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Year: 1877

'zona-time will tell. He is doing all that it is possible for man to do, and taking out ore that will run from S10O to $3000 per ton. l heard a San Fran cisco man say if we had had few men like Bixby a year ago. we would be shipping thousands of dollars per day more than we now are.

 By next mail our camp will send at least THIRTY CASH SUBSCRIBERS FOR THE CITIZEN. think that shows that THE CITIZEN is well appreciated, for .as a general thing we know the miners have little time and inclination to read. Hoping the good people of THE CITIZEN are as happy this Thanksgiv- ing as we feel, will say adios.

 HIGHLAND.
Year: 1877

From a correspondence to the Yuma Sentinel, we notice that a fearful triple tragedy took place at Blackberry near Mineral Park on Sunday the 18th ulti- mo. Frank McNeal was murdered by Robert White and Charles Rice, the citizens pursued, and captured White and Rice, and brought them back to where McNeal had been murdered, here White sprang from his captOrs and attempted to escape, when dozen bullets from the rifles in the hands of the citizens perforated the body of the said White, sufficiently to permit his soul to escape, and the Territory is saved the expense of prosecution. Rice was then suspended at the end of a rope and the next morning it was found that he was dead. We can but commend this swift justice, it has a civilizing tendency, and is a good way to reform murderers.
Year: 1877

WE are indebted to the Florence News Depot for a copy of Frank Leslie's Illus trated Almanac for 1878. The book is handsomely put up with bright colors, and fine engravings, neat and newsy. The duplicate of our copy can be obtained at the News Depot, for slight considera- tiOn
Year: 1877

JUGDE SWIFT who has ably represented the legal profession from Globe District, during the court term, returned to Globe City by coach on Tuesday morning. We understand the Judge is not in very good health, but trust the pure air of the noun talns will greatly benefit him.
Year: 1877

The reformers are blocked on their
first attempt at reform. They can not
agree on the printing bill, though every
cheap politician in the State not only be-
lieves he knows all about printing, but
that the alpha and omega of reform are
to be found in making the public printer
work as nearly for nothing as possible.
The Democrat approves law not essen
TALLY different from the one now in force.
The great reform consists in change of
the printer. The Picdyune does not care
SO very much for cutting down prices,
though economy is at all times desirable.
But it is solicitous that the public adver-
tising be done by q respectable paper hav-
ing the ''largest circulation. OF course
there is but one such paper in the State,
according to the notion of the Pic, and
thus the question is simplifed. The
Times goes in for poor, cheap printing,
and would destroy the noble profession
by rafting. Rather than let its rival, the
Democrat, run off with this coveted
prize, it would doubtless promise to do
the work for nothing.


The people will learn at last that there
is a good deal of humbug in the high
sounding pretensions of these self-consti-
tuted reformers. The numerous plans
which have been broaehed to save inn
mense sums for printing are all deceptive
for the reasons.


Filst, the State printer does not now
make tempting profits, and second,
neither Of our Yirtuous contemporaries
would have the prices reduced so long as
there was the least chance that the con-
tract would falf 10 his establishment.


If the Democrats have the power TO
control the public afinting they had
better let the law stand and divide the
profits among their thres hungry Or
gans. II the gains are as great as they
have declared them to Be, there
ought to be enough to satisfy reasonable
people. Such plan would eheCtully
shut out the REFUBLIoAN as q COM
petitor under the system to award the task
70 the lowest bidder.


Unless the State pays better in the
future than il has Tor the past eight years,
there will be no great fortune made 81
public printing 4t any pzieo. Nixon failed
With the slats printing o. his hands HI
asked the State 70 give him ffsy odd thou.
saaa doilan . meke be wauant eceoun'
Year: 1877

Poetry and consumption are the most
fattering of diseases.


Life is the iailer, death tho angel sent
to draw the unwilling bolts and set us
free.


As charity covers multitude OF sins
before God, so docs politeness before
men.


There are many who know their own
their own folly.


Wickedness resides in the very hesita-
ton about an act, even though 1t be not
perpetrated.


II you would pass for more than your
value, say little. 1t is easier to look
wise than talk wise. !.


The man who shows that he is vain of
having done us favor pays himself and
saves us the trouble.


Take things as they are, and make the
best of them. That is the only true and
practical philosophy.


