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Year: 1878

HACKBERRY, Mohave Co.,, Aug ', '7S. EDITOR SENTINEL:-I have read the let ter from the Colorado River Reservation, in your issue of July 27th, and am prompt ed thereby to speak of the troubles among the Hualpai Indians, in Monave County

 The scenes of hardship and destitution among the Indians on that Reservation do not exceed those being experienced by the HualpGis, who also belong there by Government assignment, but who have been compelled to subsist elsewhere, and are now running loose on their old stamp ng-ground, on the Big Sandy, and in the northern part of Mohave County.

 When the Government moved the Hual- pals to the Colorado River Reservation it did so against the wishes of that tribe, and took them upon lands unnatural to their wants, and from which they soon broke away.

 They claim the land about Truxton, Peacock and Hualpai Springs, and on the Sandy, where they say they once lived in plenty, raising grain and pumpkins; but now, all the water being taken up by the Whites, and they being unsupplied with food or suitable land by the Government, they are reduced to live on mescal and roots. This makes them hostile in feel ing and prone to commit deprcdations, which keeps the Whites in constant un- casiness. The Whites say they kill therr cattle in large numbers, which no doubt they do, but from necessity.

 Their Chief Sherum, has summoned his people to a council upon their condition. Their great war-chief, Little Charlie, claims that he can clean out all the set tlers in the county, as also the military.

 Whites and Indians arc alike dissatisfied with this condition of things between them While the Indians feel that some thing must be done, the Whites also feel that something ought to be done to ame- liorGte their condition and to give them a chance to be self-supporting. In talking with the Indians find that to be ali they want; but that they will fight long and desperately, as only Hualpais can fight, if it be insisted upon to take them back to the Reservation unnatural to them, where their sufcrings were, and would be, equal to what they are now.

 l find they want to be established in quiet possession of some of the waters of the country they are now in, and would prefer location somewhere on the Sandy, which IS their native country. In talking with the Whites I find they feel that this is but just, and q matter easily accom- plished: There they could have plenty of land and water to irrigate if, without the costly ditchcs or canals which would be necessary on the Colorado River Reserve,
Year: 1878

A LABOR census is being taken in Mas sachusetts, which shows that less than twenty thousand men in that State are without regular employment. or this number one third are reported tO belong to the unsteady and thriftlesS class. who never Wnrh f lhcv can nvOId it
Year: 1878

I GDai!y Shreveport Times, 18TH


Among the first subjects that will en-
list the attention Of the general assem-
bly, is the calling of convention to
form new constitution for the State.
There is scarce any subject On which
the minds of the people of the State are
better agreed. 1t has received a full
discussion in the columns OF the press
since the adjournment Of the the last
session, and there has been an accord
amounting almost to unanimity, among
the papers representing different shades
of opinion. -""


The people demand that this vestige
of Radicalism under which they have
suffered for nine years shall be wiped
out. They do not wish to he reminded
every day of the yoke Of despotism
from which they have been delivered.
They demand that we shall have Il
more liberal and less expensive govern
ment than that under which we have
been 50 long Impoverished. Louisiana,
in the days of her poverty, cannot sup
port as many and as high salaried
officers as in the days of her prosperity.
BY the reduction of salaries and the
Topping off of superfiuous Offices the
people can be made to realize Il saving
of three or four hundred thousand dol
lars annually; which would pay the
expenses of two or three conventions.
This item of its responsiveness is the
only plausible objection that has been
Year: 1878

Especial Dispatch to Cincinnati Enquirer
Governor Holiday read the account OF
his new departure in the matter of
Gubernatorial living, which appeared


mad as IA March hare. He didn't like
any how he has opened his eyes to the
situation, and now proposes to give
sumptuous Gubernatorial at the man
sion at least once a week. The first
one will take place on Tuesday
Twenty-seven guests are invited, in
Guiding prominent members of the
bar. The Governor at first said he
would entertain distinguished people,
and give state dinners at the European
Hotel, where he is boarding, but his
friends told him that " ould never do.
Any gambler in Richmond can enter
tain his chums at u cate, but only the
Governor of Virginia can entertain
his guests at the State Mansion. The
repudiators in the Legislature, who
are opposed to His Excellency on the
State debt question, and who are in
the majority, sent word to Holiday
that they would rent the Mansion out
if he did not occupy it and keep up
the dignity of the Old Dominion. AS
1 have just said, he has opened his
eyes, and is prepared to do the dinner
and banquet affair in style. He has
given notice that "leading men" must
not grow impatient; he would have
everybody invited before the winter
was gone. And now Virginia states
men and politicians are better satis-
fed
Year: 1878

