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Year: 1875

Lumps of three and four inches cube were thus reduced.

 An analysis made after a similar ex- pertinent on a former occasion, showed that 98.29 per cent. of the copper con tained in the ore was reduced to a metallic state. James R. Smedberg and Edward N. Robinson, engineers, have made an elaborate and interesting report upon the process, in which they say that it unlocks our wealth in cop per at stroke, and that the power and cheapness of its plant are incredible to those who are welded to older preced- ents. They estimate that a plan to work twenty tons of copper ore per day, will earn clear profit of over $2OO,0O0 in a year of 300 working days.
Year: 1875

There must be some defence for the public against the plea of insanity now brought up regularly III favor of every murderer for whom no other de fence can be found or invented. This is made manifest by the attitude of counsel in the case of Scannell. Hither to men have been tried on the issue

 not whether they did the act, but wheth

 Ter their insanity did not render them irresponsible now it is proposed tc find a jury in this issue. To such de

 gree is the defiance of justice carried that the lawyers propose to exclude only such as have formed their opinions adversely. Justice, impartidlly, is far from what they want If a man ha; formed his opinions in favor of the defence of insanity-if he believes thaI capital punishment should be abolished under cover of this ruse, he is the man they are eager to secure. They wish

 therefore, only to exclude those whC have formed an n.apinion that this species of defence should be scrutinized with peculiar care, and who believe thai murder should not be committed with impunity under this pretense. That IS tc say, they wish to exclude from the jury ali men of common sense or common honesty, and who are not fanatlcs.- New York Herald, November IT.
Year: 1875

ALL rancid fits are unwholesome They alter the character of digestive action and affect health untayorabiy SrOug constitutions can bear the con seduences of moderate rancldity win out much apparent harm; but lnian's and invalids feel its depressing effect upon digestion and health at once plainly
Year: 1875

A YOUNG lady about Co be married insisted on having a certain clergyman 10 perform the ceremony, saving; ne always throws so much feeling ID Q the the thing; and l wouldn't give fg to be married unless i: could be done m style of gushing rhapsody"
Year: 1875

vember 30:

 At the new Water Works in the Mis- sion Valley, yesterday, the engine was run four hours, with no apparent de crease of water in the well-the water flowing in from the river-bed as fast as pumped out. The water in the well remains constantly at a given height which places the matter of an inex haustible supply beyond doubt.
Year: 1875

Preserve us from unceremonious peo-
ple-those men aud women who never
stand on ceremony"-who are always
perfectly at home in other peoples
housesl Society has many pests, but
few so intolerable as they. Free and
easy visitors are most thoroughly dis
agreeable. They will inAict themselves
upon you at any time and expect to be
always cordially welcomed because they
are so free and so 10th to put anybody to
trouble. They will come before break
fast, or just as you are sitting down to
dinner, and draw up their chairs like one
Of the family. Early in the morning
they delight to ran in" and they will
come right up to your chamber to ssve
you the trouble Of coming down, and
there they will sit and watch you make
your toilet, and comment on how gray
your hair is getting, and wonder If you
are not good deal stouter and redder in
the face than you used to be.


They will hunt over your writing-desk
for note paper bathe their faces with
your cologne-water, and scent their hand
kerchiefs with the contents ofyour choic.
est perfumery bottle They are always
ready for luncheon. "You know / am
too much at home in your house to 60
hungry, my dear, and any stray confec-
tionery lying about melts before them
as dew before the sun. They make no
scruple of borrowing your latest msga-
zine and novel; even your wardrobe does
not escape their encroachments; and all
this insolence is cloaked by some such
empty remark as this: "Inever stand on
ceremony, but make myself at home
everyWhere, 50 don't put yourself ont to
entertain" Again We pray, preserve Us
from unceremonious people,
Year: 1875

THE great infatuatiOn manifested to go that the American people always desire most of that which is more difficult to Ob- tain. There is not nor has there ever been any reliable information going to show that gold Tn any quantity exists there, but because 1t Is a long and perilous journey to get there and because the government has prohibited prospectors from going in, every one is crazy to go and nothing now will ever satisfy them but to go, suffer, starve, get tomahawked and probably find no gold.
Year: 1875

