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Year: 1878

THE PRESIDENT WILL SIGN 1T. AND WHY.


Owing to the fact that both Houses of Con-
gress have adjourned until Monday next the
silver bill cannot be sent to the President for
his action until that day, because the concur
renee by the House to the Senate amendments
must be officially communicated to the latter
only in open session. The bill, however, will
be enrolled, and be presented to the Senate as
soon as it conVenes on Monday, and arrange
ments have been made to take it to the Presi-
dent Immediately thereafter.


There is good deal of diversity of opinion
as to what the President will do with it. Sena-
tor Stanley Matthews, who has, up to last
would allow the bill to become a law without
his signature by Withholding it, over the a.
sa fas hs sa t wod gd that he BE-
lhlS Tor The reason that some time ago when
Se:retary Sherman wrote a letter declaring
that the principal and interest of our bonds
approved of and indOrsed the letter


Per contra, there is high authority for the
statement that the President will sign the bill
under protest. and will accompany the return
of the bill to the House with a message. that
he does not approve OF the bill. but signs it be-
cause of the large vote it has received in both
branches of Congress; that he signed it to stop
the further agitation of a question which has
already depressed the industries of the ma
signature he does not believe would defeat
the bill. This message, it is said, is now in
course of preparation. and will be ready by
the time the President receives the bill


Orders were issued last night by the Secreta-
" of the Treasury, through the direction of the
Mint to all the superintendentS of mintS, par
ticularly the Carson City mint, to place the
same in readiness to execute the provisions of
the civil bill, when indicates that Secretary
Sherman has no hopes of it's defeat by veto,
and gives color to the statement hereinbefOre
made, that the President will sign the bill un
der protest.


The ultra silver men, who do not like the
elimination of the free coinage section of the
original Bland bill by the Senate, or the section
authorizing the appointment of a monetary
commission, have agreed among themselves
to tack on to the Legislative, Executive and
Judicial Appropriation bills an amendment
providing for the repeal of these sections.
lhey say that I'll II tn the PRESIDENT vetoes the ap
he will be responsible for defeating the bill
providing for the payment of his own salary
and that OF other civil officers of the govern
ment.


II the President should decide to allow the
bill to become law without his signature and
the bill reaches him on Monday, the ten days
constitutional provision during which he may
retain it will not expire till the Sth of March.
Year: 1878

How FAST SILVER CAN BE COINED. - Dr.
Linderman, director of the mint, has returned
from Philadelphia, whittier he had been to
attend the session of the assay commission,
and, afterwards, inquire into the capacity OF
the mint at that place, in the event OF the sill
yer bill becoming a law. In two weeks from
the bill becoming law silver will be coined
and ready TO be stamped the four presses
used tOr that purpose being capable of stamp
ing $40 per minute and turning into the
Treasury at least s1,5O0,0O0 per month This
will be in addition TO all other coinage The
mint at San Francisco is capable of coming a
similar amOunt-$l 100000 per mOnth-eXciu-
slve OF all other coinage, save the trade dollar.
At Carson City, New, the capacity of the mint
will be 100000 monthly, making $35O0,0OO i'm
all. In.case the mint at New Orleans should
be utilized for coming purposes, it would take
over $4,000 and four months time for it to be
got ready for such purpose. But the mint at
fhlladelphia IS in most efficient condition
for heavy coinage, having perfected machinery
and WOrkmen skilled i'll the manufacture OF
silver; there being now on hand a moderate
stock OF bullion wherewith to commence Ope-
ratiOnS.
Year: 1878

GENERAL.
The Potter Committee Resumes Its


Lab0rs.
Arms Are to be Forwarded to Oregon
for the Use Of the Militia. ..
No Change Is to be Made In the Numerical


Strength Of the Army
According to the Report Of the Confer
enco Committee there Will be No
Transfer Of the Indian Bureau.
Year: 1878

10 recede from the ironclad orthodoxy of
the olden times is manifest among many
clergymen Of standing. They can't ex-
actly get sway with hell, but they are
exceedingly anxious to modify and mol
lily the general conception Of it. The
probability is that we will never get at
the bottom facts until We explore for
ourselves, and those who have no taste
or tact as explorers Of such 3 locality
had better resign in advance.