Every man has something to do which
he neglects every man has faults to
conquer which he delays to combat.


Want of prudence is too frequently
the want of virtue nor is there on earth
a more powerful advocate for vice than
poverty.


1t requires a great deal of poetry to
gild the pill of poverty, ard then it will
pass.current only in theory the reality
Is dead failure.


There are occasions when the general
belief of the people, even though it be
groundless, works its effects as sure as
truth itself.


Consider to what direction your soul
setteth its face, for all come not home ut
night who suppose they have set their
face heavenward through the day.


The modest man has everything 10
gain, and the arrogant man everything
to lose; for modesty has always to deal
with generosity, and arrogance with
envy.


Prayer among men is supposed to
change the person to whom we pray but
prayer to God doth not change Him,
but fits rs to receive the things prayed
for
Year: 1877

in an earnest effcrt to secure to


our country the blessing, not only of
material prosperity, but Of justice, peace
and union-a union depending not upon


the constraint of force, but of the loving
devotion of a free people, that all things
may be so ordered and settled upon the
best and surest foundations, that peace
and happiness, truth and justice, re.
ligiol and piety may be established
among us for all generations. Il
Year: 1877

We have parte1-aye, we've parted
Tho my quiv'ring heartstringS break
We have parted, Sir, forever


Naught my stern resolve will shake.
Take your presents-woIthless pledges
Ola hope forever fled
And your ring-the faithless token
Of a love henceforwarl dead.
All the folly, all the madness,


Of that love plainly see,
can hear the mocking 1alSehoods
That you breathed upon your knee.
Do not plead; your honied whispers
assure you, come too late
Now that faith has known betrayal,
Now that love has turned to hate.
Not word! l will not hear you


1t is useless quite to speak.
All! you think me but a woman
Therefore tickle soft and weak.
Sir, tell you that a chasm


Iawns between US deep and wide.
And wrathful spirit guards it


With the flaming sword of Pride.
All, know the subtle poison


That was breathed into your heart,
And know the willy Circe


Who has thrust our lives apart:
Let her triumph in her conquest;
I will not dispute her rule,
If she choose to play the rival,


don't choose to play the fool.
Year: 1877

a California schoolmaster who was cut
OF employment and fast losing his sight
walked into a shooting gallery in San
Francisco on February 18th, and taking up
large revolver fred two shots at thr
target missing each time. Apparently an.
noyed at his poor shooting he strobe half
way down the gallery and tried again with
the same result, and then to the amaze.
ment OF all present, placed the pistol to his
ear and pulled the trigger. Before the by.
ISLANDERS could prevent him he put the
muzzle of the revolver in his mouth and
fired again. Upon his person was found
the following note, written in pencil on
scrap OF letter: "Thomas Bggs, L. l.. D..
disappointed and weary of life, cycsight
utterly failing, will soon be blind"
Year: 1877

When Peter of Croton, the painter, was
engaged on a picture for the royal palacc
OF Petit, Ferdinand II. particularly admired
the representation of weeping child.
Has your Majesty" said the painter, Ca
mind to see this child laugh ?" And suitinr
the action to the word, the artist merely
depressed the corner of the lips, and the
inner extremity OF the eyebrow, when the
iIttlc urchin seemed in danger of bursting
ms sides with laughter, who moment
before seemed breaking his heart with
weeping. If this bo true in the world of
living men slight, very slight, are the
causes that make or breaES'the happiness of
life. The touch of a brush can dim heaven
the fair horizon,
Year: 1877

Forty Roman Catholic schools have re.
Gently been opened in George, Alabama
and Louisiana, at which colored children
who wish to he educated are to receive
education free. This is small part only
OF the work going on to bring the negro
under Catholic influence.
Year: 1877

PANIC IN THE CHUECH.-While a Catholic
priest was preaching to 5000 women, one
evening last week, in New York CITY. a
panic was excited, a crowd rushed to the
doorS' and seven persons were crushed to
death. The sufferings caused by this awful
calamity call for our deepest sympathy.
ana the event should be a fearful warning
against yielding to the impulse of sudden
alarms. But there is one point, SAYS the
y. Y. Observer, on which we wish to fasten
attention. The HcaH says:


