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Year: 1877

OH lnto u TITO, 1olloWed by quartette, and
ending with full chorus by $50 mules
l didn't hear the whole thing, for when 1
came too, the regimental surgeon was stand
ing over me, giving me powerful restora-
tives, and heard him say that might pos
| sibly get out again, though would never
| be a well man again. | have been through
the New York Stock Exchange, and spent
part OF the day in boiler factory, and have
been on one or two Sunday school excur-
sions for children, but never knew what
noise was till heard lot of army mules
bray.


One Of the dead certaintics about mule
Is that he Is sure footed, especially with his
hind loot -He never bisplacos tiem ''sIf
he advcrtiscs that his feet will be at Ger.
tain time, with Il sample of mule shoes, to
which he would call your attention, you will
always find them there at the appointed
time. He is as reliable as the day of judg-
ment, and he never cancels an engagement.
Every man now living who drove mule
team during the war now draws pension.


never owned a mule. came near buy
ing one once. He was fine looking animal:
his ears stood up like the side spires on an
Episcopal church. His tail was trimmed
down so that it looked like a tar brush lean
ing against him. He was stripped off like
the American flag, and Raphael's cherubs
never looked more angelic than did that
mule. He looked all innocence, though he
was, in no sense


TRYING TO TRADE.


The owner sat in the wagon, with is chin.
resting on his hand and his elbow on his
knee. In the other hand he held stick
with brad in the end Of it. | examined
the mule and asked the man few questions,
and out of mere form inquired if the mule
was kind, or if he kicked? "Kiud? Kind?"
said the man, and those were tho last words
he ever uttered. He reached his stick over
the front of the wagon, and struck the brad
into that mule. 1t was awful to sec man
snuttcd out as quickly as he was. 1t almost
took away my breath he went so suddenly
l never saw the thread of life snap so ab-
ruptly as it did on that occasion. He didn't
have time to leave message for his family.
That mule simply ducked his head, and then
pair OF heels flew out behind there was
crash, flying of splintcrs, and that was
all, and the next moment that mule aud |
stnod alone, my face covered with astonish-
ment two feet deep, and his covered with a
part of an old bride. The next day read
an account in the tel,graphic news of
shower Of flesh in Kentucky l was the
only man that could explain that phcnom-
enon, aud did not dare to, lest should be
implicated in the affair with the other mule.


have seen death i'll many forms but l
don't recolect Of ever seeing funeral got
ten up with less pon,p and display than on
that occasion. If had my choice, to either
work in nitroglycerinc factory, or take
care Of mule, L should 90 for the factory,
as in case Of an explosion, there would be
more possibility Of my friends finding some
little momentocs of me, with which to
assuage their grief: a very small piece Of ne
would tighten very big sorrow


will hunt around, and if find any
other facts that belong to the mule, l will
write them down, and send them to you by
express, G. o. ID.
Year: 1877

Ben Butler is said TO be preparing to
remove TO Colorado. where 1t is supposed
he will enter the Dext contest for United
States Senator. Ben has several Thousand
acres of land in Colorado.
Year: 1877

FARMERS are crowding into the valleys
north of Dodge City at a lively rate. The
three branches of Pawnee afford beautiful
farm sites. with plenty of water. timber
and stone. These settlers come in from
Larned and Kinsley. Dodge City is much
the nearest railroad point, and We hope
the settlers will find it more convenient to
do their trading here than at kinsley or
Larned, as our merchants can sell just as
cheap.
Year: 1877

DR. TREMAIsE sold several residence
lots this week, In the eastern portion Of
the city. Master Mechanic Hocket is one
of the purchasers. and We understand he
intends building residence and removing
his family here. Mr.. A II. Boyd, of the
Dodge House, has also purchased two lots
in this vicinity and will shortly commence
improving them. This portion of the city
is beautifully situated for residence sites.
and the lots are being offered remarkably
low to parties who will improve them.
Year: 1877

A KENTUCKY man who went to
Texas last summer, wrote back to a
local paper, saying "Offer pre-
MUM at your next fair for the big
gest fool in the country, and I'll try
and get there in time"
Year: 1877

