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Arizona republican., 1894-11-20
Thanksgiving Proclamation
TERRITORY OF ARIZONA, ! EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, ;

/ PHGNIX, Sunday, November Il, 1S94D To the People of the Territory of Arizona, Greeting:
 Recognizing the manifold blessings of kind Providence during the past year and in accord. ance with revered custom of the American people and in conformity with the proclama- ion of the president of the United States, do hereby appoint
 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1894, Day of Thanksgiving and prayer to be ob- served by the people throughout the territory. Truly the hearts of patriots ought to he filled with gratitude and thanksgiving when we con- sider the outcome of the threatening events of the past year, which demonstrates that the principles of our government when in the keeping of wise and coura eous hands are sufficient to meet and overcome the greatest danger which may menace the integrity or perpetuity of the republic
 Since the people of our territory have been especially favored with more than ordinary peace, plenty and prosperity, and the absence ot want and distress in its many forms, let us with grateful hearts cease from all business pursuits on that day and with one accord "GlVe thanks unto the Lord for his merciful Kindness to the children of men.' In testimony l have hereunto set my hand
 and caused to be affixed the
 great seal of the territory.
 Done at Phoenix, the capital
 the eleventh day of November, tsEALl in the year of our Lord, One
 Thousand Eight Hundred and
 NinetyFour. and of our Amer
 ican Independence the One
 Hundred and Eighteenth.
 By the Governor,
 LOUIS c. HUGHES. CHARLES NJ. BRUCE,
Arizona republican., 1894-11-20
Notice for PublicatiOn-Timber Cul-
 ture-Final Proof.
FCOmmuted.l

Land Office at Tucson, Arizona,
 Nov. 10, 1894. { Notice is hereby given that Perrin L. Kay of Phoenix, Arizona, has filed notice of intention to make final proof before the clerk of the dis srfct court at his office in Phoenix, Arizona, on Saturday the 29th day of December, 1894, on timber culture application No. 9S2, for the ne1A of section No. 19 ill township north, range No. east. ESss
 He names as witnesses: Henry H. Wilky, Daniel F. Wilky, Alfred M. Jones and Samuel B. Green all of Phoenix, Arizona.
 EUGENE J. TRIPPEL,
 RapjStpr
Arizona republican., 1894-11-20
Call For City Warrants.

l will pay upon presentation the following numbered city warrants of the issue of 1893. interest cessing this 20th day of November, 1894: Nos. 105 to 293, both inclusive
 I. M. CHRISTY,
 City Treasurer.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-09-28

The Toledo Blade tells of q conduc tor
on Q western railroad who possessed q
remarkable memory. An official Of tho
road, who doubted his alleged powers,
was convinced by the following feat:
Coming into his Office one day the con.
ductor said to him: There is my train
book. Along the line have taken in
more than one hundred passengers, and
while you hold the book 1 will tell you
the station at which every passenger
got ON and Oh, the class Of ticket each
one carried, the color of the ticket,
whether the passenger was male or
female, and the destination of all pas
sengers transferred" The list was
gone over and he did not err in a single
particular He then stated that he
could describe every one of those one
hundred passengers, giving the manner
of dress, color of eyes and hair, and
general appearance, and could select
the lot out of an assemblage of thou
sands.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-09-28
Beecher's Favorite Story.

A correspondent Of the st. Louis
Globe-Democrat relates what he de-
clarcs was Henry Ward Bcecher's
favorite story. which he never tired of
telling. It may have been told before.
It was the story of a travelling man
who went to church one Sunday and
fell asleep during the services. After
the preacher finished his discourse he
requested all those who wished to go
70 Heaven to please stand up. and all
arose but the travelling man. An old
lady in sitting down accidentally
brushed up against the travelling man
and woke him up. Just then the
preacher said: "All those that wish to
20 to he'll please stand up," and the
travelling man, scarcely awake and not
knowing what the audience was doing
stood up. He looked around in half
dazed way and saw no one else but the
minister standing, but he finally said:
"Parson, don't know what you are
voting on. but you and seem to be liz
. hopeless minority"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-09-28
Spry Old Maine Peoule.

