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Year: 1877

and all went down beneath the waters
of the old muddy and were never re-
covered. 4 mar named Treadway
marked the spot we'll where the ves-
sci sunk, and has kept its location
during the p years let the treacherous
waters change and sand bars form
where they would. Where the steam
er p years ago sunk out OF sight now
there is large sand bar several years
old. Recently Treadway, not being a
man of wealth, confided his secret to
1obener Bros, tobacco merchants Of
Parkville. This firm and Treadway,
as partners in the treasure If they
should find it, pre-empted the land
from Government, built house on it
and went to work digging and pierre
ing the sand, diligently. determined
to find those barrels of old whisky.
After awhile their faith and labor
were rewarded in finding the buried
boat, seventeen feet below the surface
and now workingmen are engaged
with pumps and machinery clearing
away the dirt so that they may take
out all those barrels of whisky. 1t is
estimated that the treasure will net
the firm 500
Year: 1877

Senator Merrimon has introduced O
bill to repeal the law forbidding pen
sions to rebel soldiers or their heirs.


This is one of the direct results of
the notion that both sides were to
blame Ia the late war, and that the re-
suit was no particular credit to US, and
no particular discredit to the rebels.
"If this is So" says Merrimon. show
comes 1t that you fellows are paid
pensions, while we fellows have to
grin and bear our wounds without
compensation ?" And we want to
hear reply.


We shall see q good deal of this
thing for q while, but after we get ac-
customed to it, it will not CRATE harsh
ly, we presume. At any rate let there
be no complaint, for we must concili-
ate of any price.-Inter Ocean.
Year: 1877

Wouldn't il have been better if the
Democratic House of Congress had
appointed one of its officers from the
Republican party, just to show that
the North had been forgiven for the
part it took in the late unpleasant
ness?-Cou,1ca Bluffs NonpareH.


OF course the North cannot be for
given until some punishment is met
ed out. Appointing a crippled Union
soldier would never do-they must
take "back seats" and repent for the
part they took In the late unpleasant
ness.
Year: 1877

Fremont Tribune: The course OF
the Lin coin Globe In boiling the nom-
ination of Judge Lake is not matter
of wonder to any who know the plat
form of lack of political honor upon
which that journal Is founded.
Year: 1877

The Russians are daily drawing
their lines closer and more tightly
about Plevna, and that place is DOOM
ed to fall before long. So say the
The Russians have
been recently gaining some valuable
victories and advantages.
Year: 1877

stood Is that majority OF the Atlantic and Pacnc Com
pany's stock IL to turned by Hessrs Sage ana
keene Union 2 and they are to receive
in return a sufficient number OF Western Union shares
valued at ~ to pay for the 1000 shares OF Atanc
and Pacific stock valued at 25 The Atlantic and Pacnc
company is TO s OF the gross earnings of the
two Companies and under this system Of pooling the
companies to continue separate business subject 10
certain restrictions and rules Of government hereafter TO
be determined


An application to W. H. Vanderbilt for a copy
OF the agreement was returned with the endorse
"rhe Committee have agreed basis OF
settlement but have decided not to gave it to the press
tonight"


At one O'Clock this morning the committee were hard
at work drinking sherry cobbers and writing out the
AGREEMENT
Year: 1877

Albany While they could make their influence elt at
Albany In rushing bills through the Legislature oeptv
ing the Board of Aldermen OF the power OF co 20 Sa
coue as Police Commissioner, they were unwilling or
poweress To pass measures satisfactory 10 the hrEe
class of German voters whose support is so necessary
for the success Of the Republican party Under sue e
cnmsances and with such policy running the party ior
the last three or years 1t is not to be wonureu AZ
that the Germans losing all sympathy with the
have cast loose from the party and that the WI no.


turn TO their old party as long as II refuses
be liberal and just to them
Year: 1877

