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Year: 1877

ofthe ore Shows free gold, but, all


seem to be afraid of q mill return


They ask all the way from $4,000 to


$4,000 for claims where thereis no


evidence that they have any practical


value. Every foot Of ground that can


possibly contain quartz or be used as
gulch diggins is claimed for miles in
every direction, and tho crowds arc
still rushing into the Hills. He came
through on the stage and took the
trouble to count the pilgrims between
Cheyenne and Deadwood and his list
tallies up l,749, about fifty Of whom
were women and children, and the
balance men. Custer City is almost
entirely deserted, tho diggings all be-
ing abandoned on account Of their
impracticability. The country there
is very fiat and it is about twenty feet
to bedrock. No doubt gold in pay
ing quantities exists ON bedrock, but
it is impossible to mine without pow
erful pumps on account of the water,
which floods the diggings long before
bedrock is reached. The flatness of
the country also prevents slucing as
it requires a swift running head of
water for this purpose. The ores
around Deadwood and Gayville re-
semble in many respects the Summit
or South Mountain district in Rio
Grande county. There is one ten
stamp mill there that run al. winter.
another was started few days ago.
and he met several going in. He is
satisfied that all of the best gulch dig
gings are worked out and says there
are not to-day two hundred men at
work at this kind of mining. Dead
wood. and Gayville, and other camps
in this vicinity are full of tenderfeet,
and times are good with all those who
are prepared to cater to the necessi-
ties of the new comers. The hash
houses and gin mills are gathering
rich harvest which is likely to last till
the rush is over. The money that is
made is taken to the Hills, rot dug
out.


Mr.. Deemer says Interested parties
are trying to work npa stampede to
the Big Horn conntrv which he con-
siders much bigger swindle than
the Black Hills. He talked with a
number of old prospcctors who had
been all through the Big Horn coun-
try last season, and they are not go
going back. He says we may expect
in any day to hear of big discoveries,
up there, for the purpose Of deluding
the thousands of tenderfect into the |
cOuntry.-Sldte ReQisfer.
Year: 1877

THE contest for the Republican
nomination to county offices in this
county is warm, and so far as we
know, very friendly one. We have
already, at the request Of the parties
run up the names of several candi-
dates. We believe this plan of an
nonncement good one. tits certainly
a good way to let the Republicans
know who are in the field. A fair
and pleasant contest for the nomina.
tons is all right; such a friendly
struggle is perfectly legitimate, and
indeed, productive of good in arous.
ing the party or the active men in it.
to work.


There is, however, q word of eau.
tion we have to give, anl that is tba,
every defeated candidate ia bound tc
stand firmly, actively and earnestly
by the successful man. Let the party
frown upon and give no support te
that man who claims the nomination
as by right belonging to him, or who
intimates in any way that he will no,
stand up manfnlly for his successful
competitor, after the nomination Ii
made. Those men who carry theil
personal grievances into politics so as
not only to punish the person, but
also defeat and punish the party
are disorganizcrs, who bring nc
strength, but only weakness to the
party, sooner or later. These person
al differences, when carried into pol
itics, only render unavailable q,
candidates all who deal in them the,
are two-edged sword, cutting botl
ways, and if indulged in this yeal
against one person, the next year, OF
some following year, furnishes tn,
opportunity to return the compli
ment. OF course we have no refer
ence to living soul now candidate
as in need of our advice in the mat
ter. They arc all gentlemen of vel
known prudent characters, as thcil
lives attest. Our object is to cal
especial attention to the great neet
and propriety of men, when they en-
gage in friendly struggle for nom
ination, standing squarely up to tn
victor in the fight at tho polls. Their
is not any room in this county fo
either party to indulge in loose part,
organization.
Year: 1877

san ANTONIO, Texas, Dec s, 1877.
Al length Lieutenant Youngs detachment OF tho
Eighth cavalry has been heard from. 1t Will be re-
memucred that about three weeks ago Young
started on scout into Mexico with the view OF
tracing o party OF cattle thieves and maruuders
which had been preying upon the Texans Some
met with an overpowering force and been driven
westward


CAPTURE OF AN INDIAN CAMP.


After mis- command had been out ten days they
came upon band OF mescaieros or distiers Of
mescal, encamped, having their chief, Alast, with
them. The order was given to attack the camp at
once. The cavalry dashed In and were masters OF
the situation after bricf and feeble resistance on
the part OF the distillers.