" w hlle the preacher was discoursinr on
the subject Of He'll the vast and, indeed.
overcrowded congregation Of women and
girls remained silent and attentive listeners
Doubtless the terrible picture which the
reverend lecturer drew of the eternal
punishment of the sinner wrought their
feelings up to the highest tension. and he
undealgnedly prepared his hearers for the
terrible denOuemert that was to follow
with ones thoughts directed to the unccr.
talnty ot life and the certainty of damno.
tlon unless that life was led ACCORDING to
the law of God, the auditor is least prenared
to face the terrible reality or even the bare
imagination of deaths presence The in.
tense heat and overcrowded state of the
church had the effect of causing a woman
IN the west gallery to faint. When sinking
IN the swoon she cried out, and at this
alarming sound some excitablc person in
the church screamed Fire 2"


Suppose Mr.. Moody had preached a
sermon on this theme and had wrought his
hearers up to such pitch of excitement,
ana cry OF fire had caused panic in the
mippodrome, followed by such a loss of
lIIe HOW the newspapers would have come
doings That's the way you frighten nconIe
into religion
Year: 1877

Who says that there is no romance. that
nothing ever happens, in this prosaic
country In Louisiana, two negroes who
loved the same woman, have recently
fought duel on horseback and killed each
other.........A bankers wife near Kansas
City, Mo-, presented foundling to her hus-
band as his heir, and champagne corks
popped at every angle. But in few days
his meat was tears. The mother of twins.
who had parted with one of them, came
forward to claim the one she had sold 10
the rich lady, and the bankers wife had to
confess that the child was not her own.
young man in Dubuque, Iowa, went on
Saturday week to a country dance, and did
not return to his home until the church
bells were ringing the next morning. His
father told him he must 90 to meeting, and
he went. Before the minister had finished
the opening prayer, the young reveler was
sound asleep and dreaming Of the dance.
An old lady who sat next to him touched
his hand to arouse him, Yhereupon he
seized her wrist and shouted, Gan ioin
hands and circle to the left. Swing the
girl with the blue dress on."........,T The
runaway girl and her lover were riding past
Casey Station, Tenn. when the stern parent
gallOped to the front on mule and pulled
her out Of the wagon. Putting her on the
mules back and taking his place behind
her, he whistled to his steed. "Sally, if
you love me, slide OFF, whispered the
lover. Wriggling out of her fathers grasp,
she did so slide. Then the lover fought
with the unnatural parent and triumphed
over him, and the mule ran away with the
two spoons.
Year: 1877

After all man is a weak creature. And
SO 1t Is that young man, loving truly and
tenderly-aye, loving with that deep and
passionate love which makes earth more
than Paradisc,---wiH sometimes weakly
hesitate whether to buy her a work box
with looking glass in the lid for Christmas.
or invest the money in suit of winter
tlannels for himself.
Year: 1877

The widow of President James X. Polk
mas Just been formally called upon in Nash.
vale by the Tennessee Legislature, which
adjourned for that purpose. This is ccre-
mony which each Legislature goes tbronrb


Representative J. F. Stokes made, on the
part OF the Legislature, this speech at Mrs.
Polk: We thank you for granting us this
desired pleasure. We cherish with patri,
otlc ardor the virtues and fame of the dis
tlngulshed man with whom your life is so
tenderly linked. The memory of him is n
rlch healtage to us and those who come
alter us. But we beg you not to think this
SIMPLY visit of formal courtesy. While
we honor the memory of that illustrious
statesman, we also regard with deepest
reverence the companion of his greatness.
and desire to know personally a lady of
such excellent worth We cherish YOU as
one IN whom womanly worth and rare
graces find bright expression, to be bonorcd
and admired by all who know you" One
OF the lady's ncighbors responded for her.
Year: 1877

What "they say" is beneath your notice.
What is the use of your lying awake of
rights with the unkind remark of some
false friend running throught your brain
like forxed lightning? What's the use of
getting into worry and fret over gossip
that has been set aAoat to your disadyant-
age by some meddlesome busy.body who
has more time than character? These
things can't possibly injure you, unless, in.
deed, you take notice Of them, and in com.
batting with them, give them character
and standing. If what is said about you is
true, set .yourselfr right at once; if it is false
let 1t go for what it will, until it dies of in.
herent weakness,
Year: 1877

