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Year: 1877

the free and easy manner in which the Miner uses it may be construed that way. However, tha only way out of the scrape now is to wear stronger trousers and explain what we did say, which was only this:

 The Fort Whipple Theatre is still in op- eration. A performance was advertised for July 2d. Undoubtedly it was good one. We don't know who is the heavy villain of the company, but while inter- viewing Gen. Kautz at Whipple martial sort of a blonde came into the room sev- eral times. He puckered in his Joins, puffed out his abdomen and strutted fiercely past us, twirling his long mous- tache and scowling alternate eyes at us over one cheek bone That man was the heaviest looking villain up there. That must be the one.
Year: 1877

THE Campo affair is but another proof that there is no safety for our southwestern border until the boundary line is changed to the southward far enough to include the entire valley of the Colorado river and the entire peninsula of Lower California. Between this valley and the habitable part of Sonora lies a horrid desert, eX- tending clear to the gulf, which cuts off from the control of MeXi- can authorities a community of cut-throats who hang and prey upon onr frontier; the isolated position of the peninsula produces the same effect upon it and on us. Nearly a score of American citi- zens are now captured and cOnfin- ed at San Rafael without process of law and in spite of a Mexican alcalde's prohibition. What are we going to do about it? What we have always done-NOTHING.
Year: 1877

When the Miner talks about "Tyng of the SENTINEL" and "his fury" it is apt to be a little fast. "Heavy villain" is a thea trical expression, and is applied to a role generally filled by some very good fellow. The SENTINEL used the term in connection with the Fort Whipple theatre. It is hard to say why the Miner chooses to publish it and '"Tyng of the SENTINEL" in connection with the name of Col. Martin, unless he is trying to get the seat of our editorial pants torn by a pair of army boots. We dOu't know Col.

 Martin from a side OfsOle leather, and don't know that we ever saw

 him; but we have never heard or seen his name mentioned in any way discreditable to him, unless
Year: 1877

c. M. Daly asks us to suspend comment on the course pursued toward him by the Miner and the Enterprise until he can dis play to the public his view Of matters. There are two sides to every question, and his request sounds like a demand for fairplay. The SENTINEL is predisposed against Ddly by the incorporate character of his charges. in the Enterprise. against Indian Agent Gum. Daily travelled through the San Carlos Indian reservation and that country with an army outfit, and there is reasonable ground for the suspicion that mil itary transportation was furnished him with the understanding that in corresponding with the Pres. colt paper on which he was em- ployed, he should attack Agent Cum in the interest of Clum's enemy, Gen. Kautz. Apparently he oveldid the thing and pro- duced articles which the Miner was too respectable a journal to reproduce, and with which the Enterprise got disgusted, after publishing the first two of the SnriaS
Year: 1877

of age, gentleman of fine literary
attainments, and good business
capacity. His high spirit gave him
an apparently overbearlng manner,
at times, yetto those who knew him
best his disposition was kind and
courteous, and the reverse never
obtained except upon great provo
cation. His death will be widely
regretted, and his family will have
the sympathy of many friends.
Year: 1877

Tue Presidential question is to
be settled by board of fifteen,
composed of five members Of the
Senate, five of the House and five
Judges of the Supreme court. 1t is
confidently expected the question
will be finally settled by the fourth
of March.
Year: 1877

This morning, at Roach's ship yard,
Chester, large number of people as
sembled to witness the launching of a
new steamer which was ready to be COM
mitted to the water.


About five minutes past eight o'clock,
when 1t was supposed that everything
was in readiness,the bow stays were saw
ed in two and the vessel glided down the
ways into the water. At first it was
supposed that the launch was highly sue
cessful, but suddenly the cry arose that


A MAN WAS KILLED,


followed by the still more startling an
nouncement that large number of men
had been caught on the ways, and were
crushed to death between the vessel and
the surrounding timbers.


Such was the fact, which in an instant
became apparent to all the people pres
ent, and a scene of indescribable excite
ment followed. Men stood paralyzed,
while women and children shrieked in
terror. Some few men, however, had
sufficient composure to rush upon the
ways and remove the bodies of the dead
and wounded before they were carried
away by the returning waters. Seven
mangled bodies were thus taken away,
some of them crushed out of all shape OF
humanity, and resembling only hideous
mass of flesh, bones and blood. One man
HAD HIS HEAD CRUSHED OFF,
and another had his leg cut off above the
knee as though 1t had been done with a
large knife. Other bodies were so twisted
and mangled that they were horrible to
look upon.


