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Year: 1874

A boy borrowed a tool from a carpenter,
promising to return it at night. Before
evening he was sent away on an erani, and
did not return until late Before he went
he was told that his brother should see the
article returned.


After he had come home and gone 10 bed
he inquired, ard found that the tool had not
been sent 10 its owner. lie was much dis
tressed to think his promise had not been
kept, but was persuaded to 60 to sleep, and
rise early and carry it home the next morn
ing


BY daylight he was up, and nowhere was
the tool to be found After long and fruit
less search, he set OFF for his neighbor's in
great distress, TO acknowledge his fault.
But how great was his surprise to find the
tool on his neighbor's dooI-stonel And then
il appeared from the print Of his little bare
feet IN the mud, that the lad had got up in
his sleep and carried the tool home, and gone
to bed again, without knowing it,


OF course, boy who was prompt in his
sleep was prompt when awake. lie lived
respected, had the confidence Of his neigh
bors, and was placed in many Offices of trust
aud profit.


If all grown folk felt as this boy did, there
would be good many tracks OF bare feet
found some OF these bright mornings anc
what piles of tools and books would be founC
! at their owners' doors l-i'hrcnoiogical Journal
Year: 1874

A CHANCE OF BAsE-Recently, when some scheming politicians of the Radical wing approached the President, with the view of turing him into some scheme against the peace, dignity, freedom and money of some Southern States, Ulysses is reported as having said:

 "I begin to think that 1, Is time for the Repub. lican party 10 unload There bas been too much arms during the Rebellion and the confidence that the Republican party was strong enough to hold up any burden, have imposed all the dsaiiection of the Gulf States on the Administration. I am tired of this nonsense. Let Louisiana take care any quarrel about Mississippi State matters to be referred to me. This nursing of monstrosities has nearly exhausted the life Of the party 1 am done with them, and they will have to take care of themselves"
Year: 1874

In making up the outside of the WEEKLY MINER, the foreman got our article on the late Dr Wirtz separated, mistake or acci- dent that was not noticed by us until several quires of the paper were printed, when we discovered the separation and had the parts again placed together.
Year: 1874

It will be seen from an advertisement in another column, that the Agent of the Public Library, Louisville, Kentucky, has over a million dollars in bank, and that he assures the public of full drawing on the 3lst of March next.

 The list of gifts is exceedingly attractive and the high personal character of the man. ager is guarantee that they will perform what they promise.
Year: 1874

An Arizonan wishing to go east, by water, can now take passage on one of the Colorado Steam Navigation Company's splendid steam ships, at the mouth of the river, land at Cape St Lucas, at which point the steamships of the Pacific Mail Company touch, on their way ta Panama
Year: 1874

WITH the exception # Austin, who
is unknown out Of his own district,
there is not a country candidate on the
Black-and-Tan ticket. The town
'-thoIoughbreds have gone in for
more than the lions share Of the
sDOilS.
Year: 1874

SEVERAL citiz5n IF the Seventh
district who were in town yesterday
declare that there never WAS 4 greater
farce than Minton' withdrawal in favor
of Patterson, and the vote of the dis
trict will go almost solid for Heverin.
The white men out that way do not
propose TO he bought and sold for a few
dollars
Year: 1874

TIE magnificent engraving ON our
fourth page was sketched at the lden-
teal moment when Kercheyal had
fixed things so as to prevent the
nomination Of a Radical and leave the
field clear for the Black-and-Tan can
1idateS
Year: 1874

JUDGE WILLIAMS, Of Chicago, has
rendered a decision in a suit instituted


by the heirs of the late Stephen A.
Douglas for the recovery of certain
property said TO have illegally alienated
from them. The ground of action was
that the executor Of the estate had an
interest in a sale which was made by
him. The court awarded the property
sold to Robert and Stephen Douglas,
debarring the widow from participation
because she had been guilty of laches
Year: 1874

bill for tho compulsory education Of the
children Of this State WAS passed by the House
Of Representatives at Springfield yeate1day.
According to its provisions children between
the age Of and IA muRt be sent to school for
schooling must be continuous. Poverty cannot
DO pleaded as an excuse for failure to comply
with the lau, as all the booka necessary will bo
supplied by the State, and clothes will be given
to destitute children. Parents or guardians who
neglect to obey the law will subject Themselves
to prosecution aud to fines for thirteen weeks,
rising from ST to IS for each week OF such neg
limit
Year: 1874

