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Year: 1878

nor in which the Post Office in
this city is managed and con
Quoted, we have not gone upon
the street, or entered place of
business, without being urged to
keep up the fight. 1t is a dis
grace to the city, and the public
interests and convenience de-
mand an immediate change" is
the expression of every disinter-
ested business man in the town.
There is no doubt or question of
the facts; then why do not those
persons interested-which in
clude almost the entire commu-
nity-take measures, by concert
of action, to remedy an evil so
manifest to all? There is no
reason to doubt that if the facts
were properly presented to the
Department, the remedy would
be instantly applied. While we
never shirk or evade q manifest
public duty, We are among the
last who should be expected to
prosecute this matter, simply for
the reason that the incumbent
publishes a newspaper, and so
do we. This is the sole reason
why we did not call public at
tentlon to the subject before, and
never communicated the facts to
the Department. The bare allu-
sion to facts which no one will
presume to question, has called
down upon our head an ava
ianche Of personal defamation
including specific charges of fel-
ony. This attempt to change
the issue to u personal one does
not at all affect or influence in
any degree our relations to the
same.


The facts, which nobody will
attempt to controvert, are these:
Mr.. Humphrey resigned the po-
sition of Postmaster because he
could not give the sffice his per-
sonal attention. Thomas W.
Prosch was appointed to the of
fee at the instance and through
the influence of Capt. E. A. Starr,
the mail Garner between Olym-
pia and Victoria, without consul
tation with any considerable
portion of the citizens of Seattle,
Starr at the time being a large
proprietor in a rival town to the
interests of which, and to the
detriment and damage of Seattle
Prosch's paper had heretofore
been chiefly devoted; that the
said Prosch had not q dollars
interest in this town outside of
his printing Office at the time,
and had left Tacoma to come
here in search of business, under
an implied promise, !expressedin in
parting salutations, to the people
of that town, to return there
when business would warrant it.
These facts we should have re-
garded as secondary, if the pub
lie service had been we'll perform
ed. But he has used the office
as source of personal revenue
solely, in utter disregard of pub
lie interest or convenience. He
farmed it out for stipulated
sum without giving to it any
personal attention which would
interfere with his daily avoca-
ton in his own private business.
To save rent. he removed the
office to an unpainted and un-
plastered board shanty but II
feet in width, the cases through
the center leaving passage not
much over five feet on either
side, that on the public side not
extending beyond the cases, not
swept oftener than once a week
and lighted only by a half win
dow in the door. This low, dark,
dirty passage, where two per-
sons can barely pass, is all the
public accommodations for the
delivery of the mails to nearly
five thousand people. 1t is not
only a disgrace to the civ hnt a
Year: 1878

NV sss ~sssss - SeF r.


In the District Court yester-
day Chief Justice Lewis granted
perpetual injunction, restrain
ing the Treasurer Of. King Coun-
ty from paying the warrant for
$500, drawn for the purpose of
paying McGilvra's expenses to
Washington; whereupon the In
teligencer glorifies itself by ma
ligning the County Commission
ers, as follows:


FULLY VINDICATED.-Several months
ago, when q Corrupt and venal Board of
County Commissioners. manipulated by
one of their own number. whose princi-
pie is interest on all occasions. sought
to appropriate six hundred dollars of
the peoples money for holiday trip
to Washington for an attorney of this
city, this paper had the manhood and
fidelity to oppose it as scheme to ben.
eft few at the expense of the many.


This, and much more of the
same sort. Now, while We do
not doubt that the decision of
the Court is strictly according
to law, yet there is just as much
reason for questioning the mo-
tives and assailing the integrity
of Judge Lewis in this matter as
there is for attriDuting to the
gentlemen who compose the
Board of Commissioners venaity
and corruption in offie. If they
were actuated by corrupt mo-
tives, then are a large portion OF
the heaviest taxpayers and most
respected citizens of the county
equally guilty; no citizen who
urged the measure can escape
the censure; if the measure was
venal and corrupt, the inevitable
logical conclusion is, that all
who aided and abetted its pas
sage were actuated by venal and
corrupt motlves-Messrs. Hor-
ton, Denny, Gatzert, and others,
no less than Messrs. Maddocks,
O'Brien and Stearns. But there
was not an incident connected
with the affair to indicate an ul-
terror or corrupt motive, or to
raise suspicion in the mind OF
any honest man that it was any
thing in the nature Of ga scheme
to benefit a few at the expense
of the many


