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Year: 1874

and also that the party killing did not be- gin the assault, or, if having begun 1t, that he really and in good faith endeavOred to decline any further struggle before the mortal blow was given. Such is the law of self-detenSe as established by the Legis- lature of this Territory.

 The other charges related to the def1ni- ton of manslaughter and of murder in the first and second degrees, and the dis tincllOn the jury must make between con- by the deceased.

 The jury retired December :, in the after noon and were out all night Next day at a. m. they returned verdict of man. slaughter The trial occupied five days, there having been some adjOurnmentS on account of the sickness of one of the ju- rorS.

 SENTENCE.

 b Before the session of the legislature on 1873, the punishment for tbe crime of manslaughter was imprisonment in the Territorial prison for a term of not less than three and not more than ten years. to imprisonment for not less than one and morning, December b, the court pro hounced judgment, that the prisoner Jo- Seph T. Holmes, be imprisoned in the Ter ritOrial prison for the term of three years, and that he be confined in the county jail of the county of Pima and Territory of Arizona, until Territorial prison be eS- tablished and until the further order ofthe court. AlaA At7S
Year: 1874

GALL 1 have to say is, am sinner saved by grace; and l am accepted by God" These were the last words of Udderzook. We wish this matter could be investigated. If all the murderers who are hanged come into immediate posses sion of eternal glory in the other world, there is pretty rough society awaiting some of us there.-Cleveland PlaindeaIer.
Year: 1874

A TASTEFUL young clergyman recently rising to preach for the first time, made a terrible mix of it and announced his text in this wise: "And immediately the cock wept, and Peter went out and crew bitterly"
Year: 1874

AN old lady in Bridgeport, who deeply enjoys this delightful weather, hopes the government will not do anything to offend the Indians "because they might not give us any more Indian Summer.
Year: 1874

THE question at the last debate of the Kent club of the Yale law school was:-

 Resolved, Ina Ere was morally and carnally the wofff fharacter in the apple soiree mentioned M 24i1esis.
Year: 1874

SIX and half feet of bride stood before the altar in Paris church the other day and promised to love, cherish and obey three feet and a quarter of bridegroom; and that is the long and short of it.
Year: 1874

It was contended on the other side that Holmes had purposely placed himself in the position he was found at the time of the killing; that he went to the mine with a knowledge of Duffield's threats, and ac- cepted an interest in the mine with the Knowledge of such situation of affairs; {; that he had gone there with a deliberate purpose concerning Duffield if the latter should make any thing like a hostile ap- pearance there, and finally that he was not justified in the homicide, not having done his best to avoid the difficulty.
Year: 1874

The most singular fact connected with
the proper motions of the stars is that one
or two stars are flying through space with
such enormous rapidity that the combined
attraction of all the stars visible with the
telescope could never stop them. This
seems to be especially the case with
small star, invisible to the naked eye, des-
ignated in astronomical literature as
'sGrOOmbridge, 1890" from the name of
the astronomer who first recorded its po-
sition. The rate of motion of this star Is
about seven seconds per year-the greatest
known. 1t was hence concluded that IL
must be very near us, and number OF as
trOnOmeTs have sought TO determine It's
parallax, but have found it to be only
tenth of a second. Its apparent motion in
a year being seventy times its parallax, it
moves at least seventy times the distance
from the earth TO the sun in year, or
eighteen millions of miles every day, and
more than two hundred miles a second.
From what we know of tine distribution,
masses, and number of the stars, it seems
probable that the attraction of all the
bodies in the universe can never stop this
headlong speed, nor bring this star into an
orbit, and that consequently it viii pass
through our universe. and leave it ehtlrely
i'm its passage through infinite space. II we
had accurate observations of the stars pO-
sition three or four thousand years ago,
we could speak with more certainty OF its
destiny. We may expect that our poster
ity of a few thousand years hence will, by
the aid of the observations and tables that
we shall transmit to them, be able to come
to definite conclusion respecting the age
and structure of the universe.-PrCf.


