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Year: 1877

How bad this man (MortOn) is one
can realize by remembering that the
brutal assaSsinatiOnS and open
slaughter of men at the South is the
result of his own legislation of hate,
that, establishing the color line, in
augurated the war of races. The
vile breath that appeals to the pref
udices of North against South is the
same that sets black against white,
and would make a San Domingo of
the larger part of our unhappy land.
And again, this same man who with
unblushing audacityaided i'm defeat
ing the will of the people in the Sc
lectian of a President, is now wOr-
ried amazingly lest the negro at the
South be prevented from appearing
at the polls. 1t is a comfort to know
that the sober second thought of the
people enables them to see through
and repudiate these bad men, whose
lifelong labOrs in power have
brought us only ruin and dishOnor.
And we can say to the President,
and no one can say it with more
force and impartiality than our
selves, that he has only to persevere
in the good work he has inaugurated
to rally to his support the people of
the United States, who, sick of the
shame brought upou them by the
Mortons, Blaines, Camerons and
Others of like sort, will hasten to
forget the inauspicious beginning of
his Administration, in the peace,
good will and prosperity he can give
lis.
Year: 1877

The.science of Health says on this
subject: The mental condition has
more influence upon the bodily
health than is generally supposed.
1t is no doubt true that ailments of
the body cause a depression and
morbid condition of the mind but
X is no less true that sOrTOwful and
dfsagreeable emotions produce dis
ease i'm persons who, uninhuenced
by them, would be in sound health
or, if disease is not produced, the
functions are disordered. Not even
physicians always consider the inn
portance of this fact. Agreeable
emotions set in motion nervous cur
rents, which stimulate blood, brain,
and every part of the system into
healthful activity; while grief, dis
appointment of feeling, and brood
ing over present sorrows or past
mistakes, depress all the vital forces.
To be physically well one must, i'm
general, be happy. The reserve Is
not always true; one may be happy
and cheerful, and yet be a constant
sufferer in body.
Year: 1877

The special correspondent Of the
New York Times who has been
travelling through the South says
"The expressions of leading news
paper can always be taken as fairly
indicating popular opinion, feeling
and sentiment; and, as have inti-
mated, there is not in the cotton
States to-day a leading newspaper
that does not rejoice at the solidity
of the Southern Democratic vote.
And looking at the matter from a
Southern Democratic standpoint,
why should the vote referred to be
divided? What have the Southern
Democrats to gain by disOrganiza-
tion ? 1t is not usual for victorious
armies to disperse. Great political
parties only separate when they
have been defeated. The Democrats
of the South have been successful
beyond their most sanguine eXpec-
tations. They have triumphed
where they anticipated disaster, and
would be more or less human if they
did not press forward to fresh victO-
ries and still greater conquests."
Year: 1877

THE New York Evening Post has
this to say of the attempt of Min
nesota to repudiate half her bonded
debt, contracted for building rail-
roads and squandered in a most out
rageous manner, creating a strong
equity for the State:


This is q curious spectacle, that of
the presumably honest State dehat-
ing whether they shall honestly pay
their honest debts; a spectacle not
altogether calculated to strengthen
American creditin foreign countries.
1t will not be easy for Minnesota to
live down the disgrace.Ofrepudiating
half of this debt. It will be impos-
sible to do so In respect to the whole
of it. We have commented upon
the facts of this ease. Minnesota
should no more refuse TO pay these
bonds than private citizen should
refuse to repay money borrowed by
his agent, in his name, with his au-
thOrity, and for his use, on the
ground that the money was unwise-
ly spent by another agent. If the
citizen should offer to pay but half
he would be regarded ms a shabby
person. There is no different rule
for the State.
Year: 1877

The question is very often asked /:
"What is the difference between q
registered letter and any other"


