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HiLLSBORDUGH SIERRA COUNTY, N,M. AUGUST 15, 1885.
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'WASHINGTON LETTER.
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4 T AfcftisGTfriC' August 1 '.85.
The claim winch the city of
lVashinitin put forth for the cus-
of .General Grant's remains
was not Wounded so much on spe-
realms, onerativo in the pres
flit case only, ns on the conviction
that the proper place of interment
for citizens whose lives identify
them with the' history of the re
public is the capital of the country.
Andfis grnterfyinfj to see by the
well-nigh universal" sentiment of
1he press that this feeling is 1mred
by the nation fit., large. There
should he in the United' States, as
is the' ease in other countries, a
sacred spot where the bravest "and
liest should repose ia honor togeth-
Snch a pantheon of. heroes
t bo not the cdorv. but a wall
T!!;!5ta7th to the capital and to
rerblicnitn!,0,is- lhe most
pq-icious spot TWftii tnw . proua
Britteh empire, upon- whose do
main the sun never censes to sliine,
is thft few sqn-M-o feet -of Hrth in
London which contains the .Ust (f
her creat men 5 hurt there is fin
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ISnglishmnn anv wneru ui; fMI,ft
of the -earth to-dav who woni not
make the last stand anri sneci th
ast drop of blood to protect Vpst.
'minister Abbey and Hi ' Vl 'vC
from the desecration of unfen,
1 n like immner wo nld A tTi eriu-
Sifk 1y etirre,; by a new ft"broader
, .fd deeper i'jf the na-
y Jf innnjfined the ashes
y; those whose deeds have made
the country illustrious. Ilm is
V,the sentiment, which underlies the
I ppneral expression in favor of
I Wnshington as the burial place of
1 General fic,npt and it is this pa
ffwtio'f'eliiipr thit. has been out
gedly the selection which has
de.
A few days npo, tlie New York
lArald coniained a bitter attack bv
J" cnble from - London on Stanley's
j Mi Congo association, burpme was
expressed at the time, and Stanley,
who is in London, promptly de
nied the chargpR intde against the
association, and challenged invest
igation. And now Ib-ar Admiral
English, of the -United St ates navy,
comes into the controversy with nn
elaborate report to the navy de-
traent.on the Congo region,
.ther he was sent racently to
ell v the advisability of establish
,ed, inmmMpial nrvjt. nf.tlii- meiiith
driver. Eear Admiral Eng
is emphaHc in declaring
e . the region as n habitation
ajte men, , and his accounts
jt rm grnt measure the allega
tions of the' Herald" correspondett.
His views, moreover, are confirmed
by the opinions of Commander
, Bridgman and Mr. . Tisdel, who
have recently visited the coast.
I "With but one or two exceptions
'the American steamship compnn
es have refused to carry the for-5j.:-r,
mnilo after the first of August
t the rate of compensation tend- j
tam Viv tlio tv)stoffice denart- 1
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netit. so thst after that date the
etvice will be performed almost
jtirely by foreign compnni-8.
Postmaster, General adhered
. bis decision not to distribute
. i$400,000 subsidy among the
Upanies, but he offered them a
i i three times as much ns the
C3inary compensation; and three
g as much as foreign compnn-
-ood ready to do the same work
ft IzAtr the circutrstsnces tne .
