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Year: 1875

A JOKING MINsTREL's EXPLOIT
Char ley Backns. the practical joker,
was in small town in Connecticut
the other day, and as he started for
New York he stood on the rear plat
Jorm of the last car OF the train. Just
as the whistle was blown and the
cars began to move, Backus espied a
big fellow longing in the depot, and
shaking his fist at him IN assumed
rage, he shouted:


'Oh, there you are, you villain, I've
been looking for you all over this
cursed town. oh, you knave, you
thief, you scoundrell'


At this time the train was rapidly
moving ont Of the depot, and Backus
wildly shook his fist at the astonished
stranger, screaming, Done | wish |
had time to get off and thrash you,
yon scoundrel!'


To the horror Of the minstrel joker
the train was stopped and backed into
the depot. Baclus rushed for his
compartment in the drswing-room
car and locked himself in, just as the
brawny-isted depot lounger boarded
the train and howled:


Where is that damned buffer who
has been looking oil over this 'er
town for me?'


Backus kept himself in his prison
until he reached New York.
Year: 1875

We hear so often nowadays of the perfected
achievements OF science that overlook the fact
that results which clear. when established. are
usually reached through the hard lessons OF wearyng
faurc We commonly, hearing only OF the final suo-
cess forget that there is known rule TO guide the
search for IT, that may bring before you something OF
now interest " ask you 10 look with me at problem
which, though it is OF tho highest Importance Science
has only partly solved and with many of whose difficult
ties her students still struggling This problem Is
that the and probable duration OF the heat OF
the sun, and OF the degree of Its temperature.


We have learned in recent years much that We did
not know before Of extent OF our own dependence
OH the snn AMI have that we are its crea-
lures and that on even temporary Interruption Of is
heat the death Of all animated nature would accom-
pany our own VT other Suns than ours have waxed
or wanad or been quite extingushed, and Geology,
telling OF cp"chs the past history OF our GLOBE when
its now temperate locked In ice, turns to
Astronomy to ask ~ it is certain that no failure OF the
SIMS heat can Navo been the cause, and whether her
sister scienc give any that history here


as else wherp Will not rep itself Astronomy cannot
with certainly answer With all study OF the Sun.
we do not ye know how long 1t will continue to warm
how not rs, nor even WIN
hot


Let us consider OF the facts abont the Sun which
VIC do know bevOud dispute In the first place then 1t
Is glove l0S lines the diameter OF our Earth or
about 900 times ia volume, aud which at S nearest
is always more than 90 OOo0W miles Here is a
oi the aud of the Earth both to the
same scale The latter is small speck on the right
marked f.
Year: 1875

dssociation at the sun except the comparatively
cool surface; hut. repent 1t Is scarcely credible thss
this should suce for 20 many hundreds OF
years.


SOURCE OF SUPPLY FOR THE SUN.


But II the sun be not drawing directly on hxed cap
itsl for Its heat then It must have source OF rehewa
The of supply granting as think We must that
needs lhem either external or Internal Inc
external source cannot be anything like this wire
which connects the incandescent gas with the battery
in the cellar nor can II be the heat derived from the
friction of ANYTHING surrounding upon ITS revolving
surface ns in the case OF th revolving disk. which Is
moving by its inertia yet gynS Gus sRerxs rs
"a nothing TO cause such friction on tho
Suns surface TO call out its a. actual hn
snns revolutions upon Its axis would there be stopped
in the lifetime Of few gener itions This however. Is
moi The ony way OF deriving heat from motion. have
seen cannon bah strike target, and becone In
stany too hot to touch OWING to the arrested motion
II familiar instance OF the conversion or motion into
heat and The cold iron heated by pounding with cold
hammer on q cold anvil Is an0 thSr.
Year: 1875

You see, the people at the Postof-
flee soon recognize faces ahd names,
and after man or woman has appear
ed at the general delivery window
three or four times they are pretty
we'll known 1t is real pleasure to
hand out letters to some, while the
clerks care little for the calls of others
to get hold of their epistlcs.


One day year or two ago a funny
looking little old woman, wearing
faded garments, but having tidy
look and a motherly face, appeared at
the window and asked for letter
There was one for her, sent from a
distant city. and any one could have
told that an unlearned boy directed
the envelope There was a little ID"
in Detroit" with a big ''T'' to end
the word, and it seemed wonderful
that the letter ever reached its desti-
nation.


