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Year: 1877

Our pigs are pasturing in the clover
field and taking huge comfort out of the
water trough. We had no idea until this
arrangement was made that pigs were
such copious drinkers They also bathe
frequently. A SOW troubled with some
eruption of the skin has cured herself by
alternate water baths and mud plasters.
- Western Advertiser,
Year: 1877

siuns can he IN ide. and 50 on to the cul-
minorion of fun justice to them.


They should practice shrcwdnoss
enough to prevent the cry from tine bruit.
i,h crowd Of "brcad ur blood' aud only
hold them rs low down rs they will bear;
otherwise the wealth producers might
ind champion leader able to lead them
to victory by brute force; which certain
~ ,s not the most desirable way to arrive
there.


This problem OF the true relations OF
labor and capital is yet unsolvcd and
the masses OF the wealth producers are
demanding its solution in thunder tones;
and the milionaires and other rich men,
whom the wealth producers are begin
ming to look upon as so many lecches
fastened on them and sucking their lite
blood, may do well to heed tins demand
before it is too late to avoid bloody
struggle; for the signs Of the times are





ominous OF an approaching and "irre
pressible conflict" between labor and
capital.


The masses OF the lNborcrs of the
United States are not of the material
(tlmnks to our common Schools TO sub
nit to the grinding to which their breth-
rem in Europe have for so many long cen
turies been subjected,


In view Of the late strikes, which are
only the beginnings Of the impending
Struggle, what may we prophecy! For
every move ofthc kind hereafter will be
increased in earnestness, extent and in
tensity ii concessions are not made; and
suppose it increased only four fold more
than what we have lately witnessed;
where would be the power of the govern
ment to control the riot And 1t is
liable to be increased teniold, if proper
concessions are not made 1t becomes
our great men to look this matter square
ly in the face, and be prepared to grace
fully cOncede justice to the comparative
ly ignorant millions Of wealth producers,
and avoid the impending bloodshed
which otherwise is bound sooner or later
to come. A word to the wise is sniff
cient. FIJI NJ.
Year: 1877

respect independent of railroad and steamboat influences. It is

 not likely that any conscious neg feet is practiced of the convenience of up river consignees. More probable IS it that, in ignO rance Of the exact situation of such con- signees, of their nearly absolute lack of mail communi cation, and amid the thousand details in the business of the corporation they serve. those officials overlook the proprie.y of giving Arizona pat. rons the most timely possible no. tice of steamboat sailing days. The SENTINEL will keep on trying to give it's up river readers this important information, and to publish freight lists. In time, and as the company's affairs here get regulated, this purpose will be accomplished.
Year: 1877

GREENWOOD, July 15, 1877. EDITOR SENTINEL

 All here looks bright and prom ising. The Signal mill is going up as fast as mechanics can push the work. At the mine they are opening up large bodies of fine ore and in a short time the supply of bullion from here will be more than doubled. The shipping of ore from this county has received a check from the advanced rates of transportation established by the railroad company; an advance that seems to us up here neither polite nor necessary. It tends very much to destroy the good willof our people for the company which might in the future be of advantage to both parties.
Year: 1877

Judge Backus, former District Judge of this Territory, arrived here sick on the night of the J2th :, and died on the night of the 18th. l do not know the exact cause of his death, but he came here very feeble. He came in from Phoenix with c. I. Hayden.

 An effort is being made to SUD- ply this county with flour and grain direct from Salt river, which is little over 100 miles from here via Wickenburg. The road is being put in good order by Creed Bryan who will bring barley over it for feeding his teams engaged in hauling ore. Hayden and Cor nell will bring in flour. California flour and barley retail here at fourteen and ten dollars per quin- tai, but from Phoenix we shall get both much cheaper.

 Several representatives of east ern capital have been looking at our mines, but they seem to be new at the business and. cannot determine between good mines and bad. Some of them, however, seem willing to learn and will probably get hold of good prop erty. The present necessarily high prices of everything here are discouraging to new corners, but that objection is being gradually removed.