Simon Ne1CcoB.b IN HaTper's for NoUenber.
Year: 1874

in the United States Senate on
Thursday last the opening prayer by
the chaplain Of that illustrious body
contained this remarkable apostro-
phe: eve thank Thee, oh Lord, for
the women of America. We thank
Thee for our wives, our mothers, our
sisters and for all the noble women
who since the time of the revolution
down to the present hour have made
the name of woman honorable in this
land; and we pray Thee to. help them
all in every good work." 1t is
thought that the reverend gentleman
had been to a centennial tea partv.
Year: 1874

SO far this week forty-one able
bodied and mostly young men have
applied to the committing magistrate
at the Central Police Court to be sent
to tho House Of Correction. They
frankly state they have been travel
ing oil over the country in search Of
work, but can obtain none, and not


desiring to'become'thi they make
the application for commitment
hiladsphia Re.s. "'
Year: 1874

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servant, he proceeded 10 set firth


the character Of the Master. What


struck Patty was not the nobleness


Of his speech, nor the force Of his


argument; she seeemed TO see in the


countenence that every divine trait


which he described had reflected


itself in the life of the preacher him


self. For none but the manifest Of


men can ever speak worthily Of Jesus


Christ. As Bigelow proceeded he


won her famished heart to Christ. =


For such master she could live or


die; in such life there was what


Patty needed most-apurpose;in such


q life there was friend; in such


life she would escape that sense Of


the ignobleness Of her own pursuits,


and the unworthiness of her own


pride. All that he said Of Christ's
love and condescension filed her with
sense Of sinfulncss and meanness,
and she wept bitterly. There were
hundred others as much affected, but
the eyes Of all her neigbors were up
on her. If Patty could be converted,
what victory!


And as the preacher proceeded to
describe the Joy Of soul welded
forever to Christ-living nobly after
the pattern Of his life Patty resolved
that she would devote herself to this
life and to this Savior, and rejoiced
in sympathy with the rising note Of
triumph in the sermon. Then Big
Glow, last Of all, appealed to courage
and pride-to pride in its best sense.
Who would be ashamed Of such .
bridegroom? And as he depicted
the trials that some must pass through
in accepting him, Patty saw her own
and mentally made the sac
ri6ce. As he described the glory of
the world, she thought Of
her jcwelry and the spirit of defiance
in which she had put it on. There,
in the midst Of that congregation, she
took out her earrings, and stripped the
flowers from the bonnet. We may
smile at the unnecessary sacrifice to
an overstrained liberalism, but to
Patty il was the solemn renuciation
of the world-the whole hearted es-
pousal of herself, for all eternity, to
him who stands for all that is noblest
in life. OF course this action was
visible to most Of the congregation
most of all to the preacher himself.
To the Meihodists it was the great
est of triumphs, this public conversion
of Captain Lumsden's daughter, and
they showed their JOY in many pious
CALCULATIONS. Patty did not seek
She scorned to creep
into the kingdom of heaven. For
all eyes were turned away
from the orator. lie paused in his
discourse until Patty had removed
the cmblems OF her pride and antag-
onism. Then turning with fearful
eyes to the audience, the preacher,
with simple hearted sincerity and in
effect, burst out with
'Hallelujah. | have found bride
for my Master"


ITO be Conttaued.)
Year: 1874

Two years have ripcned Patty from
the girl to the woman. II like is
happy in his self-abnegation, Patty is
not happy in hers. Pride has no balm
in it. However powerful it may be
as a stimulant, ii is poor food. And
Patty has but little pride to feed up
on. The invalid mother has now been
dead year, r,and Patty is almost with
out companionship, though not with
out suitors. Land brings lovers


land-lovers if nothing more-and the
estate Of Patty's father is not her only
attraction. She is young woman ol
a certain nobility of figure and car


rage; she is not large, but her bear


ing makes her seem quite command


ing. Even her father respects her
and all the more does he wish to tor


ment her whenever he finds opportu
nifty. Patty is thrifty, and in the ear
ly West no attraction outweighed thi


