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Year: 1879

James Nuttle. indicted for shooting OFF,
Ger James Graham with intent to kill, was
placed ON trial this morning before Judge
Longworth and jury. There being four
counts in the indictment. and the last
being one for assault and battery, the de-
fendant pleaded guilty of assault and bat
terry.


Major Blackburn offered a special plea
in bar to the trial on the three first counts,
for the reason that under the plea of guilty
to the fourth count. the prisoner could not
be tried in any form for the charge


The Court overruled the objection and
refused to recognize the plea, and held that
the prisoner should answer to the other
counts in the Indictment The Court or
dered a special jury, summoned for this
evening,
Year: 1879

National Associated Press to the Star.


MEMPHIS, Tenn, Nov. 3.-The weather
remains pretty cool, and all fear of fever is
over. All except four or five Of the Howard
nurses have been discharged. The Appeal
and Avalanche appear this morning of the
old size, the first time since the epidemic
commenced. Business on every hand is OH
boom and people are pouring in by the
hundred by every train. Six hundred
came in last night and every train to-day
is crowded.
Year: 1879

IN a recent issue of the EhteJprtss we notice a communicated article re- fiecting somewhat upon the ability of Professor Sherman to manage the affairs of the public schools of Pres colt, and at the same time discharge the duties of the office of superin- tendent of public instructions. The article was evidently written more to please personal prejudice than to serve the public good. The animus is plain MT Sherman IS fully capa- ble to fill both places, and his host of friends will sustain him.
Year: 1879

THE IStzrer Belt, in commenting on the article in the HERALD a few weeks since about the threatened break of the San Carlos Indians, says:

 Mir. McIntosh's warning was pri- vately given the commanding officer at Mcdowell with a view of putting the military in possession of facts in order to prevent an outbreak, and not to blow it abroad through the columns of the Phoenix HERALD. How the HERALD become possessed of that information the editor and his informant alone can tell.

 The HERALD has a way of obtain ing news peculiar to itself, and in laying before our readers the very latest news, we display considerable enterprise.
Year: 1879

4 FEW weeks since we published a law, stating that it had passed, rela- ting to butchers and the way of con- ducting their business. Since then we have been informed by acting Governor Gosper that the law did not pass We made our mistake from the fact that MT Meade, mem Der of the house from Pinal, gave us the manuscript copy and informed US that it was q law. The Miner and Citjsel made a synopsis of the law from the HERALD without credit. They both have our permission to make the correction.
Year: 1879

called after its inventor, Hunters screw" is used Hunters screw con sists of two screws, working one within the other, in such way that as the larger descends the smaller as cends, though not quite so far The difference between the distances of the threads in the two screws deter mines how far on the whole the screw advances. With Hunters screw, therefore, the power produces pres sure as many times greater than it. self as the difference between the respective distances of the threads in the two screws is contained in the circle described by the power. The wheel is moro largely used in ma chinery than any other of the me chanical powers. Several wheels in one machine are called train. In train of two wheels the one that i'm parts the motion is called the driver; the one that receives it is called the follower There arc three ways in which motion may be transmitted from one wheel to another; first, by the friction of it's circumference; second by a band, and third by teeth on their outer rim. One wheel may be made to move another by means of a band passed round both circumfer-  ence; such a band is known as a wrapping conductor or belt There are three kinds ot toothcd wheels, viz: Spur wheels, crown wheels and bevel wheels. Spur wheels have their teeth perpendicular to their axes. The teeth are either made in one piece with the rim, or consist of separate pieces set into the rim. In the latter case they are called cogs- In mills cog-wheels are generally used with trundle5 or lanterns. Crown wheels have their teeth paral- Tel to their axes Bevel wheels are wheels whose teeth form any other angle with their axes than right angle By mechanical power people are kept in food and flour, and their homes are made cheerful by coal drawn from the depth of the earth by an ingenious machine. As the ris ing generation grow up and improve these machines they will never cease to be grateful to their forefathers for their ingenuity and integrity.
Year: 1879

