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Year: 1877

COLUMBUS, Jan. 4-Over one hun
|dred prisoners at the penitentiary are
sick with symptoms suggesting poison.
An investigation as to the cause of the
trouble developed nothing except the
|surmise that the sickness was caused
by eating bread made from a certain
kind Of baking powder, which has
been on hand for some time. None of
the cases are Thought to be serious.
Year: 1877

The coming OF the season OF flowers
calls again to the duty Of decking the
graves of our soldier, who sacrificed their
lives In defense OF the nation. Twelve
years have elapsed since the great strug-
gle with the rebellion ended. At first
this custom WAS not only tribute to the
personal valor OF the men who died that
the Union and its institutions might live.
but it also carried with it reverence for the
cause ia which they ded.aud impressed the
lesson upon the rising generation that II is
sweet to die for one s.country.


Now. howevcrlwe hear il said that
there should be no distinction between
the graves of those who wore the blue and
those who wore the gray, in the cere-
monies OF Memorial Day. Gods flowers
it i said should be distributed impartially
above them. for both were brave. such
a sentiment may seem generous, but it is
now just, aud its application, wherever II
prevails simply narrows the meaning cf
the memorial ceremony to admiration tor
personal courage and sacrifice. The les
son of patriotism sinks out Of sight in
such ervice. The man who fought
against his country is put on a level with
the man who fought for it. TIE rebel IS
equally honored with the patriot. It Is in
tais view as glorious 10 die bravely seek
ing to destroy the nstion as TO die for is
salvation.


II we keep to the true and original Idea
OF Memorial Day. keep it day that while
honoring the patriot dead it shall honor
the cause of right and country and incul-
cate the duty and glory ofdefeniing them.
we must put behind Us the idea that there
should be no distinction between the blue
and the gray iu these ceremonies. The
bravery OF the rebels we may not dispute.
80 TAR we may grant there Is no difference
between the blue and the gray; but be-
youd that the difference Is as great as that
between one strong, grand, glorious na-
ton. blessed with universal freedom, and
the same country divided into hostile,
weak states. thus divided that the instItu-
ton OF slavery might little longer curse
the earth. The difference is as great as
that between Right and Wrong. g.-Truth
Observation-Disclosures and Treason.


Ken. journal.
Year: 1877

rebellion approaches there is animated discus
sion as to the propriety of making no distnc-
ton between friend and foe whose bodies
have been buried within the same nclosure.
1t is held by many that this tribute to the
memories of the departed should be extended
TO one and the other at the same time aud by
the same hands. To this general assent can
not be expected. In paying respect TO the
fallen soldier an appreciation Of the cause for
which he sacrificed his life is inseparably blend
ed with il. We cannot honor the one without
honoring the other. Now, it is All right aud
proper that those who sympathzed with the
Confederate cause should bestrew with flowers
the graves Of the Confederate dead-for the
same reason that the loyal living plant the
token Of love upon the last resting place Of the
Union dead. This ceremony Is not So much
= commemoration Of personal heroism a, it i
of devoted PATRIOTISM. Treason in it, day was
odious, as il should ever BE-. aud It were
hypocrisy to associate il with loyalty


DELTA.
Year: 1877

1T was II gentlemanly young man who
remarked. wonderingly. how young la
dy could make herself ridiculous by Weld
ing to the ysgaries of fashion Then the
wind caught him by the new style of
shirt-collar. on which his hat rested. and
he was obliged to close both arms around
telegrsph-pole to prevent being waited
over neighboring roof.
Year: 1877

The trial OF Lucy Ann Mank for the
murder OF Charles Kicker last year, al
Lawrence. Mass, IS now in progress in
that city. Il will be recollected that the
accused was tried few years ago for Il
murder committed in this State.
Year: 1877

Ex-Governor Chamberlain OF South
Carolina has been sworn ih As an attorney
at-law of the New York bar. He was Of
fered the position of Solicitor of the
Treasury Department but declined in. He
is man of ability and is bound to make
his mark.
Year: 1877

