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Year: 1877

The Oswego Palladium relates the
following case: Robert Dore, the sex.
ton of St.. Paups cemetery, last week
removed the body Of child from one
lot in the cemetery to another. The
body was inferred in February, 1897,
nearly twenty years ago, in a metallic
burial case. After exhumation, the iron
casting which covered the glass plate
was removed, and a remarkable state OF
things was revealed. The face had the
appearance of recent death-looking as
though it had been buried only few
days. There was not the slightest ap-
pearance of decomposition, except in the
sinking of one of the eyes. The rest OF
the face was full, with no discoloration,
and bore the natural pallor of corpse.
There was, of course, no exposure to the
atmosphere while the examination pro-
ceeded. The metallic case was fine one,
inclosed in the usual wooden box. The
latter badly decayed, but the case was
only slightly corroded. The remains Of
other children of the same family, which
were removed at the same time, and
which had been buried much shorter
time, and in metallic caskets, were found
TO have crumbled to dust.
Year: 1877

How peaceful and joyous emotions in
the heart blend in harmony the past
with the future, making the one beauti-
full, that it has been, the other beautiful,
because it is yet TO be, and both, with
the now, only part of Gods great
eternity. Obi / do believe, in SO living,
that all life will be beautiful to us, or
that we shall ever be blessed with the
peaceful consciousness that God is nigh,
that His tender, loving, perfect presence
is ever over and about us and in us, too;
for "the second man" or that which is
spiritual ais the Lord from heaven"
the Bible says, and how beautiful to feel
this, for il draws us into close fellowship
with God and Christ and makes us feel
really His children,
Year: 1877

THEY wear ill-ftting falsh teeth in
Nebraska. A man in Cheyenne tested
barrel of apples by biting one of them,
went away, and after an hour or so,
came back TO find the apple which he
had bitten. He said he had lost his
false teeth somewhere, and thought they
must be sticking TO that apple. He was
! right,
Year: 1877

The Pope does not seem to be prodi.
gal in the expenditure of moneys coming
into his possession, If there be truth in
the statement that he has thirty-two
millions of dollars to his credit in the
Bank Of Italy.
Year: 1877

WE have frequently had occasion 10 al- Jude to this wonderful Lake Superior sil. yer mine, which has proved such bonan- za to it's owners. Our readers are intefest- ed in learning the details of the work which has been done at Silver Islet in view of the singular obstacles winch have been met. We therefore append the fol- lowing extract from lengthy description which recently appeared in the New York Stockholder: ''The Silver ISlet mine pro-

 OCT is on small bare rock of little over one-eiyth of an acre area, in Lake Supe- riur, near its north shore. It has been worked for six years, about S2,5OO, 900 value of silver having deen taken from it. AS the rock was low, it's surface washed by the waves i'll every storm, there was need to protect the shaft sunk upon the vein from the waters which might fill the mine and drown the miners. Accordingly brick and cement walls were built around crib work filled with thousands of tons of rock. Its present depth is about 650 feet, witL 800 feet lateral workings. The silver is found generally in the vein in parts where traces of plumbago appear. This mineral is found in nOdules and also blackens the hand when rubbed on the smooth wall of the vein in places. One field of the new workings will be in the upper portion of the vein, of which hundred feet vertical from the surface was left to keep out the water. A quantity of metal, estimated at S350,O00 to Sl,0O0,OO0 value is lodged in this portion cf the mine. It is determined to make this available by putting in at 50 feet below the surface brick and cement arch of six courses of brick, to carry the weight of the water above, which will be let in to test tls strength of the arch as soon as it is completed. This being found sufficient water will be pumped out and the mining of the rock proceeded with" Mining and Scientific Press.
Year: 1877

sweet oil "nd camphor, a very little croton oil being sometimes added. This localizes the eruption to a great extent and adds to the sick One's comfort. In hospitals the face is often, during some stages, annointed with sweet oil; this allays the itching.

