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Year: 1877

We have Guaymas dates to June l, at which time it was believed that Gen Mariscal was elected Governor. News from the interior announced all quiet It was thought the Lerdo movement against Diaz would amount to nothing. The railway news from City of Mexico much improved Letters say a good and live concession for a Sonora and Arizona railway was among the cer- taintieS, and that it would be made to responsible railway men and not to mere speCulators. Sonora is bound to have the railway, and is also making the strongest efforts for a free transit privilege for private goods through the State. Diaz fayors and the Minis ter of the Treasury has prepared a bill to abolish all export duty on silver and gold both coined and uncoined, and it Is very sure to become law. The So nora members of Congress are strong ly backed by petitions and instructions in favor of all these measures, and if they are secured, It is expected the in dustries of the State will revive.
Year: 1877

The times are very hard and there

 IS much suffering in this city. But

 the times are very GOd-send 10 a cer-

 tain class. They are composed of that youthful and vigorous corps who are

 engaged in perpetual search for

 work, and who labor under a constant

 fear lest they may find it. They can

 stand on the sidewalks and, drawing

 up to the narroweSt limit that DOT

 ton of the body which is found just

 below the belt, explain, with tears in

 their voices, how many days it has

 been since they surrounded q square

 m al. It is hard for man 10 Ignore

 them, because good men are by scores,

 out ot work, and who knows but that

 Dy refusing one of them, some really

 suffering man may have the added sui.

 ierlng which lies in a Tebuf after

 pride has been surrendered to neces slty? And so these fellows rejoice at a famine They are real artists. They look sorry enough tO have been, every mothers son of them, the children of. Nlobe. Even at a distance one can imagine by their faces that stocks were "Otf," when Grey discOvere Il that youth whom melancholy marked for her own. They have pensive and far-otf look, as though the hope of reward or comfort in this cold world had been long put aside. And yet. they grow fat, and seem to wax in rotundity, even as beans and flour. grow scarce. Sometimes, in extreme gratitude, they seize and wiring al charitable mans hand, and he then discovers, by the soft and yielding clasp, that the poor men have prObab- ly been months and years looking for work. It is such a hand-clasp as would melt an old lady's heart in moment. She would think, instinc- lively, of the first grasp of her first born, when the act meant, at the same time, an expression of affection and demand for rations.-Virginia (Ney)I
Year: 1877

A correspondent writing to the Alta, says the public school system of the Territory has most ardent and Jealous friend In Governor Stafford. During his long term as Governor, even amidst all the difficulties inseparable in a country so large and so thiniy settled, he worked faithfully to build up the public schools upon a broad, liberal and permanent basis. Had this been the only fact accomplished during his administration it would be an enduring testimony to his credit. The cause of education has no irmer friend nor more enthusiastic advocate, and If his policy in regard to the schools be ad- hered to, as il doubtless will. Arizona will be able 10 creditably educate her children,
Year: 1877

COpp's Land Owner for June re ports:

 The burden of proving that land in dispute is excepted from a railway grant is upon him who affirms the ex- istence of valid preemption claim thereto at the date the grant took effect. He must show that the preemptor not only initiated a prior valid settlement, but that he possessed all the required personal qualifications The filing of record is prima facie evidence of valid right as against a railway, and to se- cure the tract, the proper evidence mBT hf,ltf tf"tTj' 'pf9ehnprIon clam was abandoned or invalid, at the time the right of the road attached.

 After the lands have been offered at pubic sale and thea withdrawn, they may be restored to homestead and preemption entry. Until they have again been offered at public sale, they are not subject to private entry.

 The Commissioner of the General Land Office has the right to correct what he considers an erroneous decis- ion without first giving notice of such intention to the attorneys of record in the case, but as matter of courtesy such notice should be given when the interests of the government will not be injured.

