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Year: 1878

Spanish land grants in California have been and still remain an obstacle to our rapid growth and prosperity. They curse the Territories of Arizona and New Mex ico, and injurionsly affect southern Colo rado In the Territory of New Mexico the Surveyor General reports, after twenty years labor, that 120 claims or grants have been adjusted, but that over ,000 still re- main. In Arizona the want of funds for the hire of clerks, surveyors and other necessary expenses, renders it impossible to take up any of the claims which have been floating in nebulous state until re- gently. Now there is great activity mani fest in the purchase of and location over the best and most available valleys ill southern Arizona of doubtful grants. The same old hands at the business as have cursed California are at work in that re- markable region. Its prosperity will be retarded unless Congress shall be forced into takiHg some decided action. The Commissioner of the General Land Office says, in his last report on this subject, that the settler dares not settle and inn prove land lest it be subsequently found to be within the limits of some uncon- firmed and unsurveyed grant; and the United States by such delay not only loses the sale of its land, but, judging from past experience with private land claims in other localities, the development of the resources of that country will create ad- ditional incentives for the manufacture of fraudulent title papers, with the vIew of securing public land herewith. Each years delay, with the consequent death of living witnesses and loss or destruction of ancient records relating to lands adds to the probabilities that such forged and otherwise fraudulent title papers will pass without detection the scrutiny of the officers whose duty it may become to de- termine their character"

 That is what the San Francisco Post says on this subject. and there IS much in it. It was a great mistake to ever have placed the question of private land claims in Arizona into our Surveyor Generals office; but once there, money should have

 been provided for disposing of it.
Year: 1878

feel under increased obligations for the patronage so liberally accorded me as the successor of the old and successful house of Wm. B. Hooper & Co.,, and while ac- knowledging this fact, allow me to add that those dealing with mo will find as complete a stock as was ever offered by the old firm with all that is new and desirable in addi- tion.

 JAMES M BARNEY.
Year: 1878

R6=A farmer the other day wrote to
New York merchant asking how the
farmers son was getting along and
where he slept at night. The merchant
replied, "He sleeps in the store in day
time. l don't know where he sleeps at
night"
Year: 1878

THE amount appropriated by the
House under the sundry bill, will so fal
as It goes, Illustrate the true inward
ness of Democratic economy. which


chiefly consist in leaving honest debts
unpaid, and then boasting of tremen.
dous reduction in Government expense,
Year: 1878

Speaking OF California politics the
Pioneer Press says:


But the simple Chinese question,
owing to the failure of both political
parties to take any steps in accord
ance with their platform promises,
has become hopelesly complicated
with the extreme demands of the So
cialistic Labor party and cannot now
be detached even by those who are
willing to affect settlement favora-
BILE to the workingmen. The growth
of the new party within the last four
months is something extraordinary.


And the growth of the national par
ty is extraordinary because ''both po-
litical porties have failed to take any
steps in accordance with their plat
form PROMISES" not only upon the
Chinese but upon all other questions
vital to to the welfare of the people.
There is growing conviction that
the eastsrn wings of both parties are
under the domination of Wall street,
and that Il new party must be formed
to fight the aggressors of capital, even
as the Republican party was formed
twenty years ago to fight the aggress-
ors of slavey.
Year: 1878

The experiments made by the pro-
fessOrs of the State University; under
the direction Of the corOner's jury,
in exploding flour dust from the mills,
seems to render it certain that the
destruction of the minneapolis flour
mills was duo to the combustion OF
that material. This being true and a
flour mill become as dangerous as Il
powder mill. We doubt ifeven nj
tro.glycerine could have effected such
thorough and complete destruction
of the Washburn mills as did the
flour dust. Not one stone Of the
whole splendid structure was left up
on another; and some Of the victims
seem to have been literally blown to
atoms
Year: 1878

Here are some very sensible views
from that clear-headed. able Welsh
man, Senator Jones of Nevada: and
they are the more remarkable as com.
ing from one of the largest owners of
gold and silver mines in the world:


