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Year: 1878

We ask our readers to kindly remember
that St. Paul's Fair is now open, and is q
centre Of attraction for the beautiful, the
young, the wise and the charitable GO
there and pass a pleasant evening, and a.
the same time aid noble charity. g,i
Year: 1878

We advise all young people b ac-
qulre in early life the habit Of using
good language, both in speaking and
writing, and also to abandon the use
Of slang phrases. The longer they
live the more difficult the acquisition
OF good Language will be and IL the
golden age OF youth, the proper time
for the acquisition Of language, be
passed IN its abuse, the unfortunate
victim OF neglected education is very
probably doomed TO tslB slang for
life. Money is not necessary to pro-
cure this education. Every man has
1t in his power. He hss merely to
use the language which he reads in
stead OF the slang which be hears ;
TO form his taste from the best speak
era and poets Of the country to treas
ure up choice phrases In his memory,
and habltuate himself to their use,
avoiding at the same time that pedan.
| tic precision and bOmbast, which
show rather the weakness Of vain
ambition than the polish Of sn edu.
Gated mind.
Year: 1878

ST. LOUIS, Feb. s.-In the Bowman
case the jury returned verdict in favor
OF the defendant upon all counts Of the
complaint charging corruption, and on
the minor matters yeldict for the com.
plainants. The startling discovery that
the Judge before whom the case was
tried Is q member OF the Association
that appeared as plaintiff causes much
comment.
Year: 1878

Yes, come to the lake, there let memory linger
On scenes most impressive, most rare


No tongue can entone, nor pencil describe them,
Come view natures scenery there.


Waha Lake, a sheet of water, one mile
in length by 1 in width, ia situated about
fourteen miles south of Lewiston Mt the
foot of Craig's mountain. The hills rise
up on three sides of it, while from the
north is an entrance to the lake through
belt of road that girts aud winds around
the mountain, The lake lis . -hallx -a.s n4ge
one rows over its placid waters, the pine
clad hills rising precipitous around you,
give at once grace and an ornament to
the wlds of nature that is really enchant-
ing. A ranch has been located within the
past few days, taking in the little plot of a
few acres that bound the lake on the north,
with view of making this lake and its
surroundings a resort for the tourist and a
neighboring counties. 1t certainly will be
no very distant day, when the forest that
now cast their shadows in its waters will
be supplanted by the lake side cottages,
and instead of the canoe of the Indian and
its neighboring angelor, its bosom will be
dotted with the sails of the fashionable
yatch The student ard the over taxed
brain worker, will find within its sur
roundings an nndisturbed repose, for ma
ture has so arranged its boundaries that
the plow shear of the farmer, or the
hammer of the artisan will not disturb its
miles of recedng mountains. Every sea-
son brings its increase of visitors and the
ash piles in the groves upon its borders
disclose their camping grounds and the
scattered fishing rods are an index to their
| measures Xxx
Year: 1878

for both will be under the control of the
Boise City junto and will as far as in
them lies do their bidding. 1t will
doubtless become a matter of much i'm.
portance to the people of north Idaho
that they be represented at Washington
by one of their own section in their own
interests, in the event that either Brown
or Ainslee be elected, if they expect any
favors, which either Of these men would
have it in their power to deny to them
in case they should be unrepresented by
special delegate. Southern delegates
never have had any consideration tor us
in former years, and 1t would be the
hight of folly to expect any from them
now that we have determined to 90 to
Washington so soon as she becomes a
State. But this action of these conyen.
tions need furnish no encouragement to
our going to Washington when she be.
comes a State. The people here have
only to adhere to their determination
and vote for the Constitution of Wash.
ton and abide the time OF her admission
for when she goes in as a State we 90
with her, be it next Winter or in FIVE
years hence. and the puny efforts of the
Boise City junto will be found to weak
to prevent the change. What God aud
nature has ordained the puny arm of
man cannot prevent.
Year: 1878