 Cream of tartar is said to be a good remedy. Dissolve one ounce ina pint of warm water; when cold, drink at intervals. This remedy is simple, within the reach of all, keeps bowels open and reduces fp- yer. The following was used with great success in San Francisco: Six grains sulphate of zinc and six grains fox-glove (digitalis) are dis solved in a pint of water with a little sugar. The dose is table spoonful Qess for children, accord ing to age) every half hour till the fever subsid' s; then every hour till the fever is over. The only objection to this remedy is that it makes the stomach so sensitive that any indiScretion in diet, for a few days after, is liable to bring the fever on again. But this my be avoided by d diet of milk gruel and light food. It is a favorite treatment with many European physicians.
Year: 1877

THE two pet vices of the army in time of peace arc drinking and gambling. There are other disagreeable weaknesses in the junior grades, such as snobbishness and an aversion to paying just debts, but these are of small consequence compared with the two slns first mentioned. The presl- dent has made up his mind to stamp out the first of these evils, and in a general order gives warning that hereafter no otfi- cer tried upon charges of drunkenness need expect the slightest clenency from the authority which reyiseS the sentence of a court martial. This order has the true ring, and we are glad to see an effort made to rid the army of one of it's chief scandals.
Year: 1877

THE remnant of the Cahuila tribe of In: dians have for many years been located on the Colorado Desert, where they have oc- cupied little patches of land watered by springs here and there on the road be- tween San Bernardino and the Colorado River They have raised thereon enough meSquit, corn, beans, pun okinS and mel ons to enable them to live. Their little Oases are of small value, but are their all yet there seem to be white men mean enough to covet them. CabeZon, the old chief has been in Los Angeles, trying to get the Land Office there to stop the rob- bery.-TL. A. Herald
Year: 1877

and with much more of stove; "a forestay has been run down from her foremast head to her knight heads; false rail has been put upon her forward extending to her foremast, and abaft this has been fitted with stout iron stanchions through which has been rove wire life line, to which will be laced a canvdS5 bulwark Ser tOretOp- mast has been sent on deck. and her main, heinz fitted with patent fids, may be easily housed as occasion may require. She has been fitted with an extra suit of sails and is provisioned for six mouths. the intention of her captain being not to stop until he reaches San Diego s. D. Union.
Year: 1877

A SEVERE sand and electric storm ragged on the Colorado desert on Saturday. It is said by those well informed that this storm will prevent the spread of small pox in Yuma.-[L A. Republican.
Year: 1877

|ECBENDoRF BROS. received some very plump new barley this week from the Pa. pago squaws. Harvesting will very soon be carried on in earnest, and SO far as we can learn, good crop is the rule.
Year: 1877

THE cespicable slanderers are on the in crease, and as it would gratify and dignify some in this locality to receive notice as such, they will be disappointed, so far as THE CITIZEN is concerned.
Year: 1877

WASHINGTON, May 4.-Quite commo-
tion was created on the streets leading
from the Navy Yard to the capital yester-
day by the appearance of twelve horses
drawing massive track, on which Was a
ten ton block of marble intended for the
naval monument nov being erected on
Pennsylvania avenue and First street, on
the west side Of the Capitol.
Year: 1877

MR. THOMAS HUGHES, Of Critteuden

 Ranch, came into town this week, and re- turned to his ranch taking hls family with him. While the Indians were around .Crittenden lately he had to send his fam

 fly 10 Tucson for safety, but will risk it again. People read in early American

 history about the bravery and dangers Of the frontlersman as he stood between his loved ones and savage foe and won his

 bread with his rifle fastened to his saddle or blow; and the morbid youthful imagi- nation, fed by the dime novel and the inn .aglnative Cooper, dwells with rapt interest and delight over tales of savage foray and IeXploit. But truth is stranger than fiction, and real experience robs life on the savage frontier Of it's glamour, and Of everything else but terrible reality. It is bitter, burn- ing disgrace and shame that in this high noon Of civilization and settlement, the Ifrontiersmen close 10 large settlements Is as little protected from savage encroach-

 ment as were the frontier settlers of d

 hundred years ago. The only difference Is that now the settler has a paid protector,

 bedizened and bedecked with gilt and glitter and insolence, who leaves his charge unprotected, and lies about and in- suits him for not enduring murder and robbery in silence.
Year: 1877

MR. WM. LEFT, an experienced miner and millman Tor many years at Virginia and Gold Hill, has come in possession ol

 a very promising mine on the AJcCracken

 lode in Mohave county. He has spent some months there of late In prospecting

 the lode by shaft and tunnel and by many

 hundreds Of assays, and IS convinced that the property will justify the erection oi a ten-stamp mill, and such a mill will soon be put up by him on the sandy. NIT.

