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Year: 1875

J. w. WILLIS & Co, commenced on Monday morning the erection of furnace, and other buildings necessary for a reduction works, one mile east of the Quartz Mountain Quartz Mill, on Groom's Creek, about five miles south of Pres colt. They have several men employed and iu- tend to manufacture some 900 fire brick from the material found in the ledge mentioned by us last week. The process of making these bricks is by arrastraing the material, which is a whitish gray rock, after which it is moulded into bricks, tamped into the moulds. The furnace, or furnaces, for they are building a double furnace, or two furnaces to one stack, which can both be run al once or in case one is out of repair the other be kept at work. The furnaces and stack will require in the building 4 900 fire brick, 900 com mon .rick and two tons of lire clay or the pulp as it comes from the arrastra This latter is to bc used in laying up the bricks, and for tamping or grouting as it is sometimes called The principal object of these works is to reduce ores from the Uncle Joe, Lone Star, Benjamin. Eberbardt and other lodges immediately surrounding their loca- ton, but if they successful they will do custom work for any and all who bring thefI ores. This furnace is to be on the rererberaIory plan having a very tall stack for draft and will be used only for making base bullion. If it shall prove to be necessary to erect refining works, blast will be indispensable.
Year: 1875

MR. P. KEARNEY, who has furnished us our dispatches for nearly year, and our predecessor before us for ever long, retires from the posi-. tion of agent and operator at Prescott and Fort Whipple in consequence of an order requiring all operators of the signal service and military lines to enlist in the army. This Mir. Kearney was un- willing to do. The service will be very fortunate if it finds an other gentlemanly and efficient in the position as Mir. K. He is one among ten thousand for correct business habits and all the moral and social accomplishments that go to con stitutc the gentleman. We sever our pleasant business relations with him with regret.
Year: 1875

Elsewhere we publish letter from Col Hodge who is writing up the resources of Arizona Tor the San Francisco Chronicle and Eastern papers We have arranged with him for an occasional letter as he passes from camp to camp in this and adjoining counties, and as he has examined nearly all the gold and silver mines in tue United States bis opinions should be entitled to conside- ration. It will bc observed that he gives tbe Peck district the preference over everything else he has seen in America, which is virtually saying ait is a world beater."
Year: 1875

The last sale of town lots, by order of the Vil- age Council, will take place tomorrow at Il o'clock A. NJ, in front of the County buildings. We are requested 10 remind those who have bought lots nt former sales and not paid for them, that auless they come forward and settle she lots will be re-sod and they will be required to make good the difference, if any, between the price at which they bid them of and that realized, and the cost of sale
Year: 1875

q, The grading in-Montczuma street, at the cross garden is complete, and there will be no more swearing and whipping in order to get over with heavy loads. George Louut. under the direction of the Village Council has proven himself Q thorough street grader.
Year: 1875

J.R Walker is having q neat little cottage fixed up near the butcher shop, somewhat too large for one and not quite extensive enough for two. Perhaps small addition would render i' babitabIe for a small family.
Year: 1875

Judging by the manner in which stoves
have been purchased at and taken away
from the warerooms of J. F. Stevenson 4
Co. during the past week, getting ready for
cold weather would seem to be the thing
uppermost in the minds of very many people.
The number of stoves sold by this firm is
simply immense. One reason is that they
have the largest and most varied assort-
ment, both of cooking and heating stoves,
to be found in the upper country and
another reason is that they are selling
stoves 80 cheap. They are able to suit the
most exacting customer as to style, and
everybody as to price. We would advise
all who may be in need of stove
to call on Messrs J. F. Stevenson & Co.
before purchasing elsewhere.
Year: 1875

In order to close out the stock, the un-
'dersigned will, for the next ten days, sell
hats and caps, boots and shoes and clothing
for LESS THAN COST. This is in earnest
and will be done. Call and satisfy yourself
that great bargains are to be had.


Dry goods and groceries viii always be
kept in full stock and sold at lower prices
than by any other establishment in the city.


