smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

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Editor arizona Sentinel: When
I made up my mind about year
ago to leave Yuma for the MeXi-
can country, I was advised by
several acquairtances of mine to
abandon the idea, because the
danger every foreigner is subject
to among the Mexican people
would guarantee me anything but
a pleasant reception. Notwith'
standing, I was determined to run
the risk, and consider it my duty
to give a full report of every
thing I had occasion to witness,
| the way 1 had been treated and
Sonora's actual resources in regard
to its mineral wealth and agricul-
tural facilities in the Land of the
Aztecs.


After a speedy and pleasant trip
on board of a G. s. N. Co.'S steam
er, arrived in due time at the
seaport town of Mazatlan, in the
State of Sinaloa, where I remain
ed only short time, but sufficient
to get acquainted with Mexican
life and customs to a certain eX-,
tent, and to be attracted at the
appearance of the place, which
far surpassed anything [ expected
10 tiud.


The city of Mazatlan, with a
population of 10000 inhabitants, is
situated at the mouth Of the Gulf
Of California, under the Oath de-
gree of latitude. Its immediate
surroundings, although barren, re-
present charming view to the
open sea, as there is no harbOr at
all TO amount anything. The
streets are very Systematically
laid off, the architecture of the
buildings show plainly the adj
vance of progress and industry
and comm ercial business are in
creasing rapidly, so that Mazatlan
at the present day certainly is the
most beautiful and prosperous
town on the Pacific side of the
Mexican territory. The interior
Of Sinaloa aud its inhabitants in
general, | must confess, did not
meet my approba tion very much.
The climate is not very healthy,
and types of bilious fever prevail
in the lower lands of the country.
The lower classes, although peace
full to some extent, are prejadiced
against the foreign element.


Agriculture is carried on quite
extensively in cotton and corn;
but mining is still in its infancy,
because Sinaloa has anything but
enterprising citizens. There is
only one mine, worked to some
extent, by San Francisco compa-
ny, at the so-called town of Rosa
rio, 60 miles distance from Maza:
tlan, and doing very we'll ALI
the rest are Mexican "gambusi-
nos'' who hardly make sufficient
to keep soul and body together.


Not being satisfied with what we
had seen, l returned again to Ma.
zatlan to start for Sonora. On
entering the harbor of Guaymas,
I had occasion to see one Of the
very best harbors l had seen here
tofore, surrounded by high noun
tains, leaving a small opening at
the entrance, and protecting any
vessel with perfect safety. The
town of Guaymas, with about 5000
| inhabitants is exceedingly long
on account of the surrounding
mountains, which prevent its
extension to another direction.
Although it cannot be taken in
comparison with Mazatlan, it
nevertheless represents a very
nice picture. The big commercial
houses are doing splendid bust
ness in the interior and with the
the adjoining State of Chihuahua.


The mineral wealth of Sonora
is only known to certain extent,
Year: 1875


Whole Tickets, $40; Halves, SIS; Quarters, s2n
Remember that every Gilt is drawn, and payable in
full without deduction Persons wishing to purchase
Tickets should send money in registered letter, Post

ONCE order or by express


The official drawings will be published in the New
York Herald New YORK Sun and New York News
AT the solicitation many of patrons have
amined carefully the PADUCAH CHARTER for the
benefit of the University of Paducah, and finding II
horized by the LEGISLATURE of Kentucky and fair and
liberal in It's character have accepted agency under
it, and now offer the Tickets for sale at this Office
member OF our will present and superintend the
drawing which will be in public and free to all Public
Library OF Kentucky Tickets drawing Gifts received in
exchange for Tickets Address orders and
information to


THOMAS II. HAYS CO.,
Year: 1875

Rsr- NOTICE TO CAPTAINS OF VESSELS ENTERING
THE PORT OF NEW YORK AT NIGIiT.-The NEw YORK
HERALD has adopted distinguishing Coon night signal
board the HERALD steam yacht showing while burn
coors red green red changing from other
In succession and be several miles distant. Cap
Ains OF vessels upon seeing this signal will obge BY pre-
pairing any they may have the Ship News
Department Of the HERALD


pJ-Persons desirous Of communicating with vessels arriv
ing New York do by addressing vessels
Of HERALD yacht, pier No l East River New York
received from all parts Of the world promptly
Iyered Duplicates required
Year: 1875

