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Tombstone weekly epitaph., 1882-10-21
LOCAL NOTES.

The man that attempts to mail an EPI. TArH lie" is extremely liable to get hls fingers burt in the operation. Ask O'B. NJ
 Larkin W. Carr departed this afternoon for Contention and Benson, and will return on Monday. The good work goes bravely on.
 Pools on the election will be sold at the Orienta. saloon next Saturday night and each succeeding Saturday until election day
 John Mckenzie, whose condition was yesrerday morning reported very critical, was last evening much improved, and will doubtless recover, the crisis having been safely passed
 The copy" for the great register was placed in the hands of the printer last night, and that interesting volume will be ready for the perusal of the public about the lst proXimo,
Tombstone weekly epitaph., 1882-10-21

people of the north in our government, but am sorry to say are making de- cided failure of it. As class our people are unciucated, and are not capable of grasping the grand ideas of republican form Of government They allow them. selves to be ;ly>.1l. oil by tyrannical gov ernors, who usurp power and dictate to them as an absolute ruler does to his sub jects. l was educated in the United States, consequently have the liberal ideas that Americans have, and it gals me as an official to see the way in which Ortiz rules" I asked him if 1. '-as not afraid of expressing himself as he had just done to the .McXicans, and especially those who had power, and he answered me in the following manner: "IC I were to express myself to Ortiz in the way I did 10 you, I would be shot before sun- down " No one has any idea, who has not lived in the country, of
 THE ARBITRARY RULE
 of governors and thelr tools, the prefects. They do not hesitate to hire accomplices to murder, steal or commit any crime con- mon to the world They will flatter and offer you in words all they have, and at the same time be contemplating the size of your purse and the means of possessing themselves of il. It makes me disgusted with the whole race when think of the hypocrisy that exists here It is nauseous to talk of.
 Wm. Randall, Jr., the frog-inilated pre- feet of this district, arrived here few days ago from San Francisco. He is all ex- citement and in mandatory tones com mands his peon flock to do his servile bid ding. After his term of office expires (if not cut short by the complicated matters of state at near day), it will be necessary for him 10 seek pastures green" as he will not be wanted by the Guaymeuses, who, if he is not careful, will escort him to the dock or the station, as the case may be, with band not entirely composed of wind instruments.
 Great preparations are being made at Hermosillo for the celebration of the con- nection with the outer world by rail. A banquet will be given by the railroad off cials under the auspices of Governor Ortiz and several prominent gentlemen of the state. It is understood the Yaqui-M Mayo spectre will preside
 Len. Walsh IS now in charge of the house of w. B. Cooper & Co. during the absence of Carter Te7is
 The Mexico arrived today, eight days from San Francisco NERITAs.
Tombstone weekly epitaph., 1882-10-21
How He &Ot lt in the Ear.

Everybody who has lived on the western frontier knows the genial, humorous Sam Barrow. Sam is always full of business he never gets full of anything else-it makes no difference to him when he hap pens to fall below low water mark what he goes at, so long as he makes both ends meet in fair honorable way. In the par lance of the street, he is rustler.' He gets up early and rustlcs for the foolish worm that seeks the a. m. dew, until very late in the day. If he don't catch him the first cast he changes his bait, and keeps on changing until he gets bite, even if it costs him d horse blanket,-and horse blankets are scarce with Sam. Well, Sam is an auctioneer now, he will sell anything from coarse. grained barley sack to a cracked spitoon, and throw his commission n-his pocket. Yesterday he was engaged to dispose of, in the course of his legitimate business, the stock and fixtures formerly belonging to the Tombstone Club. He thought there might be some articles which would be of value to him, and as his friend Joyce expected to be bidder, he took him one side and said, "Look-a- here Joyce. l guess I might want to buy some of these fixtures, a teaspoon, an empty bottle, or something of that sort. See? And when you see me shake my lead-pencil over my right ear, and ask, Who will give another quartcr?' you just raise her twenty five. Sec?" Joyce, al ways wiling to oblige friend told him he would not forget, and would attend to the matter and "raise her twenty-five every time his Faber wagged above his right ear. It might be well to add here that Sam always corrals his ears
 WITH A BUFFALO ROBE
 during the cold weather. The sale pio- gressed in satisfactory manner until small hanging lamp was put up-it had been put up once before and taken down especially for the occasion. The lamp in question was such as Sam sells in his store for $250, but when he had reached that figure some one raised it fifty cents By and by it went up twenty-five cents more This rather surprised Sam, and he looked up 10 see who it was bidding and he found it was Joyce. Still he thought nothing of ii, knowing very well he didn't want it, and continued waving his hand and pencil above his head in a frantic manner until it was up to $7.50 and sold. So far, all right; but when he came to settle, Joyce, who had purchased number of articles, sad, "There is that damned lamp that you paid $750 for.' That l paid $7.50 for Why, you are crazy. never bid on that internal thlng" "The hell you didn't, Didn't you tell me to raise her twenty-five cents every time you tlopped your pencil over your right ear and you kept that bloody pencil Hopping and your car a wagging until run it up to $750?" Sam looked at the lamp for about one minute, and then in most mel- ancholy, heartbroken tone, ejaculated, "Well, I'll be damncd."
Tombstone weekly epitaph., 1882-10-21