J. W. TENVOORDE.
Year: 1875

Tho bass and piokerel in Lake
George think of calling a meeting to
formally express their gratitude to
Mr.. Seth Green for the seventy thou
sand young trout which he planted
there. The front are nearly oil
gone, and every little while hungry
pickerel put his head out Of the water
60 see if Seth IL coming with moro.
Year: 1875

p A curious freak of nature is found at
Willough lake, in the northern part of
Vermont, where Mounts Pisgah and Hor
rise $500 feet from the water, and 1000
feet above the sea, and are less than a
mile apart, while the lake below is of
unknown depth-all efforts to sound it
having failed-and is supposed to rest at
the level of the sea. A few years ago an
immense rock, weighing over three hun
dred tons, was started from it's bed at
the top of Mount Pisgah, and fell down
the almost perpendicular face of the
mountain into the lake, tearing away the
carriage road and everything that op-
posed it, shaking the whole region
around and being heard ten and fifteen
miles away. The lake is an immense
spring, as hardly brook flows into it,
but a river flows out large enough to
carry extensive mills. A winding foot
path conducts to the summit of Mount
Pisgah, which is abruptly cut off on the
side nearest the lake, forming perpen-
dicular precipice nearly 5000 feet high,
below which lies water of such singular
transparency that one can see more than
one hundred feet below the surface.
The temptation to leap from such g
height is almost irresistible, and no one
has yet visited the place of strong enough
nerve to stand erect and LOOK over the
brink, but visitors crawl up on hands
and knees to satisfy their curiosity. The
view from this height is grand. To the
east con be seen the White mountains
and the Connecticut river, winding dowr
eighty miles of its course to the nortl
and northwest are Monadnock, fifty
miles away, and the entire length o
Lake Memphremagog, and to the west il
seen the western range of the Greer
mountains. The scenery is unsurpassed
in New England, and the drive over tn
carriage way which skirts the lake anC
connects Orleans and Caledonia countie
is the most picturesque of any in tn


State.
Year: 1875

We clip the following from the Win
sted Press. Bro. Pinney is cup on his
ear" as the boys say: Have you paid
your subscription We feel an interest
in your future which prompts us to ask
you this question in the spirit of mis-
sionary. Give heed ere it is too late,
for it is easier for needleto go through
the eye of camel than for fig tree
sown on stony places to take away from
those who have nothing that which they
hath, even though the virgins with their
ten commandments refused to partake
of the prodigal calf that Adam killed as
peace-offering after Abel slew his
brother Noah in the ark. Ponder Oh
these things. They are full of hidder
meaning for subscribers who are in ar
rears
Year: 1875

The Quimper agricultural competition
took place the other day in the commune
of Benzee- Cong, canton of Concarneau,
France. A young girl of the commune
of Lauriec, Mdle. Fournier, accompan-
led by younger sister of fourteen, pre-
sented herself with her implements, to
contest the prize for plowing A similar
case never having occurred, the judges
were at first somewhat embarrassed, but
as nothing in the programme prohibited
such competitor, she was, to her great
satisfaction, admitted. She then, with
out hesitation as without ostentation,
disdaining the laughter and ieers of her
opponents, took great pains to see that
her plow was in perfect order, and the
signal being given, she executed her task
with SO much ease and address that she
did not appear to experience any fatigue.
BY the unanimous opinion of the COM
mittee she was considered to have gained
the first prize, not only because her work
was superior, but further because she
took fourteen minutes less in doing it
than any of the others. That decision
was the more gratifying to all present
when the fact became known that her
mother was widow; she, being the
eldest of four girls, manages by their as
] sistance to do all the work of farm.
Year: 1875

Flattery hurts the fatterer as well as
the fattered. ....


Few consider that enjoyment must
have its moment of rest as we'll as labor.


Every good deed that we do is not
only present pleasure but prop for
the future.


Falsehood is often rocked by truth,
but she soon outgrows her cradle and
discards her nurse.


Some men take pleasure in earning
their money as we'll as in using it-a
sure way of getting it, and getting the
good of it.


The prospect of want is worse than
actual privation. Man appears to be
the only animal in existence whose exer.
tions exceed his necessities.


None are SO fond of secrets as those
who do not mean to keep them; such
persons covet secrets as spendthrift
does money, for the purpose of circula
ton.