II is related that n man fell sleep
as the clock tolled the first stroke OF
twelve. He wakened ere the echo Of
the twelfth stroke of the clock had died
away, having in the interval dreamed
that he committed crime, was detect
ed after five years, tried and condemn
ed; the shock OF finding the halter
about his neck aroused him to con-
sciousness, when he discovered that all
these events had happened in an innn-
itessimal length Of time. Mahomed,
wishing to illustrate the wonder OF
sleep, told how certain man, being a
sheik, dreamed that lie found himself,
for his pride made n poor fisherman;
that he lived as one for sixty years,
bringing up family and working hard
aud how upon waking up from his
long dream, so short a time had he
been asleep that the very narrow neck
ed gourd bottle filed with water, which
he knew he had overturned when he
fell asleep, had not time in which to
empty itself. How fast the soul trav-
els when the body is sleeping. Often
when We awake, we shrink from going
back into the dull routine OF a sordid
existence, regretting the pleasanter life
of dreamland. How is il that some
times, when we go to a strange place,
we fancy we have seen il before? IL is
possible when one has been asleep the
soul has floated away, seen the place,
and has that memory of IL which sc
surprises us2 In word, how far dual
is the life Of man, how far not?
Year: 1878

IT is said of General MERRITT, the new
collector of customs for New York city, that
he promises to conduct his office upon busi-
ness principles, and declares that no en-
ployee who is competent will be removed
This is true civil service, and if the same
principle had been applied to the office by
the President, General Merritt would not
have been made collector General AR.
THrR'S competency has never been justly
questioned by any one, no more than Gen.
eral MERRIrTs can be. But consistency
you know, is q jewel.
Year: 1878

THE District of Columbia lawyers aud


Judges complain bitterly because members
OF Congress practice 50 much in the local
courts, andthey want Congress to forbid SEN
ators or Representatives taking cases in the
District courts while Congress is in session


There is manifest Justice in these complaints,
for the simple reason that Congrcssmen are
supposed to have some influence outside Of
that which would naturally attach to their
Year: 1878

while the President and his Cabinet are enjoying
various pleasure trips about the country We note
sort OF penslye sadness creeping over the face oi
the Cincinnati COmmerCidi Perhaps 1t might be a
relief to republish some of Its Long Branch para
la
Year: 1878

Prof. Mcdonald recently delivered an
exceedingly interesting lecture at the
University Medical College, New York
city, on that form OF insanity known as
general paresis. The lecture was illus,
trated by eight inmates OF Wards Island
Asylum, who sat quietly on the platform
until called upon to speak. The cases
of general paresis generally come from
the better class of society. At first the
patient suffers general mental depression,
and that is followed by elation of the
spirits to such degree that the victim
always imagines himself possessed Of
great wealth, power, or social influence.
After occupying half an hour in lectur-
ing, Prof. Mcdonald called up the
patients one by one to speak for them
selves They spoke freely in answer to
questions, each claiming for himself
enormous wealth, power, and influence.
The professor said that popularity
about these patients was that they not
only believed themselves to be sane but
never doubled the sanity of other patients
similarly stilicted. They often formed
co-partnerships in the asylum for carry
ing on great enterprises. He knew s
patient who imagined that he owned al
the steamships in the world, and another
who imagined that he owned all the
dried apples in the world. They formed
Il co-psrtnership, agreeing that the dried
apples should be shipped on board The
steamers and transported to all points O


the world, calculating the profits n,


fabulous amounts
Year: 1878

Men are supposed to know, or to be
able to find cut, whether or not they are
on the Lords side. The question implies
as much There are various tests which
we crn apply that will settle the question
for US very soon.


