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Year: 1876

Offenbach sailed for Europe on Saturday,
and as he is rapid man and intends to return,
It is supposed that he will be offen-bach in q
short time.


The San Dominicans have insulted the
American flag, and they will promptly be
compelled to apologize or suffer the eonse-
quences of q refusal.


Madame Spelterini accomplished her great
feat of walking a tight rope across the Niagara
river on Saturday. The rope acted badly, but
it failed to Spelterini water-ah.


That the country does not want soft money
is certain, but should the Democratic party
elect its ticket, and Governor Tilden, who is
in feeble health, should die, then Hendricks,
the great champion of the rag baby, would as
sumo the Executive chair and WELD his great
power in the interests of the young infant. 1t
is said that Hendricks accepted the nomination
eagerly.when he learned that Tilden was par
TALLY paralyzed.


How we try to exc out little qualification
in hoping that the Sioux loss was hesvy-as if
a million of those red fiends would compen-
safe for the death of any one of Custer's he
roes.- Graphic.


We are afraid that the hot blood of "Graph-
icality' got the better of his calm judgment in
the above. Custer and his well-loved heroes
are dear to every American heart, but they
fell in fair Indian fight.


The New York Sun, in speaking of General
Clusters defeat, says: eff he had not been
punished for his manly and patriotic service
in exposing the peculations of Belknap and
Orvil Grant, he would probably have led our
columns to victory, instead of yielding himself
victim to savage vengeance" 1t seems as
though the veriest fool would have more self
respect than to write such nonsensical twad-
die. To think that the gallant and big
hearted Custer should throw himself into the
mouth of he'll and the jaws of death because
he was piqued at his treatment in Washing
ton is simply crazy. 1t is about time now fol
the New York San to blame President Grant
for the black spots on the suns disc.
Year: 1876

GOVERNOR STEARNs, of Florida, the
nominee for reelection on the Republican
ticket, is in the city, and it is understood
that to heal the differences in the party he
has agreed to withdraw in favor Of Senator
Conover, who was nominated for Cover


nor by the opposing convention. This
action puts Governor Stearns in the atti-
tude of true partisan and good Republi


can, who desires, even at the expense of his
own personal interest, to serve the party.
Year: 1876

The people along the uncompletea
line o! this road are protesting vigor-
ousiy against any extension OF time to
the company. For tour years they have
not built mile Of road, and they are
now scheming to get six years more.
The people have sent delegations down
to represent them, but the agents OF the
company are industriously engaged
pulling the wool over their eyes, and
it looks as though they would obliterate
their mortal vision altogether


We take the ground that the compa-
ny has one year more in which TO build
the road, to-wlt, to March Z. 1877; and
we hold that they should q. least, build
thirty-ive miles during that year; and
that if they do thai, the Legislature can
then. with some degree OF proprety, ask
for an extension Of their grant. l,
would show at least that they were in
earnest. But they are fixing things SC
tina, they will build no road tor years tc
come TIE people of that region
should come down en- masse to St. Pau
aud stop their tricks or they will lame mt
it hereafter.
Year: 1876

execution or sale under the same law This is
not fair or Just. Editors are entitled to as many
rights as lawyers. The former are enlighteners
Of the public mind and instrumentalities Of
civilization, the latter are simply incidents OF
society, rendered necessary by the crimes and
prOte tions under the law as lawyers, intro
duce the bill in question.


Such bill would, if enacted into law,
protect the honest but embarrassed publisher;
the knavish one knows enough already to COW
er up his establishment by bill Of sale or chat
tie mortgage.


As to the suggestion that am asking for a
state agricultural (not lard) department for the
establishment Of just grades and weights for the
protection of the produces Of wheat, with
view simply to securing the Office for myself,
it is sufficient to say that my bill makes
the Office elective by the people, and that in
this state, with its ten or fifteen thousand repub-
llcan majority, my chances OF such an election
would not justify me in "lying awake O nights
trive such legislation for my personal benefit.
The charge is simply absurd.


