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Year: 1877

JUDGE MURRAY SAID YESTERDAY that boys
steal because they can always find receivers for
their plunder So do men, and the only odd
thing about it is that the receivers are let alone
us severely as if the whole police force was in
heaven.
Year: 1877

To SEE DISTRESSED RAILROAD COMPANY
trying to recover by working to raise the price of
coal arouses in the consumers breast a senti-
ment akin to that which inlamcs man when
his own earnings are used to replcnish the bur-
glars market basket.
Year: 1877

One of the important matters which
will be brought to the attention Of con-
gress in the next session, by the presi-
dent in his annual message, is the ex-
listing urgent necessities for an increase
in the regular force of tho army. It
would seem that none are so obtuse or
blind as..to be unable to see, in the
light Of the events of the past few weeks,
that such necessities do exist, and with
the numerous tribes of Indians all over
the territories Of the far west at open
war with the government, numbering
and plundering defenseless whites upon
the frontier; with communism rampant
in a dozen states; with tens of thou
sands of strikers in arms to close great
highways of commerce and trade, and
with tens of thousands more of lawless,
bad men united to burn. plunder and
kill, who can fail to see that the stand
ing army of the country is much below
what the security of life and property
of the people demands:
Year: 1877




The abiding prosperity Of any country
depends upon the development of its ag-
ricultural resources. The states and ter
ritories of the West, realizing this fact,
have endeavored by every legitimate
means to induce emigration TO their bor-
ders; money has been freely spent; men
have been sent across the water to per-
suade the over-crowded populace of Eu-
rope to seek homes here. Railroad COM
panies have sent out agents and emigra-
ton pamphlets without stint, and while
undoubtedly, they have beeni in meas
ure successful, yet it seems to us that a
much greater good might be accomplish
ed in this direction by combined effort
ofthe general and State governments and
our land grant corporations in different
direction. This question is brought prom
inently before us at the present time,
when all our cities, full Of unemployed
laborers, who would be glad of an oppor-
tunity to breathe the free air Of the west
ern prairies, but are unable to reach there
for lack OF means. Now it seems to us a
practicable scheme for those interested
in emigration, and in fact it is with us
national question of primary Importance,
to adopt such means as shall enable the
surplus population of our large cities to
colonize in the West. Thousands upon
thousands Of families, growing up to vice
and CRIME through idleness and its asso-
ciatons, and who actually become heavy
burden upon the body polite, would,
through these new associations and in
ducements to industry, become good cit
liens and producers of wealth. We be-
lieve the government should take hold of
this matter and not only as matter of
justice to its poor citizens but as meas
ure Of public policy. We believe in first
providing for the people we already have
before spending large sums of money to
induce more from foreign countries. Fur
thermore, we believe that whatever might
be expended in this direction would re-
pay many fold in the increase of taxable
property in addition to our commerce,
and in the relief of our people in the
overburdened centres of population.
Year: 1877




Gen. Sherman in letter to the sec-
retary of war, says with the new post
at the fork OF the Big and Little Horn
and that at the mouth of Tongue river,
occupied by strong and enterprising
garrisons, the Sioux Indians can never
regain that country; and they will be
forced to remain at their agencies or
take refuge in tine British possessions.
The county west of the new post is a
good country and will rapidly fill up
with emigran,s, who will in the next
ten years build up country as strong
and as capable Of self defense as Coiora-
do. The weather has been as intensely
hot as in Texas. am impressed with
the balmy air of the country on the
upper Yellowstone.
Year: 1877

Every effort Is being made by the directors OF tho
Gilbert aud the New York Elevated Railroad COM
pancs to push the work each OF these roads, as
to give New YorKers tho much desired rapid transit
At tho earliest possible date One of the officials
the Gilbert company says that weather favoring, all
the foundstions for that route will be by Thanks
giving Day He adds that tho company hopes to have
trans running from Trinity Church to Central Park
by April next.