The old lady felt so good that, tears
in her eyes and yet trying hard to
smile, she put her head into the win
dow and said:


Thanks! It's from my boy, Dan,
and you don't know how much good
it does met


The lady delivery clerk rose up to
look after the old woman, and when Il
second letter came she was looking
and watching for mother" a whole
day before the letter was passed out.


Its from my little Dan again,
cried the old woman, as she noted the
superscription. He's in Buffalo,
learning a trade He's only Il bit OF a
boy, and there wasn't show for him
in Detroit, and besides he was running
out nights and going to the bad. |
sent him away and he's working hard
and trying to be good; God bless my
Dan! I'm a lone widow with only
him to love, and l hope he II he goodr'


Il hope SO too, added the clerk
and after that the two were friends.
Sometimes the letters were far be-
tween, and when the old woman would
worry over the delay, and the big tears
would fall, the lady would almost shed
tears with her Mother" would open
her letters at the window, and if Dan
was feeling brave hearted and getting
along we'll both would rejoice, while
both would still be anxious if he COM
planned and was anxious.


Almost every week for year and
half the old lady received letter, and
just as regularly she came to post an
answer. She wrote in quaint old
hand, but the boy could make out
every word, and once when he wrote
that her writing was improving she
felt all the pride which school girl
could have shown. He improved as
we'll. By and By he wrote Detroit
plain and fair, and he took extra rains
to commence his Dear Mother" with
a grand flourish, and to add some
thing extra after the words ''Y our son
Dan"


Those letters were food and drink
Year: 1875

Woodruff says Tilton called upon
her once and told her he had Just left
Beecher at his house. lie said Beech
er had been holding him on one knee
and Elizabeth on the other, with an
arm around each. This is too thick.
Year: 1875

WAsHINGTGN, Oct. 30.-In para
graph OF the Report of the Third As
sistaut Postmaster General for 1874, al
fusion was made to the immense loss
To the Department by the washing
of postage stamps. 1t was estimated
that nearly 81 900, 900 year was lost to
the Government, or about one-fifth of
the total receipts from the sale of
stamps. The fact was publishe ed in the
principal newspapers of the country,
and ultimately found its way to prob
ably every village in the land. The
effect of such widespread publication
has been to stimulate individual effort
to destroy the evil, and the Depart.
ment has consequently been flooded
with propositions to that end. Many
of these schemes are absurd; large
number, Offering better claims to at
tention, have yet contained some obs
jectionable feature which would render
their adoption impracticable, while
others are so elaborate or expensive
that their purchase and use i'm the 35,-
900 Post Offices of the country would
necessitate greater expenditure of
mOnep than the amount of loss they
are intended to prevent. Among the
most plausible projects presented are
the employment of fugitive colors in
the printing of postage stamps, or of
indelible inks in canceling the stamps
now in use but there may be objec-
tions to the first of these propositions,
and with regard to the latter there has
been no difficulty in discovering SOL
vents for most of the inks submitted
which render their removal from
stamps a comparatively easy and mex
pensive process. In short, the tests
and Investigations thus far made, in
volving vast amount of time and la
Dor and annoyance, have been produc-
tive of no absolutely good results, and
as it is probable that any further eX-
pertinent in this direction will prove
equally futile, the Department has de
cided to close the subject, and to con
slider no more propositions in relation
to it,-Special to n. Y. Tribune.
Year: 1875

TO tile Editors Of the Chronicle:


Will the State of Tennessee be will
ing to remain under the disgrace that
now hangs over her regarding the
deplorable condition of her State credit;
or will she rise in the majesty of her
strength and hurl from power those
who have thus plunged their State in
the disgrace that now hangs over it?


The same party that inaugurated
initiation" in Ohio as an entering
wedge for the future reputation of the
national debt have been the party in
power in our State, and in their future
designs have been more outspUken
than their more cautious neighbOrs.
With them initiation and reputation
were to be one and the same thing,
The first was to be the entering wedge
to accomplish the other. They favored
the financial experiment tried by ex-
confederacy, and by this means in-
tented to rid themselves of the entire
national debt. Flattered by the power
they were gaining the national coun.
ellis, they boldly fore-shadOwed their
future designs. The Democratic
speakers on the stump, those
late friends of the "lost cause"
were loud and outspoken on this sub.
ject. As in the general Government,
so in the State governments the spirit
of reputation has run current with
their leaders, and to-day you can find
only as an exception to the rule Dem
ocratic leader in the South who is not
in ia, or of reputation in both State
and National Governments.


