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Year: 1876

California settlers on the Mexican land
grants are good deal excited over an
attempted land grab on the part Of
the Central Pacific railroad. By all
precedent in departmental ruling, as
well as by the decisions of the courts,
this class Of lands have always been held
as reserved and subjected to pre- EN- ptions
and homestead location. 1t was lately
discovered that case in which the rail.
road had beth sides had gone by default
in the United States circuit court in Cal
iiornia, and was in the supreme court oil
the United States. Upon this the settlers
sought to employ eminent counsel to de.
fend that case to prevent a decision evi.
IDENTIFY desired as a precedent. Through
their attorneys they made application to
a prominent Western lawyer and ex sen.
ator, who, by letter, agreed to defend the
case. Later developments reveal the fact
that he had received a retainer from the
railroad company, on the other side oil
the same case, and that he had himself
made motion to advance that same case
on the docket, which had been denied.
Still more receot developments show that
a late officer, very prominent in the land
department at Washington, is interested
In the same matter, and that he, too, al.
though in the employ of the settlers, has
received fee Of 81 900 from the rail.
road, and his receipt for the money in
San Francisco. As the Mexican grants
cover about one seventh of all the lands
in the State and about oue.fourth of all
the choice lands; as the settlers have
lived upon and improved these lands for
years; as thousands of them have paid
for their lands and received duplicates
and patents for themthe attempted fraud
is really of huge proportions A hun.
dred million dollars would not cover the
amount involved.
Year: 1876




The vice of intemperance is one of 50
frightful mien that to be hated needs but
to be seen. But those Of US who have
been more remote from centers of traffic
have seen and read enough Of the crimes
and misery which follow in its train to
rouse our indignation and lead US to wage
unccasing warfare against this monster.
And we have every reason to expect sue
cess, even though the enemy RACES as be
always will when his craft is in danger.
We all recollect that the few who com.
menced the slavery agitation were called
fanatics. Our lamented Lincoln said
he was careful to be on the Lords side
and then he knew the Lord would be on
his side. b. B. K.
Year: 1876

A Danbury man, wishing to engage
several bushels Of potatoes from a party
in the suburbs. asked a neighbor what
sort Of man he Was. "Well," said the
conscientious neighbor, II do not know
very much about him, but l should think
be would mako tip top stranger"
Year: 1876

A lady in Washington, just after the late
snow, hired eolored man to shovel the sno"
off the sidewalk in front of her dwelling, agree
ing to pay him twenty cents for the job. The
man went to work and finished in due time,
but when be asked tor his pay, the lady do
clined to give it, saying he ought to be glad to
have been able to do some work. Sam was
nonplussed for moment, but probably the
idea advanced by the lady, that he ought to
be glad to work, struck him as correct, for he
Immediately shovced all the snow back upon
the pavement, and then went off with the air
Of a man who is conscious of having performed
righteous act.
Year: 1876

The Washington Star efectually refutes
Gen. Longstreets lately published assertions
that had Gen. Lee taken his advice the battle
of Gettysburg would not have been lost, by
saying:


"Thc impression existed at the time General
Lee left Fredericksburg on his northward
march that his objective point was Washing
ton, and that he would take advantage OF the
first opportunity to reach this city. The two
armies marched on parallel lines until they
nearcd Gettysburg, when these lines began
converging until they clashed in the roar OF q
great battle or q series of battles at the point
named. The line of march Of the Union army
from Fredericksburg was governed as matter
of course by the movements of the enemy, es-
pecial care being taken to continually keep be-
tween Gen. Lees army and Washington. AT
no time during that exciting march could Lee
have thrown bis army on Washington without
risking general engagement with the Union
forces, nor could he by any possible means
have thrown himself in tho rear of General
Mcadc's army alter the second days fight at
Gettysburg"
Year: 1876

