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Year: 1872

SILENT INFLUENCE. We are
touching our fellow-beings on all
sides They are affected for good or
evil by what we are, by what we say
and do, even by what we think and
feel. May flowers in the parlor
breathe their fragrance through the
atmosphere. We. are each of US as
silently saturating the atmosphere
about US with the subtle aroma of our
character. In the family circle, be-
sides and beyond all the teaching, the
daily life of each parent and child
mystericusly mOdifies the life Of every
person in the household. The same
process on a wider scale is going on
through the community. No man
liveth to himself and no man dieth to
Others are built up and
straightened by your unconscious
deeds; and others may be wrenehed
out Of their places and thrown down
by our unconscious infiuenee.-Con-
Year: 1872

OILING HARNEss.-This should be
attended to before the hurry of the
spring work is upon you, Commence
by applying one or two coats of a
mixture of equal parts of castor oil
and tallow, and a sufficient quantity
of lampblack, or, what is better, Prus-
sian blue to give it color and a new,
fresh look. Some add eapsieum or
cayenne pepper to the above to pre-
vent mice gnawing the harness. Now
take about two quarts of soap suds
and a sponge or woolen eloth~and
wash your harness, and it is ready for
use. Do not apply water first as that
will prevent the absorption of the oil.
A good method of keeping a carriage
harness in order is to wash with
CASTLE soap suds occasionally and rub
dry. In the latter case oil is not
needed.
Year: 1872

Bishop Whitehouse recently under
took to illustrate his sermon by tell
ing his congregation how he had once
been lost on the prairies of Illinois,
and had wandered for a long time,
weary and almost hopeless. At last
he saw light and made his way to-
wards it, shouting for help. "Just as
thought I could go on farther.D
said the bishop, "and was about sink
ing down in dispair, the door OF
cabin opened qefore me and the long
looked for Sucker (sueeor) came. ~
The unintentiOnal pun brought the
house down.
Year: 1872

a young lady at an evening party
some time ago found it hard 20 use
the expression ''JOrdon is hard road
to travel" ," thinking it too vulgar, but
substituted the following: 'iPeram-
bulating procession in pedestrian ex-
eursion along the far-famed thorough
fare of fortune cast up by the banks OF
the sparkling river Of Palestine is in
deed attended with a Heterogeneous
eonglomeratiOn Of Unforeseen difficult
ties.n
Year: 1872

We do not know when we have
read a more comfortable or less agita-
ting prediction than this. AlphOnse
Adhemar declares that the earth is
covered by a deluge once in 1O,5OO
years. He reasons 1t out in q way
which forcibly impresses US. albeit we
do not in the least comprehend it
All we know is that "a gigantic polar
glacier, by its disruption, overwhelms
q hemisphere;n and to make matters
complete, the world is simultaneous
ly overwhelmed at each end. But as
this is net to happen until A. d. 7253,
it will be useless to get unduly excited
over the matter.
Year: 1872

A paper gives the following diree-
tions for using its new patent hen
pills: From one to ten boxes of
pills is a dose for young fowls. The
best way to give the remedy is to
tickle the chicken under the wings
until it laughs, when the medicine
can be shot down its throat with a
musket or horse-pistol.
Year: 1872

Speak kindly in the morning, it
lightens the cares of the day, and
makes household and all other affairs
moYe along more smoothly. Speak
kindly at night, for it may be that
before the dawn some loved one may
finish his or her space of life for this
world, and it will be too late to ask
forgiveness.
Year: 1872

/ 6AuNaNAOh-


One Of the most striking articles we
have lately read is Our Educational
Outlook f" in Scribner for May. II
any one doubts that the educational
problem is growing to be serious we
commend it to him.


Looking close at home we have
long noted that our common school
system has been far from fulfilling
the promise of its youth. Without
calling the whole thing an evil, or
saying that our wisdom could make
it infinitely better, we do say that in
general the condition of our district
schools is very unsatisfactory.


Without attacking either district
schools or colleges, we want to make
special plea for home academies.
There is scarcely a town among US
that cannot by moderate exertion
sustain a school of fair grade for at
least two terms in the year, and if
the academy could only become as
well established at the centres of our
towns as the church, happy would it
be for US.


