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Year: 1878

From tho Philadelphia Times.


The Sunday.schoOl books used to tell us
horriblcstonesof Hmdoo omotherswho throw
theirlitte children to the Crocodiles of the
Ganges. Notmore cruel tnan these women
was the mother whose ummotherly con-
duct in court is recorded in another
column. Her teu.years old boy had been
guilty Of stealing and had confessed his
crime. The Judge was disposed to show
mercy TO the poor little fellow and let him
20 home. But ms mother refused to take
him or to have anything to do with him.
Despite his entreaties she was willing to
turn her back on him because he had dis
graced the family by stealing. But when
the Judge told her that her child would
have to 20 to the house of correction her
selfshncss triumphed over her indigna-
tion, and to save herself from the disgrace
of having the boy in such place she said
she would take him and put him in a
home. The sound sense of Judge Briggs
saw that such n woman could not be trust
ed, and he declinedto put the lad in her
charge. Preserving the family dignity
, she tramped out OF court, and her son goes
to the house of correction, where he may
possibly learn more incorrect ways than
those in which his youthful feet have al
ready gone astray. 1t is interesting to
know that this womu's husband some
time ago left her and struck out for the
West, Public sympathy naturally goes
with the poor fellow in his retirement
from sphere of matrimonial existence
which could hardly have been much OF a


pleasure to him.
Year: 1878

In 1862 Bally Cavanaugh made an extend ed prospecting trip in the Castle Dome, Eagle Tail and other mountains of Yuma county. He was after gold and paid no at tention to lead or copper; of silver he knew nothing. He got no good gold prospects, but he found an immense ledge, showing great croppings of an ore he had never be- fore seen. He pulvcriZed specimens and washed them out, but getting no colors of gold, he gave no more thought to the ledge Some time atterward he was at Pinos Altos, New Mexico, and there saw ore worked for silver winch was enor- mously rich and exactly like the rock of the big ledge he had found in Yuma coun- ty He came back here intending to locate it, but arrived in wretched health and hay ing lost his voice. He kept the saloon now owned by Mir. Hughes and vainly waited to get strong enough to go into the mountains. He only lived few years, getting weaker all the time; but to the last his mind was fixed on locating the big silver ledge he had found, years before, in Yuma county.
Year: 1878

A much needed improvement is being made by the railroad company in the shape of another warehouse and freight platform at the foot of Main Street, and on the town side of the two tracks This will enable wagons to be driven alongside the platform, to be loaded from It. Steam boat freight can then be discharged from one track to the lower warehouse, and freight for the Gila road can be discharged from the other track into the new shed. Last Monday, besides the barge load at the bank of the river, all the sheds and corral were crowded with freight, and there were 30 car loads more standing around on the tracks, waiting chance to be discharged. The new building is being rapidly bnilt.
Year: 1878

Great quantities of doors and window sash, coming here for points in the interior give an idea of the number of new build ings being erected in the south and east ern part of Arizona. Yavapai county makes all those things at home from her grand pine forests; Prescott boasts of as complete blaming mills and sash factories as are found anywhere. For this reason it is not so easy here to realize the extent to which building is carried on in that county.
Year: 1878

The steamer Mohave is still down the river, where she went to bring up barge that was being repaired at Port Ysabel. One thing, that makes navigation of the lower river slow, is the lack of cord wood. The Indians no longer cut it, and when an occasional boat goes down that way, her crew has to cut her fuel, as needed.
Year: 1878

A large shipment of goods and mining material was shipped to Empire Flat by boat of last week The Colorado Gold & Copper NJ. Company seems to mean busi- ness, but we have no information of their doings It makes less talk and noise than usual with mining companies.
Year: 1878

No machinery being used 10 their manu-
facture and will be Of the BEST MATER.
IAL, and made by the best workmen, and
under his own supervision. I shall sell
these goods at prices very little higher thar
machine made shoes.
Year: 1878

reduced In the same ratio that every other
business and profession has been pinched,
The people are no longer able to pay a. of
yore. II the Board OF Education desires to
be honest and just with their constituents
they will reduce the salaries at least twenty
five per cent. all round. The experience
and talent to be found in the great majority
o, the teachers in the primary schools
would not command $s per week at any
other occupation in the land, save teaching,
and It would be we'll paid at that price.


