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Year: 1875

Connecticut Democratic Convention.


HARTFORD, February 16.-The Democratic
State Convention met to-day. David a.
Wells was elected president. In his address
he said that the Republican party had failed
to properly administer the Government and
restore peace and harmony since the war.
He, therefore, urged return to Democratic
principles, which, he stated, was opposition
TO Federal interference in the affairs OF the
States-that government being the best which
governs the least; equality of all men be-
fore the law; a better currency based on
bard money; and taxation for revenue only.
He thoughtit important that these principles
should be carried out farther than in express
sions and platforms. He denounced the
Federal interference in Louisiana as dictated
by vaga5ond and political adventurer.


The Convention unanimously nomipated
the old ticket.


The following are the resolutions adopted :
The Democratic and Liberal Republican
electors of Connecticut in convention assem-
bled declare


First. That free government derives its
just powers from the consent of the govern.
ed; that the Federal Government is vested
with those powers only which are granted to
it by the people, and as enumerated in the
Constitution of the United States.
Second. That the public welfare requires
the supremacy Of civil over military au-
thority, and the freedom of person under the
protection Of habedS corpus, and consistent
with public>Order for the State, se!fgorern.
ment, and for tue nation return to the
methods of peace and 10 constitutional limi-
tations of power.


Third. That we view with apprehension
and alarm, and solemnly condemn as sub
versiye of free government, the recent action
of the Federal Executive in interfering in
the States of Louisiana and Arkansas and the
ayowed determination Of the Administra-
ton TO disregard the will of the people of
those States in reference TO the organization
of their governments and the management Of
their local affairs.


Fourth. That the use of bad money im-
poses an unequal and dishonest tax, which
bears most heavily on those who work for
wages; that irredeemable paper currency, by
whatever name known, is bad money; and
that it is fraud in time of peace for Govern
ment to make anything legal tender except
gold and silver coin of fixed standard.


Fifth. That the Republican party has
proved itself unfit to rule because, with un-
limited opportunity, it has failed to make the
bad money which it has forced on the people
equal to the good money with which it pays


its bondholderS.


Sirh That it is no time when industry is
depressed and honest labor everywhere de.
plved of opportunity for regular and re.
munerative employment to increase the bur-
dens OF Federal taxation, aud that the pre-
sent acknowledged bankruptcy of the ma
tional treasury is conclusive proof of the in-
competency OF the Republican party to pro-
perly administer the fiscal alfairs of the coun-
try.


The remainder of the resolutions point to
the economic administration Of the State
Government during the past two years by
the Democrats, and point with pride to the
ticket presented, and approve of certain ac-
tions of The last Legislature.
Year: 1875

yegetine will eradicate every trace of canker or
cankerous humor from the system. Do not leave
off taking Vegetine while you are obtaining help
and feeling better but take IL regularly and effects
cure of The disease. The time and quantity Of Fege
tine TO be takeu to effect cure depends upon the
nature and severity OF the disease.


.-... PIMPLES ON THE FACE
Year: 1875

With this complaint Vegetsne acts differently
and works differently from any other remedy
known 10 the medical faculty. II commences its
to heal At the foundation and continues gradually
out toward the skin. making the smaller from
day 10 day, and finally the disease Is eradicated
from the system. .
Year: 1875

The circulation Of the bloo3is the life of the bod
and its stoppagc Is deah No disease can be In uae
body without fist b4lng generated In the BLOOD
and no disease can possibly be in the body If the
blood Is pure.
Year: 1875