A TERRIBLE SYsTEM.-Wc read an inter-
esting account of the "silcDt system which is
in operation at the Holloway model prison in
London. 1t isau offeasc for a prisoner to speak
one word, and he is never addressed except in
whispers so that he may be in prison two years
without hearing the natural sound of the hui
man voice. The effect of this is SO terrible on
the mind that prisoners will speak out in des-
peration, at the risk of any punishment, rather
than endure that horrible silence. They never
sec one another, but remain in perpetual soll-
tude. There is 6ue hole in each cell, and as
the wardcns wear India rubber soles they can
never be sure of being unmatched. Every day
the prisoners are taken to chapel so arranged
that they can sec no Que save the chaplain, and
him only through an iron grating. And thus
is the order OF devotion observed. Wardens
are constantly on the watch, lest for single In
slant they through the whole ofthe service, de-
part from the rigid rule Of ''eyes right. They
must look steadfastly at the preacher; must
raise and lower their prayer book with the el-
bows squared, and all at once, like soldiers at
drill. They may noe scrape their feet without
having afterward to explain the movement.
They scarcely wink al eye or sigh without dan
ger of rebuke or punishment
Year: 1876

The work has been begun after long and careful preliminary labor and with the ample resources for carrying it on to a successful termination.

 None of the original stereotype plates have been hl1kev hash haen
Year: 1876

A witness for the prosecution in a
murder case was thus questioned by his
honor


You say you saw the man shot at and
killed 2


Yes. sir.


You said. think, that the charge
struck the deceased on his body. betwo n
the diaphraghm and the duodenum 2


"No. sir, ! didn't cay no such thing
said lac was shot between the hogpen
aud the wood.hou-e"
Year: 1876

The thermometer in Atlanta doesn't
fool around and play with the North
wind. A young man who attended
church with his sweetheart on Sunday
attempted TO sit the sermon out with a
paper shirt bosom, but was not altogether
successful. IL is said that when he came
out, waving his rattan, bis appearance
was such as to give rise TO a suspicion
that a saleratus. bombshell had struck
him in the stomach. The girl said she
had accepted an invitation 10 take din
ner with a friend.
Year: 1876

The latest recipe TOR true eloquence
Was given by minister at the M.rtha's
Vineyard Baptist camp meeting yrster
day Here Il is Get yourself chuck
full Of the subject. knock out the bung.
and let nature caPer. L Boston Globe.
Year: 1876

Il don't see how you can have been
working all day like a horse exclaimed
the wife OF a lawyer, her husband having
declared he had been thus working
We'll. my dear he replied. I've been
drawing Conveyance all day, anyhow.
Year: 1876

A full line Of Musical Merchandise kept in stock
We guarantee TO suit the purchaser OF our
goods IN regard to price.


Repairing and Plating neatly done and all
work warranted. 1905


CHARLES MELCHOR, SEQ.
Year: 1876

The minister gave out his text, and
droned along monotonously through an
argument which was so prosy that many a
head, by and by, began 10 nod, and yet it
was an argument that dealt in limitless
fire and birthstone, and thinned the pre-
destined elect down TO u company so small
as TO be hardly worth the saving. Tom
counted the pages of the sermon; after
church he always knew how many pages
there had been, but he seldom knew any
thing else about the discourse. However,
this time he was really interested for lit
tie while. The minister made grand and
moving picture Of the assembling together
OF the worlds hosts at the millennium,
when the lion and the lamb should lie
down together, and little child should
lead them. But the pathos, the lesson, the
moral of the great spectacle were lost upon
the boy he only thought of the conspicu-
business of the principal character before
the on-looking nations; his face lit up
with the thought, and he said to himself he
wished he could be that child, If it was a
tame lion.


Now he lapsed into suffering again as the
dry argument was resumed. He bethOught
himself of treasure he had, and got Il
out. 1t was large black beetle with for
midable jaws, "pinch bug" he called it.
II was in a percussion-cap box. The first
thing the beetle did was to take him by the
finger A natural FLIP followed, the bee,
lie went floundering into the aisle, and lit
on its back, and the hurt finger into the
boys mouth. The beetle lay there work.
ing lis helpless legs, unable TO turn over.
Tom eyed it, and longed for it, but it was
safe out of his reach. Other people, unin-
terested in the sermon, found relief in the
beetle, and they eyed it too.


