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Year: 1874

OUR dispatch from Maricopa Wells, in- forms the public that certain men have been selling whisky to Indians. Such criminal acts have been committed from year to year, and yet no one has, to our Knowledge, ever been punished for them, Some indictments have been found for the crime, but when it come to be proven in open court, the evidence to convict was lacking. It would seem from the tenor of our dispatch that the case it mentions is susceptible of proof, and the guilty parties should be arrested and either put under bonds or into jail to await the action Of the October grand jury, It is very aggravat- ing crime to sell liquors to Indians.
Year: 1874

Over the river they beckon me,


Lov'd ones whov'e crossed to the other side,
The CLEAN of their snowy robes see,


But their voices are lost in the d@ hing tide.
There's one with ringlets Of sunny gold,


And eyes the reflection OF Heavens blue,
He crossed in the twilight gray and cold,


And the pale mist hid him from mortal view.
We saw not the angels who met him there,
The gates Of the city we could not see,
Over the river, over the river,


My brother is waiting TO welcome me.
Over the river the boatman pale


Carried another, the household pet;
Her brown curls waved in the gentle gale.
Darling Minnie, I see her yet.
She crossed on her bosom her dimpled hands,
And tearlcssly entered the phantom bark;
We felt it glide from the silver sands,


And all our sunshine grew strangely dark;
We know she is safe on the other side,


Where all the ransomed angels be,
Over the river, the mystic river,


Ny childhood's idol is waiting for mo.
For none return from those quiet shores,


Who cross with the boatman cold and pale
We hear the dip of the golden oars.


And catch glimpse OF the snowy sail,
And 10 | they have passed from yearning hearts,
They cross the stream and are gone for aye,
We may not sundcr the vail apart,


That hides from our vision the gates Of day.
We only know that their barks no more


Shall sail with us DER lifes stormy sea;
Yet, somewhere know on the unseen shore,
They watch, and wait, and beckon for me.
And sit and think when the sunsets gold
Is flushing river and hill and shore.
shall stand one day by the water cold,


And list for the sound of a boatman's oar.
shall watch for CLEAN Of Tapping sail,
shall hear the boat ~ II gains the strand,
/ shall pass from sight with the boatman pale,
To the better shore of the spirit land.
shall know the loved who have gone before,
And joyfully sweet will the meeting be.
When over the river, the peaceful river,
The Angel Of Death shall carry me.
Year: 1874

my escort during the absence Of
the Rev. Alfred Martin, who will
hold me soon, fast and firm, in the
hains of matrimony. Harlk the
carriage is here. Goodnight don't
sit up for me !"


And wrapping herself in a large
cloak of the softest white cashmere,
Nettie kissed her aunt, and sped
with dancing feet from the room.


In the carriage she found the
young couple who had offered the
spare seat there, and she found,
also, the Polish count, who was the
last society lion in the city Of B


-, and who was decidedly at
tracted by the bewitching beauty
Of the gay brunette. Whether it
had been whispered in bis ear that
she was heiress to Wheaton and
five thousand year, can only be
conjectured but he was q most
devoted adorer, and Nettie care
lessly encouraged his attentions.


She had inherited Wheaton from
her grandfather when she was
O little child, and her father being
dead, her mother had shared the
guardianship Of the little heiress
with her Uncle Joshua, so that
summer at Wheaton was followed
each year by winter in the city,
where school days were succeeded
by all the Of society after Nettie
passed her eighteenth year. 1t
must be confessed that the bright
little beauty was petted spoiled
child--a wilful girl, whose life had
been one long sunshine, with every
whim INDUCED, every caprice graf
fled.


Serious thoughts had found little
placa in her head and pleasure
loving heart, till the Rev. Alfred
Martin accepted call to the village
of Morton, near which. Wheaton
was situated. He was not hand
some man, not fascinating man in
any sense that Nettie had ever
thought Of the word, but he had
one gift that embraces many others
in a truly Christian minister-he
was earnest. To him the vocations
of his life was one that absorbed
heart and brain to the exclusion OF
all efforts to be attractive in society
or win worldly praise. Yet the
very sincerity of this man fully ten
years her senior, proved a charm
Nettie could not resist.


