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Year: 1877

IL cannot be denied that of all the influen- ccs in the world that of the mother is the most powerful, the most lasting. the most enduringly fascinating. If it is wanting. thee is nothing in earth that can supply its stead. Exterior habits may he compelled by any other dsciplinarian who steps in tn supply the mothers place; but the appeal to the heart, which is the power of the mother alone. is worth all outward appliances to- gether in making the moral lessons incul- cated
Year: 1877

Who will say that drunkenness is
not great curse and growing evil
in our land? in New York city, last
year, there were So 978 arrests for
drunkenness. Here are the national
ities':9f 1pt nai iEs
Year: 1877

OLD MAN.-Bow low the head,
boy do reverence to the old man,
as he passes slowly along. Once
like you, the vicissitudes of life
have silvered the hair and changed
the round face to the worn visage
before you. Once that heart beat
with aspirations co-equal 10 any
Won have felt aspiration crushed
by disappointment, as yours arc
perhaps destined to be. Once that
form stalked proudly through the
gay scenessoi pleasure the bean ideal
of grace now the hand OF Time
that withers the flower of yesterday
has warped that figure and destroy
ed that noble carriage. Orce, a
YOUR age, he had the thousand
thoughts that pass through yonl
brain-now Wishing to accomplish
something worthy of nook il
fane anon imagining lite dream
that the sooner he woke from th'
better. But he has lived the dream
very near through. The time t.


awake is very near at hand ye
his eye ever kindles at old deeds G
daring, and his hand takes a firme
crap of the staff. Bow low tn


head, boy, as You would in you
old age be reverenced.
Year: 1877

ones pet mine would prove bonanza; put when the speculative fever subsided, and even the prices in the "big mines" declined fifty per cent. and assess ments were the order of the day. confidence was shaken and the shrewd ones sold out

 This is the season for the bears. and by a concert of action they knock prices down five dollars per share st s single session of the Board. The stockholders, instead of coming to the rescue with fresh purchases of stock and obliging the bears to pay high CT prices to replace the stock sold short, be- come demoralized for want of concert of action and tumble in pell-mel Ia see which can get out first, and furnish the byars with weapons with which to annihiate them selves. This state of affairs will be i'm proved when Con. Virginia resumes it's divi- dends and shows capacity for continued production of ore. Then capital, of which a large amount will be idle for want of use to move crops (which certainly are not abundant this seasonl and other commercial purposes, will seek investment that will pay 60 per cent. per annum even if 1t Is m such risky property as mining stock. And should there be development ot good ore in some of the mines, thing which has been so as- sidiously sought for, then speculation will be stimulated and we may confidently look for a rise in prices <. F. Stock Exchange.
Year: 1877

Letters from New York, Boston, San Fran cisco and other large cities are constantly being received by our citizens making in quiries about Arizona, its climate, etc. A few years ago these cities held out induce ments to the speculators giving them plenty to do, but now with hard times staring them in the face they are anxious to turn their at tention to the coming country, Arizona. We would advise all to come, but would say bring little capital with you.
Year: 1877

The following sentence was pronounced
by Judge Reading. of Chicago, upon the
liquor dealers who had violated the law by
selling rum to minors. The terrible sar-
casm it contains is powerful sermon on
the whole business Of rum-selling:


by the law you may sell 1t to men and
women, II they will buy. You have given
your bond and paid your license to sell to
them. and no one has . right to molest you
In your legal business. No matter what
the consequences may be, no matter what
poverty and destitutiou are produced by
your selling according tollaw. you have
paid your money for this privilege. and
you are licensed to pursue your calling.
No matter what families are distracted aud
rendered miserable; no matter what wives
are treated with violence; what children
starve or mourn over the degradation OF Q
parent-your business Is legalized. and no
one may interfere with you for II. No mat
ter what mother may agonize over the loss
Of son. or sister blush at the. shame of .
brother, you have . right TO disregard
them all, and pursue your legal calling
you are licensed. You may fit up your
lawful place OF business In the most entic-
ing and captivating form you may furnish
It with the most costly and elegant equip
ments for your own lawful trade; you may





