Tombstone weekly epitaph., 1882-08-12
COUNTY CEREMONIAL.

,rhe Corner stone of the Court House
 Laid-A Pleasing CeremOny-EiO-
 ouent speech of Colonel stanford
 prayer by n Venerable Bishop
 1JementOes Dep0.ited--A MemOr-
 able Occasion.
 The palladium of the liberties of C0chisc county was substantially spread Thurs dav The corner st.ae of the new court house was laid and the temple of eternal iustice substantially established The cere. mony of yesterday afternoon was some thing that every citizen of this vast and nowerful Republic should take deep in- terest in. That portion of the citizens of tbe United States who reside within the political division known as Cochise county, Arizona. should be especially interested. A court house is symbol of the equality of the weak with the strong. It is an eier-
 nal monument to the absolute justice that
 prevails wherever the standard of the
 limited States of America holds sway.
 Jurors have been corrupted, public prose- cntors bribed, judges even seduced, but under it all the principal of equal and exact justice prevails. A court house IS an
 everlasting monument to the grandeur of
 free institutions. It points out and cOntinu-
 ally reminds the observer that men are
 capable Of governing themselves While
 legislative halls are symbolical of the scv-
 ereignty of people, court house IS
 monument to their calm prudence and
 sound sense.
 The ceremonies attendant OF laying the
 corner stone of our countys temple ot Jus
 tice. were yesterday duly soiemnized.
 n1 t,ra1 n mi
 nan,. and the deep interest taken by our
 citizens was attested by the large attend-
 ance. The lowering clouds were ominous
 of storm, and there was plentiful scare
 itv of the fair sex, though pettlcoals were still a familiar object The proceedings commenced about five o'clock, and large
 crowd of people were then in attendance,
 among those present were several old
 timers who had watched the growth and
 prosperity of the city from the
 dawn of it's inception untll ore
 was struck in tue 6O0 foot level. Among the oid-timers visible at the seen ., the ceremony we may mention C: Cal l.. To, e, who first started d saloon ih what IS now nou Tombstone. MT: Calhoun wls the nr;";,. nTm locator of the Mountain Maid and tha H,iina. has nsr, Allen and Fourth streets that ia~ @' In pI inc e. i, ,mcdiate vicinity; Mr; Cal. h0un also erect, d thc first buil,.. aG is was nut up on inc sits of the old Grand l. '"l building. This masasion was built of mud and carraja poles. Charley Brown, pro. prietor of the lot on the corner of Allen and Fourth streets, was conspicuous by his absence, but as he is expected back here ill few days it may not be amiss to state that he built and bossed the first hash house in Tombstone, foI which many a weary tramp may thank the Lord. Gen. J. B. Allen, whom irreverent folds have "Pie," also created void among the barnacles by his ab. sence. For the benefit of tender feet we may state that Pies" store stood on the site of the present stately edifice occupied by P. w. Smith & Co. Corrlgan, the inventor of the present popular Alham- bra saloon, was nowhere visible. Ben Cook, who, with James M. Vizina, were among the earliest locators of the present town, shed the beams of their smiling over the proceedings. Cook and Vizina were the original owners of the lot occupied at present by the City Hall and Hawkins & Boarman. Old Judge Tom Wallace, who has sampled whisky in every prosperous mining camp on the Pacific coast, lent the charm of his presence to the public celebration. Captain Blair, whose soldierly presence has made mark 1 cn more than one continent, was also an observant spectator. Mark P. Shaf1er, one of the oldest, most public-spirited and | citizens of Tombstone, was also an eager spectator. There were seve- ral other prominent citizens present, among them being Rt. Rev. Dr. Salpointe, | Bishop of Arizona, Rev. P J. Gallagher, pastor of the Catholic church. Parson Me- 1 lntyre, of the Methodist church, Under- Sheriff Woods, District Attorney Price, | Samuel Purdy, M. E. Joyce, J. O. Dunbar, and many others.
 About halfpast five Hon. Lyttleton | Price, District Attorney, advanced to the | front of the platform and said;
 Fcllow-citizens: The pleasant duty has 1evolved upon me, through the grace of the | orator of the day. 1 therefore take pleas. | lre in introducing to you Col. Stanford. | The gallant Colonel was received with a | oud burst of applause, and delivered the address:
 GRAFTON OF COLONEL STANFORD.
 1 ala reminded of that quoted passage in | Turtullan: "If the Fiber overtiows it's | banks, if there is famine, or pestilence; if there be cold or wet, or scorching | season, indeed if any public calamity over. ake the people, the universal cry of the populace is, 'TO the lions to the lions | with the Christians"" Now, as happen 70 be known as not especially imbued with | if l should chance to intilct | upon you anything like public calamity, may hope for your characteristic and | charitable consideration.
 Integrity, justice, law, points us to the history ot comparatively modern times, content for the purposes of instruction, to let man, Tn his primeval condition, rest rest, if you please, amid the sands of his nativity alike unmentloned and uncen- sured. We are thus pointed to that eoun- try, to that people from whom we derived our blood, our language and our civlliza. jon, for proofs of the inability of any peo. pie, however happily situated as to climatic influence, whatever the extent and grade of their institutions of learning, to main- .ain respectable judiciary, sound society and stable government; with these princi- ples of integrity, justice and equality, as embodied in the law and exemplified in common sense, lost 10 the appreciation of the crown, the Parliament the House of Commons, the bench, the bar, and to every official, high and low, in the kingdom. Here it was in old England, during the long reign of the Plantagenets and Tudcrs, that in particular that large middle class, at the time, the general, if not the specially marked intelligence, as also the trade and commerce of the king dom, under the influence of bad govern