JUICE llILToS rises to remark II have
yet to learn that man cannot determine
that he will not keep Jew or negro board
ing house without drawing upon him the
This, as you will see, is all coming out right
on sober, second thought and possibly
the Jews may yet regret having made such a
fuss about matter in which they had no
cause for complaint The la#s yet permit
man to use his property as he pleases, and
propose exercising that blessed privilege,
notwithstanding Moses and all his descen-
dants may object
Year: 1877

still at Lapwai and in destitute circumstan-
ces. Whatever the brave little womans trials
may have been or may hereafter be, she will
probably ever be consoled by the thought
that she had gone when ho called her and
STAYED by him to the last.
Year: 1877

Tue lltest plan advanced for eleeting the
President of the United States is that of Mr..
Charles Washburne, of Pennsylvania He
proposes that the Electors no longer be
elected by the people, and that their number
be reduced to one for each State; that the
whole body of Electors shall meet in gem
c-al council and there make choice of Pres
ident according to their independent dis
erection. The single Eleetor in each State
shall be that living Ex-Governor who has
been chosen the greatest number of times by
the people. This fact alone, and without
any other selection, is to entiile him to be
commissioned and to act as an EleetOr OF the
President.
Year: 1877

formerly owned by v Cnalfant, and moro
recently by VIM II AsNnall. They intend
not only to keep up the good reputation of
the establishment, hut 10 make one Of the
most popular business Institutions Of tho
county They will confne their business 10
a fair trade in
Year: 1877

ALIAS 1.-THE WESTERN LITERARY BuREAu.n


In the wide range Of scholastic duties there is
nothing SO irksou1e to the average young idea as
the necessity OF shooting of a "composition II
upon given topic. Occasionally, but seldom,
We lind in seats Of learning pupil or SO to
whom the preparation OF essays is rs easr rs
lying about the source Of his or their informa-
ton upon the subject treated, but as general
proposition nothing presents so many difficult
ties to the pupil as the manufacture OF an ex-
esesis which shall ut once reflect credit upon the
Institution and the course Of study marked out
or tue eminent Professors. Nor are these hard
saips confined to the preparatory schools or the
colleges OF the land We are told by some of
the most profound diyincs that their ideas of
1utuFe azonies stored up for tue unregenerate
are not lnlrequentlv derived from the tortures
involved in the weaving OF sermons, aud the
scientist chimes in with his contribution
and informs us that the lines on his brow are
put reflex OF the lines set down in rithipg and
doubt upon his blotted and Starred paper.
What Would De more natural, then, than that
This TITO Of sufferers the sophomore, the minis
1eF' ana The deliver In metaphysical mysteries
Year: 1877

And in accordance with law and an oruer OF tIe o'


taaa nade and entered on the l4th day of August A
D 1877 SO many of such designated shares OF stock be-
LONGING to and standing in the OF the shareholders
n1assd "a shall and will be necessary to psy the assess
ment upon all shares held and owned by such
or standing in their upon the books OF the company


will he sold st public auction the office of said company
IN the oice of Trenmor Coffin in Carson City, Nevada on
Year: 1877

STOLEN HARNEss.-As officer Cloud
was walking along Market street, in the
Ninth Ward, last evening, he noticed a
negro man coming down the street, with
suspicious looking bundle under his
arm. He followed the man, who walked
quickly until he reached the Brandywine
bridge, when he threw the bundle into
the water and started to run. The officer,
however, arrested the man and took him
to the police station, where he is now
confined. The bundle was fished out of
the creek and found to contain set of
harness, complete, with the exception OF
collar and names. 1t is now at the po-
lice station, awaiting an owner.
Year: 1877

Says a late number of the Bulletin Nearly all descriptions of labor are now being paid in silver, or only part gold; and in some instances the silver is purchased expressly Tor that pur- pose, the payer pocketing the premium received on the gold given in exchange. There is no law to enforce a tender of over 8 in subsidiary silver in one payment, but many people get around it in one way or another. Laborers have no relief. They must take the silver, or throw up their situations

 In many lines of trade competition Is so active that merchants feel compell- ed to take silver without limit, and get even with their customers in some oth- CT way. What that way is it is not for Us 10 say. Seriously, this free use of silver is upsetting all values, and It is not altogether the correct thing Such use was never designed by the govern ment. We have from Sj0O,000 to S150,- 00G more subsidiary silver coin in this State than there Is any legitimate de mand for, and we must get back 10 normal condition, or the State will be worse off than the gre nback States The bullion value of two half dollars today is sec; the money value at the brokers is 95l5c, and the value in trade or labor is 1O0c The gold value of legal tenders is 963fc.
Year: 1877