 A survey under the Mining Acts does not withdraw the land embraced thereby from sale or subsequent sur vey, unless followed by an application for patent.
Year: 1877

l A special dispatch from Yuma, pub

 lished in Saturdays Post, gives tn,

 substance of a suggestive editorial

 printed in the Sentinel of that place

 which advises the removal of tn,

 United States military line now con

 meeting San DIego and Yuma to tho Colorado river, and there to conncc

 Ehrenberg and 4lnjave with the re

 maining military posts of the Terri

 tory, as well as with the country gen

 orally, via the Atlantic and Pacific

 lines at Yuma and those of the West

 ern Union in New Mexico. On the

 first blush the proposition which fog

 practical purposes may be considered

 as that of the telegraph line now at

 Yuma, would appear 10 be in accord

 with the purposes for which the mill

 tary telegraph was designed. But when examined. other reasons inter. vene, and a different state of facts comes to the front. That portion of the public who have to do business with Arizona have not failed to note the fact that considerable reduction in telegraphic tolls between this city and Slate and that Territory has re- gently been made When the Southern

 Pacific reached the Colorado river it carried with it tine wires of the Atlan- tic and Pacific Telegraph Company. The sympathies of this journal, in common with all others who feel the effects in business enterprise of close monopoly, must be, as It has been, on the side of the telegraph corporation which, while SO pluckIly resisting Its great rival, has served the public well in reducing the cost of services every where. But " are not di. posed, there fore, to favor q proposition which in its results must shove a rival out of Arizona, and so enable itself to dictate all rates and tolls between the Pacific coast and the interior of the Territory, which is now rising so rapidly in i'm pOrtance. The military telegraph line and its managers now have the choice of two outside lines over which to send such civil business as it receives. By the removal of the San Diego Yuma branch, It will have no other outlet to the west except the Atlantic and Pacif- Ic. As we before observed, the keen competition of these two lines for the business passing over the military wires have been so far advantageous tn Inc naorDla. .-f-st~S- lssse,ss> aa'-A1 ILO- na and this city were a few days ago reduced from $2 to $1.50 for a message of ten words. The Arizona charge k fifty cents With open routes cOmpet- ing 10 the coast via Yuma and San Diego, il is more than probable that a still further reduction will soon be an- But without such cOmpeti- ton is that likely? With all due re- gard to the enterprise of the line now in Yuma, we do not be- lieve it will. In the interest Of the public, we therefore suggest that al more reasonable thing to petition for would be the continued maintnance of the San Diego branch or it's sale 10 the Western Union, and the extension of the Military line to Ehrenberg and Fort MOjave, via the Colorado river. The importance of such a line to Ari- zona, the government itself and 10 the great mining and other interests now being developed in the northern and western portions of the country, can not be overestima;ed.-S. F. Post
Year: 1877

IL was six men Of 'Indostan,

 To learning much inclined, Who went to see the elephant, CThough all Of them were blind), That each by observation

 Might satisfy the mind. The first approached the elephant, And, happening to fall Against the broad and sturdy side, At once began to bawl: |" God bless me. but the elephant Is very like wall" The second, feeling of the tusk, Cried, "Ho! what have we here So very round and smooth and sharp? To me 'tis mighty clear This wonder of an elephant

 Is very like spear" The third approached the animal, And, happening to take The squirming trunk within his hand, Thus boldly up he spake: l see," quoth he, " the elephant Is very like snake!" The fourth reached out his eager hand, And felt about his knee, What this wondrous beast is like Is mighty plain," quoth he; "'Tls clear enough the elephant Is very like a tree!" The fifth, who chanced to touch the ear, Said Fen the blindest man Can tell what this resembles most; Deny the fact who can, This marvel O; an elephant Is very like fam" The sixth no sooner had begun About the beast to grope, Than selzing on the swinging tail That fell within his scope, " l see" quoth he. "the elephant Is very like a rope!'' And so these men Of 'Indostan Disputed loud and long, Each in his opinion

 Exceeding stiff and strong; Though each was partly in the right They all were in the wrong! So oft, in theOlogic war, The disputahts, ween, Rail on, in utter ignorance or what each other mean, And prate about an elephant That none Of them have seen!

