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Year: 1878

BROWNSVILLE STATES; Many
laughable expedients were adopted du-
ring the late epidemic to ward off the
yellow monster. One worthy gentle
man wore string of red-pepper pods
down his back, and as he never had the
fever the laugh may not all be against
him. Another gentleman wore
a string of onions around his waist.
The colored people tried all their
witch preventiyes, such as mailing horse
shoes on the front steps, but all in
vain. But jesting aside, it is asserted
that a number of the Howard Associa-
tion made it a rule to eat sulphur eve
ry day, and all escaped. This fact is
worth remembering.
Year: 1878

Bro. Bun f. Price, now serving
his third term as Worshipful Master
of DeSoto Lodge, 299, the largest and
most aourishing lodge Of the State,
received the rare, though merited
compliment of being elected Right
Worshipful Senior Grand Warden of
the Grand Lodge; position which his
experience, capacity and zeal emf
nently fit him to fill. He is a brilliant
young member Of the Masonic frater
nifty, and we are glad that he is ap-
preciated by such a large, intelligent
and influential body as the Grand
Lodge of Tennessee, as well as at
home here in the city of his birth.
Year: 1878

Warwick in Santa Ana Tim es.


Siiverado now presents itself as q
flourishing busy place, full of life
and animation, after week Ofcom-
parative. quietude. For the past
week the excitement has been GEN.
tered in the new discoveries in
Shrewsbury Cation where there are
some good locations, as the ore from
there will attest.


Yesterday the teams fairly
streamed into this place. Some to
"lOok at the mines,o some 10 work
their locations, and others to en-
gage in business of different kinds
wherewith they hope to "make a
raise


Town lots are selling rapidly at
present, and at advanced prices.
People owning real estate in Sill
verado consider themselves lucky,
and feel sure that the rise in value
of property will in time give
them all independence; but be this
as IL may, our town has at present
quite an imposing appearance.


The school here is making good
progress under the supervision of
Miss Emma Clark, of Anaheim.


There is great interest taken in
the development of the mines, but
most of the locators are poor men,
and unable to do as they could
wish to. If they had been pos
sessed of the sinews of war, this
place would be further advanced at
the present day. Capital is needed
to open these mines as well as any
others, and II moneyed men would
but come here, they would find q
good field for speculation. We in
vite such men here.


There is strong talk of getting
mill here to run ON Ophir rock and
If this is done times will be lively
as there is large body of free mill
ing ore that is rich enough to pay
we'll If milled. The chances are
that the Ophir will be one of the
best mines in Santa Rosa mining
district.


Mr.. Flanagan has shown the
ledge on the Gray Back and it
looks nice. 1t is fully four feet at
the top.


Mr.. G.. E. Shinn traded a quarter
interest in the Scorpion mine for
eighty acres of fine land in the val
ley.


Mr.. A. Byrd Is building an Aras-
ira which will be completed soon.


Last night the town was thrown
In commotion caused by the dis
covery that man was lost in the
mountains. 1t seems that two men
went out to prospect on Friday,
and becoming separated, one party
returned thinking the friend would
return also. He mentioned the
fact to some friends who said they
thought all would be we'll in time.
After waiting until Sunday night
and no signs Of the friend, he
made it generally known, when a
meeting was called and men to the
mum ber of twenty-five volunteered
to join in the search for the miss
ing one. The place was very quiet; ;
rrowtully 30. The meeting was
solemn and hushed. All seemed
to feel the solemnity Of the occa-
sion; but just as the meeting broke
up the lost man came into C amp,
whole and unhurt, with tales OF
hail breadth escapes from grizzly
bears and other wild animals that
infest the mountain range.
Year: 1878

