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Year: 1877

RAILRoAD.- Plans have been received here for locating tracks, buildings, &c., on this side of the river. A single track crosses the bridge'and runs as far as Jones' street; there switch throws of side track running down by the steamboat office and parallel to the river, across Main street, and toward Penitentiary Hill Five lines have been surveyed for this side track, but the one most likely to be adopted runs in front of the steamboat office and along the

 new wharf and freight shed to be built at the foot of Main street. From the bridge the road runs nearly straight along Madi- son avenue,till opposite the court house; from here it diverges across the block to- ward Main street beyond the Catholic church. Near this point of divergence four tracks spring out, spreading on each side of the new depot and coming together again on the block between Fourth and Fifth streets. The depot is to be on block 90, between Main street and Madison avenue

 and between Fourth and Fifth, rather nearer to the former. The turntable is located at the Interrogation of Main and Fifth streets
Year: 1877

AN exhibition was given on Thursday by the pupils of the Sisters of St. Joseph, which reflected credit on the proficiency of the children. An allegorical play was well rendered by them, though the author displayed bad taste in putting religious politics into the mouths of children The angel of England got no crown because that country had backslid from the Romish faith, until she promised to weep away English sins with her tears. The angel of America would have been left uncrowned for the infidelity of her country but for the intercession of the angel of Ireland, who guaranteed to bring her into the fold. The angel of Ireland has pretty near corraled the country now. Her church has gobbled up the Democratic party and stands good chance of hiving the rest of us; but it is unpleasant to be reminded of it by school children at public exhibitions. This sort of thing is to be expected however, from sectarian schools of any denomination.
Year: 1877

No PLANS have yet been received here for the bridge. nor has any timber for it yet arrived. For weRt of it the carpenters !, gang is lying idle. Their tents and the construction train make up quite a village on theppposite bank of the river. The pontoons have been lowed up to the bridge site, put in thorough repair and covered with brush to protect them from the sun till wanted.
Year: 1877

THE railroad engineers have been run ming levels over the mesa on the line of First street, which it Is proposed to open and grade clear through to the fiat below town. This will be great improvement and of much benefit to Yuma.
Year: 1877

ARrvAipA is the name of new district near Camp Grant and few miles from Nit. Turnbull. Mines have been prospected there of great extent, though not of very high grade e.Mr., Stow is taking large stock of goods in there and will open the mines up with aview to erecting machinery as soon as developments will justify.
Year: 1877

By steamboat yesterday we learn that Doc. Brooks got into some difficulty with John Baker and Blake, in the la tiers saloon at Greenwood. Brooks went out for shot gun, and returning shot both the others dead, himself receiving a pistol shot in the head which is expected to prove fatal.
Year: 1877

BARNEY's BLOCK is still improving in appearance, The gap between the tin shop and the express office is fillediu up by the new ice-cream saloon, and the roof of the tin shop has been raised to the level of the adjoining buildings.
Year: 1877

THE HOUSE THAT KAUTZ BUrLT.-Soldiers have been or dered from Verde and McDOwell to work on new house for Kautz. That is better than loafing around camp. The exercise will do them good.
Year: 1877

THE Chinamen working on the railroad hsvea regular "quartermaster's gait" ex- capt when they are going home from work then they are lively enough. But they work eleven and quarter hours day and accomplish good deal after all.
Year: 1877

an engine house with seven stalls lying west of it and right across the street Coal platforms, tool houses and repair shops are to be placed along Main street, between Fifth and Sixth
Year: 1877

TIC LOs AIICeIts HsTutN says:


The cactus paper mill Of Capt. Walker is
in full blast in the Soledad. 1t makes two
tons of pulp day. The pulp is forwarded
to the mill at Santa Clara. where it is made
up into an excellent article of MANILA
wrapping paper. They have not vet man
ufactureti any news paper, but are about
to start in on its manufacture. About
twenty men are employed cutting the cac-
tus and reducing it TO a pulp. We are glad
to be able to report that the business is
the pecuniary returns quite
the expectations of the projectors
Of this novel industry.
Year: 1877

at once circulated, and numerousIv
signed for his incontinent decapitation
without the benefit of prayers or clergy.
But his letter in explanation has had the
effect to make many of these Impulsive
people very much ashamed of their pre-
eipitancy- What he said in disparage-
ment of Washington was mainly with
reference to its ante war status, and not
to the noble position it now occupies.
The truthfulneSs cf his structures. made
at the expense of some of the office hold
ers and Office seekers encountered here,
would be recognized by any one familiar
with life at the National Capital.


