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Year: 1877

THE POSTAGE STANP.-Thirty. seven
years ago. Rowland Hill. while eros
sing district in the north of England,
aarived at the door of an inn where y
postman had stopped to deliver let
ter. A young girl came out to receive
n, she turned il over and over in her
hand and asked the price of postage
This was large sum, ard evidently the
girl WAS poor. for the postman demand
ed shilling. She sighed sadly, and
said the letter was from her brother
but that she had no money. aud so she
returned il tn the postnian. Touched
with pity. RowlaEd Hill paid the post
age, and gave the letter To the girl,
who seemed very much embarrassed
Scarcely had the posiman turned his
back when the inn-keeper's daughter
confessed il was n trick between her
and her brother. Some signs marked
on the envelope told her all she want
cd to know, but the letter contained no
writing I'VE are both so poor" she
added. that we invented this mode Of
corresponding without paying for our
letters" The traveller continued his
road. asking himself il system giving
place 10 such fraud was not vicious
one. Before sunset, Rowland Hill had
planned to organize the postal service
u,on new basis-with whit success is
known To the world.
Year: 1877

Those who desire to make an investment that
will be not only profitable but one OF permanent
return on the capital laid out, ought not to over
look the rare opportunity offered in the advertise
ment published in another column, in which an
undivided interest in one of the best appointed
rice mills in our city is presented for sale. This
mill is one of the most perfect of it's kind in the
South, lacking none of the late improvements,
and having capacity Of from 80 to 100 barrels
per day. In it's erection neither money nor pains
we're spared to make it perfect, and acting upon
economical principles, its builders put into it
every labor-saving invention that would serve to
reduce the cost Of milling as well as other ex.
penses.


With the rapid increase of our rice crop, and
with the prospective increase in acreage of that
cereal, Louisiana is destined and that at no dig
tant time, to become the great rice producing
State of this or any other country. The rapid
advances she has already made, and the opinions
of those versed in the trade, warrants the asser-
ton that our State, within very few years, will
almost double her present large yield. Rough
RICE as is well known, is shipped to mills in this
city to be husked and cleaned, and with an in
creased yield the capacity Of Our mills will be
severely tested. What better opportunity, then,
could be presented for safe Investment than
that offered by the advertiser?


For sure and speedy returns on money laid out
there are few things before the public that pre-
sent such inducements. Run by rice miller
from South Carolina, erected by the best of work.
men, the mill offered ought to be eagerly sought
for by investors,
Year: 1877

the Tenth National Bank held a meeting this
evening to discuss the question Of calling q
meeting Of the stockholders to decide whether
ued. The bank Is said to be entirely solvent,
but the directors say that the long continued
business depression has made banking un-
profitable,
Year: 1877

by az q mob ' Of 100 o' men to take man named
Proctor Warren from the county jail, who is
suspected Of shooting Miss Codiga several even
ings ago while attempting to rob her fai her s
house, but they were resisted by the sheriff and
went away. Proctor will have a preliminary
examination to-day. when it Is feared he will be
taken and 1ynched.
Year: 1877

Mississippi needs constitution that springs
from the hearts and brains of her virtuous,
intelligent and patriotic people. The present
constitution is monument of oppression,
corruption and wrong. It was conceived in
hate, and forced upon the sovereignS of Mis-
sissippi at the point of the bayonet.
Year: 1877

TOR LARGER ARMY NEW PLAN.


GBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRInUSE.l


WASHINGTON, Aug G.-How to meet :he increased
demands upon the army which have lately been de-
velopcd is a question that is antaing army circles
in Washington One Of the plans that has been sug-
gcsted by army officers is to arthOdZe the President
at his discretion TO increase the maximum strength
of the army To ahout 10000 enlisted men, leaving
the general field line aud staff corps they now



As a part of this plan it s proposed TO establish
general station for recruits at which force o. not
less than 5000 men shall always be posted Tor
training and instruction in the duties OF the soldier
Upon this station all drafts for recruts could be
made TO fill up companies Is their strength became
reduced below the standard iXed. In this way men
acquainted with the duties OF the soldier would be
detailed 10 fill mp the vacancies instead OF taking
raw recruits who for time are of little value Inc
question Of cost of course enters largely into pro-
posed change OF policy towards the army, but ii Is
held 10y prominent army officers that the agsre-
gate amounts paid for the transportation of
troops from the Atlantic seabOaId 70 the
Pacific coast. and from the Southon States, to
points where they may be needed in the North Is
greater than the increase in the pay aud allow
ances OF the army should the plan suggested be
adopted. With a force of $4,000 men, it Is argued
that garrison of at least fun battalion of LOCO
men could be stationed III the vicinity % each
large city. leaving n sufficient force to preserve
peace on the plains in the West and to control the
Rio Graudc frontier.


