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\ Matter OT Economy.

From the Oil City Derrick.
 "That last butter l got from you," remarked the boarding house keeper to the grocer, twas rather strong"
 In his blandest way the grocer be- gan to explain the matter, but was interrupted by:
 "Have you got any more of it?"
 eve have; but we have just re- ceived an excellent lot of the choicest"
 "How much is it?"
 "Forty five cents pound for the best. We sell the other at forty"
 "Well, now, just let me think" said the boarding house man, reflect lively. "When l get nice butter they get eay with about four pounds a day. That's twenty eight pounds a week, and it costs $12.6O. That last four pounds l got from you last ed two weeks, and used the last of it this Torning to grease my boots.
 Gimme four pounds of your forty cent butter"
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Old ROrpps

From the following from the Fl Pa 50 Herald of April 12, it will be seen that the late wind-storm was not confined alone to Arizona:
 Enough sand has been stirred up in the last few days to plant out a littI e city, like Albuquerque, for ln- starbce. Old Boreas has manipulated the etheral throttle and smote the Aedlian harps with 40-horse bowler steam thresher. The wind fien&s whistled worse than camp meeting of coyotes. They held a rourI d of high wassall and walled and moa&ed like legions of damned spirits riding the furious blasts on side tsaddles of rcd hot iron. Last Friday there was sort of Saharic simoPn in our streets, sweeping in
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unclaimed madness along their dusty stretches and causing nasty stam- pede of out of doors wayfarers.

WE acknowledge the receipt, through the kindness of Colonel Chalmers Scott, of specimen of rock carrying free gold and also chloride of gold. This specimen comes from the southern part of Pima county, and is very rich, assaying s2,400 per ton. The colonel says he has a mountain of it.-Yuma Sentinel,
 "Chlordc of gold!" Nothing short of the new railroad route from Tucson to Point Lobos could have developed chloride of gold, and "a mountain of it" at that.
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Journalistic TafYy.

From the Prescott Democrat.
 The Courier remarks that Murat Masterson is the best newspaper man ever connected with the Democrat, and that Colonel Bigelow is next. We cordially agree with our esteem ed contemporary. These two tai ented gentlemen are deserving of all praise, and from more competent and appreciative source. We wish we could return the compliment to the Cour'er, but we can't. In our opinion, the best newspaper man about that office is the chap who turns the press. He does his work well, and sets an example which the ''staff" might initiate with credit and profit.
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The ROughs i'm Border Lands.

From the San Francisco Bulletin.
 It IS the fate of border roughs to be killed sooner or later. Jesse James was killed thu other day in Missouri, after having, in conjunc- ton with his brothers, committed a series Of robberies and murders un- paralleled in the history of crime in this country. He was killed by the treachery of a confederate who had ingratiated himself into the conf- dence of his victim and shot him behind his back. For years this bor- der rutfian could not be arrested by the civil authorities. He found shell ter in communities partly through fear of him and partly through sym pathy with him. Governor Tritle of Arizona finds that territory overrun with border rutfians. He asks the federal authorities for an appropria- ton of S150,000 for the suppression of this criminal class, and for the right to suspend county officers, the inference being that some of these officials are in fellowship with crim- inals-an inference which was true enough in Missouri, and may be just as true in Arizona. The man who undertakes to make his way by criminal life, even in border com, munity, does not have an uninter- rupted career. He is sure to go to the wall in some tragic way. The early desperadoes in California have been shot, hanged, imprisoned or driven out of the country. None of them have ever settled down to hon. est ways. The fate of this element is to be killed, and powder and ball were, probably, never put to better use. It is sad that the roughs in Arizona, there living in open def. ance of the law, hardly number one hundred. They have many secret cenfederates and larger number of open or secret sympathisers. Cover nor Tritle has organizeed posse, and proposes to make 1t warm for them. No halfway measures will do. The law and order men must be able to organize effectually against these ruff fans without calling on the federal government for aid. II the citizens of that country cannot maintain or der without outside assistance, how can it be shown that the territory is in any fit condition for an lndepend- ent state government? The ruffians will disappear one by one, but it ought to be ill the power of the citi- zens of Arizona to make it so hot for these rascals that they will not stand on the order of their going.
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opinion of it than could be obtained under any other circu instances. The Flowers are lilaceous in form, of creamy white color and borne on long spikes, there being from fifty to one hundred flowers on each spike Unlike the yucca whipplel, which the flowers closely resemble, it has no odor whatever The fruit of the Spanish bayo. net when ripe, is roasted and eaten by the natives, and pronounced quite a luxury.
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ITEMS AT iAksaE.
\ una Sentinel, April l5.

