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Year: 1876

Captain Cafrey. of tho Fifth precinct, reported at
the Central Police once yesterday that burglary had
been committed the store of James Fee importer OF
linen goods on the second floor of No 1886 Broadway


The burglars carried away 500 pieces of Japanese silk


valued at $5 per piece, and lot of linen tableclotbs
and pocket handkercheis In all valued at $3 500 Tho
entrance effected by forcing open the front hall
door and door loading from the stairs to the second
Year: 1876

As soon as the civil calendar had been called yeser
day afternoon in the United States Circuit Court
Brooklyn before Judge Benedict the counsel for IN
brothers John and Thomas Loughery who were con-
viced of counterfeting hve-cent nickel coin in the
month OF December came forward and stated that il
was his intention TO make argument for OF udg-
nent IN the case of his clients Judge Benedict set
Year: 1876

her and them and refuses to provide for them sne
claims that both her and his families have always looked
upon them man and wifo, he having always intro
this fact


The accused denies tho charge OF abandonment was
willing 10 be tried a charge Of bastardy, aud asked
through his counsel for examination 10 prove that
the complainant had no claim upon him as husband


IN WANT OF FIRE.


This Court has out Of coal, and the want Of fires
caused great inconvenience to the officials there yes
terday. II is hoped Commissioner Campbell will sup
ply the want Immediately.
Year: 1876




Mount Vernon should belong to the
Government, and be kept in good order at
the expense of the nation but Mount
Vernon does not belong to the Govern
ment, and few interested women-The
Mount Vernon Ladies Association Of the
Union-have succeeded in getting posses
sion of the property for the sum of $780,
600, raised by their organization, and paid
to Col. Augustin Washington for the house
and two hundred acres Of land. They
now find it nearly impossible to raise means
to keep the house and outbuilding from
falling into utter ruin. The endowment
fund has reached about seven thousand
dollars, of which the interest only Is
allowed to be used each year for repairs,
and It must be evident to every one that
this small amount is entirely inadequate,
1t is especially desirable that the place
should be in decent order this year to re-
ceive the guests who will come to the Cen.
tennial. Its to meet the present necessity
for repairs that will make the buildings
simply presentable, and also in the hope Of
being able in the future, to increase the
permanent or endowment fund that the
Mount Vernon Aid Society Of New York
has been formed by number Of benevo.
lent ladies under the patronage of the
Regent, Madame Rergumans Of Washing
ton. The ladies of the society earnestl,
solicit contributions from those interested
in this object.
Year: 1876




From time TO time we learn of new and
important discoveries in means for utilizing
our farm products, discoveries which,
though seemingly unimportant at first
sight, have in the end proved of great ad-
vantage to both producer and consumer.
OF these the latest is the discovery that
sugar and molasses of good quality can be
successfully produced from Indian corn.
The first experiment was made in Iowa a
short time since, and the result is said to
be such as may be considered the founda-
tion Of an extensive and important indus
try. Following this initial experiment, a
few farmers in various districts took the
matter in hand and found it very lucrative,
A somewhat extensive Western sugar-mill
has introduced the new process, and to
this mill the farmers in the vicinity took
their corn and sold it, the operation being
similar to that of the system Mt the butter
and cheese factories. II is stated that a
quality of molasses can be produced from
corn far superior to that produced from
sorghum, and the syrup can be made to
grauulate for sugar with little skill aud
experience. The culture of corn is well
understood by every farmer in the coun-
try, and, as there is scarcely any limit to
the quantity that can be raised, the man.
ufacture of corn sugar ought to be more
free from obstacles than the manufacture
of "beet sugar" The matter should at
least be fairly tested and the results made
known soon as possible.-N y Bulletin.
Year: 1876

A bashful young man while out driving
with the dearest girl in the world" the
other day, had to get out and buckle the
crupper, and hesitatingly explained that
the animals hustle had come loose"
Year: 1876

1t won't do to count too much on the
Democratic divisions in this State. When Democrats
think they chance of victory they viii vote for
almost anybody or any thng Ihe WHY races uOht count
but the votes do.