Il regard the repeal of the resump-
tion law as infinitely more important
ant than the passage of the bill fsilyer
remonetization). As before stated.
nothing can secure lasting and ade-
quate prosperity for the people but
the repeal of that infamous measure.
and the issue of currency equal to
the handling of our annual produc-
tions. Then our prosperity viii be
limited only by the productive re-
sources of this great continent. and
the illimitable skin and enterprise Of
the American people. instead Of =
Year: 1878

And now the Republicans are hap
py. The Democrats have reopened
the old sore of the south. The really
grea5 issues of finance and labor are
to be ignored, and the whole intellect
of the country is to be concentrated
on few paaishes III Louisiana and on
Mrs. Pinkston's sores.


The "bloody shirt" will be unfurled
in all its glory And all for what


To force Tilden again upon the
Democrat; and to lose the yeomanry
of the great west in an effort to hold
on to the servile, slippery tools of
monopoly in the decaying east.


Ch this is wisdom This is states
manship!


Is it any wonder the people demand
new party!
Year: 1878

S. 4. Mason. the committee Of the
National party in Pennsylvania for
Governor. is q Democrat, and is
spoken of as one of the most successful
lawyers in the State. He is also
spoken of as the father of the Green
back party in Western Pennsylvania,
and will, it is believed, have great in
fuence with the Greenback men OF
the State--I1ter Ocean.


The National party is bringing a
number Of new and able men to the
front all over the country, men who
are not mere party hacks, but who
have tn ability to realize the force
of events and the situation Of the
country
Year: 1878

now restricted by the scanty supply
OF two unlmpOrtant metals.


We do not want the worlds mon
ey,' in other words, a money in COM
mon with other nations, subject to all
the fluctuations of foreign demand.
We want national currency that a
person going abroad will be compell-
ed to leave behind.


II he has greehbacks he will have
no difficulty in purchasing gold or sill
yer bullion at it's markst price tor use
IN such countries as still adhere to the
barbaric custom of taking nothing
else in exchange for value; and thus
our own money will never leave our
own shores, and our home industries
will not be left to the peril of every
foreign embroglio or financial ma
chination.


l am certrinly not an advocate for
metallic currency. have less OBJ.
lection to gold or silver as bullion
than l have to either as money. And
l would work harder to demonetize
both metals, were that the question
before the senate, than / have done to
remonetlze silver. But with the re-
sumption act still upon the statute
books, and the possibility that it's re-
quirements may be forced upon the
people in ten months from this time,
| cannot do less than put forth my
best efforts to wrest the silver dollar
from the cOdification bundle of "a,
where our enemies sought secretly to
bury it, and where for two years even
its grave was unknown, except by the
pirate who placed it there.


In case the terrible ordeal of re-
SUMPTION is forced upon the people,
the reconciliation of silver will miti-
gate the evil one-half, but the highest
good OF the country can only be gain
ed by driving both metals from their
position of arbitrary power.
Year: 1878

contest. Although the vote was six
hundred larger than ever before, the
National candidate for Mayor was
elected. and other nominees of the
same party were carried in. In other
places in the State the Nationals made
good showing. In California three
cities were captured by the Working
men, the new party making a clean
sweep. In the towns where the
Workingmen were defeated the old
parties combined against them, and
even then the Citizens ticket did not
make clean sweep. In these elec-
tions we see the discomfort of the
masses with the order of things i'm
posed by the old parties and the
dawn of a new era in our politics.
Before long one of the old parties
must give way to the National party,
which will contest for the supremacy
IN National affairs with the remaining
one. Shrewd political observers, who
do not lean toward the new movement.
are forced to acknowledge it's strength.
The Springfield Republican says:


