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Year: 1877

DRAwBACK.-To o person who has always
been Greenback man, it is slight drawback
To observe who are now the great champions OF
the grrrnlack cause. Two of these worthless are
Brick Pomerny and Henry Clay Dean. IL is in
terestiny to t,ace their line of march TO the
Greenbaek party. From the first issue of the
Greenbacks down 10 1868, and perhaps later, or,
at least, as long as Brick Pomcroy conducted
the La Crosse Democrat, his paper filled with
the vilest abuse of the Greenback. There was
NO term, vile or filthy, that he did not apply to
it. Every week, his paper contained senti-
mental department, in which he depicted the
sorrows of the poor, in being compelled to re-
ceive the dirty, filthy rags for their labor, in
stead of the good gold, that they once received.
In a word, as long as the Greenbark was neces-
sary to save the Union, Brick Pomcroy deuounc-
ed it. Next, he was i'm favor of regulating the
bonds and the greenbacks altogether: but as
that doctrine did not take, he became ardent
Greenback man, aud now wants it made legal
tender for every thing. At the present day, Pom
eroy's Democrat is handed around rs the organ of
the Greenback party. What Pomeroy did in his
paper, Henry Clay Dean did on the stump. He
abused the foul rag as long as it represented the
loyalty of the nation then he wanted to repn-
diate it and now he is around stumping in IA
vor of making it the currency of the country.
The faith of the old Greenback men is based
upon firm foundation; but that foundation is
not strengthened in the least by the spectacle of
such creatures, and others like them, now act
ing in the role of blatant leaders of the Green
back sentiment. Their advocacy of it now is
not from any sentiment Of public interest. If
they could compel tine men who furnished the
money to carry ON the war, to take pay for their
bonds in Greenbacks, their mission would be ae-
compished.
Year: 1877

The FUTURE OF GRANT.-The quid nuncs are
giving themselves much needless anxiety about
Gen. Grant and the best methods of shelving
him in the future. Murat Halstead proposes for
him the mission to Berlin, and the New York
Tribune chimes in with one of its characteristic
paragraphs, in which it has the bad taste to
drag the Rev. DR.. Newman into the ring. Now
these people are giving themselves much need
less trouble over the future of General Grant.
Unless we mistake the indications, the people
have in store much higher mission than any
that this Administration can confer.-Naf0ndi
Republicda
Year: 1877

The SOLID WEsT.-The West is soiid-very
solid-on the silver question it will remain so
until the silver question is decided as the West
desires it shall be decided. Every State, every
Congressional district, every County, every
township, every school district, is of the same
way Of thinking on this question. Every Con-
gressman from the West must support it, or pre-
pare to retire to private life. There will be no
place for anti-silver men in the next Congress-
Chicago Tribune.
Year: 1877

The reading of Presidential messages is one of
those sad duties which editors can not avoid, and
which none but editors can survive; and We can
confidently say that in a long and sad experience
We have never known a Presidential message in
which so copious flood of words submerged SO
small an amount of ideas as in the utteranc es of
the truly good Z. B. Hayes. 1t is in Evarts'
worst vein.-St. L0His Globe Democrat, (Rep.)
Year: 1877

% The Democrats of this County cannot be
too thankful that they have an organ. 1t is try
ing SO hard to build up the party-but it consid-
ers itself the party. Last week, for instance,
this staunch Democratic organ published long
article to show that the Greenback party was
the coming party, and that it will sweep the
country, electing its President and Congress, i'm
1880. This is encouraging to the Democracy,
who confidently expect to elect the President at
that time. But the Bulletin processes to be a
Greenback organ. Let's see. 1t is especially
Hayes paper, and one of its principal reasons for
turning Democrat was, that the Democrats en-
dorse Hayes. Hayes is the tool of Eastern bank
ers and bondholders. He will veto the bill re-
pealing the Resumption act, and it is also said
that he will veto the Silver bill. Thus, the Bal
letin is as consistent Greenback organ as it is
Democratic organ.
Year: 1877

u See prospectus of the Topeka Common
redlA. To those who wish q paper from the
State Capital, We can recommend the Common
realtk as the one that will answer their purpose
in fact, it is the only legitimate nexs paper in
the city
Year: 1877

