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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-07-30
Lively Times In the Indian Territory.

Information has been received of a
most sanguinMy fight at kin Bayou,
in the Cherokee Nation, about twelve
miles from Fort Smith. The combat
ants belonged to the rival political fac
tons OF Ross and Downing. Sylvester
King, VIM. Saunders and Joseph Cody
were instantly killed. All three of them
were known as desperadoes, and had
killed their men. Joe Cody received
the contents of seven double barreled
shot-guns loaded with buck-shot and
blue-whistlers, completely Kidding his
body, and making 103 CHASTITY wounds.
The following night the contending
clans, consisting of thirty men on each
side, met again at the same spot, and
rapid firing was heard, but no definite
particulars have been received. There
IS great excitement throughout the en-
ire Cherokee Nation, and there is every
Indication of impending anarchy.
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The Last of Four.

Katie, the last survivor of the quartette
OF Hahn babies, who were born on the
10th OF February last, on Low street,
died yesterday afternoon at o'clock, of
encouragement, aged just five months.
Her sisters, Mary, Jennie and Sarah died
OF catarrh when about one month old
After the death of these three the re-
naming one, Katie, grew finely, and her
parents had hoped that she would be
raised. The Hahn quartette were the
sensation during their short existence,
and interest in their welfare was mani
tested in different sections of the country.
Stories were set afoat of the birth of
quartettes of babies in other sections
about the same time, but it was not be-
lieved by medical men that any of them
were true. Little Katie will be buried
to-day. baltimore Sun.
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them. He was iourneying toward the
white house on the hill, which was TO be
his first pilgrimage in his native land.
and would have missed her had she not
pursued the old lady with the gold
beads.
How did You recognize me 4" said
Ruth Mayhem, flushed and tremulous,
all the independence of later years utter
ly gone.
" L should have known you any where
in the world, said the Rev. John Ather-
ton, from Algiers.
Entire nous, believe he recalled the
familiar brooch before he did the wearel.
However, that is none of our affair. since
she was perfectly satisfied with his reply.
The result of this meeting was that Aunt
Harriet lost her nurse, and the Foreign
Missions gained cheerful, earnest work
er, after all.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-07-30
THE LIGHTNING TRAIN.

With lungs of iron and wings Of flame.
With nerves and sinews OF quiyering steel,
With ribs OF brass and giants frame
lie spurns the earth with an angry heel
Through the midnight black
lis eyeballs glare
With CHASTITY stare
On the startled track,
And he rends the sky with a scream Of pain
Oh, monster grim is the lightning train
The legend tells of a mlk-white steed
That carried Mohanmed from earth 10 heaven
A. swift a fash of light her speed,
And jeweled feet 10 her feet were given:
Each leap was as far
As the eye has sight,
And each hoof "a bright
As blazing star,
And CLEAN like the stream that the comet Yields
Al Borak left in the rosy fields.
A wonderful arrow was that of old
That bore Saint Abars through the land:
II feathered with light and barbed with gold,
And sped by the touch Of Apollos hand.
With sibilant song
IL cleft the cloud
That shouted aloud
As IL flashed along.
And the sea never saw from its throbbing tide
A vision 20 rare as the prophets ride.
The sultans cap and magical wand
Bore Fortunatus 20 isles remote,
The talisman took him 10 every land
And to every sky in It's airy boat
But the cleaning shaft
From the archer's arm,
Aladdin's charm,
And the phantom craft.
And the steed that skinned the azure plane
Are all combined in the flying train.
II devours the forest and drinks the lake,
Then plunges down the wild raviues
With the wealth Of the world on its burdened back
a sooty man from the saddle leans,
And murky wreath
It's Jaws emit
As he tightens the bit
In the dragons teeth,
And his cheek is swept by the fiery name
oh, monster grim is the lightning train
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-07-30
The Coming Harvest.

