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Year: 1875

AS will be seen by our Florence dispatch the issuance Of an order on the requisition of the governor of Kansas, by the govern. or of New Mexico for the return of old Bender to Kansas, is consistently explain ed. Gov. Stafford issued an order last Tuesday, in pursuance of a requisition from Kansas, for the return of the Flor ence Bender, who may be the real one of murderous faDse.

 Notwithstanding all tha. has been said and done regarding this reputed Bender at Florence, we doubt very much if he be the simon pure Bender. The published inter- views with him contain absolute contra dictions which we observed at the time, but did not say so in print. He first said he was never married and an old bache- Tor; afterward in the same interview spoke naturally about his wife and children. Other about as gross contradictions ap- peared. Then when he was in Tucson, several parties conversed with hin, and the impression was left upon them that he was not Bender, and he could easily have escaped from his keepers here, for at times they were in town when our citizens were out conversing with him. We predict that this man will never be identified or prov en as Bender
Year: 1875

A MINER asks us to give an answer to the following: ~--- ' FF'es12r TaeE claim 15Q0 feet on one ledge each holding 375 feet. They then locate three extensions on the same lode. think they have no right to extensions, but they cite several Arizonians as author ity."

 There is nothing in the existing United States mining law to prevent one or more persons from holding as many claims of not to exceed l500 each, as they choose to provided they comply with the require ments of said law with reference to loca- ton and improvements or development. We believe inasmuch as the United States law does not affirmatively declare that the same person or persons may locate more than one claim on the same lode, that the miners may by local regulations prevent them doing so, and absolutely restrict the same persons in the matter of location to one claim on the same lode. For exam pie: The United States law says one or more persons or company may locate 1900 feet in one claim, hence it would not be within the power of miners to prevent the location of claims to that extent. The law of Congress does not expressly say the same person or persons may take more than one such claim on the same lode, therefore local law containing a prohibition to do it. could hardly be con strued to be in conflict with the United States law. All local laws or regulations

 

 Congressional mining act, are recognized as binding upon all parties, and must be so construed by officers of the government.
Year: 1875

ing last the people of the north side of the plaza were startled by loud, sharp report, aud rushed out to see war had actually begun. The cause of the alarm was soon asccrtained and all fears quieted Mir Lsmbcrtson, of Walnut Grove, was in his carriage in front of L. Bashford & Co., store and was doing something with needle gun which was accidentally discharged and bored a hole through the frame of a sash door and passed on, no one has yet discovered whither. Billy Rashford was standing in the store almost di- rectly in range of the shot, but says if he hit be Is not aware of it.
Year: 1875

MORE MUsIc-The Sth Infantry Band again favored the city with some choice operatc pie ces on Saturday afternoon, but the wind being on a "tear," blew the sweet strains all down towards the north end of town SO we of the southern DOT tion were losers. John Raible says he will fur nish beer for the musicians when the wind is from the north and we of the south get benefit, if Rodenberg & Foster will do the same when 1t blows the other way and they get it all in the north. In the event of such an arrangement be- ing made we presume a calm day would entitle the Band to an offering from each, and if the wind blew from the east or west there would Do no beer coming.
Year: 1875

WE have been a little tardy in acknowledging an addition to our kit of toilet articles presented by Mir Burmistcr, of l.. Bashford S Co. We read of youth who presented his lady love with a cake of soap accompanied by note begging her not to draw any inference thcrefrom. She in return presented him with fine toothed comb and hoped ke would not draw any inference. In this case it was neither soap nor comb but large and very handsome rosewood and gilt-tramed mirror. The only inference we can draw is that i; was intended as rejection on our beautiful form and features. If any of our friends are uu. able to see into what seems to us perfectly trans parent, it Is probably because we have set n up too Hioh for thsn,.
Year: 1875

PAINFUL AND SERIOUS ACCIDEyT.-0u Sunday last as little of John Dixon, of Skull Valley, was attempting to catch stray horse with d rope and picket pin attached to him, ne met with a most shocking accident. It seems the little fel- low was in the act of detaining the horse by the rope when by some means t got wound around his leg and tho horse starting to run brought the pin in violent contact with his thigh, breaking the bone near the knee; after which it Is supposed the poor boy was dragged some distance and thrown in contract with rocks which broke the same bone in another place, as it was found on examination that his leg was broken twice above the knee.