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American companies might better
have continued the service through
the 8-uinmer and autumn and let
Oofigress settle any grieyanoo they
might have felt at the .action of the
postoffice department
Secretary Whitney is candid
enough to admit ihat, for obvious
reasons; our - navy officers 'know
little about the eonstrueUoit of hun
slays, and he declares that tho de
partment will gol "modestly and
deliberately" in its efforts to build
np ft modern navy. Some other
nations would be , much better off,
pecuniarily and as; naval powers,
if they had observed a similar pol
icy. Millions upon millions' have
been squandered by various coun
tries in costly experiments,' and in
spite of these expensive lessons.it
is true of other nations as of this
that little is fixed in modern naval
architecture. ; i ! f.,
tortf years ago the concerts at
the A'hite House , grounds were
quite different in many ways from
what they how are. i They'' were
then looked upon as quite ai itocrat
ic. Senators nnd cabinet ministers
promenaded with their wives.while
the common herd wns supposed to
be provided for by those given by
the same band at " the capitol ou
Wednesday s . ; 1
In these days we hear a, great
deal about doing as they did in
Jackson's day. The fact of the
matter is people who talk that way
don't think,, much.- It is now im
pofsible to do as thny did in Jack
son's day. There is all the differ
ence between that time and now
that there is between riding a walking-stick
as a boy and making a
success of riding a bucking mule.
The entire popular vote cast in
1924, according to the best records,
was less than 400,000. In 1874 it
was about 10,000,000. v ,ln 1810,
w hen Harrison was elected, it "was
only a little over - 2,000,000. But
these figures express onlv a. very
small side of the case. The num
ber of employes have increased in
Tnuch creator ratio; It is now
something simply enormous. The
employes of the postoffice depart
ment, for instance, extend through
all the departments. The railway
mail, the carrier system, and cheap
postage have done it. . The num
ber of employes to-day are said to
be five times as many as they were
when the republicans took tne reins
of the government in 18G0; The
time is certainly coming when
something must be done to very
much relieve the heads of the de
partments. One mind canuot grasp
the whole of this great system
There are as, many office-seekers
to-day as there were voters in 1824.
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1 Servant Girl's Tribute.
During "Wednesday afternoon &
neatly-dressed young woman, un
mistakrbly of the working class, ap
proached the Tribune cashier's
window and inquired diffidently:
"Is this the place where they re
ceive subscriptions for Gen. Grant's
tombstone?"
"It is," was the reply.
Without a word she deposited
$i on the counter , and .turned to
leave. ; - v 1 ' '
"Wait a minute, madam," said
the cashier, "to whom shall we
credit this on the list?"
She paused a inomeat and then
said. "Put down 'From a servant
girl, one week's wages,' " and then
she T?rt hnj. ' f
The Law mid tlie fattlwaen .
Cbltas Weekly J '
If the cattlemen had obeyed the
injunction of the old legul maxim,
caveat emptor let the purchaser
beware they would rot now ' be
cursing Gen. Sheridan and franti
cally appealing to the president.
They looked upon the lands of the
Cheyeiiiii-s end Arnpahocs to ewl
them and they beguiled the guile
lass Indian to lease what was not
his to lease, and now they are fear
ing their hair over the bad box into
which their covetousnest without
caution has placed them. Their
attempts to put the government in
the wrong by saying that it taoitly
consented to these Indian leases
will not do. The government of
the United. States can do no wrng.
Some of its officials iutiusted with
the manngement of its affairs may
haqe tacitly consented to the jeaso
of Indian reservations to specula
tive cattlemen, but the latter vere
bound by. law and the dictates of
common prudence to, examine ,the
title they were renting. The Sme
laws, statutes, and treaties upon
which tlie attorney-general has
based his odiuiou were open to tlie
inspection of the attorneys of the
wealthy cattlemen It tney neg
lected to examine them -or trusted
to the tacit consent . of officials to
confirm ah' illegal bargainso much
the worse for them. To-day they
claim that the strict enforcement
of the order to rtmovo their cattle
from the leased reservatmn lands
in forty days will be a virtual de
struction of their cattle interests,
amounting to $G,000,000. They
should have thonght of this before
their cupidity led them to take ille
gal leases of lands , they may not
occupy except in open defiance of
the Jaw. Attorney-General Gar
lands opinion touching the status
of the Indian leases is clear, strong
and conclusive. His citations from
the United States statutes preclude
any 1 construction which might
serve to shelter the cattlemen in
the occupancy of the lands ..leased
from the Indians. By section 2110
revised statutes, now in force,. it is
declared "that no" purchase, grant,
leReTx,r CktJierCQ!iv:e
or any title or claim thereto from
any Indian nation or tribe of In
dians shall be of any validity in
law or equity unless the same be
make by treaty of constitution." If,
notwithstanding this comprehen
sive and explicit provision of the
law any one enters with cattle or
other live stock on an Indian res
ervation under a lea&o he is an in
truderand may be removed there
from as such although "the tribe
consents to hia occupancy. From
which it doth- appear that if the
cattlemen are wise they will stop
passiug resolutions of remonstrance
about their hardships and remove
their, tresspassing cattle without
delay. The people of the United
States haye little faith in the pro
tests of men who have openly de
fied the law. Gen. Sheridan says
the cattle can be removed is forty
days. In forty days there should
not be an intruding bull, steer, cow,
calf, or other four-legged property
of eattlemen on the Indian reser
vations. ; '
, The Parting.
