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Year: 1879

The Enterprise is wrestling with a fading hope that returning Spring, with its life giving elements, wlli re- vive the decayIng territorial capital. It's editor presented the following on the 9th instant:

 At the present time most of the travel into the Territory is dumped at Tucson. When the warm weather comes however, and the people in southern Arizona are sweltering, the weary traveller will gladly get into the Prescott stage at Maricopa Wells, and reach with joy the shady pines where he can get a breath of fresh air The summer will see as much travel to this place as at present is going to Tucson.

 Now really "a breath of fresh air g is sometimes a very important con sideration, and the Enterprise editor may soon be very much in need of such a breath and that drop of water to cool his parched tongue" but then these arguments won't "defect" the tide of travel from the great mines now being developed in Pima county.
Year: 1879

The last issue of the Silver Belt pub fishes the following concerning the San Carlos Indians:

 The San Carlos Indians are having a rough time of it. Last week no flour was served out to them; the week be fore, they had cnly half what they were entitled to, the deficiency being made up by an issue of corn From the latter they made tizwin and got on wholesale drunk" As a result of these sIste of things one Indian was killed near the sub-agency. An order was given to bring one or two bands up 10 the main agency, so that the at- fair might be looked in to under prop CT authority. This order was speedily countermanded, as it became evident, that if it was enforced, the principal portion of the implicated bands would break for the mountains.

 This does not correspond with some reports we have recently published, and if correct looks as though the In dians were getting the upper hand. We shall hope, however, that Agent Hart will be able 10 preserve order on his reservation.
Year: 1879



 We are astounded that the lottery scheme now before the Legislature should have passed the Assembly. The bill is in direct aud fragrant violation of the Constitution IL gives 10 the Nev- ada Building Association the privilege of giving five gift entertainments in Nevada, the State to receive ten per cent. of the net proceeds. The time, place anG character of these entertain menls are not mentioned ia the bill, and should it become q law, there would be nothing except decision of the Supreme Court to prevent the As sociatian from putting on foot series of gigantic lottery sWindles in the very teeth of a plain constitutional inlerdic- ton. Such Legislation as this is sim ply outrageous--all tEe more so since it must have been known to the mem bers who voted for the bill that the scheme was concOcted by party of unscrupulous shsrpers for their indi- vidual benefit.

 Surely the Enterprise could not have been so mean as to in any manner refer, in the above, to the " Arizona Develop ment Company"
Year: 1879

A baby crept 10 his fathers knee, And was lifted up and lulled to rest, Till the blue eyes closed, so tired was he, And his little head fell peacefully At ease on the ready shoulder there While the baby hand so soft and fair, Lay like a shield on his fathers breast. or old twas said that when men drew

 near,

 To fierce temptation or deadly strife, And lost their way in a maze of fear, Or periled their souls for worldly gear, By way unknown an angel hand Would lead them out of the dangerous

 land

 Into the light Of noble life. The story is true for the world to-day; We See no white-robed angels mild; But out Of the dark and perilous way Where men and women forget 10 pray, Into the peace of a purer land They are led by gentle, shielding hand The hand of a little, helpless child.

 Elizabeth W. Denison.
Year: 1879

Ddys tue OtOCk hepOTI:

 A letter has been received by Ruby Hill miner, from Tombstone District, Arizona, from which we have been kindly permitted to make the follow ing extract:

 l am at last in a land of sunshine where winters storms never howl. AL though here but six days have seen enough of the mines to be convinced that II is one of the best camps on the American continent. BOdie is but an infant compared to what this camp will be one year from today. The ores are quartz and gray carbonate, about one half milling, the balance smelling. The ore is of high grade, and experts pronounce it worth S200 per ton.

 If this camp was located in Nevada there would be 10000 people here, but capital and population seems to avoid this Territory.