Numerous and different as ma chimes are, they are all com binations

 of six simple mechanical powers

 known as the lever, the wheel and

 axle, the pulley, the inclined plane,

 the wedge and the screw. A lever is

 an infexible bar capable of being

 moved about fixed point called the fulcrum. It is the simplest of the

 mechanical powers and its properties were known as far back as tie time

 of Aristotle, $50 years B. c. ArchI-

 meder, a hundred years later, was the

 first to explain them fully. The

 mechanical powers. It consists of

 a wheel attached 10 q cylinder CT

 axle in such way that when in mo

 ton they revolvc around the same

 axis. The pulley is tle third of the

 mechanical powers. It consists of q

 wheel with a circumference over

 which a rope passes, and an axis or

 pin round which the wheels may be

 made to turn. Pulleys are of two

 kinds-fixed and movable A fixed

 f-alley is one that has a block that cannot be moved and a movable pulley is one that has block that can be moved. Though DO power is gained with the fixed pulley it is often used to change the direction of motion. On ships the pulley is near ly always used. By using the pulley the sails can be hoisted without climbing the mast It is also used in raising large bodies of wood or marble and in hoisting heavy boxes in high warehouses. The inclined plane is the fourtll of the mechanical powers. It is plane surface in- clincd to the bounding line at any angle Every road not perfectly level is an inclined plane. When boxes or anything heavy are to be raised into wagons the work is made less difficult by laying long boards in such q way as to form an inclined plane The marine railway on which ships of great weight are drawn out of the water for repairs is one of the most useful applications Of this ma chine The wedge is the fifth of the ! mechanical powers. It appears in .wo kinds, according to the use for which they are designed In it's first iorm the wedge is only a solid and inclined plane used for -aising great weights a short dis ance. The second kind of wedge las the shape of two inclined planes inited at their bases. It is used for plitting timber and to separate rocks Il quarries. The screw is the sixth

 nd last of the mechanical powers

 t consists Of a cylinder with spiral idge and furrow, winding alternately ound it in parallel curves. The portions of the ridge passing sue essively from one side ot the cylin-

 er to the other are called the threads f the screw. In the exterior or urve screw the ridge and groove are n the outside of the cylinder and in he interior or concave screw the idge and groove are on what may be ngarded as the inside surface of ylinder. There are a great many : inds of screws. Cotton is com I ressed into bales, juices are ex- acted from fruits, coins are stamped nd houses are raised from their f with the aid of the screE-. 2 Then intense pressure is required t lc threads of the screw must be so

 ose together that they are neces- Irily thin and liable to break. To f revcnt this an ingenious contriyancc, 0
Year: 1879

THE Miner is very angry because the HERALD office is doing some job work for citizens of Prescott Sorry, but can't help it. When the Hiner has facilities for doing as good and as cheap work as the HERALD, it will then, no doubt, be able to do the work of its own s.ction
Year: 1879

\ FEW issues sInce we published an extract from a country paper pub lished in Mississippi, which pur- ported to be an echo of the old rebel yell. The Argoaaut comments as follows on the same article; We believe it is the first gun of sul- phurous campaign of fraud and mis- statement. If we cannot elect re- publican president without lying about the south, and without drag ging from it's sepulchre the skeleton of the civil war, without exciting angry passions Of another interDe cine strife, we had better suffer de feat. This journal intends to sup port republican candidate for presi- dent. We hope 10 take an active part in an honorable campaign. We shall be glad to discuss national questions in a dignified and honor able way; but we give notice now, early in the contest, before our battle blood is warmed by the excitement of the strife, that we hope our party headquarters at Washington will send us no stink-pots, for we will not help to explode them. No bloody shirt for this side of the continent No egro-persecution stories for us. Of this kind of politics we are alto gether disrusted"
Year: 1879

