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Year: 1874

CONSIDERABLE building is now going on in Tucson, and much improvement has been made within the past few months. It is worthy of note to observe how much has been done in this town in the past few years in the way of new buildings and improvements on old ones. Business houses as well as residences have been made much more convenient and com- fOrtable.
Year: 1874

THE CITIZEN last week noticed that F. Lazarus had opened a wholesale and re- tail grocery and liquor store in Tucson, and in an advertisement he this week tells the public something about his stock and business. He has all and more than he says he has. Among his goods, is a fine lot of picture frames with glass al- ready fitted. The frames are mostly gilt and black walnut and of many sizes. As they came by mistake and are not in his line, they can be purchased very cheap.
Year: 1874

IN the way of fruit, we notice & very poor quality of aprfcots in town and they are offered at a cent apiece at retail. They are grown in Sonora near Magdalena. Within a month, this market should be well supplied with a very good article oi grapes. It seems as if some Of our farmers would turn their attention to the growing of fruit, for by it larger profits could be made than from any other products. Many people who have no use for barley and but little for corn, would be liberal patrons of fruit growers. There can be no doubt but our soil and climate are we'll adapted to many kinds of fruits.
Year: 1874

HUR MILL NOW BEING IN FULL V operation, we are prepared to furnish the market with quality of Flour, which factured in the Territory, and fully equal to the very best imported from California. We will keep constantly on hand at the Mill, and at our several agencies

 Three Qualities of Flour,
Year: 1874

forgery; for which crime the person convicted
may bo imprisoned from one to fourteen years.
crime arc not rs effective in its prevention
Us would be some provision to protect the public
records from the facilities with which they can
now be abused. AS it is, Il hundred forged pa
p2rs may be put On record every day; the orig
from these there can be conyeyances to the real
criminals, VINO thus can claim to be "innocent
purchasers" The title to all tho land in the
city ia thus at the hazard OF successful forgeres.
protection of titles against these forged instru-
ments, which can be put On record without q
question as to their genuineness-
Year: 1874

Beecher, and his friends would have taken him
to their BOSOM He would haVo shared their in
Auence and their protection. But We find him
siding with Tilton ruined in his home, his busi-
ness. and his prospects,, with no possible motive
for his siding with him but the desire to see
jnstico done to all Moulton is the light IN
picture otherwise all darkness.
Year: 1874

Would it not serve a useful purpose
if some scientific meteorolOgist were
to gather into a mass the various
weather signs-weather valuable or
not-treasured by the farmers aad
other common-sense people of the
country, and then sift them, so that
those of real value may have their
proper influence, and those which are
merely fanciful may cease to mis-
| lead?


That there are weather signs IN
abundance, everybody knows. That
the greater part of these signs arc ut
terly valueless, every person OF lntelll-
gence can testify. ct that they do
practically influence the time and
mode of the planting of crops, and OF
their after culture, viii be aeknowl-
edged by many who would not be sus-
| pected of the folly, and who can give
no other reason for 1T than the force
of habit.


we are going to have a dry month,
said farmer the other day.


How do you knOw?' he was asked.


BY the Indians sign of the new
moon he replied. Its horns hung
so sloping that they could hold no
water


His companion laughed. why
that's my Iniin sign for a.wet moon.
The horns slope so that they let loose
all the warter.'


The sign in the one case was no
doubt prophetic as in the other.


Always plant your potatoes i'll the
dark of the moon, if you wish to have
a full CROP I heard my neighbor say.
But never kill your pork, nor boil
YOUR soap at such a time, unless you
are willing to have them shrink to
nothing


What is your authority for this?'


4 have always so heard, he answer
cd with some hesitation, and always
so practiced. Potatoes, you know,
being roots, naturally love darkness
And soap and bacon-I suppose they
take their cure from the state of the
moon. The fact is, only know that
this is the old time rule.


we are to have a frost on May
I9th,' said farmer to me on the 5tI
of April.


