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Year: 1876

In conversation yesterday with a
prominent manutac urer of coal, we
were told that the contract price paid
men for cutting the wood and burn
ing and sacking the coal is fifteen
cents per bushel. Thcr. is barely \
living in the business 1t these figures.
In fact most ot the men who spend
the summer in the woods come in in
the fall with scarcely money enough
to pay months board. The life nj
the coal burner is indeed hard one,
and the emolumeats of his calling
do not begin to compensate him for
the wear and tear OF his muscle.
To make it still more binding on
him we understand that there Is
some talk among some contractors OF
reduction to fourteen cents bush
el. The price paid for coal delivered
at the furnaces 10 80 cents.-Eureks
Hentil ell.
Year: 1876

SILVER CITY, : NEVADA
Is now thoroughly and completely furnished
and ready for guests by the day, week or
month. The table will be supplied st all
times with the very best the market affords,
and the Rooms are large, well ventilated
and desirable. They maintain it as thor
oughly first-class Hotel. in all Of its appoint
ments, and confidently solicit the patronage
of the public In connection with the Silver
House, they have large and well-stockcd
Year: 1876

Peter Gown, OF No. 1875 Sands street, Brooklyn, was
found lying Sands street. apparently intoxicated at
early hour yesterday morning Hc was removed TO
the York street station house by Patrolman Graham.
There tho prisoner, who is thirty years OF age
native OF Africa and laborcr by occupation, stated
that he had been shot in the neck but he would not
tell by whom under what circumstances he received
the wound He removed to tho Long Island COL
lego Hospital. The wound Is not dangerous
Year: 1876

In the tirst place, says st. Pc
tersburg correspondent of the San
Francisco Chronicle, picture to
yourself the drojkies, which are
mere single seats like stools with
out back or arms; although often
necessary it is next to impossible
for two persons to seat themselves
therein, so small are they, and two
strangers thus seated can always
be recognized by each having both
arms clasped around the other,
there being nothing else to hold to,
The driver has a similar seat a lit
tie higher and in front. So seated
your driver starts. He is none Of
your lazy fellows, and he has
learned that st. Petersburg is a
city Of magnificent distances, and
his horse starts, and keeps on good
run, and could you but hold on to
the droiky with your feet as tightly
as you hold to your companion
with your arms, you would feel toll
erably secure Of your sect, If you
are driving on the Nievsky Pros
pect it is crowded with vehicles,
the greatest number of them droj-
kies, all running as fast as your
own. Now you put out your hand
to turn away a running horses
head within two feet of your own
face, and directly your other
shoulder wipes the foam from the


mouth of another passing horse,
and this is done 50 often that your
outside garments soon look like a
winter landscape. For observations
you have no time, your whole at
tention being occupied in Won
dering at the skill with which
imminent collisions are lodged,
and when at last you be-


come used to it you think it
the finest driving you ever enjoyed,


Not only the driving, but the
drivers dress and horses gear are
peculiar. Fastened to the shafts
Of all vehicles drawn by a single
horse is q hoop bent from one shaft


to the other and rising to the hight
Of three or four feet above the
horses neck. The check-rein is
fastened to the top Of this hoop.


For drays this hoop is larger and


heavier, often three inches wide,


and painted ip bright colors, as a
wreath of roses OH O ground of
grass green. In all teams where
three or more horses are used they
are all harnessed abreast. The
private teams are of extreme ele-
gance. While in France there is a
majority of white horses, in ST.
Petersburg the greater number of
Year: 1876




Through his impatience and en-
thusiasm, Michael Angelo ruined
block after block of marble by
working with too great yehemence
near the surface. he had a won
derful faculty as a mere workman
in marble, but his genius and inn
petuosity of temperament would
not brook the opposition of so stub
born a material, and untitled him
for those first processes of roughing
out into shape a block, which re-
quires patience and precision Too
eager to arrive at a point where his
true genius would find play, he as
sailed the marble with such vio-
lence that he often struck off pieces
which trenched into the just limits
Of the surface, and, as they could
not be replaced, he was forced to
finish as he could-not as he would.
Had he confined himself more to
celebrating his work in clay, and
then entrusting the blocking out
in marble to a mechanical workman,
we should have had not much
larger number of grand works by
him, but they would have been freer
Of great defects. For instance, the
back of the head Of Moses has been
chiseled away until it is an impossi-
BILE head. Again, the David is sac
rifced to the exigencies of the mar
Bile. And the head of his famous
Day was probably left unfinished
because he perceived that it was
turned beyond the limit permitted
to naturewithout breaking her neck.
Year: 1876




Her Blajesty's ship Vanguard, Row


Dunk on the Coast Of 1reIa1d, 20


be Raised.


