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Year: 1879

well as the general policy of his party,
have bad no effect in bringing about that
much-talked-of era of good feeling, for
the simple reason that the Southern
people, uniformly and 2ersistently,
have refused to be paGiiied, pleased or
conciliated. They are solely responsible
for whatever ill-feeling exists between
the two regions.


We could have had peace If we had
consented to pay for it, the price which
they demanded, which was that we
should surrender the best fruits of that
victory to gain which we shed rivers OF
valiant blood and expended nearly
three thousand millions of money. The
Republican antagonism of the South is
nothing more than refusal to pay such
price. We have given the South
much, but we cannot give her every
thing. While the people forbid free
stjgech and free ballot, while they ex-
clude the entire negro population from
exercise Of its rights, while they use
shot-guns to send to Congress to make
laws for us rebels who represent a mi
nority of the voters, while they hold the
entire political field 10y violonee for a
single party, there will never be a ces-
sation of agitation in this region. The
bloody shirt will be waved persistently
because it is red with the blood of in2o-
cent American citizens; the outrage
business will be thrust into every can
vass because the South is kept solid for
the Democratic party by means of out
rage. The Republicans of the North
cannot be warmed with Indignation
over an imaginary condition of things.
They are not fools to be deluded by lies
or to be incensed by cheat. They
know that these things are true and
real. They do not hate the Southern
people, but they do hate their methods
and -PhilGdeLptia Bulletin.
Year: 1879

before usleaves no alternative but TO appeal
to the charity of the Nation for substa hial
aid. The generous people throughout the
Union will not fail to respond to this cali for
help. We feel that we are performing sa-
cred duty to the impoverished and distressed
people among whom our lot is cast The
bounty Of common people was showered
upon us in 1878, and to those same willing
givers we appeal. II help is not speedily fur
nished we will be obliged TO abandon the
work in which we have been engaged and
leaving hundreds TO suffer and die for want Of
Howard's helping hand" There were ten
deaths and twenty-seven new cases reported


Jay Gould sent the Howard Association at
Memphis a check for 5000 on the 5th, and
instructed them to keep on at their noble
work until he told them to stop, and he would
foot the bill.


The New Orleans authorities on the 5th
claimed that only twenty-five cases of yellow
fever and nine deaths from the same cause
have occurred there this year.


There were nineteen new cases and thirteen
deaths at Memphis on the 5th.


Three cases of fever were reported at New
Orleans on the 9th.


The Odd Fellows of Memphis have appealed
to the brotherhood throughout the United
States for aid All of their available funds
have been expended in sending many of their
brethren and families to places of safety, in
nursing and providing for the sick and bury
ing the dead. There were seventeen deaths
and twenty-eight new cases on the 9th and
9TH.


There were eleven deaths and twenty-five
new cases at Memphis on the Sth.


The National Board of Health received in
formation from Morgan City, La, on the sth,
that there had been one death there from yell
low fever, and that the town was pervaded by
the stencil arising from the bodies of fish left
on shore by the food and of cattle drowned
during the recent flood.
Year: 1879

1t is evident that the earth is fem
mime from the persistency with which
she refuses to tell her Cincinnati
Saturday Night. And from the fact
that the man in the moon is always
hanging around. - OttGsOa Republican.
Year: 1879

THE SOUTH CAROLINA SOLDIERS Not CON-
ING.-Letters have been received from
Charleston by the military OF the city that
the Carolina Rifle Battalion will not be able
to pay the expected visit to Richmond
which has heretofore been announced in the
Dispatch. This news is a great disappoint-
mept to the Walker Light Guard, whose
guests the Carolinians were to be. It is to
be hoped they will yet hayethe opportunity
of Gaming.
Year: 1879

SERIOUSLY INJURED By FALL.-Murry
Dill, son OF Mr.. a. Dill, living at No. l
east Clay street, fell from the roof OF an out
house at his fathers residence yesterday
evening and was very seriously injured.
Year: 1879