We confess that we were not
among those who petitioned for
this appropriation, for the sim
pie reason that we questioned
the legal authority of the Board
to make it. But we assented to
it as justified by much legal in
depreciation as to the discretion
ary powers of municipal govern
ment, repeated precedents, and
extraordinary exigencies. The
employment of legal counsel for
extraordinary occasions is not
an uncommon thing by muniei-
pal corporations; the employ
ment of experts IN the invcsti-
CATION of records is frequently
done and paid for out of the pub
lie treasury, and no appeal taken
to the Courts, because public
sentiment assented to the higher
law of necessity. If there ever
was an occasion demanding the
exercise ofextraordinary powers
by the public authorities for the
protection Of the rights Of their
constituents, this was one. That
the wisest and best thing was
done to meet the emergency is
not now the question; but that
the Commissioners acted in good
faith, without a corrupt motive,
and with reference to public in
terests, according to the best
lights before them, no one not
blinded by prejudice or frenzied
by malice will question. The
N. P. r. r. Co. had a large and
influential lobby, with the ablest
Year: 1878

allowing a public Office to be
farmed out for private profit to
the detriment of the service.


The Constitutional Convention.
The people are being constant
ly warned by tho newspapers Of
smaller calibre of the danger to
be apprehended from "ring"
control in the approaching Con-
stitutlonal Convention. Ofwhom
or what these ring combinations
are composed, or what special
purpose they are intended to
serve, or end they have in view,
we have not been able to learn
from the most diligent inquiry.
In searching for the "Federal
nng," more commonly called the
Ferry ring" at Olympia, We
could find no more concert of
action than between a like num-
Der of citizens Of any other class
belonging to the same political
party-lawyers, merchants or
mechanics-and we have never
known them to act as a unit in
any party caucus. A portion of
them are enthusiastic admirers
of the "Hayes policy" the 9th
ers "don't go cent on it, If
there is any ring there, it is like
the ring broken between lovers,
of which each has a seperate
portion which is treasured in
secret. The act under which
! the Convention is called has not
I a feature in it recommended by
Governor Ferry, nor one to
which he did not give his official
approval reluctantly. Another
imaginary ring which is fire.
quently alluded to, is called the
mCustom House ring" located
at Port Townsend. All the per-
sons connected with, or under
the control of the custom house,
does not exceed a dozen, with
no more political influence
than any other dozen men of
the same social standing. All
the ring that we could ever dis
cover at that place was compos-
ed OF about an equal number of
representative men of either po-
litlcal party, drawn together in
intimate social relations by kin
drcd tastes and habits, and equal
ly the objects of the envy and
hatred of the baser social ele-
ments who naturally hate what
they have not the disposition to
emulate. That is all that we
know about rings. The natural
conclusion is, that those who cry
out about rings, adopt this sub
terfuge to commend themselves
to the public favor which they
cannot hope to win by their own
merits, by plying the role OF
the peoples defenders against
imaginary conspiracies; fighters
of wind-mills. The zeal of men
who are always exposing public
wrongs and never bring any
thing to light of any practical
account, may be properly regard
ed as actuated by some other
motive than that professed.


We do not believe that the Act
of the Territorial Legislature
for the organization of a State
Government, was the result of
ring combination for Interior
purposes, and we do know that
it was not got up under the ad-
vice or through the instrument
tality Of any of the men whose
names have been associated with
the imaginary rings above allu-
ded to. But, nevertheless, the
most skillful caucus manipula-
tor and ring politician could not
Year: 1878

81 would be ashamed to tell mother" was
a little boys reply to his comrades, who were
trying to tempt him 10 do wrong.


"But you need not tell her; no one will
know anything about it,"


81 would know all about myself, and I'd
feel mighty mean if couldn't tell mother"


Its pity you wasn't girl. The ides of
boy running and telling bis mother every
little thing!'