1900 ADA oA' ia you duOTu uS U
small space in the columns of your pa.
per, for the purpose of expressing an
opinion we have long entertained in re-
gard to our system Unpopular education.
Although in our opinion that system is
fraught with many and serious defects,
we nevertheless hesitate to speak in der
ogation Of system that has so long been :
the pride and boast of our people, and
the source of such great aud national
blessings. Yet that such defects do ex-
list, and those too, of most radical
nature, in the course Of study prescribed
for, and now taught in the graded and
common schools throughout the country,
there seems but little room to doubt.
The youth who begins life in this age Of
unprecedented progress, it matters not
what his avocation or calling may be, is
sure to meet with fierce and stern
competition at every turn, and unless he
is inevery respect possessed ofa thorough
and perfect knowledge Of the business
be processes to follow, there is little or
no chance Of success, while failure is al
most inevitable. This great and all i'm.
portant work of preparation must be
commenced, and perfected to very
great extent, in the common and higher
schools of our country. Under the lib


eral and fostering policy of our govern
ment there is ample means to send forth
every youth in our land, with the pro-
per and practical qualifications for every
art, trade and profession. But the
great mistake, as we have before re-
marked, seems to be in the course of
study pursued in our schools. For in
stance, every one is fully aware of the
long months of close and arduous ap.
pllcaton that are -reaujredv d. tfasu fer the uAeaa uAeaa
govern our system of photography. This
is certainly very unnecessary waists, Of
time, means and energy. Why not drop
at once this arduous and prolix system,
and adopt that which our best lexicog-
raphers have been recommending for
years, viz the Photographic system, or
the art of spelling words according to
the sounds that compose them. IF this
were done, the difficulty of learning the
child to spell is at once removed, and in
the time that the beginner must devote
to this alone under our present system,
he could easily become proficient in the
art of telography or other Of the light arts,
which, in after life might be turned to
some practical account. The same may
be said in regard to our present system
of teaching geography. Instead Of de-
voting month after month to tracing out
the outlines, studying the river system,
the climate, products and etc., of some
remote portion of the globe, which
amounts to but little as mental dicipline,
(and to equally as little so far as the
practical worth of such knowledge is
concerned), the student might master
the shorthand or Photographic system
of writing, which for mental training is


for superior to geography as now taught,
and as information is certainly vastly


more beneficial. So instead of Rhetoric


there should be placed in the hands Of
the student mineralogy, and great por


ton Of the time now devoted to grammar
should be spent on botany, chemistry
&c. More anon. X.
Year: 1878

AMONG the fine improvements contem- plated in Tucson, as we are informed, is the making of three-story house Of his residence on Main street by Leopoldo Carrillo. By an excavation on level with the street under the present building one story will be made and the third one will be atop Of the first two. Mir. Carrillo is an energetic man and has done more we think, than any other man to build good buildings in Tucson.
Year: 1878

DR. J. c. HANDY made strike in his we'll last week which may encourage the sinking Of artesiau wells in town. The Doctors well was about thirty feet deep and the water poor. He concluded 10 sink. The workmen went down about three feet further where they struck ledge Of some thing like alabaster. One of the men drove his bar through the ledge when 1t dropped about Q foot, evidently through a current Of water for as soon as the bar was with drawn the water rushed up through the hole in such quantity that the work had to be abandoned. The well now contains five feet of good water and all efforts to lower it by bailing have proved inef- fecttye.
Year: 1878

OSCAR DUPUY, the popular merchant Of the Tombstone country, was fin town last week after more goods, which is an indica- ton of flush times at the mines. Oscar looks brown and hearty and declares his country agrees with hls health and bis business with his pocket. Glad to hear
Year: 1878

FRANK STAPLES left last Saturday for his station at Camp Apache which he de- clares is one Of the most delightful spots with which this green earth is favored. Frank will have friends and be happy in any cline.
Year: 1878

Two pans and lot of machinery ar rived in town last Saturday for the new

 mill which is being constructed at Globe City by the Haskin Mining Company

 Workmen have been busy for some weeks

 preparing the foundations and frame

 work, setting the boiler. etc., all the ma chinery will soon be on the ground and the company will soon be in q condition to crush the large quantity Of ore already on their dump. H. c. Bixby the compe- tent manager of this company Is now in New York City, and has his office at No. 22 Astor House, where he Is disposing or stock and arra1-ing the company's affairs in good shape. Mir. Bixby will soon visit

