smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

The news continue in favor of the richness of these diggings. A pros pector sends us these statements:

 In conversation with two miners from Nevada, I learned they had locat- ed a claim about two miles back from Hughes gulch, in deep diggings. They had stripped gulch eight feet wide and 250 feet long, and on an aver age of six feet deep. They pack the dirt on jacks to Hughes claim and are making from forty to sixty dollars per day. They say the gold is more evenly diffused, and that labor is more certain of its reward, in these deep diggings than it is in the shallow gulches. They represent the deep diggings to be eXten- sive, and in their opinion as rich as the best of the deep diggings in CalifOr- nia. The present local law is very defective, in that it gives not only 1000 feet of ground front on each gulch, but also 1000 feet of the water running throughout it to the exclusion of all other miners. ItalsO gives every man the right to locate 1000 feet on every gulch and this is done without ever putting pick or shovel into the ground, and without knowing whether it contains gold or not; and some men have twenty claims without having worked a day on either of them. A limited space of water should be al lowed to each miner and but one claim in each district"

 We have heard some talk of men proposing to sink wells with view to supply water for washing, and it seems that in section so full of springs as that is, especially in the mountains around, water should be thus obtained at trifiing expense of labor and money

 A man named Miller came in from the placers early in the week with a nugget of gold worth $121, and we heard that other noteworthy pieces had recently been found there, but have nc particulars.
Year: 1875

THE Spanish theatrical troupe continue to entertain this public with elegant per formances. Another programme of excel fence is out to be performed tomorrow evening. The more amusement the bet ter for us all
Year: 1875

THE concert and ball at Levin's park, last Saturday evening, were very heartily enjoyed by the crowd of people assem- bled The threatening character of the weather about o'clock, induced some 10 leave at that hour, but enough remained to keep up a lively time. We are glad to know that the affair WAS g pretty fair financial success.

 The Sixth Cavalry band fully met the high expectations our people had formed of it. We heard on all sides, expressions of pleasure at the execution of the Band.
Year: 1875

We have not heard of any recent hanging in Tucson, and if the, argu- ment is 8 good one we might, with a good show of consistency, ask the au- thorities to supply the omission by hanging the editor of THE CITIZEN, in order that it might be said Tucson hangs people.

 The above is from The Miner of last week. 1t Is usually the caso that men who desire to prevent the execu- tion of legally convicted murdererS, want to have others hung who do not join with them, or who only plead for the enforcement of the law, or have committed no crime. We ask our readers throughout the Territory to give the course of The Miner on this subject proper attention. We plead for the execution of law as en- acted by the people of Arizona mur- derers and other bad men naturally enough oppose such pleadings. We cheerfully trust to the people at large to make the correct application.
Year: 1875

Is always supplied with an ample variety of well-cooked food. No eXaggeration in this. Stage passengers and travellers by there understand It, and to them all un- acquainted with tine fact are respectfully referred for information.
Year: 1875

Section 4. The persons in each ward, being
three in number for each voting precinct as
provided in section l, who shall receive the
highest number Of votes cast for delegates
to the senatorial nominating convention
shall be decllred elected to represent the city
Of Richmond iu said convention. The five
candidates for the House of Delegates re-
cciving the highest number Of votes in the
aggregate shall be declared by the City Com
mittee the candidates Of the Conservative
organization to represent the city Of Rich
mond in the next House Of Delegates.


Section J. The said election shall be held
between The hours II NJ. and 2. NJ. at all
of the precincts in each Ward, on such day
as shall be fixed by the City Conservative
Committee. The returns of said election
shall be made out and reported in the same
manner as heretofore provided for such elec.
tions. Z Elch voter shall fold his ticket, and
the same shall then be deposited in the bal
lot.boX by one of the commissioners Of the
election; aud the names Of all persons vo.
ting shall be recorded in the order in which
their votes are received By the clerk of the
election, and the record thereof made part
of the returns of the said election.


Section 6. There shall be appointed by the
City Committee for each precinct two we'll
known Conservative citizens, VINO will act as
commissioners on the day of election, and
there shall also be appointed one clerk for
each precinct. In case of tie between said
commissioners on any question the clerk may
act as umpire.


