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Year: 1878

MCMILLEN's CAMP, March 12.

 EDITOR CITIz TIzEN-Noticing by you paper that most of the mining camp. are developing splendidly, 1 though your readers might like 10 hear how the played out Stonewall mine is get ting along. l will say from persona knowledge, that the Stonewall mint never has looked as we'll as now, and I dare say that without doubt, ther, has been more silver taken from tho mine in the last four days than any oth CT mine in the Territory will produce in a month. 1 saw silver to amount oi $10.000 or more taken from the minC last Saturday, the result of one blast What makes us feel good is the streak of silver is wider at the bottom of the than mine it has ever been at any oth CT place. Mir. Johnson, superintendent has pressed his book-keeper and other reliable men into service Essorting and sacking ore. No idle men around him.

 Any one that thinks McMillen': Camp is played out will have plenty of time to change their minds. We are only just fairly started prospecting The Hannibal Company have the credit of the first hoisting works blocks and mule power) They have about 200 gallons water per hour, still they are making fair progress working three shifts eight hours, and NIT. Flour noy, the manager, assures me that il the mine looks as well at 100 feet deep as it did at 70 feet, that his com. pany will soon have steam hoisting works. The General Lee Company are working but few men at present, but will undoubtedly increase their force next month. They struck some very fine chloride ore at a depth of 106 feet at the same time so much water that it will require better facili- ties for working than hand power They have large quantities of low grade ore above the water level. The Company's stock is in demand, and the prospects of the mine are very hattering 1 am glad to notice the sale of the Doctor, San Francisco and other mines in this district to reliable parties for all we need here is to have the mines thoroughly prospected. McMillenville is showing her conf dence in the permanence of her mines by the Improvements in course of con- structiou. There is four good build ings going up at the present time and the town wears a much heater appear ance than when you was here. The weather is warm and pleasant, the grass green and every one at work that wishes to work. No idle men are here. Those not working for wages are prospecting for themselves, and it IS really surprising how many of this class there are. Just as soon as they can earn sufficient money to buy an outfit, they saddle up their mules and donkeys and leave for the mountains, frequently returning with some very rich ore.

 There is a new camp about five miles north of here that Is attracting consid. erable attention, one or two sales have been made, but the camp is not stuff. ciently developed to make fuss about yet. So you see we feel tolerably we'll contented, and extending our best and most generous wishes to all other mining camps. We remain ever yours

 HIGHLAND.
Year: 1878

We want it distinctly understood be-
fore we proceed any further, that we are
a friend of the colonel-that is to say,
we are friend of the colonel if he is not
military colonel. A military colonel
has no right to the title. He may have
earned it in the war right in front OF the
canon's mouth, but more peaceful days
have dawned upon us, and now we
have the insurance colonel, the sewing
machine colonel, the dry goods colo
nel the commission colonel, the grocery
colonel, the newspaper colonel, and
the lawyer colonel. You may pick
your colonel from any pile you choose,
and we'll stand up promptly and
say we admire him. There is honor in
the title, and we take pleasure in bestow-
ing it upon friend and foe alike. To be
u man aud not be a colonel (unless, in
deed you were promoted during the war;
is something preposterous. We can con-
Ceive of no such misfortune as that which
prevents man from becoming colonel
in his own right. There is no law on the
statute book against it, and if there was
it would be dead letter. Every county,
every community, and every family would
cry against the injustice OF an enactment
depriViug them of their usual quota OF
colonels. For our part we think there
ought to be law passed comforting the
title of colonel upon every male child
twelve years Of age, without regard to
color or previous condition. In that case
all men would be colonies an9 9the women
would be colonelesses. Here is the true
line of progress. While colonies are Ill
fashion let US make the most OF them
Let US utilize them, as it were, for the
purpose of advancing civilization. Il Is
idle for men who have no title to sneer az
those who have. All, no; let us cling to
our colonels. Instead Of wedding them
out, let us endeavor to nurture those we
have and invite Others through the me-
dunn of immigration agents.-AEEanFa
C0nstituti0D.
Year: 1878