There was slight conflict between the workmcn Of
the two in Chatham square, Yesterday morning
IL did not result In anything serious however, ana Is
thus explained oy The officers Of the Gilbert Railroad
1--WE have been In possession OF certain part OF the
square through which our road IL to pass, aud our
workmen have been busy there Tor the past few days
Yesterday the laborers OF the New York Elevated
Company wanted to begin to dig there Tor foundations
also, and q slight misunderstanding was the conse-
Quence"


Mr. Morris r. King, OF the Elevated Railroad CON-
pany, taken the romDs Police Court yesterday
morning, charged by tho officials OF the Gilbert Com
pany with having begun TO excavate ground IN
Chatham square without permit This document
furnished by Mr.. King who was thereupon re-
leased and his men set TO work.


Late In the afternoon yesterday conference was
held at the Office Of the Pullman Car Company be-
New York Elevated Railroad Company. Quito a
lengthy talk ensued ana It was nnally agreed that all
work In Chatham square should cease last night.
IL decided that the secretary of the
Gilbert Company ana Mr. Peton. the Vice Preside
OF the New ork Elevated Railroad Company, should
arrange the details and II that all by their
companies should and that the holes which had
Railroad Company should be protected DO safe
for the night
Year: 1877

Tho examination in tho Lewis will resumed
before MIR. c. s. See, Master in Chancery in Jersey
City, yesterday. The claimant was still under cross.
examination. She said sho lett Lowis house oay
after she discovered his improper intimacy with Miss
Hansen. She first learned OF the intimacy whom sho
discovered him ono night in Miss Hansen's bedroom.
she went into tho room unexpectedly found Lewis
thcro. he was very angry, aud struck her several
times, and nnally ordered her TO 20 10 her own
room. He spent the night IN witness' room.


The following day she told him she would remain no
longer with him ana went away. Lewis gave her
money aitor that. She contemplated getting divorce
from him and went 70 SEQ Mary Burgess TO induce
to become witness for her. Mary refused because
she AFRAID, she said, that MIR. Lewis woula
IL Lewis had mentioned to witness his tho
VI 1872 ana told ber that at that time he was
young man and not mere boy, as she had suspected
he was min nety- two years old when he died
Year: 1877

Al regular session Of the Kings County Board OF
Supervisors, yesterday afternoon, supervisor Flee
man, chairman Of the committee of inquiry relating
TO the charges OF corruption In securing legislation
Tor the new JAIL presented report setting forth that
there evidence 10 establish the charges, either
az inst The jail committee any other member Of
the board The report was accepted ana the commit
tee discharged from further consideration OF the sub
Year: 1877

-tituents. But the mere fact Of his elec.
tion signifies that OF all the respectable
and disrespectable gentlemen of his die
trict. he is the one put forward by the
people for the express purpose OF repre-
senting that district; OF making known
the wants Of that people; Of expressing
their will; Of exerting their influence
And for any Administration TO announce
that u will not pay the smallest regard
TO this representative quality il a most
arrogant and unrepublican assumption
Of power.


One OF the loudest battle cries Of Re
form is that the business OF the country
i to be conducted on business principles.
What successful firm ever gave out word
that the clerks would be chosen by the
junior partner alone, on principles aud
by methods Of his own selection; that
the opinions OF the senior partners would
neither be regarded nor considered. aud
their recommendation would have no
more weight than those OF any other re-
spectacle gentleman


So Tar as the liberties Of this country
are endangered by patronage. they are
far more endangered by its concentration
in one man than by its diffusion among
four hunded men. Amongst the best OF
the witty sayings Of Mr. Nasty was that
wherein he declared that A johnson
was about to swing around the circle TO
arouse the people to the danger OF 'con-
centrating power in the hands of Con.
gress instead OF diffusing il through one
man. The professional Civil Service
Reformer Processes to cure all our evils
by diffusing all political power through
one mani


GAIL HAMILTON.