 Contracts have been made for the lumber to build the new 20 stamp mill of the McCrackin Co.,, and men are at work grading the site. When this mill is finished, between it, the old Greenwood mill and that of the Signal Com. pany, over 100 tons of ore will be crushed here per day. That will make some business.

 There is a rumOr current that certain parties are about to take hold of the Mineral Hill mines, which bid fair to equal the Mc= Crackin. Col. Shafer is at the Signal mill, apparently watching developments. R.
Year: 1877

A Mohave county cO-respon- dent asks us to "State if you can the probable sailing days of steamboats for up river ports: by so doing you will confer a favor on merchants and citizens up this way" To which we reply that every week, the last thing before going to press, we make diligent inquiry on this very topic. A week ago yesterday we made the usual inquiries and learned that the sailing day of the next boat was not decided upon but, though it would be determined by quan- titles of freight received, it would probably be in about ten days.

 We so published it and the next morning, 21st., couple of hours after the SENTINEL was distribut- ed, the steamboat company's pos ters were up in this town announc- ing the Gila to sail July 25th. We have no reason 10 think any of the employees here of the com- pany are unwilling to give us in- formation. Dates of sailing are fixed by the higher officials at San Francisco and teIegraphed to the agent here. It has twice hap. pened that these telegrams have arrived here just too late for the items to appear in the SENTINEL. It is not likely that any discrimi- nation is made against this jour- nal, even though it is in every
Year: 1877

A CLOUD BURST occurred July 20th on the line of the Southern Pacific near the San Fernando tunnel. During the storm the fireman and wiper of engine No. 37 were struck by lightning and thrown under q turntable a few feet distant. Neither of them was killed.
Year: 1877




BE INpusrRIous.-Be Industrious, no
matter in what sphere you move. or wha,
your calling. 1t doos not require argu.
ment to prove it's utility. There 10 as
much difference between industry and
ideness as there is between light and
darkness, or between honey and vinegar.
Industry leads on to labor and labor TO
wealth whereas idleness glides into lazi'
ness. and it creates want and, misery.
The sluggard lies abed in the morning,
whilst his industrious neighbor is up BY
times plying his hands and thoughts on
something useful and ornamental, and is
constantly on the lookout for some lu
cratve or honorable object He soon at
tracts the attention OF respectable per
sons, and should there be anything to bt
done, every one knows the individual
who could or would do it, and the lazy
man who cannot be trusted.
Year: 1877

When will the world understand
that theology is not Christianity p
One is human, the other divine
When will the world understand that
nothing is truer than truth and that
truth is no more sacred when it comes
to us through verbal revelation than
when establithed upon unimpeachable
evidence? Again and again, in the
history of the world, have theological
dogmas gone down before tuth Of
science. That which men have
believed through their Interpretation
of revealed truth, he's not been able to
stand moment before the scientific
demonstration OF its talsity. Theolo-
gians have fought against, and they
have ivariably been driven to the
wall. Truth, wherever found, is sacred,
because it is truth, and had its birth
in God. Mans opinions of truth are
never sacred. because they have their
birth in his imperfect and fallible
reason. We know of no reason WY
q theological dogma is any more
sacred than y political dogma. We
cannot understand why, in the interest
of Christianity, it may not be as freely
discussed and examined and contro-
verted, as dogma in political econo-
my AT any rate, we propose to do it
whenever we have OCCASION We are
happy to believe that the world is
beginning to apprehend that, after all
our disputes and discussions upon
dogmatic Christianity, religion con-
sists Of love to God, love to man, and
has lis final result and grand cosum.
nation in character DIR, J. G. Hol-
land Scribner for February.
Year: 1877

Mr. Moody, at one Of his me etings, reac
the following piece of poetry, which he said
had affected him deeply, Though he was not
much of n hand for poetry -
| sat alone with my conscience,


In place where time had ceased,
And we talked OF my former living


In the land whore the years increased.
And felt should have to answer


The question ii put to me,
And to face the answer and question


Throughout an eternity.
The ghosts Of forgotten actions


Came floating before my sigh',
And things that thought were dead things
We're alive with a terrible might,
And the vision of all my past life


Was an awful thing to face
Alone with my conscience sitting


In that solemny silent place.
And thought Of faraway warnin 6,


OF sorrow that was to be mine,
In land that then was the future.