In connection with this plan of increasing the
army, it is reported in a private letter recently re-
Gently received at army headquarters thar GEN. Me
Clean has prepared an article for Publication ~
leading magazine in which he undertakes to demon
strate by means of statistics that sum greater than
tbe expensc of an increased military establishment
has been Annually paid for the transportation OF
men ana military stores.
Year: 1877

unjust For these reasons tho President declines TO
prove the mendation OF the courtmartia which
leaves Mai. Runkle on the retired list


This Is probably of the most remarkable vipdioa-
the military history Of the country. 1t is due to
the discovery OF point Of law which u have es-
capped all the judge advocates hitherto. Mai. Runkle
very brave soldier. Tie was very severely
wounded In many places and VIII be life-org sufferer
from bis wounds and doubtless deserves the retired lite
pay which he will receive The decision. OF course. gys
him his pay since 1872 As the non-approval Of the
court-martial leaves him having been in the service
during that time. His back pay amounts to about
$l1 1000.
Year: 1877

National Associated Press to the sJar.


JERSEY ITY, N. j., June 1.-At half
past ~ o'clock last evening as one OF the
horse cars running between Jersey City
and HOboken was about to cross the
steam railroad track at Newark avenue,
the gate was suddenly shut down, leav.
ing the team on the track and the car
outside. A train instantly came dash.
ing down at an unusual high rate OF
speed. killing the horses instantly, but
the passengers and driver escaped in.
jury. The Car was quite full at the
time and the passengers were terribly
excited and frightened at their narrow
escape.
Year: 1877

Alexander Smith seems to have been
electrified by kiss; one made him feel
as if he was walking on thrones" a
figure quite as remarkable as the old
deacon, who, upon taking too much
cider-brandy, likened his sensations to
being on top Of a meeting house and
having every shingle turned into a
jews-harp. But let us hear Alexander :


"My soul eaped up beneath thy tmid kiss


What then to me were gr0ans,


Or pan-or deathl Earth a round Of bliss,


seemed to walk on thronesw


But it has been reserved Tor an editor
to make the manner Of kissing busi-
ness. His recipe is appetizing and
would do honor to the finest cookery
book. He says, "of course you must
be taller than the lady you kiss; take
her right hand in yours and draw her
so gently toward you that you do not
derange the economy of her tippet or
ruiiie-your left arm will find its place
without instruction; at the same time
the lady will throw her head back, and
you have nothing to do but to lean a
little forward-and the thing is done.
Don't make a noise about it, as if you
were firing percussion caps; don't
pounce down upon it like hungry
hawk after an innocent dove-but sill
emily revel in the sweet blissfulness of
your opportunity, without ever once
smacking your lips, as you would over
a bowl of turtle-soup, or the glorious
appearance of well roasted duck"
Year: 1877

elbow did that homely woman con-
trive to get married2" is not unfre"
quently remarked of some good domes-
tic creature, whom her husband regards
as the apple Of his eye, and in whose
plain face he sees something better than
beauty. Pretty girls who are vain of
their charms are rather prone to make
observations of this kind, and con-
sciousness of the fact that flowers of
loveliness are often left to pine on the
stem while weeds of homeiness 90 off
readily, is no doubt at the bottom Of
the sneering question, The truth is
that most men prefer homelness and
amiabllity to beauty and caprice. Hand
some women are sometimes very hard
to please. They are apt to overvalue
themselves; and in waiting for an im-
mense bid they occasionally overstep
the market. Their plain sisters, on the
contrary aware of their personal deGci-
encies, generally lay themselves out to
produce an agreeable lmpression-and
in most cases they succeed. They don't
aspire to capture paragons with princely
fortunes, but they are willing to take
anything respectable.
Year: 1877

