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Year: 1879

A CARD TO THE PUBLIC.


large number OF the citizens OF Paw Paw
have united In Temperance League for the
special object Of securing the strict enforce
ment OF temperance LAVE. Everybody knows
that the existing laws OF the State regulating
the traffic in alcoholic spirits, are dieregarded
IN this community. We have no law prohibit
ing the sale OF Intoxicating liquors, bat we
hare laws which are intended to restrict the
sale, and which forbid the .ale to some classes
OF people, and on the Sabbath day, and after
certain hours Of the night. There are also,
charter privileges by which the Village Board
may pass aud enforce ordinances which shall
reprsss the business of the public sale OF
liquors. Now it is certain that by uniting the
temperance people Of the village and township
in al ernest and we'll directed movement to
enforce the laws against the liquor traffic,
much may be accomplished.


We may not be able at once TO rid our
beautiful village of those saloons where men
are made drunkaIds and young men and boys
are started IN the ways OF vice. But we can
certainly restrict the public sale OF liquors
within the bounds permitted by law aud rescue
many, especially the Young, from the jaws OF
intemperanoe.


The enforcement OF temperance laws is the
effective means Of doing this. We do not
abandon moral Sudsion, nor neglect means
of spreading and deepening a healthy moral
sentiment on the temperance question. while
we find, and feel, the need OF the enforce
ment OF temperance laws.


All who are In favor OF temperance. aud
wish to see intemperance, so Gar as possible
repressed, are earnestly called upon to join
this League and vote IN the coming village
and township election for men who are pledged
If elected to do what they can in their reepec-
tive Office, for the stnct enforcement OF ALI
temperance laws.


This movement is strictly local, and has no
reference to party politics. Temperance men
OF all political parties join 10 it without chang
ing or effecting their party relations. We need
not maintain the party lines in this local elec-
ton, when Q matter of so vital interest to the
welfare Of our community and OF many homes
and many lives among u.s. is at Issue


Let Us leave questions of State and National
policy to the State and National elections and
unite in securing the enforcement Of our tenn
persnce laws.


S. H. BLACKMAN, President.
j. W. FREE, Secretary.
Year: 1879

She has gone from you, but not forever,
II you will only tread
In the road that she has travelled,
To that land beyond the dead.
There bright hopes await you,
For you can once more see
Her bright form, beyond the river,
Waiting there to welcome thee.
Though long years you have toied together
In this care-worn world OF ours,
There will surely come parting,
Though it be but few hours.
It will not be long before you II follow
To that land beyond the sea;
And happy will be the greeting
That awaits over there for thee.
Five and thirty years you've labored
For each others comfort here;
But the band OF Death has taken her
To that land without tear.
Do not think though she has left you,
You must labor in despair;
You have children here to comfort,
That would miss fathers care.
You have sons, and one dear daughter,
That needs your counsel and your prayer,
And may you ever try to teach them
To meet that mother over there.


H.v. w.
Year: 1879

"They cured me of Ague, Bllliousness and
Kidney Complaint, as recommended. I had a
half bottle left which l used for my two little
girls, whom the doctors and neighbors said
could not be cured. | am confident should
have lost both Of them one night If had not
had the Hop Bltters in my house to use. I
found they did them 80 much good continued
with them, and they are now we'll That is
why cay you do not know half the value OF
Hop Bitters, and do not recommend them
highly enough."-B., Rochester, N. Y.
Year: 1879

