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Year: 1877

Since the negotiations at Consiantinaple resolved themselves into an attempt to se- cure the peace of Europe by threatening the sultan that he should he given up to Russia no great progress has been made; and il must be conceded that the Padishah does not scare well. He has become possessed of an unfortunate fancy thst he can fight the Russians with almost as much satisfaction to his cause as resulted from the war with Serria, but that ii there should prove q diff ference in favor of RuSiia, England despite all protestations to the contrary, will come to the rescue before the consequences are destructive to the Ottoman Empire For this untoward condition of the Turkish mind the reports of the bad condition o, the Russian army are in some degrees re sponsible, but the evil really originates with the soldiers of fortune who are in the Sul- tan's pay. These are mostly Englishman. They want war, for though they might rust for some years in the Sultans service in the possession of good pay, vet rattling cam paign or two and some hard fighting might make them rapid promotion and famous names. They are also animated by some enmity toward Russia as a general object of English dislike. These men have really got possession of the Ottoman Empire for the time, and as il is their fancy that the Mos lem population can supply ultimately four or five million fighting men of the best con- ceivable quality they really believe that they have the chance to whip Russia easily or to figure as leading persons in the greatest war Of this generation. They have convinced Nidhat Pacha of this, and when the question has arisen as to the possible conduct of England they have answered with eloquent winks. They are, no doubt, burning the Ot- foman house, to roast their chestnuts; but they are now the most potential speakers Ut Constantinople, and the Conference con>e- quently reasons in vain.
Year: 1877

Yesterday we published what is known as Luttrell's Desert Land Law. which. as will be seen, classes all land as desert that will not produce agricultural crops without irri- gatiOn, except timber lands and mineral lands. The bill as we copied it is reported to us by J. II. Vaudeville, land lawyer of Washington City, as it passed the lower house of Congress, and we have not learned how it fared in the Senate. The bill does not exempt grazing lands, and, it seems to us may enable large cattle or sheep owners to monopolize large districts of country without settlement or occupation, by pro curing each of his herders 10 claim a section of desert land and filing declaration of in tention to reclaim it within three years by bringing water on il for migrating purpo- ses, and failing at the end of three wears to do so, he could have another set of herders to relocate, ond thus run on for years. and keep off all other peoples stock, thus enjoy ing practical monopoly of the pasturage while the real person in interest may not even be resident of the State or Territory.

 IL seems to Us that the bill should make provisions for actual occupation of each section, and compel the parties to manifest an intention to carry out in good faith the contract to bring on water, and when ever they shall neglect for thirty consecutive days to show disposition do so that the land shouIJ Inc consiiare1 abandoned and subject 10 relocation.
Year: 1877

EDITOR MINER The shooting match referred in my last took place on the 18th instant. and resulted in a victory for the team" from the cavalry company. The weather vas very unfavorable for good shooting, being cold, and a slight rain fall ing during the progress of the match. be- sides strong wind was blowing directly across the line of fire. The distance was three hundred yards; target three feet in diameter. l append the score, for which l am indebted 10 Fred Donaldson, the gentle manly Clerk or Co. I, 9th Cav:
Year: 1877

Persons who have rode over the VIII
mington & Northern r. r. formerly
the WILMINGTON & Reading will re-
member the long high and winding
trestle work just this side of Smiths
bridge


The trestle is about 300 feet long
and runs over ravine about 80 feet
deep. AS the trains approaches it
they always slacken speed. as it makes
sharp curve and would be unsafe to
run at a high rate of speed. 1t has
been decided by the officers of the
road to fill in the ravine as high as the
track, and after the new earth become
thorough ly settled to remove the tres
tie work, and lay the tracks upon the
earth.