The Dartinc was .sad. the tears
were bitter. , Hide, sun, thr kindly
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face, and gather ye storm s blackest,
inky scroll! Tenderly kiss the pale,
wan cheeks; brush back the damp,
clinging, auburn locks from the
pale, high brow which a fond moth
er's lips have kissed since infancy.
Speak the last sad, parting word,
the words which make us linger on
their echoes. Say good-bye for aye;
drt-ss the cold hand and watch the
slow, retreating form which fadV
away forever. Ho is going to play
firf t bs htll nntch.
The Mormons of Utah, are evi
dently preparing to tett the mettle
of the new administration. Army
officers well posted in Salt Lake
affairs believe that they are plan
ning outbreaks with the view of
precipitating ft conflict, and thus
to unite the entire Mormon ' popu-'
lation. H'hat they hope to fically
gain from such a course can hard
ly be conceived, but it will' bo '
bad day for Mormonisra when it
presumes to strike at the govern
ment while in the hands of the
present party, j The republicans
resolved in a national platform
twenty-five years ago to put down
polycamy and the curse has con
stantly grown on its hands. ) Cleve
land will be prompt to show that
polygamy can be crushed ia a sum.
mary manner, when the job is un
dertaken by a demotrat- Ottura
wa Democrat. ' 1 ;
In Search of Sunken Wealth.
Chicago Hrtald. ,
' An expedition will soon sail from
Philadelphia for Vizo, Spain, in
search of the Spanish treasure gal
leons sunk in the bay ih 1702. An
engineer who visited the spot last
summer declares that he positively
located eleven of the sunken treas
ure galleons and, in a diver's : suit,
went down upon the decks of sev
ers! of them,' which were lying at
the depth of thirty ! or forty feet
below the surface. With a charge
of dynamite he blew off the deck of
one of them and laid bnre the gen
eral cargo, which consisted of huge'
logs of mahogony and logwood in
perfect ". preservation.- He , also
picked up coins from the deck, and
iron balls, mementoes - of the sea
fight 183 years ago. '
It ia a well established , fact that
cows in New Mexico and Arizona
produce more calves than cows on
the Northern ranges. From a
careful computation of data on this
point it has been found that about
ninety-five per cont of the cows of
this section drop calvus every year
providing there has been the max
imum bull service. , On the other
hand tho ihree-year-old steers of
the Northern ranges will outweigh
the steer of the same age grown in
Central New Mexico , by 200 to 250
pounds except in the case of high
bred stock, when the dilference if
verv slight. Ex.
Table Tastes of tne Great.
San Francisco Argonaut. J .
Gen. Sherman likes red head
ducks and rock-fish. Samuel J
Randall is a daily eater of game,
and his table is well supplied with
pheasants and quail. Ex-Secrtary
Lincoln is a rather dainty eatea,
and humors his palate with qut.il,
terrapin, and rock-fish. t General
Sheridan is particularly fond of
canvas-back ducks and diamond
back terrapin, and these must be
very choice. Justice Harlin, of
the supreme court, buys generally
canxas-back ducks and rock-fish.