Presently u vagrant poodle dog came
idling along, sud at heart, lazy with the
Summer soflness and tine quiet, weary of
captivity, signing for change. He spied
the beetle; the dropping tail lined and
wagged. He surveyed the prizes walked
around 1T smelt of 1t from safe distance I;
walked around it again grew bolder,
and took a closer smell; then lifled his
lip, and made gingerly snatch at it, just
missing IL 4; made another and another; be-
gan TO enjoy the diversion subsidized to his
stomach with the beetle between his paws,
and continued his experiments; grew
weary at last, and then indifferent and alb
sent-minded. His head nodded, and little
by little his chin descended aud touched
the enemy, who seized II. There was a
sharp yelp, filrt Of the poodle's head, and
the beetle fell couple of yards away, and
lii ON his hack once more. The neiRhbOr-
Year: 1876

ing spectators shook with gentle inward
joy, several faces went behind fans aud
handkerchiefs, aud Tom was entirely hap
py. The dog looked foolish, and probably
felt so; but there was resentment in his
heart, too, and a craving for revenge. So
he went TO the beetle, and began wary
attack on it again; jumping at il from
point of circle, lighting with his fore
paws within an inch of the creature, max
even closer snatches at it with his teeth,
and jerking his head till his ears Tapped
again. But he grew tired once more, after
u while; tried to amuse himself with fly,
but found no relief; followed an ant
around, with his nose close to the floor
and, quickly wearied of that, yawned,
sighed, forgot the beetle entirely, and sat
down on it! Then there was wild yelp of
agony, and the poodle went sailing up the
aisle; the yelps continued; and so did the
dog he crossed the house in front of the
altar; he flew down the other aisle; he
crossed before the doors; he clamored up
the home stretchi his anguish grew with
his progress, till presently lie was woody
comet, moving in its orbit with the gleam
and speed of light. At last the frantic suf-
ferer sheered from its course and sprang
into its masters lap; he flung it ont Of the
window, and the voice of distress quickly
thinned away and died in the distance.


Tom Sawyer went home quite cheerful,
thinking to himself that there was some
satisfaction about divine service when
there was bit of variety in it. He bad
but one marring thought; lie was willing
that the dog should play with his pinch
bug, but be did not think 1t was upright TO
carry ii ofT.-Mdrk Tt0din.
Year: 1876

There are only three OF these wool pic
lures in the gallery, and all one can say of
them is, that they as far exceed in delicate
tinting the beautiful tapestries Of the Main
Building, as they surpass ordinary wors-
ted work.
Year: 1876

Fresh gkdes the brook and blows the gale,
Yet yonder halts the quiet mill;
The whirling wheel, the rushing sail,


How motionless and still!
Six days of toll poor child Of Cain,


Thy strength the slave of want may be;
The seventh thy limbs escape the chain


A God hath made the free!
All |! tender was the law that gave


This holy respite to the breast,
To breathe the gale, to watch the wind,


And know the wheel may rest!
But where the waves the gentlest glide,


What image charms to light thine eyes?
The spire reflected on the tide


Invites thee to the skies.
TO teach the soul its noblest worth,


The rest from mortal toll is given;
Go snatch the brief reprieve from earth,


And pass-a guest to Heaven.
They tell thee, in their dreaming school,


OF power from old dominion hurled,
When rich and poor, with juster rule,
Shall.share the altered world.
Alas since time itself began,
That fable hath but fooled the hour;
Each age that ripens power in man


But subjects man to power.
Yet every day in seven at least,
One bright republic shall be known;
Mans world awhile hath surely ceased,


When God proclaims his own!
Six days may rank divide the poor,
Oh, Dives, from thy banquet-hall;
The seventh the Father opens his door,