DAN in the right side, under the
l edge of the ribs, increases on pres
sure; sometimes the pain is in the left
side; the patient is rarely able to lie
On the left side; sometimes the pain is
ielt under the shoulder blade, and it
frequently extends to the top Of the
shoulder, and is sometimes mistaken
for rheumatism in the arm. The
stomach is affected with loss Of appe-
tite and sickness; the bowels in gen
eral are costive, sometimes alternative
with lax; the head is troubled with
pain, accompanied with dull, heavy
sensation in the back part. There is
generally a considerable loss of men,
ory, accompanied with a painful SEN
sation of having left undone some
thing which ought to have been done.
a slight, dry cough is sometimes an
attendant. The patient complains of
weariness and debility; he is easily
startled, his feet are cold or burning,
and he complains of prickly sensa-
ton of the skin; his spirits are low;
and although he is satisfied that exer-
else would be beneficial to him, yet
he can scarcely summon up fortitude
enough to try it. In fact, he distrusts
every remedy. Several of the above
symptoms attend the disease, but cases
have occurred where few of them ex-
isted, yet examination of the body,
after death, has shown the LIVER to
have been extensively deranged.
Year: 1879

Hon. c. c. Bea7, one of Yavapais most energetic and useful citizens, returned this morning from trip to New York city. We have not interviewed the Colonel as to his success in placing portion of his valuable mining stock in the market and realizing therefrom, but understand that he IS satis- fled with his trip, which is pretty good proof tlat his tour was not made without success. The Col. does not know much about the movements of other Arizonans, who arc or were in New York.
Year: 1879

John Shore, Of Reno county, while en-
gagged in picking up bones in the vicinity
OF the head OF the Nine Cottonwoods,
picked up the skeleton of man. The
frame was complete with the exception Of
the skull. The bones were all very large,
the hip bone in particular, it measuring
near two feet in length. The bones were
piled on the wagon with the others, buffalo,
and the like, and all carried away to
spread on the impoverished hills of the
east The former occupant of the frame Is
supposed 10 have been an Indian.
Year: 1879

4 disgusting spectacle regalei the senses
Of our citizens last Monday, where an old
man, whose name We Withhold in veneration
OF his age, forced his wife and daughter to
enter saloon and drink with him. His
songs were loud and OF doubtful, ul,character
Defying the authorities be made the streets
a very bedlam. We learn that alter leav-
ing town he beat his daughter in very
brutal manner.
Year: 1879

Ii is a fixed fact that Topeka and Shaw
nee county can boast Of being entirely free
of a house of prostitution. Proceedings are
also being instituted against the gambling
dens OF the city, and will be kept up until
they are closed.
Year: 1879

And write the GentlemGn's Magazine
who ably defends the moderate use OF
tobacco relates the following instances to
show what a hold the habit may have
upon persons "a city man that / know
gets half. an hour for his luncheon or
dinner in the middle of the day; but he
manages to eat a few biscuit during
office hours, and spends his half hour
walking up and down one of the quays
smoking. This man walks to the ciCy
every morning from his home, the dis
tance being three miles; he also walks
home every evening; and he smokes in
cessantly during the walks each way.
He dimes at six clock, and then smokes
without ceasing until bedtime. On
Sunday he smokes all day, except dur
ing meals; he will never attend a place
of worship, because it would curtail his
smoking. He will never gointo society
with his wife, and, indeed, will not talk
to her at home, as it disturbs his smOk-
ing. IN all other respects this man is
good husband and father. Another ac-
quaintaince of mine, who is a highly
intellectual and deeply-read man, will
tolerate nothing that will postpone his
smoke. At dinner he is in a perpetual
drive to get done, So as to begin his pipe;
he wants no pudding, cheese or dessert;
taking these would involve loss of time,
and put off the smoking period few
minutes longer. He likewise requires no
tea or supper, protesting he is not hungry
and that he does not wish to be disturbed
in his smoke. Another man that |
know is in Government Office, and
when the usual public holidays occur,
such as the Queens birthday, his treat
is to lie in bed all day and smoke. The
gentlemal ismarried, and always smokes
his last pipe in bed.
Year: 1879

A writer In Sunday afternoon says


TO such depths of degradation had /
| come at last that / must wash my own


clothes, and, like Mr.. Mantalini, l
thought it demhition grind indeed.


