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Year: 1877

like bull dogs; This was favOrite

 pastime at old San Diego of Capt.

 Bogart, when he was stationed

 there as agent for the Panama

 steamers. Nearly every day, in

 the long interval between steamer

 arrivals. the old gentleman could

 be seen on the hills near town. squatted down with an umbrella over his head, pOking oat stra ws

 into tarantula holes, getting out the irascible creatures and through his spectacles watching them fight. Bogart was in the California leislature in 1861, but being a "lost cause" man and dreading Alca- traZ, he came out here to Arizona with old Joe Walker and pros pected the country around where Prescott was afterwards founded. Later he commanded the old Senator and other steamers on the coast until he lost the Sierra Ne- vada in a dense fog off Piedras Blancas. Tarantulas are evidently venOmous and occasionally the papers publish an account of some one having been bitten by one. But almost any California raised boy can show you that the fangs of a tarantula, long as they are, cannot be opened from the head far enough to pierce a mans skin They are in fact harmless; they have no means Of injecting their poison into the human body.
Year: 1877

EDITOR SENTINEL

 Don Ygnacio Campbell arrived

 here last fall from New Mexico. al

 which place he had worked cop per ores successfully. On arriving

 here he commenced smelling cop per ore from the Carrie copper

 mine, which was principally cu- prlte, red oxide of copper, contain

 ing over one hundred dollars in gold per ten of copper ore.

 this class of copper he worked in a rude adobe furnace and turn- ed out several tons of copper bull lion. He nodded the copper plates to be used in a new furnace which was being erected while the adobe furnace was in operation, thus losing no time or expense for shipping furnace or any material pertaining to its construction; except a few iron rods tO'band the upper part of the new furnace and a blower to give the blast.

 A solid foundation of sandstone, two feet below the surface, twelve feet square, was raised two feet above the ground. Upon this tOun- datiOn, about one foot from the edge of the same, and on all four corners, were raised four corners or pillars, about two feet long and eighteen inches wide, to the night of four feet; an arch from each pillar was then constructed which closed the square, upon which an adobe chimney was raised about eight feet high, leaving a feed hole about two feet high and wide, making a total night of fourteen feet above the ground. The object of having the open space between the pillars is to admit the tenn perature of the atmosphere acting on the outside of the copper plates which form a square by being screwed together through fiangeS on the outside of the furnace plates. The front plate is about eighteen inches shorter than the side plates and the back plate which latter has molded in the same two large holes to receive the blast from the blower. The sides and back plate rest on the foundation inside the cavity left between the pillars, and to the height of the arches, the small intervening space from the top of the copper plates to the sides is filed with fire proof material, closing the connection between the two.

 The open space at the front of the furnace, eighteen inches, is closed six inches above the foun- dation by an arch of fire proof material up to the copper plate, leaving an opening six inches high to draw off the slag, t his space is always kept covered with fine charcoal while the furnace is in operation; it also serves to stir the slag after a tap of copper is made. This latter is effected about one
Year: 1877

foot below the lower edge of t plates at the front of the ftffa| through a tamped clay bottom; which the tap hole is cut. Wind the furnace is ready to be tappev which is known By the number pounds of ore put in alternate with charcoal, a sharp-pointd crowbar is used to pierce the clay After the tap it is again plugged up with clay.

 Since the running of this new furnace several tons of copper bull lion have been run cheaper thar any furnaces heretofore used iIj the smelting of copper ores. not only more economical bt be built Tn any part Withou pense of freight, which is qui| object.

 MT. Campbell is the inven| this new style of furnace; h structed the first here fro foundation, with the result stated, for Messrs. Van 6 Co.

