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Year: 1878

The disgraceful attack upon the proprie. tor of the MINER, published in Tuesday's issue of the Enterprise, would, under ordin- ary circumstances, seem to call for some sort of reply; but the proprietor aforesaid,

 is away from Prescott, and the temporary manager of the paper does not feel called upon to go down into the filth and slums of iourn: :slism to engage in dirty war of words such as this would involve.

 He has tried in d twenty years experience in the newspaper business to occupy at least respectable place in the profession, and shall not now descend to that lower plane to which, by accident, as it were, he seems to be invited.

 Mir. Morgan, in his address on Saturday evening, correctly defined the true mission of a newspaper, and it occurs to us that if he should read yesterdays Enterprise, i'm partially, It would afford him new matter to set up in his indictment of the venal press, and give him another opportunity to lecture on the honesty, morality and purity of journalism.

 To such of our friends as have inquired what course we shall pursue in the matter, 1 and what we shall de about it, during the absence of the editor and proprietor, we l answer nothing It is entirely out of our | line, and we propose to go on in the even | tenor of our way, giving the people news instead of billingsgate, and in commenting on transpiring events, we shall endeavor to | do so in the language of gentleman. To do otherwise would be to betray the tenn porary trust reposed in us, and to lower the in the estimation of the public, from the enviable position it has occupied for years, to level with the venal press so ably described and justly condemned by MT. Morgan in his speech.

 This is all the MINER designs to say with reference to this matter until the return of the editor, who is now far oa his way to the Little Colorado.
Year: 1878

Somebody has sert to this Of
flee q tract entitled: "What is it
to be damned?" Such things
are useless to newspaper men.
All of the profession who have
been any length of time engaged
in it know what it is.
Year: 1878

It is said the pigeon is never
eaieu by the Russians, who would
hold it a sin TO kill an animal IN
whose form the Holy Ghost is said
to have manifested himself. Pig
cons are bought, therefore, only as
pets, 10 be fed and schooled by
their masters.
Year: 1878

A lady living just outside Of
town writes to this Office, and
wants to know if editors ever
90 to heaven. Good land, they
never go anywhere. They
don't get a chance, they just sit
around and do good and count
their money and subscribe to
charitable enterprises.
Year: 1878

When men, women and opportunity
meet, the devil sits down, knowing that
the fire will burn withouthelp from him.


1t is better to rise from your knees,
and shut your hens out of your neigh
boris yard, than to indulge in long
prayers.


The perfectly contented man is also
perfectly useless.


Try to see yourself through the eyes
of those around You.


The ideal saint of the young moralist
is cut from sappy timber.


The Lord can more easily have faith
in the religion that wears an old coat
to church, than the man in the coat
can.


True prosperity builds up the soul
rather than the pocketbOOk.


The vigorous ideal keeps warm though
wrapped in few words.


Faith that asks no questions kills the
soul and stiles the intellect.


Happy is the man who has neighbors
willing to forgive his mistakes.


Appear to be better than you are, and
aim to be what you appear.


He who thinks poorly of himself can
not win the respect of his fellows.


Many who expect to go to heaven,
will find little comfort there unless
they are able to get up a lively trade in
harps, and gold, and nickel plated crowns.
Year: 1878

Many mother has wept over the sins
of her child, little dreaming that while
she pursued her round of idle pleasures,
that child was taking its first lesson in
sin from the example of vicious nurse.
The truth is, parents take upon them
selves too many unnecessary burdens,
and consider themselves bound by duty
to perform too many tasks, which are of
much less consequence than the teaching
and training of their children. The
father has his trade or profession, and
his few leisure hours he must spend in
social pleasure. The mother has her
household cares, and the comforts of her
family to study; and besides this there is
much time to be devoted to fancy work,
visitors, and to amusements of one kind
and another. Her children are mere
secondary considerations, and depend
upon the kindness of hirelings. Their
dresses may be miracles of putting, ruff
fles and embroidery, but what does that
count when their minds are dwarfed
through neglect? Her house may be the
model of neatness, her bread excel that
of all her neighbors, her jellies and pre-
serves enough to tempt the most fastid-
ious; but if in all this she has kept aloof
from her child, has chilled his heart
towards her, what does it count?
Year: 1878