Let us at once set about eXulceratiDg
our State from the present corruption'
that have brought il so low, and purify
the body polite and rid the Stat,
council. Of the present repudiators tina
now infest it. IL.
Year: 1875

lLlOLL NAS %NNH AVN +AA"AASs4


The Democratic party will be beaten
in Ohio in October next, and then de-
feated inevitably in November, unless,
prior to that time, it has put the money
question out of the fight. But it can
settle the money question this Winter
only by electing as Speaker of the
House an incorporating hard
money Democrat, who will so form
his committees as to secure the passage
of measure for speedy resumption of
specie payment. A hostile committee
can prevent the success of such bill.
A Speake like Wood or Randall would
form a committee hostile to resunp-
tion. Any attempt to settle the money
question on any other basis will be de-
feated by the Republican majority in
the Senate, or by the Presidents veto.
If that question remains open, Democ-
racy can not name a candidate who
can carry Ohio in October and New
York in November. Without both
States Democratic candidate will be
! beaten.
Year: 1875

MANY who are suffering from the effects Of the
warm weather and are deblitiated are advised by
physicians to take moderate amounts Of whisky
two or three times during the day In little while
those who adop; this advice frequently increase
the number of drinks" and in time become con-
frmed inebriates. beverage which will no
create thirst for intoxicating liquors, and whice
is inteded especially for the benefit CT debilitaed
persons, whether at home or abroad, is DR..
SchencKs Tea Weed Tonic, Containing the juices
OF many medicinal herbs, this preparation does not
create an appetite for the Intoxicating cup. The
nourishing and the life-supportiug properties OF
many valuable natural productions contained in it
and we'll known tomedical men have q most
strengthening influence, A single bottle Of the
Tonic viii demonstrate ius valuable qualities,
For debility arising from Sickness over exertion OF
from any cause whatever wineglassful Of Sea
Weed Tonic taken after meals will strengthen the
stomach and create an appetite for wholesome food
To all who are about leaving their homes, we
desire to say that the excellent effects Of DR..
Scheuek's seasonable remedies, Sea Weed Tonic,
and Mandrake Pills, are particu ary evident when
taken by those who are injuriously affected by Q
change Of water and diet, No derson should leave
home without taking supply OF thess safeguards
along. For sale by all Druggists
Year: 1875

How REFRESHING are the April show
ers, they ncurish into life the opening
buds, and renew all vegetation. But yet
it is tune Of the year wheh there is great
danger Of taking cold from exposure to
the weather. Goes Cough Balsam is the
best for coughs and colds and sore throat
and all Pulmonary CON mplaints, while Goes
Dyspepsia cure is invaluble in Dyspepsia,
Indigestion, and all diseases Of the stoln-
ach and bowels.
Year: 1875

YUNHH MAGNOLIA HAS BEEN FITTED


up in the most attractive style possible.
with a view to the convenience and comfort
of patrons. The proprietor desires to call the
attention of customers friends and the public
to his superior stock Of
Year: 1875

[Correspondence San BernardnO Argus.


FEBRUARY II, 1875.


Times are getting quite lively with
us in the Bear valley mining camp.
Buildings are going up very fast, and
many more would be. put up, but for
want of lumber many building lots
will remain vacant at present.


The Gold Mountain Gold Mining
Company have at last completed their
seven mile fiume and are getting
ready to start up their mill, which /
think will run by the 18th of next
month. There are great many
strangers coming and going: many
prospectors are out, and some are
working on claims of recent discovery.


A company in Holcomb is trying to
get down to the gold dust in the placer
claims-with what success is not yet
ascertaiDed.


Very few idle men are around our
camp, and / think the time Is not far
distant when every man who wants
work will find something TO do. i
would not advise anyone to come at
present-not until the mill starts, and
then the company will, | think, put
on more miners, and there will be
room for some more laborers in the
camp.