wifelv ordering of household. Blu
Year: 1874

A writer in the Hartford Courant gives
"reminiscences of railroading in Con-
necticut forty years ago. When the
Hartford and New Haven road was first
opened, it had very meagre facilities.
The road-bed was poor, had only scrap
rails, which were all the while curling
up and running through the car floors,
and the cars were small and the locomo.
tive weak. In fact, it did not take much
to block train in those days. Some.
times an inch of snow on the rails
would do it. One of the first conductors
on the road tells how he and the bag
gage master used to sit in front of the
locomotive, one on each side, and brush
off the snow from the rails with broom
as the train slowly crawled along. Each
had pail of sand and sprinkled a hand
ful on the rail when necessary. The
driving wheels (engines had only one
pair them had 10 slip round and round,
and torment them almost to death.
On one occasion a train got stuck
on the Yalesville grade by one inch
of snow, and the wood and water gave
out before the locomotive could over
COtne IL. M ldol ihcy SOb Oub ohO hOieu-
bors, yoked four pairs of oxen to the
train and drew it, passengers, baggage
and all, into Meriden with flying colorsl
In the early days of the railroad, the
stage coach drivers used to regard the
cars with great contempt. Indeed, thirty
years ago the passenger trains were
three or four hours on the road to New
Haven, and the stage coaches were in
about the same time. Superintendent
Davidson remembers riding in two
horse carriage in 1910, which had race
with a passenger train near Willing
field, where the turnpike and railroad
are parallel for three or four miles, and
during all that time the carriage kept
even with the train. There we're only
two trains each way daily then, both
carrying passengers and freight. The
old cars were divided into three com
partments, opened on the side, and had
twenty-five seats. The locomotive had
only twelve.inch cylinders, and no cabs
to protect the engineer and fireman from
the weather.
Year: 1874

Appleton's journal has an editorial
indicting women for such neglect of
their home duties that their husbands
aud sons have been driven to seek plea
sures whose outcome is intemperance
and ruin. A paragraph gives the drift
OF the article: " The average American
interior is oppressively dreary. The
women would rather their sons should
idle the day at the postoffice. the village
store or the ale house. than let the sun
beams enter their parlors and fade the
carpets. They would rather their sons
and husbands should at night enjoy the
good cheer of the public house, than
light an extra candle, build a glowing
fire or permit social hilarity within the
awful shadows of their shnt-up apart
ments. In these homes the whole art is
to discover the art of not to live. To
keep all things neat and orderly and
circumspect; to present no flaw for the
ediication of Mrs. Grundy; to suppress
all impulses, all tastes, all pleasures, all
heartiness, all life-these things seem
to be the great purpose of the ascetic
women who control them.
Year: 1874

Never burn kindly written letters :;
1t Is so pleasant to read them over
when the ink is brown, the psper is
yellow with age, and the hands that
traced the friendly words are folded
over the hearts that prompted them
under the green sod. Above all,
never burn love letters. To read
them in after years is like q resur-
rection to ones youth. The elderly
spinster finds in the imprisoned offer
she foolishly rejected twenty years
ago a fountain of rejuvenescence.
Glaneing over it she realizes that she
was once q belle and q beauty, and
beholds her former self in q mirror
much more congenial to her tastes
than the one that confronts her in her
dressing room. The "widow indeed''
derives a sweet and solemn consola-
ton from the letters of the beloved
one who has journeyed before her to
the far off land, from which there
comes no message, and where she
hopes one day to join him. No pho
tographs can so vividly recall to the
memory of the mother the tender
ness and devotion of the children
who have left at the call of Heaven
as the ePistolary outpourings of their
love. The letter OF a true son or
daus hter to true mother is some-
ting better than an image of the fea-
tures-it is a reflex of the writer's
soul. Keep all loving letters burn
only the harsh ones, and in burning
them forgive and forget them.
Year: 1874

A correspondent writes The
death OF member is something of
perquisite, custom having established
the usage OF maintaining a sort of
professional mourning on the part OF
the House, something after the style
of the hired mourners of England
and Scotland. II member dies at
Washington, the Sergeant at Arms
may pay the landlord of his hotel
500 for granting the privilege of
death in his house. Six stalwart men
must then watch, with two reliefs, by
his bed during the period that the
body is in the custody of the house.
Better for some Of the dead that they
had been more closely watched be.
fore they lett the legislative halls.
Deputies must attend the body to its
destination in the State of the de-
ceased, unless the friends claim the
right of burial in the Congressional
Burial Ground. Altogether, and /
have a definite case in mind, it costs
$4,000 to bury a Congressman decent
ly who dies in Washington. The
funeral expenses COST a little more
than the back pay for one year. Per-
haps the hack pay will serve as funer-
al expenses for some, without the
benit of clergy. Gentlemen,w watch
dogs OF the treasury, anxious to
practice economy, would do their
constituents and country q service
by dying at home.
Year: 1874