The London Standard says: "The
attempt to raise the Vanguard is
now on the eve of being made, but
some preliminary arrangements
are still necessary before it cap be
commenced. The advertisement
for tenders on the part Of the Lords
of the Admiralty, in December last,
elected more than four and fifty
replies, and a contract for raising
the vessel has been entered into
with French civil engineer who
has for a considerable time been a
resident in England. The method
he proposes to adopt is as follows:
CaissOns are to be used having a
measurement of ten feet in diane
ter and eleven feet in length. They
are to be provided with two rings
at the top and bottom, and to each
of the lower rings there will be
about two feet of chain, having a
hook attached. These chains and
hooks are to be used to facilitate
the attaching process to the Van
guard. The contractor intends to
attach the caissons to any good
holdraSt, such as portfolios, etc.,
and as the ship is now lying on her
starboard side at an angle Of about
seventy degrees, he further intends
to right her, and to pass a chain
round her, going under her stern
and stern-posts, and joining SO as
to make a cradle. This chain he
will attach to the caissons. In the
interior of the ship, about two
thousand air balloons will be placed,
each having a lifting power in wa
ter of one ton. The first work of
the divers below water will be to
attach the caissons by the chains to
the vessel, until a sufficient number
of caissons has been lowered to
float the ship. Of course she will
only rise gradually, so the contrac-
tor intends to draw her to shallow
water, and when he has drawn her
sixty feet, or thereabouts, from the
level of the sea to her keel he will
lowera floating dock and catch her.
The method has never been tried in
practice, and we hope it may prove
successful. The caissons arc to be
made Of iron, as they are to have
the air pumped into them to three
atmospheres, so as to counterbal-
ance the pressure of the water. The
operations will be carried on with
great difficulty, as it is very dark
at the depth of nineteen fathoms.
However, it is intended to try cleo
trio lights as well as submarine
lamps. In November the Vanguard
was eight feet six inches in the sand,
and since then we understand that
more sand has drifted round her.
Year: 1876

fine horses are black. The private
carriages are beautiful and in the
finest taste. There is usually a
dainty relief of gilt or silver on the
carriage and harness, while the
reins correspond with the, lining of
the carriage in color, and iaunty
tassel hangs from the throat-latch.
So rapid is the motion, and so light
and airy the tread of these horses,
they seem to fly as much as to-
touch the earth. The droiky
drivers are in uniform, wearing a
blue double-breasted wadded gown
which reaches to the feet under
this a sheepskin shirt, and on the
head a hat-shaped covering with
broad-spreading crown but nearly
as low as cap.
Year: 1876

way as most successfully to resist such
blow. The Pacific, unable to launch a
boat, sinks with loss most appalling,
but two being saved out of over 200. The
City of Panama gives blow in the dead
watches of the night, not the early even
ing the sea was smooth in both cases cut
a lumber-loaded vessel almost in two,
avoids all panic, has boat launched in
five minutes, and the steamer, instead OF
sinking escapes almost unscratched. We
do not require. and never have required,
any evidence to convince us that the Cor
oner's jury were not wrong in saying that
the Pacific was unseaworthy, and the
comparative facts given in the foregoing
lines must be conclusive on this subject to
anyone.
Year: 1876

The Cleveland Leaders Washing
ton correspondent says of tho orig
inal Declaration of Independence,
which is carefully preserved in case
made for the purpose:


In the custody of the department is
the original draft of the Declaration
of Independence, carefully preserved
in glass case. The paper is in many
pieces, and much defaced by correc-
tions, erasures and interlineations,
showing that our forefathers struggled
as valiantly with composition,
chirography and Orthography, as they
did with the British tyrant. Occa-
sional corrections in q cramped hand
writing, marked by cross, are point
ed out as the handiwOrk of DR.. Frank
lin, and alas that it should be so,
those whose great lament it has been
that there was no God in the CoDsti-
tuition, would be Mortified to find him
figuring with a small "g" in the origi-
nal draft of the Declaration of In
dependence. Yet such is the case,
be it said to the discredit of the origi-
nal scribe, whoever he was, while
the words linen" and ''king" which
follow, stand boldly out in capitals,
fortunately, however, some one with
more reverence or less ignorance set
matters Alright in the perfected copy,
and strange to say, the original draft
is less faded than the copy, which
was taken to Philadelphia Saturday,
IN charge Of the Chef Clerk of the In
terror Department, who will see his
precious relic safely deposited in the
safe provided for its security in In
dependence Hall.
Year: 1876

The Norwich Conn Bulletin says :
"Au uptown man, who believes in
self-improvement, suggested to bis
wife recently that they should argue
some question frankly and freely
every evening, and try to learn more
of each other. The question for the
first night happened to be whether a
woman could be expected to get
along without spring hat, and he
took the affirmative but when he
was last seen he had climbed up into
the hay-loft and was pulling the lad
der up after him."
Year: 1876

For some time past the citirans Of
Scio and vicinity have been urging che


necessity of the building of o bridge
across the Santiam, that they might have
an outlet to market for their produce.


While all were united as to the great


want ofa bridge, they were not no well
united as to the point where the bridge
should be built. One section Of the
Forks wanted bridge across the San.


tam at Or near tho old Solo ferry, which


is neaFly directly east from this city,
and on an air line to Scio. Another
section wanted the bridge built at
Green's ferry, about two and halt miles.
ffom Jefferson. The first point mention
ed lthe bridge at the Scio ierry) would
accotnfpoiats rnucl, lsrger scope of
country, and majority OF the citizens
are in favor of building the bridge at
this point. The old Scio ferry or cross
ing is about midway between Lebanon
and Jefferson, and if the bridge should
be erected at this point, the trade OF the
Forks would be secured to Linn county.
Should Green's ferry or crossing secure
the bridge, Marion county would secure
all the advantages 20 be derived from
the trade OF the Forks. Therefore any
aid extended by our county officials to
building q bridge at Green's ferry,
would be an absolute injury to Linn
county. And yet we are notified from
different points in this county that Judge
Johns has promised the citizens of the
Forks, who are urging the Green ferry
point, to grant the fnzds asked from the
county treasury to erect said bridge,
provided he is elected County Judge
And we still further learn that, TO
make the Green ferry seem the stronger
point, petitions Eaye been circulated
and the signatures Of children, boys
under age, obtained, and that many of
thoec signing are residents of Marion
county. Ifthess statements made 90 us
are facts, and we have no reason to
doubt them, as they were mads to us
by one of the oldest and best eitiAena of
the Forks. it would seen almost inctedi-
be that Judge Johns would make Q
promise, the keeping Of which would
result in lasting injury to the best inter-
ests, not only of q majority Of the people
directly interested, but 10 the interests
of the people of the whole county. We
argue that, it Judge Johns will, to secure
an election, promise to effect measure
thst win be OF incalculable injury to
Linn county, hs Is exactly the man the
citizens of Linn county do not want to
pace at the head ofoounty affairs. We
want a County Judge who will admins
ter the affairs Of Linn county honestly,
and with due regard to the interests
Of each section ahd any man who viii


pander to the selfishness OF few to the


lasting injury Of the great majority,
does not exhibit the right kind Of
honesty to entitle him TO the support of
either Democrats or Republicans.
Year: 1876

1t takes gentlemaniy thief to steal an
opera glass. A young lady recently went to
the Opera House in Albany, and brought
into constant use an opera glass worth $50
Toward the close Of the last act she replaced
the glass in it's case. A nice young man si'.
ting beside her bent forward and requested
the privilege of using the glass, as his own
was imperfect. She courteously handed
Linn the case. He glanced at the stage, and
then at the audience, and handed back the
case, which she did not open, as the curtain
was falling. On Nov. 20, she went to an
other matinee, and on opening the case found
in place of the costly mother of pearl glass
cheap one, worth less than 81.
Year: 1876