The decision will necessitate a great
amount of labor and time. 1t will re-
quire several Thousand loads of dirt to
I'LL up the deep gap.
Year: 1877

THE CRYSTAL, self-actng fountain. is the
most beautiful and ornamental invention of
the age Tor dining room, parlOr or cOnScrva-
tory. just the thing for a nice holiday present
and TO make home pleasant and attractive. A
variety of sizes on exhibition and in operation
ID streets. l2IQeO2:
Year: 1877

THE PEACE OF A HOUSEHOLD i often dCpen
dcnt on the culinary and domestic skill of The
housewife. Ladies know this, and by IISin.
UCd'Cy'S Yeast IOlrder insure themselves thu
most perfect bread and pastry possible. 1t
use is economy also. for every can or bottle l.
absolutely fun weight, and il is So strong anC
pure as To demand the use of Il much smaller
quantity than usual
Year: 1877

The Secretary of the Interior, on the 18th of April, in the case of the Phil adelph;a Lode vs. The Pride of the West, Del Norte, Colorado. held that the contestant in mining case has no right Of appeal from the decision O the Commissioner of the General Land Office The only party entitled to appeal is the one who files an adverse claim Tn time, and commences suit thereon within thirty days from the date ot such filing. This decision is at variance with former decisions of the Department, but is in accord with de cisions which have been made for the past year.
Year: 1877

The Texas Pacific railway company seems 10 have vitality yet At least the press treats it as live thing. And it may prove true that it has a satiSfac- tory understanding with the Southern Pacific, by which the latter is to con- tinue over It's route from Yuma to the Rio Grande at which point the roads are to connect. Congress has not declared the Texas Pacific franchise forfeited, an it does seem strange, in view of this fact, that the Southern Pacific should build directly over the surveyed route of the former, unless there is an existing and definite agreement between them. It is reasonable to presume that Col. Scott will unite the forces of the Texas Pacific with those of the South ern Pacific for further legislation to protect the intersts of both under this or some such understanding or positive agreement. The Colorado papers have recently taken up the advocacy of the Texas Pacific. The Denver Tribune publishes lengthy statistical article on it, and the Denver Herald says:

 The U. s. Senators and Representa- tive of Colorado, are all in favor of the Texas Pacific Railway, except MT. Tel Ter, who is the Colorado attorney for the Union Pacific's selfish interests. The construction of Texas Pacific road to the Pacific would b9 the very best thing for the great Southwest which could be encouraged by the coming Congress It would give employment to the suffering South, open up a world of now latent wealth in the rich min ing countries of New Mexico and ArI- zona, as well as become the key for opening the vast commerce of Western Texas, Northern Mexico, and the Pacific coast; thus affording the entire Middle and Southern States safe, cheap and pleasant trans-coutInental route all the year round.

 In any event, but a short time will elapse till we will have an overland line right through Tucson, or very near to it. The Southern Pacific can and may build the road alone, or it may be met on the Rio Grande by the Texas and Pacific. If the latter con- necton be made, then we will have the completed lIne much quicker In any event, the Southern Pacific will not long stop their line at Yuma or any other place short of an eastern connec- ton.

 Since writing the above, the Sentinel came to hand with an account of a large party of railway and postal of ficials and newspaper men to Yuma, and the Sentinel reports that these visitors were of the belief that compromise would be effected with the Texas Pacific by this week. The terms of the compromise are not stated, but without doubt it will not contain less than the righi of the Southern Pacific to build over the Texas Pacific route to the Rio Grande, with an interest in the land grant-if such interest can be given by the latter 10 the former or by the labor and power of both together. Everything looks to an early completion of the 32d parallel road, by the joint action of the two named companies.
Year: 1877

MR. WM E. SMITH has charge of the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph at Yu- ma, and he is very competent and good man for the place He has had large experience in telegraphlng and has had charge of important offices He IS wide awake and will be of use to the Territory in that position.
Year: 1877

For THE LAST TIME.-rhere is touch
of pathos about doing even the simplest
thing " for the last time.' 1t is not alone
kissing the dead that gives you tins
strange pain. YOu feel il when you hay Z
looked your last time upon some scene
you have loved-when you stand in some
quiet city street where you know that you
will never stand again. The actor play
ing his part for the last time, the singer
whose voice is cracked hopeleSsly, AMI
who after this once will never stand before
the sea of upturned faces disputing the
Dlaudls with fresher voices and hrer
forms, the minister who has preached his
last sermon these all know the hidden
bitterness, of the two words never again. u
How they come to u on our birthdays us
we grow older! Never agnin young; al
wsys nearer and nearer to the very last
the end which is universal, 1.-The last thing
which shall follow all last things, and turn
them, let us hope, from pains to Joys II
We put away our boyish toys with an old
heartache. We were too old to walk any
longer on our stilts-too tall TO play mar.
bles on the sidewalk. Yet there was
pnng when we thought we had playec
with our merry thoughts for the last time
aud LIES serious, grown-up work wa
waiting for us. Now we do not want til,
lost toys back. Life has other and large
playlhings for us, May it not BIZ that lhes
too shall seem in the light of some far-ot
day us the boyish games seem to our man
hood, and we shall learn that death is bu
the opening of the gate into tho new Ian,
of promise.
Year: 1877