There WAS long discussion in tho Wisconsin
Legislature yostorday on motion to appoint
Joint committee to investigate the earnings Of
the railroads of the stato and their relations to
tho Stato In the matter Of their inoreaso Of tax
os and tho like, No action WaB taken,
Year: 1874

WHETHER or no all women are fitted
for all vocations, there is no doubt that
some are equal to almost any degree of
enterprise. A woman recently appeared
in Toledo, who had by industry and close
attention to business, succeeded in accuha-
mulating four husbands. There is no tell
ing where she would have stopped in her
victorious career, if some meddling per-
son had not invoked the interference OF
the law and stopped her.
Year: 1874

It is reported to us that some of MT. Ste vens' friends are in substance asserting that THE CITIZEN does not oppose him be- cause of his (A1r. Stevens) money or wealth, and imply that our silence or neutrality regarding the Delegate election, Is secured by purchase or by fear of him. Whatever may be the motive for such a report on the part of the friends or oppo- nents of MT. Stevens, we have this to say:

 If any man, or men, whose testimony would be accepted as evidence by trial jury, will give us the name or names of any man or men who started such re- port, or are circulating it, we will, in a conspicuous manner, publish him or them as an unmitigated liar, or liars, for six months in these columns.

 And we will go further: Any man who asserts, or men who assert, that editorial matter or communications in our news columns, in behalf of any man or project, ever kas or ever can be had, by payment, while the paper is under our control as it now is and has been, of money or any other consideration of value, is each and are all ineXcusable if not malicious libel CTS; and if we can ascertain, in manner susceptible of proof in a court of justice, the name or names of any such, we will publish them as before stated.
Year: 1874

FLORENCE will have Q telegraph office just as soon as the superintendent of the line can procure an operator forit. We con sratulate our neighbors there on this ac- quisition to their conveniences. We un- derstand they expect their town to be the county seat Of new county which they will ask the next legislature to create. Florence is on beautiful site and is the center of large area of rich agricultural land. and with a railroad through it. which seems only a question of a few years. it will be a very 1ourishing town.
Year: 1874

beyond Brighton. when the old man came
at me like steamboat, with;


Now, then, how fur is it to the spot
whore they found the Babes in the
Woods 2


l wanted TO get out Of it,but how could
L? That young man had deliberately lied
to those nice old folks, and | hadn't the
moral courage to tell em so, and this
had to make liar of myself It's awful
to deceive any one, especially good old
man and fat and motberly old lady, on
their way to TIE tomb.


'That's-yes-that's the spot = l said
as we came to dark piece of woods.


Think o'that, Hammer he said, his
head out of the window; think Of them
babies being found in there


Yes, it was fearful = she replied !;
seems as if could almost sec them stub.
bling about in there now =


There was another historic spot of
which the young man had told them, but
they had forgotten it. and was never
more thankful. They kept quiet until
the brakeman yelled out lansing and
then the old man bobbed up and ex.
claimed


'Lansing-Lansing-why, here's where
they hung Tom Collins, amt it p


He explained that Tom Collins, Chi
cago Desperate, had murdered eleven old
women and drank their blood for his liver
complaint, and after being hunted for
miles and miles had at length been cap.
tured at Lansing, cut to pieces by the
infuriated populace, and then left hang
ing to a tree.


| had to point out tho tree. 1t was a
tree near the depot, and the tail of n
Kite had lodged in its branches.


There's whar' they hung him, Hammer =
said the old man, stretching his neck.


And there's some O his shirt left yet =
exclaimed the old lady, and as | backed
out of the car, the good old man was re.
marking that he was going to ask the
train boy if he didn't have the pamphlet
life of Tom Collins so that they could
get further particulars Detroit Free
Press
Year: 1874

AN OLD COUPLE on THEIR TRAvLLs-HoW A


LYING YOUNG MAN POSTED THEM on HIS


ToRIC SPOTS.


