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Year: 1873

some bungling operator. What you want Is good
and cheap work made by an established artist
REEs Co, OF over fifteen years standing. are
making pictures ut us cheap rates any gallery In
the city. and there you will not be imposed on.
Year: 1873

When doctors disagree who shall decideP Htrc
is an NJ. ID. in the Herald Of Health, who advises
us by no means to raise our window at night and
thereby sleep in q ventilated and cool room. An
apartment we are told, but warm, never killed
any one rooms too cool and breezy often have,
In one the sleeper is moderately poisoned, If at
all in the other the lungs get congcsted and
many of the ills that flesh is heir 20 Ay in At the
open window. We turn 10 the SuataTTdR of the
same month, also published in New York, and
we find that the old fashioned dread Of night air
is rapidly disappearing that 1t wilt soon be re-
ferred to as one of the singular prejudices OF q
byGOne ageW Now, says the author, have not
the slightest doubt that If any individuals in the
city of New York were to sleep on the bousetOps
instead of 10 their sitting rooms the rate of NOR
tality would be reduced twenty-five per cent. in
three months. There is a radical difference here (;
but we believe Miss Florence Nightingale knows,
as an experienced nurse, more about the matter
than most physicians, and she tells us that the


first thing 70 be done in q sick room is TO raise the
window night and day-that cir at night is no
more injurious than in the day time.
Year: 1873

The banks Of Philadelphia, as well as those oi
New York, have again omitted the publication OF
their statements Of averages for the past week.
We have no information as to what was the con


ditiOn OF the Philadelphia banks yesterday.
though We suppose each knows something of that


Of the others in the Clearing House. Some fig
urSs Of the New York banks have been made
public and show decided Ledger
Year: 1873

alt 10 with. extreme regret that our people find
their pOst-OfRce managed in such careless man
nsr it appears to have been as set fourth by the
CONAsJl 1t the hearing q the case Of Dougherty
last evening
Year: 1873

TAR Qualifications Of France are to be caTHied
on OH a very extensive scale, complete and lasting
The work goes on day and night, and guards pre-
vent curious people from inspecting the progress
Year: 1873

and whistled it night and day forjust three
months and thirteen days. On that day
they had found a new tune and were run
ming it when l left. | do not know who
started this on me about leaving Shasta
because of disgust at that tune, but there
is good-natured cuss in the Courier Of
fee who can out-fddle Ole Bull, Mrs.
Bull and all the calves. If had three
guesses would guess him ever time.


On my arrival in old Trinity l found
everything pretty much as l had left it
in the Spring; the old friends glad to see
me-"you know" you know" I'll
bet the interest on a greenback that can
say "you know" faster and ottener than
any man who ever swallowed glass of
whisky or shed tear at a camp meeting.
Speaking of whisky revives the old story
of "Hocker's best" Now, gentlemen
of the jury, from Douglas City, pretend
to know just where that is kept. It's the
9th barrel on your right as you go in
pump it out with tin giant. Me too
much sabe. AS ! said the 9th barrel to
your right as you 60 in and the Tooth as
you come out, if you stay too long be-
sides numerous setts before and behind,
dancing quadrilles to "Ten Thousand
Miles Away" Reader, may bring this
letter to a close shortly, but before doing
so will give you little gratuitous advice:
See that your stomach is at all times in a
reliable condition keep your corns we'll
trimmed and don't bother your head
about the "Hoss disease until it gets
here. 1t is said that poor-man's plas-
ter is bully remedy for IL poor woman,
but it does not appear that the horse dis
ease affects the donkey persuasion in the
least this being the case, have no fears
in the least. Now don't anybody throw
up long ears to me because | am honest
enough to make the confession. | can
stand little persecution, but it looks very
much like all the persecution afloat in
the country is centered upon the shoul-
ders Of one man alone. He has not been
married very long and has to run about
10 miles of gauntlet every day. How
ever, he stands it very well and seems to
thrive on it. | know but little about the
mines as yet where | have been canvass
ing, but think majority of the miners
are ready for work. OF course if it did
not rain until Judgment day there would
be few to gruiily inform Gabriel that he
must wait" had some bed rock to cut :"
The season for minbag, | must confess,
looks rather unfavorable, but there is
time enough yet for all the rain and snow
that is necessary 70: mining and agricul-
tural purposes. L rccollect one year in
this county that we had no water to mine
with until the first of April, and still had
a good season.


