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Year: 1874

Mrs. NJ. W. Smiths boy, nlne years old,
in Charlestown, Mass, last week, opened
a drawer and took out a pistol to play
with it. His mother once or twice
ordered him to return the pistol to the
place whence he took it, but the boy
paid no heed to her request, and ap-
preaching her in playful manner point
ed it at her head, snapped cap into an
unloaded chamber. The child then said
"Why, it amt loaded mother" and again
took aim, and this time exploded
loaded chamber, the ball entering the
poor woman's left breast and penetrating
her heart. She died instantly, victim
ernment of her children. If child is
once told by its parent what to do and
hesitates, it is time to enforce obedience.
Never be obliged to speak twice to
child
Year: 1874

A Kentucky man while drunk ordered
his wife to take hammer and nail and
knock his teeth out With that meek
ness of spirit and obedience which char
acterizes her sex, that loving wife obeyed
the orders of her lord. When he got
sober his swearing didn't count, because
he mumbled so it could not be under
stood.
Year: 1874

At a Brooklyn wedding. among the
presents ostentatiously displayed was
a one-hundred-dollar bill. present from
the doting father to the darling daughter.
After the guests had departed, the old
man coolly rolled up the bill and put it
in his vest pocket, ard that was the end
of it.
Year: 1874

ESCAPE FROM DRowNINo.-A colored
man named Alexander Wright, while ska.
ting on Williams mill pond, near Seaford,
on Tuesday, broke through the ice and
went down. He came to the surface some
distance from where the accident occurred,
add his head coming in contact with the ice
made hole large enough for him to secure
q hold and scramble out. n
Year: 1874

BOYS in these days who can go to the
clothing store, try on a coat, and when
they find one that suits pay for it and
take it home may be interested to know
how boys came by their coats in the old
times Hon. Amasa Walker tells this
story:


after had obtained the wool for my
coat and carried it a long distance to be
carded, l found the parties overwhelmed
with business. Everybody desired their
wool carded as well as l. and | was
obliged to wait the natural course of
turned home, and when the two weeks
had elapsed again presented myself at
the mill, and inquired for the wool. 1t
would be done in less than another week
1t was done when next visited them,
and l took my possession home. My
mother was quite delighted on my arrival,
and at once set to work to spin it on u
great wheel. At the appointed time l
made another journey on horseback, with
my bundle behind me, to the cloth store
at Knoxville. | was obliged to be con
tented with receiving promise of the
cloth in three weeks When that time
had gone by went again, and had TO
wait long time, but finally obtained my
treasure and went home. After three
weeks delay and disappointment Uncle
Daniel gave me the cloth for my surtout,
and then Aunt Debby, the tailoress, had
to be engaged to make it. Aunt Debby
could not come for some days, but at
last, after more hardships in going for
her at early sunrise on cold, frosty day,
and waiting for her To finish job, she
was obtained, and the hard-earncd gar
ment was at last completed, as well rs my
brothers clothes"
Year: 1874

curious fact about the mosquito. Though
he spent part of his life in the water, no
sooner does he get his beautiful dress on
than he fairly hates it. At any rate, he
will not fly out far over it. The unfor-
tunate people who live in those coun-
tries, therefore, build their houses out in
the lakes or ponds, on posts which they
have driven into the ground.


There's just one more thing I've got to
tell you about the family All this mis-
chief and naughtiness is done by Madam
Mosquito-at least, so say the wise men.
The fathers and sons of this singular
family are most exemplary members of
society and never draw a drop of blood
in their lives. don't know whether it's
because they're so very amiable, or be-
cause of another curious circumstance
that Mother Nature neglected to furnish
them with cases of instruments.-N. Y.
/n6eDeHdent
Year: 1874

