smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1878

Now comes the Miner of May 3lst and says:

 The command sent out 10 lnves- tigate the Indian scare at Wioken berg, a few days since, have return ed. The Indians were found near Smiths mill, below Wickenourg. and proved 10 be from San Carlos They were seventeen in number, and gave as an excuse for leaving their reservation, that the smallpox was spreading al the Agency, and they had Jeff to es- cape it's ravages. Two soldiers were sent from Wickenberg to the Indian camp, and made the arrest of the seventeen noble braves, who were sub sequently taken in charge by Captain Porter and his command from Camp Verde, who will safely conduct them back to the San Carlos Reservation and Government rations.

 So these really were renegades at Wickenburs And from San Carlos, too Seventeen eagle-eyed, ebon lock ed, red-handed williams; we'll armed and bent on blood and rapine! And yet TWO private soldiers succeeded in arresting these seventeen desperate Apaches without loss or injury on either side. What wonder all Wick enburg was alarmeds What savage, desperate lot they must have been Such another victory is not known in the annals of Apache warfare. We re- member an instance about two years ago when half a dozen Indians at tackled Camp Apache, and successfully evaded five companies of troops which were turned out to arrest them. A lit tie later less than six renegades de feated Lieut.. West and his company at Apache Pass, but for two soldiers 10 capture seventeen renegates is without precident. Had the Miner stated that two Indians had captured seventeen soldiers there would have been reason in it, but the other way beats us. This is a remarkable incident in favor of the transfer of the Indians to the War Department, and it also establishes the efficiency of the army. At the above rate 2000 men would be sufficient for our standing army. Telegraph this to Congress.

 We don't wish to be considered fictitious in OUT remarks. We would not make light of citizens in real danger, nor ridicule the honest efforts of the military, but we stated last week that "false Indian alarms are in- furious" and we repeat the assertion. We have aided in the punishment of many an unruly Apache, and will gladly do so again when necessary, but this thing of alarming the Ter ritory about "desperate reneg gades, '' and creating fear and distrust abroad is detrimental and wrong, and we don't wish to be a party to any such busi. ness.
Year: 1878

About thirty miles northeast from the town of Florence is situated the fourishing village of Picket Post. Some years ago, in Indian times, when General Stoneman was in command of the military forces in this section of Arizona, he had his headquarters at Pinal ranch, and established an out post on Queens creek, where is located the mill of the famous Silver King mine. It was not known in those times what a vast mine of mineral wealth slumbered beneath the ground for which the military authorities and the Indians disputed, and only few years have passed since prospectors drew attention to the fact that the Pinal mountains were indeed a treasure house. There are those who verily be- lieve that the Silver King is the richest silver mine in the world, while others do not esteem it more valuable than the Peck or Mccormick mine. About fifteen tons of ore per day IS con- in the mill at this place, which has five-stamps and rumor says that the company clear S50,00O per month. No work has been done on the mine for some time, as there is sufficient on the dump to supply the mill for a year. The capacity of the mill will be doubled A reliable San Francisco corporation has ma chinery on the ground near Picket Post for custom stamp mill, and are delayed in their operations on account of the difficulty of procuring lumber from Prescott. The corporation is known as the Pinal mill and Mining Company, but is in no manner related to or connected with the smelling out fit of that name which victimized some of the Yavapai people and left an en- during monument of its folly. Hun dreds of locations have been made in this pioneer district, and rich dis coveries are constantly reported, but the development of mines is by no means rapid, owing 10 slow, uncertain and expensive transportation; the ex- pense of living, and lumber at S150 per thousand. The miners in these mountains arc hopeful, genial, cheer ful set of men. having neither poverty nor riches, but an abundance of faith NJ. and s. Press.
Year: 1878

Is always supplied with an ample variety Of Well-cooked food No exaggeration in this. Stage passengers and travellers by there understand 1t, and to them all un- acquainted with the fact are respectfully referred for information
Year: 1878

SAN DIEGO, June 6.-Washington dispatches state the threatened Indian troubles is the subject of great atten- ton at the War Department. The Secretary of War and General of the army have been in consultation today, and in Cabinet council this afternoon Secretary McCrary indicated his views and those of military commanders re, porting to the Secretary of War regard ing the seriousness of the situation. Army officers are convinced that there is danger ahead. It is the opinion al the War Department that the army force is far from sufficient to meet the situation.

