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Year: 1876

REHM AND TIE GOVERNMENT COUNSEL.
The Government counsel in the whisky
prosecutions had the undoubted right to
manage the cases in their own way, subject
to the decision of the responsible officers Of
the Government But, since the public were
the rea1 plaintiffs, they have right to an
opinion Of their own regarding the whole
matter; and if they find that the results fall
short Of both the crinlinality discovered and
the means available for exposing and punish
ing it, there is no rule, either legal or moral,
to prevent them from expressing it in any
way they sse fit.


The case presented to the public is that of
conspiracy formed by politicians controlling
the appointment Of revenue officers to de-
fraud the public treasury, putting into Office
6augers, ,Storekecpers, etc, known to be
corrupt, DR. corrnptible, and then allowing
the dishonest distillers to run crooked, and
forcing the honest ones to do the same OF 20
cut Of the business, and dividing the pro
ceeds in certain way, no matter how. In this
view of the case, REHM wes the principal con-
spirator, and should not have been accepted
as States evidence at all. After the saueal-
ing of the first batch " there Was abundant
evidence to convict him and send him to the
PanitentiarJ, uolesa he should choose to for
Year: 1876

The Republican City Convention has done
wisely and we'll in nominating MONROE
HEATH, Esq, as its candidate for Mayor. In
every respect tho selection is en- admirable
one, not only because Mr. HEATHs Admins
tration will bo an immense Improvement up
On that of the present incumbent and in
cumbrance, but also because he is the stamp
Of man required in the present emergency.
NIr. HEATH has been in the Common Council
four years, has had long and important ser
vice upon the Finance Committee, and IN all
his public life has invariably been upon the
side Of honest government. He is thorough
~ familiar with the affnirs of the city. He
knows its history, tho origin and operation OF
oil the ordinances, and the present condition
Of municipal business He knows what pub
1io works should be suspended and what
should go on to completion He understands
the financial emergency in all its aspects,
and no man can do more than he to release
the city from its embarrassm ments. The pres
ont Council has many new men in it to whom
he will prove safe aud trusty ndvisor.


The most pressing duty before the Reform
Council isto release the city from its present
great embarrassments, and thereby save its
credit and its honor. The most important
part Of this work must be done between now
and next April, and to do it requires the SER
vice of frst~class business man who can go
straight ahead with the work, regardless Of
opposition or obloquy. For such work
there is no better man than Mr. HEATH, and
he is able and willing to encounter any
opposition the bummers can make. What
the city needs just now is frstclass busi-
ness man who is willing to sacrifice his ease
and personal comfort to the good Of tho city !;
and Mr.. HEATH is this man..


Personally, lie is every way fitted for the
position. He is positive, straightforward
man, with an excellent record No charges
can be made against him. He is strictly
honest man. He is not professional poll
tician- He is moderate in his sentiments.
The suspicion raised in some quarters that
be would, if elected, revive the Sunday laws,
has no foundation. He is iberal-1ninded
man, and Inns always been opposed to fanati-
cism. That charge cannot be successfully
raised against him. The very fact that the
Staats~Zestung and the Frete Presse will sup
port him is q sufficient refutation Of tho
charge.


As a man who has always hbored for the
best interests Of the city, who is thoroughly
familiar with its affairs, who is q prominent
and successful representative OF the business
interests, and who has clear, unspotted
record, MONROE HEATH should and will be
elected Mayor Of Chicago. Ho is the man
for the place.
Year: 1876

There isl curious dead lock in the Treasury
Department, owing to Senator MoRRuLs s
dela! in accepting the Secretaryship. As
sistant Secretary CoNANr can no longer act,
the ten days interim having expired the
new Treasurer, WYMAS, cannot discharge the
duties of his place because there is nobody to
approve his bond; and the result is that the
Treasury bank is closed and no money paid
over the counter While this may be very
embarrassing to those who have drafts and
audited claims, the people of the United
States generally can stand it very well for a
considerable time. Nevertheless, Senator
MORRILL, ought Immediately to accept or de-
cline the Secretaryship.
Year: 1876