Arizona enjoys peace with the In dians. Now and then an Indian or two or three of them do wrong. and our jails and penitentiary are pretty well filled with citizen criminals, and few are serving out sentences for murder or under sentence of death therefor; yet no one seems to hare been vicious enough to publish and telegraph abroad that citizens of this Territory are on the warpath or are engaged in plundering to any unusual or alarming extent The fact is, Ari- zona is to-day as free from crime by all sorts Of people-including IndiaLs -as any Territory in the Union. The people here know this to be true and act accordingly. They go and come at will-singly or in parties of two or more, as their convenience is best served. In the face of these we'll known facts, contrary reports are put in circulation and they find a place in nearly every paper East and West. Here is part of an item that Is now going the rounds of the Eastern press ;

 4 band of Indians, supposed tO be renegadeS from the san Carlos Reser vation, have been marauding for three miles around Tucson.

 False as every one hereabouts knows this report to be, ii is doing some dam age. Several letters have been re- ceived here of late asking if life is or is not secure from Indian attacks. Pima County is about 200 miles in length from east 10 west and from 125 10 l50 in width, and there has not been an Indian depreciation upon life or property in it since early in 1876.
Year: 1879

TIE CITIZEN is informed that Mir. Geo Hogg and Prof Kearsing have just arrived in Tucson with some bull lion and the news that they have put the Ostrich mill Tn successful run ming condition. They get ore from the Union mine half way between the mIll and Cerro Colorado, and about seven miles from the mill. Armstrong and Jenks are hauling ore to the mill and the mine is yielding plenty of it. Messrs. Hogg and Kearsing have been experimenting for sometime and have

 finally found the process by which the ore can be proftably worked in the Ostrich mill, and are now in town for supplies.

 We are informed tha; the supply of water is sufficient for milling and oth- CT purposes al the Ostrich mill. and wood we know is plentiful all round Our information is so positive, that we feel justified in putting the Ostrich mIll in the list of practical successes, and it will greatly stimulate mining in Arivaca and Gro Blanco Districts. May the Ostrich largely and perma- nently succeed, is the hope and wish of THE CITIZEN.
Year: 1879

4 ride of about eight miles from Harshaw to the southward, over rather rough wagon road, brings the traveller to what is known as the Washington Camp, also in Patagonia District. The Trench and Mowry mines are passed on the way and the Belmont lies about a mile and a half beyond. The old Mowry works are mass of ruins, excepting the tall brick furnace chimney, which still defies the wasting elements and stands with lofty dignity as a huge dumb monument of former greatness and prosperity. We did not visit the Belmont mine, but understood that the buildings there were of a very substantial character and with few repairs would be again habitable

 The first locations in the immediate vicinity of Washington Camp were made about eighteen months ago, and new locations are frequent The lodges in this camp are very large, and SO far as opened up show ore bodies from thirty to 100 feet in width, without striking walls on either side. It is a question yet whether some of those hills are not immense deposits Of ore capped with lime rock. Wherever holes have been sunk along the claims good ore has been found. The lodges carry almost exclusively smelling ores, which it is believed will work from s3O to $1OO per ton.

 The Washington mine was pur- chased about year ago by Mir. Seven oaks for some San Francisco gentle men, and he has had a very small amount of work done during the year. The ledge is about sixty feet wide and has shaft down fifty feet The pros poet is too good to be allowed 10 lay idle long. Had It not been for the murder of Messrs. Finley and Adams last year the operations under their su- pervision would doubtless have reached considerable proportions ere this. We understand that Mr Arms owns some good claims in this section.

