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Year: 1878

despaired of success. and but for the
patient, sorrowful face of the young
wife. fading away day by day, would
long since have abandoned it. But could
not. And so time went on, bringing
me no nearer a solution of the mys-
terry.


One day read in the Alta" the
notice of girl drowned in the Bay.
There were no means, the paper said,
Of identifying the body-no mark on
the dress; only the likeness of o mai
attached to gold chain around her
neck. | felt a curiosity to see the body,
and went 1t was that of a girl in
the bloom of her beauty. Lovely she
must have been in life. The long
black hair, tangled and wet, fell
around face that yet retained the hue
of health. Very lovely was the dead
face; the waxen lips had not lost their
carmine stain, nor the beautiful form
its symmetry


. looked at the picture.


No wonder the blood should forsake
my face-my hands almost refused
their Office. It was the picture of the
man found dead


1t is old Bureli's daughter, said a
person standing by.


Where does he live?


Over yonder; and the man pointed
out low. one-story house on Wash
ington street had clue now. l
would follow it to the end 1t did not
take me long to reach the house nor to
solve the mystery.


A fathers vengeance had fallen
heavily On his child's detrayer; the
daughter had died . suicide. The
veil that had laid over tho mystery so
long was only raised to expose the hor
ror beneath. 1t had been better to
have remained hidden from vien.


IT is lucky that some men are poor.
for riches would only help them to dis
play their weakness and folly. Many
q ones insigniicance is his safety.
Give him prominence and everybody
would see what fool he is. There is
an old sentence floating about which
cannot be forgotten because it expresses
truth, and it is to this effect:-The
higher an ape climbs the more he
shows his tail Riches would utterly
spoil half the world, and yet that very
half is exceedingly anxious to have the
statement prove true i'll its own case.
Year: 1878

at the hour of ten O'Clock, A. II. Of said day. for
the purpose Of nominsting . candidate for Dele
gate 20 Congress. and for the transaction OF such
other business as will properly come before IL.


The Committee has fixed the apportionment Of
Delegates 10 said Convention as follows: One
delegate at large, for every county la the Terri


tory. and one additional delegate for every one
hundred votes and for every majority portion Of
one hundred votes cast In each county at the gen.
eral election in 1876, for the Republican Candi-
date for Delegate to Congress. Upon this basis
the various Counties Of the Territory will De en-
titled % representation in said Convention as fol-
Year: 1878

SIG SCHwABAcHER, Esq, has returned from
San Francisco, having come throu ii from the
Dalles overland He reached San Francisco
barely in time to be present at his brother's S
wedding, of which we made notice in our issue
of last week. Mr. Schwabacher is one of cur
most active and enterprising business men, and
hence duripg his absence the town seemed less
lively than usual We welcome him home.
Year: 1878

MIRANDA JANE submits delicate question
for us to pass upon Her hair is jet black, and
she finds faxen ringless the fashion. The ques-
ton is, whether to dye her hair or procure a
wig of the prevailing color? OF two evils it is
best to chose the least. Hair dyes are posi-
lively injurious and often cause softening Of
the brain. Be natural if you can, but if not,
give the wig the preference.
Year: 1878

REMOVAL OF AN OLD LANDMARk-FranI
Orselh is now engaged in removing the old
frame building that has so long stood a. the in
tersection of Main and Second streets. With
possibly one exception this was the first build


ing erected within the limits of the presen,
town of Walla Walla 1t was built by Frank
Worden, and by him occupied as early as 1851
as a trading post. After Werden removed to
the Bitter Root country, it WAS next occupied
by Dusenbery Bros, who there laid the found..-
tion of their present splendid fortune Follow
inc that firm came Kyger / Reese, who occu-
pied the little frame structure until they made
money enough to build brick on the opposite
corner. The property next passed into the
hands of Joe Helmuth, who occupied it for a
time. In 1868 Frank OrselE returned from the
kootenay country, where he had accumulated
which from that date he has occupied as a
grocery and provision store. Fires have blazed
all around this corner, and yet it passed through
them all unscathed, and how falls only because
it is in the way of the march of improvement
When the city was finally surveyed and laid
out this building was found to be in the line
OF Second street, and for years lis purchase or
condemnation by the city authorities has been
a subject of discussion At the last May term
of The District Court an application to condemn
the property was heard, when jury assessed
the damages to Frank Orselli at $4,000. The
city has paid over this sum and the building is
ROW being torn down, preparatory to opening
the street. At the time the old building was
put up there was no saw mills in the country,
and accordingly Frank Wolden had the lum-
Der brought from the Dalles, where it was cut
at the government saw mil. The old frame is
now bein pulled down, and with it disappears
one of the old familiar landmarks.
Year: 1878