When we left Philadelphia In the early morning, I nouced among the passengers who had joined us there 8 lady who had for some years past been known here in Washington as The Queen of the Lobby" Age adds to her personal charms, and I could but nouce her as she sat gracefully yet proudly, as a thrOned sovereign, glanc- ing over the newspapers with her keen gray eyes, and a purpose marked in each line of her handsome face. Of course she was exquisitely attired, tor the soldier of fortune of either sex must wear gay, untarnIshed uniform, although the pockets may be empty Al Baltimore every feature snftenTd as 8 Western Congressman came into the car, and she gave him joyous greet ing. Before we had left the Monu- mental City, the rural Representative, fresh from the Lares and Penares. had marched into the lilile parlor, and when at the Relay House ihe fair Spider opened her lunch-b basket per turning the car with the OdOr of old Bourbon, il was evident that the Hon. Jefferson Caucnsman would vote for ihe Oregon and Alaska Steamship sub sidy, the South Arizona Elevated rail. road grant, and the other jobs which have retained The Queen" The ses- sion is to be short, and there is no time to he lost Here WAS an early worm who was accidentally caught by a pretty bird before he could reach the metropolis Washington Letter to Bos- ton Journal.
Year: 1878

Some parties have become more or less discouraged because Arizona has not developed more rapidly during lhe past two or three years. They readily admit great advancement % far as rich discoveries are concerned, but they complain of lack of substantial de. velopment with corresponding finan- cial results. Many have cherished the dream that & rich discovery must pro duce immediately lively camp and plenty of bullion, no matter how re mote or difficult of access the locality may be. If we consider the means and Cost of transportation, living, &c., We will find that comparatively large amount of machinery and other min- ing materials has very recently been brought into our Territory, and the contrast between Arizona three years ago and now will be found most cn. couraging, both as regards our home interests and the general prominence of our Territory abroad.

 The Los Angeles Herald has the fol- lowing fair comments on this subject:

 It is in the highest degree unreason- able to expect 6 Territory as isolated as Arizona has been and yet is to give d good account of itself The question of cheap transportation is everything in developing the mineral capabilities of B virgin region. Under present con dions AriZonans have only been aLle 10 work their very richest lOdes. Where food itself has been so dear as to make prospecting costly and only the most primitive methods of trans purtaliou to and from tue interior nave been available, not much was to be ex- pected With a railway from Denver pushing rapidly to the heart of the Territory from the East, and with the Southern Pacific fairly on it's career from the west towards Tucson, we shall soon know whether or no Ar. Zona is an inchOate Nevada.
Year: 1878

A copy Of the Annals !" will be given as Premium to any one sending us $l5 for club Of ten, or s25 for a club or twenty

 This Is A grand opportunity, without cost and but little trouble, tO get a copy of Splendid Work that should be read by everyone.
Year: 1878

VIII be kept fully up to the high standard or the past, and improvements added from time 10 time as they may be suggested by experience and the wants of our readers.

 The grand and distinctive feature Of THE WEEKLY TIMES, that has proved so| throughout the year 1879. viz: S series of chapters Of the
Year: 1878

JEFF DAVIS still teaches the doctrine of
secession, although he claims that he was
among those who advocated it in 1860 only
as last resort He asserts this claim in q
letter to Representative SINGLETON. of Mis-
sissippi, in which he lays down the follow
ing stalwart Southern Democratic theory
theory which Southern Democrats to q
man still believe In, and are ready, on occa-
sion, to maintain:


The coercion OF a State by the Federal Gov
ernmcnt was the most palpable violation OF the
compact Of our Union. the power to do so not
having been given In the Constitution, but cx-
preSsly denied by the Convention which framed
that instrument.


It is useless to talk Of renewed loyalty in
the South when men like DAVIS, who en-
tertain such ideas as the foregoing that the
General Government Is powerless TO main
tain its supremacy over the States, are
called patriots. Mr. SINGLETON dared to
assert this theory on the floor Of tho House,
and 1t is taught in the schools throughout
the entire South as the underlying princi-
pie of our governmental system. The
idea that all differences of opinion re-
garding it were settled by the war,
and the fact that the General Government
has the right to coerce rebellious State
arc held up in the schools as hateful Yankee
or Northern dogmas. And yet we find loyal
men in the North and elsewhere who
stupidity maintain that the South is returned
tocomplete submission to the results of the
war.
Year: 1878

As To THE ISSUE between Clerk ADAMS and
Senator DORSEY. it may be said that so long as
Congress persists in crowding ali the clerical
work of an eight months session into the last
eight days thereof, together with about four
ilfths oil the legislative work. mistakes will
always be liable TO OCcur.-POst.