l shall close my letter by saying that |
am travelling agent for quite number of
good papers, magazines, etc, and expect
to pay every camp in the county visit.
l hope everybody will be glad to see me
whether they become subscribers or not.
My gas is worth something, "you know
Then be social and agreeable when | call
on you. OF course you can lock your her
house on my arrival and count your
spoons after | leave, but then be socable
Recollect that | am an old settler-have
been with you long time, am, in fact,
one of you and have got just as bad a
cold as the best of you. JACGNTo.
Year: 1873

QUICKSILVER MINE.-A deed lately
recorded in this county shows that b. G..
Wattlcs and other locators of 6,000 feet
on cinnibar ledge, near Trinity Center,
have decided the same to the Victor
Quicksilver Mining Company, an associ-
alton recently incorporated under the
laws OF this State. The original owners
take certificates OF stock in the new Com
pany in payment for their discovery
There are now two Quicksilver mines at
Trinity Center in the hands of San Fran
cisco men and it is likely that they will
on be thoroughly tested.
Year: 1873

PLENTY OF WATER.-Canon City is
certainly favored mining section. While
in, almost every locality in this county
there is scarcity of water, we learn that
the miners on Canon Greek have an
abundance. Rumor also says that the
claims in that section prospect well and
will probrbly turn out better this season
than ever before.
Year: 1873

ty Clerk Trotter desires us to call the at
tention of parties having demands against
the county to the following provisions OF
the Codes: Bills against the county
must contain list of the items constitut-
ing such bill all bills must be verified
before being filed; all bills must be fled
on the day preceding the the first day OF
the session of the Board. AS Monday is
the first day of the Supervisors meeting
in this county, all bills should be filed
with the Clerk of the Board on Saturday,
to insure action thereon.
Year: 1873

DISCONTINUED. = Official notice has
been received from the Post Office De-
rartment at Washington, to the effect
that mail service to Trinity Center had
been discontinued for want of a candi-
date. Congressman Coghlan writes that
if the people of Trinity Center desire
mail facilities they must name some one
flr Postmaster. Trinity Center is too
large place to be without Post Office
and the people in that neghborhood
should Immediately take steps to have a
Postmaster appointed and mail service
resumed.
Year: 1873

mouth of God. By that Word, lie
gave Us life at first, and by the same
Word He sustains tlat life, and
strengthens it more and more unto the
end Therefore, We must listen for
that Word, for listening is to the food
ot the soul what eating is to the food
of the body /; therefore. If we won|d
thrive in our souls, and grow strong
within, We must have ever sharp ap-
petite. and 4 keen relish for that heay-
enIy food we must ''be more ready to
hear than TO offer the sacrifice of fools


Not, indeed, that oar intercourse with


God IS to De all hearing. + God is
not TO be silent ID Us, no more must
we be dumb. Ii He grac,ouSly speaks


He as gracioasiy listens He is the


bearer Of prayer, and to Him shall all
flesh come, with their confessions, their
petition, and all the sad detail OF their
sorrows and their sins. 1t is oars, o
blessed and priceless privilege to lay
our petitions on the steps of the throne
81 wei! as wait and hear the answer of
the King. But even then it becomes
us to denean ourselves as those who
are coming to king. If otr petitions
may be large, let our words be few and
well weighed = Let them not outrun
the sense, outrun and overshoot the
real conviction and inward feeling Of
our sonls. Here, Of all places in the
world, let Us beware Of words that are
mere --meaninmiess, hollow words
Better be silent altogether than thus to
triie with the holy majesty Of heaven.
BE not rash with thy mouth, aud let
not thy heart be in haste to utter any
thing before Gol; for Col is in hea-
ven, and thou upon the earth !; there


fore, let thy words be few" Ia short
say only what is true say only what
yoI feel pour not out words from
your lips " hich have no corresponding
reality and meaning in your heart