July IL, 1877.
Year: 1877

When Ben. Butler looks at an ordina-
ry man his lines of vision are like the
gable end Of a sawbuck but when he
looks at a newspaper man they are like a
Turkish war map struck with Walt
Whitmons poetry.
Year: 1877

1t is easy enough for the kepubli-
can brethren in the Senate to lay
down q rule that no Democrat shall
be appointed to Office in the Southern
States but when it comes to enforcing


il some rough places may be found.
The Southern Republican is by mo
means so numerous as he was, away
from the sugar plantations and rice
fields, and when he is discovered he
does not keep out Of the penitentiary
long enough TO be appointed and con
firmed to anything. The President
has clapped an Office on every decent
carpet bagger or eligible native Re
publican tnat the s.rictest search in
eleven States has brought to light, bul
they don't number a bakers dozer
after all, ana what is the Senate go.
ing to do about it? OF one thing Mr.
Edmunds, whose brain is credited
with the paternity of the proposeC
rdle, may be sure, and that is that the
Presidents policy is better Calculated
TO make Southern Republicans thar
anv other scheme that has been tried
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Year: 1877

The New York "World" says:-1t is a
curious coincidence that telegram should
have been read on the Long Branch boat
yesterday, by Mr.. Gould, announcing an
impending strike along the whole line Of
,e New York Central Railway for mid
n ght of last night, and that similar an
nouncement should have been made over
t ,e wires to the press later in the evening.
Fortunately there was nothing in the an
Year: 1877

New YORK, Jan. 3.-The TribUne's
Washngo on special avs that Just now the
tnvOrlte solution of tIePresidenual COM
pIication is to hold new election next
fall, and to allow the President of the
Senate, whoever he may be, after the 4th
of March. to administer the office dd in-
teri m. This is to be brought about, ac-
cording to gossip in the lobbies OF
the cloak rooms at the capstol, by Dem
ocrats in the Senate. A WorHS Wash
lngton special confirms this partly,
and says that If another election is had
Hayes will not be thought of, but the
candidate will be Morton or Blaine. The
party which forces new election will
be held responsible for the continued
prostration of business which another
political campaign would necessarily in
volve. The business men of the country
would be likely to punish it severely by
refusing it their support. Should the
Democrats declde however to take the
risk, it is question whether they would
carry out the programme. At present
most Republicans appear to think they
could, but there are some who say that
II manifest attempt to delay the count
50 as to prevent its completion would be
"A violation of mandatory provision of
the Constitution, that the votes shall be
counted, and inasmuch as the Constitu-
tion overridcs all rules, it would he the
duty of the President OF the Senate to


interfere to check debate and order the
count to proceed.
Year: 1877

LAST Monday, Mr.. Crosby engaged
at Mr.. Smiths logging camp below
Lowell, was so unfortunate as to have
his arm, just above the elbow very
badly cut. He is now in town undergo
ing surgical treatment, but it is too
carly yet to decide as to what the final
result of the injury will be.
Year: 1877

The governor of Nor;h Carolina and the
governor Of South Carolina should arrange
for meeting. since ii is evident that Senator
Ransom stands in need Of the succor which
the president Of the senate will not permit
to be kept on tap at the senate restaurant.
Year: 1877

Rev T. R. Curtis made his debut so Co speak, before an Arizona audience yesterday in the N, E. Church South, preaching two

 interesting sermons. Notwithstanding the position Was one of some embarrassment for so young a minister, he got along with it very well, and although he seemed to feel that much would be expected of him as the successor of one who was such a general favoritc. he did not quail, but girded up his loins and set himself to the work in earnest. The ice is now broken and hence forward he will feel as if he belonged to the army of occupation, rather than that of invasion.
Year: 1877

Last night between nine and ten o'clock, a soldier took it into his head to fire his pistol in Montezuma street below the Express office. The smoke had hardly blown away when Deputy Marshal Bronx had him well on the way to the calaboose.
Year: 1877

The Bill introduced in the House on the jth inst for the transfer of the Indian Bureau to that of the military, strikes us as being both wise and economical. We will now see whether retrenchment is really the issue or not
Year: 1877

NIT. Potts is located comfortably at Signal City, in Mojave county, and has everything in readiness to open up a irst-claSs tin and hardware store so soon aS his goods arrive which s.. been shipped from San Fran
Year: 1877

Geo. ". Curtis, Esq, has sent to New York and ordered lining and material, whereWith to finish off the City Hall It is of size that we imagined he would have to send to either New York or London to pro- cure sufficient material for its completion
Year: 1877

