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Year: 1879

national union. It is wheft n nation begins to rust that revolt. tions begin to hatch.

 The route from Austin. Texas to Topolovampo Bay is not diff. cult one; a survey will demon strate not only its feasibility, but demonstrate that it must he a profitable investment; the gone ral government taking the initial step to foster and encourage the examination, will be great source Of power to any company that may organize to undertake the work.

 It is to be hoped, by those at least who know something of the importance of this work, that the MeXicans may wake up some morning to find an American sur veying party stalking off a city on their beautiful bay, to be soon Oc- cupied by the class of men that make commerce bloom, and send the warm life bleod of this Yan- kee nation out fin every new channel promising good returns; then furnaces and miils will go full as fast as the railroad pushes out into the mining belt, and gen. eraI activity and peace where idleness and discord now reign. Let congress settle the border question with Mexico by pushing bands of steel out to the beaui. full Bay of Topolavampo.-Ex.
Year: 1879

the Use of water in effecting the amalgaRaation of quicksilver with the preci nHS metals, appears to be growing in faver with our mill men and practical metallurgiSts. Ever since the attention of the mining public began to be strong Iy called to the advantages Of this method through the partial introduction of tlre: Paal process for crushing and amalgamating the ores of gold and silver wholly dry, it has been gradually working its way into a large use. That this shOwld have been the case is not surprising. When we con- sider the percentage of loss that attends humid amalgamation, it seems strange that the dry plan has made so little progress, it's superiority having been so clearly proven through the many success full trials of the Paul invention.

 From Mark Silver, a young

 man who has had a good deal of experience in milling ores. we learn that one Of the Paul crush CTS, supplemented by a novel method of amalgamation, has been employed for the past six months with gratifying results in the mill of Chas. D. Smyth, at Murphy's Camp, Calaveras county. The ore here, after being pulverized and frightened in the manner peculiar to the Paul ma- chine, is sdusted on a appropriated mercury-coated cylinder which

 revolves in a dust proof chamber. The instant the gold so frightened touches the quicksilver it is ta. ken up even to the finest atom, while the base metals and all other refuse matter are rejected and thrown into the stream below none of these latter during their brief contact being able to attach themselves to the surface of the revolving cylinder. For the pur- pose of cleaning up, lathe rig ged with hard piece of rubber IS brought to bear against the

 cylinder while in motion, rellev-

 ing 1t etfectually and so readily of the amalgam that a delay oi

 i've minutes SufficeS for cleaning

 upthe mill. With the aid of these appliances gold-bearing quartz has been worked in large qualitl- ties with much greater closeness than 1t is possible to do with arastras; aud so manifest are the
Year: 1879

A large crowd gathered at the Ash
land House to witness the arrival OF
Ro well from Madison-Square Garden at
his headquarters He arrived there in
company with some gentlemen friends,
and was at once escorted to the parlor
of the late John Morrissey. He was
most heartily greeted by q number of
ladies and gentlemen.
Year: 1879

3 About 10 o'clock yesterday Mrs. ). R.
Collins, living on st. Peter street, left her
house for few moments on visit in
neighborly way. When she returned home
after short absence she could but ejacu-
late "who's been here since I've been gone,'
for the evidence was apparent of some one
being there by the absence of her purse.
In it were a few dollars, . gold ring and
check on the Second national bank. She had
left it on table, and hunt about the
house could not bring it to light. Inquiry
about it being made, it was learned that
while Mrs. Collins was out neighbor OBJ
served . slouchy looking woman enter her
house and then soon come out and
hurry off. It. is supposed this
woman got away with the portmonaie.
When the affair was reported ct police head
quarters, the suspected thief had two hours
start of any pursuit, and such q, poor de-
scription of her was given that the possibil-
ity Of arresting her is supremely among the
shadowy possibilities
Year: 1879