Don't WORRY ABOUT YouRsELF.-Tbe


Journal 9fLieaM says: 70 regain or recover
health persons should be relieved Grom
anxiety concerning diseases. The mind
mas power over the body. For person to
think he has disease will often producr
that disease. This we see effected whom
the mind Is intensely concentrated mon
the disease Of another. 1t is found in the
hospitals that physicians and surgeons who
make Il speciality Of certain disease are
ha1le to die Of it themselves: and the
mental power Is SO great that people some
tlhles die OF diseases which they only have
IN imagination. We have seen persons
sea-Slck IN anticipation of a voyage before
reaching the vessel. We have known =
person to die Of cancer in the stomach
when he had no cancer or any other
disease: y man blindioIdcd and slightly
prlcked IN the arm has tainted and died
from believing he was bleeding to death.
therefore, persons in health and desirinr
70 continue so should at Ill times be cheer.
1HI and happy, and those who are sick
should have their attention drawn as much
as possible from themselves. 1t is by thcir
laith men are saved, and also by their faitJl
they die. If man wills not to die he can
1--we IN spite Of disease: and if he has IittIn
or no attachment to life he will Sin, away
as easily as child falls asleep.
Year: 1877

Governor Van Zandt, of Rhode Island, has issued a
thanksgiving proclamation which, in respect of breyy
unsurpassed. Yet he manages say excellent thing
which deserves attention in other States besides Rhode
Island for after requesting the people assemble and
return thanks God for His tender mercies and loving
Kindness he adds And may those who are blessed
with abundance give literally the poor" This reminds
ms of Rowland Hills famous charity After
nouncipg Sne text He that giyeth the poor lendeh
70 the Lord and he viii repay him tenfod the eccentric
preacher added Brethren and sisters, you hear the
terms OF the loan and you like the security, down with
your dust" This was the entire sermon, but ii is OF
cord that the collection very liberal We hope
tat Governor Van Zandts laconic proclamation will be
equally effective with the extensive audience to which it
addressed
Year: 1877

A Chinese minister in Washington hear the
Marine play band lie particularly impressed with the
trombone player, and offered him handsome engage
menr IN China, for, ne said, have Jug
ger who could swallow much brass you and spit 1t
again and yet the people here regard it
everyday affair.
Year: 1877

When ST. Louis belle gets the earache, they take the
fair sufferer down to the levee put bale bale and
half of cotton into the affected and play pare
goric pon it from chemical engine. This rarely fails to
affect cure Chicago Tribune. And when Chicago
belle has the ear-ache, they treat her in the way
only they dont go anywhere for bale of cot
ton. They usually ind it about the suffererS LouiS
Republican.
Year: 1877

charity wonld be in the hearts and hands
Of the landlords to be dispensed by them
according to their largness and liberality.
Upon the property plan Of assessing
water rent there would only remain to be
collected of the tenant, by the City Col.
lector, the 50 cents assessment made
upon each member Of the family us per
ordinance. The instances would likely
be few in which this tax would fail to be
collected and the City Collector would
be relieved from the odium, II any such
there be, incurred in rigid enforcement
ofthe water ordinance as now existing.


Assuggested by a member Of Council,
plan which would secure the collection
Of all the revenue from water would se.
cure a reduction in price, and result in a
general benefit to all the citizens. We
may add that II would also bankrupt
many property owning ward politicians,
whose stock in trade Is the professetl
championship Of the poor as against the
crushing hand Of the municipal author.
tiles. -
Year: 1877

DcAth Oi JOnn ISlSuOps


We are greatly panied to announce the
death Of this most estimable citizen this
morning. The particulars Of his sudden
taking of will be found in our local news.
His lamp Of life went out in twinkling,
and yet not in way, perhaps. that he
would have ordered otherwise had Il
been given to him to choose. Mr.. Bishop
lived an honest life. He had long con.
templated the mOmentous problem oil
death, and his mind was made up to meet
his fate calmly whenever il might come
to him. He was in his Goth year since
last October.