sfPetticoats and garters, shoes and hair
Pins. calico and lace, Jockey Club and white,
was of the amitillies-everything which 20
to make the fair girls bewitching, have all


tumbled in, price. Why not then wages 2
We wish the taxpayers were able to do


better, but they are not. As to laying by


for their old age, It is all bosh they never


get old until they get married, which is the
goal every one of them pants after.
Year: 1878

THE RESULT OF A RASH ACT-AN FxCUR-


s1oN1sr THROWN UNDER TRAIN AND
/, CUT IN TWO.


Yesterday morning an excursion train
passed through this city with party OF
excursionists from LInwood, for Harewood
Park. William Donavan, aged about ss
years, one Of the party, while on the way
down took his seat on the steps of the car,
and amused himself by tapping the sleep
ers as the train passed along. He had been
warned to stop but paid no heed. When
crossing the bridge over Gun Powder
River, he strucksthe mile post on the bridge
with his foot and was thrown under the
train killing him instantly. Donavan
formerly resided In this city.
Year: 1878

The work on the south basin of the Cool
Spring Reservoir is progressing slowly, haT
ing been much interrupted by the late rains.
Should the weather remain favorable, the
pudding of the bottom and sides WIN be
completed about the first OF September.
The laying Of the bricks will occupy several
weeks. It will probably be fnished by, the
middle of October. The, stone slabs are
now being placed around the north basin.
Year: 1878

SCHOOL TEACR ERS SALARIES.


The Board of Education has taken wise
step In favor of economy by reducing in
some measure the salaries of some of the
school teachers. They halted too soon.


A correspondent in Every Evening, with
strange mixture of pathos and insolence,
writes about the wages Of teachers as If
they were sacred, and could not be touched.
It is not so much question now, of how
much services are worth as how much the
people can afford to pay. The school teach
ers as rule are educated by the city, with
out expense to themselves, hence the city
has claims upon them--thus then the case
differs widely from that of clergymea and
professional men who have had all the ex-
pense Of professional education to meet
The girls who teach tare mostly the chill
dren of fairly we'll to.do parents, and their
wants and expenses are not to be compared
with those of heads Of families.


The taxes Of the city are fast increasing,
thc ability of tue people to meet them are
hourly lessening-under such state Of
things Is It not duty resting upon the con-
science of the Board to reduce the salaries
of their employees. A tabular statement
of the expenses Of school teacher is given
AZ fellows:
Year: 1878

WASHINGTON, April 23-Delegate Maginis'
OF Montana Territory, has received letter
from the frontier from one OF his scouting
constituents, giving some facts as to the loca-
ton and strength OF the hostile Indians The
writer is an old Indian fighter, and says that
Sitting Bull has been working all winter to
a concerted movement against the whites
This summer Sitting Bull is caDped near the
hills with several hundred lodges that he has
gathered under his fold during the last two
or three months.


piled with ammunition, some having i'm
proved needle-guns. They are full Of the war
spirit and subject to Sitting Bull, In whom they
seem to put the utmost confidence. The
writer OF the letter predicts q bloody war,
unless provision is made to meet the first hos
tile movement of the Indians with troops
enough to check the war at the very start.
Year: 1878

Messrs. Moody and Sankey have completed their evangelical work at Hartford, Conn. In the conclusion of his last address Mir. Moody said II shall never think of Hartford with out thinking of these precious meet ings. I never liked to stop in any place as I have in this city, and my little boy tonight wanted to know il I couldn't manage to stay here long CT. God bless Hartfordm
Year: 1878

Dr. Ischamer, of Graz, has discov- cred that the little black specks which are often found on the skins of oranges and apples are clusters of fungi, precisely similar to those to which whooping cough is attribut- ed. lie scraped some of the black specks off an orange, and introduced them into his lungs by a strong in spiration. The next day he had a violent tickling in the throat, and before the end of the week his little experiment had developed into an acute attack of whcoping cough.
Year: 1878

