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Year: 1879

BETTER LATE THAN NNEvER.-It is
not an uncommon thing to hear
young men complain that their early
schooling was deficient in quantity.
poor in quality, or-it neither OF
these-was wasted through boyis h


Indifference and folly. They would
get Oh better in lite if they knew


more, they are free to admit, bul
do not see that they are daily vast
ing opportunities which, if improy-
ed, would In few years give them
fairly good education They
think themselves too old to learn,
Year: 1879

a MosT wholesome law was EN-
acted at last winters session of our
Ssate Legislature, one that has been
much needed and is now gong in
TO effect; We aprehend it will pro-
duce gratifying results, We refer
to Chapter l2l, an act to secure to
children the benefit Of an element
ary education, and requiring par
ents and guardians to send child
ren under their charge to either
public or private schools for y stated
length of time during each year.
Section of the act we copy:


Section /. Every parent, guard
ian or other person in the State of
Wisconsin having charge or con-
troll of any child or children be,
tween the age OF seven and fifteen
years, shall be required to seni
such child or children to a private
or public school for at least twelve
weeks i'll each year, commencing Oh
The first day OF September, in the
year one thousand eight hundred
and seventy nine, unless the school
district board or board of education
Of the school district, village or city
in which such parent or guardian
shall reside, shall excuse, by physi-
clans certificate or other good
reasons, such child from attendance,
on its being shown to their satisfac-
ton that the child's bodily or mental
condition is such as TO prevent its
attendance at school or application
to study for the time required, or
that its time and labor are essenti-
ally necessary for the support of an
INDECENT parent, brother or sister, or
that such child is being otherwise
furnished ith the means of educa-
ton for like period of time or has
already acquired fair knowledge
of the branches Of learning ordin-
ariIy taught in the common schools
of this State provided that in case
the public school in the district in
which such parent or guardian re-
sides shall be distant not more than
two miles from his residence by the
nearest travelled road, he shall not
be liable to the provisions of this
act.


Subsequent sections of the act re-
quire school officers 10 prosecute all
persons who fail to comply with the
law, the penalty for such failure be-
ing ga fine of not less than five nor
more than ten dollars for the first
offense, nor less than ten nor more
than twenty dollars for each and
every subsequent offense." School
officers falling to prosecute as above
are made liable to ''a fine of not less
than ten nor more than twenty
dollars for each and every offense.- -
Year: 1879

THE alleged quarrel between Ben
Hill and Governor Colquitt signifies
nothing. Hill only sought to have a
clerk removed from the executive Of
fee who confessed he had been bribed,


as Hill asserts and believes. Hill,s at
tack upon the clerk affected the Gov
ernor, who is Hill's friend. Therefore
the Governor demanded a committee
of investigation. OF course nothing
dishonest was done by Colquitt or
Hill. The morals of these two party
leaders sprang from a state of society
OF which pOsterity will never know the
value, as it begat the nobility OF the
good and great or knavery of the ut
terly depraved. 1t made many of the
best and few of the worst of our race.
Year: 1879

IT is thought that the money Of the
State held By railroads, upon which
they pay interest to the school fund,
viii be demanded Of them. The loan
was an indefinite one. The rate of in
terest IS six per cent, while the State
pays ten per cent on much Of its bor-
rowed money.
Year: 1879

WHILE travelling recently across a desert south of the dlla' and many miles from that stream we came across the figure of a camel drawn upon the ground rudely, but with remarkable ac- curacy, and on a scale six or eight times largerthan life. Evidently some Indian had seen a camel out there, and had drawn this picture. to put his experience on record. A few camels were turned loose here some two or three years ago and have now got scattered over the country as far as the vicinity of Tucson {; some of them having been tracked near that city.
Year: 1879

A correspondent of the ARIZONA SEN TINEL apparently writing from Tomb stone, referring to the case of Clifford vs. Mitchell, says:

 "The recent decision of Chef Justice French to the effect that the recording of mine in this district is not required by law, and that if the districts do not prescribe for the registration of claims, that the recording is unnecessary, is lia- ble, 6c"

 We knew at the time of the trial of the case mentioned, that the Judge submitted it to the jury without any opinion or in- struction as to the law, and therefore on reading the above, believed it an error, and after due inquiry our belief is con. frned.