 THE wire with which Minnesota farmers have lately bound their grain has troubled the millers considerably Particles of it were apt to get into the wheat, to the injury of the mill-stones and boltlng-cloths. They were also liable to strike out sparks in grinding, which might fire the -four dust and destroy the whole mlll The evil has grown SD serious that millers' cOnven- .ti0ns have condemned the wire for binding, and there has even been talk of refusing to buy the grain of farmers who use 1t unless at lower price An ingenious miller has finally put an end to the whole trouble by a de- vice he does not take the trouble to patent. Gangs of horseshoe magnets are placed on lhe spout through which the wheat passes. which pick up even the smallest particle of the wire.
Year: 1879

4 CIRCULAR is out from the office of the General Passenger Agent of the Southern Pacific Railroad, inviting al tention to an excursIon over the Southern Pacific lines, from San Fran cisco and other California points, to Maricopa. The time is not fixed, but ii will be, as soon as the date of con- pletion or the road to Maricopa shall be certainly known. The rates for the round trip are little less than half the usual rates, and sleeping car accommo datious are added free of charge. 4 dining car will accompany the train ; and an auction sale of lots in the new railroad town will afford amusement 10 the excursionists.
Year: 1879

THE telegraphic news from Wash ington Saturday informs us that the bill to permit the Southern Pacific to maintain bridge across the Colorado at Yuma, and to extend its line to El Paso, failed to pass the ordeal of Con gress. The next thing we shall hear will be that the Continental Congress has refused to allow the Pilgrim Fath- CTS to land at Plymouth Rock; which would be very dreadful. But all the same we hope soon to ride over that un-permitted road and bridge, and in due time Congressmen may acquire some necessary information in regard to matters in this region.
Year: 1879

GEN. ROssER, chiet engineer of the Northern Pacific Railroad, has taken advantage of the thick ice on the Mis- souri rlver to lay railroad track across, over which he is transporting the heavy material which will be need ed in the Spring for the hundred miles of new roadway which the com pany has made arrangements to build during the coming season. It was doubted whether the ice would bear the enormous loads, but the expert ment is perfectly successful.
Year: 1879

The excursion of three Louisville
children into Adirondacks was un-
pleasant. They got lost, wandered
over two days without food, and might
have starved if they had not by chance
met q WoOdman.
Year: 1879

The Boston Globe Theater is owned
in sections by several persons, and one
of them disgusted by failure to agree
with the others, is putting up wall at
the edge of his portion. This SUITS off a
third Of the stage and part of the audi
tprilIrn
Year: 1879

a MICHIGAN railroad man has lately
built cars for prairie road with an
arrangement for disconnecting the gear
ing and running by wind when it is
favorable, after trial of several weeks
the cars have been pronounced perfect
" satisfactory. In an ordinary breeze
they can run fifteen miles an hour un.
der sail.
Year: 1879

Any attempt to produce q perfume in this
or any other country that can surpass DR..
Prices Unique Perfumes, will prove Q failure.
FOR Dr. Prices perfumes are as fresh and sweet
as the flowers from which they are made, and
cannot be improved
Year: 1879

CHICAGO Nov. 1--Senator Zacharfah Chand-
the Grand Pacific Hotel this morning. He had
been speaking in Wisconsin, and last night ad-
dressed an Immense audience at Mcconnell Hall.
in this f ana A spoke with su his usual
Logan and Hon. Jose Spaulding were sitting in
his room, engaged in conversation, Senator
Chandler complained OF indigestion. Ashe had
complained of the same distressing feeling while
en- route to the city with these gentlemen, Mr..
Spaulding suggested that he remain over In the
city until Saturday night, but he said business
affairs required his attention at home, and the
order was given to have him called in the morn
ing at O'Clock. His friends then bade him
good night and left. That is the last time the
Senator was seen alive. This morning, when
AS upon repetition, silence prevailed, the clerk
effected an entrance through the transom and
found that the Senator was dead. The body
was not quite cold, and the physician, who was
present, decided that death occurred about
three hours previous to the discovery. The
face looked tranquil, showing that death was
painless. The coroner will hold an inquest.
John B. Drake telegraphed President Hayes the
sad intelligence about O'Clock.