Love reposes with happy face
Her hands light folded upon her breast
Her neck content with her hairs embrace
A vision Of perfect rest
Romance yearns with hungercd eyes,
And reaches her arms TO the lifeless air;
When she compasses blessing 1t dleS'
For she thought it on one more fair
Hone is hid with a painted face
We see but her eye, but her eye is wan;
Her breast is a sunken and empty place;
Her locks are disherded or Gone'
Truth has vigor Of lip and brow:
Her step is steady; her arm is strong;
She carries weapon false foes to cow
And her passion is hate OF wrong.
Truth is mighty and will prevail;
Hope is mast, deaths head above;
Romance ia fragrant and fair and frail;
But the dearest of all is Love-


Harvey HoUard.
Year: 1878

Of which the mound is made. This was
done to sufficient extent to account al
most for its dimished size as compared
with its companion. It was also the act
c OF relic hunters dressed richly, and pro-
quence. Few of the visitors go away
without calling attention to the misap-
propriateness Of the figure of an infant
forming the only monument in the bur-
ial yard of Madam Restell, which the
gravedlgger explains is that of her grand
children. !.
Year: 1878

An increase of blood in the brain;
said DIR. VIM. A. Hammond in lecture
at Cooper institute recently, has been
found to accompany mental action. A
congested condition of the brain often
gives rise to hallucinations. A recum-
bent position will often bring these on,
and they will disappear when the person
sits or stands up. Doubtless many ghosts
have been seen in this way. Hanging
causes certain degree of congestion
of the brain | don't suppose any of
you have ever been hanged, but it is
the testimony of those who have been
and who were cut down that they ex-
perienced very exalted condition of
mind This is also true of drowning.
Standing on the head produces similar
condition. An English writer of some
note says fine landscape can be viewed
to better advantage by STOPPING down
and looking between the legs. A circus
tumbler once told me that standing on
his head was almost equivalent to tax
ing a glass Of champagne. Impeding
the blood in it's return from the brain
sometimes produces hallucinations. l
once had patient who when his cravat
was tight saw an appartion of Sir
Walter Raleigh This never deceived
his intellect Who can say how many
of the phenomena of Spiritualism and
ghosts arise in this way, where persons
are not sufficiently intelligent to rise
above the delusion ?"
Year: 1878

in Congress who have blocked the way
to reform for reasons of elf-aggrand-
izement, and who have arrayed Congress
against the Executive in order to pre-
vent loss of personal influence It is
these men who have paralyzed the DOW
er OF the President and demonstrated
that there can be noreform in civil service
SO long as politics is but game in which
offices, not principles, are the stakes.
Beyond these the administration of
President Hayes has been one conducted
with discretion and credit. His action
upon the silver bill is unquestionably
the gravest error in his twelve month
old administration; but those silver
people who have supported him can, in
view OF the overwhelming victory
against him, afford to be generous and
overlook opposition to this important
public measure, especially when it is re-
membered that he has been surrounded
by gold men or their emissaries from
dawn to twilight. All in all, we think
the President is to be congratulated on
his achievements for the year. There
prevail peace and good will at home.
The incendiary cmbers of the Rebellion
are quenched; the laws are executed in
the South as we'll as the North; the
hunger for Office holding is not famine,
nor have there been official acts commit
ted that would shame the country.
One had no right to expect wonders to
be performed in the restoration of har-
mony; but that harmony is restored
save where Sunset" Cox barks or
Hendricks lifts his head in the
Democratic Dorcas societies and
quacks, or Tilden means fraud to pub
lie assemblages But they are Demo
Gratis and preach Democratic sermons
from Democratic texts. Outside of the
coyotes of Democrats and of office-seek-
ing "bummers there is no voice to
protest that the Presidents first year
has not been that Of fair and square
Administration.
Year: 1878

One year ago to-day Mr.. Hayes was
inaugurated as the President of the
United States. He came into the pos
session of a political heritage that would
have made glad the heart of dema-
gogue-such an one, for instance, as
Hon S. j. Tilden. There were dis
sensions enough in and out of his party,
there was sufficient dissatisfaction in
several States, there was rascality
enough ruling the Southern people to
have made him, had the opportunities
been subtilely used, the most monarchi-
cal ruler the country ever had and
they would have enabled him to have
made himself and his friends rich. He
accepted position pregnant with evil,
vitalized by bitter hates or the insatia
BILE greed of politicians to whom sue
cess, without the spoils of Office, is a
barren victory. The position of affairs
is too well known to need recapitulation
in detail 1t is sufficient that new
President went into Office with the
gravest difficulties surrounding him and
with gigantic wrongs to right