THE MINER says: "Go into our public schools and some of our brightest pupils are of Mexican percentage" We fully endorse this statement and presume that all who visited the examination yesterday will be willing to do so. The people of Mexico have been so long kept down by priestcraft that it has been supposed by many that education would not have the same influence upon them that It has had upon our own people, but a brighter lot Of children cannot be found than we are raising up in Arizona, and if continued in the public schools they will commence the race of life on an equality with Amer ican children and we predict that with equal chances they will not fall behind.
Year: 1875

STEPHEN GRANT sued the Portland Press for islander asking for $l0,000 damages for saying that he (GranU was the greatest liar in the State of Maine. The Jury found a verdict for the defendant, which was confirmation of the assertion made by the press. Now we will bet a new hat that we have greater liar in Arizona than Grant. We know man who travelled across a forty mile desert on foot without water in August to tell a lie, and lost three days time, S5 in expenses and $l5 in consequence of telling the lie. Still he declare, that he was better satisfied than to have saved the trouble and money and remained at home and told the truth.
Year: 1875

Over the choicest portion of theii table lands
and purchasers will have the right to water
without charge. Such an opportunity to Sc
cure land admirably situated and watered
and perfectly adapted to semi-tropical fruit
culture, will not occur again.
Year: 1875

THE LYCEUM THEATRE-MRs. ROUSBY AS LADY


ELIZABETH.


Mrs. Rousby comes from the full harvest OF her
English fame to test the favor OF an American
pubic. She certainly has no reason to regret her
reception last evening. The night was cold and
forbidding, and the theatre in which she opened
has not for some tlme at least, been associated
in the minds Of the people with any special
dramatic attraction. But at an early hour every
seat was nlled and the open spaces were crowded
with spectators. 1t was a critical audience. for
everybody In New FORK who may be said to be
anybody in q dramatic sense was present
When Mrs. Rousoy came on the stage, which
she did in one OF the earliest scenes she was
cordially received. But cordiality soon deep ened
into enthusiasm. She was called out at the end Of
every act, and at the end Of the fourth the call
was repeated three times. Flowers In garlands
and pyramids we're heaped upon the stage, and
when the curtain finally fell the universal opinion
was that our fair English guest had won a genuine,
enduring and well-earned triumph.


The play, ",Twixt Axe and Crown" partly
romantic and partly historical, is one OF the best
OF Tom TaJlor's works. The plot is slender,
ragged and lacks unity. There Is little note OF
time ana fitness OF historical incident, and In
many instances liberties are taken with the
known record Of those stirring days When the
play begins Mary Is on the throne, and the Prin-
cess Elizabeth, just budding into womannood, Is
In position Of halfdsguise in her court The
Queen is under the influence Of Gardiner, Lord
Chancellor and Bishop OF Winchester, an ambi-
tious prelate, as fond OF power as President
Grant, and as greedy for money as member Of
the old Tammany Ring. She has conceived pas
sion for the Earl OF Devonshire, who happens to be
In love with the Princess Elizabeth. Gardiner
offers the Earl the hand OF the Queen, which he
declines This incenses Her Majesty, who signs an
order for the Imprisonment OF the Earl and her
sister and accents the hand of Phllio IL OF Span-
Year: 1875

THE most attractive throng at the Bunker
Hill centennial was constituted of the first
old ladies of modern Boston dressed as
were their mothers one hundred years be-
fore. We have here in Austin at least one
excellent lady who cooked corn dodgers
and prairie beef for men who fought at San
Jacinto, and she moulded bullets through
many a day and night for the soldiers of
that war. Why may we not honor the
women as well as the men of those terrible
days and reproduce the home-spun cos
tunes aud thus never forget the virtues and
heroism of the bravest of those old TexansG
Mems modesty does not intervene to award
oblivion to their deeds and very wrongfully
do we forget the daring and toll of the
women of our revolution. sidf paio
Year: 1875

