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Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1872-06-25

visited, and, unseen by the keeper of
the Jail, passed to him flask of whis-
ky to make merry with. After his
friends departure. Wheeler called his
fellow prisoners around him, showed
them the whisky, briefly, but fore bly,,
explained that he was through with
that cursed stuff" and told them it
was at their service. Seeing Wheeler
SO sincere and earnest, they unani-
mously refused to touch it, and the
flask with its contents, was passed out
to Mr.. Sanderson, and became part
of the Jail stores. Here is a tempe
rance lecture, and its results in a nut
shell. 9al 81"
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1872-06-25

we'll behaved man as he ought to
have been. They used to quarrel a
good deal, mother said, and at last
Mrs. Newt went home to her fathers
somewhere in Pennsylvania, and de-
clared she would never come back to
her husband so long as she livcd-and
she never did, though they never were
divocc ced according to law. Jealousy
was at the bottom of its course. Mr..
Newt went to see widow woman
in the next town, about ten miles of,
and stay there sometimes two or three
days together, on prctense of business.
"After Mrs. Newt went home to
her fathers, Mr.. Newt used to 60 and
see this Mrs. Gross more than ever,
and about year later, he brought her
home with him, and set her up in his
house. OF course this made a good
deal of talk, and everybody wondered
what Mrs. Newt would do now, for it
soon became known that Newt had
married Mrs. Gross, and of course it
was bigamy. But time went on, and
Mrs. Newt the original never disturb
ed him.
"About five years after the mar
riage, Mr.. Newt died, and left pair
of widows. Nothing had ever been
heard from the first Mrs. Newt, the
other one-the Gross Newt, as every
body called her-thought she was in
clover, for the property was very large.
She was large, handsome woman,
and used to dress so richly that she
looked like queen.
"But one fine day who should turn
up again, at Turkey Neck, but Mrs.
Newt the first, with a Philadelphia
lawyer at her heels, and then every
body knew it was all up with Gross
Newt. So it was, The original Mrs.
Newt got possession Of her husbands
property for herself and son, and Of
course the Gross Newt was turned out
of house and home.
! "Wcli, sir, what do you suppose
that woman did when she found she
had been oiisted from her clover patchf
Did she 60 back to her old home P
Not size; she just brought suit against
the first wife for services rendered as
housekeopcr to her deceased husband
laying her figures at two thousand dol
lars per annum .,
"The jury thought that was prct.
ty high rate of salary fer houckeeper
lut at the same time they didn't wan
to oust her out of her pay for services
performed. They allowed her at the
rate of four dollars a week for the
whole term of Ave years, and mother
said it was generally believed her law
yer got the most of that"
"That is queer story, young man,
said Mr.. Smith, ".but 1 happen tc
know myself it is a true one. Curious
cases get into the courts sometimes"
And now the curiosity to hear about
the man who married a man became
general, and Mr.. Smith proceeded tc
crafty it. b.. o, T
@The man who married a man, sale
he, "was minister, he married 9
man to woman"
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1t was observed Of cert. in COW I.
Gus man that he never invited any
one to dine with him.
"Tll lay wager" said a wag, II
get an invitation from him"
The wager was accepted and the
wag went the next day to the rich
mans house, about the time he was to 3
dine, and told the servant he must
speak to her master Immediately, for
he could save him a thousand dollars.
"Sir,n said tie servant, "here is
man in great hurry to speak to you.
He says he can save you thousand
dollars"
Out came the master.
"What is that, sir? You can save
me thousand dollars ?"
eyes, sir, can but l see you are
at dinner. / will 60 away and call
again" qaa -
| 90! pray sir, come in and take
dinner with me-" -.t ..jt 3
81 shall be troublesome"
"Not at all"
The invitation was accepted.
As soon as dinner was ever and the
family had retired 49, a $50
swell, sir" said the man of the
house, "now to your business. Pray
let me know how / am to save
thousand dollars"
"Well, sir, hear you have daugh'
ter to dispose of in marriage ?' .ot
~ have sir"
"And you intend to portion her
with ten thousand dollars 7"
"Why, then, sir, let me have her,
and l will take her with nine thous-
and" sT
Sequel Dives rises in a passion
and-and-the wag retired as hastily
as decorum would permit.
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Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1872-06-25