Washington, Nov. 3.-The commit
tee.on Expenditures in the Navy Depart
ment called upon the Secretary of the
Navy Saturday morning and informed
him of their purpose to make Thorough
investigation of the accounts under the
administration of Secretary Robson,
and especially into the transfer of funds
appropriated for the pay of the navy
into other hands. Secretary Thompson
assured the committee that he would
cheerfully give them every facility.
The committee also informed him that
they desired to recommend a reduc-
tion of expenditures of the Department
wherever it may be found practicable,
and the Secretary responded that he
would be happy to cooperate. A con-
fict of jurisdiction in regard to the
proposed investigation is likely to arise
between this committee and the COM
mitteeon Naval Affairs, of which With
thorne is chairman. The committee
on Appropriations may also claim
jurisdiction. The matter of jurisdic.
tion was decided in the Naval Affairs
committee this morning. There is a
probability that it will be brought be-
fore the House.
Year: 1877




The opinion Of the United States
District Court for the District of Min
nesota, by Nelson, j., holds that the
right to cut timber on the public do
main by homestead settlers is limited
to purposes of cultivation. In all new
States the question Of cutting Govern
ment timber has troubled the Govern
ment officers. Men who would not
steal a chicken for the world, thought
it was no crime to steal Government
timber. We are reminded of Meth
odist Conference which was held at an
early day in Illinois. A minister who
had Just come into the country, and
was the possessor Of a stove-pipe hat
and broadcloth coat, got the floor,
and said: 81 am against stealing in
every shape, and therefore move the
adoption of the following resolution:
RESOLVED, That in the opinion of this
conference it is just as sinful to steal
Government timber rs any other kind
of property" A minister who was
dressed in a homespun suit arose in
great haste and said: SIT is evident
that the brother who introduced this
resolution is a new conner, and does not
know the wants and necessities of this
community. move that the resolu-
tion be laid on the table," and on the
table it went by large majority.
Year: 1877

st. Louis, November 3.-The steamer
Bismarck, lying just below the south


wall of the arsenal, three miles below
the center of the city caught fire about


noon to-day and, in a short time, was
totally destroyed. The origin of the fire
is not known, but as the flames were
first seen issuing from the forward
part of the cabin, the presumption is
that it caught from sparks from the
locomotive on the st. Louis, Iron
Mountain and Southern railroad, which
runs with one hundred yards of where
the boat lay. The Bismarck was owned
Year: 1877

A ME,IDER of the Senate Finance
Committee, who has carefully canvass
ed the Senate, learns that there is fair
majority for the bill remonetizing silver.
The Finance Committee will recon-
mend the passage of the bill. He says,
however, the Senators very decidedly
oppose the repeal of the resumption
law as unwise and improper. The
same is true of the Senate Finance
Committee.
Year: 1877

A BEAUTIFUL tribute to the memory
Of Morton from the citizens of Louis
vile, closes as follows: 'sFilled with
grief that his great heart no longer
throbs in sympathy for all that is good
and desirable, and that great coun-
seller and administrator has passed
away, we tender to his afflicted family
this expression Of our respect for the
memory Of Gov. Morton, and offer to
them our deepest sympathy in this
hour of their affliction.''
Year: 1877

AUGUSTUS G. BARTLETT, who is
white, brought suit in Chicago for
divorce from his wife, who is black.
They had been married two years, and
had lived together peacefully; but he
had gradually grown tired Of the MOTOR
iety that the contrast in color gave
them. His accusations against her,
however, were found to be groundless,
and the case was decided against him.
Year: 1877

THE present chaplain of the House
of Representatives was once a shoe
maker in West Virginia, and it was
while he was working at his trade that
he learned to minister to souls
diseased,
Year: 1877

THERE seems to be no end of novel
ties in the entertainment line. We have
women who undertake to walk hum
dred miles in twenty-eight hours .
dancing master who waltzes ten hours
without ceasing white and colored baby
and cat shows and stone images or pet
rifactions. The latest novelty is wrest-
ling match between an athlete and a
trained bear. In this contest the bear
got the best of the man. After the third
round the professor retired. and a man of
muscle, but not of science, took his
place. The bear threw the giant three
times, but in the fourth attempt bruin
was tioored by main strength, as desert
bed in yesterdays GAZETTE.
Year: 1877

Now that Conkling has the President
down he is kicking him hard, and his
friends are organizing raid all along
the line. On Wednesday night num-
Der of federal oiliceholders in New York
city were elected to office in connection
with the local republican organization in
plain contempt of the Presidents order
of last June,
Year: 1877

