smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1870

A Yosemite traveller makes the fol-
lowing contribution to natural history,
which may do for theory if not prac-.
tice: On my way up there the other
day, saw two Indians up in ravine
slowly and stealthily approaching
each other, with their eyes riveted on
an object which proved to be full
grown skunk The one who was be-
hind held out his hand, and kept NOV
ing round in a circle, the animal
watching him all the while. 1t pre-
pared to fire several times. but the In
dams revolving hand seemed to dis
tract its attention, and it did not exc
cute the threat All at once the Indi-
ans dashed upon it, twiched it up by
the end of its uplifted tail, and held
it high up at arms's length. The 9TH
er one ran up and cracked its neck
with stroke of his hand. The whole
operation was performed without the
effusion of any stencil whatever, which
appears to be the main point in the
killing, and the captors bore it away
in triumph. The animal seemed to feel
itself so ANONYMOUSLY discounted
and disgraced in being hoisted by the
end of the tail, that it abandoned its
usual means of defence.


Let Dufield's partner beware,
Year: 1870

BAD comp any is like nail driven
into post, which after the first or Sec
ond blow, may be drawn out with lit
tie difficulty; but being once driven up
to the head, the pinchers cannot take
hold to drow it out, but which can on
ly be done by the destruction of the
wood.
Year: 1870

The San Diego Bulletin of the 10th,
has the following:


When the operator at Los Angeles
a few days ago used the wires for the
purpose of spreading broadcast and
infamous falsehood concerning the
late election in Arizona, he was not
aware, probably, that he obtained his
information from the principal in the
defeat. There was a time when an
operator had no permission to tele-
graph such stuff to the Associated
Press.
Year: 1870

RAILROAD MEMORIAL We have
received from the San Diego "Cham-
Der of Commerce" an eight-page pam
phlet, entitled "a Memorial" ON the
subject of the 32d parallel railroad.
1t is not addressed to anybody OR
association Of men, in particular, but
is concise statement of the advanta-
ges of the route for building a railroad,
and the benef it will be to the country
through which it will pass. We sup
pose the good people of S. D., mostly
mean by this that there is nothing
like keeping "the issue well before
the people" as Douglass used to tell
his newspaper friends just before start
ing out on a political circuit, and the
good people aforesaid are eminently
correct.
Year: 1870

w Reliable Correspondence solicited
from all parts of the Territory. Anony-
nous communications will be unnOticed.
Letters on business and for publication
should be addressed to the proprietor to
insure prompt attention.
Year: 1870

to prepare them for smelling. They
occur in the form of carbonates and
sulphruets, the latter generally doarse-
crystalline. The gangue is principal
ly fiuorspar with little calespar and
some brown hydrated oxyde of iron
near the top of the veins. The con-
tents of silver in the ore shipped to San
Francisco during the last year have
averaged 35 ozs. per ton. The ore is
eagerly bought by the smelling works
on account of its high per centage of
lead go per cent and over) and the
prevailing gangue of fiuorspar, which
fit them well for smelling with the
high-grade silver ores from Nevada
in order to extract their silver. Over
400 tons have been shipped from the
Castle Dome mine during the last year.


1t has lately passed into the hands
of the energetic firm of


HOOPER, WHITING &CO,


Of New York, San Francisco and Ar
izona City. These gentleman now
employ eight men in taking out ore
and more will be put to work as soon
as the mine is further opened.


Capt. Polhemus of Arizona City re-
Gently bought mine from Mr.. Spann
in the same district and the work per-
formed on it has already disclosed
large body of carbonate and galena.


AS soon as the vein is opened so as
to permit the introduction of more la
Dor, this mine will add largely to the
shipments from the district. With
the exception of the


EUREKA DISTRICT


above, which carries similar but less
concentrated ores, no mining district
in Arizona is more favorably located
for immediate working. Transporta-
ton from here to San Francisco is
trifing, as only IS miles of land trans
portation are necessary to deposit the
ores at the river bank, from where
they are taken to San Francisco at $15
per ton. The erection of smelling
works on the river is contemplated as
soon as the mines are sufficiently open
ed in the district to insure q steady
supply of ore. Fuel is abundent for
years.