H". 2 rH


There are more than one thousand millions
of time bonds, and only four hundred mil
lions Of currency. They who hold the bonds
practically hold the currency. They can
borrow all of it at four per cent. per an
mum on Ghese bonds as collateral IT Nobody
else can get money. City and county secu-
rites, as the, country Is now governed, are
valueless to borrowers, and the only remedy
is to oconvert these. Federal bonds into green
backs. Then they will be boarded no
longer, or withheld from circulation. There
will be then no more paper Indebtedness,
and no more paper against the government
outstanding than to-day. But it will not
be in shape that the premium-the inter-
est coupons-wlll be preferred for with
holding it from circulation, n Transform the
bonds into greenbacks and these will seek
investment in factories and railways. Now
all money seeks investment in bonds. If
we would make the country prosper as
never before and enable the last debtor in
the South to get even, and do no wrong, it
is only needful to make bonds no better
than greenbacks. The country will owe no
more then than now, but its Indebtedness
becomes its currency. Now it absorbs and
paralyzes the currency and breeds hard
times h s ''- s'HG ret
Year: 1875

The Age says that the Telegraph, in a
leading editorial, comes out squarely for
hard money and contraction. In other
words, the Telegraph goes in for keeping up
the present stagnant times; for keeping the
honest laborer and mechanic out of employ
ment; for increasing the purchasing power
of money, and therefore approves q de-
crease in wages and values. 1t would
build up the rich at the cost of the indus
trial classes. To be brief, the Telegraph, in
espousing hard meney, says in effect that it
is for grinding the industrial classes in the
mills of penury for the benefit Of the aris-
tocracy of New England. But the TeIe-
graph has perfect right to take which side
it chooses, and when the question of cur
rency comes to be decided by the people it
will find itself wofully in the minority.
The Austin organ, like the Telegraph, has
pronounced for hard money. How do the
people like it9 Would they give the bond
holding Shylocks the pounds of fieshG
Year: 1875

San infamous secret circular has been
sent out from Austin. closely sealed, and
though protesting to emanate from the i'm
ner circle of the Democratic party, it bears
the evident earmarks of the Austin STATES
MAN. Prepared with consummate skill ito
that exteat it is very like the STATEsMAN's
work.-EDs. and Stimulating endorsement
of the present administration, it pretends
to give the arrangements for the next cam
paign, thickly interspersed with contempt
uous illusions to the Changers and to the
masses of the Democratic party. While
intended to be understood as coming from
the friends of the administration, it is so
worded as to exercise most damaging in
fuence unless exposed and counteracted.
1t is simply a trick of the railroad ring, who,
ever SINCE they were foiled by Governor
Coke in an attempt to burden our people
with Sc, 900, 600 subsidy, have been i'm
placable in their hatred and untiring in
their SANDER and abuse of the man who
rose up as "a lion in their pathway" f1


Will not the Neps send US a copy of this
circular9 We never before heard of 1t and
never saw copy. Moreover it is proper to
say that it would have been infinitely better
for Governor Coke if he had approved the
three million (not So, OOO, 900 as the Nesos
has it) bill than the untaxed land grant
which he has fastened on the State. But
we are content, and the State will never be
the loser if the road be built. But let us
see COPY of this secret circular.
Year: 1875

IT is all bssh when. timid demagogues
say we can't restrict suffrage in corporation,
city and county elections. People that
have no possible interest in voting, save to
the extent that they are hired for whisky
or money, win not be conscious of any sac
ri6ce when they incur none. There is no
deprivation of right when they who have
no property can have no right to tax those
who have. They surely will not claim the
right to be robbers. Corporations concern
nothing but property, and property should
govern them. In State and Federal cleo
tions different principle obtains.
Year: 1875

THE Corsicana Immigrant tells fearful
story affecting the selfishness of the
people of that town. 1t may become mon
umental and be remembered even when
Corsicana is forgotten. A stranger, too
sick to travel, was left on the platform by
the godly railway company, which, having
no SOUL can commit no crime. The sun
roasted the poor, friendless, fevered, thirsty
man through the livelong day. Some
good man, thinking the mayor might help
the dying wretch, moved him to the plat
form in front of the mayors Office, and then
the life happily went out of the friendless,
unknown wayfarer. They have churches in
Corsicana, but hollow and empty, we inn
agine, like an ancient tomb, aud these
churches have spires that point towards
Gods throne; but the people that reared
them were only making q nilometer to
measure the hight of the flood-tide of their
vanity. The spirit of divine charity never
came down like flashing bolt of living
hight to illumine with rays of divine good
ness the hearts of those in whose presence
poverty dies of haggard want and before
whose pitiless eyes friendless strangers are
roasted alive in the very presence Of pretty
homes and beneath the very shadows Of
Gods temples. The only sign of mercy
discovered in the midst of all these painful
incidents is the fact that the Immigrant fails
to give the name of the poor man. BE
might have a wife or mother or sisters or
children, and their hearts would have been
broken if they had read this ghastly, sick
ening recital of the intolerable woes and
dying anguish of him whom they loved 50
tenderly. s 81 Hi
Year: 1875