There Is nothing fresh in Baltimore in
the shape of news or gossip, unless it be
the important fungus known IS the Til
ton-Beecher scandal, snd with this the
people generally refuse to entertained.
They ask for q rest, or st lesst something
fresher than new confession OF sn old
confession of q confession now sgsin con-
fessed. The thing is getting wonderfully
mixed and trasSpsreutly thin.


We are to have Booth next week at
Ford's Opera House, on the celebration
of Shakespeares birthday.


FUR B. Low.
Year: 1878

ing symptoms.

 What female who has dragged an aching back and limbs up and down stairs; has seen her beauty gradually destroyed by annoying dis charges and continued suffering, need be remind ed of them with white lips, cold feet, sunken cheeks, need be told that this gradual drain has caused all.

 Consumption is induced, and millions of graves filled. Are there not OTHER evils, stupendous in magnitude, that are induced by female diseases ? Don't you think the constant complaint of a suf- fering woman, her lost beauty, pleasant ways, winning smiles and companionable nature, have sent many fickle man away from home, and brought distress, desolation and separation into many household Let every woman think of this. Think of it is not her interest and her duty to get rid of these diseases Don't think they will wear out themselves, or because you have tried this mixture or that physician in vain, that your case is incurable, tell you, almost every case can be cured without caustic and without the odous speculum.

 Our method of treatment and our remedies are our own discoveries, and nothing has ever ap- preached the success of their use
Year: 1878

There Is no need to despair. There's hope and a cure for you. Never think because one physi- elan failed, no one else can cure you. What is impossible for one without means, may be readily accomplished by another, provided with the AM- P1R APPLIANCES OF SCIENCE AND SKILLED KNowI- EDGE CULTIVATED BY EXPERIENCE
Year: 1878

Roast Leg of LGsa6.-Let the fire be
moderate, and roast the joint slowly,
basting it frequently till done, when it
should be sprinkled with salt, and the
gravy well freed from fat before serv-
ing.
Year: 1878

AT Temperance meeting lately


held in Baltimore, one of the speak,
ers very truthfully said Temper
ance Is momentous question. 1t is
more important than the labor ques-
tlon." He wanted the "Iaborer to
stand with him on the question, and
TO say that the rum traffic should be
done away with, and all of the work.
lhgman's money should not go to
the rumseller for the building of his
palatial mansions and fine equipages
While the workingman' family is
starving at home"


A volume written could not have
said more. The committee appoint
ed by Congress which met in New


York to solve the remedy for the
troubles existing in this country.
might have beon better employed in
searching out the means to get rid of
the greatest curse that now atfiicts
our land and degrades her millions
OF citizens. This one bane of the hu-'
man race more vitally affects the
condition of the people and is of far
more importance, in every phase,
than the labor question or any other
SUBJECT that agitates the public mind,
The pernicious effects, and dire con-
sequences, of the Incorporate use of
splrltuous liquors is felt in all the
varied ramificati0ns Of life, from the
high mountain to the low valley, i'm
the gorgeous palace and the humble
cabin. Like Death it invades all
alike. 1t is an undoubted fact that
1t has greater enency to impov-
erish the people than the want Of
work. There Is another matter con-
hected with the evil of drinking.
which claims the serious attention of
every laboring man, and that is the
lOlly and Wickedness of wasting hard
earned money for poison which
makes a man poor and poorer, but
enriches the vender.


In the daily walks of life these
facts are unmistakably presented to
the view of every one, and needs no
argument to prove that the man who
tratficS in liquor is made opulent by
the mpoverishmenl and degrada-
tion of his fellow man. Those who
m6sf tfme IN dissipation, is, general
ly, class of people who can least
afford it. The money expended for
this worse than useless beverage
places the means in the power of the
seller to build costly palaces and deck
himself in clustering jewelry, and af-
lords him the means of Satiating
every worldly desire that hls pom
pouS vanity seeks to diSplay,-While
he is travelling for his health or plea
sure, perhaps in some foreign land,
or enjoying the pleasures of visit
to some fashionable watering resort,
amidst gay society where his avoca-
ton is unknown, dressed in purple
and linen, the poor fellow who has
spent his last dime with him is conI-
PEELED to daily toll in the heated rays
of the sun or the piercing storms of
winter to earn scanty livelihood for
himself and suffering family. While
the rum seller with his plethoric
purse can luxuriate upon the richest
cream of the land, the family of the
unfortunate drunkark is crying for
bread. Oh! who can tell the misery
which this foolish and suicidal habit
has produced? These are plain
truths, and why is it that people will
persist in impoverishing themselves
and partaking of that which hastens
them to untimely grave Anapo-
us Gdzette.
Year: 1878

