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Year: 1878

iApgasta (Ga. } Constitutionaljst and
Sentinel


The most sagaeious merchants


in that part of the Union advertise,


If anything, more freely and Eber-
| ally when times are dull than when


they are brisk. This is founded


upon the shrewd and rational idea


that, when purchasers are laggard,
they most require stirring up, and


that the only way TO create the


necessary agitation is through the


medium OF a widely-circulated pub.


lie press. There is another reason


why merchants and others should


proclaim in the papers what they


have to sell, and that is the inev-
liable dispersion thereby Of the
very dullness complained of. We,
venture to say that frequent, tell
ing, live advertising will wake up
the sleepy community, and that
all business men who practice this
true business precept will infaIlibly
reap the reward of their superior
enterprise.


A Mobile contemporary puts the
case pithiiy: "Eyery man, in any
business, who does not take the
trouble to tell the public what he
has for sale. will soon fad that the
public does not take the trouble to
inquire for itself. He will find
some are finding to-day, whether
they confess it or not--that his re-
ticence is practically putting up
his blinds for him; and that his
clerks might as well go fishing as
tumble over goods they do not sell. |
Neither need such a reticent mer-
chant wonder why people pass his
store, and go in the next door. For
human nature has much of the
bull in il, and will run after highly
colored announcement, as the tau
rine will after red flag. The only
kind OF red flag it does not run
after, worth speaking of, is that |
which is apt to follow too long and |
too persistent folding of ones |
hands in ones lap"
Year: 1878

" / have brought your dinuer, father,


The blacksmith's daughter said,
As she took from her arms kettle


And lifted its shining lid.
"There's not any pie or pudding,


$50 / will give you this
And upon his toil-worn forehead


She left the childish kiss.
The blacksmith took off his apron


And dined in happy mood,
Wondering much at the SAVIOR


Hid in his humble food
While all about him were visions


Full of prophetic bliss;
But he never thought of magic


In his little daughters kiss
While she, with her kettle swinging,


Merrily 4rudged away,
Stopping at sight Of a squirrel,


Catching some wild birds lay.
And thought how many shadow


Of life and fate we would miss,
Ii always our frugal dinners


Were seasoned with kiss.
Year: 1878

But some will and do say: Well, what
use is there of making good butter
when only 6 or 10 cents per pound is
paid! 1t wont pay to make good but
ter and sell at such prices? Now, there
is just where a great mistake is made;
it is the farmers themselves who are to
blame; for the quality Of the article
regulates the price. That this is
fact, can be readily proved, for we
know of farmers who get but 6 cents
per pound for their butter, while their
neighbors find ready sale for all they
can make and get as high as 10, 20,
and even 25 cents for every pound of
it. There is always ready market
and fair paying prices for good article
of butter, and no danger Of overstock-
ing the market. There is always
plenty grass and water, and you can
sell enough stock in each year to pay
the expense of keeping. Farmers, you
must diversity your crops, and give
more attention to the dairy and stock,
if for no other reason than that your
land cannot stand the constant drain Of
a wheat crop.
Year: 1878

He DID IT WITH HIs LITTLE HATCHRT.
On Monday last, Messrs. A Baker and
j. p. Johnson were out hunting deer and
drove two bucks onto the ice on Lake. LIE
IIomme dieu. The ice was very thin and
they could not follow the deer. A boat
was procured and by pushing it along the
ice and holding to the sides they reached
the deer, and Arthur Baker taking an axe
which they had with them, approached
and struck one on the head, and then took
a circle and brought down the other, kill
ing both. The ice was so thin that it was
necessary to keep on run to avoid break
ing through, and he took them on the fly
cas- it were"
Year: 1878

The account elsewhere published of
the perpetration of an unmentionable
crime by a grey headed beast of a
father, upon the person of his sixteen
year old daughter, is one of the most
revolving cases ever recorded. Such
a low lived beast deserves to be lynched
and the people Of Big Stone County
would confer a favor on the public at
large If they would tar, feather and
hang the brute.
Year: 1878

The meanest man is now in New
York. This time it is we'll to do
citizen, who took his sick son to doc
tor and told him if he could cure the
boy for less than the cost of funeral,
to go ahead, but if he couldn't, the
youth must take his chances.
Year: 1878

The Lac qui Parle Press says: This
town will not put on any airs in the
building line at present. As it has
waited so long, it can afford to wait
another year very patiently; and then
get up and move to the railroad if nec-
CeSsary.
Year: 1878

Alexandra Post


FATAL AccIDEET.-As Thursdays even
ing train was backing up at Sauk Centre,
an old and deaf gentleman, whose name
we did not learn, father-inlaw of Mr..
Hoople, elevator agent, was struck by the
train and run over and his head and one
hand instantly cut off
Year: 1878

COLORADO has gone Republican.
There were three tickets in the field;
Democratic, Republican and National.
On the finance questions, their respective
platforms may be thus summarized:


DEMoCRATIC-Charges to the Repub-
llcan financial policy the general depres-
sion and distress, demands an increase in
the volume of currency, free and unlim-
tied coinage of silver, with the issue OF
silver bullion coin certificates for circula-
tion; the repeal of the Resumption Act,
and tue substitution of greenbacks for
National Bank notes.