There seems to be misunderstand-
ing about the mail contract to our
place. The contract has expired fol
90 rrvino the mail to HOlcOmb valley,
and the Postmaster is appointed for
Bairdstown, and no contract to be LET
for that place. JAY.
Year: 1875

Will be erected soon by the company on q
2-acre town lot donated for that purpose. TEN
per cent. of the receipts from the sale OF town
lots will be devoted to the erection Ofa School
House and the improvement OF the school
property, and % per cent. OF the receipts from
the sale of outside lands at the first auction
sale will be devoted to the same purpose.
These sums will be paid from the first pay
ments made on lands.


Arrangements are now being made for the
establishment of Methodist Episcopal
Church, and the erection of q house OF wor-
ship.


A lot will be given to any Church or Society
that will erect thereon a buildiag for public
Year: 1875

The Immigration and Land Association
will sell excursion tickets at reduced rates at
their Office No. l-2 Spring street, good for
the round trip from Los Angeles to Norwalk
and return. These tickets are good at any
time until the close of the sale.
Year: 1875

The soil is of rich sandy loaIsl and free
from alkali. There are two or three small
will be pointed out to purchasers SO that they
may know what they are buying. The char
acter of the soil is more like the warm mesa
lands of the country, than the lows damp corn
lands n
Year: 1875

Caesar held that to die quickly was
to die happily; so, too, thought one
whose case was cited by Montaigne
as an instance of fortune playing the
physician. Jason Phercus, troubled
with IN incurable imposthumation,
resolved to end his pain by dying in
battle; and throwing himself in the
thickest of the fight, was run
through the body, which caused the
imposthumation to break, and his
wound healing, he found life enjoy
able after ALL This lucky hero, who
could brave death better than he
could endure pain, owed his cure to
q foe. A qninsy afflicted Cardinal
had to thank n monkey for like
good tnrn. The physician had left
him to die, and as he lay hopelessly
waiting for the end, the dying Cardi-
nal saw his servants carry off every
thing that was movable, without be-
inc able even to expostulate with the
thieves. At length his pet ape came
into the room, and, taking the hint
from the providcnt lackeys, looked
around for something he could appro-
pirate. Nothing was left but the
Cardinals hat; this the ape donned,
and, proud of his headgcar, indulged
in such odd antics that HE all but
dead master burst into n hearty fit OF
laughter. The quinsy broke, and the
Cardinal recovered, as much to his
own astonishment as to the dismay
of his plundering servitOrs.
Year: 1875

The centennial celebrations all over
the country will teach us this also,
that in the final consecrating grace
of any scene upon the globe, namely,
the display of the highest human
heroism, our own soil is as rich as any
upon which the sun shines. Haw
thorne, who lived in Concord, ,bewailed
the want of romantic suggestion in
this country, yet afterward in his
Septimius FELTON, he showed that his
own quiet village and its famous day
were as full of romantic and moving
incident as any spot or time in his
tory. Where, in any annals, is there
a more striking and poetic story than
that of the midnight march to Con-
cord, and the country rising behind
the invader? What element of ro-
nance is wanting to the, scene of
Ethan Allen entering the fortress
whose name of 7Ticonderoga is full of
resounding music, and which is set
amid every picturesque charm of
landscape, and summOning the sur
render in the name of the Great Je
hovah and the Continental Congress?
Even the tender grace of Philip Sid
ney's pure devotion in handing the
cup of water tn the dying soldier is
emulated by the reply of the young
man mortally stricken upon battle
field of the late war, who refused to
allow his comrade to leave the gun
to give him a drop of water. If
America is not classic ground, there
is none. If our own story does not
inspire the imagination, imagination
has expired.-Fditor's Easy chair,
HdTpey''S for .July.
Year: 1875