SUDDEN CONGESTION OF LUNGS THE CAUSE.


From partial examination, DR.. McVicker.
who was Immediately called, is of the opinion
that death was the result of sudden congestion
OF the lungs, brought about by cold which was
contracted at Janesyille. The inquest will be
held during the afternoon.


SORROW OVER THE SAD EVENT


is universal and genuine Flags are at half
mast upon the Pacific and other hotels and pub
lie buildings. The Tribune building is also
draped in morning. The republican county
central committee and federal officials together
with portion OF the congressional delegation
from this state, the Union Veteran Club and
the heads Of the county militia organizations
held informal consultations at Grand Pacific to
tender the services of appropriate committees
whenever the relatives OF the deceased Senator
shall arrive from Michigan. The latter will
probably be here during the afternoon by a
special train: The funeral arrangements cannot
be made until their arrival The speech of last
night is pronounced by those who are familiar
with the Senator's campaign as by far the most
Resolutions were presented at the republican
Headquarters this afternoon and unanimously
Year: 1879

Editor lMar:-I have read evening after even
ing with the greatest tranquility the many and
exhaustive papers written against the w. g.
good; but have looked In vain for some parent
to suggest to the school trustees the advisabfity
of giving the children one days holiday to at
tend the fair, as many children. my own among
the number, would not be willing to miss day
from school for that purpose, and would IT not
be good idea for the managers OF the fair to
have a s'children's day." and put the admission
low enough to be within the reach Of am The
high price of admission (befng the same as at
the CentenntaD, keep many away who have
families and whose means are moderate In
paper, I am sure you viii find but echo the
wish OF hundreds Of parents and many longing
little hearts. A MoFHKR.
Year: 1879

each, for the purpose of building
and operating the narrow gauge rail-
road. The stock books of the com
pany will be open at very early
day. This company will absorb and
make available the aid heretofore
voted and subscribed to this project,
and as this aid is sufficient to put
the road in running order, its stock
viii certainly prove a most prohta-
ble investment.-Ch Chronicle.
Year: 1879

DISINFECTANT - The Madison
Board of Health recommended the
following compound as an excellent
disinfectaut, and that il be used to
purify any impure place that may
be found 5 lbs. copperas 4 or,
impure arbolic acid i; l large pail
of water. Dissolve the copperas in
the water; ponr in tn acid and stir
thoroughly. This is simple remedy
to getr id of many evils that exist,
and we trust it will be freely used
Year: 1879

A SPIRITED horse, owned by Edw
raising of an awning Saturday after
noon, jerked himself loose and
scampered off. There were quite a
number of other rigs on the street,
and the winding about of the run-a-
way horse from one sidewalk to the
other to avoid collision was most pc
culiar. Tipping over the buggy by
running against the hub Of farmers
wagon, the horse freed himself. ran
about one hundred yards and stop
ped short. The buggy box was
slightly demoralized; that's all.
Year: 1879




Boss BURGLARY Friday night
some party entered the room occu-
pied by Anton Howell and young
fellow named Slater, at Chamley' s
hotel, and took a watch from each Of
the young men and about eleven
dollars of Anton's. On awaking in
the morning it was discovered that
all the wearing apparel belonging to
both occupants of the room, which
usually hung beside the bed, was
gone, The window facing the north
was raised, and on the ground below
lay the missing clothing. The burg
lars must have entered and departed
through the window, as the door was
found locked IN the morning. No
trace Of the stolen trophy has yet
been detected. Strange to say they
overlooked forty dollars or more in
Anton's pocket book, which was
taken from h.s clothes and laid loose
ly on the ground.
Year: 1879

SOME fussy people in this neigh
borhood have undertaken to trav-
erse the HERALD's right to call
Hayes hypocrite and a humbug
"a sort of unique combination OF
Chadband and Pumblechook. We
invite the attention of these
forcible-feeble Miss Nancys to the
following from that staunch and
able Republican journal, the New
York Commercial Advertiser:


There is nothing the people Of
this country have greater contempt
for than cant and hypocrisy. The
Presidents course from the time he
entered the White House up to the
present has been one OF pretension
and imposture on the subject of civil
service reform. He refers to the
improvements made in the New
York Custom House and Postof1ice
under the competitive system. This
10 Q snare and delusion. The en-
forcement of what is called the
civil service order at the Custom
House is very thin dust thrown in
the eyes of the public. The COM
petitive system Is dodge to enable
the President, the Secretary of the
Treasury, and the Collector of the
Port to take care of their particular
friends to the exclusion of outsid-
ers. That is all there Is of this
much vaunted reform movement.
The examiners know how to prefer
just as we'll as President Hayes
knew how to reward for personal
and political service. Blood is
thicker than water. and these ex-
aminers will give the preference to
their friends, just as Mr..
Hayes gave the preference to
Gov. Noyes, who nominated him
at the Cincinnati Convention, and
to the large number of men who
rendered service to "count him In. !"
The partisanship that brought the
President and the Cabinet to the
support OF ascandIdate for Govern
or, who was removed from Office
for no other reason than that he
was not in sympathy with civil SER
vice reform, ought not to expect
the people to believe they are hon.
estly and sincerely in favor of true
reform.
Year: 1879

shortly see our reviving business In
terests begin to wilt, real estate
values would shrink and all branch
es of industry, including railroad
building, would soon be paralyzed.
The adoption of any such meas
ure would leave party In a terri
BILE condition on entering a cam
paign. It would be so heavily
handicapped that it could scarcely
count upon carrying single State.
Tie source of this unique recon-
mendation can be readily traced to
the holders of United States bonds
Ito those who desire to make
money scarce that, as they possess
the major portion of it, its purchas-
ing power should be increased.
That Hayes should surrender him.
self to the rich men of the country
ought to excite no surprise; but 1t
would be very surprising, indeed, 1t
the Republican party should COM
nit deliberate suicide by indenti-
flying itself with his base compli-
ances. 1t has had sins enough to
answer for already in the creation
of the National banks and the
squandering of the National do.
main, but that it should supple
ment this unenviable record by a
formal and premeditated sacrifice
of the reviving prosperity of the
country is not to be expected.
Hayes's silly and marplot message
has simply fallen still-born.
Year: 1879

THE sensible portion of the Re-
publican press exhibits a COM
mendabIe desire to escape respons-
ibiiity for Hayes's proposition to
retire the greenbacks. OF course
the newspapers of the money CEN
ters to a great extent pander to the
known wishes of the capitalist class,
Just as the President does in his
message. On the whole, however,
we have never seen such univers-
al reputation of the suggestion of
the nominal head OF their party as
In ths present case. Were Con-
Rrsss mad enough to receive the
suggestion with favor we should
Year: 1879

If the Postmaster General simply forbids
postmasters to redirect letters that have an
erroneous address. or to make any effort to
hunt up the real destination of letter when
that destination is not accurately or suffi-.
ciently stated on the letter. not much fault
can be found with his rule, and careless
writer's will have only themselves to blame
if their epistles are read first in
the Dead Letter Office. Some inconven-
ience will come to people who are in the
habit of thinking of one thing and writing
another, but the general public will not
suffer In the Post Office in this city
great deal of time and labor arc bestowed in
the endeavor to straighten out entangled
addresses; and that labor represents an ex-
pense to the government for which the
postage does not remunerate it. It may
fairly enough be argued in Washington
that the government is not under any obli-
cation whatever to pay clerks to do for care
less correspondents what they ought to
do for themselves. But the rule that letters
shall not be delivered unless the address
on the cover includes the name of the
Otute ~ uDSufu NOW 1Ofk, IuIlauel pulds
Boston and Cincinnati are in themselves
ample indication what city is meant; and
even if there should be small towns of the
same name in every State the failure to
name the State is a sufficient indication
that the conspicuous and well known city
is the one intended. There may be some
justification for this order, but it is very
clear that it's extreme application is COM
trary to common sense.
Year: 1879

