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Year: 1877

LAW AND OkDER.-In the East the
great strike is at an end, though there are
occasional mutterings from one quarter or
another. This is q result that it did not
require the voice of a prophet to foretell.
The strike has been the most widespread
ever known, and has involved conse-
quences little dreamed of by those with
whom it originated. Many lives have
been lost in the different places to which
its ramifcations extended, millions of
property destroyed which the county and
municipal governments will have to pay
for, some OF the Eastern cities reduced
almost to starvation point, trade brought
to stand still, and still the strikers are
as far from their object as ever. 1t is
doubtful matter if anything is ever gained
by actions of this kind in the long run
There are times when labor apparently
succeeds in gaining its ends, when the
employers are compelled by the pressure
Of their business engagements to yield to
the demands of their workmen, but these
instances are isolated ones, and where bad
feeling is once established between en-
ployers and employed it is apt to produce
results, in the end disadvantageous to
both. 1t is far easier for capital to shut
up its works and allow business to come
to a standstill, than it is for labor to see
its little ones hungry for bread. Even
had the strikers been successful IN OBJ
tanning the advance of wages which they
demanded it would not have been many
days before the ringleaders if not every
one connected with the affair, would have
found their employers had no further use
for their services, and their places gradu-
ally filed by strangers. oman is taken
advantage of by another without having
a very human desire to ''get even," and
corporations are nothing but bodies OF
men endowed with the common failings
of humanity.
Year: 1877

Yesterday forenoon, about ten o'clock,
the guests of the International hotel,
Nos. '624 and s26 Kearny street, were
startled by the report of a pistol. There
was general rush to tho second story
of the house whence the sound came.
Smoke was seen coming through the open
window of one of the inside rooms. Be-
fore any one could enter the pistol was
discharged again. The door was found
to be unlocked, aud the people who en-
tered were confronted by horrible
scene. A man, his head in pool of
blood, lay upon the floor, and across him
was stretched the body of woman.
Hewas breathing his last in unconscious
Year: 1877

vice that they should separate, and that
she should endeavor to mako her peace
with her husband. Insisting upon this,
he sat down to pen letter making
that proposal to. :. the: man: they
had both wronged. It would be hard to
conceive anything that. would sooner
make a fiend of woman than such (,
suggestion from the man for whom she
had forsaken q husband, and 1t was at
the moment that the outraged creature
saw her seducer sit down to coOlly pen
such message to tho husband that
she sent the ball crashing into his brain,
and then turned the pistol upon hersslf.
The hotel people say that Mrs.a Lewis
was an exceedingly pleasant and lady
like woman, although always rather
melancholy and latterly . little wild and
excitable in manner. Her body. lies at
the morgue. The remains Of Rosewarn
were at Gray's undertaking house. Tho
coroner will hold an inquest to-day.
Year: 1877

HUNTING GIRAFFRS.-Giraffes if not hard pressed, do not go at any very great pace, so that before long we were within 1OO yards of them. Even in the ariorof the chase, it struck me as 6 glorious sight to see these huge beasts dasting along in front, clattering over the stones or bursting passage through opposing bushes, their long graceful necks stretched for ward, sometimes bent almost to the ground to avoid horizontal branches, and their bushy black tails twisted up. And how easily and with what little exertion they seemed to get over the ground with that long sweeping stride of theirsl Yet they were going at a great rate, for felt that my old nag was doing his best, andT could not now lessen the distance between us by an inch. I now saw that D. was about to make push, and, as the horse he was riding was pretty fast, I knew that he would press them into much quicker pace and leave me behind altogether; so, refining up at once, l jumped of and, taking as steady an aim as my arm, tired with f0gging, would allow, fired at large dark -cOlored COW that looked, to me, in good condition. The bullet elapped loudly, and saw herstagger, bun, recovering inmed ediately, she went on, though slightly in the rear Of the troop. At this moment my friend jumped of close behind them, and gave another COW Q shot. I was now long way behind, but my horse, though slow, possessed good staying powers; 90 that, by dint of keeping on at a hard gall0p and cutting angles when could, again crept up and gave my COW another shot, quickly followed by third, which brought her to the ground with crash. She was not yet dead, however, for as approached, she rear ed her lofty head once more, and gaZed re- proachfully at me with her large, soft, dark eyes. A pang of remorse went through me-

