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Year: 1877

fourth conflict.

 As he remarked in his speech just before the Legislature closed, "There is a tlde in the affairs of men, if taken at its flood leads on to fortune" This is equally true of nations, States and Territories Arizona, so far as we know from the earliest dawn of civil ization, long before the new world was cursed with the blighting presence of those damnable demons, Cortez and Pizarro, thls fair Territory has been helplessly lying on the mud-fiats of misfortune, a prey to savage and mur- dering Indians But now, since there surely is prospect of having two rail roads running through the country, will she not float off on the coming tide to a sea of universal prosperity?

 We congratulate the people of this Territory in having secured so much and still be left free of debt; and we congratulate the Pacific Railroad Com pany that the human buzzards who are so apt to hang around Legislatures, always ready to blackmail them, that freights and fares in this Territory, are matters left to the carriers by rail, as they always have been to other classes of common carriers, and that the money we hope and believe the com pany may make, will be invested in branch lines instead of being used to buy the votes of dishonest men in power, as is too often the case in other States and Territories. We trust the Company in its future operations, will not forget its good friends and honor able supporters of Tucson and in the lower counties of Arizona.

 As has been intimated, we hope Gen eral Banning may permanently settle among us. His great and varied ex- perience in handling freight, and his superior knowledge of the people of Arizona, will make hIm invaluable to- the Railroad company and of great use to our citizens.
Year: 1877

VACANT LOTS AND OTHER PREMISES. IVlHE COMMON COUNCIL OF TUCSON

 do ordain as follows:

 Sec. l. Every person or agent owning or claiming tO own or control any vacant lot or lots within the inhabited part of the city or immediately adjacent thereto, is here by required to clean up their respective lots and to remove therefrOm all rubbish, dirt filth or unclean substances, and to deposit the same beyond the limits of the city on or before the first day of March next.

 Sec. 2. Every owner or occupant Of any premises within the inhabited part Of the city, shall clean up and keep clean their res pectlVe premises and remove there substance, and shall purify theirrespectiye vaults with lime, on or before the first day Of March next

 Sec. 8. Every owner or agent of any lOt or premises within the inhabited parts Of the city, or immediately adjacent thereto, who shall fail or neglect to clean up their respective lots or premises on or before the first day of March next, as required by sections one and two of this ordinance, shall pay fine of live dollars for each and every lot or premises found on that day In an unclean condition, together with the costs of prosecution, to be recovered before the Recorder of the city. The judgment for the fine and costs aforesaid Is hereby declared to be a lien upon the premises, and 1T not paid within ten days after the rendition thereof, it shall be the duty Of the marshal, after having given three weeks notice of sale by publication in some newspaper published in this city, tO sell said premises, or so much thereof as shall be necessary, at public sale for the satisfaction of said judgment and costs. Any lot or preiu iSeS sold by virtue of this ordinance may be redeemed by the owner or agent thereof at any time within six months after the sale by paying tO the purchaser the amount for which the same was sold, together win tw nty per cent thereon. The Common Council may remit any fine imposed under this ordinance, or may suspend the sale of premises for the thereof, if in their judgment, they deem proper.

 Passed in the Common Council Of the City of Tucson, on the Sth day Of February, 1877. JOHN E. ALLEN, Mayor. Attest: CHARLES IT. MEYER, Recorder.

 February IO-3W.
Year: 1877

And is conducted in Aid Of the Public School Fund of Tucson. The proceeds after paying the expenses of the Enter prise, will he devoted to liouidating the Debt of the Public School.
Year: 1877

The strike is general along the Chicago
and Canada Southern line, and the Toledo
and Detroit division. At meeting at
Grasse Isle last night resolutions were
adopted demanding that the company re-
store wages, establish regular pay day,
and Immediately advance three months
Year: 1877

The strikers say they do not strike be-
cause of reduced pay, but because of the
discharge of their delegates who went to
consult Superintendent Bowen. No trains
of any kind leave for the east to-day. A
great quantity of rolling stock is on the
side track, the destruction of which would
be enormous. The depots are guarded by
militia. The rioters are 10 strong force at
Louisiana street, near the round house, and
East Buffalo.
Year: 1877