"The times are very propitious for
the growth of such movement.
Neither ofthe old parties represents
anything; each is seeking to make the
coming campaign on issues which the
people have settled and put behind
them. This generation has never
seen time when party ties rested so
loosely, when so many Republicans
and Democrats felt comparative in
difference as to which party should
win. All the conditions are therefore
favorable for the rapid spread of the
new movement. Such tests as the
Spring elections have afforded give
grounds for the excepting that the
National party will be a very i'm
portant element in the Fall voting.
and IN some quarters hold the balance
OF power. Everybody in Michigan
was surprised at the sweep the new
party made in many parts Of the State
at the township elections a few weeks
ago. Still more unexpected is the
strength which the Greenback party
has attained down in Maine. Polling
only about 500 votes for Governor in
1875, they increased the number ten
fold last year, and many good judges
are ready to accept their leaders
claim that they will cast from 20, 900
to25 900 next September, throwing the
election Of Governor into the Ligisla-
ture. and endanger the election Of
Republican Congressman in two Of
the five districts. The
people are in no mood to 60 on fighting
campaigns over the constitutional
amendments or the frauds in Florida:
they want to see men in Congress who
will devote themselves to furthering
the development of the country's
future prosperity, instead of still
trading upon it's past misfortunes,
And if the Republican and democratic
leaders won't learn the lessons in any
other way let the National teach
them.
Year: 1878

1t is rotten to the core to-day, and
there are many men s sons and daugh-
ters who are now being educated to
play the parts of leading lady" and
walking gentleman in the great
drama of life who will come to poor
house or a penitentiary before they
have played their prrts and the
curtain drops. Go to work.
Year: 1878

BY MILTON II. MARBLE.
How | love to idly stand
Al the gate of Wonderland!
Gazing with my spirit eyes
At the thrilling mysteries
Hidden from me by a light
Curtain of the purest white,
Hanging at the little door
Man Can enter neveImore,
Wondering wny / canno. see
All of future destiny,


| reach out the veil to raise
When all passes from my gaze.
Then, l know that for my eyes
This light curtain may not rise
Till the deeds that I have done
All recorded are, eacn one.
And the angel lsummons comes
Calling me to angel-homes.
So l can but idly stand
At the gate of Wonderland
Waiting for the veil TO raise.
And reveal unto my gaze,
All the golden mysteries
OF the land beyond the skies.
Table Rock, Nsb.
Year: 1878

Three Kings came riding from far away
Melchoir and Gaspar and Baltazar;
Three Wise Men out of the East were
they,
! And they travelled by night and they
slept by day,
| For their guide was beautiful, won
derful star.
The star was SO beautiful, large, and clear
| That all the other stars of the sky
Became white mist in the atmosphere,
| The the Wise Men knew that the COM
ing was near
Of the Prince foretold in the prophecy
Three caske.s they bore on their saddle


bows,


Three caskets ofgo!d with golden keys;
Their robes we're of crimson silk, with
rows
OF bells and pomegranates and furbelows
Their turbans like blossoming almond
trees.
And so the Three Kings rode into the


West,


Through the dusk Of night over hills


and dells.
And sometimes they nodded with beard


on breast,
And sometimes talked as they paused to


rest,


With the people they met at the way


side wells.
'0f the child that is born," said Baltazar
Good people, 1 pray you, tell us the


news,
For We in the East have seen his star,
And have ridden fast and have ridden far,
To find and worship the King of the


Jews"
And the people answered: You ask in


vain:


We know of no king but Herod the


Great,r
They thought the Wise Men were men


insane,
As they spurred their horses across the


Plain


Like riders in haste who can not wait.
And when they came TO Jerusalem,
Herod tie Great, who had heard this


thing,
Sent for the Wise Men and questioned


them;
And said: go down into Bethlehem,
And bring me tidings of this new king"
So they rode away; and the star stood still,
The only one in the gray of morn;
Yes, it stopped, it stood still Of its own


free will,
Right over Bethlehem on the hill,
The city of David where Christ was


born.
And the Three Kings rode through the


gate and the guard,
Through the silent street, till their


horses turned
And neighed as they entered the great


inward;
But the windows were closed and the


doors we're barred,
And only light in the stable burned.
And Graded there in the scented hay,
In the air made sweet by the breath of


kline,
The little child in the manger lay
The child that would be king one day
Of a kingdom not human but divine.
His mother, Mary of Nazareth,
Sat watching beside his place of rest,
Watching the even flow of his breath,
For the JOY of life and and the terror of


death


Were mingled together in her breast.
They laid their offerings at his feet;
The gold was their tribute to king;
The frankincense, with its odor sweet,
Was for the priest, the Paraclete,
The myrrh for the body's burying.
And the mother wondered and bowed


her head.


