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Year: 1878

Mir MacFarlane in his Coal Regions of America" says that anthracite does not belong to any particular geological age

 but is produced by the transformation of fossil fuel of any kind. There is small coal field near Santa F6, in New Mexico, which 8 volcanic overflow resting on a bed of Ignite, elsewhere of no value, has con- verted into anthracite coal. There is a a similar instance in the British possess ions on Queen Charlotte's Island, in the Pacific coast. At Los Bronces, in Sonora, Mexico, Triassic coal was converted by local volcanic action into anthracite of fair quality. The coal fields of Arkansas con- tain ore-thlrd bed of semi-anthracite coal These are the only beds of anthracite as yet discovered outside of Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Massachusetts, and they al probably not extensive or likely to be of great importance. It is not impossible that others may yet be discovered in the far West It is we'll known that there is anthracite in France, but it Is nowhere mined on a large scale, or sent abroad to market. < With these and other un- important exceptions, it may be said there is no other good, hard anthracite coa

 known; certainly there is not single coal breaker elsewhere in the world than in the northeastern part of Pennsylvania.
Year: 1878

ANOTHER change is to be made in the new stage road next week. Instead of going up the Yuma Wash the ore-road will be followed up to the Castle Dome lead mines; from there the road will be taken through the big gap, and out by the Horse Tanks, where station will be made by Nick Gunther and Farrar. Good move; it shortens the route little, avoids heavy sand and gives solid road. The stage men are all much pleased with the way L. A. Smith built the road from here to Castle Dome landing.
Year: 1878

A COMPANY was formed here a year ago for supplying Yuma with water. The City Council agreed to give it franchise, and to give it two blocks of land on the moun- tain south of town and one on the mesa, provided it laid a certain amount of pipe and actually fur nished water within one year. MT. David Neahr, being a prac- :ical Inachinist and a large prop
Year: 1878

THERE is much talk of making another cutoff on the road from here to Prescott, leaving the present new road at the Horse Tanks, and striking the old road near Mezquite Wells. This change would leave out Tyson's Wells and Desert Station en- the road to Prescott by twenty or more miles. We doubt its practicability.
Year: 1878

SOME complaint is being made again have County. Some mail was carried up on the last boat, which helped things out little. It is no trouble to get shortened time and increased pay on the Tucson road, but it seems nearly impossible to even get the mails carried at all on the routes into Mohave County.
Year: 1878

NEWS was received here yesterday that the time has been shortened, and pay in creased on the Ft. Worth mail route, by order of the ? NJ General The stage time to Tucson will be reduced to three days.
Year: 1878

ACCOUNTS from the new placers above Aubrey are only middling. It is extreme ly hot ont there, and water, packed from the river, sells at twenty cents a gallon. Fair wages can be made, but nothing big enough to tempt men not to wait for colder weather. Finkler got disgusted, and sold his machine to Bray, of Empire Flat
Year: 1878

The PROJECT Of buying the fee
simple Of Jerusalem by the He
brews in the country has been
seriously agitated. The town
might be purchased dirt cheap
ut present, for ready money, OF
the Turks, but with the excep-
ton of Sir Moses Montefiore, we
doubt whether many Hebrews
Of like rank and position will
invest their money in this scheme,
as they no doubt can use it more
profitably in this country.
Year: 1878

THE ROAD TO HEALTH.-Cleanse the
stomach, bowels and blood from all acrid,
corrupt and offensive accumulations. and
you remove the cause of most diseases,
and thus preserve good health and also
save large doctors bills The most effect
ual and reliable remedy for this purpose
ir Simmons Liver Regulator. purely vega
table. The trial of one bottle or package
will prove to the patient the virtue of this
medicine.
Year: 1878

The San Francisco Call says Of the wheat
crop in that State that it Is enormous AL
lowing t0.O00.0Oo bushels for seed and home
consumption, the table shows surplus Of
neatly 100000 tons. This may be In excess
of the ultimate yield but a careful analysis
of the statement warrants the expectation Of
at least 100000 tons surplus. even should the
yield In the worst counties fall to bottom es-
timntas.
Year: 1878

A large congregation had assembled to
hear stranger of some notoriety. Soon
after he had introduced his subject, the cry
of fire! fire! tire!' in the street very much
disturbed the congregation, and many were
about to retire, when IN elderly lay brother
rose and said:


IF the congregation will be composed
will step out and see if there is any fire
near and report


The congregation became composed, and
the minister proceeded. Taking advan-
tage Of the occurrence, he called attention
to fire that would consume the world =
a fire that would burn foreverin lake that
is bottomless!- and had just concluded a
sentence of terrible import, and not with
out manif,st impression on his audience,
when voice from the other end of the
church, as if in flat denial of all he had
said, bawled out:


ats a false ala,7n'''


The effect was ludicrous in the extreme.
The old man returned, but the inopportune
response spoiled the force of the eloquent
appeal from the pulpit, and even the min
lister could scarce refrain from joining in
the universal smile that passed over the
congregation.
Year: 1878




l. Let every youth be taught some use-
ful art, and lie trained to industry and
thrift.


?. Let every young man lay aside and
keep sacredly intact certain portion of
his earnings.


3. Let every one set out in life with q
fixed determination to engage In business
for himself, and let him put his deterlnina-
ton into practice as early in life as possi-
bic.


4. Begin in small. safe way, and ex-
lend your business as experience shall
teach you is advantageous.


5. Keep your own books and know
constantly what you are earning and just
where you stand.


6. DO not marry until in receipt Of
tolersblc income-sutficien to live on COM
fortably.


Z. Never get into debt. a man who
owes nothing can never fail.


8. Let every man who is able to, buy a
farm upon which to bring up his sons. 1t
is on the farm that the best men, morally
and Intellectually, are turned out.


9. Bear in mind that your business can
not be permanently prosperous unless you
share its advantages equally with your GUS
toners, An all turkey, ali bussapl, sys-
tenn of business can never succeed in the
long run. Both parties to transaction
must be mutually benefited if the trade is
kept up.


10. Experience has shown that a
scrimpi1s policy with employees is not
the most profitable for the employer. Live
and let live is a better theory.


II. Ifyou find yourself incompetent to
manage business successfully, settle
down contentedly for wages, do your best
for your employer, make his interests
yours, and shape your expenditures 30 as
to live within your income. Every one is
not qualified by nature to manage success
fully, but rs much real happiness Is enjoy
ed in salaried position as IN any other, il
the individual be only frugal and content
ed.


u. Don't seek political Office.


IL. Aim to be just and fair in all your
dealings, and cultivate Il good reputation
for paying promptly.


If these few rules were generally observ-
ed, we should hear but little complaint Of
hard times,
Year: 1878

From the Easton Free Press


The best authorities among scientific per-
sons have long conceded the fact that it is
impossible to kill boy by any Of the re-
cognized processes of demolition. He
tulnbles off chestnut trees and falls down
wells with impunity; he is perfectly happy
in the midst of narrowing railroad acci-
dents, and prenaturely enthusiastic 4th of
July explosions afford him intense delight;
the most persistent book agents have done
little more than discourage him, and able
bodied streaks of summer lightning have
passed him with disgust.


Yesterday afternoon there was persist
ent recurrence Of ominous silence and hila-
rious laughter among the two dozen or
more carriers of the Free Press that be-
came SO mOnotonous that we felt called
upon 10 investigate. We looked, and be-
hold! the boys had invented new game,
having all the elements Of dangerous fun
necessary to perfect enjoyment.


One boy stood with his back against the
wall, the next boy stopped down his head
in the first boys stomach; the third boy
stopped with his head on the second boys
back, and in this way the line was cOntin-
ued back as far as desirable. Then all the
spare boys took running leap in success
sion, putting their hands on the hindmost
boy, and jumped over as many as posi-
BILE, to come down at the end of the jump
on boys neck with the force of an in
fantile pile-driver, and the next boy comes
down on him in the same way, the efforts
of the jumpers being directed to breaking
the line Of the Shoppers or their necks, Ell
thcr object being equally desirable and at
tainable. The position of the boy against
the wall is one Of great honor and respon-
sibility. 1t requires boy Of strong stom-
ach to enjoy the process Of having the
head of another boy driven into his waist
band by the continued efforts OF fifteen of
his fellows. Sometimes the jumpers be-
come unbearably enthusiastic, and the boy
against the wall finds it necessary to step
aside to re-swallow his dinner. This gives
the STOPPING boy chance to distinguish
himself as his head is jammed against the
wall SO hard that he feels his ears sticking
out under his arms. Sometimes it hap
pens that a small, cOnsumptiye boy gets
into the line of stoopers, and when big
boy comes down on bis back he breaks in
two, and this causes hiatus that is in,n,e-
diately filled by the Shoppers in the rear,
who sprawl on their noses and elbows,
while the remaining Jumpers cayort over
them like cavalry charge.


