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Year: 1879

SOMETHING NEW IN CONNECTION WITH
THE FAIR.-Colonc W. c. Knight, secrc-
tary of the State Agricultural Society, has
opened 4 register at his office in which
hotel and clearinghouse keepers are to
furnish the location OF their houses by
street and number, and the rates for board
by the day and week. This register is for
the benefit OF persons who will attend the
Fair, and will be closed on the 1st OF
September, and then published and Cis-
tributcd by mail and otherwise through
out this and adjoining States. Many
persons who would visit the city at the
time OF the annual fairs are kept away by
the lack OF the information which such a
register will glve.' Before leaving their
homes they can make their calculations as
10 the cost OF the trip and the accommodate
tions which can he had.
Year: 1879

COHEN BROTHERS are at all times selling goods
far helOw market value At the present, however
beug anxious TO close stock for this season, they
are Offering goods at unprecedented rates.
Year: 1879

The following is an extract from private letter written by gentleman well known in Arizona, MT. R. r. Straine, editor of the Boston EcOno- mist:,

 It's self-evident that Arizona is passing through the incipient stages, preparatory to an era of prosperity, greater than has been anticipated by her most sanguine friends. 1 fancy it will be difficult for its people to fully comprehend this fact, isolated as they are from the great business centers. Yet from a careful study of the signs of the times" al these points, this fact seems to be assured beyond peradventure of doubt Pos sibly am over-sanguine and view things through a rose tinted glass. Well, wish q larger percentage of Arizonans would do the same. It would be greatly to their benefit. With few notable exceptions, there seems to be general inclination on their part to quietly | squat" and wait for something to turn up, in stead of putting their shoulders to the wheel and giving it q turn in it's progress to growth, they indolently wait for it to advance of it's own in herent force; satisfied to grow up with the country Some general eff forts should be made to acquaint the outside world with its splendid re- sources, and present inducements for the favorable consideration of capi- tai and emigration. The methods for accomplishing this will readily present themselves. It should not be left to the individual to perform as has been the case in the past. Never was the time so favorable or the sign so propitious to set things boom- ing" toward Arizona. Capital is plenty and anxiousiy seeking invest ment. Legitimate mining enier- prlses will control large amount ot it. What is specially wanted just at this time, is to keep Arizona promi- nently before the people. You would be surprised at the general ignorance concerning that Territory, and yet there is great interest manifested therein, and information is sought with eager avidity. Arizona is cer- tainiy commanding favorable atten- tion in the East at present, and this interest shonld not be permitted to die out,
Year: 1879

The new part of Las Vegas at and about the depot has so far progressed that number of houses has been opened for business for ten days or two weeks past, but last Saturday saw the real opening of number of places of amusement and the an nounoement, through the press, by posters and otherwise of the event; !; had the effect to attract an immense crowd. All the varied elements usu- ally seen when our muliform society is fully represented were there, and all determined to seize every point of pleasure to be found.

 The crowd needs no description: The merchant from the east in broad cloth, jostled the laborer, while the soft handed clerk had for his nearest neighbor COW boy, whose wide rim med hat with glittering cord, and cartridge belt set off his good looks to the best advantage. Contractors, traders, ranchmen, speculators, etc, etc. were there in force. The women who did the dancing were American and Mexican ranging through nearly all grades of good and bad looks. The halls were brilliantly lighted, music was fur nished by excellent string bands for the dancers, glasses jingled in time with the music and as was to have been expected many of the pleasure seekers were more than half seas over before the night turned toward the wee small. hours.