In conclusion permit me tosay that have
lively sense of that courtesy which is due from
one member Of the editorial fraternity to anoth-
er, aud should be sorry by any statement OF
mine to impair the financial standing OF any OF
my contemporaries But If a war is to be inau-
guraeed upon my business, there VIII De oeao
and wounded found on the field of both sides
of the line Of battle when the sun goes down.


am very respectfully yours,


IsNArIus DoNSELLY


Now we say to all our petty enemies.
go ahead" We are equal to ten
thousand of them We utterly defy all
their knavish trick and small arts. The
time is not far distant theywhen will call
on the mountains to cover them.


TIE ANrI-MoNoPoLIsT will live to
write all their epitaphs in language
too that will do such full justice to their
merits that they will teel like stealing
their own head-stones. and carrying them
down into their tomb
Year: 1876

A fair test of the prosperity Of any
country is found in tae rate of immigr?.
ton to it. Population flows in the d.
rection Of prosperity and away from ad-
versitv. In this view the following Ia
BILE becomes valuable


To exhibit the decline OF immigration during
the past four years, the following table is gwen
which embraces the statistics OF alien arrivals
alone AT that port for ten years:
Year: 1876

1t takes only five minutes. You step on
the stage and the hand that guides the Ii
tan at the surface touches the reins of his
black monster and you are plunged into the
gloom. The cage stops and you are more
than quarter of mile below the busy
city. From the dusty highways you have
stepped into the worlds grandest treasure
house you have passed from the temperate
to the tropical zone in minute-you are in
the Bonanza.


1t is no little thing to work mine 300
feet below the surface. True, there are broad
avenues, broad timbers which, like Atlas,
seem competent to support world, there are
engines at work and cars running, but every
glimpse of the men reveals the exertion
necessary to keep up this conflict with the
spirits that guard the hurried treasure below,
The men are stripped to the waist, those
brawny: delivers, with perspiration bursting
from every pore.


1t looks pleasant down there in the mimic
streets and under the lanterns glare, but be.
fore those streets were opened there was in
the sitting air a work performed that can
not be calculated. Picks were swung, drills
were struck, powder was burned, men faint
ed and fell in their places but the work went
on, So it will proceed in the future. until,
probably, after another sixteen years, they
will be working 5000 feet below the sur
face.
Year: 1876

There are certain items which no collector
allows his museum TO be without. Livery
amateur numismatic has his Queen Annes
farthing, though the number issued was but
three, and only two are known to exist. IL
was said that if all the musical collectors
we're to join together their specimens of the
strings on which Paganini played in his
prison we should have length of catgut
that would stretch from London to Glasgow.
The hull of the unfortunate Royal George
has supplied carved woodwork enough to
furnish terrace, and American ladies are


known to have in their possession so many
locks of Charles Dickens hair that they can
supply the wig makers of New York with
the greatest ease. But the knife with which
Charlotte Corday stabbed Murat has long
been the pride of French museums, and
recent discovery is likely to add to the num-
ber of its reputed owners.


A Partisan inspector of prisons, finding
himself in the town of Caen, took occasion
| To examine the archives of the gaol. In a


cupboard that was fastened he found a par
eel, with letter sealed And tied up with it.
The letter stated that on the occasion of the
perquisition made upon the house Of the
parents of the ctizeness Charlotte Corday,
eleven knives were found, being similar in
pattern to the one used by the said Charlotte


Corday in the crime perpetrated by her on
the person of the citizen Marat. The inspec-


tor then proceeded to open the box, and
found eleven knives, of great beauty of exc


cution, and of English manufacture. They
| were carefully wrapped in tissue paper, and


the whole package was labelled 'To be for
| warded at once to be added to the other evil
dence against the prisoner" These details


are given in French newspaper ''under all
| reserve" but whatever may be the truth Of
| the story We may expect to find its immedi-
| ate effect upon the cabinet of curiosity COL
| ectors. A new prize is added to the lottery


and we must in future expect to see not
| merely the knife with which Charlotte Cor
day stabbed Marat, but the eleven others


which constituted the dozen in the house Of


her parents. Wherever this strong corrobo-


rative evidence is wanting we may feel our


selves justified in doubling the genuineness
of the Exhibition London Globe.
Year: 1876