The Boston Herald says that
an adventure so singular in its
character happened to a citizen
of Plymouth, Mass, recently,
that, without the knowledge of
the parties and the evidence
of those near, it would be set
down as a Msnchausen tale.
Mr.. ID. Finny, with his neigh
Dor, ANGEL Bartlett, were off
Gunner's Point, South Ply
mouth, coot shooting. They
were in separate dories, as far a.
part as boats usually are in that
sport, when a humpback whale
rose : some distance off and
spouted. lie rose again nearer
the boat, and Mr.. Finny thought,
by the direction he was taking,
that the next time he came up
he would come ahead of tho
boat, and he would give him a
shoot. While waiting for him
to come up, kneeling in the bot
tom of the dory, he felt q shock,
and, as he expresses it, found
himself on the whales back dry
shod. The next thing he knew
he went down and came mp on
the other side Of the boat. Prob
able the whale sank when he
found he had a rider and drew
the man with him. When Mr..
Finny came up he was near Mr..
Bartlett's dory, and was taken
into his boat. Throughout the
whole he had held on to his gun,
and brought it on board with
him
Year: 1877

According to the Pail Mall Ga
zette, thieves and policemen are
the pests of Russian towns, but
especially policemen.


A man who has resided some
time in Russia even grows to
doubt whether the notions of
naeuna and tatatp are comprehend
ed there as they are in other coun-
tries. If you go visiting and
leave a cloak on the seat of your
carriage, that cloak is gone when
you come out. If you walk out
with dog unclaimed, the dog
vanishes round the street corner.
Shopkeepers are afraid to place
articles of value in their shop
windows. Hou<eLolders are LA
bic to have their horses and carri.
ages stolen if they do not keep a
sufficient number of stable ser
wants, and take care to see before
going to bed that one of these me
malls is sober. A man who goes
out unarmed may be set upon in
sight of a droschky stand and
stripped of every article he wears,
including shirt and small clothes
The droschky drivers will not lend
a helping hand they will rather
start off in panic, lest they should
be summoned to give evidence; as
for the police, they hurry up af-
terward, and make the despoiIed
man pay twice the value of the
things be has lost in fees for in
vestigation. 1t is said that per
son influential enough to make it
unpleasant to the police gets back
his lost property in no time the
police will even restore him the
equivalent if they cannot recover
the original articles.
Year: 1877

Until within the last few years,
when the extensive mines in the
West had been opened, this coun-
try coined but little silver. That
is, little compared with what it
is now proposed TO coin-and no
one ever thought of demoDetizing
it until those rich mines were dis
covered Some years ago. when
our gold mines were yielding so
largely, England and Germany de-


monetized gold, making silver the
standard of value. Then when
rich silver mines wers opened and
the prospect was that we would
produce more silver than gold,
both these Countries turned about
and demonetized silver, making
gold the standard and our Con-
gress strangely followed the ex-
ample. Now the question is, shall
Congress undo whatit did in 1873,
and place the silver dollar exactly
on par with the dollar in gold.
Year: 1877

Mr.. Brooks has telegraphed to
Chicago that the reported $50
counterfeit there must be good,
as it is printed OH fiber paper,
but this is not sufficient guar
Ianty. The excellent counter
felt of the $500 treasury note
made by Tom Ballard was prin-
ted on fiber paper. He took a
dollar note and washed out the
colors, so as to give him the pa
per for his counterfeit. This
may be the way with the Chi
cago counterfeit.