The members Of the American OF Hand Rifle Club and
their friends who wish take part with the club in the
reception Of victorious rifemen at the City Hall this
afternoon will meet Barnums Hotel corner of Twen-
tieth street and Broadway at hafpas one O'Clock.
Year: 1875

By requirement OF an act of the last
legislature, the governor aud council have
assessed tax on the franchise OF the fol-
lowing railroad corporations. incorporat-
sd under the laws OF this State or doing
business therein:
Year: 1875

A DISPATCH from Washington an.
nounces that not Il single cabinet officer
is in the city, nor is any expected to be
at their posts for two or three weeks yet,
Commenting on this fact, paper there
says; Notwithstanding the fact that
every cabinet officer is out of town, the
governmental machine seems to run
along about as usual which suggests to
many persons, the idea that ifithe Govern
ment can run itself all summer there is
little need of paying eXtravagantly for
tigure-heads to stay IN Washington dur
ing the winter


ANOTHER attempt was made to rob the
U. $. Treasury on Saturday. This time,
however the theft was small One ofthe
female counters reported q package
twenty dollars short, ana search was made
for the money but it could not be found.
When the young lady in question arose
to 90 home, though, it fell from her cloth
ing. She confessed the theft and plead
poverty, as her excuse. Under the circum-
stances, no exposure was made, though
all the employees arc notified that if
anything of the like again occurs, the Of
fender will be prosecuted to the tull eN-
tent of the law.
Year: 1875

ment, read paper on subsidiary princi-
pie, as applied to coinage and money of
account.


The section then adjourned until Mon
day morning.
In Section B several interesting pa
pers were read.
Game Between Lawyers and News


manor Men
Year: 1875

1t was a sad cynic who said that youth
passes its time IN wishing that it could,
and age in regretting that it didn't But
1t IS true that all through the first half of
our llves we are thinking what we will do
Wheh once we get fairly started, and we
go on pleasing ourselves with these dreams
until, all OF a sudden, we wake up to the
tact that we have begun to 90 down the hin
and that now the time to hope and plan is
past, and the time, Ito remember and regret
has come. Dr. Hedge is fond of talking of
the ironies of life The saddest irony is
its breyity-our days are but a span-our
life but ''sleep and a forgetting" If it
were possible to realize in the beginning
that three-score yeafs and ten are not three
hundred, and to say TO ourselves calmly.
''Such and such things are, in SO brief
space, unattainable; let us content our
selves with striving for what we can rea-
sonably hope to win,' we might live our
short span more nationally. Then would
the rich man begin in season to dispense
and to enjoy his riches, remembering that
he can carry nothing with him into the
next country-then would the philanthro-
plst limit his schemes to his possibilities
then' above all, would those who love each
other beware that they gave no space to
estrangement or fault.finding. since our
lite OF so few days is all too brief for bit
terness
Year: 1875

As q Louisville girl was taking leave of
gentleman at her fathers house one
evening, recently, she said to him: eff
YOU ever hear that am in the habit of al
lowing my male acquaintances to kiss me
good night, you must not believe it, as l
seldom allow such liberties" The close
Of that interview may be imagined.
Year: 1875

An admirable way OF at once delicatelv
satirizing and quieting an undue sensitive
ness was that clerical wits reply to the
would-be contributor to the Edinburgh
Review on the North Pole, who complain
ed to him that Lord Jeffrey, the editor,
had said, in answer to one OF his inquiries
about the publication of the article,
"Damn the North Pole" Now" said
the witty Dean Swift, don't be excited
about Jeffrey's damning the North Pole;
why, have heard him speak disrespect-
fully even of the equator"
Year: 1875

A Lonely man informed a friend that he was
going to advertise for a wife, and should prefer
a poor girl. s'Take the first one that RESPONDS
to your advertisements" said the friend, ..and
yon'l be pretty sure to have a real poor one'
Year: 1875

We met when the glow Of day time
e Was fair in the heavens above
IN the flush Of the golden May time.


with light, and laughter, and love.
And the clouds of amber were tlrifted,
The Day Kingswaa westward rolled, sEi
And the curtain ofnight was lifted
IN a shadowy, noiseless fold
Ere yet the lilies had faded,


Ere yet the roses of June
Made sweet the arbors they shaded,


With the wealth of their rich perfume,
We parted The flowers are blowing
The birds are warblihg with glee-
The brook to the river is flowing