The mind has a certain vegetativt
power, which cannot be wholly idle. i
it is not laid cut and cultivated into {
beautiful garden, it will of itself shoo
up weeds or flowers of wild growth.


The most momentous question {
women is ever called upon to decide is
whether the faults of the man she lovei
will drag her down, or whether she il
competent to be his earthly redeemer.
Year: 1875

Professor Walter Scott, of Massachu-
setts, recently delivered an interesting
lecture on the d" Human Countenance."
In beginning his remarks, the professor
said that, in attempting to show how
character may be discerned by the face,
he had no dogmatic disposition to assert
that in the science of physiognomy,
noble as it is, all truth is contained.


Physiognomy has beer carried to excess.
Yet it has a great deal that is interesting
and useful in its study and there is no
science which cannot be carried by its
votaries to an extreme. The face of
every man is a history written by his
forefathers and himself. 1t is an open
page, from which you may read, if you
will. The countenance, remember, exists
only when illumined by the soul, which
shines through the eyes as Lis ht through
window. Having briefly showed the
relationship and comparative Importance
of any ideal standard of beauty, the lee
turer dwelt upon the way in which they
are handed down in the peculiarities of
race and nation. In spite of the infu-
ences which tend toward the assimilation
of races, one may still see occasionally
the purest type of the Norseman or the
Saxon, showing that nature has a ten
dency to return to original types. Pass
ing to consider individual variations OF
features, etc., and how they have bear
ing on character, Professor Smith show
ed by drawings the ideal head and face,
in which all the parts bear harmonious
relation. Of all the features the mouth
is the most expressive of character, since
it is most of all under mans control
but the nose has also great deal to dc
with character. The lecturer argued
that all great generals had the Roman
nose, and most artists and poets the
Greek nose; and told in pleasant way
what he conceived to be the character
revealed by the oez retrousse and the
nose contemplative. The eye was no


considered very important element il
determining character, and the professor
showed by an ingenious series of draw
ings that the expression Of the moutl
and nose can greatly change the aspec


Of the same countenance The effects O


sorrow and sin in changing mans visag'
were shown in very interesting way.
Year: 1875

will not chide although thy love has faded +;
Silent my soul shall bear its hopeless pain
Still shall my love live on, unblest unaided
Still in its grief shall feel not less but gain.
AS, when at eve, along the west descending,
Sadly the twilight sinks DER Alpine snow,
Days parting beam, with nights chill shadows


bending,


Burns through the gray in one last crimson


glow
Thus in my heart the ray thy love has given,
Fadeless and clear, although its sun is gone,
Cheering my darkness with its CLEAN OF


heaven


Lights the dim way in which walk alone.
When at lifes eve nights shadows gather Ger


me,


Strong cen in death my soul shall know thy


spell
One thought Of thee shall light the gloon


before me;


One CLEAN of joy shall bid the day farewell
Year: 1875

The death of Vice President Wilson will
be made theme for instruction to-day by
DR.. Talmage, OF Brooklyn, and by Messrs
Jutten and King. of this city. The other
pastors Will continue to advance doctrinal or
revival ideas and theories, 80 that there shall
be no break in their discourses. Mr.. TAYLOR
will present the closing scenes in the life of
Christ and His resurrection. Mr.. Johns will
take the events connected with the Saviour's
crucifxion and resurrection and weave them
into lessons of spiritual faith and Mr.
Lloyd will draw a moral meaning from
Christ's stilling of the storm on the sea of
Galilee, and will seek to inspire his people
to greater activity in winning souls. Mr..
Lightbourn will show the emptiness and
folly Of the bargain which gains the world
at the expense of the soul, and Mr.. Willis
will make it certain to all that in following
the Christian religion we do not follow
cunningly devised fable. Temptation has
ministry in this life as we'll as suffering or
anything else 1t will be Mr.. Knapps
pleasure to-day to present some of the uses
OF temptation DIR. Armitage will show





