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Year: 1875

LISTEN TO BUSINESS.-We keep
on hand a large assert of Jewelry,
the latest novelty of all it's branches.
Also large assortment of Foreign
and American wathes, clocks and
plated ware of all descriptions,
which we offer as cheap as any
dealer in the Union Come and see
us, and we will convince you that
we mean what we say.


CARTWrIaHT a. JAMES.
Year: 1875

AND still another murder at Bel
mont! Just before going to press
we received the following tidings
An aged man, whose name we have
not learned, had been to the village
and after becoming intoxicated start
ed for home. On the way home he
met two "boys' with load of wood,
with whom be fell into a dispute,
which resulted in one of the boys
striking him with a club, taken from
the load of wood, and killing him
instantly. We have not learned the
particulars. Our information is lot
from the best authority, we give it
to our readers as we heard it.
Year: 1875

WIN. Croft, Of New Diggings,
Wis, was killed a few days since at
that place whilst firing u shot in a
shaft in which he was working, be-
longing to the Wicker Brothers,
merchants, of New Diggings. Mr..
Croft was looking down the shaft
just at the moment the blast went
Oft, when piece of rock struck him
in the temple, breaking the skull
and causing death. The shaft he
was at work in is but short dis
tance from the Level Company
Mr.. Croft was a brother-in-law to
the Vickers and leaves wife and
two children.-Gnlend Press.
Year: 1875

Swinburne opens his papers, entitled
The three Stages Of Shakespeare" with
the subjoined fne passage.


The first Of living poets had drawn a
parallel of elaborate eloquence between
Shakespeare and the sea; and the like
ness holds good in many points of less
significance than those which have been
set down by the master-hand. For two
hundred years at least have students Of
every kind put forth in every sort of
boat on a longer or shorter voyage Of
research across the waters Of that un-
sounded sea. From the paltryest fish
ing-craft to such majestic galleys as
were steered by Coleridge and by Goethe,
each division of the feet has done or has
essayed its turn of work; some busted in
dredging along shore, some taking sur.
veys OF this or that gulf or headland,
some putting forth through shine and
shadow into the darkness OF the great
deep. Nor does it seem as If there
would sooner be an end to mems labor
on this than on the other sea. But here
a difference is perceptible. The materi
al ocean has been so far mastered by the
wisdom and the heroism Of man that we
may look for a time to come when the
mystery shall be manifest of its farthest
north and south, and men resolve the
secret of the uttermost parts of the sea /;
the poles, also, may find their Columbus
But the limits of that other ocean, the
laws Of its tides, the motive of its forces,
the mystery Of its unity, and the secret
of its change, no seafaFeF Of US all may
ever think thoroughly to know. No
wind-ga1ge win help US to the science of
its storms, no lead-line to sound for us
the depth Of its divine and terrible Sc.
renity. rr
Year: 1875

snort Hints Concerning sickness.
Home and Society.l


Don't whisper in the sick-room.


When the doctor comes to see you, re-
member how many pairs Of stairs he has
to climb every day, and 20 down to him
If you arewell enough. af ina


When you are sitting up at night with
a patient, be sure to have something to
eat, if you wish to save yourself un-
necessary exhaustion.


Remember that sick people are not
necessarily idiotic or imbecile, and that
it is not always wise to try to persuade
them that their sutferiugs are imaginary.
They may even at times know best what
they need. b


Never deceive dying person unless
BY the doctor express orders. tits not
only wrong to allow any soul to 60 into
eternity without preparation, but how
can you tell but that he has something
he ought to tell or do before be goes
away2


If you have sick friend to whom you
wish to be of use, do not content your
self with sending her flowers and jelly,
but lend her one Of your pictures to hang
in place of hers, or bronze to replace
the one at which sheis so tired of staring.