 and for an instant wished the shots unfred that had laid low this beautiful and inoffensive creature But now the criesof my Kaffirs and Masaras, following like famished wolves on the blood spoor, broke upon my ear so, stifiing the still small voice, again raised my rifle and put an end to the miseries of my victim, whose head, pierced with a two-ounce ball, fell with a thud upon the ground, never to be raised again. Leaving some of the boys to cut up the meat, I rode on with the rest to look for my friend, whom found beside another pros trate giraffe which he had killed little further on. As the one had shot was the fatter of the two, we left the Kaffirs here and went back to mine! It was now late; so, hastily dividing the boys into two parties, and bidding them sleep by the two giraffes respectively, and cut them up and bring in the meat on the follow

 ing day. we starred for the wagons with oul gun-carriers, who also carried few of the fat

 test bits of meat. 1 may here remark that il is difficult to imagine anything more tasty and succulent than a steak of young giraffe COW, when in good condition, though it may be that hunger, the sauce with which have always eaten it, has eQRaothing to do with this opin

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Year: 1877

The Chicago Legal News says of Mrs. J. Ellen Foster who recently argued an appeal in an evcise case before the Supreme Court of Iowa:

 "Her argument was listened to by large number of the members of the bar and other citizens The District Court adjourned for the special purpose of allowing the attorneys to hear her argument. It is spoken highly of i; she is an able and eloquent speaker. Ten years ago there was not Supreme Court in the United States where awoman'svoice could be eeard to-day there are twelve. In ten years more the woman lawyer will stand upon an equality with the man in every court in the land"

 Rev. Carlos Martyr, in the Christian Intelli- geneer, writing on City Churches, ? says they do not keep pace with the growing population and are finding it more and more difficult to maintain themselves. s'Hah dozen churches in New York and about as many in Brooklyn are strong and fQrehanded. The rest stand cap in hand and beg leave to be-" The chief difficulty, he thinks, is that there are too many Protestant Cathedrals" and too few churches for the middle classes; The pew rent is so to them.

 Melville Clarke, "a gentleman pauper, lately sentenced to seven days hard labor in England for neglecting to performs a task of breaking stones at a workhouse, served with much dis tinction during the Indian mutiny with the Meerut Light Horse, receiving the medal and letter of thanks from the Government. He was afterwaFds in the Nineteenth Hussars, of which regiment he was senior captain when he retired some seven years ago, which fact prob ably out of respect for his old corps, he did not mention at the police court.

 What this country yearns for now is great forger or defaulter, who isn't pillar of tie church and Sabbath school, who doesn't be- leng to the best society, who isn't eminently, over whose c0fzviotion the court and the pulpit will not weep waudlin tears-in short, sin ner who is actually wicked, at least in spots. We are getting sick of having to send so many saints of society to the penitentiary.
Year: 1877

The following article forcibly
illustrates the necessity of pune
tuation. 1t can be read in two
ways, making it very bad man
or a very good man, the result
depending upon the manner in
which it is punctuated. 1t is
we'll worthy the study of teach
ers and pupils:


''He is an old and experienced
man in vice and wickedness he
is never found in opposing the
works of iniquity he takes de-
light in the downfall of his
neighbors he never rejoices in
the prosperity of any of his
fellow creatures he is always
ready to assist in destroying
the peace Of society he takes no
pleasure in serving the Lord he
is uncommonly diligent in show
ing dIscord among his 1rlendS
and acquaintances he takes 70
pride in laboring to promote
the cause of Christianity he has
not been negligent in endeav-
oring to stigmatize all public
teachers he makes no effort to
subdue his evil passions he
strives hard to build up Satan's
kingdom he lends no aid to the
support of the Gospel among
the heathen he contributes large
ly to the evil adversary he pays
no attention to good advice he
pays great heed 10 the devil he
will never go to heaven he must
go where he will receive the


just recompense of reward"
Year: 1877

"But / pass" said minister in
the West End one Sun day in dis
missing one of his subjects to take
up another. "Then I'll make it
spades" yelled a man from the
gallery, who was dreaming the
happy hours away in an imagi-
nary game of euchre. 1t is need
less to say he went out on the
next deal, being assisted by one
of the deacons with a full hand
of clubs.
Year: 1877