The Cincinnati Price Current. which
is usually well informed on such matters,
says: Taking the country at large, we
may say that there never was more
favorable season for almost everything
which the land produces. The wool clip
is doubtless the largest ever sheared in
the country. The winter wheat was in
Jured somewhat in the West, but the
deficiency, if there is any, will be neu-
tra!ized by the largely increased amount
OF brcadstuffs produced in the Southern
States, which will reduce the demand
from that section upon the West, and all
other grain promises exceedingly WELL !"
The cotton crop at the South holds out
an equally cheering prospect, and the
probabilities in regard to the root
crops are also encouraging. In
Europe, too, the crops are uniformly
good, so that we may expect only mod
crate export demand for breadstuffs.
With such prospects there is reason to
expect continued low prices for the staff
OIL life, and other articles must come
down to their nominal level. A year in
which the crops are good cannot be al
together q bad one for business, and
though the long looked-for revival of
trade may not be realized this year, a
solid foundation will be laid whereupon
to rear n new commercial superstructure |
that shall be enduring. If the crops ,
throughout the world turn ont according |
10 their present promises it will be i'm
possible for the present depressed state
Of the trade to continue beyond the close
If the present year. With good crops
We may defy commercial panics, and
ook forward with hope to prosperous
,ra for business all over the world
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Wit and HumOr.

BEAUTIFUL Isle of the sea-Cod-liver
! lie.
NEVER waste your time; waste some
body else's-
THE right sort of thing to have during
! the hot weather-A cool thousand or
! two.
No MAN can become thoroughly ac-
quainted with his family history until he
runs for Office
"AFTER ALL" says an old doctor,
"there are only two kinds of disease
the one of which you die, and the other
Of which you don't"
A CORRESPONDENT of a Western paper
having described the Ohio as n "sickly
stream" the itorappended the remark,
"That's so it's confined to its bed"
No NORWEGIAN girl is allowed to have
beau until she can bake bread and knit
ttockings; and, as a consequence, every
girl can bake and knit long before she
can read or write.
"THE produce market is unusually
firm" muttered q Danbury man who had
unsuccessfully visited twelve groceries
with view to getting half pound of
coffee on credit.
THERE'S nothing so wonderful about
malleable glass that can be hammered.
A friend of mine has glass still I'M
broken, though he has kept punch-in-it
at intervals for several years.
The man who bushes when q lady
acquaintance sees him coming out Of
saloon is not entirely lost-he may be
found most any time afterward going
into the back door of saloon.
THAT was real wit in the actor who,
while playing "Romeo" to Mrs.
Mowatt's Juliet" whispered to her, in
the tomb scene, that they were putting
up umbrellas in the pit to screen them
selves from the tears in the gallery.
A FREScH,rAN learning the English
language, complained of the irregularity
of the verb "to 60, the present tense
of which some wag had written out for
him as follows, Il go ; thou startest
he departs we lay tracks you cut
sticks; they absquatulate or skedaddle."
BY declining to eat things that you
want because they are unhealthy, by
going to bed early when you want to sit
up, and by making your life wretched
in thousand ways, you have a chance
of living to ripe old age, if that is any
satisfaction to you.
EYE -Waiter-Beg pard'n,
sir Languid Swell-We-ell, what is it,
James? Waiter-Beg pard'n, I'm sure,
sir but Il you know, sir, is there
gentleman here with one eye named
Walker Languid Swell-Don't know,
IN SIRE. Say, what's the name of his
other eyer
a wILD-EYED man, carrying his hat in
his hand, entered the depot yesterday
and called out man who was wheeling
4 baggage-truck along "Where's the
train 70 "What train 2" "Any train
my train! My wife isn't ten rods be-
hind, and she's got an ax-handle over
Ter shoulder and sulphur in her eyes,"
The young lady who went out into the
country making hay, with intent to be
Maud Muller, has come home again.
The only Judge she saw was Judge of
Whisky, and he was so far gone that q
lass of water would have struck him
cad. But the skin is peeling off her
ace with sunburn, her nose is like
anana, and she has the most beautiful
air of swelled feet you ever heard of.
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New York Times StOck-.S150, 900 or.
fered for Ten shares.

