smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874




P1ETY KNOCKED INro P1.- From the
Detroit Free Press we clip the following:
Horace Greeley used to affirm that
newspaper men we're the most patient
people, as class. on earth. and he was
not far from right, though there are
times when patience ceases to be viz
tue with the most enduring. Nearly
everybody in the. western part of the
State knows Burr, who used to start
newspaper about once a month the year
round, generally bringing them out in
Grand Rapids, but sometimes making
flying trip to other points. Burr could
stand il to be tcld that he lied about his
circulation, was on the fence as politi
clan, and that he didn't know anything
abont publishing newspaper. andwhen
men threatened to sue or thrash him he
only smiled sad smile and wished that
mankind wouldn't get excited. During
religious revival in Grand Rapids,
Burr was converted, and it frequently
happened that religious people called at
his Office to talk with. him. One day
minister came in, and after talking
while he proposed prayer. He was in
the act of kneeling when his foot struck
one of the outside forms which was





leaning against the leg of the stone,
ready to be lifted up, and over it went,
msking half bushel of "pi." Burr
looked at the ruin wrought, thought Of
the two weeks of overwork, and he
commenced taking off his coat, saying,
I'm trying to be Christian, and set a
good example, but, rat my buttons If |
can't lick you in just two minutes"
The clergyman backed down stairs in no
time. dodging the lye brush on the way.
and Burr backsli1 at once, and sent
down for pint of stimulent.
Year: 1874

Public schools are now open at Tucson, Florence, Yuma, Prescott, Phcnix and Ehrenberg, and we hear very good reports from all of them The free school system has now become fixture in Arizona and from the interest that is manifested ill all parts of the Territory we believe it will be maintained and sustained in the future, so that all the children within our borders will be enabled to secure an education. No other act of the people could so un- mistakably demonstrate their intelligence as that of providing the means to educate the rising generation, and no other act will have so beneficial an effect upon the future of the Territory. It will be the means of making useful members Of society of the boys and girls who are now growing up. It is demonstrated fact that in proportion to the advance of edu- cation, vice and crime decrease. So the money we pay out in building school houses and providing for schools will be more than repaid us in saving the expense ot building jails and maintaining criminals. Parents toll and work to gain wealth to leave their children after they are gone. Many times this wealth proves positive damage, and is seldom advantageous. Children who inherit fortunes often in consequence become dissipated and eX- travagant and seldom possess the same energy that they would, had they been thrown upon their own resources. Hence the best gift parents can give their chil- dren is good education. No misfortune can take this from them and with it they can carve their way through the world and make an honorable record as useful citizens The good we do while living will endure when we are gone. He who only lives for himself lives for very poor purpose, and has but little real enjoyment. Just in proportion to the kindness and assistance we give to others will our en- jOyment be enhanced, and no one can neglect the responsibility of giving a helping hand to elevate and educate the rising generation, without doing himself an injury.
Year: 1874

Ar meeting of Free and Accepted Ma sons of the town of Phenix, on the Occa- sion of the death of Brother F. l.. Handles a Master Mason, in good standing, who was killed by Apache Indians on the 14th day of April, 1874, the following resolu- tions were adOpted:

 Whereas, It has pleased the Grand Mas ter of the Universe to remove from our midst by death Brother P. l.. Handle, a Brother Master Mason.

 Be it resolved, That we sincerely mourn the loss of our Brother and especially mourn the cruel manner of his death at the hands of ruthless savages.

 Resolved, That in the death of Brother Handle the community has lost an es- teemed citizen, the Fraternity @ worthy Brother and the world a good man.

 Resolved, That we tender the relatives of our deceased Brother Oul sincere sym pathy in the loss they have sustained, and assure them that we feel to Iningie our tears with theirs.