The deadlock on the Indian Appropria-
ton bill arises upon the section transferring
the Indian Bureau to ths War Department..
Alr. WINDOW, of the Conference Committee
upon the bin, yesterday reported to the
Senate that the Committee could not agree,
and motion made for the appointment
Of q new Committee Of Conference
was agreed to. So the fight oyerx the
proposed transfer Of Indian Affairs to
the War Department will probably have to
be fought once more. Meanwhile, the
House has passed the bill providing for the
Immediate purchase Of Sl50,000 worth Of
supplies to keep the Indians from starving,
or rather to keep them off the war-path, be-
cause Of the failure Of the Government to
deliver to them the supplies guaranteed by
treaty, which cannot be done until the In
dian Appropriation bill be passed
Year: 1876

The decision Of the Supreme Court of the
State, rendered yesterday in the Macoupin
County bond case, defeats the attempt
made under the Compromise act to foist
payment of the Macoupin Courthouse
bonds upon the people Of the whole State.
The case came up upon an application for n
mandamus to compel the Auditor Of State to
register the AIacoupin bonds, which applioa~
ton the Supreme Court denied. The princi-
pie Of the decision was the same as in the
Ta1-Grab law case, and leaves the people Of
slacoupin County to provide for their own
debt. incurred for the construction of their
famous Courthouse.
Year: 1876

should the expenditure on tie Water " orAs
be suspended
| Another case is one not so imperative, out
one in which it will be far more economical
to go on than to suspend operations. 1he
condition Of the North Branch is becoming
more and more dangerous to the health OF
the city every year. The North Branch Is
in nowise relieved by the canal drainage,
and tie stream is comparatively stasnant,
and under hot sun becomes odorous and
malarial. The only way to furnish rellet
is in the introduction of fresh water through
the conduit on Fullerton gyenua. Ibis
work has been prosecuted under disasters
and difficulties. A 1erge sum OF money
has been expended, including large bill for
damages against the city. To suspend or
discontinue the work will practically amount
to the total loss of most Of what has besn
expended, involve perhaps another large bill
Of damages, and postpone indefinitely q
work absolutely necessary to the health and
comfort of the Inhabitants Of the North Di-
vision and Of large part Of the West Divls-
ion. Under oil the circumstances, it is pos
slble that true economy requires that the
work shall go on to completion.


In like manner, viaducts over the railways
have become essential to the safety of the
public, and to the transit from one part Of
the city to the other,-soveral have been be-
gun, are under construction, and the streets
torn up. These, wherever begun, should
be allowed to go On. They are of great value,
and wherever one has been partly con-
structed it will be poor economy to suspend
the work. We do not question the general
propriety of suspending every expenditure
that can be safely dispensed with. The re-
cont decision of the Supreme Court, though
expected, but intensides the necessity of
avoiding every expense that can possibly be
avoided.
Year: 1876

did not tell the whole truth, and nothing
but the truth, that he did not testify
"fully and fairly" then it is probable that
he will feel at liberty to disregard the coun-
sells recommendation for the triaing sentence
of six months and simply abide by the
agreement not to send REHM to the Penlten-
tiary, but award him full term of two years
in the County Jail or Bridewe11.
Year: 1876

Az an interesting feature Of war news in
Europe it may be stated that tbs German
War Department has just adopted q new
scheme of mobilization which will ennble
her in case of war to bring more powerful
force into the field than she summoned in
the last French campaign. The chief differ
once between the new scheme and that Of
1867 is that, in addition to the field and gar
rison troops, new force, called the feld
Year: 1876

The City Government Is undoubtedly In dcs-
pc1atc strait for money to pay its current c1~
penses aud what is due its employees. But in
six or eight weeks the delinquent real-estate
taxes must be paid, as the property will be sold
out BY the County Treasurer. This money will
afford relief for some time; but expenses must
he cut down to the minimum.
Year: 1876

DR.. Frederic z. Marvin gave the
library club last evening a physician
view of death, his subject being The
Physiology OF Death" The history Of
death embraces three periods, the fabu.
lous, the superstItiOus, and the philO-
! sophical. The fabulous was in mytho-
| logical times, in which death was per-
sOnifed as goddess Mors, the glance OF
whose eye was fatal; the superstitiOus
era was that long period in which death
was regarded as an instantaneous change;
a stroke that came and cut off life from
the whole body at once. Ours is the
philosophical age.