And sat as still as statute of stone;
Her heart was troubled, vet comforted,
Remembering what the angel had said
OF an endless reign and of Davids


throne.
Then the Kings rode out of the city gate
With The clattar Of hoofs in DroI1d


array:
But they went not back to Herod the


Great,
For they knew his malice and feared his


hate,


And returned to their homes BY an


other way.
n. ". Lonafeltoac in ST. Nicholas tDr
December.
Year: 1878

IT was thought at one time that the
river and harbor bill would meeG with
formidable opposition in the senate but
it appears from the latest advices from
the capital that it will not be changed
materially or opposed very bitterly.
The senate committee on commerce
had its first meeting on the bill on
Saturday the 11th inst. The original
intention of this committee was to elm
mate the appropriations for unimpor-
tant river Improvements agreed to by
the house and increase the appropri-
ations for important inland and harbor
improvements. 1t was expected that
the committee would lop off at least
$1,000 from the bill. 1t appears,
however. that the pressure from MEM
bers of the house to have appropri-
ations for the benefit of individual dis
tricts retained has been too great for q
majority of the committee to resist and
it is improbable that the amount APP
propriated by the house will be lessened
by the senate committee. 1t is expect
ed that the appropriation for the inn
provement of the Mississippi and Ohio
rivers will be increased. These are the
only important changes likely to be
made. Several senators with economic
proclivities will probably support the
bill because they believe that the gov
srnment in a time of distress should give
the people work
Year: 1878

THE United States senate committee
on railroads yesterday unanimously
agreed to recommend the passage of a
bill introduced by Senator Mitchell, in
aid Of the construction of the Portland,
Salt Lake and South Pass Railroad. The
bill provides for grant of land equal to
the number of acres ESTIMATED at seven
millions) restored to the public domain
by the abandonment of the Northern
Pacific Railroad branch across the Cas-
cade Mountain to Puget Sound.
Year: 1878

One of the funniest, most aggravating
typographical errors on record has just
produced a hurricane, accompanied by
thunder and lightning, in the Office of
the Lynchburg Vergiaian. Its editor,
on glancing over his powerful leader, at
the breakfast table on Thursday morn
ing last. was astonished to find that he
was made to say that the farmers would
forget their "pantry and nursery" " in
the excitement of politics. The manu-
script read poverty and misery
Year: 1878

Lake Michigan has its Grace
Darling, and her father and broth
ers ale as brave and heroic as she is
herself. Sanford W. Morgan is
keeper Of the lile-saying station at
Grand Point au Sable, Michigan,
and after the close of navigation he
allows the crew to go away for the
winter, but remains on the ground
with his daughter and his sous, At
daylight on March 29d, during one
of the most violent gales of the sea-
son, with the sea so boisterous that
it was covered with foam, a fishing
boat was discovered about three
miles off shore, in distress, by Miss
Edith. Quickly giving the alarm
to her father and two brothers, she
urged them to 60, volunteering to
take an oar herself to assist the
crew, 1t seemed as though a boat
coulu not pOsslOly i've IN phe mighty
waves, but one was launched, and
after a pull of two hours, with seas
breaking over the small boat and
threatening its destruction AMI the
loss Of those on board, they sue.
ceeded in reaching the wreck, to
find that one Of the crew who had
been clinging to the side Of the ves-
sci had become exhausted, and let
ting 60 his hold had been drowned.
Another sailor, however, was res
cued as he was about to give up,
and was taken ashore. Nor was
this the first time that the brave
young girl had Ventgred out on an
errand to save.
Year: 1878

ings of her husband on her back,
and she does not begrudge it either.
And SO with the men. The best OF
everything, aud everything they
want, they must have and will have
if it takes the last piece of coin.
There are thousands Of dollars
which Californians are swindled out
of in the making of change. The
difficulty here in making the exact
change, owing to the kind of cur
rency in use, produces one of the
grossest impositions | ever saw
practiced. You cannot buy an
article but what you are bound to
be swindled. Californians, however,
never complain or think anything
about it, and the rich and the poor
are alike in this respect.
Year: 1878