The telep hone is coming into gen eral use in the departments at Wash ington. Secretary sherman has one between his house and the Treasury building, and one of the watchmen lost his place the other day because he wasn't at his post when the Sec retary wanted to talk with him.
Year: 1878

As healthy family as there is in the State of Michigan have had hot bread or buscuit for tea and part of the time al other meals for the last ten years. They also drink tea and coffee and love rich pie-crust. Now where is bio Lewis?
Year: 1878

Of the one hundred and twenty nine business failures in New York city last month, ninety eight could be traced to high living and high dressing at home, An extrayagans wife is as bad as fire.
Year: 1878

ed, and that he was not treated in a like
manner seems almost miraculous. Prob
ably after he fell the Indians thought he
was playing possum and dared not ap-
proach him.


AS another instance Of Louis remark
able swiftness Of foot | will relate story
that used to be told in his presence and
which l never heard him deny. While
jourDeying towards the Big Horn noun
tAins, his party was ambuscaded by large
and unusually weI-mounted and armed
party Of Bloods. Louis was some distance
in the advance, leading pack horse. He
probably saw the Indians or suspected
their presence before any Of the rest Of
the party had done So, and il order to put
his companions on their guard, without
alarming the enemy, he carelessly dropped
the halter rope and allowing the pack
horse to travel on alone turned back to-
wards his friends, but before he had gone
more than few steps the Indians charg-





ed upon the party and separated him
from them. The attack was SO sudden
and overwhelming that the men do
nothing but attempt to save themselves by
flight, and one and all made for the brush.
Louis ran down a ravine, at the bottom Of
which large black-tail deer was quietly
reposing, the animal sprang up immediat-
ely in front Of Louis, and started off, but
it is said that the latter kept close at the
heels of the deer until they were out Of
sight Of the Indians and even slapped the
animal on the back TO urge it to greater
speed.


The Blood Indians at this time were so
numerous and troublesome that the trap
per8 Joined with the Crows in waging war
against them. The Grows, ana indeed all
other tribes, were mortal enemies Of the
Blackleet, and were glad enough ia avail
themselves Of the assistance Of the whites.
The result Of this alliance was one Of the
most remarkable engagements that ever
occurred in an Indian country. Louis
Bompard, with about twenty trappers and
l30 Grows, laid trap for what was known
as the Little Robe Band, party Of seven
hundred Of the fercest and most danger
Gus Indians in the Blackfeet nation, led
by the famous Chief Little Robe. The
fight took place on the Missouri near Fort
Union. On leaving camp in the morning
the Blackfeet strang out across a high
divide near which the trappers and their
Indian allies were lying in wait. The at
tac6ing party delayed until half their vic
TINS had cr~ssed the mountain and then
fell upon them with such fury that hardly
one escaped, and then turning upon the
rest treated them il like manner. The
band was completely annihilated and con
sidering tie disparity Of numbers, its
conquest was one of the most remarkable
achievements on record.
Year: 1878

THE Democrats would have us believe that
it is no greater wrong for the South to obtain
disproportionate representation in the
House by irregular and unconstitutional
methods than it is for the small States of the
Union to hold disproportionate representa-
tion in the Senate, given them by the consti-
tuition. State Rights have gone to meet Cal
houn when Democrats preach this doctrine.
Year: 1878

THEY are trying to persuade Thurman
that he can make Marengo out of .the Ohio
election next year, if he will be a candidate
for Governor. Very likely; but the role of
Melas, not OF Napoleon, will fall to him.
Year: 1878

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 COM
munications that are not used.
Year: 1878

SINCE the death of the Rhode Island woman
from excessive laughing the society for the
preservation of human life think of sup
pressing the funny papers. The society
should begin with the, Biddeford Miniatue.
Year: 1878

Peck's Suu: No attention will be paid to
evil communications, unless the owners name
is blown in the bottle. The San is no escape
valve for bilious people to work off their bile,
and make other people have worms. If you
don't like the way this world is run, cut your
throat, or 90 west.
Year: 1878