The inquisitive heathen from the
farther Inds, or the inhabitant Of
another planet, who should happen
to find himself in North America at
this time and should read of the riots
in Canada, would undoubtedly be
greatly astonished to find that the
trouble is between two sects Of
Christians, each of which is breaking,
the heads of the other in pursuance
of what they conceive to be religious,
duty. The Roman Catholics and the
PrOtestants of Canada have been
shooting and beating each other. and
it seems that they have some notion
Of waging a war of determination.
1t might perhaps be in order to send
missionaries to them to teach the
primary doctrines of that theology
which inculcates peace and advises
men to live in harmony with eacb
other.
Year: 1878

A statement from the Internal
Revenne Office, shows that the con-
SUMPTION of spirits in the United
States fell off last year about fourteen
per cent, and the consumption of
malt liquors increased about five per
cent. The American people last year
drank 1889, ,20l gallons of spirits less
than the year before, and drank
in their place 13,373,74l gallons of
beer. This is some encouragement
to the temperance cause, because
beer, it is believed, is not as injuri-
ours as whisky, and is less expensive.
The enormous amount OF drinks of
various kinds is astonishing. Is it
any wonder then that the cry of hard
times is hard over the land?
Year: 1878

The iron to be used for constructing
the keel of the now steamer for the Old
Bay Line, for which the Harlan & Hol-
lingsworth Company, have received the
contract, has arrived at the yards of that
company, and the work of laying will be
commenced at once. The keel will be
laid on the stocks from which the steam,
er Mary Morgan was launched at noon
to-day.
Year: 1878

Philadelphia Day says: Wherever he goes, General Grant is feted and feasted as never was any other Ameri- can by Europeans. After having taken ;n all Europe, he will return to his own country. where he will be received with the highest hOnors, of course. He will no doubt make a tour of this country, visiting every part of it, as a prelimi- nary 10 his proposed nomination for the Presidency in 1880. Those who desire to make him again candidate will take advantage of his new pOpu- larity, and it would not be safe to pre- dict their failure. It Is questionable whether a more available candidate than Grant can be found, and it is not impossible that he will be President of the United States for four or eight years more before he dies.
Year: 1878

Terrible storm on the Rio GrRnde

 The Mesilla Valley Independent of

 June 29, says:

 The most terrific wind, rain and hail

 storm that has been witnessed in this

 vicinity for many years swept over a

 portion of the Mesilla valley on Wed

 nesday of this week The storm came

 from the north and reached its full

 force in the neighborhood of Mesilla

 and Las Cruces about two o'clock, D. In. Its arrival was sudden ana unex- pected, many people were drenched with rain before reaching their own doors from tue streets. The howlingI of the winds, and the fearful snapping and crashing of the heavy limbs on thel trees along our streets was for several minutes appalling. At one time itI seemed as if the fine row of cotton woods along main street would bel torn up by the roots. The heavy limbs were twisted off and hurl- ed into the streets forming at several points almost a blockade. The damage to growing crops, vineyards and or chards in the neighborhood of Las Cruces and Mesilla is considerable. As the wind subsided a ht wy hail storm come on, and in few minutes the earth was white with the iccy par ticles, many of which were as large as quail's eggs. Many fields of wheat which were ready to harvest were bad ly damaged, and some are reported to be entirely destroyed. But the heaviest losses were in vineyards and orchards. Mir Bull, of Mesilla, estimates the damage to this vines and orchard al between S3000 and 5000 The fine orchard of Colonel Jones was almost stripped and the fruit that re- sisted the fury of the blast is scared and bruised with the pelting of the The storm passed diagonal ly across the valley from northwest to southeast, and embrased width of ten miles. In this small compass the damage cannot be less than $25,0O0.
Year: 1878

The San Francisco Post is authority for the statement that the Southern

 Pacific Railroad will on the first oi September place 2,000 laborers at work on the Gila valley, east of Yuma, and push the line of that road forward 191 miles to Maricopa Wells by the end of the present year.