 Messrs. Donovan, Allen and five others have thirteen claims within a mile of Washington camp, which show immense bodies of ore. On the Ohio they are down about fifty feet with a seventy-foot cross-cut all in ore. The Columbia. Cincinnati and Leander are also good claims, but the Ella and Grasshopper are doubtless their largest mines. The Ella has one open cut about seventy feet in length, showing ore all the way, and wherever they have sunk through the lime-cap they have found metal. The GrasShOpper is about the same in character, and no one yet knows how wide the lodges may be. There is abundance of wood all over those hills and sufficient water and we do not think that it will be long before capital will take hold of these great mountains of metal and melt them into a shining Tivultt of bullion Since the discovery of the HerInosa more attention will be given to the Patagonia country and without a doubt great prosperity awaits that section in the immediate future.
Year: 1879

THERE is no longer any doubt about there being many veins of silver, with some gold and copper in Maine Mir. Allis, of Tucson, has inst received a letter from a friend in the mines there giving details of developments, size and value of veins and interest taken in them. The letter reads just like one written by an intelligent miner in any of odr mining districts The New York and other Eastern journals are giving eredence to the reported extent and yalue of the Maine mines. The ores arc not very high grade, but if they prove to be as rich deep down ss on the surface they will give the world much bullion
Year: 1879

From a private letter published in the Expositor:

 Everything here is lively; the school recently established proving beyond a doubt that the young Indian children are susceptible of education if only properly dealt with. Long since they have mastered the alphabet, and nu- merals to 125, all are advanced in spell ing, and five have progressed so well that they can read a little Music is a great source of pleasure to them. The school is opened and closed daily with singing, already the children know some thirty airs, together with the words which they readily pick up from MT. Mallory or myself Either one of us accompany on the piano.

 The China pump recently erected here is a complete success, and now we are constructing a different kind of water power, as an experiments: should it succeed, the cost of construction upon larger scale will be but trifiing. while the benefit to be derived would be very advantageous to the Indians in irrigating their farms along the river bank at any season of the year
Year: 1879

This valuable publication for 1879, just is
sued by Hoyt Fogg & Donham, contains a
mass of accurate statistical, official political,
personal and business information of the ut
most value to any man who desires to keep
himself informed about men and things in
the state; nor is the matter merely valuable
and varied in extent; it possesses the far more
essential qualification of being exact in detail
and convenient in arrangement. 1t is busi-
ness directory, political handbook, statistical


and historical compend and state gazetteer.


Though the entire work of collection, COM
pilation, printing and binding in this book of
over six hundred pages, has been accomplished
in just eighty-three working days, there is no
indication that accuracy has been lost sight of.


Every active man requires the book at his ell
Year: 1879

To the Editor of the Press:


MY DEAR Mr.. McINTYRE:-Lasty year the
School Committee made a mistake in reckon
ing our vacation, ,and gave us a week too much,
which was bully, but we used it all up then.
Now they are going to take it out this year by
running week into July instead of closing
June 9th, which 1 don't think is fair. If the
committee can't reckon forty weeks without
losing one they ought to stand the loss them
selves and not cheek it out of us. Wouldn't
they chuck our average down, though, if we
should misssuch an easy sum as that?


Johnny.
Year: 1879

F. o. BAILEY & Co. will continue this fore
noon their sale of French and English china
and silver plated ware. Some of the choicest
goods were sold yesterday for about half what
they brought at private sale. 1t will be fine
opportunity to purchase this forenoon.
Year: 1879

In the course Of the day 1 had an op-
portunity of shooting condor it was
so satiated with its repast on the carcass
of dead horse, as to suffer me to ap-
proach within pistol shot before it ex-
tended its wings to take flight, which to
me was the signal to fire ; and having
loaded with an ample charge Of pellets,
my aim proved effectual and fatal.
What . formidable monster did be-
hold In the rayine beneath me, scream
ing and tapping in the last convulsive
struggle of life! 1t may be difficult to
believe that the most gigantic animal
that inhabits the earth or ocean can be
equalled by q tenant of the air; and
those persons who have never seen a
larger bird than our mountain eagle,
will probably read with astonishment
of species of that same bird, in the
southern hemisphere, being so large and
strong as to seize an OK with It's talons,
and lift it into the air, whence it lets it
fall to the ground In order % kill and
prey upon the carcass. But this acton
ishment must In q great measure sub.
side when the dimensions of the bird are
taken into consideration, and which, in
credible as they may appear, now in
sert verbatim from a note taken down
with my own hand. "When the wings
were spread they measured sixteen
PAGES (forty feet) in extent, from point
to point, the feathers are eight PAGES
(twenty feet) in length; and the quill
part two palms (eight inches) in circum-
ference. 1t is said to have power sufii-
cient to carry off live rhinoceros."
Year: 1879