The cause of the casualty was that the
vessel was finally released before all the
blocks and stays were removed, and
when she glided into the water a number
of men were still at work under the
stern. These men were caught in ter
rible trap, and before they knew theiI
danger were either crushed and mangled
among the timbers or swept out into the
river and drow ned. 1t is supposed thai
others besides those whose bodies were
recovered were swept out into the rivel
and drowned.
Year: 1877

ATTENTION, PoLIcE-The attention of
the police is called to the great number
of men and boys who are now constantly
going into swim during all hours of the
Day. especially is this so on the Brandy
wine. Yesterday afternoon large num-
ber of them were in bathing, and they
seem to take perfect delight when lady
passed along the race to come out of the
water and stand where they could be
aoon,
Year: 1877

Golden Medical Discovery
Is Alternative, or Biood-eleansino.
Golden Medical Discovery


Is PectoraI.
Golden Medical Discovery
Is a choiaosgus, or Liver stimulant
Golden Medical Discovery


h Tonic.
Golden Medical Discovery
Year: 1877

We bend to-day DER hallowed form,
And our tears fail quickly down,
As We look our last on fathers face,
With its tranquil peace and patient grace
And hair like silver crown
As we touch our own to the dear cold hands,
From life's long labor at rest,
We notice bunch of golden wheat.
Plucked as token of love 80 sweet
And laid on the silent breast
Flowers would have whispered of fadeless


bloom
In land where fall no tears.
But the ripe wheat tells of the toll and care,
The patient waiting. the trusting prayer,
And the gSrnered good of years
We knew through what labors his hands had


passed
Through what rugged places his feet,
And we loved in the peace of his brow so


white,
As touched already with heavens own light,
As it shone in the ripened wheat.
As each goes up from the fields of earth.
Bearing the treasures of life,
God looks for the gathered grains of good
From the ripening harvest that shining stood
But waiting the reaper's knife.
Then faithfully toll. that in death you may get,
Not only with blossoms sweet,
Not bent with the doubts or burdened with


fears,
Or with dead. dry husks of life's wasted years
But laden with golden wheat
Year: 1877

This question is often asked, and an
answer would be of much interest to
many, for it is an article that is much
used, and ought to be found in every
household. 1t is principle which ex-
lists in fat. and fats are combination
of glycerine. Lard, after the lard oil
has been pressed out, is chiefly COM
pound of stearie acid and glycerine.
Where the best candles are manufact-
ured, the compound is broken up, and
the stearic acids is used for candles,
while the glycerine is cleansed and put


up for sale. Pure glycerine should be a
quite thick and colorless liquid. 1t has
no odor; its name is from the Greek
word meaning sweet, and this term
points out one of its most prominent
Misunderstanding sweetness. For its
undrying qualities it is very remark
able. Ii spread out and exposed to the
air, it remains Interchangeable for a long
time. 1t will not mix with oils, but
mixes freely with alcohol and with
water, and has solvent power for nu-
merous substances. Ii is much used in
medicine as solvent for many drugs.
In medical preparations it is much used
instead of sugar. We all know of its
excellent qualities for chapped and
sore hands, face, and lips, keeping the
parts from the air, and is much more
convenient than other oily matters.
Diluted with water it makes good
hair dressing, keeping the hair smooth
and moist and rendering it easily
combed. Glycerine does not freeze or
evaporate. 1t is used instead of molas-
ses to mix in glue, to form the rollers
by which ink is applied to type. 1t is
exclusively used in cities to put in gas
meters, and in many other ways.
These are only few of the uses to
which it can be put. 1t would be still
more generally used If people knew the
virtue of this interesting chemical prod
uce.
Year: 1877

ali actual outbreak, but to create a feel


ing which the government would be


able to refer to, and have reported upon


by the consuls, to the effect that if any


concessions were made to the Christians


in Europe the government could not be


responsible for an outbreak in Syria,


however much they might regret it.


The other consul told me that he be-


lieved its object was of different kind.


