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Year: 1879

HAVANA. Feb. /, 1879.
rumor is current that Captain General Martinez
Capos will not return Cuba and that in his stead
General Ramon Blanco will probably be sent out as
Governor General The reasons given by the for
the Generals departure are. side threatened
revolution in Spain by some discontented generals
there making the presence of Martinez Campos
sary us he enjoys the greatest prestige
with the troops and would be able to keep
them loyal. On the other side it is said
that the Ministry in Spain is dissatisfied with
the Generals policy in this country Us too high
handed and self-roliant Since il became known that
the General was TO embark for Spain the premium
gold rose rapidly. and general excitement reigns
throughout the city.
Year: 1879

The last Miner says:

 "We understand from a reliable source, that the contract for building the Phoenix School House calls for all California lumber to be used in the erection of the same. Even the rough scantling and boards are to be 1 brought from California. This order from the Commissioners seems to us as a little impertinent. Prescott could have furnishel the necessary material, of an excellent quality, at 20 per cent less than the same can be laid down for from California. How ever they may have a motive in this that they are to furnish the railroad company with pumpkins in exchange for their pine boards and hoop poles. Prescott people might have done | better with the Phoenix people than the railroad company in trading for their produce. But since the ''gi eat end wise men of the South" have elected to trade with California, the people of Yavapai must content themselves to seek a new channel through whichthey may receive flour, barley, etc. It would look mean if us, of the northern part of the Ter ritory, to slight the railroad com pany, when our friends of Phoenix are so liberal to that mammoth cor- poration. It is just as cheap to buy flour, barley and pumpkins in Cali fornia and freight the same by rail to Maricopa, as to buy in Phoenix and as the school house question gives us the hint that our trade is not wanted, let us cast our patronage also with the people of the Golden State. There is nothing like being independent.

 Thinking the above to be untrue we called on Judge J. T, Alsap, one of the commissioners. Fms gentle man drew up the contract and says there is no truth in the article, and that no allusion is made to lumber in the contract. There is nothing in in the contract specifying where the lumber shall be bought, it only calls for good lumber
Year: 1879

Having gone into other business, 1 now offer for sale first class well boring and rock drilling machine The machine is almost new. It can be seen at the Ice factory. Good live stock or other first class property will be taken Tn exchange foT it. Gall on or address George Lount, F:Haix
Year: 1879

COMMISSIONER WESTERYELT SINKING.


A slight improvem mt was detected in Com
missioner Westervets condition yesterday by bis ply
scians. although midnight he apparently as low
had the last three days lie is conscious
and occasionally takes a little nOurishment. but his
death would not be a surprise at any moment
Year: 1879

Many of our readers have doubt
less heard of the famous travelling
stones of Australia. Similar Curl
osities have recently been found in
Nevada. which are described as al
most perfectly round, the majority
of them as large as walnut and of
an irony nature. When distribut-
ed about upon the floor, table or
other level surface, within two or
three feet of each other, they inn
mediately began travelling toward
common center and lay there
huddled up in bunch like q lot of
eggs in a nest. A single stone, re.
moved to a distance of three and a
half feet, upon being released, at
once started off with a wonderful
and somewhat comical celebrity, to
join its fellows; taken away four or
five feet, it remained motionlesa.
They are found in o region that Is
comparatively level, and is moth
Ing but bare rocks. Scattered over
this barren region are little basins
from few feet to rod or two in
diameter, and it is in the bottom of
those that the rolling stones are
found. They are from the size of o
pea to five or six inches in diame-
ter. The cause of the stones roll
ing together is doubtless to be
found In the material of which
they are composed, which appears
to be loadstone or magnetic iron
ore.
Year: 1879

SETTLING DIVORCE SUIT, BUT NOT SETTLING


WITH COUNSEL.