 John c. Sake.
Year: 1877

NEW YORK, June GA Washington dispatch to the Bulletin says; The Treasury is paying out now only large United States notes for drafts. This is the beginning of movement to place United States Treasury circulation up- on a European footing. with no small bills in existence, and with specie as the medium of small operations. The idea Is 10 get silver in as large quanti- ties as the Treasury can supply. and and also to make people prefer small bank notes to large legal tenders.
Year: 1877

Hayes Postmaster General, who
was Democrat until he became mem
ber Of the Fraudulent Cabinet, now
tells Senator Merrimon, Of North Caro-
lima that bis Department will be run
az a part Of the Republican machine
He says that in making appointments
in the Southern States preference must
be given to Republicans, other things
being equal. Of course it will and
the Postmaster General for the South
ern States merely gives notice that
seekers after Southern post-ofices will
increase their chances Of success BY
openly joining the Republican band
The Fraudulent Administration ought
at least to be able to buy one vote with
every post-ofice at its disposal if it man
ages discreetly.
Year: 1877

Richmond Dispatch.l


Some curious observations regard
ing spiders have lately been commu-
nicated to the French academy Of
science by Father Babaz, who has
been fifteen years engaged in these
researches. 1t happened one day as
he was reading in the garden that a
small spider lighted on his book and
crawled over the very line he was
reading. He tried to blow it away,
but instead of letting itself be car
ried away by the blast it raised its
abdomen and swung itself up to
a leaf overhead. This appeared
strange, as there was no thread to
be seen. Our observer caught the
spider again, put it upon his book,
and repeated the experiment, which
ended in the same result. He
caught it once more, and this time
put himself directly in the sun,
with the insect on a level with his
eyes. In this position he at length
discovered the evolution performed
by the little creature. On receiving
the blast it raised its abdomen,
and in so doing projected a
thread of incOnceiyable tenuity to a
considerable distance, and raising
itself in the air disappeared from
view. This unexpected discovery
induced Father Babaz to examine
the question thoroughly; every
spider that came in his way had
to contribute something toward his
researches, and in this way he at
length ascertained a fact hitherto
unknown to naturalists, viz, that
most spiders possess not only the
faculty Of spinning thread, but
also that of projecting one or sev-
eral, sometimes of a length of five
or six metres, which they use to
traverse distances with, and affix
their thread to a given point; they
seem to feel for the place where it
is most desirable to fix it. Certain
spiders, the Thomisa Buto, for in
stance, will eject a bunch Of threads
which, curling up in the air and
shining in the sun with various
hues, give the insect the appearance
of a peacock displaying its tail.
But this is not all; spiders can fly
and swim in the air, though they
are heavier than alcohol. To per.
form this feat they turn their back
to the ground and keep their legs
closely folded upon their body, and
in this posture sail about in perfect
ease.
Year: 1877

retain butter, sugar, cream, juicy
fruit and fat food, all of which her
stomach has heretofore rejected.
DR.. Campbell expresses the belief
that Lena will now recover, al
though the arrangement caused BY
the long habitation of the deceased
frog may be of a nature to involve
continued prOstration. The case is
certainly a strange one.
Year: 1877

1t is curious that September should be
the one month In Whicn we feel the
strongest assurance OF settled calm;
have more reason to believe that to-
morrow will he like to-day than at any
other season OF the year; and yet that
1t should be the last mouth of summer,
with which all the really green, warm,
pleasant days practically depart. The
poetry of decay is brought before us in
October and November, but not In the
month we are speaking of. In three
seasons out Of four September is green
to the last, or sufficiently so TO prevent
one from noting much change.


And it is this contrast no doubt, con-
trast we have already spoken OF, which
constitutes one OF its chief charms-tne
deep stiffness before the equinoctlal
tempest. But the same contrast may be
regarded from another point of view. Il
there is one idea more than another
which the aspect OF September awakes
In us it Is one OF mell0wness and ma.
turity. 1t seems to speak Of the strength
and fullness Of ripe and sunny middle
age, the warmth Of youth without its
lever. the sobriety Of age without its
frost. The ideas Of plenty and abun-
dance, moreover, with which we asso-
Year: 1877

The New York Evening Post believes
Edgar Allan Poe ID dead, and hopes his
remains will be permitted to rest in
peace. 1t consequently reproaches the
practice, now qulte common, of digging
verses out OF old newspapers aud at
tributing them to the Iamented bard. A
number of specimens have been for
warded to it tor publication, and most
OF them 1t finds unworthy OF attaining
the dignity Of print. Poe was greedy
he hau written any worthy thing besides
those we know, he would have taken
pains to place it before the world.
Year: 1877