The history of the Chinese queue is told
by the Rev. Julius Doolittle. missionary
in China. as follows "The Fl st emperor of
the present dynasty, who began to reign in
l644, having usurped the throne, determined
to make the tonsure of Manchuria, his ma
tive country, the token of submission of the
Chinese to his authority. He ordered them
to shave all the head except the crown, au d
allowing the hair on that part to grow long


and to dress it according to the custom OF
Mauchuria. Tho Chinese had been accus.
toned under native emperors TO wear long
hair over the whole head, and to arrange il
in tuft or coil. The change was gradual


but finally prevailed through the Empire.
At first those who saved their heads and con.
formed to the laws received, it is said. a
present of a tael of silver, after n while only
half II tael, and then only tenth of tael


and afterwards only an egg-fnslly even All
egg was not allowed. The law requiring
the pt ople to shave aud braid the queue was
not only rigidy enforced by the penalty OF
immediate death, but it became very mani.
fest that those who did not conform to the
wishes of the dominant dynasty would new
er become successful in lawsuit against
those who did not conform, nor would they
succeed at the literary examinations"
Year: 1876

The LIvER's SECRETION OF SUGAR
Thousands are unaware of the fact that
the liver is producer of sugar. 1t is first
formed in the hepatic tissue, and is known
ly psychologists as glycogenic matter, and
then by process OF transformation ere it
leaves the liver becomes sugar. Irrespec-
tive of the food on which mum anity lives is
sugar always to be found in the liver. Now
as the manufacture of sugar is necessary to
perfect the blood, it follows that unless
food be taken in proper~quantities, the re
quired quantity of sugar cannot be produc-
ed; hence those who have poor 'appetites,
require their digestive organs improved by
tonic so as to eat and digest that amount
of food so necessary to the production OF
sugar in the liver in its required natural
quantity; we have great pleasure there
tore 10 calling attention to that splendid
elixir tonic known as the HOME STOMACH
BITTERs.
Year: 1876

Mr.. Osterberg, while ever keeping in view the
interests of his principals, has fought good fight
for the commerce of this locality, and If he has
failed is because the people have not joined with
him in placing the new company on solid finan-
cial footing. Theoretically, the people believe in
cheap transportation but practically they will do
nothing to secure ii,-OSter6ergs Rock Island or
gan.


Mr.. Osterberg has fought no fight ''for
the commerce of this locality" and don't
care pound of pork for anybody or any
thing connected with ''the commerce of
this locality" He stated in his report to
the Frankfort Committee that all he was
at work for was to stimulate somebody to
offer good price for the road SO be could
sell it out.


The people here and along tie line
have had plenty Of opportunity 20 extend
the road and make it an independent line
if they wished to do so-and they have
nobody to blame but themselves for the
failure.
Year: 1876

The Union believes that if plumbers
charged license at all, the ordinance should be
framed SO as TO include all plumbers Union.


1t includes all plumbers now. What's
the matter with it? The Union evidently
wants something that will prevent any
plumber not living in Rock Island from
doing any work inside any man house in
Rock 1d,-some sort of monopoly
for Rock Island plumbers, in order to keep
competition away.
Year: 1876

Cramps in the stomach and bowels, collie
pains with children or older people, is at
once relieved by using Renne's Magic Oil
with molasses and water. This Pain-Kill
ing Magic Oil is first rate doctor in the
family, aud is sold by your merchant and
druggist
Year: 1876