About 1890 a. m. Thursday morning,
fire was discovered in the gas works of
the Milford Gas Light Company. Before
the alarm could be sounded the building
was wrapped In flames, and in few
minutes nothing but cinders and bent
and twisted iron was left to mark the
SPOT. Immediately adjoining the gas
house is corded nearly thousand dollars
worth of pine wood that was saved from
destruction by the copious deluge OF
water poured upon it, with buckets,
from the creek. There is an insurance Of
So, 500 on the works divided between two
companies. Mr. Russell will commence
to bui d Immediately.
Year: 1879

After man had pleaded guilty ana
received the fine at police court, this
morning, to a charge Of drunkenness, Sal
lie Sinex, an abandoned woman of the
town, was put in the dock, ,and her sister,
a respectable looking girl, testified that
she came home last night and cursed,
acted disorderly and knocked the lamp
over willis in drunken mood, for all Of
which she was fined two dollars and
costs and held to keep the peace in the
sum of 500 bail, and remarked as she
was led back, ait seems to me that when
my sister and me are fighting my broth
er ought not to interfere"
Year: 1879

The volumes of the Weekly begin with
year. When no time is mentioned, IL
will be understood that the subscriber
wishes to commence with the Number
next after the receipt Of order. p,
Year: 1879

CITY FiNANcE.-The Finance oon'-
mittec of the City Council have inade
their estimates for the next fiscal year
and we are more firmly convinced than
ever that they will be enabled to ru"
the city on tax rate OF $l.l5, notw'th-
standing the repeated assertions oil the
R.publican and one o.her paper that
this could not be done. The tax rate
cannot be fixed until some time in June
after the assessments are all received oy
the Board of Revision, for 1t is only then
that the committee is enabled to know
how much assessable property there is
In the city. This yea it is probasie 'he
assessment will be enlarged by the ad-
dition of about four hundred new houses
rho-o 10 every prospect tpat tho CA
penses Of the city will be made as light
as possible and that the present Council
will become more popular with the pee
pie than any one that has preceded 1t ioI
q long time.
Year: 1879

THE POST OFFICE-How 1T HAS
BKEN MADE A TAX UPoN THE FEC
PLE.-The whole system OF the Govern
ment as established by the founders OF
the Republic is being rapidly changed
from its original economical arrange
ment and the equity of its burden no
longer rests where 1t vas intended. Fer
haps no department of the service shows
this more completely than the Post Office
Department.


Originally it was made to bear is own
expenses entirely. And this system was
adhered to until after the administra-
ton of James X. Polk, when the suosi-
dies were granted to keep up the mails
and help to sustain steamers ID foreign
ports.


Under the Old administrations the
Post Office Department was not permit
ted to send mail carriers to any part OF
the country unless the service was paid
by those interested ; and this law was
very readily complied with. 1t cost very
little in those Gays to transmit the mails
as the people on the routes wer'
always ready to entertain the mail car
rier and his horse without charge. III
system may be illustrated In the histor
of the GAZETTE. After it had been e
tablished some years there was do
mand for il in Lewes, and Mr.. Frede
ick Craig wrote to the Government und'
Washington's administration for perml
sion to put a mail carrier on the rcut
The reply was that he might put a ma
and horse at the service, and the goverl
ment would take charge Of it whenev
IL was satisfied that the business wou
pay all the expenses. Thereupon N
Craig hired man and horse, and wi
the old fashioned saddle bags under hi
he started for Lewes. For long til
the ride was something Of an ovation
the carrier In due time Mr.. Craig sal
fed the government that the service "
self-supporting and was relieved Of
charge by the government assuming
responsibility.


