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Year: 1878

Several years ago | entered a car at one
of the New York stations and took my
place on back seat. No one else was in
the car, and unfolding Il daily paper,
commenced running my eye over its col
umns. The first thing that fixed my at
tention was the following paragraph:


owe understand that yesterday young
man employed as clerk by kendon &
Browne in their extensive dry good estab-
lishment, while on his way from-Bank,
where he had been to get check fer
So 600 cashed, was Knocked down and
robbed of the whole amount. He was
spoken to by a man when about midway in
a dark alley, who inquired the way to Wall
street, and that is the last he remembers.
The man is of middling size, rather mus
cular, of grave demeanor, and well but
plainly clad. The police are on the alert,
and will, without doubt. succeed in cap
turing him


had barely finished reading 1t, when a
man entered the car and took seat by an
open widow, directly in front of me.


He was rather small and his features
We're of a type which is commonly called
handsome. AT times, however, there was
certain curve. rather twist of his upper
lip, which to me was absolutely repulsive.
He bowed, as he was about to take his seat,
Year: 1878

Is caused by sudden wrenching of the
spine, and produces violent and acute
pains, making it very difficult for the
person 10 move 1t should not be neg
lected, as the curvature of the spine is
often brought on by neglect of this com-
mon complaint
Year: 1878

NA few weeks ago we were promised pApmpt attention to this matter which has bacome more annoying than sore thumb. Bht heavy rains in California have disar- Hanged mail routes there and absorbed the entire attention of Special Agents of the Department We have got to the bottom of the whole trouble and believe it can be speedily remedied as soon as an Agent can come out, to take the necessary official action. If everything else fails we will ap- ply for, and obtain, an appointment as a Special Agent and make necessary correc- tions in person.
Year: 1878

Millwrights, lately employed in putting up the Tip Top mill, arrived Thursday on their way to California. They were stop ped here by orders to wait for further in- structions. A rumor prevails that a mill is coming for Hellings' Cave Creek mine and that they will go back to put that up, and after that they expect to be employed on another new mill reported in course ol construction for Globe district.
Year: 1878

The. new mill at Empire Flat, in this county, is now a complete success. Its chiefblsiness is the concentration of cop. per ores, of which there are immense de- posits close by. The object is to separate all wasSesrock from the rich ores, thus making great saving of freight in trans porting them to market. The ores are crushed bystamps and separated by cur rents of water. The mill is also provided with apparatus for working gold bearing quartz, of which there is a large mine within few miles. A good wagon road has been made to it and the quartz appears to be yielding handsome profit. The gold is very fine, but no difficulty seems to be experienced in saving it.
Year: 1878

Small poX must be entirely over. The school trustees conferred with the resident physicians now here and, upon their writ ten opinion that it is perfectly safe to do so, have taken necessary steps for re open ing the public school next Monday. We have considered the matter carefully but see no imprudence in it.
Year: 1878

Eighteen tons of Castle Dome lead ore and over s2O0OO worth of Silver King con- centrated ore were shipped to San Fran cisco on Wednesday. Several large lots are now on the way here for shipment by
Year: 1878

Hail fell here on Thursday-just enough to swear by. It was showery all of Wednes- day and night and the wild flowers on the mesa already begin to show the effects of moisture. Portulacca and chenopodium are this year unusually abundant
Year: 1878

A nice purse of gold dust from the Gila City placers was shown us last Saturday. It is a coarse gold, of beautiful, rich color. We have never seen anything equal it for the manufacture of jewelry.
Year: 1878

The Commercial says the HERALD is
enthusiastic on the subject of a Deer
Creek Railroad. For once, at least,
the little evening paper has spoken the
truth. We are in earnest in our advo-
cacy Of two short, cheap tap railroads
FOR this city. We believe our city can
secure them by the proper efforts, and
we are determined that our readers
shall be fully informed of the necessi.
ties and opportunities of the occasion
Is not the Commercial in favor of the
Deer Greek Railroad slso2
Year: 1878

SENATOR EUsTIs, OF louisiana, says
there is a very general disposition in
Congress to give the Mississippi leveO
matter fair hearing. To give it about
five millions in money would be some.
thing like justice to the people of the
valley.
Year: 1878