 Arizona again to give the mill and mine his personal supervision.
Year: 1878

TIE Greenbackers have been claiming all
the time that it is only necessary to make
the greenback full legal-tender to bring it
to par with gold. But the bill to receive
greenbackers after October for customs dues
was defeated in the House by Ewing and his
following. Somehow these Greenbackers
shrink from the opportunity of having their
theories put to the test of actual trial.
Year: 1878

Paper emissions by the government are
of n nature SO liable 10 abuse, L may say
SO certain to be abused, that the wisdom of
the government will be shown by never
trusting itseIf w th so seducing and dam
ger0us a power.o


ALEXANDER HAMILTON.
Year: 1878

THERE is at last good prospect that Crete
will go to Greece, where it belongs. The
Cretans have renewed their insurrection and
are fighting with vigor and success. The
Peace Congress will not be apt to turn them
over to the tender mercies of the Turk.
Year: 1878

We do not read anonymous etters 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

IT seems that the last "executive session"
of the Senate was nap. While waiting for
the sundry civil appropriation bill which was
being perfected in the House the doors were
closed and the Senators went to sleep.
Year: 1878

The changeable being who controls the columns of the Enterprise, attempted to write up another drama, but having no material with which to build up the ''play'' signally failed. As specimen of sore headed silly twaddle, the reasonable column ot balderdash, in yesterdays issue of that holy journal, attempted, in its feeble way to take to task every Federal officer in Arizona who has the manhood and courage to think and act honestly, without fear or favor in the discharge of h's duties public and prlvate as the case may be, is more than success. It is too simple and false for criticism or credulity of even the un- cultured horde who yelp at the heels of the unsophistocsted false animal that leads them; too malicious and groveling to at tract the respectful attention of anyone, and, therefore unfit for extended notice in these columns. Suffice to say, that not a soul will waver or be turned from their line of duty in consequence of the venomous as- sault attempted by the low, cunning fox.
Year: 1878

Messrs. Hume and Panl, of Wells, Fargo & Co.'s detective force, brought in and lodged in jail. yesterday afternoon, two strangers whom they charge with sropplng the stage near Date Creek on the 18th inst, at the time when Henry Asher and wife were the only passengers. The express box was taken and demand and search was male for the bullion, but as there was none on board, and the box was light, they put it back and told the driver to proceed. They got nothing for their trouble, but it was 6 robbery ''all the same.n We are not informed as to the evidence against these men, but Aessrs. Hume and Paul, appear to feel quite confident that they are the roosters who made the attempt, and that they are young In the business.
Year: 1878

If there 10 one thing more than
another which of late has disgusted
our people it has been the attempt,
by malicious parties, at a time
when Los Angeles was beginning
to enter upon her old career OF
prosperity, to disturb confidence in
the Farmers and Merchants Bank.
This institution has signalized its
history by many weighty and un-
obtrusive services to the commu-
nifty. 1t has never been managed
with more sagacity than now, or
with q more conservative regard to
the soundest banking principles.
or with more success from the
standpoint Of security to the public
and profit to the stockholders. The
statement of the Trustees of the
Bank, published elsewhere, not
only show the bank to be sound
but to be exceptionally safe and
trustworthy. The Eoening Express
has handled the matter so exhaust.
lively that we reproduce its arti-
Gle of yesterday in our local COL
umns,
Year: 1878