Judge McArther likes canvas-back
ducks and shad. Wade Hampton
likes blue-wing teal and black bass.
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onen goes nunung auu nsning
!st fisherm).n in Washington b Mr.
Arthur: when in the White House,
tiou&ht lame amounts os came
diamond-back terrapin, woodcock,
and canvas-back ducks t were a
jstandiug order. Secretary Bayard
lis peculiar; nothing but salt-water
pots and tearapin will satisfy him,
r-nd it is said that he won't let any
one xHk these but himself. Ho
prides himself on his manner of
getting np terrapsn. Ex-Secretary
Freliughuyser was a great
gome-eater, especially of canrap
back duel na pharjte.
Dr. IVIintie,
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;No! 11 KEARNEY STREET '
Treats wll . Chronic. I'll vale and
.Spfcisl lijfHhe with the same wom
derful iuocoma of old. ' ' ; ' 1 ''-'
THE GREAT ENGLiSH REmtui
iit a never 'failltg.'.
cure for .Nervou ' '
lU'bilitr, Exhaust
id Viulity.i 8em- ,
I t tnm ft t fin-tM
Jiost''' Manhood, ! 1
Impotcncy ParaU
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yi8, and Rll tho .terrible effects ofjfl
self abuse, youthful glliea nd ex-; ,
ieMe in niatino year such as Iom , s
of memory, hifcsitude, nocturnal ,
mi.wion,- ovaaion to nociety,' dimne(a 1 '
of viwion, noises in the hcadkthe vj.
tal tluid paswin unobiieivod in , the ' ,
Urine, aiiJ many other diseattea that , ,
lead to in&ansty and death. ,
Dti Mintie, who in ft regular grad
uated physician, wiil agreo to forfeit
Fiqs Hundred Dollars for a case of j s
this kind the vital Kesturalive (un- ,
tier his specful advice and tteatnu'iit)
will not euro, or for anything Impuie '
or injurious found in it. v Dr. Mintta ;
treats nil prjveat discaves succewsfub ,
ly, without mercury. Consultation ( t
free. '' A thorough examination and '
advice,' including 1 an" analysis of ?
urine $5. Price of Viral Kcstora.
tive, $3 a bottle, or four times th ,; t
quantity, $10; sent to any address ,
upon receipt of price, or C, O.' 1).' sc- '
cure from observation, ahd in private' 1
name, if dotdred, by a! EMlKTlE,"
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1 Sample Bottle. Free t.' 1
win nc sent to anyone applying by '
letter, stating aymptoina, sex and age, :
Strict ficcresy j 11 regard to all, busi
nH8 transactionar , "'','.'
Dr. Mintio'u Kidney Remedy J?ep-
hretieum cures all kinds of Kidney ' "
and Bladder complaints, Gonorrhoea,. " 3
Gleet, Leuconho?. For sale by all
druggists; $1 a bottle, six bottles for 1
J5.
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Dr. Mintie's Dandelion Fills are .
the let atid eheapest Hyspepnia aud ,
Billions cure in the market. For
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"FRISCO LINE"
ST- LOUIS AND SAN FRANCISCO
h ( . KlltWAV. s
-AO CHANGE OF CAR,
Between San Francisco, Callfornla.und
St. Loals. M, ,V ,
Through Tullmna Palace Sleeping
Cars are now run daily without
change between San F rancisco '
Cal.,and Bt Louis. Mo. over '
" NCEIL.EfS
The Atlantic and Pacific to Alb
querqne, N. M.: the Atchison X
Ika & Banta Fe to Halstead,
Ivas.; the St. Louis & San
Francisco , llailroarl to
By tWs line there is only one chanp
ot Cars between the Pacific a
Atlantic cojuts. which is at '';"
Lous. Passengers for . . .
Ijouis and all Eatc1 ;
Cities should bny the-j .
VIA. HALSTEAD
Aki St. Louis & PW (
The Great Tor - . .'
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