 We have it upon what we regard as good authority, that no such decision or ruling as the correspondent states, nor any thing like it, was ever made or inti- mated by Chief Justice French, either in the case under consideration or in any other It is true that the correspondent does not state that such decision was di- rectly made but the assertion he does make, IS adroitly wordec and intended to convey the impression that such one vas made, and to avoid erroneous and mis- chievous results, we have examined into the facts and believe we correctly give them.

 The above is from the Citizen and evil dently inspired by Judge French him. self, We do not hold ourselves responsi- ble for errors of correspondents, as they are reliable persons though not infallible. We feel sure that the general impression iE Tombstone District of the bearing and effect of the decision in the case, Clifford vs. Mitchell, is as our correspondent re- ports it.
Year: 1879

We were the recipient of a basket of tomatoes and peppers,

 this week, grown in the garden of Judge Brinley. The tomatoes were as fine as any we have ever seen, large, plump and feshy, and of exquisite flavor, the average size, by measurement, was twelve inches in circumference (one was nearly fourteen). These toma- toes were each as large as any six that have been sent to Yuma from California this year, and far sur passing them in thinness of skin,
Year: 1879

flavor and appearance. This plant is a perennial with us and there is no valid reason why each fam- fly here should not raise enough for their owa consumption, and the same is the case with many other vegetables; were this mat ter attended to, the constant drain of several dollars daily sent away for vegetables would be stopped.
Year: 1879

WE are reliably informed that the Mo. nave adjourned term of Court is to come OH early in July. Judge Silent will order temporary adjournment of his Prescott Court early in July, and proceed to Mo. nave county and hold the term there, after which he will return and clean up the un. finished business here.-Niner.
Year: 1879

Mr.. HAYES, not content with trying to dis
credit tho legal tender currency of the coun-
try through his message to Congress, has
written and procured to be printed letter to
friend, in which he says:


You want money to be plenty, the rate of in
terest to be low; at the same time you want the
money to be good. % You can only have this
state of things whom there is confidence in the
stability OF the currency (2) Capital will not
60 where it is uncertain in what currency debts
will be paid next month or next year. (3) If
the legal tender for debts depends on the un-
certain action of Congress there will be want
of confidence. 4) The only constitutional le-
gal tender is gold and silver. Depart from that
and confidence is gone. All the world now be-
Geves that Investments in America are likely to
be profitable. sound financial policy will
bring money from all the commercial na-
tions of the earth.


These propositions are cheap, and they
prove nothing The legal tender notes do
not depend upon any uncertain action of
Congress for their currency. They are
based on a far broader standard-the faith
of the nation. When it becomes manifest
that the country is neither able nor willing
to fulfill its obligations, the value of the
currency will depreoiate, but on no other
account, Mr.. Hayes to the contrary notwith-
Standing.
Year: 1879

was at work contains nearly all of the life
prisoners. The Younger brothers and all of
the worst desperadoes are gathered
in that department., and lit
tie weakness displayed toward re-
oellious prisoner might, result fatally.
Here are some two or three hundred men,
the large majority desperate characters
They have knives, hatehets, hammers, chis-
els and numerous other implements in the
work shops which would become formidable
weapons in case of revolt. There is, more
over, q constant incentive to an outbreak
from the fact that the prison is largely sur
rounded by a board fence, and only that
weak and easily destroyed fence
stsnds between these convicts and their
liberty. Under such circumstances
discipline is of vital importance, and the
prisoners must feel that they have deter
mined, resolute men to deal with, or the
handful of guards could do nothing in keep
ing them in subsection. Primarily the
State itself is to blame for the Thursday
night murder, as it is hardly likely that even
Hall would have gone to such an extreme,
if the prisoners were held within the
boundaries of a stone wall and there was no
opportunity of their escaping, even by re-
volt. II shot was necessary at all, it
might have been made to wound instead of
to kill. The refractory prisoner could un'
doubtedly have been dubbed into submission
without danger to anyone.