Take it in matters OF everyday life,
in business, in buying, selling, winning
the prizes of life, there is a side which
is "the Lords side" DO you ask,
What is it? 1t is the side OF honesty
and integrity and truth the side that
gives a man an equivalent for his
money; that has but one price for the
Al iticle at the same time that puts sixty
minutes into an hours work, and
sixteen ounces into the pound, and thirty
six inches into the yard, and four
pecks into the bushel, and 100 cents inlo
a dollar; that doesn't put sand in sugar
nor pease in coffee the side that is per~
pendicular against all the tricks and
sharp practices, the lies of utterance and
the lies of silence; Il business which lays
its course like a vessel along the meri-
dian of right, in the teeth of all winds,
and holds to it, blow they high or blow
they low that is the side which God is
on. h" the Lords side"


Perhaps you have throught that the
Lord has no side, exceNt in matters
purely religious; that the whole realm
of business and our worldly affairs gen
orally lie quite outside his cognizance;
that God comes into our families at the
hour of prayer, meets US in our closets,
goes with US to church, and then virtu
ally retires from us. A greater mistake
could not possibly be made. God is
as much interested in your business as
in your worship, and he looks it
through with as keen an eye. You are
making character great deal faster in
your shop, and Office, aud store, than you
do in church, because men usually put a
great deal more energy and lite into
their business than they do into their
worship. All these powers whose exer'
else goes to make character, to determine
and decide destiny are put by most men
to far higher tension in the places oI
business than in the place Of worship.


There is more soul saving and soul
losing done on those streets and in those
places where men congregate 10 do busi,
ness, than in all our churches. That il
my belief.


The Lords side in our business affairs
is very definite and clear.cut side.--
Rev S. Graves.
Year: 1878

"Puss in Boots" is a mythical person.
age, but the dog in boots is no imaginary
creature. In the regions of eternal snow
and ice, where the only beast of burden
is the dog, the cold is sometimes so intense
that sharp icicles form between the claws
of the canine sledge travellers. This
causes most serious obstacle to the
speedy progression OF the dogs, and would,
after Jew days, render them utterly un-
fit for their laborious duties, as the icicles
grow larger and larger as they 60 on,
until the poor creatures are quite unable
to stand. The older dogs, however, will
every now and then stop and bite off the
icicles from their feet. Not so with the
novice. He tiudges wearily along !;
every step he takes adds to his torture,
and after a time every imprint of | is
foet on the snow bears red stain from
his cut and bleeding paws. At such
times the dog boot is called into requisi-
ton by the driver, principally for
policy, but occasionally, let us hope, out
of humanity. The dog boot is generally
made OF raw hide, and is simply shaped
like small bag or pocket. This is
drawn over the foot OF the animal and
made secure by tying itaround the ankle
with leather string. Thus protected,
il the surface Of the snow is pretty level,
these wonderful Esquimaux dogs Will
travel at the rate of forty miles day for
many days in succession.-lJ Journal OF
Chemistry.
Year: 1878

He who surpasscs or subdues mankind
must look down on the hate of those be,
low


Life becomes useless and insipid when
we have no longer either friends or enc
mics.


Dignity is expensive, and without
other good qualities is not particularly
profitable.


We must never remember the benefits
we have conferred, nor forget the favors
received.


An able man shows his spirit by gentle
words and reS0lute actions; his is neither
hot nor timid.


Cities force growth, and make men
talkative and entertaining, but they also
make them artificial.


You had better learn to conquer your
own will than strive to obtain the mas
terry of that of sthers.


Friendship is the medicine for all mis-.
fortunes, but ingratitude dries up the
fountain of goodness"


Make no more VOWS to perform this or
that; il shows 10 great strength, and
makes thee ride behind thyselt


We every day sacrifice principles
which we esteem through fear of being
blamed by people whom we despise.


Man wastes his mornings in anticipat
ing his afternoons, and wastes his after
moons in regretting his mornings.


Never plead guilty to poverty. So
tar as the world is concerned, you might
better admit that you are villain.


Jealous men are ever displaying to you
the strength of their belief, while Judi.
cious men are showing you the grounds
of it.


1t is curious that some learned ounces,
because they can write nonsense in dead
languages, think themselves better than
men who can talk sense in living ones.