Section :. ALI parts of the former plan for
holding primary elections in conflict with
this are hereby repealed; otherwise they
shall be in full force, as far as applicable to
this,
Year: 1875

Editors Dispatch: Can you please inform
your correspondent If the pile of dirt that
has obstructed west Main street for the past
week is to remain as q substantial evidence
Of official economy? Who are negecting
their duty: TAXPAYER.
Year: 1875

LIFE IN GOLD Hula Gold Hill
woman. "r,gged out" in her best bib
end tucker. started on q trip around
town this morning. armed with shoot
er, in search of her husband. She
vowed that shS had put up with his
nonsense and tomfoolery for jast one
day too much. and she told her friends
that she would make short work of him
on sight. showing at the same time her
weapon Of offence. She waltzed up
and down Main street until her better
half got wind of her little game, and
swore out warrant against her. This
potent legal document was duly served.
and the Amazon incarcerated In the
calaboose. This is getting to be tori
bic country. when q woman can't shoot
her own man If she feels 20 disposed
Gold Hill Ne.os. February 17h.
Year: 1875

A man who was either just get
ting drunk, or else just becoming sober.
in saddling his horse got the saddle
wrong end foremost, and neighbor
passing by called bis attention to the
mistake. The horseman gazed at the
intruder, as if in deep thought, ard then
angrily exclaimed "You just le. that
saddle alone. How do you know which
war am going:'
Year: 1875

A PRIVATE soldier Of Prof. Jcnney's
escort, in his geological survey of the
Black Hills, writes that be found gold
Ivy means Of pick and q shovel, while
The geoIogists were trying to find it by
scientific principles. His advice is that
those desirous Of going gold.hnnting
should hold themselves in readiness,
and the instant the Indian treaty is an
nulled to hasten on. The party had
encountered three mining camps on
French creek. They were panning ont
about so a day, each, and were of the
opinion that, when they get their work
ing apparatus in good order, they will
he able to make $50 day. The soldier
had washed four pans of dirt and got
about five cents to the pan Of scale gold,
some of the pieces being a little larger
than pins head. He did not have to
dig loot down for the dirt, and declares
that all that Custar told concerning the
treasures OF the country was strictly
true.
Year: 1875

1t is strange how slow the people are
finding the best and most profitable
lands in Southern California. Nature
has pointed them out with an uner-
ring accuracy not to be mistaken, and
every development that has been made
in that direction proves cOnclusively
that the indications pointed out by
Nature are infallible. 1t is a conceded
fact that the most valuable and profit
able lands in this country are such as
will produce good crops every year
without irrigation. Such land is con-
sidered worth double as much as the


best lands we have, which requires ir-
rigating. There is a district in Ell
Monte. one in Los Nietos, La Ballona,
Tustin and several other places in the
valley where such lands may be found,
and everybody wants them. These
lands are readily detected by the tim
ber and green shrubbery growing on
them. These signs are infallible.
Every man who cuts away timber or
grubs up green shrubbery to plant his
crop in Southern California is sure to
be rewarded with rich harvest with
out the trouble and expense of irriga-
ton. Everybody knows this to be the
case in the valley lands, but very few
have discovered that the same rule
holds good on the hillsides and in the
mountains, yet in every instance where
it has been tested it has been success
full. After what we have witnessed
with our own eyes, we do
nA 70 f<~ kha% h.
brushy mountain sides are the
very best lands we have on the Pacific
coast. A few days ago we visited
Judge Lindley's beautiful mountain
home = Monte Vista "a few miles
West of this city. Among the party
that went with us was our old engi-
neer, George Hansen, whose business
it was to determine the cost of piping
water down the cafIon to the farm on
the mountain side. After looking at
the growing crop, turning up the
loose, damp soil, out of which every
thing was growing luxuriantly, Mr..
Hansen inquired of the Judge what
he wanted to bring water on that soil
for! The whole party decided that if
one hundred inches of water could be
put on the land for 500 it would be a
useless expenditure. On that farm
there are near two hundred acres of
the richest land we ever saw-as loose
as an ash-bank and moist to the sur
face-upon which there is never any
frost, capable of producing the year
round anything that may be planted
on it. The figs are nearly ripe, toma-
toes grown, potatoes by the wagon
load ready for market, water-melOns,
cucumbers, squashes, indeed every
thing, growing on a huge scale. Corn
planted the 7th of March now in silk.
We cannot er-estimate such land.
One of the grandest views we ever
had in California we had while stand
ing at the Judges house.
Year: 1875