49,


The men employed at Wolfe g. Davidson'a
ship yard, on visiting the dry dock yester-
day morning to begin the work of the day,
were surprised to ind that the stsrboard
wheel of the steamer Amazon was
off the shaft. How so ponderous piece OF
iron could have been removed was a puzzle
that psrp1exed the men. On looking down
into the dock they discovered the wheel
lying there broken in two. The hub of the
wheel, about fifteen inches long, was slight
Iy followed out At the centre to admit of
It's being slipped on without difficulty over
any uneven portion Of the shaft end. This
recess was full of water when the boat
was placed in the dock, and the keying had
been 80 close that the liquid, about a pail
full, was exposed to the frost. As the water
CONCEALED under the sharp wintry atmos-
phere of the night, 1t expanded, and burst
asunder the five inch walls of iron, and the
broken wheel fell with crash.-"Milwau-
kee Times"
Year: 1876

complications and embsrrassments which
nave surrounded some of the foreign pew
ers.


The President speaks Of the success Of
the Centennial and thinks It will be of 3D.
vantage to the country he states that the
Smithsonian Institute wishes to obtain
the Government exhibits; and sugeests 4
resolution of thanks to those nations that
have presented their exhibits for perma-
nent exhibition.


The attention of Congress cannot be too
earnestly directed to the necessity of throw
log some greater safeguard over the method
OF choosing and declaring the election of .
President. Under the present system there
seems to be no provided remedy for contest-
Ing the election in any one State.


The remedy is partially, no doubt, in the
ehlightment of electors. The compulsory
support of the free school, and the disfrsn-
chfsement of all who cannot read and write
the English language after . fixed proba-
tfon, would meet my hearty approval.
would not make this apply, however. to
those already voters, but would to ali b.
coming so after the probation fixed on.


Foreigners coming to the country to become
citizens, who are educated In their own
language, would acquire the requisite
knowledge of ours, securing the necessary
residence to obtain naturalization, If they
did not take interest enough in our language
to acquire sufficient knowledge of 1t to
enable them to study our institutions of the
country intelligent]y, I would not confer
upon them the right to make such laws nor
to select those who do.


append to this message, for convenient
reference, q synopsis of the administrative
events, and of all recommendations to
Congress, made by me during the last seven
years time, which may show some of these
recommendations not to have been wisely
conceived, but believe large part will do
no discredit to the administration.


Referring to his recommendation for the
of San Domingo, the President
maintains, if his views had been concurred
IN, the country would be in . more
prosperous condition to-day, both politically
and financially.


With the present Congress my ohacial life
terminates. 1t is not probable that public
affairs will again receive attention from mo
lurther than as citizen of the Republic,
always taking deep interest In the honor,
integrity and prosperity of the whole land.


q. s. GRANT.


Executive Mansion, Dec. s, 1870.
Year: 1876

that they have very little original strength in the
Convention, and not knowing whence the support
for which they hope may eventually come whether
from among Gov. Tden's friends or those of Gov.
Hcndrickor Mr. Thurman. they careful to give no
the discordant elements of the Convention may
unite on Davis as those at Cincinnati did on Hayes.
The supporters of Davis not, therefore, pressing
his claims with any public demonstrations, but they
are doing some very effective quiet work


Less than one-half of the delegation from Ohio
has yet arrived in St. LOuis, and very little work
has been done by those who are here OF course
William Allen will receive the solid vote of his
State at first, in accordance with the in
man men on the delegation assert that
in spite of the resolutions passed at Cincinnati.
they in majority, and will cast their vote for
the nephew as as the name of the uncle is
withdrawn, as they expect it will be early in
the fight. A report has been circulated to-day
that Mr. Thurman would not allow his
name to be used as that Of candidate in the Com
venton, but that will no loubt depend upon the
strength developed by other candidates To use the
words of one of his most ardent supporters mr.
Thurman is in the hands of his friends if they
any chance for him to win they will put him on the
track, otherwise he will not be a candidate.


