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Year: 1877

I often think how lone my life would be
II had only you to cheer my way;
How little joy the night would have for me,
Save In the rest 1t brings a weary day.
would not for the world that you should leave
Those scenes where wealth and beauty Rnfly
dwell,


Nor lose one moment Of those Joys you crave,
70 brighten up my solitary cell.
The gilded torch that lights the road to fame


In these dali days. will lead you as you 60;
shall watch the rising glory OF your name,


And think, when but q little one, loved you 90
Twas Folly first, no doubt, that wove the spell,


And bound 1t tightly round my silly heart;
and, though she Is u fool. she woyc it we'll.


For Wjsd0m's power won't make it come apaxt
But old man Time, who at the iron gate


Shuts out the future from our eager view,
And gives tU every one what's his by fnte,


He'll work what Wit and Wisdom fail to do
Old Time will link by link dissolve the chain


Tint childish fancy forged and in its place
Bring me the 6irdlike freedom back again


That enjoyed when FIRST saw thy face
Some happy chance in after years may bring


Us two together in some strange romance,
When I'm stately dame, and yUu king:


Let us in patience wait that happy chance
Now fare thee Welt Twas early when we met


The glow Of childhood fingered on your brow;
Perhaps there Is 10 re;lson to regret


That Tou and are growing wiser now.-


CHICAGO, April II, 1877. @. q. A.Y.
Year: 1877

After considerable agitation, this
much vexed question seems to have
almost arrived at a satisfactory ad-


ustment, A meeting of the citi-
zens of Oak Harbor was called for
Wednesday of last week, to consider
the feasibility Of building log crib
with a warehouse upon it, at or near
low water mark in the bay, SO that
the Libby could land freight and
mails at any stage of the tide. This
will most likely result in the pro
posed work being accomplished aud
the mai viii then be carried to that
point regularly. q


No doubt our Oak .Harbor friends
viii feel great satisfaction over their
inal victory, The main trouble here =.
toiore seems to have been that the
Libby was not tast enough to call at
the point in. question and get over
her regular ronte every trip in good
time; this, however, was not all, as
the wharf which she was expected to
land at was about as mach practical
use as though it had been placed out
in the woods, except at or near high
tide. e. y.


We hope to hear an encouraging
report from this locality m the future,
and that future favors may atone for
past wrongs.
Year: 1877

We are pleased to get the following good news fro m this mine from Man ager John E. Magee:

 Cut No. is in 45 feet clear across the vein. Actual width of vein in the bottom of the cut, 13 feet and seven inches; solid body of metal six feet wide, with stringers on each side car rying four to six inches of metal. Depth of cut on the vein is twenty two feet. On both sides of the cut the vein is gradually enlarging and becoming more solid. The character Of the met al Is slowly changing, and assays from S1O0 to $310 per ton. The wall and country rock is granite and syenIte. The vein matter is fine quartz and some tale There are about sixty tons of ore on the dump. Grading for large ore dumps is under way, and general ly work Is being done to put everything in shape. Within ten days, will be hoisting ore from a depth of thirty five feet. Everybody about the mine is feeling good The miners eyes are glistening with pride over the devel- Opments we are making, and none bet ter satisfied than Superintendent Da- wis. By the middle of September, we will be ready to keep a ten-stamp mill running steadily.

 This is surely fine outlook for the Aztec, but no better than MT Magee has all along claimed would be the case. We regard prosperous future for the Aztec as foregone conclusion, and are assured that the Santa Rita noun tains all through that section are liter ally threaded with veins of silver ore equal to the Aztec. Mines. described elsewhere today, in the Orc Blanco district, are on the same general min eral belt, and alone must, ere long, fur, nish profitable employment for many mills and furnaces and many thous- lnds of miners.
Year: 1877

The New York Tribune has inter

 viewed Coy. Mccormick on these sub

 jects, and among hIs replies, that paper

 gives the following:

 Money is accumulated in all the

 banks and al all the money centres oi

 the country, and interest on conner

 cIal paper Is lower than it has been

 for years. There is no contraction of

 currency, but the greatest abundance

 and excess. It is idle currency and not want of currency that makes the trouble"

 First, the want of confidence is caus- ed by enormous losses in all kinds of investments made during a period of great imitation; second, the falling of Of the demand for manufactured pro- ducts, especially iron. This is not caused in any respec. by the want of currency, but of over production, not only in this country, but in all the mar kets of the world. The present distress Is general among commercial nations, with thls strong advantage Tn favor of the United States-that here our farm ing interests are in the highest degree prosperous, our crops are good, and our markets are excellent, mainly be- cause of the war in Europe In com parisOn with Oth-T nations, our finan- cial condition Is far better than any other, and now, just at the time when our prospects are most hopeful, comes this strike of labOrers against labor. This effort of men now employed, against men unemployed, this refusal to allow laborers to make their own contracts, forces distress and rum. merely that certain men now in employ ment should be kept in employment and paid higher wages. In the natur- al course of things, when crops con- 10 move, wages would have and soon the money set in motion by the crops would quicken all industries and give employment to many idle people. The money now lying idle is ready for active use the moment it can be safely employed. A long pc riod of dejecIion was about to be fol- {. lowed with activity and industry. ! Surely nothing has happened in the history of mankind so plainly injudi- ,Ious as the present movement to pre- rent laboring men from working Even if they were asked to work for wages, they had no right Q prevent other people from working. | The first effect of their movement is to make it still more difficult to get food l0d labor, and to bring distress upon he very class of people to which they lalm to belong Il
Year: 1877

The average indications are in favor

 of 6 prosperous future for most parts

 of Arizona. We listen with great care

 to the many reports as to what is go- ing on and what advancement is be-

 ing made, and there seems no doubt but the future of mining, stock grow ing and tllage of the soil in Arizona,

 is encouraging. This is year of ex- eessive drought all over the Pacific Coast, and Southern California espe- cially is suffering for want of rain

 The Prescott Enterprise, as quoted on our first page, tells the story for Yava- pal. The late crops in the Salt and

 Gila valleys, we are informed, will be partial failures, except in the Upper

 Gila in this county, where the corn

 crop will be quite abundant But bar ley and wheat crops have been very

 good and large. The fruit crop in Salt

 and Gila valleys is above an av&rage

 in quantity and of excellent quality

 Here the July hail storm destroyed much of the fruit, yet there will be considerable of fair quality Sheep and cattle continue in good order Our meat markets are supplied with excel lent beef and mutton, fattened on grass alone. Here and there water regarded as permanent has disappeared, yet we have not heard of a single case of suf

 fering or death among the sheep and cattle tor want of water, and stock men are preparing to enlarge their herds by importatiOns from California and Texas Our season for rain will not be past for month yet. Pima county can stand a severe drought as we'll as any and perhaps with less dam age than any other As to mining prospects, what Is said in to-day's pa- per IS to the point and surely encour- !. aging. We have some reason to be- lieve that the Pima Mining Company will ere long go to crushing their mil lions of tons of pay ore, and perhaps further develOpe the mine Our latest advices from San Francisco operators with regard to the mines in the Santa Rita and surrounding mountains, are all that we ought to expect As soon ! as the weather cools of on the Cobra ! do desert, we are assured that CalIfOr- l mans interested in mines to the south 1 ward, will come and give personal at tention to them. While money Is and | may continue for some time scarce, | the accumulation of valuable prop I erty is quite rapid. All in all the fu- ture so far as can be foretold or fore seen, Is rather cheerful than otherwise

 Then the indications are that the railway will soon be extended east i- from Yuma from l50 to 200 miles. This will tend to the speedy improvement |, ~f ti-s nil~ ~Nllny. ona attract the bulk of the shipping of the Territory to the valley. It will enable many mine own CTS to either ship or reduce ores al home, which cannot now be handled I without loss. IL is almost a business necessity for the Southern Pacific to i, do what The Sentinel says Chief En- glneer Gray says will be jone-extend the road eastward without delay Ii
Year: 1877