GOVERNOR COKE is going out speech
making. In any event, it is said he will APP
pear on the stump at Bolton on the twenty
fourth instant. The people are then ex-
pected to rotify the nominations made by
the district convention. The Democrats OF
the district are invited to attend. Nothing
is said in the announcement about barbe-
Year: 1875

THE Fort Worth Democrat approves the
purpose of the Rockdale Messenger and its
conduct, the Messenger condemning the in
tervention of Ireland as party leader in
the creation of constitutional convention.
But now the Job is done, and we must
make the best of it. The party as such
must be responsible for the new Constitu-
ton, and it must be WISE one.
Year: 1875

THE last ordinance of Gen. Ord will be
deemed heavy ordnance by the registering
cattle thieves and highwaymen on the FROM
tier. Every white rascal caught when
painted red goes to the Dry Tortugas. The
whole country applauds the decree Of the
general. White villains who dishonor In
dian braves by assuming the livery of hell
10 serve the devil in can well endure blaz-
ing sunbeams that roast desperadoes on the
ghastly Dry Tortugas.
Year: 1875

EACH old soldier of Texas should adopt
the wise plan of Judge Edwin Waller
and have his life written by some one
skilled in the art. p. E. Pearson dis
charged the task in this instance with
pains-taking care and skill, and the pamph-
let sent us by Judge Waller is Of infinite
interest, especially to old citizens Of Texas,
and the more to the new who would be-
come conversant with the history of thee
Year: 1875

THE Governor il meditAting, We reckon,
about calling out the militia He looked
very solemn beneath the cool shadows Of
his mighty so1'breror when last seen swing
ing along the Avenue. He was cogitating
gruniy about the coming war between
Fort Worth and Dallas and the necessity
for the invocation Of Grant and Bristow,
the latter 70 stop the distilleries, and the
former TO exhaust the existing supply Of
Year: 1875

TIE commissioners 70 select locations for
the two new penitentiaries have decided to
locate ne one for Eastern Texas on the
East and West Narrow Gauge Railroad, one
and q half miles west Of the town Of Rusk.
Year: 1875

A most remarkable discovery is re-
ported from the astronomical observa-
ton established by the Russian govern
ment several years ago at Pamlateska
the highest point with one exception on
the Himalayan range. For several
months, peculiar bright spot had been
discovered, shining from the extreme
edge of The moons disk, at point where
no mountains break the continuity of it's
perimeter. This light suddenly disap-
peared and remained invisible for nearly
twelve months. 1t has lately reappeared
IN greater brilliancy than ever, and the
immense power of the telescope attached
to the above observatory, so well known
in the scientific world, has developed
the fact that the light proceeds from
some huge FURNISHED substance, acting
as a mirror, which must be at least one
hundred feet in diameter. The most
astonishing thing in the matter is the
almost complete proof that this is actu-
ally a mirror of artificial construction,
and the theory of the savans at Pamla-
teska is, that it is erected for observa-
tions of a scientific character, principally
to observe the phases Of the earth's
surface.


1t is well known that the immense
height Of that portion of the moon which
is turned toward the earth, not only
through the we'll known laws of gravita-
ton, keeps that portion of her surface
presented toward US, but also renders it
uninhabitable. It is supposed that the
side turned from us may have an atmos-
phere suitable for animal life, and that
intelligent beings, observing the halo Of
light shed around it's horizon by refec-
tions from the earth, may have taken
this means to ascertain the cause. Some
ingenious device to place mirror at
height where animal life could not be
sustained, was the result. It is hoped
this discovery may lead to others in
regard to our interesting satellite.
Year: 1875

PERSONS who think that the umbrella
is in the eye of the law teroe nature, and
that hence it cannot be made the sub
iect of theft, should take warning by
the fate of an Englishman who recently
appropriated another mans umbrella on
a rainy day, and has since been sentenc-
ed to three months imprisonment by a
London magistrate. The defendant
pleaded that he had no intention of
stealing the umbrella, but that he ''took
it, to keep himself dry. Undoubtedly
he shared the popular delusion that
property in an umbrella cannot exist.
but he is now wiser and sadder man.
Year: 1875