New YoRK, Dec. 27.-In tho suit of
AlOnzo Bell, Assistant Secretary of the
Interior versus The New York Sun, for
one hundred thousand dollars damages,
a verdict Was given for the defendant.
The libel was that Bell entered his
wife under her maiden name as clerk
In the Department.
Year: 1878

White negroes are occasionally to
be met with in the West Indies. There
is one now living in the town of Stat
rock. the capital of Demerara. He is
known by the familiar title of White
Jenny. Both his father and mother
were healthy, jet-black negroes.
Year: 1878

A newspaper reporter should be a
person Of intellectual training; one not
only intelligent and capable to see and
understand, but honest and conscien-
tious. In reporting the proceedings of
a meeting it is not his business to con-
denim, berate, commend or ignore a
speaker who may be personally offen-
sive, or with whom the paper has a
quarrel. He should possess the talent,
the judgment and the honesty to fairly
state the facts, leaving the criticisms
and conclusions TO others, or letting
his utterances in this respect appear
outside of his report. And right here
we could make some suggestions which
it were well il the folks around the cor
ner would digest. 1t is not the legiti-
mate duty of reporter to make some.
thing readable and spicy at the expense
of truth and fairness. The public de-
pends upon the reporter for facts, hence
they need to be persons of honesty and
training. II is sad to note this degen-
eracy and it is time for reform.
Reporters should not be employed be-
cause they are cheap. nor for their read
iness i'll getting up sensations; but a
standard of intellectual ability and cul-
ture; high degree of honesty and in
tegrity ought To be required, and their
employment based upon these quail
tiles.
Year: 1878

HOUSE.


Washington, May ls.-Stephens
asked to be put upon record. He was
absent on leave of the House yesterday
when the vote was taken upon what is
known as the Potter resolution, and
WAS paired with Harris. But for the
pair he would have voted against the
resolution as it stood.


The bill for the election of delegate
to the House from the Indian Terrific
ry was printed and recommitted. On
motion of Smith fPa.) the Senate
amendments to the pension appropria-
tion bill were non-concurred in.


The House then went into Commit
tee of the whole on the army appropri-
alton bill. Hewett, IN. " who has
charge of the bill, made a lengthy
speech iu favor of reduction of the
army. He had no fears of an Indian
war, and as for keeping up large
standing army to put down labor strik-
ers, he regarded such course as better
adapted to monarchial form of gov
erumanf
Year: 1878

HENRY CLAY DEAN is writing let
ters to the Iowa papers in favor of the
abolition of the jury system. A law to
compel Henry Clay Dean to change his
linen every ten years, and a jury to see
that it was Carried into effect, would
be a benefit to the locality in which
Henry Clay Dean resides.
Year: 1878

st. Louis, May ia heavy rain
and wind storm passed over the north
west part Of this city this afternoon,
doing great damage. Eight or ten per-
sons were injured. The wind had a
velocity of sixty miles an hour, and in
its course unroofed or otherwise dam
aged over one hundred houses. The
exact loss cannot be given, but viii
reach several thousand dollars.
Year: 1878

THE Hendricks men are trying to
flatter themselves with the belief that
the anti-Tilden movement in New
York means Hendricks and Herman as
the Democratic national ticket in 1880.
Something more than the Vice Presi-
Dental nomination will be needed to
carry New York for the Democracy
two years hence. The ticket is more
likely to be the above reversed.
Year: 1878

There are but few men who are as
foolish as they are thought to be, and
less who are rs wise as they think they
are.


q" Nature abhOTs a vacuum" therefore
she fills some heads with sawdust.


" 1t is only step from the sublime to
the ridiculous" and it is only the very
wise who can take the step and get back
again.


Tue hardest dollar for man to get is
too often the one he needs the NEST.


The man who dies the richest is the one
who leaves the least here and takes tie
most with him.


True philosophy, like true philanthropy,
is work OF deeds, not words.


When | see a man VINO is Over-anxious
to prove anything, am very apt to think
he is not very certain about it himself.


/ thank God that there is one thing
that money won't buy, aud that is the
wsg OF dogs tail.


No man ever became great simply by
accident; accident has often opened the
way.


The multitude gaze at the epau7ets,
the few at the man who wears them.


Young man, what you get in this
wotld you have got TO win, and man
kind are hard tsskmasteTs and slow
pay.


