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Year: 1874

! ..Shc was Young She Was FAIR. :. nd
She scrambled 11er Hnir.''
j. Bateman Smith in a Nashville Paper.


lie was young, lie was fair, and he parted


his hair, like the average beau, in the middle
must be told, he played like tiend on the
fiddle. But aside from this vice he was ey-
erythiD: nice, and his heart was so loving
and tender, that he always turned pale when


he tI0d ON the tail of the cat lying down by


the fender. He c!erked in the store, and the
way that he tore off calico, jeans, and brown


sheeting, would have tickled calf and made


the brute laugh in the face of q quarterly


meeting. He cut quite dash with darling


mustache, which he learned to adore and to


cherish; for one girl had said, while she drop


ped her proud head, that 'twould kill her to


see the thing perish. On a Sunday he'd


search the straight road to church, unheed-


ing the voice of the scorner; and demurely he
sat, like young tabby cat, with the saints
in the far amen corner. He sang like bird,
and hia sweet voice WAS heard fairly tugging
away At the long metre; and We speak but
the truth when we say that this youth could
outsing hungry musquiter.


She was young, she was fair, and she scram-
bled her hair like the average belle of the city;
she was proud, but not bold, yet the truth
must be told that the way she chewcd wax
was pity. But aside from this vice she was
everything nice and the world much ap-
plauded her hustle; and the Fayetteville boys,
being charmed by the noise, walked miles
just to hear the thing rustic. She cut quite
swell. did this wax chewing belle, and the
men docked in armies to meet her; but she
gave them the shirk for she loved the young
clmk, who sang like hungry musquiter. She
hemmed and she hawed, and she sighed and
she chawed until her heart and jaws were
both broken; then she walked by his store,
while he stood at the door awaiting some
amative token. She raised up her eyes with
a pretty surprise and tried to enact the proud
sooner but to tell the plain truth she Just
grinned at the youth who loved the devout
amen corner.
Year: 1874

VISITING CARDs.-Having just receiv-
ed, direct from the foundry, a quantity
OF type especially adapted to printing
visiting cards, we are gnow prepared
to print them as cheap as they can be
got on the Sound. Any one expecting
to make calls on New Years day will do
well to procure a quantity. Call and
examine specimens and price.
Year: 1874

Acc1DENT.-A young lady while skat-
ing in the rink, Tuesday evening had
the misfortune to fall and sprain her
wrist. She, in company with three OF
four other young ladies, had hold of a
broom by which they were pulled around
the rink by two young men, In attempt
Ing to turn corner she slipped and fell,
in such manner as to bear her full
weight upon her right hand, sprainine
her wrist. This is the FIRST accident of
any consequence which has ever hap
pened in any rink in this city.
Year: 1874

The FESTIVAL Owing to the weather
and there being one or two other socia-
bles in the City there were not as many
present at the festival as there might
have been otherwise. The gross re-
ceipts amounted to between $50 and 500.
Year: 1874

ANOTHER, Another paper has arriv-
ed from Tacoma and wants King County
to support him or send him TO Victoria.
King County had to stand ono Tacoma
pauper who was taken sick there and
sent here without any money and had
to be taken care Of by the county; and
now they are trying it on again. Bro.
Prosch, amt Pierce County rich enough
to support her own paupers. without
sending them to Seattle? We would
like to know.
Year: 1874

THAT SEMINARY.-A correspondent Of the
Statesman wants to know whether the sO-calleJ
Jameson Idaho Seminary" is a tangible reality.
or whether it exists merely on paper. People
should net be too particular. A paper Semina-
ry is better than none at all. 1t creates a lit
tie cheap fame for its projectors; and then by
having such thing to talk and write about, a
typographical error might occur sometime, by
which the delusion would be produced abroad
that We actually have Seminary. The truth
in nutshell is just this: If the people of South
ern Idaho desire il built, and furnish every doll
lar OF the money, it will be- built; otherwise
not. Semlnarics do not rise without money
power to raise them
Year: 1874

PARTIES going to the San Juan mines were forbidden to cross the Ute reservation, but as it was difficult to reach the mines early in the Spring without going that route and as it is most difficult to keep miners back when they once start with the prospect of rich mines ahead, the ques- tiOn began to assume a serious form. But we are pleased to learn that the Utes have granted the right of way through their country and no further trouble is appre- hended.
Year: 1874