The twentieth anniversary of the Full
ton-street Daily Noon Prayer Meeting
took place yesterday, and appropriate
services were held in the Middle Dutch
Church, corner of Fourth street and
LafaYattn PlaoA
Year: 1877

THE beautiful spirit eff benefcence has
endeared Christmas day TO the poor ana
the young. What n joyous time 1t brings
TO the heart of childhood And now
pleasant ii must be to truly generous
nature to participate in the usual ieiici-
ties OF the holiday season, and to observe
the exultation of the young at the tokens
of affection they receive
Year: 1877

It strikes us that the legislature IS pushing the Savings Banks too hard. Lowering their interest from seven to six per cent will of course occasion the with drawal of deposits; and the section which would subject deposits over 1000 to town taxation cannot but occasion still further withdrawals. Let us examine the practical effect Of that provision

 Citizens of Litchf1eld deposit, say S500,- GOO, Tn their Savings Society, which is loaned to other citizens of Litchfeld on mortgage of real estate. The land mort gagged pays it's full tax inte the town treas ury, for the amount thus owed cannot be ''sworn of' upon the Bank. Practically the town would receive the same tax as in the case of loan from individual to indi- vidual, for the borrower is always expect ed to pay the taxes as we'll as the interest on the loan, and this he usually does by declining to ..swear off the debt secured on his land upon his creditor. But sup pose that S200.0O0 of the $500, ,000 was deposited fin sums over the $2.000 exemp- tion? By the bill proposed, that amount would be subject practically to double taxation: the debtor would have to pay taxes on it once. because he could not swear it off on the bank; then the deposi- tor would be taxed again, to the amount that his deposit exceeded $2,0O0. This would not only be unjust but destructive taxation. The depositor would certainly withdraw his money from the bank. If he loaned it on real estate the town-would get no larger tax than it did before; and he would very likely invest it where it could not be taxed at all.

 In effect, Savings Bank loans secured on real estate. are already subjected to double taxation. The land mortgaged is fully taxed by the town, and the sum loaned is further subject to State taxation of half of one per cent beside. This form of double taxation it is now proposed to intensity by double town taxation on all deposits over $2,000!
Year: 1877

LTroHFIELD, Or, March 9th, 1877. EDITOR. ENQUIRER

 Dear Sir,-In your of March 1st you publish letter from Mir. Ford. Democratic subscriber, denounting your editorials. and one in particular of Feb. 18th in which you say that lit is the duty of Democrats to decently submit etc." I am democl at with MT. Ford, always up, but I claim that we have no right to denounce in emphatic terms the result of the Electoral Tribunal. It may be we'll enough to enter a protest against some ofthe proceedings of that body. but only with view of rectifying it at the ballot box, next election. Both parties agreed to abide by the decision of those fifteen men and they are in honor bound to do so. It W would have been much more satis- factory to Democrats and to all candid citizens of both parties had the commis. sion admitted evidence in the Florida and Louisiana cases, and had they been less partisan in tLeir voting.

 Mir. Hayes has been declared elected by the commission which the Democratic party as body voted to create and sus- tain, and now it is our duty to submit with decency and with the best grace pos- sible. The question is settled which has l for the last three months held the whole country in state of feverish excitement, nearly on the verge of an outbreak, and we ought to be thankful no man but he who would sacrifice the country to further the interests of his party could wish now to make this decision anything but final l and risk another tribunal and settlement, Although Mr. Hayes is not the man of my choice, believe our country, and we as it's citizens. can be just as prosperous un- der his administration as MT. Tilden's, if he will thoroughly uproot the carpet.bag rule in the South.

 I am a subscriber to the Enquirer, and as you have been denounced on the one hand, wish on the other to commend you for your very candid, non-partisan editorials during the last campaign. Fire eaters of either party desire more vindic- tive, one aided views from their editors than you have expressed, but they are not the men who are going to preserve peace and prosperity in this country. I for one as Democrat am willing to read such 1 editorials in a Republican paper as have appeared in the Litchfield Enquirer and think they would do credit to many of our larger state papers.

