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Year: 1878

A lady witness declined to answer a
question, and the attorney demanded
her reason. because it is not fit to tell
decent people" 30, WE'LL" said the
lawyer, 'just walk up here and whisper
it to the judge"
Year: 1878

Special To the Leader.


DEADwoOD, Oct. II.
One by one the road agents are dis
appearing. to trouble coaches no more.
The various scouting parties who are
now out could many tale unfold were
they here. However, from stockmen
who have conversed with them on the
trail it is learned that several have been
killed, and proofs have been preserved
in order to claim their rewards. One
cowboy who came into town yesterday
says that Jack Catlin, worthless fell
low who did business singly and alone,
was hanging on a pine tree in Montana,
and had been dead apparently for sew
eral days. Mcbride, the toughest of
them all, is now known to be dead. He
got two good shots from the messen-
gers, and the one in the abdomen fin
ished him.


The news that Lengthy johnson was
released in Cheyenne on habeas cor
pus is thought just. While some of the
road gentry doubtless stopped at his
ranch occasionally, it is not believed
here that he is guilty of any wrong.
The fact that he gave himself up is a
big point in his favor. Road agents
are not in the habit of swimming into
the meshes of the law.


Much trouble is experienced with
small fry operators who work just out
side the city. Men with money are not
safe on the roads after dark. Robber-
les are committed almost nightly.
Year: 1878

He is Worried by Ugly Rumors-His


Recent Diplomatic Feat.
Special to the Leader.


CAMP SHERIDAN, Oct. II.
Col. Thornburgh is irritated about
the rumors of courtmartialing him. He
claims to have done as well under the
circumstances as any other commander
could have possibly DONE He may
write card and ask that his conduct
be Investigated. The colonel is well
thought of by his command, and his
tact in the recent council with Red
Cloud and his chiefs is admired by all
in the camp.
Year: 1878

their services were not needed now,


nor at any time, and are not at
all likelyto he needed, so they returned
home, as most of the negroes had al
ready done. The timid people have not
gotten over their scare, but they were
and will be perfectly safe so long as the
negroes are not molested.. The circum-
stance is being used for political effect.
Year: 1878

GEN. BUTLER is sanguine of success
So confident is he that he said, in an
swer to an inquiry of reporter, that
the labors of the campaign are not
nearly SO onerous as will be the duties
of the governor when he is elected.
Year: 1878

IT IS now learned by an official COM
mission that ''during the spring and
early summer thousands of cart loads
of kitchen garbage were dumped on the
streets" of New Orlsans. No wonder
that yellow fever found such fruitful
Sa1d
Year: 1878

OWNERS OF town lots in Deadwood
are notified by the probate judge to file
their claim in his Office within thirty
days, and get the proper deed. Chey-
enne citizens who have real estate in
Deadwood, will of course take notice.
Year: 1878

Father Rooney, of San Fran


cisco, in a lecture at Stockton last


week, said:


The public schools are cesspoois of


hell, and he adjured the Catholics by all


they held sacred TO obey the order of the


archbishop, and send their children to


none other than Il Catholic school. He


conveyed the idea that it was better to


have no education at all than to obtain an


education at the common schools of the
country. He said he would rather be a


plowman or q hod- carrier, and save his
soul in ignorance, than be a learned phil


osopher and be on the road to damnation.


He inquired WhU are the heretics that


have turned against the Church? Are
they ever the ignorant: No, they were
always the brilliant, the cultivated, the
learned, that have gone over to the devil:
who are the swindlers, the robbers that
steal the public funds in the banks, the
postoffices, and other high places of trust?
Is it the ignorant hod- carrier, the poor
laborer? No: it is your public
school birds. He said that parents who
are sending their children to these schools
are damning their souls and their OWE.
He wondered at their audacity in daring
to disobev the orders of the archbishop.