The great mistake that many felix's
make Is, they are continually betting
on to>morroH and letting to~day 90 by
default.


Most OF US are happy not so much be-
cause we have got q horse and buggy to
rice IN, es because the other fellow has
got TO go on foot.


II j. easy enough 20 learn by experi.
enoe, but to profit by it is what's the
matter.
Year: 1878

Speaking of gall, =" remarked printer
last evening in a G. street beer-saloon,
'taIking of solid cheek, never saw a
man who had more of it than Pete
Blivens, Of Kansas City. Three of Us
used to room together there in 1872
One night in July (it was so hot that if
you'd chuck water on the side of house
it would sizz like 50 much hot irOn) we
concluded to go down and sleep on one
of the timber-Taits on the river. Well,
we got on the rat with our blankets
Just before turning in Pete Bjivens said
he guessed he'd cool off by taking a swim.
| knew the current would snatch him
right under, but didn't want to give him
auy advice. and nc dived off the raft
The undertOw caught him and sent him
out of sight IN about three seconds. As
soon As We saw he was drowned, me and
the other chap went for his effects. We
found eight dollars and halfin his pants
pocket and an old watch. We took
them uD town and soaked the clothes for
nine dollars and the watch for twelve
dollars. Then we went around town on
a sort of jamboree and spent the money.
About five O'Clock in the morning we
were drinking up the last dollar with
some of the boys at the Blue Corner,
when who should walk in but Pete him
self, in an old suit OF clothes that he'd
borrowed OF man three miles down the
river hDd hang me if he didn't de-
mand his clothes, and next day he WAS
round dunning US for the paltry eight
eight dollars and a hal. The gall of
some mems enough to paTalyze L0uisi-
ana alligator. - Virginia (Nev.) ChrOn-
icle.
Year: 1878

trained nurses, but grew rapidly worse. His
case turned into what is popularIy called
hydrophobia. One of the doctors informed
me that the young man had every symptom
OF that most dreadful maIady. Death came
to him as happy relief from sufferings most
intense,
Year: 1878

WASHINGTON, Jan. IA letter was
received at the general land office to-day,
making formal application for survey by
the government OF portion of the old
Fort Dearborn military reservation as pub
lie land, still subject to. entry, although 1t
now embraces nearly all of the business
portion of Chicago south Of the river. This
appropriation is supposed to be based upon
the theory that the sale of the greater part
Of the Fort Dearborn reservation, by direc-
tion of the secretary Of war, in 1877, was
not authorized by the law of 1919, under
which it was ordered.


A meeting of tobacco manufacturers was
held IN this city tonight They favored a
reduction of the tax to twelve cents per
pound, and drawba on the old stock in
hands Of manufacturers, their agents and
iobbers at the time the reduction became a
law.


Conferences were had with congressman
who were urged to favor reductions. Man
ufacturers cIaim such a rate of taxation
will cover over $30,O0O,O00 into the
treasury; that it will generally increase
consumption, thereby increasing the price
of farmers and planters Leaf; that the
price Of leaf has steadily fallen since the
present high rate Of taxation went into
| effect, until it ranges. on the average. in
| eastern and western markets TO 64 cents
per pound, point unremuneratiVe to both
| the farmer and the planter.
Year: 1878

"a Ra Il Il ~
The most Vrelentless appliances Of the
law are put in force against the poor, and
f.instant compliance is not made with the
claim of landlord or other creditor, q
broker is put into possession, and the
whole Of the hapless debtors furniture is
seized and sold. The returns made Of the
amount produced by the sale are "doc.
tored" to suit the broker and his confeder-
ates. The victim cannot help himself; he
is too poor to employ u solicitor, too much
afraid of the law to appeal to it for protec-
ton. The sale itself is hole-and- corner
proceeding, huddled up among the broker
and his confederates. i, Furniture worth
eco may be sold for E5. No doubt this is
an offence liable to punishment; but the
poor man or woman in debt is utterly
broken down; it would be difficult to find a
more dispirited or helpless creature in the
world. Recently, one of the "brokers''
who carry on the distress warrant business
came, by some accident, to grief But for
one case of this wrongdoing and oppression
which is brought to light, scores pass every
day undetected. For debt of three or
four pounds the friendless debtor may
have his entire home broken up and his
childrens beds sold from under them. In
many an instance dying wife has been
trundled by the brokers' man from the bed
to the floor, and not vestige of furniture
has been left in the house. These are the
things that make a people dangerous in
time of national trouble. They cannot al
ways trace their suferings to the right
causes, but they resolve, instead of endur-
ing these suferings any longer to revenge
them.
Year: 1878