On Monday night at about half past ten o'clock, the case of the Territory against J. \. Lewis was given to the jury. This case has a peculiar history. On the 7th ut. II became known that Mrs, Henrietta Lewis had been shot. Rumors were conflicting, some saying that she had shot herself accidentally, and some that it was the act of her hus. band. After inquiry, the press and the people of the town settled down to the former opinion, and when Mrs. Lewis died a coroner's jury and the examiEa- ton before the magistrate failed to ellie il any other conclusion. Subsequent events however brought the District Attorney to believe there was more Tn the case than had been revealed, and the special grand jury which was call ed, investigated the case and found an indictment for murder Lewis discov- cred that the indictment had been found against hIm and fled. Recap ture we have previously told our read CTS On Friday last the case came on for trial. The evidence showed that Lewis deliberately shot his wife; that afterwards, when it was supposed that she would recover, he had said that if he had had another load he would have finished her. The wife showed an anxiety 10 shield this infamous wretch, and enjoined upon those who knew the facts that they should not re- veal them, saying that Lewls had been a good husband to her once, although he had not recently, and she did not wish to see him punished The prose cutiOn brought a host of witnesses who clearly proved a most convincing chain of circumstances proving the guilt of the defendant. Judge Tweed made an exhaustive charge 10 the jury, and af- ter about four hOnrs and a half of de- liberation they returned a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree. The opinion Is universal that the yer dIct is in perfect accordance with jus tice.-Prescott Enterprise, September ,.
Year: 1877

4 very heartrending story comes from Nantes, twcnty-nine miles north

 west of Paris Victorine Voisin, a

 young girl of nineteen, was last May

 elected Rusiere, or the most virtuous girl in the place, and was engaged tO be married Dn the l4th of this month but, meanwhile, some miscreant spread reports injurious to her character, and even wrote an anonymous letter, con- taining these charges, to her lover. He sent his brother to speak to her about these statements, and the latter, after a long conversation, during winch the

 poor girl grew te ribly excited, showed

 her the letter. She read it, burst from

 him and plunged into the Seine. A pOstmOriem examination, conducted in the presence of the Municipal au-

 thorities, proved that there was not a shadow of foundation for the vile sean dals Exchange.

 This is an affecting story and natur- ally fills the reader with sorrow and

 wrath, but at the same time we can't

 understand what the good people of

 Nantes mean by electing young girl

 the most virtuous in the place." We

 never knew there were degrees in that

 sort of thing There are certainly va rlous meanings to the word virtuous, ''

 but in the sense evidently meant in the

 present instance, we can't see how one

 girl can be more virtuOus than another unless the "other" isn't virtuous at all. And fancy your feelings to live in a place and have some one elected over your sisters or daughters as being more virtuous than they If comparisons are usually odious they are doubly so in the case at hand. The thing re- minds us too much of Marryatl's story of the maid who plead in mitigation oi her lapse from virtue and its results that the baby was only little bit of a one From reading the Nantes nara ton we certainly get the impression that virtue is a rarity among girls in Nantes, and that even alter they have found and crowned a solitary specimen, the first breath of suspicion necessi- tates a postmortem examination to de teImine the matter "ROsiere cleo tions are thoroughly bad Let the bloom on the peach alone, and don't handle the delicately painted wings of the butterfly
Year: 1877

THE CITIZEN OFFICE Is now letter than ever supplied with job papers, and Is pre- pared to do better and cheaper work than Is done elsewhere m Arizona. The bill bead and letter papers are the very best and they will be printed to order at a very small profit; also have a great variety of cards which wil be printed and sold from 8. 60 per tiOgssud upSards.
Year: 1877

The report of Lieutenant Wheeler's

 survey for the year ending June 30 l 1876, contains the results of the eXami-

 nation made to ascertain whether that l DC rtion of tbe Colorado Desert below the level of the sea can be irrigated from the river. The general fact that no canal for such irrigation can be made within the limits of our State,

 was published in 1875, and Lieutenant Wheeler was not authorized to make any surveys in Lower California. That such a canal is practicable Is implied

 by the flowing of the water into the Desert in time of flood, running a long distance in Mexican territory Our government should solicit leave of