 Few processes have beei duced to the public wit! satisfactory results: Water furnaces may be Jeff in tho in this Territory on acco freight and extra eXpense of coal in manipulating them, the simplicity of the coppe1 furnace merits public attent

 PION
Year: 1877

We have heard much complaint against the county paying for ice to be used at the Court House. The bill for last quarter was $60, which Will bring it to $12O for the season. Kern County Courier.
Year: 1877

UNFORTUNATE ACCIDENT AT THE CHEsA-
PEAKE AND ONO RAILROAD SHOPS YEsTER-
DAY-Yesterday afternoon about O'Clock
Mr.. John Whiteside, valuable mechanic
at the shops OF the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad Company, met with very serious
and painful accident, which will probably be
the cause of the loss OF. one OF his legs, and
his services TO the company for some time.
While attempting to put a band on one of
the puleys he had his leg caught in some
way in the machinery, and his foot was
brought in contact with the circular-saw,
nearly severing it from the limb. His leg
was also broken below the knee, and it
is feared that amputation will be necessary.
Mr.. Whiteside has been in the employment
OF the company for long time.
Year: 1877

A BRIDGE OVER THE BAsIN.-A petition
is in circulation among the businessmen OF
the city asking the Council TO construct
bridge over the basin at Ninth street, IN
order to connect with the Free bridge. :
Year: 1877

AN OLD PLANK-RoAD IN THE City
"REMINISCENCES, &C.-Y Yesterday, while Cap
tain Wilkinson, with his chain-gang, was
cutting the trench for culvert in Lombard
alley near Thirteenth street he came across
a portion of ptank-road five or six feet
below the surface, with the timbers, cross
pieces, and plank IN good state OF pre-
servation. There Is probably no one in the
city who remembers the time when this was
used as public road. BY reference to
map OF the city drawn by Richard Young
prior to the year 1909 we find that what is
now known us "Governor or Thirteenth
street was put down as "county road"
This road led to the bank OF the river (then
much wider than it now is) at the point
where the gas-holder is located, where a
landing known as the Crock wharf" " had
been built to allow small vessels to discharge
and receive cargoes. 1t is supposed that the
plank unearthed by Captain Wilkinson was
used ut some time during the last century
in repairing this road to Rock wharf.


At that time the city was almost east OF
Shockoe creek, and where the Old Market
house stands was whortleberry swamp.
All the business of the city was done below
Eighteenth street, and the finest private re-
sidcnces in the city were located there and
on Church Hill; and at that time, or very
soon thereafter, the city was supplied with
water, through wooden pipes, from Bloody
Run spring.
Year: 1877

Would the scientists who have
turned the world upside down with
their theories and discoveries ever
have accomplished what they have
done if enthusiasm had not led them
on untiringly in their researches? ? No
finer, nobler instances can be cited
than Prof. Agassiz. What patient
thoroughneSs of investigation. What
passionate devotion to truth What
reverent recognition of a Supreme
Power governing all the great forces Of
the universe! A sad day for the
world when that noble head was laid
low in death. and the nobler heart, that
had beat 30 long and so truly in the in
tereSts Of science, was hushed forever.
And what rare example of unhinch
ing devotion to ones selfappointed
life, work has DR.. Livingstone left the
world! In the interests of science,
and the higher interests Of humanity,
how he persevered in the face Of OBJ
stacles that would have utterly quench-
ed dall ordinary enthusiasm. The treach-
cry Of natives, the deadly miasma of
those African marshes, the fierce heat
of a torrid sun, and the hunger of the
best affections of a noble nature f0r
the dear delights of family and ONE,
had no power to turn him from his
chosen task. His zeal only went out
with his last breath. He never yielded
but to death, the coUquerOr of all. 1t
was fitting that England should have
brought back, with such honors, this
intrepid, heroic missionary explorer,
and laid him to rest with her most IL
lustrious dead. Enthusiasm lends
wings TO principle. Straight onward,
unswervingly, will principle take
truly noble mind; but inspire it with
enthusiasm, and it is like putting spurs
to a mettlcd steed. The zealot-and
the enthusiast is in one sense a zealot
never leaves his work. He does
not know what it is to live, nor is there
any eud to his labor. He goes ON,
ever Inspiring and being inspired,
until the presumably impossible be-
comes a fact.
Year: 1877

Did you ever see n man try to find
a clean shirt or = handkerchief, or
something in the bureau drawer where
his wife keeps her linen? 1t mostly
happens when he is in a hurry, when
he has got his fireworks temper on,
and his wife has got the baby on her
lap, or she is up to the elbows in
dough.