4 Coop SANARrTAN-Jacl lii. whose heart ;s Iecniy sensitive to the ills of man kind. volunteered to construct a pouitice for a man in Days hospital, who was suffer ing with sore leg. Nothing, the patient declared. short of a bu>hei el bran would do for the chief component part of the emo hent compound. Jack sought the town over. but no bran could be found. Deter mined not to be baffled in his benevolent purpose he procured quart of milk and three loaves of bakers bread, which he mulche1 to the proper consistency, and proceeded to the hospital where he found his patient, sturdy German, m waiting but here another difficulty presented itself: the man had on a pair of high-top, heavy cow-si,in boots, and his shin was too sore to allow him to peel them of. Jack prepared to cut the leather but the sufferer objected to spelling his boots, and insisted on put ting the poultice on the outside of the boot leg. which was accordingly done, and the wound was healed in single night. We Lave Jacks word for 1t.
Year: 1877

RoAD MATTERs-The new road to Brad shaw, We learn will be completed to the top of the divide between the East Hassayampa and Turkey Creek this week. If the Board of Supervisors make any change in the lo- cation of the route so as to pass by the diff fcrent enterprises along the'crcek it behooveS them to make the change soon, otherwise the contractor, Mir. Patterson, will push the road on over the surveyed route and leave our Turkey Creek friends quite q distance from the new thoroughfare. which naturally ought tn go by their mills, mines. etc, if it can be done equally as cheap aud give Us shorter and better route.
Year: 1877

The stone masons are stlll at work at the jail portion of the public buildings. The stone basement will soon be ready to recieve the brick work, and the walls will begin to rise as if by magic. We shall have Court house on the Plaza before majority of the people are aware of what is going on.
Year: 1877

Tip Wilder, at Anvil Rock, sends word that he wants to come to town, but is wait ing for a storm 10 afford water enough to wash himself, as at present there isn't even enough 10 take a foot bath.
Year: 1877

TIE SWELLING MINE.-This mining prop erty. situated near the Tip-top, in Humbug district, Is yielding ore that cannot be told from the product of that well known mine Some specimens brought in yesterday are exceedingly rich, and C. F. Cate and other owners are to be congratulated on their excellent financial judgement displayed in it> purchase. The Swilling will vet be heard from as leading mine
Year: 1877

The Iron Spring wagon road, which be longs to Iavapai County, needs several hun dred dollars worth of work expended upon it, whereby two or three of the stcepest hills, which make the road almost impracticable, may be reduced to almost a level. By some method the money should be procured and the work executed
Year: 1877

STRUCK TT IN THE PERRY-Thc tunnel in the Perry mine has run into an eight inch streak of beautiful ore, assaying between $500 and $l 400 to the ton in silver. The face Of the tunnel is now at a point more than a l30 feet below the surface, and only about sixteen feet above the water level, or bed of the Hassayampa. The ore brought in yesterday indicates permanent solid ledge of black sulphuret ore, and has the appearance of having come from below the water level, beyond the influence ofclimatic oratmospheric or action or surface disturbances Mining Sharps who have had no faith in the Perry as permanent mine until now, upon examining these specimens give it up, and are enthusiastic in the belief that it is a bonanza
Year: 1877

Dr. Geo. D. Kendall, who is continually doing something that a family man ought, Is putting tie finishing touch on a magnificent dwelling house on Marina street. TEis is another ornament to our village. which is growing steadily and being built up with residences and structures of various kinds that would ao credit to an older and larger
Year: 1877

COURT MARITAL. X General Court Mar tial has been ordered to convene at Fort Whipple on the 18th, to inquire into matters that may come before it. As yet we have not learned who the detail for the court are t
Year: 1877

We understand from parties who have been over the Mogollones of late, that wild turkey are more abundant this season than ever before known, bands of several hundred Tn number Is no uncomon sight to the mail carrier and others who cross the Mogolloncs via, Stoneman's Lake to Pine Springs.
Year: 1877

Those who wish to look young and keep their faces smooth, and hair nicely dressed, will see by referring to the notices of our tonsorial friends. that they have once more reduced their prices to a figure which will allow all to indulge in the luxury of clean Illness. Times are somewhat "corky, and the proprietors of the shaving and hair cutting departments have concluded .o liberal and do work for but little profit a.l for the interest they feel in mankind gen. orally.
Year: 1877