Supposing a scholar to have made
the most of his district school oppor-
NunlNACEs ACG 10 OaS AOA AAAAA q AaAA
two years course Of study.


First year.-Firstterm Arithmetic
and Grammar (completed); Algebra
elementary; Physical Geography.
Second term Algebra (eompleted)
Rhetoric (Quaekenbos) /; Botany
(Gray's "How Plants GrOw"); Elocu-
ton.


Second year.-First term: Geometry
(Evans); Natural Philosophy; Book
keeping (Mayhew). Second term
Astronomy Q. S. History; Physio-
logy.


While much more might be studied,
there is not a single work here but
had ought to be studied by every
embryo citizen.


We would have some such course
strictly maintained in every town,
and every student graduate with
an honorable certificate" of the work
he had done.


On for little German law!


1t is impossible to write long in
these evenings without turning upon
him who looms up so strangely and
Unexpectedly in the political horizon;
him of the white coat and bandanna
handkerchief, whose smile is always
"childlike and bland" The situation
may be funny, but it seems to us
serious. You and we, Mr.. Editor,
have been Grant men, but was it not
unfortunate that so long ago not to be
a Grant man was to be ostracized at
headquarters as traitor to the party
Have we not fallen on evil days when
men like Conkling and Ben Butler
and Jack Chandler and old Simon
Cameron are the apostles and ex-
ponents of Republicanism? Shade
of Lincoln pity us!


CLEMENT.
Year: 1872

THE small pox is in San Francisco and the people are getting scared, as see the following telegram to San Diego Union of June 29:

 Four new cases of small pox were discovered to-day. The pest wagon met one case walking along the street and picked him up and took him along. Hundreds are crowding the Health Office waiting their turn to be vaccin- ated. The offices of private physi- clans are also thronged with visitors for the same purpose.
Year: 1872

WE learn from the mail carrier that Lieutenant Bendire came up with the h. dians in the mountains where it was diff fcult to dislodge them. He had gone to Sulphur Springs for water and intended to go again after them. The mail carrier came through, in the night, and says he saw numerous fires in all directions.
Year: 1872

THE most enthusiastic Irish-American citizen, Cor any other man," in town on the Fourth, it is believed, was our friend Martin Touhey. His mule and water cart were profusely decorated with miniature flags and his appearance with his outfit was the first note of the advent of our natal day.
Year: 1872

THE Fourth of July was slow in Tue son. But little public feeling was de- monstrated during the day, partly on ac- count of the great heat, and partly from the fact that no preparations had been previously made. However, with the close of day the patriotic outgushings of our citizens began to crop out in all parts of the town, by the lighting of bontires and setting off of fireworks of all kinds, which ended the day very creditably. After the exhibition of fireworks, George Hueke, great admirer of the light fantas- tic, got up an impromptu cotillOn party in his parlor, and the young and old, and the gay and festive enjoyed themselves to their hearts content until an early hour in the morning. We heard of but few in stances where whisky wrestled with its victim and went beyond the bounds of proprierty and good fellowship, and where it did, it was very properly squelched, and nothing of moment occurred to mar the day or cause an epitaph. We might say more, but won't.
Year: 1872




wAsmNGroS. May %.
The House resolution for adjournment on the
third OF June was presented and a motion to
substitute the 9th of June was negatiyed. Also,
a motion to rescind the former resolution for
adjournment.
Tomorrow the Tariff and Tax bill will be con-
sidered.
Year: 1872

The acquittal of Mrs. Fair for the killing of Crlttenden, has caused much comment in the papers of the day relative to the theory of insanity. The Sacramento Record covers the ground well in the following remarks:

 No man can conscientiously affirm, con ceding the soundness of the theory, that any murderer is not insane at the instant of com hitting the murder, and therefore, no man can conscentiously vote for the conviction of any murderer This is not a cheerful condi- ton of things for the general public, inas- much as murder remains the same, and pro duces the same dreadful results, whatever the mental condition of the perpetrator. The broad consequence is that murder ceases to be punishable as a crime, and whether that result is likely to subserve the interests of society, our readers are capable of deciding for themselves.
Year: 1872