 Mexico to make the surveys and 10 take the land needed for the canal if the re- port should be favorable. The sister Republic would lose nothing by the en- terprise. The amount of water passing Fort Yuma in March is 7600 cubic feet every second, enough to irrigate l,53O,- 900 acres or about 22,000 square miles, while the depressed area-we suppose thIs means the area below the level of the seals only 1900 square miles Alta.
Year: 1877

ARIZONA CITIZEN

 Job Office

 - has New and - FIRST CLASS MACHINE PRESS.

 together with - NEW STOCK OF JOB TYPE

 70 the LATEST EsIGNs AND STYLES

 - The - PRESENT OUTFIT OF JOB MATERIAL has been selected in the SAN FRANCISCO TYPE FOUNDRIEs,

 with great care and - Prof ssion al Ta s te, Keeping in view the especial demands and needs of this market. No necessity whatever to Send Outside Arizona for Job Work. The late unanimous evidence Of all par lies who have had work done in this office is that they could have got NO BETTER DESIGNS OR FINISH

 Of- EXECUTION IN SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, And that the work was done as Cheap ly as if executed in the large cities,

 -and at q -- LOWER PRICE THAN EVER BEFORE KNOWN IN ARIZONA. PROMPT ATTENTION AND EXPEDI-

 TIOUS WORK.
Year: 1877

The tule lands of this county are every
where inhabited by droves of hogs that


have doubtless originally been propagated
for domestic stock, which have escaped in
to the Jungle and have become as wild as
the famous game infesting the Black Forest,
the hunting of which affords so much
amusement to the German nobility. They
live and thrive on the succulent roots to be
found in the tules, and appear moderately
fat whenever they are seen. They are ex-
ceedingly shy, however, and it is only by
accident that one catches glimpse of them
as they instinctively avoid the haunts of
men. They are trapped and caught occa-
sionally in an ingenious manner by the tule
farmers who build small but very strong
corra1s or pens on their stamping ground.
A heavy gate made to drop perpendicular
ly, is fitted SO as to close the coral when
down. This is raised and held by trap,
to which string leading to the ground is
attached Barley is then Scattered on the
ground inside the corral, and in continuous
lines for some distance in different direc'
tions. The corral having been built owe,
the trails of the hogs, they are not long
scenting the barley, and once inside the
corral they can scarcely fail to spring the
trap in eating the barley. A drove of :
dozen or more has before now been cap
tured in this manner. The young ones arc
easily domesticated, but the old ones are
slaughtere at once.
Year: 1877

arranged his hair and put on an overcoar:
Crossing to the door Of Madame Gerdy's
room, he listened attentively for any
sound that might proceed from the sick
chamber.


All was silent, as if death already reign
ed there upon which he returned to his
study, and, double-locking the door, de-
scended the stairs on tip-toe, and, in few
moments after, was in the courtyard at
the back of the house.


Opening small, green door, half hid
den in ivy, with key which he took from
his pocket, he closed it softly behind him,
and was soon lost to sight in the darkness
of the night.
Year: 1877

The maid coming in with the tea. put a
stop for the time to this tender duet be-
tween the lovers--a duet which had al
ready been rehearsed on several occasions
by poor Noel And we seize this oppor-
tunity to introduce our readers more fully
to the lady who has taken th principal
part in the foregoingscene.
Year: 1877

A gentleman has just died in Paris who
owed most of his celebrity to the quaint
manner in which he managed to disembar-
rass himself of his creditors. No sooner did
a dun present himself than he was ushered
into room hung round with variety OF
mirrors, some convex, Others concaye, &c
In one the unfortunate creditor beheld him.
self with head as fiat as a founder, in an
other his features were nearly as sharp as a
knife, in third he had several heads, and
in fourth he was upside down. Here he
had the broad grin of clown, there the
long-drawn yisage of an undertaken. Or
one side Of the room he saw himself all heaC
and no body; on the other side it seemed
as if a dwarf had put on the boots of giant
No applicant, however pressing, was known
to resist this chamber of horrors for more
than quarter of an hour.
Year: 1877

There came lad from London town to the dear old


West Countree,


And he such bonnie lasses as he before did
see;


lass he saw and loved her. and asked If she would
wed;


"Til the gorse is out Of blossom I'll be true to you
she said.