The last yacht race for the Queens Cup
showed conclusively that the Americans
are the adequate rulers of the world.
Where would their marine glory be but
for the free use of b. T. BABBITrs best
soap2
Year: 1876

for stealing pair of gloves from G. T.
Workman. and subsequently released by
Magistrate Swander on promise to leave
town, and on failure to do so re arrested by
Officer Olsen and sent to the calaboose on
bread aud water diet for ten days, was
again before the police court this morning
t. answer the charge of petit larceny, aud
in default of 500 bail was sent to Jail
until the next term of circuit court
States Attorney Parmenter was in this
city yesterday, and in conversation with
Police Magistrate Swander discovered IN
offender in Quinieavie, and accordingly he
was bound over as stated. The prisoner
made an earnest appeal to the magistrate
to release him, but Swander could not
see it in that light. He will probably
80 to Joliet for time at least


| Let every one attend the business meet
lug of merchants and others tomorrow
evening at the engine house. The Rock
river bridge question will be thoroughly
discussed and some plan of action adopted.
lt Is to be hoped that dissension will not
prevail on this occasion, but that united
action will be taken. Harmony is
thoroughly essential to the success of any
proposition presented.


Mrs. A. B. Hitchcock, widow of the late
Rev. A. b. Hitchcock, ded last evening
the 23d) at her residence in this city, of
heart disease. The deceased was well and
favorably known in this vicinity and was a
lady OF fine principles, noble disposition
and universally beloved by all who knew
her. She was devout christian woman
and was at all times ready and willing to
assist the needy and minister to and com.
fort the sick. Her death will be sin.
cerely mourned by large circle of friends
who esteemed her for many noble traits Of
character. Due notice will be given of the
funeral.
Year: 1876

FROM PECK DIsrRIcT.-Ed. Peck, Col. H A. Bigelow and c. O. Bean have been ir town several days during the week and all tell the same story as to the extraordinary developments in that region.

 Only seven miles packing are now required in order to reach the wagon road leading into Walnut Grove, aod they estimate that s2,000 will convert the pack trail into a far road for hauling quartz.

 We repeat the warning of a few weeks ago, that if the business men ard property holders of Prescott, and Yavapai County, do not wake up to the necessity of road from Prescott 10 those mines, and act upon it while it may be done, the trade of that richest of all mining camps will be lost to both town and county forever. The trade once started by wagons in the direction of the river and railroad, with nothing but a pack trail to Prescott and blind man ought to SC with his mouth, that it is gone to stay, unless far superior road be made in this di- rcction in future and railroad traverse the country to the north of us within reach.

 The time to secure prize is while it may be had, before it has been appropriated by others, and if we negligently let this one go it will be our own fault if others reap ben- eft we might have secured.
Year: 1876

WILL BLow.-We learn that it is the in- tention of the parties engaged in building the furnaces at Bashford's mill on Agua Fria, to start up on copper ore on Monday next.

 Their object iu smelling copper in the be- ginning is to make enough of that metal to cast tewel for the blast furnace. The first run will therefore be made in the reverbera- tory furnace as a necessity in preparing for the blast.

 After they get the works going, ifsuccess- ful. they propose to smelt with the blast and refine in the reverberatory works, both of which are up and ready for action awaiting only the completion of the fan and tewel for the blast
Year: 1876

WE approve of the proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States de- claring that no money raised by taxation in any State for the support of public schools, or derived from any public fund therefor, shall ever be placed under the control of any religious sect; nor shall any money so raised ever be divided between religious sects or denom,nations
Year: 1876




There was a strange panic at Jeru-
salem on the accession OF Murad v. to
the Turkish throne. The issue Of car
tridges by the Chief Of Police to his men
to be fred In celebrating the accession
OF the new Sultan, and the consequent,
necessity of sending most Of the muskets
to the gunsmiths for repairs, gave rise
to the report that general massacre OF
Christians, was to. take place the next
day after the midday prayer Christians
and Jews closed their shops and barri-
caded themselves in the various con
vents and hospices In the city. The
streets were full Of families tieeing with
their property. Seeing this the Moslems
took fright. They thought the Christians
were about to massacre them. So they
closed their shops and hurried to places
OF safety. Soon the streets were desert
ed. Everybody was waiting for the. evil
hour. Then the authorities took the
matter in hand, showed the people that
there was no cause for their fright, and
by degrees persuaded them to open their
shops or go home. .ess -n
Year: 1876