At a large party the ether eve.
ming while a young lady was play
ing the piano with a peculiar
touch, a bystander remarked, "I'd
give the world Tor her fingers. "
He was greatly taken aback by
her very prompt reply that she
might have the whole hand"
Year: 1877

BRIGHAM GoUNG has an eye to busi- ness, and at the same time is willing 10 risk some sarcasm if not threats against the government. He has re gently written to Washington, saving that there is no need for troops in Utah, but as a financial benefit t1 Salt Lake he would like to see q regiment there, it the Government has no better place to quarter them.
Year: 1877

MR. JOSEPH LsAAcs has recently paint led in oil a portrait of Mir. Mariana Cama- niego of Tucson, which we are informed IS a perfect picture and shows that Mir. l. is q true artist Those who have seen the portrait, admire it very much for its artistic beauty as well as for the perfection of the likeness.
Year: 1877

THERE have been an unusual number oi drunken Papago Indians in Tucson thi. week. Whether they are becoming more fond of liquor or have more than tht usual amount of money to throw away we do not know. It may be they are cele bratiug the advent of harvest by getting drunk on the proceeds of the first sales Of barley and wheat. IL is, however, 8 subject of much regret, that anybody will, for the sake of a few dollars, violate the law and injure the Indians by selling liquor to them. Difficult as it may be, constant effort should be made to find out and convict the guilty sellers.
Year: 1877

Mss MARIA FRYE leaves next Tuesday for California and perhaps her old home in Boston. During her residence of sew eral years here, sue acquired q host of good and true friends who are sorry that she is going, and whose best wishes go with her. May she always meet with the kiudliest fortune, aud we venture the hope that she will return 10 make her home here.
Year: 1877

THE party at Leyin's park on Wednes- day evening was in honor of Mrs. Zeckeu- doris birth day. II was well attended and in every way enjoyable. The park is a public blessing in the way of resort in the warm weather.
Year: 1877

HERE is a small paragraph not alone applicable, even if true, in the case as put:

 Wayne McVeigh scolds back al Ben Butler and says: "Those who know me will not believe anything you say against me, and those who know you, of course, will not believe anything you say against anybody"
Year: 1877

MEssRs. MITCHELL AND MOORE Of the Overland stage line. have been In town during the week, looking to the details of their business. Everything is in ship shape and the business good.
Year: 1877

OWING to i'll health, Dr. C. II. Lord will leave for tue eastern cities via San Fran cisco, tomorrow aud will not return until Fall The Doctor is among the most use full and successful citizens here, and we hope that the sea breezes and change generally will reinvIgorate him and that he will return fully recovered.
Year: 1877

Every where about the outskirts of
the town are innumerable low huts built
of sticks and mud and straw and any
old drift, rooted with thatch coming al
most to the ground, and presenting an
appearance of the utmost squalor. These
are the Mexican jacals. The chimney
and its ovens are usually in cone of
baked and blackened mud little re-
moved, and under a rude awning or
tree the whole family is usually to be
seen, with mules, donkeys, chickens,
and horde of dogs, among the latter a
hideous, hairless animal, promiscuously
intermixed. Dogs are largely in the
majority of the population in San An
tonic, and their baying divides the noises
of the night with the cock growing that
resounds from house to jacal, from farm
to ranch, and rises on the ear in broad
surges of sound like the waves of the
sea. If you should glance into one Of
these jacals, you would find an earthen
floor cleanly swept, bed neatly made
and brightly covered. and the place
garnished after its sort; and although
the general idea is that it is nest Of
filth, to the casual eye it seems clear
and orderly, but poor to the last degree
of poverty. Yet the Mexican here can
live on less than any. In the summer
the corn and onion and peppers. of his
garden patch meet his needs; in the
winter, even when he owns his bit of
land, a fvepenny soup bone and one
sweet-potato comprise his usual market
ing. But poor as he may be, his daugh-
ters do not 60 out to service; his moth
er wraps his ribosa-that remnant of
the Spanish mantilla-about her with
the grand air and he himself. although
in rags, salutes you on the street with
the grave courtesy of Spanish don.
Making exception of the proud old
Mexican families of lineage and repute,
who live in seclusion, it is not possible
to feel that these people who are known
as Mexicans have any claim to the name
as we use it. They are simply gentler
Indian, accepting sort of civilization,
now and then with a fairer tint, now
and then with wave in the hair that
tells of darker blood, and always with
high cheek-bone, following them to
the tenth generation. The proud Cas-
tilian has but small part in them, the
gentle Montezuma race perhaps has less.
One having those two strains in the
Yeins-tAe Spauiard. with his hemls-
tezuman, representing ancient and right
full empire of the continent-should
wear, it would seem, other than these
low -browed faces stamped in their dumb
and sullen ignorance, whether you see
them on the women squatting on the
brick floor of the cathedral, or. on the
men lounging in the plazas against any
thing which will uphold them, darker
and more sullen for the shadow of their
huge sombreros.


