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Year: 1875

SETAToR SARGENT made neat little
computation in his recent speech in
San Francisco. Have you" said he,
Thought, fellow citizens, that the re-
dueticn OF the national debt has been
S12Oa minute since you have sat here
and commenced talking! Taking the
average of the whole time, the redue-
ton of the debt has gore on at that rate.
Why take your watch and look at it
See the second hand as it flies; at each
tick of the second hand, 50 during the
whole time since Grants Inauguration,
by day and by night, upon week day
and upon Sunday-S2 per second in gold
has gone of the national debt"
Year: 1875

The symptoms of Liver Complaint are
unessiness and pain in the side. some
times the pain is in the shoulder, and is
mistaken for rheumatism. The stomach
is affected with loss of appetite and
sickness, bowels in general costlve,
sometimes alternating with lax. The
head is troubled with pain, and dull.
heavy sensation, considerable loss OF
memory. accompanied with painful SEN
sstion of having left undone something
which ought to have been done. Often
complaing of weakness, debility, and
low spirits. Sometimes many Of the
above symptoms attend the disease, and
of other times very few Of them; but
the liver is generally the organ most IN
Year: 1875

Conjectures as to the cause Of the explo'
sion are various, but it is the generally re-
ceived opinion that the material Of which
the balloon was constructed was too light
while the network covering the fabric was
too open. Others again claim that there
was more gas in the balloon than should
have beeu used, and therefore, when the
balloon reached the higher regions where
the pressure of the atmosphere was lees to
the square inch than on the earth, the re-
sistance without was insufficient for the
pressure within, or, in other words the
equilibrium between the gas and the at
mosphere was destroyed.
Year: 1875

A writer IN il the Springfield Republican
has had pleasant interview with:the1 req
Mary who had the little lamb, and who
related to him the incidents on on which the
Immortal poem vas based. The lamb wfas We
"a twin, thrust out of the pen by its unna-
tural mother. Mary took it home and
nursed it until well, and it naturally grew
into a great pet. One morning when it
was to go as usual 10 the pasture it could
not be found, and when Mary went sing
ing on her way to school it followed her /;
at the school house door she picked it up
and managed to carry. it secretly To- Der
desk, where she covered it up with her
sha ta:G But when called out to her SPELL
ing class the lamb got up too, and came
pattering after her, which made the chill
dren laugh, to see the lamb at school. It
happened on that morning that a young
man named John Rowlstor, the son of a
riding master in Boston, who was fitting
himself for Harvard, was at the school,
and few days after produced three verses
Of the poem. How it ever came to be
published Mary did not know, for the
young man died soon afrer, ignorant ofthe
of his verses. But the lamb
lived, and had five lambkins before it met
its death by an angry COW. Aside from its
memory there yet remains of it the residue
of a child's stocking, which is gradually


nm ra vollinn tn furnish MON nntooa for tho
many friends of Mary and her little lamb.
Year: 1875

About four years ago q correspon
dent of the Scientific American, for
whose veracity the editor vouched,
as he was personal friend, stated
that he had brought family Of chill
dren through the scarlet fever with
perfect success, end with no unpleas-
ant permanent results, as is very
often the case, by simply rubbing the
entire surface of their bodies with the
rind of a smoked ham every hour. In
the course of a month several per-
sons sent communications to the
Scientific American commencing the
treatment as illustrated by their own
experience. And now comes the
Herald of Health with the statement
that the best remedy, not only for
scarlet fever, but for typhoid, is the
amounting of the patient with cocoa
butter, which, on some accounts, IS
considered superior to any other OIL
Many German physicians, acting on
the recommendation of the celebra-
ted Schueman, almost invariably
adopt the amounting system, which
they claim lowers the temperature
and affords some nourishment to the
system by absorption.
Year: 1875

If the Ohio Legislature don't want
to damn the party in power and
themselves too, let them do what is
necessary to be done, and then ad-
journ and go home.-Is there no pa
triot among them p Eaton Democrat
Year: 1875

When your time is out, don't wait till you have a
chance to come to town, or send the money by a
neghbor but enclose it in a letter at once and hand
it TO your P. NJ. We ,UiH be responsible if the money
is lost from any post-c5lcc in this county.