Don't have needless conversations
with the doctor outside of the sick room.
Nothing will excite and irritate a ner.
yous patient sooner If you do have
such conversations, don't tell the patient
that the doctor said nothing" he
won't believe you, and he will imagine
the worst possible,


In lifting the sick, do not take them
by the shoulders and drag them up on
the pillows, but get some one to help
you. Let enc stand on one side OF the
patient, the other opposite, then join
hands under the shoulders and hips, and
lift steadily and promptly together.
This method is easy for those who lift
and does not disturb the one who ia
lifted. -e


Do not imagine that your duty is over
when you have nursed your patient
through his illness, and he is about the
house, or perhaps going out again
Strength does not come back in mo
ment, and the days when little things
worry and little efforts exhaust, when
the cares of business begin to press, bul
the feeble brain and hand refuse to think
and execute, are the most trying to the
sick one, and then comes the need for
your tenderest care, your most unobtru
sive watchfulness.
Year: 1875

I" Come tomorrow at eight clock to the
Hotel DlSu and ask for me" The priest
was prompt. Inc surgeon procured
for him a special room, andin a month 5
time the man vert out cured. When
leaving he took out of sack thirty
francs IN small change. at is all have
to offer you, doctor" he said; II came
here on foot from R. in order to save
this. The doctor looked at the money,
smiled, and drawing handful Of gold
from his pocket, put it in the bag along
with the thirty francs, saying, it is for
your poor and the priest went away.
Some years later the celebrated doctor,
feeling death to be near, bethought him
Of the good priest and wrote to him. he
came, aud Depuytren received from him
the " last consultations and died in his
arms.
Year: 1875

A Chicago poet upon hearing that
Mile Nilsson was about to erect COW
sheds upon her Peoria lots, burst forth
into the following verse: Christine,
Christine, thy milking do the morn and
eve between, and not BY the dim relig-
iOus light of the htful kerosene. For
the COW may plunge, aud the lamp
explode, and the FIRE fend ride the gale,
and shrek the knell Of the burning
town in the glow of the molten pail"
Year: 1875

From the London Daily News


We publish to- day letter from Mr. II. H. Horne,
commencing that special mark of distinction should
be conferred upon Captain Webb Mr.. Horne's name
entities him to respectful hearing for any suggestion
he may make. We may add that he is himself an ex-
feat then believe almost unexamped of swimming
across the Mena Straits from Carnarvon Castle To
the Isle of Anglesea in rough and
strong current But say that agree
with Mr. Horne in thinking that Captain Webbs feat
would be appropriately rewarded by the honor Of
knighhood 1t is quite true that in the earlier days of
such distinctions they often conferred for eas OF
strength and skill lar less remarkable and creditabe
than that Of Captain Webb. Legend, believe
that the first honor conferred upon the Bucceuch
family was that Of knighthood given to an ancestor
who stouty carried buck up steep height to oblge
a king. Even in recent times VIC have instances
enough of similar titles being suddenly granted
for mere display OF gladiaoral strength. Still
have recently changed all that and our sovercigns
have confined the dignity of knighthood to services
supposed to be of character less distinctly
official We do not by any desire tho gal
liant Captain Webb turned into knight of the modern
If he could be made Knight of the Bath there
might perhaps be some appropriateness in the title
least If in nothing else But think his felloY
countrymen would much prefer that Captain Webb
should remain Just as he is and that he should
chance OF being conounded with the husband OF
Dickens Lady Tippns who was knighted by mistake
That Captain Webb deserves much more substantial
recognition at the hands of his counrymen than nera
barren honor of any kind we fully admit 1t hardly
be, indeed, that such recognition will be wanting
the of the man who has accomplished the greatest
feat of strength, skill and courage these later times
have produced But should be sorry to the
stout swimmer ''translated" into a knight
Year: 1875

From the spirit OF the Times.