 The Prescott Enterprise in comment. ing on this. subject says:

 Friends of the Railroad Company m this Territory, are without this 'ews. They are not expecting any sch move and believe that the road will rest at Yuma for sometime to come, unless diversion shall be made prior to next session of Cong -ess."

 The Enterprise is off wrong in the above comment THE CITIZEN has frequently assured its reader upon good authority that the Pacific Company would extend its road toward the heart of Arizona soon after the ad- journment of Congress, whether or not they obtained the desired congres. sional legislation. Congress has ad- journed without granting the right of way asked for by the Southern Pacific Company, but as we stated two weeks ago, we expect the Company to speedi- ly commence the oxtensiOn of its road up the Gila valley. It woult however, be quite unreasonable to expect the Company to begin work during the extreme heat of July and August, little could be accomplished and the expense to the Company would be very great Now dear Enterprise per init us to say that we claim 10 be among the best friends the Southern Pacific Company has in Arizona. We hsve been favored with much reliable information on railroad matters. We have frequently been assured that the Company would resume ihe work of extension as early in the fall as the weather would permit We expect this and DO NOT believe the road will rest at Yuma longer than October at the iartherest.
Year: 1878

Women suffer even more than men from the tyranny of this atrocious custom of surEba:hing For a wo- man to enter the surf involves a long anfobtruse process of undressing and redressing, which is 8 terrible strain upon her strength and temper. Moreover the act of bathing makes pitiless revelations concerning the female form. It is estimated tha; at least eleven thousand young men sn- nualiy return from Long Branch with the conviction that woman is wholly false, with the exception of rude lntolerable to the estheuc eve.
Year: 1878

THERE is on ridiculous nonsense about the honest Deadwoodians. The most vigorous waltzer al dance there last week excused himself al halfpast II because he had stage coach to rob at 12. What a rebuke this is to our giddy, procrastinsting. votaries of pleasure. That man is bound to rise-even if the whole community have to pull on the rope.-San Francisco News Letter
Year: 1878

GROWING OLD.-It is the solemn thought
connected with middle life, that life's last
business is begun in earnest; and it is then,
midway between the cradle and the grave,
that q man begins to marvel that he let the
days of youth go by so half enjoyed. 1t is
the pensive autumn feeling; it is the sensa-
tion of half sadness that we experience when
the longest day of the year is past, and every
day that follows is shorter, and the light
fainter, and the feeble shadows tell that ma
ture is fastening with gigantic footsteps to
her winter grave SO does man look down
upon his youth. when the first gray hairs
become visible, when the unwelcome truth
fastena itself upon the mind that man is
no longer going up hill. but down, and that
the sun is always westeriug, he looks back
on things behind When we were children,
wa thought as children. But there no" lies
before US manhood, with the earnest work,
and then old age, and then the grave. and
then home. There ia second youth for
man. better and holier than his first, if he
will look on, and not look back.
Year: 1878

WHAT is HOME ?-"Home, says Rob-
ertson in his sermons, "is the one place in
oil this world where hearts are sure of each
other. 1t is the place of confidence. 1t is
the place where we tear off that ruask of
guarded and suspicious coldness which the
world forces us to wear in self>defence, and
where we pour out the unreserved communi'
cations of full aud cOu6ding hearts. 1t is
the spot whore expressions of tender1ess
gush out without any sensation of awkward
ness, and without any dread of ridicule.-
Let man travel where he will, home is the
place to which his heart untravelcd fondly
turns He is to double all pleasure there.
lie is to divide all pain. A happy home is
the single spot Of rest which man has upon
this earth for the cultivation of his noblest
sepsibilities"
Year: 1878

There is a hitch in legal minds n

 Southern New Mexico as to whether or not a legislature can insert in an act of incorporation of a city a clause licensing gambling, and make t stick.

 If the legislature has the power to make gambling 8 penal offence, t certainly has the power to repeal it.

