putting out his hand,
and shaking mine warmly, said:


"NOw go home, and keep up your
spirits, and you will do very wei.


At that moment one Of the clerks
entered the room, and 1 left it and
proceeded homewards, the man whom
I had imagined to be detective being
no longer there. For what purpose
jackson visited the Office the evening
before 1 know not. Certainly it was
not connected with my business.


It will be too painful for me to go
further into the matter. I plunged
deeper and deeper into crime. I at
tempted to cOnjure up reckless frame
Of mind, and in the daytime to con-
siderable extent succeeded. But then
the nights-how can I describe their
miseryi I could not sleep without
opium, and the more I took of the
drug the greater the quantity 1 requir-
ed, till at length I was obliged to take
each evening as much as would have
killed any ordinary man. 1t had also
its effect on my countenance, which as
sumed the paid hue of the regular
opium eater. At last the forgery was
discovered, Jackson having sold my
note; was arrested, my defalcatiOns
came to light, and soon after I found
myself here.


One word more, in justice to myself.
I heard that in the newspaper report
of the trial it was stated that when,
after my sentence, I left the bar, it
was with a jaunty step and Indifferent
expression of countenance. Never was
there a truer remark. If, indeed. any
objection can be taken to it, it is that
it did not go far enough, for the i'm
prisonment to which was condemned,
and the utter ruin of my prospects in
life, were but feather in the balance,
when compared with the weight of
horrible mental torture and doubt 1
had been labOring under for months
before the termination of my career of
crime.


"Where Is Thornton, you ask p


He occupies the cell adjoining mine.
-AIustrated Weekly.
Year: 1877

PUT LIFE IN YOUR WoRK.-A
young mans interest and duty both
dictate that he should make himself
indispensable to his employers. He
should be so industrious, prompt and
careful that the accident of his tenn
porary absence should be noticed by
being missed. A young man should
make his employer his. friend, by do
ing faithfully and minutely all that is
entrusted to him. Its a great mistake
to be over-nice or fastidious about
work. Pitch in readily and your will
ingness will be appreciated, while the
"high toned" young man who bubbles
about what it is and what it is not his
place to do, will get the cold shoulder.
There is story that George Washing
ton once helped roll a log that one of
his corporals would not handle, and
the greatest Emperor Of Russia worked
as shipwright in England-tO learn
the business. That's just what you want
to do. Be energetic, look and act with
alacrity, take an interest in your en-
ployer's success, work as though the
business was your own, and let your
employer know that he may place abb
solute reliance in, your word and on
your act. Be mindful ; have your
mind on your business; because it is
that which is going to help you, not
those outside attractions which some Of
the "boys" are thinking about. Take
a pleasure in work; do not go about it
in Estless, formal manner, but with
alacrity and cheerulness, and remem-
Der that while working thus for others,
you are laying the foundation Of your
own success in life,
Year: 1877

We should never SO entirely avoid
danger as to appear irresOlute and cow
ardIy; but, at the same time, We
should avoid unnecessarily exposing
ourselves to danger, than which moth
ing could be more foolish.
Year: 1877

When Napoleon rushed back to
Paris as fast as horses could draw him
in order, that he might himself tell the
story of his discontinue, he thought


fit to select the King Of Naples, from
among all his Marshals, to take the
command Of the retreating force. As
was usual with him, he thought out
everything that was likely to happen,
and left Murat instructions according
ly. No man, perhaps, ever more pa
tiently provided for the execution Of q
design, or took more careful account
of the probable accidents which might
supervene; but when be had once
taken this trouble be expected not only
that his officers would minutely con-
form to directions, but also that nature
accident, every circumstance, should
keep strictly within the range Of his
provision and he was fearfuly angry
if things took an unexpected turn, and
he invariably vented his wrath upon
some officer, although it may have
been TIE elementa or the outfall Of
events that disappointed him. It was
Murat's supreme ill-fortune that inn
mediately after the Emperor's dspar-
ture December 5th) the thermometer
descended to point unprecedented at
that season, and rendered the execu-
ton of his orders impossible. There
were 27 degrees q presume Of the
Centigrade thermometer) of frost. So
far were the wretched forces from hav-
ing at length surmounted the extreme
horrors Of the retreat, that at Wilma
all the horrors recommended in an ag-
gravated degree. A division of 10000
men was in eight days reduced to g.
900 without having seen an enemy or
received a stroke save from the ele-
ments. In one night all the artillery
horses were frozen to death, as they
stood, with their harness on, and just
as they had stood in life. Half the
drivers died Of cold the same hight ;
the other half came to put their horses
in motion, could not stir them, and at
last found they were all dead. Before
retreat could be continued the Russian
cannon vas heard in the rear. Murat
himself seemed to care as little for
cold as for cannon-shot. He turned
out at the first hint of danger from
the enemy, and he would have led on
in the same gallant style as ever but
nine-tenths Of his miserable force were
paralyzed by the cold. Their arms
literally dropped from their hands.
The few exceptionally hardy men who