Maine is noted for her hale and spry
old people. Ex-Gov. Garcclon, in Lew
iston. eighty-five years old, is an active
rider and driver of fast horses, Of which
his stables contain twenty-three fine
animals. Mrs. Jonathan Dow, of Deer
Isle. eighty years old, has knitted forty
pairs of stockings and woven two hun
dred yards of rag carpeting and one
hundred yards Of cloth during the past
season in odd moments snatched from
her general bousework and the care of
a flock of hens. Mrs. Joanna Bunker,
of West Trenton, eighty-seven years
old, has just finished waistcoat which
she cut and made without the use of
glasses. Mr.. Robbins, also of Deer
Isle, is seventy-six, and. last year,
besides doing much repairing to
vehicles. ne made all the woodwork for
four carts, one jigger, a double-seated
wagon and horse sled
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-09-28

Gen. Tzavellas is we'll known to the
readers of the Legend of the Centu-
RES" by Victor Hugo, as one of the val
liant soldiers of the wars of independ-
ence of Greece. A son of the general
had been believed dead by his family for
forty years. He left his country forty
years ago to explore distant lands and
had not been heard from since. He was
taken captive many years ago by Chi
nese pirates, robbed of all his belong
ings and detained for long time. Dur
ing his captivity they tattooed him all
over the face, body and limbs. Then he
fell into the hands of q travelling show
man, with whom he reentered his ma
tive land. He was recognized by his
sister and rescued from the hands of his
employer. The poor old man is COM
pletely broken in mind and body and
hardly able even to tell tho tale of his
long and pitiable sufferings, not to
mention that any discoveries which no
may once have made are all buried in OBJ
iy1on.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-09-28
AN UNlUCkY MAIL CAR,
No. Soc Is veritsbie Terror to the Erie
Railway Men.

No. Soc Is veritsbie Terror to the Erie
Railway Men.
Railroad men. as a rule, are far from
being superstitious, but there Is Ger
tain mail ear on the Erie railroad
which trainmen always dread TO have
on their train. This car. which is re-
gGrded with such a superstitious dread,
is mail car No. 500. On account of the
aversion to it, this car is kept at the
shops, except when it is absolutely
needed on the line. This car. accord.
ing to the Chicago Tribune, has q
record which perhaps no other car in
existence can equal. Not this car
alone, but all its predecessors bearing
the same number have met with dis
aster.
In the great disaster at Tiogs Center
thirteen years ago, mail car No.
500 was wrecked and burned. A new
No. 500 was soon after built at the Jer-
sey City shops. after being in a num-
Der of minor wrecks, it went down the
steep bank at Shohola few years ago
in one of the worst wrecks the road has
ever experienced. The remains of this
Inflated car were burned and q new
one bearing the same number was built
at the Buffalo car shops. For q short
time the bright, new car ran from one
end of the road to the other in safety,
and the trsinmen began to lose their
fear of it when it was in their train.
Its luck was short-lived, however, and
it has been in nearly every serious
wreck the road has had since. A little
over q week ago train No. 10 ran of the
track at a switch. As was expected,
this car was on the train.
Recently there was wreck near
Laekwaxen. A railroad man at that
station the day of the wreck, in talk
ing to some passengers, said: "T'll bet
500 was in the train" When the train
had been put on the track and pulled
slowly into the station the railroad
man said: There, told you So" Sure
enough there was the mail car with
the unlucky 500 in big figures on its
sides. These three figures are terror
to every man on the road, and until
the car is laid up for good the railroad
men say frequent wrecks may be looked
for
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-09-28
OUR FORESTS.
Statistics Disprove tho Rumors That They
Are disappearing.

Statistics Disprove tho Rumors That They
Are disappearing.
According to some facts and figures
presented by Henry Gannett in a
recent issue IN the New York Sun
there Is to-day nearly IL not quite rs
great an area of woodland in the
United States rs when the white man
st foot on our shore. There are
noA u many square miles OF mer-
ehapbable timber now as then, but
the territory occupied by growing trees
Is about as extensive as it was four
hundred years ago, and these trees will
in time grow to a size suitable for the
production of lumber. Some Of Mr..
Gannett's statements are quite incon-
sistent with the general belief that
American forests are giving out. He
SAYS, for instance, that only about two
hundred and seventy thousand square
miles, or less than one-tenth the area
of the country, is artificially cleared
land, while to offset this loss there has
in recent years been great extension
of wooded land in the prairie states as
we'll as in some of the natural tree
growing states. A table is published
showing the total area and the wooded
area of each state, the fig ures having
been obtained from reports of the CEN
sus and agricultural departments, from
official surveys and in few cases from
careful estimates. AS grand result
It is shown that the wooded area in the
United States, excluding Alaska, Is
nearly one million one hundred and
thirteen thousand square miles
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-09-28
ORIGIN OF MAR1lNMAS.
The Saint Turned Satan Into . Mule and
Rode Him.