Greater than Webb's exploit the sublime and in
elligent daring OF Boyton's dauntless heart when,
black night 100 miles distant from the dreadful Irish
coast with all the elements moaning with pent up rage
he demanded of the captain of the which had
brought him from America, the fulment OF pledge TO
cast him into the The captain warned him against
the rising sto-m demonstrated then reiuscd but last
gave way TO the intrepid adventurcrs eBtreaties. The
came within hour. Increasing steadily it rose
to such pitch Of fury that in the middle OF the night,
the stout steamer, which had put him overheard, was
afraid against it's eliminated power and be-
took itself to the unusual Resource OF yingo till the
tempest should blow out its spite Not the little
human craft, which struggled with its fate amid the
black and ashing waves; flung alott with fearful
velocity into the roaring gale and anon sinking in thu
yawning centre, almost stied and drowned by the
drcnching mists alone There no yingto there;
attending boats To cheer him. and give an assurance
OF his saley-no boat could live There banking
OF the fires for more favorable hour. Within
its narrow casket burned the unquenchable fire OF
brave heart The sails of this undaunted ship
set and the busy paddle kept steadily going except
when at intervals the master struck light to consult
his compass, or TO send up rocket which might get
HIM a notice from some ship or from the shore Day
dawned amid the widest portion of the storm, and
the strange navigator found that greater danger than
the threatened him, in the form of "breakcr-
beaten coast" The went whoopng up among
the rocks hundreds of feet retiring with a velocity
that seemed without promise OF a hope He struck
the spike of his axe into a nest OF bouders, in
the hope to hold on but the retreatng cbb whrled him
out again, spinning HIM like cork; when happily, he
enabled to paddle sufficiently further on, to choose
new landing place in deep gulch, which appeared 10
have spot of beach. Here he submitted himself to
the next heave of the sea- and striking the sand amid
the pausng surf pulled himself to his feet gathered
his armor, and away from its retreat He sat down
safe, and looked the raging elements in the face
victor; and that, too, upon challenge which might
have seemed impious, but for the sublime pur.
pose which had animated HIM to the unequal
contest But while he thus breathed the
steamer yet at sea- and when she arrived
at her destination, much later the same day. her
anxious captain amazed to learn that the man,
whom all hands ON board were thinking OF lost, had
announced their arrival the coast upon the shipping
lists Of Liverpool and London. The initial but sug-
gestve result OF this great deed in the late
swimming spectacle upon the Thames, TO which we
have referred. Captain Webb is splendid heroic fellow,
whose lame Will stand single, the swimmer of the
British Channel probably forever but Paul Boyton II
of those exceptional men, who appearing but once
in a century, Lift the whole world forward in soma
special way, for fun hundred years.
Year: 1875

About daybreak yesterday morning the night watch
man employed tho coal docks of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company at Jersey City the body of
floating in the river The corpse being taken out Of
the water and examined found TO have long cut
on the back of the head, such as would
be made by an axe IL was therefore determined
that the deceased lad been struck from behind and
then thrown into the river The body had not been in
the water long enough TO be dccOmposed II is that
Of man twenty five years OF age smooth faced and
OF fair complexion. II was dressed n black cloth
and vest diagonal cloth pantaoons, CATERS and white
shirt The SHIRT torn open IN front, and the collar
and nccktic seemed to have been wrenchcd OIL These
facts gave evidence that the deceased had been mur
dcrcd after a sculle The body is now at the Morgue
in
Year: 1875

To the Senate of the United Statesi liza. IA


have the honor TO make the following answer
to a Senate resolutloH % the 9Th 'tuat as king
for information az TO any interference by any
military officer 0r any part of the amy - me
United States with the organization or proceed
lsiana, or either branch thereof, and also inqur-
ing IN regard To- the existence of armed organiza-
t0ns In that State hostile to the Government
Year: 1875

has been foreordained to starve to death,
Keep your Minister or artichokes and
purslain, and he will be fit to preach
nothing but funeral sermons from the
text "All flesh is grass" While feel
ing most of all our need of the life
that comes from above, let us not ignore
the fact that many of the clergy to- day
need more gymnastics, moye fresh air,
more nutritious food. Prayer cannot
keep hot fire In the furnace with poor
fuel and the damper turned
Year: 1875

AXLE BRoKEN.-As the Water Witch
engine was responding to the alarm of
fire last evening, the front ALE broke at
Third and Tatnall streets. This alarm
was occasioned by the fire in Mill Greek
Hundred. reported elsewhere.
Year: 1875

From this it will be seen that the past
month has been an average of FIVE and
seven-tenths degrees colder than the
nine preceding Janualies. The ground
has been cont nnorsly covered with ice
stree tie noquing Of the 2
Year: 1875

Never buy any stamps. Hand your
letter to the Postmaster and tell him
to put stamp on it. If you are out
of change tell him you will hand it to
him the next time you are in. 1t
wont be necessary however, to do so,
as three cents are nothing. -


When you hand in your letter, do
not forget to tell the Postmaster to be
sure and have it go. If you do not
give this warning, he may keep it i'll
the Office. &


Always remember to call the Post-
master and hand your letter to hin,
and not put it in the letter box. If
you do not the Postmaster will not
have so much to do, and you will
thereby encourage laziuess. Remem-
ber that the Postmaster would consid-
er it quite unkind to have your letters
stamped by anyone but himself. He
will be pleased also to put wrappers
on papers, and back them for you oc-
casionally, or oftener; especially when
he is busy distributing the mail.