So far as the life of this prisoner is con-
cerned, there is, probably, no loss to lamenti
but the principle involved is of vital import
ance. Neither law or humanity will justify
prison keepers in shooting down their
prisoners, unless desperate e1igency
arises. When all that can be said in
Halls behalf Is uttered land we
grant there is good deaD, his conduct
cannot be justified. 1t was undoubtedly
necessary to demonstrate that the prison
discipline would brook no mutiny, but this
could have been shown without committing
murder. The act was evidently hasty and
the result of apprehension that revolt
might ensue if prisoner was allowed to
defy authority. Clark deserved punishment
but he did not (for that act) deserve death.
The whole affair is vindication and con-
frmation of the structures OF the GLOBE over
a year ago. If a little more heed had been
paid to the counsels then given, and less
attention devoted to gold-headed testimonial
canes, the record of to-day would not have
to be made.


The State authorities are placed in al
| embarrassing position. If they procesd to
punish Hall by discharge, it is q notice to
two or three hundred desperadoss that their
keepers are not allowed to shoot, and the in
centive to make break for the weak board
fencs is increased. The lily protected prison
places them i'll a dilemma, where they can
hardly follow the dictates which must nat
urally be uppermcst i'll such an emergency.
Year: 1879

The announcement is made that for the
New Jersey. It appears from the report of
the comptroller of the State that the special
tsx on railroads and the invested funds will
afocd a revenue sufficient to pay all the ex-
plus of considerable dimensions. The case
is an exceptional one, and the instance is, if
recollection serves Alright, the first of the
kind on record. It is the result of system
of taxation that has been introduced, we be-
lieve, into but three States-New Jersey.
Illinois and Minnesota-but in Illinois only
partially. 1t is tho imposition of tax upon
the earnings of the railroads instead of upon
their property.


Twelve years ago the debt Of New Jersey
amounted to about twenty millions of dol
lars. The State was under the dominion OF
the Camden & Amboy railroad company,
and was referred to more generally as the
State of Camden & Amboy than It's proper
apellation. About that time, however, the
Legislature took action on the railroad ques
tion, and tax was imposed upon the earn
ings Of the railroads, partly at railroad
dictation and partly because the people had
become weary of supporting the nonopolies
at public expense. The railroads accepted
the per osntage tax in the belief that it
would be less onerous than the property tax,
and the people generally accepted it as the
easiest way out of a bad dilemma. The re-
suit has proved that the railroads have paid
much more into the public treasury than
they wonld have done under the
old system, though they have
not been unjustly assessed. AS
one Of the consequences we find that the
State debt has been extinguished, and the
governor will be enabled to make the an
nouncement in his next annual message that
no State taxes need be imposed.


In Illinois the same system has been in
vogue as far as one company-the Illinois
Central-is concerned. The property of
that company is exempt from local or State
taxation, but tax of two per cent. is i'm
posed upon the gross earnings of the COM
pany. 1t is cheerfully paid; and out of the
fund created by this tax the entire State
debt has been extinguished, the last dollar
having been paid last week.


In Minnesota the same system is in vogue
in modified form, but eventually 1t will re-
suit in the imposition of stated tax on the
earnings of all the railroads doing business
in the State. We are not apprised as to
how faithfully the tax has been collected
heretofore, but presume it has been properly
enforced. But the institution of the system
is something for which the people have rea-
son to be thankful. It gives promise of
the final e1tinguishment not only OF our
State debt but of our State taxation, and if
the funds are properly managed We can look
forward to the day when Minnesota will be
one OF the best States in the Union as far as
taxation is concerned.
Year: 1879

WATTERsoN and Hewitt are still quarrel
ing il public. It would be an accomnaode-
ton to the people generally if they would
keep their grievances to themselves or adopt
the policy of the patrons Of the prize ring
and betake themselves to solne secluded
spot where they can fight the qnarrel
out without annoying tie rest Of the
world
Year: 1879