Senator Bayard has many warm friends among the
delegation TO this Convention but little or no organ
lied strength. He is on some accounts considered
not an available man, although his ability as a
statesman and his singular purity of character are
universally admitted.
Year: 1876

he RESOLVES TO DROP ALL BUSINESS AND POLITICS


FOR Sc yERAL WEEKS


fBr TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE.


WASHINGTON, June 23.-Mr. Blaine, since his
speech to an immense crowd that gathered at his
home on Monday night to pay him the compliment
of a serenade has not been as well as previously.
To-day he did not feel well enough to leave his bed
His mental condition. while by no means threaten
ing, is not good his friends had hoped it would
be- and physically he has little Of the strength and
activity which have characterized him for the past
20 years lie says himself that lie has lost the snap
and vim he had before his attack and that he has
had light appetite. He neglects his phi
vate correspondence and seems to have no concern
about business. lie has consented to obey the ply
scian's injurcons 80 far as to leave at once for
change of climate and new scenes. On Monday OF
Tuesday he will take special car for his home in
Augusta, and will impose upon himself absolute and
undisturbed rest for several weeks, free from news
papers, telegraphs, politics. and visitors. On the
way he will respond to no calls, and will make the
trip quickly rs possible. He will not return to
Washington during the present session.
Year: 1876

iBY TELEGRAPH To TUB TRIBUNE.I


WAsuING on, June 23.-The Senate Uassed the
bill to amend the Enforcement act to-day The bill
was passed by strict party vote MIR. Booth. classed
rs an Independent. voted with the Republicans.
The debate was conducted almost entirely by the
Democrats, who resoutcy opposed every provision
and principle of the bill. The purpose of the meas
ure is to cure the defects in the original Enforcement
act pointed ont by the decisions OF the United States
Supreme Court in the Grant Parish and the Ken
tucky cases, and TO frame new law which, while
not being liable to the charge of uncOnsitutonality,
shall accomplish the purposes Of the original En-
forcemcnt act SO astute lawyer as Senator Ed
munds considers that tho Till passed to-day will ac'
complish this. Ii remains to be seen, however, why
this bill should have been pressed at the present
time. when only six days remain in which to pass
appropriation bills whose Importance cannot be
magniiicd The want of wisdom IS more clearly
seen when IL is remembered that the bill alluded to
cannot possibly pass the House and cannot receive
a Democratic vote.
Year: 1876

OAKS AND WILLOWS. Sept. 3, 1876.

 EDITOR NINER:-Please allow me the privilege through the columns of your pa per to say few words in favor of Fence Law for Yavapai County, and also to notice an article published in the MINER of the 1st inst, headed No Fence Law" and signed "Countryman."

 First, I will drop hint to aspirants for Legislative honors, that if they want my vote, let them give me assurance that they will use their best endeavors to enact for us proper Fence Law. This will draw to their support numbers who share alike with me objections to the law as it now exists.

 But while this No Fence Law is in force, and my neighbor claims protection for his crop from my stock, I certainly can do no less than claim that same protection for my crop.

 "Countryman" starts of with "No Fence Law" but sincerely believe it is one word for No Fence and two to justisy himself in public opinion in the part he played in de- feating the plaintiff in obtaining just dues from the defendant in the suit which he re- fers to-I being the plaintiff in that suit.

 Again, be speaks of the grand monopoly, and how the plaintiff had his crop scattered for three miles from East to West, and thereby keeping stock men from occupying the lands. Now the real truth is this: The plaintiff did commence to plant crop some three miles West. but saw that it was too much exposed to stock, and abandoned if. going about three miles East and putting in crop on unsurveyed lands. That IS the same and only crop the plaintiff has or ever had that he claimed damage for.

 He ("Countryman'0 says, 'it being un- surveyed land. the defendants stock had as much rights there as the plaintiffs crop of com had.n We fail to see it in that light from the facts that the defendant and his stock were in California st the time this
Year: 1876

C. C. Bean, was accidentally shot in the left knee yesterday noon, two miles below the Crook mill, where the party with which he was travelling from the Peck mine to town had stopped to take lunch. In throw ing his saddlebags on the ground, pistol which they contained was discharged and the charge took effect near the center of the knee-cap. Henry Herbert and Joe Mingles came to town and took out Drs. McCandless and Lincoln and carriage. The extent of his injury will not be known until the Sur geons report.