A most interesting discovery has been
made in the Sea of Tiberias of a fish
which incubates its young in the cavi-
ties of the mouth and, what is the more
remarkable, it is the male which per
forms this part of the family function.
As soon as the female has deposited its
eggs in the hollow CT the sand, the male
approaches and draws them into the cav
tiles of the mouth by the process of pi.
ration. Here they are distributed be.
tween the leaves of the gills; and in the
midst of the respiratory organs the eggs
rapidly develop, distending the mouth
of the male fish in the most extraordi.
nary manner. Finally the young fishes
make their appearance, packed in the
gills like 50 many behring's, all with
their heads directed toward the opening.
From this place of safety and retreat
they run in and out until they are large
enough to take care OF themselves. II
is said that as many as two hundred
individuals are sometimes crowded into
the mouth and gills Of the male fish.
Year: 1878

San Francisco is vast gambling hell
at the present time, and the women are.
| if possible, worse than the men, in their
greed to obtain money by gambling in
mining stocks. A very sad case, Illus
trative of the generalization which the
craze is developing, is now before the
police court Ayoung woman of one of
the best known society families, wild to
raise n few hundred dollars with which
to speculate in mining stocks, invented
a bogus charitable society to relieve the
pressing wants of needy and starving
families, whose m0desty would not per-
nit them to make personal appeal to
the charity of their friends or the public,
She appointed herself treasurer, under a
false name, and sent out number of
circulars begging for money. One of
these circulars was sent to Mr.. sam, Will
son, a prominent lawyer, who, suspect
ing swindlc, sent Il police officer to fol-
low the messenger and investigate. At
the same time he handed the messenger
a small sum of money, which was duly
delivered to the young woman who was
waiting in the street, and who, being
unable to establish the good faith of the
society for which she pretended to be
acting, was arrested, and charged with
swindling and obtaining money by false
pretenses. Mr.. Wilson was sent for, and
found, to his CONSERVATION, that the
prisoner WAS fashionable young
woman, II frequent visitor at his own
and others Of the best houses in town.
Bail was taken for her appearance her
true name was withheld from the police
report and newspapers, and strenuous
efforts are being made to avoid trial
and public exposure. The affair is, how
ever, an open secret, and the girl,
who is only nineteen years of age, is
ruined for life.


The Palace Hotel in San Francisco,
is just now perplexed with an amusing
contest with the wife of an army officer,
who has made her presence very obiec-
tionablc to the inmates of that vast es-
tablishment by undertaking, on her own
assumption, to manage its social arrange
ments. She has succeeded in making
herself SO obnoxious to the guests of the
house that the managers have requested
her to leave, which she percmptorily re-
fuses to do, and challenges them to put
her out by force.


Her gas and water are cut off, but she
holds the fort and refuses to surrender
Her appearance in the public rooms oc-
casionS Il general stampede but as she
pays her bills regularly, and has an un-
commonly volublc and bitter tongue,
Senator Sharon and his staff are in an
awkward dilemma.
Year: 1878

perienced before or since, seemed to
creep over me, Notwithstanding my
endeavors to shake it off with the idea
that it was simply nervousness. liur.


rying through with my work, and after
a close inspection to see that all was


right within, lit cigar, and, repairing
to the smoking-car, seated myself by the
stove. Scarcely five minutes afterward,
and hardly before had time to direct
my thoughts from the mental gloom
from which was suffering, there came
a shrill, short whistle, known to the