The New York papers mention
the case of the widow Lewis, of
Phoenix, in that State, who had
five sons, all of whom entered the
Union army and were killed She
had never received a pension, but
had become very poor and was
dependent upon charity. The pas
sage of the arrears Of pensions bill
came to her relief. She drew ST.
800 back pension, and is guaran-
teed pension in the future of 500
per year. Year after year that old
woman struggled alcng in her
poverty. The Republican party
had tull control of all departments
Of the government. They passed
private pension bills to aid humid
Year: 1879

We print the following as a sam
PIE OF the modest expressions of
the Grant organs, printed for the
refined society of the North, which
shows the Southern people what is
in store for them if Grant shall
again come into power:
Year: 1879

the first of this month rhe mill has turned
out 100000 in bullion, and has never
stopped an hour since set to going two
months ago. spent several days in the
mill with Mr.. Gird and witnessed the
whole process of reduction, from the
crushing of the ore to the emptying Of the
amalgam filters, distilling of the mercury,
melting and casting the silver and goA
into ingots worth from $500 to 81, 500.
One Of these precious bars was made every
twenty four hours. When ten have been
made they are taken in the bullion coach
and strongly guarded on the journey Of
20 miles to Tucson, where it is placed in
charge Of the express company and fer
warded to Philadelphia.


The day before / left ~ CAGE started
up work on the Grand Central mine, pur
chased water right and the company
have made arrangements to erect 10
stamp mill. In all there will be 55 stamps
in operation in the Tombstone mine in
side of six months, which will make it the
liveliest camp in the Territory. The ac-
commodation of such vast business will
necessitate the building of considerable
town on the San Pedro at the crossing of
the Southern Pacific Railroad, twenty
miles from Tombstone. Yours truly,


E. T. Cox.
Year: 1879

IT has happened lately that a number Of
people with families to educate have gone
to live in France for a few years that they
may reduce their expenses That is quite
compliment to France, but they might
have lived here just as cheaply. 1t is not
the prices that are so much the less, but
the good management of the heads of fami-
lies that makes everything 60 farther than
1t does here or anywhere else. There is
not there SO great profusion of everything
as here, and so people must be careful and
conscientious for fear they come to want
the very things that are almost thrown away
in this country. SO if strangers keep house
in France they find it no great saving, for
they take with them them the same prodi-
gal, wasteful ways that they have at home.
1t the prices of the same eatables are but
small, others again are very much higher
than in this country, and many compare
very equally.


In France the leading thought in every
good housekeeper's mind is economy; not
parsimony, but regular systematic frugal
lty. If servants there should throw away
the water in which vegetables were boiled,
they would be considered wanting in thrift :;
for if anything is boiled, the essence and
flavor of that substance is to be found in
the water in which it was cooked 1t is
usual there to steam most vegetables, but
when they are boiled the least fluid posi-
BILE is used; and if that, with the addition
OF cream or butter, is not suitable to serve
as dressing for the vegetables, 1t is always
put into the pot in which the soup stock is
kept That is kept as a receptacle for all
things which will help to flavor and enrich
the soup, and which seem to be proper only
for that use. Every little bit of bone and
gristle that is trimmed from meat that is
to be served In other forms, every leaf of
celery, every core of cabbage, even the
wing tips of chickens and the crumbs that
fall from the loaf of bread when the slices
are cut off, and every other eatable thing
that elsewhere would be thrown away, are
dropped into the vessel, which in England
is called the stock-kettle, in France the
F0t-du,teu. Do not fancy that the soups
are weak, or that anything is put into them
which would be disagreeable to think of.
1t is there the habit of housekeepers to
buy often nice bone of beef, with mar
row left in it, and this will be the basis of
stock for several days, the constant addi-
tion have spoken of giving to it tone and
flavor, and helping it to last longer, be-
sides saving from loss many things that are
nourishing and palatable. The first day
the stock is made it should be cooked slow
ly for several hours and skinned accession
ally, and once every day after it should bt
heated over. it will be quite jelly when il
is cold, and you cut out piece the size
will you require, and take it for the founda-
ton of soups of different names and flavors,
straining, and if for clear soup, clarity
ing the portion you make use of.
Year: 1879