REPUDLICAN--Decla that the Gov
ernment should provide honest national
money sufficient for all the legitimate
needs ofthe country, and that the interest
bearing debt should be reconverted into
popular loan; advocates that the debt
should be paid as agreed upon at the time
it was contracted, and approves the at
tempt of the Senate to make greenbacks
receivable for Government dues.


NATIoNAL-Demands the repeal of
the Resumption Act and abolishment of
the National Banks, no further issue of
interest-bearing bonds, an income tax,
and the issue by the Government directly
to the paope of absolute paper money in
sufficient quantity to pay Off the public
debt and meet all the requirements of
trade.


Outside oftheparty triumph the finance
question is left in fog.
Year: 1878

Frank MilIer's Harness Oil and Backing
is pronounced by the trade generally to be
the best manufactured. The grade of
these goods is always standard aud their
reputation unsurpassed anywhere. The
firm is oHe of the oldest in the country and
has the largest trade 10 its line in the
country. dWtf
Year: 1878

CHICAGO, May 2.-General Sheridan this afternoon received a report from General Miles, dated Head Quarters of the District of the Yellow Stone, Fort Kegoh, Montana, informing him that Sitting Bull and 144 men, all head soldiers and chiefs, had sent half breed to General Miles, inquiring what kind of peace tine United States would make with them, and saying the Great Father was of course too rich to expect Indians to give up their poor little ponies and their old guns.

 General Miles in reply informed Sit ting Bull that if he desired to stop hos tilities peace could be made which would end all the troubles between the whites and Indians. When the Indians give up their ponies and guns they will receive cattle and other prop. erty of greater value in place, and when peace is made the Government will provide for them as it does for all friendly Indians.
Year: 1878

PIMA COUNTY, ARIZONA. May The intelligent reader of this article will no doubt pause and question to himself whence this sepulchlral name. But if the reader willlprospect in these hills for week or two, his attention will be attracted to sundry little mounds at the bead of each of which is a cross, he will readily observe the propriety of the name and wonder if those renegade Apaches are liable to happen around this way again.

 The mines in. this vicinity are re- markedly rich and are a most valuable acquisition to the mineral wealth of the Territory. The credit of this dis cOvery is due to Mir E. L. Sheffelin, one of the best and most invincible prospectors on the coast. He stood by the country after others had condemn ed il, found rich float, traced it up, and today he and his associates hold fair share of some of the rich est and most desirable mining proper ty ever discovered. NIT. E. l.. Scheffe- lin is associated with his brother AL bert E. Scheffelin and MT Richard Gird Both Of these gentlemen are we'll and favorably known throughout the Territory. MT. Gird particularly so, as an expert, sssayer and mining engineer

 The other parties holding claims in the district are Mir. T. E. Walker and Messrs. Williams, Boyer and Hart The district has been pretty thorough ly tramped over by expert prospectors and the universal opinion they have arrived at is, that the formation con taining the rich ore is all concentrated in one point which is entirely absorb ed into the present locations which string along in the neighborhood of eight miles. state this for the ben eft of not over jealous prospectors who do not like to go on fools errands where water is scarce. I wish in a modest kind of way. to place the mer- its of this new district before the pub lie.

 The ledge formations are clearly de- fined and are very uniform in width The richest ore is heavy lead ore which assays in the neIghborhood of 5000. All of the ore is we'll plaStered with horn silver and rich chlorides, and carries a large percentage of gold. Traces of a metal new to this section of country, supposed to be telluriums, have been discovered.

 Prospecting parties are numerous in the vicinity and Indians and water are scarce. These parties are paying the Dragons and Huachucas a fair share of their attention and report their finds or failures with correspond ing joy or sorrow.

 Before closing I will describe the locus and boundaries of our infant dis trict, commencing at the old ruins on the Rio San Pedro about twenty miles above the upper crossing, it extends east to the Dragons and north to fine Mule mountains. The San Pedro com poses the western boundary line.

