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Year: 1876

Editorial Difhculties.-When I first heard that Editor Pease was intending to take his trip to Florida,I conceived the idea of getting the appointment to his char, thinking how easy it would be to gather up interesting items, and then writing gushing editorials that would amuse, interest and instruct his many readers; so I edged around to him with various suggestions, until he finally took the hint and installed me to the position. After instructing me mostly as to my negative duties-such as not to write anything that could be con- strued to show any preference for political subjects, topics, politicians and kindred matters; not to step on the toes of any one lest might hurt their corns or bunions, etc., etc.. I felt that I should be equal to the task, and the paper would soon receive additional subscribers if it should be inti- mated there was prospect that might l be hereafter associated in the charge of the paper. Well, have been at it day and night, and scrubbed, wrote up, tore up and burnt up more paper, with ink bespattered, than would be necessary to supply com mon school for month and here am, with the printer crying for copy feel very much like that fellow of the Baptist persuasion, who thought he had been called to preach the Gospel; who, after his breth- ren had duly empowered him to do so, as- cended to the desk, read the text, when the sermon, filled with thoughts that breathe and words that burn, utterly forsook him, and he was as utterly speeches.. The per splration flowed, and the old bandanna was freely used, but was of no use-it wouldn't come finally he said: Brethren, if any of you think it is an easy matter to preach, just come up here and try it, and he then stepped down and out. Oh! how wish Pease would come home!
Year: 1876

A bright little girl of this city, the day be-
fore the meeting Of the conference, IN great gee tod
hired M during cou!erouce week there will be lots OF
confidence men In town then."-tNLes Republican.
Year: 1876

The people of the country had better
look up the rights they possess. They
are we'll laid down by Constitutional law;
and every State has this instrument
printed and bound up in various books,
especially in the volumes containing the
codes of State laws.
The Constitution expressly points out
the mode of choosing a President ; and
il makes the House of Representatives
and the Senate the costodians of the
votes and the umpire when the will of
the majority is not clearly expressed
through the ballot boxes. The choice of
great people cannot be prevented by
the enactment of State creating ma
chine, placed in the hands of some un-
principled person, who would, for the
sake of office and emolument, see his
country plunged into civil war with all
the attendant horrors.


Mr.. Grant does not need soldiers in
Washington. The Representatives of an
Intelligent people chosen two years ago
expressly with a view to the performance
of Constitutional duty, will not be de-
terred by armed bayonets. The people
10 not call upon these Representatives to
fight; they only expect them to perform
their constitutional dufy. If after that
IS done they are driven from the Capitol,
they may return to their Constituencies
Tor further consultation and instruction
But first of all it is their bomdca duty tC
see to it that a President is chosen in con
.tormity 1rhh the constitution. Wher
this is done it is the duty of the people
TO sustain their action, without regard t,
any party. And all the soldiers Mr.
Grant can bring to Washington will no
make invalid the act of the Representa-
tives of the people. The signature O
such President is required to make


law; no bond signed by an illegal,
elected officer will become binding upol
the country; nor will obedience be Ion


yielded to the ipse DIRT of any usurpe


whether it be Grant Or any one else.
Year: 1876

hensive, Shipmate, that the Internal
cannbals might give chase in their
canoes, for the prize was too valuable
one to be easily given up.


The wind continued fair, and not one of
US thought of closing our eyes. and
when daylight dawned the dim, blue
outline low down on the horizon, pro-
claimed that we had nothing more to
fear from the cannibals.


shaped course for New York where
we arrived safely in due time and report
ing the facts attending the bark and her
cargo, noted our claims for salvage in
due form.


The claim was allowed |, in COM
mon with the rest, received my share,
which considered, had been fairly won.


As for Webster and the remainder Of
the crew, never met or heard of them
afterwards. They may have periShed
on the coast for aught know, but one
hing is certain, | shall never go 10
Rio de la Hache to institute inquiries
Year: 1876

A farmer attending fair with a hun
dred pounds in his pocket took the pre-
caution of depositing it in the hands OF
the landlord of the public house at which
he stopped. Having occasion for it
shortly afterwards. he resorted to mine
host for payment. But the landlord, too
deep for the countryman, wondered what
he meant, and was quite sure no such
sum had ever been lodged in his hands
by the astonished rustic. After ineffect-
ual appeals to the recollection, and
finally to the honor of Bardolph, the
farmer applied to Curran for advice.