 But every day has it's cloud, every lose bush it's thorn, and every garden it's serpent. Before this night of jol- lity drew to a close, a terrible tragedy was enacted, Too much of that which stingeth like an adder was the thorn in this case and Mike Gordon well known character, the medium through which it operated. A wom- an with whom he had lived q great part of the time for several years, was at the ball on Centre street, and he endeavored to induce her to leave there and go around to the grand hall on Railroad street where a larger crowd was congregated. She..refused to go and this stirred up his feelings until in his own words he determined to kill some one or be killed before morning. He was the victim.
Year: 1879

NEW YORK, August 4th--The Times prints the details of the River and Harbor Appropriation bill passed at the last Congress, showing that s9,000,0OO are divided among 36 States and 3 Territories chiefly says the 7Emes, in localities where it is practically wasted, in accordance with agreement of members to divide among their constituents and to keep their political position at home Nevada is the only State in the Union which does not receive direct pecuniary aid from the act. It cannot be that Nevada was emit ted because there are no streams of water in that State. Perhaps the absenteeism of her Senators is ac- countable for the mission. The Times says the President nas power to check this shameful grab by re- fusing to spend the money except at points were the necessities of trade and commerce require it.
Year: 1879

One woman in fishing party will Co more to scare away all the fish than ten packs of firecrackers. Besides that, no man wants to put the neck of bottle in his mouth when woman arc around to misjudge his motives.
Year: 1879

It Is safe to say that II In the course of hui


man events it becomes necessary for great


and gallant people to reconstruct another


great and gallant people, said reconstruction
will be conducted on an entirely different
principle from that last indulged in.
Year: 1879

LSt. LOUIS JIODB- DbNlOCTHtJ


AS we contemplate the attitude OF the Con-
federate Democracy at present, and listen
to the assurance that President Hayes is
alarmed, and for the first time in his life was
Year: 1879

hold on to unruly members, for
fear that, if they are thrown of into
the world without the restraint of
the church, they will throw them
selves away beyond the reach Of
salvation"


You will, then, keep such in,
while you prejudice hundreds of
Others against the Church who
otherwise would be useful members
We outsiders are friends of the
Church, and earnestly desire that
you maintain her purity, that she
may be indeed as a city set on a
hill and the light of the world"


There is a great deal compre-
hended in this brief colloquy, and
We, without wishing to cast any
unjust reflections on the Church,
call the attention of our good
brethren, who are laboring for the
suppressiGn II of intemperance, TO
this important matter. Commence
at home, in Your churches, ami
when you get all things right there,
your churches, freed from the in
cubus intemperance, to back you,
then, ami not till then, will you
move successfully and triumphantly
forward in the great temperance
reformation. The Churches should
all be temperance societies. Until
this is the case all your efforts for
reform in the outside world will be
feeble and to a considerable extent
Intellectual A CHURCH MEMBER
Year: 1879

but this entrance was closed with a
red hot bar, and Satan himself stood


peeping out, waiting for travellers
thereabout, and thus to the passen-
ger printer spoke:


''Come in my dear; it shall cost
you nothing, and 2ever fear. This
Is the place where cook the ones
who never pay their subscription
sums; for though in life they may
escape, they'll fad that when they
ARE dead it is toe late; l melt them
thin, with redhot chains ard scraps
of tin, and also where l comb their
heads with broken glass and melted
lead, and if of refreshments they
only think there's boiling water for
them to drink; there's the red-hot
grindstone to grind his nose, and
the red hot rings to wear on his
toes, and if they mention they don't
like fire, III sew up their mouths
with red-hOt wire; and then dear
sir. Nou should see them .squirm,
while | roll them over cool to turn.


With these last words the printer
awoke, and thought 1t practical
Joke; but still at times so real did 1t
seem, that he cannot believe it was
all a dream; and often he thinks
with a chuckle and grin, of the fate
Of those who save their tin and nev-
er pay the printer Burlington
Year: 1879

The wide awake business man
who wants money and gets it never
fails to advertise his business. II
every man in business would adver-
tise in his town or city paper there
would be more general prosperity
enjoyed by them. The paper goes
among the people of the town, city
and country, and is read by thou
sands of people They see that Mr..
So and So has good lot of family
groceries which he offers at a bar
gain. Another has a lot OF fine
furniture to dispose of, and the
stove man has a fine assortment on
hand, together with all kinds of tin
ware for sale cheap. These men
invite them to call and examiD e
their stock. When they come to
town they do so, and the conse-
quence is they trade with those men
who are helping to keep alive their
county paper, which they could not
do without.
Year: 1879

The points annexed are extract
ed from a communication in the
Nashville American of recent date:


Said u sensible and observing
old man of the world, not long
since, to a minister: "There has
been quite a change among you
ecclesiastics in the management OF
church affairs of late"


in what Particular asked the
minister


"In the exercise of discipline."-
why" continued the old gentle
man, cit used to be that when a
member was guilty of uncbristian
conduct, he was brought before the
authorities of the Chuch, and, if he
did not show a penitent spirit and
forgiveness, he was whirled out
But now we have no such trials.
Members may get drunk, profane
the name of God, and still main
tain their standing in the church. "


"Ah, well." said the minister:
ave think it best sometimes, to
Year: 1879




There are always some people in
every community who imagine
themselves, to use a common phrase,
"very smart" and they are gener-
ally of the busybody kind. One of
these can do more harm in a town
or neighborhood than a dozen good
people can set at right. No minis
ter can come into a place but these
smart ones can pick any amount of
flaws in his every day walk; or his
sermons are always too long or too
short, too soft or too hard, or ''he
can't preach" and a hundred other
imaginary imperfections which the
less pretentious never think of men


tioning. But these knowing ones
do not stop here; for no enterprise
was ever started but was contrary
to their views. Other folks never
build pig pen, smoke house, a
corn crib, barn, a dwelling, a
school house or a church to suit
these babblers; and no newspaper
was ever run according to their
ideas of business, land l won't have
anything to with it, and I'll keep
everybody else from it that | can. .
Year: 1879

One merchant wants to ecOno-
mize and quits advertising. An
other and another does likewise.
Each one thinks his patronage a
small matter to the publisher, and
he will just save that much and
withdraw. Admit for the present
that he saves something by it-that
he does not lose at one end while
he saves at the other-did it ever
occur to you what a beautiful spec
tacle your county paper would pre-
sent if every business man and
manufacturer in town did the same
wayf 1t is the duty of every citi
zen to help sustain his home paper
by giving it a liberal patronage.
Subscriptions only will not do. A
country weekly would starve to
death on subscriptions alone. Ad
vertlse Systematically and constant
ly, if not for direct personal profit,
at least to sustain and uphold "a
home enterprise which no good cit
izen would like to do without, even
if he could. Our rates of advertis
ing have been greatly reduced.
They are down to ante-war figures.
We claim from every good citizen
a recognition of the fact that a pa
per must have patronage in order TO
live, and if it is to be a paper to
which you can point with pride as a
home institution, you must give it
a liberal and constant patronage.
1t cannot and should not live alone
or foreign advertising. Suppose
every man should conclude to with
draw his patronage even Temporal
FLY! Think how blank your coun-
ty paper would be. Think how
soon it would languish and die!
Think how poorly you would get
along without it, Suppose YOU had
no county paper, how much would
you contribute toward starting one?
Then ask yourself if you should
not do as much to sustain one al
ready established. Don't take it
for granted that it is already estab-
lished and will be continued any
how. This is not fair. 1t is your
duty to help sustain it, and make it
matter of pride to point to it as the
best county paper in the State, be-
cause it is the most literally up
held by it's nome people.
Year: 1879

Governor elect Albert S. Marks
was inaugurated with imposing GER
emony last Thursday at noon, when
he delivered the following beautiful
and appropriate


INAUGURAL ADDRESS.


Gentlemen of the Convention :
The sovereign will of the people has
clothed us with the high trusts cf
our coordinate offices.


The trusts imposed are sacred !;
the honor conferred is distin-
guished. We are the accredited
servants of a State, the pesr of the
grandest in the Federal Union.


On the field her banners have
been in the van; in council her
voice has had the force of law: on
her statute book no law has found
place nullifying the obligations Of
the constitution of a common coun-
try; no law tending to irritate the
people of her sister States. 81 lie
never asked the general government
for a law fostering her peculiar in
terests at the expense OF the general
welfare. In the late war in which
our country was engaged with
European power, after the capital
of the Union had fallen, it was her
son who, on the plains of New Or
leans, snatched the palm of victory
from proud and arrogant foe and
restored TO a grateful and admiring
country.


When monopoly had laid its
withe~ing hands upon the people, it
was her son who struck 1t down
and gave equal laws, equal rights
and equal privileges to all. There
has been war and desolation and
bloodshed, but her garments are like
snow.