THE CITIZEN undertook to say a
good word for the


YUMA COUNTY LEGISLATIVE DELE


CATION,


A few weeks since, but had SO little
information Of the members, that a
sentence or two had to suffice for each.


/ have hunted up the political and
public history of DR.. John H. Phil
lips, Councilman elect, and it is with
real pleasure find it so good and
promising to continue so to the credit
and benefit of Arizona In brief he
was born in New Jersey, and there re-
sided and practised his profession for
many years prior to his departure for
Arizona some two years ago. He is a
graduate of the University of Penn
sylvania, at Philadelphia, and as
physician has always enjoyed the
highest honers of his profession, being
president of the New Jersey State Med
ical Society, an insti tuition about 100
years old, in 1851, and subsequently
a member of the American Medical
Association. In 1862, President Lin
coin appointed him Surgeon of U. s.
Volunteers, in which capacity he re-
NAMED until the close of the war when
he was promoted for faithful and mer-
itorious services by President Johnson
to the rank Of Lieutenant Colonel.


He is a man of large Legislative and
parliamentary experience and public
affairs generally. He has been State
Year: 1870

A correspondent of the st. Peter Trib.
une, writing from Backville, Brown Ccun
ty, sends to that paper the following
items:


Last year Bohemian living in an ad
joing town was plowing out corn will
his oxen, when he found that one Oh
stepped on his corn. So he took ou!
the nigh OK and put in his wife, who
knew enough to step over the hills OF
corn. Some Of the time she carried the
yoke In her arms or on ber shoulder
most of the time she put her head
through the bow like an OK, while the
stout burly farmer held the plow.


A man lived two miles from this place
named seamen. He cut himself badly
with scythe last fall, and this winter
was aboutto die, when he told his wife
that he had brother once that was bu
ried alive, and told her to cut his throat
after he was dead, So as to make a. sure
thing of it, SO she says Well, the ns,
was found dead, with bis throat cut from
ear to ear, aud we all believe her story
lie was too week to lift lis own hand. l.
1t appears that they had watchers the
night before his death, and the woman
said to persons then that she could ge,
along alone, SO we suppose he was as
dead as could be when thejob was done,
and she bad done her duty.
Year: 1870

The following spicy chapter, On the
subject Of newspapers, we clip from an
exchange -elicited, no doubt, by the too
frequent remark of the indifferent reader,
after perusing the news of the day, that
"there's nothing in the paper" 1t
says:


"And men are always srum5ling about
their papers, and insinuating how much
better they could do it. They talk as
| Ifiippantly about "fne articles on every
imaginable subject as if they could effect
such change. Let some of these over
running philosophers try 1t for one hun
dred and fifty days in succession!


.And then they think it is nothing to
select for newspaper; you have merely
torun the scissors through a half dozen
exchanges, and you have got matter
enough Now, this is the most import
ant and most difficult departments TO fill
on newspaper. Very few men have
the slightest idea how to do the work
1t requires thorough newspaper man
who knows the public appetite well !,
who knows what is going on in the
world, and who knows how to rewrite
and pack a column into dozen lines.


"Men who skim newspaper and toss
it aside, little reflect how much brain and
toll have been expended in serving up
that meal Busy heads and busy hands
have been toiling all day to gather and
prepare those viands. and some vast
building has been lit from cellar to gar
ret, all night, to get the paper ready for
the newsboy by crack of dawn.


"Nothing in the paper" Nothing in
your head that's where the fault lies"
Year: 1870

A PUZZLED PORTER "A lady occupy
ing a room, letter B, at hotel in New
York, wrote OH the slate as follows
CIV lake letter B at seven and if letter B
says, Let her be- don't let her be, nor
let letter B be, because if you let letter
B be, letter B will be unable to let her
house to Mr.. b., who is to call at half
past ten."