Buck & Beckers have built furnace back of their tonsorial establishment, and through the ingenuity of Chas Frederick. of the firm of Frederick X Hcenan, have a coil of gas pipe so arranged that it receives cold water from a tank and turns il out hot for iavatory and other purposes The pipe was coilcd by being filled with dry sand and wrapped around a small stump.
Year: 1877

Joseph Albert, photographer TO Che
court has finally succeeded in inYenting
photography to render to the natural col
ors in the picture by Photographic
steam press of his own construction,
without the aid of a pencil, have seen
some of the proofs of such coIured photo
graphs by the Albert press. An expert
painter could hardly give the colors OF
the object more faithful in living reality
and with a distnctnCss to the incest
shades. The secret OF the invention con
eists in the analysis Of the white light in
to the three coors--yelow, blue and red
and in their recovery Of the three col.
ors ready for the press. ona plate,
chemically prepared so as to receive but
the yellow parts OF the light, and the
tenes OF the coIors OF tho object TO be re
hectcd, the first photograph Is taken,
when negative of that plate is at once
rut under the press, whose cylinder is
dubbed over with yellow paint. None
but the tones of the yellow colors are now
seen in the impression. After that the
object is photographed on a plate made
to reflect but the blue colprs. The plate
now under the cylinder reflects blue
impression, the cylinder being dubbed
over with blue paint. In the same man
ner he receives but the tonrs of the red
colors by means of third plate. Print
ing the individual pictures of a yellow,
blue and red over each other, Il picture
is produced true TO nature, the colors
intermiying by having been printed over
each other. The idea, long entertained
and prosecuted by Albert, to photograph
colors, may no longer be considered as
not feasible. 1t is hard at present to


ioretell what revolution the new inven-


ton will produce in the many depart


ments of art.
Year: 1877

This subject received some attention


about three years ago, when conversation


between Gen. Sherman and the cores


pondent Of London paper respecting the


great pestilential marshes around Rome,


was published. The General said ave


utilize such places and make them healthy;


we just SOW them with sunfower seed
common sunfower-and that does IT,"
My own experience points to the same
conclusion. Taking up the cultivation of
the sunhower few years ago, my atten-
tion was forcibly drawn to the subject of
its extensive cultivation having markedly
beneficial effect on the surrounding at
mosphere, by the fact that one season the


village near which l resided was visited by


severe epidemic Of scarlet fever and
typhus, many children died-one in q
cottage where the whole family was pros.
trated at one time, not hundred yards
from my own house. All my family es-
capped without q touch of sickness. had
at that time about sixty very large sun
flower plants in my garden surrounding
the house, many of them being twelve feet
high. My personal experience of the
efficacy Of the cultivation of the sunAower
as preventive of niasmatic fever has
been fully borne out by other and worthieI
authorities, of whom General Sherman is
one. A land owner on the banks of the
Scheldt sowed the sunAower extensively
on his property near the river, with such
effect that there has not been single case
of miasmatic fever among his tenants for
years, although the disease continues to
prevail in the neighborhood. The medi.
cal men in France, Italy and Germany be.
lieve the cultivation of the sunfower to be
effectual in removing the sources of disea
ses. 1t feeds largely by its leaves, absorbs
nitrogen more rapidly than any other
plant, and will evaporate as much as q
quart of water daily. lam convinced that
the cultivation of this much neglected
plant on larger scale would not only be
beneficial but remunerative. The fiber
can be used for making paper. The ripe
seed is most useful as food for poultry, es.
pecially during the moulting season. From
it fine oil-second to oliye---is extracted
The leaves are much relished by rabbits,
and the thick stems may be used as fuel.
Year: 1877

Every Saturday morning the Dutch
women wash their houses on the outside,
scrubbing them from pavement TO chin
ney. Amy point that is too high for broom
or ladder they reach by forcing pump.
Out Of nearly every window may be seen
woman, stretching herself halfway out, per-
haps, with brush and cloth reaching
after some fsncied dirt-spot, or dashing
pail Of water at it.