When you put in letter it is we'll
to ask how long before you will get
an answer. OF course the Postmaster
ouSut W hioW, VI uc 10 uOC III w VIC u
Postmaster. a= II ar4 .asf sIlt


If you have box, do not call out
the number of it or your name, but
stand there and rap. This will oblige
the Postmaster to take good look at
you. sla .ssaI.a -


When he hands out your mall. don't
fail to ask him if that is all, (Postmas-
ters are in the habit of holding back
ones mail, which of course they will
not do after this question is asked. }


If an expected letter or paper does
not come, ask him what he supposes
is the reason, and tell him it is mighty
curious. A Postmaster ought to know
what is wrong after being in the busi-
ness few months. 1t is we'll to tell
him where you are expecting 1t from
and what business it is about, ETC.
This kind of a story is calculated to
interest Postmaster and render him
good natured. You might hint to him
also, that your letter must be in the
p0stOffiee somewhere. That kind of
insinuation always makes him feel SO
jubilant. a 81


If tile man of the house does not get
a letter, 1t would be well to send the
rest of the family, one at time.
There is no telling which might be the
lucky one. Each one should be in
structed to ask the Postmaster if he is
sure there is nothing. This will tend
to create an angelic disposition in the
most cross-grained Postmaster.
Year: 1875

The harvest in San Joaquin County
says the stockton Independent, il
now we'll under way, and the farmers
are extremely busy in most localities.
Thus far we have heard of no scarcity
of farm hands, the supply being fully
equal to the demand. New wheat
is generally of superior quality, and
in quantity half crop on the East
side of the San Joaquin is the result
we are assured of.
Year: 1875

1t is quite essential that trees and shrubs
Should be allowedt to rotate as annual farm
crops. We should, if possible, not renew
old orchards on the same ground, as is the
general custom. 1t is probable that the
dying out of old apple trees indicates to a
degree the weakness of the soil for their
recuperation. Food can be to an extent
supplied but no amount of stimulus gives
health. 1t may arrest decay for time. l
have observed in one of my old orchards
Il struggle on the part of the wild cherry
to secure the ground. If left to mature,
the apple trees would soon give way to
the cherry grove. Butternuts are just as
ambitious in another quarter. 1t is natur-
al rotation. The apple trees were plant
ed Cor probably the seed sown) by old
Dominic kirland, missionary to the Onei-
das, and it Is time they were allowed to
die. Strawberries and raspberries like
wise give little satisfaction without the
principle of rotation in the fruit garden.
Destroy side hill of blackberries, and
you may expect patch of raspberries or
strawberries. A close watch Of wild
grasses proves the same to be true Of fthem.
Weeds march over the country in platoons
one kind departing before strange
successor. In the same way insects are
never stationary, but move eastward or
westward by yearly marches. Precisely
the same has been true of human races.
Nature certainly has been very positive in
enforcing rotation of plants. Burn
beech forest, and an oak or hemlock grove
springs up. We have learned to consider
this law in farming, but it is quite essen.
tial in horticulture
Year: 1875

The following was found in the Of
| flee of an editor by the county sheriff.
Editing paper is very pleasant
business.


Ifit contains too much political mat
ter people won't have 1t.


II it contains too little, people won't
have it.


If the type is too large 1t d ont con-
tain enough reading matter.
If the type is too small they can't
read 1t.


If we publish telegraph report, folks
say they are nothing but lies.
If we omit them, they say we have
no enterprise, or suppress them for
political effects.
If we have in o few jokes folks say
we are nothing but rattle head.
If we omit jokes they say we are an
old fossil.
If we publish original matter they
damn us for not giving selections.
Ifw publish selections folks say
that we are lazy for not writing more,
aud giving them something they have
not read in some other paper.
If we give man complimentary
notices we are censured for being par
tial.
If we do not all hands say we are o
great hog.


If we insert an article which pleases
the ladies, men feel jealous.
If we do not cater to their wishes,
the paper is not fit to have In their
houses.


five attend church they say it is
only for effect.


If we do not, they denounce us as
deceitful and desperately wicked.