He finds the white arrayed in such
symmetrical layers as only woman
after long practice can accomplish, and
ne dives in a good deal as he would
fish for nuhs OF kindling in a barrel
Of shavings, pitching every thing right
or left on the floor; meanwhile, as he
fails TO get the desired article, stewing
and swearing and offering up selecced
expressions OF relief to his feelings in
q suppressed tone OF voice, aud v0wing
in a way especially designed to reach
the ears of his wife, "that it beats
the old-what's his name "a thing
can't he put where it can be found"


About this time the wife wells out
from below that the article sought is
right at the top, when he sarcasticalIv
wants to know if she supposes he has
got no eyes


And then he gather. everything M
in bunch and rams them back anv-
how, Just as he cen crab them in say.
age handfuls, tearing around an Jerk
ing thinks all over with a nervous
loosene,s. Then he sings out in Il sort
Of abstracted way, as if addressing no
one in particular, "that he can always
find anything he needs at his place OF
business III a moment; that he keeps a
place for everything, and everything
in its place"


Just about the time he has worked
himself into a great worry Of boiling.
over impatience, and got the whole
room in Il litter, his wife glides in and
lays her hand on the missing article
right in the drawer, where he had
icrked 1t out and rammed it back
again, IN that quiet way woman has
of maddening chol7ric husband into
a tit state for the lunatie asylum,
Year: 1877

moving the post. The posts are also


arranged so as to receive the ends OF


the service-pipes either With or without


expansion Joints. The service-pipes


are not taken directly from the mains,


but from the hollow supports, this
allowing them to be attached or de-
tached from the support instead of
passing through the outside wooden
| pipe to enter the steam pipe, which
could not be done beause the steam
| pipe expands and contracts, while the
wooden pipe does not This over
comes one Of the most important OBJ
jections to the use of long lines Of un-
derground steam pipes, when branch
pipes are TO be taken of. Another
objection has been condensation. This
the asbestos reduces about three
fourths, and the air-space and wooden
pines will reduce it still further. Tests
made during the month Of July, with
very small pipe, proved that steam
may be carried through well projected
pipes for a mile, and then be more
economical than any other system.
But it is thought that 200 or 1900
feel each way, making a half mile
square, is about all that need he fur
nished from one location. This even
in city with a population Of 800,
would, include nearly all the business
places hotels, churches and schools.
Buildings further out could be reached
by II single line of small pipe. Steam
can be manufactured on a large scale
for one-fourth that it IS on a small
scale, for warming single dwelling tr
block. You can stop the expense at
any time by turning the steam-cock in
your house, whereas in the use Of
private boiler, when you shut of the
steam combustion goes on Just the
same. There is about one hundred
and fifty cubic feet OF hot air per min
ute lost through the chimnev.-N Y.
World.
Year: 1877

lived; I shall be glad if I can thus be.
come of any use after l am dead.


Whether the creditors accepted this
well-intentioned bequest in part satisiac-
t;on of their claims is notrecorded. The
following is an extract from the will OF
John Hylett Stow, proved in l7Sl; 1
hereby direct my executors to lay out
five guineas in the purchase of a picture
of the viper biting the benevolent hand
of the person who saved him from per
ishing in the snow, if the same can be
bought for the money; and tina,
that they do, in memory of me- present
to =, Esq, n kings counsel, whereby
he may have frequent opportunities O.
contemplating on it, and by compari
son between that and his own virtue
he able to form certain Judgment whicl
is best and most profitable, a gratefu
remembrance of past friendship and al
most parental regard, or ingratitude AM
insolence This I direct tobe presente'
TO him in lieu of a legacy of three thou


sand pounds had by former vii


now revoked and burnt, left him.
Year: 1877

The waning popularity Of Rev. Henry


Ward Beecher is seen in the fact that
on Tuesday at an auction sale OF the
effects Of his bankrupt publishers, the
stereotype plates and copyright OF his
ten volume edition of his sermons, coy GOV
ering the period between 1869 to 1873,
sold for $i75, Or about what the plates
were worth for old type metal. At the
same sale more than a thousand copies
of the printed series unbound were sold
for seven and half cents copy, which
was very much less than the cost of the
white paper upon which they were
printed. The plates and copyright o o
the new series Of sermons from 1873 I,
1875, which have not been published
sold for $3.50. Comment is unnecessary
Year: 1877

defects H.