you may use all arts to allure visitors; you
may skillfully arrange and expose to view
your choicest wines and captivating bever-
ages; you may induce thirst by all con-
triysnces to produce q raging appetite for
drink, and then you may supply that ap-
petite to the full because II Is lawful; you
have paid for it-you have 3 license. You
may allow boys and children to frequent
your saloon, they may witness the appa-
rent satisfaction with which their seniors
qusff the sparkling glass you may be
schooling and training them for the period
of twenty-one, when they, too. can partici-
pate-ior all this is lawful. You may hold
the cup to their lips; but you must not let
them drink-thst is unlawful. For, while
you have sll these privileges for the money
you pay, this poor privilege of selling to
children Is denied you. Here parents have
the right to say, Leave my son to me
until the law gives you right To destroy
bin. DO not anticipate that terrible mo-
mcnt when | eau assert for him no further
rights OF protection. That will be soon
enough for me, for his sister. for his moth
er, tor his fiiends, for the community, 10
see him take the road to death. Give him
TO Us in his childhood at least, Let us have
q few hours OF his youth, in which we can
enjoy hts innocence, TO repay US iu some
degree for the care and love we have Law
ishcd upon him.


This Is something which you, who now
stand prisoners at the bar, have not paid
frr; this il not embraced in your license.
For this offence the Court sentences you to
ten days Imprisonment in the county Jail.
and lha, you pay fine OF seventy-hve dol
lars and costs, and that you stand COM
mrttcd until the fine and costs OF this pros
ccutiou are paid
Year: 1877

Mans rights do not include the rights
to all the comforts of home without any
OF the work, or worry, or self-sacrifice. or
thot gh,fulness and well doing Incident to
its creation and maintenance A good
many men think they have done their full
duty if they pay the bills, more or less
grudgingly. But one might as well try
TO warm a room with a fireplace and a
pair of silver-plated and-irons, and nc
fuel OF fire. as to make a home with mon.
ey. The money simply makes place for
the home; to complete it the man IN usi
put in himself. and the best part Of him
self at that. E.c.
Year: 1877

The advocates of contraction and i'm
mediate resumption are now brought
face to face with the consequences which
it has all along been predicted would
follow their insane policy. That the dis
tress Of the country is in a great
measure due to the policy of the Re-
publican party cannot be doubted; and
there Will be no relief until that policy is
abandoned and another more in keeping
with common sense adopted, Mr.. Sher.
man is beginning to feel that he has in
hand very much more than he baroained
for. His promises Of prosperity have moi
been fulfilled. lie finds that instead n
confidence being restore; it is in a NOR,
shattered condition than ever 1t wa
the expectation that those speciou
promises would be realized that induce,
many well meaning people to give thei
support to the Electoral Commission, an
10 sustain its verdict, and now that thel
has been disappointment and remors
the aggravation only becomes the MOI
severe and harder to bear-Pha. ChrO,
icle
Year: 1877

An election was held in Kentucky the
other day. and there was no call for
United States marshals, and no grist for
the outrage mills either. Another was
held in Georgia, and with the same peace
full result. Now it strikes us forcibly
that the Republicans ought to be ashamed
of themselves, that is, supposing them
capable of such a feeling. How much
money and bloodshed and shame would
have been spared the country had Grant
the bull-headed, yielded to the earnest
pleadings of the Democrats and with
drawn the troops and driven out the
carpet-baggers at the last Presidential
election? We are only beginning to fine
out how great all enemy to the peace ant
prosperity of the country Grant reall!
Wae
Year: 1877




WHEN the Republicans succeeded they
cut the rate down to ST. This the records
show, and the tax bills of both periods
show-RepiIbticdn.


The tax bills prove that the tax had
been increased by increasing the valua-
ton of property although the rate of per
centage had been reduced. 1t was the
evidence furnished by bill and the
complaint Of a tax payer which called
our attention to the matter. The Demo
cratic taxpayers will discover that the
county tax is reduced, and can ascertain
whether their city tax is reduced or in
creased by comparing bills of this year
and last. Where the assessment of the
sworn city assessor has been let stand we
think there will be found to be some re-
duction; but the complaint is made that
the Board of Revision raised the assess
ments, causing considerable raise in
the tax.
Year: 1877

