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Year: 1879

Tho ACTIVITY among the ScuAlorss


The brilliant gathering of scullers at
Pittsburg shows how, for very reasonable
sum in prizes, any of our cities or towns
with racing water near by can call together
rowing Riley's recent work at Silver Lake,
when he gave Courtney such asplendid race
in such remarkable time, shows that he has
improved greatly, and there is little doubt
that he is the second best sculler in this
country. But ..Frenchy" johnson, Plaisted,
Hosmer and Davis are good enough to cut
out work fer anybody, as Coulter and
Louther used to be. If the management
can keep the men in their lanes there will
be rare sport there to-day, and Pittsburg


centrally located as it is, may soon become
o popular rowing centre. The Northwest
has shown up SO we'll in fours this. year
that it is odd she has no singles in these
contests. There is time enough between
now and November for q number of such
regattas as this, and our towns with good
courses should take steps to secure them.
If Saratoga, after all, lets the great Hanlan-
Courtney race slip through her fingers for
the sake of trifie deducted from the hand
some sum she is sure to make, then she
does, indeed, lack the energy and sagacity
John AIorrissey would have shown so
promptly in like circumstances A little
resolution and vigorous effort may even yet
secure hor what will plainly prove a
bonanza. But, whatever place is fortunate
enough to get it, under no circumstances
should there be more than one prize. Then
both men will row with every ounce that is
in them all over that fve-mile track, and
never slacken till they cross the finish line
Year: 1879

Of all social apologies that one is the worst
which Apologies for not calling or failing to
return call. No lady lays herself so open
to cut direct as she who says, "I have
been intending to call on you," or s'I have
been intending to return your call" For
fense in return for the offense implied, could
so easily say, 8. It is no matter, thank YOU
or in case a lady apologies by saying she is
sorry she has so long been tardy in this So
cal ceremony, the party addressed could say,
"Ah, indeed, had not noticed your abb
sence" 70 be sure this would be an mex
cusable piece of rudeness, but it may well
be questioned whether genuine politeness
would not dictate different form of address
or way of putting it than the usual one. To
apologize for not calling, or returning call,
implies that the person offering it regards
such call as honoring the person addressed.
This is not really polite. What would be a
suitable and proper form for making at once,
an explanation and a suitable apology for
such remissness. We would suggest that
suitable form of expression would be, '' l re-
greet that circumstances over which had no
control have long deprived me of the
pleasure of make your acquaintance" This
certainly implies that the compliment, if
there is any, is on the other side. But in
that society whose basis is genuine worth
and cOngeniality no such occasions of pique
at small remissness in social etiquette can
find place. When one human soul meets
another human soul and each looks at the
other with honest eyes querying,' "What
treasures of mind an6 heart hast thou to be-
stow on me?" or "How can I bless and
comfort thee %. there is no standing upon
ceremony. There is no account made of the
order of calls there is no alienation of viz,
its required. They seek each other because
each has something of mental or spiritual
riches to give or take. There are no consid-
.erations Of difference in social rank or style
of living. She of the palatial mansion may
find her most congenial and helpful friend i'll
the small, poorly furnished tenement. The
penetration that guides and directs such as
sociation is of the loftiest order, and in such
association is found the most helpful, the
most delightful and the best society in the
world. .-LonRo7s World.
Year: 1879

EDITOR GAZETTE: On travelling over inn,
Lane and Benton counties lately, have OBJ
served closely and made inquiry as to the
merits of broadcast sowing and drilling of
fall wheat, and find with but very few ex-
ceptions the verdict is on behalf of drilling.
During our long, dry, frosty weather here
this winter, the clods and loose earth along
the drills dissolved and settled down upon
the roots of the wheat, thereby increasing
the depth of earth upon the roots of the
wheat. Again, the wheat can be put in by
the drill to depth beyond freezing out,
even in a hard winter and then there is
twenty-five per cent. gained in the amount
of seed sown per acre, if drilled in. II
wheat is sown broadcast early in the season,
well put in in loose, dry ground, it can get a
good hold in the earth and hold its own, let
the season be cold or wet. But late sown
wheat, smoothsurface and shallow covering,
is subject to freeze out or drown out and
more 'seed is required per acre, if sown
broadcast But in all cases, the lands should
be well drained, SO as to afford passage to
the surplus waters in the misty" season to
pass away.