San Antonio is, in fact, a Spanish
town to-day, and the only one where
any considerable remnant of Spanish
life exists in the United States.-Har-
riet Prescott Spaford, IN Haper's
Magazine for Novena6er.
Year: 1877

THE MISSISSIPPI MoNsTER.-A Mis-
sissippi river tow-boat captain relates an
on recent trip which casts
into the shade all previous observations
of sea monsters. He was towing string
of coal barges just above Memphis, Tenn,
when he heard loud putting noise up
the river, and presently monster hove
in sight which caused his blood to cur
die and his hair to stand on end. He
describes it as resembling a vast snake.
with bull dogs head and pelican's
bill about ten feet long, lashiug the wa
ter into foam with its enormous tail and
oblique streams of water forty
feet high. The creatures neck was COW
cred with FURNISHED scales; from the
top of the head hung a long greenish
name, and immense fins projected from
the neck and sides. Again and again
the monster attacked the barge, which
fortunately had been detached from the
others, with violence frightful to wit
ness, plunging his beak again and again
into the side of the barge and making
the river boil in its mad fury. Its rage
was soon vented, however, and with a
below which made the boats culver, it
plunged beneath the surface and shot
down the channel with remarkable speed.
On examining the shattered barge, the
captain found splinter from the mon
ster's bill embedded in the timbers,
which he says resembles ivory and is as
hard as steel.
Year: 1877

FROM HIS RECENT ADDRESS IN BOSTON.


We must beware of the demagogues
who condemn civil service reform, and
the ground that it tends to raise up an
aristocratic, ofice-holding class. having
peculiar privileges. What peculiar priv
ileges had the British civil service en-
ployees /? They remained in Office to
serve the country, not to serve the par
ty whether Disraeli or Gladstone were
in power made no difference to them.
They were profession and had the op-
portunity to learn to do their work. Of
fees were not bought and sold. The po-
sition of Senator should not be reduced
to the level of gift enterprise. The
business of the country should be con-
Quoted in the same way that great fac
tory conducts its business. When the
management of a factory covering ten or
twelve acres of flooring changes hands
and passes from one proprietor to anoth
er, it does not change all its agents and
operatives. The new management has
too much common sense to summarily
dismiss those who have grown familiar
with their places and the duties requir-
ed of them, and take on an entirely new
set of hands. The business of the coun-
try should be done in business fashion,
for the benefit of the whole nation, not
of party. There never would be any
peace, any purity for the government
until the day of the disestabllshment Of
the machine in American politics.
Year: 1877