SUMMARY DISPOSAL OF THE DAND
Two OF the band were killed and three wounded,
The remainder or the party were then disarned,
all their trnkcts and clothing taken from them
and turned adrilt to 60 where they cnose.


BuRNisG THE sPoLS


All the tents with their contents ana the stuff
taken from the men, were then collected IN a
heap by the soldiers and burned, so that not a YES
tigc or the camp was left 1t Is not stated II the
mescaleros had any stock at the time they were
captured.


SEVERE WEATHER ENCOUNTERED
Colonel Young returned to his camp ut Point
Rock Springs yesterday morning. lie says the
weather has been very severe In that portion OF
Mexico over which he has secuted, and that his
command suffered very much from the cold. One
morning when the men arose they found the water
In their canteens frozen.
Year: 1877

TOLEDO Ohio, Dec. g. 1917.


p II. Bowling to-day received telegram from tho
Postmaster General reinsating him US Postmaster In
this city la consequence Of tho failure OF tho Senate
to connrm the recent appointment OF Alexander Reed
Upon OF the order the Office was ut once
turned over TO Mr.. Bowling by the deputy in charge.
Year: 1877

We call the church the house OF
prayer. And NO it il for il was built
expressly for that purpose, and for the
reading and preaching of the word of
God, and for the administration of the
sacraments. But the church is tor public
prayer. In another way, every one Of our
houses ought to be house of
prayer. There ought to be among
us as mauy houses of prayer
as there are dwelling houses. Nay,
more, for some Of our houses are coupled
by several families, and each separate
part of the house should be house OF
prayer.


Wherever family lives there should
be house Of prayer, however humble
the family, however small the house.
Every father of family is the proper
head of his own house, and as such should
conduct the family prayer, merning and
evening. In some cases where a man
has to be at work very early in the.morn
ing or very late at night, this may not
be possible. In such cases let the wife
take his place but it is far better wher
all can join and the father take the lead


The bible ought to be read in every
family, too. II there be time for ne
more than few verses, still let it be
read, and read daily The Chmchman.
Year: 1877

Which Of these three, said Jesus, was
neighbor to him that fell among thieves?
This question implies that neither of the
three was neighbor TO the man till some
thing had been undertaken for his relief;
and that he who did undertake it, did
then become his neighbor. Thus it Is
from within man himself that neighbor-
hood comes, yet not from within such an
one as shows mercy. He Is my neighbor,
who needing me, is indee helped by nae;
so that l am his neighbor before he is
mine. Thus am sent to the depths of
of my own heart to identify any man as
my neighbor. Have | compassion
Have | controlling sense of human
interest? Have / the feeling and the
energy to do what may for ethers? The
question who is my neighbor, IL
such an one az must be solved from
within. Who is mine is answered by
whose am |. II | am his neighbor
then have | peighbor; and this, al
though the man whom thus have made
my neighbor may not realize 1t for him>
self, may be conscious of no such feeling
toward me. And thus we notice with
wnat heavenly skill Jesus stated the
question-not "To which of the three
was that poor sufferer neighbor but
(Which of the three was neighbor To
him? for thus the answer to the ques-
ton in the first of these two forms is
driven back upon us by the question in
this second form, in the most direct and
solf searching way, aud grows bright as
by fash of lightning with the true ex-
planatiOn and is now forever thrown back
on every repeater of it in the revealing
light of intuition and conviction, of con-
itself is the maker of neighborhood, and
therein is the fulfilling Of the law. 1t is
the felt fellowship of manhood, which is
neighborhood. 1t is a mighty sense OF
human interest meta sentiment merely,
but0 deep conviction not ..alone an
emotion, but principle; a fellow-ieeling,
a sympathy, vigorous and acting, not
only selfgratitied within, but self-assert