The congregation belonging to the
Household of Faith worshiped in the
new room that had been procured fol-
that purpose in the second story of the
McClaiy building. The room has been
fitted up and settees placed in for seats.
An organ has also been provided. During
the morning service the room wa SO
filled that large number of chairs had
to be procured, and placed in the AISLE
The subject for the morning service was
"Living only for Jesus" and the reverend
gentleman had evidently given the sub
ject careful study as his remarks we.
very powerful. In the evening the room
was even more crowded, and the subject
"The Blood of Cl ist," was attentiYely
listened to.
Year: 1877

The infinite variety of purposes to which


paper is applied in the Empire vf Japan has


astonished all Europeans who have visited


that country. TEey have literally found


paper, paper everywhere, and in all shapes
and forms. the Japanese, however, with
all their ingenuity in this direction, would
never think of making paper wheels for
railway carriages. This, nevertheless, is
being done at Sheffield at the present time.
The paper wheels have steel tires, made


with an inside fange and cast iron boss.


On each side Of the boss are tires to which
steel plates one-sixth of am inch thick are
bolted, and the place between the plates is
filed with compressed paper. The paper
is composed of what is known as ssstraw
boards" and these are made TO adhere to
each other By means of rye paste. The
combined layers Of paper are then subjected
to hydraulic pressure to the extent of two
thousand tons for the space of four or FIVE
hours, and then dried in a heated air bath.
The final thickness of the board is about
three-fourths of an inch, and, as may be
imagined, the quantity of straw board
packed in this concentrated space by the
giant force of the hydraulic ram is some-
thing enormous. Still certain amount of
the elasticity remains to the substance, and
this, in unison with the homegeneity and
singular smoothness of grain and texture,
constitute one OF its highest qualifications
for the duty it will presently have to per-
form. Lathes, slide-rests and sharp tools
are made to shape the compressed paper in
to discs of the proper size, and under
pressure of four hundred tons these are
then forced into the tires. The steel pro-
tecting plates are subsequently, bolted to
the inner and outer peripheries of the
wheels, and after finishing touch to the
latter they are ready to be keyed on their
axle and placed under the railway carriage.
tits understood that experiments, both in
this country and England, have gone to
prove the superiority of paper railway
wheels over those of steel or wrought iron,
and that the brake, however suddenly and
sharply applied, does not injure them in
the least. g
Year: 1877




New YORK, Nov. 9-The Worlds Fort
Walsh. special gives the following as Sit
ting Bulls speech recently:
My friends and all Queensmen whom SO
respect 1 haye heard your talk knew
you would speak 10 me in that way. No
body told mel just knew it. 1t is right.
I came to you in the first place because
was hard driven by tho Americans. They
broke their treaties with my people and
when rose up and fought noG against them
but for our tights as the first people ON
this part of the earth, they pursued me like
a dog and would have hung me to tree.
They are not just, they drive us into war
and then seek to punish us for fighting.
That il not honest. The Queen would not
do that. Long ago when | was boy,
heard of Queen, now my great mother: |
heard she was just and good, now know
it. You gave me shelter when was hard
pressed. My own life is dear to me, but l
did not value it when Sought the Ameri-
cans, but did value the life of my nation.
tuClCiVAO uAOuSAe Any PCoPAo w you.
thank you for what you have done for them.
will 60 to Red Deer and be at peace. Tell
Queen that will be good man, that my
people will be good. Tell her also that We
were never bad, for she knows that it was
not wrong to fight for liberty. My people
are weary and sick. will take them to
Red Deer. And now declare before You
that will not make trouble or annoy you
or give pain to the Queen. l will be quiet.
| win neyer fight on your soil unless you
ask me to help you, then will fight. I
wish you good bye. Place me where you
like. l will be at peace in Canada. But
you are brave soldiers and not treaty break
ers, thieves and murdercrs; you would
think me coward if did not die fighting
Americans. Therefore, while / 60 to Red
Deer uow to live at peace (here the speaker
almost shrieked) l will come back when
my braves are strong, or if they will not
come along with me will come alone ana
fight Americans till death. You / love
and respect, them hate, and you Queen
soldiers would despise me if did not hate
them. That is all. am ready to go with
you to Red Deer. -.-.z-- ....-..-
Year: 1877

JACiNTO, OOLOSA NOUNIN. tAL., {

 June 4th, 1877.