1t is the vice of the unlearned to sur
pose that the knowledge of books is OF
no account, and The vice of scholars to
think there is no other knowledge worth
having.
Year: 1878

MORE to the Chinese than to any
other nation the telephone has been a
blessing. Owing to the fact that the
Chinese language has no alphabet, the
telegraph has never been available in
China but now the telephone has been
discovered it has been seized upon, and
five hundred miles of telephone wires are
said to be already in operation.
Year: 1878

AN old tanner of wild beasts says to
the New York San; AS for the smell
of blood maddeniug them, know there
is popular notion to that effect, but it
is not true. / have had occasion enough
to know, when it was my blood they
smelled. Lions and tigers raised in
captivity are more dangerous than those
which are we'll broken when taken wild
full grown. When the cub born in a
cage grows up he will become imprudent,
saucy, aggressive, and is too familiar
with men to be easily cowed. But the
wild beast never forgets when he has
been once well whipped, and though his
instincts will still prompt him to attack,
he will have his doubts about the results
of his getting into fight. You may
handle young lion for years, and it will
be as harmeless as Newfoundland dog,
until suddenly, without any apparent
reason, all its ferocity will be de-
veloped."
Year: 1878

WHAT we call fever and asue might be
banished from the country as a general
disease, if two things were don e. First
Have q fire kindled every morning at
daylight, from spring till fall, in the
family room into which all the family
should repair from their chambers, and
there remain until breakfast is taken.
Second Let q fire be kindled in the
family room a short time before sun.
down; let every member of the family
repair to it,and there remain until supper
is taken. In both cases the philosophy
of the course marked out consists in two
things The fire raiifies the
malaria, and causes it to ascend above
the breathing point. Second: The food
taken into the stomach createsan activity
of circulation which repels disease.
Year: 1878

THE French government will not ex-
hibit itself nor allow to be displayed at
the coming exposition, any war material
or invention which IL has lately adopted,
or which it thinks of adopting for the
army or navy,
Year: 1878

Wind. says an old horseman, is
the great secret of fast horse.
Good lungs will cover multitude
of faults, while, on the other hand,
perfection of shape and form are
useless when the wind is out. The
chest. therefore, in all cases, should
be large and spacious. 1t may vary
somewhat in shape, according to the
service to which the horse is to be
put. If he IS apt to be kept for slow
work and heave drawings, the chest
may be nearly circular In form, be-
cause this shape is one Tor strength
and bulk to receive and bear up
against the pressure of the collar,
while at the same time sufficient
room is secured for the expansion Of
the lungs, caused by slow, regular
work. But if the chest is circular
let it be at the same time deep, or
else the lungs may be cramped. A
horse with shallow chest is worth
less for any purpose. The rule,
then, Is: For a draft horse, a circu-
lar but deep chest: but as you pass
through the different degrees of
speed up to the racer and trotter, the
chest will increase in depth, com
pared to its roundness, until, for the
highest rate of speed you must take
a chest as deep as a greyhound, and
at the same time not lacking in
Exchange.
Year: 1878

Now that election is over, meas
ures should be adopted for fairly
and thoroughly investigating such
complaints as have been made or
may be made concerning the unjust
grading Of wheat through the use or
abuse Of the brass tester. The al
lodged wrongs on the farmers were
dishonerably used for political effect
in the late canvass in this district.
1t is a matter which has no proper
place in politics. Every man is in
terested in seeing that no injustice
Of this kind is perpetrated, and no
men or set of men would venture to
set themselves up to defend system
which persistently robbed the farm
er of that which was rightfully his
due.


If the brass tester is a desirable
instrument for determining the
grade of wheat, let it be used with
such safeguards as will prevent dis
honest buyers from making higher
Grade appear to be lower. If it
cannot be used in this way, let it be
thrown aside and something else en-
ployed. This ought not to be very
difficult matter to determine The
Boards of Trade at Minneapolis and
St. Paul appointed committees to
Investigate the tester, and report
their findings and conclusions.
Such facts as they learn might ad-
vantageously, perhaps, be submitted
70 the Legislature at its next session,
50 that if any action is necessary to
be taken it may be taken intelligent
ly. Farmers themselves should in
vestigate this matter, which is one
Of so much importance to them
selves. Perhaps they may find out
that there has been much (political)'
cry and little wool. At all events It
would be good idea to have gen.
eral Investigation, before another
election comes around, that whatev-
er facts are learned may be consid-
cred upon their own merits.-TSt.
Cloud Press.
Year: 1878