COOKERY AND COOP MORALS Certain
ly the English are n practical people and
some of the forms in which this national
characteristic is manifested ale worthy OF
consideration and perhaps imitation.
Among other things which are just now
occupying the attention of these practical
folk, is the influence of good cooking and
goou housekeeping on good morals. They
have imbibcd The notion that when Ia
borer or artisan retruns to his home after
Il hard days work and finds it neat and
clean, and that when he is welcomed by a
tidy table and IL thoroughly well-cooked
and palatable meal, he will not only cat his
dinner, however humble it may be. with II
hearlier relish. but will be indisposed to
scolA or beat his wife, or to leave his home
in search of " comfort at the ale-house
or liquor saloon. They also have gathered
the impression that If the converse Of all
this be true; ii the wife be slatternly, the
house unclean, the table untidy, the food
badly cooked and unpalatabIe, the man
will become moody and discontented, will
raj. ut his wife AMI perhaps beat her, will
have no appetite for his miserable meal
will speedily slam the door behind him
with a curse or taunt, and will hasten to
fin This comfort in the rum shop" where
after he is bereft of his reason by vile Ii
quor, he will spend the money needed fol
the subsistence of his family in "riotou'
living"


Impressed by these ideas, an attemp
has been male by IN Engishmin TO in
troduce into those schools, which are ut
tended by the daughters of artisans ant
luborers, instruction in domestic economy
not merely to sew and cut and max,
garments. but how to keep house and es
pecialy how to cook. To this end an in
situlion-a species of normal SchOol-ha
been established at South Kensington
London. for the training of teachers IN hi
particular branch of domestic education
and school boards here and there through
ont England are employing theu, afle
they have become versed in their duties
to impart the knowledge and skill the
have acquired 10 the girls in the school
which are maintained by the public author
itus -CbriStidH MteIligencer.
Year: 1877

SOMETHING OF MulE.-M my years
ago IL t'lorentin gentleman had u mule so
vicious that his groums and servants could
hardly approach it without receiving II
kick or bite Its IN !ster, after employing
in vain every means TO render it more
uractable, resolved to expose the creature
10 the wild beasts in the mcnagerie Of the
Grand Duke. A lion was accordingly let
loose, whose roaring would have irighten-
ed any other animal but the mule wisely
retired without showing any sign of fear
to II corner of the court, in which ne could
only be attacked from behind, where its
greatest strength ies,.ana there awaited
The attack of its enemy, observing him all
the while from the corner cf his eye, and
presenting its crupper. The lion, sensi-
BILE of the difficulty of the assault, employ
ell all his address to catch his foe ut disad-
vantage. At length the mule found an
opportunity to give him 50 violent kick
that nine or ten Of his teeth were broken,
the fragments flying in all directions The
king of beasts acknowledged a defeat and
retrealed to his den, leaving the mule mas
ter of the field.
Year: 1877

The first case is one which occurred alta
fashionable watering place on the east
coast Of Ireland, some twenty years ago,


and exhibits the remarkable saglclty dis.
played by dog in carrying out the die
tales OF the animal passion for revenge.
The ietty which stretched along the small
harbor was at that time used as prone.
made by the elite among the soourners on
the coast, where, after the heat of the long
summer days, they RECALLED lhemselve,
with the fresh evening breezes waited


in from the sen. Among the freq enters
OF this fashionable resort was a gentleman
of some position, who was the owner of a
fine Newfoundland dog, which inherited
Year: 1877

European horticutGrlsts have lately
adopted mode of making rose cuttings
root with more certainty, by bending the
shoots, and inserting both ends in the
ground, leaving sln le bud uncovered at
the middle and on the surface Of the ground.
The cuttings are about ten inches long and
are bent over u stick laid fit on the ground
holes being dug on each side Of the stick
for the reception Of the end Of the shoot
The roots form only at the lower end o
the shoot, but the ohcr end, being buried
resists evaporation and drying up,
Year: 1877