1t is understood at this time that the
town is given up to cleaning, and the
passers-by on the pavement below have no
right to complain if they get shower Of
water and suds over their heads. The
spiders have been driven entirely out Of
Holland, or left in disgust; and / do not
think | ever saw fly anywhere in the
country. No swallows are allowed to dirty
up their houses or stables, and, strange to
say, one sees no birds about whatever.
except the omnipresent storks, which are
allowed, by special favor, to build their
nests in the chimney-tops, owing to a
particular veneration which the Dutch
have for this bird, likely because il is
waterfowl, or rather water and land.
fowl; or, like the Dutch themselves, an
amphibious swamp animal.


As you go through Dutch town the
most common sight is the women washing
in the canals. On both sides, from one
end of the street to the other they may be
seen at all times of the day, washing ev-
erything, from baby's stocking to table,
cloth; and, when they have nothing else
to wash, they wash out their brooms and
brushes and tubs and themselves. Some
times the whole canal has the appearance
of flowing with soap-suds.


The Dutch have learned the art Of wash.
ing, and everything connected with it, so
well that other countries often send their
linen there to be washed and bleached,
especially the large manufactures. The
meadows outside of a Dutch town are fair
ly white with washed articles stretched
over them.-Ladies' Repository.
Year: 1877

A properly conducted printing Office is
as much secret as n Masonic Lodge.
The printers are not under oath of score
cy, but always feel themselves as truly in
honor bound to keep Office secrets as
though triple oathed. Any employees
in a printing Office who willingly disre-
CARDS this rule in relation TO printing Office
secrets would not only be scorned by his
brethren Of the craft, but would lose his
position at once. We make this state
ment because it sometimes happens that
communication appears in a newspaper
under an assumed signature which excites
comment, and various parties try to find
out who is the author. Let all be saved
the trouble of questioning the employees
of the printing Office. They are know
notbings on such points. In such matters
they have eyes and ears, but no mouth,
and if any fail to observe this rule, let
them be put down as dishonorable mem
bers of the craft 1t is the same in Job
printing. Ii anything is to be printed and
kept secret, let proper notice be given of
the desire for secrecy, and you might as
well question the Sphynx as one Of the
printers, so that even the secret books for
lodges arc printed without fear. -PSlater's
Circular.
Year: 1877


lady's offering at the shrine of the occult?
What a pity the Danbury man was abroad
however.


II you count all the white horses you
see at funeral you will soon die. How
1t works When there is only one, and you
can't help counting it, we do not know;
but the probability is that, chariots of FIRE
not being Of daily occurrence, you will
have to die.


What you dream sleeping in strange
bed will come true; aud il YOU are vouth
or maiden, bachelor or widow, il is wise to
assign to each corner OF the room some
especial divinity whom you wish to have
look graciously down upon you. If YOU
dream Of her you may ask what YOU wish.
Mince pies, cheese, sardines, raisins and
hard-boiled eggs are a good Introductory
supper to little matters of this sort. Some
thing is sure to come of ii then. The
deity will frown, perhaps, aud walk over
you, or sit upon you with the intention of
crushing you but this is all right, since
''Dhrames always go by conthraries, ye
know"


The subject of dreams, however, is too
wide a one 10 enter upon ut the end of
newspaper article. The same high autho.
rity assures us that "there's luck in odd
numbers"


lfyou put garment on wrong side out
you must not change it. You may let
another person do it for you, if you are
very serious about it, and intent upon some
wish at the time. Otherwise, though it is
your new silk, that is all Aounces, applied
to an alpaca skirt, you must wear it 50,
even at the risk of discovering the sham
to your nearest neighbor or dearest friend


Trouble will never come near folks
whose eyebrows meet. Certain such have
been hanged or imprisoned, but that was
probably no trouble to them. Wise legis-
lation took care of that.