A touching incident is reported
from Chattanooga. An utter stranger
called on a respectable farmer last
week, and asked him if his house had,
been robbed during the war. The
farmer replied that it had. az" said
the stranger, "was one of a marauding
party that took it. ] took silver
locket." "That locket," said the
farmer, bursting into tears, chad been
worn by my dear, dear child" ~Here
it is" replied the stranger, visibly
affected; here are $40 for you little
son." He gave the farmer $50 bill
and received $50 in change. He then
wrung the farmers hand warmly and
left The famcr has since dried his
tears and loaded his shot CUR. The.
$50 bill was bad.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1872-06-25

What Ridiculous things occur somc-
times at funerals. For instance, on
one of these solemn occasions th6re
stood in the house of the defunct, an
old-fashioned clock, which, when it fin-
ished the announcement Of the merids
ian hour, was made to play tune.4
The officiating minister was in the
midst of his sermon when noon having
arrived, the clock comnaenccd striking
twelve. In very solemn manner he
impressed on his hearers the inevita-
bic fight of time; but the exhorbatiou-
was evidently Ineffective, as the clock
instantly followed with the cheery old
notes of 'sTakc yoer ti.;ac, Miss Lucy -
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j. A. LEONARD,
CARPENTER AND BUILDER.

Plans, Specifications and Estimates made for all
kinds of buildings, wood or fire proof. Also, ccn-
tracts taken for the erection of the Shop on
Fletcher street, Apena. 40
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1872-06-25

An arsicss newspaper man, who
lately bought few sausages, thus rei
lates his troubles: ~ got them sSu-
sages home without getting bit; and
l cut them apart and left them. In,
the morning ! visited them, Three
of 'em had cuddled up together, and
were sleeping swcetl5. Two, of 'cm
had crawled 70 my milk,pail and woro-
tapping the milk, and one, black and
white ono, was on the back fence fry
ing to catch an, English sparrow. 1
drowned the whole lot. "A -.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1872-06-25

liTnroVof wrru Ir. There is con-
fined in Rutland county Jail, VT, a
man named Wheeler, charged With
stabbing another in Brandon. The
offense was committed while under the
influence Of Intoxicating drinks. a
fow days since d friend from Brandon
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1872-06-25
History of a Life.

Day dawned. Within curtainod room
Filled TO faintness with perfume,
A lady lay at point Of doom.
Day closed. A child had seen the light,
But for the lady, fair and bright,
She rested in updreamlng night.
Spring came. The lady's grave was green
And near 1t oftentimes was seen
A gentle boy with thoughtful mien.
Years fled He wore manly face, i..i.
And struggled in the worlds rough race
And won at last lofty place.
And then he died Behold beforeye
3 IIuinanity's brief sum and story
Life. Death, and all there is of--glory
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9 TIC new leap,year s'sls - popping p
the dscssior-1 Don't you want me to
vast dishes for you ~
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j. b. TUTTLE,
AT LAW,

Prosecuting Attorney. U. s. Commissioner. oin'
corner of Second and Water streets, Alpena' MIC
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1872-07-06
Juries and the Challenge System.

The absurdity of the existing
rules for the selection of juries is
again illustrated by the proceed
ings in the Stokes trial, at New
York. The second panel of jurors
has been exhausted, and but four
have been accepted. In the last
panel the defense challenged pc
romptarily thirty times. At this
rate it may take until next Chist-
mas to obtain jury; yet though
it is apparent that this delay is a
part of the plan of defense, and in
tended to defeat justice, the Court
must submit to it. In such cases
the greater the notoriety of the
crime the more difficult is it to Sc
cure a jury, for in a city like New
York where the daily papers are
read by nearly every person of
average intelligence, there must be
ndantopportunity for challeges
on the score of prejudice. The rule
followed usually is that if the ju-
ror- admits having read the ac-
count of the crime in the papers,
whether Or no he has formed an
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1872-07-06