You may laugh il you want to, said the
noble boy" but I've made up my mind
never, as long as ! live, to do anything 1
would be ashamed to tell my mother"


Noble resolve, ana which will make almost
any life true and useful. Let it be the rule
ot every boy and girl to do nothingo which
they would be ashamed to tell their mother.
Year: 1878

AS Cupid strayed one sultry day,


Oppressed with heat and short OF breath,
He wandered from the path, and lay


Asleep within the cave of Death.
The quiver at his side tipped DER,


And all his arrows tumbled out.
And lay where Death upon the floor


Had strewn his glittering darts about.
At length he woke; but who can tell


The mischief in that moment done?
He grasped the arrows where they fell,


And some were Deaths, and some his own
And now he speeds his mingled darts,


But nnds them oft unfaithful prove,
And carry death to youthful hearts


That should have felt the shafts of love.
And Death himself oft sees with rage


His arrows fail to stop the breath,
And wound with love the heart OF age,


That should have felt the shaft of Death.
Lewisville, June 10, 1878.
Year: 1878

The New York Times already admits that
John Sherman and Stanley Matthews can
not be defended by the republican party.
We venture to predict that the Times, which,
with all its partisanship. is too sensibly con-
Quoted to run its editorial head against any
stone walls, will throw the whole fraudur
lent gang overheard in less than one month
from date. and take the ground that the only
salvation for the republican party is in re-
pudiating from beginning to end both the
transactions that made Hayes de facto presi-
dent and the authors of the transactions.
Year: 1878

o. If my love offended me,


And we had words together,
To show her / would master her,
I'd whip her with a feather.
If then she, like a naughty girl,


Would tyranny declare it,
I'd give my pet cross OF pearl,
And make her always bear it.
II still she tried to sulk and sigh,
And throw away my posies,
I'D catch my darling on the sly


And smother her with roses.
And If she dared her lips to pout,
Like many pert young misses,
I'd wind my arm her waist about
And punish her with kisses.
Year: 1878

Stanley Matthews has not added to his
reputation as the chief engineer of the Hayes
administration. and some of the organs of
the party are disposed to give him a down
ward kick, and among these may be noted
the Indianapolis Journal.
Year: 1878

Mr.. Hayes would show much better, if
instead of saying what he will do to main
tain himself, at all hazards in the white
house, he should say what an honest man
would do, on finding himself in possession
of stolen goods. Hayes seems to have gone
tation of the men who put him In, by
fraud.
Year: 1878

The Tptop company's mill at Gillett has

 been idle for the last four weeks on account

 of the failure of water in the creek with

 which to supply the mill. The company

 have caused large we'll to be dug and a

 drift made into the channel of the creek

 which will supply the necessary amount and forever do away with hindrance which has been of many thousand dollars damage. The mine (Tiptop) has been steadily worked en1 Che amount of ore now on the dumps at both mill asd mine is worth several hundred thousand dollars. The water is coming into the well and the mill will start up duriae the early part of the coming week. when will be turned out an average of over two thousand dollars daily. Other leads in the Iiptop district continue to yield largely in

 high grade ore and the mines are well thought of by all xho have examined them

 The Peck is and has been for some time yielding about 5000 daily, all of which is being shipped to California.

 At the Tiger work Is going on and plenty of very fine ore is being torn from its dark bed ] and raised to the light of day. At the Kit i Carson, Silver Flake, Silver Belt and Prince mines, many men are working in the shafts. l tunnels, drifts and cuts with sstifactory re. | suits. The Agua Fria Smelter is soon to | be started up by Nr.. c. B. Foster which {. VIII pc anofse '.er source from which to swell !ee .s.d of bullion from Yavapai. The Senator mine is now in competent hands and will also do its share in sending out gold bullion with which to help fill the | cofIers of the money purchasers in the large |
Year: 1878