But now is the present time.
And thought Of my former thinking


Of the judgment day to be,
But sitting alone with my conscience


Seemed judgment enough for me.
And l wondered if there was future
To this land beyond the grave;
But no one gave me an answer


And no one came 10 save
Then felt that the future was present,
And the present would never 60 by,
For it was but the thought Of my past life
Grown into eternity.
Then woke from my timely dreaming
And the vision passed away,
And knew the far-away warning


Was y warning Of yesterday
And pray that | may not forget it.


IN this land before the grave,
That may not cry in the future


And no one como to save.
And SO have learnt lesson


Which ought to have known before,
And which. though learnt it dreaming,
hope to forget no more.
So sit alone with my conscience


In the place where the years increase,
And try to remember the future


In the land where time will cease,
Aud know Of the future judgment,


How dreadful SOC er it be,
That to sit alono with my conscience
Will be judgment enough for me.
Year: 1877

The only ground upon which citi'
zens who have no children can justly
be compelled to pay taxes for the ed
ucatlon of the children of others is,
that it is necessary tor the safety OF
the whole people, under our form Of
government. Our institutions, by


their very theory, carry with them


the assumption ola certain grade of
intelligence among the citizens. 1t
seems, therefore, to be the duty of
State to see to it that each and every
citizen, so far as practicable, shall be
educated to such degree as will en-
able him to read and understand the
laws, the Constitution, and the ballot
that he votes on election day: The
schools in which education is given to
this extent always carry their line OF
instruction far enough to embrace all
the branches usually taught in our
common schools. 1t seems to me to
be n clear violation of personal rights
for the State to go beyond this and
levy taxes to support fee academies,
high schools and colleges, in which
tie higher branches of literature and
science are taught, and young men
prepared for the learned professions.
This should be left to individual effort
from which better results always come
than from any amount Of donations
from the State.


| would also suggest an inquiry as
to whether the Normal schools are re-
ally worth to the system what they
cost. | am informed that a very large
proportion OF the pupils instructed in
them never follow the profession Of
teaching for any length OF time.
Year: 1877

PLAIN Talk TO GiRIs.-YOur every
day toilet is a part Of your character. A
girl who looks like furry or SLOW
en- in the morning, is not TO be trusted,
however finely she may look 10 the eve
ming. No matter how humble your
room may be, there are eight things it
should contain, viz mirror, wash
stand, soap, towel, comb, hair, nail and
tooth brushes. Those are just as essen
tial as your breakfast, before which you
should make good and free use OF them.
Parents who fail TO provide their chill
dren with such appliances, not only
make great mistake, but commit sin
of omission. Look tidy in the morning,
and after the dinner work 10 over, i'm
prove yodr toilet.


Make it rule Of your daily life to
'dress up" in the afternoon. Your dress
may, or need not be, anything better
:ban calico, bot with ribbon, or flower,
or some Bit of ornament, you Can have
an air of self respect and satisfaction,
that invariably comes with being well
dressed.
Year: 1877

at certain town meeting In IenI-
sylvania, the question came in whether
any persons should be licensed to sell
rum. The clergyman, the deacon, the
physician, strange as itmay now appear,
all favored it. One mau only spoke
against it, because OF the mischief 1t did.
The question was about 10 be put,
when there arose from one corner OF
the room a miserable woman. She
was thinly clad, and her appearance In
dicated the uttermost wretchedness, and
that her mortal career was almost clos
ed. After a moments silence, and all
eyes being fixed upon her, she stretched
her attenuated body to its utmost height,
aud then her long arms to their greatest
length, and raising her voice TO a shrill
pitch, she called to all to look upon her.