We always like to encourage little games
of this kind. They have sOothing effect
upon markell bills, fle noise outside, and
the undertaken. The game to which we
refer has resulted in no mortality so far;
but it is only three days old, and we have
an abiding hope. y, assy.9- 49, w g
Year: 1878

a few days since we saw a young man
who ''couidn't afford to take books out of
tile library He was well dressed, and
we wondered if it was really possible that
he could not afford fifty cents a year for
the very rich blessing the library ought to
be to a young man. Yesterday we saw
this same young man pay fifty cents for a
dozen cigars. which perhaps will last him
two days. Suppose they last him a week.
This would be the same he would have
had to pay for the use OF the library a
year.-Now, that young man is what is
called a ''steady young man,"-does not
drink-and has no immoral habits. lie is
spending probably 500 year for cigars,
and other useless luxuries. Unless be
changes these habits he will never be
worth a dollar III the world, and should
sickness OF adversely come upon him, will
be burden upon some one.
Year: 1878

From his New York Sunday evening Lecture.


The idea of Hell was born of revenge
and brutality on one side and of cowardice
on the other. In my judgment the Ameri
can people are too brave, too generous
too magnanimous to believe in the inf;l.
nous dogma ofeternal damnation. (Ap.
plause. have no respect for any human
being who believes in it. Laughter ]
Wait until you see ME in hell before enjoy
ing yourselves laughing at me. Laugh
ter l have no respect for the man who
breaches it. l have no respect for the man
who polntes the imagination of childhood
with the Infamous lie. [Applause.] l
have no respect for the men who would
thus add to the sorrows of the world. /
have no respect, say, for one who would
thus endeavor 10 put an infinite cloud or
shadow on the heart Of humanity. Iwant
to be free and frank with you at the outset
hate the doctrine. 1 despiso the doc
Iripe
Year: 1878

Lovely woman sleeps with revolver
under her pillow in Nevada. At dead OF
night a plucky little woman in Eureka
awoke to find b,,rly burglar prowline
about her room and ransacking the bu.
reau. She did not scream. She lay as
still as a corpse and waited until he enter.
ed the parlor. Then she took revolver
from its nest underneath her pillow, and
creeping to the doorway, leveled it at the
intruder and without tremor in her
voice commanded him to give up his plum
der. There was fire in her eye and iron in
her tones, and the burglar quailed. A
bracelet, gold chain, a pair OF earrings
all the jewels he had found in the top btl-
reau drawer, he laid on the parlor table
ard meekly asked her it she had any fur
ther remarks to make. She expressed
her keen regret that the scantiness of her
toilet would prevent her conducting him
to Jail. He bowed gravely and left the
house. The little woman then dressed
herself, lighted a lantern, went to the fur
mace where her husband was employed,
and told him all about it.
Year: 1878

The Postal Department at Washington
has decided that all papers mailed Tor Eng
land must each be placed in single wrap
per, with two cent stamp. 1t is now
against the postal laws to put more than
one newspaper in one wrapper directed to
Great Britain.
Year: 1878

We have a story from Middletown, Conn,
that cclipses the marvcls of oleomargarine.
The people of that place have accidentally dis
covered how to utilize bullirogs by converting
them into churners of butter The discovery
was thus reached: 4 farmer in the neIghbor-
hood, having placed pail of milk in spring
of water TO cool over night went there the next
morning, and found, il is solcmnly asserted,
instead of the pail Of milk. Il large bullirog
sitting in contemplativc mood upon roll of
fresh butter The sole explanation is that the
frog had jumped from the water into the pail,
and, in trying to eNtricate himself had, by
dlligent and continuous strokes OF his long
legs, churned the milk into butter Such Il
thing might happen In rustic Connecticut but
we will venture TO assert that no bull-trOg,
however energetic and trained, or however ag-
ricul,ural in instinct, could in any given time
convert the aqueous kind of milk we get here
into butter, or even into tolerable buttcrmilk.
Therefore as we can receive no benefit from
the discovery, we shall not attempt to put it in
practice We shall continue, IN our usual
barbarous fashion, to eat the hind legs of frogs,
and leave it To Mddlctown TO employ them rs
natural, spontaneous, sclfacting chuncrs.-
Nen York Times.
Year: 1878