The porter-a much better boot black
than orthographist-after studying the
above all night, did not know whether to
wake letter B or to s'let her be-
Year: 1870

EgThe Prussian Government has
military maps of every foot of its terri
tory so complete that every hill, ravine,
orooklet, field and forest, is delineated
with perfect accuracy 1t is a common
BOAST of Prussian military men that
within eight days $4,000 men can be
concentrated to the defense of any single
point within the Kingdom
Year: 1870

Come sit by my side, little darling,


And lay your brown head on my breast,
While the angels of twilight around us


Are singing the flowers to rest
Your hands are as fair as the lilies


That blossom in the shadows of green;
And their touch has magical power


My heart from all sadness to wean
dream when your arms are around me


That life Is an infinite calm:
Your kiss has the spell Of caarmer--


Your kiss that is sweeter than balm.
OH what could be sweeter than dreaming


This dream that is on as tonight?
Let US think of the present, my darling,


The future is out of our sight,
Sing low in the twilight some ballad


As sweet as the smile on your face,
That shall thrill me with melody's sweetness,
And-touch with its words, tender grace.
And I'll give you kiss when it's ended,


A kiss that the singer shall earn;
And perhaps-do you hear, little darling?-
shall ask for kiss in return.
Year: 1870

When is leg of mutton like modern
poet?. When it's Browning.


Why is leg of mutton being roasted
like London in 1862 Because it's be-
fore the fire.


When is leg Of mutton like venison
When it's dear.


Why is an old man like place in the
West Indies9 Why, when he's Hayti,
Of course.


Riddle for the skating season when it
comes again. Why is fall like the
want of the letter T? Because it makes
o tumbler 'umbler.


What is the difference between fall
ing star and fog? One is missed in
heaven, and the other mist on earth.
Year: 1870

LANDLoRD-Mr. Editor, I'll thank you
to say that l keep the best table in the
city.


Editor-rll thank you to supply my
family with board, gratis.


Landlord thought you were glad
to get something to llll up your paper.


Editor-I thought you'were glad to
get something to fill up your house. It's
a poor rule that won't work both ways.


Exit landlord in rage, threatening to
have nothing more to do with the Office.
Year: 1870

The present consumption of wood
in the United States is enormous.
One hundred and fifty acres of the
best timber is cut every year to supply
the demand for railway sleepers alone.
For railroad buildings, repairs, and
cars, the annual expenditure i'm wood
is thirty-eight millions of dollars. In
single year the locomotives in the
United States consume fifty-six mill
ion dollars worth of wood. There are
in the whole country more than four
hundred thousand artisans in wood
and if the value of their labor is one
thousand dollars a year, each, the
wood industry of the country repre-
sents an amount of nearly five hun
dred millions of dollars per annum
1t will be seen, therefore, how ex-
tensive are the interests dependent
upon the production of lumber.
Probably laws will have eventually to
be enacted by the State Legislatures
to prevent such destruction of the for
ests as will be likely to result i'm natu-
raj injury to the country. and it may
be necessary to encourage the plant
ing of forests, to meet the demands OF
the future.
Year: 1870

Trees that expend all their forces in
the production of wood growth can


produce little or no fruit. Indeed il
is not possible for any tree to produce
a fruit germ, and not again in some way
disorganize it, unless the wood growth
shall cease in time for the leaves to
| leaf and fruit the following year, or
until part of the leaves shall attain
to nearly or quite their full size. That


this is SO will be apparent, when we
consider that the leaves which appear
| first in the Spring, were formedin the
previous year, perfect in all their
parts, and in the embryo state, con-
tanned each individual cell found in
them when fully grown.
The question may arise, when there
is no addition to the number of cells,
how do the leaves grow? The answer
is, that the only difference we can see
between an amhryo leaf and one fully
grown, is in the size of the leaf cells
AS growth begins in the spring, these
small cells which are formed the pre-
vious year, begin to expand. Each
individual cell thus enlarges until
all the numerous cells of which
these leaves are composed are of full
size. To further illustrate this, let us
suppose, on brick wall that each
brick at the same time was gradually
to expand to several hundred times
its present diameter, and you have
just what takes place in the growth
of ali embryo leaf. Here we have a
tree i'm possession of q full grown leaf.
This leaf did not form itself, but was
formed by the tree the preceding
year.