A great big gool-naturod fellow, about
twenty-five years OF age, came along to a
feed store yesterday, where two men were
ending up bale Of hay, and calling to
them to stand aside, he flung the bale
around as if he were playing with a
quarter sack of flour. The act called
forth the admiration ofall the bystanders,
and the man IN charge of the store wink
ed the giant aside, and SAID:


You are the man I've been looking for
In. the hay department down stairs, we
have a young fellow Of eighteen who
thinks he can clean out anything wearing
boots, and I'm anxious to have uim taken
down peg Or two; If you'll go doan
and pick HIM up and mop him around a
few times, I'll give you half a dollar.
Don't hurt him, but just bounce him
around and take the conceit out f him.


The big man descended the stairs and
when he struck the last step, he called
out in an awful voice:


''Where in bazes is that fellow called
jim? I've walked seven miles this morn.
ing to mash him to a jelley' and fifty
dollar bills won't buy me off,


Here am y came a voice from behind
the bales, and the giant was heard feeling
his way along, and growing to himself:


Thinks he runs this town, does he?
All l want in this world is to git my
paws on him for about the millionth part
of second!'


His wish was gratificd. Those stand
ing at the door above heard struggle,
quick gasps and tussle, and the giant
suddenly appeared without his hat, his
nose all blood, and hair on end. He was
in hurry. He halted just long enough
to cast a glance of reproach at the feed
store man, and then hoped over a con
signment Of oats, and was lost on the
street. They listened down the stairs
and after moment Of silence a calm
voice was heard singing:


Call me early, call me often,
Let me be your little pet"
Year: 1879

The result has been = reached, and proved
absolutely that Byrant was the murderer.
It seems that Cotton had informed upon
some of Byrapt's relatives, who had been
running an illicit still, and it was though


best to put Cotton out of the way. One
witness testified that Byrant had offered to
sec him paid if he would kill Cotton, and
afterwards tried to get HIM to get Cotton out
of town, where he (ByranD could "get fair
lick at him." The witness declined to do
either of these things, and said nothing about
it. Byrant did succeed in getting Cotton to.
the retired place, and then struck him over
the head with a bludgeon and killed him.
He buried the body where it fell He to
several persons of it. 1t is not shown that
Byrant had any accomplice, but it appears
rather that he acted of his own volition, or a
drunken, half-crazy theory that Cotton must
be billed to save his (Byrant) relatives
Year: 1879

THE coffin was plain one--a poor miser-
able pine coffin No flowers on the top; no
lining of white satin for the pale brow no
smooth ribbons about the coarse shroud
The brown hair was laid decently back, but
there was no crimped cap with neat tie be-
meath the chin. The sufferer of cruel
poverty smiled in her sleep; she had found
bread, rest and health.


II want to see my mother" sobbed a
poor little child, as the undertaken screwed
down the top.


You cannot; get out of the way, boy !;
why don't somebody take the brat


"Only let me see her one minute "
cried the helpless orphan, clutching the
side of the charity box, and as he gazed
upon the rough box, agonized tears stream
ed down the cheeks on which no childish
bloom ever fingered. Oh it was painful
to have him cry the words. "Only once, let
me see mother. only once'


Quickly and brutally the heartless mon
ster struck the boy away, so that he reeled
with the blow. For moment the boy
stood painting with grief and rage-his blue
eyes distended, his lips sprang apart, fire
glittered through his eyes as he raised his
little arm with most unchildish laugh and
screamed, When Pm man I'll be reveng-
ed for that !"


There WAS a coffin and heap of earth
between the mother and the poor forsaken
child-a monument much stronger than
granite built in the boys heart the memory
of the heartless deed


*


The courthouse was crowded to suffoca-
ton.


. Does any one appear as this mans
counsel ?" asked the Judge.