We have heretofore dwelt upon
the facts that the erection of the
mammoth grain storing warehouse
of E. Maud & Co., the devoting of
the old Drum barracks Of Whining
ton to the same purpose, and the
general disposition upon the part
of our farmers to store and hold
their grain for fair prices, are
wholesome and encouraging indi.
cations. The excellent plight in
which our barley growers stand
this year is explained by the devel-
opment of forehanded and prcvi-
dent spirit amongst them rather
than by the superabundance of the
grain crop. This year, although
grain by the hundred thousand
sacks is already in store, our barley
commands eighty-five cents per
GENITAL as against sixty-five cents at
this time in previous seasons. The
fact that we have shown a little
self-relisnce has already operated
In our favor. In addition, we are
helped by the almost total failure
of the barley crop in the Eastern
and North western States. A
short time ago the anomaly was
presented in the Chicago Grain
Exchange Of barley quoted AT 81 II
against wheat at ninety-fv- cents.
Our farmers are this year assisted
by the demand for our barley from
the East and hy all exceedingly
remunerative market for their
corn In Mexico. Central and South
America. On the supposition that
our agricultur.sts We're free ofdebt,
we know of none of their class in
the United States who could rea-
sonabIy look forward to q more
brilliant future than they. The
mere increase of storage facilities
hus this year made our farmers in
dependent of the middlemen. To a
rigid economy which will get them
out of debt, to an industry which
is needed to enable the farmer of
the East to make bare living,
and to additions to our storage fa-
cllities, which set the middlemen
at defiance, the farming interests
of Los Angeles county may rea-
sonably look for robust prosper
ity. We are glad to be able to
make the perfectly true staten ent
that the condition of our agricul.
turists is to-day fully thirty per
cent. better than it was thought to
be two months ago. Those of our
farmers who hold their barley will,
very likely, get ST. 25 per GENITAL
for 1t.
Year: 1878

In ancient Greece they had a prOverb
that ran thus: 4" To dispute on the
shadow of an ass" This took rise from
an anecdote which DemOsthenes is said
to have related to the Athenians to
excite their attention during his defense
of a criminal which was being but mat
tentiveIy listened to. A traveller" he
said. " "Cnce went from Athens to MegaTa
on a hired ass. 1t happened to be at the
time of the dog days, at noon. He was
much exposed to the unmitigated heat
of the sun, and not finding 80 much as
bush under which to take shelter, he
bethought himself to descend from the
ass and seat himself under its shadow.
The owner of the donkey, who &C
lug to him that when he let the animal
in the bargain. The dispute at last
grew 80 warm that it got to blows, and
finally gave rise to an action at law" d"
After having said-sO much, Denosthenes
continued the defense of his client; but
his auditors, whose curiosity he had
pidued, were anxious TO know how the
Judges decided on 50 singular a case.
Upon this the crater commended severely y
on their childish I'M ustice in devouring
with attention paltry story about an
ass shadow, while they turned a deaf
ear to a cause in which the life of a
human being was involved. From that
| day when q man showed a preference for
discussing small and contemplate sub
/ iects TO great and important ones, ne wa


said to dispute on the shadow Of an
| ass."
Year: 1878

should have some sopped wheat, which
strengthens them wonderfully ana
makes them grow and lay on flesh fast;
This may be varied with potatoes and
white bread, soaked in milk.


One point of great Importance in iced
ing young fowls should never be lost
sight Of 1t is neglect of this that causes
SO many failures in poultry-rearlng'
They must be fed often; but never have
more at time than they can take with
appetite, for no animal is more dainty
than the fowl. Once give them too much
food at a time, so that they leave some
of it uneaten, and they will rarely eat OF
it again, unless actually driven by hun
ger, and then only just enough to Staye
off starvation. Dorkings, indeed, will
literally die rather than touch food to
which they have taken dislike. Plen,
ty of exercise in the open air is good
thing for the young ones; but even IN a
very confined space poultry breeding
Yields excellent results, if only it be car
ried on with intelligence and ZEAL
London Farmer.
Year: 1878

Though it is hard and cruel thing to
say, would urge you to beware of tax
ing pleasant fellows for your friends.
Choose a good, disagreeable friend, il
you are wise-a surly, steady, econom-
ical, rigid fellow. All jolly fellows, all
delights of billiard-rooms, all fellows
who sing capital song, and the like,
are sure to be poor. They will borrow
your money, and their very generosity
and goodness of disposition will prevent
them from having the means Of paying
you back. They lend their money to
some other jolly fellow. They accom-
modate each other by putting their jolly
names to the back of jolly bills. Their
tradesmen are on the lookout for them.
1t is hard times with gentleman when
he has to walk round a street for fear of
meeting a creditor there, and for man
of courage when he can't look tailor in
the face.-Thacse1ay.
Year: 1878