a suit involving the possession of one
share of the New York Times stock,
held by the estate of the late James Il.
Taylor, came up before Surrogate
Hutchins, in the Surrogate Court on
Friday. Mr.. Edward III. Tracy, execu-
tor of the estate, made affidavits showing
that by the death of Mr.. Taylor, ten
shares of the Times stock fell to his
heirs. That these shares are very valua-
BILE If they can be sold together, but that
their value would be greatly diminished
if they should be disposed of to differ
ent parties. Mr.. Tracy further certified
that about year ago, Mr.. George Jones,
of the New York Times, made an alleged
contract with the widow of James b.
Taylor, by which she agreed to sell him
one of the ten shares for $4,000, $4,000
to be paid down, and the rest to be paid
in monthly instruments of $3.50. Mr..
Tracy held that Mrs. Taylor, who is the
executrix, was induced to make this bar
gain through her pecuniary necessities,
and that the contract is invalid for two
reasons +: First, that, as the stock was
not III her possession, she had no power
to make any transfer and, secondly,
that she made the sale on credit, which
no executor is empowered to do. Mr..
Tracy affirmed that he has already in his
Office a certified check Offering $3.50. 900
for the ten shares if they can be sold to-
gether. If Mr.. Jones succeeds in hold
ing possession of the share in dispute,
the other nine, it is asserted, will be
hardly worth 100000, and the estate
would lose at least $4,000. Mr.. Jones,
it is said, desires to obtain the share for
which he bargained with the widow, as
its purchase would insure him the ma
jority interest in the paper, as he already
fifty shares of the stock.-NeD
York SIN.
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rHE FARMER AND TEE PorAro-BUo.

WALL John. my pertaters is plzened:
The leaves is chawed little and big;
III hull patch il wlthers and dies, and
Their amt enough left fer 10 dig.
4 picked OF the bugs and they doubled
III 'em with fret didn't halk 'em
~ -omebody said, III yer troubled
b.. Paris green-that's wotm knock en-"
They tackled my orchard. ez usual:
laid sheet down fer the bugs
Then shook the trees, Eetched twenty bushel,
An fed 'cm right out to the hogs
But ! swun il didn't thin em a speck,
An neghbor mex day hollered, - Herrick, O,
cure Paris green-buy peck
Fer that's wotll knock 'em to Jericho!"
They chawed up the mats on the porches;
They et mp the close on the line
Ihey gobbled old shoes in their marches,
An didn't leave a harness Of mine.
An one wretch bit little Delphine-
DO we yonder now. john that hate bug?
And the hammer said, Z" Use Paris green,
Fer that's wotll knock the pertater-bug"
Three bushel bought the mex mornin'
An mixed in three gallons of water
Them cusses didn't care for the warnin'
No more ner a lamb fer the slaughter;
They hOcked round ez If twas their btters
Ali' they had all paid me fer mixin it
Why, John, the darned mperdent critters
CluIa up TO see how wuz fxin it!
Then softly | screwed on the nozzle
An silly dipped in the hose;
-s Now, blast ye," ses /, ''ye ken guzZle
An fiji yersolves full, | suppose"
I sQuirted il on 'cm like baZes;
I sozzled it on the pertaters
played on the roses and daisies,
An ounces an beats an tomaters;
, souscd the ole pear tree an cherries,
The plums that Wuz pretty nigh dead;
Iprinkled the wilted Strawberries,
An doused thc asparagus bed.
Bug- fell ike the very ole Nick
An now wouldn't the hens have a crawful?
Fer the dead lay at least an inch thick,
An see that the carnage WIZ awful.
They would wrtho an roll over an die,
Fer they wuz remarkable eaters;
The hogsheads wuz empty, an
Wuz most sorry I'd murdered the creators.
! walked about midnight: three bugs
stood there, lookin' pleasant an merry
Cantecns WIZ strapped on en- an Jugs,
An their noses WIZ red ez a cherry.
seq one: Say, ole Skeoscks fiji mine
That wuz big drunk, an we ike it;
But the bugs hcz gone back to the vine,
As clipper an spry cricket.
We like this ere new kind of diet:
So jest tip us out some more liquor,
On fork over money to buy it
say, old Beeswax, stir round quicker!
= Git up!' an he srapplod my collar
ris, an peryided them some,
But John, they will get every dollar,
An III hev to mortgage my hum.
An. John, my pcrtaters is pizcncd;
Tic leaves is chawed, little an big;
Ny hull patch it withers an dies an
There amt enough left fer TO dig
--GFQUhic
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An Avoca man bought jug of beer
and jug full of kerosene oil. Soon
after he got home they heard terrible
uproar down in the cellar, and starting
10 investigate, they met the hired girl
coming up stairs, four steps at a
straddle, with q breath like Pennsyl-
vania oil we'll, and voice like steam
boat whistle when it feels right good.
That girl wouldn't work in the White
House to-day, if they kept kerosene oil
in jug there.-Buriington HaWk-Eye.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-07-30