GoRrsoHAKoFr refuses to resign, uotwith :
standing that the infrmities of old age are
creeping upon him. One would think from
the tenacity with which he clings to Office
that he was an American politician of the
Republican persuasion.
Year: 1879

The most striking fact with regard to
the French working classes is that near
ly all are possessed of money. How
ever little they earn they save some
thing. Thrift is their great character
istic; in fact, it is said of the French
operatives that they spend less in pro-
portion to their means than any in the
world. Many keep their accumulatiens
in an old stocking secreted in their
houses; others-a daily increasing
number-invest in various securities,
the most popular investment being the
purchase of land. Every Frenchman,
when he can, becomes the owner of the
house in which he lives. Of course he
is greatly aided in this by the French
Land laws and laws of inheritance.
which cut the whole country up into
small holdings. Savings banks with
Government security, building clubs,
sick clubs and friendly societies are
also in favor; but no money is tied up
in trade unions.
Year: 1879

John J. Andrews, a Philadelphia
merchant, lost the sight of his left eye
twenty years ago, and physicians told
him that there was no cure. The use
less member gave him no trouble until
1877, but thereafter it was occasionally
so painful that he writhed on the floor
until the attack was over. Many of the
best oculists made careful examinations
and were unable to ascer tain the nature
of the disease. Lately he put himself
into the hands of a Philadelphia ply
sician, of whose Investigation he says:
"He blistered me around the eye to
draw out the Inflammation, and at last
he said: Il know what it is not it is not
Inflammation, and that is one point
gained He drew out diseased tooth
and cut out piece of the jaw bone and
did some probing; finally he said: 1t
does not come from a tooth nerve, and
that is another point gained He dosed
me with quinine until he was satisfied
and then he said: 1t Is not miasma,
and that is another poiut gained Last
Thursday he put me into a darkened
room, and, throwing an indescribably
bright light into my eye, looked into my
eye for two mortal hours. At last he
exclaimed: / have the secret Look
ing in through the pupil of the eye he
could see a living cysticercus, or en-
bryo tape worm." This was the first
case of the kind in America, and was
exhibited to most of the physicians Of
Philadelphia. An operation with a
knife removed the creature.
Year: 1879

The custom of tolling the church bell
on the death Of a person is followed in
Brockton, as in ye olden time. Few
towns now observe this ancient usage.
It is nearly half century since the
practice was discontinued in Plymouth.
The habit was, as soon as person WIS
known to be dead, to toll the bell for q
time; then, after 3 pause, two strokes
were made for male, or three for
female; next the age of the deceased was
tolled. This was the passing BELL"
originally rung that all people might
pray for the departing soul.
Year: 1879

While it is to be supposed that the
man with house to rent is anxious
to secure all the rent he can, there
are some offsets which never leak out,
and people have come to regard the
majority of landlords as Shylocks.
Mr.. Blank, OF the northern part of
the city, had house TO rent. That
is, after he had laid out S400 in re-
pairs, he called it house, but the
very first woman who came for the
key handed it back with the remark :.


II am not obliged to live in either
stable or a pig-pen."


The second woman started to look
through the house, but she got no
further than the hall. She said she
had never lived in house with hall
less than seven feet wide, and she was
not going to begin this late. The third
customer was a man, and he wanted
two partitions knocked out and three
doors to swing the other way. The
fourth was boy, sent by his mother
to see if certain bedroom carpet
in the house they then occupied would
! fit certain bedroom in this house,
1t wouldn't, and as the owner refus
ed to squeeze the walls together the
boy broke off all further diplomatic
relations.


The next inquirer was woman
whose son was about to be married
and as she was to live with the new
family she wanted to be sure about
the convenience of the house. Sht
didn't want much done to the house
All she wanted was the rent cut dowr
ne-half, the roof raised another sto'
ry, the yard increased to hundred
feet front, and few tribes in the way
of bay-windows, frescoing, etc.