days, and railways in all directions, with
luxurious carriages. will carry to and iro
those not tempted by the most sumptuous
steamers. And to make the city picturesque
few rich and well-bred Turks will be
allowed to remain in it. This is the
young Austrian diplomatist's most original
plan, which is forever to remove the jeal-
ousies of those European nations who are
waiting to seize the Sultan's capital when
ever the opportunity offers. The young
diplomatist has surely happy career in
waiting for him, and only needs
a prince of fanciful turn of
mind to enable him to make a
glorious name in the world. Perhaps the
most eligible prince at present out OF Office
would be the ex.Khedive, who is said to
have capital Of some thirty millions of
dollars slowed away somewhere, with which
an earnest attempt could be made to create
this wonderful Capital of Human Pleasure
and Incidence. At any rate the plan, if
not altogether feasible. has an infinite
amount Of seductiveness about it.
Year: 1879

ment fatters himself that he can do 1t bet
ter than all his predecessors.


These Utes have been dealt with as o
s'nation." Very we'll; their offence, then, is
a national offence The whole 'snation" is
guilty of it it has broken its treaty, and
it has clearly sacrificed whatever that
treaty gave it. The government has
the undoubted right to deal with the tribe
or s'nation" as it chooses and it is its
duty to make such disposition of it as will
at least prevent any further outbreak. To
imprison or hang a few and coddle the rest
is not the true way. 1t has been tried and
has failed too often. The true way is to
break up the tribe. to scatter its members
to the Winds to place the different fam
lilies SO far apart that they shall entirely
lose their cohesion as tribe, and to place
them where they will have no power to roam,
where they will have to work or starve, and
where the men will, by force of circum-
stances and by the overwhelming force of
general example, become day laborers.
Wherever the Indians of California were
kept in tribes they made trouble wherever
the tribes were broken up and the families
were scattered they became presently harm
less and useful laborers, and so remained
until the Indian Bureau committed the great
wrong of dragging them away from their
work and forcing them into reservations to
be paupers against their will.
Year: 1879

The independent young republicans who
sst out two or three weeks ago to scratch
MI. Cornells name from their State ticket
have encountered great deal Of contempt
from their party press for want which
seems at last in fair way of being sup
piled. 1t was alleged that they are persons
inconspicuous in the community, and that
nobody with public reputation to lose
would dare associate himself with their
fortunes. In short, they were reproached
with needing to have head put upon them
which the community would recognize.
Since these reproaches began circumstances
have been forcing Mr.. George William
Curtis into this relation to these young
men. An active identification with them
is logical sequence of his letter
to the republican convention in Richmond
county Meanwhile, pending the decision
of Mr.. Curtis, whether to take the lead of
movement which has been largely induced
by his own arguments, the Rev. DR.. Bellows
apparently has identified himself with it
very fully, not only by vigorous sermon
in defence of the exercise Of the ballot
according to the conscience of the individ-
ual voter, but also by the resolutions passed
few days ago by civil service reform
association of which he is the presiding
officer. These resolutions fatty declare
that the nomination of Mr.. Cornell "de-
serves the opposition Of all persons who
maintain in good faith, in the language of
President Hayes, that reform in our civil
service is the paramount necessity Of
American government" DR.. Bellows assur-
edly is not liable to the reproach of being
an inconspicuous citizen of New York.
Year: 1879

Yesterday was the first day of naval
inspection and review at Fortress Monroe,


and an account of what was done there will
be found in our special despatch from that
place. Several of the operations OF battle
were rchearscd under the eye of the Secre-
tary of the Navy. The Saratoga was pre-
pared for action and opened fire on a
target; on the Portsmouth they called oil
hands to abandon the ship; on the Mime
sofa they repelled IN attack Of imaginary
torpedo boats, and from the Kearsarge
it was shown how effective an agent
Of naval warfare the torpedo may