Yuma Sentinel, April i5.
 Col. Chas. c. Bemis, Supervisor and Inspector of Vessels for the First District, arrived in Yuma on We'd nesday evening, and on Thursday in spected the steamers Mohave and Gila.
 Sheriff Orme, of Phoenix, brought four boarders to Capt. Meeden, this week. Their names are Pasqual Herrea, three and a half years, grand larceny; Albert Smith (colore0 five and a half years, grand larceny; Jesus Salazar, three and half years; burglary; Alfredo Brown, life, mur- der.
 The shipment of sheep into Ari- zana still continues. During the past week two train loads of them have passed through Yuma. This seems to indicate that the farmers and fruit growers of California are encroaching upon the grazing lands to some con siderable extent.
 Mir. Chas. Crocker, Col. Grey and Col. Chalmers Scott, passed through Yuma on Monday evening in spe- cal car. MT. Crocker and Coi. Grey go on to the end of the track, beyond Fl Paso, from whence tkey go by carriage to the terminus of the G. h.. and S. A. line, some distance this side of San Antonio, Texas. From the Arizona Democrat, April Il.
 Ranch and stock men all busy as bees hunting up cattle, calves and stock. Rodeo time commencing.
 Sheriff Walker is of in the Tip Top country, attending to legal and other county business,
 Fine weather to-day. The wea- ther is evidently ashamed of itself and has calmed down to its usual normal condition.
 From New Albuquerque Review, April l5.
 The new paper at Springer will be started next week. Col. John Wood burn will be it's manager and R. E. O'Connor editor.
 The telephone from Las Vegas to Los Alamos is to be extended to Mora, tadng,,iauSapello, La Cueva and RincoH del Teeolote.
 KellySthe 1isz defel, sseds the fol lowing e ~ % E !l!! <; a6 \! M \ ! sSRptyI "Dear SITS, as { tiS{ tRIj6 N6o|fI }1t3kES1 1 have but Few days sfn fhis vForlZS i propose to have Eny and evsTy' thing that the market affords To eat drink smoke and Chewing tobacco and vow will oblige me very mutch By Sending them to me. yowrs very respectfully EDWARD M. KELLY" From Daily Indicator, April II.
 It is stated on good authority that the Old Dominion Copper Mining company will ship two carloads of copper bullion daily over the South ern and Texas Pacific railroads from Wilcox Station eastward.-!!. From the Arizona Miner, April Il.
 Grass for stock in the immediate vicinity of Prescott IS short.
 A pine tree fell upon a horse, in West Prescott, yesterday, breaking one of the horses legs
 About half of Maricopa came up in the wind, on Sunday and Monday, with three .fourths of Pima, and probably nine-tenths ot Sonora.
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NEWS peculiarites are thus de.
 scriped by Dan De Guile, ot the Virginia Enterprise: The news. paper newsgatherer soon discovers that from Oregon always comes the unexpected; from California the inevitable; from Arizona the bloody;
 from Utah, the lecherous and lament able; from New Mexico, the fearful and fabulous; from Texas, the dia. bolical and bucolical; from Colorado, the curious, and spurious; from Nevada, the cheerful and truthful; from Idaho, the windy and wanton; :; from Montana, the wonderful and thunderful; from Alaska, the fury and frigid, the oily and rigid; from Kansas, the bovine and bumptious, the hellish and scrumptious; from Nebraska, the cvclonic and demonic, the fendish and frolicsome; from
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A Sheriff Killed,

CARSON, New, April l7.-Sheriff Williams, of Douglas county, was stabbed, probably fatally, last even- ing, at Genoa, by Jerry Raycraft. He was attempting to arrest Ray craft, who drew knife and plunged it in the small of hls back. Raycraft had been engaged in fight and was disturbing the peace.
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In 3semoriam-MO organ Earp.