Tho practice Of buying on credit the
necessary articles Of the household is
fatal to good economy. The housekeep-
or has always to pay dearer when she
does not pAy cash. The tradesman
must hRve interest for his money, for a
man will never in busy community be
willing, and is seldom able, il he were
willing, to forcgo it. To the ordinary
cash price Of the article ho therefore
adds the interest which may accrue dur
ing the time that credit is allowed.
This, moreover, is not oil /; there must
be a premium exacted by the dealer for
the risk he runs in trusting his goods to
TINT class Of more or less dangerous GUS


mers who never pay ready money.
Even the most honestly disposed OF
these arc often unsafe debtors for they
nre generally such ms arc imprlllent
enough to anticipate their incomes, and
to overrun them in expenditure. The
credit system, moreover, is q tempta-
tion to unnecessary purchases. There is
n sort OF check in sight and touch Of the
hard.won money to the disposition to
dispose OF il lightly. On the other hand,
there is something in the facility Of
credit, removing rs it does the disagreea-
bic necessity Of payment to vague
future, very seductive to the buyer who
can crafty his love Of possession with II
momentary sonse, at any rate, that ita
qualification costs him nothing. There
Is no such cheap and cautious purchaser
as cash.
Year: 1875

A few days since, says the Paris cores
pondent Of the New York Times Henri
Robert, young dry goods clerk, was
stabbed and nearly killed by M. Marambot
for the seduction of his daughter. While
it was then evident that the case of this
unhappy father would arouse great deal
Of public sympathy, nothing led one to
suppose that it would become cause celebre
Mile. Jeanne Marambot, while the mis-
tress Of Robert, clerk in the same shop in
which she was employed, had excused hel
frequent absences at night by saying that
she was detained by press Of work. The
robes that she purchased were represented
as the result of her overwork, and the un-
suspecting father was charmed with the
presumed industry of his daughter. As
she had made him believe that she was en-
gagged to be married he began to make a
watch for her, and told all his friends that
he intended to make every piece of it with
his own hand, for Jeanne was about to
marry, and he wanted to present it to her
on her wedding day. The watch was near
ly completed when the terrible revelation
was made, and the old and honest watch.
maker saw how foully he had been de-
ceived. He went to the young man and
asked him to marry his dau ghter, but


Henri Robert refused, saying that if he


had Mile. Jeanne for his mistress he had
only amused himself a. Marambot him
self had done in his younger days. Even
this piece Of insolence was borne, but when
he refused to marry Jeanne on the ground


that nobody could be sure that he was her


iirst lover, the indignant father plunged


knife into his breast. The young man is
not dead, and will probably recover, but if
he had been ki!led:upon the spot no jury in


France would have brought in . verdict Of
guilty agsinat N. Marambot. In prison he
has ,recsived q great many marks Of gym
patty, and some Of the shopkeepers Of
Paris we're getting .up subscription for
him. when his advocate begged them to
stop it.uatil after tho trial. r"-'I1 y
Year: 1875

y correspondent, who signs himself
"Adolphus Momingglory, East Sangus
Center, Mass" writes to the editor Of
the Boston AdUetiser as follows:
"rhe story Of the man who lost
watch and chain while shooting, and
who found them after seven years had
passed, is nothing to what happened
to me. About seventeen years ago !
too was shooting, and lost a gold
watch ana chain in a similar manner.
They were snGtched from my pocket
by young sprig of sapling, now
grown into a lofty willow, Upon my
return to the spo, last Summer my at
tention was arrested by a glitter among
the branches over my head | looked
i looked again. Yes, there was my
watch. The chain was embedded un


der the bark of the friendly branch,
and, strange to say, further out on the
branch was growing watch exlctly
similar to my old one, except in size.
1t was a trife smaller, the season then
being early for watches. The chain,
too, was a small counterpart of my
old chain. My first impulse was to
pick them eff the tree, but l atterward
decided to wait until the second watch
had fully ripened, and in due season |
culled them both, and they may be
seen at my office at twelve o'clock any
day for two weeks. A patent has
been applied for this method OF watch
making, a few trees have been set
near Waltham. in this State
Year: 1875

AS Red Cloud and Spotted Tail,
.ollowed by the usual crowd that they
attract, passed along one of the streets
adjacent to their lodge one day this
week, one Of the fair residents was
vigorously combing her "store hair"
having it fastened close to the side of
the window. Seeing the operation
from the other side Of the street, Red
Cloud suddenly, stopped, giving out
several, Of those pleasant grunts ex-
pressive OF admiration, and said !:
"White squaw take big scalp; me
want white squaw." The fair sea per
seeing the attention of the crowd di-
rected to her window dropped the cur
rain, and the scene Closed Washing-
ton Tribune.
Year: 1875