WE notice that a printer has been sentenced to be hung in Nebraska This will be the first in the profes- sion to suffer death on the galIows, although we know of great many wIro deserve such an end.
Year: 1879

Every Friday is composition day at our public school, and of those sub mitted the best two are selected by NIT. Conrad, the principal, and will be published in the HERALD

 The Mechanical Powers
Year: 1879

The planets arc certainly exercising
an unwholesomc influence upon our
moral, as well as physical condition.
We have recently had not only extra
ordinary visitations of excessive heat
and fearful storms, but there is per-
feet epidemic of crime prevailing
throughout the country, and especially
in the Northern States. We have no
recollection of ever seeing so many
crimes reported by tho daily press as
those of the last few weeks. Every
thing seems to be turned topsy -turvy.
Is it because several of the larger
planets happen to be in conjunction
Year: 1879

The Texas papers admit that the
rush of immigrants to their State is
over, and say they are not sorry. The
glowing pictures drawn by railroad
agents Of the certain wealth that
awaited every conner attracted thou
sands of shiftless people,who, of course,
have found that it was necessary to
work for living in Texas, as we'll as
in other parts of the country. Even
the railroad companies now see that
emmigrants of this sort are worse than
useless, and there is Il general disposi-
tion to stick n little more closely to the
facts in immigration circulars and get
better people If fewer of them.
Year: 1879

We arc told that during the session


Of the State School convention


at this place, last week, a man from


the country rode into town, dismounted,


hitched his horse, and with saddle


bags on his arm, walked into a store
across the way. There was an air of
determination upon his face, as he
asked in a nervous, jerky way: "Where
Is that convention sitting?' Being
told that the only convention in town
was in session at the Methodist church,
he deposited his aforesaid bags and
walked Off toward tho church, being
evidently moved by one stlong pur-
pose. Walking into the church, he sat
down and listened patiently for some
time. There were various motions
made by the brethren and short
speeches upon them, but our rural hero
failed to catch tho drift of what was
going on. Jumping suddenly up, while
tho hot blood of indignation n1antled
his checks, he walked hurricdly out,
saying to bystander ut the door, .sI
came here to oppose this convention
and to urge primary election, but 1
see everything is managed by u ID
town clique, and IN have nothing to
do with it.' Without giving time for
the gentleman he addressed 10 explain,
he walked back to the store, seized his
saddle bags, mounted his horse and
rode out OF town in high dudgeon.
Year: 1879

(Chicago Timcs.J


The farcical stage of the negro exO-
dus business is reached in the venture
OF person from Arkansas, who has
como to Chicago In quest Of funds for
tho removal Of hundred and fifty
families from that State into Kausas.
AS reason for this mischlevous and
absurd mission, it is stated that tho
blacks in question nre tsunabie to get a
living in Arkansas" II that Is true
they can't be expected to make living
anywhere, and the cost Of their re-
moval would be utterly wasted. Un-
in Arkansas, tho soil is fertile, tho clf-
mate mild and salubrious, and there Is
probably no State in the Union In
which agricultural industry brings
better returns. There are in round
numbers about thirty three and n half
million acres OF land in tho State, and
by tho census OF 1870 less than half n
million of inhabitants. Certainly thero
can bc no prctcnso of ovcrcrowding
here. The negroes number about one
third OF the population, and in this
proportion their labor must be In de-
mand at reasonable prices. If they are
from the exodus insanity.
they undoubtedly owe tho disease to
pestilent agitators who arc inspired by
idiocy or something less
creditabie. The probabilities are that
IL tho Arkansas blacks need any as
sistance, their most pressing require
mcnts may be satisfied with sufficient
tar and feathers with which to furnish
n neat summer suit for tho scoundrels
or block heads who are urging them to
emigrate. The absurdity of this move
mcnt Is apparent from the fact that
the distance between Arkansas and
Kansas at the nearest point is but half
degree of latitude.
Year: 1879

chief. He rested SO long that some
persons tried to wake him, but they
tried in vain, for he was dead. He
was buried at the foot of the tree, and
it was years before his friends in Eu-
rope knew what fate had befalIeu him.
Year: 1879