The child of colored parents of different
tints, such as quadroon and mulatto or mulat-


to and black, will be nearer the tint of the
darker parent If both parents are of the
same color the child will be a shade darker,
and, singular enough, the second child Will be


shade darker than the first, the third darker
than the second, and SO on to the last. In
other words, Il colorcd community, left to it
self is fatally destined to return to the original


African black after limited number of gener-
ations. Thus, while each new alliance with
an individual of pure Caucasian blood brings
the negro step nearer to the white standard,
the reverse is the case the moment the Cauca-
sian element is withheld, and the color retro


grades from light to dark.


A curious proof of this is found in obscrva-
tions made during some time in one of the
islands. A muato woman had female child
by white man; this young girl gave birth TO
a quadroon by a white father, and this recrosS-
ing with the white race was kept up for siN
generations An Identical process of rccross-
ing has been simultaneously noticed in anoth-
er plantation. The children resulting from
the seventh crossing in both of these families


were of remarkable physical beauty; they had
blonde hair, their complexion was of such


transparent fairness that they might have been
taken for Albinos but for their vigor and


cracefulncss and their brilliant intellect. The


most experienced eye could not have detected


in them the slightest indication OF their Atrl-


can origin They intermaried., Their chill


dren were dark complexioned and the children


of their children are very dark mulattoes.
This incxorable law of naturesis given as


one of the principal reasons why the Crcoles


refuse TO incrmarry with families who have
the slightest tinge of negro blood in their
VEINS. though their skin may be rs fair as that
of Europeans. The Creoles wish their pos


terity To remain what they themselves are
whites.
Year: 1878

We find the following in rural exchange


1t sounds like the New York Sun, from which


it was probably copied. 1t states as hypothet
cal case which is not hypothetical. Is ltany
wonder that every time this presidential fraud
business is stirred up it raises such stink?
Suppose it should be shown that Joseph p.
Bradley, having been foisted on the Supreme
Bench by the railroad companies to serve their
own purposes, entered into an arrangement
with various interested persons to wreck the
Memphis, FL Paso and Pacific Railroad, which
was then Il solvent concern. Suppose 1t should
be shown that he assumed jurisdiction of suits
brought for that purpose outside of his district
and by certain irregular and illegal proceed
ings transferred the property of the Memphis
FL Paso, through the hands of questionable
receiver, to the Texas Pacific.


Suppose it should be shown that when Jo-
seph =. Bradley came to give the decisive vote
in the unconstitutional Electoral Commission
he wrote out an elaborate opinion in favor of
the Tilden electors in Florida, and that, under
severe pressure from the Texas Pacific iobbers,
who had previously used him as above, he
changed the conclusion of that opinion in "a
single night, and thus consummated the fraud
in the teeth of his known convictions.


Suppose these facts to be proved, what would
the country think Of judgment obtained III
that way We know that the returns from
Louisiana and Florida were false and fabrica-
ted. We know that the men who manipulated
them were conscious knaves, and committed
the crime with their eyes wide open But was
the judgment Of the commission itself corrupt
as well as false? In this view of the case, il
would appear that the Judiciary Committee of
the house may have a duty to perform, little,
if any, less important than that Of the Potter
committee
Year: 1878

After the United States government had be.
gun to build a hospital for the Military Acad.
emy at West Point, it was discovered that the
records proved that not more that seven cadets
had ever been sick at one time, whereas the
new hospital would accommodate about three
hundred patients
Year: 1878

about, knowing how to cook fairly,
to sew, etc. She will have three
hundred francs a year and her
washing and be well fed and lodged.
If she lives with me till my death
she will have in addition to her
wages, as many times 800 francs as
she was years in my service, the
furniture of my bed chamber or a
sum of 1900 francs and a morning
suit. 1t seems to me that on such
terms | should be able to secure the
pearl Of servant girls"
Year: 1878

the East who have no idea what the
Yves, is; by these letters | don't give
you half a description Of the State, as it
is beyond my ability to do it, but il you
wish to know more write to us and l
will refer to land agent in this place,
who is an old Marylander, and surely
would do you no harm, his name is
George A. Bowlus, and he is very
estimable gentleman and scholar, he
will send you circulars and pamphlets
of Kansas.