Biddeford Miniature: Now doa't you 90
about the house asking all sorts Of foolish ques-
tons for the next few days, even if your eye
does happen to fall on an embryo slipper or
something of that sort. The fan of the thing
is in your taking on that look Of surprise at the
proper time. which flashes over the facs of the
freshly nominated candidate for Office when he
is accidentally run across in the ante-room and
informed of the action of the convention.
Year: 1878

These most terrible of pains arise from
the veins being 80 full of blood that
they swell out, press against the large
nerves, and thus impede the circulation
of the vital fluid. In smaller nerves the
distension produces neuralgia, which is
literally nerve-ache." The cause OF
this unusual fullness of the veins is,
that the blood is so impure, so thick, 30
full OF disease, that it cannot flow by
Natures ordinary agencies. In proper
ton as it is thick, it is cold, and this
abnormal state is indicated by the feeble
ness of the pulse. In cholera patients
it is very marked, and exists days and
weeks before the attack. The following
is simple method of treatment:


When person is attacked with rramp,
get some hot water quietly and e1-
peditiously (for noise and e1clamations
Of grief and alarm still further disturb
the nervous equilibrium) put the suf.
ferer in the water as completely as pos
sible, and thus heat is impaired to the
blood, which sends it coursing along the
veins, and the pain is gone. While the
water is in preparation, rub the cramped
part very briskly with the hand or a
woolen flannel, with your mouth shut.
But why keep the mouth shut? You
can rub harder, faster and more efficient
", beside it saves the sufferer from
meaningless and agonizing inquiries. A
man in pain does not want to be talked
to-he wants relief, not words If all
could know, as physicians do, the in
estimable value of quiet composure, and
the confident air on the part OF one who
attempts to aid sufferer, it would be
practiced with ceaseless assjduity by the
considerate and the humane.
Year: 1878

She gave him a beautifully worked
pair of Slippers, and although they were
m inch too short, and pinched him
dreadfully across the toes, he smilingly
submitted to tile martyrdom which they
imposed, and vowed they should never
leave his feet.


This reckless statement must be re-
ceived by the reader with becoming
cautiousness.


And 80 the young man made return
of her offering. It was his picture, en-
cased in handsome frame. he wrote q
note to send with it, and at the same
time replied angrily to an oft-repeated
dun from his tailor, with reference to
AN uupaid-for suit of clothes. He gave
a boy ten cents to deliver the package
and notes, giving explicit directions as
to the destination of eachI 1t was an
unusually Intelligent boy, with freckled
face, and he discharged his errand in a
manner that should give him niche in
the temple of fame. The young lady
received note in her adored ones hand
writing, and few to her room to devour
it's contents. She opened the missive
with eager fingers, and read:


"I'm getting tired Of your everlasting
attentions. The suit is abont worn out,
already. 1t never amounted to much,
anyway. Please go to thunder"


And the tailor was struck utterly
dumb, when he opened package and
discovered the picture of his delinquent
customer, with note that said:


"When you gaze upon these features,
think of how much I owe to you"


When the unfortunate young man
called around that evening to receive the
happy acknowledgements OF his sweet
heart, he was very ostentatiously kicked
off the steps and over the fence. by the
young lady's father; and the next morn-
ing he was waited upon by his tailor's
lawyer, and imperatively ordered to SET
tie or suffer.


There is one less freckle-faced boy in
the city, He has suddenly and mystic
ciously disappeared. d.-Rockland Courier.
Year: 1878

The Washington Post tells OF young
Westerner who went to the capital IN
October to get a clerkship, and soon
found that he had undertaken WORK
that would require time for it's compile
tion. An examination of his finances
satisfied him that he had no money to
waste. He left his elegant room at
first-class hotel and took a cheap, fur-
nished apartment in an unaristocra1c
neighborhood, for which he paid only
six dollars a month. He cut down ms
bin of fare to bread, milk and fruit.
and satisfied his appetite at cost OF
twenty cents day. Meantime with gooa1
clothes and cheerful looks, be pushed
for an appointment, and, after many y
disappointments, achieved success IN
two and half months from the time OF
his arrival. Had he followed the usual
custom of expensive living his money
would have given out in two or three
weeks, then he would have subsisted for
a time on his wardrobe, and, becoming
too shabby for appearance in good so,
ciety. would have been driven to appeal
tor charity to help him back, crushed
.nd roe.hs. gone, 10 bin old home.
Year: 1878