Laeken's Park had the illusion that
her beloved. husband still lived. Her
attendants maintained this illusion to
diminish as much as possible her mis-
fortune, and at times had to feign
news from the prison in which she
imagined Macmillan confined. I'M
fortunately, few days ago newspa-
per was inadvertently left in the Prin-
cess way in which she read a telegram
announcing the Inauguration by the
Emperor of Austria of the monument
erected in Trieste to the memory of his
unfortunate brother, and the attack
which the Empress suffered was so ter
rible that her medical attendants des-
pair of saving her life.o
Year: 1875

Over the choicest portion of their table lands
and purchasers will have the right TO water
without charge. Such an opportunity to se-
cure land admirably situated and watered
and perfectly adapted to semi-tropical fruit
culture, will not occur again.
Year: 1875

The Republican maintains that it 10
the duty of tho men in Council to fur
nish labor for those who are out of en-
ployment-and tha5 ii the work on the
reservoir and the laying of the water
mains was done by contract these men
would not be employed. We are to un-
derstand from this that contractor
would do the work for so.much less mo-
ney that he would not require so many
men. Now, the men in Council are
bound to have the work Of the city done
economically, and yet they are borrow
lug and cxqending money at rate that
will make the basin and the work on the
mains cost at least hundred thousand
dallars more by the time it is finished
than it could be done for by contract.
And yet the ReputlicaR is urging the
Council to continue in this course with
ont ragard 10 what the TAXI ayers MAJ
think.
Year: 1875

The City Council still continue to e1-
pend the peoples money without regard
to economy. 1t is well understood that
tha work Of laying the water mans by
the day is costing fully so per cent. more
than it would do if the work was done
by contract.
Year: 1875

Thou SHALT NOT KILL" is Il COM
rnand resting upon all men. 1t rests
upon the officer as well as the man; and
justification for such deed of violence
is only found in the efforts put forth ne
cessary to save life and thus prevent the
commission of the crime.


An officer has no right to kill man
because he meets resistance to arrest.
II Is the duty of the officer to use force
enough to make an arrest; but 1t Is not
contemplated that that force will be con-
1uca to the strength Of his own hands
II Is his duty to call to his aid the 49,
s.-tarce If ANY VINO may le Luar, aie-
taay uge bound i'll law 10 render assist
ance, tLo4 sh lot TO their own risk OF
injury. Faiing i'll this it Is the officer 8
duty to refrain from the use OF deadly
weapons even if himself resisted and as
slulted. 1t is his duty TO geek the aid
OF other police; to take sufficient force
II ogerawe and overcome tine offender
Ii the latter draw deadly weapon and
attlmpt the use Of il, the question as
srimas another aspect which must be de-
termiued by the calmness and courage
of tAe clIicer,-to preserve his own life
lie is even justified in taking the life OF
the man he attempts to arrest. There
Is such a thing as "outlawry," and yet
Il : IA! -iy put in force. 1t is the duty
cf a citizen to obey tho summons of an
of6cer-to accompany him to the Office OF
tho Mayor or the magistrate-it is also
his duty to suffer irolrcssat.on for 4
reasonable time, ,tntll his case may be
heard; and it is always better to go will.
lipgly than to make struggle. But Of
ficers must not presume that because
they hold Positions under the law they
are not subject to it; and must not over
step its restraints.
Year: 1875

The INrouRrNd CHrNEsE.-S Fran
cisco pref against the Chinese en-
igrants seem to have softencd Of late.--