may and should plead with God and His
willingness to respond to our earnest en-
treaties, and to touch human hearts by His
spirit and His word. Mr.. Leavell will criti-
else criticism of Paul, and Mr. Phelps will
explain what it is to be saved Mr.. Merritt
will hold up the young ruler who came to
Jesus (as recorded in the Gospels) as q
shining example of morality and as ON evil
dence also that salvation means much more
than merely moral life. Mr.. Mccarthy
will indicate what are the most essential
qualities of love, so that our young readers
who do not know much about this tender
passion may learn something by attending.
And then they will get some information also
concerning the character of the present and
the future life and the relations of one to the
other, as well as have the illusions that at
tach to each pointed out and Bishop Snow,
who believes that the great day of God has
begun, will make some guesses as to what
the end will be. He, too, wants the people
to hear
Year: 1875

ever heard of Tammany Society giving one
dollar to relieve distress? This humane
and generous purpose has long since been
abandoned. Tammany Hall, which IN the
eyes OF the law is benevolent institution,


against which no one can complain has
grown to be secret political cabal, used by
thieves and political adventures for their
own gain and power 1t is to-day as illegal


as gambling or smuggling AS our contem-


porary, the Evening Post, well puts it,


"A more perfect peryersion could not be con-


ceived. If the Union Ferry Company, whose


business it is TO run boats between this city


and Brooklyn, should undertake to build


and work a railroad to San Francisco or if
an insurance company should direct its at
tention solely to the maintenance Of an inc
briate asylum or if the directors of bank
should attempt theatrical management-in
none of these cases would the departure
from Legitimate purpose be wider than it
is in the case of the charitable society Of
Tammany, which is now and for years has
been nothing but secret association of po-
litical managers" Clearly enough. therefore,
the duty of the Legislature is to give voice to
the will of the people of New York and to
abolish this charter which has become for
feited by the acts of its managers Let the
men who go to Albany ON the first Of the
year show that they will tolerate no longer q
monstrosity like Tammany If the mem
bers OF the society are really anxious to con-
tinue the work of benevolence they can
easily find means for doing this without
meeting in a club room and calling themselves
Indians and dancing around the council fire.
But Tammany to-day, achartered body, secret
in its deliberations, governed by irresponsi-
BILE political charlatans, is as much an evil
as was the existence of the Jacobin Club,
which claimed to make war or peace as it
pleased, to control France by its mobs and
to send to the guillotine the purest and best
citizens of the Republic when they failed to
do honor to ruffian like Marat or a fanatic
like Robespierre. Let mass meeting of
merchants be held. Let the business voice Of
New York unite with that of the independent
press, and cry "down with Tammany Hall"
and "down with every secret political infu-
ence which abuses the will Of the people and
enables peculators to gain Office and power.
Year: 1875

Now that the English government hAs pur-
chased the shares of the Suez Canal there is
great dissatisfaction in Paris as the special
shows, because the offer of the Khedive to
sell them to France was not accepted by the
government. All this is plain enough
now that it is seen that Eng
land has made a Characteristic move
in the great diplomatic game for the spoil OF
the crumbling Ottoman Empire. In one Of
Planche's happiest bits of humor the alter
native is put to warlike old gentleman to
pay or fight. ''Up with your banners or
down with your dust" England has lately
been in position analogous to that OF the
old knight. She has had the opportunity to
display once more in support of the Turk
''the flag that's brayed a thousand years the
battle and the breeze" But she has
been ioath to utilize the occasion. She has,
however, seized the earliest opposite to come
''down with the dust in the very practical
shape of securing property right in the
Isthmus of Suez. 1t is declared IN London
that this purchase is political, and this gives
it even more significance. Here is q case IN
which we see the modern commercial and
financial system changing the whole scheme
Of the relations of nations to one another.
England can now secure by purchase all that
in another period she must have obtained by
diplomacy or war. For what else does
she want of Egypt if she possess
this canal2 1t has been an admitted
point of British policy that Egypt must be
in the possession of England or of a Power
in friendly relations with her; whence the
support of Turkey and the recent announce
ment that if Turkey was given up England
must occupy her greatest dependency in
Africa, an announcement against which
Russia made no protest. but to the spirit OF
which she rather consented. Is Egypt OF
any other value to England than for the sake
of the route to India2 The best opinion in
England seems determined that the de-
pendency would be rather an embarrass-
ment than an advantage, except for this
route. If, therefore, England secures, as is
proposed, the full property right in the canal
and nationalizes the property as she has
done Gibraltar she will secure all that she
needs unembarrassed by the encumbrance of
the remainder of the Khedive's possessions.
Such result will be happy stroke OF
British foreign policy.
Year: 1875