st. Martins day is called Martinmas.
st. Martin, says the legend, was once
going toward Rome on foot, when he
met Satan, who jeered at him for walk
ing when he ought to ride in a manner
worthy of bishop. St. Martin there
upon changed Satan himself into
mule, and jumping on his back rode
comfortably along. Whenever he went
too slow the saint m1de the sign of the
Cross. and the mule was goaded TO
greater efforts.
In olden times it was at Martinmas
that the new wine was first tasted, and
day of joviality was the natural re-
suit. On the continent Of Europe geese
were sacrificed plentifully at Martin
mas.
In England the day was more sacred
to beef. Cattle used then to be killed
for the winters meat, and Martinmas
beef means beef dried in the chimney
like bacon.
In France the few warm and pleasant
days which commonly occur at about
this time, and are known here as Indian
summer, are called the summer of st.
Martin.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-09-28
SEEING AN OPPORTUNITY.
johnnie Thought Ec Had tho Chance {
4 Lifetime.

johnnie Thought Ee Had tho Chance Of
Il Lifetime.
Many laughable things have hap
pened in Sunday schools. but few su-
perintendents or teachers can ever
have been taken more completely
aback than was Bishop Cheney on one
occasion. He was to superintend his
own school. says American Youth. and
as he entered the church he met lit
tie groNp of street gamins-ragged,
dirty and unattractive.
II stopped to speak with them pleas
antly and told them that would put
them in classes after l was through
with the opening exercises. At this
one of them thrust his hand deeply
into his pants pocket and pulled out an
old jack-knifc.
"'Mr. Cheney, / wish you would keep
that until after the Sunday school is
over
why he wanted me to keep it ! did
not know then. / do not know now;
but took it, put it without thought
into my pocket, took my place upon
the platform, struck the bell that
called the school to order and was about
to give out the opening hymn when
my attention was diverted by the pat
ter of little feet coming up the broad
aisle.
at Is long church, and little girl
was coming from the extreme oppo-
site end. She came slowly. but with
an expression in her face that showed
she had a most important message to
communicate, and so all exercises were
suspended.
Every eye was upon her and upon
me as she climbed up the chancel
steps. With q face and voice express
sive of intensest eagerness she said to
me:
"'Say, Mr.. Cheney, Johnnie wants his
knife He's got q chance to trade"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-09-28
TERRE BONNE'S SALAMANCA.

Wonderful Snake Charming by an Old
Negro voodoo Woman in Louisiana
An aged negroes of great rcpute as q
"voodoo," or witch doctress, among the
negroes of this section, writes u CORE
spondent from Terre Bonnie, La, &C
cording to the Chicago Times, is attract.
ing much attention, not only from
those of her own color, but from the
more intelligent portion of the com.
munity, and the way in which she does
this is to apparently swallow q num-
Der Of small snakes of variety I'M
known in this section. They are Of .
dusky color, nearly black, pied with
dull green about the fat head, and Of .
dirty white in the belly. These rep
tiles remain secreted about old Nance's
cabin until she gives peculiar whis-
Ting call, when they will come to her,
wriggling in great haste over the floor,
up her dress. and run into her open
mouth, kissing hideously. They disap-
pear and remain hidden sometimes for
minutes. She asserts that they are con-
cealed in her stomach until she recalls
them, when they will come pouring out
W iiCI oSId&by ncCh uuu
coil in her bosom.
Where the snakes really 60 when
they vanish in her mouth is q mystery
and has puzzled all the physicians
about, many having come from New
Orleans to witness the phenomenon.
Some really believe that the snakes do
go down into the stomach, while others
are convinced the witch is simply play
ing some straightforward trick on them,
but if the latter is the case it is SO clev-
erly done that there is no detecting the
performance.
The witch presents a most extraorli-
nary and hideous appearance sitting
with the snakes darling their fat heads
in and out of her toothless mouth, with
their little bead-like eyes swapping as if
in fury all about their mistress. As
nearly as they can be counted there
are six or seven of these reptiles,
though old Nance says there are many
more, but they are all SO much of a size
and color that they cannot be identified.
They are probably Of a harmless
nature, though old Nance declares they
are highly poisonous and no one wish
es 10 experiment with them.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-09-28
AN EXCITED LOON.
How the Distressed Mother Acted Over
Her Young.