RUsK-2 pounds of flour, pound
white sugar, eggs well beaten, 1 table
spoonful butter, cup of sweet milk, 1
cup of potato yeast, white potatoes
boiled and mashed through sieve,
teaspoonful salt; mix all thoroughly
over night. BY 9 O'Clock next morning
it will be ready to mold as soon as the
rolls have risen, bake as you would light
bread. When done glaze them with
the white of an egg and sprinkle pow
dered sugar on the tops.
Year: 1878

Nothing tends so to destroy ones
confidence in a paragraph as to show it
to a wooden-headed man, and have him
return it after inspection, without a
comment or smile. You know that he
is about as well qualified to Judge of a
joke as a horse is to express All opinion
regarding the set of claw-ham-
mer coat; but your confidence in that
paragraph is all shaken to pieces, just
he same.
Year: 1878

DURING the last year, the output of coal in
the British Islands amounted, it is stated, to
162,0OO,000 tons. In regard to the popular
notion that by such prodigious mining opera.
tions great part of the crust of the earth is
becoming used up, and that if the soil that
has thus been dug out of the mines were piled
up it would make quite a mountain range,
the following figures are presented: A cubic
mile is equal to 147, 900 cubic feet, and,
allowing twenty nine and a half cubic feet of
coal in the solid to weigh ton, the result is
just five billion tons of coal in one cubic
mile-this being, in fact, greater weight
than all that has yet been raised in the British
Islands; and, according to the most reliable
statistics, the end of the present year will just
complete the first mile of cubic coal, exclu.
sive of waste, in mining If, therefore, this
mineral fuel had been stored in mountain
heaps on the surface, instead of being buried
in the bowels of the earth, a very small noun.
tain range indeed would have been equivalent
to all the coal fields available to man in the
whole earlh
Year: 1878

The Democratic press both North and
South has begun to talk of executive inter
ference in South Carolina in a tone of defiant
and triumphant insolence. "Let Mr.. Hayes
execute such laws as he finds on the statute
books" cries one organ of the red shirt and
the shot gun; ''but if they are not sufficient,
not bit of help shall he get from Congress u
'.No more amnesty for offenders against State
laws" exclaims one of the Southern journals;
''give the Radical rascals dose of civil pro.
cess" ''lf our State authorities back down
now," says correspondent of the Charles
ton News and Courier, land fail to push the
law upon every criminal of that desperate
party, we have misled the colored Democracy
when we guaranteed them protection"C)
The "Radical rascals," as our readers under.
stand, are all the black or white Republicans
who have given evidence before United States
Commissioners of fraud or violence in the
election-men who have been clubbed for
their political opinions, or who have witness.
ed tie stuffing of ballot boxes and the falsifi-
cation of the count; and the method of "push
ing the law" against them is to arrest and
punish them by the State courts for alleged
perjury in their testimony before a Federal
tribunal.


The case Of the Rev. Mr.. Pinckney is a
good illustration of this manner of ''giving
Radical rascals dose of civil process" Mr.
Pinckney was one of the witnesses who gave
evidence respecting the election outrages at
Kingstree. For this he was charged with
perjury and thrown into prison; and the
Charleston News and Courier, in reporting
the arrest, remarks that "the appearance of
his classical facial formation through the Jail
bars will probably act as warning TO others
OF his ilk that tney will no more be allowed to
swear Democrats into trouble unquestioned.'
OF another witness, against whom warrant
is out, the correspondence of the same papf
says, "He will yet be caught or made to eave
the country" Similar action has been taken
in all parts of the State; and now the Red
Shirt Democracy is going so far as to arrest
the United States Commissioners also, on the
most frivolous and indecent pretexts, when.
ever they attempt to enforce the election
laws. One Commissioner, for instance, who
was Judge Of Probate, was attacked by
mob while he was taking testimony, and
obliged to flee for his life. That was enough.
The chivalry caused him to be sent to Jail for
not keeping his office open!


The new scheme of notification is now
made plain In every instance where the
United States attempts to put in force the