He plainly intimateS that the
dogmas of that Church cannot
stand the light of science and rea-
son, an assertion everyone knows
to be false who has made himself
at all familiar with its history.
Rev. Father Rooney seems to
think that the success of his
Church and OF the religion he
breaches depends wholly upon the
general ignorance, superstition
and blgotry Of the common peO-
pie, and against this horrible
dogma we enter our protest. We
know many intelligent, cultivated
and refined persons who are Cath
Olics, ard We will not be forced to
class them as bigoted and intol-
Grant.
Year: 1878

MAILS csten come from Prescott to
Yuma in sixty hours-when they come
direct. But when they are sent by way of
Phoenix and Florence, it takes them about
six days longer to get here. For the past
month this latter route seems to have
been adopted three times out of five.
Cheap-and- nasty mail contracts are quite
bad enough, without being supplemented
by careless postmasters
Year: 1878

! A correspondent of the San Diego Union


writes as rollows from San Rafael, Low er


California, Sept. 5th:


About O'clock last evening as Pedro


BadIllO was passing from his place Of btlsi
ness to Il restaurant for his supper, young


Valdez, about Is years old, attempted t0


assassinate him by secreting himself be-


hind a corner and firing four shots at b.
dillo with six shooter. One shot passed


through his coat and cut the skin about
SIX inChes in length off of his back across
the shoulders; one shot went through his
hat, cutting the hair from his head, and
the other two shots missed him. Badillo
was unarmed, and not expecting an attack
from any one. l learn that the boy is the
son Of Jose Valdez, who was killed here
in the revolution by Badillo about year
sen swore that when a man he would
avenge his fathers cruel death, and when
brought before the authorities and Ques-
toned in regard to the matter, he frankly
admitted that he had said that he would
kill Mr. Badillo, and though but boy
then, when man he intended to make
Badillo atone for the death of his father.
In conversation with Mr.. Badillo to-day
he remarked that he did not blame the
boy; that he would have done the same
thing himself; though he did blame some
of his enemies who were behind the boy,
urging him on, and who were too coward
ly to face him themselves but like skulk-
ing assassins, encouraged boy with
seeming justification to commit crime
that they did not dare to undertake, even
under the cover of the night. The boy
made his escape, and has not yet been ap-
pretended, although several officers are
in search Of him.


Pedro Badillo, better known as Six
tUed Pete was the first sheriff of this
County.
Year: 1878

YAvAPAI County is setting good ex-
ample in politics. Some twenty OF her
representative citizens have been invited
to come together and select candidates
for the next Legislature, without regard
to party, This move is one i'll the right
direction. and should be generally fol
lowed.
Year: 1878

A man armed with long iron hook pulls
open an iron door, and you gGza with awe
into the Dantesque heart Of huge, fierce
furnace, the white.hot contents slowly turn
ing round, and ever falling in cascades Of
yellow fire. 1t is found that at the works on


Devon sulphur in the pyrites is enough to
keep the furnace, when once heated. a>hurn-
ing without other fuel The product? Hero
it is, white heap OF several tons Of it lying
in an open shed, where everybody passes by.
1t is something like fine flour. One of tho
men dips thumb and fingers loosely into the
white powder, puts n quantity into the palm
of his other hand, and brings it to us to look
at precisely as n miller shows n sample of
-four, smoothing it with his foreGnger. Ono
expects every moment to see him test it with
his tongue child probably would, but tho
miner knows better. All this white heap ia
arsenic all these rows of barrels are filed
with arsenic. More than 1000 tons year
are sent out from this one mine, to be used
mainly in those brilliant modern dyes by
which our women and children can dazzlo
the sunshine at a cheap expense. Are they
safe to wear? My chemistry books do not
plainly soy yes or no. But in one book I
have chanced to open find the following ro-
marks "Arsenious acid, white oxide Of
arsenic, or white arsenic. This substance is
of the highest importance, as being the fre-
quent agent of criminal or accidental poison
ing. There are few substances so
much to be feared, [itJ being almost taste>
less; it can be mixed with articles of food,
and swallowed without discovery, and there
is no practically efficient antidote." This in
nocent- looking white powder, this potent aud
fatal substance, of which your chemist mus.
not sell you a dose without entering your
name and address in a book, of which tbrco
grains weight will kill man, was lying by
one of the ordinary roads of the mine in open
sheds, in henps breast high. l was assured
that no kind of harm ever comes of all this,
save skin eruptious 20 tho work people, and
these rarely, but it gave one a shiVer to SEQ
Year: 1878

Who shall guarantee the perpetuity
of this Republicwhen tens Of thousands
of loyal citizens in the Southern States
are bullied out Of their right to vote,
and representatives are sent to make
laws for the country whose election
was secured by fraud, intimidation, ar
son and wholesale murder?
Year: 1878