AS will be seen from the proceedings
of meeting of the friends o: the Tusca'
rawas Valley railroad, held in this city
on Saturday night, and which are pub
lished in our local columns, movement
has been ,naugurated by which we hope
to see sufficient stock taken in the road to
secure its completion. 1t was very
sound philosophy of HORACE GREELEY
in discussing the subject of resumption
the way to resume was to resume; and II
has an equally forcible application to
building railrosds-,he way to build
railroad IS to build it. We mean by that
it the interests of the city require the
building of the road, then there ought to
be no hesitation on The part ST the ous'-
ness men. The first thing to determine is
whether the amount to be contributed Will
be returned TO the city IN promoiirS
its business interests by constructing
this road, and having determined this
sfirms,ively, then let enough stock be
taken to do it. The city OF Wheeling
with its extended manufacturing inter-
est desires every outlet for its trade that
Is possible to be had. The irregular
outlet for our Southern trade by means
of the Ohio river has been blight upon
our prosperity. The railroad companies
have to great extent, made way
station of the city and she has no power
to compel competitive rates. In
many instances iron orders. have
been taken away from our
city and transferred to other places be-
cause of freight rates. la this way many
thousands of dollars have been lost. and
the growth of our manufacturing interests
impeded. The amount lost in this way
in the course of time hs, been sufficient
70 build the road In question, and 1t we
expect to control the direction of trade,
the more outlets we have the better II
will be for our interests. Looking at it
in this light, we confess We can see no
good reason why the business men of the
city should not take hold of it, and secure
its construction. If the city is not TO be
benefited, of course it would be useless
TO agitate it
Year: 1877

TIE Greenbrier Independent very
pertinently remarks:


"When the present Constitution was
adopted the people had a right to expect,
and did expect, that the sessions OF the
Legislature would be biennial, and OF
forty. FIVE days duration. Thus far this
reasonable expectation has never been
realized. Now that the two Senators
have been elected, and the Capital ques.
tion is pretty efectually disposed Of
whether the bill ever gets through the
Senate or not-ls there any good reason
for extending the session. If there
is then let it be extended,
and let the members satisfy
their constituents that an extension was
proper. We confess that we know OF no
good reason why there should not be an
adjournment on the 25th instant. Still
we do not know all the good which our
Delegates are endeavoring to accomplish; (;
but we hope that as the times are hard
they will hurry up, finish the business,
make good records for themselves, and
return to the bosom of their families "as
soos as the nature of the case will per-
nit"


We are inclined to concur with the
Independent that the Legislature should
complete its work during the present
sitting. If the work is more than can be
done in the short time allotted them, it
would be better to have an extension of
ten days, than to have an adjourned ses-
sien. At an adjourned session mass of
new legislation would be crowded in and
would require forty.fve days to do what
can be done In ten days now.
Year: 1877

legal and justiAable cause for political
purposes, and to over-awe portions Of
the voters. Clearly. an election held un-
der such circumstances should not stand
for moment The Committee think
that the employment of soldiers tor the
purpose of sustaining usurping Legis.
lsture and Executive against the jusg.
ment OF the highest court of the State,
is one OF the grsndest crimes that can be
committed under government like ours.
aud cannot be condemned in terms sutf-
ciently strong. The Commission have
no doubt upon the evidence that much
larger number of blacks were kept from
voting the Democratic ticket by the
threats, violence and intimidation from
the people of their own race, than were
prevented from voting the Repub-
lican ticket by resort TO like
acts on the part of the whites.
Many cases OF threats and actual vio-
lence were proven, as coming from col.
ored people to deter many OF their own
race from voting with the Democrats.
Women utterly refused to have any In
tercourse with men of their own race
who voted sgainst the Republicans. The
evidence not only shows that there was
TO considerable intimidation or violence
either before or at the election, but 1t is
in direct conflict With most of the testi.
mony of the colored people called to
testify. The committee feel bound to
say that the conduct and bearing of
the officers and soldiers of the United
Sts.es army were both prudent
and wise although their presence was
made available 10 overawe colored voters
and prevent them from voting against
Republicans. Yet as general thing
neither officers nor men did anything to
give encouragement to such belief.
The present State government, ike its
predecessors, has no power to protect the
people, and is so utterly weak that moth
ing but the mere power of support of the
General Government can keep it in ex.
istence a single day. Takethis wrongful
support from Chsmberlsln's unlawful
government and it will quickly vanish
like ''dew before the sun" and will no
longer disturb the peace of the oppressed
and long-sufering people.
Year: 1877