Under all circumstances there is richness
in the above precious paragraph, for it is a
part Of the meal that covers the cat of n
great outrage and fraud that many people
think was perpetrated deliberately. And
now that Senator DORSEY and Clerk
ADAMS have both been heard from in re-
gard TO the failure to enroll the Hot
Springs Bill" and in view of the fact that
nobody believes that any member of Con-
gress is in any way responsible for this
grave and perhaps criminal delinquency,
and II being reported that Enrolling Clerk
KING precipitated his exit from the city
the day after it had been discovered that
the bill had not been enrolled, and followed
the advice given by the immortal GREELEY
and went West 1t will be in order for him
to rise and explain what he knows about
farming" What the people want in this
epoch in regard to this affair is light, light
for it is said that "there is millions in it"-
the Hot Springs of Arkansas. The
stealing Of bills and defeating tn,
purposes Of legislation was n fitting deROWo
mrRt of session Of Congress that wa
steeped in Democratic corruption from be
ginning to eud-aud all under tht
banner Of reform. That party did no
quite steal the Hot Springs, but it did tn,
next thing to it in this last performance
The people Of Arkansas may have some
lhlnm tn snY on this .nhiect next fall
Year: 1878

In view of the talk about the payment of
the Southern shareholders tor their eman-
cipated slave-property being prohibited by
the Constitution, 1t is well to remember
that repeal Of the prohibitory amendment
Is demanded by the Democrats OF the ban
ner Democratic State Of Georgia.
Year: 1878

HE NE"


BY authority Of the Government of the
United States Major WILLIAM J. TwINING,
United States Engineer Corps, Captain l.. 5.
PHELPS, formerly of the United States
navy, and JOSIAH DENT, of Georgetown.
yesterday assumed, as United States Com
missioners, the exclusive and absolute con-
troll of the governmental affairs Of the
100000 inhabitants of the District Of Co
lumbia.


These Commissioners were selected and
appointed without any voice being raised
in their behalf on the part Of our citizens,
control. And this has taken place in the
Democratic Republic Of America. We
doubt IL such civic powers have ever before
been conferred upon three mon outside Of a
despotic government


We merely allude to this condition of
affairs for the purpose Of calling the atten-
ton Of the Commissioners to the tremendous
responsibility which devolves upon them in
the administration OF this absolute govern
ment OF 100000 people, and to suggest that
only the most enlightened, enlarged, and
comprehensive line of policy to the spirit
of progress and development will satisfy our
people for the utter denial to them of voice
and participation In the management of
their local affairs. If the Commissioners
pursue n course Of generous and compre-
hensive administration, commensurate with
the magnitude Of their position as governors
of the nations capital, in which they act as
trustees for the people of the entire country,
and proceed in the spirit OF such enlarged
views, our people will second their efforts
to the fullest extent but anything short of
that will be likely to breed discomfort and
unpopularity for their administration of
public affairs. Congress fixed the amount
of expenditures, and now let the Commits
sioners live up to the line of appropriations
and provisions Of the law. An immense
amount Of improvements can be effected
with the present price of labor and ma
terials, adding to the prosperity and attrac-
tions Of the Capital city Of the Republic,
giving employment to idle labor, and in the
results accomplished encouraging the peo-
pies representatives upon their return to
be more generous lin their appropriations
for the further advancement aud bcautif-
cation of the national seat of Government.
Year: 1878

prosecuting officers and the courts. 1t is


only in exceptional cases that the lawmak-
ing power is expected to step out OF its


ordinary sphere and supervise the prac-


tical working of the administration. Even
in many cases of fraud Congress may prop
erly stand aloof. for if the District Attorney
is doing his duty, or if the President, find
ing that he neglects it, removes him, there
is nothing about which Congress need
trouble itself. These eighteen smelling
committees" are not needed for any useful
purpose of legislation, and nobody believes
that evidence will be found to justify eigh-
teen impeachments. This business of in
vestigation is getting to be SO overdone as to
become itself an abuse. Since Mr.. Woods
resolution was destined to pass we are sorry
that the amendment was rejected which in
cluded the expenses and accounts of former
committees of the kind within the scope OF
the investigation.
Year: 1878