An Irish agricultural journal advertis-
es a new washiug-mschine under the head.
ing "Every man his own washer-woman'
and in his culinary department says that
@potatoes should always be boiled in cod
water"
Year: 1878

"A funny street incident IS related by
81. Louis paper about dog which, being
botherd by bee one hot day, a. he WAS
doing b. grocer's door, incsuiousIy
snapped it up in mis- mouth. lie made a
sudden spring TO bis feet as il he Just
thought OF something that he had to DO
ia hurry, and the hair all over him
raised on end ss if 10 mad been eIeeiri-
fed. Then be pranced around mo-
mcnt, shaking his head irauticaily J as II
be were worrying ra,. A little black
object dropped from his mouth, which he
looked at inquiIingly for a briet instant
and then started off in haste to see q man
around the corner, howiing dismally as
he went. The man was not there, and
the dog came back and once more made
an inspection Of the little black object
that Law or the sidewalk, and poked 1t
simidly with bis paw. He perhaps
wanted to be able to recognize one u
those little things il he should ever eu-
counter one again.
Year: 1878

A commercial traveller handed q
merchant upon whom he had called a
portrait of his belrothed. instead of
his business card, saying that he rep
resented that establishment. The
merchant examined it carefully, re-
marked that it was fine establish
ment, and returned it to the astonish.
ed and blushing traveller, with a hope
that he would soon be admitted into
partnership.
Year: 1878

STAINING IN THE WoBID. Many
well-meaning parents deny themselves
the ordinary comforts of life that they
may save money with which TO give
their children start in the world. as
it is called. Setting young man
ahoat with money is like tying cork-
under the arms Of one who can not
swim. Ten chances to one he will
lose his cork- and go to the bottom.
Teach him to swim and he won't need
the corks,
Year: 1878

II is human to doubt. Display a
sign with the inscription, Be
ware of paint" and nine men out OF
ten will DRAW their iorefngers across
the newly painted surface to see if the
sign is not merely IAN invention Of
the enemy" The tenth man never
learned 10 head.
Year: 1878

THE LAST PARTISAN MYsTERY.-Two bodies
have been fished out of the Seine at 1t. Denis,
one of man of thirty-fye, the other OF a
woman of twenty-five, both plainly dressed
and without scrap of paper about them or a
mark on their linen that could disclose their
identity. The bodies were fastened together
by a handkerchief tied around the womans
waist and to the mans arm. Itwas suicide,
of course, but whether of desperate married
folk or of despairing lovers no one knows as
Year: 1878

Where does your girl live ?"


"She lives at No. SIC East Four
teenth street, and her name is Eliza
Gleason" was the answer.


The sergeantcalle Special Officer
Bissart and told him to 60 to the
house mentioned. Just as the Off
Ger went away the young man
started for the door.


"HOld on" said the sergeant
sternly. you are a prisoner"


The young man not needing the
command, continued toward the
doorway, and the sergeant hurried
from behind the desk and grasped
him by the shoulder.


Where am I?" exclaimed the
young man, Shuddering and look
ing about him in a dazed way.
There was no reply to his question,
but he was locked up. The detec-
tive returned from the residence of
the young lady saying that she was
alive, and that when he informed
her Of the charge the young man
had made against himself she
thought that some one was trying
to make her the victim of an April
FOOLS Joke. Yesterday the vounp
man was taken before Judge Flam-
mer in the Essex Market Police
Court, and was Immediately dis
charged. His friends say that he
is a somnambulist and that he was
undoubtedly asleep when he entered
the police station.