And though DEPRESSING, let me urge the
great utility in thorough ditching in all our
low, wet lands, and of deep plowing in the
fall, and shallow plowing in the sprlng, anu
thorough narrowing. DAVID NEWsooi1' L.


Corvallis. February, 1879.
Year: 1879

An army surgeon says he never
saw but one man who hadn't rather
90 into battle than to have tooth
drawn, and that man was coward.


The man who was "bent on mat
rimony" Strengthened up afterwards
Meride,a Recorder. And was prob
ably fooled to the top of his bent
N. r. Evening Mail.


A man spent three weeks in an un-
successful effort to teach his parrot a
verse Of Scripture. The same bird,
in the succeeding four weeks, learned
to swear frightfully without teacher.
Parrots and boys are nearly alike in
this respect.
Year: 1879

A correspondent of the Arizona Sen nnel apparently writing from Tomb stone, referring to the case of Clifford vs. Mitchell, says:

 The recent decision of Chief Justice French to the effect that the recording of a mine in this district is not re- auired by law, and that if the districts do not prescribe for the registration of claims, that the recording is unneces- sary, is liable, &c.

 We knew at the time of the trial of the case mentioned, that the Judge submitted it to the jury without any opinion or instruction as to the law, and therefore on reading the above, believed it an error, and after due in- uuiry our belief is confirmed.

 We have it upon what we regard as good authority, that no such decision or ruling as the correspondent states, nor any thing like it, was ever made or intimated by Chief Justice French either in the case under consideration or in any other It is true that the correspondent does not assert that such decision was directly made but the assertion he does make. is adroitly worded and intended 10 convey the impression that such one was made, ana to avoid erroneous and misehieviou' results, we have examined into thu facts and believe we correctly giy' them.
Year: 1879

Inasmuch as several of the New Mexican papers since the recent raid at Clifton, have consistently sverred that the renegades were San Carlos Indians, we will make statement showing how far those scalpers were identified with the agency, hoping that after reading our verification of "the truth of history" they will be induced to give Agent Hart at rest.

 In September or October 1878, Agent Hart was notified that the Warm Spring Apaches had surrendered to the military. He at once informed the military authorities of his readiness to bring them back to the San Carlos reservation and made his preparation accordingly. In November to his sur prise he was informed that 172 of the tribe were at Camp Apache and was requested to send for them. It was then ascertained that only twenty-two of the number reported, were bucks, the balance of the men that originally started for San Carlos having aban- dOned their military escort en route and remained on the war path for some length of time, but finding their occupation improbable they again surrendered to the military at Fort Stanton, New Mexico. In some time last May, Agent Hart received dis patch stating that some of the band had again escaped from the troops and were supposed to be moving towards San Carlos with the intention of run ming of their wives and families. Two nights after receipt of dispatch, fifteen of the band came on the reser- vation near the branch agency, but were unsuccessful in their attempt at regaining possession of their families on account of their having been moved close to the main agency and put un- der strict surveillance. Some of he Chiricahua Indians of their own ac- cord gave the information to the troops at Camp Thomas and they were sent after them, but accomplished nothing. These Indians will undoubt- edly make another attempt at regain ing their women, and there will be no peace nor safety on the road between San Carlos and OjO Caliente, a dis tant of about three hundred miles, until the military either kill or cap ture them or invite the cooperation of the San Carlos Indian scouts whom we think would soon bring them to grief provided they were we'll pro visioned and instructed to freeze to the trail.-Silver Belt, June 20.
Year: 1879

THE report is out that Thomas Cor dis, Collector of Internal Revenue, has sent an order trom his home in Pres colt to friend in Tucson for a lot of fig leaves from Levin's Park, and this is construed to mean that the only thing lacking to make the capital the Garden of Eden is supply of fig leaves. We believe the order has been cheerfully and promptly filled. The people of Tucson win continue to heap coals of fire on the heads of the capi- tai people by doing them acts of kind. ness. If they should ever get short ot water, which we hear is the case now, our people stand ready to give them as much as they want
Year: 1879