And holds His feast for all.
Year: 1876

Yesterday was full of accidents and
incidents, but the most thrilling and in
tensely exciting was the trightfnl fall of
John Short from his balloon. To day
be is upon his deathbed, still alive but
mangled and crushed. The details Of
the affair are as follows: The balloon
ascension was set for four o'clock, from
the south side of the courthouse yard,
but at three the immense canvas was
full of hot air, and struggled like an im-
patient charger to be of. 1t was held
to the ground by ropes in the hands of
strong men, but it was deemed best not
70 keep them waiting there an hour
longer, it being no easy task to hold 1t
down. So the word was given to let
her GO and all released their ropes save
one man whose name we did not learn.
He was standing next to the court
house and his having hold of the rope
pulled the air ship to one side, and as
it arose the sharp corner OF the building
tore a large hole. Through this the
smoke and hot air rushed in torrents,
and gave the balloon the appearances OF
being in flames. The most intense ex
citement prevailed on the streets. A
number of ladies tainted, children cried
in terror, and brave men stood aShast
or ran in hot haste, screaming, up Main
street TO Sixth where the balloon was
coming .down with startling rapidity.
1t seemed to fall like mammoth mete-
or TO the earth. Prof Short did not at
first know the danger he was in, and
went through his wonderful perform
ances on the trapez. But when he
awoke to realizing sense of his rapid
descent he grasped tie ropes frmly.aud
standing upon the trapez, nerved HIM
self for the dangers he knew he must
meet. He passed within few feet OF
the roof Of Perrin's Bank building, cor
ner OF Main and Sixth, and could have
aliphted, but he saw before him Dodds
ward, toward which the balloon was
going, and where it would have let him
down in safety, but for the telegraph
wires. They caught the poor fellow
under the chin, cutting a deep cash.
He grasped at them but was torn vio
lently away and dashed 10 pavement
below. 1t was a frightful fall. Near
" two thousand people witnessed the
spectacle. The body fell with a dull
thuG upon the face. There was mo-
ment of writhing agony, in which he
turned over on his back and beat his
breast with his hands. lie then seems
TO have lost all consciousness for live or
ten minutes. but as they were placing
him in carriage he said BE care
full


The carriage, which was an open one
was drawn rapidly down Main street
and around the the square to DR.. Click )
Office. Poor Short was exposed to view
in the carriage and was seen by the
crowds as he was driven along. Two
or three men ran ahead of the convey
ance calling loudly upon the people to
clear the streets. \ surging multitude
followed and the streets were literally
packed for squares about the doctors
office. After an examination Mr.. Short
was carried in his home on Ferry street
where his right limb was ampuiated
above the knee and his wounds more
carefully dressed. The other leg,whlch
was also broken, was carefully set. lie
is still alive, bat suffers intense pain
Lay}ayeHe (Md) Courier, Juty 5.
Year: 1876

The other night Mary Jane Jones'
beau came up to see her and invited
Mary Jane out to have some ice cream
and soda water which has very ex-
hiIaratirg effect on some people, and it
proved to be the case with this young
man. Just as soon as he had got that
ice cream down he began to think how
nice it would be to have Mary Jane
always with him, aud then he began to
calculate how far so week would 60
towards supporting family, and he
concluded that with economy and man.
agemept on Mary James part and some
selt-denial on his, such as not playing
billiards but once week, and limiting
himself to say ten cigars in that time,
they might live very nicely. Provisions
did not cost much, and Mary James
clothes could not be very expensive,
say twenty dollars a year or so, and
well, he calculated it all as be walked
home with her and resolved that night
to know his fate.


Mary Jane noticed that he was very
distracted and guessed the reason and
felt glad within herself that she had
put on her white dress and new bus
tie, feeling quite sure that these had
done the business, for what young man
can resist a white dress, let alone 4
beautiful new hustle. When they got
to the front gate they saw that the
front steps were fully occupied by the
residue of the Jones family, so they sat
down on the horse-block under the
spreading naples and there he essayed
to tell the story OF his love. Just as
he got to where he was going to SAY in
conclusion. "The world is dreamy
waste to me without you, Mary Jane,
q bug dropped from over head right
down the back of Mary James dress.
She jumped up and gave Modocian
whoop and frantic;lly clatched at the
back of her neck and shouted ''catch
him, o-o-o-wouch; catch him, he's kill
inc me; and the way she tore round
there and danced up and down scared
the poor young man nearly to. death.
and brought the Jones family out head
ed, by the old gentleman who made
straight for the supposed chin and
kicked him off the sidewalk, running
his new summer clothes and causing
him to go right around the first corner
home.


Then the neighbors helped catch.
n
down her back and brought forth the
bug, and she wept sorely and trod it
ruthelessly under foot, remembering
what might have been if the bug hadn't
been.


Then she explained it all very clearly
to those neighbors, but they snitfed
their noses in the air and remarked to
each other privately to the effect of its
being very likely story indeed that a
June bug should stir up such fracas
and get young man kicked off the
walk, they guessed. If the truth was
known, etc.