How the DISTRESSED Mother Acted Over
Her Young.
Hon. Lewis NJ. Lellan, of Gorham,
Me-, while fishing for lal blocked
salmon in Sebago lake last May, was
surprised to see q loon with her young
one near his canoe. The anxious moth
er was employing every srtifce to call
her child away, but the little one swan
SO near the fisher that he easily took
him aboard in his landing net, and hold
ing him on one knee gently stroked his
dent satisfaction, says the Lewiston
Journal. Meanwhile the mother was
In an agony of distress.
At first forgetting her native wild
ness and timidity in her mothers love,
she boldly approached the canoe, and
rising in the water till she appeared to
stand upon 1t, furiously tapped her
wings, uttering mcnacing cries Find
ing this Of no avail, she pretended that
she was wounded, rolling over in the
water. and finally lying still a. IL dead,
evidently to attract attention to her
self and from her young one. The fish,
erman. touched by these displays Of
motherly affection. put the young loon
into the water. The distressed mother
instantly came TO life and again tried
to entice her little one to 90 with her,
but he liked his now acquaintance SO
well that he remained near the boat,
until the fisherman rapidly padded
away for a considerable distance, when
he waited to see the outcome of this ad-
venture. As he withdrew, the mother,
with cries Of joy, swan to the little one,
dived beneath him, and taking him on
her back quickly bore him to safe dis
tance, when she stopped and seemed to
be talking to her truant child in very
different tones from the wild, strange
hoarse laughter by day and the weird.
doleful cry ut night" which John Bur
rougbs attributes to this bird. Tho
fisher says he never imagined the loon
could produce such soft, sweet, melodi-
Gus notes as he then heard.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-09-28
SPOILED BY A CORPSE.
HoW = French Peasant Failed to Enjoy
the Carnival

nov u frenCn feas0nt fAlle0 To ENJOY
the Carnival.
Mardi Gras was spent in woeful fash
ion L. a peasant who had come up
from a village near Melum to Paris for
q day to witness carnival nerrymaking
on the boulevard. says the London
Telegraph. He was lunching in wine
shop and recruiting his strength with
o view to a whole afternoon of sight
seeing, when n workman entered the
the restaurant wk,re he was seated
and asked to Se conducted to hos
pital. as he had suddenly been taken
i'll.
At the landlords suggestion the
peasant generously offered the sick
man a place in the cab he had hired,
with the intention of seeing the fste
as thoroughly and comfortably as pos
sihsc. His errand of mercy would, he
:t,vlght, take him at most half an
Exr, ure during the journey the
workman became worse and died. At
the hospital the unlucky peasant was
kept waiting an hour, and finally told
that |: vas impossible to take in a
corpse. He drove off with his lu-
gubrious charge to the nearest police
station. Here he again met with re-
fussl, and was d. patched off to tho
police commisssriat of the Bellev;lle
quarter.
1t was six o'clock before the unfor-
tunste countryman could get rid Of his
melancholy burden, and he had then
just time enough left to get to his
train at the Lyons railway station. He
had not as much as caught a glimpse
of the masks and confetti he had come
all the way from his native village to
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-09-28
IRELAND OF OTHER TIMES
"e rainy Days of Dueling. Hard Drink.
Ing, Fua and Jollification.