At the Court of England it is no
longer a secret that the Prince Impc-
rial was in love with the Princess Bea-
trice, Queen Victoria's youngest and
only unmarried daughter. Ho hoped
that by going to Zululand and winning
the Victoria cross by some act OF valor
the many difficulties in the way of an
alliance might be overcOme; but 1t
would have required an act Of Pariia-
mcnt 10 permit the girl to marry
Catholic.
Year: 1879

Some time ago said the drummer, II had occasion
to visit the town of D in the State of Delaware,
and concluded to stop at the Blue Hen Hotel. where
had spent one night during previous visit. When


IN e ssp sPt tbSt % t e Ge pTed 70 be was
place to low structure with O single row of
windows, and the roof close to the ground. How
ever, recognized the keeper of the old hotel sitting
on chair in front of one of the windows, and
asked him where his establishment was.


There she is, sir. I've enlarged her since you
were here last"


Enlarged Enlarged? don't exactly understand"


"Oh, know she looks smaller; but stranger, tell
you that have added four stories to this hotel since
January, '75,


"This part of the house that you see now built on
early last week. The property became valuable to
lease There sixteen stories to the Blue Hen now
and I've got to add another before the week is out
If this hotel was spread out sideways she would be
about three hundred yards long. Eventually l ex-
pect she'll be about six or seven hundred stories
high, and it'll take you week to get into the cellar
| spose If keep on, this hotel will reach clean
through from Delaware to China The lower end
will come bursting out into Hong Kong Shanghai,
and maybe I'll be taking Chiname1 for boarders
without knOwingit Then Very likey tbeyll tSx both
ends Of the hotel. and take money out of my pocket
They're always grinding poor man SOS he can
run hotel like this that requires so much to keep
up a respectable appearance.


what has become of them?'


"I1l explain. After the hotel had been built a
year or two, she suddenly began to sink. l dunno
what the reason is quicksand under her, reckon.
Anyhow, she kept going down and down, until the
first story passed under ground. Then moved the
contents of my barroom up stairs, put another
story on top. and began business again. Pretty
soon she sank to another floor. and we moved up a
second time and added another story. It's heon
nothing unusual in this house to go to bed in the
second story and wake up in the morning to find
yourself in the collar The mikman has regular in
structons to pour the milk down the chimney in
he comes some morning early and can't dig ont
a window. Last month oversight myself for forty.
eight hours because the room remained dark, and
when got up the roof was just with the street
Il dunO exactly what I'll do if she breaks out on


the other side of the earth and then slips through the
| hole. l can't carry on hotel floating out into
ethereal space, you know. have some hopes thai
| maybe before she sinks morn'n mile or two shell
strike q volcanic vein or something and get shove
upl come all the way out for all know and stand or
solid ground. If she does. you come around and see
me. and I'll take you up and show you the view. II
bet you can see Peru and Oshkosh and Nova ZemblC
eye view; you come round anyway, and I'll take yoy
| down into the cellar"


II said would, and then hunted up a safer hotel


The Blue Hen is too original, too eccentric for com
| fort.-Phlddelphid Bulletin.
Year: 1879

Our readers have doubtless seen a horri-
BILE story which is now going the rounds of
the papers of the murder last week, of a
young girl, modest, educated and the child
OF respectable family, who, at camp
meeting IN Susquehanna county, Penn,
was decoyed into the woods and became
the victim OF a gang of rutiians, most
OF them the sons of farmers in the neigh
borhood. They left her dying and uncon-
cious at her fathers door.