to have o fretful


takes the fragrance out of
Leave only weeds where a


ition would cause flowers to
Abit of frstting is one that
nless it be sternly repressed;


way to overcome II is to
pok Oh tho cheerful side Of
Year: 1878

GOVERNOR RICE, Of Massachusetts,, re-
turns the compliments to President HAYES,
who cordially congratulated him on his re-
election, by indorsing the Southern and
civil-service reform policies, but he shies his
Endorsement into the Legislature with such
qualifications that it is evident he sppre-
ciates the popular dissatisfaction of the pco-
PIE Of the Bay State with the methods
adopted for the Cancellation Of the South
and the failure TO inaugurate reform in
Che civil service
Year: 1878

THE Harrisburg Telegraph says: Every
man that has raised his hand TO arrest the
Republican party in the pursuit of its high
purpose has become victim Of his own in
fktuation. He fell into obscuity by the
exercise of his own vanity, and presump-
ton was the political death of him. Take
the notable instances Of GREELEY and
SUMNER. Two more honored men never
lived in the country, while they were faith
full to the Republican party, They rose to
fame and prominence, as they acted in good
fhith toward that organization, and when
they ceased In this they were snuffed out as
sfectuAlly as we extinguish tallow candles
BY pinch of the old-fashioned machine.
There is fatality In this which carries with
II . warning that We hope will be needed
BY men who now aspire to initiate SUM
NERn
Year: 1878

Quite tragic affair took place on Head
EIarbor Island near Machias short time
ago. Mr.. Washington Alley gave one of
his sons, about fifteen years Of age, a fear
ful beating with boot. After the row
was over MI. Alley went on board of
vessel, where he remained until near night.
The son in the meantime loaded gun,
and remarked to his brother that it was
not to shoot a crow. He then kept watch
of his father, and as soon as he came with
in gun shot Of the house he fired Fifteen
shot took effect None of them proved
fatal. A physician was called in and re-
moved the most of them and dressed the
wounds. Mr.. Alley has agreed to do no
more booting, and the son no more shoot
ing
Year: 1878

We have examined the model Of the
''Osbornc Plow Sulky sold by Mr. Fred
ATWOOD Of Winterport, Maine 1t con
sists of a piow attached to a pair of
wheels, to the shaft Of which the team is
attached, also having seat for the team
ster The plow requires no one to hold
it and can be raised from the ground
whenever any obstacle is met with. The
draft, it is claimed, is higher than with
plows without the wheel attached The
cost Of the machine is so. Lewiston
Journal


Western horses do not seem to do well
IN this climate. They are especially fat
ted and fitted for the eastern market, but
do not stand wear and tear. Many of
them die off or become disabled before
becoming acclimated.
Year: 1878

From a sound sleep last night L was
awakened by a sudden, strangely start
ling noise. | thought something had
fallen in the room; struck light,
and finding everything in its place,
went to the front window, opened the
shutter and looked out upon the street.
All was silence and darkness. But in
the morning lit was now quarter past
onel II e body of man was found upon
the sidewalk. He had shot himself
through the heart. 1t made me sad to
think had heard, and perhaps was the
only one who did hear, the sound of
that death-shot. The man had come
back to Nice from Monaco, ruined by
gambling, and, in madness and despair,
had made one leap from the he.ls of
Monaco TO another from which there is
no escape.


Its nothing strange" said my
friend who explained the suicide; they
often kill themselves, these gamblers {:
and we have the same, or worse TRACE
dies every year. You noticed the sud-
den death of a young man last week:
the papers said he committed suicide,
but the facts were concealed. A mere
boy, he got in the way of gambling,
till his fresh youth was blighted, and
he murdered himself before he was Is
years of age.


1.-TWO years ago a young married
couple came here: they had apartments
close by me: the wife had the money,
and the man could spend only what she
let him have: when she found that he
was frequenting the tables at Monaco,
she refused to give him more: he was
already in debt and in his desperation
he killed her and then himself. The
tragedy was hushed up as well as it
could be, but it was one of many in the
history of the internal regions next
door.