THE MOTHERS PRAYER.
Oh thou Redeemer who dost reign
O'er earth's sublime and storm-tOssed main
Draw near TO me and Quell this pain


Within my breast.
Give me hope, heavenly rest.
Dear Savior, to thy arms give
My son, my hope through earthly life,
Safe cvermore what e'er The strife


On earth and sea
Or changes time may bring to me.
And when see the shining shore
Oh may know forevermore
lie was not lost but gone before


To lO,m band
With other blest at Thy right hand.
And as near with trembling feet
The pcarly gate IN golden street
May darll0s come mamma to meet


Mamma who gricves
Oer grave now covered by fallen leaves.


DR. |. II. FISK.
Year: 1877

Appointment lady who passed through
the intoxication and danger of the
round dances, where men and women
hug each other in public, has taken up
her pen against this social whirlpool
in which so many young women have
gone down. She says:


married now, with home and chill
dren around me, ] can at least thank
God for the experience which will as
suredly be the means of preventing my
little daughters from indulging in any
such dangerous pleasure. But, if a
young girl, pure and innocent in the be-.
ginning, can he brought to feel what l
have confessed 1 have felt, what must
be the experience of a married womanr
She know what every glance Of the eye,
every bend Of the head, every close clasp
means, and knowing that reciprocates
it and is led by swifter steps and q sur
er path down the dangerous, dishonor-
able road.''
Year: 1877

Emery would gladly give the Senti-
mel fifty times five dollars if he could
thereby stop its just comments on his
miserable h;.shery, and many polit-
ician Of Plymouth county would cheer
fully do the same to assure. its silence
over their skul]duggery; but all the
hash singers and all the political
thieves in the county ring, or out of it,
have not money enough to quiet it.
We owe nothing to p0liticians-most
OF them are in our dept to day, even
for their subscriptions. Many Of them
for ballots that we printed. The Sen
tinel Is wholly independent of them.
The Sentinel is not an ''organ" of any
individual or clique, but lives and pros
pers on its merits as an independent,
thorough:g0ing Republican newspaper.
lie Mars Sentinel.


Here too. Give us your hand. The
Ring politicians the same in all places,
and the newspaper which will not do
his bidding, he endeavors to crush out.
The result in nearly every case is that
lie crushes his own political brains out
by butting against a newspaper and then
the people are all glad to be rid of him.
Year: 1877

From this it would be- seen that wheat
after it is five years old does not grow,
and the newer it is when sown the more
plants it furnishes. But there is an
other point which the French Agricul-
tural Society established in series of
trials, and that was that plants from
old wheat were weaker and did not fill
out so well.-Rochester Post.
Year: 1877

No act not prompted by a sinful
thought is sinful,


Innocent' pleasures are harmless,
but the devil bates all his traps pleas.
ures.


Without love, happiness takes its
leave, and where love abides, care
enters with uncovered head.


Weedsgrow spontaneously, but use
fdl grain must be planted and cult
waited or there will be no harvest here
or hereafter.


The clown who excites multitudes
TO mirth is more a benefactor than
the conqueror who drapes Thousand
homes in mourning.


Never attempt to intimidate the
man who accords to his, mother and
his sister the reverence due her sex.


Unjustsuspicion may shake foun-
dation of honesty, while thief may
feel the obligation imposed by unre-
served confidence.


What better credentials can man
bear into the unknown future than
the love and esteem of the poor and
needy around him2


Assistance to the shiftless is like
stimulants to the inebriate. The
higher Lifts him for the time being,
fhe further he has to fall in the re,
lapse which must inevitably come.


If you cannot acquire wealth by
patient industry you will have to
depend on luck, and luck is some
thing that cannot be depended upon.


Christ never forgot that his moth
er's husband was a mechanic, and he
never promised reserved seats in
Heaven for those who would be class
ed with the aristocracy on earth.


Whatever our sorrows, whatever
our loneliness may be, in whatever
way we may be disappointed or for
saken, a practical faith that the
mightest of all beings, is ever nigh
to us, fills up the void and surrounds
us with eternal sympathy.
Year: 1877

Not vet. he cried; I shall soon give
up trade and, then l shall have moth
ing else to do but to read and pray.