DO not utter raptures You feel not
contrltiUn and heart-grief you know
not VOWS OF holy obedience youmetn
not and never intend to pay. >ach
prayers are nothing better than hvpo-
critical pretence and impious mockcry
OF heaven yet what else can We do,
if we are resolved to speak in many
and inflated words Of God? Ii We
feel little yet We speak much, what
else can the greatest part be but such
meaningless, souIiess worls as these |
have described: Therefore, let thy
words be few Let them be like the
prayer Of the pubiican--of the Syro-
phouiciah Of the dying thief-> @i't
arrows Of the heart, piercing the hea-
vens. Let them be the fruit Of much
thought. mach meditation, lnnch search
ing Of the Divine Word. much silent
waiting upon God, and listening to
His voice but let the words them
selves be few. Better one spark OF
living FIRE than whole heap Of ashes.
Better single grain Of genuine ,,hcat
than a whole mountain .. chaff.


Better 20 utter one word OF real n1art-
prayer once in our life than walk amid
a cloud oielnpty words all our days.
Year: 1873

The taste for emotion may become
dangerous taste We should be very
cautions how we attempt to squeeze
out Of human lie more ecstasy aud
paroxysm than it can we'll Afford
Sidney Smith
Year: 1873

The Congregational Society have voted to repair their house of worship and to put recess in for the pulpit. They have about 5000 pledged for that purpose. The job awaits contractors.
Year: 1873

The official investigation into the cause of the Richmond Switch disaster was coh- cluded last week. A sealed report has been sent in, which will be opened when the Rhode Island legislature meets next winter. Then, no doubt, the public will read the same with interest.
Year: 1873

A dispatch to the Tribune from the Yel-
lowstone states that on the afternoon Of the
fifth instant, while the expedition was en-
route from Camp Pearson, the base of sup
plies, which it left on the twenty-seventh
ultimo, to the mouth of Powder river,
there to take up the line of survey, a scout
brought intelligence to General Stanley Of
the arrival of the Josephine, and that she
was coming up the Powder river with the
mails. A detachment Of cavalry, with
Colonel Baker, chief quartermaster, was
sent out to meet her this morning, which
they succeeded in doing before noon. at
this point, seven miles above Powder river.
and this entire command is now within six
miles of the river. The Josephine has thus
river seven miles nearer its source than did
General Forsyth in the Key West last
spring, and Colonel Ludlow, of the en-
gineers, who is on board, gives it as his
opinion that the river is navigable as far as
the Big Horn, situated some 200 miles fur
ther up stream.
Year: 1873

SEEKING ISFORMATION.-A singular com
muncatiOn was printed in the Times Sun
day morning. the writer asking several soft
questions concerning the POntchartraln
railroad. He wishes to know why the rail-
road company does not erect free bath
house, and give through tickets. This ques-
on is easily answered. The company owns
all the bath houses along the wharf, and
obtains large income from the rent. The
pier belongs to the corporation, conse-
unently has perfect right to Q instruct
any kind of building it pleases, and charge
as high price as it can secure. 1t Is
not likely that the company will 40
ANYTHING to cut off it's resources. As to the
management of the road, perhaps the less
said about that the better. No one sup
poses there will be any improvement now
or hereafter, but daylight is in sight. Next
summer this old monopoly will find two
lively competitors for lake travel-horse
cars out Orleans street, and another line
along the new canal, at cheap fares and
speedy rates. Then people can visit the
lake, and remain there until mid night if
they choose. This will be glorious for such
as are employed all day; then laboring
man can 90 to the lake after business hours,
and regale himself with fresh air and a
bath, and not be !jostled to Jelly IN an old
rattletrap car atterward. There is pros
pect that next summer the stOlid old mon
opoly will die natural death. Let Us hope
for the best
Year: 1873

NOT THE FIRST TIME.-A number Of dirty
boys, Sunday evening, slipped OF their
holiday clothing and rushed into the river
tor bath at the head OF Mandeyille street.
A policeman discovered the city ordinance
breakers, and quietly bagged the garments,
taking them to the fifth precinct station
house 1t is not clearly known how the
lads reached home. but it is certain that
naked humanity was seen hurrying
through Third District street. Never
mind, boys, next summer you will have an
opportunity TO swim where inquisltlve
peelers dare not disturb you, and the bath
il YOU should be whipped.
Year: 1873