A Anewspaper in the fullest sense of the word,
at once adapted to the Merchant, the Me
ctanic, the Farmer, and everybody
desirous of keeping up with the
stirring news of this live and


progressive age.
Year: 1878

Twenty Thousand People
old and young. every week. II is just to say
that the patrons of the WESTERN
METHODIST belong to the best class Of
community.


We desire our business men to make note
Of the above facts before completing their
advertising arrangements for the coming
season.


We use our best efforts to keep our columns
free of all irregular and irresponsible adver-
Using; for many good people seeing an ad-
vertisement in paper. especially their
church paper. take it as guarantee Of re-
sponsibility. Such confidence should not ts
abused when it can be helped. We want.
therefore.
Year: 1878

member Of the Senate, TO be appointed by the fresueh
Of the Senate one member Of the House OF Representa-
tves TO be appointed by the Speaker thereof and three
citizens Of the United States not now holding any once
under the Government. one OF whom shall be pracu
cal farmer, one a practical manufacturer and
one an experienced merchant TO be appointed
by the President of the United States WHICH
commission shall iuquire into the operation
of the existing tariff aud internal revenue laws ana
ascertain what changes If any, should be made In them
for the promotion OF industry and the benefit OF the
public revenue with power to sit in open session at the
seat of government and elsewhere to employ one OF
more clerks, TO subpoena witnesses and examine Ihe9
under oath to hear the complaints and suggestions OF
citizens of the United STATES engaged in agriculture
manufactures commerce, and 70 report II possible 70
the next session of Congress such legislation as u may
deem necessary for the purpose aforesaid Ogether WIN


all sworn statements and testimony ana that tDeIe pe
and is hereby appropriated out OF any money y, do
treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum OF looOo
TO defray the expenses of the same.
Year: 1878




iBY TELEGRAPH THE TRIBUNEl


WASHINGTON, June THE representatives OF
the tobacco manufacturers who are now IN Wash
ingtOn urging Congress to reduce the tax on to-
bacco from "a to 16 cents per pound, had inter
views to-day with several Senators urging
them to accept this feature of the Burchard
bill. Among these are Ex-Governor Young, OF
Ohio, who will make argument in favor of the
reduction before the Senate Committee on Finance
as soon as the subject before that committee
The Governor says that he represents an interest III
the West which pays $31000,0OO year IN taxes
and that tits mistake to suppose that the reduction
of the tax will reduce the revenue. On the con-
trary he says the reduction will increase the rev.
enue nasmuch as the present rate encourages fraud
while the proposed reduction will encourage honest
returns.


One of the largest manufacturers in the North has
written letter to gentleman in this city in which
be SAYS: 1t has been estimated that if TIE reduced
rate of tax takes effect the loss accrung to the uea
ers of the country having 600 pounds OF TAX
paid goods on hand will amount to nearly TWO
million dollars. Consequently Congress should
provide for a rebate or drawback equivalent to the
difference between the old and new rate on such
tax-paid goods as they have on hand. Otherwise
the Government, having exacted "a and
30 cents pound on tobacco ana
snuff before the same could be consumed. 1t
follows that it would be an act of reputation or
robbery to Just that extent. The loss falling upon
the dealers at present juuctuTo Will be either the
cause or excuse for forcing many Of them into bank


An influential member of the Senate Com
mittee on Finance said to-day that the
objection to the reduction OF the tax on
tobacco is that it is not only pretty certain TO re-
duce our receipts from internal revenue, but that
if Congress does justice to the tobacco trade IL must
pass drawback bill which will take several mil
lion dollars out of the Treasury which have already
been collected,