THE bill asking aid to construct the Texas and Pacific railroad has been intro duced in Congress and the request is so reasonable and the advantages to be gain ed by the government and people are so great, and the chances for loss on the part of the government so remote that we can not but believe the bill will pass.
Year: 1874

OVER four months ago the President nominated General McCook for Governor of Colorado. Since that time a lively fight has been waged for and against his confirmation. The Senate recently re- ferred the matter back to the commit tee on Territories which is considered a virtual defeat of Meco3k and his chances to be again Governor. l4i .a
Year: 1874

THE Tucson market is well supplied with vegetables, delicious oranges are still coming in from Sonora, good fresh butter at 75 cents per dozen. Since we are not obliged to keep our stock in cOrrals large portion of the time, to protect them from Apaches, our beef and mutton is almost too fat. With such food no one need com plain of starvation or even privatiOn, but it does some people good to talk about suf- fering on the frontier.
Year: 1874

THE blacksmith and wagon shops in Tucson are all busy. There are at least 8 dozen in all, and some quite large ones. Etchells and Belknap each have a num- Der of men employed and do first-class work at reasonable rates. A wagon or buggy made here is much more valuable than those brought from abroad, for the reason that in this dry climate the wood gets thoroughly seasoned.
Year: 1874

BISHOP WHITAKER says that he never

 saw more orderly and temperate people than he has found everywhere in Arizona. What surprised him more than any thing

 else was that from San Diego to Tucson he

 did not notice single stage driver take a drink of liquor. The boys on this line are

 noted for sobriety, but they may have put it on little just for the occasion.
Year: 1874

THE ball at Levin's on Wednesday even- ing was grand success. The music by the 5th Cavalry Band was superb and the attendance was good. The floor for danc- ing is spacious, and being outdoors among the trees it is cool and pleasant. The flowers and trees beautifully illuminated makes it look like a fairy scene. Such gatherings are socIable and pleasant and we hope to see them often repeated.
Year: 1874

WE learn that the new mail contractors have bought the stock and wagons belong ing to James A. Moore, the present con tractor. If they carry the mail as faith fully and regularly as he has done, there will be no cause for complaint.
Year: 1874

THOMPSON AS A CRUSADER.-We
want everybody to read the reasons
given by the Brodhead Independent
for its support of Mr.. Magoon. It
is a well known fact that up to the
lime of his nomination for Congress
Mr.. Thompson was fanatical tenn
perance man, and distinguished
himself as an advocate and partic
ipant in the so-called women's cru
sade movement, which was extern
sive in Green county. Last spring
he was particularly active in favor
of a no-license ticket in the village
of Brodhead, and is now second
officer of the Temperance League
of that city. But, finding that the
party of whom he is the nominee is
at variance with his views on the
liquor question, he repudiates his
record, not only by words, but by
acts. What can be said of such a
man! Who can have confidence in
him! That he led the crusaders, or
that he bought beer and drank it
with anti-tenlperance men, is of
little consequence, but that he is
such pandering demagogue as to
do both these things should bring
upon him the contempt of all hon.
est men, whatever position they
occupy upon the temperance ques-
ton, That he has done this is true
beyond question. Those who doubt
it can be convinced by correspond
ing with any respectable citizen of
Brodhead, and watching his course
of electioneering.
Year: 1874

MAYOR CooPER's little daughter
was out with team last Saturday,
when by defect in the manner of
hitching, the horses ran away, throw
ing the girl from the buggy and
breaking her collar bone.
Year: 1874

No deduct viii be made for absence the first or
last week of the term. for absence during The
term IN any case excepting that of protracted sick
ness.