THE corner in wheat in Chicago cul-
minated yesterday. 1t is now discov-
cred that some of the men concerned
havn't gambled according to the rules
laid down by the Board of Trade, and
the decision of the courts. A fine thing
1t would be for the country if every last
one Of them were brought to the edge
of bankruptcy.
Year: 1878

When a woman makes up her mird thpt a hen shall not set, and the hen makes up her mind that she will, the irresistible meets the immovab!e, and every law of nature is broken or perverted.
Year: 1878

A poker player in a western city declared that he hoped to be struck dead if he h1d lied about the cards; he was struck dead an instant after the words were out of his mouth. Providence is determined to purify his noble gamo.-Chicago Times.
Year: 1878

RICHMOND, January 81, 1878.


Editors Dispatch: The article in your
paper OF to-day signed "a Taxpayer OF
Monroe Ward" is so full Of good and prac-
tical sense that l am induced to make the
following statement not only TO help
strengthen the hands Of the 'sTaS-Payer OF
Monroe Ward" in all he has said on the
subject Of taxes, but to call the attention OF
property to the depreciation OF pro-
perty in many PORTIONS OF the city, in place
OF its increase, as the taxes grow larger. In
the same paper we have the report OF sales
and transfer of lots and other property for
the past week, and among it eighty feet on
Clay between Norton and Kinney streets at
So per foot, now assessed by the city COM
missioner at $40 per foot, and city tax
levied ut S1.40 and State OF 90 cents
per foot at the $40. In 1859 this property
sold at 81 per foot, and the simple
interest at six per cent, with city and
State taxes at s1.75 for the two combined,
brings the purchaser in debt S35.G0 IN the
nineteen years on forty feet, and double
that sum on the eighty feet. But it is still
greater if you estimate the city at Sl.40 and
the State tax fifty cents in the S100. Now
is it not manifest that il the city enters into
such loan on subscription ofS2 100000 to
ann scheme that she will in year or two be
in more deplorable condition as to meeting
the interest on her bonds than the State now
is? Well has ssTay-Payer OF Monroe Ward y
said that the canal is fully capable OF trans
port OF all that can ever come from the
James-River valley; and believe all that
can come from the State OF Ohio and every
other State combined likely to send produce
to Richmond. ,"sI :.


A TAXPAYER OF JEFFERSON WARD.
Year: 1878

The English Chancery judges have re-
Gently drawn the line between a legal nui-
sance aud sentimental grievance. A man
in Brighton built house so oinconyenientiy
as to deprive neighboT Of the use OF his
best bedroom. This room had a bay-win-
dow, and the indiscIeet neighbor bad built
his house on such plan that some OF It's


rooms commanded a full view OF this win
dow at distance OF seventeen feet. La
dies could not use the room, and the hosp-


table owner Of the dwelling could not en-.
tertain bis friends. He i brought g. suit
against the owner OF the new mansion as


the author OF u public nuisance, and the
case Enally was laid before the Chancery
judges. But the bench decided that there
was only. one test Of q legal nuisance: w q rs
it INJURIOUS to the health of the complain
ant, or did IL interfere materially with the
passage Of light and air II moi. It was vas
only sentimental nuisance, and damages
could not be claimed.
Year: 1878

THE PROPOSITION TO AID THE CANAL Con-
pANY IN REPAIRING DAMAGES OccAsIoNED BY
THE LATE E'LooD.-A special meeting OF the
Common Council will be held in the course
OF day or two to consider the proposition
to advance S25, 900 to aid the company in
repairing the damages to the canal east OF
Lynchburg, and to receive the report OF the
City Attorney in relation to the matter re-
ferred to him by the Council at its last
meeting for his opinion.
1t is stated that the City Attorney has eX-
amined fully into the question, and hnds
that the first-mortgage bonds OF the canal
company are really repair bonds, and that
the city cannot be secured in the manner
suggested.
Year: 1878

The Belle.Isle Bridge-The foot-bridge
from the Manchester shore to the main
bridge that connects with Belle Isle is very
insecure and narrow one; so much so that
many persons, particularly ladies, arc afraid
to cross it. 1t is really dangerous in muddy
or bad weather. 1t is trusted that proper
regard for the safety Of those crossing 1t will
induce those whose business it Is to con-
struct wide and safe ioocWay.
Year: 1878