In the suit for limited divorce on the ground of
alleged cruelty brought by Clara Goldschmidt
against her husband. Solomon Goldschmidt. the par
ticulars of which have been published, cecision
was given yesterday by Judge Van Brunt denying
the motion for payment Of counsel fee The afi-
davits on behalf OF the defendant showed that the
suit unjustly brought ut tho instgation OF one
Moses Hertz, father of tho plaintiff; that the
allegations Of cruelty on the part OF the hus-
band wero untrue; that the plaintiff signed
tho complaints and subsequent aiiidavits with
out knowing their contents and upon q
represen tation by Hertz that they "wero all
right that the parties came together and desired to
counsel for plaintiff objected upon the ground that
provision should be made to pay him counsel fee.
and that the husband and wife, notwithstanding
those objections or counsel and tho father-iD-law
reconcled their dfhcultiesA and are again living
together. Judge Van Brunt hccided that inasmuch
the statute provides that counsel fee be al-
lowed only to carry suit TOR divorce and the
wife had expressed and shown her unwillingness to
carry on this suit. the motion for counsel fee must
be denied thus holding in effect that the right of
husband and wife to reconcile their domestic diff
cuities was paramount to the objection of counsel
prevent such reconciliation until satisfactory pro-
visions for his fees had boen made. George L. Lang
bcin appeared for the motion aud Joseph Koch op-
posed.
Year: 1879




ExcURsIoNIsTs AGAIN SUBJECTED TO INSULT
AND ANNOYANCE AT THEIR HANDs-wHo Is
RESPONSIBLE FOR THE NUISANCE!


1t would seem that the steamboat runners have re-
lapsed after period of good behavior into their
old offensive manner of proceeding. The exposure
some time since in the HERALD OF their outrageous
misuse of the protection afforded theD by the law
seemed for atme to bring the men to a OF the
outraees they daily committing and stirred up
the authorities as well to a somewhat closer watch
on the conduct OF these licensed "protecrors' OF
passengers. Like great many other things that
need close attention the manner OF these men
changed only tor the time they were watched. and
when supervision was relaxed they gradually re-
sumed all their old tricAs and annoyances. new
factor has entered into the matter too aud the
runners make the roofs of the piers ring with their
assurances and contradictions. The complaints that
used to pour into tho HERALD office by scores and
which almost entirely ceased ior time have begun
again.


AS the matter stands it certainly calls for the inter
ference OF che authorities in some way, SO that
mitted to take the line and boat they please
to tho point they please. and not be mis-
led into going on other boats. The new iron
pier is one of the great bones of contention per-
going down TO the Twenty-second street pier is
told that only such and such boats run there-a
statement which is possibly correct. Another run
ner comes along and tells that another boat is the
quickest route there. and The passenger.
unable to understand any thing about it. gets the



on the island. In order to compete with the Ane
that does to the piaS the runners of the other
lines shout that their boats will take the passenger
there quicker. not stating. however that 1t will be
by way OF Bay Ridge or Norton's. or Manhattan
Beach or Brighton. or Cables some other route
than the direct one.


There is great rivalry between the of the iron
pier aud those Of the new wooden pier at which tho
Adelaide and Plymouth Rock land. The contentious
among the runners unfortunately not confined
to misstatements concerning the boats but car
red so far by their zeal that stay of few minutes
on one of the piers is most trying experience.
More than once the remark has been heard that the
public heartily tired of these unwarraptable pro-
ceedlngs the part Of therunners and look to the
city authorities for the institution Of genuine and
lasting reforms. Indignant victims orten protest
that the public ought to avoid paronizng any boat
the runners for which make, themselves offensive.
There Ia excuse. they argue. for the managers OF
these excursion lines. and the public are beginning
to feel that they to be held directly responsible
for the annoy to which their patrons SUBJ
jected The trouble exists all along the North River
but principally. 1t is stated, at Twenty fourth,
Twenty-second, Tenth and Leroy streets and piers
Nos. and l.
Year: 1879

smooth all tho way The thirde descent was effected
by two gentlsInen who cams down together De-
cause of the )eat strain the rope the exhibitors
feared letting themselves down rapidly. and two or
times they suddenly stopped by jerk OF the
rope. which made them rebound several inches ana
caused some exclamatons OF fear among the specta-
TORS. The last descent accomplished in just one
minute's me-
Year: 1879

Miss Florence Nightingale is now
sixty years old, and lives in London
almost prisoner to her room, She
wrote lately in letter to a friend:
"oyerworked as I am, my health is
necessarily bad, Thank God for still
giving me work to do"
Year: 1879