Frank $. Earle, treasurer of the Tomb stone Dramatic Club, reports the result of the late entertainments as follows: Total receipts, $335.O5; total expenses $145; net assets, 19005, The proceeds have been equally divided between the Methodist and Episcopal churches, and turned over to the treasurer of the same
Tombstone weekly epitaph., 1882-10-21

County Recorder Jones left yesterday for Benson. It was strictly business trip. His election bya large majority is so well assured that he does not propose to fool away any more time looking after his fences.
Tombstone weekly epitaph., 1882-10-21

EDITOR EPITAPH-Dear Sir: We. the undersigned, have read the foregoing state ment of William lIensen. To our per. s1nal knowledge it is true so far as con. cens what occurred between Mir. Hensen and the reporter on Allen street and at the Republican office. After leaving that office we were with Mir Henscn uninterruptcdlv during the remainder of the day, and know that he did not again have commun. ication with anybody connected with that paper, consequently he could not have made the statement or affidavit attributed to him. E. II. ROWLAND,
 W. II. BOARDMAN
 Tombstone OctObr o1
Tombstone weekly epitaph., 1882-10-21

THE PUBLIC CAN NOW ESTIMATE
 just how much reliance can be placed on the statements of the delectable Fifth street luminary and the versatile genius who dishes up the colossal iabrications for its readers. It may not be amiss to state in this connection that C. D. Reppv, who figures as a notary in the affidavit, is also an employe of the Republican. The fact of the whole business is that the Republi- can reporter, thinking Mir. Hensen had left town, drew on his own inner conscious ness for his alleged "inteview and the affidavit as we'll If the young man keeps his lick up, he may in the course of time hope to rival Eli Perkins or some of the other monumental liars of the century As for the EPITAPH, it will in the future as in the past confine itself strictly to facts, in the frm belief that even in journalism honesty IS the best policy"
Nebraska advertiser., 1882-07-27
WIT AND WISDOM.

"A sensational report is called can
ard because one canardly believe it.
81 should think that you would feel
badly about leaving this place. said
the housemaid to the departing cook.
"l don't; Pm glad to go. / amt sorry
to leave any of you-eXcept the dog.
Poor old Tiger. he always washed the
plates for mel"
The Oil City Blizzard says beads
are the fashionable style of trimming
ION a glass of beer" A "glass OF
beer we presume, is new article of
feminine wear. The ladies do have
such queer names for their fixings. -
NorvistoWn Herald.
The United States Fish Commission
has recently placed in the rivers of Ar
kansas and Texas 800, 900 shad This
statement may be believed. It's not the
number of fish they put into river, but
the number thcy take out, that men lie
about. Boston Post.
"A Denver Chinaman, who has gone
into the ice cream business recently,
has the following sign near the door:
" You catch 'em ileezy belly two bittee
all same Sian Flancisco." 1t is more
and more evident that we are ruined by
Chinese cheap labor. Boomerang.
Philadelphia has professional man
who ailixes celluliod noses with patent
suction springs; reproduces lost ears;
provides aluminium, gutta-percha or
Celluloid cheeks; reduces protruding
jaws permanently cures facial redness;
practices plastic surgery in all its
branches; and thoroughly disguises the
ravages of time, disease and accident.
Oh, would that he were here to put q
whole head on a friend of ours. - Chico
go Herald.
An enterprising looking country.
man with a creel full of fine brook trout
was standing in the doorway of rail,
road station. A passenger accosted hin
and admiring the fish remarked: go
ing to take them home for supper, sup
posep" "Not if can help it," said
the rustic, with q grin. "There be {
party of city bloods as went fishing from
here this mornin'. They're 'specteC
back soon, and I'm sorter lynn rounC
waitin' to save their feelin's. ."-Rrook
Ign Eagle.
"A man undertook TO paint the dc
struction of Pharaoh's host in the Rec
Sea on one of the walls of a room
After a very short time he much sur
prised his employer by asking him t'
come and view the finished picture. On
going to inspect it he found the WALL
covered with red paint "Where AZ,
the children of Israeli" he asked.
"Gone over" answered the painter
"Where are Pharaoh's hostP" he mex
inquired. IAN drowned" said tn,
painter.
Nebraska advertiser., 1882-07-27
What a Pint OF Manure Did.