ing without; lively sensibility, a
thorough purpose and busy
hand, all standing next to mans
needs. and knocking at every human
heart according as opportunity is given,
tntTeDy uulolulnG OUT Ol ltseu lne very
law of God, while in the act OF obeying
it. What is neighborhood but kindness,
that is, the feeling Of kind, the realiza.
tion of the human kin; therefore, the
true feeling of great realities, and itself
an imperishable reality, and the sunshine
of the affections, and the comprehensive
sweep OF ones appreciation OF things, and
a positive sense of one sweet harmony
in the grand circle of human relations 7?
What is neighborhood but our service
of the personal God, our dwelling in
love, the rejoicing with them that do
rejoice and the weeping with them that
weep, the suffering long, the envying
not, the not behaving unseemly, the not
seeking its own, the going about doing
good What is it but the sowing of the
seeds Of light, to spring up into harvest
of splendors And how sublime is it.,
good will The mountains, and the riv-
ers, and the oceans, are none of its
boundaries; human want is the wide
world of its interests, and human relet
and human GOOD the living embodiment
of itself.-Chicdgo AppedL
Year: 1877

Suddenly he cooked il and leveled it,
stepped between the freighters and their
arms, and ordered them TO throw up
their hands, saying they would take
what money there was in the outfit. At
this young Meyers shot the robber,
striking him in the face and breast. The
robber wheeled and fired at him but
missed. The robber dropped the gun
and run, firing at the party with his re-
volver. One of the freiS iShters shot at
him with rifle, the ball striking him in
the arm. He fell and room after died.
The other two road agents fed, and have
not yet been captured. The party,
under the deputy sheriff from here, are
in pursuit. The body of the dead robber
was brought here last night, and identi-
fled ~ that Of man known ss Texas
Frank. 1t is believed that this was the
party who robbed the Sydney coach a
few nights ago. None of Myers party
were hurt.
Year: 1877

whatever, except a little hay during
severe snowstorm, and small quantity
OF salt now and again. As soon AZ they
become fat they are shipped TO Chicago
In lots, and by the first OF November they
will be all away and the fields vacant
for another nine hundred, which will
have to pass through exactly the same
simple ordeal. When bought in, these
steers now on the farm were lean and
weighed on the average about 1000
pounds; now they weigh about
! 200 pounds, and il is expected that
by the time they are shipped, they
will average |, ,450 or 800 pounds. They
are the best OF their kind have - yet
seen, but then their kind is not good.
They are big -boned and la, king in quality,
and, like all these common cattle, they
travel so much and are kept lean for the
first two years of their existence, that
they show good deal of gristly meat.
The buying price was three and one fourth
cents per pound, and it is hoped that the
selling price may he fifteen and enc half
cents per pound live weight.


A steer will require four acres Of grass
to feed him for a year; the value Of that
land may be noted at fifty dollars per
acre the interest at ten per cent (the
ordinary rate Of interest in America )will
be twenty dollars for the four acres;
the interest on the money lying In the
steer for the year, three dollars and the
cost of salt and labor-there are only
four hired men at Grove Park farm
about one dollar; and thus the cost Of
keeping steer for a year would be about
twenty.fcurd0llars. Hitherto the Messrs.
Brown have been averaging about thirty
dollars a head for the years keep, and
this year they expect thirty-seven dollars.
their system is unique and simple, and,
a. will be seen, very profitable.
Year: 1877

SENATOR Beck, Of Kentucky, last week
introduced bill to take customs duties
in legal tender notes instead Of requiring
gold. This should have been done long
age, or rather, should never have been de-
parted from. The fact of our Govern
ment issuing paper money, and making
it legal tender for all debts except its
own custom duties, has always seemed
to us piece of iniquity, unparalleled in
history. This undoubtedly was the chief
cause of depreciation, and has been the
reason that greenbaCks were not par
long since.
Year: 1877

W.F. Coo1BAueH, of Chicago, commit
ted suicide with revolver, by shoot
ing himself in the head, at the Douglas
monument, where his body was found
Yesterday morning. He was President
Of the Union National Bank on which
there is a great run; although his troub-
les were domestic unhappiness, his wife
being given to the use Of stimuiants and
nornnkina
Year: 1877

Messrs. sherrick & Miller have purchased the
old 0berly corner, south. corner ofthe square
and will before long commence the erection of
building for their hardware business. Messrs S, d
M. are among our best business men and we are
glad to see this evidence of their prosperity
Year: 1877

The Turn -Verein Germania have added sing
ing society to their organization consisting of
members Of the Society, under the leadership of
Anthony Turajski. They will give concert at
Turner Hall on Thanksgiving Eve
Year: 1877