A year has passed, year full OF
recriminations, of blossomed personal
hates and partisan malice There are still
leaders of brigades and divisions and
corps of the Republican army who re-
fuse to be friends with the Chief Mag
istrate, and who confront his profered
friendship with acts of hostility, or the
stolid Indifference of boor with his
hands in his pockets. But the new
man has worked changes. His South
ern policy has been tested, and the
South tastes the fruits of Il self govern
ment in which the bayonets of Federal
troops bear no part; it is enabled to
mind its own business, and to begin that
restoration of commercial, industrial
and agricultural strength once prohibit
ed to it by an alien rule and by alien
rulers. There may have been breaches
of faith in this bloodless and almost
noiseless revolution; there may have
been disappointments on both sides;
but there no longer remains a question
as to the accomplishments Of the policy,
and as to it's benifcent effects upon the
nation as to substantial good, apart from
political considerations.


AS to civil service reform, if there
has been halt in that, if the pledges
of the Republican party, only empha-
sized by the Presidents utterances, are
still unfulflled, the failure should, in
justice, be charged to those party men
Year: 1878

Music is coupled with all that is vile,
depraved and tiendish In perverted hu-
man passion; n;-and the managers of gam
bling hells know full well what power to
draw there is in music and song. These
hells are adorned with all the glitter and
tinsel of art and well-arranged orches-
tras to entice the unwary into their Sa-
tanic traps. The wild. daredevil songs
OF these orchestras executed in perfect
time and harmony of sound, WELD an
influence almost irresistible over the de-
PRAYED and uncultivated mind. Sin, thus
gilded by the cunning devices and de-
ceptions of mis-applied art, and the at
traction of Bacchanalian song, is invest
ed with charm, and many men who
might have been respected and honored
citizens OF a great and free nation, had
better influences surrounded them in
youth and early manhood, are dragged
down to endless woe by these powerful
auxiliaries of Satan.


Music, on the other hand, is associa-
ted with all that is beautiful, tender and
holy, in the lives of some of the noblest
and purest men that have ever lived to
grace this in-blighted earth. Good in
itself, and of celestial origin bearing
the stamp of divinity-like all other
good agents. by misuse, can be made to
subserve base and ignoble purposes, and
though a powerful instrument for evil
in the hands of base men, cannot be
justly held responible for such unholy
use. A positive power in society. it
yields good or evil fruits according to
the degree of the culture and the char
acter Of those that come within the
range of its influence. Sacred music
as dispensed by Sankey may touch the
most adamantine heart and open the
briny fountain of tears that has been
sealed for years. A pathetic hymn by
well-disciplined and nicely balanced
church choir, may awaken a slumbering
conscience and dissolve in tears the
most obdurate heart. \ truly royal
nature may through transgression be-
come blunted in its moral perceptions,
and those perceptions remain dormant
until some heavenly strain of music re-
vive the memory of purer and happier
days, and cause the tear of penitence to
steal down the cheeks in sorrow and
in sorrow and deep regret for every ig-
noble thought and misdeed. The in
spring notes of martial music, espec-
tally those of some favorite national air,
nerves the arm and enables the patriot
to strike terrible blows for his country
and her rights.


Sheridan's cavalry smote the rebels as
with thunderbolt when he ordered his
squadrons to charge them through the
stirring notes of hundred bugle blasts
Murat, at Eylan, moved down upon his
foe with 1000 horse at the bugle's blast
and swept them from the field like a
hurricane But there is music in the
throbbing guns of battery, as we'll as
in the blood stirring bugle blast These
dread instruments of death discourse a
deep and terrible music in battle, and
the patriot soldier loves their deep strong
pulsations, and is inspired by them tc
battle nobly and manfully for Liberty
and the rich fruitage of her reward
GEO w. CopELY.
Year: 1878