To produce and sustain this cellular
enlargement, there had been stored
the previous year large share of nu-
triment in the buds, and in other
parts of the tree.


This nutriment must be not only
sufficient to feed the embryo leaves,
but must also be sufficient to produce
the small, warty excerscences-thi
rootless and spongiOles. These new
leaves and spOngioles are a trees la
boratOry. And those leaves and
spongioles first grown were made,
with the exception f moisture wholly
out of the material that was stored by
the tree during the growth of the
priyious year. When these vegetable
stores are in sufficient supply to do
this, and nourish the fruit germs also,
then We shall hear little about imper-
feet fertilization. On the other hand,
had the food been consumed the pre-
vious year, by ripening an over crop
of fruit, or by making a very succu-.
lent growth, then the tree would not
store sufficient amount of plant food
to preform its three-fold office in the
production of leaves and roots with
their spongioles and and fruit.


In this condition part of the leaf,
and a larger part of the fruit buds,
yield up their nourishment, which
goes to the production of root and leaf
growth. The tree, therefore, is bar
rem of fruit for the Summer, its whole
growth being required to recuperate
its own vigor. Such trees often bloom
freely, and then cast their blossoms.
When this occurs uniform persons at
tribute it to want of fertilization, or
supposed that the rain must have
washed away the pollen.-Dr. Bel,
Kansas Farmer
Year: 1870

A horse that is i'm harness every day
needs all abundance of food, and the
right kind. Oats make more muscle
than corn, and should always form
part of the food of hard working
horse. Corn gives plumpness, and
imparts warmth. The colder the
weather, the more corn; the harder
the work, the more Oats.-Mass. PlOO-
man.
Year: 1870

WE presume the Democratic or
gans-German and English-will
never forgive Mr.. Heilman for OBJ
jeotiug TO serve on the Finance Com
mittee. They insist that by 80 re-
fusins, he has no right to ask simple
Justice in she formation of any other
Committee, and that Republican tax
payers have no right to claim a repre-
sentative on so important commit
tee as that Of Water Works. We do
not propose to debate the question at
any length. All was accomplished
chat Hr. Heilman or his friends ex
poated in demanding q representation
ou lie Committee. No one supposed
tta he demand would be respected
Itmay turn out. however. before the
term nation Of the present year, that
TIRE Democratic Council will not only
BE Hing. but anxious, for the as


zee of Republicans in their un


king.
Year: 1870

WALL STREET. [


SATURDAY, April 90 p. m.
fte week closed upon dull state OF AFFAIRS in all
the markets save the gold market.


GOLD 11SA


The advance in the foreign exchanges which was
sustained throughout the business OF to-day led to
strong market at the opening OF the Gold Room, and
as the day progressed prominent broker, who was
said 10 be buying Tor a new clique movement,
purchased several millions In lots ranging
from ten thousand to half million
of dollars Under this stimulus the price advanced
10 1l3s but declined TO 113 ut the close when the
broker referred to left the market The transac-
tons after hrs departure not OF great moment,
however. The dealers in gold nave been fur
nished fresh matter for agitation in the facts
submitted to them during to day. The dull
ness at the close was the result OF
fear to take steps either way, and desire to post
pone operations until more OF the movement Is seen
next week. rhe foreign exchange market was
fairly acrive even after the steamer. on the basis
OF 100 for prime bankers sixty day sterling aud l09
for sight, These were the lowest quotations, otner
leading bankers refusing TO draw at all, except at
rates certain TO guarantee them against any sudden
rise The course OF the gold market is shown IN the
Year: 1870

The money market was easy at five TO SIX per
cent. The offerings at the latter figure on stocks
were more than the demand. The government
dealers were abundanty supplied at the lower rate
Commercial paper was without new feature and in
limited supply at seven to eight per cent for prime
double name acceptances


THE BANK STATEMENT.