Costly apparatus and splendid cabinets
have no magical power to make scholars.
In all circumstances man Is, under
God, the master of his own mind. The
Creator has so constituted the human
intellect that it can grow only by its
own action and free will but it will GER
tainly and necessarily grow. Every
man must therefore educate himself,
His book and teacher are but helps; the
work Is his. A man Is not educated
until he has the ability to summon, In
an emergency, all his mental powers in
vigorous exercise to effect its proposed
object. II Is not the man who has seen
most who can do this; such one Is in
danger Of being borne down like beast
of burden by an overloaded mass of
other mems thoughts. Nor Is 1t the
man who can boast of native vigor and
capacity. The greatest of all warriors
in the siege of Troy had not the pre-.
eminence because nature had given him
strength and he carried the longest
bow, but because sell-disclpllne had
taught him to bend II.
Year: 1877

his nose with his fingers, and picks his
teeth with his-fork, and only changes his
socks once week. Now"


"Well, by George" shouted the new
man chats the truth. Now, I'm willing
to own up wher I'm wrong, but, by gun,
you can't corner me on that item. That's
the solemn truth, and got it all straight.
\ girl that worked in his family four years
told me all about it, and I could have put
in lots more, ever so much worse than that
if I'd had room He


"Do you know said the chief. that
Hon George j. Barnwell owns more of
this town than he can see, and is bank
director, and president of heaven knows
hoH many business associations, pillar Of
the church, and prop Of society? Don't
you know that you amt expected to pub
lish every bit Of gossip You hear about
people ?"


Amt p echoed the young man "what's
the paper for then ? What of it anyhow
Is old Barnwell mad aboutit t? Did anybody
tell him of IT'D"


The chief made no reply, and the boys
scattered to their work 4 casual watch
was kept on the door of the private Office,
and late in the afternoon it opened, and
the chief came out. He was alone. There
was dyspeptic look about his eyes, like a
man who had eaten too much ; and nobody
ever saw the new reporter or heard any
thing of him again But we often miss him
and when the town is quiet and the after
moons are long, and there are no election
news to stir the fever of our blood, we wish
that he would come back and shake up the
town once morc.-B@lngton Ha,oheye.
Year: 1877

Horace Greeley used to affirm that news
paper men were the most patient people, as
a class. on earth and he was rot far from
right, though there are times when patience
ceases 70 be virtue with the most endur-
ing. Nearly everybody in Michigan knows
Burr, who used to start a newspaper about
once month the year round, generally
bringing them out in Grand Rapids, but
some times making a flying trip to other
points. Burr could stand to be told that
he lied about circulation, was on the fence
as politician, and that he didn't know any
thing about publishing paper and when
men threatened to sue or thrash him. he
only smild 4 sad smile and wished that
mankind wogldnt get excited. During a
religious revival in Grand Rapids, Burr was
converted, and it frequently happend that
religious people called at his office to talk
with him. One day minister came in,
and, after talking while, he proposed
prayer. He was in the act Of kneeling,
when his foot struck one of the outside
form, which was leaning against leg of the
stone, ready to be lifted up, and over it
went, making half bushel of pi Burr
looked at the ruin wrought, thought Of the
two weeks Of overwork, and commenced
taking off his coat, saying:


I'm trying to be Christian, and set a
good example, but rat my buttons if can t
lick you in just two minutes y


The Clergyman backed down stairs in no
time, lodging the lye brush on the way,
and Burr backslid at once, and sent down
for pint of stimulant.
Year: 1877

Excess of free labor. 2,772,371


In the last eight years free labor has
therefore, ,overtaken the palmiest days of
slavery and has produced two and three
quarter million bales more cotton. This
crop is now more free from the incum-
brance of Sdebt than ever before, and
with it has been raised supply of food
far greater than slavery ever COM
passed.