A Wisconsin farmer sends this expe-
Renee to the american AgrtcutturtSt'
"Last year. in hauling yard manure
across field afterwards planted TO
corn, some of it scattered off in driblets
from handful TO a pint or so in
place. When planting the corn found
portions of these droppings. and where
noticed drew them into the hills, and
with the hoe mixed them a little with
the soil as the seed was dropped. In
three instances, where large handful
or about pint of the manure was thus
put in, stick was driven down to mark
the hills. When hoeing, we noticed
that in these hills the corn plants had
started off more vigorously, were
greener, and at the third hoeing they
were six to twelve inches higher than
the other hills adjoining. Our curiosity
being awakened we followed up the OBJ,
servations, and when gathering the
crop each of the three stalks in the three
hills had two large plump ears. while
the surrounding corn did not average
one good ear to the stalk. This set us
to thinking and figuring. That bit of
manure had given the young corn roots
vigorous start, just as good feed starts
off young calf, or pig, or lamb,
and the roots penetrated further in
every direction and gather more food
aud moisture These stalks being better
nourished from below, ran far away
from the poorly fed neighbors. AS to
the figures, the rows were three and a
half feet apart, and the hills three feet
distant in the rows, say 1000 hills on an
acre, and 1000 pints of manure is about
sixty-two and half bushels or two large
wagon loads. Anybody can reckon the
difference between six large, well-filled
ears of corn on each hill, and less than
three per hill, and the cost of the
manure as compared with the total
value of the ,hnal crop. The plowing,
and the seed, and the hoeing, amount
to the same in each case. All have to
say is, that every corn-hill planted on
my farm this year will have at least q
pint of manure in it,"
Nebraska advertiser., 1882-07-27
DO Your Own Repairing.

We think that almost every farmer
will agree with us that every farm
should have its own workshop, and ev-
cry cultivator of the land should under
stand how to use it. He may not do so
when he first enters upon farming on
coming OF age; but after a year or two
of what we should call apprenticeship,
when he finds that to "know how TO do
things" is absolutely indispensable, he
will rapidly learn to attend to most of
his own repairing of the ordinary i'm
plements and machines upon his prem
ises, instead of mourning delay, ex-
pense and uncertainty by depending
upon professionals at Assistance. Rath5
er than to be without workshop and
the necessary tools, one should be
erected expressly for the purpose, in a
convenient spot, and daily warmed in
winter so as to be ready at all times for
use, in which many odd jobs can be
done also not Immediately connected
with the farm.
All ordinary wooden repairing ought
TO be done by tho farmer and his hands
during rainy days and in winter. when
there is plenty of time on hand for that
purpose. Every part of wheelbarrow,
except the wheel, ought to be made on
the premises; new forks and handles of
iron rakes, repairing even some portions
OF the farm machinery, building of gar
den and yard fences, repairing roofs,
building of corn n-cribs, hog-pens, wagon
and cart shelvings, making of the
frames OF hot-beds, and all the MANY
Jobs requiring to be done about a well
conducted place too numerous to men
non' person becomes very handy in
the use OF good tools after a short ex-
perience, and saves many a dollar with
out consuming any time necessary for
the usual demands of the farm.
Nebraska advertiser., 1882-07-27
About Roses.