 Resolved, That a copy of these resolu- tiOns be sent to the relatives of the deceaS- ed and that copy thereof be forwarded to The Sentinel, The Miner and THE CITIZEN for publication.
Year: 1874

ABOUT the poorest business that can be gagged in at the present time in Arizona is raising grain for sale. The contract price to which it has been reduced is so low that with the greatest industry and the strictest economy farmers cannot afford to raise it, at the same time if farmers would turn their attention to other classes of products, they could do very well and would soon cause demand for barley and wheat which would insure a good price for what they do raise.

 The tobacco and cigar trade with Sono- Ta is very large and there is no reason why we should not raise our own tobacco and make our own cigars. We import immense quantities of sugar from Sonora and the States It is demonstrated fact that we can make as good sugar here as is made in Sonora, and the profit of making 1t is much larger than raising grain. We should make our own leather and no time should be lost in starting woolen manu- factory. The statistics of the Territory show that the average yield of alfalfa per acre last year WAS ten tons, and with ten acres quite stock of horses, cattle and hogs could be kept in good condition. Every encouragement should be given to our mining interests. Those who have not means can work and those who have should assist them with the development of our mines. We can soon develop 8 home market for all our supplies By helping the country We are helping our, selves. Let every one do his part and be. fore two years the Territory will be alive with industry and prosperity.
Year: 1874

Col. JONES and Dr. MagruGer found the two men that were murdered by the Apa- ches between Salt river and McDowell. place. Dr. Magruder says that as soon as he saw the two men murdered he put away his gun, because he knew there was no danger of the Apaches remaining near the road after committing such crime There is good deal of good sense in that suggestion. Where depreGations have not been committed for long time people generally travel very careles.ly, when in fact there is more danger then than i'm mediately after an attack.
Year: 1874

IT is now quite probable that New Mexi- co will be admitted as 8 State into the Union. We sincerely hope that such may be the case, and we see no good reason if the people desire State organization why 1t should be denied. The Territory now contains over 100000 people. It has been an organized Territory twensy-four years, and it would seem that by this time they ought to be sufficiently schooled in the science of government to know how to run State organization. With two sena- tors and a representative from New Mex ico, this neck of the woods along the Mex ican border will be far better looked after than now. In railroads, telegraphs and on the Indian question, New Mexico and Arizona interests are identical, and we shall hail with joy the full growth and in- dependence of our sister Territory.
Year: 1874

BY our dispatches of last week it was stated that "no officer in the service o1 the government stands higher than Gen. Crook in the estimation of the entire De- partment of the Interior"

 We are glad to hear this, both from the fact that General Crook undoubtedly has a better knowledge of the best mode oi dealing with hostile Indians than any one who is connected with Indian affairs, and also that any hostility that might arise at this critical time would jeopardise the fair prospects we now have of permanent peace and perhaps entail upon us years of war. The ins and the outs around res ervations very seldom agree. The outs are always dissatisfied with the way the ins are doing the business. They gen. erally play the part of philanthropy to the poor Indian and are anxious for investiga- lions so that they can tell what they know about the misusage of the savage and the corruption of the agents and em- poyees. And should they succeed in get ting a change they are always willing to sacrifice themselves and take employment, not for the money they are to get, but simply for the love of the cause. Who ever has any thing to do with the manage ment of the Indian business will have to meet and contend with these elements. Whether soldier, Christian orintidel it is all the same. If he is honest his reputa- ton will become soiled, perhaps quite as much as though he were dishonest. And place it in any light you may it is rough road to travel, and about the last place an honest man should seek to fill, for no compensation he may receive will pay him for the islander and abuse that will be heaped upon him. If he undertakes the work as Christian duty with the expec- tation of making martyr of himself, then he will be pretty sure to be accom- modated. But we are glad to learn that there is no rupture between the war and Interior Departments and that General Crook, who has dole so well will now be allowed to finish the work, without any more commissioners being sent out to in- vestigate and take testimony from the outs, and finally report a mass of non sense that mistifes matters worse than eyer. Gen. Crook now thoroughly under stands the business. He knows every Apache in the Territory, he is just and humane and if allowed to follow out his own judgment he will before another year permanently settle the Apache ques- tion.
Year: 1874