This vortex Ofruin has had depress-
ing influence upon Nice, as winter
resort. Thousands and tens Of thou
sands come and enjoy the season; the
numerous and spacious hotels are
crowded; and new ones are every year
added to the number; but it is said that
the growth of the city has been check
ed, and hundreds of families that for
merly made this their home in the win
ter now seek other climes where such
temptations are not presented.


A standing notice in the daily papers
says that no Inhabitants of Nice are
permitted to enter the " "saloons of
' play" at Monaco unless they are mem
Year: 1878

lll2 Girard street, Philadelphia,


medical practitioner of over twenty
years standing. 1t is now more
than ten years since he became
identified with this treatment, and
in that time its remarkable curative
and re-vitalizing power have become
known in all parts of the country, and
hundreds stand ready to give their
grateful testimony in its favor. More
recently DIR. G. f. Palen, a physician
of high character and professional abil-
ity, has become associated with DR..
Starkey in the work of Introducing this
new agent of cure more widely to the
public.


In cases of low vitality, and in con-
valescence, this treatment, it is alleged
has been found of great value. After
medicine has done its work of breaking
up some acute disease, and the physi-
clan leaves his patient, as he must to
nature for repair and restoration, he too
often finds that nature builds again so
slowly that the period of convalescence
is often prolonged through weary
months, while in too many cases the
old vitality is never restored. In this
condition, it is said that compound OK
ygen is wonderful restorer force
and taking the theory of its action TO be
true, il is just here that its value should
most certainly appear,


If all that is claimed for this new
combination of oxygen and nitrogen be
indeed true-and we have the most un-
equivOcal testimony to its curatiye pow
er from many persons of high character
and intelligence, who are well known
throughout the country then it looks
as if a brighter day had come for thou
sands of invalids who have heretofore
sought relief from suffering and slow
decline.-LutherdR Observer.
Year: 1878

Carrots and Mangolds are subject to
but few diseases. In discussing their
nutritious value, chemists differ some,
what, according as they measure this by
the nitrogen they contain, their per
cent. of dry matter or sugar, but they
agree in ranking them much superior
to the early varieties of turnip and
somewhat superior to the Ruta Bsga or
Swede class, particularly when fed to
full grown cattle. Prof. johnson ranks
Carrots with Cabbage when fed to oxen,
for nourishment, and ex experiments ap-
pear to have proved that when equal
measures Of each are fed, Mangolds will
give a greater increase of milk than
potatoes, by about third. For some
reason not fully understood. (perhaps
the depth they penetrate the soil has
something to do with IT'D Onions will
do better after Carrots than after any
other crop, the yield being larger, the
bulb handsomer, while the crop will
bottom down earlier and better. Un-
like Turnips or Swedes, with high ma
nuring the crop can be profitably grown
for years on the same piece of land.
Swine prefer Mangolds to any root ex-
pect the parsnip, and both in this coun-
try and in England store hogs, weigh
ing from l25 lbs. and upwards have
been carried through the winter in fine
condition, when fed wholly on raw Su-
gar Beets or Mangolds. Chemists rank
Carrots, when compared with oats, with
reference to their fat and flesh forming
qualities as to 5.


Not only have roots value i'm them
selves as food, but they have a special
office, taking to large degree the place
of grass and preventing the constipation
that dry feed sometimes causes. While
practice proves that they should not be
relied upon to entirely supersede hay or
grain, sill they increase the value of
either of these to large degree; and
for slow working stock they may be fed
with profit in place of from third to
half the grain usually given. Carrots
add not only to the richness of the col
or, but also to the quality of the milk,
while the flavor of the butter made from
such milk is improved. Carrots fed in
moderate quantities to horses give ad-
ditional gloss to their hairy coats, and
have not only medicinal value when
given to such as have been overgrained
but aid them in digesting grain, as may
be seen in the dung of horses fed on oats
with Carrots, and that of those fed on
oats without Carrots. When cooked
they are sometimes fed to poultry, and
either cooked or raw to swine. In the
family economy they have their place,
particularly when young and fresh,
while in Europe they enter largely into
the composition of the well-known
vegetable soups of the French.