The difference is that a registered
letter does not go i'm the mail pro-
per. 1t passes from hand to hand
outside Of the mail pouches; every
person though whose hands il passes
being required to sign a receipt for
it on receiving it, and receive n re-
ceipt for il on passing Z over TO the
next transit. The person holding
the last receipt is always thus able
to show who is accountable for its
loss. The responsibility rests upon
the man who has signed receipt
for the registered package, and who
is not able TO produce the package
or II receipt from somebody else for
il. The safest way 10 send money
is by money order. Where II does
not go 10 a money order Office, 10
should always be sent i'm aregisteicd
letter. Money ought not TO be sent
in an ordinary letter under any cir
cumstances. There is no possible
way of "tracking" such letter.
Year: 1877

Three saloon keepers in Chicago
were found guilty of selling liquor to
minors. The address of the Justice
when they were sentenced, as re-
ported in the Chicago Tribune, is
original and eminently wholesome.
The evils of the liquor traffic, and
what a license involves, are rarely
set out in a clearer light than in the
following address by Judge Read
ing:


"By the law you may sell to men
and women, if they will buy. You
have given your bond, and paid
your license to sell to them and no
one has right to modest your legal
business. No matter what the con-
sequences may be, no matter what
poverty and destitutiOn are pro-
duced by your selling according to
law, you have paid your money for
this privilege, and you are licensed
to pursue your calling. No matter
what families are distracted and rem
dered miserable; no matter what
wives are treated with violence !;
what children starVe or mourn over
the edegradatiOn Ofa parent, your bus
mess is legaliZed, and no one may in
terfere with you in it. No matter
what mother may agOniZe over the
loss of a son, or sister blush at the
shame Of a brother, you have right
to disregard them all and pursue
your legal calling-yOu are licensed
You may fit up your lawful place of
business in the most enticing and
captivating form; you may furnish
it with the most costly and elegant
equipments for your lawful trade !;
you may fill it with the allurementS
of amusement; you may use all
your arts to induce visitors ; you may
Skillfully arrange and eXpOSet view
your choicest wines and most capti-
waiting beverages you may then in
duce thirst by all cOntrivances to
produce raging appetite for drink,
and thenyOu may supply theappetite
to the full, because it is lawful; you
have for it-yOu have a license.


"YOu may allow boys, almost
children to frequent your saloon ;
they may witness the apparent sat
isfaction with which their seniors
quaff the sparkling glass you may
be schooling and training them for
the period of tWenty-one, when
they, too, can participate, for all
this is lawful. You may hold the
cup to their very lips, but you must
not let them drink-that is unlaw-
full. But, while you have all these
privileges for money you pay, this
privilege of selling to children is
denied you. Here parents have the
right to say "Leave my son to me
until the law gives you right to
destroy him. Do not anticipated that
terrible moment when | can assert
for him no further rights of protec-
ton. That will be soon enough for
me, for his mother, for his sister, for
his friends and for the community to
see him take his road to death. Give
him to us in his childhood at least.
Let us have a few years of his youth,
in which we can enjoy his innocence,
to repay us in some degree for the
care and love we have lavished upon
him." This is something you who
now stand prisoners at the bar have
not paid for; this is not embraced
in your license.


"FOr this Offense, the court SEN
tences you to ten days imprisOn-
ment in the county Jail, and that you
pay a fine of seventy-five dollars
and costs; and that you stand COM
mitted until the fine and costs ofthis
prosecution are paid.
Year: 1877

The Sunday school at the Church west of Granite Creek, since the advent of Rev. MT. Campbell as minister. with the efficient assistance of Mir Touriec and others, has increased from fifteen to eighty-iive pupils Quite an improvement within the short space of four months. Churches and Sun day schools are like all other human insti- tutions, and in order to have them prosper. they must be controlled and promoted by men of life and feeling. men whose souls are in the work, men who arc glad they arc religious, and who show satisfaction with their calling by their pleasant manner, rather than by grooming at the world and acting as if religion was burden to them and affecting them with a sort of reverential cholic. AS correspondent says of Blaine, they want to feel the music in the air and keen Stcp to if
Year: 1877

Rev. Mir Campbell left this morning for a few days rest and recreation in the noun tains. Warm weather and over-cXerticn have rendered him unable to longer stand up under the ardurous task he has had to to perform of late. therefore he decided up- on losing himself for few days in the pine and cedar forests of our sierraS.
Year: 1877