As the political pot is beginning to boil we publish below the vote of the several counties cast at the last election for the office of sheriff, believing that it may be convenient for those who care to figure
Year: 1874

A SPLENDID RESIDENCE AT AUCTIoN.-lt is
a very rare circumstance that 80 handsome and
pleasant residence is offered at auction M the
one advertised by Messrs. NJ. NJ. Child " Co,
TO be sold on Saturday. This sale is positive
there will be no withdrawal. The situation of
the house is most dclightful-the scenery and
surroundings are all OF n pleasant character. No
part of Delaware Avenue is more desirable. The
passenger cars pass it every five minutes and
therefore, although rural in all that is desirable
for health and exercise it is as accessible to the
business man as though it we're IN the heart oi
the city Although in few years the city will be
thickly built up far beyond it this residence,
from the lawns and parks adjacent, will retain its
present attractiveness 1t is W..and in com.
plele order and will ne sold on very easy terms
| Those who desire TO examine it will lind it ad
yertised in another column, as No. 1903 Della.
ware Avenue. adjoining the elegant property o.
Washington Jones' Esq,
Year: 1874

NEW MATING. The f)or Of the police head
quarters, in the City Halt, has been covered with
an excellent rattan mating, which lmparts liner
appearance 10 the room This ls an excellent and
long needed improvement
Year: 1874

lasUED.-I The DeldWdre Directory is now
ready for circulation. 1t is well rot I'm and
ilnely printed, making volume of nearly COO
paper. A copy has just been left on our table
and we have not been able to look through
il.
Year: 1874

al consequences, and the in
exorable logic of events has
led him to this crowning
shame. For the first time in
the history of the United States
the soldiers of the Union are
employed to drive out a legiti-
mate Governor, and place a
miserable pretender in the
State House, to shoot down in
the streets thepeople who may
refuse to obey him. For this
disgraceful and disheartening
spectacle the Congress which
refused to act on the Louisiana
report, and the Republican
party which tacitly approved
the wrong, are both to blame !;
but it is upon the President
that the chief responsibility
must rest,-the President who
began the long course of op-
pression-the President who
could have stopped it now
the President who is probably
the only man in America not
ashamed of the whole, bust
ness, and who comes forward
in the midstsof it asking for a
third term.
Year: 1874

The universal expression of the
people is that they prefer being
placed under military rule to being
remanded to the Kellogg usurpa-
ton. Give MS our liberty or give
us the military. We have tried
them both and know what they
are Delhi Chronicle.
Year: 1874

The whole business is an cleo
tioneering scheme, and the trouble
in Louisiana was started by Kel-
lOgg's vile emissaries, with the ex-
press purpose of provoking diff
Guilty, in order to furnish an occa
sion for calling in the military.
That the Attorney General was a
party to this delivery will hardly
be disputed by those who hase
watched his unscrupulous course,
who have seen him scorned even
by his own party, who knows him
to. be essentially corrupt, and
who have no faith in his public or
personal integrity where the least
interest in involved. He is worthy
to be the expounder OF Grantism,
and a fit tool for all its enormi.
ties.-New York Sun.
Year: 1874