If things 20 on at this rate we shall never
know who DemOeraic nominee is until we have his
letter Of acceptance autographed and an affidavit to
boot Another Congressional nomination in this state
has been declined; Charles Rhodes, nominated IN the
XXIVth District, hands back his plate OF crow.


Edward Gallagher has been renOminated for
the Assembly by the Republicans in the lid District Of
Erie The worst Of 1t is that in this district Rcpub
can nomination al election. large proportion
Of Mr. Galaghers Republican associates in the last Leg
isauTe expressed the hope that his constituents this
year would keep him at home and out of the reach OF
temptation. but they seem doomed to disappointment


AS has been urged before, the delegation to
the Assembly from this city ought this year. for
eepOna reasons TO be OF exceptional character This
great city, which is concerned IN the report OF the
Charter Commission, ought TO have in that body men
capable both OF representing and defending its interests
when the question Of future form Of government is to
be debated As long as IL is considered dsreputabc 10
be in the Legislature, likely 10 have the same
sorry that usually represent u.s. but IN this one
emergency some effort should be made by our best ct
Eens irrespective Of party to protect their own interests
by seeing that the Assembly delegation contains few
members at least. who viii secure for the city the benefit
OF all that good in this report, and ward of the
ucsbe unwse. lt Is late to make the effort, but IL
might still be made successfully.


In commenting upon the recent speech of
Parke Goodwin the business Of this city, The Utica
Herald says; Mr. Gjdwin is quite willing to condemn
the Republican party atcry because tncrc was not re-
sumption OF specie payments ten years ago. When he
comes to explain why resumption has not come earlier
he gives which In part the true one, because
there conviction In the party itself TO force 1t to
It, That Ia true bIt the Republican party alone was
not lacking in the conviction The whole country lacked
IT. The Democratic party lacked equally with the Re
publican party Mr.. Goodwin condemns the Republican
party for not taking which the whole country
was unwilling TO have taken. He condemns the Republ
can party for doing earerwhat 1t is ready aud
anxious TO do Rnt he defends the Democratic party,
Year: 1876

The chief features of last nights concert
were the production the music composed especially
for the Inauguration OF the Centennial Exhibition and
the first appearance OF Mr. Tholnas'a new chorus The
rendering OF the Centennial music was generally sats


factory That part which fell TO the orchestra
fautlessly done wsgners March was played with great
FIRE and vgor aud II out better than on any pre-


yious The chorus has been very iaey brought
together. aud its work thus far Is scarcely perfect ID
Year: 1876

The following record will show tho changes In tho
temperature or the past twenty -four hours in compar
ison with the corresponding date OF last year as ind
Gated BY The thermometer at Hudnuts pharmacy.
usu.tp Building
Year: 1876

When you intend buying a stove,
stop and consider that IL will be to
your interest to call on Berkey and
see his large assortment OF stoves.
You viii be convinced that they are
the stoves you have been looking for
Year: 1876

essary to qualify HIM in an eminent degree
for chief magistrate for the great State OF
Ohio. is n soldier unsurpassed for patriotism
the army earning his promoting from Major
in one of the Ohio regiments to his present
pOSition"
Year: 1876

It will be seen by a dispatch from Tucson

 that Secretary Hoyt has taken the same view

 of the matter of canvassing the votes of the

 different Counties as that urged by Judge Goodwin before the Board of Supervisors, sitting, as Board of Canvassers in this County viz: that under the Statutes of this Territory the Recorder, and not the Board, is the proper authority to canvass and transmit to the Secretary the result of the election for Delegate in each particular County. The Recorder acting under the advise of Coun- sel, forwarded not only the result, as arrived at by the Board, but the returns which the Board had rejected. The latter were not canvassed by the Recorder, and in that at least, as it seems to us, they were certainly informal and ought to have been either re- jected by the Secretary or sent back to the Recorder with instructions to canvass them

