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Year: 1878

since the connections have been made in the works the ventilation is perfect. A miner was seriously injured a few days since by the ex- plosion of a blast. He had gone down to examine and find out why 1t did not explode. as soon as he thought it ought to-doubtless the experiment will be a lesson for the future. He is doing well and will probably recover.

 Many men are employed on the outside claims. Tule Creek, the Eldorado, Hector and Bronson & Co.'S, claim are each sending in quan- titles of ore, running from slO0 10 5000 per ton. Work is steadily progressing on the Foy, and the camp is lively and prosperous. Busi- ness is better than since the start. Scarcely an idle man can be seen, and there is no need for any one to be out of employment. A few days ago a man wishing the services of a carpenter, was obliged to look sev- eral days before he was able to find one.

 Nearly ever claim has paid ex- penses from the surface, and many of them have laid up a handsome surplus for the owners. As poor mans camp this cannot be equaled in the Territory, and it cannot be excelled no where else.

 We are receiving some of the products of our valley but could dispose of much more. In fact, we depend upon Salt River for our bread stufs, fruit and vegetables and horse feed, and can furnish steady market for your surplus at good prices.

 Politics trouble our people but very little as all are busily engaged in developing the mineral resources of the country which they consider more profitable. Our great want is suitable mail facilities and VIC hope that Delegate will be elected who will devote some of his time to the interests of his constituents. We trust that you will continually re- mind the candidates of the duties which will be expected of them.

 WILKES.
Year: 1878

Now that the Mineral

 Resources of Arizona are being rapidly developed, agricultural products will be in great demand and the Farmer will quickly find

 himself King, and while enjoying home comforts will reap largely of the golden harvest of the hardy miner. Prospectors who are searching the noun tains for hidden treasures it may be poor as Jobs turkey-will in a moment find themselves Bonanza Kings and be able to revel in luxury the rest of their days; but all men cannot become owners of rich minesl All men cannot become wealthy farmers To the great mass of man. kind the price of pork and beans will still be an object.
Year: 1878

We are still suffering from the dry hot weather, but the work cn the mine is being prosecuted with increased vigor. Nearly every day new men are beiug put on, and steady experienced miners have no difficulty in getting employment. The ledge is still improving, sn1
Year: 1878

- We are informed by Commission
er Shook, that as there is now pend
ing in the Supreme Court a decision
On the constitutionality of several
points of the Township Organiza-
tion" law, the commissioners will
await the said decision before pro-
ceeding under the law in this county.
This being the case the commissioners
are justified. They do not want to
take expensive steps which may have
to be retraced.
Year: 1878

- The audacious Omaha Bee last
week said this:


The Nebraska State Grange, or
rather the skeleton af what was once
known by thatn is going through
the farce of holding an annual session
at Lincoln. The skeleton of this once
powerful body in session at the State
capital is made up Of handful OF so
called grangers who are presided over
bythat prince Ofpolitical mountebanks
Church Howe.
Year: 1878

Virginia seems to be in an earlier
stage of the controversy, which is
now eliminating with us. Her last
election brought the State indebted
ness forward as the leading topic of
the canvass, and demonstrated the
fact that there existed in that State
the same conflict of opinion as with
us. The honorable sentiments of
Gov. Kemper are as applicable in
Tennessee as in Virginia, and are
commended to ourreadersa as sterling
gold. The following is an extract
from his annual message, sent to the
Virginia Legislature last Wednes-
day:


Soon after the beginning of my
official term, when the monetary
pressure upon the country was dis
tressing, and when the difficulty Of
meeting the deficiency i'm the treas
ury was greatest, the General AS
sembly, on my recommendation,
authorized conference with the
public creditors in order to a read
justment of the debt. In recon-
mending the conference, and in con-
ferring with that body, / proposed
that all the contracting parties to the
debt should agree to readjust it by
postponing so much of the accruing
interest as exceeded the then dispo-
sable means of theState, thus provid-
ing for the payment of such reduced
interest for the time being as would
correspond with our reduced reve-
nues, and for such greater interest
afterwards as would steadily increase
with our increasing population and
resources, $50 that the whole debt
and interest, as originally assumed
and agreed, should be paid in full
ultimately, and just as soon as the
best ability of the State would per-
nit" BY this arrangement IT was
designed to secure every possible re-
lief to the people, to place all classes
of the creditors on the same footing
by paying the same interest to all,
to establish relations of confidence
and good will between them and the
State, to restore the public credit,
and to put an end forever to the fl
nancial controversy which has al
ready subjected Virginia to losses far
greater in amount than the debt it's
elf. No countenance was given to
the idea that reduction of the debt,
or the excision of any part of it, was
possible to be enforced by the action
of the State without the free consent
and concurrence Of the creditors.
The conference was held on the 10th
dav of November, 1874, aud its
members represented great and
commanding proportion Of the pub
lie debt. After deliberation that
body agreed by unanimous vote to
the exact substance of the plan / had
proposed-that is to say 1t consented
Year: 1878

the triune God. That / may wit
ness in this new country ever in
creasing prosperity through the
coming ages is my earnest hope.
Remembering how / have lain de-
graded and been lifted up, may !
not also hope that men, in looking
upon me, may think of my poor
country, and in time stretch out
their strong arms to raise her from
the depths of ignorance and super
stition into which she has fallen!
Year: 1878