WITH COMPLIMENTS OF A. d. LYTLE,
came on Christmas morning a hand
somcly framed Photographic portrait Of
our little daughter. 1t is mqnestiona-
bly, splendid specimen OF the art In
which Mr.. Lytc stands among the fore
most in this or any other country. 1t is
not because of our great appreciation of
his very friendly gift of a faithful image
of one we love dearly that we say it, as
Others who have been the portrait agree
with us in declaring that it is useless to
SEEK the pencil or the brush so long as
Photography is handled by snch masters
as Mr.. Lytlc. We will ever consider his
eadcan asa priceless gem.
Year: 1879

The last weekly Courier Journa.
gives its readers a sermon from Mr..


ralmage of Brooklyn, and a full re-
port of an impious infdel lecture by
Bob Ingersoll. TIE lecture was de-
iivered IN Louisville, to a densely
packed house, and was immensely
cheered. The lecturer not only rid
iculed the Bible, but even hurled
anathemas at God. Can thought


rul people wonder that crime stalks
abroad in the land when God is
thus openly defied and the impious
man who defies Him is oheered by
large audiencesY There is no ques


ton but that as a people we are
drifting as rapidly as time can carry
us into a state of ouen and avowed
which there is TO be
no God-no right and wrong-and
consequently no respect for civil
law. We may intensity our crImi


nal codes u1til gibbets shall stare
us in the face st every cross road,
and we may build prisoa houses
until every county shall have its
penitentiary and every neighbor-
hood its Jail. an yetif God be not
recognized in the land, murder and
arson and robbery will hold high
carnival. We use strong terms be-
cause the danger that lies before us
is most imminent. This question
Year: 1879

1t is generally taken for granted


that pan ents love their offspring; yet


the care and anxiety most parents


feel for their families quite over
shadow their consciousness of lov


ing them, and they fall back upon a
sense OF duty and obligation and re-
sponsibility that, however it may
stimulate them to perform the act


ual exterior demands made on them,
renders all their labor vain. This
sense of duty is not the highest of
motives. It is all very well TO re


quire filial obedience and submis-
sion from children because it is
their duty to render it; but when
they are lifted into the higher at
mosphere OF absorbing love for the
parent, the sense Of duty, that fros-
ty motive will be no longer needed
IL do not love my mother one parti-
Gle" said a middle aged man the
other day, simply because she nev
er loved me, She took care Of us
children-oh, yes-kept US clean,
taught US the Bible, prayed over us,
and cried over US; but we never felt
the warmth of a mothers tender
love. never went TO her with our lit
tie joys. IL is very different In my
family. If there is one thing that
nay children knuiw b b thAb 7 bOFS
Year: 1879




We could not get on very well
without tongues, and yet we are
half inclined to wish that some peo-
pie would try the experiment. What
sets the world by the ears and
makes more actual sorrow than all
the bloodiest battle.flelds of history
is this everlasting ''cackle, cackel all
the day." This thing that you are
asked not to tell, burns, boils. bub
bles, seethes in your mouth, and
just for the sake of temporary re-
lief you tell it to your dearest friend
with the most solemn injunction not
to breathe it for thousand worlds.
But it is just like seidlitz powder in
his soul, IN full effervescence. He
cannot endure the trust, and so
shares 1t with others. If Edison
could only invent u paddock which
would keep a secret shut up safely
he would bring the millennium on
at once. Over-exertion of the tongue
is the real reason OF half the ills Of
life
Year: 1879

Men and women tell us almost daily
they would like to take the CITIZEN, but
they are too poor. Therefore we make
this offer: Widows and destitute, home
less men with families, shall have 25 per
cent. discount from the regular price il
they are really and truly hard pressed.
We make this offer in all sincerity with
no intention to offend, and we cordially
invite all such to avail themselves of it.
We are anxious to put the CITIZEN into
she hands of every family in Giles eoun-
ty, and no one shall have an excuse il
we can possibly help it. If you haven't
got the money bring us something to
eat at the market price.
Year: 1879

them, and whatI do for them is not
from a sense of parental duty but
because they are infinitely dear 20
me. And such children as they
are-so affectionate, so obedient, so
happyT The teacher who is so
wise and so fortunate as to win the
love of his pupils has little Difficult
ty in enforcing order or securing
the highest grade of intellectual la
Dor Of which they are capable. In
order to gain their love, however, he
must first love them; for only love
vans love. So with the employer.
IL he can convince those in his EN-
ploy that he bears 70 them good
will, kindness, a sincere desire to
promote their welfare, they will
give him fidelity and thorough
ness of service that no wages could
secure.-Excha
Year: 1879