Our pithy letter from Paris by cable gives
gay capital the activities of managers,
actresses artists and authors the plans
and programmes the dissensions and
legal skirmishes the quirks and quiddities
Of the witty, contentious and irrepressible
Gallo life. How ample scene the cable
sketches for us IN its few lines how filled
with notable people how well supplied with
the indications of the kind of labor that
makes an impression on the world Offen-
bach suing manager Rossi guessing at the
sensational possibilities of Shakespeare !;
Paris determined TO have the greatest Of
all circuses two American prime donne
storming the citadels of fortune; Worth, the
high priest of the sublime in feminine attire,
financially in danger These are few Of the
lively themes lightly 'laid in" on our can
vas Of Paris life.


This cable-letter, if we may coin word
which becomes necessary to explain the
modern steps in journalism, is now as much
of feature in the HERALD as our Washing
ton dispatches Paris and London are as
near to New York, in a newspaper point of
view, as Washington and New York were
when the telegraph first became a
system. In this sense journalism becomes
an assurance of peace. 1t binds the nations
together as it binds the States in a union Of
intelligence and peace. The Paris cable
letter, which must in time be followed by
other cabe-letters from the great news
centres Of the world, is a step in that
path Of progress which was marked by the
opening Of our Reading Room in Paris. This
Beading Room, on the Avenue de rOpera-
in the very heart Of the magnificent metrop-
olis-is, perhaps, the best Of the kind in the
world. Certainly, there is none 50 at
tractive for Americans anywhere. Here
are nearly two hundred and
fifty journals-representin thiry-nine
States-the best newspapers in the country.
Here also are the principal journals of the
cities Of the continent The American in
Paris will find his country 50 far as il can be
found in its journalism IN the Reading Room
Of the New YORK HERALD.
Year: 1875

Mr. Samuel Wood, an old and highly
respected citizen and millionnaire pro-
poses to establish . College Of Music
in this city and to endow it with
the munifcent sum Of five million dol
lars. In another column will be found
the particulars Of this grand and unpre-
cedented gift toward the most beautiful
of the art sisters. Music has made such
immense progress in New York within the
past few years that it may now be consid-
cred as one Of the most popular studies of
the metropolitan public. The concert hall
and the opera house are more lberally pa
tronized nowadays than the theatre or the
lyceum. The liberality and enterprise Of
Mr.. Wood will undoubtedly be pro-
ductive of the highest beneficial ef-
feet in the interests Of music in
this city, and will make New York the centre
Of art. The native talent which is so album
dant here, and which has languished 50 long
for want Of encouragement can nov have
an ample opportunity to develop tself to
the fullest extent. Many q great artist in
the seasons 70 come may have occasion to
bless the memory Of the good man vito es-
tablished an institution in which the divine
spark Of genius in music was called into
existence
Year: 1875

ANOTHER SAVINGS BANK has succumbed
the institution known as the Mutual Benefit
Savings Bank having susp ended yesterday.
The loss to depositors probably will not be
great, but the shock 70 public confidence oc-
casioned by the failure Of this and other
banks will be almost irreparable. One Of
the worst failures so far is that of the Man
ufacturers and Builders Bank. The show
ing in this case is worse If possible, than
in the case Of the Central Park Bank. In
the latter case it was utterly i'm
possible for the bank to make money !:
but nobody had vouched for the Sc
curity of the institution, while as recently as
the 10Th OF October the State Superintendent
of Banking certified that the Manufacturers
and Builders Bank possessed assets to the
amount Of one hundred and eighty thousand
dollars above its liabilities. 1t now turns
ont that the bank will be deficient at least
eighty thousand dollars. Naturally enough
the public will desire to know how Mr.. Ellis,
the Superintendent reconciles his certificate
with the actual condition Of the institution.
The question Is one which must be answered.





The New CoSSEcTICUT SENATOR. 1t seems
that Governor Ingersoll, of Connecticut has
appointed Ex-Governor English to the place
in the United States Senate made vacant by
the death of Senator Ferry,