AS stranger was yesterday
knocking at the door of q house on
Second street a boy came around the
corner and inquired Got anything
to sell p "Yes | want to sell your
mother a box of tooth paste" might
as we'll get offn the steps," continued
the boy as smile broke out around
his mouth, "shes got store teeth, and
she cleans 'em with woolen rag -
Detroit Free Press
Year: 1875

j i Among the ofHcers to be. nominated in
the caucus tonight not one IS Of greater i'm.
portance to the. State than the one named
above. The present worthy superinte tendeut
might manufacture articles to great extent,
but unless they were promptly and prcfita.
bly, disposed OF, his best efforts would be OF
slight avail. The present storekeeper not
being candidate, the Legislature should looR
well and see to it that his successor be man
of sterling integrity, Of untiring energs,, OF
thorough business capacity, and posse ssing
that popularity with the people Of the State
necessary to the successor every salesman.
(; am an old businessman Of thirty yearg
hard service, and look at things OF this KIND
from business standpoint, and want
thorough man for the Office. Now, In gtanc.
ing over the long list Of applicants hnd the
name OF Charles q. Plnnkett. Of Appomattox,
and having known him ell his life Il say
without hesitation that be Is the man for the
place, and. better selection could not DC
made. He comes from o central position,
and all parts Of the State will heartily endorse
his election, especially every


Fuasgss-MAs.
Year: 1875

Only SIS down, and SIS month
1y for the balance.


Excursions leave my Office
every PLEASANT day at 8
o'clock in the morning and 8
in the afternoon.


All parties who mean busi-
ness taken out FREE, and
those who only go for the RIDE
please wait until the rush is
over, which will be On the 9TH
Of December, when the Lots
will be 5000.
Year: 1875

ROCHESTER, N. Y., Jan. q, 1875.

 4 lovely day: Last night the wind chang ed to the South, and all day the water has dropped from the eyes of the houses. The snow that has recently fallen packs, and the sleghing Is the best ever known Tn these parts. At 3P. M friend calls and talks of fast horses; was somewhat interested Tn his fast talk; soon ride was proposed, and in a very short time found myself seated Tn fine sleigh, wrapped in robes in company with ladies and gentlemen, behind span of spanking grey steppers; off we flew, We turn few corners, amid the bustle and noise of lively city, that enlivened by thousand tinkling bells, soon we find our selves on the Beast avenue: I notice thou ssnds of stores along the curb UT sidewalk; soon cheer and laugh on all sides, zip they come four abreast; in a moment my atten- tion was called in another direction to horse that seemed to be flying. l hardly had time to gather my senses to realize my real self, (for but few days had elapsed since was in Arizona) now fine span of blacks lap us, the ladies say, Don't let them pass,

 they did not pass, but fl We didn't fly from one end of the East avenue to the other at railroad speed, then am stump. We turn at the outcome and let the horses walk leisurely back. What does all this mean, II A. NJ. l am at a horse race My friend explained: In Rochester there are owned at least three hundred horses that claim to have trotted mile inside of 2:4O When the sleighing is good and weather fine, the boys take them out on the avenue to speed them. My friend, being one of the directors of the Jockey Club, is not allowed to drive along the avenue without some one trying to pass him. As we rode along he pointed out some of the fastest horses, in the familiar manner: I''That claybauk is valued at Sl2,000 ;-that mare is valued at Sl6,000,n and so on; the least valuation put on horse that would trot a mile in 2:3O was one thousand dollars. After driving rapidly over the road three times we return ed home with our head full of fast horses and horse talk East avenue is suited for ride, being perfectly level and very broad The frost has stripped the foliage from the trees, thus removing the veil that had con cealed from sight the many costly palaces on either side of the avenue. And as we rode along my friend pointed out the resi- dences of several millionaires.