 Leet Is in Tucson for a few days, but ex- poets 10 return to Mohave early next week.

 He has visited numerous mines in Mexico and Arizona, and .5els confident that our Territory has many mines of great value if right processes are used in the reduction Of the various classes Of ore. He IS coni- dent of success in his own venture and We hope and believe he will not be disappoint-

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Year: 1877

IT will be seen by reference 10 our ad- vertising columns that steps have already been taken in the mining suit against B. w. Reagan of the Silver King; but no one should be preJudiced either way in the
Year: 1877

| THE last we heard Of the San Carlos

 scouts under ICaptain Beauford, they had

 struck heavy trail at the south end oi

 the Huachuca mountains and were follow ling it for every thing out Peter Kitchen says there were at least l3O Indians in the band lately raiding the border, and if our company Of 45 volunteer scouts run on to

 the whole band, there will be some pretty hard fighting to be done.
Year: 1877

THE dust is again getting the better of Summer rains take pity upon us, unless Adams Sanders comes 10 the rescue with Ia benefcent water-cart. Last year Mir. Sanders kept the streets in delightful con dltion through the hot weather. and was Q experiment pay, and will he do it some more?
Year: 1877

government The capital oithe nation
should be something more thou mere
political center. We should avail our
selves OF all the opportunity which PROV
idcuce has here placed nj our command
to augment the general Intelligence of
the people and increase the conditions
most favorable to the success and prrpc
tuity Of our institutions"
Year: 1877

TESTIMONY OF TIE CHEF JUSTICE
OF GEORGIA.--I have used Simmons Liver
Regulator for constipation of my bowels, caused
by temporary arrangement Of the liver for
the last three or four years, and always, when
used according TO the directions, with decided
benefit think it ia good medicine for the
arrangement Of the livor-at least such has been
my personal experience in the use of it.


HIRAM WARNER,


of T.. .fio of Qoor0io
Year: 1877

The Queens state saloon on the
Great Western railway in England is
made entirely of boiler plate, and so
lined anil padded that if the carriage
were to 60 over an embankment and
roll to the bottom, the chances are
that the occupants would escape un-
injured.
Year: 1877

BRAIN AND MuscLE.-Men who use their
muscles imagine that men who use their
brains are strangers to hard work. Never
was there greater mistake. Every success
ful merchant does more real hard work in
the first ten years of his business career, than
q farmer or blacksmith ever dreamed of.
Make up your mind to work early and late, if
necessary, that you may thorougly master ev-
cry detail of the business upon which you
purpose to enter. The habit of persistent,
rapid work once formed, you have gained q
momentum that will carry you very success
fully through many pinch in business where
a less persistent worker would find it vastly
easier to lie down and fail.
Year: 1877

STARTING IN THE WoRLD.-Many an un-
wise parent labors hard aud lives sparingly
all his life for the purpose of leaving enough
to give his children start in the world, as it
is called. Setting young man aaoat with
money left him by his relatives, is like tying
badders under the arms of one who cannot
swim ten chances to one he will lose his
badders and 60 to the bottom. Teach him
to swim, and he will never reed bladders.
Give your child sound education, and you
have done enough for him. See to it that his
morals are pure, his mind cultivated, and
his whole nature made subservient to laws
which govern man, and you have g iven what
will be of more value than the wealth of the
Indies.
Year: 1877

h9 Some years ago there was protracted
drouth, and an old lady in the country was
afraid her garden would come to naught for
lack of rain. One day Methodist minister
came along and paid her visit, and she re-
quested him to pray for rain, after relating
her fears about her garden. The good dom
mie at once offered prayer, and most fervently
asked the Lord for refreshing showers to bap-
tie the earth. Shortly afterward heleft, and
during the night there came up a tremendous
thunder shower, as if the very food gates of
heaven had been let loose. The good old la
dy's garden happened to be on side hill, and
the earth being loose, the food of water
washed it bare of all vegetation. When morn
ing came, and she viewed the ruin wrought
by the rain, the old lady vehemently ejacula-
ted "Jest like them pesky Methodists-they
ALWAYS oyerdo thingsl'
Year: 1877