AN ALLEGED ADNlNlsIhAIioN


1t Is reported in this city-and the story IS
said TO come from Trustworthy sources in Washington
that plan has been arranged between exColector
M1rphy and the Administration leaders on tho one
hand and Senator O'Bren and his supporters on the
other, by which, in consideration OF supporting CBren
for Mayor in the coming election, the Customhouse
party to have control OF the city patronage during
The Presidential campaign This arrangement. it is
said, was eonsummated during q recent visit Of Mr..
Murphy to Washington and the first resu { Of it
his return Albany in the adopt Of the new
Charter. Il will be remembered that there
was sudden change IN tactics at Al
bany, and tie report OF the Conference
Committee unexpectedly agreed TO- the Senate re-
ceding from its former position. The plan OF future
operations reported have been arranged folows
As soon the Charter becomes a law either by
lapse Of tme the approval of the Governor or its pas
his veto the Administration organ in ths city
will suggest Mr. OBrien as the best man for the Demo
crats nominate. he being leading Ref0rmer, and
popular and talented young Irishman." This, it Is
thought VIII induce the Apollo Hall wing OF the Demo-
crats 70 nominate Mr. OIrien, and in the demoraliZed
condition OF Tammany, the support Of the Customhouse
politicians t is believed would render his election al
certain. In for CustGm-houso support the
new Mayor according to the alleged bargain 10 give
Mr. Murphy the management Of the city machinery
during the presidential campaign. to be used for the
Administration and against the Liberal Republican
candidate This arrangement made under the suppo-
sIt)n that no regular Democratic candidate will be in
the field In ithis way it is thought, the city can be
carried for CustOmhouse candidate. Senator Wilson


IL mentioned knowing the existence Of the rgain
am regarding ~ shrewd maneuver. President
Giant said to have met SIR OBricn at Long Branch
wth r Murphy, and 10 regard him as one OF the abes
AM mOGt excellent men IN the country.
Year: 1872

impossible unless every portion of the body fully and ga


y supplied with requires and this be tie
stomach good working order Indigestion bar physical
vgo dypepc athletic But tOrpdy Of the stomach and
general debility weakness which uperndnees not
incurabe evils A course HOSTBTrER5 STOMACH BITTERs
will remove certainty both and eject tOnng the
rsre gastric membrane Increasing the solvent Of The gastric
aa regulating the liver and gently stimulating tae bowels,
and thereby rendering process Of digestion expeditions and perfect
The result Of the will be the Of The food into pure
nutritious blood capable renewing the solids Of tie body as fast as
u er .re d.srrnt1d nv lie Near md tear OF Lfc
Year: 1872

Six hundred and htyh7e Sewing Machines male by
Companies in BIi They were nearly all oekstteh


machines and used every branch Of business requiring Less
than i've single thread chain h' machines
Ike the Of only be used for special
purposes LARGELY disposed exchange for old and
secondhand stitch machines Of the better class Ike the Wheeler
L Wi.or the SINGER and he Exchange
Year: 1872

PICACHo STATION is advertised in to- days paper for sale, with all supplies on hand. It is one of the very best on the road, so located that all teamsters and travellers on that road must give it some patronage.
Year: 1872

than any other House in the Territory We are therefore certain that as to quality and adaptability to the wants of the com munity our stock is unsurpassed.

 For these reasons we respectfully solici. a share of the public patronage, feeling assured that our goods and prices cannot ail to give entire satisfaction. FULLY, OCHOA & co.
Year: 1872

THE Apaches were so thick around the Bosque Ranch on the 26th of August, that when P. Megery was firing off his gun from his seat under peach tree at his door, two came right in range of the balls, and one got his neck broken by his care lessness and another sustaired slight damage to his person. Good for Megery, who will give the details of the bloody conjunction of Apaches with his rife balls.
Year: 1872