THERE is a wee boy; If hiswants were as smal
As he is, he wouldn't have any at all;
But first he is longing soldier to be,
And then bold sailor to sail DER the sea.
But soon for the life of hunter he sghs,
Then over u book he's scholar, so wise;
A spade and plow he is wishing for next;
His wondering mother is sadly perplexed-
A box full of tools he will ask for next day;
Then brushes and paints draw his fancy away
But soon he's blacksmith, a doctor, clown,
Likewise policeman he strides up and down.
And ten times day will he change ere he sleeps
But while he is busy from mischief he keeps
hope he won't make, when his boy days are


done,


4 Jack of all trades, and the master of none.


-Georoe Co0per, In Lite Corporal
Year: 1874

A CAPITAL of 100000 sterling is being
raised in London, by Joint stock subscrip-
ton, for the establishment of morning
and evening newspaper upon what is
specifically defined as commercial"
basis. In short, this journal, while CIV
ing all the news very fully, is to sell its
political, literary and other editorial ser
vices to the public, just as great lawyer
puts his abilities at the command OF all
paying clients Professional editors OF
the best rank are to be placed over all


the different departments; and, IN ac''


this original newspaper Is to be conducs
ed strictly in accordance with the conf
mercial principles of any other business
Year: 1874

DELICIOUS oranges are abundant in Tue son, and we are informed that the crop in Sonora is very large. Last Saturday the team of J. F. Fuller arrived from HermO- silo with large quantity of as fine ones as we care to have in>the3house. He has a ket, on the Church pIaMs; also Times both sour and sweet; and hf Noes not intend to be out of these or any bthsI kind of fruits when they are to be lad, and will always sell them as cheap asthey can be afforded in this market.
Year: 1874

WE are pleased to announce that the splendid Fifth Cavalry band will give a couple of concerts in Tucson about the last of this month, and it is intended that the first one will be in fSd of 8 fund to put ton ought to meettNe ready and hearty encouragement of thfAcOmmunity as 8 body, for floor is Eluch needed in that building. Then hetcommunity should turn in and give the band liberal bene- fit. In each case, the entertainment will be well worth the price of admission, and If we could possibly spare the time, we would personally assist to get up full at tendance.
Year: 1874

MIR. H. c. HOOKER informs us that a stabbing affray occurred at Tres AlamOs in San Pedro valley last Sunday night, and one that it was thought would prove fatal. The stabbed and stabber are both MeXicans, but MT. H. did not learn the names of eith9r. The one stabbed has been employedfby Ferd BerthoId and is said to be peace kble, and at the time knew of no reason why he should have come under the displeasure of his assailant. The man who did the deed is one of three brothers who have bad regulations and go by name of "Chapo" He plunged a knife into the side of his victim and left it there, and it is said at once quit the neigh horhood. The wounded man was alive Monday morning and in much pain, his bowels being painfully swollen.
Year: 1874

The following story, which is given as
fact. can hardly be surpassed even by i'm
aginary situations that mark many speci-
mems of the modern drama:


Near the city of Detroit, man by the
name of Macarthur was crossing a rail-
road track in the night time, when his foot
caught fast in frog and his efforts to
extricate it were of no avail. His boot
fitted so closely that he could hardly move
his leg for pain. He shouted himself
hoarse, but no one came. After having
been prisoner for upward of an hour, he
heard the whistle. He had a matchbox
in his pocket, paper in his bundle, and the
idea lcame to him to signal the train.
Tearing the paper off his bundle, and get
ting at some letters, he rolled them into
heap, and for fear that the flame would
die out too suddenly he added his clothes.
The blrdle was then made fast to the end
of his walking stick, and he waited until
the headlight of the locomotive should APP
pear. 1t finally greeted his vison and he
struck his match, but gust of wind blew
it out! Another match was struck, and in
an instant he waved his signal back and
forth. and just when he thought death was
certain he heard the whistle for brakes.
He was saved. but the engine had only
thirty feet more to 60 to crush him."
Year: 1874