If the lesson could be permanently
learned that the cash system is better
than the credit system, all the suffer
ing entailed by this monetary crisis
would not be dear price to pay for
it. People who buy for cash always
buy cheaper than those who buy On
credit. They buy, too, more closely,
and select more carefully. Purchases
which are paid for when they are
made are limited more exactly to the
purchasers wants. There is nothing
like having to count the money right
out, when the article is bought, to
make people economical. The amount
of Indebtedness incurred is not much
considered when the pay day is aiar
off.


Persons who do all their business
on a cash basis know just where they
stand and what they can afford. Con-
sequently theynever find after r-occasion
for regrettiug, in turn Of times, that
they have indulged in this luxury c1
that, which they would have fore.
gone had they seen what was coming
Real wants are few and can be graft.
fed for cash. At all events, they
should always be limited to what car
be paid for in cash. How much o.
anxiety, how many sleepless hours
how many heart-burnings, disap-
pointments and regrets would bt
avoided ifthis rule were always strict,
" adhered to.
Year: 1874

Facts which are now constantly
coming into notice regarding our sub
marine cables, go far TO explode the
prevailing notion that these vital
nerves of civilization are not IN danger
from submarine lite. In the Malta
Alexandra cable a piece OF the core,
from which the iron sheathing had
been worn away, was found 70 have
been pierced by shark, pieces Of hi:
teeth inhering in the gutta-Dercha
The Cuba-Florida and the China
cables have been similarly damaged
In the recent operations for the repail
OF the Atlantic cable Of 1865, piece
of the old strand Of 1853 We're raised
and where the sheathing had giver
way the core was indented by worms
resembling old worm eaten timber o
books.


The interesting facts argue the ne
cessity of multi lying submarine ca
bles between the great internationa
msrts and centers OF trade and inter
course TO meet grave emergencies
when q single cable might be silenced
They also suggest the need OF create
care in selecting and surveying tn
the deep sea bed, so as to find a leve
and smooth surface for the safe repos
OF the wire.
Year: 1874

How TO MAKE CHEAP FRAMES. -
Cut strips of stiff pasteboard about
an inch wide, the desired length, clip
the ends to a point, and cover with
any nice cloth, like broadcloth or fine
cashmere; lap the ends at the cor
ners of the frames and fasten with
a white or gilt button. Bind your
picture and glass together with strips
of gummed psper and glue, on to the
frame Hang against a light wall
Bronzed paper, which can be bought
for eight cents a sheet, may be useC
instead of cloth, in which case a shor
strip across the corner of the frame i
great addition to its comeliness.-
american ArtizaH.
Year: 1874

CHAPPED HANDs-Take common
starch, and grind it with a knife until
1t is reduced to the smoothest powder,
put it in clean tin box, SO as to have
it continually at hand for use. Then,
every time that the hands are taken
from the suds or dish water, rinse
them thoroughly in clear water, wipe
them, and while they are yet damp,
rub pinch of the starch thoroughly
over them, covering the whole surface
The effect is magical. The rough,
smartlng skin is cooled, soothed and
healed, bringing and insuring thc
greatest degree of comfort and free
dom from this by no means insigmfi
cant annoyauce.
Year: 1874

for use, and about twenty.fcnr escaped
in various, almost miraculous, ways
twenty seven in all-leaving AIS who
were thus butchered.


The whole narrative is one of the
darkest spots in the HISTORY of the New
World. The escape of the few men
toned, in each individual case, teens
with the prismatic tints of romance, and
possesses an interest TO the youth Of
Texas that will increase with the march
Of time.