On the train the other day were a very
confding old man and very innocent ole
lady. They had passed away fye-six.hs
of their lives hidden away behind the hill!
of Vermont and were going to western
Michigan on a visit to their son. Aftel
a little skirmishing round the old gentle
man pitched into me about the "crops,
'sile,' and when | found how innocent ht
was, gave him all the information
could. All at once, as he rode along
the wife caught his arm and exclaimed


Look out, Samuel or you'll be for
getting that place where they fit =


The old man exclaimed. lie said tina
q young man who came dow from Cana
da with them, told him to look out fo
the battle. field Of Braddock's defeat a
soon as he left Detroit


was going to reply that the youpl
man was AL internal liar, but the old lad,
seemed to have set her head on seein!
the spot, and the old man was so anxiou
that | couldn'; bear to disappoint them
When We got down into the woods
pointed out the batto field and the,
put their heads out of the windows an,
took in the scene.


Think of it, Hammer exclaimed th
old man, as he drew in his mead; thinl
Of them Ipjuns creeping through then
woods and shooting Mr.. Braddock dow
dead y


My soul = replied the old lady, seem
ingly overcome at the idea, and she kep
her eyes on the woods until though
she would twist her neck off.


We got along all right for about fiy
miles more, and the old man wanted t
know if we weren't down pretty near th
spot where Tccunseh fell.


Where p | yelled, and he said tha
same young man had informed him tha
the railroad ran close to the identica
spot where the great Indian fell an
slept.


It'll be a powerful favor TO me al
Samuel If yell point out the spot, urge
the old lady, placing her hand on m
arm.


How could go back on what ihu
brazen young man had said The oil
folks had made up their minds to see tn
spot, and if didn't show it to them the
might worry for weeks, and they migh
think the young man had lied, or that
wasn't posted in the historic spots of NJ
own State. Lor' forgive me. but mi
/ further on pointed out hill and said


'B hold the last resting place Of tn
great Tecumseh.


Think of it IIanner-just think of it
exclaimed the old man right there
where they got him =


Mercy but it don't seem possible
she calculated, and she had to get out ht
snuff.box before she could recover frol
the shock.


The old aentleman said ho had pa
ticular interest in seeing the spot, becau
he knew the man who had killed Tecun
sch-used to live right by him.
He must have been an awful Iniun
broke in the old lady, for the young mt
said be didn't die till they had cut off b
head, aud feet, aud hands, and blowt
, the body up with barrel of powder =
, | wanted to get away after that, fea
ing that something worse was coming, b
she insisted upon taking a. pinch ofsnu
/ and so ! kept my seat. We were ju
Year: 1874

With sardonic grin, Wix poured
some muciage into his empty hair.oil bot
tie, yesterday, and this morning the hair
of one Of the servant girls was stuck 80
tight that she could not shut her mouth,
Year: 1874

Everybody knows what passion the
colored people have for emulsting and imi-
tating the dress and doings of their brethren
aud sisters Of the Caucasian race. It may
be from an appreciation Of the Superiority
OF the latter, or It Way ba by reason Of .


natural faculty for mimicry. Bat we pro-
test that the two tolored gentlemen In
Washington carried their admiration of the
District Ring too far, when they undertook


to forge orders on the Comptroller. As,
however, one Of the offenders is mem ber
OF the District Legislature, and the other
President OF Republican Club, we feel
quite certain they will bs let off eas,,y
Year: 1874

The Bosses and the Men Equally Deter


mined-NO Compromise - The Objec.


tions TO Middiemen-What Will BE


Done.


The trouble between the boss coopers and the
men seems to be reaching climax. as both parties
appear to be equally determined to adhere to their
resolution as to the stand they have taken. The
slockoutn only anects the coopers OF Union No.
2-that IL TO say, the men who 40 the heavy work
OF the trade, and whose province Is solely sugar
and molasses hogsheads. The organization is a
very strong one and numbers some four
hundred members, fully one-haIf OF whom
are active, paying ones. The story OF
the origin OF the trouble, began by
the Introduction OF some very stringent rules
on the part OF the men, mas been already briefly
told. Among these we're rules that only certain
number OF boys should be employed TO certain
number OF men; that country hoops were not to be
used BY the employers and that they were to take
those exclusively made by the men; that the
hours OF work were to be eight each day and the
pay 81 that when man began day he was TO
finish 1t, and was not to be paid for part OF a day
.@ y ~ pms n ths ReSs. 4 uuwpes
Year: 1874