Following Washington dispatch Of 9th instant, announces a decision which no unprejudiced person will object to- It is based on justice and the best of good sense:

 The unanimous decision of the Cabi. net today concerning the controversy between Ihe Texas Pacific and South ern Pacific companies as to the latter's bridge oyer the Colorado reservation, is a manifest victory for the Huntington interest. It is based upon the argument that although Congress alone has the power to grant the right of way over public lands, yet it is neither the duty nor the interest of the military or civil power 10 interfere to prevent any irn. proved means of access to military res ervations. The practical effect of to- days decision will be to give the Cali fOrnia company free permission, indef- iniiely, to run it's trains over the bridge and across the reservation, as Congress is not at all likely to interfere.
Year: 1877

OF course, by and by we shall have some storms. There will be heavy winds, deep snows and icy streets. Men hurrying to thelr places of busi. ness and ladies intent upon doing a little shopping will suddenly change their minds and sit down; but even all that is better than the endless mono tony of Tasmania. We do not expect to ever hear of great man being born and reared in Tasmania. A climate that never varies more than thirty de grees, is not climate in which great souls are reared. We are only what we are educated to be. Great minds must have some fire, some frost and some tempest in them, and they do not inherit these attributes where there is neither summer warmth nor winter frOsts and storms in the skies above them.-Virginia Enterprise.
Year: 1877

MILK and lime-water are now fre- quently prescribed by physicians in cases of dyspepsia and weakness of the stomach, and in some cases it is sald to prove very beneficial Many persons who think good bread and milk great luxury frequently hesitate to eat it for the reason that the milk will not diges! readily; sourness of the stomach will often follow. But expe- rience proves that lime-water and milk are not only food and medicine at an early period of life but also at a later, when, as in the case of infants, the functions of digestion and assimilation have been seriously impaired.-Rural Press.
Year: 1877

THE CITIZEN OFFICE is now letter than ever supplied with job papers, and is pre- pared to do better and cheaper work than is done elsewhere in Arizona. The bill head and letter papers are the very best and they will be printed 10 order at very small profit; also have A great variety Of cards which will be printed and sold from SSO per thousand upwards.
Year: 1877

AN inquiring man thrust his fingers into horses mouth to see how many teeth he had The horse closed his mouth to see how many fingers he had. The curiosity of each was fully satis- fled
Year: 1877

A Western editor tClinton, Ill.,;
Register,) don't want to be preach-
er. He says:


There have been times in our
eventful life when we thought we
would like to he a preacher and tell
other folks what they ought TO do,
live on chickens, loafsix days in the
week and be the pet of the ladies.
We thought such a life would suit
our constitution, especially when a
thousand dollars a year, a parsonage
and two of three donation parties
were thrown in. But since the ses-
sion of the Methodist conference all
these bright dreams have fed, and
our desire to be preacher has been
quenched.


We don't care about being ordered
to go upon brush circuit and try to
make both ends meet on two hundred
and fifty dollars per year, and then
have every stingy brother in the Cir
cult growl whenever he dropped a
big copper in the contribution box,
and intimate that we would make
better blacksmith than a preacher.
We don't care about having to dress
in broadcloth when we had not
money enough to buy our wife a
calico dress. We don's care about
having our characters torn to pieces
every year at the conference, our
teeth examined and our breath tested
to see whether we used tobacco or
drank whisky. No we don't want to
be a preacher we would rather be
heather and have our liberty"
Year: 1877