 PECACH.
Year: 1878

LETTERS from ConstantinOple state that when General Grant was there, recently, the Sultan insisted upon Grants selecting from his horses one as a present, being assured by the Sultan's Minister of War that if he did not accept the gift His Majesty would

 be much displeaset. The General selected a dapple- gray, superb in form and having a step that would light with admiration the eye of any cavalier. The caparisons were brought out, and the horse, in splendid attire, was for mally presented to General Grant.
Year: 1878

The Pot Hole placers are coming into notice again. A party of four men have been taking very rich dirt from the fiat across from ShultZ's wood yard and about 400 yards from the river. They sank down about eighteen feet to the bed rock on which they have been drifting, in about four inches of rich pay dirt. The gold is coarse, many pieces weighing four to five dollars. The party has been taking out from twenty to thirty buckets day, glv- ing an average of over dollar to the bucket They take up just about water enough to wash their dirt. The Pot Hole diggings are on the west bank of the Col orado, about sixteen miles above here Some years ago they caused great eX- citement, as some of the claims there proved enormously rich. The gold there seems to have formed in matrix of gran | ite, specimens of this rock being often found which contain considerable gold.
Year: 1878

Small pox got among tEe Indians on the other side of the river. The poor wretches have suffered terribly for want of food and clothing and presumably some deaths have occurred among them. For obvious reasohs we have not investi- gated the matter closely. The Indian me- dicine men must have had rough time of it. Each of them is allowed to have six patients die under his treatment, but when the seventh dies, the corpse's friends club the ,octOr to death. Last week, by per mission of chief Pascual, a medicine man shot two babies, placing them so that one bullet killed both. They had small poN and were pronounced past the doctors skill when he was called in. Therefore their deaths do not count on his limit o six Nice people.
Year: 1878

Small pox is still on the decrease here. Two of the doctors tell us they think there can not now be more than b cases. Pas cual, chief of the Yumas, says there are now no cases among his tribe, all having got well that did not die So few of the Indians have painted their faces black that there could not have been many deaths among them. Black paint is their regula tion mourning.
Year: 1878

Messrs. Donaldson & Swift came in this week from the Live Yankee mine, about twelve miles up the Colorado, bringing splendid spec linens of quartz well stocked with coarse free gold. They have added twelve feet to the depth of their shaft, have good ore streak and are sanguine of big results. There is fair specimen of their rock at Martins drug store.
Year: 1878

The Colorado river has been rising con- siderably of late, to the increased comfort of steamboat men. Just now it looks as if there will not be much of an overflow this year. But little snow has fallen in the mountains at the head of our river: no blockade has yet occurred on the Central Pacific railroad and, at this season, little more snow can be looked for.
Year: 1878

Barge No. 1 was hauled out yesterday, being the first boat taken onto the new ways. Things worked well enough for a first trial and "she moved like thing of life," as they say down East when a new ship is launched. No champagne was opened, as the river has raised so much this week, that little water could be spared for drinking
Year: 1878

The pay car of the S. P R. R. came in on Monday afternoon and at once began pay ing of creditors here of that road. The money was much needed as no paymaster had been here for nearly three months.
Year: 1878

H. s. Fitzgerald & Co. still have on hand an excellent assortment of cassimere and fine clothing, which they are selling cheap CT than ever, to make room for stock of summer clothing.
Year: 1878

The yard engines have been kept run ming back and forth so much, through Mad ison avenue, that occasionally the boys forget to ring their bells at street crossings

 An accident may occur when least expect
Year: 1878

Notice is hereby given to all our custo- mers, past, present and to come, that III the future NO CREDIT will be given for a longer term than one week, and those now indebted to our market are requested to settle at once or no further credit will be given them by us: It takes money to buy cattle. cattle make meat, and meat Is what we sell to keep us even on our cattle and q little more so Old timers and new timers will please understand that this rule of WEEKLY PAYMENTS is absolute and applies to all alike. We are sensitive about other peoples feeling, and trust we tlemenl PAY YOUR MEAT BILLS, for a man must eat to live, and ours is not a charitable institution endowed by de- ceased millionaire.

 L. A. SMITH & BRO.

 Yuma City Market. Yuma, February 9, 1878.
Year: 1878

bright star of christian hope, and
the light of christian faith to guide
them through this eventful life, and
all sufficient grace to sustain them
in the solemn hour of death and
give them confidence and triumph
when they stand before the great
white throne. Who can bear the
thought that some who have often
met with us at old Mt Moriah will
be sundered forever in the great
hereafter? God grant that we may
all so live that when life's fitful fe-
yer is o'er, our work done, our
graves opened, our bodies deposit
ed in the solemn vault, and the
clods have fallen with sepulchral
sound upon our coffin lids, our i'm
mortal spirits may meet in the
bright mansions of love and rest,
where sorrows never enter and
partlngs are no more.