 Grant county grand juries, where licenses have recently taken the place of indictments. have more than once put themselves upon the record in op- position to bull ringing persons who play cards where spiritgous liquors are sold and allow others equally guilty unde4 the law to gam a.e elsewhere aul go scott free. This opposition Was first manifested a the December tern l8s5.

 This tact wiil be remembered by citizens of Grant for the reason that che Judge It Il subsequent term in his charge to the grand jury arraigned former memb0rs For rendering lame excuse-~as he Asss pleased to term it flor not investigating the infraction of the gaming Iaws and which re- hection upon the ex-members of that jury was noticed by them as not strictly ie accordance with truth, which was published in the January 30th, 1870 number of the Grant County Herald.

 It will also be remembered that at the December term 1876 of District Court for Grant Coaaty-sf our memory serves usthe grand jury refused to indict for infracaons of the gaupg laN and n ther report recommended that the legislature li- eense gaming. Those curious in such matters can by reference to His His Exoeneney Gov. AxtelPs mes sage to the legislature understand from his figures relative to the dis position of the revenue which he sad was principally absorbed in paying court expenses why the grand jury recommended hcensing gambling in- stead of taxing the county and vast ing the time of the court in inYesti- gaung such violations of law.
Year: 1878



 Too L fE.-Professag Ssoekman has said that Agent Hart had orders from the Indian department to noe- fy the Hannibal Mining company not to put up their pumping and hoisting machinery until the line defining tho western limits of the Indian reserya- tion was definitely determined by ae- rual survey. and that # the town of McMillenviIle should De foand to be within the limits of the reservation the citizens thereof will also be obliged to abandon their possessions. The enforcement of such an order to the deHiment of the citizens will prove breeder of trouble. We do not believe that, when the Govern nent is advised of the great value of this property and the hardship 1t will work to citizens if adhered to, 1t will insist on it's fulfllment, but will cause ] deaection of mile in the line if necessary to accommodate itself to matters as they now stand.

 We have made inquiry m other quarters likely to be informed if such an order had been given, but have been unable to find any one who could confirm or deny It. So far the reply has been, q don't know"

 Since the foregoing was put in type we have had information from the agency which greatly modiies the first report 'Tis true that the agent Eas directed to remove Hespassers from the reservation. So far the agent has not seen proper to inter- fere with those having valuable min ing claims supposed to De within tbe preiccibs limits and near the line.
Year: 1878

but has taken the more sensible view of the situation and has represented | the departmeat in Washington the grssat value of mines just within the and the great loss that would ensue to owners by an enforce ment of the order.
Year: 1878

EUREKA Is the only place IN the State
so Tar as heard from, where votes were
loiied for or against the Constitutional
Amendments, at the election last week
The proposed amendments must 30
ratified by the next Legislature before
they are submitted directly to the vote
OF the people. though some of the Base
Rangers. did not seem to be aware of
tnat fact
Year: 1878

Shall Treasury notes be substituted for Ma
tional Bank notes and no provision made for
their redemption in coin The-Nationai
honor is pledged, and contract made that
the greenback circulation shall not at any
time exceed s40O. .OO0, 900, and no more legal
tenders. can, be issued. In view of this fact
shall the S822, 100000 of bank currency be
retired and Government Treasury notes. ire
deemable in coin, substituted in their stead !?
This would max ian issue Of secs, 900, 600 OF
United States notes with no provision for
their redemption. OF course, if this is done,
there is an cud to all attempts at resumption


Gold and silver would be merely articles OF
MERCHANDISE, and the long journey and terri
BILE sacrifices made by the people to secure a
return to honest money would be in vain.
Secretary Sherman stated in his Toledo
speech that with the gold and silver in the
Treasury he was fully satisfied he could
maintain the legal tenders at par with gold.
The National bank notes are redeemable in
legal tenders, and consequently nothing is
needed 10 prompt return both by the Gov
eminent and the banks to specie payments but
the ability of the Government to redeem the
legal tenders in coin. The difference in value


Between gold and paper is already tri1ing, and
If no new legislation is made to prevent &C


ton, specie payments win become fxe(


fact by January first and the country viii
start afresh upon anew career OF prosperity
I TO those persons who desire more money