Messrs Bond and Fine arrived in town yesterday from San Luis Obispo county, California, having come here to settle. We met these gentlemen. today, at their camp and found them 10 be intelligent gentlemen. we'll prepared 10 make a settlement should they find desirable location. They have struck our Territory when she is looking her worst and in fact when it is not much better than the sun parched plains of Cali fornia. People should not judge the coun- try. however, from present appearances one days rain would change the appear ance of everything sc that stranger would not recognize any portion of our county were they to leave now and return after 24 hours rain
Year: 1877

Col. Robert Wood is about to make a trip to the southern part of the Territory. will start about Thursday next and be gone month or two. He has an excellent ranch on the San Pedro that he wishes to visit, after which he will take in Tucson on his way home. IL is expected that the hot weather will be pretty we'll over by the time he returns, when it is proposed that work will commence on the Kit Carson mine, in which he is large owner.
Year: 1877

The jury. in the case of Berry, for high way robbery. took the case yesterday after noon, and this morning. at half-past one, returned their verdict to the court finding the prisoner guilty. This jury have done their duty nobly, Showing to the inhabitants who hold property that there are men here who will punish criminals and protect the property of our citizens.
Year: 1877

OUR SICK.-Mr>. Frank Smith, who has been sick. nigh unto death, iS we are grati- fled to state much better, but her little daughter is said to be quite tow with an at tack of dysentery. Albert Behan was re- ported unwcll yesterday, but to-day VIC found him trying to reach to the top shelf of the cupboard for cracker, declaring that he was hungry. which is a pretty good sign that he is all right. Little Grace Bean is fast re- covering as Is also little Mary Otis.
Year: 1877

We understand the C. < A. Stage Co $ coaches will arrive in Prescott twelve hours earlier. which will bring them into town in the evening instead of the morning We hope the department will place daily ser vice on this route, which needs it more than any other in the Territory.
Year: 1877

Charley Yates was perfectly satisfied with the concert last evening, and We imagine he had more than his dollars worth of fun and therefore be called upon to hand over the price of another ticket, or else be compelled at the next entertainment to sing solo for the benefit of his friends.
Year: 1877

Some time since the mother and sister of our fellow townSman F. c. Parker arrived from the States and took up their residence among us, which, at the time, We omitted to notice, but now make the dmeade honorable since VIC have become acquainted with the ladies, who arc valuable acquisition to our town and society.
Year: 1877

Lee. of the American Ranch, who had the best prospect for a large yield of corn this year. in the country, now tells us that hls crop will be an entire failure, owing 10 the drought of June and July.
Year: 1877

The Zalida still continues to yield ore of great richness, which is being taken 10 the Aztlan mill, there to he reduced by the dancing stamps that have pulverizcd so much orc from the Peck and other rich honanzas.
Year: 1877

During a period of more than thirty
years past we have been accustomed to
make cheap and durable mittens in the
following manner, to be worn when per-
forming all sorts of out door work. A
good sheepskin is purchased for about one
dollar, which has been tanned with the
wool on. The wool, of course, is short
not more than half an inch in length. A
sheepskin Of the medium size viii make
from three to four pairs Of mittens, as per
the size Of the hands. A pattern was first
made out Of stiff brown paper. The paper
thumb piece must be neatly fitted to the
pattern. Then the leather will fit the
thumb hole. One will answer for both
mittens if the leather is turned over after
one mitten has been cut out Sometimes
the mittens are made with the wool out
ward, and sometimes the wool is inside.


When mittens are TO be used for haul
ing wood, stone, lumber and other things
which are liable to rot them, the leather
is smeared " ith a coat of coal tar, which
must be dried in before the FIRE. A coat
of coal tar will prevent the leather from
becoming wet like piece Of wet cloth,
and it will also make the mittens wear like
horn, Apply tar only to the parts that
are most exposed to contact with the ma
terials to be handled.