The sub-contractor is rushing the stone work of the public building in the plaza The corners, sills, caps, water-tablos, etc. which are of cut sandstone, being about completed, the work of putting up the rough inner walls and the hammered space, will progress more rapidly. The large room in which are to be placed ten iron cells. with hallway all round them, be gins to take on the appearance of a prison with its ponderous double iron door, into which the tailor can enter and survey the situation before opening the grated dooI and its heavily barred windows. The i'm pression it makes upon the spectator is that it is far better to be good and stay out than to get in and try to scratch out.
Year: 1877

Hon. II. N Fleury, we understand is to be appointed to the vacancy in the Justice of the Peace department of Prescott MT Fleury is an old hand at the bellows and will make a good officer.
Year: 1877

THE CHINESE IN CALIFoRNIA.-Re Rev. J A. Merrill delivered an addres last evening on the necessity of Christianizing the Chinese, to which work he devoted himself for year or two before coming 10 Arizona. He took the ground that it was moi for the Church to say whether it was good policy to encourage the immigration of Chinese or not, that was a matter for the State to decide, and one in which the Church bad no right to meddle Church and State being two seperatc and dis tinct organizations. each having its OWE mis- sion to perform. The Church finds the Chi nese here in a state of heatheniSm. a tearfuly degraded people, as the ligitmate outgrowth of thousands of years of the practice of idol atry. and without inquiring how they got here. or whether any legislation is necessary to prevent more from coming or not, be con sidered il the duty of the Church and of all Christian people to endeavor 10 enlighten them. elevate them and Christianize them. He gave many instances of individual pro gress that came under his own observation while engaged in the Home Missionary work in San Francisco, and predicted that the young Chinese sent by their Government to liar yard and Yale to be educated, will hold their own on examination day, and in many instances excell some of their white fellow students.
Year: 1877

Our columns were so crowded on
the 18th inst. that we were unable to
give the telegraphic report OF the
speeches of Samuel J. Tilden and
Thomas A. Hendricks in New York
city, on the 18th inst, at the reception
given Mr.. Hendricks by the Manhat-
tan Club. The whole burden of their
remarks was the claim that they had
been defrauded cut of the Presidency
and Vice Presidency. This was Hen
drick's refrain at indianapolis few
days ago, and hence Tilden, at New
York. chimed in, as had, no doubt,
been for weeks agreed upon as the
programme. These two men speak
of the fraud, the overturning of clcc-
tions, the great wrong done to liberty
and the country, because they are not
to-day the chief officers of the nation.
Speaking of his failure to be Prcsi-
dent, Tilden said


The people must slgnally condemn the great
wrong which has been done to them. They must
strip example of everything that attract inn
itators; they must refuse prosperous immunity
to crime. This is not all The people will not be
able to trust the authors beneiciaries Of wrong
to devise remedies, but when those who condemn
the wrong shall have power. they must devise a
measure which render the preparation of wrong
impossible.


Hendricks said


will not disturb The pleasure OF this occasion
by undertaking to recount means whereby the will
and judgment of the people were defeated. The re
suit as declared in Louisiana, in Florida and at
Washington ia not, and cannot be made satisinc-
tory to the country for the obvious reasons that it
was not true. great and sincere people will rest
their final judgment only upon the truth and never
upon fraud successful.thoagh it be


Both these gentlemen, when large
number of the states trampled under
their feet the flag in armed rebellion,
were the allies of traitors. They de-
clared that the nation could not de-
fend itself; that it was not lawful for
the soldiers of the Union to set foot
upon the soil of rebellious state to
whip rebels into obedience, and with
all the animosity of a rebel, Tilden
declared that he hoped Union soldiers
thus engaged would never return
Throughout the long contest for ma.
tional salvation they both remained
the steadfast allies of treason. They
have never, to this day, by word OF
deed, intimated that they did wrong
that there was any fraud or basenesl
in their conduct. Now these gentle
men declare that the greatest wrong
in the history of this country has beer
consumated because they are not il
the highest offices of the country, ant
evidently this is put forward as th'
rallying cry of the democracy for th'
future. 1t is the very height of cheek.
impudence, in our opinion, in thes'
two men who, like Nero, fiddlcd ant
added fuel to the blaze, when th,
shock OF internecine war, in the in
terest of slavery, shook the Rcpubli
from center to circumference To now
cry fraud, and parade their grieyanc
es as the greatest acrong In the Aistoy,
of the nation, which grievance wa
the result of combined, earnest en-
deavor on the part of the ablest me-
of both parties TO avoid another pos
sible bloody revolution.
Year: 1877