tcOAMCNICArEp.l Eye the hand of hidden foe, The deadly missile sped; Ere the hireling's cowardly blow So foully laid thee dead; The glow upon thy manly cheek, Rival'd the rosy morn, As it breaks OCT the mountain peak, When the day is newly born. Life's fttul dream hath come and gone, Peace reigns within thy breast; With earthly strife thy life is done. None can disturb thy rest; Perchance the brain that planned thy doom When stricken with i'll and pain; May envy thee thy lonely tomb. And envy thee in vain. TOMBSTONE, March IS, 1882.
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MR. SAMUEL PURDY, editor and propre- tor of the Yuma Free Press, arrived in town several days ago, and has been busy in taking Tn the sights and looking over the journalistic field with vlew of start ing democratic paper. We trust that Mir. Purdy's visit will be in every way satisfactory, and that he will leave Tomb stone with pleasant recollections of the town and it's people.
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the West, the beautiful and dutiful, the rancerous and cantaukerous- the worst and the best; from the South, floods and drouth, the caney, the cottoney, and all that means mo-
 notony; from New Engand, the Christlike and cranky, characteristics of the pill.pedling Yankee.
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PacIfic Coast Hood Horse 1issoei-
 atiOn.

The spring meeting of this association will take place at the Bay District course on the 25th, 21th and 29th of the present month. Thirteen races will be given at various distances, and ali the most noted horses in the State will contend. All the noted breeders of fine and blooded horses in the State of California belong to this association. The display at this meeting will be better than at any previous one and faster time than before recorded may be looked for.
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lT was rumored yesterday that the Earp brothers would arrive in Oak land, and the Light Cavalry was immediately put under arms. That gallant and well,trained body re- solved that if the two Earps came to Oakland and showed the least dispo. sltion to attack them, every man would bite the dust before those re. doubtable bandits were allowed to run that town. Fortunately, the men who were mistaken for the Earps proved to be the Earl brothers, on their way to this city. The joyful news spread like wildfre, and the meeting between the cavalrymen and their wives was affecting in the ex- treme. Many of those gentle crea- lures, when they learned that this fine company had been turned out to meet the two Earp brothers, set to work preparing lint and bandages, and arranging cots for the wounded. Happily, there was no necessity for this forethought. Everything is quiet in Oakland now.-S. F. Daily Exchange, April II.
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Grain Market.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 17.-Wheat firm; No. l Sl GO. Barley steady. Feed Sl 52!@1 574; brewing sl 65 @1 so; chevalier sl 574@1 65. Oats s1 S5@1 95. Rye s2 00@2 ca. Po- tatoes, all reds, s2 l0@2 25; all new, 3M4 cts.
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THERE has been report current upon the streets for the last three or four days to the effect that Mir. II. M Woods has ten. dered to Sheriff Behan his resignation as under-sheriff. The report has been af- firmed again today, and there is prob. ability that it may be true.
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$90O.26; Contention, $157S4; St. David's, $231,24; Charleston, $152.5s; Benson, $s3.64; Dos Cabezas, $7S.72; Wilcox, $73,s0; Bisbee, $54.32; Tres Alamos, GdO
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IT will be seen by reference to the hotel arrivals that the tide of travel to this city is not at ebb. If the world outside could be persuaded to believe that Tombstone is quiet and orderly, as it certainly is, people would come in still greater numbers to
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A YOUNG man, whose name is George H. Van Trump, and who was hurt at Bsbee short time ago by pick falling down the mine and striking him, was brought to Tombstone yesterday, and under the medical treatment of Dr. Geo. E. Goodfel.
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-hA D'S"h Oofs<S>-.@- and turned new leaf of LII | &
 "T have few Aztec names, he, that belong on this continent and that are marked by strong individu- aIity. Tegozomoc, for instance. He was an Aztec king"
 "Was his last name Brown?"
 "I think not. No, Pm certain it wasn't and there was Nezohualco- yotl; he was king too."
 ''Our child could never put such d name as that on an umbrella han dle."
 "True,'' said Mir Brown. ''The king probably had no umbrella. Spotted Tail, however, is a native American name, which,
 "An you would give that name to your chrld-your own child?"
 "l don't know Spotted Tail Brown might answer for"--
 Mrs. Brown suddenly flirted out of the room with a remark intimating that she was going home to her mothers. After she had had good, cry, Mr. Brown folded up his list and agreed to call the child Thomas.
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LYMAN PIERRE, ESQ, and party, mining gentlemen from Bloomington, H., de- parted to-day for tour through the nor thern part of the Territory
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Chlcngo Antt- -Chinese Meetinc,