 The only, effect this unwarrantable action of the Secretary can have on the final result will be to give Stevens the certificate and place him on the defense with his salary, otloiHcy lecs, eiC- pdiu Uy dic OofeiHHhcnt, whereas Hardy will be forced to prosecute his side of the case at his own expense and without salary until such time as he gains his seat. The contest was bound to come, and there has ever been in the minds of the people here a feeling that some scheme would be cooked up in Tucson by which their fsvorite would have all the advantages that could he given him, and its verifcation in this dispatch seems to create but little sur prise. Had the Recorder canvassed the vote of this County and reported the result to the Secretary, and his report had in: cluded the rejected Precincts there might have been plausible pretext for the action of the Secretary, under the view that the Recorder is the proper person to canvass and make such report, but the simple act of send ing the original returns, affords no such pre- text and the whole proceeding seems to us to be about the thinesst attempt to count in favorite thst has ever came under our obser- vation.
Year: 1876

On our fourth page. will be found the val edictory of Mir. T. J. Butler of the Arizona

 MINER. and the announcement that the con- ccrn is sold to Charles W. Beach and John

 H. Marion. Among our Yuma items will be seen the statement that the Arizona Sen tnel has been sold to an association of gen. tlemen, and Judge WI. Berry, the late pro- prietor, promises to, in the next paper, in- troduce his successors and say something regarding himself. This number of the Citizen announces the entire ownership in John Wasson, and he gives public notice that it is for sale, and this notice will stand until it is sold, and there is a reasonable hope that sale will soon be made. This will be an entire change in proprietorship of the Arizona Journals, although it returns NIT. Marion to the MINER with which he was so long connected and mostly sole proprietor. So far as we can learn, not change has oc- cured because the papers have failed to meet the business expectations of the owners, nor because the owners have lost faith in the Territory or desire or intend to leave it. Speaking for ourself, we have never regard ed the future of the Territory with so much favor as now, and with our present faith in the Territory, and our good health for active labor, have no disposition to change our place of residence. For over six years of full or part proprietorship in this paper, we have never been able to give it continuous per sonal supervision and feel confident that we cannot in the future, and hence a fixed pur- pose to sell. To properly write up, super wise in detail and attend to the financial part of this paper, is most laboriors task for competent man experienced in all the details and we will not try to perfom it all day beyond Jan. 1st 1877. unless it be impossi- ble to sell by that time. at the moderate price fixed upon it. And in this connection we will say that if we do sell, we hope to ' i've such friendly although limited assist ance to the Arizona journals, as shall be &C., ceptable to them, and our time will reason ably permit-Tucson Citizen.
Year: 1876

HE WAS A WIDowER-The cars were running through deep cut, the rocky wall of which hre-echoed the noise of the train with startling effect. A pale, dejected looking man sat by an open window, through which came the deafening roar. A lady on the next seat expressed her dislike of the noise in such terms that gentleman requested the pale man to lower his window. This the pale man refused to do, and sat drink ing in the confusion of sounds with an ex- pression of great satisfaction. As soon as the cars stopped, the passengers expressed their contempt of the pale man for his rude ness. The pale man stood up in his seat and said: 'Gentlemen, I don't want you to think me hog but I've been married for eleven years, and last week my wife died I've lived a terrible lonesome life since then. until heard the noise of the cars coming through that cut, and you've no idea how it brought back old times. and revived me. The passengers forgave him.
Year: 1876

We find the following interesting arti-

 cle in late number of the San Francisco Alta:

 This formidable barrier to progress, VIC

 are glad to record, is likely to give way

 before its march. It has doubtless been

 century or more since it ceased to be a sheet of water and became dry land, since which time its sirocco nature has rep,lled and forbidden man tO traverse it. It has

 been some eighteen years since the plan was conceived and measures taken 10 con vert this jOrnadO dc la maerta Desert of Death) into a fruitful field, bill having been passed by inc Legislature of Califcr- mia granting the right of the state to said desert lands to o. M Wozencraft. the orig nator and progator of the measure. The Committee on Public Lands in Congress agreed to the passage of bill ceding the General Governments right to the same, but owing to an unfortunate blunder, it was placed on the calendar instead of pass ing and there 1t has rested until the present time. But it Is about to be revived, and it is probable that it will pass at an early day during the next session. The patient persistence of the propagator of the meas ure is worthy of endorsement, ard thepub- lic of California should wish him success at last because that success can but prove highly beneficial to the Slate and Nation.