The lecturer had experimental on
dogs, to discover the order of time in
which the senses die. To one dog he
gave arseneous acid. The second died
instantly upon his introducing a needle
into the medulla oblongata; and the
third he bled to death. In the last, the
order of death was, sight, taste, smell,
hearing, touch; which established the
fact that senses disappeared in the same
order as they do in sleep.


The human body Is an aggregation of
cells. Life is the augmentation of these
cells; death their disintegration. Each
cell dies for itself Every moment cells
are springing into life. Every moment
cells are dying. Our bodies are COM
posed of these little points. Take them
away and there is nothing left of us but
the connecting shrcds. There are dead
cells in your body, and when you are
dead, there will for some time continue
to be living ones. We shall all at some
time be resolved into carbonic acid,
water, and the mineral elements.


The whole surface of our globe, said
the speaker. has been dug over one hun
dred aud twenty-eight times to bury its
dead, even not reckoning the long age Of
the world which is given it by modern
science, and we inhale, we feed upon
elements, the very atoms, that have been
living human beings before. The dead,
he continued, live again, and we greet
them in the perfume of the city, in the
thousand leaves of the forest.


Death, the doctor says, is painless.
There is no moment in cur lives in which
molecular death is not going on in us.
The last words of multitude of persons
indicate that mere disintegration is pain
less. To die of cold, after the first agony
is over, is luxury. so is drowning.
The smileOf death, the placidity of death,
comes to all features after the rigOr NOR
tiS. That is over in three days.
Year: 1876

DANIEL DREW has been interviewed in
his retirement, and yielded, under gentle
pressure, the following: "Pve retired
permanently from business this time,
which l ought to have done years ago
under different and happier circum-
stances l never dreamed that the time
would come when l should have to go
into bankruptcy. There never was just
such a case as mine ever heard on 'afore.
No man was ever so rich as l was, worth
at one time eight or ten millions of money,
and then made to lose every dollar of it
in so short time" Referring to the
late A. T. Stewart, he said that even
that prompt business man had delayed
his charitable schemes too loag, and now
they would have to be carried out by
some one else, if at all. In allusion to
Stewards wealth, he said he never esti-
mated him at over forty millions; but
Vanderbilt was surely worth a hundred
millions of money if he owned a dollar
Year: 1876




Increase in Trade Predicted


Miller, Dolhonde * Co.'S Circular 18th.


We have some interesting and valuable
news to impart to our friends and cor
respondents and which will benefit also
the general interest of this city and those
of the Mississippi valley. Captain Eads!.
jetties are improving daily, and this
week a large steamship drawing fourteen
and a half feet of water came through
them (the South Pass without meeting
any impediments, and before winter,
from present indications, that route will
be the favorite and shortest one to and
from the ocean for the port of New
Orleans, and will give all the water
necessary for the largest vessels-the
publicnewsfrom Washington to-day is that
parties from New York represent the
feeling there regarding the jettles as
entirely confident Commodore Gar
rison, who has been watching their pIO-
gress with a view of placing a line Of
steamships between New Orleans and
Brazil, has made no halt in his prepara-
tions. Dom Pedro has been approached
and there are assurances that his gov
ernment will pay half Cf what may be
necessary to carry the mails, and move
ments are foot to secure a contingent
contract from our government for carry
ing the mail. At present there is ample
tonnage here for cotton, but on account
of insufficient water yet at the mouth of
the river, vessels can not take all the
freight they can carry to load deep with,
such as grain and provisions, but in a
few months our western friends will have
no cause to complain and will be rea!iz-
ing the full benefits of this port and
market, which must prove, in the near
future, the best in this country for the
distribution of cotton, provisions, bread
stufFs and western produce generally.
This city will have different railroads
running TO Texas within this year-and
with the above all accomplished, New
Orleans will offer the best field for cap
italists and manufacturers, as property
and business will increase materially.
Year: 1876

