Arizona weekly miner., 1876-09-22
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1876.
THE CHARITY CONCERT.

V. t0e Nliu cIdfpc they fDaue.
 All the world wondered.
 Honor to the charge they made:
 Noble six hundred"
 On the 25th of last June, on the eve al most of the day that our Country would celebrate her One-Hundredth natal day, General Custer and his braves gave their lives in perpetuation of her honor. Sur rounded by overwhelming odds, they met death with gallant despair and bought for themselves with price of heroic breath agrave amidst the Eternal
 No monument need they as memorial of their valorous deed. Gray boards will con their story to eager listeners for years to come. Soldiers, as they fight their battles OCT, will touch the cap in reverential memo " as they speak of the gallant Seventh. Young men and boys will wonder over that bead roll of honor whose every name is that of hero. And women, ever gentle and sorrowing in their recollections, will drop tears of pity as they recall the desolate and widowed wives who gave their loved oDes at the call of Country. And need they emblazoned page of history to record their famel In the great heart of the Nation it rests. What grander cenotaph need ever so Spartan a band !. The Argive, dying on foreign field of battle, remembered sweet Argos, committing to his native land the beloved ones at home. The gallant soldiery who went down in the Valley of the Yellow stone, doubtless, with parting breath in- voked their native land in behalf of the be- loved whom they would never see more
 And men of Prescott, shall We be deaf to such an appeal Charity-ever kind, and gratitude, are calling to every one of us to aid and succor the widow and fatherless of those who died to protect our Western from tier. And we feel, as we write, that the frontiersmen, who themselves have so often run the gauntlet of death at the hands of the red devils, will not be needless of so praiseworthy and estimable design as the Concert that is to be given next Tuesday evening in aid of the widows and orphans of the officers and men who fell with Custer. | Actuated by purest charity, Mrs. A. V. | kautz, and these ladies of Prescott, Mrs N. | IS. Bowers, Mrs. R. H. Burmister, Miss | Lizzie Bashford and others, aided by the Eighth Infantry Band, conducted by Prof. Abbiati, togeter with NIT. Wieneawski, will try in the above manner to add something to the general Contribution Fund now in the hands of General Scofied and the Edl- tors of The Army and Navy Journal. The Concert will be at Luke's Hall, the proprie- tor having kindly loaned the same.
 To aid in such noble work is the duty ,f all lovers of heroic deeds and unfiinch ng courage. Is there man in Prescott who does not feel the heart elate when he ecalls how supremely brave must have 'een each of that band, dying as they did, Q grandly, so manfully and so fearlessly.
 "Their's not to make reply,
 Ihelr's not to reasonwhy,
 Theirs but to do and die" We sincerely trust that the good people # Prescott will not be behind in such a { ,racious and worthy charity, but that all I Till lend their aid in behalf of the poor tricken widows who are wived now by memory and association and gratitude to Il who have kind and noble hearts