If We speak we'll of any act of the
President folks say we dare not do
otherwise.


If we censure they call us traitor.
If we remain in our office and attend
to business folks say we are too proud
to mingle with our fellows.


If We go out, they say we never at
tend to business.
If We do not pay all bills promptly
folks say we are not to be trusted.


If we do pay promptly they say we
stole the money.-E.rchange
Year: 1875

Every column of newspaper con-
tains from ten to twenty thousand dis
tinct pieces of metal, according to the
size of the paper and type. The dis
placement of q single one makes an
error. Is it any wonder that errors
occur? In large offices professional
proof readers are kept, whose practi-
cal eyes passing twice over every line
of proof, detect most of the errors; 9
boy is also kept for the same purpose
at the same time reading the copy
aloud. Still mistakes are frequently oc-
curing, after coming from such hands
and probably no newspaper or book
was ever yet published without errors
that might be detected by the merest
novice.


In book printing it is estimated
that proof reading costs half as much
as composition. In country Offices
the editor generally has to be his own
foreman, printer, book-keeper and al
most everything else, and if the same
care had to be exercised that is deem
ed indispensable on the city sheets, the
country newspapers could not be pub
lished at all because of the expenses.
Printing Gazette.
Year: 1875

LAS CRUCES, September 13.

 FRIEND ,WAssoN: Last Saturday (the 10th,) proved an unfortunate day for this town. Towards evening a large body of water rushed in from the mountains flooding the town, and in less than twenty minutes fifty houses were washed away. The rushing of water through the streets lasted until 10 o'clock at night, and during these few hours many family lost all they had. You remember my house and the adjoining one of Mir. Ashenfelter. We have slnce you saw them added several buildings in the rear lot, and nice porches in the front, all of which are heap of ruins now We had hard ly time to save few pieces of furni- ture and what we did save is more or less damaged.

 Whole fields of corn are also destroy ed and the losses are heavy. The town looks horrible. You know it did not look very nice before; now there is nothing but a heap of mud wherever you turn.

 1 hope your town will never be wis tied by such an unwelcome visitor.

 Yours truly, CHAs. LEsINsKY.

 From The Las Cruces Borderer of the 11th, we get these additional parhcu- lars:

 Darkness came on with a heavy rain, and the progress of devastation could be marked in the vivid flashes of light hing and the sound of falling build ings.

 It was midnight before the flood abated, and this morning our town which was yesterday one of the most flouriShing in the southwest, stands a mass of ruins sad to contemplate

 A portion of the Convent and Acad- emy of Visitation is down, and the fur niture is being removed from the other portion. The two story residence of !. D. Ochoa fell with a crash, barely giv- ing Mr. Ochoa and wife time to escape. The Masonic hall is still standing, but the stock of hardware from the ware room of Lesinsky & Go. below, has been removed and the whole building is expected to fall

 It IS impossible to give an estimate of the value of property destroyed, but it is thought to reach as high as $75,- 900. There are about fifty buildings down, many of them of not much val ue; yet the poor people living in them have lost their all We hear of no lives lost.
Year: 1875

SEPTEMBER 4, we republished a Tue son letter to the San Francisco Even. ing Bulletin, and today we give part of another and will present the remain. der hereafter. The letters present the Territory in fresh and quite accurate and complete light, to the extent that can be done in a mere correspondence The matters treated of might be ampli- fled in an interesting manner to the ex- tent Of a considerable volume and to the great benefit of the Territory Col Hodges letters about Pueblo Viejo Val ley, given today, are valuable as show ing productive field to immigrants.
Year: 1875

THOMAS DUNBAR has recently been appointed postmaster at Tres Alamos in this county, and in this connection we may say that Capt T. J. Jeffords writes that THE CITIZEN very seldom goes to Apache Pass as it should, and that once happening at Camp Grant the postmaster at that place handed him his paper which should never have gone there, and concludes as there is but one postoff1ee between Tucson and Apache Pass, the miscarriage is occasIoned at the San Pedro office. Mir Dunbar is represented to us as a careful man, and we think he will avoid any repetition of the mistake complained of.
Year: 1875

UP to yesterday, we had no definite news of the result of the election on the 9th, for Delegate to Congress, in New Mexico. The latest was to the effect that an official count would be necessary to determine whether MT Elkins would be reelected or MT Val dez succeed him.