A New WAY TO CATCH RArs.-A new
manner OF catching rats is exciting great
interest among the returning household
ers IN Madison ave. A barrel is filled
hall lull OF water. \ laver of powder
ed cork is laid on its surface, and over
tins LAYER of corn meal i. sitied. A
chair and box or Two are placed unob-
slruslvcly in the neighborhood, w hereby
the rat gains the edge of The barrel. He
sees nothing but the meal. lie has no
innalc ideas which teach him to beware
OF the treacherous foundation on which
that tempting surface rests. lie shifts,
I've leaps, aud goes gently down through
meal and cork TO his watery grave. If
anyOf his friends see him disappear
from the edge Of the barrel they hasten
alter him to yet their share of The prob
able plunder, and are in turn taken in
by h,spitable death. The plan seems
ehectivc as against the rats, but is
calculated to destroy their confidence in
human nature.
Year: 1873

Some years ago well known englneer
(whosc name is not given, for good and
sufficient reasons) ran passenger train
on one of the most popular and most
travelled railroads that runs out of H.
dianapolis. At certain place oo the
road, every night for about week, as
the passenger train ran by this engineer
came laundering along, it was certain
to be thrown from the track by obstruct-
ions placed there Several of these
mishaps to the train caused loss of lie
and the Company was becoming copsld-
erably alarmed, and the ability Of the
engineer was being seriously quest
i0ned


One night, az the unfortunate tram
was nearing the 'atai spot, the engineer,
who had been sitting g.Im and silent at
the throttle. turned % hs fireman and
said


II this train Jumps the track At That
place to night, you follow me don't
stop for anything, bat kecp close after
me. Somebody has been throwing the
train off the track and I'm going 80
catch him


When the train arrived at the usual
place it struck a misplaced rail and was
banked. The engineer, closely followed
by the fireman, jumped from the engine
and ran into a corn field, and s,arteu up
man who lay concealed there


Upon bringing the culprit back So zoe
wreck, the enraged passengers wanted
to lynch him but the engineer, a stern,
cold, determined man, prevented them,
saying that lie would take charge Of
him, and through the inter.ssion Of the
conductor. the trembling wsotch was
left IN charge Of the eugjnegT. Tine
rain was rightgd, and vas soon speeding
o.. ils wa. The prisoner, who had con-
iyssad bis heuiiShness, hal been seated
on the engine and the fireman placed
j beside MIN as = guard.


When the train wa: ou q smooth
piece q track, bowling along at speed
OF about twenty FIVE miles an hour, she
engineer bechoned the fireman to sand
out Of the way. The fireman stepped
aside, and the engineer picked up
round stick Of wood and struck the
criminal such blow upon the head that
it stunned him.


He then caught the !uiyering torn Of
the poor wretch, and, opening the fur.
mace doors, threw his body into she hot,
seething hell of fame


The doors were shut, the train ratified
along, and never, until upon his death
bed, the engineer confessed the act, was
it ascertained what had been the fate of
the fiend who had been in the habit of
throwing the train of the track
Year: 1873

adopt this mode OF advertising my business
instead of employing agents. My object is, to
reduce the expense OF the business as much as
possible, 80 by purchasing Of me you pay no
agent fees You can also save the expense OF
delivering the work II you chooses besides you
OF 1t, as it will be- so there is no possible chance
for being deceived or being disappointed.


BY taking tins course, there Is a saving OF
from twenty to thirty per cent according TO
hoW far the purchaser comes.


You can readily see that the monev / save by
not keeping agents goes to the purchaser in
stead OF the agent


Agents claim that they can furnish work
cheaper. That cannot be done, unless done by
Apprentices. | furnish no work OF that class
as | employ no Apprentices.


My work and material cannot be questioned.
money By 20 doing Si3
Year: 1873

LESS than two years ago the free

 school system was started in Arizona,

 without school houses, books, or

 teachers it seemed forlom hope for the poor Apache ridden people to provide for the education of the chil- dren under such adverse circumstances, but the same undaunted spirit that had faced death and torture through long series of years, said we must either have schools or more jails, and we preferred the former, and the result shows what people can do if they will. Yuma has good school house and neatly furnished, and one will soon be erected at Ehrenberg. We are as- sured that Mohave county will erect school houses as fast as required. The people of Prescott are now construct ing a school house that will be a credit to the town and Territory. A school house was built six miles below Phenix in Maricopa county last year and now the people of Phe- nix are making arrangements and al- ready have the necessary subscription to build one worthy of that enterpris- ing and growing town. A school house is in process of construction at Florence, in every way suitable for the purpose. The people of Tucson are determined to not be outdone by their young neighbors and are now making arrangements to build g. house with sufficient capacity to ac- commodate two hundred pupils, and we trust that the San Pedro and Sanford settlements will not be behind in the good work; but the most encouraging feature of all Is that our late I,eois- lature made provision for sufficient school revenue to keep free schools in operation in every school district in the Territory for from six to nine months during each year. With
Year: 1873