Political matters are extremely quiet
Some ofthe most useful functions of the
Post Office Department are threatened
ed with temporary suspension from ex-
haushon of the appropriations which
were cut away down below the estimates
OF officials thoroughly familiar with the
needs of the service and against their
protests, by the Democratic majority of
the Forty-fourth Congress utterly indif-
ferent, apparently, as to the effect. En-
barassments quite as serious and due to
the same cause, threaten the De
partment of Justice and many other
branches of the public service.


maxwell.
Year: 1877

VERY much of the success of a life de
pends upon the early training that the
child receives. Not only his success but
his health and happiness depend largely
upon it. 1t is essential that from the
very beginning his life he be trained
to systematic thought and action; and
the child that is thus trained up until it
becomes 4 fixed habit, will be more like
ly to succeed in what he undertake than
the one who is not. Many business
failures have their origin in the school
room. \ bent twig often grows into a
crooked branch, and the chances are
that the boy who is allowed to parse
words and solve examples in hap haz
ard way will keep his business accounts
in the same manner.
Year: 1877

horses were stopped in their mad flight,


withOH; overturning the carriage, and


the young girl senseless from fright.


taken out, otherwise unharmed


The New York Press Purchasing
Agency, of which wrote you short
time ago, bids fair to become q feature
in this city. Their Office at 239 Broad


way, is in a convenient location. and
they transact all sorts of business. fom


buying stock of goods for merchants TO
the purchase of piano for his daughter
or bonnet for his wife. They secure
railway or steamer tickets and circular
letters of credit; buy books or pictures.
and transact any business of any kind
for any person. For this they charge
YOU no commission and yet buy every
thing for bottom prices As an instance
of their business energy, they found and
on Friday to a firm in Balti-
more, three pictures, which two leading
dealers in the article had failed To pro-
cure when applied to. Send for one of
their circulars TO the New York Press
Purchasing Agency, Box 1863; or call
and see them when in town.


! heard the other day of the probable
saving of an entire family from hydro
phobia. They had hired house in the
country for the summer, and the night
before moving some one gave the eldest
daughter, q lovely girl ofeighteen, a
young Spitz. The next day she started
for the Grand Central depot with it, and
just as she got out Of the car the dog es-
capped. She chased it down Park aven-
ue, assisted by glowering policemen with
clubs, while the affrighted people ran in
all directions. At last she caught it Just
in time to save it from being Drained by
the minion of the law Il cauehtup the
darling and hugged it as close as / could;
but the tighter Rugged it the louder it
quealed and struggled. At last it got
away from me and went 20 my sisterand
wouldn't come back. Afterwards |
found out what wGs the matter. / don't
mind telling you (she was talking to a
lady friend) that wear p.ps. don't
pretend to know what they are, and so
don't know there was pin in the waist
ofmy dress sticking into the little dlr-
ling. couldn't get him back againand
when we got into the cars he hOwled so
and people made such fuss, we had 20
take a section to ourselves.


When we got there, there was no car
riage nor anything and we finally left
our luggage and walked about a mile
through the mud. The house wasn't
and We finally went two miles
more. They didn't want to take the dog
in, but finally said, if We would leave it
in the garret by itself, it might stay. 1t
howled for three days and then died
You won't tell any one about the pps,
will you? was her last remark, but she
did not seem to realize that the death of
the Spitz, was probably prudential sal
vation of the whole family from hydro
phobia She mourned him as if he had
been brother
Year: 1877

THE teacher who has IN his hands the
training ofimmortal minds has assumed
no small share of responsibility. And
yet it is astonishing, when one thinks
about it, with what a small amount of
consideration many persons enter upon
the teachers work Men and women
enter the profession and go to work as if
they considered a human mind a no
more difficult thing to manage than q
hand saw, and indeed if drifting, simply,
be the teachers chief aim in life it is an
easier thing often to drive boy for six
hours a day than it is to drive hand
saw for twelve hours. Laziness takes
deep root in many hearts and it is con-
scienceless, hence we often do that which
is easier whether it be best or not The
consequence is that there are many per-
sons trying to teach who had better be


saving wood
Year: 1877

THE character of the young men of
community depends much upon that
Of the young women. If the latter are
cultivated, intelligent and accomplished.
the young men will feel the require.
ments that they themselves should be
upright, gentlemanly and refined; but
if their female friends are frivolous and
silly, the young men will be found dissi-
pated and yirtueless. But remember
always that the sister is but the guardian
of the brothers integrity. She is the
sure incubator of faith in female purity
and worth. AS daughter, she is the
light of home. The pride of the father
often centers in his sons, but his affec-
ton is expended on his daughter. She
should, therefore, be the sun and center
of all.
Year: 1877