A curious cast as to the rights of
the finder of lost property, whose
owner is unknown, is reported from
Rhode Island. TIE plaintiff bought
an old safe and offered to sell it to the
defendant. The defendent would not
buy it, but agreed TO take it and sell
it if he could, using it himself in the
meantime. While 1t was thus in his
possession he found roll of bank
bills inside the lining. No one knew
to whom they belonged. The defen-
dant. therefore, concluded to keep
them. The plaintiff, upon learning
of the discovery. of the money, de-
manded the return of the safe just as
it was when delivered. The defen-
dant returned it but without the bank
bills; whereupon the plaintiff sued
for their value as money found. The
Supreme Court held that the finder
was entitled to retain the property as
against the party who put the safe
into his hands for sale, and the au-
thorities generally maintain the right
of the finder in this class of cases, as
against all persons except the real
owner.
Year: 1877

Just how much chance an outsider-a


"pigeon," in the gamblers vocabulary
has to win against professionals at
cards or any of the little games" is
made apparent by the Utica Herald in
the following description of device
gathered in with other spoils during a
police raid on faro bank in that city :


In one of the drawers of the poker
table was found an ingenious and wicked
device attached to a vest, which may
properly be called thief. The vest is
of fine cashmere and is well made. 1t
is single-breasted, with double fly on
one side. The buttons which hold the
vest together are on the inside, while
another row on the outside are shams
The vest buttons nearly to the neck, and
is harmless in itself but in the middle
of the fly is an opening large enough to
allow a small frame to slip out close to
the body. Following this frame, by
tearing open the lining of the vest was
found an ingenious piece of mechanism,
composed of German silver and brass
springs, and attached to this was long
spring of brass wire, through which was
passed small gut or cord. This was
lOuR tuOuku W ItdCll bhS A~C -
the pantaloons of the wearer, the cord
terminating in loop which could be
fastened around the heel. The gambler
wearing this device could beat his mas
ter, the devil, at poker, providing Mr..
Devil did not have another thief in his
vest. In playing with a greenhorn or
sucker, as verdant victims are called,
the wearer of the thief would take his
chances at getting large hand by hook
or crook, and if he failed outside and
above-board he would use the thief. Set
in the frame that could be forced from
the machine by extending the foot at
tached to the cord, he had one, two or
three aces, kings or queens-cards high
enough in rank to beat his opponent
After receiving his hand from the shut
fer he would hold il close 10 his body to
examine it, and il not pleased at its size
down would go his foot, out would pop
the frame, and then he could exchange
his poor cards for better ones. Each
time the deal came TO him he could pick
out large hand and slip it into the
thiefs frame so as to be ready when
Year: 1877

The latest chemical notion is to fell
trees by electricity. The two ends of
the copper wires of galvanic battery are
connected with platinum wire, which,
of course, instantly becomes red-hot,
and while so is gently see-sawed across
the trunk of the tree to be felled, until
it burns it's way through. 1t is calculat-
ed that tree which would require two
hours hard chopping to bring down can
be cut through by this process in fifteen
minutes.
Year: 1877

needed. An experienced gambler, talk
ing about this device last evening, said
that greenhorn playing against this
machine would not have as much chance
to win as he would to recover one out OF
a handful of bills thrown into fiery
fl1rpaca -
Year: 1877

A recitation in school reminds of nothing
more strongly than a carpenter knocking the
wall to find something wherein to drive q
nail. The inexperienced man may knock oil
day and drive in innumerable nails to the
grief of the plaster, but the carpenter makes
no such mistake He seems to us gifted with
second sight as he informs US, after about q
dozen knocks, that the uprights are so or so
far apart. Just so the experienced teacher
goes knocking about 10 find solid frame
work in the minds of her pupils. Her ham
mers are the questions, sharp and shrewd,
with which she tests their minds. They may
seem to the pupil often far enough from the
work he has been doing, and the observing
visitor who listens may see no difference in
the amount of firm requirement or discipline
denoted by the different answers to the ques-
tions. But the experienced teacher, like the
experienced carpenter, detects the difference.
Here is solid substratum, and there only a
sham and empty air. Here she can drive in
her new explanation or fact and it will hold !;
there she will not waste her labor. for she
knows it will only harm. This is the science
of questioning and the defense of our So
called American system, for the lecturer
drives his nails without knocking, and the
most of them pull out before he has left the
roOm.-An7aG G. Bracket.
Year: 1877