The latest counterfeit is the
new So upon the First National
Bank of Lamaqua. This has


just been received at the Treas
ury Department for description.
It's excellence is alarming. The
only way that it differs from the
genuine is that the counterfeit
is more skillfully executed. 1t
has only one fault, that being
that it is too good. The only
marked difference that is at the
present specified is in the char
tered numbers printed on the
bills. The safest course will be
to reject all bills on this bank.
1t is understood that the issue
of this bank is to be called in
at once as the only safe way to
defeat this counterfeit Wash
ialnton Cor. GhicanO Times.
Year: 1877

When "all the unsettled humors of the
land" have an opportunity to exhibit them
selves on dress parade they make queer
turnout. The strike has resolved itself
into such parade. 1t was the pretext.
In the days before we had well organized
fire department in this city or a well or
ganized police every fire that occurred was
q signal for all the birds of night to come
out of their murky holes of refuge and re-
pair to the scene of excitement, there to
practice system Of small confscation and
liberal brigandage. All the portable prop
erty that the fire spared they stole, deeming
that the occurrence of this calamity had
dissolved the owners right of property.
It was not logical, but it was ef-
suits was to show the people from
time to time what kind of creatures there
were in the city. In the country at large
the railroad strike has done in that way just
what a fire used to do in the city. 1t has
supplied an exciting time, characterized by
the fact that an immense quantity of goods,
valuable and portable, were left around
loose, with no one to guard them or prevent
rogues from indulging their predatory i'm
pulses. 1t has brought out the hard GUS
tomers-the bummers and tramps, the Molly
Maguires and the Communists, the hood
lums, the pickpockets and many scarcely
describable classes of roughs with local
names. 1t was carnival of disorder, with
out any other significance SO important as
that involved in its startling exhibition of
the sort of subterranean humanity we are
unconsciously producing.
Year: 1877

A committee of the st. Georges Union
has visited Secretary Evarts to suggest that
some means should be used to bring about
arbitration between laborers and their en-
ployers in order to prevent such strikes as
this which has been troubling the country.
Mr.. Arthur, the chief of the locomotive en-
gineers, in letter to the HERALD, also de-
sires the establishment of court of arbitra-
tion. The idea is sensible. 1t comes lit
tie late just now, but we do not doubt both
parties to this disastrous quarrel wish
by this time that they had begun op-
erations by submitting their dispute
to the hearing of arbitrators. Even yet it
may not be too late for many companies and
their men. But in the meantime the first
thing is to get the trains running every
where, and we warn the strikers that they
cannot hope for hearing from any court of
arbitration, nor from the public, until they
cease to blockade the roads. They are
clearly in the wrong there, and their action
will presently be bitterly resented by the
thousands of workingmen everywhere, upon
whose families they are bringing want and
suffering Let the trains run; then arbitra-
tion is in order and we shall urge it.
Year: 1877

The police are very frequently taken to
task by the press. and not without good and
sufficient cause but the faults among the
management. So long as the Police Com
mission is even partially made up of politi-
cal hacks there will be blemishes in the
system and misconduct in the body. The
filthy and neglected condition of the
streets is due to the fact that the
street cleaning branch of the Police
Boards business is intrusted to political
hands and is run mainly in the inter-
est of politicians. A patrolman now and
then uses his club like rufian, and we find
that his brutality is only q reflection of the
principles Of his captain, who is backed up
by the Police Board for political consdera-
tions. So, through all the list of Just COM
plants made against the force, we find un-
derlying the faults of the men the short
comings of their superiors in rank.


The New York police force is, however,
as a whole, a splendid organization. The
men are well disciplined, full of confidence
and courage, cool in the face Of danger, and
devoted in the discharge of their duties
Their training is excellent, as it ought to
be under an experienced and able soldier.
When gathered in body they stand before
the people as q wall of defence against
which nothing can prevail. Rioters of what
ever stripe, whether thieves or Communists,
know and fear them. The miserable drivel-
lers who hold forth at socialist demonstra-
tions, although brave in words, quail be-
fore line of New York policemen. The
admirable conduct of the force on the night
of the Tompkins square meeting deserves
recognition. 1t is not too much to say that
the spirit of determined work evident in the
mems faces of itself preserved the peace.
Even such wretched creatures as these Com
munists might do great damage to prop
erty in the city if not held in check. 1t
would only be proper mark of the salts
faction felt by our citizens at the excellent
bearing of the police on that occasion to
award the force small portion Of what
might have been lost but for their services.
Three or four days extra pay to each man
would be present well deserved. The
men are fined when they do wrong; why
should they not be rewarded when they act
particularly we'll?
Year: 1877

Baltimore, Chicago and dozens OF other
cities.