boys as a signal of danger, followed by
a series of crashes, terrible jar, and


then a long and awful silence. With


the rest | rushed out to see what was


the trouble. There was the engine cut


loose from tho train, lying upon its side,


nearly parallel with the track, close UP


to the rocks, while my car was precipi-


tated over the cliff into the river, about


thirty feet down 1t appears that a


large rock had fallen to the track, and
as the front of the locomotive struck it
she glanced to the left, and turned over
on her side, while the baggage-car, fol-
lowing next, had glanced in the opposite
direction, broken her coupling and gone
clean down the bank. The fireman was
killed outright, while the engineer was
hurled out of the forward cab-window
to the track, and the boiler of the engine
came down upon him, resting upon his
legs and hips. His name, | think, was
Talloman-a good fellow, too-and there
he lay with about twelve tons of red-hot
iron crushing him to the ground. We
had no 'jsck-screws' or derricks to prop
up or raise the engine with, and were
alone on the rocky cut in the middle of
the night, with nothing on earth to
rescue or relieve the poor fellow with.
His suherings for the few awful minutes
which preceded his death were fearful
to contemplate. 'Ohl save mep he
cried, with an expression of painful
horror and desperate agony, For Gods
sake, if you are men, help me. don't
care if | lose my legs, only save me
from this terrible death. My wife and
child will starve. Oh, God, it's killing
men And there he moaned away his
life, while, perhaps, his dcarer ones at
home were awaiting with eager expect
ancy his welcome return. Powerless as
We were to save, it was a period of horror
for us strong and willing men to witness
this sight. Not until morning could
the wreck be removed, and then a large
corps of trackmen and laborers were
obliged to clear the track. Those are
about the worst accidents | have ever
witnessed. | had five dogs with me
when we left the Port, and upon going
down to the car found those CANNES
as healthy and frisky as you could wish,
barking Justify AS they saw me approach,
and not a hair singed or a scratch upon
them. Funny, wasn't it? My residence
is in Oswego, and | make the entire trip
from New York to Buffalo twice a week
having every other Sunday off in New
York. Our road is now in condition
second to none in the country-road-
beds smooth, rails solid, and reputation
as trunk line unexcelled. In the Eric
of to-day there remains not vestige of
the clumsy contrivances which all new
railways then possessed"
Year: 1878

THE Countess Marie Bismarck, the
daughter of the Prince, is to be married
sometime iii the winter. She is a charm
ing lady, and a great favorite with her
father Count Rautzan, her betrothed,
is the descendant of an ancient family
in HOlstein, is member Of the German
diplomatic corps, and has always been
much liked by Prince Bismarck, who
appointed him one of the secretaries to
the late Congress.
Year: 1878

DOESN'T it seem like sarcasm on the
complaint of hard times to see the bril-
liant fabrics which are exhibited Tor
women's wear this season. There is a
positive gorgeousne-s about some Of
the importations. The color and the
combinations of color doubtless have
great deal 10 do with this, and then the
materials themselves are rich and heavy.
Year: 1878

The two rooms occupied by Voltairt
in his chateau at Ferney have been
kept lovingly and reverently as he left
them His sleeping apartment, with it,
truckle bed and its walls hung round
with portraits-among them Milton and
Newton is exactly the same as when be
died there century ago. Unchipped,
too. by Cook tourists knives is still the
black sarcophagns in which his heart is
interned.
Year: 1878

The first paper in tins number is the com
mencemeut OF course of lectures by Professor Max
Miller " The orisln and Growth Of Religion"


Ounded the ancieut literature OF India The author
starts from the premiss that religion is not nyen


on but II not old as tho world is at least old


be world we know. As soon know anything OF
the thoughts and feelings Of man. find him In posses
sion OF Aeligon The oldest literary documents are al
most everywhere religious. Even 20 beyond the
age OF literature and explore the deepest levels Of hu


man thought we discover tho presence OF religious In
gradients The foundation Of religion In the human
soul, according to Max Miller Is the function
OF tho consciousness for appTebending the
Infinite. ia addition 10 the scnsuouS aud
rational faeulties This, be contends, Is not
o introduce q mysterious element into psychology
The religious function OF consciousness need not bc more
OF and reason In fact noh
ing is more mysterious than perception 1t Is
the real mystery Of all mysteries though VIC are aceus
Year: 1878

This mass will be sent free to yellow fever
sufferers who are unable to pay for 1t. and o
trial supply will be- sent without charge to ply
sicians desiring to test In their practice.


uanA
Year: 1878

One Justice and one Constable In the district
between Julia and Canal streets. known as the
Second Justice of the Peace for the Parish Of
Orleans