Subscribers outside of the county should send
money orders, when practicable, where the amount
is 81 or more. An order costs but cents, which
the subscriber may deduct from the amount sent.
Year: 1875




AMERICA.


A PROCLAMATION.


Whereas. certain turbulent and disorderly per-
SONS, pretending that Elisha Baxter, the present
Executive of Arkansas, was not elected, have COM
bined together with force and arms to resist his
authority such Executive, and other authorities
of said State; and


Whereas, said Elisha Baxter has been declared
duly elected by the General Assembly of said State
provided in the Constitution thereof, and has
for long period been exercising the functions of
said Office, into whichhe was inducted according 10
the Constitution and laws of said State, and ought
by its citizens to be considered as the lawful Ex-
ecutiye thereof; and


Whereas it is provided in the Constitution of the
United States that the United States shall protect
every State in the Union, on application OF the
Legislature, or of the Executive when the Legisla-
ture cannot be convened, against domestic vio-
slence; and


Whereas, said Elisha Baxter. under Section of
Article w of the Constitution of the United
States and the laws passed in pursuance thereof,
has heretofore made application to me to protect
said State and the citizens thereof against domestic
violence; and


Whereas, the General Assembly of said State
was convened in extra session at the capital thereof
the 18th instant, pursuant to call made by said
Elisha Baxter, and both houses thereof have passed
joint resolution also applying to me to protect the
State against domestic violence; and


Whereas, it is provided in the laws of the United
States that in all of insurrecicn in any state
or of obstruction to the laws thereof, Il shall be



application of the Legislature of such State or OF
the Executive when the Legislature cannot be con-
vened, to employ such part of the land and naval
forces shall be judged necessary for the purpose
of suppressing such insurrection, or causing the
laws to be duly executed; and


Whereas, it Is required that whenever it may De
necessary in the judgment of the President to use
the military force for the purpose aforesaid, ne
shall forthwith, by proclamation, command such
insurgents to disperse and retire peaceaby to their
respective homes within limited time:


Now, therefore, /, ULYSSES s. GRANT, President
of the United States, do hereby make proclamation
and command all turbulent and disorderiy persons
to dsperse and retire peaceaby to their respective
abodes within ten days from this date, and here
after to submit themselves to the lawful authority
of said Executive and the other constituted author
tiles of said State, and / invoke the aid and CO
operation of all good citizens thereof to uphold
law and preserve public peace.


In witness whereof have hereunto set my hand,
and caused the seal of the United States to be at
fixed.


Done at the city of Washington this fifteenth day


of May, in the year of our Lord eighteen


hundred and seventy -four, and of the In
lsLAAI dependence of the United States the


ninety-eghth. U. s. GRANT.
BY the President:


HAMILTON FISH,


Secretary of State.
Year: 1875

If We were to choose Que word that
should characterize the state Of the Anleri.
can financial world, we would take mud.
die. Not that the true principal that un.
derlies financial economics is not a sim
pie one or that it is very hard to find out
but that apparent temporary advantage so
biascs the judgment that many men can
not see it. We have got to come down to
the worlds currency, and wages and all
prices and values mnst come down TO hard
pan. We may squirm and wiggle as much
as we please, but we cannot alter the fact
any more than we can make the sun rise
in the west. And the sooner we under.
stand and accept the truth, the better.
The trouble long predicted has come up
on US: the corn has grown so hard and
large that it stings dreadfully, and it must
come out now, even if it hurts to remove
it,-or rather the cause that produced and
perpetuates it must be taken away, and it
will disappear OF itself: Paper money
with an adequate backing Of gold IS a
grand blessing: alone, 1t is and has always
been a curse and a delusion. Legislative
intermeddling is like scratching wound.
Hands off! We say. Let business men
alone, and let natural laws have free play
and the disease will pass away. Empiri.
cism will only delay the day of health
Topographic Advertiser.
Year: 1875

The seventteth Annual spreaA--AAAr,ss


by General Sherman.