Justice, really operates in the con-
trary direction, and enables the
criminal to delay the trial, and to
increase the odds of acquittal in
proportion to the stupidity of the
jury. It may be possible in trivial
cases to secure competent panels
under this system, but it is certain
that it involves an increasing in
competence in the jurors as the
character of the crime, and its no.
toriety, ascends in magnitude.
Every man in New York, Of
course, knows just how Jas. Fisk,
Jr., was killed, so far IS the papers
could tell them, and therefore,
according to this rule, every man
in New York is disabled from serv-
ing on the jury. The possession
of ordinary intelligence is, in fact,
sufficient to debar any man from
trying a criminal, and thus it not
seldom happens that offenders are
tried by their literal peers
namely, by other criminals. How
justice is affected it is not neces-
sary to point out. A reference to
the criminal calendar of New York
will speedily settle that question.
-[Sac. Record.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1872-07-06
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
o T 1 q E

The undersigned will pay sums
as follows on allowed bills against
the estate of John Kilbride, de-
ceased, as per order of Probate
Court, Yuma county; the same
being the last payment, and SO
per cent. on whole amount of in,
debtedness:
VIM. King, 1871; j. Doton.
$l9.25; D. Neahr, S29.7S; ID. O'Con-
nor, $3.50; III. Hudson, $16.95;
VIM. Larkin, $500; estate J. w.
Jones, $13.05; J. w. Price, 1882;
s. Hughes, S11.S5; Hall Hanlon,
$2.85; H, w. & Co., $25.T; L.
Jones, $3.50; Ell. G. Extell. 5000;
III. Swift, $21.68; J. Costello, $16.98.
C. W. G. HOWELL,
for Administrator.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1872-07-06

taken on the question. There are
large numbers of persons who can
read a little, but who read SO inn
perfectly, and with such hesita-
ton and difficulty, that they DO
NOT read at all. They are prac-
tically, if not absolutely, illiterate.
There re,many words that 'ona c-
count of our irregular and difficult
spelling they cannot understand,
and many more that they make
out slowly and with great diff
Guilty. The attempt to read is to
them so prOfitless, SO dull, and SO
laborious, that they give it up,
and make little or no use Of books
and newspapers. x =
We only depict the true state of
our feelings when we say that we
are heartfelt sorry that any por-
tion of our community, of foreign
birth, should deem that the ar
ticle published in our last issue
was an attack upon their state of
or the institutions of
their father-land. The idea we
meant to communicate was simply
that our present system of educa-
ton is inadequate, and that the
compulsory system, if generally
adopted, would not only enhance
the value of American institu-
tions, but would operate as a pre-
server Of those institutions. We
did not mean that foreigners or
their progeny were the only per-
sons in need of this reformation,
but that all would be benefited by
the adoption of such system. If
any person or persons descry any
thing erroneous or culpable in the
article alluded to, we can only ask
them to cEcumscribe or confine
the origin to the head, and not at
tribute il to the heart.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1872-07-06
THE NECESSITY of EDUCATION