From the Milwaukee News-demOcratic.l


Let us not be deceived. Our next ngnt with the
republican party viii not be with that organiza-
tion on Its war and antl-savery principles and
on questions OF nuance, tarlns and taxation which
may be raised. The fight Will be against q revolu-
tionary party calling itself republican," with
Grant for a third term candidate, and the money
and war power Of the government supporting the
movement. The third term movement Is not
dead Out Of the ashes OF defeat In which the re-
publican party will be buried next month the
fres or the third term movement will be kindled
into actual LIE and vigorous existence. The
third term Will be made the great Issue. Beaten
on every thing else, they Will make that the sol e
plank IN their platform. They Will charge that
their defeats were due to back pay. to Credit MO-
biiier 10 the liquor question, to any other preext,
and viii go boldly before the people on the third
term as tuelr only platform
Year: 1874

Forty thousand more of the iron workers
have been thrown out of employment at Pitts
burg by the closing of mills. The difficulty
in regard to wages, which is the immediate
occasion of this suspension, results from the
long continued depression in the price OF
iron. It is very suggestive fact that when
the workmen and iron masters agreed upon
their basis of wages it was with the full! belief
IN both sides that iron never could be profit
ably made. or for any length OF time con-
stantly sold at a lower price than sixty,six
dollars per ton. No provision was by either
party suggested for 50 unexpected state of
things. and now that iron does sell for less
than three cents per pound, the masters claim
that they must reduce wages to figure lower
than the lowest contemplated IN the former
agreement, or else stop work. The men re-
fuse to work at the reduced wages, and the
Year: 1874

Some high-toned person sends this inform
alton to New York paper: "a certain fam
lily at an uptown hotel pay weekly board
bill Of five hundred dollars. 'fhey have seven
rooms and private table. six years ago
the wife of the head of this wealthy family
kept boarding house on Fourth street. The
husband struck something, (not oil. and the
interesting mortals jumped from poverty to
Year: 1874

Group can be cured in one minute, and the
remedy is simply alum and sugar. The way
to accomplish the deed is to take knife or
crater and shave off in small particles about
a teaspoonful of alum, then mix it with twice
its quantity of sugar, to make it palatat.e,
and administer it as quickly as possible. Al
most instantaneous relief will follow.
Year: 1874

"A New York State woman owns five acres
OF peppermint meadow" An enviable wo-
moman, certainly. She has but to marry q
man with a barrel of whisky and hogshead
vi sugar to have = mint julep fifteen or
twenty times . day for the rest of her life.
Year: 1874

Now is a wholesome time for colds aud
fevers; and good way TO get them is to force
your way into crowded street car, and with
your smoking umbrella viciously poke all tie
ventilators within reach until not a gill of
fresh air can gain admittance.
Year: 1874

A small stream near Yellowstone Lake is
split in two by small peninsula, one branch
following the Yellowstone and Missouri to
the Cult, the other making its way into the
Snake River and thence to the Pacific.
Year: 1874

The Duke of Edinburgh and the Grand
Duchess Maria will board with Queen Victo-
ria until their house is ready for house-keep-
ing. There will be the stoves for the duke to
putup, and Maria will want to paper her own
bedroom and there will be carpets to put
down, which will give them both something
to do; and when they get underway Victoria
will run in and help, ba1apg days, come over
to wiring ~ thing ondays, as it were.
Year: 1874

LIEBIG's LIQUID EXTRACT OF BEEF does not
require cooking or warmng-Is in the form Of
q Foreign Liqueur. Is composed of Beef Bran
dy and Touics-Sold by Grecers and Wine
Merchants as high class Cordial or Liaueur
and by Druggists as a superior nutritive Tonic.


In.
Year: 1874

"This is very crooked path" said Jones
to Brown, as they wound up the sides of
Montauvut. ''Crookedr was the reply, sit
is so confounded zigzag you can stand with
one foot on zig and the other on gag without
any difficulty.
Year: 1874

/Gov. SAFFoRD returned from his trip to the northern counties on Tuesday evening, and next afternoon, he and Dr. Wilbur left for his ranch and returned yesterday He is working hard to get a substantial foothold in the Territory and will un- doubtedly succeed. His flock of sheep is fast increasing, and next years clip of wool ought to fully pay current expenses and leave the increase clear profit.
Year: 1874

WEATHER during the week has been

 pretty warm for the season. Last Satur- day forenoon quite a shower fell between

 town and Camp Lowell, and later In the tday, very liberal one fell in and about Tucson.
Year: 1874

WHAT with Judge Hayden's address, political tickets and platforms, our col umns are pretty clear of our usual general matter and telegraphic news. But it is very rare we get a substantial " benefit,- and as politics absorb the thoughts of maHy of our Territorial readers just now, they will be apt to look kindly upon all, if not read it with interest and profit.
Year: 1874

ONE ROOM TOO MANY.-The Board OF Elu
cation has never explained why or how it is thai
it now has Two looms, and is paying rent fol
TWO. 1t is very kind Of The Board to volunteer
to keep another man from losing rent on hiE
property; but The Taxpayers do not like sucl
expenses.