He had been reading of Mime
RestelPs terrible death, and falling
asleep dreamed that he had Com.
mitted a murder. His name is Peter
CODY, and he is in the employ of
the father of the young lady whose
name be mentioned in the station.
DIR. Austin Flint, sr., and DIR. Ram
sey think that it is a very extraor-
dinary case of somnambulism.
Year: 1878

The riot act was read and the military
fred upon the mob, while they were At
the same time charged by the cavalry.
The mob scattered, after several Of their
number were wounded and one reported
killed.
Year: 1878

young man just launching into business should make
ii point not to mix with those whom he would be ashamed
of in years TO There many who started in life
with good prospects, and intended TO act in good faith and
lead honest and upright lives and would undoubtedly
have done had they associated with of unsuled
character, whose above reproach but the
pleasures and frvoities of the other picture they
unable to understand Society be appropriately termed
temptation If persons intentions good and he
should unfortunately fall into bad society he would event.
acquire like habits and finally find himself in such posi-
cate himself.


How many Of us know of men who have had golden op
through the influence of immoral society Look at the
numbers of welleducated travelling from door to
door in search OF foodmen who have lost their name and
standing in the world, and have sen low that they
have lost all shame We think have drawn this pic
ture well enough to satisfy the young that the
tmenow is their harvest and if they fail to take these
advantages they will the day when they did not take
the warning in time.


But if immoral society is temptation to evil courses
the influence of proper associates is equally strong in the
opposite direction Society may be temptation for good
well as evil To young man, Who from any circum-
stances say be momentarily inclined to turn aside from
the paths of honor and ecude the presence of up
right person will rebuke and him from fall
ing, while the very atmosphere of society of this kind
will keep his morals uncoruped keep his thoughts far
away from improper channels and be moral fence around
him, eectuay preventing him. unless obstinately deter
mined, from going astlay. aalsa
Year: 1878

The measure known as the arrears pension bill
challenge unusual measure through
out the country This would not be if great merit did
not attach to it, 1t to be very strong in the Houses
for the that the question of paying of pen
sions is retrenched in stern justice 1t has not been
characterized unjust the floor of either House Of
Congress the other hand Senators and Representa-
tves of both political parties have frequently stated that
1T should be passed. and nearly all the Northern members
of both parties have recently voted to suspend the rules
that it might be considered and passed. and which would
have been accomplished but for the brgadie coonels
and other officers of the Confederate army and Congress
the floor OF the House


1t is charged-and we think wrongfully-that this
measure is not called for by the pensioners themselves,
but by the claim agent and the attorney lobbyists To
show the absurdy of this objection it is only necessary
to state the solitary fact that claimant attorney
be benefited by it. the bin provides that the pension
shall be paid direct from the Government pension agent to
the pensoner without any Intervention. Another mis-
statement is that the bill provides for back pay to all v
ing pensioners whereas but about eighth of the
Der interested and these pensioners who by
dent and incident and uaequenty through the fault
of the Government itself, unable to their
pensions within the limitation Of five years, including
widows who could not prove they widows within


that time well those whose papers pgeonholed
by attorneys and neglected, and Others whose pa
pers were destroyed by fire lost in transmission
through the mails-a of whom have been deprived of
their rights There is pensioner borne upon the rolls
of the United States who has not filed medical other
proof in the Pension Office to show that his disease if
pensoned for SUCH only originated in the service but
has continued from the time of discharge until the date of
application for pension.


The statement has been recklessly made by portion
Of the press that the bill proposes make donations
pensioners of from 500 to 81, 500 eac-whereas
nothing of the kind is proposed the pensioners have
only asked that Congress shall act upon the question of
their rights presented by them The further statement
has been made by the Chicago Tribune and other North
journals that would take $780, 0O0 600 to
the requirements of this measure, while the truth is that
the report of the Pension Office the chairman Of the
House committee year ago shows that will require
only about $40 coo GEO. No deny that this sum
would do vastly good to the country in this shape
than by lying idle i'm the vaults of the Treasury We
understand Southern hostility to this measure but
kxzy tlo
its behalf of justice the soldier who periled
his life and has suffered for the salvation OF the Union
Year: 1878

