Arizona miner., 1867-12-07
From thc New Orleans Crescent.
 A. Heads Courtship.


 Arlmiuta is my oyster. Cause wy? l loved, she loved, VIC both loved; we couldn't help it How could help loyin girl oi marriagcable age and disposition, with auburn (Ncw Norh) hair, red rose two lips, alabastor neck and layeuder-cJlored bid gloves And then eib e ctigalt! l couldn't help it didn't and she is now my stcp-wi.c! 1t happened thu-ly:
 We was ehoolmatcs; we had been in the same class together she at the head and at Che foot. We had sot in the same seat to- gether, f0. the schoomastcr had made me sit with thc girls Co punish me. It was dreadful punishment Co make me st with the girls in my young days. Iti5 HOW Iuscd c. pinch her; she used to say "don't.' : But she didn't mean i,! At last l got so as to squeeze Lcrhaul She said don't t' some more. She didn't mean that either Then used to give her apples and she would give ] me some of her gingerbread, and we used Co 20 along t0 and from school together, swing ing our hands. each in the others, claspcd to- rethcr like you see them on the old tellcr's ] banners and the tin signs on the housen that Is insured.
 ] Things went on SO untilshc left of wearin' pantalets and put on long close, and put on ] trowscrs as buttoned up before instead of be- 1 hind! Then l begun to write verses, Of which these is some
 Oh Araminta, Aramnia,
 Your heart is harder than tut-cr 1T you don't love your friend X. Head, You'll De right sorry when be is dead
 These and other poems, l could see, had the desired effect, as the doctors say of their physic They ought too. l don't know who could stand many of 'em.
 Time flew on. It always does. l. has been flying on for six thousand years more or less. Il viii probably continue to fly, whetA- CT the Republican party is in session or not. Araminta went Co keeping school, and went to be 8 ;" devil in a printiu' office, and sue cecded in what l went for We writ tO each other words of burnin' ! love, so bu-uin that they almost sc0rched a 1 hole through the paper. But the day of trouble came. 1t always does. Araminta's 1 ole man, who was 6 soap-bJiler, besides hay ! ing an interest in tan-yard, got contract 1 .D furnish the army with horse-becf, and mad pile" IT, then took Araminta home and bought her 9 big cAignon which I have spoken of before From that time Araminta l begun to fec. haristocratic, and from that 1 time the ole man forbid me his door, But 1 I didn't want his door. only wanted the girl : ] l tried whistliu' under the winder, and the ole man tried hot ashes on my head. Neither of them worked we'll l had one resource left. advertised in the "personals" of the i New York HyaH as follows, to-wit, viz:
 Ny Ds0r Hai-I still hang out Come to the bower I've shaded for you, and you will hear something 10 your advantage. l shall bc at the .Back Crook, and have on patent-leathor boots tomorrow night.
 "To be continued in the New ork Ledger.
 Your devoted HEAD.'
 Araminta came, she sighed, she conquered I went and bot some peanuts and we wan dercd by the sea beet shore and shelled lem together 1 sung to her " Let me kiss you for your mother" and she answered in the song If body kiss a body need a body cry 2"
 l said !" To be certainly not"
 She didn't cry
 We sealed our vows then and there, and stamped the seal The ole man found it out and he stamped me
 Months rolled around and I rolled round with the months. The ole man deposited his sponduliX in a nashunel bank.
 The nashune bank bust
 The ole man went up and Araminta's chig- non went down!
 One day struck ile and was rich. went to Araminta's ole mans back yard and threw my wealth at his feet. . " Nau lAt5 DC Iuce ana luece gree4Oacks thine l' he cried
 1t can't arel'
 " Then come to my arms; you are my long lost son-in-law!" he exclaimed as the tear, ran down his cheeks like whisky down the throat of q member Of Congress.
 Araminta heard my german silvery voice and she came flying on the wings of love with nice embroidered lace collar on. clasped her to my bosom.
 70, dearest, have youm
 '' have, ny Mint, lave"
 "Then take me to your arms, but don't muss my collar"
 But little remains to be told. I let tho ole man have enough ile to set up the soaT business again on his daughters account, ana Araminta and me went to live in a story house with Venetian blinds and all the mod ern improvements.
 There is no "angel in the house" yet, but there's no tellin how soon there will be Highmenially, Ali. CHEYENSE.-Th Idaho World says that ! Cheyenne is a very new place, started by tho , Railroad Company at the foot of the Black , ! HiIls in nnkota \ cbort ti,nn cinco tho no