The Board should never haze removed from
The City Council chamber 1hc cost for gas
fuel and janitors' services would thus have bes1
economical and no rent would have been 10 pay
They had better move back to the City llall anc
thus make up by economy what has been lost by
neglect and extravaganza
Year: 1874

The MEETING To.MoRRow will no doubt be
largely attended. free train of cars will leave
the depot in this city at one p. m, sharp. The
ride will be a pleasant one aud all white men in
favor of Democratic economy and good govern
ment arc invited.
Year: 1874

The special correspondent of the New
York Tribune in Cuba, writing from
Havana under date of January 2Sth,
says:


at is the general opinion among the
leading foreign residents of Havana
and the interior cities, that before the
end of the present year the struggle
which is now cOnvulsing the island Will
have been ended one way or the other
Such of the residents as care to express
an opinion on this point seem to believe
that the success of the insurrectiOn Is
assured, and that the disorganized and
chaotic condition of the mother country
will preclude further systematic efforts
to prevent such result. The recent
repeated successes Of the insurgents in
the interior and the reports of the Car
list instructions at home have demor-
allied the rulers here, who find them
selves without resources, and are con-
tinually harassed by querulous COM
plants of the people, which are the
more bitter because they are 50 Just.
The Spaniards are thoroughly disgusted
with the condition of affairs, and de-
nounce the war of determination at home
as unsparingly as they do the insurrec-
ton upon the island"
Year: 1874

A burglar in Grsensburg, Pennsyl-
vania, was recently caught in a rem ark
able manner, Breaking into the closed
Office of a physician of that town, the
burglar opened closet (while his COM
panion, with a dark lantern, was in an
other part of the room, and, feeling
for clothing at about the height of
closet-hooks generally, got his hands
between the jaws of skeleton, which
being adjusted with coil spring aud
kept open with thread, closed sudden
" on the intruding hand by the break
ing of the thread. a sudden thought
striking the burglar of his being caught
by a skeleton in the doctors closet, so
terrified him that he uttered a faint
shrek, and when his companion turned
his lantern toward him and he beheld
himself in the grim and ghastly jaws of
Death himself, he became SO overpower-
ed by fear that he tainted, fell insensi-
be to the floor, pulling the skeleton
down upon him, and making so much
noise that his companion fed immedi-
ately, and the doctor, alarmed sat the
noise and confusion, hastened into the
Office and secured the terror-stricken
burglar, still held by the skeleton.
Year: 1874

A novel law question has arisen in
Iowa. The Mississippi river until re-
Gently has annually frozen over solid
between Prairie du Chien and McGre-
gor. The ice has furnished a winter
highway from one side to the other dur
ing several months in the year, en-
abling the people to dispense with
bridge and ferries. Recently the Mil
waukee and st. Paul railroad has built
pile bridge across the river, the effect
Of which, it is asserted, has been, by
creating eddies and changing the cur
rent, to wholly prevent tho formation
OF ice, SO that the stream below the
structure remains permanently open.


The river, it is claimed, Is a public
highway at all seasons, as much one
way as another, and the use of the ice


bridge is a right of which the public
can not be divested by any authority.


1t Is assumed that suits for damages
would lie, and that the railroad bridge
is liable to be indicted and or cred
removed as a nuisance and obstruction
to trade and intercourse between states.
Year: 1874

career carried it over so many checkered
scenes, and whose passage in its multi
form divisions from hand to hand was
in every case a message Of gladness, a
token of honesty, and a promoter of
prosperity, or that of Squire Clinch
whose only change from the dull mo-
notony of its useless, selfish life was
such disastrous one?


Let those in whose care the destiny
Of greenbacks may be placed take warn
ing from these two cases, and so act on
the lesson taught as to make the world
prosperous, their neighbors glad, and
themselves richer in the return sure to
FOLLOW