1t is stated that the president and direct
ors of the Brooklyn Bank have united in a
letter requesting that Gilbert l.. Whiting,
their late bookkeeper who last spring
robbed the bank of one hundred and
sixty-four thousand dollars, may be al
lowed to 60 free and not be prosecuted.
When Writings crime was discovered he
surrendered what money he had and ex-
posed the fact that the paying teller was
also defrauding the institution. The latter
made restitution and was never arrested.
This is, of course, very pleasant arrange
ment for the dishonest bookkeeper and
teller They escape the State Prison, and no
doubt have taken care that their restitution
should not beggar them. The reason given
for the proposed leniency toward Whiting
is singular one. His mental condition,
the bank officers say, lis such that it will
not do to subject him to severe punishment
for his own as we'll as for his family's
sake" This is novel plea in arrest Of
Year: 1878

An invasion of Spain by her most re-
doubtable enemy is now openly threatened,
and the land of the Cid trembles at the
wrath of a woman scorned, a queen en-.
ragged and a mother requested to stay away.
Isabella has sworn the irrevocable oath of
potentate at large that she will be present
at the ceremony Of marriage between her
SOP, Alfonso the Unwise and the fair Mer-
cedes. She has the best reason in the world
for desiring to go, which is that they don't
want her there, and have asked her not to
come. She has in the bride no other interest
than that Of hatred for one whose name
keeps alive the memory of the great intrigue
that desolated her own lite She has
no other interest in the bridegroom
than that he is her son-a fact
which may be accepted rs justifying in
some degree the contempt with which she
regards him. But though she does not care
for either of the parties, but rather the con-
trary, and though she has no special regard
for the institution of marriage or any of the
mere ceremonies associated with it, and
must be too decidedly blasf to have any re-
gard to the occasion as n mere show, vet they
have said she shall not come, and, therefore.
she has determined that no merely human OBJ
stacles shall keep her away. AS the impulse
Of mere perversity is the noblest that ever in
fluenced the actions of this woman, and rs
under that influence she has kicked up some
famous rumpuses in Spain, there is no know
ing what grave events may flow from her
latest determination to defy the whole armed
force of the Spanish government. But if she
goes to that marriage and gets away again
to be the source of fresh scandals abroad she
will not be the most ridiculous figure in this
comic drama.
Year: 1878

President Diaz, in an interesting conver-
sation with the HERALD's special correspond
ent at the city of Mexico, published to-
day, criticises the hesitation OF the United
States to recognize his government, and
makes what he no doubt regards rs good
argument why such recognition should at
once be made. The Mexican ruler does not
look upon the border troubles as any
serious obstacle to cordial relations be-
tween the two governments. Mexico,
he says, has just sent between
six and seven thousand regulars to
the border to prevent raiding or stealing on
the part of its own citizens, and as the
United States will keep five thousand troops
on the Rio Grande line he believes that be-
tween the two forces peace can be pre-
served and all unlawful acts prevented
The Presidents evident wish to see the
brigand Cortina continue in prison is also
n favorable sign of his sincere desire to put
n stop to the depredations of Mexican cat
tie thieves on the border. But he sees
difficulties in the way Of a recognition of
his government by the United States, grow
ing out Of the wish Of our government to
exact from him certain pledges as o condi-
ton thereto, and he affects a sort of high
handed indifference about it which he evil
IDENTIFY does not feel, and which his anxiety
on the subject proves to be assumed.