 The Texas-Pacific.

 The motion submitted by Senator Mathews yesterday to make the Texas Pacific Railroad bill 8 special order for 6 specified day next December, was the result of deliberate consultation among friends and promoters of the bill in and out of Congress.

 Important Judicial Action.

 The Judiciary Committee of the House today took important action on the resolution of the Maryland legisla ton accompanying bill to invalldate the Presidential title and decided ad versely on each on the ground that the decision of the electoral commission made in accordance with law and rati fled by Congress, could not be dis turbed by this Congress except through the constitutional course of impeach' ment

 The Tariff Bill.

 The House by vote of 134 to l2C struck out the enacting clause or the tariff bill thus defeating it.

 The Potter Investigation.

 The Potter investigation continues, Anderson's evidence is much shaken by it's proven falsity in important partic. ulars. Stanley Matthews is to be ex- amined by the committee at his re. quest.

 The Oregon Election.

 In the Oregon election the Repub licans get the Governor, Secretary oi State and Treasurer. The Democrats have Congressman by small majority and four or five majority on joint ballot in legislature.

 Foreign News.

 Latest European news says Emperor William is recovering from his wounds. The Crown Prince has beer declared regent. There is profound excitement throughout the empire.
Year: 1878

In the Oregon election the Repub- licans get the Governor, Secretary of State and Treasurer. The Democrats have Congressman by small majority, and four or five majority on joint ballot in legislature.
Year: 1878

WHAT BITTER IS MAN than a beast
Take young cub and pet him, and feed
him until he grows great, and the first
time you cross his desires he will eat you
up; and the two-legged creature viii do
the same so far rs his instincts lead to his
qualification Julius Caesars fate WAS as
horrible to his friends as though he had
been tossed into the arena amid the
tigers in the Colosseum stables; King
Lears usage was no better and Richeleu
would have suffered a. terribly AZ either
had he not satisfied his pretended master
by battling his pretended friends. Essexs
death to appease the pride of Elizabeth
is a standing warning against pride and
ambition and an enduring tarnish to the
civilization of her age, that produced
such monster, Notwithstanding the griet
which her own heartless conduct gave
her as Queen.
Year: 1878

SPECIE REsUMPTIoN.-The GAZETTE
stated several weeks ago that specie pay
Aents could be resumed If Sherman
would pay out the silver legal tender
dollars he was ordered by Congress to
coin and put in circulation; which he
has continued to hoard away with the
S13S, 900, 900 of gold in the sub-treasury.
This is the fool continuing his folly to
please the few who voted for single
gold standard to retard specie payments
and give the brokers premium on gold
for a year longer.


Sherman either played knave or was
fooled by the brokers into paying 1O1
for ten million dollars of gold last week
when it was selling at premium.


We ask our readers to read the tele-
grams we publish to-day from all parts
of the country, and then say what they
think of Sherman's pretentions that re-
sumption cannot take place until Janu-
airy.


His policy is that of tinaucial old
ape, and he deserves to be discharged
and driven out of Washington with his
ill-gotten millions. The people don't
want gold or silver either; all they want
is to be assured that it may be had in
small sums if they need it.
Year: 1878

The Senate gratified Mr. Voorhees, yes
terday by adopting his resolution that it
is the duty of the Government to keep
faith with its own citizens although
several Senators confessed themselves
unable to see what the Tall Sycamore of
the Wabash was driving at.
Year: 1878