ONE ofour ignorant rich men refused
to contribute anything for the aid Of the
Cambridge Observatory because the
astronomers there would then be dis
covering more stars, and he thought
there were more stars discovered now
than there was any use for.
Year: 1877

DARBER SHOP Is THE PLACE WHERE
ID you can get the best OF work done In the
neateSt possible style. Ladies' and Childrens
Hair Cutting nd 5hampooing a speciality.
Shop Opposite Old White Corner. Two Chair
always found ready for business Call and
zee him and ger a Good Job. Ladies desiring
work done, by leaving word at the shop he
will call at their residence. 10
Year: 1877

He is a wise who never acts without
reason, and never against it.


The beginning of anger is foolishness,
and its end is repentance.


He who pretends to be eyerybodys
particular friend is nobody's.


If you do what you should not, you
must bear what You would not.


The imaginationis is of 80 delicate tex
ture that even words wound it.


If we lack the sagacity to discriminate
nicely between our acquaintance and
our friends, oyr misfortune will readily
do it for us.


It is not so easy as philosophers tell
us to Law aside our prejudices mere
volition cannot enable us to divest our,
selves of long established feelings, and
reason is averse to laying aside theories
it has once been taught to admire.


Hath any wronged thee? Be bravely
avenged; slight it, and the work is
begun !; forgive, and its finished. DE
is below himself, that is not above an
injury.


It is often better to have a great deal
of harm happen to one than little;
a great deal may rouse you to remove
what little will only accustom you to
endure.


The great man should retire occa-
sionally from the stage to avoid weary
ing admiration for however brilliant
the sun may be, it would be wrong for
it never to set.
Year: 1877

Nothing perhaps more strikingly ex-
emplifies the physical fortitude of the
Russian peasants than one of their ma
tional sports-a strang mixture of Brit
ish boxing and Japanese harikari. The
nature of this sport will appear from the
following description by traveller in


Russia of what he witnessed A stalwart


Russ, some six feet high, was being pun
ished by On adversary fully six inches
shorter than himself in most atrocious
fashion. The blows fell upon his head
and face one after the other, being dealt
with a slow swinging deliberation and
received with such apparent thankful
ness that for some moments our aston
ishment was too great to inquire OF the
admiring spectators around what it all
meant. We were told, to our no less
surprise, that this was Russian boxing
match--the object being, not for the ad-
versaries to infict the greatest amount
of punishment upon each other, but to
see which one received the greater num-


Der of blows before calling for quarter.
On another occasion, we learn from the
same authority, the actors were stal-
wart Boyard and still more stalwart
serf. The contest took place in the vii
lage inn, on challenge from the Boy
ard. The trial was to be proceeded with
by turns of three blows each, the Boyard
commencing. He dealt the serf tre-
mendous blow full in the mouth, cutting
his lips and bruising them almost to
pulp. The second blow was dealt
on the nose. which forthwith disap-
peared. The third closed up one of his
eyes, but not sound did the victim ut
ter, nor did muscle twitch in his man
gled face. The Boyard now put himself
in position to pass his examination but
whether he was simply acting as one OF
those choice dessert fruits that are put
on the table on the tacit understanding
that they are not to he touched, or
whether the serf was too conscious OF his
power could not be satisfactorily deter
mined !; anyhow the serf. having raised
his fist with an ominous swing, brought
it with tremendous sweep against the
edge of the massive porcelain stove and
piece out of it the size OF
mans head, observing at the same time
that he did not wish to mess the room
with the "master's brains. After this
horrible description we need not wonder
at any tales of Russian endurance.
Year: 1877

The other day Mr.. Middlerib stopped
at a grocery and bought some. onions,
giving the grocer two dollar bill.
Among the change handed back to the
customer was an old one dollar bill 1t
had been taken in that morning for kero-
sene oil, and there was iusta dash OF the
oil on it, that had been spilled In the
morning. Then the grocer had laid it
on a pile of Goldfish willie he fixed the
stopper in the oil can. Then he had it
on his hand while he cut off q couple OF
pieces of cheese, and the cheese on the
bill struggled with the Goldfish and kero-
sene for pre.emince. Then it got lit
tie touch of mackerel and little tine
ture of stale egg on it, and at Last the
grocer stuffed it into his pocket along
with a plug of tobacco, and finally,
when Middlerib got it with his onions,
he held it to his nose once or twice.
shifted it with an investigating air, and
at last walked out of the store with q
cheerful countenance, saying: by
George, we're all right now. Good
times are here again, and the govern
ment is paying one hundred scents on
the dollar. ."-Burlington Ha,okeye.
Year: 1877