"Oh, how sweet it will be in that beautiful


land


So free from all sorrow and pain;
With songs on our lips and with hRrps in


our hands,


To meet one another again."s


We would like to give Q fuller alb
stract of this beautiful essay but
time and space forbid. I. S.
Year: 1878

Mr.. EDITOR The astute editor
of the Lawrenceburg Free Press,
''the only greenback paper in the
Seventh Congressional district of
Tennessee" in an editorial in last
weeks issue expresses a desire to
know If Anxious voted for Marks
and his greenback platform at the
recent election. His admission that
the democratic platform is a green
back platform, and consequently all
that the most ardent greenbacker
can ask for (the absolute paper
money theory excepted) is tanta-
mount to acknowledging that there
is no necessity for the existence of
an independent greenback party.
ga house without foundation can
not stand" So it can be safely pre-
dicted that the greenback party as
an independent organization cannot
long stand, because there is no ne
cessity for such party. True, the
way the greenbackers propose to
pay the bonded debt of the United
States, amounting in all to about
one billion six or seven hundred
million dollars, by substituting
therefor the proposed new issue of
greenbacks and thus flooding the
country with money-whether such
legislation be lawful or unlawful,
constitutional or unconstitutional,
is rather ''new departure" But
it cannot be believed that the we'll
informed would be politicians, who
advocate this ''cheap" way of pay
ing the national debt, are sincere In
advocating such a measure? The
cry of more money, cheap money,
and money for everybody is the
merest folly, designed by the lead
ers of this new movement as a
catch penny.


The democratic party has always
been in favor of a volume of cuI
rency sufficient for all the demands
of commerce. And as an evidence
of ther faith they demand the repeal
of the resumption law, the unlimited
coinage of silver, and such other
measures as they believe will relieve
the present embarrassment of trade,
caused by a contraction of the cur
rency. What more can reasonably
be asked by any party?


1t is not the duty of the govern
ment (if such a thing were practi
cable to create a demand for pro-
ducts or labor, or to place money
into the hands of its subjects with
on; their paying an equivalent
therefor. If a person then engaged
in agriculture or in any other avoca-
tion of life produces nothing for
which there is q demand, or If there
is no demand for the service of the
laborer, how can the laborer or any
one else expect to be benefited by
the mere act of striking more money!
Any demagogue who attempts to
make the Impression that by any
kind of legislation money can be
placed into the pockets of she idle
and thus place them financially on
an equality with the industrious
classes of society deserves rs little
sympathy as the communiss-


AncUs.
Lawrenceburg, Nov. l4th.
Year: 1878

Jackson (Tenn.) Tibune and
Sun: Three tramps got into a car
loaded at Sharon Station, forty
miles north of jackson, with cotton
seed for the oil mill in this city, and
were locked and sealed up in the
car. Arriving here on yesterday,
the car in which they we're impris


oned was switched of on a side
track. Growing hungry and thirs-
ty they called Justify to be turned
out, but no one was allowed to
break the seal until the car was
turned over to the assignee. This
was not done for some hours, and
the self-imprisoned tramps sent for
the Mayor. But he could do moth
ing for them. At the proper time,
however the car was delivered, the
seal broken and the tramps set free.
They had been in the car without
food or water for thirty-six hours,
but being informed of the penalty of
a halt in Jackson, they wearily took
the road and tramped of South.
Year: 1878

many astronomical scientists main
tain that that event was brought
about by the extraordinary celestial
influences under consideration
These things are facts within the
ken of modern science, and while n
certain rate of discount must al
ways be allowed for the enthusiasm
of scientists, still it is not the part
Of wisdom TO wholly ignore their
deductions or degrade their warning.


At all events. il is worth while 70
note that the terrible predictions
under discussion are not the maun-
derings Of religious fanatics, but
the sober conclusions Of the most
subtitle mental processes of which
the order Of human intellect is ca
pable. That the climatic conditions
of the earth are more or less affect
ed by the general economy of the
planetary system whereof the world
we inhabit is a part, is generally
admitted With such a premise cs-
tablished and undisputed, il is easy
20 deduce all the things claimed
by the scientists, siuce, ir the theo-
ry of planetary influences be admit
ted at all, there can be no logical
bounds set 10 their scope.


II we accept the scientific theory
that the great food of Noah's time
was caused by the unusual preoipi-
tation of moisture in our atmos-
phere through the influence of tho
combined perihelia Of the four lar
gest planets in our system, then
surely we cannot dispute tho pro-
dictlon that the recurrence of the
same cause, which is about TO oc-
cur, will produce the same effect in
degree AT least, IL not in FORM
These things undoubtedly form in
teresting topics Of discussion, but
as they place all the Inhabitants of
the world in the same boat, the old
trulsm that misery loves company
comes TO the rescue, and enables US
TO view with composure the ap-
proach Of calamities which, howev.
er dire, will have the one redeem
ing feature OF strict impartiality.
Hence, while rendering our thanks
to the learned scientists who have
given us such timely warning OF
the approaching cataclysm, we feel
bound To remark, Let IL come, and
we hasten To add that our in
vitation should be just as cordial if
the virthe Of our hospitality did
not bear as it does the stamp Of
necessity.