Had / heel as fastidious as some people
ere, they might have gone uhwashed
till the summers end fer all of me and
my drudgery, but my baser nature pre-
vailed, and went forth, laden like a
slop-shop peddler, to wash my clothes


Over the valley and half way up the hill
was a pool of warm mineral water
which was better than concentrated lye
for this purpose, SO they said. By its
side there sat an Indian, solemn and
alone,. probably come here a mission
Ike mine, and contemplating with tim
orous hesitation the event of his annual
clean shirt. He looked at me and
smiled. He saw the burden I bore,
realized my intentions, noticed my
hands, the cut of my whiskers, and
other such items of appearance, and
almost lSIghed outright, WE'LL what
of itP III.


To say that was nettled by his
mirth and evident enjoyment is to put
it very mildly. I could have slain him
forthwith had not feared remOnstrance
on his part. AS it was I could only
take revenge, which proved to be ample
and sweet, by teaching him lesson in
the useful art of washing. From the
moment in which I dipped the first
garment into the water he become in
terested. When I drew it out and
shattered it around upon the rock which
was my washboard, and plastered it
with soap, which I rubbed in with my
knuckles, just as I had seen my VII
beg her pardon-my washerwoman do,
he smiled, not in derisioD, but in de-
light. Then mangled the cloth, tort
ured it, twisted it, and wasted the bet
ter part of my strength on it. After a
time of exertion, emerging from a sea
of lather and suds, gave the cleansed
garment pull through the fresh water
to rinse it, and, with many dextorous
twirl of hand over fist, wrung it dry.
Holding it up before his eyes, l shook
the folds of flannel to the breeze, and
10. they were as blue as the depths of
heaven at midday. Then the stole
savage could no longer contain his ad-
miration within himself, and he cried
in his confusion of tongues, " You sabe
muncho (which polyglot compliment
may be translated to mean, You've
washed beforel. Like as not your wife
takes in washing for living"
Year: 1879

Information has been received from
the Pyreneesa that in searching the
ancient sites of Phocean and Phoenician
settlements, DIR. Phene has found a
bronze head of the goddess Isis, of rude
but expressive workmanship The horns
of the cow are well formed, and sur
mounting them is the crescent moon;
the ears of the cow are pendant and dis
tinct, and with the exception of the face,
which is benignant and of human form,
the portion of the body exhibited is
clothed in the skin of the COW. 1t APP
pears to have been made for elevation
on staff or standard. Some rude
objects found with it indicate a very
early date
Year: 1879

Never fail to be punctual at the tim
appointed.


Never read letters which you may 6no
addressed to others.


Never make yourself the hero of yoU'
own story.


Never fail, if a gentleman, of being
civil and polite to ladies'


Never associate with bad company
Have good company or none


Never look over the shoulderof another
who is reading or writing.


Never answer questions in general
company that have been put to others.


Never arrest the attention of an ac-
quaintance by touch. Speak to him.


Never punish your child for fault TO
which you are addicted yourself
Year: 1879

1T has been ascertained that people
who eat a great deal of bakers bread are
of quarrelsone disposition. Don't hit a
man when he calls you a liar until you
find out what sort of bread he eats.
Year: 1879

The Pennsylvania railroad company
are about To build in Philadelphia the
largest and best=litted hotel in that city.
BY and by we may expect to see rail
road company go into the dry goods and
grocery business.
Year: 1879




Two Englishmen, Henry F. Tozer and
| T. NJ Crowder, have recently assembled
| Mount Argaus, the highest mountain in
Asia Minor. 1t is only 1000 feet less
elevated than Mount ATarat, in Western
Asia In the account which they send
to the London Times, they state that
their first tent was pitched on the noun
tain side 5000 feet above the level of the
sea. At o'clock the next morning they
started under a brilliant light of the full
moon, and began climb of 1000 feet,
which was a terrible hard piece of work,
as the ground was extremely steep and
the face of the mountain was covered
with loose stones and masses of fallen
rock equally untrustworthy to the foot.
When they were in the middle of this
climb the first rays of the sun fell on the
pOrphyry rocks above them and pro-
duced a splendid effect by turning them
to bright crimson.