A HINT TO FATHERs.-The great Sc
cret of success in bringing up children
is to establish and preserve confidence
between parents and children. If the
father is the boys best friend, as all
wise mothers are the girls there is no
trouble about keeping them from bad
associates, whose vicious example and
silly bravado have lasting effect upon
forts bseeGter terIurrdfreg Tor your ramIr6s
remember that money will not save you
from many heartache if your boys
go wrong, and that their only safety is
in being kept close by your side, help
ing you in your business, and you in
turn sharing their fun and play. Moth
ing is so hattering to boys as the society
of their fathers, and nothing makes a
man so popular with them as joining in
their amusements. Try to do this, and
your sons will try in turn to understand
your cares and troubles. Take as much
pains to preserve them from contamina-
tion in the shape of immoral compan-
ionship as mothers do their girls, and
you will find them growing up to be
modest and virtuous young men, fit CON-
panions and husbands for girls who
have been carefully guarded from all
knowledge of evil. Devote your even
ings to family amusements and pleas
ures. Invite young people to you house
and pay them attention, instead of 60
ing off to bed, or shutting yourself il
another room the moment they make
their appearance.
Year: 1877

BY MARGiRET f. sASCSTEG.
i had a beautiful garment,
And laid it by with care;
folded it close with lavendar leaves,
In a napkin fine and fair;
at is far too costly q robe l said.


For one like me TO wear"
So never at morn or evening


| put my garment on;
1t lay by itself, under clasp and KEY,
In the perfumed dusk alone,
Its wonderful broidery hidden


TIL many a day had gone
There were guests who came 20 my portal
There were friends who sat with me.
And clad in somberest raimcrt.


| bore them company;
l knew that l owned beautiful robe,
Though its splendor rome might sec.
There were poor who stood at nv portal
There were orphaned sought my care;
gave them the tenderest pity,


DNt ~
| had only a beautiful garment,
And the raiment for daily wear.
At last on feast days coming,


| thought in my dress to shine;
l would please myself with the luster
Of its shifting color fine;
l would walk with pride in the marvel
Of its rarely rich design
So out from the dust l bore it
The lavender fell away
And fold on fold held it up


To the searching light of day.
Alas! the glory had perished


While there in its place it lay
Who seek for fadeless beauty
Must seek for the use that seals
To the grace of constant blessing
The blessing that use reveals.
For into the folded robe alone
The moth with IT'S biting steals.


-Hd1per's Bazdr
Year: 1877

THE ARMY WITHOUT FUNDS.


lBY TELEGRAPH To THE TRIBUNE.i


WASHINGTON, March 15-The extra session ques-
90, wears n new look to-day. Secretary Sherman
!; understood to have TO the conclusion that it
will not be prudent to get along until December
without appropriations for the army, and his opinion
a. the chief financial officer of the Government viii
naturally have great weight. The army officers ap-
near TO be almost unanimous in deprecating any
,nakeshft policy. OF course the political con-
alteration connected withthe question hasno weight
with them They do not want to be embarrassed Tor
want of funds, and are scarcely willing to aid in
deyising means for tIdng over a period OF 1--WE or
six months without their regular appropriations.
There appears to be no doubt that the
law authorizes contracts to be made
after the end of the present fiscal year
for clothing subsistence stores forage, and trans
portaton; but the contractors would have to wait
for their money until an appropriation should be
made The pay of the officers and soldiers would
seem al first sight to be the only thing that could
not be provided for; but there are many nccessi-
ties of the Quarternastcrs and Subsistence Depart
ments which could not be provided for by contracts
and which require cash for immediate use. The
uueston as to the extra session is not however. de-
cded and will not be until Attorney General Devens
submits a report on the legal points involved and
until further consideration of the subject by the
Cabinet. The President is STILL as formerly, very
desrous to avoid calling Congress together If 1t can
be helped in any way that is clearly lawful, and
will not embarrass the operations of the army AT
The CAPITOL to-day the prevalent opinion among
Senator's was that an extra session is inevitable
Year: 1877

woman, with face much swollen and ds1gured
from the effects Of q beating by her husband John
Maggie, ascendcd tho witness stand in the Court Of
SPECIAL Sessions yesterday and piteousy appealed for
mercy to her husband. 'If he goes to prison my
baby and myself without support said the un-
fortunate woman Justice Morgan gave withering
glance at the prisoner. "f we only had whipping
post, he said, IL would take delight in sentencing
YOU 10 thirty lashos For your unfortunate wifes sake
can't give you more than thir days on the Island"
The prisoner hardened looking man, seemed over
joyod at his light punishment.