In England they are adopting horse
shoe made of cowhide, and known as
Yates shoe. 1t is composed of three
thicknesses of cowhide compressed into
steel mould, and then subjected to
chemical preparation. 1t is claimed for
it that it lasts longer and weighs only
one-fourth as much as the common iron
shoe; that it will never cause the hoof
to split, nor have the least injurious in
fiuence on the foot 1t requires no
calks; even on ashpalt the horse never
slips. The shoe is so elastic that the
horses step is lighter and surer. 1t ad-
heres so closely to the foot that neither
dust nor water can penetrate between
the shoe and hoof In Japan they
formerly shod their horses with straw,
and the European or Radical party is
distinguished from the Conservatives by
the iron shoes Of their horses
Year: 1878

Indiana farmers say that either the
dogs must be killed off, or they will
stop raising sheep. So much mischief
has been done to flocks of fine sheep by
worthless ours recently that the raisers
are completely discouraged.
Year: 1878

The following essay was read before
the Hazelton Teachers Association.
March End, and in compliance with the
unanimous vote of that body, was sent
for publication in the BULLETIN. Mr.
Copley also read at that meeting an cs-
say on Beauty" which we expect to
publish next week:
Year: 1878

An extraordinary instance of true love
comes to us over the hill from the poor
house at Liberty, Indiana. For some time
o woman, aged seventy years, has been
confined there pauper. Employed as
farm hand, a young man, aged about
twenty-six, has been connected with the
institution. This young man was in the
habit of carrying wood for the old ladys
fire, and paying other attentions to her.
A few days ago the keeper was informed
by the young man that it was his intention
to marry the old lady. Notwithstanding
the keepers protestations and advice, the
affair was consummated, and the loving
couple are living together as happy as two
doves in mating season.
Year: 1878

Until the introduction of railways, steam-
boats, etc., the natives vero accustomed to
toll along slowly and painfully, covering as
much ground in week as may now be
traversed in few honrs, and even do SO
at the present times in all parts of their
land to which Western civilization has not
yet reached And this is the more re-
narkable when we ore assured that the in-
land inhabitants Of very few coun-
tries travel about as much as the
Japanese. In'every shire of England are
to be found elderly people who have never
explored beyond twenty-milo radius
from their own doors, much less paid
visit to the metropolis; but in Japan bust
ness, and above all, religion, demands that
all sorts and conditions of people should at
certain times be travellers for no mean
order, For instance, il is incumbent on
every Japanese to make o pilgrimage at
least once during his lifetime either to the
holy mountain Futiyma, or Oyama, or to
the sacred shrines of Isle; and with many
families this pilgrimage becomes annual
failing which, misfortune is certain
to happen. Moreover, as the japanese are
perhaps the most superstitious people in
the world, their belief in the efficacy of
certain mineral springs to cure diseases, in
the virtues Of certain shrines and temples,
in the good results attendant on visits to
certain festivals takes them frequently
from home, and enables them to see far
more of the outside world than their
homely manners and customs warrant the
visitor in believing. Yet, although they are
anything but q stay -at-home race, and al
though for centuries they have possessed
civilization to which the civilization of our
Elizabethan age is barbarous mist, there
is scarcely road in the empire worthy OF
the name. Until quite recently, the Tocai-
do--the great artery communicating be.
tween the eastern capital Toxic Cor Yedo)
and the wester capital Kiyoto-was utterly
unfit for carriage traffic, and at certain
points even for the passage of horses; andto
this day carriages can only proceed for GER
tain length, beyond which recourse must be
had to the primitive native modes of con-
veyance. .-Belgravia. ..
Year: 1878

No man or woman is too busy or too old
to learn something by the reading of good
books and papers. The cheapness of good
literature, of family papers and choice
magazines, breaks down any barrier that
may have been in the way, and yet I know
families who take but two papers, a daily
and a weekly, and own all the year round
that 'they find no time to read" The
lack is not in time, but the way of spend
ing it, and too many of the hard-working
men and women even of this age ignore
the fact of their mental need, while minis
tering so bravely to the physical necessities.
Culture and refinement are the necessary
'trimming" to many beautiful but home
" life, that has in it much to be admired,
but is wanting in these elements. Good
reading tends to elevate the most homely
lives.
Year: 1878