NEW York, Dec. 22.-At the seventiesh
annual dinner Of the New Englshd 3ocie-
ty tonight, President Bailey presided.
having at his right President Grant, and
on his left General Sherman. Many dis
tingulshed person were present and res-
ponded to toast. President Grant did not
speak, but General Sherman, in reply to
'rhe Army and Navy" said: "Upon tho
civilization of New England is based the
civilization Of North America. Tho
black man is as free as I am. The Japa
nesc are free to come here. 80 are the
Chinese But the civilization Of New
England will remain and viii govern this
continent The New England man. 10
where he will, carries center which, O..
'larglng, Will erect everything he cu.s d
contract with. He is the embodiment Of
all English.speaking people who believe
in honesty, truth, and patroitism."


Referring to the result of the late war
he declared that never was there such ~
example Of the conquerors giving the con.
qucred the same rights they themselves
possessed. THE moment the yanquished
laid down their arms we said to them:
Go home; 60 to work for the dag which
is to be the common one Of our homes.' I
say to every Southern man who will r..
with US heart aud hand to Guild up this
land, they are welcome, Just as If born on
the very surface Of Plymouth Rock. But
if they cherish any hopes for the old con-
hict, storm will arise over their heads
ten times as heavy 40 the last one. I
speak for the army and navy, the men OF
bone and muscle, the brain and sinew, the
aggregate American"


He referred to the hard times, and said:
The trouble is that people flock to much
TO cities. also tell them to came west
[Laughter.] There is no trouble In ST.
Louis-plenty to eat aud to drink. We
will give you hearty welcome and God.
speed to the best land west of US. If the
people of New York will learn lesson of
the pilgrim fathers and 60 back to some
what Of their economy, the national debt
will be extinguished in five years, and
specie payments would come naturally
Let US go back to times as before the war
and if necessary myself will give IN exam
pie of earning my own living. But In do
ing so let US still keep ourselves prepared
for war whenever it comes. Let u keep
the art ST war before us, 80 that We will
not have the modification of sending u
Germany for soldiers to drill our so]diers
IN the next war. [Grcat checring.] Inter.
Ocean.
Year: 1875

SCHOOL MEETING.-There will be a meeting of the citizens of Williamson Valley tomorrow to form a new school district. Judge Cartier, County Superintendent, will be there, and we propose to go along to sec that he does the fair thing in inauguratng the first educational or ganization eyer attempted in that thriving neigh borbood. It is ne Kght thing to have been in- strumental in starting an institution that is to educate and fit coming generation of men and women for the duties of citizenship. There may be- and doubtless arc. better paying offices within the gift of dle people, Financially considered, than Superintendent c Public Schools, but there is none from Governor to Coroner, that is at tended with greater responsibility or that ought to be attended to with more concentous exact ness. Other officers may tamper with tue liber- tics of the people, with their pockets by over taxation, CT &efraud them by mafesance or de- falcatiOn, but the school officer holds in his hands, to some extent at least, the happiness and intelligence ef the rising generation for a whole lifetime
Year: 1875

BEGINNING fro ARRIvE.-D. P. Waterman

 wife and two sons, from Wicbata, Kansas, ar rived here on Wednesday. s. NJ. Waterman, one oftbe sons, left here on the 1lth of May and met bis folks at Santa Fe. The Watermans have been here before and know what they are about They intend to work the Gold Hill and Pine Mountain mines on Lynx Creek. With the above came James Miles from the same place with a wife and ten children. Mir. Miles is a house-carpenter and joiner, and will establish himself in Prescott. They represent the road lined with teams, men, women and children all bound for Prescott and Salt River. The Calen outfit Is thought to be about two weeks behind. They all have money enough to keep themselves until they find business, but fear some of the others will find hard scratching to get through the winter The misfortune with the coming immigration is that they are not seeking investment for capital in the develop ment of our mines, but fleeing, as it were, from the ravages of the grass-hoppers in Kansas and Nebraska, and many of them, on that account win nrrive here comparatively destitute. Let 1t be the duty of all of us to lend them helping hand, so far as we can, and put them in the way of doing something for themselves. There is enough in the ground and on the plains, if we only had capital to develop 1t and establish re .ductOn works and stock to fatten on the grass. to satisfy ali corners. But for the present capital Is shy.
Year: 1875