1t has been u long time since death
iu our midst has called forth such gen.
eral and sincere expression Of sorrow.
The deceased was man whom almost
everybody knew. and whom none ever
knew save to respect. He was a man Of
thorough principle-honest and upright
in every instinct Of his nature-above all
meanness or sordidness-genial, kindly
andsympathetic--iond Of his friends and
generous toward every human being.
Upon him, we eau truly say, nature had
set her seal "to give the world assurance
Of Il man." lie looked the good man that
he was. His fine intellectual expression
Comported we'll with the modest and be-
nignant aspect oi his whole face. No
wonder his friends all loved him aud the
whole community respected him.


Mr.. Bishop had lived in this city from
boyhood-wus identified for generation
with almost every enterprise Of impor-
tance-had experienced his full share OF
the vicissitudes OF life--hai been well of
and then very poor, and then again in
comfortable circumstances, anl yet in all
these changing scenes had preserved the
same genial and kindly nature and the
same good character in the face OF all the
world. Take him all in all and he was Ii
rare man. He was an unaffected phi,
losopher, without any OF the stoicism or
aSceticism Of many philosophical minds
lie had a keen appreciation Of everything
that was natural and beautiful. lie loved
flowers and had a highly cultivated taste
for all the mysteries Of botany, mineral.
ogy and geology. No man possessed
more accurate information, US far as he
pretended to know anything iu this di.
rection, and he could always express him.
self clearly and forcibly. Had he en-
ioysd early advantages, he would have
attained excellence in scientific pursuits.
Not having these advantages, he was an
entirely seli.made man, and courted
knowledge from the pure love oft. We
shall always remember him as fond
friend and good man, whom it WAS our
pleasure to know intimately, and who
left the world very much the better and
none the worse for his having lived in il.
Peace and honor 10 his memory!
Year: 1877

A French officer who has served many
years in Algeria writes an interesting ac-
count of dying lion. Fangless, cover
ed with magne, and blind, is the king of
beasts on approaching the close of his
reign. When not lying mournfully pros
trate and alone in some sheltered nook
or behind some friendly mound over
grown with shrubbery, he feebly skulks
within small circuit of his lair in quest
of a morsel of prey, which in his de-
crepitude he rarely succeeds in obtain
ing. at this stage of his career, if his
scent does not utterly fail him, his sole
resource fornutritionis an occasional nest
of field mice. Inferior animals smell
at him fearlessly, and paw him with in
science, for the forest monarch, dethroned
by disease, is incapable of resistance.


Often the rustic Arab comes upon his
majesty i'll his utter helplessness and
ends his troubles with blow of club.
Year: 1877

DIR. Beard states that from an analysis
of the lives of thousand representative
men in all the great branches of the
human family, he made the discovery
that the golden decade was between
forty and fifty; the brazen between twen-
ty and thirty; the iron between fifty and
sixty. The superiority of youth and
middle life over old age in original work
appears all the greater when We consider
the fact that all the positions OF honor
and prestige-professorships and public
stations-are in the hands Of the old.
Reputation, like money and position, is
mainly confined to the old. Men are not
widely known until long after they have
done the work that gives them their
fame. Portraits of great men are delu-
sions; statues are lies They are taken
when men have become famous, which,
On the average, is at least twenty-five
years after they did the work which gave
them their fame. Original work requires
enthusiasm. If all the original work
done by men under forty-five were annl-
hilated, they would be reduced to bar
barism. Men are at their best at that
time when enthusiasm and experience
are almost evenly balanced. This pc
riod, on the average, is from thirty-eight
to forty. After this the law is that ex-
perience increases; but enthusiasm de-
creases.
Year: 1877

An English clergyman at st. Leonards-
on-Sea has brave footman. Early In
December burglars tore out bar from
the boot-room window and entered the
parsonage. The footman slept near the
pantry, and was disturbed by hearing
something fall. He opened his door, and,
seeing light in the pantry, went out,
taking sword stick. He shouted out:


"Who is there?" and Immediately q
man with blackened face put his head
out of the pantry door and whistled.
The foot1nan sprung forward and struck
the man twice on the head. The burgla.1
ran toward the outer doors, carrying
part of the plate in an apron, but, being
struck by the footman, he fell between
the doors and dropped his plunder. The
next moment the footman himself was
struck violently on the head and arm by
another man from behind. The men
then ran out Of the back door, which
the footman bolted, and went for his
1aRster. = In the pantry was found the
rest of the plate collected and ready to
be carried or The only thug token
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