Statistics kept by oculists employed in
infirmaries for eye diseases have shown that
the habit of some persons in facing a win
dow from which the light falls directly in
the eyes as we'll as OF the work, Injuries the
eyes in the end. The best way is to work
with side light, or, if the work needs
strong illuminations, SO that it is necessary
to have the working table before the win
dow, the lower portion Of the latter should
be covered with screen, SO as to have a
top light alone, which does not shine in the
eyes when the head is slightly bent over
and downward toward the work. In the
schools in Germany this matter has already
been attended to and the rule adopted to
have all the seats and tables Sd arrange that
the pupils never face the windows, but only
have the side lights from the left; and as a
light simultaneously thrown from both
sides gives an interference Of shadows, it
has been strictly forbidden to build school,
rooms with windows on both sides, such IL
umina tions having also proved injurious
to the eyes Of the pupils. we may add to
this the advice not to place the lamp in
front of you when at work in the evening,
but a little on one side; and never to neg
lect the use Of shade, so as to prevent the
stloug light shining in the eyes.
Year: 1877

A man who registered as 'sJohn ]. Jones,
Montana Territory" on March 18th, and
spent week at one Of the leading Balti-
more hotels, has been the hero of number
of rather questionable exploits. He gave
out that he owned silver mine or two
and was worth million or more. He
said his employees in Montana were bad
SET, and he wanted to engage persons in
Baltimore to take their places, including
superintendents, clerks, &C., and spoke OF
paying fabulous salaries. His offers crea-
ted quite a sensation amongst adventurous
young Baltimoreans, who locked daily to
the hotel, all willing to 60 to Montana and
help Jones to take care OF his silver mines,
but drawback always presented itself in
the fact. that he wanted the applicants to
pay sum of money, 500 or thereabouts,
before he would engage them at such re-
sponsible business. Jones ordered suit
of clothes from fashionable tailor aud a
pair of boots from we'll known builder OF
that article. The tailor sent the clothes TO
the lotel with the bill, and request that
it be paid before the goods were delivered.
This want of confidence irritated Jones to
sucb degree that he sent the tailor's clerk
away with the clothes, which he said were
Ut fit to be worn by a silver mine prince.
The bootmaker sent to Jones, who ordered
them to be left at his room, as he had
weiehticr business than trying on boots to
dispose of at that time. The bootmaker
was disarmed Of all suspicion when Jones
pulled a package of 'ssilver dust from
one his pockets and Submitted it forexamI-
nation. with the remark that he had a ton
of the same sort. At the close of the week
Jones was missing. leaving hotel bill OF
Sat and the bootmaker unpaid. 1t has
been discovered that Jones. while III Baltl-
more, sought relaxation from the cares OF
his business at restaurant, where he is
| reported to have shown himself an accom-
plished song and dance man. and while in q
conyiyial mood one evening let out that he
had at one time travelled with circus
Baltimore Sun.
Year: 1877

For whatever purpose the horse is used,
the shoe should not be too light; because ii
is then liable to bend, and becomes an insult
ficient covering to the foot. The web OF
the shoe should be broad, and continued
through the whole shoe to the heels, to
give increased covering and protection to
the sole of the foot. The outside of the shoe
should exactly fit the crust of the hoof,
thereby giving the entire hoof an equal
bearing on all its parts from the toe to the
heel. The usual practice is to have por-
tion Of the shoe projecting outwards, along
both the outward and inner quarters of the
hoof and when this form of a shoe is con-
nected with narrowing of the web at the
heel, the effect is to place the heel upon the
inside line of the web, thereby producing
an unequal bearing upon the ground sur
face of the foot The setting off of the
shoe at the heels is. a great inconvenience
TO the horse when his foot sinks in the
ground, and it is in this way the most of
the shoes a.e pulled off or lest in the
SEOulluS OT IfOuueu Oh WIFI IuG OjucT ICOU.
1t is evident when the shoe fits the hoof of
the horse exactly, that when the foot is
pulled up through the ground after sink
ing, the shoe must follow the foot without
detriment or difficulty.