Washington, Jan. Ex-senator Conk-
ling's failure hitherto to define pub
licly or privately his position on the
Bland bill is contrasted with Lamar's
outspoken boldness. 1t is not thought
possible, however, that he will defy the
overwhelming sentiment of both par
ties in his state, yet there are some who
are uneasy about his vote on Bland's
scheme. The vote on Matthews reso-
luton establishes nothing certain as to
the strength of Bland's bill. 1t does
show that some measure providing for
restricted reconciliation in some form
will pass, and to that few object.
Blaine's position against Bland's
scheme is no longer doubtful, since
yesterdays declaration. He expresses
himself privately in favor of a gold
standard, but believes silver must be
monetized to some form. He does not
believe, however, that the United
States can be made the silver tail to
wag the dog of the entire worlds
exchange.
Year: 1878

IT IS believed in London that Earl
Derby's resignation, which was ten
dered in consequence of orders to the
British fleet to proceed to the Darda-
nelles, has since been withdrawn. It
is also thought the government will not
deem it necessary to ask for the supple
mentary estimate, and that a state
ment to that effect on Monday will ac-
company the announcement of the con-
clusion of the armistice. If the vote
is still urged in the face of Turkeys
acceptance of Russia's conditions, it
will be opposed by the Liberals by all
the means in their power.
Year: 1878

THE times are continually getting
harder in Great Britain and Germany,
and in both those countries the trouble
is attributed to the existing system of
free trade in vogue there. On the 9TH
er hand, the free traders in this coun-
try attribute the existing depression in
manufactures and commerce to our
protective tariff. When in time of sick
ness, doctors disagree, who shall decide
what really ails the patient? Good
nursing in such case might be more
effective than physic.
Year: 1878

PUCK: And in these days the bank
president and the man that rehypothe-
cateth, and he that defaulteth after the
manner of our fathers, and he that
maketh his deficit with the modern
improvements, and all men like unto
these, shall be scattered far and wide
throughout the world. And it shall
come to pass that no man shall lend his
umbrella unto his bosom friend, lest
that he rehypothecate it, and on the
proceeds thereof flee from the sight of
man. For, verify, this thing is getting
down to a fine point.
Year: 1878

IT Is reported of a clergyman in
Davenport, Iowa, who has inaugurated
the practice of preaching five minute
sermon every Sunday morning to the
children of the Sabbath school, that
these sermons are so immensely popular
with the little folks that their fathers
and mothers now insist upon a similar
service for them. They probably want
it at about the usual hour for regular
preaching.
Year: 1878

CONGRESS, it is to be hoped, will soon
take up the Mormon question and adopt
measures which will put an end to that
iniquity and blot upon our civilization.
With proper election and jury laws,
such as are provided for in bills now
pending, the twin relic would soon dis
appear. Mormon influences have been
too long omnipotent at Washington.
Year: 1878

GOLD closed in New York yesterday
at 1O14. This decline is due in mea-
sure to the efforts of the executive COM
mittee of the Clearing House to make
gold and greenbacks practically inter-
convertible, and thereby assist in de-
feating the Bland silver bill.
Year: 1878

SOMETIME ago the Russian Baltic
deet was ordered to the Mediterranean.
It would be interesting to know at this
critical period Of the war just how near
that fleet is to the entrance of the Dar-
danalleS
Year: 1878

RAISING THE GRossER KURFURsT.-[Lon-
don correspondence Of the Liverpool
Post IA Scotch inventor has made propo-
sails to the German Government for raising
the sunken German iron-clad from the bed
OF the Channel. a contract is not yet con-
cuded, but an arrangement has been made
for testing the efficacy OF the lifting appa-
ratus, and the inventor has just left London
to begin operations in the Channel. The
Grosser Kurfurst lies almost bottom-up-
wards, with tunnels embedded in the sand,
and il the inventor can, as q hrst expert
ment, turn the heavy ship over, the divers
may then enter and work inside, SO as to
attach cables to the guns and bring them
up. These feats being accomplished, con-
tract for raising the ship and towing her
into dock will be made. Instead OF spend
ing many thousands of pounds in possible
failure to raise the ship, it is intended first
to turn her over in order to test the efficacy
of the lifting apparatus. The inventor is
submarine engineer Of large experience,
and is confident of success. His plan is to
attach large number Of small alr-bags
around the ship to equaIize the strain, and
each bug will left ten tons.
Year: 1878