Have patience. my friend" said the
counsel "speak to the landlord civilly-
tell him you have left your money with
some other person. Take friend with
you aud lodge with him another hundred
in the presence of your friend, aud come
to me-"


He did so. and returned to his legal
friend.


"And now | can't see how i am going
TO be better off for this. II get my sec
ond hundred back again. But how is
that TO be done ?"


"Go and ask him for it when he is
alone" said the counsel.


AYE, sir, but asking won't do. am
afraid. without my witness. at any rate"


Never mind; you take my advice"
said bis counsel; "do as l bid you and
return TO me-"


The farmer returned with his hundred,
glad TO find that safely in his possession.


Now, sir, l must be content, but |
don't see that Pm much better off,"


"Well then," said the counsel, "now
take your friend and along with you and
ask your landlord for the hundred pounds
your friend saw you leave with him."


We need not say that the willy land
lord found he had been taken off his
guard, while our honest friend returned
to thank mis- counsel exultingly, with
both hundreds in his pocket.
Year: 1876

BY WILLIAM BURTON.
In all the change Of changing life,


Whcre'cr my feet may tread,
mid want and woe, mid sin and strife,
feel my life is led,
Is led by One supremely just,
In whom my heart and soul may trust.
with strong desire within my heart,
/ seek the pure and true;
Ana hopcs-that peace and bliss impart;
And loves-that sin subdue;
And chance and change with woudrous skill
The end Of life with love fulfil
Aud so trust the Ruling Mind,
For all my life may need;
| sec the world is well designed,
And need no other creed;
The perfect love around me lies,
And all my life that love supplies
Year: 1876

The election to decide upon the con tinued incorporation or disincOrporation Of Tucson, took place last Monday, and resulted in a victory for incorporation the vote standing l4O to 49. There was but little subsequent exultation manifested for while it Is a result over which we all rejoice, it is very evident that large DOT ton of those who earlier favored dlsincor- poratlon, permitted their second and bet ter thoughts to withdraw them from a measure that wouldn't be satisfactory to themselves, in the end, if successful. And 1t was felt that those who raised the issue and stuck clear through to disincorpOra. ton, didn't do any more than all the rest of us would do,-after starting thing, tC see 1t through. We don't believe these lat. ter were very badly disappointed at the result. They made a fight and were in al the close, and we still have town and a corporate organization, and the best thing now is to make up, and if there are evils to be corrected, correct them, and make it our first endeavor to keep Tucson as IL is, one of the best governed places on the Pacific slope.
Year: 1876

THE Custom House in Tucson has hand some new flag, and the deputy collector in forms us that since he got it he has whis tied the Star SpangIed Banner so much that stripes have come out all over him and he frequently sees stars in broad day, light He says he dare not even think o green persimmons.
Year: 1876

MR. J. O'BRIES and partner were in town this week from San Pedro valley where they are opening ranch at the

 mouth of BavOcomari. They will plant about fifty acres this year. Mir. O'Brien is a correspondent of several eastern papers

 He is we'll pleased with the Territory, and he appears to be an intelligent and dis eliminating man.
Year: 1876

that lie had no knowledge that would
be received as testimony anywhere.
Hunton asked witness what he heard
on the subject matter of this inquiry.
To this question objection was made
and therefore it will be considered by
the full committee. Adjourned until
tomorrow.
Year: 1876

THE Democratic House objects to the ad-
mission Of Belford, Republican Represen-
tative from Colorado His right to a seat is
challenged on the start, the Democrats in the
present exigency raising the point as to the
status in the Union of the Centennial State.
The worrment of the House centers in the
Presidential attitude Of Colorado. The State
which the House voted to admit, by reason
of the understanding that it was reliably
Democratic, turns out to have been captured
by the Republicans, with it's three electoral
votes for Hayes. This unlocked for result
naturally disgusts the average Democratic
Congressman, and hence the far-fetched OBJ
lection of Springer to the admission of Bel
ford to his seat
Year: 1876

temporary form of government therefor. Re-
ferred.