Without entering into minute statis-
tics it is safe to say that the money value
of the thirty-one and a half million
bales of cotton produced in the last eight
years has been over two thousand mil
lion dollars in gold, and that over two
thirds of this value has been exported.
Texas, which seems to be the true land
of the cotton farmer, has made the great
est relative progress, now producing
double tue crop of cotton that she made
before the war. During the last cotton
year, on less than half of one per cent. OF
her area, or on less than half an acre in
hundred, she produced a quantity OF
cotton equal to one-half the entire con-
sumption of the United States.-N. T.
Herald.
Year: 1877

President Hayes told delegation Of
colored men who waited upon him
Yesterday that he should consider any
discrimination on the part of gov
ernment official between the black


man and the white, on the score OF
color, in making appointments. suffi-
cient cause for removal. Mr.. Hayes
seems much more anxious that the
colored brother should have his rights
than that the white man should come
by his own, and while he is very de-
cided in declaring that the fifteenth
amendment to the constitution must
be sustained he appears to have grave
doubts about the'propriety of standing
by tne constitution itself.-Bdlttmort
Gazette.
Year: 1877

Our people can hardly realize the demand of the seaboard and lake cit ies for cattle from the plains and me sas of the interior of the continent; and we doubt if Arizona will be pre- pared-if our expectations be not dis appointed as to railway extension-to meet the demands for cattle that will be made. Nevada and Utah supply ] San Francisco and Chicago now to some extent and will evidently increase the supply. Arlzona with railway can and ought to supply the Pacific and Gulf of Mexico cities with much of their beef Millions of head of fat cattle ought to be annually shipped to these markets.

 i Here is an item from the ElkO, Ne vada, Independent, which shows the possibility of the trade:

 John R. Bradley and Joseph Scott both experienced cattle men, have ar ranged for another and heavier ship ment of beef cattle to the Chicago market. From parties in this vicinity and that of Deeth, they have secured choice lot of four hundred head which will be transferred to cars from tbe Flko and Deeth corrals, on the twenty first instant. The result oi | Mir. Bradley's recent trip east witn beef cattle was sufficiently satisfactory to induce :he belief that a regular bus mess in the way of furnishing beef iol the Chicago market can be established and made profitable to the stock-rals CTS of this country, beyond what they have already realized
Year: 1877

In our issue of November Q, we gave a short notice of the Steam Stamp Mill, now working at the Duryea Mill Co.'S works in the Globe District, but stated that we were not well enough acquainted with the mechanism to give q minute description. We have just been furnished with the necessary information direct from San Francisco which will be of interest to our min ing men. The following is the descrip tiOn:

 Wilson's Patent Steam Stamp Mill was invented by F. R. Wilson of San Francisco, man of very extended ex- perience in milling of. quartz, The principle on which they work is the direct application of steam 10 the stamp rods, and may bemore readily under stood by imagining two steam hammers working automatically with an exceed ingly simple valve gear, and striking alternately in one mortar.

 It will be seen that a mill consists of only a boiler and battery, doing away with the engine and interme- diate machinery necessary to run the ordinary stamp mills, and applying the power wasted in transmission, and friction direct on the quartz. It has been found by practice of the Will son Steam Stamp Mills, that the same amount of power, or steam, applied to the steam stamp that is usually re- uuired to run fifteen stamp mlll, the results are always in favor of the steam stamps. The speed with which the steam stamps seem to run most econo- mically IS about two hundred drops for each stamp per minute, with a force of about one ton for each blow. Weight of stamp and rod, 800 pounds steam, 1900 pounds) It would seem that a blow of such force would en U

 gender a large amount of wear and tear in the mill, but not so, when Vt consider that the force of the blow is entirely on the mortar block, and IT no way connected with the mill. The mill at the Duryea Co.'s works IS tho fourteenth one in operation, all o