The secretions are arrested or made act
i've by nerve influence. Nursing mothers
who give way to anger or other emotions
poison their own milk, whereby the in
fants health is often injured for life, if he
be not killed outright. The bowels are
purged by bread pill Gas was once proved
on large scale by the Emperor Nicholas)
provided people are told they are to be
purged; eighty out of one hundred hos
pital patients have been vomited by a neu-
tral remedy, when told ''there had been a
mistake made and they had all taken
emetics." Much sea-sickness would be
avoided if people could be made to be-
lieve they were not going to have It. The
stigmata, or marks of the nail, on the
Saviors hands and feet, have been plainly
seen to appear on the corresponding por-
tions of the bodies of certain of his more
devout followers, among whom St. Fran.
els of Assist must be specially named.
let ought we not to lose from our sight
the possibility that these occurrences, how
ever unquestionable they be, are yet simp-
ly owing to an action Of the imagination.
whereof a notable instance is related upon
authority of great weight: A mother saw
windOw-sash descend with violence up-
on her little child's fingers, whereupon
she herself was instantly seized with ex.
treme pains in her own fingers, which did
afterward swell and infame in such a
manner that she was long in being cured.
The fakirs of India are sometimes able to
divest themselves of the signs of life
respiration and circulation being stopped
and bodily temperature lowered-for
months continually. The pain of tooth
ache vanishes at sight Of dentists chair;
neuralgia once disappeared as the lectur-
er was about to enter on an operation for
its relief; most functional. and evenlsome
organic, affections Gas dropsy) may be
cured by giving patient the idea that he
is to be cured and the well attested list Of
modern miracles is in the same category
of facts.-Dr. BroUn- Sequard.
Year: 1874

THE WESTERN UNION sTOCK-JoBBING, AND THE


OPPOSITION TO THE EXPERIMENTAL TELEGRAPH


SCHEME.


TO ne Editor Of The Trf6une.


SIR: ! desire to protest against the temper
with which you treat the proposed construction by the
Government, OF an experimental line OF telegraph be-
tween Boston and Washington to be under the control
Of the Post-Oce Department. and to be used as the
means Of testing the practcabty Of Postal Telegraphy
In this country. believe In cheap teegraphing, aud
believe only be obtained by Government interfer
ence know, what you know, that the Western Union
is gigantic monopoly, never managed III
the interests Of the people, and rarely In the
interests Of anybody excepting the Wall-st. specu
lators. At present q gang OF them are engaged
In an effort to put up the stock In the face
Of the steady and apparently Inevitable decline In
those and most other secondrate securities In these
hard times. Toe stock market Is largely hanging on
their frantic efforts to hold Western Union steady
hence the whenever the Government prop0ses
10 do ANYTHING IN favor OF cheap teeRraphy. l am
sure THE TRIBUNE does not mean To play Into tneir
hands But why should you, whose interests are larger
than those OF any individual, any hundred ind
yduas In getting the cheapest teleRrapbc service pos
sibe object TO having the Government try tue exper
mentf Yours AUTOMATIC.


Nep- York. Dec. Q. 1874.


I'VE object to it simply because we don't believe
in the Governments undertaking the business OF
private individuals corporations 1t has more
to manage now than it can manage decently.-EdI
Year: 1874

claims credit for the achievement Of the


''prime object of reform, which was to pre-
vent an increase of the public debt. while we
are called upon to pay three million dollars
more for interest on the debt this year than
we paid in 1871, and while our taxable prop
erty is assessed So 40 per cent to pay the
enormous amount of thirty-nine million dol
lars tor a years taxation. Now the people
are disposed to regard with disfavor and sus-
plclon any deception, artifce or concealment
In financial matters They believe, too, that
we can have honesty and capacity united both
in financial officer and in an executive,
and, while they are opposed to any special
tinkering legislation, they look with hope to
the time when we shall have a city govern
ment distinguished for enterprise and capacity
as well as for integrity.
Year: 1874

The Charleston Neaos dad Courier has the
following frank averments on the question Of
infation:-


For once the West and the South worked to-
gether and won complete victory. THIS lesson
should not De forgotten. The interests OF the West
and South are one and the same, and by c0ail-
be routed in her chosen field. In many respects
the war between the states was q war Tor an idea.
the Southern idea or government and OF federal
policy was opposed to the New En- gland idea. The
producer and the consumer, the agriculturist aud
the manufacturer. the Tree trader and the prOtec-
tlOnist, the debtor and the creditor, were arrayed
against cach other; and the South has the power,
by uniting with the West, to obtain IN the national
arms. New England notions nave had their day.
The time OF the South ana " est has come.