The government wants money, as /


have said, for the pilgrimage. By pre-
tending that there must be new call


upon the MOslems to go to the war, be


hoped to get in considerable sum of
substitutiOnal money. All however,
agreed that the proclamation was pure
ly mischievous. Unfortunately, none
of them had been able to obtain copy.


1t must be said, to the credit of the
Arab Moslems of Damascus, who hate
and despise the Turks, that all the
copies were torn down short time at
ter they were put up, one Arab of great
soy ms, AA siS piS'ShNS VI
consular cavass, as he tore Ii down,
I'VE are not going to have Mischief
made in that way" -.E .


was informed in Damascus by one
of the consuls, who knows the place
well, that some of the leaders in the
massacre are now holding situations
under government, and have been pro-
NOTED. Englishmen will do well TO bear
in mind that the promotion of leaders
of massacres of Christians is that which
seems right to the Turk. They may
have to be punished, though how skilled
the government is in evading such pun
ishment the second inquiry into the
murder of the consul last spring at Sa-
lonica has sufficiently shown; but if
they are punished it is only the result
of European dictation, and as soon as
will be possible the offenders will be
taken back to the heart of the Turk. 1t
may possibly turn out as [ have sug-
gested already, that the Turkish gov
ernment would not be unwilling just at
the present moment to make political
capital out of the existence of MoSlem
in some of the Syrian towns;
to say to Europe if such and such terms !
are imposed upon us, it will be impossi- |
BILE to restrain our Modern subjects.
Year: 1877

The history Jurisprudence probably
does not afford more amusing story
than that of an incident which occurred
two or three weeks ago in an English
court, when man who had been con-
victed at the previous session of an at
tempt to steal was brought up and sem
fenced to five years penal servitude.
What five years for an attempt !" he
exclaimed. sit ought only to be two
years." He went back to his cell, but
his comment on the sentence was cor
rect, and in few minutes he was re-
called to the dock when an amended
sentence was passed upon him. II told
you so N he remarked triumphantly,
and he went back to his cell elated at
having saved three years. az
Year: 1877

Says Alexander Hyde in the New
York Times: I'VE see so many farmers
working hard from the beginning of
the year to its end, and that year after
year, till life ends, with such small re-
suits, that we do wish TO impress upon
the community the true principle of
economy. a farmers wife once ex-
pressed it TO us in one word-calcula-
ton. We found her a slender-looking
woman, surrounded by flock of child
rem, and having the care of dairy of a
dozen COWS, with no Bridget to assist
her, and still everything moved on like
clock-work. The children were tidy,
the house neat, the cooking nice, and
the butter of gilt-edged quality. We
watched her to study the secret of her
economical management. She never
seemed to be.in hurry, certainly never
in fret, but went from one thing to
another as calmly and pleasantly as the
butterfly goes from one flower to am
other. We noticed that she had every
convenience for work. Water flowed
constantly in her kitchen and dairy
room, anu her churning was done by
dog-power We were satisfied, howev-
er, that the secret of her efficiency was
not in churns, dogs, water, nor any
other of her conveniences for labor,
and we finally asked, "IIow do you ac-
complish all your work with such appa-
rent ease?" With a toss of her head
and pleasant smile she replied, "By
calculation. Before / go to bed l set
my table and make all my arrange
ments for breakfast. Before / get up
in the morning think over the labors
of the day, and plan everything out,
assigning each duty its time, aid when
the time comes / attend to the duty
and now the time has come for me to
skim my milk; so please excuse me-"
Upon this she bowed herself out with
the grace of a queen. We could not
help thinking--happy is the farmer that
has such help-meetl
Year: 1877

A lady gives some hints for repairs
that can be made by any housekeeper:


The friedrich of our cook-stove gave
out, and not one was to be had nearer
than Philadelphia. A friend gave us a
recipe which we find works well,
though we had little faith in it at first.
We mixed cup of salt with two of
coal ashes, wetting it up with water.
This was applied to the inside of the
stove in the place of the fire-brick. 1t
hardened in few hours, and answers
as well as the brick. Cracks in stoves
may be mended i'm the same way.