In tn Sc early Gays letter cost
recipient ten cents for postage a,
office; and il delivered by a carrier
received two cents, which was all
pay he got. There was an equity in
mail system that was honest and jus
all alike. 1t is not honest or equt;
now. The young and industrious s.
stress, or workman, or clerk, who DIRE
as fashionably as the rich lady OF
rich man, with large income from in'
ments or great establishments,


much more TO support the govern
than formerly. Then they would


pay for the letters they received,


they are taxed to lelp pay for the


dreds that their employers receive
cause the low price Of post age now
not bear the expense of the Departr
and the millions that it falls short
to be made up by general taxation.


year previous to the last the ext
gance of the government was so


that five millions of collars had
taken from other sources and appl
pay up the deficiency Of the reven
the post Office. Owing to the re
strances of Democratic Congres
expenses were somewhat curtailec
last year this excess was reduce
$3,00O,00o. Because of this redt
some people whose correspo de
very extensive are asking that the
age be reduce to two cents. Sucl


duction would only benefit capita


add more tax upon labor.
Year: 1879

No use of having the chilis, no use Of
headache or any of the ills that come from
a disordered or inactive liver. One bot
tie of this old aud reliable family remedy
will cure the most stubborn case-will
relieve the system and make you feel like
a new person. Try it and be satisfied.
Year: 1879

NOTHING makes the Republicans edi-


tors g cuss''th Democratic Councilmen as


much as their determined attitude in favor
Of al economical administration. II
they can prove that the city can be run
on tax rate of Sl.00 or Sl.l0, or even
Sl.1j, the present rate, they will furnish
indisputable and conclusive proof that
Republicans had been wasting the money
collected from our people for the last
twenty years. Hence they could not get
out Of the old extravagant ruts or make
any new improvements without falling
into a system OF peculative robbery


making everything cost so emo 'Inousi,


that they were compelled to yield up til
works they commenced to the Democrats


as. in the case of the Cool Spring Reset
voir. Only think Of it the Democrat


Street Commissioner proposes to g
!. along with twelve men. If he does Il
will make it sad for the Radicals, SUI
as r,in after the Republican babblers.
Year: 1879

CLEVELAND, O., April 29.--The regular
lighting of Monumental Park in this city
with the Brush electric light commenced
this evening at s o'clock, being the first
regular public lighting with electric light
OF any city in the United States. There
were 10000 people in the park at the time
appointed for lighting. The effect was
brilliant in the extreme, aud fully demon
strates the success of the light. This light
gives three or more times effective light
than was formerly given by 40 gas burn
ers, there being only twelve electric lights
used, The light, under contract, costs
the city 500 per year less than gas form
erly used.
Year: 1879

WASHINGTON, April 30.-Subscrlptions
to the per cent. retuuding certificates
since yesterdays report S400,080 and TO
date S4,31l,0lC.


The democratic senators held a caucus this
morning lasting about an hour, but no ac-
ton was taken except an agreement to meet
their party friends of the house 10 Joint
caucus for consultation concerning the pro-
per course to be pursued, in regard to the
presidents veto of the army appropriation
bill, aud the political situation generally
The veto message was not discussed.


Secretary Sherman has started for
his home in Ohio via New York where
he has some private business.


It was determined that the legislation,
executive and judicial appropriation oil
shall not be brought forward for discussion
in the senate before next week.
Year: 1879

For ten years my wife was confined to
her bed with such a complication of all
ments that no doctor could tell what was
the matter or cure her. aud I used up a
small fortune in humbug stuff. Six months
ago [ saw U. S. flag with Hop Bitters on
it, and l thought l would be fool once
more. l tried it, but my folly proved to
be wisdom. Two bottles cured her, and
she is now as we'll and strong as any man Is
wife, and it only cost me two dollars. Be
ye like foolish" H. W., Detroit, Mich.