A USE FoR BEDBuGs.-A correspondent of the Scientific American says: If nice fat bed-bugs are placed in a saturated solu- tion of nitrate of potash in water, and expos ed to the air for several days in an open vessel, there will he no apparent change in the bugs; but there will be in the odor, for now it is as delicate and delicious as before it was rank and disgusting. No doubt the odorous principle could be easily separated, perhaps by digesting with alcohol or ether; and if neatly bottled and labeled, it would yield a large profit 10 practical perfumers. The odor is unlike that of any other perfume I have ever smelt, and no one would suspect its low origin. This is one use for the cimex there may be others"
Year: 1875

LOOKING about over our town on Sunday after noon we were struck-not with a club-but with the many new houses that everywhere dot the town site like bright patches in an old fashioned quilt. Nearly every block in the place has had one or more new buildings erected during the season, and where they have not built new, many places new roofs have been put on and other ad- ditions and improvements made. We started in to count the new ones, but found the task hard one and gave 1t up.
Year: 1875

CURIOUS FAcT.-Friction impedes the pro- gress of the railway train, and yet it Is only through friction that it makes any progress. This apparent paradox is explained when we remember that by reason of the frictional bite of the drivers upon the track, they draw the train. The bearings ot the wheel upon the rails are mere line where they come in con tact iron and iron, yet this slight and almost imperceptible hold is sufficient to move hun dreds of tons of dead weight with the speed of the wind.
Year: 1875

VAsgTIoERTEY is the queer looking word that heads the new advertisement of Cram x Otis. It seems to be piled up, like the endless variety of goods in their store, without reference to which letter or article of merchandise comes first. c. & O. are enterprising and wide-awake to the wants of this people, and if an article is called for that is not in the market they slip over into California with their team and get it. Cram is gone on such an errand now.
Year: 1875

To get rid of crickets in Silver City, Idaho the citizens had general sweeping bee-get- ting the crickets into pile and then burned them. While engaged in this laudable work, big cricket strayed up a Silver City girls trousers-leg, and, for while, that girl was on the dragged edge of despair" The Avalache never before saw such lively kick ing performed by any human. The cricket's life was of short duration.
Year: 1875

THE wickenburg and Tucson mails arrived at four o'clock yesterday morning. The stages are making better time on all the routes than they did some time ago. The cars were to run to the station opposite San Bernardno on the 26th, after which the stock and coaches from Spadra to San Bernardino would be put on this end. We may expect coach on the Hardyvillc route before long
Year: 1875

ROGERS, of the Prescott meat market, Is the outside man of that concern while Allen dishes up the flesh to customers. Rogers played circus past the MINER office the other day with very fat COW which he was trying to point in the di- rection of the slaughter pen.
Year: 1875

A bad little boy, upon being promised five cents by his mother if he would take dose of castor oil, obtained the money, and then told his parent that she might castor oil in the street.
Year: 1875

a correspondent ol the Indiana Far.
nler says; II have stood 10 mud and
water two or three inches deep for ten
hours a day for week without feeling
any dampness or having any difficulty ia
getting my boots on or oil. Ii you
would be equally successful. before wear
ing The boots give the bottoms q good
coating OF tallow and coal tar and dry il
in; then oil the "uppers" with castor oil =.
about one tablespoonful TO each boot !;
then oil them twice a week with castor
oil. when one tablespoonful will be sufi-
cient. II the weather should be rainy.
or you are compelled to work in water
during the day wash your boots clean at
night, hold them by the fire until quite
warm. and oil them while wet. and you
will have no trouble about your boots
getting hard and shrinking up SO tha. you
cannot get them on. If the leather
should become red. give q coat OF
ordinary -blacking be fore oiling
The effect Of castor oil is 10 soften the
leather, while it fills the pores and pre-
vent the water irom entering.
Year: 1875

Hall says:-lt is wrong to eat without
an appetite, for II shows there is no gas.
tIic Juice in the stomach, and that nature
does not need food; and not needing lt.
there being no huid TO receive and oct
upon it, it remains there to putriiy. the
very thought Of which should be suflici.
ent 10 deter any man from eating without
an appetite for the remainder Of his life.
If tonic is taken TO whet The appetite. il
is q mistaken course, for its only result Is
10 cause one 10 eat more when already an
amount has been eaten beyond what the
gastric is able to prepare. The object to
be obtained is q larger supply OF gastric
juice. not larger supply OF food; and
whatever fails to accomplish that essential
object fails to have any efficiency toward
the cure oil dyspeptic diseases. The for
nation of gastric juices is directly pro-
portioned 10 the wear and tear Of the
system, which is TO be the means OF sup
plying, and this wear and tear can only
take place as the result Of exercise. The
efficient remedy for dyspepsia is work
OUT door work-benefcia and successful
in direct proportion as it 10 agreeable,
interesting and profitable.
Year: 1875