The river steals on to the seal
And you are happy in deenling


That love knows never sigh,
And / am weary Of ofdreaming


That love is golden lie
The world spins round with laughter,


Sorrow aud pain between,
And you reek not what follows after


You care not for what has been.
To you twas pleasans play time,


That love which lasted q moon,
Which was born in the blush of May time,
And died in the arms of June!
The glory of summer falls tlrickly


On woodland, meadow and dell!
Though yoss have forgotten SO quickly,
Aud I have remembered SO well.
lossd0ss Figaro.
Year: 1875

CHICAGO, October l2-Presldent
Grant tonight stated that he has yet
made no appointment of a Secretary Of
the Interior, but that he should do so
Immediately upon his arrival at Wash
incton. The Presidential party leave.
for the Cnpltal Tomorrow morning.
Year: 1875

by law, through his inability to get
1t before the public in season, there is
but little PROBABILITY Of the occurrence
of such case. As general rule 1t is
safe to infer that o patent which has
not won its way to favor In seven or
fourteen years is a failure; and it is
just as safe to conclude that the inven.
tor has had abundant opportunity to
earn his reward within that period
In the multiplicity of patents which
is much more the duty of Congress TO
protect the people from the inventors
than the inventors from the people.


A moving machine patented twenty
years ago, is improved by a new cog
wheel set into it somewhere, say ten
years after the first patent; the old
patent ran out six years ago, but the
cog wheel keeps up the monopoly; and
just as it is approaching the limits of
freedom, some fellow steps in with an
improved attachment to the cutter-bar,
which will continue the monopoly
fourteen years longer; and so on, al
snfnatum. Some dozen years hence,
ingenuity will devise some other ad-
diiton to the change in the machine,
and unless Congress steps in with n
remedy, it will never be free from Il
patent of some kind. We confess to a
decided sympathy with the Grangers
in the demand which they make that
the implements of national industry
shall not be forever loaded down,
with the inventors special privilege.
Year: 1875

The Radical caucus, it is now said
adopted its new force bill by vote OF
over two-thirds, and it will DO presented
to the House As a party measure. 1t
gives the President the power to sus-
pend the writ of habeas corpus Mt any
time; and is intended, no doubt, to ena-
bic him TO carry rs many of the South
ern States by military force as possible.
Tho whole Object of the Lill is TO dra-
goon the South into voting for Grant
for third term. Many Republicans
denounce it, and it is said even the par
ty lash cannot secure enough votes to
pass it.
Year: 1875

In reply to the inquiries of numer.
GUS brethren in the West and South,
we regret to be obliged to say that our
Great Sorrow is no better than it
was. There never has been quite such
touching and unfathomable grief
since Sam Patch made his fatal leap.


II is fact that men are generally
capable of much greater things than
they perform. All they require is that
the right sort Of suction shall be ap.
piled to draw em off. Down in Old
Kentucky they say that ''you can get
power of whisky through very mar.
row necked bottle"


Goo lness gracious, James, what
are you doing with that chlldf" she
shrieked at her husband who was lit
ing the infant out Of It's crib by the ear.
But he never said word, while she
danced around wildly, crying, "0h, it
only serves me right; I ought to have
known better than TO marry a Milwau-
kee man."


Sioux City has man named Much
wrath. but be is said to be very good
natured sort Of person.
Year: 1875

question, but that the ESpositor failed to
tell So was STALLED up" on it.


My sesi faced the South, and I lave
never been able to get the points of cons
pass right In my mind since, FOR sat
there on the girls side. year iu and year
out so long studying Olneys Geography,
and wasn't that top of the map North"
and didn't the Arctic Ocean lay around
the North pole right in front of me, and
how could help seeing it REALLY TO.
WARD TIE SoUTH? East aud West too
were reversed and even now that 50 uany
years have intervened, fnd it almost
impossible to fix the direction of any
places differently from what | see them
In fancys eye on that old map! And
all because | was forced " study nv
Geography with my face to the South
Remember this teachers. and be careful
that your pupils never commit a like
blunder. for be assured it will be impos.
slble to right in the future if the founda,
tlon be not correct. Pronunciation was
another untaught art, and shall never
ge! rid Of the many ideas that then im>
olbed concerning the pronunciation, not
only of Geographical terms, but also
many OF our real Anglo Saxon words 1t
used to be common thing to hear the
expression "Oh | know he Tor she is not
much Of teacher, but anybody can teach
small ehildren"-yet when we reflect that
the beginning is the very ground work of
all, and unless that be right we can never
hope to be good scholar, we should see
that only good teachers, competent aud
scientific throughout, should ever be tol.
Grated in any school room,