the above. head, we pointed GU
some facts which seem to have
aroused the indignation of some
of our foreign-born citizens. We
take not back what we have said
on the contrary, we repeat again
there are men who land upon oul
shores who are 'brutally ignor.
ant" But we erred in one thing,
and that is in not mentioning the
fact that many-aye, a great many
of our native born Americans are
SO brutality ignorant as not to
know their own language. There
fore the necessity Of a compulsory
system of education is needed in
this country, not alone to force in
telligence into the minds of the
children of foreigners who have
made this their home, but also our
own offsprings.
Notwithstanding the number
and variety Of schools-public, pri-
vate, elementary and higher
grades-and the consequent gen.
eral education of our people, there
are now, as there have been, vast
numbers who cannot read and
write. The United States census
for 1860 shows the number of
white persons, over the age of 20
years, unable to read and write,
to be 1,126,575. If we add to this
number 1,736 free colored Hitter
ate adults, and 1,653,800 adult
slaves, now free, we have the
alarming aggregate Of 2,872,111,
or nearly 100000 of our adult
population, to say nothing of the
young persons who are growing
up in ignorance lover three mil
lions in number), are reported as
wholly ignorant-beasts of bur-
den.
Our illiterate are, most of them,
we are sorry to say, ne tive born.
In 1860, according to the census,
there were, Of our illiterate adults,
but 346,S93 of foreign birth, while
there were 871,41S native born.
In connection with the above
figures, we extract the following
from the annual report Of the
Commissioner of Education:
From such facts as this,
and from careful comparisons Of
the census reports of the several
States, and for the several years
1910. 1850 and 1860, there can be
no doubt that the figures Of the
census may be relied on as much
below the painful truth.
L
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1872-07-06

pinion on <such reports, he is
challenged. sAs matter of fact.
no person of sufficient Intelligence
to serve on the jury in such case
as that of Stokes can have failed
to read the papers, and few proba-
bly, have failed to form an opinion.
Here, again, the absurdity and
unreason of the system appears;
for it is assumed, under it, that no
person who has come to an opinion
from reading a newspaper report
of a crime can weigh the evidence
impartially, and a true verdict
render. This is the merest nom
sense, but in fact it would seem
that the Gus: ON had been framed
expressly for the benefit Of GRIM
inals, and against the interests of
justice. The logical result of it is
to secure the impaneling of the
most abjectly stupid and unintel-
ligent jury that can be weeded out
of half a dozen panels. The object
of such action is plain. The coun-
sci for the defense, when they
have specially bad case to de-
fend, cannot hope to cajole an in
telligent jury, but they may pull
wool over the eyes of such a set of
blockheads as can be gathered
from that small minority who
never read the papers. There can
be no pretence of guarding the de-
PENDANT against sinister influences,
for such points are always guarded
by the peremptory challenge, and
the jury is certain, in any event,
to be selected from persons who
are wholly Indifferent to the
criminal.
1t is impossible to adduce sim
gle valid reason in defense of this
practice. 1t is in effect q wrestling
of the plain letter of the law from
its true intent, in the interest of
the criminal, and its sole tendency
is to delay, and to defeat, justice.
It is a disgraceful anomaly that in
this age we should SO senselessly
submit to a practice which results
in placing the trial of the most
heinous offenders in the hands of
the least intelligent, and possibly
the least honest, portion of the
community. We say least honest,
because it is obvious that the
friends Of the prisoner may get on
the jury by swearing that they
know nothing of the case, and
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-01-23

The following is said to have been the
last thing written by Artemus Ward
"Until recent, quite recent, I've been a
healthy individual I'm nearly sixty, and
I've got muscel into my arms which
don't make my fists resemble the tail OF a
canary bird when they fly out and hit a
man, Only few weeks ago l was exhib
itin' IN East SheboygRn, in buildn'
which had formerly ockepied a puglist-
one of the fellers that hits from the shout
der. and teaches the manly art of self de
fence. And ne cum, and he was goin in
free, in conscience of previ'sly Ockepyin
that buildin' with large yeller dog.
"He sed, ooh, yes : ! sed, ooh, no ) He
sed. do you want to be ground topowder'
| sed, yes do, if there isa powder grind
ist handy when he struck me disgust.
in blow in my left eye, which caused the
concern to close ut once for repairs but
he didn't hurt me any more. l went for
him onergetically His parents lived
near by, and / will simply state that
fifteen minutes after had gone for him,
his mother, seem the PROSTATE form OF
her son approachin the house onto u shut
ter carried by four men, run out of doors
keerful looked him over, aud sed
"My son, you have been foolin' round a
thrashen' masheen. You went in at the
end where they put the grain in, and
come out with the straw, and then got
up in the thingumagg, and let the herse'
trod on you, didn't you. my son ?"
"Iou can imagine by this what disa
greeable person am when am angry.
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