Though so rich in desert yet you
are called upon to legislate amid the
ruins of her former prosperity. Mo-
the curse of the people,
again wears the crown, but l con-
gratulate you that while the body of
the old hero sleeps at the Hermit
age, his spirit still walks the earth !
and the battle for freedom will 90
on until the monopoly is again de |
throned and the crown OF govern
ment restored to the head where it |
belongs In virtue of right divine.


A grave responsibility presses
upon US. Wisdom and patriotism
alone may fill the measure of it's de
mand. Let us remember that our
action may have the force and eff
cacy of law only so far as it may
form ulate and give expression to
the popular will, and with justice
and honor for our guides, we may
walk firmly and confidently in the
purpose and effort to promote the
public welfare. ss4ss }-s-1


In his presence and on this oeca
sion is my cheerful duty to bear
testimony to the worth of the dis
,inguished retiring Governor.


l knew him Bayard in the field;
n social life the peer of The best;
on the bench an ornament, and in
lis high Office he has so borne him
self that he will carry with him into
MS retirement the love of his friends
and the respect of his enemies.
Year: 1879

A printer sat in his easy chair,
his boots were patched, and his
coat threadbare, and his face looked


weary and worn with care. While
sadly thinking of business, debt, old
Morpheus slowly around him crept,
and before he knew 1t he soundly
slept. and sleeping he dreamed he
was dead, from trouble and toll his


spirit had fed, and that not even a
COW bell tolled forth the peaceful
rest of the COW hide sole, AS he
wandered among the shades, that
smoke and scorch in lower Hades,
he shortly observed an iron door,
that creakingly hung on hinges ajar,
Year: 1879

Athens Post: There is almost a
universal cry of hard time. We
have some right to know that
money is hard to get hold of, but
if everybody would pay some of
what they owe we all would get on
much better. For instance if you
pay us two dollars for our paper,
before Saturday night it is paid to
some one else and in the course of
few days has probably paid a
half dozen debts. Try US and see
if il don't.
Year: 1879

Men and women tell us almost daily
they would like to take the CITIZEN, but
they are too poor. Therefore we make
this offer: Widows and destitute, home
less men with families, shall have % per
cent. discount frem the regular price if
they are really and truly hard pressed.
We make this offer in all sincerity with
no intention to offend, and we cordially
invite all such to avail themselves of it.
We arc anxious to put the CITIZEN into
the hands of every family in Giles cOun-
ty, and no one shall have an excuse if
we can possibly help it. Ifyou haven't
got the money bring us something to
eat at the market price.
Year: 1879

When a country editor, who is
struggling about trying TO rear a
large family and build up q town on
an income Of five hundred a year,
discovers that a base ball pitcher
hauls in four thousand dollars for
the season, 1t makes him sit down
on a roller box and think.
Year: 1879

- MVOA "a


The pencil marks you sec around thi
paragraph (thus) mean that your sub
scription is out or unpaid, and that you
arc requested to pay up at once. Wc
would take great pleasure in extending
credit TO our friends and patrons, but
cash alone will yay our expenses, and
we are forced to adhere to a strict cash
rule. We hope you win comprehend
and appreciate the necessity OF such a
course, and renew your su scription
without delay. We solicit your favor.


eS- We enter no new names on our
books without the money in advance.
Year: 1879

A wife wanted her husband to
svmpathize with her in a feminine
quarrel, but he refused, saying,
I've lived long enough to learn
that one woman's just as good as
good as another, if not better p"
Aud H. retorted the exasperated
wife, "have lived long enough to
learn that one man is just as bad as
another, if not worsep
Year: 1879

The Detroit News says a peculiar
case of mental hallucination has
just appeared at Battle Creek, IN
the person Of young man about
eighteen or twenty years old. He is
cigar maker by trade, and has
been In the habit of smoking from
ten to thirty green cigars daily.
He had not drunk sufficient liquor
to produce delirium, and yet he is
a raving lunatic, and suffers all the
horrible phantasmagoria that per
tain to the fully developed tremens.
He has worked in and used tobacco
since early boyhood. OF late years
he has used it extensively, princi-
pally in strong cigars, and it IS sup
posed that the nicotine has poisoned
and shattered his mind as to partly
paralyze it, thus producing the dis
order. He has been taken to the
insane asylum for treatment.
Year: 1879

Do you know what the funda-
mental difficulty with the world is?