One Justice and one Constable In the district
between Canal and Esplanade streets. known
| as the Third Justice Of the Peace for the Par
| ish Of Orleans"


| One Justice and one Constable In the district
known as the Third District OF the city of New
Orleans, known as the Fourth Justice Of the
Peace for the Parish of Orleans"
| One Justice and one Constable In that part Of
the parish of Orleans which lies on the right
bank of the Mississippi river. known as the
Fifth Justice of the Peace for the Parish Of
Orleans "w
! One Justice and one Constable Cor the Fourth
District of the city of New Orleans, known as
the Sixth Justice Of the Peace for the Parish OF
Orleans


| One Justice and one Constable for the Sixth
District of the city of New Orleans. known as
the Seventh Justice Of the Peace for the Parish
| of Orleans"


One Justice and one Constable for the Seventh
District of the city of New Orleans, known as
the Eighth Justice of the Peace for the Parish
of Orleans" .@%".~


And whereas, it is also provided by law that,
at the same time. there shah be elected enc Re-
corder for the First Recorders Court of the
city of New Orleans. composed of the First and
Fourth Districts Of said city. and one Recorder
for the Second Recorders Court of said city


of New Orleans, composed of the Second, Third
and Fifth Districts of said city. to be elected by
the qualified electors Of their respective dis
t-icts. for the term of two years;


And whereas. it is also provided by law that,
at the same time. here shall be elected at large.
BY the qualified electors Of the city Of New Or
Year: 1878

The usefulness of toughened glass,
says an English exchange, bids fair
TO be greater and more serious than
was at first supposed. Some expert
ments are reported to have been made
in France, with view to showing
whether this substance can be press
ed into the printers service, and
substituted for the metal composition
of which types are made. The metal
does not at first sight strike the OBJ
server as the best that could be found.
1t is bright enough when the letters
first come from the foundry, and be-
fore they have seen any service but
a few days wear gives them very
much more dingy appearance, and
before they are finally returned to the
melting pot they have degenerated
into very squalid form, looking dir
ty in their bodies as well as battered
in their faces. The idea is now to
discard these long proved but unat-
tractive servants, and fill their places
with glittering types of glass. The
advantage in point of cleanliness
alone would, it is alleged, be not i'll
significant. But the Patrie points
Out that there are other and more SOL
id improvements involved in the new
system. The toughened glass, which
is not to be made in quite the same
way as that used for tumblers and
wine glasses, and need not, of course,
be quite SO transparent, is naturally
, much harder than the old metals, and
can hardly he crushed out of shape
by those little accidents which sc
, shorten the life and spoil the beauty
! of the only type we now employ. i


is also capable of being cast into more


delicate shapes, SO that the difference


for instance, between the thin an,


the thick strokes can be more clearl,


defined. Finally, it is now foun,


that the new material can be cast il
exactly the same molds rs the old


and that, therefore, there need be II,


expense incurred in altering the ma


chimes and implements used in TIA


manufacture of type. If the Patri
has been we'll informed, the expert
. ments have been completely success:


ful, and the adaptability of thougher


ed glass to printing and to numerou
,u ether purposes is likely ere long I
2 he tnllN nStahliShnl
Year: 1878

Remember, man, if you have a
wife, praise her for the varied tolls of
life." From the time of marriage
you enter another stage of life. The
romping school boy is matured into
the full grown man, no longer devoid
Of care, but with another to please
beside himself. And should he he an
old bachelor at this period, the change
is great. 1t is sometimes slow pro-
gress in assimilating ones character
and disposition, especially if not ac-
quainted in youth. We are creatures
of circumstance and education, to
great extent governed in after life by
our early training. The young lady
often glide, through school years and
youth having some friend to sympa-
thize with her sorrows and pleasures
whose ideas are in harmony with hers.
How wide the difference and complete
the blank with marriage. Men are
80 much different by education and
disposition in graphing with the out
side world; are often slow to readily
adopt the courtesy and praise that so
much please the wife, and too dumb
to think that they require continued
praise in the varied tolls of home
through after life. Ifhusbands would
make their wives feel that they arc
appreciated in whatever they dc
neatly, it would be of greatly to theil


advantage in the end. How otter
would hope beam in the wife's eye
Z where .here is now sorrow and doubt
D And she would be stimulated t.