Lemoyne, of Illinois, offered the following
resolution:
WHEREAS, serious differences of opinion
may arise between the members OF the two
Houses of Congress as to their Jurisdiction
and powers in the joint session in counting
the electoral vote, and the questions involved
being questions of law, therefore be it


Res0lce0, That the Senate be requested to
of five to be appointed by the Speaker of the
House in presenting to the Supreme Court
such questions as either Of said committees
may deem important in this crisis and ask
ing the members of the Supreme Court to
give Congress an opinion thereon.


Haskins rose to debate the question, and it
therefore went over under the rule


Mills offered resolution calling On the
President for information as to whether the
cavalry force has been recently removed from
the Texas frontier


Baker, of Indiana, introduced a bill pro-
posing q constitutional amendment forbid
ding the payment of any claims growing out
of the loss of property during the late rebel
lion


The P.Ision Appropriation bill passed.


Wood called up his resolution asking the
President for copies of the instructions to
and the reports from the military officers in
the South since August.


The Republicans objected.


Woods resolution was adopted without de-
bate, ard the House adjourned until to-mor-
row
Year: 1876

Globe Democrat: 1t would be funny to see
Gen. Hayes receive an electoral vote in a
State which gave Missouri's brutal majority
against him. And yet, unless Gen. Frost can
produce certificate of the removal of his
disabilities, we look upon this as an event in
the very near future.
Year: 1876

The Democratic party has struggled
against terrible odds in Ohio and In
diana. 10 has had to confront unlim-
tied resources Of men and honey. 1t
hHs had TO meet an uupriuCiplcd or
gaulEatiOn, ready 10 sacrifice every
great public interest to carry its own
selfish ends. The auticipations of the
Republican party are not met. The
vast expenditure Of money has brought
them no adequate return, and they
have shrieked eternal eImity to the
suffering people OF the South to no
effect. For the first time since the or
ganizatiOn of the Republican party the
Democracy passed the critical period
of the October elections without the
influence Of a depressing popular cur
rent against them. The prestige of
the Republican party is at last broken.
At last it must face the people through
out the eutire length and breadth of
the land. At last it must give an ac-
count of its stewardship at the gene
raj election i'm November. No longer
can it enter into the November elec-
tons with the impetus of an ava
lanche, sweeping everything before it,
1t must now face the sober judgment
OF the country. 1t must abandon its
appeals to passion and prejudice. 1t
must abandon its hopes of winning by
personal calumry and scurrilous Vi
tuperatiOn.
Year: 1876

These figures show that a strong cur
rent of popular Ill will has been steadi-
ly operating against the Republican
party i'm this State, and in a square,
fair election the Democrats can carry
the State. But the poverty of the
Democratic party in this State is too
weak to cope with the contributions OF
an army OF an hundred thousand
oiliceholders.
Year: 1876

aA Atathe recent meeting of the British
Association the anatomical and physi.


illogical section was occupied with a


most Interesting discussion upon what
we ought to drink and what to eat


Professor Wanklyn,l the well-known


analytical chemist, opened the contro.


yersy by reading paper on the effects


Of the mineral substances in drinking


water on the health of the community.