OF things is the unquestIonable fact
that the present crop is oyerwhelm-
ingly large, and a very considerable
proportion OF it is still in the plan
ters' hands. Ii is at once evident,
then that any material advances in
cotton is highly improbable if not
impossible. On the contrary. If the
large amount of the staple in first
hands continues to be withheld
from the market as the spri1g ad-
vances, when the farmers must sell
to equip themselves for another
crop, and the whole mass is rushed
forward. there is danger of q still
greater reaction aud decline. We
repeat, therefore, the deliberate adj
vice given our farming friends some
weeks ago to sell their cotton with
the least delay possible. Those
who did so at the time are gamers
by fully one cent per pound. 1t is
true the price is ernehy low, but
TIE same decline has taken place in
the value of meat, -four, clothing,
and all the necessaries of life, SO
that the hardship is more apparent
than real. Then again, it should
be considered that the wages of
farm hands must shrink in the
same ratio, SO that the cost Of rails
ing cotton next year will be greatly
diminished. The holding back of
the present crop is also iDjuring the
mercantile interests of the country
very much. In all directions we
hear the complaint of dull times
and slack trade at this, the busiest
season of the year. Very soon the
merchant will be- called upon to
meet the obligations incurred in
the fall, aud how can he do so if
his goods remain unsold9 Cotton
is the great medium of exchange in
this portion of the Union, and
VIXEN it ceases to move, the wheels
of commerce stop revolving iDstan-
ter BY every consideration then,
of public as well as private interest,
our planters should no longer with
hold their crops from market, but
sell as fast as they can deliver 1t.
Year: 1879

of who shall be president in 1880 is
regarded as one of immense impor-
tance to the people of the country.
but to orr mind, its Importance
paies into utter insignificance in
the presence of that other question
now pressing for an answer at the
bar of public opinion-shall we
have a God2 Whatever may come
we can feel no uneasiness for the
church OF Christ, for He said "the
gates of hell shall not prevail
against It," and although society
shall rock to its very foundation,
and even the elect shall barely es-
cape deception, we know that His
kingdom is an everlasting king
dom" and cannot fall. But we
plead for society-for good govern
ment- for peace and order, and we
feel perfectly assured that where
society knows no God, it cannot en-
JOY thesea abIessings.-[W Williamson
County (TeXas) Sun.
Year: 1879

u HtA


NEw York, Dec. l7.-Dr. Mary
Walker comes TO the front with the
latest -'trne VersionSof the Charlie
Ross story She says that when he
disappeared she hastened TO his pa
rents and gave them not only CON
dolence bit also money and her
personal efforts 20 fathom the mys-
terry. She lived in the family for
some time. She stumbled across a
bit OF information that led her TO
believe that all was not right, and
she finally discovered that Charles
father had put him ont TO board
with a family who were in the con-
Spiracy. She says she did not ex-
pose the fraud, because il took her
many months TO find out where the
boy was kept. She claims that Ross
has made large sum OF money out
of the sympathies OF the public, and
that he has offered to pay her hand
soInely il she would keep her kn1wl-
edge to herself. The boy would
have been discovered long ago, aud,
indeed arrangements we're once
made TO have the boy foun at st.
Albans, VT, but it was known that
she would expose the whole farce,
and so ne has been kept secluded.
She says that within three weeks
she has seen and spoken with the
child, and that she is acquainted
with his entire history since the
supposed abduction. She will pub
lish book in two or three weeks
containing the complete story OF
what she calls the greatest hoax
ever perpetrated upon the American
people, a good many people have
given considerable credcnce to DIR.
Mary's story, while others think IL
is shrewd device for raising the
wind in a forthcoming literary eff
| fort.
Year: 1879