The truth is. the strength and attrac-
tiveness OF all real character" down East"
center in the preservation OF personal
individuality. Men aud women rub
against each other. but manage TO keep
unchanged. Last summer I'VE saw on
the beach of Cape Aun that singular
tract OF sea shore called the Musical
Strand. The grains OF sand send up
faint musical sound as the loot slides oy-
er them. We were told that in The
night, when the air is still. the waves.
pushing up against the dry particles. and
then recedng. will urge out at least
three distinct notes in turn. The only
explanation OF this phenomenon seems
TO DC that the sand is composed Of psr.i-
cles OF granite. worn of the surface OF the
ridge with which the shore is barrcaded.
and that their edges are not all rounded
by attrition. They have been rolled up
and down for these unreckoned years.
just as any other mass is rolled, under
the action ol tide and tempest bu, they
have kept their shape without being
worn away. Examine them carefully.
aud one sees rs we'll as feels that they
remain sharp at every point. often keen
as pin and thin as q wafer. Hurry
them, whom hot and dry. against each
other, and they will vibrate like so many
pieces of steel.


A not uniting figure this of New
England people. They owe the hard
ness they exhibit 10 the nature they bear.
They keep the essentials of the original
rock. They must have come into being
by cooling after some volcanic action OF
fire. il is not possible they could ever
have been stra,ified in the ooze. Their
independence of preserved personality
constitutes their integral character.
They have all the jostling that other
folks have. but they do not wear down.
And il rhetoric will let US this once force
the fancy. we may say It isitheir indiyid.
ualism which gives them the true ring,
their strong originality which makes
them musical. - Scri6neT's HouLhlv.
Year: 1875

Ons OF the effects oil tho shooting OF
the Bay Ridge burglars has been to lead
some body to ask Of Charles O'Conor his
opinion upon the duty and rights OF
householdeis as against midnight ma.
rauders. The great lawyer says that
housebreakers and thieves arc to all In.
tents and purposes outlaws. and if they
happen to be killed by, the family they
are seeking to plumber, public opinion
will hold the slayer guiltless. No one
will inquire whether the formalitiss and
etiquette strictly applicable TO the case
have been observed. and. whatever the
exact requirements Of the law. no magis.
trats will convict the slayer TO prison,
no grand jury will indict him, nor will
any district attorney prosecute. or petit
jury convict; and If By any chance such
person should be convicted. Mr., o. Con.
nor thinks the governor would lose nc
time in pardoning him. This opinion will
probably have a tendency to raise the
rates OF life insurance in policies taken
ont by professional burglars
Year: 1875

Mrs. Kemble, in the September
atlantic, discourses upon a subject
which seldom receives the attention
1t deserves, the subject embodied in
the above caption. She says: "The
objects that excite the fears of chill
dren are often as curious and unac-
countable as their secret intensity.
Miss Martineau told me once that a
special object Of horror to her, when
she was a child, were the colors Of
the prism, thing in itself so beauti-
full that it is difficult to conceive how
any imagination could be painfully i'm
pressed by it; but her terror of these
magical colors was such that she used
to rush past the room, even when the
door was closed, where she had seen
them reflected from the chandelier,
by the sunlight on the wall. A
bright, clever boy of9, by no means
particularly nervous or timid, told
me once that the whole story Of Alad-
din was frightful to him but he nev-
er was able to explain why it made
this impression upon him. A very
curious instance of strong nervous ap-
prehension, not, however, in any way
connected with supernatural terror,
occurred to a young girl about s
years old, the daughter of a friend of
mine. The mother, the gent]est and
most reasonably indulgent Of parents,
sent her up stairs for her watch, eau
tioning her not to let it fall; the
child, by her own account, stood at
the top Of the stairs with. the watch
in, her hand, till the conviction that
she certainly should let it fall took
such dreadful 'and. complete possess
sion Of her that she dashed it down,
and then came in a proxysm Of the
most distressing nervous excitement
TO tell her mother what she had DONE