With the death of Mr. Fletcher Harper this
morning passed away the last OF the four
brothers whose energy, courage and devotion
founded the great publishing house which is
their best monument. These four brothers
were the fathers of New York's publishing
business, and in effect also the fathers of the
business of bookmaking in America, and
quiet, diligent men OF business as they were,
the story Of their lives might well be written
as record of the best results of earnestness,
courage, diligence and .uprightness in busi-
ness. Beginning with small capital in
business which was not then promising, these
men nave lived to see their name attached to
one of the greatest and most influential pub
fishing firms in the world. They have made
themselves known and hono1ed wherever
books are read, and they have done more
than this. Their energy, their sagacity and
their liberality. have been of untold benefit
to their country. They have done much to
make an American literature possible, not
only by liberal dealing with American wri-
ters, but by scattering the best literature
broadcast through the land, and thus creating
the demand for books upon which alone a
successful literature can be founded.


Few men have done more for their kind
than they did in their unostentatious way,
and as they have one by one laid down the
burdens of their lives, they have seen in their
sons men fitted by training in their school to
take them up and to carry forward the work
to which their lives have been given. There
is a better romance in the lives of such men
as these than any that imagination has ever
pictured.-Ne,o York Ecening Post, May
29M.
Year: 1877

[Constantnople Correspondent of the London Daily


Times.l


There is no Turkish home life. BY home
life understand the frequent gathering to-
gether under the same roof and in the same
room of the members of a family, and all the
influences and attendant circumstances which
such frequent gatherings imply. The Tnr-
kish house consists of two parts, one for men
called the selamlik, and the other for women
called the haremilk. These are usually the
two wings of the house, and are commonly
altogether separated from each other by
central hall. Thus the men have their part
of the house and the women theirs. Neither
is allowed, without permission, to enter the
territory of the other. In Turkish house
the men and women do not take their meals
together, do not sit around table, and can
hardly be said to feed decently. 1t is quite
possible for men and women who do not
know the use of fork to be very clean about
their food, but the use of fork is great
step toward cleanliness in eating. Turk
holding considerable position in the State
will take handful of boiled rice from the
common dish, and after having squeezed all
the water out by working it well in his hand,
will put the lump into the mouth OF guest
as a mark of peculiar favor. There is
sloyenliness about Turks at their meals which
is probably due to the fact that men and wo-
men do not take their meals together. The
object of the meal is solely to eat. Small
tables, usually without cloths. the dishes
ready for every ones fingers, and the absence
of score of small conveniences which every
European table furnishes, could only be toler-
ated by people who get their meals anyhow.
What is said of breakfast applies equally to
the other meals during the day. The clvlflz,
ing effect upon household of requiring all
the members to meet together, the attention
which has to be given to dress, and to certain
proprieties of life, the conversation which
takes place, are all so many influences which
the Turkish house is entirely without. The
truth is that the separation of the woman
from the men absolutely destroys everything
worth speaking of as home life, and causes
the life of Turk in his own house to be ut
terly wearisome and stupid.
Year: 1877

The ideal Boston bonnet for the next month
will strive to combine gentle piquancy, sub
duci intellectually, and a slight suggestion
of fondness for keramics, with faint rem
iniscence of the old South ball and a fore
shadowing of seaside resort.-B0sto~ Ad-
vertsser.
Year: 1877

Mr.. EDITOR recently received very kind
letter from venerable citizen of Winthrop, an
octogenarian who goes regularly to his daily la
Dor on his farm, and who bids fair to complete
his century, and at its close was added the fol-
lowing short poem. | send it in his own handwrt-
ingJus as he hastily penned it. think it worthy to
be given to the public and hence take the liberty
to ask Its publication in the journal. In his letter
be says, "lf you think the poetry will not bear
criticism, remember that it was written by man
more than eighty years old" JoANNEs.
Year: 1877