There was a silence when he had finish
ed, until, with lips tightly pressed together,
a look of strange intelligence blended with
a naughty reserve upon his handsome fea-
lures. young man stepped forward with a
firm tread and kindly eye to plead for the
erring friend.ess He was a stranger, but
at the first sentence, there was silence
The splendor of his genius enhanced-con-
vincel.


The man who could not find friend was
acquitted


May God bless you, sir; I cannot" he
said.


II want no thanks, replied the stranger


''1-l-l believe you are unknown to
me-"


" Man, will refresh your memory
Twenty years ago, this day, you struck
broken hearted little boy away fror. his
dead mothers coffin. l was that boy"


The man turned livid.


Have you rescued me, then, to take my
life ?"


8 No, l have a sweeter revenge l have
saved the life of man whose brutal con-
duct has ranked in my breast for the last
twenty years. Go. then and remember the
tears of friendless child''


The man bowed his head in shame, and
went from the presence of magnanimity as
grand to him as it was incomprehensible
Year: 1879

The Murder of Rerenue Agent Cotton


Traced to the Perpetrator After the Lapse


Of I,co Years.


Gainesville (Ga.) Special.


The mystery of the killing of Cotton, the
revenue agent, has been cleared up finally
and effectually by official investigation.
Cotton, one of the most effective of the
revenue agents, was missing one day about
two years ago. But little was thought of his
disappearance, as he was constantly out on
secret raids, and was man of very irregular
habits About the time Of the disappearance,
Bvrant, q worthless fellow about the town,
told several parties that he had killed Cotton,
and even went so far as to give the reasons
for it. Nobody paid any attention to it. A
few weeks ago the bones of a man were found
at the spot where Byrant said he had buried
Cotton. Byrant was dying at the time of
this discovery, and the man who found them
said nothing to disturb his last days. He
died in about q week, everything being kept
quiet in the meantime. After his death the
discovery was announced. 1t was then
thought that probably the scheme was to
protect some one else by putting the crime
on Byrant, and an investigation was had.
Year: 1879

| 1F prid de leads the van, poverty brings up
| the rear.


| Absence is the greatest of evils when, it
| isn't the best of remedies. .tt-
No one is more profoundly sad than he
who is obliged to laugh.
Laziness grows on people. It begins in
cobwebs and ends in iron chains.
When fortune caresses man too much,
she is apt to make fool of him.
Annihilate not the mercies of God by the
oblivion of gratitude Sir Thomas B,0acne
Those days are lost in which we do no
good, those worse than lost in which we do
evil.


There is but one place of rest for the ihu-
man mind, and that is on the Rock Of
Christ


Be very careful, if you regard yourself as
the guardian of your honor, that you do
not occupy the position of sinecure.


Value the friendship of him who stands
by you in the storm; swarms of insects
will surround you in the sunshine.


He that has really felt the bitterness of
sin, will fear to commit it; and he that
hath felt the sweetness of mercy will fear
to offend it.


If we grieve the Spirit of God by our
lightness, worldliness, or presumption we
do but fill our own cup with wormwood
and gall.


He who is false to present duty breaks a
thread in the loom, and will see the defects
when the weaving of lifetime is unrolled.


There is place more destructive of the
manhood of living man than war is destruc-
tive of his material body. Chains are worse
than bayonets.


l know not which of the twain lifts man
the higher, genius or gentleness genius
lifts him above others, gentleness out of
himself.


1t is not until the flower has fallen off
that the fruit begins to ripen. So in life.
it is when the romance is past that the
practical usefulness begins.


Some people talk hours and say nothing
others there are who, by the mere lifting
OF an eyebrow or the gesture of a hand, are
comparatively eloquent.


Sensibility is like the stars; they can
lead only when the sky is clear. Reason is
the magnetic needle which guides the ship
when the stars are wrapt in darkness.


Whatever difficulties you have to encoun-
ter, be not perplexed, but think only what
is right to do in the sight of Him who seeth
all things, and bear, without repining, the
result.