CHICAGO, April 17th.-The anti Chinese meeting at Seaman's Hall last evening was a great success in ::poitlt of attendance and enthusiasm.
 ij q flse se4ss were occupied. l. was m HI 6f z lfSrIes to be held under country and 6tihg atf4 <' < enactment of the Chinese biill [q y6f' Harrison presided.
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Apportionment of School Money.

J. II. Lucas, Esq, county school super intendent, made the last apportionment of school money from the taxes of 1881, on Saturday last. The total amount appor- toned was Sl1S2, from which the various
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Naming the Baby,
as Adcler in Our Continent.

| Siai AdCier in Our Continent
 "I think" said the fond mother. 'that as the baby's last name is Brown, it would be better to give him some first name less common than Henry. There are eleven col umns of Henry Browns in the direc. tory"
 "Thrteen, darling," said Mir. Brown. "I counted them yesterday. What we want for the baby is a unique first name that will be dis tinct and peculiar; that will make it possible always to identify him. Is not that It, dearest?"
 "Certainly."
 "Well, have prepared list from which we can pick. Suppose we skim over it? Let's begin with the twelve tribes of Israel. Are there any among them that you like?"
 ''I think not"
 "How would Cad do? Cad Brown? That would be novel, anyhow"
 Due IoO sIdItllbS3 pSiudpS.
 "Possibly. The others are all ra- ther c mmon. Does Ivarhoe strike ' you? l rather like Ivanhoe Brown. Or, if we wanted to give him a mid de name, we could ca l him Ivauhoe Alcibiades Brown"
 "It is too long; and besides, I'm not certain 1 could always spell Al. ciblades correctly in marking his underclothing."
 "Plutarch, then?"
 "Mr. Brown, that's outrageous!"
 Outrageous, love! Plutarch. Why, what do you mean?"
 "No child of mine shall ever be named after the god of the internal regions!'
 Mir. Brown explained the blunder, and passed on. "What do you say, then, to Calico? There is not a sin. gle Calico Brown in the directory"
 "Was Calico an Israelite?"
 No, love, 1 think not"
 "l thought from his name, perhaps he came from Galilee," said Mrs. Brown thoughtfully.
 Mir. Brown was too much astonish- ed to try to explain. He resumed the reading of his list:
 Pelalla is Scriptural name. He resumed the reading of his list:
 "Pelalia is a Scriptural name. Would you care for Pelalia? Pela. lia Brown?"
 "I think not," said Mrs. Brown, "it sounds like an impeachment of the dear child's veraoity. l don't think We ought to start him in life with an insinuation that he will be story-teller."
 'lt might not be right. Suppose, then, we call him Petrarch?"
 "Is that Bible name?"
 "No, love, not Bible name."
 "To be sure not; l was thinking of St. Peter. I think, William, l should prefer an American name of some kind If we could find one."
 "Patrck Henry, for example?"
 That is Irish"
 "No; you know Patrick lenry was an American. He was cele-
 apatEioti don't you remem-
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ERNEST MCCLURE, ESQ, of Charleston, one of the firm of Herrera X Mcclure, left to-day for San Francisco.
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he week ending Saturday, Apr Archer Mollie Aviselte Jno A CIV Anderson Henry Altman Jno "a Allen Jno k Abrard Joe
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 Montane Jose CHINESE.
 Wah Quon Quong Huy Wing Yuen Ho 2 for the above will please say Id give date. JOHN P. CLUM, Postmaster.
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TIE Spanish bayonet, that ugly and much dreaded plant of the desert, is now in bloom, and gives one a more favorable
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LETTER LIST.