At last, about a. M, they reached
the ridge, where there was a long arete
of snow at the head of vast snow-slope,
which formed a conspicuous object on
the north side when seen from Kaiserieh.
Cutting a w.steps in the frozen snow
they reached point some 200 feet
higher, at the base of the final peak,
which rose over fifty feet above, and was
perpendicular and wholly impracticable.
This point had been reached before by
Hamilton, the Secretary of the London
Geographical Society, in 1887, and by
Tehibacheff, the Russian savant, in l848.
The view was very extensive including
the long line of Anti-Taurus to the east,
the mountains that run down toward
Lycaonia to the southwest, and to the
north the vast undulating plains, or
rather steppes, which occupy the in
terror of the country. But far the most
remarkable feature was the mountain
itself, for the lofty pinnacles of porphyry
which rose around and beneath them,
veritable eigiles, were as wonderful a
sight as could be conceived 1t was
strange, even in that land of Cappadocia,
which is full of ancient rocks excayated
close to the summit; and these chambers
were clearly artificial, for the marks of
the chisel were evident along the roof
and walls, and there were inches cut in
the sides.
Year: 1879

MINERS must be rather fearless set
of men. Pennsylvania presents The extra
ordinary case Of ten acres Of coal burning
fercely underground, and beneath this
mass Of Are the miners. are calmly hack
ing away at a vein Of unburning coal,
while the drops of water that ooze
through the ceiling above them are scald-
ING hot.
Year: 1879

A. c. Heslng is operating in min ing in Sonora for Chicago com pany, and the Citizen lets him tell his experience in getting his mach lnery through the port of Guaymas;

 The custom laws are very rigid, and they are now enforced very strictly. The duty on some articles is very extravagant, amounting al most to confscation and he who believes that mining machinery and tools may be imported free of duty will find himself surely deceived By oversight good many of my goods had been invoiced wrongly Some goods should have been in voiced by weight that were not; others were liable to three fold duty because classed with other articles. Through the kind intervention of Consul Willard and Mir. Barting, l got off comparatively easy, and had to pay double duty only on lot of hardware which had been billed as machinery, but is looked upon he-e as merchandise, notwithstanding it is intended for use in mining mach inery.
Year: 1879

The Miner is informed that Joseph Fares of Bradshaw proposes to build according to the terms of the late law, practicable wagon road from Bradshaw city to Gillett for the sum of S15,0O0, and give a good bond for the faithful fulfilment of his contract. He proposes to lay off the road into five sections, and upon the completion of each section the Commissioners are to pay seventy y-tive per cent of the amount he is to re- ceive for each section, reserving twenty-five per cent until the next section is completed and so on until the route is opened direct to the town of Gillett to the City of Brad shaw. This strikes us a good offer for the commissioners, inasmuch as the gentlemen is ready to give a good bond for the faithful perform ance of the work The road from Peek to Bradshaw is soon to be open ed and if the commissioners of the road to Gillett bestir themselves, we will soon have a practicable highway from the town of Prescott to Gilctt via the most important mining camps in the county, and from 9 to 30 miles nearer than by any other route.
Year: 1879

It is not generally known that there exists in the northern part of Aiizona GOO Indians who subsist entirely on what they can pick up in the way of acorns, berries, nuts, grass and little wild game. Still such is the case. The Wallapai Indians, includ- ing a small band of some 150 Ava-Su- Pais, if anything exceed 1000 in number, and for several years have lived without aid from the Govern ment. preferriug to suffer almost any thing. even starvation, rather than give up their country in the North and 90 on to the reservation at San Carlos. This season has, nufortun- ately, been a hard one for our red brethren. Rains has not visited them as usual the grass has to grow consequently no seed from the grass The oak bushes have failed to give their usual supply of acorns. The mescal has dried up and of 100 springs not over twenty afford water thus the poor wretches are compelled to gather into larger bands than is usual with them and their suffering for want of food has been great. They have cleared about seventy acres of land, and put in quite crop of corn and potatoes Twenty one of the Flutes who were taken to Sincoe last winter have died, and there are quite number of others on the sick list, many of whom are not expected to live Those of the tribe who were taken 10 Vancouver as prisoners of war are not heard from, and they do not know what is going to be done with them. Prin- cess Sally hankers for pine-nuts, and wants Naches to send her as many of them as he can. She cannot tell.