President Diaz asserts that our govern
ment wishes him to promise, among other
things, as condition precedent to recogni-
ton, that American citizens in Mexico shall
be exempt from forced loans. To this he
replies, ''How can we promise before you
recognize us as government? If we are
not government We cannot make treaty
with you. Recognize us, and then
we will entertain your propositions.
There is some apparent reason in
this, but it is, after all, an evasion.
Forced loans are Of doubtful constitu-
tionalty under decision Of the Mexican
Supreme Court, and We may we'll require
to be assured that our citizens will no
longer be subjected to oppressive and
illegal acts before we recognize u govern
ment which stands on on irregular or revo-
lutionary footing. If that is all the OBJ
stacle in the way of recognition the ease
with which it could be swept away by Diaz
excites the suspicion that the failure to re-
move it is not due alone to false sense of
dignity. Unless President Diaz feels un-
certain as to his disposition or power to
carry out the pledge after recognition it
does not seem likely that he would hesitate
to make it in advance.
Year: 1878

The opinion is nearly universal among
intelligent men that the decision of the
Park Commissioners to dispense with the
services of Mr.. Olmsted is blunder. Yes
terday we printed vigorous protest from
Mr.. Wales, q former president of parks,
and to-day we publish a letter on the same
subject from Mr.. Martin, the late presi-
dent. One Of the points made by Mr..
Martin deserves particular attention
namely, that the Central Park is not COM
pleted work SO long as its trees shall not have
attained full growth. When the Park was
started it was the most bare and unsightly
piece of ground on the island. At first it
had to be covered with thickly planted
small trees and shrubs to give it such beauty
as was possible with foliage which could not
in many years rise to the majesty of groves.
The planting had to be done with reference
not merely to present beauty but to large
future removals which would make new
and more magnificent series of COM
bined pictures by method like
that practised by sculptor. Some fanci-
full writer has said that the finest
statue already existed in the block of mar
BILE, and that Phidias or Praxiteles only
took away the encrusting stone which con-
cealed it. But this mere phantasy about o
statue is the literal truth respecting piece
Of landscape gardening like the Central
Park. What the Park is ultimately to be
when it's trees are grown was pictured in
the mind Of Mr. Olmsted when he planted
it, and it is by skilfuly taking away
considerable part of them with
the progress of their growth that a
series of successive pictures, resulting in
the final crowning picture, can be brought
out. You might rs well set a stone cutter
to uncover the statue which Story would
find in block of marble as to expect city
politicians filling the Office of Park Com
missioners to find the stretches of grove and
landscape which Mr.. Olmsted had in his
minds eye when he planted so many trees
that will in time become the mere clippings
to reveal the image.
Year: 1878

The ladies who are engaged in the task of
leges and Elections at Washington that the
elective franchise ought to be extended to
women certainly exhibit sufficient political
shrewdness to justify their claim to be made
voters Mrs. Lille Devereux Bldke recog-
nizes the fact that the salaries of the female
school teachers of this city would never have
been reduced as they have been if women
had possessed votes She remembers the
CONSERVATION that prevailed in the Tam
many ranks when Mayor Wickham's admin
istration reduced the wages of city laborers
and the eagerness with which the
Board of Aldermen and the General
Committee hastened to put on record their
condemnation of such policy. No such
anxiety was manifested over the reduction
Of the female teachers salaries, but then
the gentleman who works "upon the boule-
Yards has ballot, while an educated fe-
male teacher has none Mrs. Blake evil
IDENTIFY takes practical view of the question
of woman suffrage and recognizes the
ballot as the key to municipal patronage
Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker also proves
her capacity as q political worker. She
told the Senate committee that if Congress
would give her one million dollars she
would soon secure for the fair sex the privi-
lege the suffragists demand. Isabella
evidently knew what she was talking about
and to whom she was talking.
Year: 1878

criminal proceedings, but we scarcely be-


ieve it would be admitted as sound in the
case OF an unemployed laborer who might
steal purse rather than see his children
starve to death. 1t is further stated that
the directors of the bank promised Whiting
that he should not be prosecuted when he
gave up his plunder. But are they aware
that there is statute which Furnishes such
a compounding of felony with fine and
imprisonment?
Year: 1878

The FUNERAL Of King Victor Emmanuel il
fixed to take place on Thursday next, and it has
been decided that the remains are to rest in the
Pantheon. BY the Pope's order all difficulties
in the way of the celebration of the funeral SER
vices have been removed, and the ceremony
will be marked by all the pomp and solemnty
Of the Church