In 1855 young gentleman registered his in the
largest hotel in the city of Louisville KY He had pretty
good wadrobe, such young men usually Aave including


gold watch and chain. lie iii search of occupation
At the expiration of two weeks he took inventory Of
his personal effects Out of money and businessf
His trunk of clothing left security for his board
bill he hypothecated his watch for the loan of doh
lars and having kissed the tip end Of his fingers kind
and sympathetic landlord he ''went diving for the bot
tom.n He found {" bottom on Water street, where a
steamer being discharged of cotton by Dutchmen
Negroes and Yankees. Having purchased a heavy pair
of boots and blue shirt and overas he commenced roll
ing and ping cotton at the rate of five per bale In
three weeks he promoted to the position of maker
with salary of ortyye dollars per month and the
expiration Of nine mouths he had right TO grow mellow
salary of hundred and twenty five dollars per
month. To-day this gentleman is of tho largest bus
ness operators in the city.
Year: 1878

In the whole range of sacred and proane literature,
perhaps there nothing recorded which has such staying
qualities good healthy mortgage. A mortgage can
be depended upon stick closer than brother 1t has


mission to perform which never lets up Day after day
is right there nor does the slightest tendency to sum
Sabbath and at holiday times, without moments time
for and recreation the biting offspring of it's
ence interest goes The seasons may change days
into weeks weeks into months, and months be swa
lowed up into the gray manof advancing years. but that
mortgage stands in seeples vigilance with the inter
est perennial stream ceaselessly running Like
huge sumberer, the unpaid mortgage up gaunt
front in perpetual torment to the miserable wight who is
held within its ptess clutch 1t holds the poor victims
with the relentless grasp of giant not hour of
creation not moments evasion of its hideous presence


genial savage of modifying aspect while the interest is
paid very devil Of hopeless destruction when the pay
ments fail.
Year: 1878

A lucky is Lord Rosebury. On the eve of the
Rosebury Rothschid wedding Lord RoSebury received
package from the bride II contained small gold box
and in separate envelope pretty gold key No letter
accompanied the gift instructions of any kind My
Lord however, did not hesitate to the of the key
He opened the box 1t contained the last check Hannah
de Rothschild would ever sign spinster. Beautifully
written in her fair hand it was drawn in favor Of
Lord Rosebury$1 000 000 payable to his order Where
oh, where more of these Hebrew children?
Year: 1878

Judge Davis of New York, in passing
sentenceon man who had kicked
his wife to death while he was in
toxicated, advised him TO have measures
taken to enforce the law against those
who sold him liquor while in that con-
dition, whereby heavy damages might
be obtained for the benefit of his chill
dren. Judge Davis dwelt with severi-
ty on the moral guilt of those who
make men drunk and put them in
condition TO commit horrible crimes
without knowing it, and the importan-
&C of having them punished. The laws
of the state, too, make it an offence TO
sell liquor to intoxicated persons and
provides for suits for civil damages
against them in case injury is done To
person or property. Now this provision
of the law is often violated, but in how
many cases has il been enforcedY
Year: 1878

A correspondent from Arivaca Dis trict under date of October 8, gives the following items

 The Arivaca and Orc Blanco Mining Districts are daily growing in wealth and importance by the development of old claims and the discovery of new ones.

 IL is understood here that Messrs. Kirkpatrick and Flood are about tc transfer their Orp Blanco mining prop er'y 10 San Francisco company, and that said company will push the devel opment nf the property to dividend basis. These mines are really worth q million.

 The pumpidg out of the Cerro Colo radn mine is progressing rapidly. The water is now below the second level, and lhe first level is in condition for exploration which will be pushed on at once

 If every thing works we'll the new mill of the Arivaca Milling Company. will soon respond to the requirements of the district.

 Among the many good developments in the district must call special aiten. ton to lhe property of the Consoli- dated Arizona Mining Company. Their main shaft is down about sixty feel, and the work is continued day and night. The entire bottom of the shaft is now in free milling ore that will average over S100 per ton. In my opinion it is one of the richest claims in southern Arizona.