A large pail used for taking up ashes
had become too full of holes for use,
but was so light and handy, we did not
like to give it ZIP. So we pasted stout
cloth over the bottom, outside and in,
and then covered the cloth with q thin
cement of salt and ashes. 1t is first
rate ash-pail still, and hot ashes do not
burn out the cloth. Mending tin with
cloth may be a new fashion to some,
but it works very well. / know coal
scuttle that has done good service for
five years since it was pronounced worn
out, simply by having piece of cloth
patched on with thick flour paste. 1t
needs renewing about twice a year.


A lady told me that she mended big
dish pan by covering the bottom with
white paint, and then putting on a
piece of white cloth, which she also
covered with paint. She had used it
five years then, and it is eleven years
ago, so L presume she is using it still,
as she was not woman much given to
change.
Year: 1877

The researches of scientific men. saws
the Journal of Science, have shown
that some species of crustacea, among
others the ordinary barnacles that in
fest the bottoms of our ships, although
blind. fixed and helpless, as they appear
to us, are, in their youth, active, sharp
sighted little creatures, shaped some
what like our water-flea, with long an
ten@, which are provided with cups at
their extremities. Having passed the
period of youth, they begin to think of
settling down steadily in some chosen
spot for the remainder of their life. By
means of sucking cups they adhere to
some fixed or floating body. In this
position a long humpgrows out of their
back, from the end of which sticky
fluid is poured out, which CLUES them
firmly to the object to which they have
attached themselves. The function Of
their sucking cups is thus rendered
useless, and the little animal glides
down the declining days of its little
stream of life, in quiet enjoyment Of a
new phase of existence.
Year: 1877

My method OK taking care of cattle


in winter, says correspondent OF the


New England Farmer, is this: Clean
the managers and feed with hay at half
past five in the morning, then milk,
feed meal and roots. then another fod-
dering of hay, water, and clean stable
at half-past seven; then feed poorer hay
or straw, of which they will eat what
they want, then lie down and chew the
cud and be. quiet till four in the after
noon, when they are watered, mangers
and stables cleaned, then feed with
hay, then MIXED and fed again with
hay or straw. l find they are more
quiet and do better than when fed the
same amount at intervals during the
day. They will all drink heartily as
soon as it is light in the morning, and
the cows usually drink at night. The
water is warm, supplying five different
apartments without freezing over in the
coldest weather in winter. The stables
also are very warm; the teams that labor
Ou lllt ldlui diC tCu iCk kuioify diAtO
times day, the sheep twice day. but
are fed both times at daylight. Cattle
and sheep like a variety of food, and
will sometimes eat very poor fodder for
a change, but should never be starved
to make them eat it, as they will not
thrive under such treatment, and their
keeping will be dead loss. Meal and
roots fed to cattle will give them a good
appetite for coarse fodder, and If fed
together will be beneficial, but think
every intelligent and observing farmer
will say that turnips are of little or no
value when fed with straw alone, but
are of great value when fed with meal,
shorts, bran or hay. Good early cut
hay or dried grass makes good food for
all kinds of stock, and is the most pro-
fitable crop for the farmer to raise, but
we must have variety.
Year: 1877




Liebig makes the statement thai
rain-water filtered through field or gar
den soil does not dissolve out trace OF
potash, silicic acid, ammonia, or phos-
phoric acid. The soil does not give up
to the water one particle of the food of
plants which il contains. The most
continuous rain cannot remove from
the field, except mechanically, any Of
the essential constituents of its fertil-
ity. The soil not only retains firmly all
the food Of plants which is actually in it,
but its power to preserve all that may be
useful TO them, also extends TO with
drawing from rain or other water all
the ammonia, potash, phosphoric and
silicic acids held In solution.
Year: 1877

Imagination is a wishing-cap dona-
ted to certain favored mortals at birth,
and often preserved with its magic
potency unimpaired up to extreme age.


Putting on this cap, l am no longer
the sport of circumstance, but its mas
ter. l wish myself in whatsoever
corner of the earth 1 list; call before
me forms of beauty and grace; place
myself i'm instantaneous communication
with best loved friends.