In lieu of sheepskiu we have sometimes
employed tanned calfskin. Mittens will
keep hands much warmer than gloves,
Procure glover's needle of triangular
shape, let the edges of the leather be wet
ted before the mittens are sewed, employ
strong thread well waxed with beeswax-
and the mitteus will render excellent ser.
viee.-N. Y Herald.
Year: 1877

Put doctor in the midst of the widest
savages, and they will respect the ''medi-
cine man" when the lawyers fluent
sophistry and the preachers pathetic el-
oquence would not gain them consideration,
or even save them from death. When
the mighty fabric of the Roman Empire,
penetrated by internal decay, at last fell to
pieces under the successive assaults of the
Goths, and the Vandals, and the Huns,
many thousand persons were, as Gibbon
tells us, taken captive and distributed
through the deserts of Scythia; and it is
interesting to note what was the relative
value of persons under these circumstan-
ces. "The skill of an eminent lawyer
would excite only their contempt or their
adherence. The vain sophist or grave
philosopher, who had enjoyed the fatter-
ing applause of the schools, was mortified
to find that his robust servant was a cap
tive Of more value and Importance than
himself But the merit Of the physician
was received with universal favor and re-
spect; the barbarians who despised death
might be apprchensive of disease" So
long as man deems it the most important
thing in the world to him that he should
go on living-and he does that commonly
as long as he is alive--so long viii he hold
in favor and esteem him whom he believes
able to prevent or to mitigate the suffering
of disease, and to keep at bay "the last
enemy" death. 1t has always been so,
Honor a physician with the honor due
unto him for the uses which ye may have
Of him, for the Lord hath created him. +"
-Popuir Science Monthly.
Year: 1877

A JAPANESE LEGEND.-The japanese
have curious legend Of a stone cutter,
who became discontented with his lot in life.
He first expressed the very common wish,
"0h that were rich" This being grant
ed by the gods, he next wished to become
king, 50 that he might have power. In
this station he still found source of dis
content; so after many changes he wished
to become . rock, which even the foods
could not move; this being granted, he
for a time enjoyed his newly acquired
power, for neither the burning sun, rush
ing wind, nor roaring flood, had power to
move him. But one day man with
sharp chisel and heavy hammer came
along and began to cut stones out Of the
rock, and the rock said, "What is this,
that the man has power over me, and can
cut stones out of my bosom? lam weak
er than he. Ishould like to be that mani
And there came an angel out Of heaven
who said, "Bc this as you have said, aud
the rock became stonecutter, and he
cut stones with hard labor for small wages
and was contented.
Year: 1877

Many people using lead pencil in
writing have habit of putting the point
in their mouths after writing few words
under the impression, perhaps, that it
makes the chirography look palmer aud
blacker 1t is well to suggest to such per.
sons that every time they touch the pencil
to their tongues they seriously endanger
their health, Cases have occurred where
the system has been SO badly poisoned that
paralysis and death have resulted from this
practice.
Year: 1877

Children must have love inside the
house and fresh air, and good play and
some good eompanionsbip outside-other-
wise young life runs the greatest danger
in the world Of withering or growing stunt
ed, or at best permaturely old and turned
inward on itself
Year: 1877

Observe method to the distribution Of
your time. Every hour win then know
its proper employment, aud no time will
be lost. Idleness will be shut out at every
avenue, aud vice with all her train,
Year: 1877

1t is the result Of practical every day
experience that steady attention to mat
ters of detail lies at the root Of human
progress, and that diligence, above all, is
the mother of good luck.
Year: 1877

In q newspaper article on table-eti-
quette Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher says
that in handing your plate up to have it
repleaished you should first remove the
knife and fork, and thus prevent their
being jostled off by those annoying acci-
dents which are so liable to occur. APP
preciating the fact that it looks awk-
ward to hold the knife and fork in your
hand, and equally suspicious to stick
them in your pocket, the lady recon-
mends that you lay them down g on the
solitaire or piece of bread,'' so as not to
soil the cloth. Mrs. Beccher ought to
remember that we do not all receive
salaries of $4,000 a year and three
months at the White Mountains, and
are not, therefore, likely to be provided
with solitaires. Even in the case of
those persons who can afford such
luxury it seems to us to be asking great
deal of them to take it off for the pur-
pose of propping up greasy knife and
fork. And then, if a man lays down his
solitaire in company he take great
risk of never seeing it again this side of
IHC IL WCIC W. OeNHAO
it, to grease the table-cloth and pay the
damages after dinner-buy a new cloth,
if need be, and take the old one home
for horse-blanket. The horses would
not kick because of grease-spot OF
two. A mule, though, would kick the
roof off the stable on much less provo
cation.