THE Boston philanthropists have been
indulging their sympathy for murderers
by getting up petition to save Piper,
convicted of the murder of the little
girl, Mable Young, last summer, in the
tower of one the churches of that city;
but Piper has just made confession of
that bloody deed, as well as of others in
which he was supposed to have had a
hand. The murder was a very atrocious
one, and Piper asserted for some time
that he was innocent, but subsequently,
stated that the girl had been killed by
the trap-door of the belfry falling acci-
dentalIy upon her. He now ccnfesses
thai he killed her, actuated by an in
sane desire for blood.
Year: 1876

IN order to act intelligently against
the cotton worm, southern planters are
advised by Professor A. R. Grote to act
in concert. He further recommends
that, whatever agent is employed to de-
stroy the worm, be used against the first
brood that appears in the locality, so as
to prevent its spreading farther. 1t is
highly desirable that the life-history and
habits of such insect pests should be
thoroughly studied, with view to their
determination.
Year: 1876

THE Paris fashion inventors are deter
mined to make woman's life a burden to
her. One OF the journals of that city
says that no glove will be tolerated in
good society this season with less than
twenty buttons, while another declares
that in less than five years knee breeches
and six-inch skirts will be the fashionable
street dress for ladies.
Year: 1876

NORTH and South Carolina are natur-
ally interested in that clause of the pro-
posed Hawaiian treaty which admits the
rice of the Sandwich Islands free of duty,
rs are also Georgia and Louisiana. To
these states the rice crop is of great i'm
portance, and the planters know that if
exposed to free competition they must
seek some other agricultural pursuit. 1t
is claimed that the remission of duty on
Hawaiian rice is merely for the benefit
of the Pacific coast, but, of course, New
England would come along and demand
that the East India article be admitted
free, in her favor. SO, it will be seen
that the cry for protection" is not
confined entirely to the man ufacturing
interests of the east.
Year: 1876

A NEW cap has been adopted for the
officers of the navy, and those who have
seen the sample at the navy department
say it will make great cOmmotiOn in
the service on account of its extraOrdi-
nary shape. 1t resembles the Scotch
bonnet of Glengary cap with cape and
eyelet holes behind, and differs from it
only in being of regulation blue cloth.
Year: 1876

WASHINGTON, D. c, June 2l, 1876. To THE PEOPLE OF ARIZONA TERRITORY;

 Being detained here on public business much longer than expected to have been I hereby announce myself candidate for Reelection as Delegate 10 Congress, By the people of Arizona In so doing. can but repeat my former platform, and with renewed energy and the advantage Oi what little experience I have acquired, pledge myself eff elected) to devote my time and give my most careful attention tO the advancement of the best interests of Arizona and her people, irrespective of par. ty faction or section.

 To my friends who have so generously and nobly stood by me during the past two years, 1 tender my heartfelt thanks.

 To those who still continue to oppose me and to all opponents, I wish to say: shall meet you in opposition on the same field in friendly manner. and believing as do that the majority of the people are always right, shall feel pleased with the result.

 Most respectfully inviting one and all to my support, l am

 Very respectfully yours. July 9. H. s. STEVENS.
Year: 1876

Another Sonora revolution is reported as likely to break out any day, under the leadership of ex- Governor Ignacio Pesqueira, who is at his home near Magdalena. Our information seems to come quite direct, and is to the effect that Pesqueira has some thous- ands of the best American arms and abundance of ammunition, and that he claims to have men to use them; also that he swears Gen. Mariscal shall never again see the City of Mexico, that the opening of the war will be at Mag dalena and that he will clean the valley at that place of all it's in- habitants. It is further reported that lot of very desperate men have arrived from Chihua ua with some $40, ,0000 in silver stolen from the mint, and that these men and money are at Pesquiera's disposal.