EXERCISE, to be more profitable, ought
to be rs far as possible not systematic
and taken for its own sake, but sponta-
neous and incidental to some occasion OF
either business or amusement. SO init
mate is the connection between mind and
body, that it is difficult to benefit the lat
ter unless while relieving and pleasantly
occupying the former. To the lawyer,
merchant, student, or indeed any one
whose mind is deeply engrosscd by his
occupation, there is marvellous efficacy
in journey among new scenes, which,
while it restores the physique, at the
same time affords immense relief to the
jaded spirit. Exercise must not be al
lowed to become n toll, but must be nc
companicd by sense of that which
sweetons all labor, the sense Of progress
and some object gained.
Year: 1872

The MooN's LEssoN.-Tho lesson tho
moon teaches, according TO astronomers,
is that of birth, life and death on sub
lime and mighty scale. Tho sun, earth
and moon exhibit these conditions the
sun is uninhabited and uninhabitablc, be-
cause it is too young; the moon, because
it is too old while the earth, now tho
abode Of life, will in timo reach tho con-
dition Of the moon, which is II sopulchre,
and cease to be inhabited also. The moon
is not older than the sun, but is youngest
Of the three but the enormous size OF
the sun prevents it from passing from ono
phase TO another as rapidly as the smaller
body has, and so, after ages, it continues
in the state of combustion in which all
the heavenly bodies are supposed to have
been born. The earth has passed out Of
this state Of combustion by boing cooled,
and is now scene Of myriad life and tho
thoater of moral action but the moon
has passed through this stage Of life and
become II dead satellite. Such is what
modern science announces MS the result
Of careful investigations Of the moons
surface.
Year: 1872

A WISE FATHER.-The following an
ecdotc is told of the famous Prince OF
Conde. He left his son, aged nine years,
fifty louis dor to spend while he himself
was absent in Paris. On his return the
boy came to him triumphantly, saying :


" Papa, here is all the money safe;
have never touched it once"


The Prince, without making any reply,
took his soon to the window, and quietly
emptied all the money out Of the purse
into the street. Then he said: 4: "If you
have neither virtue enough to give away
your money, nor spirit to spend it, always
do this for the future, that the poor may
have n chance Of it,"
Year: 1872

A YOUNG blacksmith in London has
undertaken TO earn money during the
last two years in rather novel way:
Half crown fee is paid to tho individual
who gives the first intelligence of the
breaking out Of fire. This diligent
youth has SGT fire to 100 different build
ings, with no other purpose than obtain
ing the 100 half crowns. The last time
he was detected, and is now on trial.
Year: 1872

The good folks of Salt Lake have been fortunate enough to secure a marvellous per sonage who announces himself as general healer. Railways Ready Relief is nothing to him. for he at once takes the disease by its metaphorical horns and forthwith vanquishes it. The Salt Lake Tribune says:

 Dr. Newton spoke for short time on the subject of healing, and related some very wonderful cures performed by himself. At tue close of his remarks he manipulated Mir. John Manning, afflicted with heart disease, then made magnetic wave felt by the audi ence. and closed by throwing out an electric shock which was felt by many persons. As the doctor was passing up the aisle we noticed a woman leaning forward to reach him; he was in front of another person, but all she did was to touch the them of his garment" :" The Doctor will heal gratis every day next week, at the Institute. He professes to heal by having the garments person wore brought to him, especially in the case of children.
Year: 1872

Alfalfa hay commands about $50 per ton in Prescott Wherever there is water to ir- rigate it, SIX cuttings per year can be taken from it, which makes it profitable crop. That it will do well in such valleys as Will iamson, Miller's, Woolsey, &c., persual of the following, from the California hgricultu- rist, will show:

 "The kind of soil that alfalfa naturally does best on, on this coast, is light or sandy soil, where the roots can find water within seven to fifteen feet. On heavy soils, which crack during dry weather and where roots cannot easily penetrate the subsoil, or where the subsoil is cold and stiff and stagnant, al falfa will not do we'll unless the surface soil is kept constantly moist by irrigation. 8ya system of constant irrigation on such soils tho roots do not run deeply, but become ha6- itua.ed to depend upon surface moisture, and if the surface is not allowed to become dry It will not crack and the alfalfa will flourish about as we'll as on soil naturally adapted to it. On soils where it is adapted, it is about the most valuable crop that can be grown, where stock is also raised in connection with its culture to consume it. 1t may be grown on the same soil for any number of years without impoverishing it, as the roots pene- trate so deeply and draw so much of the earthly salts required in its growth from the lower soils. No farmer who has piece ot land that will readily produce it can afford to be without field of alfalfa, as it will afford green pasture at the very season when everything else is dry, besides yielding as much or more hay than any other grass that Is known. If sown this fall, so as to get good start with the first rains and before the heavy frosts come on, it will do just as well as when sown in the spring after the frosts are over. Those who have tried it sown with grain, and alone by itself, prefer the latter way. The land may be thinly plowed, but the narrowing should be finely and thor oughly done Then SOW fifteen to twenty pounds of seed to the acre and roll it with a light roller. Allow no stock to modest it un- til it is m blossom. Should gophers trouble it, make war of exterInination upon them at once or they will destroy the alfalfa as they delight to eat up the stocky roots"
Year: 1872

Photographic advices from Washington place the Indian situation in very promising light for the future. No Administration since the beginning of our national history has dealt with this problem in manner perfectly successful, so far as rendering universal satis- faction is concerned. There has always been a large party strenuously opposed to an ex- terminating war upon the tribes, and another equally opposed to conciliatory policy. The former mode of treatment has achieved the end of preventing outrages upon the settlers, but has shocked those Eastern folks who are full of humanitarian ideas and live at a suf- ficient distance from the Indian stroIgholds to be secure themselves and to be without appreciation of the sufferings of the pioneers. The concilatory policy, on the other hand, has been failure.

 X judicious combination of the two would undoubtedly be the proper thing. Enough force to break the spirit of the savages and teach them their impotence, followed by just and gentle treatment, cannot fail to satisfy ali sides. Unfortunately, the man of war does not work we'll beside the man of peace. The Quaker and the soldier cannot agree upon the point at which the one IS to begin and the other is to leave off, and no Admin istration has yet succeeded in perfectly har- monizing the two.

 One point must never be overlooked. The Indian is undoubtedly cruel, vindictive, lazy, and possessed of many other savage vices ; but he is also brought into contact with many white men who are not much his superior. He should be taught the difference between those who wish to rob him and those who seek to do him justice, and that is by no means an easy task. The greatest difficulty is that he cannot be made to understand pre- cisely what the intentions of the pale faces are. From that fact arises the most trouble.

 The present Administration has made most praiseworthy attempt to treat the sava- gcs with strength and kindness combined. Like every preceding Administration tt has found that experiment impossible of success, and it has now determined that vacillation must give way to the strong and stern hand.

 The tribes will be broken into families and be compelled to live in style that will make them more likely to adopt the customs of their white neighbors, and more easily in- auenced into abandoning their notions of the tomahawk and scalping knife, and their peri odicai excursions along the war-path.-San ffamcisco Carosicls.
Year: 1872

his guilt; but he felt that his life had been one Of
sinfllness. He prayed nom his heart, and went
down from the temple justified by faith. So long
as sin exists IN this world there will be men OF
whom the Pharisee and puSiican are representa-
tive types. The Pharsee represents those who
feel that they are h0lier than their brethren. He
judged himself thus because he felt that he was not
guilty OF the grosser sins OF the esh; he was not
an extortioner, like the publican; he was not an
adulterer. He saw many around him falling into
sins OF which he was not guilty. He thanked God
he was respectable man. He possessed


sELF-sATIsFACTIoN WITH HIS RELIGIOUS LIFE.


and there was no sense OF shame within him.
There are many sins OF the soul as well Is the open
sins Of the nesh-tne noisy kind. It has been well
said that there ia white devil-spirtual prtde-as
well as black devil-ust; but because the Phari-
see judged himself free from the more gross Of sins
he felt that he was selfrighteous. Let us not DO
satisfied when we can say. 81 am not an adutcrer
or fornicatOr." We may not be guilty OF any OF
these open sins, but we are guilty OF others. Man
Is not 1T for heaven because


HE HAS KEPT THE STATUTORY LAWS a
OF the land. God expects more OF us. He expects
us to love our neighbOrs and live ut peace with all
men; He expects US to discard all false pride, eel
our utter unwos thin ess, and when we come before
Him pray, like the publican, 'GOd be mercliul to
me, q snncr.n