Av sion of the real Solomantic story is
to be found in China. As in the Hebrew
tale; two women had each of them an in
FAINT, one of which died by misadventure,
the bereaved mother claiming the surviv-
ing child. The official before whom they
came did not suggest SO cruel measure as
division of the infant, but simply ordered
that it should be handed to domestic in
his yamen, to be brought up for official
life. He rightly surmised that the real
mother would gladly accept SO good a
chance for her offspring, while the pre-"
tended mother, who only wanted the child
in order to dispose of it, would demur.
Judgment was accordingly given in favor
of the fearful acceptor of the proposition,
and the story, which is alleged to be
historical, is widely believed.-Folk Lore Of
China.
Year: 1878

One of the most singular accidents which
it has fallen to our lot to record occurred
to Mrs. George Sweeley, who resides at the
corner of Perry street and Central avenue,
Albany. Mrs. s., it appears, went out to
her hen-house to collect the eggs, and in
order to reach one nest on a sort of loft,
she was obliged to use step ladder. She
mounted the ladder, which was set against
the side of the house, and while in the
act of reaching out, slipped and fell. AS
she slipped, she endeavored to catch hold
of beam just above the ladder, but her
hand slipped off that, and her heavy plain
gold wedding ring on the third finger of
her left hand caught on projecting nail.
By the fall her whole weight was thrown
on that one finger and the nail being firm,
the flesh of the finger was stripped from
the bone by the ring up to the first JOINT,
when that joint, with the stripped flesh,
was cut off as clean as though amputated
by surgeon, and fell to the ground.
Strange to say not drop Of blood flowed
from the severed member. Mrs. sweeley
fastened to the house in q faintlng con-
dition, and Drs. VIM. Fl. Murray and II.
Fl. Starkweather being sent for, amputated
| what was left of the finger close to the hand.


The ring was subsequently found still
hanging on the nail with the severed mn
| ger beneath it.
Year: 1878

The Republican party received its coup
de grace on Tuesday in this State-never to
rise again. No astute far seeing man could
have failed to see this result for years past.
The truth is, Republicanism was an exotic
in Delaware, it never was racy of the soil;
no tap root Of its policy ever penetrated the
substance of public opinion in this State.
During the war, every one who anxiously
thirsted for unearned wealth, sought it in
contract-The reward of loud mouthed 10y
atty; then the corollary of Republicanism.
The humanitarian, seeking the liberation of
the slave, fell into the ranks of truculent
contractors and suffers as their goal-lay in
the same direction. Brave, impulsive and
patriotic men drew the sword, and while In
the army inhaled an atmosphere of abuse
against the Democracy and lapsed into the
arms of those they associated with, the war
party of the country. 1t was thus the con-
tractor, the philanthrophist and the patriotic
warrior all cohered, and marched onward to
accomplish the same object. The liberia
tion of the slave was the proper climax of
the party which freed them, and from that
day formed the anti-slavery man proper.
ceased to be Republican propagandist.
The contractors, when no more plunder was
to be had, was disgusted and soured, and
cowboy like, went over to the enemy. The
soldier, when the war closed, again entered
the ranks of civil life, and his patriotic i'm
pulse restored him to the Democracy, the
party that at all times was the champion of
constitutional and well ordered liberty. AS
the old men, scared In antsgopism to the
Democracy, and who were welded to life
opinions died out, there were none to take
their place. Gradually the Republican
party, mortified at the extremeties, one
rural district after another was lost them;
and at last the contest was waged In the
chief city of the State. the result of Tues
day settled the question. The party on
that day was finally conqured in this State
1T may as we'll furlits banner and let its
members take service in the ranks of the
victors. The Republican party is dead
Democracy, strong in the might of right,
will not indulge in exultation, but merely
direct it's editors to insert notice of its
deaease, in Delaware, upon the third day of
September, 1878. Let us have peace.
Year: 1878

Yesterday morning colored man named
johnson said he intended to kill himself,
and taking box containing two razors,
started out of the house. This was COM
municated to Officer Jordan, who followed
him, and at Eleventh and French streets


overlook him and captured the razors. He
then took him to the Hall, where he is now
confined. The cause assigned to this is
domestic trouble, but some seem to think it
owing to disappointment in the result of
the election, as he was perhaps looking to
appointment on the Captains police force.