HoP.-There was a brilliant hop at the
Exchange last night. The bellies OF the
city and the young members OF the General
Assembly were in delightful accord upon
the main questions Of the hour.
Year: 1878

In faith. it becomes your immediate duty 70
subscribe for this, the first publication OF the
kind west Of the Mississippi, for the extremely
low subscription price brings 1t within tAe
reach OF all, while it makes necessary large
substitution list ia order to meet expenses
Year: 1878

"ONcE in San Francisco wife sat
eating her dinner in restaurant. Her
husband came behind her, and selling a
knife, cut her throat. She died. lie
was tried, convicted and sentenced to
death, and on the scaffod, with bis
"spiritual adviser" by his side, pro
claimed his inoffable happiness, that he
was about to join the angel choir. His
only regret was that there among the
blessed he would net meet his poor wife,
who, having been cut off in her sins, had
no time for repentance. And the preach
er stood by and did not even offer to kick
him as the Sheriff sprung the trap. In
fact it WAS the preacher that stuffed him
with this insolence OF affected contrition.
and sent him into eternity with this vile
sentiment Of hypocrisy in his heart and
on bis lips. We sincerely hope that
there will be no sersds effort made to
enable these Sacramento murderers to
attain the heaven which all COED editors
are so earnestly striving to reach. h.-Ar-
0Ondut.
Year: 1878

EXECUTIVE RDoN.-Governor r.
win issued pardon yesterday to Frank
q. Selby, who, at the January term, 1877
Of tile District Court of Yuba county, was
convicted Of manslaushter and sentenced
to four years imprisonment. The Pris-
on Physician reported to the Governor
that his physical 0nd mental condition
had become serious; he is partially insane
and rapidly growing worse. He is suffer-
ing from functional arrangement of the
heart, and also cerebral meningitis, to
which latter disease may be attributed
his deranged intellect. He was recently
relieved from confinement in the yard and
cell, and assigned TO the stable building,
day and night, but without favorable re-
suits. The physician, though doubling
whether his release from prison would
arrest the progress of the prisoners dis
ease recommended that he be delivered
as SOON as possible to the care of his
friends. The Governor decided TO grant
the pardon, more especially as the Of
fence for which he was suffering was his


first, and committed under circumstances
making it n matter ofsome doubt whether
he should have been convicted .-Reco1d.
Year: 1878

TIE STATE INsoLvENT With
the repea, of the United States Bank
rupt Act, which became effective Sep
tember l, 1873, the insolvency laws of
California again went into operation by
virtue of the removal of the superior In W
rs an obstacle. This law was enacted in
1852, and provided only for voluntary in
solvency. At that time the District
Courts had original jurisdiction of all
such proceedings. The Act provides
that an insolvent debtor may be dis
charged from his debts on petition and
bona fde assignment of nil his property
FOR the benefit Of his creditors. His dis
charge is an absolute right under the Act
and does not require the assent of credit
o's, but is subject to their contest fJr
fraud. 1t works no discharge of debts
to foreign creditors under the decisions
of the Courts constituting 1t. By the Act
OF 1860 the jurisdiction was transferred
to the County Court in all cases Of in
solvency. BY the Act OF 1856 the
system of involuntary insolvency WAS
introduced, Ivy which three creditors, to
each of whom the insolvent is Owing a
debt of at least $3.50, may by petition
setting forth acts of bankruptcy on the
part Of the debtor, compel him to come
into Court, make an assignment and de-
liver all his property to an assignee for
tho benefit Of his creditors, or an ordor
Of the Court. - Record Union.
Year: 1878