There seems to exist q general pellet among the people of the Atlantic side, that Secretary Sherman intends to commence specie payment or resumption by the 1st of August, perhaps, quite certainly before the time fixed by law. He has one hundred and eighty millions of coin in the Treasury with winch to commence that resumption. That is equal to thirty-fve per cent. of the amount of currency out and redeemable. Legal tenders ont amount 10 three hundred and forty-six millions, according to Government records. But undoubtedly large amount of those issued have been lost. burned. de- stroyed ia various ways. worn out, and will never be presented for redemption. Itm may be taken for a eertainty that when if shall be known to the holder of legal tenders that he can exchange them for specie by presen- .tstion at the Treasury, he will not lonr de. sire the exchange, because the paper is more than silver or gold; and much of the specie will remain irI the vaults of the Treasury. while the paper currency will travel through all the realms oftnde. Alta
Year: 1878

We received this W ,ek, two new presses. from San Francisco, the Nonpariel and Pearl Jobbers, also Franklin paper cutter together with large amount of material tor job printing. We now. have a large as- sortment of type, and are prepared to do job work as cheap as it can be done in the ter -itory. The printing office will be removed this week to the corner of Congress street and Church Plaza, in more commodious Tucson Star.

 The Star has been fair representitive of the interests of Southern Arizona, and we judge its efforts are appreciated by the people, from the fact that the proprie- tor, has been enabled to purchase much new and that ton, without the aid of any Congressional aspirant.
Year: 1878

TWO woRKMEN INJURED BY THE FALL OF


NEW WALL ON LEXINGTON AVENUE


The wall Of building In course OF erection on Lex
inston avenue. between Ninety fourth and Ninety.hnh
streets, fell yesterday morning, aud Two workmen
injured Tho neighbors insinuated that tho wall
WIS faulty In construction aud should never have
b,cn allowed 10 bc pu, up This however, seems to oc
unfounded In fact for according the statements OF
the contractor and official inspector OF the building.
the material and It's construction OF tho very best
quality, while all tho requirements OF Law faith
fully observed. They sscrbe the falling OF tho wall
the action OF the rain upon during great storm Of
Thursday.


THE ACCIDENT.


Between eight and nine O'Clock yesterday morning
the laborcrs and masons who we're at work upon
OF throe story brown stone buildings in the Of
erection on Lexington avenue and Ninety fourth and
DIneynnh streets, were startled from their labor by
seeing the wall Of one Of tho houses suddenly sway
once or twice In the damp air, and then. With low.
Year: 1878

Captain Chittenden, the diver employed by the
Coast wrccking Company to report as to the cond-
ton of tho burned steamship City Of Dias, statos
that tho vessels sides are charred from the main dock
down for about the space OF four or five feet, the
greater damage being ait.
Year: 1878

TREEu ANY PERSON WHO WILL II make and forward me list of the names or reliable persons Of their &C., quaintance who wish to procure an instru- ment, either Plano or Organ, l will use my best endeavors to sell them one, and for every Piano I succeed in selling 70 their list within one year, I will credit them with SIC. and for every Organ S5, to be applied on payment of either a Piano or Organ; and when it amounts to a sum sufficient to pay for any instrument, selec- ted at the lowest wholesale price, will immediately ship the instrument, free, or after any amount is credited the balance may be paid me fin cash and will then ship them the instrument. They need not be known in the matter, and will be doing their friends a real service, as l shall make special offers to them, selling a superior instrument for from one-half to two-thIrds what Is ordinarily asked by agents. Please send me a list at once, and after you have made inquiry, you can add to it. Address,

 DANIEL F. BEATTY,

 Washington, NJ J.
Year: 1878

This project for rapid transit in the city of New York now bids fair to be quickly realized. According to the Iron Age, the various establihments for the manufacture of ironwork under the recent contracts, are employing their entire force SO that no default may occur The Messrs. Whitney and Cor nell together have 8 formidable job. All the large irons called for in their agreement will be made by the Pen coyd and Phenlx Iron Companies of Philadelphia. The former think they can increase their production so as to erect 20 spans per day, in addition to other work, the iron to be delivered at once. This week the work of cree ton will commence, beginning at Sixth street and Third avenue, and as regards the style of construction, the railroad company have decided to have a double track joined by trans verse girders, making it truly substan- ual. The united firm just mentioned take the road from the intersection of the Bowery and Third avenue to Sixty first street, On the east side, and from Fifty third street and Ninth avenue on the wes. side to SIxty-first street, with branch line from Third avenue through Forty-second street to the Grand Central Depot The expectation is to have the entire work completed to Harlem river before the summer is ended. To erect twenty spans a day, as proposed, requires 40 tons of iron, from which fact some idea can be formed of the greatness of the under taking.
Year: 1878