The Patagonia people and others out that way want the road improved at the head of Davidson's canon, this side the Empire ranche, and also in the canon leading up to the mines in the Patagonia mountains. They say they are willing to make a share Of the improvement needed, and think the County of Pima should lend a helping hand Under the circum' stances we hope the Supervisors will find it within their power and inclina- ton to help in the matter. The travel and freighting over the road men tioned are large now and constantly increasing.
Year: 1879

The Silver Belt of June 2oth says;

 We are informed that an order has been issued for Agent Hart to turn over the management of the San Car los Reservation to the commanding officer at Fort Thomas and that MT. Il. made it a condition of the transfer that his bondsmen should first be re- leased from liability. Knowing that Congress governs in the disposition of the management and that there has been no revocation of the act placing them in charge of civilians, we doubted the truth of the report, and we are not now satisfied but what there has been. to say the least, a very great stretch of authority in placing them even temporarily, while at peace, in the hands of the military
Year: 1879

Profanity-and particularly French pro-
lanity-seems necessary adjunct to dog
driving. 1t Is unfortunate that, by some
nscrutable dispensation of Providence, the
only method of reaching dogs reason
should be through unlimited imprecation.
But, speaking with the experience of many
days of dog-travel and an intimate ac-
quaintance with Il score or more of dog
trains, have never seen an attempt made
to reach it in any other way. / do not
seek TO exaggerate, but simply to present
dog-driving rs it really is-an inhuman
thrashing and varied cursing The cruel
ty with which dogs are treated cannot be
excused. 1t is true they are often obstin-
ate and provoking. and require severe
beating. especially from new driver. till
the team is brought into subjection. But
when helpless animals, undergoing severe
labor in the trains, are not merely beaten
on the body with heavy lashes, but sys-
tematically hogged on the head till their
ear, drip blood-beaten with whip
handles till their jaws and noses are cut
open with deep wounds--cudgeled with
clubs, knclt upon and stamped upon until
their howls turn into low mOans Of agony
punishment merges into sheer brutality.
And yet such treatment is of common oc-
currence. As said, the beatings from
being intermittent became incessant.
Many of the dogs had so exhausted them
selves by violent dartings hither and thith-
er in their endeavors to dodge the blows
of the descending whip, that they had no
strength left tor the Legitimate task of
hauling the sledge The heads of others
were reduced to swollen. pulpy mass by
tremendous thrashings, while one or two
had given out altogether and had been
taken from the harness and abandoned on
the plain The operation of ..sending
dog to Rome had been performed more
than once-a brutal operation in which the
driver sinks below the level of the beast.
Sending dog to Rome is effected by SIM
ply beating him over the head with club
or heavy whip-handle until he falls insen-
sble to the ground. When he reviyes,
with the memory of the awful blows that
deprived him of consciousness fresh upon
him he pulls frantically at his load. A
dog is sent to Rome for various and often
trivial observation-disclosures he shirks or
will not pull. because he will not permit
the driver to adjust some hitch in his hmr-
ness. While he is insensible, the necessa-
ry alteration is made, and upon recovering
consciousness he receives terrible lash
of the whip to set him going again.-Lip-
pincohs Magaziae.
Year: 1879

NITROUS oxide, or laughing gas, as
it is commonly called, was discovered
to have the power of producing insen-
sibility by Sir Humphrey Davy, at the
end of the last century, and since that
time it has been widely used by dent
lists and chiropodistS in the painful
operations of extracting teeth or
corns. The process consists in causing
the patient to breathe the pure gas
until he becomes insensible. Nitrous
oxide is not so dangerous as chloro-
form, nor so exhausting to the system.
Chloroform associates itself chemically
with the body, but the gas merely re-
mains dissolved in the blood, and when
it is no longer inhaled it is quickly
breathed out again byi he lungs. But
there is one serious drsT5Sck to its
use-namely, the fact that its appica-
ton cannot be prolonged for fear OF
asphyxia or fainting being incurred.
Now, however, this defect has been
overcome by a French Psychologist, NJ.
Bert, and insensibility induced by its
means can be indefinitely extended.
The patient is caused to breathe, not
pure nitrous oxide, but a mixture of
equal parts of nitrous oxide and air,
under a pressure of two atmOspheres.
By this devise the normal quantity Of
air is supplied to the patient as well as
the requisite dose of gas. The results
obtained from experiments on dogs
show that the breathing and circulation
goes on normally while the animal is
rendered quite insenSible by this
method, and on withdrawing the gas it
RECEIVERS all its faculties after a few
breaths. This is an important discOv-
cry, but it has the practical failing of,
at present at least, requiring q special
chamber to be constructed for the
operation. In the case of hospitals,
however, this will not be difficult to
obtain. -GnSSePS RHQGzi1e
Year: 1879