 It would not be just right for me to presage the result of the coming cleo ton. Suffice it to say that the voters of Gro Blanco and Arivaca Districts are in sympathy with good men ir- respective of party.
Year: 1878

MYTH THE EXPRESSED DESIRE OF

 w a great many of my frleuda, l once more submit my name to the voters of Pima County as candidate for County Recorder at the next general election, and most respectfully ask the port of my fellow citizens, promising that 1T elected shall dll the position sS faithfully as did once before. AUGUSTUS BRICHTA.
Year: 1878

THE large house at the northeast corner was so badly injured by the July storm, is now being rebuilt. Assistant Postmaster Drake's new house, on the corner Of Pen inington and Meyers streets, is we'll under way and will nicely fill out that corner when done. Tho lumber for the new Pres byterian church being about dry enough for use, the finishing of that editice will go rapidly forward. LeopoIdo Carrillo has commenced a new two-story building Ion Main street. Many Improvements Of this kind have been retarded because Of a scarcity Of dry umber in this market.
Year: 1878


control of operations under It than


q Co., with which Mr.. Nc


CullOugh Is understood to have


been closely associated. Instead Of


favoring the measure, rs he now


pretends to the creditors Ia New


York, there was not day while IL


was pending that McKinnon was


not quoted by the opponents Of tho


bill as saying that the parties he


represented had better terms 10


offer the State. 1t Is safe to saw
that there was not a time during


the session when any proposition he


might have made, which involved
y the funding of the debt BY the AS
sociation," would have received


the favorable consideration Of any


respectable number Of members.


And, Just here, IL Is we'll enough


for the creditors os our State TO un-


derstand that i'm whatever arrange


ments Tennessee may undertake for


the settlement of her debt, she will


never think of entrusting their


management to McCullough's As
sOciatiOn," Or any other like Job


bing concern. Tennessee Is COM
petent to negotiate for herself. and
through her own officers ana agents,
and she will prefer, Ia any cOmpro-
mise of her debt, TO deal directly
with her creditors. She can give
effect to her own legislation on the
subject and should she, at any time,
require an agent in New York or
elsewhere, she caR make her own
l.,
creditors have no need Of appealing
TO any Syndicate to act as inter
mediary between them and the
State Of Tennessee. The employ
ment of any concern, represented
by MacKinnon or any other man
like him, would be at once suggest
i've of corrupt designs upon the
Legislature, and any proposition Il
might make would be treated by
the people accordingly.


Another thing. While we believe
a compromise of the debt at sixty
cents i'm the dollar, as originally
would have been sanction
ed by a large majority Of the people
Of Tennessee, still the subsequent
of that proposition to
fifty cents on the dollar, by num-
ber Of creditors holding and repre-
senting large number of the bonds,
has had the effect of pretty we'll set
Ting the public mind upon that
figure as the true basis upon which,
under all the circumstances, the
1ebt can be adjusted hOnorably and
And we are further
)f the opinion that fifty cent bond
as IL would be by u better
satisfied people, and therefore secu-
ing a more stable settlement, would
pc better bond than "A sixty cent
bond, lacking such support and
therefore more liable to unfriendly
egislatiOn I'm the future. The cred
tors of the State will make a grave
If now they undertake to
'aise the figures of the proposition
which so recently failed of accep-
ance by our Legislature. II they
will take the pains TO correctly In
orm themselves as TO the temper Of
he public mind i'm Tennessee, they
will not, as men wise In their own
think ofdoing such a thing.
1et them not be deceived by any
dollar for dollar" cry they may
lear from Tennessee kROrrihe
Year: 1878

Professor Norton commenced by saying that California was one of the youngest of the children of Time. In all the long ages when the region from Omaha eastward, like vast archipelago of tropical is lands, was covered with the dense, rank vegetation of the carboniferous age no part of California or of the Rocky moun- tains, had yet appeared above the waters of the sea. A large part of the lecture was devoted to an expl nation of the chemical processes by which the minerals and met als had been evolved from this primitive sea, which was then densely laden with the original elements of which the world was formed. A number of striking and brilliant chemical experiments were intro duced to illustrate these processes, which were rendered exceedingly clear to the dullest perception. The professor referred to the old exploded idea that the precious metals were poured up in liquid veins from the molten mass in the interior of the earth, and showed that the metals were precipitated from the sea, the mother of all things mundane. He pointed out upon chart of the earth the direction of three vast Assures in the earth's crust that centered in an island in the East India Archipelago, one of which passed north ward through Asia, across Behring's Straits to America, and down the Pacific coast to