Students will furnish their quilts Sheets pill
low-cases towels and toilet sosp All articles need
ing to be ashed should be plainly marked with the
owners name.
Year: 1874

The chief item OF news we have this
morning is President GRANTS message
ve,olDg the currency initiation bill. 1t
takes the country somewhat BY sur
prise, for while it has been generally
understood that the President was OPP
posed to Initiation, the Washington dis-
patches and letter writer's have created
the i'm preston that he would sign the
bill. The message arrays in very forci
bic manner the solemn declarations that
have from time to time been made by
Congress in opposition to an increase in
the volume OF the currency and in
favor of a speedy return to
specie payments, ard reminds the
Congress that the faith OF the country
has been pledged not to do what the
bill seeks to accomplish. The bill is
vetoed, not 30 much for what it sctu-
ally does az for what its friends intend
ed it to do. 1t WAS intended to add one
hundred millions OF dollars to the pa
per money now in circulation, but its
immediate effect was to produce an
actual contraction by requiring the
country banks to keep in their own
vaults, without interest. the reserve
they have heretofore loaned in the
East.


The finances of the country are thus
again unsettled, and until some action
is had by Congress which will
meet the approval OF the Executive
and thus defiue the course to be pur'
,ued, business men will continue tc
srope in the dark. 1t may be that the
House bill in relation to this subject
may now be passed by the Senate aDd
sent to the President for approval, bu'
there is little doubt that it would mee'



with as much, if not more. objection
than this. Opposed in principle to any
increase in the obligations OF the gov
erumeut beyond the power Of payment
the President will doubtless interpose
his objection to any plan which pushes
farther away the day OF fulflmen'
of the promises of the govern
m.ut and widens the margin between
the paper dollar and the actual coin
live want more money we must have
more gold or more OF the articles o
istrinsic value that may be converted
into gold. Without this the natior
will be no richer though the govern
ment printing presses stamp paper dol
lars at the rate of ten millions per day
Year: 1874

The communication we publish this
morning in relation to the Elm Grove
railway will be read with a good deal o'
interest by our progressive citizens.
The i'm mprovement advocated is one oi
very great importance and there can be
littl. doubt that. beside the indirect
benefit it would confer by enhsncing
the value OF property along the line'
the stock OF the company itself will
prove profitable investment OF capital.


There is no fact more frequently and
stubbornly thrust in our faces in con-
sidering plans OF local improvement
than that some means must be devised
for facilitating transit between
the Wheeling creek valley and the
business portions OF the city. The hill
stands as a huge wall against the e1'
pansion of the only desirable direction
now left to us, and something musl be
done to render this obstacle less for
midable than it is now. 1t must be
cut through, or tuunelled, or carted
away, or else some other aud better
means than now exists must be had
for going over or aronnd it. The Elm
Groye railway company proposes. we
believe, to 90 around it. The plan 's'
IN conjunction With a plan for macad"
amizing a street along the eastern base
Of the hill and across the northern por-
ton of the Peninsula, to lay q
street railway track upon the proposed
street and upon the national road. OF
such portions Of the latter as may bes'
suit the purpose. as far as Elm Grove
about five miles from the city. 1t will
pass by the Peninsula Cemetery
Greenwood Cemetery and the new
Catholic Cemetery, and will place
pleasant country residences within
easy reach of the men who are com
PEELED by the demands of business te
spend the day in the city. 1t is one o.
the several scbeme devised for per-
mitting population to no"
out in the direction proposed
1t is already needed and th'
demand for it is destined to grow
stronger year by year, if the population
Of the city continues to increase. as W
have every reason to believe that j
will.


We have arrived at that point tha
the hill must be passed in some better
easier, more rapid and more convent
eut wav than now. This is the prob
lem which is now pressing for solution
We hope that the projectors Of the Eli
Grove railway will continue to sgitat
the matter. Let them open books 10
subscription to the capital stock an
make . thorough canvass in aid OF th
project and we have no doubt that


way will be opened for their comples
success. 49,, . ~
Year: 1874

A rumoris afloat in Washington that


before the lapse of many days Repub-
lican member Of the House viii. submit
TO that body somewhat bold and start
ling proposition for the relief of the
Southern States from their present dis
heartcning financial mbarrassmcnts.--
This proposition, il is said, will be to ad-
vance TO the Southern States several
millions of cash, or its equiva-
lent, and partly in consideration of the
heavy losses suffered by the Southern
States in the loss of their slave property.
This is most likely pure sensation. put
afloat for q sinister purpose--to keep up
the absurdity that the old slave hold
ing States are ultimately to be remuner-
ated for the loss of their negroes.
Year: 1874