"Yesl'' she said, "look upon me, and
then hear me. All that the last speaker
has said relative to temperate drinking,
as being the father of drunkenness, is
truth. All drinking of falcoholic poison,
as beverage in health, is excess! Look
upon me! You all know [ was once the
mistress of the best farm in town; you
all know, too, l had one of the best
the most devoted Of husbands. You
all know lad fine, noble-hearted, i'll
dustrious boys! Where are they now7
Doctor, where are they now? You all
know. You all know they lie in a row,
side by side, in yonder ohurch-yard; all
everyone of them filled drunkards
grave! They were all taught to believe
that temperate drinking was safe-that
excess alone ought to be avoided; and
they never acknowledged excess. They
quoted you, and you, and you, pointing
with her shred of a finger toward the
minister, deacon and doctor, as author
ty. They thought themselves safe un-
der such teachers. But | saw the
gradual change coming over my family
and its prospects with dismay and hor-
ror. | felt we were all to be over
whelmed in one common ruin. | tried
to ward off the blow, tried to break
the spell, the delusive spell, in which
the idea of the benefit OF temperate
drinking had involved my husband and
sons. l begged, l prayed; but the odds
were against me.


"The minister said the poison that
was destroying my husband and boys
was good creature of God; the deacon
who sits under the pulpit there, and
took our farm to pay his rum bills, sold
them the poison; the doctor said little
was good, and excess only ought to be
avoided. My poor husband, and my
dear boys fell into the snare, and they
could not escape and one after another
were conveyed to the sorrowful grave
of the drunkard Now look at Inc
again. You probably see me for the
last time My sands have almost run.
l have dragged my exhausted frame
from my present home-your poor
house-to warn you, deacon! TO warn
you, false teacher of Gods word!" And
with her arms flung high, and her voice
raised to an unearthly pitch, she ex-
claimed, 81 shall soon stand before the
judgement seat of God. shall meet
you there, you false guides, and be a
witness against you all


The miserable woman vanished. A
dead silence pervaded the assembly; the
minister, the deacon and ply ysician hung
their heads +; aud when the president OF
the meeting put the question, "Shall
any license be granted for the sale of
spurious liquors :" the unanimous an
swer was "NoT
Year: 1877

Listen to the water mill


All the livelong day
How the clicking of the wheel
Wears the hours away.
Languidly the autumn wind
Stirs the greenwood leaves;
From the field the reapers sing,
Binding up the sheayes;
And memory o'er my mind
As a spell is cast;
The mill will never grind


With the water that is past.
Summer winds revive no more
Leaves strewn over earth and main,
And the sickle ne'er can reap
The gathered grain again;
And the ripping stream flows on,
Tranquil, deep and still
Never gliding back again


TO the water mill.
Truly speaks the proverb old,


With a meaning vast:
"The mill will never grind


With the water that is past"
Take the lesson to yourself,


Loving heart and true;
Golden years are feeting by;


Youth is passing, too.
Strive to make the most of life,
Lose no happy day;
Time will never bring you back
Chances swept away.
Leave no tender word unsaid,


Love while love shall last
"The mill will never grind


With the water that is past"
Work while yet the daylight shines,
Man of thought and will;
Never does the streamlet glide


Useless by the mill;
Wait not till to-morrOw's sun


Beams upon your way,
All that you can call your own


Lies in THIs-to-day.
Power, intellect and health


May not always last
The mill will never grind


With the water that is past.
Year: 1877

Even if We are not smart we know
what to DO when troubled with cough
or cold. No doctor bills for us. We
take a. rs cent note, go to the nearest drug
sore and buy a bottle of DR.. Bulls
Cough Syrup. One dose relieves US and
one bottle cures as entirely.
Year: 1877

A singular blunder was made in the adj
dress to General Grant ut Folkestone on his
leaving England yesterday. Some English
toady conceived the brilliant idea that it
would please the General to express the wish
and opinion that he would be called to q
third term Of the Presidency. General Grant,
with excellent taste ignored this part of the
address. He thought, correctly, that for
eigners have no business with our politics,
and that it was beneath him to notice what
was mere piece of impertinence.