A GENTLEMAN of great experience in
the commercial world cashed a check
at London bank for FL, 100, taking the
whole in E100 notes. He was only
few yards from the bank when person
resembling a clerk, bareheaded and
with pen behind his ear, touched him
on the shoulder, saying: BEG your
pardon, sir; will you allow me just to
take the number of these notes againp
1 won't keep you minute" The
gentleman, taken of his guard. handed
the notes over to the supposed clerk,
whom he followed into the bank. After
giving the former time to reach the top
end and return, he met the gentleman
at the door, saying, ''Please walk this
way; that gentleman viii attend to you
in a minute" pointing to a clerk who
was deeply engaged. Five minutes
elapsed before the gentleman could
draw the clerks sttention 10 his case,
and he was thunderstruck TO find that
this officer knew nothing about 1t.
The other clerks were interrogated, and
they were equally in the dark. OF
course, no time was lost in going to the
Bank of England, but too latei the
clever rogue had been before them,
and obtained gold for the notes.
Chambers Journal.
Year: 1879

1t is said that cat is the only ami
NAL, with the exception of man, that
can distinctly pronounce the vowels a,
e, i, o and u. When it is in any especial
agony it is able also to add W aad "
E1chGHgP
Year: 1879

A man named Thomas Fox found
gold watch and chain in the snow at the
corner of Barr and Cutter streets yesterday
afternoon. For further particulars apply
at the Chief of Policies office.
Year: 1879

1t is not often that Republicans find them
selves in accord with Mr.. Tilden, but they
can heartily subscribe to the sentiment ex-
pressed in his letter to the Ohio Democrats
in response to an invitation to join in the
Columbus observance of the battle of New
Orleans; in which he speaks in praise of
''The time honored custom of commemorate
ing an anniversary so dear to the hearts of
our fathers, aud in spirit so auspicious of
promise that the people will regain all the
rights of elective selfgovernment."


The sentiment is good and it is to be sin
cerely hoped that the Democrats wherever
they met on the Eighth of January took it to
heart, and that they will at once mend their
ways. We trust that they will show the
sincerity of their conviction and their re-
gret for past misdeeds by assisting the people
of South Carolina and Mississippi and Florida
to "regain all the rights of elective selfgov-
ernment." We look to see Mr.. Tilden
vigorously denounce ballot-box stufing in
the Palmetto State and calling for the pun
ishment of uegro-killers in Louisiana, and
we trust that the denunciation will be re-
peated by the Democratic papers and en-
phasized wherever Democrats meet in con-
vention. Of course Democrats everywhere
will heartily assist in discovering and bring
ing to justice those who have been guilty of
unlawfully limiting the elective franchise and
of abridging by death or less violent means,
the liberty of voters.


There is, it must be confessed, good deal
of skepticism in the country as to the sin
cerity of Mr.. Tilden aud his fellow Demo-
Gratis. This skepticism they have it in their
power to speedily remove. Let them afford
all possible aid to the Teller committee in
its investigation at New Orleans. Let the
Democratic authorities of Louisiana hunt
down and bring before the courts the men
accused of numbering eighty negroes in Ten
sas Parish and five in Natchitoches. Let the
Democratic authorities of South Carolina
discover and punish the men guilty of the out
rageous stuffing of ballot boxes in Charleston.
Let the Democratic authorities of Mississippi
see to it that the negro majority in that State
has its rights and its proper representation in
Congress. And let Democrats all over the
Union urge upon their fellows the doing of
justice and the undoing of injustice wherever
Democratic authority is felt and Democratic
responsibility assumed. That done the coun-
try will no longer hesitate to believe that
Mr.. Tilden is sincere when he hopes s'that
the people will regain all the rights of elec-
tive self-government." Until then we fear
it will be skeptical.
Year: 1879