 which are working in the most satis factory manner. These mills are des

 tined to work a revolution in the CT; of quartz crushing, especially for loea

 lities that are difficult of access, anC Ifreights are exorbitant. The mill com

 plete without the boiler, weighs abou 55OO pounds, and cost one third wha

 the equivalent of other mill, and ca be put to running in two days after tn

 mortar block is set The capacity c

 these mills running at ordinary spec

 is about 9 tons per day.
Year: 1877

We commenced in the first number of The Arizonian with grumbling- we'll and thickly laid on; we continued grumbllng throughout, and as this is our last appearance, it were idle to de- part from the usage established from the commencement. Reader, we shall now grumble at you. You have in terests in Arizona, and yet what are you doing for their protection and advance ment? You perhaps carry a pistol, and on slight provocatiOn would i'm brue your hands in brothers blood. Do you ever reflect that If we would all move together harmOnlously in striving to secure courts of justice these crimes and temptations to crime would diminish; that crder must be established before we can advance Have you ever made an effort to better the existing state of things; and, above all, have you ever reflected that 1t takes two to make quarrel, and if perchance you have a. sumed tOyOurselt that privilege which belongs only to Jehovah, of taking human life, could you not have avoided it by little restraint of passion? Are you one of those desperadoes who draw deadly weapons and defy all who differ with them! If so, think how little you are elevated above the brute creation, when you repudiate reason and give full sway to the animal passions. If one of this spieces of humanity, you doubt Hess reiolce in the failure of our paper, lest at some time your evil deeds might be laid before the public. Reform! be no longer brute, but stand out as one made after the image of the Almighty lshnuld stand-be MANI If you en ,l counter one who shrinks from quar- rel, and rather suffers himself 10 bC :: imposed upon than fight, don't mis take him for a coward, but recollec there are many who dread the respon sibility of killing another, even in self defence, and who would make an. sacrifice rather than shed human blood Such is moral courage-the highest noblest species. He is the coward wh'

 would take advantage of this nobilit. 0 of soul, to trample upon the man win possesses 1t.
Year: 1877

the best finished in the Territory. The house is furnished and the furniture will be disposed Of if desired.

 l have also for sale several large and small adobe Houses, if desired. we'll lOcil' ted in this town, with the barn, out-hOuStS corrals, etc., added to the Store property.

 In addition to the above l have
Year: 1877

THE increasing prosperity of the
country and the material decline in gold
amounting to 33 per cent Of its pre-
mium) is shaking the greenback party
terribly. They 60 through the motions
Of calling State conventions, but never
elect anybody to any other position
than that of candidates. They do, un-
doubtedly, contribute somewhat to the
sum of human happiness by affording
opportunity to few disabled politicians
IN every State to get their names in the
papers.
Year: 1877

New York, Sept. 24.-Not only do
the senate records show that several
former state senators voted against the
legislation for which Tweed testified
he bought their votes, but Senator
Woodin repeats his denial Of Tweed's
more definite statement that he bought
him, and defies the proof. Woodin's
neighbors also testify that nothing in
his visible property OF his mode of liv-
ing sustains the theory that he had
acquired any considerable sum from
any source,
Year: 1877

SENATOR SPENcER's marriage has
not tended to give him a more cheerful
view of political affairs. In a recent
interview he predicted that Ohio
would go Democratic by forty thousand,
and New York might reach as high as
a hundred thousand in the same
direction. The Senator is evidently a
little out of joint, but there may be
something in what he says.
Year: 1877

A WASHINGTON correspondent says
Senator Conkling is preparing an ex-
haustive speech upon the subject of the
Presidents civil service order. He will
not assail the Presidents motives, but
will claim that the President has no
more right to circumscribe the lawful
action of federal official than he has
to prescribe what he shall think.
Year: 1877

SAN FRANCISCO, August 2S "A CaI
reporter had conversation with Justice
Field, of the United States Supreme
Court, this evening, with reference TO the
interview published in the E,rchaHge to-
day. The Judge stated that ne mad al.
ways declined To be interviewed, but as
TO the dependence to be placed on the ar
ticle in the EEchamgs he said, Il do not
care to discuss or comment upon that
article or upon the way in which 1t WAS
obtained, and will simply state nothing
that | have said to any one here uid
Justify All inference derogatory to Judge
Bradley


san FRANCISCO, August 2S.-TLe
Chronicle this morning has an interview
with Judge Field, in which he referring
to the alleged opinion o: Judge Bradley,
said simply that no such opinion " as
ever read 4" the hearing OF Justic Gilt
ford and himself, nor was any so read
until 1t WAS read in open court. Further
than this, considering his position and
the use that might be made of MS word,
he dld not care To peak.
Year: 1877

The steady advance in the price of silver is most cheering news to the Pacific Coast. where the silver crop is steadily increasing. The price of silver in London Ina, been strengthening for several months. The re- monetization of the silver dollar will next week be one or the current topic, at Wash ington