Are not workingmen, then. to sympathize
with their fellows? Certainly they are to do
SO in all lawful action. The train men had
right to strike, but they had no right to
stop tho trains or to prevent other men, II
these could be got, from running them. 10
sympathizc with such unlawful conduct was
the great blunder of the workmen, whose
bitter fruits they are now reaping all over
the country. So far from allowing trains and
roads to be blockaded by strikers their first
duty to themselves and their families
was 10 insist in the most positive manner
that all trains should be rum and that with
out the least delay or irregularity; to de-
mand that the companies should immedi-
ately supply the places of tho strikers, no
matter at what cost to require that oil at-
tcmpts ut obstruction should be most
severely punished; and to take caro- that
above all other things, tho traffic OF the
country should not be interrupted. But II
will be replied, that would be to make
strike of the train men hopeless from the
DeGl0Q1Qg anu uuhc tAtOIA oioVoo W '-'~
companies. We reply: Not at all. If the
strike has solid foundation if it is honest
and justified by the circumstances, then 1t
will be impossible for tho companies to
obtain men to work on the terms rejected
by the strikers. In that case the companies
would be righteously compelled to pay
better rates for upon them would fall the
demand that they must not stop the traffic
of the country; and they, in such case,
would be compelled to keep their trains
moving.


In the present case, however, the COM
panies were able to obtain men ready and
willing to work in place of the strikers.
What right had the strikers to prevent these
poor workingmen from earning their living?
What excuse have they for plunging thou
sands of workingmen's families all over the
country into trouble and want by their law
less interference? If they chose to strike
in blundering manner, and at time
when the event proved there were
men willing to work for the wages they re-
jected, that was at their own risk and how
ever blamable some Of the railroad managers
may be the time has not come yet to discuss
that When order is restored their time
will come no doubt their stockholders, if
they are wise, will call them to account, and
certainly the public will. But meantime
the lesson of the day concerns the evident
folly of workingmen allowing an ill-judged
sympathy with others to cut their own
thrOatS.
Year: 1877

When the people of New York read the
news from Chicago this morning they will
congratulate themselves that the authorities
precise measures were taken to prevent the
outbreak of riot in this city. We partic-
ularly call the attention of the poorer cit
izens, the workingmen and their families,
to the contrast. New York is at peace
through the sensible action of both parties
to the quarrel the men on the Erie and
Central railroads have resumed work;
| freight as well as passenger trains are run
ming in regular order on both roads, and
the city is not only at peace but supplies
arc coming forward just in time to avert
q famine, or, at the best, great rise
in the price of the necessaries of life, which
would have brought hunger and distress to
great multitude of innocent women and
children here and benefited no workiDgman
and no workingman's interest in any con-
ceivable way.


In Chicago, on the contrary, thousands of
families were last night the prey of terror.
Rough men were fighting in the streets;
the railroads were blocked helpless women
and children covered in their homes, fear
ing the torch of the incendiary, or, if their
husbands and fathers were in the streets,
dreading to see them brought home dead or
wounded


The workingmen and their families have
everything to gain from peace and order
everything to lose and nothing to gain from
violence or lawlessness Did any honest
workingman, be he ever so much Com
munist" in opinion, gain anything by any
riot New York has seen? Will any honest
workingman in Chicago be the better off by
the riot there? It is absurd to ask the
question. While the mob RACES all
business stops, all wages cease; every
poor man becomes poorer; every
family whose head is workingman
must pinch the more and deny itself some
of its few comforts. If wages are low q
mob only makes them lower and stops
them altogether until it is crushed out. If
the hard times are oppressive, as they
doubtless are, the mob only doubles their
hardship. The men in the Chicago stock
yards have been demoralized by the riotous
spirit, and the first result is that nearly
quarter of million dollars worth of meat is
left to spoil. Does that make the living
of any workingman's family easier?