Then he called her nckle-hearted, and he mounted
on his steed,


And back again to London town rode he in hottest
speed


And in his lovers anguish full many word spake
he


Gainst the lass that he thought ckle and the dear
old West Countree.


But one fine day he read about a saying In the
West


That sent him to the West Countree with all lovers
zest;


These were the words Of comfort his gladdened eyes
did meet


"when the gorse is out Of blossom then kissing isn't
sweet"


So back again he hurried to his lasse in the West,


And all his tale OF love TO her, his darling, he
| fessed


And when he asked the asse If she loved enough tC
wed,


T the gorse is out Of blossom III be true to you
she said.
Year: 1877

40 mighty apel


Half beast half man,


Thy uncouth shape,


Betrays plan
The gulf OF Being at bound to span
Thou art the link between ourselves and brutes
Lifting the lower to higher plain
Thy human face all cavilers refutes,
Who sneer at Darwin as a dreamer vain.
How camest thou beneath this canvas tent?
Within this cage? behind these iron bars7
Thou, whose young days in tropic lands were
spent,


With strange companions under foreign stars?
Art thou not lonely? what is life to thee
Thus mewed In prison, innocent of crime,
Become spectacle for crowds to see,
And reckless boys to jeer at all the time,?
Hast thou no feelings such we possess?
Art thou devoid Of any sense OF shame?
Rise up, brother, and thy wrongs redress
Rise In thy might, and be no longer tame r.
paused in my apostrophe; the animal arose;
He seized the bars that penned him In my blood In
terror froze;
He shook the cage from side to side; the frightened
people fed;
Then in a tone of savage wrath the horrid monster
said
'1m hired by the wake to wear the dirty craythurs
shkin;
come from Tipperary and me name is Micky
Flynn


-Scribner for June
Year: 1877

The New-YOrk Philharmonic Society had the
last OF the private rehearsas for their first concert yes
erday morning and after hearing it we can safely prom


e one OF the most brilliant performances in the record
OF the society. The band numbers ninety men, with Mt


George SIatzka and Mr Brandt at the head OF the six
teen first vions and includes nearly all the best mem
the former organizations which are now united
in IT, ConnOsseurs will specially remark in the PLAYING
both the full body and unity OF the strings and the
great superiority OF tone the wood and brass-rcher
and the time softer than it either IN the
old orchestra the society in that OF Theodore Thomas
and to these merits must be added the inspiriting
influence Of judicOus and sympathetic conductor and
OF generous enthusiasm and ambition among the men
themselves They rehearsed yesterday LISTS " Ma
zeppa" Cnerubni's overture to &" The Waer-Carrier,
and Beethoven's Pastoral symphony The rendering Of
this last named work is likely to make sensations we
have certainly heard performance OF the slow
movement comparable that Of yesterday great I'M
provement has been made in the placing OF the orches
ira, that the sound is thrown well forward into the
auditorium The prospects Of the season. altogether are
even unexpectedly bright.
Year: 1877

required his departure from the old and for that
reason he wished to back. This orator some
what eloquent wild bad Indians
eeiYlnR fyOrs In advance OF good Indians Standing
Bear said all his Indians had their pointed this way
so as TO listen for news


Big Chief the last Indian orator. He was very
happy as be had always wished TO MS Great Father
and talk 10 him face 10 face dressed Indian
now, Big Chief said pointing 20 the gorgeous orna-
mentaiion OF his breast but have different principles


was living that old reserve; but al az once was
taken no, by whirlwind, and disturbed in my place,
just as had learned 10 plough and made 10 take an
other road. which IL 10 We are all pershng
whore we are In less than three months time,
over thirty people have died. and 90 have many cate


The President rising, remarked: 4" / have listened at
tenvey 20 what yOu have said. VIII consider care


lY about It, and viii let you know the result VIII DO
the best can for you. and when have considered the
matter will send Tor you again" The President then
shook hands with each Indian chief and the haOreed
attendant, saying that he would them again, and tle
ceremony ended The speeches OF the four Indians were
listened 70 9y their fellow chiefans with every token of
interest and satisfaction.