THE Republican is very right in sup
posing the GAZETTE will not defend
wrong. If there was cheating or roguery
on the part of the Lamp Committee under
the Democratic council, it ought to be
exposed. Democrats, Of all others, ought
to avoid cheating. But it may be that
the Democratic lamp committee had a
large number of new lamp posts erected,
and nearly all the damaged ones repair
ed leaving none of this work to be done
by his successor. We do not know, With
reference to the oil supply too there is a
charge made that the Democratic con-
tractor was paid a larger amount OF
money than it has cost the present year.
We cannot make any defence for wrong
orirregulari.y;but here too it may be that
the lights were regularly lighted by an
efficient person to do this work while
during the present year many times the
lamps were not lighted, either through
negligence or because it was not ne ces-
sary. In no event will the GAZETTE
defend wrong on the part of Democratic
officers; but it does maintain now tha
the Republicans were only deferred from
increasing the city expenses to an alarm
ing extent in excess of the already heav.
expenditures by the fact that the peopl,
put that party out of power and tn
Democrats in power. The Cool Sprin!
Reservoir; the defeat of the contemplat
ed city park; the paid fire department
and the Washington street bridge, al
prove this. We will do the presen
Council the credit to say that they appea
now to be trying to do as well as the.
can. They have come into severa
measures advocated by the GAZETTE an


the Democrats, such as contracting fo
cleaning streets, building sewers, &c, b
which there might be and we hope wi


be, large saving to the taxpayers an


more satisfaction given in the work.
Year: 1877

WAR ON THE FAST FREIGHT LINES
The Chicago Tribune of Friday says:
IA movement is now on foot to abolish
all the fast freight and have all the
through freight business carried on by
the railroad direct, 1t is generally con-
ceeded tht the fast freight lines costs the
railroads a great deal of money, much Of
which could have been saved if they
were abolished. The regular contract
ing agents of the variou5 roads, it is
claimed, could do all the work that is
now done by the multitude of agents en-
ployed by the numerous fast freight lines,
or most of them, and managed in the in
terest of some of the managers of the
roads, and not in that of the stockhold-
ers. The plea is made that the abolish
| ing of the fast freight lines would throw
number OF laboring men and clerks out
of employment, but this claim does not
hold good, for most of theseSemployees
would have to be employed in freight
| departments of the various roads, the
work of which would be greatly increas


ed. The only men that would be thrown
out of work would be an army of high
priced fast freight line managers, agents


and other ofh hcials whose principal duties


consist in drawing their salaries"
Year: 1877

THE County Commissioners have been
in session NIL of tins week. Being their
first session, there is much tor them to
do to get acquainted with the condition
of the county affairs. A full report of
their proceedings will appear next
week.
Year: 1877

IT is with pleasure we note the np.
pcaruncc of our young friend Eddy Pike
since his recent very severe sickness, We
hope he may have such an increase of
health and happiness as will more than
make up for his past pain and sickness.
Year: 1877

ACCIDENT TO DR.. Folsom. 1t is with


sorrow we note the severe injury that
~ FoIsom received upwards of couple
OF weeks ago, While going from here
70 rackwood's Landing on professional
BUSINESS alter dark, he was compelled
to haul his boat across the upper port.
age from Steamboat to Ebey slough, on
account of the low state of the tide Mt
hiSh tide there is enough water to row
across; here his foot slipped, and he fell,
striking the inner guard or out.rigger
against his face, cutting deep cash un.
der one eye, and also bruising and cut
tng his nose. 1t is supposed that he
stepped on a piece of ice, concealed in
part by the mud, and his feet slipping at
the time, his whole weight fell OH the
iron guard. The bone is bruised and in
Jured so that it will take long time to
Zeal. The shock at the time was so
great that his friends feared at first, by
the convulsions it threw him into, that
u might be fatal, he remaining uncon-
sGiAus for 1everal hours. He has been
confined to his room most o. the time
Year: 1877

since that event, and while the injury is
not regarded AS dangerous, it is, to say
the least, very painful, and will he very
slow in healing, as the injuries to the
bone must heal first, thence outwardly.
We hope nothing will prevent his speedy
recovery
Year: 1877

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN IN to the paupers of Pope Coun- ty to present themselves at the court house in the town of Dover, on the second Monday in January 1877, for the purpose of being examined and sent to the poor house. Those who fail to present themselves at the above mentioned time will not re- ccive any appropriation for their support.

 By order of the court.