A YOUNG man at Wheeling, Va, got
up picnic, invited twenty-eight girls,
took them all himself, provided the din
ner at his own expense, and went home
to find eighteen challenges awaiting him.
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The thorny cactus, heretofore worth
less, is about to become thing of much
value. 1t has been ascertained by ex-
pertinent that its pulp is especially
adapted for the manufacture of paper.
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GLYcERrNE can be used in lamps for
purposes.
Arizona weekly miner., 1875-02-05

TIE "CLIPPER SAw-NuL"-On Sunday last, in company with the proprietor, Lieut.. w. J. Ross; his agent, II. Ott Charley, and D. w. Higgins, we proceeded to visit this new mill re- cently erected and put in active operation by it's cnterprsing proprietor. The mill is situaten on the Hassayampa, about eight miles south of Pres colt, some two and half miles distant from the old Quartz Mountain saw-mill, and in the center of the finest pine forests in this section of the country. On our arrival-throush the courtesy of the engineer Mir. Harrington, and chief Saw yer, Mir. Wylley-wc had the opportunity of wit messing the working of their model circular, which proved itself "clipper' in truth; alter a short run of about one ho IF 500 feet of the best sawed lumber we ever remember having seen was exposed to view. Everything seemed to work to 2 eharm, and we were assured as was selfeydent, that the cutlus capacity of the mill is from seven to eight thousand feet per day. Mir. Ross has quite force of nen employed at the mill and the best of accommodations are furnished them. We sincerely wish the operations of the new mill may meet with the success its entcrprising proprietor richly merits and of which we have no doubt, when we take into consideration the many advaD- tages and bear in mind the fact of our esteemed friend Mir. Ott, who is so we'll known as an ener getic and thorough business man, being manager of the concern.
Arizona weekly miner., 1875-02-05

VERY RICH SPECIMENs.-Dan Thornc exhibited to us specimen of gold and silver bearing quartz taken from a recent discovery somewhere to the westward of Skull Valley, in the direction of the Santa Maria. By the way, Hutchson and Thorne have very valuable cabinet of minerals at their place of business on Montezuma street. to which we are indebted for much of the limited knowl- edge of the mineral resources of the country we possess. Any one, we think, with any knowledge of the value of mineral bearing rock, must con- clude, after examining this collection and learning tue localities from which the several samples are taken, that this country only awaits cheap trans portation and the introduction of capital to be-
 come one of the best mining countries on earth
Arizona weekly miner., 1875-02-05
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.

The Board of Supervisors held special meet ing on Monday last, February lst. Present, full Board.
 The report of II. H. Cartier, ex-District Attor ncy, on delinquent taX-rol for lS1273 was duly accepted and the bonds of Mir. Cartier as District Attorney for the term of lS73-74 were ordered cancelled.
 The official bond of Ed w. Wells, District At torney, was examined and approved.
 Several accounts were audited and allowed.
 The contract for feeding the county prisoners for the ensuing year was awarded to Thos. White head at eight dollars per week for each prisoner.
 The Board ordered that Mrs. Steinbrool be allowed twenty dollars per month for manten- ance for self and children; said amount to be placed in the hands of the Chairman, Benj. H. Weaver, to be expended as judciously as possible for the use and benefit of said Mrs. Steinbrook and children. The order to remain in full force and effect until rescinded by the Board.
 Ordered that the County Treasurer be author ized to purchase an office stove at cost of not exceeding twenty dollars
 Roard adjourned till Monday, March lst, at 10 o'clock A. NJ.
Arizona weekly miner., 1875-02-05

HEARD FRoM.-J. M. Roberts, of Donahuc, Cal, with whom we occupied place at Bigelow's stove very pleasantly, but who went prospecting with Theo. Boggs just before the late storm sends us by the hand of Ed. c. Peck some very rich specimens of copper ore, which, with out pretending to be an expert, we estimate at ninety per cent copper at least, besides an appear ance of silver. Mir. Bo-gs also sends us by the saue gentleman some very rich copper orc well as some bearing silver and gold. These specimens arc from near Boggs' ranch, some where in the neigbborhood of the Agua Fria. We were assured by MT. Boggs wien he was here that these ores arc very abundant, and with rail- road transportation there can be no doubt that Yavapai county will add copper mining to her other valuable industries, and that those who secure these rich deposits now while they are vacant and unclaimed will eventually find them selves on the highway to fortune.
Arizona weekly miner., 1875-02-05
VILLAGE COUNCIL,