A young man in a leather store used
to feel very impatient with his employer
for keeping him, year after year, for
three years "handling hides" But he
saw the use of it in after years, when in
an establishment of his own he was able
to tell by touch the exact quality of
the goods. It was only by those thou
sands of repetitions that the lesson was
learned, and 80 it is with everything in
which we acquire skill. The great army
of "incapables is large enough we
should none of us willingly join it's ranks.
The half-informed, half-skilled in every
business outnumber the others, dozens
to one. It was good suggestion, wor-
thy of being remembered, which Daniel
Webster made to young man who
asked him if there was any "room in
the legal profession. " "There is always
room," said the great statesman.


The better you know your business
the better your chances to rise. If you
drone through your allotted tasks with
out keeping wide awake lookout on all
that goes on about you your progress
will be needlessly slow. You can gather
much information by making wise use
of your eyes and ears, and, perhaps, be
able to surprise your employer in an
emergency by stepping into the "next
mans" place and discharging his duties
satisfactorily.


A fine little lad, some twelve years
old, was employed in telegraph Office
in Southern town last year when the
yellow fever ragged SO fearfully in that
section. All the operators were down
with it and others sent on by the COM
pany were attacked. No one knew that
the lad understood the business, but he
had picked it up and kept up communi-
cation between the town and the outer
world all the time the fever lasted.


Ex-Governor Morgan was once clerk
in store in Waterford. A trip to New
York was an event in those days, but the
young man had proved 80 faithful that
he was intrusted with several commits
sions, among them being one to buy
corn. He came back in due time in the
old stage coach, and inquiries were made
about the corn. The price was very sat-
isfactory, but the old gentleman was
afraid It could not be good at so low q
price. A handful which the young man
pulled from his pocket convinced him,
but what was his amazement to find that
he had bought two cargoes.


"Why Edwin, what shall we do with
it ?" he asked in CONSERVATION.


81 have disposed Of all you don't
want" said Edwin, cat an advance. l
stopped in stores as I came along. 1
could have disposed of three cargoes if 1
had had them.


The profits were clear, and his employ
er said the next morning, "We will let
some one else do the sweeping" and
Edwin was made partner, though un.
der twenty one. If you have talent for
business it will be found.
Year: 1877

Keen tea in q close chest or cannister.


Keep coffee by itself, as it's odor affects
other articles.


Keep bread and cake in tin box or
stone jar.
irkin of water in cellar.


Oranges and lemons keep best wrapped
D paper and if possible laid in a drawer
Year: 1877

Among the many changes to take place soop
ON the grand boulevard none will be more strik-


ing and more indicative Of the good time to come
than the swayiDg to the breeze the banners of the
grand "Palais Royal" Our enterprising friend
Levy, who has for 80 many years been the popu-
lar proprietor Of the dollar etore. No 1877 Canal
street. seems to have had his faith shaken in re~
publican institutions and ideas, and Ia deter
mined, with one fell swoop, to oblterate the
name Of dollar store forever. He Is making prep
arations for the opening OF this elegant and gor-
geous establishment, and nothing will be spared
in making it the most attractive place in the
Southern country. Levy's dollar store ia known
throughout the whole South, and as it has been
known for its promptness in filing orders and
the polite attention Of the clerks, and the place to
get everything, 90 will the Palais Royal grow
into popular favor, for we will see in the large
and gilded signs that are to adorn the building
evidences Of new era, 8 prosperity which We
have longed for but never expected until the
present time.
Year: 1877

Especial to the DemOcfatl


New YORK, Aug. S.-Advices from Haytl
state that revolution has again broken out
in that republic and the insurgents. in force,
laid siege to Port-ar-Prince. A large portion
OF the city was fired, and a confiagration en-
sued which continued two days. and had not
been extinguished when the mail steamer
left.


President Cosal is unpopular with the ma
tive element from his known feeling OF cor
diality with foreigners.


Gen. Solomon, black man, formerly min
lister to England under the imperial rule of
Solouque, is the present aspirant for the place
of President. He says when he gets into
power the black republic will make the streets
of Port-au-Prin rivers with the blood of
both white and colored men.


The southern side of the island is equally
disaffected. Numerous arrests have been
made by the government.
Year: 1877




made gulf between Scott and his employees,
but [ shall require better evidence than is
now at hand before I believe that Tom Scott
ever counseled such idiocy


When the strike first began at Buffalo there
was OF course vast outcry against Vanderbilt,
and there was time when it would have
been unsafe for him to make his appearance
there. But after what we have seen of his