 DUDLEY JAMES,

 Dec.-7-f-w. Commissioner.
Year: 1877

Those who contemplate voting against
the proposition to fund the $4,000 OF
floating debt now resting upon the city,
must make up their minds 10 stand an
unusually stiff rate of taxation in order
to raise immediate means for It's extin.
guishment. We must either pay the debt
or fund it-and we must decide which
tomorrow.
Year: 1877

New YORK, January %. "a pc
tition 10 Congress in relation to the
compromise plan for the electoral
count, is in consideration at the Union
League Club and elsewhere in the city.
The petitioners make substantially the
following suggestions:


l. That the Constitutionality Of the
proposed act, should be formally passed
upon by the Supreme Court.


.. That the Judges Of the Supreme
Court should not be members OF the
commission il prior adjudication by the
court can not be obtained.


3. That the part assigned to the five
Judges comports neither with the dignity
and impartiality OF the court, nor with
the rights Of the people, nor with the
principles and safety Of the country's in
stitutions.


The petitioners ask that Congress will
not involve the Judges of the Supreme
Court in any manner with the pending
contest until the court shall be called to
act on the question in its Judicial capac,
itv
Year: 1877

PrrrsDuRGH, January 2S.-At meet.
ing Of the Chamber Of Commerce to-day
a resolution was passed indorsing the bill
offered by the joint committee Of the Sen
ate and House Of Representatives for the
adjustment Of the electoral count, and re-
spectfully urging upon Congress the im.
mediate adoption OF the bill, that the
business ot the country may be relieved
from the distressing influence growing
ont OF the unsettled state OF the public
mind upon the Presidential question.
Year: 1877

A speedy return of the good
times of five years ago is predicted
by the Toledo Blade, which bases
its belief on the immense crop OF
of the year, and the well-known
effects of prosperity among farm
ers on general business. 1t ap-
pears that the crops harvested are
the largest the country ever had.
The acreage of wheat is largely in
excess of any since the settlement
of the country, and the yield per
acre is infinitely greater. Hay is
magnificent, and has been secured


in the very best condition. Corn
is now certainty. Never was the
eye gladdened with the sight OF
such fields. The stalks tower glo-
riously, and the color is superb.
Oats, which have been a failure
since 1874, this year yield very
much more than they did them
The Blade continues: ave proph-
esy an immediate aud decided re-
vival of business. There have been
Year: 1877

The number of seeds of wheat
in one ponnd is ten thousand five
hundred.


The number of seeds in one
pound of barley is fifteen thousand
four hundred.


The number of seeds in one
pound of oats is twenty thousand.


The number of seeds in a pound
Of rye is twenty-three thousand.


The number of seeds in a pound
of buckwheat is twenty-five thous-
and.


The number of seeds in a pound
Of red clover is two hundred and
forty-nine thousand six hundred.


The number of seeds in a pound
of white clover is six hundred and
eighty-six thousand four hundred.
Year: 1877

Be kind to the book agent. He
has a father, perhaps, and mother,
who knew him in his innocent
youth. Perhaps even now, in some
peaceful New England village, fond
hearts are beating for him and his
welfare. Therefore, lay him down
tenderly, fold his hands peacefully
on his breast, and close his eyes
gently as you put him under the
branches of the weeping willow,
where the birds carol all through
the summer days their softest songs.
But plant him deep-plant him
deep.
Year: 1877

A bad, bad boy was picked up
by his ma, the other night, for
some misdeed, and tanned with her
slipper until he thought he was
standing right in the way Of a
shoemaker's shop caught in a cy-
clone. When he got away at last,
he was told to sit down and learn a
verse in the Bible before he could
have bit Of supper, and when he
was called up to recite he said -
"The wicked's tanned in slippery
places"
Year: 1877

Bob IugersOll ON Child-Whipping.


The children of poverty. NV
heart bleeds when | think of them:
the children simply covered by a
rag; the children of famine and
starvation; the children of drunk
enness and the children Of crime,
iiotsam and jetsam upon the wild,
rude sea of life; the children in al
leys, the children that crouch in
corners when they hear the un-
steady step of drunken brute of
a father; the children, little babies
with drinking mothers; the child
rem, too, of the rich that have no
liberty-these little children that
are crushed, that are trampled up
on, that are frightened. / pity
them from the bottom of my heart.