This is the most intelligent explanation we
have yet seen of the real alliance between the
West and the South on the question of infa-
tion Nothing is truer than that ''thc South
ern idea Of government and of federal policy
was opposed to the New England idea - for,
while New England may be selfish in many
phases of her policy, in one respect we can
safely follow her We mean the course which,
as in Massachusetts,, kept the honor of the
State pure during the temptations of war and
imitation and legal tenders. AT the same time
nothing is more painful than this invocation
of the spirit of sectonalism and disunion.
We should think the last State to summon
that dreadful memory would be South Caro-
lima
Year: 1874

Mayor Havemeyer has addressed letter to
the Legislature, showing cause why, in his
Judgment, the bill now before that body to
make the Office Of Comptroller elective by the
people, instead Of leaving the power of appoint
ment in the hands of the Mayor, should not
become law The opinion of the Mayor
may be regarded as disinterested, since he is
pointing another Comptroller The proposed
change is simply one OF those acts OF charter
tinkering of which we have already had too
liberal supply. The law of last year left the
Comptroller where he is and made his sue
cessor appointive in the same manner with
other heads of departments. The bill of this
year proposes to undo that work and
to hold an election for Comptroller
next fall. This is quite sufficient rea-
son why it should be rejected. Mr.. Green's
term of Office expires in 1875, and the people
may prefer to leave things as they are until
then, rather than to be subjected to these
incessant changes and experiments. At the
same time, inasmuch as the charter makes the
Mayor sort Of check upon the Comptroller,
in the double signature of warrants, and as
collusion between corrupt Mayor and his
two financial appointees Comptroller and
haInberlain-would leave the city without
any protection against robbery, many persons
believe that the Comptroller should be rem
dered entirely independent of the Mayor, and
liable to removal only in the same manner as
the executive.


No doubt the thieves who have been driven
from the treasury by the overthrow of the
Tammany "Ring" have no affection for
either Comptroller Green or Mayor Havemeyer.
At the same time there are honest men and
good citizens in New York who regard Mr..
Green's financial management as bad, and
who are even disposed to look upon Mayor
Havemeyer as an executive failure. Both
these gentlemen were active participants in
the reform movement OF 1871, and the people
appreciate their services. But that is no
reason why they should now practise the very
deceptions in relation to our financial affairs
for which the Tammany officials were 80 noto-
rious. In January last the Mayor and Comp
troller put forth deceptive exhibit of the public
debt-an exhibit the untruthfulness of which il
established by the trial balance sheet Of the
Finance Department up to the last day OF
December. In his present letter the Mayol
Year: 1874

The Mayor yesterday transmitted to the
Board Of Aldermen report of the warrants
drawn on the city treasury during the year
1873 Alderman McCafferty stated that the
report as presented was merely balance
sheet, and on his motion the Commissioners
of Accounts were directed to make detailed
statement to the Board. What docs this
mean? The Commissioners of Accounts are
required to make statement in detail. Have
they neglected this duty, or has the Mayor
suppressed portion OF their report? What
object is there in covering up the details of
this statement? We understand that some
seventy-fve million dollars were drawn from
the treasury on warrants in 1873 and the
detailed report should show to what accounts
the warrants are chargeable, thus affording
the taxpayers the opportunity to discover
exactly where there has been official extrava-
gance. The report of the debt statement
made by the Commissioners Of Accounts to
the Mayor was held in the Executive Office for
week, until an alteration of the figures had
been secured. Now let us know whether
another report has been subjected to change
or curtailment after its transmission to the
Mayor and on it's way to the Common Council,
Year: 1874