 Dr. Kendall, who was called, set the shattered limb and at last accounts the little sufferer was doing as well as could be hoped for under the circumstances.
Year: 1875

ELSEWHERE we publish the report of Mayor Luke, Chairman of the Committee on Streets and Alleys, in which he takes the gronnd that thc public treasury is not sufficiently plethoric to engage in law suit with those occupying the streets, and that there are enough thoroughiares already open to enable people to go from place to place, words to that effect. In conversation with the Mayor we learned that it is his opinion that the city fathers ought to husband all the means at their command for the purpose of SUD- plying the town with water.
Year: 1875

TIE LETTER LIsT.-We commence with this issue to publish the list of letters remaining In the Prescott P. O., under an arrangement with Postmaster Giles to continue the same from week to week. Every Friday afternoon we shall print a complete list of all the letters ac- cumulating during the week and not taken out up 10 Thursday noon. So that people in the country who keep the run of the lists can tell as well by reading the MINER what is in the Post. office in the way of letters, as the P M himself.
Year: 1875

THERE is q report in town that the Greenwood mill has met with an accident to her battery that compels her to shut down until they seud to California for a new set of shoes and dies, and a new supply of acids. Such troubles are very per perpexiug, and illustrate the great necessity that exists for the carly building of railroads into the country as forcibly as anything possibly can.
Year: 1875

BEN WEAVER sold coco pounds of corn which was loaded onto Bill Simmons train, on Satur- day, for Fredericks' mill, to be used as feed for the mules while transporting from the mine to the mill. Corn Is now selling at 3 cents with an upward tendency.
Year: 1875

Miss RAY invites the ladies of Prescott and vicinity to call and examine the stock of Millinery and Fancy Art ces be opened the st of week her store Gurley street. north side plaza next to Dr. McCandless
Year: 1875

Writing of brigandage in Greece, the
Cincinnati Gazette says: "The main
object of brigandage is financial one.
The robbers are in want of money, and
the best way for them to turn an honest
penny is to steal it. When they cap
ture travellers they help themselves to
watches, money, and jewels, and any
thing else that may be of value. But
the end is not yet. They take the cap
tives into the mountains and hold them
for something more, and they are care
full to squeeze out as much as possible.
If the victim is wealthy nobleman or
some other purse proud aristocrat they
think it will be worth about 9l0, 600 to
release him, but if he is some ordinary
mortal with no influential friends in
Athens, q hundred or two hundred
pounds will be sufficient. The foreign
residents and travellers who happen to
be in Greek or italian city when ran
som is demanded for some unhappy
wretch are frequently compelled to raise
money to meet the demand. There is
great deal of complaint at this, and
much of it is we'll founded. why
should T. said gentleman to me in
Naples, be compelled to pay some
thing every little while to get one of my
countrymen out of the hands of the
brigands? 1 wouldn't venture where
the scoundrels could catch me, and /
wouldn't allow any of my friends to do
so if I could prevent it. But along
comes some reckless fellow I never saw,
goes into danger, and is captured. Then
am appealed to on the ground OF hu-
manity and all that sort of thing, and
asked to help release him. It is his own
fault if he is captured. If he had stayed
away, as I do, he would have been safe,
and not compelled to appeal to strang-
ers. If a man meets with an accident l
am willing TO help him, but I think it
hard to be asked to contribute for man
who has deliberately and with his eyes
open walked into trouble"
Year: 1875

Just now Europe is suffering from
one of her periodical military infatua.
tions. Everybody predicts war. All
the cabinets prognosticate hostilities.
Business is depressed and stocks de-
cline, and an indefnable feeling of in
security and dread fills the air. But
when the inquiry is pressed beyond
these superficial aspects of the situa-
tion it is hard to discover any tangible
and satisfactory reasons for the forebod
ing. The ghost in a single closet does
not account for the universal scare.