excellences. b.


profit by his instructive csueeI, Pr
ing the same high aim for the drama;
laboring to keep the actors fame as
spotless as his calling; striving with the
same honest purpose and fidelity to at,
tain deserved reward; and scorning oil
those external means of notoriety by
an ephemeral success is gained, at the
cost of sincerity, truth and the very
integrity of the drama itself.
Year: 1877

Colonel Thomas Rafferty, could not, in tho Fifty
seventh Street Court, yesterday identify Daniel
Hudncr as one OF tho mon who made cowardly
attack upon him on Saturday last and nnicte
we're cuts upon his head. He said be was walking
along Forty -lourth street Saturday afternoon with
a largo sum OF money in bis pocket when he was
struck two severe blows on the back OF the head.
sunCshot, which produced court, the Colonel
said was the weapon used. When he was struck tho
second time he picked up stone and his assailants
fed. Hudncr arrested the information Of
Thomas Staploton, boy, who told the police he wit
messed the assault and that Hudner engaged In IT,


Stapcton did not appear IN court, and the prisoner
discharged.
Year: 1877

uiSh act muSG come nome TO them
eventually.


Let the workingmen who are un-
justly treated, counsel together for
relief, let them present clear state
ment of their grievances to the pro-
per persons, then to the public,
whose sentiment and sympathy are
usually, if not always, with them, and
in most cases such a course would
bring an adjustment of the matter Of
complaint. Scarcely.a "a railroad er
manufacturing corporation exists
which would not consider the deliber-
ate and earnest remonstrance of its
faithful employees against any condi-
ton or measure which the latter have
by general consent, declared unfair
or oppressive.
Year: 1877

Two persons were once dlspaqng
50 loudly ON the subject OF religion
that they awoke a big dog which had
been sleeping on the hearth before
them, and he forthwith barlSed most
furiously. An old divine present,
who had been slipping tea, gave the
dog a kick and exclaimed, "Hoid
your tongue, you silly brute! You
! know no more about it than they do. Z
Year: 1877

EMILE GIRARDIN, the veteran French
journalist, once an Imperialist, but now a
Republican, at present chief proprietor of the
great paper, the France, meets the gag-law
of Marshal MacMahon as follows: SIT being
always difficult and often impossible to dis
tinguish true news from false, beg you
henceforth to publish no news whatever not
coming from an official or we'll recognized
semi-oficlal source. l am indirectly in
formed that on the first pretext the France
will be prosecuted and temporarily or finally
suppressed. I have looked in vain through
my seventy-six volumes of laws to find any
authority for its suppression; but be on your
guard. If the France is to expire, let it be
not for "false news" but for serious lead
ing article. Under this reserve will not
shrink from responsibility.
Year: 1877

Mr.. TILDEN wanted some Democrat of no
account to resign and let David Dudley Field
have his seat in Congress. Wouldn't there
be music in the air if some Republican of the
milder sort should take up the fashion and
turn over his chair to Gov. Chamberlain?
Year: 1877

We do not read anonymous letters 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 reserve commu-
nications that are not used.
Year: 1877

GES. GRANT among HIS English speeches
made one praising reserve forces He de-
ciare,t his success in the Vicksburg campaign
was due TO the volunteers who, without spe-
cial military training, knew how TO build a
bridge two thousand feet long, and did it.
1--WE don't find that intelligence in the rank
and file OF the regulars" said the general.
They can do manual labor; but among the
volunteers you have mechanics and men OF
every profession and every capacity, SO that
with them built two thousand feet or bridge
where there was great depth OF water and
swiftness OF stream, and that too with very
little delay That is where the volunteers
come In and play the most active, and the
ablest part"
Year: 1877

HARLAN OF Iowa, the ex-christian states
man. Is working again for an election 10 the
United States senate. 1t Is quite impossible
one wonld suppose that there could be any
chance OF success for such an old humbug.
Rut then it is Iowa, and her love for the san
culinary garment is so strong, there Is nc
telling what she might not do. The g christ
ian Statesman" filled the bill once and may
again.
Year: 1877