More anon,


n g
Year: 1875

To ALL, particularly invalids, spring is trying
season. Indications of sickness should at once be
attended to. Fatal diseases may be caused by al
lowing the bowels to become corstipated, and the
syst9m to remain in a disordered condition until
the disorder has time to develop itself. An ounce
of preventive is worth pound of cure, Is an old
and truthful saying. Therefore, we advise all who
troubled with the complaints now very prevalent
headache, indigestion, dsordered liver, want OF
appetite, nausea or feverish skin, to take without
delay, Schencks Mandrake Pills. We know Of nc
remedy so harmless and decisive IN It's action. 1t al
strikes at the reot of the disease and produces
healthy tone to the system. People never need
suffer from any disease arising from disordered
condition of the liver ifthey would take this excel
lent medicine when they feel the first indications
of the malady. Families leaving home for the
summer months should take three or four boxes o
these pills with them. They have an almost in
st.ntaneous effect. They will relieve the patient
headache in one two hours, and will rapidly
cleanse the liver Of surrounding bile and will eec
tually prevent bilious attack. They are sold b.
all druggists.
Year: 1875

CTOVE DRESSING. NO DUST! NO SMELL.
y Alwavs soft and ready for use without dish
1t will do more work with less labor and expense
and give more elegant and lasting lusre than any
STOVE POLISH ever produced A stove can be dress
ed on a delicate carpet without soiling it. Manu-.
factured only by b. f. BROWN Il CO., Boston
Mass
Year: 1875

GOODS DAMAcEp.--Y Yesterlay after.
noon, after the fire, a clumsy fireman
removed tho hose from the plug ut the
N. w. corner Second and Market
streets, and neglected to stop off the
water. The consequence was that the
wafer carrying with 1t lot of mud and
dirt, rushed across the street, and
damaged about $100worth of dry goods
which were on display in front of A.
Gallaher's dry goods store
Year: 1875

The annual report Of the Board Of Police
Justices shows, by comparison with the pre-
vious year, an actual decrease in the number
Of arrests while the increase in the number
OF commitments indicates more vigorous
enforcement Of the law When it is remem-
bered that during the year strenuous efforts
were made to break up disorderly and gam
bling houses and to prevent violations Of the
Excise law, the number Of ordinary arrests
is still further decreased; but it must be adj
mitted that "a, 800 cases are enormous for
city like New York. This number is in the
proportion of one to twelve Of the entire
population Of the city Fortunately the
number of cases of felony and msdemeanor
is not SO great as we might be led to expect
from this showing. But the proportion of
the more serious offences was one to fifty
eight of the population, and this exhibits
prevalence Of crime too great for any COM
munity. A remedy must be found, and it is
possible to find it only in such measures
as will reduce the lower grades of
crime. During the year there were &C. 89i
arrests for drunkenness, and the police
justices estimate that from seventy to ninety
per cent of all the crimes committed in this
city are due, directly or indirectly, to the
use of intoxicating liquors. The Board asks
for ampler powers in dealing with the class
known in police phrase as ''drunk and dis
orderly" Imprisonment is the remedy
the justices suggest for this disease, but
it is likely the cure would be worse than
the malady 1t would not be well to give
the usually irresponsible judges who sit in
our police courts great discretionary power
in cases of this kind Even now innocent
men are often sent to prison, but if drunk
enness can be made so serious an offence as
the Board desires, trumped up charges of in
toxication would become almost as common
as intoxication itself The remedy, it seems
to US, is in very different direction. Drunk
enness is a sin which can only be prevented
by improving the condition of the poor and
elevating the moral tone of the community.
This is work for the benevolent and relig-
ious societies rather than for the Legislature,
and until these do their whole duty we can
not expect any appreciable decrease in crime
in this city.
Year: 1875