 We sincerely hope Gen. Maris- cal will not wait to be attacked but that he will bounce upon Pes queira and his gang and. kill ev- cry one of them-provided there is no doubt of their revolutionary purposes. We have always be- lieved that Pesqueira would not submit a great while to any rule, however wise and beneficial to the people. He has so long ruled without regard to law or justice, tbat it is too much to expect that he will remain quiet under any law that only gives him an equal show in life with the mass of the people. He is unwilling to alone rule, but will be cOntented with nothing less than rule and ruin or ruin without e.-Cittzen.
Year: 1876

LAZY men in this town are very cautious how they expose them- selves to the hot sun. They sit and lie and tell lies under the shade of awnings or on the shady sides of houses and dream the happy hours away" Some of them will have to rustic for their grub pretty soon.
Year: 1876

Has made the most Astonishing Cures ::
so quick, so rapid are the changes the
body undergoes under the influence of
this truly wonderful medicine, that
E7srT Day n Increase In Flesh and Weight


Is Seen and Felt.


The Great Blood Purifier.
Year: 1876

We believe in small barns for any
kind of curing. A house built 16 feel
inside and divided into four rooms
and six tier high In the body is the
preferable size for f1ue or coal curing
For flues they should be built OH 8
very slightly sloping place; just
enough to make the Hues draw we'll.
Flues four inches lower ut the eye
than the chimney will be slope
enough. 81: Es# - .-5sf g's 80


The door should be always between
the fues aud in the end of the house
to prevent the drip from falling be-
fore the door aud the eye of the fiues
The tiers should begin eight feet
above the ground and be placed two
feet above each other to the top. They
should be placed across the house SC
that the roof tier can conveniently
be placed above Them The door
three feet wide and six feet high,
furnished with good, close shut tier
A barn of this size will cure $50 sticks
or common size tobacco, which will
weigh about 1900 Ibs.r The proper
construction OF lfues is of great i'm.
portance they should be built of any
stone that will stand fire without
bursting. White sandstone, bastard
soap-stone, or any, other that does
not contain flint. The size of the
fiue for a sixteen foot barn, is gen.
orally about IL inches wide by IL
inches high inside. Not much care
need be takema to have them smooth
on the outside. If stone can be had
to make the inside smooth so as not
to obstruct the putting on of wood,
it is all that is necessary. They
should be run just far enough from
the house-side not to set the house OIL
fire, and there is not as much danger
OF this as may he supposed. Run the
walls of the flue parallel with the
house-side, turning with the corner,
80 as to preserve the same distance
from the house-side all round, rum
ming the stem out at the middle of the
upper side. The stem should be lun
far enough above the wall of the
house to avoid danger of sparks from
the chimney. The height of the in-
side OF the tlue should be preserved
its whole length. The width may be
slightly decreased from the elbow to
the chimney. The inner wall is car.
ried all around. But too much ex-
planation bewilders; we think we
have said enough.


AS before said, we like small barns
where too much tobacco is together,
1t all cannot receive the heat alike,
which is our main objection to large
barns.


AS to the number of barns necessa-
ry, we would say there ought to be
enough to receive all the crop with
out moving any. Say one sixteen
foot barn to every 5000 hills of to-
bacco planted. AS a general rule,
plant one thousand hills for every
hundred sticks house-room. That is,
IT you have three barns plant "a, 200
hills, and if it is common tobacco,
they will receive it. A much larger
quantity may be saved in this num-
Der of barns by curing and moving
out, but it is very troublesome,
Year: 1876

did not love him. Long age
Instead of Yes, gave him No.
did not love him; but to-day
l read his marriage notice. Pray,
Why was sad, when never yet
Has my heart known the least regret
Over that whispered Mol and why,
Reading the notice, did l sigh?
No analyst can guess the cause;
A womap's reason laughs at laws.
Sure, am glad to know the wound
l gave is healed, that he has found
Loves blessedness and peace; and yet
A woman never can forget
The man who once has loved her; and
To-day seem to see him stand.
With every glance O mute caress,
Still pleading for the longed-for Yes.
His early love for me is dead
Another lives in that loves stead;
And if ne loves her well, as men
should love their chosen ones. why, then
He must be glad that long ago.
Instead of Yes, gave him No.
Perhaps that Is the reason why
Ilead the notice with sigh.
Year: 1876

There is new call for investigating


the Alaska Commercial or FnroCom-


pany. 1t is declared to have alto


gether too big thing of it, and not
to be keeping faith with the govern
ment or the people up there. ~