We no longer read OF street mobs got rp
to welcome the orientals to this land OF
the free 1t is no more the licensed
amusement Of the California rough to
kick and cuff the almond-eyed stranger
on sight, or for gangs Of young vagabonds
10 run him up an alley as they would q
stray cur. The improvement in San
Francisco manners towards the Chinese
is probably due to the combined action
Of the good men of that city. who have
uniformly protested against the persecu-
ton of these foreigners as barbarous, q
shame and disgrace to community pro-
fessing to be Christian. and as certain to
great city Of the Pacific. Whatever the
causes of the change for the better may
be, the effect is very encouraging to Chi
nese immigration. 1t is now pouring in
at an unprecedented rate. Ships and
steamers from China are bringing in from
400 to 900 every trip, according to accom-
modations, which are taken. Reports
indicate that the arrivals will greatly in
crease heneeforth, and reach q very high
figure in 1875. The whole number OF
Chinese who have come to this country
since 1862 is put at $4,000. We hope to
sec this doubled in the next few years,
and it will be if these people are treated
with half the kindness and liberation
which we boass of extending to all other
classes of foreigners. San Francisco her.
self is becoming satisfied by experience
that the Chinese are industrious, useful,
and, as rule, inoffensive members Of her
population; and we are only afraid that
she will continue to absorb all who land
ers in New York are anxiously looking
for the time when they can obtain these
model servants at reasonable rates, and
be free from the thraldom under which
they now suffer.-N. Y. Journal Of Com
merce.
Year: 1875

Last April, fine.looking dry goods
clerk employed in Mandel Bros, in an
hour of dependency, enlisted In the
army. He was engaged to be married
to handsome young lady of eighteen,
and when she heard of it her distress
can only be imagined, for a common
soldier she could not wed. His father,
who, by the way, is Methodist min
lister, did everything in his power to
have him released, but without effect.
The young lady then took the matter
in hand. She saw General Logan and
Congressman Farwell, and with their
signatures to petition for discharge
she forwarded 1t to Washington. In
due time the answer came saying the
prayer could not be granted. The
gentlemen informed her that when they
went to Washington in December they
would make another effort. Learning
that General Belknap, Secretary Of
War, was in the city, she got a letter
of introduction to him. She determined
to call on General Belknap at the Grand
Pacific Hotel, few afternoons ago.
He granted her an audience, heard her
story, Satisfied himself the man would
make her a good husband, and wrot


out a discharge. When she asked the
General how she could repay him, he
gallantly replied. with kiss, which
she gave him. That evenings mail
carried the important paper to the Iu-
dian Territorj. The father, who is
better off in this worlds goods than
most people who follow his calling,
has promised to set his son up In
business, snd is very proud of his
rrosn c'ive OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Journal. 4
Year: 1875

AUGUSTA, Georgia, February g.
The daily Chroascte and Sentinel Of to-
morrow will contain an editorial on
the Civil Rights bill, which it thinks
may now be considered law. 1t de-
clares the bill another act in the drama
of hate, and says the sole purpose of
the bill Is to provoke disturbances in
the South which will furnish capital
for the Republican party in Its next
campaign. 1t says:


In war good general ascertains, If
possible, what his enemy would have
him do, and then proceeds not to do it.
To the attacks of the Republican party
the South must oppose steady front
of sublime patience. Insult must be
met with forbearance. The people who
vanquished great odds in the battle
field are now called upon to achieve
In the ruling of their spirits greater
triumphs than the taking of cities. Let
these high resolves be made Non-re-
sistance, except in the courts and at
the ballot-box no triumph to our enc
mics by doing what they most desire
us to do, to the modification of our
selves, by falling into the trap they
have set for US.
Year: 1875

JOHN YOU'VE BRowN, OF KRNTUcKY-A


PRoToTYPE OF JOHN RANDOLPH.