GRANGE MARRIAGE CEREMoNY.-By proceed
ings of the National Grange, a committees was
appointed to get up a Grange Marriage Ceremo,
ny. Fer some days We have considered this the
joke of some newspaper reporter. What especial
Use or necessity exists for making the marriage
ceremony of the farmer differ frum that of any
other calling, fail to see. Ii occurs to us as
very direct course to make the order look ridc-
ulous. 1t must certainly have originated in the
brain of the same grnns who proposes to have
all Patrons wear u uniform suit in color and
style. The snoner such NONSENSE as this is snuff
Ell ont the better for the order.
Year: 1875

q Afeadlng citizen of Wathens tells us that,
if Greeley, the shoe-peg picker, keeps OH as he
mas been for some weeks past, he expects to see
him taken TO the Lunatic Asylum before the
end of another year. He considers him far ad-
vanced on the road to lunacy. The census-taker
was not far ont of the way, when he set him
down as insane, and probably did it more from
design than accident. HIS pleading the baby
act made rs feel ashamed for having proddetl
him up so severely; we can hardly fnrgive our
self If it turns out that we have been bandying
words with a lunatic.
Year: 1875

The national banks have plenty of money
''good money, not greenhack rags" BORROWERS
now inst 90 to them and ask for little accom-
mndatiOn, and see what they will charge yon
for it. You are paving six per cent. gold inter
est on their capital, ask them how mrch they
will charge you rs interest on what you need of
the 80 per cent. that the partial government
gives them to loan to You. If they give yOu the
national bank currency without interest you are
all right. If they charge yOn ten per cent, then
they getting at least is per cent. ont of yon.
Tins You see that blackbacks are much better
than greenbscks for the favored few who are
bankers
Year: 1875

The State of New Jersey. aroused by certain
ineantious priests the school question, is turn
ing Republican, in nearly every city and town
aud Senatorial district. The Germans are solid
ly one on the Republican side.
Year: 1875

"CAUsE AND EFFECT "A SCENE DURING COURT WEEK-They told him not to drink, but he would. They told him he had enough, and 'twould be better to smoke, but he only drank the moro, and what was the results twas this: They met him about half past twelve o'clock, A. M. sitting in chair that had been placed direct ly iu the centre of the bar-room, and there pre- pairing to retire, while circle of admiring friends were standing around watching the performance.

 His hat was lying on the floor behind his chair, while at his right, lay his coat and vest, and at the time the particular They walked in, he had just kicked of one boot and had commenced on the other. He placed the heel of the boot up against his stocking foot; then bracing himself, made desperate pull when whack, came the heavy heel down or his toes. Jesus Wept, !" he muttered and after laying back for few mo- ments made a fresh start. Not forgetting to prof it by his experience in toe mashing, he doubled himself up q Ia jack-knife and thereby managed to place the tip Of his dexter finger against the toe of his boot. In this action however, he for got to steady himself, aud the last that " They !" saw of him. he was lying fat on his face with one boot under bis chin and the chair lying his back, while all hands were trying to sec who could stop laughing first.
Year: 1875

THOSE two photographs, recently hung on the wall near our table, are attracting the notice and admiration of all visitors. The one of General Crook was cent us from San Francisco by the General himself to the care of General Kauiz

 The other, together with the frame that encloses the shadow of the General. is present from lady friend, who assures us in an accompanying note, that it is picture of "the best man in Arizona."- proposition that we are not inclined to dispute, although she does not bar the editor of the MINER. l: is probably needless to say that the picture !n question is splendid like ness of her husband, for which we return sincere thanks as well as to Generals Crook and Kautz
Year: 1875

CoRN-CRACKER.-Looking down Cortez street yesterday morning we saw a horse walking round and round in circle, near a small house at the end of and in line with ths street, and enquiry learned that Billy Dearing and Henry Herbert had started a horsepower mill down there for the purpose of grinding horse-feed. Thus improvements are springing up on every hand and machinery being erected so rapidly that 1t takes sharp reporter to keep pace with them We had not heard any whistle blow down there and were not aware that a mill had been built
Year: 1875

AN ALARM of fire at Donohue's blacksmith shop Granite street, yesterday afternoon, crea- ted quite stir for few minutes. Some rub bish behind the forge had taken fire and blrned up on the outside, and had it not been discovered by persons on the other side of the creek it would have set the building in flame before the inmates were aware of its existence. It was extinguished without damage.
Year: 1875

WHIsrLE.-The still air of morning was dis turbed about seven a. m. yesterday for the first time by tue shrill whistle at Moves new saw mill, at the upper end of town. Hereafter it will arouse the drowsy sleepers at an earlier hour and also sound signal at noon and supper-time The mill is under full headway now, and will soon have pile of lumber on hand to supply all who apply.