1 was shocked, for he looked wise
and lugubrious, and frost at thai
time in our latitude would have cost
millions of dollars. / asked; How dc
/, you knOw?'


Because we had a fog on the 19tl
of March.


He saw me smiling and added, =
have heard this rule ever since l wa:
? a boy; and it has never failed yet
The surest rule know for foretell
ing the weather throughout the year,
said a planter, possessed at least of ;
semicollegiate education, is to not,
the twelve DAYS between old Christ
mas and new Christmas (from Decem
Der 25 to January 6). The months o
the ensuing year are apt to be wet Of


dry, cool or warm, according to tn


days corresponding. lie serioUsl,
I declared that for many years he haI
, pitched his crop and ordered hi
plantation work under this rule ant
, found that If served well. No doubt
: for that amount of time in advance, /
D was quite as good as any other rule i


ordinary use.
Year: 1874

Tho latest snake story comes
from Connecticut. Some workmen
building a mill among the rocks on
Westfield river killed rattles make,
and afr scvering the head from the
trunk and cutting the rattlos off the
tail for a keepsake, kicked the head
away into the sand and threw the
trunk in the sun. A booted boy
came along and could not resist
the temptation to worry the dead
snake. He trod on its tail, aud
the hcadless trunk Of the reptile
turned and struck tho boot as if to
bite. The frightened youth soon
had an audience around him, and
the experiment of treading on the
snakes tail was repeatedly tried
with the same result. But another
startling thing was observed. As
often as the carcass coiled aud
struck the offending boot, so often,
and at the seli-samo instant the
grim rcpulsivc head lying discover
cd in tho dust, opened its jaws, the
dead faRgs protruding, and closed
them with q snap. There was no
scientist there to see, but these
simpe mill-builders want to know
the philosophy Of this sort Of post
norton snake-liic. The expert
ment may be tried until the snakes
run out.
Year: 1874

FEMALE SoCIETY.-Whati is it that
makes all those men who associate
habitually with women superior to
those who do not? What makes the
women who are accustomed to, and at
ease in, superior to their sex in gener-
al? Solely because they are in the
habit of free, graceful, continued con-
vcrsation with the other sex. Women
i'll this way lose their frivolity, their
faculties awaken, their delicacies and
peculiarities unfold all their beauty
and captivation in the spirit of rival
ry. And the men lose their pedentic,
rude, declamatory or sullen manner.
The coin of the understanding and
the heart changes continually. Their
asperities are rubbed of, their na-
lures polished and frightened, and
their richness, like gold, is wrought
into finer workmanship by the fingers
of woman than it could ever be done
by those of men.
Year: 1874

A Hanging garden of sponge is
one of the latest novelties in gard
ening. Take a white sponge of
large size, and SOW it full Of rice,
oats or wheat. Then place it for a
week or ten days in shallow dish
in which a little water is constantly
kept, and as the sponge will absorb
the moisture, the seed will begin to
sprout before many days, When
this has fairly taken place the
sponge may be suspended by means
of cords fro n a hook in the top OF
the window, where little sun will
enter. 1t will thus become like
mass of green, and can be wet by
merely immersing it in q bowl Of
water.
Year: 1874

STEEL PLOws.- would sooner pay
double price for steel plOws than ac-
cept as a gift the best set Of cast iron
ploWs TO be found in the United
States. Though ever so hard chill
ed or smoothly polished, cast iron
will foul more or less on the mold
board in every kind Of soil, from a
sandy or gravclly up 10 a heavy clay
loam. The dirt thus gathered on the
mold board adds greatly to its draft
and prevents good work. Another
objection to cast iron Is, in order to
get equal strength the weight must
be considerably greater than with
steel, and this i a hard drag all day,
and requires 4 much stronger team.
OF this any one may quickly convince
himself without resort to dynamOmet-
CT OF any other mechanical means of
testing the draft. He has only to
hitch light team to the steel plOw,
and a stronger one to the cast-iron,
and work them side by side. In this
way / have found that a pair of four
teen-hand ponies would do about the
same work and with as much ease to
themselves rs pair of sixteen-hand
horses. The same observations about
material will also apply to cultivators.
In thus candidly advising my brother
farmers IN regard to the superior
merit of steel plows, am speaking
directly against my own individual
interest, for have been manuiac-
turer and dealer in cast-irOu plows
for upward of thirty years past.-A.
Il. Allen, New York
Year: 1874