And SO he diedl He put off to an
other time what should have been
done when a child. He therefore,
died as he had lived-without God.
Year: 1877

THE EASTERN DIFFICULTY.


LONDON, March 19.-rhe English
modification In the protocol Will render
a concert of the Powers vague, and the
protocol still open to final decision.
Russia is expected to be friendly to the
notifications, in which case there will
be a disarmament of Russia and Turkey.


LONDON, March 19.-The Pail Mall Ga
zette says the public will do well to form
their Judgment OF the Eastern prospect
from what was said in the House OF
Commons Saturday by Sir Stafford
Northcote, N rather than from the raptur-
GUS declarations IN the Times. Possibly
it is fact that negotiation has virtually
ended, because the Gar and Prince
Gortschakoff, in their own minds. may
have resolved to accept such modifica-
tions as have been introduced into
tae protocol by England, but so far what
is thought OF these notifications and
what particularly is thought OF the
English stipulatioDs about discernment
is unknown in this country. We do not
say the stipulations will not be ac-
cepted, but only that they were by no
means without significance, and that
tney have not been yet assented to, and
that for aughL that is known they may
be met by objections more or less se-
rious. Iu short, the position of affairs
tL-day is just as 1t was yesterday.
Year: 1877

A Devilish Plot Frustrated.


San Francisco, Jan. 25.-A Virginia
City despatch of to-day says a plot to
destroy the hoisting works in the G 2 G
shaft was discovered Monday morning.
Just as the engineers were changing
shifts, man who had just come on
tried the water-cocks, and was aston
ished to find no water in the lower one.
He turned on the pumps at once, but
was still unable to fill the boilers. 1t
was then discovered that the blow-off
cocks of the shaft boilers had all been
turned open, so that the water was
blown out as fast as the pumps forced
it. The steam and water from the
blow-off pipes are carried long dis
tance down hill from the works, so that
the engineers could not tell at first
what the trouble was. A few minutes
later there would have been terrible
explosion, resulting in the destruction
of the works and great loss of life.
Last Friday night an attempt was made
to fire the hoisting works in the Con-
solidated Virginia mine, which was dis
covered and frustrated by the watch
man; the incendiary escaped. The
force of watchmen around all the works
of the Bonanza mines has been in
creased, and all supplied with shot
guns. The belief here is that both
these attempts have been made by
scoundrels in the employ of the bear
operators in San Francisco.
Year: 1877




New York, Jan. 25.-The Express
and Post speak in laudatory terms of
the action of the Senate in passing the
electoral bill. The Express says: "The
country, which, since the election, un-
der the guidance of political wreckers
of the press and forum, has been drift
ing like helpless ship upon stormy
sea, is now turned into a safe channel,
and soon we trust to see the ship of
state anchored in prosperous harbor. "
The Post thinks the bill will be law
before week.


The Commercial Advertiser says !:
"The indecent haste in rushing through
measure of such grave Importance to
the country will be looked upon with
suspicion. More time is given to an
act to provide for the erection of a
penitentiary in the District of Colum-
bia than to a measure which every citi-
zen of the country has common in
terest in. The bill will now go to the
House, and will be rushed through as
hurriedly and as indecently as through
the Senate.
Year: 1877

Prospects of the Compromise Bill.


The opinion of gentlemen about the
capitol, to-day, is that three-fourths Of
the members of the House will vote in
favor of the compromise bill. Should
the bill pass tomorrow afternoon, as
contemplated, it will be sent to the
President that night or on Saturday.
As the bill involves constitutional ques
tions, it will, under the usage, be refer
red to the Attorney General for exami-
nation before final executive action. 1t
is not apprehended that the Attorney
General will interpose any objection as
the President to-day reported that he
was in favor of the passage of the bill,
considering it measure in the inter-
est of peace, and as the business of the
country is now languishing, owing to
the uncertainty regarding the electoral
court. 1t is safe to conclude that the
bill will promptly become law.


The Washington organs of both po-
litical parties continue to-day their de-
nunciations of the compromise electoral
bill, and call for its defeat by the
House. Its passage tomorrow is new
ertheless considered certain.