HARDENING STEEL.-As the hardness de-
pends on the quickness with which it is cooled,
there are better materials than water, which,
besides, gives an unequal temper, the steam
bubbles developed interrupting contact An
other thing, water is bad conductor of heat,
and if the bubbling and heat did not put it in
motion, it would be unfit for hardening. Wa
ter, with plenty of ice in it, gives it harder
temper small tools may be stuck into piece
of ice, as jewellers and watch-makers insert
them into piece of sealing wax. Oil is also
used by them as being better than water, as it
does not evaporate so easily. The Damascus
steel blades are tempered in strong current
of cold air passing through a narrow slit.
This gives a much more uniform and equal
temperament than water. But the most efec.
tive liquid is the only liquid metal-mercury.
This being good conductor of heat-in fact
the very best liquid conductor and the only
cold one-appears to be the best liquid for
hardening steel cutting tools. The best steel,
when forged into shape and hardened in
mercury, will cut almost anything. Wehave
seen articles made from ordinary steel, which
has been hardened and tempered to deep
straw color, turned, with comparative ease,
with cutting tools from good tool steel hard
ened in mercury. Beware of inhaling the
vapor while hardening.
Year: 1877

to pay his fees was ordered to be drawn
and delivered to him.


A tax bill of the State of Wisconsin,
for $5.35 on ferry property in that
State, was ordered to be paid.


A resolution was adopted instructing
the Mayor to deposit in custody of the
district court of this county 500, that
being the amount assessed by commits.
sioners for strip Of land 20 feet wide
across the westerly end of lot six in
block ten, supposed to belong to Anna
Caroline Freeman, a minor. Adjourned
till Thursday at 2 p. m.
Year: 1877

An unsuccessful attempt was MADE to-
night 20 throw the Jersey Central train
from the track at Somerville, n. j. A
heavy iron bar WAS discovered fastened
to the track, and removed just before the
passage of the train from New York.
Year: 1877

May "a, 1877. !


The hot weather following close on
the heels of the cold spell has completely
upset the weather prophets and has
shaken the faith of the venerable Dutch
man in the signs OF the moon. Rut it is
an i'll wind that blows good to nc one,
and the proprietors OF the watering
places anticipate rich harvest from the
sultriness. Already the inhabtant of the
city who breads the heat OF hot bricks is
seeking q retreat in the mountains, and
the White Sulphur is beginning TO as
sumo business air. Some twenty-five
or thirty guests, some of whom propose
to spend the entire season, have addeu
their presence to the liveliness of the
place, and the daily cry is "Still they
come" Col. PAXTON thinks that he will
make the largest season the present sum.
mer ever made at these Springs, and is
making his preparations accordingly
Among the.
Year: 1877

who have already engaged quarters for
the summer are President HAYES and
family, Secretary EvARTs, BAYARD TAY-
LoR, Gov. WADE HAMPTON and family
and number of others of less note. 1t
is not improbable that BAYARD TAYLOR
will take advantage of the rest and quiet
of this mountain retreat to work cut an
Interpretation of his Centennial Ode.
He ought 10 do it, for it would be an cut
rage to die and leave the thing involved.
1 have no doubt that the many capital
letters and unmesning words employed
in the poem have some reference to the
hieroglyphics and dead language of the
aboriginal inhabitants of this country.
There must be something valuable hid
den in the ode for nothing meritorious
has even been exposed.
Year: 1877

Mr.. Suel Foster read short paper
upon this subject, before the Eastern
Iowa Horticultural Society, as fol-
lows:


at is delicious fruit and should
be planted in every garden where
there is suitable soil, and those who
delight in fruit culture, and particu-
larly those who like to eat good
pear, and can afford it, should make
a suitable soil. Deep, light, black
prairie soil is not suitable for the
pear nor does it thrive well on wet
clay soil. Tho pear is best suited on
dry, rolling, clay soil, either prairie
or timber. Give the trees clean, mel
low cultivation with no manure, un-
less the soil is too poor for half a crop
of wheat.