He commenced with some statistics


which ought to strike horror into the


heart even of Good Templar. The
professor tells US that an. adult male
daily imbibes from half gallon to q


gallon OF auid in some shape or other,


and, however small may be the per-


centage of salts contained even in the


purest well water, it yet stands to rea-


SON that six gallons of well water con :


tain an appreciable amount of said


lnatter. Professor, Wanklyn, indeed,
shows that there is even more mineral


matter in ordinary drinking water
than in household bread. Ii, in other


words, q loaf of bread is burned 10
ashes. . very small residue OF mineral


matter is left, while if, on the, other
hand, . gallon of drinking water, is
evaporated, its, mineral contents will


be found much larger than might have


been supposed. There are, we learn,
two kindsof drinking water-the hard
and the sOft--and a man who is ac-
custOmed to the one can not without
risk suddenly adapt himself to the
other. Nor is this all for even those


who object to water for drinking pur-
poses can not help taking it in various
shapes. Beer. for instance, il made
with water. and SO is tea, aud water is
daily consumed by many people in
combination with alcoholic liquors.
There is an old story of an Irish squire
who said that upon principle he never
touched a drop of water, but he liked
his cup of tea in the morning aud his
tumbler OF grog at nighl.. Now, ac-
cording sorWamklyn,it it makes
all the difference in the world to a man
what are the precise mineral constitu-
ents that enter into the water with
which his tea is made aud his grog is
mixed. Lime, for instance, is an es-
sential element of the human body. 1t
enters into the bones and into the
enamel of the teeth, and, without
steady supply Of it in some shape or
another, and in districts where only
soft water can be eiprocured, the chill
dren are apt to suffer from what is
commonly called ricketts, painful
and distressing malady, believed by
medical men 10 be due to deficiency
OF lime in the organism. Upon the
diseases which are the result of drink
ing impure water we need hardly
dwell. II is now generally recognized
that typhoid fever and cholera are al
most entirely due to Contaminated wa
ter supply. The result has been that
of late years cautious people have ta-
ken to boiling their water, in the hope
of thereby destroying all organic mat
it, and afterward filtering through
a charcoal filter. Such a process, OF
oourse, thoroughly eliminates every
possible source of contagioD. On the
other hand, the water thus treated be-
comes soft. and is altogether deficient
In lime aud those mineral salts,a GER
tain supply of which is absolutely nec-
essary for health. Courier.
Year: 1876

.-s.


What are the two vital problems put
out to this country at this moment p
First to get honest, efficient and eco
nomical service in the place o:dishon-
est, incompetent, wasteful and costly
service. Not merely to change serv-
ants that, at best, would be only
temporary relief; but to radically
change the system. AS we now man.
age, or rather mismanage, our civil
service, it is not only corrupt, but cor
rupting. The mischief constantly
tends TO increase. The good official
is debauched, the bad made worse, A
more ingenious machinery for propa-
eating public immortality could not be
well devised and the people have to
pay the piper in all senses. Here is
one of the things to be done-to sub
stitute for our present demoralized
and demoralizing civil service a civil
service that shall be neither the one
nor the other, but shall be all that a
civil service should be, and nothing
that a civil service should not be.


Second, to get rid of the southern
question. There is no chance of hope
of healthy politics until we do get rid
of it; Oh that point all intelligent men
are agreed. So long as the "war is
suea" are capable of being warmed
over from year to year and election to
election SO long as large section of
the country is disturbed by violence
and paralyzed by misgovernment; SO
long as white is arrayed against black,
capital against labor; SO long as hum
dreds of thousands of our countrymen
and fellOw-citizens have smartiDg
sense of outrage and oppressioD,-so
long will the victory Ofsthe Union be
incomplete, SO long will our politics
be leyerish with disease. The prob
lem is a knotty one it has difficulties
which are not lessened by ignoring
them or undertaking them. But il is
a problem that must be resolutely
faced and successfully solved, if the
restored Union is to be blessing to
either south or north. This is a big
but, big as it is, there isn't
room Ill it for Poland.--[Springfield
f5-r,i.ssie
Year: 1876