THE National Democrat finds that son
the money question proper, the message ad-
vances the old Constitutional doctrines domi-
nant in the country before they were reversed
by the Supreme Court and the new theory
proclaimed that the constitutional currency
of the country is and may be precisely what
the government chooses to make it," As
the old constitutional doctrine is that moth
ing but coin can lawfully be made legal
tender for debt, and the new theory is that
paper or anything else the Government
chooses may be made a alegal-tender, the man
who tries to reconcile old and new will have
task that must appall him. Does the
National Democrat aspire to be the exponent
of both doctrines?
Year: 1879

THE NATIONAL Democrat says that as to
the method of supplying the paper currency
of the country the Message will meet the
views of the dominant party in the State
AS Governor Garcelon expressly declares that
nothing but gold and silver can lawfully be
made legal-tender for debt, we take it that
in the opinion Of the Augusta paper the up
holders of legal-tender currency do not
form the dominant party in this State. That
is an unkind cut at the Greenbackers.
Year: 1879

WHEN representative Southern journal
like the New Orleans Picayune takes up the
subject of State education and points out
that the true secret of "the paramount infiu-
ence of New England in American politics"
is in the force emanating from her system of
free schools and colleges, it is we'll for us to
hesitate before we cripple that system.
Year: 1879

GEN. JOE JOHNSTON protests against the
new army bill, and especially against that
feature of 1t changing the staff departments.
He says it is good in time of peace to have
experienced staff officers in order to make
volunteers efficient in time of war. The
South found it very convenient some years
aoo
Year: 1879

GOVERNOR GARcELoN's talk about the
freedom of the elective franchise will do for
this latitude, but will be found very offensive
by his Democratic brethren down South.
The Governor must take care. He is array
ing himself against his party on both the f.
nancial and the Southern question.
Year: 1879

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases indispensable, not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve CON-
munications that are not used.
Year: 1879

IT is believed that no further action will be
taken by the House concerning Secretary
Sherman's alleged favoritism to the First Ma
tional Bank of New York. That is confes.
sion that the accusation is unfounded.
Year: 1879

When woman combs her back hair into
two ropes, holds one In her mouth until she
Winds the other upon her tuck comb, and then
fuds that she has lost her last hsirpin. she
feels that the sex needs two mouths-one to
hold the hair in and the other to make remarks
with.
Year: 1879

Cincinnati Saturday Night: Why is it that
the papers all print a list of "the distinguished
dead of 1879 and never have word to say
about the eminent people who were born dur
ing the psst year?
Year: 1879

Watches made q different principle 80 far as the wind
ing IS concerned from any other watch In the world II
simple not liable to breakage II spring
and general dcrGugment They the best IN the market
u dpalers fOT them.
Year: 1879

The progress and construction of
the railroad become so rapid as TO
be difficult to report accurately
without personal Inspection. The
track is now laid beyond Mohawk
Station. We reported in our last
issue that station would be estab-
lished at or near this place, which
is about sixty-two miles from
Yuma, but this idea has been
abandoned on account of the
want Of water, and, in few days,
station will be established
some five miles beyond Mohawk,
to be called Texas Hill. The grad
ing is now far ahead-some twenty
miles from this point. In few
days the saloons, hotels, etc, of
Adonde, will be removed to Texas
Hill, and the latter place will be
rife with hustle and business for
some six or eight weeks. We un
derstand that the next station will
be at Gila Bend, which is likely
to be reached about the 10th
or 10Th of next March. The next
station will be at point some
five miles south of Maricopa
Wells, where town Is being laid
out, from whence there is a good
level country nearly all the way to
Tucson. The stage line will remove
to TexasHill and connect there with
the trains. The telegraph line is
being kept up with the progress of
the road. The number Of men
emp'eyed is about 1,200-1,000
Cninamen and about 200 white
men, Yuma Eapositor.