"On the solitaire or piece of bread"
Looking at it again, we see in it hole
for man to crawl out of who has no
diamond. But why would not biscuit
do just as well as piece of bread? Or,
in the absence of either bread of biscuit
"a fellow is liable to eat them, you know
how would a potato doP Or, again,
how would it do to wipe the knife and
fork on your hair, and-but these things
will suggest themselves to a man in any
emeroencV.-OiL Citu Derrick.
Year: 1877

There is man that resides in Buck
horn Township, this county, who has
until recently been county official for
80 years. He is an illiterate man, can
not read line of print or manuscript,
but can write page after page as smooth
ly and correctly as any book-keeper in
the city. He is very fond of writing,
especially if any one dictates, and then
when the manuscript is completed he
knows no more about it than a hog does
of Greek. He bought a common cedar
pen staff and holder 80 years ago, and
has used that and no other since. These
facts can be vouched for by number O
reliable citizens of this city.-RGletgl
| On. CO. Observer.
Year: 1877

In anticipation of the proposed re-
mOnetization of silver, the Director of
the Mint has had prepared new die
for the silver dollar, which if adopted
will add to our currency remarkably
beautiful coin and give some relief to
the Liberty seated on vacancy and look
ing into nothing, which has disfgured
our silver currency for twenty years.
The new die has on the diverse medal
lion head of Liberty, with sprigs
of cotton and corn in place of
the traditional fillet The execu-
ton of the head is remarkably
free, and the arrangement of the hair
on the forehead and the disposition of
the lines around the chin and neck are
treated with remarkable grace and free
dom. The reverse has an eagle dis
played. The notices on the coin will
be ''United States of America and g E
pluribus Unum," with the date. Where
the second motto is to go, "In God we
trust" is not yet determined, but it will
not be left off. A study was made of an
eagle from life, but it proved unsatisfac-
tory, and the antique type was followed.
Year: 1877

AT a Republican Senatorial caucus,
held on the 18th, the relations between
the President and the Republican party
leaders were again discussed, several
Senators who had conversed with the
President giving an expression of his
views and policy. The President is re-
ported as feeling assured that his South
ern policy will promote the coalition of
the old Wings and various other ele-
ments opposed to the Democratic
party in the South, and event
ually secure six or eight South
ern States to the Republicans. All the
Senators present expressed themselves
satisfied that the President was sincere
in this belief, but all of them concurred
in the opinion that the Presidents poll
cy of appointing Democrats to office in
the South is neither wise or sound.
Year: 1877

AT the Cabinet session held on the
18th, Secretary Sherman presented a
letter from Mr.. Belmont and other
members of the Syndicate respecting the
House bill for the reconciliation of sill
yer, in which it was stated that the eff
feet of such radical revolution in the
monetary system of the United States
would be disastrous, and intima-
tions were made that it would
be impracticable to further conduct their
operations in placing the new loan. The
Senate Committee on Finance, at a
special meeting, also heard arguments
from a number of Eastern gentlemen
representing banking and other financial
interests in opposition to the passage of
the bill. Representative Bland and
Senator Jones of Nevada were present
and spoke in favor of the bill.
Year: 1877

THE political complexion of the New
York Legislature just chosen is not con-
elusive as to the Senatorsnip. Mr..
Conkling's term expires in 1879, but a
new House and half of the Senate will
be elected next November and the choice
of Senator will not take place until
after the meeting of the Legislature thus
reconstructed. OF the hold-over Sena-
tors the Republicans have largely the
majority.