Tho Troy Times makes the very scri-
GUS vliai go 1bot peijuiy ~ ""o Of the VI :
dinary instrumentalities Of Injustice in
New York. II is said the best lawyers
disdain the use of unfair means, bat
they know that there Isl certain amount
Of dirty work to be done in every case,
and they a:o not only willing that it
should be done, but they accept the re-
suits with great satisfaction. Ore orthe
features In this dirty work Is perjury.
The leading lawyers will argue n case
with ability from testimony which is
gotten up for the occasion. They say it
is no part Of their business to make in
quirics beyond the testimony, and IL a
witness be ready TO prove q specified
point, they are bound TO make the best
Of his service. Hence most Of tho chief
lawyers let perjury come into play when
ever tho managers Of the case introduce
II.
Year: 1874

In the Ohio House of Representatives
last week the resolution TO censure Con-
gress for passing the salary grab act,
previously referred, was reported back
so as 10 include the President for not
vetcing the bill. The Republicans sought
a division of the question, so as to vote
the first in censuring Congress, and in
their failure to do this, voted solidly
against all the resolution. 1t was
adopted unanimously by the Democratic
vote.
Year: 1874

Many persons have often noticed the ex-
treme difficulty encountered in lighting the
fire in Il stove, especially on still, damp
morning. The stove at first won't draw
even vigorous blowing" will not suffice
and then when it does start, it is with a
sort Of explosion or outward rush Of air
which fills the room with smoke and gas,
oftentimcs putting the unpleasant fumes in
the face Of the operator. The trouble is
caused by the difficulty encountered in
overcoming the inertia of the long column
of air in the pipe or chimney, by the small
column Of air that can be forced up, through
the interstices Of the wood and coal, at the
bottom of which the fire is kindled. All this
may be remedied by simply putting Il few
shavings or bits Of dry paper on the top of
the wood or coal, and first lighting that. 1t
Immediately bursts into Il blaze, because
the air has perfectly free access to it from
all sides the heated air forces its way into
the chimeny, and establishes there an up
ward current The match can then be APP
piled to the kindling under the fuel, which
will readily light, and, if dry, burst into a
brisk fame.
Year: 1874

1t is worth knowing that every keeper
Of COWS may cause them to calve during
the day time, instead of night or day as it
may happen, causing much watching and
want of sleep. The simple mcthed is this:
When the COW is in calf, and the milk be-
ginning to fail, till she is about yelled, :"
let no milk be taken from her during the
day, or night, but milk her any time in the
morning, and let none be taken but in the
morning and when her time to calvc has
come she will drop her young in the day
time. Two of our friends have tried this
simple method and have found it correct
in every case. One who has eighteen COWS
has tried it these two years, and now they
never think of setting up at night.-FYe
JounaL
Year: 1874

Judge Pitman's chimney has been foul
for some time, and when he mentioned the
fact at the drug store, Mr.. Squills said he
could easily clean it out by exploding a lit
tie powder in the Fireplace. The idea
seemed to Pitman to be good one and he
bought almost ten pounds of powder in
order to do the work thoroughly at the
first blast. The men were busy gravelling
his roof that day, and just as the Judge
was about to touch off the charge, work
man named Snyder, leaned over the top of
the chimney to call to the man below to
send up more tar. Then the Judge lit the
slow match The view which met the eve
OF Mr.. Snyder as he went up was fine
one, embracing as it did, Cape May and
Omaha and Constantinople and Baltimore
and the Sandwich Islands, and when he
got enough of drinking in the Scenery, he
came down in the river, apparently with
the intention of exploring the bottom
When he was fished out he was glad to
learn, not only that the Judges chimney
was thoroughly clean, but that it would
need about four cart loads of bricks to re-
pair damages. After this the Judge will
clean his fiues with bursh fastened to
clothes prop.
Year: 1874