 EDITOR MINER Here l am at the cele- brated Dr. Glenn ranch, where everything in the way of farming is carried on so exten- sively that l am hewildered in looking at the preparations now being made for harvest I have just counted two hundred and fifty bales of grain sacks. each bale containing one thousand sacks. This. l am told, k only starter, but SD much has been writ ten about Dr. Glenn'S extensive farming op- erations that the public is pretty well posted with reference to them and l merely wish to coIroborate almost anything that may be said about ii, however extravagant it may be

 I spent last evening at the hospitablc res idence of Mir. Philip Aronson, whose amia- ble and very intelligent wife is daughter of Michael Goldwater, Esq. of Prescott Mrs. 4. takes a lively interest in everything pertaing to Arizona affairs, and k quite thoroughly posted through letters which she regularly receives from Morris and Sam

 1 spent the last ten days in the town of Colusa, which l found shrouded in gloom on account of the rayages of a malignant type of typhoid fever which is prevailing and of which the county judge and one or two members of his family have died, and others are not expected to live. The weather is quite warm and the roads dusty. shall take stage from here to Chico this afternoon and from thence will go, in day or two, to Tehama, Red Bluff and Reading. The crops along the river thus far are very light, but. the red lands. which have hitherto been con. sidered inferior soil. are said to be turning out over an average yield. Half the work ing men meet want to go to Arizona. but l give them but little encouragement. l tell them that if they have enough money to keep them a year, and are willing to pitch in try, and 1 think they do well to go there, but if they have nothing and want to work for wages, they had better stay where they are. To men possessed of money or money or stock, say "go and look at Ali zona and think you will like it;' but of this I have ready said enough. Trains of head CT wagons arc moving back and forth, and traction engines snoring mp and down the road. making ready for tho grca; harvest battle that i> about Co be fought here, and kicking up such dust and making so much confusion that write with difficulty under a locust tree in front of the JacintD Hotel, aud as see the Colusa stage approaching, on its way to Chico, must give you rest.

 T.J. E.
Year: 1877

From thr Cotoa Semi Trupic.l

 Detective Kcyser of San Francisco hal an interesting experience coming in from Dos Palms last Thursday morning, few miles this side of Cabezou station. He had in charge one Lazarus. whom he arrested at Prescott charged with abScondng from San Francisco with large amount of jcwelry, which was found in his possession. When the train was running along in the locality mentioned, the prisoner. shackled as he was. in an unguarded moment jumped from the cars. AS soon as possible the train was stopped, and the officer allowed to turn him. self loose in the sage brush and hunt the fleeing bird. A dispatch from the detective early in the forenoon related that he had his man. He was brought in on the special train the same night and taken to Los An geles
Year: 1877

The Riverside Weekly News. undoubtedly & little jealous of the importance into which Yuma City, in this Territory k springi2g, comes out in a long article telling its read CTS what the future downfall of Yuma etc, for getting however that should the railroad only make that place q kind of way station, that the rich mines that line the border of the great Colorado for a distance of 300 miles, which must necessarily get their sup plies through Yuma, and send their glitter ing metal in return. of itself is enough to keep Yuma thriving town. Then again they forget that the whole country north. comprising an area of several hundred square miles including the counties of Mojave and Yavapai, unparalled in mineral, pastural and agricultural resources. propose to get their supplies through Yuma all of which will go towards making Yuma lively, healthy city. We cannot see any reason why Yuma is not destined 10 become q large and important town. The Gilaand Colorado river bottoms contain arrable land sufficient ad- iscent to Yuma. of themselves 10 support q town. eaual. if not of more importance than Riverside. Just because Yuma happens to be on the Arizona side of the Colorado, MT. News, don't try to cry her down, she will live thereon. and become and remain town of note when some of the one horse places are dead an forgotten.
Year: 1877

We are pleased to note the stand the President has taken with regard to the re- monitization of silver and the restoration of the old silver dollar. Already the organs of those who live by spcculating on the currency, and whose interest it Is to keep up the present disparity between gold and siver, are beginning to howl over the pros pect and to prophecy all manner of evil to result therefrom.
Year: 1877