Again my heart records thejoyful news,
Listen 70 the song.I fain would WOO the muse.
Behold babe Is born and JOY is all around
Every heart il filled with gratitude abounds
Reason speaks loud in our humane shearts
Teaching us to thank the Lord and to truly


act our parts.
Surely we are blessed, the little angel comes


10 Us,
Yearning for the love and kisses Of Miss Puss.
Darling boy, the very image Of the one we


lost.
Nature smiles when nature cd favor gives,
Even TIE little boy tho Just come, and SOC
Yelling praises to the giver Of his life.
We all bless God for blessings past, and Htill


we pray
Aloud for blessings yet to come; oh let us


liv away,
Leaving nothing to reproach this angel boy


of ours, Il.
Knowing if we do our duty, blessingS win


come in showers.
Every heart shall LEAP for JOY aud shall sing


aloud,
Raise high the theme, let IL echo high above


the cloud.
Year: 1879

Taxes are indeed heavy, said DIR.
Franklin, but many Of us have tax
es Of our own imposition, more on
erous; we are taxed twice as much
by our idleness, three times as
much by our pride, and four times
as much by our folly. or these We
DO not Complain.
Year: 1879

A plane christened electricca, in
consequence of Its curious electri
cal properties, which are so strong
as To cause sensible shocks as from
a galvanic battery to the hands OF
any person attempting to gather it,
is described in a Belai ian horticul-
tural journal as growing in Nicara
qua. The needle of the compass is
said to be affected by proximity to
the nlant
Year: 1879

Remember they must be new sub
scribers, not renewals. Don't make
a mistake IN this. Our object is to
get neaO names. We expect the old
ones to renew anyhow. They know
what the CITIZEN is worth. They
know that people accuse it of being
the best country paper inthe South,
and they won't be without it. Be
sides, we want every one of them to
take advantage of this proposition
and get his paper for nothing. II
any subscriber should live out of
Giles county, 20 cents must be add
ed in all cases for postage. This
proposition is to old subscribers
only.
Year: 1879

of journalistic propriety takes its prejudice
against General GRANT and third term
to nurse on such pabulum rs this:


The country has not forgotten the connec.
tton OF President GRANT and his family with
Black Friday


1t hasn't forgotten the LEET and STOCKING
ring nor GRANTS responsibility for 1t,


BELKNAP Is still remembered, and ROBE
son is not likely to pass out Of mind.


The infamous odOr of the whisky ring, to
whose succor tho President was called and
came, holds q permanent place in the history
of GRANTS Administration, and the people
can't forget it.


Thus the viper bites file. Thus the
journalistic scavenger dumps the filth Of
hate and vituperation before the public
sense, simply because General GRANT has
returned to his native land and his fellow
citizens elect to honor HIM in becoming
manner. But the people will continue 10
do him honor and rally around him in de-
fnnce of this spirit of hate which gushes
easily and flows nastily from the editorial
laboratories of mere chiGoniers, who seek Ia
sustain n precarious existence by tolerance
and the flirting of dirty rags in the face OF
respectability. While this mere dirt ma.
chine is engaged in Singing filth at General
GRANT, President HAYES and Secretary
SHERMAN may escape. 1t must sling dir
at somebody, or it wouldn't know itself.
Year: 1879

THE Opposition has at last discovered that
Mr.. GEORGE G. GoRHAM is as much of a
radical" now rs ever. Instantly on his
arrival in the East from California he was
besieged by the hungry Democrats for
crumbs of comfort, which he proceeded to
dole out to them in the form of an interview
the purport Of which was an arraignment OF
the Bourbons for all the sins modern politi-
cal flesh is heir to- In short, it was the
frostiest kind of cold comfort they elected
from him, and the result is that he has
again become target for their most un-
stinted abuse
Year: 1879

JEFF DAVIS proclaims the fact that he
has not surrendered his reasonable princi-
Piles, and then goes on to say that if he were
to be elected to the Senate he would not be
admitted to his seat and the independent
State of Mississippi would thereby be de :
prived of the right of choosing her own
representatives. This is the burden of all
the complaints alleged by the Southern
Bourbons against the dominant party in the
North. In effect it means that the South
insists upon sending pardoned or unpar-
doned, but always unrepentant, rebels to
Congress TO make laws for the country at
large, and that if objection is made to this
revival of the Confcderagy within the Union
it must be set aside on the ground that all
the States are again equal. This theory OF
equality has been recognized far enough to
permit the overthrow Of legal government
in the South and admit the Democracy to
the control of both houses of Congress
Perhaps it is too late TO undo the mischief
that has been done in this direction; but it
is not TOO late to begin to prevent any repe-
titon of it in the future.