Treasure Found.-Some OF the children
who attended the picnic OF the Meade Me
mortal Sabbath school at Fue le Grand
Wednesday found buried in portion OF the
grounds silver and copper coin of the value
OF about four dollars. Thinking they had
struck a big bonanza, the boys continued 10
work for some time, but without further
SnocaSS
Year: 1878

s5 THE WALKS IN THE CAPITOL SQUARE
Won't Governor Holiday, Major Boykin,


or somebody, have the walks in the Capitol
Square put in decent order? They are in
shocking condition and ruination to feet
and shoes. How the dear ladies manage
to walk through the Square over the rough
stones is more than we can we'll UNDER
stand
Year: 1878

There IS nothing new to be said as yet about round hats, says fashion journal, as the novel designs will appear later, just before ladies go into the country for the summer. For city streets the chip round hats have square brims in front, turned up close, and high on the sides like English walking hats, while the back is without any brim, but is trimmed with loops or with a dropping breadth of gauge. The side brims are not faced with satin or velvet as they formerly were, but are left to show the fine chip. For black hats, black or else beige-col- ored gauge is much used. It is put on in full, luxurious-looking scarfs, and there is an ostrich tip or 6 wing, and an ornament of gilt or beads. Flowers are not used on such hats. For the country are wide-brimmed shade hats, and the pretty Peg Wellington, with split brim faring upward on the left side, and trimmed with full wreaths of roses or else of leaves. Pale blue and dark red are associated in these gay hats, also beige and red. The useful toque, with the brlm turned down in front and up behind, is made much larger than for merly, and is suitable for both town and country.
Year: 1878

An incident occurred, says Washing ton telegram to the Philadelphia North American, in the Interior Department which deserves to be made known. Owing to the lack of appropriations the Secretary was compelled to order num- Der of discharges in the model room of the Patent Office. One of the victims was an old man. On receiving his ticket of leave he went to the chief of the bureau, overcome with grief, and said he did not know what would become of him, as he had wife and five children to support. Within hearing distance was young man without any lncumbrance except Q great deal of Congressional influence. He stepped forward promptly and said |: "I am young man without any re- responsibilities. I cannot see an old gen. tleman like you turned out on the cold charity of the world penniless. You stay, and will go." And turning to the chief said, there is no objection to his talk ing my place, suppose. He was told there twas none, and placing hls apron around the old man s shoulder he retired and left him in possession.
Year: 1878

In the United States House, MT. But Ter of Mass, sent to the Clerks desk and had read copy of Gen. Shields's peti- tion for an increase of pension, in which he states that he was formerly Briga- dier General in the United State army, and served as such in the Mexican war ]; that at the battle of Cerro Gordo, on the 18th of April, 1847, while leading his brigade against the reserve of the Mexi- can army, under the immediate control of Santa Anna in person, he was shot down in front of Mexican battery of five guns by a large grape shot, sup posed to be copper, which passed through his body; that from that wound he re- covered sufficiently to enter the Valley of Mexico at the head of his M1gade with the rest of the army, and to lead his brigade at the battles of Contreras and Cherubuscos that he was again wound ed at the storming of Cheputepec, but that he continued to press forward into the city of Mexico, neglecting his wound, so that his arm had begun to mortify, and that he came near losing his life 1; that he was afterwards allowed pen sion of $30 month, and that he again took part in tke last war, when he re- cerved another wound in the battle of Winchester from fragment of shell having shattered his arm and elbow !; that he is now sixty-seven years of age j; that ne has applied to the Bureau for an increase of pension, but has been re- fused because he was not totally help less; that he is not totally helpless al- though unable to earn his livelihood by labor; that on the contrary he does everything he can to help himself, and hopes to do so as long as he lives but that as his years are growing upon him he appeals hopefully and respectfully to the iberality of the American Congress for such an increase of pension as will save him from want III his old age. The House almost unanimously voted to place Gen. Shie1ds's name on the list of retired brigadier generals.
Year: 1878

The Ventura (Cal.) Free Press says : We have been shown new grain, dis covered about four years ago by farm or in Surprise Valley, in the northern part of this State, taken from the crop of a wild goose which has been shot by the farmer. He sowed the seed immediately after it was taken from the garner of the birds crop, and it produced more than a hundred fold. Mir. Merithew, farmer of Butte county, being on visit to Sur prise Valley, obtained some few sseds of the new grain, and succeeded in propa- eating it with wonderful success on his farm in Butte county. The straw and beardless head resemble wheat V the grain looks little like rye, but is twice as large as rye. When cut, as it is pass ing into the milk, it makes hay even superior to wheat hay. MT. aMerithew has on hand several tons of hay from this new variety of grain and perhaps five bushels of it's seed. It appears to us every way superior to rysi
Year: 1878