A BRAVE BLUE GRASS GIRL
A young lady of this city, about II
years OF age, performed an act of
courage that showed she had good
nerves and self-possession. She
lives out of the center of the city in
a house back from the street, and
having been notified by young
friend that it was proposed to SER
enade her, and hearing some music
in the night, she got up and went to
the window, the shutters being
closed. The music was at some dis
lance, so she sat at the window en-
loving the cool air and distant
music. In little while she heard
noise in the parlor below, and quiet
" opening the shutters she saw that
the shutters of the parlor window
were open. Instead of screaming,
as most girls would have done in
her situation, she ran to her bureau
drawer where she had placed little
pistol belonging to one of her cou-
sins, and fired it out of the window,
and then ran to alarm the other
members of the family. On pro-
ceeding to the parlor large lot
of movables, such as burglars could
readily carry off, were heaped on
the floor, and outside the window on
the ground was a silver waiter. The
firing of the pistol by the brave
girl had so alarmed the burglars
that they fed precipitately and had
no time to carry away anything.
Preparations have been made to
give them a much warmer reception
if they should repeat the attempt
Lexington Gazette.
Year: 1874

OBITUARY.-Calcb Goodma II, father
of j. T. Goodman, late editor and pro.
prietor of this paper, died in San Fran
cisco, last Tuesday, April %, aged "a
years. The old gentleman had long
been seriously i'll, and left this city
early last Winter to put himself under
the treatment of a physician in Cali
tornia whom he had long known and
in whose skill he had great confidence.
1t was soon a>certained that he had the
heart disease, therefore was liable to
die quite suddenly ut almost any time
His son Lewis remained with him in
San Francisco and until lately it was
not thought that he was so i'll, but that
there was chance of his living many
months, or even some years. \ short
time since, however, it was seen that
he was rapidly falling and Joseph r.
Goodman, who was in New York and
about to sail for Europe, was tele-
graphed. lie at once left tor San Fran
cisco, where he arrived last Saturday
night, three days before his fathers
death. Caleb Goodman came to Cali
fornia from New York many years
since 1--WE do not know the year., and
most of the time after his arrival was
engaged in various mining enterprise
in MaripOSa county. OF late wears he
divided his time between this State and
California, generally residing here in
the Summer and going to California to
Winter. He was man who was most
highly esteemed by all who knew him.
both here and in California. He was
of a quiet. retiring disposition, n man
who cared Ii tie for making new ac-
q,laintances, but who greatly cherished
al old friends and who was always
ready to lend all such any assistance
in his power, even to dividing with
them the last dollar he Possessed. He
was great lover Of nature and was
never happier than when dwelling high
up in the Sierlas. where he could roam
at will and undi>turbcd pursue those
quiet pursuits he so much loved. \
host of friends in this State will be
panied to hear of the death Of the good
old man and, when the news shall
reach them. there will be sadness
among the old miners of many 4 camp
in old Mariposa.-rUginiu Enterprise,
Way |.
Year: 1874

Mrs. Henry Siddons, neighbor and
intimate friend of the late l. ord Jeffrey,
who had free license to enter his house
at all hours unannounced, and come
and go when she listed, opened his
library door one day very gently to look
if he was there, and saw enough at a
glance to convince her that her visit
was ll-timed. The hard critic of the
Edinburgh was sitting in his chair, with
his head on the table, in deep grief.
As Mrs Siddons was delicately retiring,
in the hope that her entrance had been
unnoticed, jeffrey raised his head and
kindly beckoned her back. Per,eiving
that his cheek was flushed and his eyes
suffused with tears, she apologized for
her intrusion, and begged permission
to withdraw. When he found that she
was seriously intending to leave him,
he rose from his chair, took both her
hands, and led her to a seat. Lord
Jeffrey Qoq) Don't go, my dear
friend. l shall be right again in
another minute" Mrs. Siddons-"I
had no idea that you lad any bad news
or cause for grief, or would not have
come. Is any one desd?" Lord jeffrey
Yes, indeed. I'm a great goose to
have given way so but could not help
it. You'll be sorry to hear that Little
Nelly-Boz's Little Nelly-is dead. y
The fact was, jeffrey had just received
the last number then out of 1.-The Old
Curiosity Shop" and had been thor
oughly overcome by its pathos.
Year: 1874