Many Of the papers both in this
country and England, remarks The
National Live Stock Journal, have
~"stea a great amount OF space in
discussing the feasibility of working
horses without shoes. If those en-
gagged in this discussion were practi-
cal men they would have known
that it is a point which connot be
settled in the newspapers nor any
where else. Some horses can work
without shoes while others cannot.
A horse that can 60 barefooted
with impunity on the soft dirt roads
of our fiat western prairies, when
taken to the flinty hills Of New
England will need shoes. Most
horses can do the work of the farm
in the summer season without shoes;
but when the hard, frozen and icy
roads of winter have to be encount-
cred no horse can keep his footing
and draw a load without them.
Horses with fiat feet and shelly,
brittle hoofs, mnst be kept shod all
the time if used on the road, while
one with a hard fiinty hoof on a
concave base, can well 60 most of
the time without shoes unless he be
put to heavy drawing on slippery
roads. It is.a question which must
be decided upon for each horse in
dependently; and the character Of
the hoof, the shape of the foot, the
uses to which the horse is put and
the roads he travels upon, all enter
into the the problem. If his hoofs
don't break away so as to make his
feet sore, and if he can keep his
footing so as to do his work easily
he don't need shoeing. If the re-
verse is true he must be shod, and
that is all there is of it.
Year: 1878




be the chief dependence for profit
in sheep husbandry in future, and
wool will stand as an essential ad-
iunct which cannot be dispensed
with, 1t is wise to avoid the errors of
almost all the western men, as also
of all those initiated by young be-
ginners who are starting in different
States. They all look to wool as
the sole object in view, and ignore
the carcass. 1. one of them possess
es, say 1000 sheep, there will be SO
many wethers and so many ewes
that raise no lambs, that there may
not be 200 lambs raised, and in some
instances not 100. In fact, there
are numerous sheep owners who
have 1000 or 5000 sheep, and have
them cared tor by western men, and
although none are sold, there is lit
tie or no increase for the proprietor.


In all business pursuits quick re-
turns are of the greatest Importance.
In sheep husbandry there is COM
plete change necessary. In former
days slow growing breed of sheep,
that would bear to be knocked about
by older animals while it was young,
and would not die outright if treated
ever so negligently, was a necessity;
therefore the Merino grade became
the general native sheep. But now
a breed which will cut twice the
amount of wool, and weigh double
the weight in meat at fifteen months
old is required, and can be obtained
by cross from Cotswold, Leices-
ter, Oxforddown or other large NUT
ton breed.


BY growing crops that can be eat
en- fresh and green through the short
winter in the South, and also plant
ing such herbage as will start early
in the spring, so as to have a con-
tinuance of succulent food, the Sec
ond generation sired by large rams
will come to be three times the
weight at yearlings, if they are fed
and treated (as sheep in England)
by placing all the weathers by them
selves, and keeping them in one
continued thriving condition with
out the slightest check. A profess
ional shepherd, who has been bred
from little boy to the care of sheep,
and who can understand thoroughly
the way to prevent any disease from
attacking the flock, who can see at a
glance what ails any animal which
may be amiss, and is as much at
home and knows what to do in cas-
es of difficulty in weaving as a sur
geon in midwifery-is absolutely a
necessity with good, large, pros
porous flock of Sheep. Every farm
er in England has such man, and
if it is large farm, the owner of the
sheep rides around on horseback
and sees every animal, SO as to
watch its condition and order any
change of pasture desirable, and
which the shepherd may or may not
have noticed as requisite: A shep-
herd in England counts his flock
twice per day in addition to his
masters surveillance.


A system Of sheep husbandry con-
Quoted thus would lring in an annu-
al increase of nearly or about three
lambs from every two ewes on an
average, and the sales of mutton,
etc, occasioned by the quick returns
and the threefold weight, as we'll as
a much greater price per pound for
improved >.uality, would produce an
annual income Of an extraordinary
amount, compared with the slow
growing dimlnutive varieties.