There isa story that an eminent micro
scopist had bit of substance submitted
to him to decide what it was. To an un-
aided eye it might be morsel of skin
which baggage smasher had knocked
off the corner of smoothly worn hair
trunk. The sarantappealed to his micro
scope. Entirely ignorant of this tiny
bit of matter, except as he had taken
counsel with his instrument, the wise
man declared that it was the skin of a
human being, and that, judging by the
fine hair on it, it was from the so-called
naked portion of the body, and, further,
that it belonged to a fair mplexioned
person. The strange facts now made
known to the man of science were these
That thousand years before, Danish
marauder had robbed an English church.
In the spirit of the old fashioned piety
the robber was fayed, and the skin was
nailed to the church door. Except as
tradition or archaeological lore had it,
the affair had been forgotten for hun
dreds of years. Time, the great erodent,
had long ago utterly removed the often
sive thing. Still, however, tbs church
door held to its marks of the great
shame, for the broad-headed nails re
manned. Somebody extracted one, and
underneath its first head was this atomic
remnant of that ancient Scandinavian
malefactor's pelt-that fair-skinned rob.
ber from the north.
Year: 1878

CERTAIN pupils in district school at
Port Jervis, \. j., were detected at vari-
Gus times throwing base ball from one
to the other. The teacher, therefore, an
nounced that he would confscate all
balls found in the possession of pupils
thereafter. In few days he saw a boy
of ten years with one, took it from him,
and threw it into the stove The day
following the boy had another, which
the teacher took and was about to throw
it in the stove, when the manner of the
other boys about him struck lin as pc
culiar, and he laid the ball in his desk.
He subsequently took it apart, and was
startled to find that the ball cover CON
tanned small tin box filed with powder
suffsisr. 70 dsmelish ths sehoelhaassi
Year: 1878

laid before the house a communication from the
secretary OF the treasury stating that the internal
revenue of the government has fallen off 81 969 600
principally account Of the agitation in regard to
the tax on tobacco and whiskey, and recommending
the house to take immediate action. A warm de-
bate sprung up, during which message was re-
ceived from the senate announcing that that
body had passed the house resolution declar-
ing reduction of on whisky and
tobacco inexpedient. Finally the communi-
cation referred to the committee on
ways and means......The military academy bill was
taken up and passed THE house then went into
committee Of the whole on the state OF the union
and considered the bill granting pensions TO sol
diers of the Mexican and other wars but after dis
cusson rose without action. Adjourned.
Year: 1878

ration OF the morning hour the house went into
committee of the whole on the private calendar
The second bill on the calendar, one applying an
ration OF 1915 000 made by act OF congress
To- pay certain southern mail contractors, led TO
animated debate, and the committee rose without
action. Adjourned.
Year: 1878

TUESDAY, February 12.-The house
went into committee of the whole, Blackburn in
the chair, on the military academy appropriation
bill. After the rejection of several amendments the
commmitiee rose, and after the senate and
house met in joint convention and received the
painting OF the reading of the emancipation procla
nation
Year: 1878

Come, now, what internal barbarity is
this-leaving clothes-line out after
dark A great deal of funny comment
has been made upon the custom by
thoughtless people, but it is most seri-
GUS matter, and it is high time the TOM
foolery was abolished. We are Just
as ready as anybody to see the funny
side of thing, but we have ceased to
observe anything amusing in being un-
expectedly sawed across the neck, or
rasped across the face by clothes-line.
1t is time that there was legislative en-
actment either to hang clothes-lines
sixty feet above the earth, or make leav-
ing them out after nightfall State
prison offense. 1t is most incompre-
hensible fact that a.clothes-line is al
ways hung across the garden path. If
the yard was ten milessquare and a path
two feet wide crept along close TO the
fence, and the woman had but eight feet
OF line, she would manage to cover the
path. Whether this is because she is
Perverse, or cannot help it, we do not
know. We only know that it is so, and
that 1T is an appalling evil. No home
circle Is safe where this custom prevails.
1t matters not how good natured man
is, it matters not how carefully he has
been educated, it matters not how lofty
and noble are his aspirations-the mo-
ment clothes-line catches him under
the chin, especially, if he has a pan of
ashes IN his arms, that moment he sinks
with awful velocity to the level of the
brute, and proceeds to act out the condi-
tions thereof at once. In its proper
place a clothes-line is valuable COM
panion, but across path after dark it is
simply brutalizing force.
Year: 1878


He was peaceable looking man with
quiet looking horse attached to an un-
attractive sleigh, with unostentatious
bells. He wore a wide trimmed hat and
a shad-bellied coat, as he drove easily
down the South Easton hill, journeying
from Bucks County to the land of South
ampton. He was observed by fellow
of the species rough, whom much loaf
ing had made impudent, and who lifted
up his yawp.