LATER. We learn that on arriving at
home Mr. Stolzin first exhibited to his
wife photograph of the girl, which was
Immediately recognized by her by its
family resemblance, and she was so
overcome with emotion that she fell into
a swoon. All doubt of the identity of
the yourg lady as the missing child has,
we understand, been removed, and both
parents and daughter are satisfied with
their newly discovered relationship.
Year: 1875

JUsT now that Japan, with all her
wondrous antiquities, is being opened
to the stady of the world, the announce
ment of the destruction, by fire at Yeddo
of great number of ancient historical
documents of which no duplicates exist,
cannot be too seriously deplored.
Year: 1875

DOES the court understand you to say
that you saw the editor intoxicated?
'tNot at all. sir, only I've seen him in
such a-a-a-fiurry as to attempt to cut
out copy with the snuners that's all. %
Year: 1875

Mrs. Stokin. Her marriage to another
filed him with rage and disappointment
and he vowed he would be revenged
The method chosen to carry ont his
threat was the abduction of the child,
and he followed them from Ohio to Wis
consin to accomplish his pulpose.-
Whether the theory be correct or not
we have no means of knowing, but it is
certainly very plausible one.


This is the whole plain, unvarnished
tale, bedaubed with no pigment of fancy,
bedeeked with no flower of the imagi-
nation. That q fond father and mother
have fonnd a long lost daughter we have
good reason to hope and believe that
the invisible hand which holds the slen-
der threads of destiny and silently
weayes the wondrous web of human life
for time and eternity, has led young
girl back to her own home and kindred,
we have an abiding faith.
Year: 1875

We know why the animal Graves salt,
and why it ultimately falls into disease
if salt Is for time withheld. Upward
of half the saline matter of the blood
Isl per cent? consist of common salt;
and as this is partly discharged every
day through the skin and kidneys, tho
necessity of continued supplies of it to
the body becomes sufficiently obvious.
The bile also contains soda as special
and indispensable constituent, and so do
all the cartilages of the body. There
fore, if the supply of salt he stinted,
neither will the bile be able properly to
resist the digestion, nor the cartilages be
bnilt up again as they naturally waste.


And when we consider it to be fact
that without salt man woald rniserably
perish, rs among horrible punishments
entailing certain death feeding
culprits on saltless food is said
to have prevailed in barbarous times,
we may become partially convinced, at
least of the necessity of feeding salt to-
our stock that it is one Of the necessa-
ries as we'll as one of the luXurics Of life
for man and beast; and it should be
profusely provided at short intervals, in
proper places, if it cannot be kept by
them continually, so that each and ev--
cry animal may satisfy the demands OF
his nature. Then it shall not be said OF
us that while our pudding is we'll sea-
soned and salted our stock are allowed
to suffer for want of the same ingredient
which is as truly necessary for their
food rs for ours.
Year: 1875

Hart County is evidently good
County to live in. The El6ert0n Ga
settc SAYS that once,it was good joke to
ask what were the receipts of cotton at
Hartwell. The Gazette well says, lit
may have been a good joke then, but
the receipts at this point now is no lnslg-
niflcant matter. One firm there ships
more cotton than any house in Elber-
ton, and as much cotton goes to market
from this town as from our own village,
if not more, and they have no ware
house either. The trade of Hartwell
would surprise one not acquainted with
the vast improvements in the past few
wears. Thousands of dollars worth OF
all kinds of merchandise are yearly dis
posed Of, and many Of them for the
cash. All the people have some money,
and all the necessaries Of life are made
at home, so that man with dollar III
his pocket has a title to that dollar, and
is not afraid that the first man he meets
will ask for it. There is less money
owing in Hart than any place we know
of. Every man does not owe every
other man, consequently there is free,
independent bearing about its citizens
that vastly differs from the conduct OF
those enslaved by commission mer-
chants, and every other merchant you
can think Of. With the use Of fertil-
izers and hard labor, large quantity OF
cotton is produced, where formerly hard
ly any grew. This is sold for the mon
ey, and the farmer buys upon better
terms and the merchants never break
Chronicle GntlTSeatinCl.