1t is not often that dogs are instrumen-
tai in the spreading of small-pox but an
instance showing how the dreaded disease
was impaired in this manner has just come
to light at Yonkcrs, n Y Not many hours
subsequent to the death of man named
Van Orden from the loathsome malady.
and which occurred in that city few days
since, neighbors dog found its way to the
bed from which the corpse had been re-
moved, and INDUCED in roll on the cover
ing On returning home the brute was
fondled by its mistress, the result being
that she soon afterwards developed unmis-
taxable symptoms Of the contagion. The
infectious dog was then summariy shot,
and the I.atient has since recovered. An
other illustration Of the facility with which
the pestilential disorder can be transmitted
may be cited in connection with the same
case. 1t seems that the wife of Van Or
den, fearing that the health officer would
order the clothing worn by her deceased
husband to be burned, concealed bundle
of it in the house of friend, and as "A con
sequence the latter was attacked with II
mild type of small -pox, which ultimately
yielded, however to prompt medical treat
ment.
Year: 1874

Tie West Chester Republican says: A
pauper in the Delaware county Almshouse
is so averse to being buried at the county
expense that for several years he has been
making skewcrs, which he sold to neigh
boring butchers. From means derived
from this source alone, he has purchased
burial lot in a church yard, and tomb
stone, with his name and other lettering
complete, save and except the date of death,
which he has stipulated is to be filed in at
the proper time. He has likewise deposited
sufficient money in the hands of lady at
Glen Riddle to purchase a coffin and pay
his other funeral expenses. VIM. Wasson
is the name of this singular individual.
Year: 1874

At Lennoxtown, in Scotland, recently, a
lady's death was caused by lead poison CON
tanned in soda water She had been in de-
licate health, and had been in consequence
ordered to drink freely of soda water. She
did SO, and shortly afterward manifested
all the symptoms that would attach to a
patient suffering the effects of poison. Sus-
picion eventually fell on the soda water A
bottle was sent for analysis to DIR. Wallace,
Glasgow, with the result that the aerated
liquid was found to contain lead in the pro-
portion of 9-10ths of grain in gallon.
The effect of that is stated in the following
sentence i'll DR.. Wallace's report Cor
dinary drinking water is considered dan
gerOus if it contains 1-10 Of grain of lead
per gallon, and some authorities consider
even l-20 of grain deleterious to health
if the water is used continuously for a series
Of weeks or months In the case refer
red to the patient drank this soda water to
the extent of six or seven bottles daily,
swallowing in the same time no less than
three-eighths of grain of lead.
Year: 1874

A few days ago a very quiet, modest
young girl, with an eighth, or some such
imperceptible mixture of colored blood in
her veins, went into Trousdale county.
Tennessee, to teach negro school A few
nights after she began, some masked men
went into her boarding house and called for
her. On her refusing to 90 out, they shot
her in bed, through window The shot
killed her. She was an utter stranger,
and could not positively have been guilty
of anything but teaching negroes But
these persons shot her, and one of the same
kind, possibly one Of the murderers, writes
to the Nashville Banner about it and the
character of the people in this way: Out
of all the bright galaxy of counties that
form the proud old Commonwealth of
Tennessee none shine with brighter lustre,
or are more distinguished for peace, mo-
rality, order and law"
Year: 1874

The American conscience is becoming
too beautiful to last. A countrywoman
lately went into store in Boston, and de
posting four dollars on the counter OBJ
served that fourteen years ago she had got
all that back in change for dollar bill
"raint no use, she remarked, 81 aint
agoing to keep it any longer, so there it is
all back again
Year: 1874

New Orleans is just now of an electric
man-one Major Gothell. He was paraly-
zed in one arm. Suddenly, one night, the
arm became Illuminated with phosphoric
light. Electric lights dropped from the
fingers and the side of the face and neck
shone with lambent fire. He was bat
terry fully charged. Feeling mysterious
influence in his left eye, he called upon his
friends to examine it. They found it to
be perfectly natural in appearance, except
that it emitted a bright illumination, which
cast light on the wall sufficiently strong
in darkened room to enable him to see
the figures on the wall paper, In word,
the eye shone out like lamp. What a
medium he would make And what say
ing of candle-light there is in him for any
careful woman who viii marry him
Year: 1874

\ good field of corn is described by the
Danvillc LWoH, Indiana, whose editor says +:
eve found upon actual measurement that
it would average eleven feet or over, many
stalks being found thirteen feet high. We
had to stand on the top of a tenrail fence
to see over the field and the tops of the
corn seemed as level almost as water. We
have seen many fields of corn this season,
but none better than this