The Pittsburgh Post looks at in this
way:


10 suppose the House of Representa-
tive will permit this shameless fraud to
be made effective in imposing Rsyes on
the country as president, is to attribute to
the representatives of the people lack of
manhood, patriotism and courage. This
vile decision OF the toresworn Commis-
sion ought not TO stand. 1t must not
stand. The House of Representatives
has the power to overthrow 1t by strictly
legal and Constitutional means, and we
look to it to exercise that power.
Year: 1877

the sure foundations of Constitutional
supremacy.


II party managers want to trim their
sails of eIpedienty to receive the wind
of popular applause, they will take heed
to the temper of the American people.
Year: 1877

There is a Dutch prCverb 10 the effect
taat paint costs nothing" the idea be-
ing that its preservative value fully bal
ances the outlay. 1t is mistaken econo.
my to let farm buildings suffer for want
of paint rs is too often the case in all Sec
ti0ns of the country. In Ike manner it
may be said that whitewash costs notk-
ing" its sanitary effects being in most
Gases far more than an equivalent for the
expense Of its application. The man
who lets his cellar 60 year after year
without fresh coat Of whitewash may
have to pay hundred-fold the cost in
doctors bills, with the risk OF inestim-
able loss to his household in health or
even in life.


Whitewash is also worth more than it
costs in the buildings occupied by de-
mestic animals The Carolina Farmer
has the following judicious remarks or
is use Tor poultry houses:


Without free use of whitewash no
poultry breeder can expect to keep his
fowls healthy for any length of time,
and TO neglect of this can be attributed
many of the disappointments and much
of the loss experienced by amateurs who
do not realize, until they have paid dear
ly for the experience, that cleanliness is
one of the first principles of success in
poultry keeping, and that lime, in differ.
ent forms, is an invaluable agent in pro-
noting cleanliness in poultry houses and
amongst fowls. Where it can be done
without too much expense, we would ad-
wise persons IN building their poultry
houses, to use planed boards-at least
planed on the inside-in preference to
rough ones, for it is far easier to keep the
fowl houses clean when smooth boards
are used, while the lice and other vermin
cannot so readily find todging place
As preventive is cheaper and better
than cure, we would advise those who
build poultry house, to give it a good
whitewashing both inside and out, before
the fowls are let inside. To make the
whitewash still more distastefuI to the
vermin which have such taste for pout
Try, mix a small quantity of carbolic
acid with the wash, stir it well till it dis
solves, and then apply. 1t is not injuri
ous to the fowls but it is to the vermin
and at the same time, is deodorize: and
disinfectant"
Year: 1877