The only facts that as yet have come
to the surface are that Germany, know
| ing that France feels her humiliation
and chafes under it and may some day
endeavor to Offset the recollection of
Sedan, has increased her army to a mil
lion and three quarters of men. All
the reserves of the empire are drawn
upon to the utmost TO put the available
military forces into training for posi-
BILE contingency. The experience of the
late struggle as to the value of particu-
lar arms and methods of operation is
being utilized, and the nation has been
increased and made more efficient. But
Germany has no foreign foe, and no
quarrel on hand. Any immediate war
with France is out of the question.
Trouble with Russia she may have pro-
vided she provokes it. Trouble she
may have with Italy and Spain and
France if she attempts to bully the
college of Cardinals into electing Ger
man Pope. And she may have trouble
with England and Russia if she insists
on absorbing Denmark. But there is
no legitimate occasion for war and no
reason for this enormous increase of her
army. The other nations have natu-
rally enough taken alarm, and begun to
increase their armies and navies too,
simply because Germany has increased
hers, and to-day Europe has larger
military establishments than ever be-
fore in time of peace. The posses
sion of the instrument is q temptation
to use it, and such splendidly equipped
and thoroughly drilled armies are
constant provocation. Considering the
poverty of Europe, the oppressiveness
of taxes, the degradation and suffering
of the lower classes in every nation,
these enormous military establishments
are terrible perversions of power and
property. It is only necessary to think
of the industrial force represented by
million and three quarters of men in
the most productive period of life to
see what drain Germany is making
on the resource Of the nation. And yet
every soldier has to be supported by
the productive energies of the yourg
and old, the lame and the infrm, the
women and the children ! We have a
great deal to complain of, but it is mat
ter for congratulation that we have no
great army to support and no military
infatuation.
Year: 1875

The French journals contain an oc-
count of experiments made with a new
kind of glass SO perfectly annealed as
to have lost all brittleness, wherefore
the inventor calls it, justly or unjustly,
malleable glass. His name is De la
Bartre, and the experiments were made
at the workshop of the railroad COM
pany of Pont d'Ain, said company wish
ing to ascertain the value of an inven-
tion which at the present day is exciting
a great deal of interest, especially in
such pursuits where glass is exposed to
great deal of strain and danger.


A pane of common glass a quarter of
an inch thick, of which the borders were
supported by a wooden frame, was laid
on the ground. A copper weight of
four ounces was droppep on its surface,
elevating gradually the height of its
fall. The glass broke at the shock
caused by two and half feet of fall.
In place of that pane another, half as
thick, was substituted, of one-eighth of
an inch in thickness, of the glass tenn
pered after the new method. The same
weight was dropped, raising success
fully to the height of the ceiling of the
hall, without causing any damage to the
glass.


The experiments were continued out
side the building, and the experimenter
climbed on ladder leaning against
wall, to let the weight fall. 1t broke
at fall from seventeen feet. It was
then proved that the tempered glass
does not break by shocks of longer or
shorter duration, as the common glass
does. 1t is broke in great number of
very small crystals, resulting from its
new molecular disposition. When
thrown on the ground the tempered
glass rebounds, giving special sound
like that of the fall of a sheet of metal.


TIE observations as to its resistance
to heat have caused another series of
experiments to be made. A strip of
common glass was laid fiat over the
flame of lamp. At the end of twenty
four seconds q sudden noise told that
the glass was split. A glass annealed
according to the new method subjected
to the same conditions resisted indef-
nitely. 1t was taken and plunged in
pail of water, put again all wet above
the flame. 1t was in no way broken by
the fire.


Patents have been taken in France
and in other countries. A society was
formed at Bourg by the aid of some
friends, who have offered their testimo-
malls to the inventor. The buildings
for manufacturing this kind of glass are
in course of erection.


We add to these details, given by the
local journals, that the inventor pat
ented his process in France.