BENDER's ARREST. public will learn
with profound satisfaction that the head of
the Bender family Of murderers has at last
been arrested The story of assassinations
committed by this gang recalls the history of
the atrocities of Trauppmann and Sawney Bean.
Accident furnished q clew to their guilt, and
with their accomplices they fed from the
scene of their crime; but the law has already
hunted down some of the guilty parties, and
the capture of the head of the gang gives us
hope that his confederates will not long escape
the pursuit of justice 1t is of the greatest
moment to punish promptly and with
the utmost rigor crimes Of the character
Of those which are charged against the Ben
ders. The temptations to commit acts OF
violence and robbery in sparsely settled coun-
tries have ever proved too strong for brutal
ICED and dishonest class of the community,
and it is, therefore, most necessary to impress
the lesson on the evil disposed that, however
wild and savage the country may be, law will
certainly reach and punish those who take the
lives of their fellow beings.
Year: 1874

SUMNER ON INITIATION. The Davenport
Gazette prints the following somewhat cele-
brated sentiment of the late lamented and
illustrious Summer


The possibility OF new issue OF incOnvertiblc
paper regard with amaZement and anxiety, ana,
In my Judgment, sucn an issue would be detrI-
ment ana u shame.


In commenting upon this declaration the
Gazette denies that these words were ever
used, and says it cannot find them in any OF
Summers speeches. To which we answer that
they came to the editor Of the HERALD, in
Summers own handwriting, in response to q
request from us that he would give us his
views on the Financial bill then pending in the
Senate. They were written day or two be-
fore his death.
Year: 1874

GLASGOW, ScoTLAND.-We print this morn
ing cable despatch giving an account of a
sad and serious accident which occurred in
the town of Hamilton, some ten miles distant
from the city of Glasgow and well known to
all who are familiar with the banks
of the Clyde. A steam boiler burst
and a large portion of the same,
having been carried several hundred feet fell
upon schoolhouse, crashing through the
roof and killing three children and iniuring
o large number There as here, bad inspec-
ton or ignorance prevails Pity that the in
nocent should suffer!
Year: 1874

The UNION LEAGUE CLUB at regular
monthly meeting held last night, as will be
learned from our news columns, denounced
the action of Congress in regard to initiation.
Sound and solid republicans and the best
friends of the party are deserting. Will this
open the eyes of the President !? When true
and tried friends take to the small boats is
it not time to say that the ship is in danger?
Year: 1874

remain neglected we do not see how Com
gress can vote to extend exploration in
Asia Minor. If liberal appropriations were
made to conduct our geological and other
surveys in the Far West then we could see no
reason why reasonable assistance should not
be furnished to finish the labors of the Pales-
tine Exploration Society.
Year: 1874

MAYOR HAvEMEYER sent to the Board of
Aldermen yesterday veto of the proposition
to allow citizens to vote at the next election
on the question of rapid transit as public
work. The Mayor prefers the slow coaches of
half q century ago to the steam cars of the
present day.
Year: 1874

The ESCAPE OF RocHEFoRr AND Hrs
FRIENDS is no longer doubted by the French
government. Of the escape we were, on this
side of the Atlantic, fully aware long ago.
Red tape is not SO binding here as in Europe.
The French government, of all the govern
be SO slow in the face OF facts.
Year: 1874

spain-Serrano and the War in the


1t has all along been our opinion that Ser
rano urderestimated the power Of the Carlists
in the North. This opinion We have again
and again stated Our news of this morning
fully justifes all we have said. One account
has it that at council Of war held in
Madrid Serrano's plans bearing upon the
reduction Of the Carlist power have been
pronounced impracticable. According to
another account Serrano is about to return
to Madrid and General Concha is to take his
place in command OF the Army Of the
North. Serrano, it is said, will call
convention on his return to the capital
city. How far these reports are true we know
not. II true, the failure of Serrano must be
admitted. His return to the capital means
distrust and fear of fresh insurrection.. Ser
rano ought to have known better before he
went North. Ii the Carlists are as strong as
this news implies Serrano, with all his fine
schemes for the establishment of the Republic
and the restoration of Isabella's son out of
the ruins thereof, has gone up in balloon.
After all 1t may be found out that young
Spain is much stronger than old Serrano.
man who in 1S43 fought against the interests
Of the Queen-mother can hardly be supposed
to be in sympathy with young Spain of 1874.
But the condition of Spain is so chaotic and
SO incomprehensible that time must be al
lowed to decide the difficulty