 Next day, as stepped upon the platform of palace sleeper and started of at forty knot speed, looked back : It was like a vision or dream, and 1 came to the conclu- sion that Rochester was fine place for rich man to live in. It will be remembered that it was in this city that the mare Gold smith Maid made her fast time. But the Maid is being wintered in California, hence she does not appear in Rochester this winter Horses are generally driven single before light sleighs, sometimes skeleton sleigh Is used. BoB.
Year: 1875

The New York Herald of January 9th, treating of Louisiana affairs, is mere mode rate than most of the independent papers of the nation. The Democratic journals, with out exception, have assumed the fact of mill aggression, and at once. with a unanimity that indicated pre-existing determination to make political capital, began to denounce the Administration, the President and Gen eral Sheridan. The Herald says:

 The President has either suppressed a bursting civil war, or he has begun a series of usurpations that may lead no one can tell whither. The President has gone so far that he must be utterly condemned as military usurper or completely sustained

 To this the San Francisco Chronicle adds:

 We give our assent to this proposition, and so far as we are concerned we abide the yer dict of that sober second thought that comes after excitement and predicates its judgment upon ascertained facts. A harmless incident, inspired by a desire to prevent bloodshed and civil war, has been seized upon by all the hungry politicians of the nation who desire the downfall of an Administration of which they are not part.

 After all, 1t is but the cry of the jackall. It is but the yelp of the coy otes; it is the elamor of hungry place hunters. The President has suppressed "bursting civil war" and he has been guilty in act or intent of no usurpation. Sheridan will come out of this matter with added laurels and a new and brighter fame. His ride from Winchester down the valley of the Shenandoah is surpassed by this act that has preventing bursting civil war" Time, which at last makes all things even, is already beginning to demonstrate the wisdom of this precautionary step. To-day all is quiet in New Orleans: the honest press now begins to ring out in a voice like that of the olden time; patriots with fearless mein are step- ping to the front. The intelligent, honest sentiment of the nation has declared that that there shall be no second civil war.
Year: 1875

TIE Citizen bids the retiring Editor of the MINER farewell with words of congratulation upon his escape from the tread-mill, and takes us by the hand to bid us welcome to Arizona and speaks encouragingly of our capacity to keep up the reputation the MINER has already attained. We hope not to dis appoint the expectations of our friends and that our relations with our cotemporaries may always be pleasant.
Year: 1875

WHEN SHALL WE THREE MEET AGAIN. -Wm. A. Mix and Jonathan A. Logan are in Cedar District and have written each in- dividually to congratulate us on making choice of Arizona as a home. Well,-well well, who would have thought, after years of wandering, that we should run right into a nest of old pilgrims that we knew in their youth or, as Sam Bishop would say, "ahen we were on Earth the first time in
Year: 1875

But let us look at the remedy
which this newspaper recommends.
What will be its consequences?
First, the people of the West will
have to hold their produce mainly
until next spring. Will this injure
the railroads materially? Certainly
not. They will only run fewer trains
and have less expense. 1t must not
be expected that all or nearly all of
the wheat will be held, and what is
shipped will be owned by the same
men who own the railroads, and
they will sell it to the people of the
East and to exporters at famine
prices, and thus will more than make
up for losses consequent upon the
meagre business done by the roads.
The real sufferers will be the poorer
farmers and dealers Of the West,
who cannot afford to hold their
wheat, and the poorer consumers at
the East, who cannot afford to lay in
supplies now, while prices are CON-
paratively low, to last them until
navigation opens in the spring.