1t is reported that Nj. Thiers will be-
come a candidate for the Senate from Bel
fort from which it must follow that Belfort
is certain to return him. NJ. Thiers is
fully alive to the unpleasant consequences
Of failures in political life, and has re-
fused to stand for the Senate in several de-
partments as he previously refused to stand
La the Assembly, because his election was
not infallibly certain in any one of these
places. From what has taken place in the
Assembly it seems probable that he could
easily have been elected there; but it is
not easy to compute how many old ami
mosities would have bazed anew at the pre-
sentation Of his name. 1t appears that the
republicans triumphed in the Senatorial
elections because as the tickets were
framed it was a pretty even battle
between them and the adherents of the
Orleans monarchy, and in that nearly even
battle the Bonapartists and the extreme
legitimists together welded casting vote.
Both these factions prefer the republican
party to the Orleans party the legitimsts
because family quarrel is the fiercest of all
quarrels and the Bonapartists because they
believe the Republic the more likely Of the
two to fall into those extravagances and
errors that will open the way to the re-estab-
lishment Of the Empire. Hence both voted
for the republicans and laid the foundation
for a Senate not inimical to the constitution
Of the country.
Year: 1875

The ARRIVAL OF GENERAL MoRIoNEs al San
Sebastian shows that the Alfonsists are de-
termined to open winter campaign with
the Carlists. The wisdom Of this is ques-
tionable but as the government cannot
afford to keep its forces idle something must
be done to keep up popular feeling on the
young Kings side. We shall shortly know
whether this move means business or is only
for show. One of the plans for pacifying
the Basque provinces was to land an army
at San Sebastian and sweep the country in
southeastery direction, and this is the one
probably adopted. The trouble is that the
Carlists can fight or run as they choose.
Year: 1875

The AMERICAN COLONIZATION Of Brazil has
not resulted successfully. The letter we
publish elsewhere from Para shows how the
American settlers that went there on the COL
lapse of the Confederacy fared They did
not like the country, rich as it is. and the
country returned the compliment Hence
scarcely remnant was left when the Swatara
reached Para the settlers having found their
way homeward as well as they could during
the last seven or eight years. Still there
are many ways in which an am
bilious American may improve his
fortunes there /; but, with scarcely an ex-
ception, it must be said the same man could
do as well here, not perhaps in the crowded
cities, but where the wilderness is being
opened up and settled. In Brazil an
enervating climate, strange people speak
ing strange language and with different
customs and with little commercial energy
meet the American. On our frontiers he has
all the scope he wants. If he desires to
settle the people growing up around him
will be his people, and that counts for a
great deal
Year: 1875

THE HEART OF rHE MAN or IRoE. Death
is king before whom the haughtiest bow.
If there is one tender vein in man it bleeds
into the heart when he stands by the bier Of
one to whose life his was closely linked.
Who shall wonder then that the great Prince
Bismarck wept by the coffin Of the young
Count who was to have been the husband Of
his daughter
Year: 1875

WALL STREET YESTERDAY Without being
materially excited stocks advanced. Gold
opened and closed It ll2 u.s. Money On call
was 70 be Lad at and then at per
cent Government and investment securities
are without important change
Year: 1875

THE BOARD or ALDERMEN have resolved to
hoist the City Hall flags % New Years Day
in honor Of the Centennial year, and wish
the press to inform the whole world Of that
flct We do so.
Year: 1875

The FRENCH REPUBIIc is taking shape.
An amendment to the Press law was carried
providing penalties for attacks against the
Republic. 1t is al odd indication, but in a
government where a bare mention Of the Re-
public by Cabinet officer was almost worth
the officials place. it is progress. free
press Is q thing undreamed Of yet.
Year: 1875

CROOKED WHIsKEY' PHMosoPHER.-
In another part of the HERALD we print an
interview had with Colonel Joyce in the
Jefferson City Penitentiary. 1t is not often
that we see in the conyict's garb man of
such well informed parts, such ready w.t. a
poser and philosopher, romancer, a
rhymester and criminal at once. Locked
in this mans bosom, we have no doubt is a
key to the inmost chamber of the Whiskey
Rings rascality. No one but he knows the
heights and depths Of corruption which the
Ring touched or sounded. 1t will be seen
that he holds back all the information he
possesses in the hope Of securing a pardon
for what he will not say. 1t is we believe,
o futile hope, for even if the President de-
sired to release him he could not face the
consequences Of the act. The cheap and
''crooked" philosophy with which he pro-
fesses to sustain himself will not last long;
his silence will not, as he supposes,
give him any better claim to esteem or dis
esteem than he now enjoys He had better
speak-for the sake of justice as well as for
his own