MANY young people think an idle life
must be a pleasant one, but there are
none who enjoy it so little and are such
burdens to themselves, as those who
have nothing to do. Those who are
obliged to work hard all day enjoy their
short period of rest and recreation so
much, that they are apt to think If their
whole life were spent in rest and recre-
alton it would be the most pleasant of
all. But this is a sad mistake, as they
would soon find out if they made trial
of the life they think so agreeable. One
who is never busy can never enjoy rest,
for rest implies relief from previous
labors; and if our whole time were
spent in amusing ourselves, we should
find it more wearisOme than the hardest
days work. Recreation is only valuable
as it unbends us; the idle can know
nothing of it. Many people leave off
business and settle down to life of
enjoyment; but they generally find that
they are not nearly so happy as they
were before, and are often glad to re-
turn to their old occupations to escape
the miseries of Incidence.
Year: 1874

There is nothing that will let the light
into the soul like personal influence ;
nothing that can lift one up out of the
darkness, and lead one into the divine
and quickening light, and baptize one
in the spirit of faith, hope, love, and
charity, like the magic power of great
example nothing that can inspire,
exalt and purify, like the magnetic rays
of healing and helping that beam out
of the eyes of noble men and women.
If your life has been deep and broad in
its experience, then you have seen lives
that were better than yours lives whose
pure light shone upon you from a
serener height than you could reach,
and touched you and warmed you
through and through just as the droop-
ing flowers, some chilly morning, have
looked up through the thick fogs and
caught a glimpse of the bright sun,
which scatters the mists and opens the
glad blossoms to the warm, Gfe-giving
light.


Whose life is not, sometimes, wrapped
around with fogs? Who has not looked
up from his little life-world and seen no
cheering sun above him-nothing but a
heavy, leaden sky hanging over? And
then. perhaps, you have almost doubted
the sun itself-doubted goodness and
doubted God-until you have SEN the
clouds break away, the fogs lift, and
doubt vanish before the beautiful radi-
ance of some shining example. l tell
you that believe, more and more, that
what the world needs to reform and
redeem it is, not so much a sound theo-
logy or a profound philosophy, but
holier, purer, diviner ives-lives that
shall be the light of men.
Year: 1874

The woman who is more or less green
or snobbish borrows clothes, ribbons,
iewelry and bonnets with which to
dress. The genuine lady never is guilty
of such degradation. The high-toAed
woman is above having articles of dress
or lewelry in common with another /;
she will never run to borrow new gloves,
new ribbons, new cloaks, shawls and
other articles of apparel with which to
cut dash. To dress mud lark in
yellow feathers does not make a canary,
nor will dressing a woman in borrowed
plumage transform her into a lady.


Men seldom display such weakness.
The real gentleman never will appear in
borrowed articles of dress or jewelry.
Nor will the woman who has real pride
of character so cheaper herself as to
appear in goods not her own.


A gentleman friend of ours, who loves
his wife dearly, was constantly buying
for her costly and beautiful articles.
He filed her lap with such little things
as he saw from time to time, which he
thought would please her. She lived in
a boarding house. One day her hus-
band noticed that she was without GER
TAIN drtlcltS lie utu DOugut IOr neI only
short time before He began to in
quire and learned that her landlady
borrowed her furs to wear to market,
that her sister had borrowed of her
jewelry and other articles to wear to a
party; that lady friend had borrowed
her new bonnet to wear on the street,
and that scarcely one of the beautiful
articles he had bought for his wife,
because he loved her and wished her to
have them, was in her possession.
Whoever should see her in company
even with her own articles on her per-
son, would think they were borrowed
of those to whom she had loaned them
rather than lose their friendship.


AS the articles were returned to their
owners, some Of them torn, broken,
soiled and damaged. like a sensible man
he threw them into the fire and told his
wife that if she did not love him enough
to keep for her own use such ornaments
as he bought for her alone, she might
buy for herself hereafter. There is no
difference between a borrower and
beggar; except the borrower is the
most selfish of the two and the least
entitled to respect.