In the dark we are most apt to be fright
ened; the clearer sight we have of the SOW
ereignty and power of heaven, the less we
shall fear the calamities of this earth.


Preserve your conscience always soft and
sensitive. If but one sin force itself into
that tender part of the soul and dwell
there, the road is paved for a thousand in
iquities.


Places of difficulty prove mans weakness
and want !; but they are made great bless
ings when the Lord comes unto them to
supply all that is wanting, in the riches of
his great love.


An old gentleman OF eighty-four having
taken to the altar damsel of sixteen, the
clergyman said to him: 's You will find the
font at the opposite end Of the church. y
What do want with the font?" asked
the old gentleman. II beg your pardon"
said the clerical wit, 81 thought you had
brought the child to be christened"
Year: 1879

A GYMNAsTIC BIRD. - There is a pretty
little bird that lives in China, and is called
the fork-tailed parus. He is about as big
as robin, and he has red beak, orange.
colored throat, green back, yellow legs,
black tail, and red and yellow wings. Nearly
all the colors are in his dress, you see, and
he is gay fellow. But this bird has a
trick known by no other birds that ever
heard of. He turns somersaults. Not
only does he do this in his free life on the
trees, but also after he is caught and put
into cage. He just throws hid head back
and over he goes, touching the bars of the
cage and alighting upon his feet on the floor
or on the perch. He will do it over and
over number of times without stopping
as though he thought it great fun
Year: 1879

A clergyman, who was consoling young
widow on the death of her husband spoke
in very serious tone, remarking that he
was lone of the few. Such jewel of
Christian-you cannot find his equal, you
well know" To which the sobbing fair one
replied, with an almost broken heart "Tu
bet will"
Year: 1879

C1LICATE OF PoTAssA.-The value of
silicats of potassa or soda is now apprecia-
ted to far greater extent than formerly,
in its industrial application. Walls plas-
tered with lime mortar, for instance, are
rendered very hard, close and smooth, as
well as capable of being washed, by apply
ing few times silicate, either alone or
mixed with chalk or any coloring material.
The binding power, too, of the silicates
has been turned to valuable account in the
hardening or silicatization of soft, porous
stones, whereby tender material like
chalk, may be rendered available for build
ing purposes by repeated saturations with
silicate and the durability Of many build
ings already erected, may be much en-
HANGED by subjecting the outside surface to
similar treatment The same process has
been found eficacious in preserving some
ancient statues freshly exhumed, which
would otherwise have faller to pieces after
short exposure to the air
Year: 1879

HE who betrays anOther's secret be- cause he has quarreled with him, was never worthy the sacred name of a friend. A breach of kindness on one side will not justify a breach of trust on the other-Victor Hugo
Year: 1879

lIark \ dry twig cracked under a
heavy foot a hare startled from its sleep,
scurred past him; Gipsy gave Il low
growl and stood still. Amos had borrow
ed the farmers gun, and now held it
ready; there were certainly strangers in
the plantation. TO put it to the test he
gave peculiar signal whistle. There was
no response. A fellow keeper would have
answered.


lie stood for a minute or two with his
gun at half-c0ck; then, as if thoroughly
treasured, pursued his course, with Gypsy
limpng beside him, quite as weary as bis
master, though not one whit more content
or satisfied.


ton by the corpse gate; the cut thence
across the park saved at least third the
distance of the road proper.


Tonight he stood in need of rest, but
now he was on the alert, and wide awake.
Coupling that stealthy tread with the
growl of the dog, and Hopes communica
ton, he was inclined to pay more heed to
her warning, and felt how necessary it
was he should reach the hall without
arousing suspicion in the evil minds Sc
near him. He stepped on boldly as if on
ordinary duty, lettering now and then,
and pattng Gypsy with pleasant word
apparently going further away into the
covert, yet drawing nearer to the open
park with every step.


Once away from the shadow of the
trees he made direct for the hall, ponder
ing how best to get immediate speech