The claim of his invention is AS
soon as the malleabiiity begins the glass
is thrown at once in a greasy, resinous
or other substance, previously heated
to various degrees, in proportion to the
nature and quality Of the glass on which
Ehev ODarate
Year: 1875

A new thing in music It has re-
Gently been ascertained that by the ap,
plication of electric communication any
number Of pianos can be performed
upon simultaneously by the person vino
touches the keys of the central one. 1t
is proposed by this means to fill every
nook and corner of the centennial expo
sition buildings with melodies. In fact
the discovery or invention, whichever it
is, was arrived at by some genius who
was delving about for something with
which to create a centennial sensation.
The idea is, of course, novel one,
brims over with suggestiveness.
Let there be a mammoth instrument
located in a city upon the same princi-
pie as our gas tanks and reservoirs.
The community might tax itself for the
purpose, and issue municipal music
bonds. Then let there be a musician
engaged both day and night to manipu-
late the keys. By a system of tele-
graphic connection every parlor that
could boast of piano would echo the
refrain. The flow of melody would, o
course, be subject to some sort of valve,
and could be turned off or on at pleas
Ure, just as We do our gas and water.
a meter might be so constructed as to
indicate the number of feet of music
furnished at a given time. Truly, an
era in piano o-playing is drawing upon
US. When the thing is all perfected, it
will no longer matter whether or
not we have musical sons and
daughters at home in order that we
may have music at home. SerenadinP
will be discounted entirely. When
bedtime comes, full head Of Straus,
or Vedi, or Donizetti, or Offenbach, OF
Will S. Hays, might be turned on, and
as the sweet sounds filled the house
from garnet to cellar the whole family
might be waited serenely into dream
land. But if about midnight the cor.
poration musicians should take notion
to try little Warner, what howl would
startle the doing moon
Year: 1875

A Venetian correspondent says: SIT
is a triumphal hour we live while drift
ing down the Grand Canal between two
lines of palaces whose f4cades have
given whole pages Of glorious form and
color to Raskin's poetic prize. 1t is
here we see to the best advantage those
bewilderipg facades thst look like lace
work wrought in variegated marbles
the clustered windows, each one a pic
ture in itself, windows that are scattered
all over the great houses with disre-
gard of old architectural laws that is at
first appalling and then delightful. We
see the stately palace where Lord Byron
lived for time and the grand, gloomy
chambers, with broadside of windows,
that have tales of sorrow and of blood
connected with them. We see the tall,
narrow, and exceedingly picturesque
home of the unhappy Desdemona, and
in another canal we are shown to or
three palaces that are said to have been
inhabited by the Moors. We float
under the great Rialto and its stone
arch of seventy. four feet span, thirty
two feet in height, and covered by
a double row of pretty little booths.
Under this broad arch our voices ring
as if we were in some hall, and here
often of a night barges filled with
singers scongregate and give their open air
concert to a river full of gondolas and a
quay crowded with listeners. Ahundred
Japanese lanterns swing over the water,
and when the last chorus is raised, blue
and red lights stream up and down the
river and flood the gloomy old houses
with lovely light. Oh, there are festi-
val nights in Venice this is the perpet-


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Year: 1875

ting trousers will be substitute d, or a
warm material for winter and lighter
material for summer. I suppose we
shall not he asked to wear muslin
dresses with these ?-though I do re-
member once seeing lady at Milan
taking her coffee. on her balcony, one
warm summers eve, in green tarlatan
dress with only one most transparent
cambria garment beneath this cam
brio also being considerably shorter
than the green tarlatan dress. But in
warm countries we must excuse light
ness of apparel. But here, in our
northern climes, how will these south
ern fashions agree with the ladies'
health-we will not say taste or deli
cacy? Already our dresses are so tight
that we can scarcely tread over a gutter
and they are to be tighter STILL"
Year: 1875

MARY was the proprietress of dimin-
utive, inoipient sheep, whose outer COW
ering was as devoid OF color as CONCEALED
vapor, and to all localities to which
Mary perambulated, her young South
down was morally certain to follow. Tt
tagged her to the dispensatory of learn
ing, one diurnal section of time, which
was contrary to all precedent, and ex-
cited the cachination of the seminary
attendants, when the children perceived
the presence of q young quadruped at
the establishment of instruction. Con-
sequently, the preceptor expelled him
from the interior, but he continued to
remain in the immediate vicinity, and
tarried in the neighborhood without
fretfulness until Mary once more be-
came visible.
Year: 1875