could still move fed as they best
could, leaving their comrades to the
mercy of the winter and the enemy.
These fost-bitten wretches were strip
ped, and in various ways afflicted by
Cossacks and others. The enemy was
never 12 hours march behind the
rear-guard, (Ney,) and there was
neither rest nor refreshment for days.
Artillery, baggage, and the imperial
treasure were abandoned. Except
that they still took with them a few
horses, nothing remained to the sur
vivors but the tatters and arms which
they carried. The line Of the fight
was covered with cOrpses, and with
cold-strieken beings who had laid down
never to rise again. These details are
in the highest degree horrible, and it
is pain to dwell upon them; but it
is right that We should sometimes
mediate on scenes like these, and not
exclusively on the "pride, pOmp, and
circumstances Of glorious war;
BIdcEaUoOds Magazine.
Year: 1877

X curious but important case-one

 involving a question of considerable interest to makers of promissory notes was recently decided by the Supreme Court of Massachusetts. X man who had made a note for S2OO0, secured by a mortgage of the same amount, was notified by Boston bank that this lat ter institution held his obligation and accompanying collateral, and wanted a settlement. This request was acced- ed to and the note was taken up by its maker. Some days laIer this latter discovered that the note he had paid had been forged by the real estate agent he had given the original obliga- ton tO. aGd that his own genuine note and accompanying mortgage were ia another financial institution. and were still unpaid. ThereupOn he brought suit against 1hc Eliot National Bank. the former holder of the forged note. tO recover the amount he had paid. The defense Wa, that the plaintiff, hay ing paid the note, was estOpped from denying the gcnuineness oi his own signature to it; and, furthermore, that he was bound by the act of his agent who had traudulently negotiated two obligations of the same amount and with precisely similar collateral. The Supreme Court overrules the defense. and holding that the agent of an undis- closed principal may be treated as the principal, decides further that an indi- vidual is not estopped in law to deny the genuineneSs of a note. which he has paid by a mistake of fact in SUD- posing it to be his genuine signature Philadelphia Ledger
Year: 1877

THE CITIZEN OFFICE is now etter than sver supplied with job papers, and is pre- pared fo do better and cheaper work than is done elsewhere In Arizon7. The biil

 head and letter papers are the very best and they will be print a Co order al very small profit; also have great variety Of cards which will be printed and sold from gs @ per thousand upwards q
Year: 1877

Absence, we have often been tolG.T
can not conquer love. The victory of
love over absence, when that love was
once grounded in presence, is. no
strange thing. 1t is part of every fam
lily history, and consecrates all our
griets. But to love one we have never
seen, known to us only by his biography
and a spiritual power we can not ex-
plain, is one Of the mysteries of the
grace Of God. And yet it is q fact.
Christianity is not the adoption of u
principle, but the love of a person.
Children who know nothing Of princi-
pies, philosophers weary Of theories
which yielded only chaff under the
fail Of logic, have found in the love
Of personal Lord the answer to ev-
cry longing of their hearts. Here is
one Of the greatest facts of human
history: there once lived and died and
ascended from earth a Man who,
though never seen on earth again, has
commanded the hearts Of millions Of
men with an attachment whose bonds,
like those Of gravitation, are at once
invisible and almighty.


Christians sometimes say, "1f 1
could only see my Saviour and hear
his voice, it would help me to a sense
of his love and friendship. lie would
be to me less an idea and more dis
tinctly a person." Nor is the re-
mark entirely without foundation in
experience. There is danger lest the
personal Jesus may become obsculed
behind his doctrine, and we may think
we are loving our invisible Lord when
we are loving the truths for which he
stands, his humility, grace and mer-
cy.