The ex-President goes next to Switzerland
for short stay and thence to the north Of
Europe. His stay in England, with this
single trivial exception at Folkestone, has
been made pleasant by honors which are
extremely gratifying to all his countrymen.
He will no doubt receive the most distin-
guished attentions wherever he goes in
Europe, and we sincerely wish him good
health and safe and pleasant journey We
wish however, that our Ministers and other
representatives in the countries he may
visit would let it be known that neither in
public nor private ought the third term to
be mentioned before him. He never will
ingly entered political life, and the happiest
day in his life was when he was relieved Of
its burdens He is entitled to rest, and it
is offensive in foreigners to suppose or hint
that he is am bilious Of further public cares.
Year: 1877

Suppose the De Broglie Ministry should
omit the formality Of calling elections for
new Assembly in France, should fail to per-
form that simple constitutional duty,
where is the remedy? Under the law the
new elections must be had within three
months Of the dissolution 1t has been
published that the elections will be on
October 15 If the government may defer
all election fifteen days it may, by On equal
authority, defer it indefinitely. 1t has also
been announced that the government will
keep the day secret--will carry the cleo
tions we suppose this means, by ''snap
Judgment" This will be a sort of tamper-
ing with the law no more honest than an
open defiance and violation of it. At the
present moment the President, with the
army behind him. is in that absolute per-
sonal possession Of the government that
distinguishes tyfannical from legal author
ity. He has chosen advisers who defy that
clause of the constitution which declares
that the Ministers are responsible before
the Chamber for the political conduct Of the
government. They spurn that response
bility They might as well spurn the re-
quirement of any other clause of the con-
stitution. With the consent and conni-
vance of the Senate he has. got rid of the
Chamber without resort to violence-by con-
stitutional methods. This is more skilful
than the plan Of Louis Napoleon. To re-
tain his freedom of actionto stand safe on
the ground taken that he knows what France
wants better than France-he has not got
to perform any violent or illegal act. He
must only refrain from initiating the cleo
tions--refrain from publishing proclama-
ton. He can justify his course by reasons
quite as good as those given for the change
of Ministry. And if he should not initiate the
elections-s should retain in himself the au-
thority he has seized-there is no legal
remedy.
Year: 1877

An incident which occurred at one of the
cities on the bulgarian side of the Danube
upon the retreat Of the Ottoman soldiers
may doubtless be taken as an indication OF
what will happen as the Russian lines are
extended in that country. Sure OF support
and sympathy with the Russians near, and
encouraged by the flight of the Moslem
troops, the Bulgarians of the place rose
against their neighbors, and every Turks
house was sacked and wrecked, and the
families were probably not handled with
delicate courtesy. Explosions of the pent-
up wrath smothered for generations will be
the rule in this way in every city and vii
lage. At last the downtrodden see a safe
occasion to return the treatment of oppres-
sion and wrong OF which they have been
habitually the victims for years, and
the cruelty that has been nurtured
in them will come home to those who have
done so much to nurture it. II as the Rus
slams advance enough Turks remain in the
Bulgarian villages the account will be settled
life for life against the massacres that horri-
fed all Europe year ago. All that they
can do to prevent this the Russians will
probably do; but they cannot be every
where
Year: 1877

flag wouid be the symbol and assurance OF
peace and order where lawlessness and vio-
lence have heretofore prevailed. That is the
plain truth of the matter, which might as
well be told.


All this would not lessen the regret with
which an overwhelming majority of Ameri-
cans would witness these results. We have
ceased to be missionaries of liberty, and the
general and we think correct opinion
is that, for the present at least, we
need no new territory. But in this
matter, unless We are uncommonly
fortunate, it may be that we shall
have no choice it may be that the silly
obstinacy and half Spanish pride of the
Mexicans will force upon us land which we
do not need and which we should very
gladly do without. If we are to fall heirs
to Naboth's vineyard it is at least consola-
ton that we do not as nation covet it.