A Paris correspondent writes CA
hint-a prophecy of coming fashion: It
is projected in the highest world of the
gentlemen and ladies who create our
fashions that it may become possible
to entirely dispense with all underskirts
hatever. In their stead tightly ft-
Year: 1875

A WEE BIT girl in Cusco, Wis, while
at the breakfast table, a few mornings
since, made loud and repeated calls for
buttered toast. After disposing of a
liberal quantity of that nourishing arti-
Gle, she was told that too much toast
would make her sick. Looking wist-
fully at the dish for a moment, she
thought she saw a way out of her diff
Guilty, and exclaimed "Well, give me
annuzzer piece and send for the doctor" Z"
Year: 1875

everybody feel poor People out of
work and with little TO eat, farmers
who have no market for their produce,
mechanics with nothing to do, manu-
flcturcrs whose business j. at n stand
still feel that something is wrong and
demand II change of some sort The
constant element in all the democratic
speeches was the badness of the times
and the necessity of change for their
improvement. The diagnosis of the
disorder may have been all wrong, but
the pain was real; the specific may
have been quackery, but the paralysis
was there. Then, too, the existing
national bank monopoly furnished an
unfiiling argument for the greenback
eruters.- Here w,s ~ real iueongruity
in our financial system; II vast privi-
lege given to incorporated capital at
the expense of the industry and wel-
fare of the country. The people could
see at Il glance that there is manifest
injustice in taxing the nation some
twenty millions year for the sake of
enabling twelve hundred banks to make
from twelve to twenty per cent. on
their money. The proposed substitute
for the national bank system may have
been idiotic, but the common sense of
the country saw clearly enough that
the system Is wrong.


With two such solid reasons 10 back
them, and coming within five thousand
votes of victory after an excited cam
paign, il is not probable that this fnan-
cial agitation will subside as a passing
furry. The Ohio agitators have thrown
a great question into the political arena,
and there will be no peace until it Is
settled. The next congress might do
much to solve the problem were it to
set about the business in downright
earnest.
Year: 1875

ravelling. Grace said he, eve have


been mtying knots. Let Us see if we
can not tie one which will not unite in
a lifetime" With n piece of tape he
fashioned half II true lovers knot,
Miss Fletcher perfected ii and kiss
pu, the seal to the symbolical bargain.
Year: 1875

The Daily Graphic has this to say
Of the late election, in Ohio: The
Ohio clcctisn has blown most of the
smoke from the political field. But it
leaves the public in better condition
than before to ascertain exactly how
much fire there Wa underneath and
where it is located. Those who i'm
dgine that this sott-moncy agitation is
purely gratuitous, Il mischi,vous inven-
ton of a few uneasy and malignant
politicians, are profoundly mistaken.
They represent large and powerful
constituency. Wien over two hun
dred thousand citizens of one of the
most intelligent States in the Union
vote against contraction and in favor
of grecnback currency, it may be
safely assumed that there are plausible
if not valid reasons for their course.
And it i morally certain that an issue
which polls thousands of votes more
than were east at previous elections
conducted on the old party grounds is
not settled by a paltry majority of
1000. The financial question which
was raised in Ohio is a real and vital
one, and will agitate the country till
it receives an approximate if not a sat
isfaetory solution in the settled policy
of the Government.


There is fire under the smoke. The
democratic vote in Ohio expresses a
profound dissatisfaction on,the part of
a large body of the pcopL. And it
has a selid reason in the conlinued hard
times which depress tradaand lower
,,,.i..ns and denro.in<n 1sruni1 and make
Year: 1875

IL olden times it was the tahion fer
a suitor to go down on his knees to Il
la.y when he asked her to become his
wife, which, with very stout gentlemen
was an uncomfortable proceeding


The way in which Daniel Webster
proposed 10 Miss Fletcher was more
modern, being at the same time neat
polite. Like many other lovers, he
was caught holding -kein of thread
or wool which the lady had been un-
Year: 1875

Causes For Trial and Argument
~ the November Term, in the year of our Lord
oue thousand eightcco hundred and seventy five
before the Superior Court, to be held in New
Castle in and for New Castle County


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