The Convention met promptly, and
the first business taken up was the re-
port of the nominating committee. 1t
seems that some gentleman were
rather. dissatisfied with the method
of selecting officers, and others with
Cedar Falls, the place selected by the
committee. Some Of the delegates
favored Mason City and a motion was
made to that effect but 1t was voted
down, Cedar Falls, agreed upon and
the report of the committee agreed to
in full.


After an old fashioned hymn by
(Continued ON Fourth Pace.
Year: 1877

MODEST DEMANDS The Philadelphia
Times makes the following points 1.-The
st. Louis 'workingmen" may not be more
illogical than other strikers, but they have
a way of putting their demands that ex-
presses with startling plainness the excess
os to which such movements as the present
lead. They give notice to the Mayor of St.
Louis that they must have food, and that
if he would avoid plunder arson and vio-
lonce he must cooperate" with them In
getting it. They think it well to say at once,
however, Gin order 10 save a useless waste
of time" that "all offers of work during
the national strike cannot be considered by
us remedy under the present circumstan-
ces, for we are fully determined TO hold out
until the principles we are contending for
are carr ied"-these "principles" being
nothing less than that convention OF
merchants be summoned to furnish food to
these men who will not work. II this be
done, they agree to maintain the majesty
of the law" but if they cannot get food
without working for it, they distinctly
threaten to plunder and destroy. The May.
or, we are pleased to add, did not waste
any time in parleying with these tramps


He simply sent his police and dispersed
them and lodged fifty or hundred of them
in Jail, where they may realize their "prin
ciple of being fed at the public expense
though it is to be hoped that the laws o


Missouri provide for their doing littl,
work, even during "national strike"
Year: 1877

THE outrageous programme of the strik-
ers is now being revealed. 1t seems to be
a fortunate and Providential circumstance
that this program me was not permitted to
be carried out


The strike had been secretly ARRANGED to
commence on the 10th of August, and was
to be a general one all over the country.
The strike comm enced in Baltimore before
the time, and thus the programme was
providentially interrupted. The whole af-
fair looks as though 1t had been arranged
under the direction of some leader of the
Paris Commune. the heartlessness of the
thing is horrible to contemplate, and from
the interviews of "Chief Arthur" and the
letters he has published. we imagine it
was no doubt concocted under the auspices
OF the brotherhood" of which he is the paid
representative.


What would have been the result had
Providence permitted the wicked scheme
TO have been carried out as planned no one
can predict. 1t was horrible enough as II
was. If the vengeance of the arrangement
fell on the railroads alone it would have
been terrible to hundreds of thousands OF
interested parties but this could not be
The horrors 1t would have brought about
would have rested on the millions OF pool
who had no agency whatever in arranging
the price paid to engineers or firemen, anC
would therefore have been innocent suffer
ers.


The railroads might easily recover thei
losses by raising rates or discharging force
who were not necessary, but there is nj
way by which the poor could recover or b
compensated for the injury done tnem.-
This pre-arranged strike was the most sci
fish and abominable in any view that 1t cal
be contemplated. The leaders in 1t ough
to be sent to the prison for Life, and laws, a
the earliest period, be enacted 10 preven
such an occurrence at future time.
Year: 1877

ONE of the most startling proofs of the
insecurity of property is seen in the trip OF
the Morris and Essex strikers to Bingham
ton. The company could run no trains.
could not even stop its mines from ruin,
but the strikers took an engine and car
and ran from one end of the road to the
other. using the company's rolling stock
and burning its coal to aid in rendering the
company's property useless. This is in.
deed living on the enemy.
Year: 1877

FORTY SEVEN sentimental young i'd
lots in Los Angeles have paid 50 to be
vaccinated with the virus from the arm
of popular belle. The first one used
it all up, but the other forty six did not
know the difference, and took the en-
terprising DOCTORS word for it. -3 i