 when, if ever, she and her people

 are coming back, as they cannot

 leave without orders from Washing

 ton to that effect
Year: 1879

Some attention given in Tucson to the life and habits of seven-inch centipede, says the Citizen, left the impression upon the observer that that agreeable insect is slightly mis

 understood by the public. He has not hundred legs but just forty sma lest legs are next to the head, and the largest, each an inch and half long, are intimately connected with the tailor might be, had he q tail at all. Each leg terminates in sharp claw, and when the ami nal is startled ol an attempt made to shake him of, he will, no doubt, pinch hard enough to wound the flesh of man, after the manner of a cats scratch But he does not seem to purpose any damage to the object to which he clings, and it is doubtful whether such injuries would have any serious effect He has a terrible large pair of pincers attached to his head, winch he uses when he is an gry, and the specimen observed this morning needed to make but one dive. with those warlike instruments, to lay a large tarantula on his back quivering in death. We have always heard that the centipede bit with his legs, but it is certain that he possesses
Year: 1879

Dr. J. c. Handy is improving a tract of land about three miles from Tucson on the Lowell road, with a view to making a hospital for such indigent and other sick people as may come under his personal and professional care in hospital He has selected a nice and suitably lo- cated tract of 160 acres and began the improvement some time ago by let ting contract for well, water be ing the first thing needed. The we'll is now 60 feet deep and in damp sand. Adobes for the building will be made on the ground, and it is so intended to arrange the rooms as to make them most conducive to the personal and therefore, physical well being of au, whose fortunes, or rather misJortunes, may compel them to enter hospital for treatment.
Year: 1879

A very interesting cave has been recently discovered, says the Citizen ca the west side of the Huachuca Mountains and about twenty miles from the military camp The size of the subterranean cavern is about 40x 80 feet in limestone formation and averhung with beautiful stelectitcs of various sizes, some of which reach from the roof to the floor and form pillars two feet in diameter. The Indians evidently knew of this cave and have built fires fn it. On one of the pillars is drawing in charcoal which resembles a Gila monster, This cave was discovered during the early part of the present month by some boys who own the John Dix mine, situated about mile from the cave.
Year: 1879

Few indeed, in this world, can boast of
q life over whose sky no cloud or shade "
has been cast, Who has not wrlthlnS and
blighted hopes hidden beneath the sacred
seal of the heart Alas! all have had
some golden dream broken by awakening 6
to q sad reality: some treasured object of
love torn from their bosoms by the relent-
less hand of fate, and yet, while we drop
a tear of sympathy, or writhe with an
guish, this little beacon star springs up in
the dark recesses OF the soul, aud points
us to brighter cline. To-day our young
hearts are filled with joyous emotions, our
fond schemes all laid out: our prospects
flattering. But these bright authorizations
when to be realized Echo answers
when? We cherish the SWEET compan-
ionship of a devoted brother whose pres
ence seems to fill half the charmed home
circle whose influence shed a radiance
around the hearthstone; when death,
unexpected messenger, comes and folrs
him in his icy embrace, and We are forced
to exclaim "what shadows we are and
what shadows we pursue 7" TO whose eye
will the remembrance of a fond lost moth
er's smile not force tears The words of
consolation she whispered in our ear, in
the hour of grief, are tokens of love fold
ed in memory's book as green leaves. Such
disappointment cannot be realized by
those who still revel in mothers love.
And thus our earthly hopes are like flow
ers of the forest, that bud, bloom and
flourish for u season, till famed by the
chilled breath of Autumn, and then droop
their heads and die.