The litigation which has been going on for nearly two years before the patent of. flee between the Yale Look company of Stamford and James Sargent of ROches- ter, N. T., to determine the priority of claim to the valuable invention known as time locks, has assumed new phase by being transferred to che supreme court of the district. upon suit by the Yale Look company against Sargent to try the right to the patent. The commissioner of the locks with independent combination locks to secure the bolt-work of safe and vault doors. until this suit shall have been. de- cided
Year: 1877

accordance with law and an order OF the Board OF
Trustees made and entered the 4h day of August A
D. 1877 so many of such designated shares of stock be-


longing and standing in the names OF the shareholders
aforesaid as shall and will be necessary to the
men upon all shares held and owned by such shareholders
or standing in their upon the books of the company
will be sold at public auction the office of said company
in the office of Trenmor Coffin, in Carson City, Nevada,
Year: 1877

When the contribution box WAC
passed around, little Billy Crook nad.1s
a penny, but when his father was look
ing in another direction he put half OF q
clam shell in the plate. just tAen little
Billy Crook sneezed so loud that his
father looked around anu caught him ia
the act. Whenever tue box is passed
around now and little Rii!v Crook
nasRt penny, he DaSser
Year: 1877

one given by Mr.. Bramwell: The meter proper con-
sists of vertical truncated hollow cone, having its
small end upward, and containing within it disk OF
the same diameter as the small end Of the cone.
A central stalk on the top surface Of the disk IS
suspended from a fine wire which passes water-tight
through a small hole in the upper part OF the
chamber above the cone, and thence over pulley
supporting weight the other side OF the pulley.
crosshead carrying pencil is attached to the wire'
This weight is just sufficient to hold the disk to the
upper end Of the cone when no water is passing
through that is, when the meter filled with stlil
water. The inlet for water is in the chamber above


DFACON wASTF-W tTFR METER,
Year: 1877

there has been foolish crime or criminal folly.
Either to-day yesterday the Republican news
papers have been playing false. When we see
men who have for eight years steadily maintained
that black is black suddenly change about and IN
three days as loudly maintain that ba k is white,
we know that then or now we have been urged
TO believe n lie GAIL HAMILTON


MaU 26 1877
Year: 1877

The night express of the G.. r. e. D..
railroad rolled slowly out of the bare
and smoking Dalton depot, as l entered
the last car of the train, and seated my
self near the three solitary occupants of
the car-two ladies and little man,
with an imitation seal-skin cap and o
wheezy cough, who was curled up on a
seat reading paper. ..|l. ...


The feeble light shed by the one lamp,
the others having burned out, fell upon
the little group and renderedLhe faces
of the ladies as ghrsuy as twO-days'-
old corpse, and the little mans head
bobbed and swayed with the motion of
the car, until half expected to see it
tumble off and roll down the narrow
aisle.


The silence, broken only now and
then by the sharp rustic of the little
mans paper, grew oppressive, and |
turned away and gazed through the
dusty window pane and watched the
lights of the villages as we flashed
by them. Half an hour had dragged
slowly by and yet the little man read
on, or attempted to, and the ladies sat
grim and silent as ghosts, showing
signs of life only when the little old
man bGrked thin, gasping sort of a
Year: 1877

Every one knows of the book "San-
ford and Merton," but only few are
acquainted with the following anec-
dote of its author, Thomas Day: He
thought that to secure wife after his
own heart he would bring one up him
self. He accordingly took from a charity
school two orphan sisters, with view
of marrying the one who turned out
to be the best, after he had them edu-
Gated in the way he thought proper.
But alas when the selected one ma
tured to beautiful perfection, the dis
appointed Thomas had to endure the
woe of seeing the maiden of his choice
carried Of by some younger man who
pleased her fancy more.


Thomas did not educate any more
girls, but gentleman of this city, who,
perhaps, had never heard of Days de-
feated hopes, made a similar effort.
Won by the childish grace of his wash
erwoman's little daughter, he provided
facilities for her education, promising,
as the reward Of patient study, to make
the young student his wife upon grad
uation.. But his pretty protege had Il
will of her own, and ran away with
her music master before her education
was finished, ungratefully leaving her
less attractive benefactor to ponder on
the capricious nature of "women in our
hours of ease"