All roses flower more prOfusely if vig-
orously pruned. 1t is best to cut the
old wood with an unsparing hand, for
the handsomest blossoms will spring
from fresh growth and young shoots
from the roots will bear the largest
cluster of buds. Hybrid perpetuals re-
quire to be pruned as soon as their first
flowers have faded so as to produce a
good display of buds and blossoms in
September. They have no claims to the
title perpetual rs they never bloom
but twice in the year and rarely that,
unless they are highly fertilzed and
closely cut back when they have ceased
to bloom in early summer. They are
the most desirable of summer roses be-
cause they have so luxuriant growth
and possess the charms of brilliant col
orings and fragrance. Great advance
has been made during the past few
years in their varieties, which are now
numbered by hundreds in the English
and French floral catalogues, and our
own florists offer them in large numbers
and at very low prices. Ten cents will
often buy a flourishing young plant
which, in two or three years if properly
treated, will become large bush.
"Gen. Jacquemont" is perpetual
whose flowers are known to all lovers
of roses and are in much demand for
winter bouquets. Among other desir-
able varieties are "Arma Slexielf,"
"Beauty of Waltham," "Boule de
Nieze," Coupe d'Hibe." Edward
Morren," Jules Margottin," LA
France" ''Mabel Morrison 'Mme.
Lacharme," "Mme. Charles Wood"
"Mane Baumann, "Baronne de Roths-
child" and Reynolds Hole" The
last mentioned was named for the
| famous English rosarian who cultivates
some of the finest roses in England and
takes the prizes at all the rose exhibit
tons in his vicinity, and it is a rose of
remarkable beauty. None of this class
Of roses require protection during the
winter, but they will do better another
year If they are covered about the roots
with manure which can be dug into the
ground early in the spring. Large
bushes of roses should be tied up to
stakes made either of small pine-trees
or of wood painted green. Watering
with liquid manure will increase the
beauty of roses at this season. That
made from the horse stable or the hen
roost will be more fertilizing than any
other DO not put 1t on too strong,
else it will do more harm than good. 1t
is good plan to fill half-barrel one
quarter full with manure and add a
pound of ,opperas to it to keep the
worms away; fill it up with water and
put it on the plants twice week. tax
ing care mt to touch the leaves. Make
the watcrthe color of weak coffee il
horse manure is used, the color of weak
tea il hen manure is preferred. -SprinG-
feld MAS. Republican,
Nebraska advertiser., 1882-07-27
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

"A tree overloaded with fruit can
neither perfect the fruit nor ripen its
wood properly. A great many trees
are annually ruined by too much crop
ping.
Pine stumps may be more proftably
removed by blasting with dynamite
than by stump-puller A large pine
stump requires very great force to be
pulled out of the ground, but it is easily
torn to pieces and thrown out by two to
four ounces of dynamite. indianapolis
Journal.
"A good addition to soup is made by
cutting bread in little squares and fry
ing them in butter till they are Drowned
on every side. About three minutes be-
fore the soup is taken from the fire add
the bread, so that it will be favored with
the soup, but will not be soaked so it
will crumble.--N T. Post. .-
The Guinea-fowl is very destructive
TO insects and will feed on some that
the hens will not touch. They are great
foragers, active. and go over whole
field in short time. There is another
point in their favor not generally known,
which is that they are not scratchers
and do but little harm to plants. IN y.
Examiner.
Steamed Brown Bread: Two cups
of sour milk, one cup of warm water,
one cup of molasses, one large teaspoon
ful OF soda, three cups of Indian meal
and one cup of flour. Steam three
hours, and bake one-half hour IL may
seem thin, but it will be just right when
it is done. Please try it sisters, and tell
me if it isn't. The household.
w. A. Armstrong. of Elmira, N.
T., thus speaks of using ashes on a
heavy soil: al have applied ashes to
corn with great deal of care, time and
again. | know how the work was
done, becausetI did it with my own
hands. My soil is largely clay, and l
never saw any Improvement or ad-
vantage derived from the use of ashes
on corn. have used ashes with
material advantage on potatoes" "
About tact and management OF
servants qua says: ''We knew cook
once, jewel of cook, who made eX-
cellent soup out of lark's skeleton or
some light and inexpensive material,
who persisted in remaining in a place
she disliked bec< pc she had feather
bed to sleep on. The taste was peculiar,
but it was her taste, and her employer
had the fine tact to meet it, and enjoy
the services of an artist at the pay of a
mechanic"
-Cocoanut and Rice Pudding: Boil
one teacupful of rice in milk until soft
and dry. While it is still hot stir into
it quarter of pound of butter. Then
add the well-beaten yelks of six eggs, a
pound of sugar, grated cocoanut, and
rose water or leR0n peel to taste. Stir
in the stifiiy-beaO WHITES of four eggs,
anJRake. When co2 spread over the
- Nwbkes of tVeeggs, beaten to a
Heleqraph.
Nebraska advertiser., 1882-07-27
FACTS AND FIGURES.