achieving new larrels. Many lionel,
hour would be spent in making orna
y ments for home that would add to it


cheerfulness and make it cosy and in
o viting. Often home would be para
e disc for both where now it is mad
4 distasteful by indifference and neglect
}. the husband being often absorbed i
J in the pleasures of the world, an


making money, and so losing sigf
% Of the grand aim of married life. Aft'
III toiling and securing wealth (Which
ru as dross lift does not bring happiness


lac turns to home, longing for tt
So cheerful fireside and various comfor
" that are erjoyed by the middle-ag'


in life, only to find that the wife h
ne also been diverted by neglect at HON
'p- and has drifted in interest to the OF
he side world--dress, show, the theat'
l"S and false fattery. With little stu


in beginning life together, home
ing terest would have been much bett
oS and the ripe old age peaceful a
'' pleasant, where now the void is ]
put passable that could have been preve


ed by united interest.
Year: 1878

The story is told, and it is said to
be entirely true, that at the recent
dedication of Baptist Church in this
county the ceremony of immersion
was performed for the first time in
that church by well known Baptist
minister of this city. When he had
entered the water and while waiting
for the candidate, the minister sug-
eested that somebody should sing an
appropriate hymn. One of the dea-
cons who stood near by heard the
suggestion, and, without thinking
struck up the familiar hymn, "Pul
for the Shore The hymn proved
, to be so suggestive, 1t Is stated, tina
neither the minister nor congregation


could refrain from an audible smil


for some time, and the ceremony ha
to be postponed until the preache


could recover his grayity.-Roche'
!. ter Express,
Year: 1878

trolling apirits of tho conspiracy, sometimes
sank Into the ground and sometimes ed him to
such high quarters that no deemed Il best TO
cease TO follow them For instance. In Russia the
conspiracy commando tho services OF high born
women. The. chief Of police at Kief. who was
murdered n fow weeks aRo. was killed on the
open highway In tho daytime by one Of two
fnshionably dressed ladies' who after engaging
him in conversation for n moment. drove u
dagger into his heart. To the people who saw
the murder. the companion OF the murderess
said: He has resolved his due reward. Take
care II you are OF his kind. lest you should be
40 ended. Tho report Is understood to say
that In this case, rs In others tho murderess
has escaped arrest. not because she is unknown
but because her arrest would cause great scan
dal and do more harm than good.


The report Is believed to give much curious
and useful Information respecting the inter
communication OF the consplrttors. But It
cOnfesses that extreme difficulty has attended
the task OF tract Ing out the intercourse. The
tools OF the leaders or masters. when seized.
were generally ready to tell all they knew: but
after all. they knew nothing OF importance.
Their minds were worked upon by the adroit
ageats Of tho real leaders. and even these per-
haps. were ignorant OF the personality of their
principal


The recent events in Italy are not included In
the report OF the Berlin official but 1t Is said In
certain quarters that ere long revelations will
be madeSas startling as those which followed
Orsini's attempt upon the life of Louis Napo-
leon.
Year: 1878

This morning we present our annual resume
OF the commercial operations of this city dur
ing the past year, bringing the statement up
to date.


The first Of September, the usual commence
ment Of the commercial year, found this city
In tho midst Of n fearful epidemic Business
OF all descriptions was absolutely suspended.
and such OF our people as were not themselves
overwhelmed with sorrow, were devotlng
themselves day and night to the alienation
OF tho suffcrlngs OF others. In addition to
this, quarantine restrictions, amounting To
an absolute prohibition of all intercourse,
were established throughout tho whole coun-
try, rendering 1t impossible for our paper To
reach any but very small section OF the
country contiguous to this city.


Under these circumstances we determined
to postpone our Annual Statement until a
more proptlous time There seems to us to
be no occasion for longer delay, 30 we present
1t to-day.


AS yet, business has not revived to any ap-
preciable extent, yet the outlook Is very far
from being hopeless one, when we con-
slider the short time that has elapsed since
the subsidence of the epidemic. Apprehen-
sion among absentees and our customers In
the Interior is scarcely yet allayed, and they
are only now beginning to come into the city.
In the course OF a few weeks great change
will be noticeable In this respect. and with it
will come relative improvement In the re-
tail trade. which may be said to have scarce
ly begun to revive as yet.


Our statement OF transactions since Sep
tember dscloses some features which are
encouraging.