The thing which occupies the mind
Of the people now, is the election this
fall; the nominations have not been
made yet, hut there is scarcely any
doubt but what the same party will
carry the State that has been heretofore.
l admit that we have now Governor
that would be hard to beat, a good
speaker and ripe scholar, he will be-
in all probability renominated by his
party, which don't think will be moro
than right, the State seems TO be in
prosperous condition, so why not keep
it that way.


Mr.. Editor, probably my letter is
growing rather irksomc 10 your readers,
| will close by saying that this will
probably be my last letter for awhile.
after we are done our hay harvest will
give you another, and give you a de-
scription of our corn crop, said after
hay harvest, as hay harvest lasts here
until the first of October. This letter
is somewhat longer than expected, so
your composi,ors will have TO excuse
me this time, for / know what it is to
set long letter as was printer once
myself, and now if you see bit TO publish
this do so if not destroy it, with this !
leave your readers few thoughts, and
bid to old Virginia adieu for the pre-
sent. Yours truly, QUlD.
Year: 1878




The time is drawing near when
another election Of vast import will be
held and although the Republicans Of
DelayaN by reason Of the situation In
which they unfortunately are placed,
are making very little effort and need
encouragement. Think deeply friends
upon the situation. Is the cause for
which We contend just II so be not
dismayed in mans extremity. We be-
lieve It is Gods opportunity, he hav-
ing given US and is constantly teaching
us the truth Of his words, which, when
spoken must come to pass. Had We to
rely upon mem works, very frequent
ly they fail for they are mortal, but
how are VIZ to Judge of the justness OF
the cause Of the Republicans through
the faithfulness of the majority of the
aforesaid in tbs con ress Of our boasted
nation, a portion OF its citizens hav.
been granted the privilege of elective
franchise, which the blighted intellect
Of some who have derived to be Ia ac-
cord with the constitution Tor certain
reasons, among which the principal,
We suppose To be that Of receiving and
'disbursing the finance in whatever
manner a majority may think proper,
but ~ there are a power behind the
Government to back the same. Speak
ing III tones louder than the rumblng
thunder, and is speaking through th
nortals that assemble in the congres
!sional halls, that out OF one blood all
nations that grace the earth was made.


Men have lived in this State wh,l
have thought and spoke Of infrriority
OF the negro, but they are gone. The,
have lived who have proclaimed un
constitutionalllty Of Ihd toned
but are not found. We admit of it,
jus:ness, We further believe that God
ing Just, will he not do " hat he hath
promised, We certainly cannot believe
otherwise. Republicans believing our
eau o just, do your duty. Go t.
the polls all who are entitled to vot,
md after you have done all that is
"ithn your power leave the event In
the care of a once oruuifed redeemer,
and III is the one only that can open
and no man can shut, and shut and no
man can open, for men write principles
fight and die Tor them, anything but
live for them. As Republicans let u
live for them and believing them Just
we need not fear. Ell. A,
Year: 1878

in New Orleans seems to have been dis.
covered beyond doubt. The New
Orleans Times, in recent issue, states
that it has found that 1900 loads Of
kitchen garbage, which had been haul,
ed to the dumping grounds by the city
carts, had been brought back by CON
tractors and uSed to fill up streets in
the front of the city. This operation
has been going on during the past year,
and was in progress on the outbreak Of
the epidemic, and as the disease first
appeared iust at that point, it is more
than probable that the avarice of the
contractors was the cause Of the present
terrible pestilence.
Year: 1878

The good man slammeth the gate and
bangeth the door and maketh a noise, for
his heart is without guile and he feareth
not the grievous words of his wife; but
the naughty man shutteth the gate softly,
and stealeth upstairs in his stocking
feet, and stumbleth over the rocking
chair, and the last condition Of that man
is worse than the first.
Year: 1878

rs dampness is most injurious to
poultry, the house and yards should be
thoroughly drained. The best floor is a
layer Of broken stones, over which is
placed two inches of clay, well pressed
down, and the whole covered with fine
sand, or with the fine part of well sifted
ashes. The floor should be carefully
cleaned every day, and the manure re-
moved two or three times a week.