4 Split HOoF'-I had horse that
had booth hOOfs split from top to


bottom. He could not walk without
his hoOfs spreading apart. 1 kept
him for three months On straw one
foot deep in the stable, but all did no
good. At last went to the black
smith shop and had heavy shoes made
which spread wide at the heels. To
these heavy shoes there was welded.
at the outside of each heel, a piece
made of shOe-nail iron. These pieces
were made to fit well around the foot,
about an inch below the hair. / let
the peices come together within half
an inch each, and turned up about
three-fOurths of an inch. In the turn
ed up part a hole was made to receive
a belt an inch long, with a square
head and a screw nut on the other
end. On mailing the shoes on and
putting the bolt IN and screwing up
the nut the foot was brought togeth-
er. In this way was enabled TO
work him every day, if I wanted to.
Previous to this my horse had not
walked one mile in three months.
The next day after l had the shoes
put on l drove him in a carriage twen-
ty miles, and have used him right
along. - Correspondence Cincinnati
Gazette.
Year: 1874

GREAsING or AxLEs.-The Canada
Farmer gives the folio wing directions:
Many a wheel is ruined by oiling too
plentifully. n well made wheel will
endure constant wear from ten to
twenty years, if care is taken TO use
the right kind and proper amount of
oil; but, if this matter is not attend
ed to, the wheel will be used up in
five or SIX years, or it may be sooner.
Lard should never be used on a wag-
on, for it viii penetrate the hub and
work its way around the tendons of
the spOkcs and spoil the wheel. Cas-
tor oil is a good material for use on
an iron axle; just oil enough should
be applied to n spindle to give it a
light coating; this IS better than more,
for the surplus put on Will work out
at the ends and be forced by the
shoulders and nut into the hub and
around the outside of the boxes. To
oil the axletree, first wipe the spin
dies clean with n cloth wet with tur-
pentiHe, if it won't wipe of without
1t. On buggy or carriage, wipe and
clean OF the back and front ends of
the hubs, and then apply a very small
quantity of castor oil, or more especi-
ally prepared lubricator near the
shoulders point.
Year: 1874

Life is made up, not of great sac
rifices or duties, but of little things,
of which smiles and kindness and
small obligations given habitually
are what win and preserve the
heart and secure comfort.
Year: 1874

Lavater says that you never know
a man until you have divided an
Inheritance with him. We could
also say that you never know man
until you've got into a scrape with
him. and can see whether he is
willing to take his fair share of the
blame. Men are hardly ever so
upgenerous as when they have been
colleagues in some affair which has
turned out to be unfortunate.
Year: 1874

Two INscRIPTIoNs.-The Northern
Border says that a graveyard near
Bangor has a monument with the
following inscriptions, the first
verse of which was written by the
wife before her death, and the sec
ond by the husband after he had
married again
Year: 1874

Some well-borers near 0dell, Hi
nois, are profane enough to report
that they have tapped hell, and are
getting the full benefit OF the leak.
Gas discovered forty feet below the
surface, and at eighty feet a vein of
water was struck which spotted
two hundred feet in the air, carrying
up gravel as big as hens eggs, and
sending everybody flying hundreds Of
feet away. This performance eontih-
ued until the sand and gravel we're six
inches deep within q radious Of one
hundred feet of the hole. When the
Jet of water ceased, the aperture was
found much widened, with quieksand
at the bottom, and a stream Of gas had
taken the place of water. A match
was applied to it, and flames leaped
into the air producing a sound ike
thunder. The workmeu think they
have struck the gate Of the evil doom,
or brought fortha young volcano, they
don't know which. The gas they are
getting now causes blue color in the
vegetation for miles around, and pco-
pie are hocking from all quarters TO
see the strange phenomenon.
Year: 1874