S-a-a-yl hat, where are you goin'
with that man F'


" Verify, l journey beyond the river,
FRIEND" mildly responded the Quaker,
"and thither goes my hat also"


"Hold up and take fellow along,
can't your called out the man Of
wrath


Nay, friend, my business and in
clinations forbid it."


"Pll soon fix that" and the fool ran
forward and jumped on the runner.


"Verily, friend, if thee insists upon
getting into my vehicle 1 will even help
thee" and the man of peace reached out
right hand as resistless as an oyster
dredge.. 1t caught the youth around
the throat worse than a four-year-old
diphtheria, jerked him into the sleigh,
and slammed him down among the
straw, where he got tramped on by a
pair of number thirteen cowhides until
he thought he had been caught out in 8
shower of pile-drivers.. Finally he got
kick that lifted him clear over the
side and ran his head in the bank by the
roadside, where he dwindled down in q
heap, like a gum shoe discouraged by a
street car, and murmured, as he rubbed
his ensanguined nose in the snow:


Whom blazes'd a. ever thought the
cast-iron man'd go around with steam
up, an disguised as a blamed old
Quakerp
Year: 1878




Commissioner LeDuc is resolved to
test his belief in the feasibility of grow
ing tea in the United States, and has
already started ten thousand tea plants.
If the tea can be grown, it would ne
cessitate the introduction of cheaper
labor than we now possess, for, in order
to compete with the present tea produc-
ing countries, experience and cheap
labor must be available. The negro is
not cheap, is not experienced, and the
white mans labor is dearer than the
blacks. If tea can be grown in the belt
of land indicated by the Commissioner
of Agriculture, viii that be the solution
Of the Chinese question on the Pacific
coast? This is rather an extraordinary
and startling proposition, but some
remedy must be applied to this question
which now so agitates the whole Pacific
coast. If we should succeed in raising
tea-which many experienced persons
scout-Chinamen would have to be en-
gagged. Would that be removal of the
Chinese question, with all its attendant
evils, to the East and South7 The China
man is gregarious creature, and if a
great body came East to do certain
specific work, it is certain that thou
sands of others would follow, who would
necessarily be obliged to seek other en-
ployments in order to sustain themselves.
The Californians know what that means,
and if great body were transferred to
this section of the country, our working
men would also, in short time. If the
tea venture should fizzle out, as it seems
very likely to do, this danger will be re-
moved, so far as this portion of the
country is concerned. But Pacific Slope
people maintain that an incursion of
Cinnamon to the East is only matter
of time, unless their immigration is re-
stricted.
Year: 1878

Prince Talleyrand, that consummate
diplomatist, whose dinners had a Euro
pean reputation, did not amuse himself,
it is true, with holding the handle of the
frying pan, but he was accustomed to
visit his larder every morning. And
have we not still more august examples? :?
The lovely and unfortunate Marie An
toinette delighted in making her own
creams and cheese at Trianon. Who
again does not know the history of the
omelette at Malmaison? The Empress
Josephine was amusing herself one day
with her ladies of honor in the manu-
facture of an omelette, and, at the most
interesting moment of the operation, Ma.
poleon entered unexpectedly. Seeing
the embarrassment the Empress ex-
perienced in turning the omelette, he
took the pan from her hand, saying,
"I will show you how to turn an ONE
lette; this is the bivouac fashion" And
at the same moment he gave the pan
that little twist so we'll known to all
cooks; but the disobedient omelette, in.
stead of returning to the frying-pan,
fell right into the fire, to the great de.
light Of Josephine, who, turning to heI
august spouse, said to him, with charm
ing smile, "Your majesty is not at the
bivouac now; you understand much bet
ter how to gain battles than to turn ONE
| letteso
Year: 1878

False delicacy is affection, not polite
ness.


Man doubles his evils by brooding up
on them.


There are few voices in the world; but
many echoes.