The last call was yesterday. The
owner went over in company with 6
young man who earns seven dollars
per week and is to be married soon
The house just suited him. He
wouldn't have single thing changed
He had peen looking for just such 6
house for two years, and lie wondered
why all houses were not built JUS
| like it. When the owner mentioned
rent in advance the young man grew
sad and replied:


"Sir, if my word is not good
enough for months rent, we must
part-farewelli"
Year: 1879

The clerk of the weather has been quite eI'
centric this week. On Monday and Tuesday he
sent a warm south wind and rains that made
merchants hair turn grey, If ever weather had
so dire result. Tuesday night came a change,
the wind switching round to the west From
that time on it has been steadily growing colder
The roads are hardened and on yesterday morn
ing the canal was covered with ice, with a SHARP
northwest wind, and everybody having goods IL
sell came "up town." or down town" OF
lover town" in the jolliest kind Of mood.
Year: 1879

BAzAAR-The Young Ladies' Temperance So
eiety will hold the Bazaar previously announced
on next Tuesday and Wednesday when R host of
beautiful things will be offered for sale. 1t is
earnestly to be hoped that the affair will be gen
erously patronized, the object (the keeping open
Of their excellent reading room being most com
mendable. The young ladies have worked earn
sstly, faithfully, untiringly to keep their rooms
going, and If it should at any time be closed our
citizens will have none but themselves tO blame.
Turn out, ALL and assist
Year: 1879

or ladies' Cloaks and Dolmans received this week
at Hulrs One OF them would make your wife a
nice Christmas present.


If you don't want that, come and buy her a
nice black silk. We have the best.


In stock next wcek--a full assortment of Dry
Goods suitable for the holiday trade.


Please call and look; you will find we have the
finest stock in the city W, II. HULL.
Year: 1879

A tramp entered the school house in the Nor.
gan district near Wenona, the other night, and
burned the dictionary and all the other books in
the school room, besides carrying off the clock
and various other articles. Loss about $50.
Year: 1879

- Do good and leave behind you a
monument of virtues that the storm of
time can never destroy. Write your
name in kindness, love and mercy on the
hearts of the thousands you come in con-
tact with year by year: you will never
be forgotten. No, your Name, your deeds,
will be as legible on the hearts you leave
behind as the stars Oh the brow of the
evening.
Year: 1879

The wheat prospect is not good in this section. In fact, excepting a few farms that we hear of, the wheat crop is not likely to be worth the harvesting. Oats are improving in appearance. The long dry weather of early spring retarded their growth and resulted in some perma- nent injury to this crop, though we have seen some good crops of oats about town. Corn is looking unusu- ally well. In fact, it is more ad- vanced and prospect is better than we remember at this time Of the year for several years. All accounts arc favorable for cotton. The cut worm threatened to do some damage, but the stands are good and the crop promises to be large one SO far. Most fruits have "hit" not withstanding the frosts, and the outlook now is for an abundance of all kinds of fruit.-Logan Co.,, Enterprise.
Year: 1879

We are glad to know that our far. mers are beginning to manifest some concern in the matter of getting bet ter breeds of stock. A commence ment has been made, and we trust the gentlemen who have taken the first steps by importing some good blooded cattle to our county will meet with the success which their undertaking merits.

 Last Tuesday Mir. G. s. Brown had his one year old full-blooded male calf in town. It is pure blooded Durrum and is as pretty as a picture.

 It was one year old Tn March last, and although it is not fat 1t weighed TIA pounds gross. To look at m animal like it and then to look al the common scrub stock, and to re- member that it costs no more t1 raise good stock than it does to raise the common scrubs, it is astonishing that ou- farmers don't take more in terest in the improvement of theil stock. Mir. John M. Bradluy, also ol our county, has a very fine Jersey male Is months old.

 We trust that the zeal which these gentlemen are manifesting will be emulated by others and that it may not be many years until the scrut race of stock in our county shall bt succeeded by better blooded stock.