The weekly statement Of the associated banks is
again upavorabe. Despite the fact that the doines-
tic exchanges continue to favor this city, and that
the money markets OF Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago,
New Orleans and all the large cities are working
easily there is loss legal tenders OF about two
and half millions, and falling OF IN deposits OF
over four aud half millions. Speculative
manipulation is therefore very evident The banks
lose million IN specie. while the surplus over the
legal reserve is reduced about 81 400, 900. The last
two statements are as foows:--
Year: 1870

Receipts 487 packages for the which COS less than Tor
the corresponding last 4 Though am


walls lighter the weather which both lessons ne
mand nnyorab keeping stock Some OF the ae arrivals
from Canada and from the West are in bad order hc1ng e %
that they had home few lots OF lined nave Ds
received scarcely altered but me
selling at 9sc with some poor os
at PIC We quote: ooa,o
Pa N j., off, y doI3 da1
State fresh AL Lined
Year: 1870

The GRAND JURY SYsTEM-At the en-
suing election, the people Of this State will
vote upon the question whether the form
of Indictment by Grand Jury, shall or shall
not remain in practice.


Established forms, whether in law, relig-
ion, Or social life, are slow to yield to
changed conditions, and they often remain,
not only after their usefulness is past, but
after they have become positively burden,
some and at variance with the purposes
which they were originated to serve.


The Grand Jury system, devised in The
early days of England, when society wa:
not fully organized, when customs were
rude and laws were rigorous, operated the1
as protection to the citizen against th'
Year: 1870

unjust or malicious accusations of the Off
GERS of the King.


But in our conditions of society. this
mode of procedure is no longer necessary.
The citizen does not need its protection,
and the law does not need it to secure the
ends of justice.


The main objections to the Grand Jury
are:


lst. 1t is cumbrous and expensive


2nd. 1t sometimes operates to effect the
very evil it was designed to prevent.


Sd. Its deliberations are secret-a sort of
Star hamber-repugnant to the feelings
of the people.


Several States have already done away
with the Grand Jury mode of Indictment !;
let us add Wisconsin to the number
La Crosse Leader.
Year: 1870

States, Wisconsin and NJ nnesota, Will be
secured to the latter State alone.


The legal right to cut this canal is before
the Courts of Minnesota between her own
citizens and one of her own corporations,
the result of which may be private dam
ages only; but the interstate right to di-
vert a all of St. Louis river water by other
than the natural channel is being met by
the strong arm of the Unions paramount
power, judicial and legislative.


The idea that creature Of Congress,
with capital and credit only, from the COM
mon domain and authority of its creator,
should dare to thus divert from asaistee
otare ner natural and undenable rights and
destroy the best of harbors, is too foolish
to be controverted; yet this idea is in the
notion of their subordinates, and we give
oat this article more in friendship to all
concerned than in envy.


The North Pacific Directory, workers,
financial, and other agencies need take no
warning from us, for we are well assured
that their own intestate quarrels will des-
troy their unlawful designs without exter-
nal effort.
Year: 1870

STEAM BAKERY, WITH THE LATEST IMPROVED
n machinery, all new the being McKcnzie's Inn
proved patent reel oven with capacity Of O barrels Of
crackers daiy This bakery has large lake, inland and
home trade WITH capital can be largely inGressed part


preferred the whole interest win be sold For particulars
address drawer l32 East Saginaw, Michigan.
Year: 1870

The departure of Colonels Rhett, Jen
ifer and Morgan, to take service in the
Egyptian army is announced. It is no
longer a secret that Egypt and Turkey
have both been preparing for war. For
years past Prussian and French officers
We been employed in the Turkish
service Tor the purpose OF putting the
Turkish military education on a footing
with that of other European Powers, and
now that the improvements in the i'm
plements of modern warfare have been
so great as to require thorough change
of military tactics, the Viceroy of
Egypt evidently feels that he can only
ex pect to make a successful stand against
the army of AT AZiz by placing his
forces under the drill and leadership Of
experienced and accomplished officers.
Recruiting agents have been for some
time past busy in New York engaging
the services of officers, and quite a
number have already left for Egypt.
Colonel Rhett received his commission
as Brigadier General.