These are but few of the commonest
of our extra articles of faith. There are
many more which would sOrve as texts,
and may yet be preached from. Mean
while, where does religion end and super
stition begin PSI. Louis Democrat.
Year: 1877

and timid as they were, it did not deter
them from thoirpractice Of night-walking,
and a tramp Of FIVE or ten miles, after
supper was nothing unusual. If they tar
ried in some strange kitchen or quarter
till nearly daybreak, they would be up and
off in time to reach home before the
"hands" we're called by the master or over
seer in the morning, although they might be
stupid and inert all through the next days
labor In his nightly excursions the corn
song resonnded from the stentorian lungs
Of the negro as the best way of ''keeping
himself compapy.n
Year: 1877

A process has been discovered BY which
ordinary wood has impaired to it the ap-
pearance Of walnut adapted to the finest
cabinet work. The wood, first thoroughly
dried and warmed, is coated once or twice
with a liquid composed of one part, by
weight, Of extract Of walnut peel dissolved
in six parts Of soft water by heating il to
boiling, and stirring. The wood thus
treated is, when half dry, brushed with a
solution Of one part, by weight, Of bichro-
mate Of potash in five parts boiling water,
and after drying thoroughly, is rubbed and
polished. The color is said to be fixed in
the wood to the depth Of one or two lines,
and in the case Of red beech or alder, the
walnut appearance is perfect.
Year: 1877

The Shah of Persia one day expressed
longing for a Krupp cannon in the
presence of the Russian Minister, who at
once informed the Gar of the Shah's de-
sire. The Car, who was anxious to graf
lily the Shah, by return mail, as it were,
sent one Of the monster cannon 800
pounder-to his ally. The present was
landed at Enzili, on the Caspian Sea, but
it took months labor BY regiment Of
the Persian army to get the cannon 10
Teheran. Arrived there, q day was ap-
pointed to fire it. The Court and almost
the entire population Of the city assembled.
Bang went the cannon, away scampered
half the multitude, and down ,umbled the
minaret off one Of the city gates, near
which the gun had been PLAYED. But
there was another disaster. In IN hours
time messenger arrived from village
five miles away, and reported that the in
habitants were bewailing the loss Of their
mosque. The cannon ball from the can
non had struck the building and ruined IL.
The Shah was 50 dismayed by the effect
that he never permitted the cannon to be
fred again. sep
Year: 1877

Carrier pigeons are employed by a
mercantile firm in Aberdeen interested in
the herring fisheries for the purpose Of
communication between the fishers at sea
and the main land. One is sent out with
each boat and is liberated the next morn
ing with message. The position Of the
boat, the state Of the weather, the safety
Of the men and thequantity Of ish caught
are thus transmitted to the shore. An
advantage Of the system is that the men
on shore can make definite preparations
for the reception and cleaning Of the fish.
Year: 1877

In singing this song one person would
sing the first line, and then all would join
in the chorus of johnny boy, hellow."
Sometimes the "unlettered muse" would
attempt something Of higher order of
composition than the simplicity Of the
foregoing song. The following specimen
was sung as kind of recitative or chant,
by one person, the company all joining in
the refrain of "0h ho-o-o-o-o" at the end;
Year: 1877

Tombs and graveyard monuments
are pretty much all of one fashion !;
but one has been designed in France
terrible in it's significance. We
quote:
IN. Bartholdi, the sculptor of the
colossal Liberty is, according to
an article by Charles DeKay in Scrib-
ner for June, the author of design
for grave-stone of singular vigor
and boldness, which commentaries
the men fallen in French ranks during
the late FrancO-Prussian war. What
the feeling in Colmar at annexation
to Germany must be, can perhaps be
| learned from brief mention of the
design.


The head stone is severely plain but
massive, and upon it reads these
words only:


| "Morts EN- Combattant


IA Septembre 1870"


The grave is covered by two great
slabs of stone, but one of them has
been pushed up by an arm. This arm
reaches out from the dark evening of
the grave and gropes ION the surface
of the other slab for a sword which
lies near. The arm and sword are of
bronze. The idea of this tomb re-
minds one of the Gothic ghastliness
that pleased Albrecht Durer and the
engravers of this day, but the monu.
ment is also one of those trumpet
calls, silent but never ceasing, which
keep alive hatred and finally summon
a conquered nation to terrible acts OF
retaliation"


There is something awful in that
conception:-the arm of the dead
blindly cropping for the fallen sword
with which to strike for revenge.


Is it well that the dead cannot rise
or many a tomb would be pushed
open, and many hand would be crop
ing for instruments of death. There
is passion enough among the living
it is well that the dead are only dust