The total exports Of this country
amounted last year TO 1888, 925. 947, tho
proportion produced by agriculture be-
ing 1929. 800 0l6. or very nearly 83 per
cent. - Chicago Journal.
The loftiest active volcano is Popo-
catapetl-'' smoking mountain '-thir-
ty-fve miles southwest of Pueblo, Mexi-
co. IL is IL, 7S4 feet above the sea level,
and has crater three miles in circum-
ference and 1000 feet deep.
The Pilgrim, steamer now being
built at Roach's ship-yard at Chester,
Pa, will when completed be the largest
wheel steamship atloat. It's being
built for the Old Colony line of steam
ships at a contract price OF $1,000, 900.
Three hundred aud fifteen vessels,
OF n total burthen of 1863, 1864 tons, are
owned by the Bath (Me.) citizens. The
value of this shipping, averaged at S22
per ton, low estimate, Is $3, 633, ,744.
On these vessels 769 officers and 2,342
sailors, total of 3.1l2 men, are en-
ployed. ...... ..f..
Newport News, the deep water
terminus of the Chesapeake q Ohio
Railway, has only recently been laid off,
but in less than two years it will be
a ilourishng town, and in ten years a
paper predicts for it $4,000 or 10000
population. The principal improvements
thus far have been made by the Chesa-
peakc d Ohio Railway.
There Is tree in Chester, N. IL. f,
the circumference of the trunk being
seventeen feet. and the distance from
the ends OF the limbs on one side To
those on the other is ninety feet, The
trunk is hollow, The tree was planted
in 1912, on the Fourth OF July, bv DIR.
West. II was cut by him for walking
stick, and on reaching home he stuck
il into the ground in front of the door.
The hay crop OF Maine in 1880 was
worth about three times as much as all
the other field crops of that year. IL
was, according to the statistics pub
lishcd in the annual report of the De-
partment of Agriculture, worth $l6,-
436, 700, while the corn crop was worth
only 1858, l75; the wheat crop $3.50, $40;
rye S37S07; oats 1866, 1876; barley 3 1888, =
635; buckwheat S2i0, 900. and the pota-
TO crop so, oil, making a total of
S5. $40, 654 as the value of all the field
crops excepting hay.
Georgia has mine of wealth far
greater in value than her gold fields in
her timber growth. if she only utilizes it
properly. Seventeen thousand million
feet of timber at the present market
value, on shipboard at any of our ports,
would represent capital of $3.50, ,000,-
600, and certainly, if the lumber inter
est (Which has advanced nearly 100 per
cent. in value in the last few years
while lumber has advanced only 30 per
cont. during the same time) is worth an
equal amount, this would make the total
value of these two great sources of
wealth 800, 900, 600, which sum far ex-
ceeds the total valuation put upon all
the prsp~r.s of avavy kind ia tho Staso.
Still, we venture to say, that in the list
OF our taxable property the lumber in
terest is almost the smallest in valuation
Atlanta (Ga, NetoS. -.
Nebraska advertiser., 1882-07-27
BallOOning.

We are now within single year OF
the centenary of the first balloon, which
was sent up on the 9Th of June, 1888,
by the brothers Montgollier. Their bal
loon was inflated with heated air, but in
the following August NJ. Charles en-
ployed hydrogen gas for the same pur-
pose. In September the Montgolfers
attached card to fire balloon, and
placed in it the first aerial tIavelers-a
sheep, cock and duck. The cock S
! sheep, but otherwise the strangely-as-
sorted trio sustained no injury. In Oc-
tober the first human aeronaut, M.
| Francois Pilatre de Ro2ier, who was
afterward killed in an attempt to cross
from France to England, made his first
ascent in " captive fire balloon teth-
cred TO the ground by ropes. In the
following months, accompanied by the
Marquis d Arlandes, De Rozier ascended
in free fire balloons and ten days later
NM. Charles and Robert ascended in a
free balloon inflated with hydrogen gas.
The first balloon was sent up from En-
gland about the same time, and in Feb
ruary, 1884, the first which crossed the
channel, while in August of the same
year the first human ascent from British
ground was made by Mr.. Tytler.
Thirty-seven years elapsed before there
was any definite advance on the achieve
ments of the first two years of aero
nautcs; but in 1921 Mr.. Green showed
that hydrogen might be replaced by
ordinary coal gas, and that balloon
might be inflated and dispatched whel-
ever there was a gas manufactory capa-
BILE of supplying the necessary quantity.
London Times.