To make q soil similar to the above
| would recommend digging large
hole to set the tree IN, and haul a
wagon load or two of clay and fill the
hole to set tho tree in, have the
ground well surface drained with
deep burrows between the rows.


AS to varieties, / have found the
Bartlett the best, although it has suf.
fered some in those extreme cold
winters. The Flemish Beauty and the
Sickle arc more hardy, and the Beur-
re de Anjou, for late in the fall. For
early, perhaps Osband's Summer can
be recommended. That makes five
varieties what is the use of naming
more?


The dwarf, or ounce root, is apt to
winter-kill unless well mulched; but
on the pear root after it has stood a
few years, the roots strike SO deep
that the root is not apt to wintcr-kill
In setting out a good thorough
mulching is quite necessary. When
the trees send out long shoots in sum
mcr, shorten in as they grow"
Year: 1877

Rumors in regard to an impending
strike of locomotive engineers on the
Chicago Burlington & Quincy Rail-
road are still filling the air. II is,
however, the opinion Of those who
ought to know that the danger has
passed, and that no trouble will oc-
cur. The difficulties between the
managers of the road and the engi-
neers arose from the fact that the for
mer had decided upon system of
educating the firemen for engineers,
so as to stimulate these men in the
performance of their duties and give
them chance for promotion. The
Brotherhood of Engineers did not
like this arrangement, as they consid-
cred it an infringement on the rights
of the Association, which has hereto
fore dictated nearly all the appoint
ments of engineers. Some ofthe hot
head wanted strike ordered at once,
but the conservative and old men de-
precatcd such action. A short time
ago meeting of engineers was held
at Galesburg to take some action in
regard to this matter. and strike was
voted down. Since that time the hot
heads have kept on intriguing in
order to bring about rupture, but
the Brotherhood engineers who have
been with the Company for many
years refuse to join for such a pur-
pose, and therefore the agitators can
accomplish nothing. The railroad
managers are firm in the position they
have taken, and are not at all intimi-
dated by the threats made by some OF
the Brotherhood engincers.-Chicago
YrihuDe
Year: 1877

Cragin, one of the murdcrers oi
Smith (near Saginaw, Mich J, that his
wife might live with her lover, has
been sentenced for life. The Saginaw
(Mich) Courier, of the 2Sth inst. gives
the following remarks from the
Judge:


"What your motive was which led
you to the commission of this horri-
BILE crime, no one knows. The mere
pittance you were to receive could
not have prompted you to the COM
mission of so terrible a crime, and if
It is true that you were prompted to
do this act by such . pittance, then ye,
are unworthy to be called man.
Your past life must have prepared
you for such decd. Your only hope
is that some time the Executive may
commute your sentence SO that you
may be permitted once more to see
the sunlight and to work in the shop
with other convicts. But until then
yon will be consigned to living tomb
and not allowed to see even the face
of your keeper, but remain wholly
unseen in loathsome dungeon and
fed there by unseen hands. 1t is a
fearful thought. 1t is to be hoped that
during your confinement you may so
change, if change be possible, that you
may become better man, and that
you may be shown more mercy than
you showed your poor victim when
he pleaded in vain with you for Gods
sake to spare his life."
Year: 1877




The New York State prisons are in
a terrible financial slough Last
years deficiency was over 100000,
nearly twice that Of 1867, and $1,000
over that of 1876.


Tilden pursued the same course to
make a show of economy as Govern
or, that the democratic House at
Washington did. Indeed, it is prob
able that Tilden taught the House its
farcical and dishonest role of sham
reform. Tilden withheld the proper
appropriations to sustain the public
institutions of the State of New York,
and the House did the same thing as
to the appropriations for government
expenses. All these savings have
now to be made up by extra appro-
priations.