The care of this cap is troublesome;
touched by PRIDE it loses its shape;
vanity makes it limp and colorless;
ostentation rerders it heavy and COM
fortress. 1t requires many hazardous
experiments before this wizard-cap
works beneficently, so it is perhaps
lucky that the majority of mankind
know it only by name.
Year: 1877

French Free Masons have long been
divided upon the question as to wheth-
er belief in the "Grand Architect of the
Universe" should be dogma of their
order. At the recent Masonic Conven-
tion in France, the second clause Of
the constitution, which ran thus:
Free Masonry holds to the principle
of the existence of God and of the i'm
mortality of the soul. :" was altered by
an immense majority to Free Mason
ry holds to the principle of an absolute
freedom of conscience. and to the
brotherhood of mankind. 1t excludes
no one on on accounto of his belief.D
Year: 1877

that underlie the demonstration. This
restraint all disappears when Southern
people are guests in Northern homes away
from the social tyranny of Southern pre-
judice. There is no other place in the
civilized world where public sentiment is
SO viciously dominant, and where whole
communities are held in such chains, in
opposition to the convictions of the best
and most intelligent. The answers that are
made to such complaints by all the papers
of the South, both secular and religious,
are calculated to fill one with astonish-
ment. They are characterized by such a
lack of candor and frankness, and such
evasions of the real ground of complaint,
or such a scraping for some reproach to
fling back, instead of fearless admission
of what is valid, and an honest and manly
attempt to correct the evil, that many
good men and women have almost lost
respect for Southern piety. One can not
avoid feeling sure that such defenses are
prompted. by anything but conscience,
and can be accounted for on no other
ground than fear of losing the favor
of readers. No one who knows the
wrongs of the helpless negroes can
avoid feeling inexpressible astonishment
at the fact that pastors, thoroughly
intelligent and able, can remain silent
about such things, or lend their names to q
seeming denial of the facts, or at least tc
avowal of total ignorance of the the ex
istenee of any such things in the South
Will any Southern man pretend that tbs
papers seek to keep their readers in
formed in regard to the wants and woel
of the colored race as they do those of the
white race, though the former are in mucl
greater need of sympathy and aid? 1
can not be that the better classes in th,
South are so utterly insensible to thu
wants and woes of humanity in general
because reliefis generously offered to TIM
suffering poor of the white race, but i
must be the result of a dread of the re
proach of being classed with negro sym
pathizers. The fear of being suspected
of having something to do with negroes
except to employ them for labor, is almos
omnipotent in all our communities in tn
South, unless it be criminal associations


N,
Year: 1877

1t is wonderful what an immense
amount of labor that man did during
the war. / cautioned him again and
again, but l don't believe l realized
how he did overtax himself To-day
he was in New York borrowing money !;
tomorrow, perhaps, he would be head
ed for some battlefield looking after
Indiana troops, and the next thing be
would be making a speech in Ohio, or
Michigan, or Illinois. He was never
quiet, it seemed, day or night. And to
such labors was added the conscious
ness that at any moment he was liable
to be shot down. He knew of the ex-
istence of a band, who, like the Jews
in Paul's time, chad bound themselves
with an oath" that they would kill him.
Once he was shot at by an assassin just as
he came out of the door of his residence.
A lady, on one occasion, notified him
not to sit near certain window of his
Office at night, for she knew of plan to
shoot him through the window. At
another time he was advised not to be
seen on the street at night, especially
alone, for every street-corner in the
vicinity of his house and office was
watched by would-be assassins. Threat
ening letters came to him daily. Tor
pedoes were placed in his way, and
other outrageous schemes hatched up
to put him to death. For two years
and over his life was in danger. Gov.
Morton did not know what the word
fear meant. l doubt if he ever took
any especial care to protect himself, al
though his friends, without his knowl-
edge, always managed to be with him
at such times. But it must have weigh
ed upon his mind. Think of being con-
scious that assassins are upon your
track, liable to shoot you down at any
moment. Their object was, as you
know, to get Morton out OF the way and
then, with DR.. Athon at the head of
affairs, put Indiana virtually on the side
of the cOnfederates. When one views
the work of Gov. Morton in this light,
the wonder is that he ever lived through
it. John A. Andrew did not survive
his labors very long, and John Brough
went very soon after he had closed his
gubernatorial life. But Morton had a
wonderful constitution, and he has got
it now.-Dr. Thompson, MOrton's Ply
sician.