New York is quiet; Chicago is the prey of
tumult In which city would any honest
workingman to-day prefer to have his family?
Our two chief New York roads-the Erie and
Central-are once more running all their
trains; the roads leading into Chicago are
blocked by lawless men. In which of the
two cities is the workingman's lot and that
of his family the easiest, the pleasantest?


No doubt all sensible New Workers are
both happy and proud that we have had no
disturbances here; but most of all the wives
and children Of workingmen have reason to
be happy; and if any evil disposed persons
should still endeavor to cause disturbance
here we trust the workingmen will rally in
body for the maintenance of peace and
good order. They least of all can afford to
see the laws defed and order violated.
Year: 1877

The settlement of the strikes on some Of
the lines ought to convince all the strikers
that the time has come for returning to
work everywhere and restoring railroad
matters to their normal condition. The
longer they hold out now just so much the
more pay they will lose without doing them
selves any good. 1t is now clear that the
principal suffering arising from the inter-
ruption of traffic falls on the laboring
classes, and certainly the railroad en-
ployes can have no desire to punish their fell
low workingmen in other callings. Besides,
it is certain that the running of trains must
be resumed. The loss to the country by a
continued embargo is too serious and too
needless TO be allowed to continue. Men
who positively will not go back to work
must expect to see their places filled by
others. They had better therefore, take
time by the forelock, resume their several
occupations and trust to the calm review of
the situation that must follow restoration
of law and order for concessions which
they have no right to expect so long as they
demand them with threats and endeavor to
extort them by lawlessness and violence.
Year: 1877

THE GOVERNMENT has made preparation for
possible trouble at Washington by appointing
General Scofed to the command of the military
and naval forces at the Capitol. There is always
n strong temptation to break into the Treasury,
particularly among the disappointed office-scek-
ers, and the precaution may be wise.
Year: 1877

SECRETARY SHERMAN does not seem to be very
much troubled about Stka. The department is
thinking of sending n revenue boat to its relief,
and it will probably arrive there about the time
it is half destroyed.
Year: 1877

THE PROSECUTION of the Orangemen in
Canada for belonging to secret society will
probably he looked upon persecution and will
have the effect of increasing instead of diminish
ing their numbers. King Williams admirers
cannot be put down in that way.
Year: 1877

Paris Letter.-The "eel-skin" dress
is now the great range both in London
and Paris. In the widest days Of the
tie back or pin-back mania, there never
was seen such tightness in the matter
Of skirt as now prevails. Whatever the
paucity of folds in the pin-back in its
frontier part, in the enormous exuber-
ance OF the pannier or hustle the
balance was struck. But now, not only
the necessary underclothing is consid-
cred de trop. To lengthen the waist far
beyond its natural proportions, stiff
webbing of elastic is fastened to the
stays to the depth OF halt a foot; and
to this, at first, narrow skirts were but
toned. But even this is now abandoned
for another scheme to acquire slender
ness. Mrs. Swisshelm' s much ridiculed
chemiloon is in demand, and garments
made in this way are sold at the fur
nishing shops, and patterns OF it pass
eagerly from hand to hand among lady
| friends. Some ladies have had regular
over these they wear nothing but
the outer dress, underskirts being
simulated by pIeated ruffies OF white
muslin, sewn to the edge Of the dress
which is then tied back till the woman
within is shackled almost like a convic,
| in chain-gang. No more uncomfort.
able fashion ever was devised; for not
only are the limbs confined by the bind
ing dress, but the wearer must constant


ly concern herself about the condition
OF the bodice, that portion being in In


cessant danger of turning itself up be
hind, wrong side out, like an umbrella
I IN Windstorm. The desired effect o


youthful slenderness is generally OBJ
! tanned by the "eel-skin," but at great
deal OF sacrifice OF personal ease.