Every farmer wha has to fence his


land knows too well how quickly posts


planted in the earth become rotten,


especially in damp spot. All Of them


will welcome the following process to


prevent rottenness, process as won
derful in its effects as it il simple and
almost costless. 1t is taken from LIE


Biiea PaJkc," of Dion, France:


Take linseed oil, boil it. and mix it
with charcoal dust unit! the mixture
has the consistency Of ordinary paint.
Give to the posts a single coat OF the
mixture or paint before planting them
and no farmer, even living to the age
of patriarehs Of old. win live loug
enough to see the same posts rotten


Some years ago | discovered the
way of rendering wood more durable
in earth than iron itself says the
author of the Communication, hat it
seemed to me so simple. and 80 mex.
pensiye, that did not think it worth
while to make much ado and fuss bout
IT Posts of soft wood thus prepared
were removed after remaining seven
years In the earth, aud were found rs
sound as when they we're planted.
The only precaution to take is to use
only well dried posts before covering
them with the charcoal paint"


The above recipe is certainly cheap.
and seems to be well worth the trial. If
what is said of the efficiency of that
simple and cheap (sbout &c per post)
process be only half true. certainly IL
would save yearly millions Of dollars
70 the farmers and telegraph companies.
For it is said that the farmer, even in
ms teens, who will plant posts having
received a coat Of this Perpetuity Pos;
Paint, will never live long enough to
lee the same posts rotten.
Year: 1874

Among the many needs Of the South,


chief Of all, towering above all, over


shadowing all, is the need for live men.


men Of energy, men Of action. men Of


brains; above al, men Of high integ-
rity. In all times there Is need for
such men. There is always work for
them to do, but in times such as the


present, when people come to pass the
Southern people have reached, there
is an imperative need for great leaders.
Notparty leaders, not leaders of armies,
but leaders of industry, men Of FORE
sight and capacity, who have the wis
dom to see the right road TO prosper
ity, and the will to win their way TO It,


Give US such leaders and the future of
the south is assured. Material pros
perity will soon return, and with il
political freedom. For il is 9 truth
attested by all history that political
freedom is inseparable from national
prosperity. Give the one, the other is
sure 70 follow. There is no lack Of
latent wealth in the South. Indeed,
one main source of her present troables
is the ease with which wealth was ac-
eumulated in times past. Il only wants
live men to develop it. To gather il
together. We want men of enter
prise, who have courage to undertake
great works, and the capacity to carry
out the undertakings. Nashville
needs such men to handle the wealth
that is locked up in ruinous bonds.
Memphis needs; nay, every town needs
them, the whole country needs them.
They are wanted vn every farm. Will
the want be met? Where is the need
to be supplied? Are the men growing
up? These are vital questions for the
entire South.-NashUsile Rssral San.
Year: 1874

Ralph Waldo Emerson in his essays


thus portrays the glory Of the farmer


The glory of the farmer is that, in
Z the division OF labor it is his part to


create. All :he trades rest at last on


his primitive authority. He stands


close to nature, he obtains from the


earth the bread and the meat. The


food which was not he causes to be. The
first farmer was the first man, and all


historic nobility rest on the possession


aud use of land.