Californians are proverbially extrava- gant, whether male or female. They seem to care little or nothing for money other than supplying their immediate needs. This extravaganza is one of the evils of the early bush times. A man of bibulant propensities who has only four bits in his pocket and does not know, and does not care, where the next half dollar is coming from, will invite party up to bar and spend it all for one round of drinks. Women never think of ask Ing the tradesman to take off anything in the price of the article they arc pur- chasing, but pay just what he asks for the article. Thousands and thousands of dollars are squandered by the extrav- agant habits of the people. They pay whatever is asked and spend as they go, without regard for the morrow. What ever they want they buy, regardless of the cost, and not stopping to ask whether they can afford it or not In living and dressing these extravagant habits are manifest. If the fashionables of Mob Hill wear S5OO dresses on the street the woman in the humber walks of social life, feels herself as amply able to put the months earnings of her husband on her back, and she does not begrudge it either. And so with the men. The best of everything, and everything they want, they must have and will have if it takes tha last niece of coin There are thon

 sands of dollars which Californians are swindled out of in the making of change. The difficulty in making the exact change, owing to the kind of currency in use, produces one of the grossest impositions. You cannot buy an article but what you are bound to1be swindled. Californians, however. never complain or think anything about 1t, and the rich and hhA raaor ara alikA in tiis rAsnaat.
Year: 1878

There are certain times in each mans life when everything goes wrong. By @ kind of total depravity, which extends to things material, whatever happens seems to become a new wild animal in the menagerie, and ones life, for the time being, is fearful snarl. A friend of ours calls these seasons, not inappro- priately, "devil days" For instance, you hunt all over the room for pencil, which you are sure you have seen within five minutes, and, having lost both patience and temper, find it at last be- hind your ear. You are in hurry and want penknife. You always keep it Tn one place, because you know that some time you will get befogged, just as you are now; but when you put your hand out to take it it is not there. Then you fret and scold and VOW that somebody has surrcptitiously entered the room and purloined it. After you have fumed yourself into fever you look again, and there it is, lying in Its accustomed place, just as serencly as child in its cradle. You were looking straight at it and didn't see 1t. Then the whole house. hold, which you have set to hunting it up, and each individual member of which you have accused of having it in his pocket, rushes in and asks you where you found it, and makes you feel like an idiot when vo17 confesk that if was just where they told you il was. These are the things which make eae wish he had nayAr heen horn,
Year: 1878

The Chicago ZTnees says A genuine case of hydrophobia resulted fatally in this city. The victim was William P. Healey, Q seven-year-old son of John Healey. On the 18th of last December the boy was returning from school, when he came in contact with pointer dog which he rather playfully showed against the fence. The dog jumped at the youth and made what was considered at the time O very slight wound in the left arm, just above the wrist-so slight that the boy did not mention the occurrence until late at night. On last Sunday eve- ming he complained to his mother of a pain in his neck, and in the left side of his head, over the ear. The pain in- creased during the night, and on Mon- day, when he was offered drink of water and swallowed it, the pupils of the eyes dilated, and strange and painful sound was heard in his throat. Dr. Steele of- fered the boy teaspoonful of water, and as it neared his mouth the child shrank from it when the spoon was placed in his mouth he seized it in his teeth. A painful struggle ensued, in which he threw it from his mouth, and sank back on his pillow, where he lay breathing heavily and expectorating un- naturally, and withYgreat frequency. An .oplate was given, but the relief was momentary, when aspasm followed which seemed to give the boy the strength of a young giant. The physician suggested additional aid, and Dr. Dyas was called in for consultation. He at once diag- nosed the case, and agreed, with Dr. Steele in the diagnosis he had made. He recommended the continuance of the same treatment, which was bromide of potassium and hydrate of f-chloral. This only avetemporary relief. The spasms returned with greater rapidity, and each one was of more furious and frightful character than the one preceding. He continued to grow worse, and at last the very mention of water threw him into Econtortions of pain which were of the most intense kind. He would jump from one side of the bed to the other with the rapidity of reindeer, and his strength became marvellous. The physicians re tired on Tuesday night about clever o'clock, and at one o'clock they were summoned again. But before they or rived, the boy had passed away. Tht father related that an hour previous tc his death he was completely uncontrolla ble. The head turned constantly ant rapidly, as if it had been on pivot; thu sound, resembling that of croup, kep

 on, and the respiration was so powerful that the body almost raised itself iron the bed. During all this time the bo, was conscious, answering questions whicl were asked, and occasionally asking fo a drink. At half past two in the morn ing he made a sudden plunge toward tn

 wall, tearing himself loose from tn grasp of his nurse, and died.