We must tell some men great deal
to teach them a little.


A mans trialscannot be insufferable if
he lives to talk about them.


Asliberality makes friends of enemies,
so pride makes enemies of friends.


Sincerity is the soul of virtue. When
she flies away, the whole body decays.


1t is more wise to prevent a quarrel
beforehand than to revenge it after
wards.


There are few things more productive
of evil in domestic life than bad
temper.


The happiest man is the benevolent
one, for he owns stock in the happiness
of all mankind.


Of all earthly music, that which
reaches the furtherest into heaven is the
beating of a loving heart.


Of all ignorance, that which is silent
UlC 1Cdo0 lO1 pldtOio LILO
suggest an idea, if they can not start
one.


Among men of the world company
only signifies great consideration fol
themselves, and perfect indifference
about others.


One hour lost in the morning will put
back the business of the day; an houl
gained by rising early, will make ont
month in the year.


A celebrated philosopher used to say
"The favors of fortune are like steel
rocks; only eagles and creeping thing
mount to the summit"


The demon of dullness which is al
lowed to reign at home has more to d.
with driving young men into viciou
company that the attractions of vic
itself.


1t is not the grandeur or diminutive
ness of the objects, but the greatness o
littleness of the views entertained Q
them, which affect and form the chal
acter.
Year: 1878

The terms which the Spanish Govern
ment is said to have offered to the
Cubans seem fair upon their face, and if
there were any assurance of their being
carried out in good faith the insurgents
could do much worse than to accept
them Itfs proposed to accord to Cuba
a constitution similar to that enjoyed by
Porto Rico, which has semi-independ-
ent colonial government, bearing some
what the same relations to the crown as
those of the English colonies, plan
that would probably satisfy all but the
more enthusiastic of the Cubanpatriots.
1t is the hot-headed fellows, however,
thatkeepup the insurrection, and though
the Royal Government sffers complete
amnesty and nearly everything else that
can be demanded reasonably, short of
absolute independence, it is doubtful if
they will elect to trust themselves to the
tender mercies of the Spanish crown.
The offer is at least an indications that
the government is beginning to appreci


ate the importance Of the Cuban insur
Year: 1878

we will promise to go home and stay
there"


81 will see what can be DONE" and she
turned away.


The village quietly retired for the
night, and the baying of NANCY ours was
the only noise that aweke the echoes of
the valley. When all had become silent,
the woman returned, bearing a gun, a
powder-horn, and pouch. She held a
whispered conversation, with the sentinel
for few moments, and he then left his
post and entered wigwam.


81 have succeeded in efecting your
release" said the woman, on condition
that you leave the country Immediately.
You must travel fast, as the chief will
start several feet-footed warriors on
your trail at daylight, in order to cover
up his own violation of the laws of the
tribe in allowing you to go without q
trial. Do every thing in your power to
break your trail. The Indians are sharp
sighted, andify you do not this, you will be
surely overtaken.s At my suggestion,
the chief has given back one gun and a
knife-the other one, and the pistols, he
will retain. Now co." she continued, as
she cut the cords that pinioned them to
the stake.


Bidding the woman adieu, and thank
ing her for the kind interest she had
manifested in their welfare, they left on
q run.


There was no difficulty now in telling
who should take the lead, for, from in
dications, it seemed as if there was race
for that honorable position.


Streams they waded, and followed the
courses of rivulets for miles; and, in
fact, they hardly left single footprint
where it could have been found by the
keenest eye.


They stopped long enough at the cave
to take a portion of the venison they had
left, and then pushed ahead for the Cali
fornia trail. Having once found this
broad road, they faced eastward, nor
halted for more than night until they
had arrived home. Never was lesson
more salutary in its effects. They were
completely cured, and never again ven-
tured't to hunt the red man of the West.
Year: 1878

IT is indeed some consolation now,
when the world without is dreary and
desolate, and we huddle up close to the
stove, to reflect that when the mercury
runs out at the top of the tube next
summer, we can all 60 to the woods
picknicking, shouting for freedom and
lemonade and forget all about the per-
plexities that now combine to make life
burden.