A KANSAS farmer purchased a re.
vclver for his wife, and insisted on
target practice, so that she could de-
fend her house In case of bis absence
After the bullet had been dug out of
his leg and the COW buried, he said he
guessed that she'd better shoot witban
axe.
Year: 1877

A DUCK was found floating dead in
Chesapeake Bay the other day with
huge oyster fastened firmly upon its
bill. The bird had evidently tried to
capture the oyster, but bad been him
self captured, the weight of the bivaive
being 50 great as to hold his head be-
low water and shortly drown him.
Year: 1877

potism of the worst description. The
horde Of officehol iers dependent ON the
Government and sworn to sustain it
would then be increased to hundreds Of
thousands. To this formidable force
would be added in due Time a standing
army which would replace the, Stat,
militia and the civic police Of .onr pre-
sent systems. 1t would not be rash to
predict that at some future time an es
tablished church would be added to the
other medieval machinery of this strang
est of all revivals. The Communists
are opposed to all churches and all re
ligions bat the lower would soon pass


out Of their hands to be seized by the
most ambitious, The strongest and most
unscl upulous. They would soon have a
"paternaP government "with ven
Seance" in all that has made that type
OF administration terrible and detestable
i'll paft ages.


We have no fear that this barbarous
reaction will ever come to pass In this
country. American citizens are too in
telGgent to accept the dangerous fallacies
OF communism.
Year: 1877

Blue. red and and green ribbons have
their significance in the button hole. 70
the varieties OF these symbolic decorations
Is now to be added the white ribbon. In
some Of the Western cities the fespecta-
BILE people are donning this color as a
token OF their allegiance to the State and
obedience to the laws. 1t is the blessed
emblem of Peace, and those who wear it
al the west are bent on regaining That
ooon, OF which for some days they have
been deprived. The white ribbon, be it
observed, is something very different
from the white feather. The latter has
been very freely exhibited, we regret to
say, by men in uniform and with musk.
els in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Vir-
ginia. The wearers Of the white ribbon
come into the field of action in place of
the runaway and disbanded militia who
have disgrace;ully covered before the
mobs and fraterniZed with them. In the
hands of these men the peace O the coun-
try is safe. The white ribbon represents
the Christian manhood, the sobr.ety, the
respect for law, the true courage and the
brains which are the glory and mainstay
of every community. The wearears are
made up of rich and poor, employers and
employed together. There is no caste or
property qualification in this new and
admirable order. Every man can belong
to it who believes that our system of
government and our civilization are
worth preserving against the bandtti at
tacks of trade unions and their confeder-
ates from the slums and alleys. No 9TH
er persons need apply.


The members of this new order, sworn
in as special policemen or acting as vigi-
liant committees on their own RESPONSE
bilty, and armed with batons, muskets,
pistols or other handy weapons, are re-es-
tablishing the peace, which is their mis-
sion, in some of the most turbulent.
towns in the country, where the militia
and the regular const stables are demoral-
lied and powerless. Since the Vigilants
OF San Franciaco rescued that city from
the hands of the murderers and thieves
the fact has been repeatedly proved that
in the last resort the industrious and
honest citizen is capable of defending his
hearth and his property against the as
saults of ruffianism. Wherever the duly
appointed guardians of the peace may
fall back the white ribbon men will fly to
the rescue of civilization, and they will
prevail.-JOurnal Of Commerce.
Year: 1877

A young boy in the State Reform Schoo at Meridian. Ct.. made an ingenious a, tempt to escape last week. He was missed from the yard, and a long search which was made. though it failed to discover him. disclosed a singular scratch on the fence which had apparently been made with nail. Closer examination, however disclosed four scratches in the shape of a large square, and upon the hand being pressed upon them, 8 large piece of the board dropped out and the boy was dls covered on the outside waiting for night to complete hls escape. Investigation showed that the boy had constructed g saw out of piece of hoopskirt, and had done the saving at rare intervals. as oppor tunity afforded.