Board met on Monday, February lst. Present, Mayor C. A. Luke and Councilmen Raible and Foster.
 Committee on Streets and Alleys reported re- commenting that all streets and alleys laid out as such be opened. Adopted.
 The Marshal was ordered 10 notify all persons obstructing the same by fences or otherwise 10 remove such instructions within thirty days.
 Committee on Cbimneys and Flues reported that they had investigated the matter, and where defections were found had notified the owners or occupants of such buildings to at once repair them. Some had already made the required re- pairs, and others would do so as soon as the weather permits.
 It was ordered that six hooks and two new ladders be made at once for the of the village in case of fire
 Committee on bridge across Granite Creek asked further time to report Granted.
 Committee appointed to examine reports of Village Recorder and Village Treasurer asked further time to report. Granted til next meet ing.
 On motion, it was ordered that the Recorder be allowed five dollars for each meeting for services as Clerk of the Board, and ten dollars per month office rent
 Adjourned to February 18th, at o'clock F. M
Arizona weekly miner., 1875-02-05
EDUCATING THE HEiTHEN.

The following anecdote comes to us from
 the Verde:
 Camp - is not many miles from Pres < colt, strictly speaking it is military post, \ and considered an important one in opera ting against the Indians.
 Rio - reservation is within a good I hours ride from Camp and frequently h. 1 dians, on getting the necessary pass from the
 Indian Agent, come to Camp to see what
 they can see, or perhaps beg from the sol
 diers. The L. s. Government lately com
 pletcd telegraph line to Camp, which, as \ may be expected, is source of great curi-
 osity, argument ard comment as to how, wherefore and why.
 ! Will S-- is the operator, who, by the I way, is New Yorker. and up to any fun,
 you bet so, one day, observing three Ton
 tos busily engaged in watching the tele- graph wire outside of the office, putting
 their ears to the pole and listening to the
 vibrations of the wire, which most always makes humming sound. Will conceived I the idea of having some fun at Tontos' ex- pense. Now, Will S--, let it be known, i is firm advocate of science, and believes in leducating the ignorant masses, scientific lec- litures etc, and he determined to enlighten poor Indian, and give Eye gentle Tonto" a ] lecture on the merits of the Electric Tcle- mankind, and wind up with an experiment 
 or two, ld Prof. Tyndail, and invited the Indians into the office, an invitation which was obeyed with alacrity, one of them going | beyond the bounds of good breeding so far ,as to try one of Wills white shirts on, with out permission; he was gently repremanded and Will began to explain, .o the trio, by means of numerous signs, greatly resembling "a Christmas pantomIme, the modns operaRdi of sending and receiving telegrams; but it was evidently beyond the Indians compre- henslon, as the only remark they made was, 'tNo savvy." or in English, no understand :; so that part of the programme was dropped, and the experiments commenced: The wire was arranged and the trio were given a slight shock of electricity, in turn, which greatly pleased them, but the best part was to come the wires were again arranged, so as to control the full power of the main bat tery, and one of the Tontos, a heather with red paint on his face, was induced to put the end of wire in his mouth the circuit was then connected There was a shriek, war whoQp, a horrible yell; and now, all you have to do to get rid of them three Tontos is to point piece of wire at them, they evidently will think to their dying day that Will is in league with "Old Nick" and has evil designs on them. Such is the re- ward of science
Arizona weekly miner., 1875-02-05

QUEER FIsH-Cai. and Jesse Jackson have some specimens of an aquatic animal the like of which we have never seen nor heard of before. They in shape resemble some of the various spe- eics of Hazards that arc found all the coast but are heavier in proportion to their length. They have four legs and feet and long tail, like the wateriogs of the western Atlantic rivers, but are provided Sith gills like fish, and evidently derive the requisite supply of oxygen to sustain life from the water that passes those organs. Around these giiis is sof. dark-colored down re- sdmbling feathers. The largest one is several inches in length, and was cargh: with hook in the Santa Maria, near the ranch of Sol. Jackson. They arc preserEed in alcohol, and may be seen at the saloon of Jackson & Tompkils.