A"e faimy Days of Dueling. Hard Drink.
Ing, Fu1 and Joliification.
Never was such a time Of feasting
and jollifica ton as the pafmy days OF
The Irish parliament. says All the Year
Round The county elections were
continued scene of fighting. fun snd
revelry. II is ore continuous Donny-
brook fair, and the county elector.
with a good coat on his back ana
money blinking in his pocket.
steps into tent inst - ..-ad half crown.
Steps out meets friend, and for Joy knocks
him down
With his sor.g OF shillelah ana shamrock 20
green!
With the same gayety Of heart. the
gentlemen fought their battles with
more dea9ly weapons. At that time
dueling was a recognized part of the
social code. The 'shirty-six command
ments," arranged by a gentleman
Of Galway. formed a complete set OF
rules on all the punctilios Of the
duello. According to the printed rules
of Galway, seconds, IL DESTROYS, may
exchange SHOTS at right angles to
their principals. and, lest the gentle
men should have forgotten their math-
ematics. there is diagram to explain
how this risi.t-angled fire is arranged.
The pistol was n national weapon, the
long, heavy dueling pistol. which was
handed to the principal by his second,
''the flints hammered and the feather
spring set" Some Irish gentlemen
who Ind served In France tried to sub
stitute the small sword for the pistol,
and dueling club was formed in Dub
lin-"a most agreeable and useful as
sociation"-the members of which
styled themselves the knights of
Tara" and who strove by practice in
the fencing school and on the field of
honor to bring the rapier into fashion
again. But their practices were de-
nounced as frivolous by the regular
blazers, and national habits were too
strong for the innovators- well hit,
but no lives lost" was the bulletin
most hoped for on the conclusion Of a
duel, for the kindly Irish nature re-
coiled from occasioning the death of q
neighbor, and perhaps n friend, but
wounds were glorious. and none could
doubt the honor of one who had been
winged on such an occasion.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-09-28

An impecunious man stood at the
corner of one of the Jersey City cross
streets during the recent bad weather,
watching brakeman as he helped to
shunt a freight train into one of the
great car yards The roofs of the cars
were slippery and wet. the brake
wheels looked cold. the brakeman had
red nose watery eyes and general
appearance of discomfort, and he
looked as if he had been out all night.
Turning to bystander, who was also
waiting for the train to pass, the i'm
pecunious one remarked as he looked
up at The detected and grimy figure:
''On the whole, ! think I'd prefer 10 BE-
. banker"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-09-28
a BAD TIME TO LAUGH.
Remarks on the gnt.meliness of u Boys
Nirth.

Remarks on the Int.meliness of u Boys
Mirth.
AS matter of fact a boy never
should laugh at his father until he (the
boy) is eighteen years of arc ut least.
Earlier than that. according to the
Minneapolis Tribune, it is not safe. A
boy over near the university has for
several evenings stood up to eat his
meals, and all because he neglected
the above rule of conduct. His father
takes great rride in a Humbletonian
colt he is raising. The old man fairly
delights in puttering around the
stable, AMI he can hardly wait until
that colt is four years old and trots n
mile to harness in 2:O51G. as it surely
will. The other morning the pater was
fussing around in an old silk hat and
equally venerable greatcoat, pitch
fork III hand. and while he was work.
ing about the colts heels the boy gave
the animal its feed. The colt does not
allow any farniliarities while feeding,
and when the old nan. in stopping
position, backed up against him the
colt dashed out with both feet. The
man stood so near that the kick broke
no bones. but he was shot as from q
catapul5 ri 1T through the clapboards
on the side OF the barn. His head was
driven through his tile. and when he
eltricatel himself from the splipters
the rim of his headGcar hung around
his neck Ike q ruff lie regarded the
whole business a. -ough and delivered
l,;e 10 ~ Al.
boy regarded as am ing. The
younrster lau he'd. First he stood
and lauyhed. then he laid down and
laughed and rolled over and over and
hu9ged himself and still laughed. But
when that devoted father got clear
from the wrecl;are he seized the
nearest strap, and the boy has not
rraile! once since. The boy knows now
that he is not big enough to laugh 1t
his father
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-09-28
A yyon,erful Sp'aster Of OLD.

Spinstcr Annie Maria Won Schur>
mann w. IN ramc of a woman who
lived q. 2. t during the sixteenth
censr-v '=as so learned a woman
that all II Il % science of that day con-
sijered hc- 2 marvel She spoke Ger,
man, From i. English, Italian. Latin
Greek an. ..,brew with equal facility
and even understood the Syrian. Chal-
daic. Arabic and Ethiopian tongues.
Astronomy, geography, philosophy
and theology were her special
hobbies and she wrote many in
teresting pamphlets on these sub
jccts. Aside from this she was a
painter. sculptor AMI engraver of high
degree and played and devised several
musical instruments. She was held in
high esteem by and correspondent with
many of the prominent savents of the
are, even with Richelieu, Queen Anne
of France, Elizabeth Of Poland and
Christine of Sweden. She died unmar-
ried ct the age of seventy-two