4 correspondent of the Country
Gentleman writing on the care Of COW.
says. 1t is very important that COWS
are well provided for in every way to
afford them the greatest comfort-the
most essential point to be considered by
the dairyman. The COWS must be mace
quiet and comfortable; pure water, from
springs or pumps, is Of great importance,
and shade sufficient for retreat from
the burning sun in the heat of the day.
The necessity of pure water is too often
overlooked. The COW, painting with
heat, is forced 10 the stagnant puddle OF
pool, covered, perhaps, with green scum.
And when to be MIXED, she is often
hurried from the pasture by dogs or in
considerate boys, and the little milk il
her bag is in a poor condition 10 furnish
her inhuman owner with milk from
which good butter can be made The
material for choice butter must first be
manufactured from the COW. Her gen.
eral health must be secured by an abun
dent supply of blood and fesh-producing
elements in all she eats and drinks. il
the blood is pure, the whole system is ii
healthy state. From her blood tbs
milk is produced. II one is impure, SC
is the other, no matter what the cause
may be, and the causes can be numbered
by scores. There are many ways that
cows blood can be. affected by neglect in
winter, as in sumner. If the COW is
cared for in every particular-the kind
and quality of food aud drink, suitable
stabling in winter, kind and gentle treat
ment in all things toward her, she will
return these with compound inte5 lie
the pail. Where there are defects the
milk from any cause whatever, no skill
of the dairYman can make good butter
out of it. / am confident that those
who speak and write upon the rules OF
making butter, myself included, have
too often omitted to begin at the starting
point. True, much las been wisely said.
and good advice given by commencing at
some of the many points that occur after
milking. But the way procuring the
milk has been zoo much neglected.
When the milk is sound and pure there
is little left to the skill of butter-makinc.
Perfect cleanliness in everything the
milk and cream comes in contact with


and pure, sweet air, free from all offen-
siye odors, are the essentials after milk
ing. The real art of butter.malzing
commences before drawing the milk from
the COW. Take good care of the cow
and the most needed reform in butter.
making is commenced.
Year: 1877

Here and there may be seen stables and
barns with broken windows, loose boards
holes in the roof, or doors and windows
that cape open and refuse 70 shut close
". Through these openings the cold
air anu rain will leak III and the warm
air will leak out. Such leaks as these
are disagreeable to see and uncomfortable
to the occupants of the buildings. But
these are by no means the whole of the
affair. The worst of it is, that through
these LEAKS the farmers profits disappear,


cry silently, it is true, but none the
less steadily and constantly. While his
cattle stand and shiver in the cool, sharp
nights, or steam under the penetrating
rain storms or snow, with every shiver
there disappears a quantity of fodder
from the barn, as well as some of the
milk from the cows, sous fat from the
steers and the pigs, some wool from the
sheep and some eggs frcsn the poultry.
The farmer looks and wonders. He com
plains that the COWS are rough, that
there Is no good IN the feed" that the
D:gs do rot fatten "a fast as they should
that there are no eggs, and the hens are
eating their heads off. Well, an animal
cannot use up all It's food in keeping
warm and 1t the same time make milk
fat, wool or eggs. These are made from
food and only from the surplus food, af-
ter the bodily wants and needs are sup
piled. In the polar regions, man needs
six pounds Of fat meat and the same of
bread for his daily meals, while an East
Indian needs but pounG of rice for a
days subsistence. When working in
the northern woods in the depth of win
ter, the thermometer far below zero for
weeks at a time, the Iumberman eats
with relish huge humps of clear fat pork,
with his daily two pounds of bread and
liberal messes OF bean soup; food of this
kind would sicken man were he to look
ut it in q harvest field. All this food
goes to make up the waste of heat from
the body during the excessive cold. Il
is precisely so in the barn and pig pen.
II NA-S-C dAC ACpb ~ VAIN tlds hdlSl
viii never freezein them much less food
Is needed by the animals than if the air
is far below freezing temperature; and
if the temperature is comfortably warm,
less food viii still be required. So,
whenever a stream of cole air, snow OF
rain pours in upon the cattle, or when
they are miserable and uncomfortable, s
stream of wasted food pours out all the
time through the leak. Nowis the time
TO stop these leaks. A board here and
there; a good glazed window instead of a
broken shutter; warm, dry litter in place
OF foul, wet bed; light roof and d
plastered or double boarded ceiling; all
these are actually worth more than an
extra portion of food to an animal, be-
cause, although when cold or chilled, it
eats the more, yet it thrives poorly;
while if well housed, it viii keep sleek
and thrifty upon comparatively moder-
ate feeding.