 This is an age of achievements in useful works-tunneling the Alps, spanning the globe with electric wire, constructing the Suez canal, building the Atlantic and Pa cifc Railroad, and many other great works among which are the proposed tunnelins of the Strait of Dover; the Isthmus Canal; the great North Sea Canal connecting Am sterdam with the North Sea and making it seaport for large ships, through the canal. with an artificial harbor at its mouth; the proposed canal to food portions of the Desert of Sahara, by French scientists; ant last but not least. this projected work which proposes to convert vast desertinte afruitful field, covering it with verdure by means of boun,iful introduction of water thereby reducing its temperature and mak ing it habitable for man.

 As 1t Is now, sirocco blasts not only repd the traveller, but destroy often the ove- venturesome. and its whitening breath e. tends to adjacent lands and marks then with sterility. The reduction of the ten perature of the desert, which is very grea, would cause an increase in rain fall in tie adjacent country, and that of itself shouH be sufficient reason and justification for the General Government to cede the sterile Desert to any one who may engage to introduce water upon it. It is hopd that no more impediments may be throvn ID the way of the accomplishment eff tiis needful work, but thatwe may have to ,e- cord this as one of the great acbievmeits of the age. As the Desert is and is ikey, It not quite certain, to be, should the Goven- ment continue its pas policy, it will bean abomination and horror to all who nay have tocross it But redeemed, it maybe made tropical garden, fruitful and le- lightful.
Year: 1876

The sentiments so feelingly expressed

 in the MINER, last evening" regarding the

 seeming act of vandalism in felling the

 stately pines on the plaza, which have been

 so long regarded with pride and affection

 by the old citizens of Prescott, touched

 responsive chords in the hearts of many readers. Tender associations and hallow- ed "reminiscences clustered about those an- cient land marks, which from the time to which the memory of man runneth not to the contrary have stood like faithful senti- nels noting the lapse of time and the pro- gross of events.

 Before this soil was pressed by the san- dals of advancing civilization or the sleeping qiuetude of the forests broken by the voice of the white man, an Indian trail passed beneath their generous shadows. They withstood the mutations of time, bid dei- ance to the lightning's flash and the earth quake shock, but the cruel axe of the woodman, directed by the wisdom of our municipal custodians, has laid them low, and "where the tree falleth there shall it lie." In their refreshing shade, more than decade of years ago, the Declaration of American Independence was first publicly read in the Territory Some who were there present, are now with us and deeply deplore the ruthless mandate of the coun- oil which destroyed the beautiful grove and silenced forever the music of the winds as they played about the outstretched branch es upon which the birds of the airwere wont to rest and beneath which man and beast found refreshment and comfort No more shall the foot-sore miner or weary beast of burden seek rest in wonder grove. It is gons "the place which knew it we'll shall know it no more for ever," for in the eyes of the village council it had no form or comliness. F. l.. B. c.
Year: 1876

QuENcHING THNsr.-A feverish thirst that refuses to be quenched by drinking water may be allayed in the following man. her: Throw slice of bread upon burning coals, ard when it is all afame throw it into tumbler of water, and then drink of the water. This remedy has been tested and proven good
Year: 1876

Indian Frauds and Hostile Indians.