The massacre Of Goliad has ever since
kept alive in the breast of Texans a de-
testation of brutality and treachery. So
may it ever be.
Year: 1874

At the gaming table the Duke of Richmond
incurred a debt of honor to Lord Cadogan,
which he was unable to pay, and it was
agreed that his son, a lad of Is, who bore
the title of Earl of March, should marry the
still younger daughter of Lord Catlogan. The
boy was sent for from school, and the girl
froEl the nursery, clergyman was in attend
dance, and the children were told that they
were to bc married on the spot. The girl
had nothing to say: the boy cried out, ''Thcy
surely are not going to marry ME to that
dowdy.' But married they were. A post
chalse was at the door; the bridegroom was
packed off with his tutor to make the grand
tour, and the bride was sent back to her
mother. Lord March remained abroad for
several years. after which he returned to
London, y wcll-educated. handsome young
man, but in no haste to meet his wife, whom
he had never seen except upon the occasion
of their hasty marriage. 50 he tarried in
London 10 amuse himself One night at the
opera his attention was attracted to q beauti-
fal young lady in the boxes. "Who is that ?"
he asked of gentleman beside him. ''You
must he stranger in London, was the reply,
mot to know The toast of the town, the beau
tiful Lady March,. The Earl went straight
to the box, announced himself, and claimed
his bride. The two fell in love with each
other on the spot, and lived long and happily
together, and when the husband died she died
of brOkOn heart within few months
G0Avry FIR September.
Year: 1874

A recent decision in the English Courts, in
the case of Smith VS.. Fletcher and others, Is
Of much interest to our miners, especially as
the absence of precedents in mine legislation
in this country makes the English railing of
great value.


The plaintiff and defendants were the own
ers of adjoining mines, communicating with
each other. and the action was brought for
the alleged flooding of the plaintiff 8 mine by
the negligent and wrongful working of the
defendants. 1t appeared from the plaintiff
case that some years ago the defendants had
worked their mInc by means of open quarry
as well AS underground working, and the
quarry ut length communicated with the mine
itself. Formerly there was an ancient brook
near the quarry, which served as IN intercept
ing drain to collect and carry off the surface
water of the land: bat the defendants work
ings let down its bed. and they thcreupOn al
tered its course and substituted new one for
it. The new one, however, failed to answer
either the purpose of draining the land or
carrying the stream, and several times over
flowed, letting the water run into the quarry
and thence through the defendants into the
plaintiffs mine 1t was contended for the
plaintiff that if the defendants chose to work
their mine out to the surface 10y means of
quarrying, they were bound to prevent water
pouring down it and thence into The plaintiffs
mine. and also that they had no right to alter
the stream as they had done. The defend
ants case was that the new water course was
one capable of carrying off more water. and
was altogether Il more efficient one, than the
old one. and that the overfowing of it. and
especially that in 1871, causing the principal
flooding complained of, was owing to extra
ordinary floods and from causes which the
defendants were unable to control. Under
the ruling of the court the jury returned a
verdict in the plaintiffs favor.-E"ginerring
ond Mining JOVynu
Year: 1874

A new invention has just been tried in
Paris, which is pronounced to render drown
ing a thing of the past. 1t consists in the
EMPLOYMENT of pneumatic India-rubber tube.
rolled round the body with sufficient num-
ber of folds to contain TIE necessary amount
of air. This tube is placed concealed in
double envelope forming shirt. Il termi-
mates by mOuthpiece which shuts with the
aid of IA simple copper button. The opera
ton is simple in the extreme, and the SWIM
mcr or immersed person has enough air for
whole day. When the apparatus comes to
diminish in volume, it is easy to expand it
again by the principal tube in deep water
without any effort or difficulty. The trial
was witnessed recently at the Henry the Four
Baths, when the inventor, NJ. Gosselin, show
ed its properties. lie stood upright. the hands
raised above the head, when the water did
not come above the shoulders: he then float
ed on his back, with his arms crossed. The
apparatus can be worn under the clothes.
like u flannel wastcOat. 1t extends from the
neck to the knees, fastened in front by row
Of buttons. 1t is composed of double tlan-
mel, in the midst of which is IN lndia-rubDer
tube, starting from the top Of the chest, as
cending the left side of the neck, and follow
ing the central line of the back: there it d.
vides in two branches, encircling the thighs
as far as the knees. From the central part
of the principal tube twelve or fifteen lesser
tubes diverge to make the round of the body
and meet in front, where the row OF buttons
is. This improvement of the life-belt is said
to be certain to supersede all existing appli-
ances in teaching swimming or saving life
from shDWreck.