In the South and West, lynch law would
no doubt before now have punished these
men, and even in slow moving Pennsylvania
they are sure to meet their deserts, But
there is somebody else to blame besides
these inhuman brutes. There are men
with the instincts of animals in every COM
munlty, and it is time that women who
have daughters to care for recognized that
fact, and guarded them more closely than
Is the custom in this country. This young
girl, who as is alleged, was of good social
position, sets off to a camp meeting
with another girl, her sister; one of them
drives home across the country with a
young man, the other takes a walk by
moonlight with another fellow, both mem.
bers OF this gang of villains. The parents
supposing that she is safe in the holy pre-
cIhcIs Vi the camp meeting, 90 not trouble
| themselves about her for a day or two.
There is not another civilized country
where such latitude would be permitted to
virtuous, unmarried women yet here it is
not the exception but the rule. In villages
and farm districts there is a perpetual
junketing, from which the old folks are
shut out, and incessant free-and easy inter
course between the sexes In the majority
of cases no actual harm comes of it, but
occasionally we have a tragedy like the
present. American mothers have such
absolute faith in their daughters that they
throw them headlong into the very jaws of
temptation; forgetting that American hus-
bands would prefer to receive them from
some other place. If all men were born as
men were born at the outset Christian
gentlemen and so died, this lax way of
bringing up women would still be foolish
and in bad taste but while there are such
men as the ruffians of Montrose, it is sim.
ply criminal. The same instinct in men
which led to the murder of this girl, in q
more refined society leads them to suspect
and malign unprotected women whose in


nocent freedom Of manner gives ground
for their ISLANDERS. That innocense is o.


little value in the world which the worlC


mistakes for guilty.. Y. Tribune, 18Th inst
Year: 1879

WHY EVE DID Nor KEEP HIRED GIRL-A lady
writer furnishes some of the reasons why Eve did not
keep hired girl. She says:


"There has been great deal said about the faults
of woman and why they need so much waiting on
Some one "a man of course) has the presumption to
ask why, when Eve was manufactured of spare
rib a servant was not made to wait upon herr" She
didn't need any. A bright writer has said, Adam
never came whining to Eve with ragged dsocking to
be darned buttons to be sewed on gloves to be
mended right -quick-nowP Because he never
read the newspapers till the sun went down behind
the palm trees. and he stretching himself, yawned
out. Isn't supper ready, my dearG' Not he. He
made the fire and hung the kettle over it himself
we'll venture and pulled redshes peeled the pota-
toes and did everything else he ought TO do. He
MIXED the cows fed the chickens and looked after
the pigs himself, and never brought half-a-dozen
friends to dinner when Eve hadn't any fresh ponce
granates He never staid out till il o'clock at night.
and then scolded because poor Eve was sitting up
ard crying inside the gates He never loafed around
the corner groceries while Eve was at home rocking
little Gains cradle; He did not call Eve up from the
ceer to get his slippers and put them in the corner
where he left them. Not he. When he took them
of he put them under the fig tree beside his Sunday
boots In short he did not think she was especially
created TO wait him. and he wasn't under the inn
preston that it degraded man TO tighten wife's
cares little That's the reason Eve did not need a
hired girl and with 1t was the reason her descendants
did"
Year: 1879

The Canadian papers are congratulating
themselves on the revival of the lumber
trade The improved condition of business
is entirely due to the demand for lumber
in the United States. The stocks at the
mills have been mainly sold for shipment
to this country, Notwithstanding the heavy
duty imposed by our Government on Cana
dian lumber.
Year: 1879

small ragged boy entered an oyster house in
Salem Mass. and asked: win you sell me an oyster
for cent? want il for my sick mother" What is
the matter with your mOtherg' asked the man, as be
proceeded TO fill can with oysters, thinking he
would help to relieve case of suffering. She's got
a black eve" was the reply. The benevoence rapidly
faded from the mind of the oyster man as he put one
oyster In paper bag.
Year: 1879

Seaside hotel keepers are just now over
hauling their stock of bathing suits to see
how many can be patched up for next sea-
sons service and how many will have to be
put aside for dish rags.