All this week Mary Jane has gone
round with disheyeled locks and has at
tained q chronic squnt from much
watching through closed blinds for a
form that don't come; and her young
man stays within the fastness OF the
store and wonders, with a pain that
never dies, what allied Mary Jane, and
if they always act that way, and the
evenings and mornings go right on and
don't answer.
Year: 1876

it is true that
no one can escape temptation entirely,
there is no doubt that he can largely
modify its influence. The temptations
which inhere in a mans moral make-np,
he cannot wholly run away from, how
much soeyer he may desire it, because
the evil is in him, as disease is in the
tainted blood. But he can largely mod.
ify its action and lessen its virulence.-
One way to DO this is to keep himself
from sights and surroundings which in
flame his passions, and sharpen the edge
of bis appetites. II his temptation is in
the direction of stimulants, then let him
avoid the sight and smell of liquor and
the ccmpanionship OF those who drink.
So, whatever his weakness, let him keep
beyond the reach of whatever can pene-
trate him at that point. The Indian
method of fighting is ar excellent one
in spiritual warfare. The soldier Of
Christ should keep himself under cover
as much as he can. A good deal of
dodging is allowable in contest with
Satan. ''Discretion is the better part of
valor," at times, and it is better TO beat
a mastery retreat than to have your
soul captured bodily. a man who is
morally weak at any point, and who
nevertheless, persistentiy exposes that
point to attack, commits the gravest OF
sins-The Golden Ruis. - fes 81


Paw mn xonr dues AZ this Office i,nrne-
Year: 1876

RISING IN THE WoRLD.-You should
bear constantly in mind that nlne-tenths
of us are, from the very nature and
necessities of the world, born to gain
our livelihood by the sweat OF the brow.
What reason have we, then, toplesume
that our children are not to do the
same ? If they be, as now and then
one will be, endowed with extraordinary
powers of mind, these powers may have
an opportunity of developing themsei-
YES; and if they never have that oppor
tunity, the harm is not 'ery great to us
or to them. Nor does it hence follow
that the descendants of laborers are
;lSays to be lAborers. The path up
wards is steep and long to be sure.
Industry, care, skill, excellence, in the
present parent, lay the foundation OF
rise, under more favorable ciEcumstan-
ces, for the children.


The children of these take another
rise; and by and by the descendants of
the present laborer become gentlemen.
This is the natural progsess. 1t Is by
attempting to reach the top at q single
leap that so much misery is produced
in the world; and the propensity to
make such attempt has been cherished
and encouraged by the strange projects
that we have witnessed of late years
for making the laborers vlrtuous and
happy by giving them what is called
education.


The education which l speak Of con-
ssts in bringing children up to labor
with steadiness, with care, and with
skill; to show them how to do as many
useful things as possible; to teach them
to do them all in the best manner; to
set them an example in industry, sobrle-
ty. cleanliness, and neatnsSs; TO make
all these habitual to them, so that they
never shall be liable to fall into the
contrary; to let them always see Il good
living proceeding from labor, and thus
to remove from them the temptation to
get at the goods of others by violent or
fraudulent means, and to keep far from
their minds all the inducements to
hypocrisy and deceit.
Year: 1876

WASHINGTON, D. c, June 2l, 1S76, 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 to Congress, By the people of Arizona in 30 doing, l can but repeat my former platform. and with renewed energy and the advantage Of what little experience l have acquired, pledge myself eff electedl to devote my time and give my most careful attention to the advancement of the best interests Of Arizona and her people, irrespective ot par ty faction or section.

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

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

 Most respectfully inviting ene and all to my support, 1 am

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

THE San Francisco Chronicle says that a compromise has been effect ed between the Southern Pacific Railroad Company and Col, Tom Scott, by the terms of which the Southern Pacific Company Will build the road to the Rio Grande. This may be true, and it seems probable that something of the kind will be the ultimate out come of the long contention, but we would place more reliance in the report if it appeared in some other paper than the Chronicle. That journal is celebrated for pub fishing sensational news and in it's great hurry to be first, has the reputation of sometimes naaktn9 news.