 Yours, &c. B. A G.
Year: 1877

FISHING FOR WILD DUCK A few days
ago an AmUoJ On. Y. COY, who was QUA
fishing along a small stream, was sur
prised to see a wild duck approaching
MIN. He kept perfectly still, and the
duck diyed uuder the water and seized
the bait on the end Of the line. The lad
pulled in and landed the bird,
Year: 1877

The minors sweetheart had Tilted him.
He loaded his six-shooter and wrote to his
landlady this little missive: IL am tired
of life, and will blow out my brains in the
cemetery to night. My rent is paid up to
the 9th. do this because life has become
a burden to me-" He then set out for the
cemetry, which he had fixed upon as the
scene ofhis blood. On his way he took short
cut acrOs a chicken ranch and was attacked
by a savage bulldog. Thinking that he
had enough iq his six barrels for self and
dog, he opened FIRE on the animal, but in
twinkling Of an eye the owner of the ranch
covered him with shotgun. He fell on
his knees, begged for his life, and made the
most abject apologies for his presence there
His life was spared. Instead Of fastening
to the cemetery and blowing out his brains,
he returned to the city, and after lunching
on beer and sandwiches, told his landlady
that no had changed his mind, and then
took another girl to Virginia City thea
ire.
Year: 1877

A remarkable story of accumulating dis
aster is told in the New York papers, which
record the DEATH at the asylum for the in
sane at Poughkcepsic, Of James III. Elmorc,
at one time a-wcalthy merchant and we'll
known and successful operator in oil. lie
was engaged in business in New York, but
at the outbreak of the oil excitement be-
came interested in the celebrated Noble
well, which brought him an easy fortune,
and he retired about ten years ago, with a
quarter of million dollars, and established
himself i'll luxurious country seat on Long
Island. Disastrous spcculations, including
the building of horse railroad on Long
Island, led to a long series of law suits. in
which Elmore's property was gradually cat
en- up. He himself was stricken with par
alysis; his daughter died, and on the an
nounccment Of an adverse decision in an
important suit, his wife dropped dead upon
the floor before him. The property had
belonged to her, and as she left no will, FL
more's life interest in the estate was sold,
with all personal chattels, to satisfy judg-
mcnts, and he and his two sons were cast
out upon the world homeless and pcnnlcss.


lie travelled from place to place, a cripple,
subsistiug on the bcncvolcncc of sympa-
thetic friends, until, on Chstmas night u
year ago, his eldest son was killed upon the
Pennsylvania Railroad. The tottcring in
tcllect of the infrm old man gave way un-
der this blow, and he was taken to the asy-
lum where he died. His death affects a
suit now pending, and saves to lis remain
ing child, minor son, portion of the
property on Long Island but this is all
that now remains of the handsome fortune
with which James Elmorc retired ten years
ago. What a text for the preacher in this
pitiabic tale
Year: 1877

There is beauty, pathos and
truth combined in the following
song, which all our delinquent
subscribers should learn to sing
with an understanding heart:
Oh, how happy are they
Who the printer do pay,


And have squared up the 0 ID year


apd more.
Tongue cannot express
The great joy of the press
When delinQuents have squared


the old score,
Printers all the day long
Labor hard for their song;


Oh, that all their hard fate could


but see;
They have worked all the day,
And Of course want their pay,


To buy sugar, bread, butter


and tea.


Doxology by the whole con.
gregatiOn.
Year: 1877

The Bread and Butter Brigade.


Cousins, uncles, brothers and fathers are
Just now in demand with the bread and
butter brigade. When they sorrowfully
resign their places on political committees
they smilingly install their relations in their
places.


1t does not matter; what is needed is
publicity, and that these machine politi-
clans cannot avoid under the Presidents
order. Where a political party has fallen
into the control of Custom House weighers
and gaugers the device of these people Of
putting their cousins in their places does
not help them with the voters When these
once get it into their heads that they are
made the mere voting tools of parcel Of
petty federal ofice-holders and are used to
perpetuate the rule of bread and butter
brigade they will take the matter in hand
themselves. Republicans who wish to save
their party from contempt and destruction
ought to protest loudly and quickly against
such tricks Of the tidewaiters. Nothing so
soon brings a party into odium with the
people as the knowledge that it is ''run" for
the benefit of favored class, and not for
the public interest.