The weekly Arizona miner., 1879-08-15


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 The day before Turkish girl is married, she is taken t1 the bafh Oy her lady friend ds and Jumps of sugar are broken over her head forecast Of the sweets of matri- mony. 4 year so afferward ber husband breaks the whole sugar-bowl over her head.
 A bachelor who recently died m Man chester. Eagland, left his property to the thirty who had refused his matrimonial ot- fers. He sad in his will that to their refu- sals he owed the peace he had enjoyed dur ing life, sad that he feis himself their debtnr
 The Evening Post intimates that the at. ltempt af Dr. Glenn 10 sell the California Democracy to the IT. B.'s has so disgusied Duke Gwin that he has sailed for the Can nibal Islands, taking with him the young Duke and all the little dukes and dukesses.
 The amount of lies accomplishing ar the front mutt be enormous; almost daily an extra train of twenty car loads of them rushes through here, followed by the regu- lsr train with ten or twelve car loads more the load is 250 eties; $500 ties per day counts up rapidly.-Seutipei.
 The complaint of the Mormon Church vs i the heirs. executors and receiver of the Young estife at Salt Lake. was published on the 5th. causing much excitement. The Deseret News. Mormon Church organ, is- sues sounding threat against the govern ment for imprlsouing the church apostles.
 A young lady lately registered at New York hotel as Miss Louise Oakley of San Francisco. She deposited tin box with the clerk and two days afterwards claimed that her box was robbed of s2,00o in money and jewelry. IL is creating sensation.
 Plugging sociables gre popular in rural parts of New Jersey. The charges are given for benevolent purposes. IL cnsis ten cents to hug girl between fifteen and twenty. but you have to pay twenty five cents for young widow, thirty five cents between twenty and thirty, and dollar for hugging married woman.
 1 A little religion is dangerous thing. That was well illustrated in the case of the ire-eating yirginiap, who, while returning from camp meeting, held out his hand to an old enemy and exclaimed: "Giye me your hand, Sanders, I've got religion, and feel mean enough to shake hands with a dog. ."-Elmira Advertiser.
 There was a little gathering the other ev- ening, and lady with ihe uesire to cliasten the conversation asked young man if he ever felt deep and sudden thrill, a fuiiness of feeliag, so to speak, that reminded him of another life. He said he had once. It was when he was in the country, and the doctor called it cholera morbus
 Lieutenant Catley's command was defeatf ed by tho Indians at the mouth O. Big creek, tributary of the Mid dIe Salmon river, Idaho, on the 18th utimo and lest all of his provisions, baggage and twenty-three mules. He had two men wounded. Bernard's command has gone to Cstley's aid,
 I A countryman saw, for the first time, a schoolgirl going through some of her gym nastic exercises for the amusement of the htte ones at home. After gazing at her with looks of interest and commiseration for while, he asked lad near by ''if that gal had fits No replied the lad, that's gymnastics" aOh 'tls, hey,- said the yer dant, "IIow long has she had 'em','
 WHAT IT MEANs.-The Cincinnati En- : quirer explains the A. R. as follows; "SeveR young ladies recieyed the degree of A. B. at Northampton recently. But asks the Lowell Courier 'baw can Il young lady bc a bachelor: Pshawl X. D. don't msan that in a lady's diploma. It means, after bachelors, and signifies that the young lady that re- ceived the degree is qualified for mat ri'uony.'
 The story IS told that Longfellow and Fields were making a short pedestrian tour some few years snce, when 10 their sur, prise an angry bnll stond in the pathway, , evidently intending 60 demoish Doth poet ! and publisher. q think said Fields, "that it will be prudent to give this review. CT wide margin rYes," replied the poet, '1t appears to be disputed passage" l" They occupIed a rustic seat heath the spreading elm The pale moonbeams fell gently through the leafy boughs, and shed OCT each their soft and silvery radiance "DarIlpg, whispered the poetic jeweIer, "thou art like the matchess diamond, you gre so brilliant and so pure; and what gem do remind you most of, deariel" "The emerald" she softly answered, .'because you are 50 Gree4.a
 - New York, Aug Gth---The Times Louls- villeoispatch sag. SSe''S's. ... s s,:s ae laut over the cutting down ., - " the opposition, a"d many declare that Black burns majority will not exceed 25,000; that os ,riIden's being 64,O0O. The returns thus far are unsatisfactory, only 90 of the li0 counties having been heard from. They show falling off in the vote of ooth par ties, with Repubncan gaius foI Represeta- tives.
 X newspaper reporter recently took ride on tue engine of the fast mail of the Van dala line from Indianapolis to St. Louis, and he writes to his paper that he leaned back in his seat beside the engineer 'and felt an ease and quiet so much in contrast to my hurried life that it seemed more like reading one of Ike Marvcl's imaginative descriptions etc. Now what kind of a life must man lead who fiGds the breath less rush of a passenger engine trying to make 35 miles an hour quiet and easel by contrasil- Burlington Hawkeye.
 His many friends will be glad to hear of Mai. ]. F. Lord He has left Philadel- phis and is now stationed al Fort Preble, Portland, Maine, he says people in Phila-