1t is the universal delusion that a
No. 5 boot can be made to fit No.
8 foot Change that misapprehen-
sion and you will alter the com


plexion of history. The bank
cashier takes a few thousand dol
lars from the vault with the expec


tation of becoming rich on Wall
and returning it; the clerk
drives a fast team and INDUCES in
all its concomitants on a salary Of
$500; the business man lives on the
avenue and accumulates debts with
the hope that something favorable
will turn up; the young lady mar
ries for money and dreams OF a
happy home, They are IN eiy ing
to get No x bout on a No. b foot.
Year: 1879

x8f1o Letter.


I have recently been favored with the
sight Of one Of the famous Jewels of the
world-a stone that has its history and
its pedigree, and is celebrated in the an
mails Of trade and in the annals of the note
gems OF Europe; I have held in my hand
and admired beneath the rays Of the sun
light the finest sapphire that is known to
exist. This beautiful and we'll. nigh
priceless stone combines in sineularly
perfect degree the leading qualifications
OF size, shape, color, and water. In form
1t is flat oval, being about two inches
long by an inch and half wide. It is
cut slightly en- cabochon on top and into
multitude Of small facets beneath. Its
hue is perfect, being warm lustrious
Marie Louise blue, not so dark as to
show back beneath the gaslight, but hav-
ing all the velvet sottness and purity of
tint that is required in really fine gem
of this description. Its weight is 800
carats, and it belongs to a noble and
wealthy Russian family IN whose possess
sion It has been for the past two centu-
ries, and it has been placed by its owner
in the hands of one of the great dlamoAd
merchants Of Paris for safe keeping.
One Of the Rothschild family has offered
for it no less sum than $500, 900, but the
offer has been refused. l asked the
courteous gentleman in whose care it has
been left as to the actual value of the
stone. He told me that, being as it was,
perfectly unique, no precise value could
be set upon it, but that he was inclined
to estimate it at some 100000. He also
showed me string of enormous gradu-
ateo pearls of extreme purity and finc-
ness (the center one was as large as a
small cherry) And he told me the neck
lace belonging to the noble Russian, was
composed Of SIX similar strings of equal
beauty and exceptional size. The great
sapphire was mounted to be worn as a
brooch, being surmounted with large dia-
monds of some twenty carats each. Its
guardian informed me that the pendant
belonging to this brooch was composed
of large pear-shaped sapphire wei Ching
sixty carats, and set in diamonds. The
whole collection of jewels belonging to
this one family worth over $4,000, 900
"There is no such sapphire as that largest
one," continued my informant, seven
among the crown jewels of Russia
furnished myself two very fine ones to
the Emples each weighing sixty carats,
but they do not compare with this mag
niticent gen." The gentleman who
spoke was we'll qualified to give an opin-
ion, as he is one of the few diamond
merchants in tie world, and is moreover
a noted expert. He it is who was recent


Iy sent tor by the Russian government to
60 to St. Petersburg to make a full esti.
mate of the value Of the crown jewels, and
he furnishes whatever ornaments in pre-.
cious stone are purchased by the mem.


bers Of the Imperial family.
Year: 1879

That if everyone would use Hop Bittcrs
freely, there would be much less sickness
and misery in the world; and people are
fast finding this out whole families keep.
ing we'll at triaine cost by its use. We
advise all to try it.-Rocheseer Union.
Year: 1879

lr .oEtuCc htraIu. IL


Last Monday afternoon this locality was
visited with a heavy rain which was of in
calculable benefit TO the growing crops The
rain came down with the determination of
doing some god ani succeeded well in its
efforts The hail that fell WAS light and no
damage was done.
Year: 1879

That if every one would use Hop Bitters
freely, there would be much less sickness and
misery in the world: and people are fast find
ing this out whole families keeping well at
a trifiing cot by its use We advise all 10
try it-U "a, Rochester, y. Y.