The shoe should be made sufficiently long
to fully support the entire structure Of the
heels. The shoe should be of equal thick
ness throughout, and should be carefully
adapted to the foot; this we cannot urge
too strongly. If the shoe does not sit per-
.faotly leSel seil round. and if it extends SO
far outside the hoof that the nails are pre-
vented from entering the crust at the exact
spot, and in the very direction which they
should, there will be constant straining
ON the nails, which is injurious TO the foot,
and will be liable to chip pieces off the
hoof. The shoe ought to be made wide
across the foot, at the point where the two
front nails are situated. The greatest mis-
take frequently lies there. -NationaJ Lige
Stock Journal.
Year: 1877

Philip Gilbert Hamilton, in his admirable
papers on "Inte]lectural Life" thus talks
of g the paper: Newspapers are to the
civilized world what the daily house
talk is to tine members of the family-they
keep onr daily interest in each other, they
save lis from the evils of isolation. To live
as member of the great white race that
has filled Europe and America and coloniz-
ed or conquered whatever territory it has
been pleased to occupy, to share from day
to day its thoughts, it's cares, its inspiration,
it is necessary that every man should read
his paper. Why are the French peasants
so bewiidered and ut sea? It is because
they never read a newspaper. And why
are the inhabitants of the United States,
though scattered over q territory fourteen
times tho area of France, SO much more
alive and modern, so much more interested
i'll new discoveries of all kinds and capable
of selecting and utilizing the best of them?
It is because the newspapers penetrate
every where, and even the lonely dweller on
the prairie or the forest is not intellectually
isolated from the great currents of public
life which flow through the telegraph and
prcss1
Year: 1877

James Parton, whose marital troubles
penetrated both hemispheres not many


moons ago, is in hot water again. His


wife has become the mother of boy, and


as she was his step-mother before marriage.


James is almost beside himself with ankle
ty as to the relation which he sustains to


the new conner. His friends have been try


ing to persuade him that being the father
of his grand-child he must be his own son,
but he is unwilling to accept that theory
and is about to apply to the Massachusetts
Legislature for an act defining fac degree
If any-of consanguinity. He has little
hope, however, of a satisfactory response as
the Legislature pointedly refused to regard
him as married man.
Year: 1877

The Detroit Free-Press says that a few
miles out from Detroit on the Gratiot
road, at a small place called Leesville.
lives Alexander Bender, well-to-do
farmer. A few days ago he started for
Romeo on business, leaving his wife and
a servant girl in charge of the house.
About four o'clock Mrs. Bender visited a
pasture lot near the barn to drive the
cattle under shelter, and discovered one
of the cows lying in one corner Of the
lot, while near her was lying newly
born calf. As the day was quite cold
Mrs. Bender's pity was aroused, and call
ing the servant girl proposed that
together they should carry the calf into
the barn.


During the conversation the cow re-
mained perfectly quiet, but when Mrs.
Bender made a motion to lift the calf,
the cow, with a spring and rush,
caught the lady upon her horns and
threw her into the air. The servant girl
fed, screaming, to distant part of the
field, and her shouts, with the cries .o1
terror from Mrs. Bender, seemed to goad
the infuriated COW, as she again and
again tossed the woman into the air unit
the latter fell insensible to the ground
The cow then began to roll the body o
the inanimate woman over and over il
the mud, and finally lowered her horns
rushed at the woman, and with tire
mendous use of strength lifted her from
the ground and threw her completed
over fence that is fully five feet high
Separated from her prey the COW re
turned to her calf and Mrs. Bender's lit


was saved.


The frightened servant girl arouse


the neighbors and messenger was ser


for DIR. Kaiser, and when Mrs. Bende
was examined it was found that one


her legs was broken just above the kne


both legs were badly bruised, her bod
was covered with bruises and slight cut


while there was one horrible woun
, about six inches in length, from the tt
of the right him joint around nearly


the pit of the stomach.
Year: 1877

COLONEL JOHN w. DIX, son of Ex-
Governor Dix, died at the home of his
father in New York city recently. He
was Secretary of Legation with his
father in Paris, and Private Secretary at
Albany while his father was Governor
OF the State. He had for several years
been his fathers Private Secretary, and
had the sole management of valuable
trust estate.
Year: 1877

AMONG other novelties introduced this
season are founces made of alternate
lengthwise stripes of the silk and the
wool Of the costume. These are each an
inch wide at their broadest, are pointed
top and bottom, and instead of being
gathered, are sloped narrower at the top.