True, as the Pioneer-Press says,
the people Of the West should make
this an occasion for demanding of
Congress that. channels of water
communication shall be opened and
improved, so as TO make them less
dependent upon railroads.; but they
should do more, they should utter
such a general, clear and determined
expression of public opinion as to
influence the Supreme Court in Jan.
uary next, to decide the Granger.
suits according to law, instead of be.
ing swayed in its opinions by these
wealthy railroad nabobs to render
decisions in harmony with illega
and inconsistent precedents. We
want the water routes, every one O
them, but we, also, need to have
the laws of the land 50 interpreted
as to leave no room for the inference
that wealthy corporations are more
powerful that the government itself
Year: 1875

1t is we'll enough occasionally to
reflect that there are certain general
truths which we cannot afford to
overlook. Among these are the fol-
lowing: In every country there are
malcontents, naturally inclined to
revolution, and as apt to act from
fancied as from real causes. So, too,
every country has more or less un-
principled men, anxious to stir up
contention, in order that they may
take advantage of the tumult and
aggrandize themselves. Then there
are always hundreds of disappointed
men who have become soured by
mishaps until they regard mankind
as their enemies, and seek only to
avenge themselves by injuring others.
These three dangerous elements of
society are, for obvious reasons,
nearly always to be found in the mi
nority party in a republic, and in
this country we find them in the
democratic or opposition party at
the present time. They are, also,
always apt to be leaders of the or
ganization to which they attach
themselves, because they are natu-
rally irrepressible and having no set
tied convictions and principles of
their own, they are ready to accept
any creed that may be offered, and
urge it with zeal commensurate with
the strength of the passions which
prompt them to act.
Year: 1875

about half a mile of their homes,
when they came to a tree in which
was squirrels nest. Young Dooley
proposed to Campion that he should
strike the tree and scare out the
game when he, Dooley, would shoot
them. Campion commenced pound
ing the trunk of the tree with the
butt Of his gun when the gun dis
charged and the load entered Doo-
ley's body, passing directly through
his heart. He dropped dead at
once, without uttering word.
Year: 1875

Five years ago, in reply to an ed
itorial in the St. Paul Pioneer, de-
nouncing those who advocated legis-
lation to restrain railroad companies
from extortion, we used this lam
guage:


While it is true now that oAly farmers feel
this oppression 80 severely as to arouse them
to resistance, the time is not far distant, un-
less something is done to prevent, when
western merchants and millers will be sim
ilarly affected by it, and ultimately even
local wheat buyers and SPECTATORS will be
heard clamoring for relief against the extor-
tions Of these conscienceless corporations.


We hardly expected that the pre-
diction would be so soon fulfilled,
for we had not supposed that the
corporations would dare drive the
people to the necessity of doing
more than has been done. We be-
ieved them wise enough to read the
signs OF the time, and refrain from
acts that would compel the whole
community to unite against them.


But it seems that we were mis-
taken. Relying upon the support
of leading politicians and believing,
from the occurrences of the last two
years, that the anti-monopoly party
is scattered and destroyed, theyhave,
this season, proceeded to still greater
lengths. Only think of their charg-
ing ffty-seven cents for carrying a
bushel of wheat from this city to
New York An advance of thirty
six cents over their summer rates
And as for flour, the freight charge
is so great that it amounts to abso-
lutte prohibition of shipments! Do
they suppose that the people of this
country will quietly submit to such
tyrannous exactions? That the peo-
pie, who have themselves furnished
much the largest portion of the mon
ey to build these roads, will now
suffer them to be used by the few
men who control them for the pur-
pose of robbing them of their hard
earnings? If such is their conclu-
sion, we think they will soon be con-
vinced of their mistake.


In another column will be found
an article from the Pioneer Press
denouncing the recent advance in
freights as robbery, and urging the
people of the West to hold on to
their produce until the companies
recede from their extortionate charg.
es. 1t is well-known that the Pho.
neer-Press is monopolists' paper,
that it has always taken sides with
the rich, that it has been the defend.
er and advocate of these corpora.
tons and is now an earnest support.
er of the banking swindle. When a
newspaper of its character finds il
necessary to declaim against extor.
tons, it is sure sign that the op
preston is no longer endurable
that business men generally are suf
fering from it and ready to make
common cause with farmers and la
boring people in resisting it.