Year: 1878

CdllC tO OtObt DlSlIlCl d lCN uaES d8o- Not unheralded either, for heavy banks of clouds had for some time intimated it's coming, and it came-lIke the gen tie dew, only heavier-tO rich and poor alike. It rained and hailed as though "old probabilities and the clerk of the weather had 90 turned them selves lOOse.n It commenced a while before dark, and at eight o'clock the lightning was playing it's maddestI pranks and was so continuous and vivid that 1t seemed a halo around the top of Apache peak. Peal after peal of thunder made the solemnity ter rible. The cattle stood with covering form and ears thrown back amazed spectators of the elemental commotion.

 A crowd of us gathered in the assay office, and the huge drops falling on the canvas roof broke into millions of infnitesimalities and came through wetting US thoroughly as if we were outside. Presently we heard a rum bling noise, which grew in intensity till even the thunder seemed dumb, and running to the edge of the creek whose weather rounded boulders had lain dry for two years, we saw wall of water coming along at race-hOrse speed, tumbliug huge rocks along like playthings and carrying on it's suIfaee masses of driftwood, and limbs of trees that had been torn from their places by more than titanic power. It must have been the result of a cloud burst, because the hills were thirsty with a two years drought and drank in raven ously all the moisture that fell on them. If the readers of THE CITIZEN will look at the map of Canada they will find the river Avon which takes its. rise some distance above the town of Windsor. and empties into the head of the Stormy Bay of Fundy Its volume is affected by the tides of the bay which rise about sixty feet When the tide has ebbed the river is mere thread winding its way along its red clay bed; when it flows, the water rising rapidly forms itself into a huge wall several feet high, fighting the vessels that have been lying discon

 solatelv on their beam ends and carry ing on is bosom huge ships that have cut with their birch keels he seas of all the world. Heaven keep the unfor- tunates who may chance to be crossing on it's bed, and do not correctly esii

 mate its speed. for they will find what

 Pharaoh and his host did in the Bible slory-a watery grave. It is one of the

 rrandest feat that the forces of nature can achieve. It is transformation scene that the world cannot equal. One hour a broad waste of clay, inc next majestic river carrying the flags

 of all nations, and tossing its waves

 against the shores of the land i'm mor,alized by Longfellow, where

 the old Acadians lived, and where Gabriel and Evangeline proved by the

 perfecness of their love that 1.-two souls can have a single thought, two hearts can beat as one" Although the difference in the volume of water was

 so grear. I was as much impressed

 with the terrible power that lay hidden ] in the aggregated wavelets of the mountain torrent, as at that which car

 ried on it's bosom the white-winged

 emisaries of commerce.

 1 hope your readers or yourself do

 not weary of my somewhat discoursi7e letters: if you do, the least hint and l

 will throw up my hands, cry "peccari '

 and sin no more.

 ] A prospectus is passing around

 among the Globe miners soliciting their support iG the formation Of a

 company to purchase a mill lying idle

 at Silver City. It is proposed to put

 the mill up in Globe, and work the

 ore for twenty-five dollars per ton, or

 concentrate it for ten dollars charging no percentages and giving the miners NaII there is in the rock. Atpresent the

 cost of milling is so great that rock that does not reach up into the hun dreds returns it's owner nothing. There are a great many miners in Globe that would make good poor mems mines if they could only get the ore worked nj a poor mans mill. The McCracken | mill reduces ore at a cost of seven dollars per ton. and thus low-grade orc lpavs: here we pay nearly seventy with

 per centares and all, and highgrad6 lore can scarcely, to use a somewhat ibomely saving "scratch its own head. | This mill owned principally by miners and run entirely in their interest would lift the district out of the slough of despond in which it is at present Ilabnring. stimulate the development

 of the mines. circulate money, increase the population, give an impetus tC business. and prove by the quantity ]. of bullion shipped inside that the eX nerts that came here were only moderr 3 Munchauseus.

 The co operation of other districts is earnestly solicited, because 1t VII

 heneft them a well as us. l do no