All along the st. Johns river, during
the winter, may be seen birds catching
fish for living. They are more numer-
ous here in the winter than in summer,
because, upon the freezing Of the waters
at the North, they flock to Florida to
carry on their fishing in the st. Johns,
which, never freezing, contains an
abundance of fish.


The belted kingasher comes close to
the house. where I can watch him fish
ing as I sit at the window. The river is
five miles across here, and for several
yards from the shore it is quite shallow,
so that wharf two hundred and fifty
feet long was necessary to make it easy
to launch our small rowboats. A railing
extends along the side of the wharf, and
upon this railing the kingfsher perches,
watching for his prey.


He understands fishing much better
than most boys, for he seldom misses
his game. He takes his position on the
railing, and fixes his eyes on the finny
tribes below, and when fish that suits
him comes within his range, he dives
into the water and brings it up with his
stout beak, md then beats it upon the
railing to make it limp and tender before
swallowing.


It is not 30 very surprising that he is
such an expert fisher, for during the
winter it is his only occupation; he has
no family to look after now, and he is
80 very selfish and quarrelsome that he
will not allow any Of his brothers to fish
near him. he considers the whole
length of the wharf his f1shing-post, and
his brothers must not trespass upon his
grounds; if they do, he chases them
away with a rattling, changing noise,
enough to frighten any fisher not
stronger than himself.


In the spring he takes partner in bis
business, for now it is time to raise a
family, and he knows he can never do
this alone. he is very good and kind to
this partner, and helps her dig hole in
clayey bank for the nest, and then
takes his turn in sitting on the eggs.
After the eggs are Matched, they both
catch fish to feed the young until they
are old enough to feed Themselves
Mrs. Mary Treat, in st. Nicholas.
Year: 1878

Without recourse, says the Frankfort
(Ky.) Commonwealth, we print the fol-
lowing incident connected with trip of
Governor McCreary: 1t appears the
Governor was travelling Oh railroad
train, and sat down in seat whose other
half was occupied by rough, uncouth.
looking stranger, who appeared not in
disposed to engage the Governor, who
was unknown to him, in conversation.
In his efforts in that direction the stran-
ger drew from his pocket handful of
gold coin, and announcing that "thar
was no better stuff to keep feller goin
in this ere country" he jingled it in a
self-satisfed way.


"It does have a pleasant lock-" said
the Governor, smiling in his usual bland
way:


eyes," she's good-reg'lar-built shi-
ners-and I've got a few more of the
same soff," said the stranger as he
pulled his vest up and showed a belt
around his body that was puffed out with
gold coin.


"Ain't no better to be found in all Col
GRADY" calculated the stranger with an
innocent chuckle.


The ostentatious way in which the
stranger paraded his wealth, and which
had already attracted the attention of
other persons in the car, suggested to
Governor cCreary the fatherly idea Of
warning the stranger Of the danger he
ran in thus exposing his money to pub
lie view.


"My FRIEND" said he, "you may be
long ways from home and not fully
aware of the great hazard you run in
showing your money to people. You
may be robbed by some desperate vii
lain who may even now be watching
you"


The stranger widened his mouth in a
broad grin, and reaching both hands
back under his coat, he drew out and
displayed to the astonished governor q
couple of navy SKIES, loaded to the muz'
zle, remarking as he did so;


oval, no, I guess not-not while
these ERE pups know how to bark. You
just bet yer pile they won't keep still
when feller calls for that little lot o
gold. I'm wus nor mad buffer or
Rocky grizzly when my dander is up


The Governor thought he was su6ad
| ertly advisedi