Men do not like hard work, but ey-


man has an exceptional respect for til
lage, and the feeling that this is the
original calling of his race, that be
himself is only excused from it By some
circumstances which made him dele
gate 1T for time to other hands: If
he had not some skill which recon-
mended him to the farmer, some pro-
duct for which the farmer will give his
corn. he must himself return into his
due place among the planters. And
the profession has 10 all eyes this an
clent charm, as standing nearest TO
God, the first cause. The beauty of
nature, the tranquility and innocence
of the countryman, his independence
and his pleasing arts-the care of bees,
of poultry, of sheep, of cows, the dai- |
ry, the care Of hay, Of fruits, of or
chards and forests, and the reaction of |
these on the workman in giving him |
strength and plain dignity, ike the
face aud manners of nature, all men I
acknowledge. All men keep the farm
in reserve as an asylum, where, in case
of misehance to hide the property, or
a solitude if they do not succeed in So
cIety. And who knows how many
glances of remorse are turned this way
from the bankrupts of trade, from
pleaders in courts and SEN
ates, or from the victims Of idleness
and pleasure? Poisoned by town life
aud town vices, the sufferer resolves
Well, my children, whom have in
ured, shall go back to the land, to be
recruited and cured by that which
should have been my nursery, and now
shall be their hospital"
Year: 1874

For the sake Of your children don't
do it. Ii is great misfortune 10 have
children reared in the presence and
under the inAaenes Of seole The
effect of the everlasting complaining
and fault-6nding Of such persons Is 10
make the young who hear il unamiable,
malicious, callous-hearted. and they
often learn TO take pleasure In doing
the very things for which they receive
such tongue-lashings. As they are
always getting the blame of wrong
doing, whether they deserve il or not,
they think they might as we'll do wrong
as right. They lose all ambition TO
strive for the favorable opinion of the
fault-fnder. since they see they always
strive in vain. Thus q scold is not
only nuisance, but destroyer Of the
morals Of children. Ifthese unlope1.,
dreaded people could only see them
selves as others see them they would
fee to the mountains in very shame.
Year: 1874

There is a structure which every
body is building, young and old. each
one for himself 1t is called charac-
ter, and every act Of life is a stone.
II day BY day We be careful 10 build
our lives with pure, noble upright
deeds, at the end viii stand fair
temple, honored by God and man.
But. as one leak will sink a ship. and
one flaw break a chain, so one mean,
dishonorable, untruthful act or word
will have its influence upon our char
aeter. Then let the several deeds
unite to form day. and one by one
the days grow into years, and the years,
as they slowly pass, will rise at last, a
beautiful edifice enduring forever to
our praise.
Year: 1874

A UNITED STATES officer, writing to
a friend on the 9th of October con-
cerning the Louisiana troubles, says :
Il am more than glad that was not
down there (LOuisiana) during the bad
state of affairs. God help the poor
people of that unfortunate State He
is the only one who can give her any
aid. Congress refuses to help her,
and the President is trying to place
the whole country in arms against her.
| see by the papers that Packard, the
United States Marshal, and Gen.
Emery, the officer in command of the
Department of the Gulf. are both out
in lying card, saying that United
States troops were never used to help
the politicians in that State to power.
| call it lying, because L know of my
own knowledge that my company, and
| in command of it, have been ordered
on duty for just such purposes. But,
thank fortune, 1 had some discretion
allowed me in the matter, and instead
of helping the thieving, lying rascals,
whose only intention IS to rob both
the blacks and whites, l was always
able to help the people Of that State.
| am not Democrat, but if | lived in
that State l would not be happy until
kellogg, Packard, and his crew, were
hung to the lamp posts in New Orleans.
The carpet-baggers have robbed the
people to such an extent that it is
almost next to impossible for a man
to exist there. | am only one of the
officers of the -th Infantry, but the
whole regiment, from the Colonel
down, feel just as | do about the mat
ter, and if We hear of any more cards
from Emery, or any one else, about the
non-use of troops for political purposes,
we will sign card that from the time
the regiment went into the State till it
left it, we were used as means to
oyerawe the people in behalf of Kel-
logg and his thieves.
Year: 1874

There are many evils that lurk
aroand the heart. and many tempta-
tions prompting US to respond to their
calling, but none more readily CO.
works with all evil than profanity. and
is ever ready to lay waste a moral and
upright mind, with its deadly sting
and poisonous arrow. Profanity, we
can truthfully say, is the anchor of
many evils arising from an uDgoverned
disposition.