THE TROUBLE IN NEW MEXICO 10 ollell which
the assistance of troops has been asked for
grew out OF a refusal OF a life insurance agen
TO pay policy, and the efforts of the territorial
judiciary TO compel It's payment. Six person
have beer killed, but ii is thought the trouhIe
NOW over
Year: 1878

POLICE REFORM IN BOsTON.-About 40 officers
OF the Boston city police have been notified that
their designations will be accepted, they being
deemed incompetent TO do active duty in CON
sequence Of age and otter tnfirmities,
Year: 1878

Elder Coles has been notified by the
authorities Of Lyon county, that they
will close up the bridge, crossing the Sioux
between lower Canton and Beloit, II some.
thing is not done towards the repairing
and keeping it in repair.


One sure thing if that is not repaired
some serious injury is liable to bcfall some
individual, and for this criminal neglect
of keeping safe and passsble, some per
sons or community may have occasion
for serious regret Whatever MY bc the
local feeling in regard to this matter, that
should not be allowed to govern action,
for greater than individual interests are
at stake. The public are interested, and its
convenience and demands must be con.
sidered. If the town authorities or the
County Commissioners are prohibited
from appropriating funds for this object
(and by the report of the Co. Commission.
ers their refusal to entertain the proposi.
ton of the Lyon county Board was upon
the ground that it was an extraordinary
outlay, requiring the submission to vote
of the people) should not some arrange
ment be made either by vote or otherwise
to prevent the closing Of the bridge, which
if it should be done would effect the trav.
cling public as we'll as the citizens of the
two counties outside Of the village resi-
dents, if not an absolute bar to travel to
the mill and below on the Iowa side, it
would subject people to the expense Of q
ferry or the dangers of winter ford, or
long roundabout way round the bluff.


The Pembina road has reached the
county line below Eden, and is discharg-
ing freight at that point. We have receiv-
ed small invoice of coal from that point,
the first freight brought into Lincoln
County by Railroad. We cannot yet
see the cars or hear the whistle, but it is .
consolation to think that the iron band
has reached borders Of Lincoln County
and the time cannot be far distant when
from our door we Can see the train wind
ing around the bluff below Keeps, placing
US in that connection with the outer world
that we have almost forgotten.
Year: 1878

such simple thing as counting noses may
be fraudulently or carelessly done, and the
industrial statistics may be made wholly
unreliable if the enumerators are careless
or different, or lack the intelligence neces.
sary to follow a uniform plan.
Year: 1878

The work of plowing and seeding is rap.
idly progressing in all quarters of our Terri


tory. But have our farmers ever yet paused
to consider the many difficulties liable to be


encountered the coming season? The sup
ply of and demand for various products
likely to be experienced at marketing time ?
The first and most important question is
what can be most successfully produced.
In our humble judgment he that sows the


greatest variety will stand the best chance


to do we'll. Grasshoppers will most GER


tanly appear in force OH most Of our val
leys and though the experience of the past
has taught lis much OF the warfare to wage
against these destroyers, yet we must ex-
pect to suffer to Il considerable extent. This
makes the sowing of a great diversity OF
crops more urgent. as there are some that
are much less liable to injury than others.
Besides this, if we have no hoppers diversi-
fled crops will be the best, since the pro-
ducton would be large and prices most
likely to rule low and he that had the great
est,variety would find a good market for
some one article which would enable him to
hold those that were not in demand for
hetter season. With the present appliances
there are many localities where those who
will make the exertion can fight grasshop-
pers with sufficient success to save three
lourths of crop. But there are many who
ignore this idea of Il warfare against them
entirely, and the only hope of such is in di-
versity of products. Some attention must
also be given to tie time of sowing. As
general rale early grain is best, but as there
are objections to all general rules, the best
plan will be to sow the main crop carly and
reserve small acreage-enough, at least,
'or nome consumption Of the different COM


nodltles, and sow this very late. The
c'ances are three to one in favor of early
sowing, but in the event it should fail the
la'e sowing will come in good play.