The late Congress passed an i'm portant bill for the encouragement o

 the growth of timber on the public

 lands. We call the attention of oul

 readers to its various provisions

 The first section provides that any per.

 son who shall plant and protect, and keeE

 in healthy growing condition for ter

 years, forty acres of timber trees thereon

 not being more than twelve feet apart each

 way, on any quarter section of any public

 lands of the United States, shall be entitled to a patent for the whole of said quarter

 section at the expiration of the ten years,

 on making proof of the fact by not less

 than two credible witnesses.

 The second section provides that the person applying for the benefits of the act shall, upon application to the register and receiver of the land office in which he or she is about to make such entry, make affidavit that the said entry is made for the cultivation of timber, and that upon filing such affidavit with the said register and receiver and the payment of ten dollars, he or she shall be permitted to enter the quarter section of land specified j; provided that no certificate be given or patent issued therefor until the expiration of at least ten years from the date of such entry, and if at the expiration of such time, or three years thereafter, the person making such entry, or, if he or she be dead, his or her heirs or legal representa- tives, shall prove by two credible witt nesses that they have cultivated and pro- tected such quantity and character of tim Der, they shall receive patent for such quarter section of land, and that if at any time after filing the said affidavit and prior to the issuing of the patent for said lands, it shall be proven, after due notice to the parties, that such parties abandoned or failed to cultivate the said lands, the land shall revert to the United States.

 The bill further provides that each and every person who under the pre-emptiOn and homestead laws, or any amendments thereto, having a homestead and who at the end of the third year of his or her residence thereon shall have had under cultivation an acre of timber trees thereon, not more than twelve feet apart each way, and in good and thrifty condition, for each and every one hundred and sixty acres of homestead shall, on the proof of two credible witnesses, receive a patent for the said homestead, and that none of the lands shall become liable for the satisfac tioa of any debt or debts contracted before.

 The bill further provides that the Con- missioner of the General Land Office shall be required te issue such rules and regula- tions consistent with this act, as shall be necessary and proper to carry its provisions into effect, and that the registers and re- ceivers of the several land offices shall be entitled to receive the same compensation for the land entered under the provisions of this act, that they are now entitled to receive when land is entered with money also that the provisions of the act of March 3, 1867, shall extend to all the af- frmations, affidavits, and oaths required by this act.
Year: 1873

Mr.. Cakes Ames has offered an ingenious
defense. His story Of the building of the
Union Pacific Railroad, of the obstacles it en-
countered at every step, the timidity of capi-
talists who were urged but refused to invest
in the enterprise, of the legislation that was
necessary and was accorded by Congress in
its promotion. of his own connection With it
and the difficulties in which it involved him,
of the intense public interest felt in its prog


ress and completion after the labOrs of its
projectors had created a belief in its practical
bility and some degree of confidence in its
success, and of the enthusiastic congratulations
which followed its opening, is very interesting.
So far as he goes he makes good points. He
is especially effective when he appeals from
the prejudice and passion of the hour to the
entirely different feeling that pervaded all
classes during the progress of the work and
Immediately after its completion. Could he
be Judged by the sentiment of Congress and
the people at that time, he says he would rest
his case with confidence. There is something of
truth in this. Whoever remembers the Cir
cumstanees he has recalled and they are
quite fresh in the recollection of most men
will have no difficulty in apprehending the
force of his argument. The completion of the
road, and the uniting thereby of the
Atlantic and Pacific, found the country iii a
sentimental mood In an impulsive heartiness
we gushed toward Mr.. Ames and his assO


ciates, and endowed them with the name of
benefact0rs just then they might have been
discovered in the questionable transactions
now brought 30 light and been pardOned by a