Unclaimed letters remaining in the Tombstone Post Office for the week ending Saturday, April 1sth ISSo
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Personal.

J. Albert Richards, who was killed at the Spuyten Duyvil disaster, was cousin of Gen. S. R. Smith, of this city. The Hudson River Railroad company have awarded and will pay at once S5, ,OO0 to Richards sister as his heir.
 City Attorney Pickett has investigated the circumstances leading to Nathan Peck's death, and does not hold Michael Norton, driver for Edward A. Stevens, responsible.
 Horace J. Morton is mentioned ss the com ing president of the Merchants National bank
 Nicholas Tanning, brakeman on the New England road, fell from freight train Sat urday morning in Walpole and was found on the track with one leg and h5th feet cut of He was taken to the b~spital, but lived only fifteen minutes at' his arrival. His home ii in Woonsocket, R. I.
 Mrs. Burwell, wife of Dr. Burwell, the dentist, who has been critically i'll, was some what improved last evening, and hopes oi her recovery are entertained. party of four New Haven gentlemen ! went up the Air Line railroad on a pickerel fishing excursion recently, and had famous luck, bringing home large lot of pickerel of their own catching. When going Pickerel fishing be sure and take an Air Line train
 Chip Smith, under sentence of death, now has the n, nistrations of Father McGivney oi St. Marys church, who is preparing him fol death. new trial in his case cannot b. had. The condemned young man is allowed 1 to see relatives and friends.
 Ellen Mitchell, wife of the late Edward Mitchell, living at 127 Grand street, diet very suddenly Friday evening from dose ot Paris green, taken by her by mistake fo' another medicine. She was ffty-eight year of age and leaves two sons and one dsngh ter
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THE WEST.
Kentucky.
Arsenic in Corn Bread.

Arsenic in Corn Bread.
 CoRINTH, Jan. 29.-A family named Ro- mann, living on the outskirts of the town, were poisoned few nights since at supper. It is supposed there was arsenic in the corn bread. Five of the family are lying at the point of death. No investigation has been made
 A Wealthy Woman's HIysterIous Death.
 LOUISVILLE Jan. 29.-Mrs Belle Oldham, a well known and wealthy womap who lived near the city limits, was found lying dead in her bed a few mornings since. From the discoloration of her face, her clenched body, the physicians decided that she had been poisoned with opium, violently admin istered by other hands than her own. The only circumstances that go to shed light up- on the deed are these: Early the evening before negro woman called at Mrs. Old hams house and asked permission to remain at night The request was complied with, and pallet made for her in an adjoining room. An eight year old boy of Mrs Old hams says that his mother put him to bed and then went into the room where the ne- gro lay. In the morning the boy on awak- ening, missed his mother and after calling her went to her room and found her lying on the bed, with her clothes nearly all torn from her body. The negro had gone out of the house through side window, which was found open. Mrs. Oldham is suing for di- vorce from her husband, and at the last term of the Chaneery Court had won law suit conveying to her 600 acres of valuable land, the rental of which brings $6, GOO per annum. At her death the land was to go to her children. A description of the negro woman is in the hands of detectives, who are securing the city. The husband of the murdered woman has been absent from town several days.
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PENNSYLVANIA.
Young Mans Strange Impulse.


 PIrTsBURG, Jan. 29.-The particulars of a shocking tragedy, which occurred in West Dee township this county, have just been received here. It appears that young man named Lee, of West Middlesex, Butler coun- ty, started out Friday morning on hunting expedition. Late in the afternoon, while walking through the woods few miles from home, he met two young lady acquaintances, who also resided in West Middlesex. Without any provocation whatever Lee raised his gun and fired two shots, wounding both ladies, but neither of them seriously. He then ran away and the ladies managed, after consider able pain and difficulty, to reach their homes, where they informed their friends of the shooting. A brother of one of the young ladies, named Allison, together with three other men started in pursuit of Lee. and came upon him in the woods He made desper- ate resistance, and when he found that his capture was inevitable he committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. All the parties are well connected and the affair has created the most intense excitement Lee was twenty-one years of age and has always borne good reputation. What his motive was for the shooting is enshrouded in mys- tery.