TIE RUBBER STAMP FRAUD.- The
rubber stamp men are in town, still try
ing to foist their abortions and bur!esques
on printing on our merchants. The men
that peddle these things are generally
"blacks smith printers" or worn out street
corner quack medicine pcddiers. We
have yet to see the first decent job oil
printing done by one of their stamps, as
they are nearly ways too pale, blurred,
illegible, streaked or blotched in some
other way. The business man who sub
mits to one of the impositions must
certainly feel sold after paying as much
As a decent job by legitimate printer
would cost him, and then having some-
thing that he cannot help feeling asham-
ed TO send out. The stamps might do we'll
enough to print labels for turnip or
lettuce bed, but to use in business, they
are only a modification. Their projec-
tors are sot of men who wander around
liks Arabs, pay no taxes or license, spond
no money here, get all the coin they can
out of the town, and then leave to practice
the same thing on other communities. A
Chinaman is us deserving of patronage
and spends more p'oncy in return than
they do.--Santd Cruz Courier.
Year: 1878

Mr.. EDIsoN's very latest invention is
so simple and of such immense utility
that it is strange it has not been thought Of
before. 1t consists in making an ink with
which the blind can easily communicate
with each other. 1t is in the form of a
powder, which becomes fit for use on dis
solution in water. When this fews from
a pen it leaves elevated letters on paper.
which can ready be traced by the sensa-
tive fingers of the blind. 1t is singular
that sandsd letters have not suggested
this even to the blind themselves. Ii
certainly promises to prove great bless
ing and joy to the hundreds of thousands
to whom is denied the light of dsy.-Bee.
Year: 1878

GOOD TRAITS INA BAD CHARACTER
The Phoebe New Record has this to say
of Red" Kenner, the man recently kill.
ed near Cherry Creek: Although Red
Kenner was wild and reckless sport
and had lived in the mountains for q
number Of years, he never forgot his old
mother back in the States, and after sell.
ing his mining property down at Silver
Reef for some $55, 900 or $50 900, he tool,
a trip home, purchased his mother nice
and comfortable homestead, and gave
her nearly 10000 to keep her from want
in her old age, then returned to his wild
mountain home with light heart, know
ing that his mother was we'll provided fol-
for the balance of her days on this earth
No matter how many Red S sins may be
his kindness to his mother will obliterate
them all in the eyes Of the people,"
Year: 1878

A WRITER in the San Francisco BuLle.
tin suggests plan to prevent hasty legis-
lation, defeat jobbory, and obtain more
carefully considered laws. Hi. plan is to
have annual sessions of the Legislature,
but no Legislature to have tho power to
enact and dRally pass a law. Under this
plan, before any Act would become law


it must have passed two Legislatures, and
the second Legislature without amend
ments, one amendment carrying it over
to the next Legislature. lie says tho
resul: would be any measure covering a
job that passed one Legislature wond be
exposed by the press before the m Getting of
second Legislature, and defeated. II
any act had not merit enough to bear the
scrutiny of n second Legislature than we
can live another year under existing laws.
Year: 1878

A LATER account of the death of
Michoal Reese the millionaire, states that
after walking FIVE miles to the cemetery


fence to avoid carriage hire, he scaled the
cemetery fence to avoid n customary fec
to the sexton; that after he had spent
sometime at the graves of his parents, he
scaled the fence again, when he was siez.


ed by the sexton. Reese denied that he
had been in the cemetery, but, as the
sexton caught him in the act Of leaving,
he concluded to take him before tho Bur-
gomaster, when an angry atercaten fol
lowed, during which Mr.. Reese fell dead
Year: 1878

LET us not abuse Kearney too much
We see in him an humble instrument in
the hands Of Divine Providence for beat
ing Bea. Butler out OF his boots as can
cidatc for Governor of Massachusetts.
Should he accomplish this great result he
cannot be said to have lived in vain.- q.
Louis Democrat.
Year: 1878

THERE are about twenty-five men on
Mill creek (Which empties into the Trinity
River just above It's junction with the
the Klamath) prospecting and mining,
and they have been taking out consider
able dust. These diggings were struck
last May.
Year: 1878

The Pacific Mail Steamship Company
have advanced their rates to approximate
to the recent advance by the Union and
CcHtral Pacific Railroads. A ship canal
across the isthmus would remedy sucL!
impositons.
Year: 1878

OWN up, young fellow. If you drink
they are sure to know it, because you
may chew, you may swallow the cloves if
you will, but the scent Of your breath is
the scent of the "still. ."-lfiilUiIie Re
cord.
Year: 1878

THE present yellow fever epidemic
seems to be .he worst with which this
country has ever been cursed. It's raw
ages are frightful in the extreme and 1t
has cast a gloom over the nation.