Describing the exciting scenes in the
House on Thursday afternoon, the
Washington correspondent of the Pitts
burg Leader thus refers to one of the
leading participants on that memorable
occasion:


JOHN Brown YOUNG,


who incurred the displeasure of the
majority to-day, is one of the finest
orators in the country. He is what is
known as natural orator, gifted with
rare, subtle powers of expression, a man
whose voice is music, and whose highest
expression has q marvellous power Cf
awakening emotion in the mind. With
all his gifts, however, he is hot blooded,
and consequently does not possess the
requisite amount of Judgment that
always enables him to say just the most
appropriate thing. This is impossible
with man of his temperament. He is,
too, very young man, who was first
elected to Congress before he was of an
age to he admitted, and WHO was
obliged to wait several weeks before he
could be sworn in. Out in Kentucky he
Is one OF Uno heroes.


His silver tongue gives him a power in
his native State possessed by but few
men of his age. In height he ls about
the medium size. Strictly speaking he
is not handsome. His features are too
irregular. He is dark and swarthy. His
hair is long and inclined to be bushy.
His eyes are dark and well shaded by
heavy eyebrows. His nose is of pug
nacious mold, his cheek bones prominent,
mouth small and firm, while the bold
chin is tipped with a short goatee of
brown whiskers. One of his greatest
charms in speaking is his voice. 1t is
full of music, and some of his chords
move you even when you do not catch
his words His tropical imagination and
great flow of language make him one OF
the most rapid speakers in Congress.
His words come with a rush and in
tensity wholly out of keeping with any
thing but natare of intense feeling and
quick emotion.


HIS TERRIBLE POWERS OF INvEcTIvE.


His terrible powers of invective are 80
we'll known that when he tried to get
the floor yesterday to answer Butler, the
old man refused him. To-day he got
chance, and then he made one OF the
most cutting attacks upon Butler that
has ever been made in Congress. Brown
began sweetly and slowly to demonstrate
with the feeling that led to the constant
persecution of the South. He passed
on easily to the other phases OF the
southern question, and the house grew
still as death as he went on. there
seemed to be premonition of what was
coming.
Year: 1875

AUTHORITY is granted the Sub
sistence Department at Fort
Townsend to purchase in open
market $500 common brick, not
to exceed S2O coin per thousand,
and FIVE barrels of lime, not to ex-
ceed SO coin per barrel, also to
employ a mason and blacksmith
to build bake oven at the post.
Year: 1875

IMPRovEMENTs.--We take pleasure
in noting the progress that is being
made by Mr.. Alexander in connection
with his arrangements for a ship-yard.
Sometime since he purchased lot on
the water front at the west end of tie
town, with the above project in view.
To-day he has building in process OF
completion, and Is laying down his ways
preparatory for the construction and
repair Of vessels. This improvement
Is in compliance with long-felt want
at this point and the enterprise de-
serves encouragement at the hands OF
those interested In maritime affairs.
Year: 1875

EGrPTIAS Book or THE DIAp.-The Egyptian Book of the Dead or Funeral Ritual, ? contains, probably the oldest exist ing record of the faith of man in the immor- tality of the soul Its chapters are found On mummy cases or written on the rolls of papyrus within them. The book recounts the experience of the soul after death, from its passage across the land of darkness into the blessed fields, to its final judgment and admission into the presence of its Father Tn the eternal dwelling place of the prepared spirit-n The following passages show its ex- press declaration of future life:

 "The osiris tte soul) lives after he dies {; the osiris rejoice with life as they rejoice'' 70 God, the protector of him who brought his cry to Thee, be IS thine, let him have DO harm, let him be as one of Thy flying ser vsnts! Thou are be 1; be is Thou. Make it we'll with him in the world of spiritsE'

 1t is supposed that the Book Of the Dead' had its origin 2ooo years before the birth of Christ.
Year: 1875

There is one among the many,
Can you tell me where he stays
He's an odd, old-fashioned party.
Called the honest man, who pays.
Yes, the honest man who pays


Every dollar he may owe;
Keeping up the good old ways


That so many scarcely know.
If lie gives his word of promise
'Tis bond as good as gold;
If he hold a post of honor
Not a trust is ever sold


BY the honest man who pays


Every debt he may incur;
Yielding each just award


And no grudging or demur.
And Pm told this rare old party
Lives within his income, won
BY the fairest. squarest dealing
We see beneath this sun.


And the honest man who pays


Always holds it good and right
For the rich to help the needy


When the times are tough and tight