What right have you to tyran-
nize over a child! / have very lit
tie respect for man that cannot
govern n child without brute force.
Think of whipping children. Why,
they say that children tell lies.-
Yes, cowardice is the mother of
lies; tyranny is the father of lies.


Suppose a man who is as much
larger than you as you are larger
than five-year-old child, should
come at you with a pole in his
hand: "Who broke that plate 2"
You would tremble; your knees
would knock together, and you
would swear you never saw that
plate, or that it was cracked when
you got it.


Think of a member of the board
of exchange whipping one of his
children for prevaricating. Think
of a lawyer beating his own flesh
and blood because he evaded the
truth. Think of a dealer in stocks
Furnishing his child for setting aAoat
false reports. What an inconsist-
ency. Think of it.


If you should hereafter whip
your child, wish you could have
your photograph taken while doing
so, with brown corrugated with an
ger, your cheeks red with rath, and
the little child shrinking, trembl-
ing, crouching, begging. If the
child should happen to die, would
MT it be sweet in the autumn, when
the maple leaves are turning to
gold, and when the scarlet vines
run like sad regret out of the
earth-wouldn't it be delightful to
go and sit on the mound that COW
ers the flesh you had beaten, and
look at the photograph of yourself
in the act of whipping that childG


Now think Of it; think of it;
and if all have said tonight will
save one blow from the tender flesh
of infancy, am more than paid.


/ have known men to drive their
own children from their doors, and
then get down on their knees and
ask God to watch over them. An
other thing; there is nothing in
this world like being honest with
these children. Do not pretend
you are perfection; you are not;
and if one of them happens to tell
d story, do not let on as If the
whole world was going to burst.
Tell them honestly that Won have
Year: 1877

tight times for three years. The
farmers have not had money, nor
have they had any way to make it.
This enormous crop, COM
ing in just at the nick Of time,
when the calamities of other ma
tions make good price for it, is
the let-up we have been looking
for so anXiously, and waiting for so
patiently. The farmer is now re-
ceiving money enough to pay his
debts ont Of his wheat alone, and
he has his enormous corn, oats and
hay crop for future needs. He will
pay the debts that have been accu-
mulating for three years, and he
will have plenty with which to get
those supplies he has been compell-
ed to do without so long"
Year: 1877

Should you ask us why this dunning!
Why these sad complaints and murmurs!
Murmurs loud about delinquents,
Who have read the paper weekly,
Read what they have never paid for,
Read with pleasure and with profit,
Read Of church affairs and prospects,
Read the news both home and foreign,
Read the essays and the poems
Full Of wisdom and instruction;
Read the table of the markets,
Carefully corrected weekly
Should you ask us why this dunningi


From the printer, from the mailer,
From the kind old paper maker,
From the landlord, from the devil"
From the man who taxes letters
With a stamp of Uncle Samuel
Uncle Sam the rowdies call him;
From them all there comes message
Message kind but fifty spoken,
'Please TO pay the bill you owe u.s."


Sad it is TO hear the message,
When our funds are all exhausted,
When the last greenback has left ms,
When the nickels all have vanished;
Gone TO pay the paper maker,
Gone TO pay the toiling printer,
Gone to pay the landlords tribute,
Gone TO pay the clerk and devil,
Gone to pay the faithful mailer,
Gone TO pay old Uucle Samuel
Uncle Sam the rowdies call him
Gone TO pay for beef and Bridget,
Gone to pay off faithful parson.


Sad it il TO turn our ledger,
Turn the leaves of this old ledger,
Turn and see what sums are due US,
Due from volumes long since ended,
Due for years of pleasant reading,
Due for years of anxious labor
Due despite our patient waiting,
Due despite our constant dunning,
Due in sums from two to forty.


Would you lift the burden from us
Would you drive spectre from you!
Would You taste pleasant slumber
Would you have quiet concience!
Would you read paper paid for!
Send us money-send us money,
Send us money-send us money,
SEND THE MONEY THAT you OWE Us.
Year: 1877

Nothing undermines ones faith
in a mans liberality to the church
so much as to see him stick his
hands down deep into his pockets
as the contribution box is travelling
his way, look astonished, and then
remark to his next neighbor, "I've
got on my other pants"