In seven years from 1868 &C
1871, the excess of females over
males in Germany increased by
fourteen per cent, the surplus fe.
rale population between seven and
eight hundred thousand. Although
no inconsiderablc portion of this
loss to the German male popula'
ton is due to actual slaughter on
the battle field, it is undoubtedly
caused principally, by emigration
Even if emigration could now be
checked, il would take more than
one generation to restore the pro
portion between the two sexes IN
Germany tOcyhat it was ten years
ago.
Year: 1876

trade consequent on decline Of
profits is the chief cause of the
accumulation of money, aud the
real question is why have profits
declined. The new fields of indus.
try on which the Edinburgh Re.
viewer discanted remain open, but
the profits of capital in them seem
to have fallen off, or, at all events
are not RENTED home to the cap
italists. 1t is obvious enough that
the immediate prof of the EN-.
ployment of capital in the Western
States of America have been over
estimated, or rather that their ca
paclty of sustaining high profit was
estimated. his is shown by
the falling off upon the return Of


he capital which has been sunk in


Industrial enterprises, such as rail
ways in those States. People for.
got how rapidly competition brings
down the exceptional profits of
virgin area. The wave has been
sent back upon us, and the present
depression of trade is the counter>
part of its recent activity. Seven
per cent. has been followed, by a
natural law, by two per cent.


The interesting question, il we
could solve it would be how long
the process of depression may be
expected to endure; but we are sor-
ry to say that no answer can be
given to this inquiry. The return
of prosperity mainly depends upon
the development of the processes
of industry which is constantly go
ing on so as to lessen the cost of
production. The inhabitants of the
States and colonies whose growth
caused such a remarkable increase
of trade at home over-estimated
their powers until they found they
were engaged in exchanges no
longer profitable to them selves.
But we may be quite certain that
they will soon be able 70 produce
their own commodities more cheap
ly than they have done, aud as the
cost Of production with them will
d'minishcontemporaneously with a
diminution here, there will be on
both grounds a reyivalof commer~
cial intercourse. No one con now
tell how long this process of re>
covery will take. We may from n
consideration of former periods Of
depression of similar character
to the present, hazard conjectures
as to the duration of the present
one, but guesses on the subject
would be idle. 1t is enough to
know that experience through
which we are now passing is psrt
Of an ordered progress returning
upon itself as surely as spring
follows winter.
Year: 1876

No more shall we together
Drink IL the mountain scenery


Or walk beside the heather.
No more will our irysiing place


Beside the fountain meath the hill,
he enchanted bJ your gr zee,


But be forever dark and still
The moss will grow on our rocky'seat
And the birds will hear thy voice


no more;
The brook that laycd thy dainty feet,
Will lave them nnw no more.
Year: 1876

He was a seedy looking individual.
and rs he stood upon the corner gazing
wistfuIly at the disappearing form Of a
newsboy, who bad just picked up good
size stump aud was making off with
the prize, there was a vague aspect OF
dispair in his attitude which was very
touching. 1t was this which attracted
the attention of lnild.looking party
who was passing By, and perhaps it
was something else; but however this
may be. the miIdlooking party stopped,
and gazing at the solitary figure ad-
dressed il thus:


'Old man, wouldn't YOU like to have
drink this morning :


You've read nc as accurately as
though my thoughts were printed on
an open page, replied the solitary, TAX
ing his qaiJ from his mouth and pass.
ing a delapidated looking coatsleeve
over his lips


4 though, so,' mrrmured the mild
looking pirty, while tear trickled
down his cheek; but conquer. Fight
it as you would legion Of devils, for
drink has ruined many man who had
more expansive forehead than you've
got J!


And then the mild-looking party
continued his way, AMI the solitary gaz-
ed dreamily into the space and CON-
munej with himself
Year: 1876

The fields with flowers are blooming,
They all around us lie
But still my friends we are going
TO the Summer hills on high.
We are vexed with trials and troubles,
Our sorrows with our days Increase
But still my friends we are nearing
The life of eternal peace.
The winds are moaning and blowing,
The frost on many heads is white
But then my friends they are going
To the morning land OF light.
Our golden gains we are losing,
Our hopes are dim with dust,
But what seemeth lost is for using
Where there is no moth nor rust.
Our life is thrice-told story,
That charm no longer lends,
And we hope to gain the glory,
That never fades nor ends.
We stand of our strength forsaken,
And sick Unto death, in sooth,
But out Of the dust we shall waken,
TO life OF immortal youth.
The Winter brings rough weather,
And into the chill and gloom,
We go and we shall gather


Together in heaven-our home.


j. NJ. II.