At Il masquerade ball which took
place in n city which shall be name
les, a young Denedick personated
satan, and was horrible to behold.
During the evening, at a time when
the gay nn.kers were having their
hest Joy, this personator was request
cd To 90 to the door. There he fonnd
a summons from home to run for u
dnctor. In the excitement he forgot
his impersonation, and rashed to the
doctors Office and rang the bell. The
ringing was of such terrific vehemence
that it caused the doctor To get cut OF
oed and rush in negiigs costume Ia the
door. He took one sudden, ha.ty
glance ut the disturber Of his slumher.
and then ran. 1t being an important
case, the young man crushed through
the doorway and commenced a vigor.
ous search for the fugitive physician.
lie found him under the bel with u
pistol in each hand. 1t took long
time 10 convince the doctor that he
wasn't really the parsonage he repre-.
scutcd.
Year: 1876

About twenty years ago, one Of our
most respected business men was divor.
ced in the courts from his wife. who
was shortly afterwards delivered of a
daughter. The wife had kept her con.
dition secret from her husband, and
Immediately after the divorce was
granted. removed from the city. bring
ing up her child with an unusual de-
gree Of tenderness. giving out that it
was an infant sister, and as the mother
was quite young, no one disputed her
statement Time passed on and her
natural intelligence and lady-like man.
ner won for herself the affection of II
young clergyman. to whom she af
terwards became engaged. Some
busy body, however, whispered into
the clergyman's ear that the child was
an Legitimate one, and he demanded
10 kuOW tue tfutus one ulu lot uuTt
reveal the truth, but adhered to the
statement that it was her sister, and
therefore lost her lover. The girl
grew up and married quite worthy
young man. To the young husband,
however, came intelligence of the
whole truth OF his wife's birth. and he
lost no time in confding the secret to
her. Yesterday, great was the aston.
ishment of her father, who still does
business here, to receive letter from
n daughter of whose existence he had
never dreamed. He leaves here on
Monday to join the young wife. and
there now is but one more link miss
ing to the chain that would make
him supremely happy. Let it be
hoped that he will be more so.-[New-
port, OR. I.) Cor. Providence Jour
nal.
Year: 1876

Capt. Webb, the great swimmer.
writes in Cassell's Family Magazine !:
1T is the duty of every parent to in
sist on his sons learning to swim. To
teach very young child to swim, the
best place is puddle in the sand at
low tide. The child. like a puppy.
will begin by psddling. II you
throw a cork into the water. you will
see the puppy run in up to its depth
and give a short bark; and the
chances are, especially it there is a
grown up dog that can swim to set
him an example, that in day or two
he will take his plunge of his own ac-
cord. and very proud he will he Of his
first success only here again don't
overdo it. As soon as the puppy has
been in, walk away and call him and
he will be more anxious to 60 into the
water another time. Now treat your
child like your puppy. Enticc him to
go in, aud if you can get some older
child who can swim to 60 in with him
all the better, but let the child do just
as he likes. Get two children to play
at splashing one another; they will
enjoy the fun, and gradually getting
excited will venture in deeper and
deeper
Year: 1876

With the present number we COM
mence the ninth volume of the DAILY
DISPATCH. Its outlook is better one
than we first thought we would find it..
Coming in here almost total stranger,
we have had much to overcome. in tho
way of our ignorance of affairs Terrific
rial. As we travsl about the Sound,
however, we meet with considerable en-
couragement from almost unknown
friends who appreciate our industry.
We have increased the circulation of our
daily edition forty per cent, that of the
Sunday issue some sixty copies and the
weekly edition over one hundred, in the
short space of eight weeks. The in
crease Of our advertising patronage has
been over forty per cent. within the
same period. This is attributable
mainly to the increased quantity of
original matter published by us, as we'll
as OR departure from the ordinarily
marked path of Territorial journalism.
Thanking our supporters for their hearty
patronage. we shoulder our burdens for
another years journey on the road of
newspaper life. And. as the fly said
to the OK. $50 We pillow along"