Our Indian news this morning, while it
hints at important movements to be made
against the hostile sayages during the winter,
fails to afford us any hope of more satisfac-
tory result than attended the summer cam
paign. In order to fight the Sioux success
fully the army must practise something like
the famous part of the recipe for cooking q
hare-frst catch the hare. Before the In
dians can be punished it is first necessary to
find them. Experience shows that this is
next to impossible. If left to themselves,
cies, as has been the case already with many
of the bands which pretended to hunt early
in the summer, but only went into the hills
to join Sitting Bull in his campaign. Most
of these cannot subsist throughout the win
ter, and starvation, if nothing else, will
drive them in. When they arrive the coun-
try does not desire that Bishop Whipple and
his brother Commissioners shall take them
by the hand and insist upon feeding them that
they may be fully fattened for the next cam
paign. The agents would like this policy,
no doubt, for it would open the way to more
plausible frauds on their part by enabling
them to count the predatory bands as part
Of the permanent residents at the agency.
How far this is practised is shown by our
news despatch from Standing Rock this
morning, where little over two thousand
Indians have been counted as seven thou
sand and rations drawn for that number.
Peace commissioners and Indian commits
sioners and agents of every kind can do no
good in the management of the Indians, and
their control Of the Indian Department only
leads to frauds such as those which are now
so fully exposed. Evidently the only rem
edy against the frauds Of the whites and the
hostility of the Indians is to turn the whole
question over to the War Department, to
charge the officers Of the army with the duty
of caring for the supplies and let the In
dians suffer the consequences of their acts
when they choose to go upon the warpath.
One winter in the hills will teach true
peace principles to the savages more effectu-
ally than oil the sympathetic counsels OF
Bishop Whipple.
Year: 1876

The rumor of Mr.. Vanderbilt's death,
spread yesterday by some unscrupulous
persons, was received by the public with
general regret. Fortunately, it proved to be
unfounded, and there is reason to hope that
Mr.. Vanderbilt may be vouchsafed long
lease Of life. There can be little doubt that
this cruel rumor was put in circulation by
some designing parties with the object of
affecting the stock market, but its authors
were disappointed in the result. We can
imagine nothing meaner or more contempti-
BILE than this playing with the sanctity of
death for the purposes of speculation. Al
though the fluctuations caused by the rumor
were very slight and the losses consequently
small, we are glad to learn that the Govern
ing Committee of the Stock Exchange will
try TO discover the authors and deal with
them as they deserve. 1t is even thought
that clew has been found to the guilty
parties and, ifso, we sincerely hope that it
will be followed up and an example be made of
the guilty. The public will be glad to learn
Year: 1876

WHAT Is TRUTH ?-There is Swedenbor.
gian who is preaching on this theme. He
says there is mo truth in the Bible or in
any other book" This, we suppose, in.
cludes the Swedenborgian literature as well
as all other literature, and is on inside
opinion that may be of interest to the
buyers of books. But an extreme position
on this subject has been taken before.
was taken when person OF inquiring mind
came to the Stagirite and declared his opin
ion that there was no such thing as truth
In answer he was told that his own opinion
was either true or false. If false, it called
for no consideration: but if it was true then
there was something true, and his position
failed. Perhaps the Swedenborgian allows
room enough in his theory for his sermon,
which, if not in book now. will be, he
hopes, one Of these days. But if his little
grain of drivel is sample of truth and all
other literature of error the world is not
likely to grow fonder of the truth as time
goes on.
Year: 1876

Are We to Have Water Famanes


From present indications there is every
prospect that in addition to the discomforts
Of the winter season, with its ice and snow,
New York will have to suffer from scarcity
of water such as has apparently never been
considered possible by our city authorities.
AS it is we are draining the dregs Of our res
ervoirs for the extremely limited supply at
present afforded US, and judging by the ex-
traordinary expedient adopted by tho De-
partment of Public Works of cutting new out
let's from the storage lakes of Putnam and
Duchess counties we are likely soon to con-
sumo what little reserve of water remains
therein. The rainfall of the coming winter
will furnish only surface drainage supply.
for the frozen ground will resist the natural
intiitration Of the water through the soil.
If heavy falls of snow occur instead OF copi-
Gus rains this surface drainage will be very
limited until spring, and consequently the
levels Of the storage lakes will continue low.
Now, is it not time that proper
investigation should be made into our
water system before the evils that threaten
us assume proportions too great to be coped
with except at enormous cost? From time
to time statements as muddy as the Croton
water itself have been issued as to the prog
ress of the various public works connected
with the water supply, and the people have
been treated dd nauseam to official reports
that nre smothered in scientific bosh. 1t ia
high time, therefore, that We know how we
stand on this vital question Of water. If the
officials want to build another aqueduct and
more reservoirs let them say so boldly. II
is better that even this should be done than
that an epidemic shall thin down ouI
population to the number suited to the
capacity for supply of our present water
works system.