In such dull times as these it is natural that
we should regard with some satisfaction any
thing that promises to better our commercial
and financial condition, even the prospect of a.
war with a neighboring country, more espe-
cially If that country be so inferior in men and
resources that we can easily and expeditiously
overwhelm her. and thereby obtain a large
accession of territory. Should such a war occur
with our sister republic" of Mexico, New
Orleans would. from her geographical position
necessarily become the grand depot of supplies
for the United States army. and would reap
great benefits therefrom. From this cause
there are many here who are eager for such
fray. and would. no doubt. like Jobs war-horse
snuff the battle from afar. and conflne their hu-
mane and disinterested efforts to feeding and
eauipping the poor devils who had to do the
fighting. But we think if those who indulge in
these hopes of war with Mexico are founded
upon the fighting which has recently taken
place IN New Mexico. they are doomed to dis
appointment.


We are informed by friend, an old merchant
OF this city, who has spent much of his time on
the upper Rio Grande, that very large propor-
ton of the population on the east side of the
river is composed of Mexicans These peonle
have received, by an inherited custom. the right
to get their salt free of charge from Salt Lake
This lake was somtime ago purchased by
company of which man called Judge Howard
was the agent. and he peremptorily prohibited
the inhabitants from making free use of the
salt Of the lake-hence the conflict. The leader
of the Mexican party was killed. and Judge
Howard. calling to his aid a small company of
Texas Rangers, was captured and killed. Ac-
cording to the latest and seemingly the most
reliable accounts. no parties from the other
= nyi ftair otaI i,t A-LA
We cannot see that there is any cause of quarrel
growing out this enseate which can lead to
war between the two countries. Nevertheless
the violent feeling of antagonism existing be-
tween the Mexicans and Texans on the lower
Bio Grande may yet eventuate in conflict be-
tween the two peoples, and the trade prospects
Of New Orleans be benefited thereby.
Year: 1877

Many OF US are disposed to indulge in lit
tie quiet cachination over the pretensions.
somewhat loudly and repeatedly proclaimed. of
st. Louis as being great prospective cotton
mart. but we cannot Withhold our admiration of
the jealous. practical efforts being constantly
made by her merchants and capitalists to at
tract trade thither. even from most remote
points, and think that they are. in some re-
spects. worthy of emulation and imitation.
Year: 1877

The old saying. that ''out of evil one can
always educe good" is pleasantly exemplifed
by the present condition Of the provision mar
ket. Thousands Of good people are now living
In reduced circumstances; but they have some
satisfaction In knowing that the necessaries of
life are cheaper than they have been for many
Year: 1877

It is pointed out, as if to save the Oh arac
ter of the railroad men, that they were not
the pillagers at Pittsburg But this does
not save them. No doubt the acts done went
beyond their purpose. The movement
which began as o strike assumed the pro-
portions of an insurrection-an insurrec-
ton of an agrarian nature--an insurrecton in
spired with the spiritof the "Rod Republic"
which proposed that the rich should divide,
and which to that end set aside all the
established order of society and put physical
force in place of right, law, order and JUS
tice.


In these events the railroad men them
selves were less conspicuous than their al
lies The front rank was taken by the
rouchs of great city and by class of 10
boring men who, while they have no imme-
diate interest in the quarrel, feel an instinc-
tive sympathy for cause that makes war, as
they suppose, on the rich. In the fires
kindled at Pittsburg, and in the rob-
berries committed under cover of the
general excitement, the heroes were
the suddenly collected dangerous ele-
ments of that city. There and else
where we hear of miners, canal boatmen,
workers in iron mills and other classes Of
hardy and impulsive men ordinarily scorn-
ing restraint in great degree and ready on
any occasion to repudiate it altogether.
And those of whom we hear less, but who
are even more active, are the thousands OF
indescribable creatures, half beggar and half
rutiian, who abound in all manufacturing
places, the product of wretchedness md
rum. and who revel in scenes of disorder
and thrive by violence. Pittsburg was given
over to bands of this sort, and i'll the name
of the rights of labor pillage fourished.


But the railway men made the occasion
and led the way. 1t may be that not a
single brakeman touched any property not
his own, neither helped to pillage house
or freight car, but they organized the
violence that paralyzed the authorities
which ordinarily make life and property
safe. They paralyzed authority for their
own purposes, not ior plunder; but they are
morally responsible for the consequences.