From the careless ease Of her
petted life, his sermons, like trum-
pet-calls, reused her to q sense OF
the responsibility resting upon her
as woman holding in her hand
the gifts of perfect health, energy
and wealth. Like butterfly, she
had tasted sweets here and there,
thinking little Of the bitter cups
given to the less fortunate, till the
earnest appeals of the new preach
er stirred her to considering the
stewardship entrusted to her care.


She had no thought Of pleasing
the minister when she took up O
share of parish duty, sewed for the
Dorcas and visited the sick and
poor. Admiration and attention
had been offered her too freely for
her TO dream of courting them,
but, impulsive in everything, she
threw the whole force Of her ardent
generous nature into the new path
of duty Mr.. Martins eloquence
had pointed out to her.


J A large proportion Of her income
Year: 1874

that Denvers and Chicagos which spring up
on the Plains are hives of wealth to the poor.
To be sure, men Of modest or no means at all
profit by these stupendous enterprises but
the man who gains the lions share is the
silent and distant capitalist, who has no other
concern in the city than to increase his own
revenues The sad story related by our cor
respondent of the violent deaths in Arizona,
where over ninety per cent of the original
settlers have perished by the ferocity of the
Indians, is an evidence in itself of creditable
daring poorly compensated Let people. then,
who contemplate pulling up stakes ask
themselves these questions Are we prepared
to rough it? Will crude society suit our
fastest What will we do when we get there9
Are we sufficiently well informed about the
country
Year: 1874

The current summary Of meteorological
data for last month brings to light, to borrow
its own language, 'an unusual seres OF at
mospheric phenomena. Such an array of
midsummer conditions derives additional
interest from its popularity supposed connec-
ton with the great comet which has recently
interposed between the earth and the sun, and
the means it furnishes us for determining
what, If any, is the interplanetary influence
of cometary visitants On the 18th of July.
just IN the midst of the EXTREMIST heat ex-
perienced for years. we predicted that the
period OF the comets perigee would be
marked by abnormally cool weather, 'reduc-
ing the July thermometric mean" This cal
culation was reiterated in the HERALD of the
18th ult., and, as previously, assigned to the
influence OF Coggia in screening the earth
from solar heat or at least diverting the
solar heat-tide from US toward some other
part OF the solar system. This novel view,
as we believe it was, was applied to the
northern hemisphere, which, as the earth re-
wolves on its axis was. at the period named,
most Largely brought under the cometazy
Year: 1874

If the interesting letter, published elsewhere
this morning from our correspondent attached
to Hayden's expedition, be carefully read its
contents will go far to remove many illusions
which have grown out of the reckless cry,


''Go West" We suppose that every American
not gifted with more than modest fortune
has, OF one time or another, cherished the
intention Of going West. Of itself it is
not bad or irrational design But when
all things are considered, when we estimate
the cheap luxuries of an honest and ndustri-
GUS metropolitan life, and the hardships and
tribulations of the colonist, we do not marvel
that many wish they had never left the homes
OF their fathers Yet we must have pioneers,
for without them America would have been a
wilderness to-day. Far better, however, is it
that these men should not desert positions
Of usefulness and profit in the great cities to
go out and struggle during the best years
of their lives among crude class,
in polluted atmosphere, with oil
the chances of failure in the end.
Many sensible people have boen led To believe
Year: 1874

The labor agitation in England continues,
and our special despatch tells us Of q
meeting of fifty thousand miners, at Dur
ham race course, on Saturday, which was
addressed by several of the leading agi-
tators Just what was to be gained by
this mammoth demonstration we are at
loss to determine but one thing is
certain-it could result in no real good to the
cause it was intended TO advance. Labor
reform is a battle, not barbecue The result
OF the battle may be to elevate the laborer,
but the only possible result of the barbecue
will be to advance the demagogue We
observe that MIR. Charles Bradlaugh was
among the speakers. In spite of the old
maxim that prophet is not without honor
except in his own country Mr.. Bradlaugh's s
success seems confined to England. When
he came to the United States he was met by
the utmost indifference. This is somewhat
singular in view of the fact that
among his own countrymen his name and
those of his coagitators have magic to
draw such vast concourse Of miners as that
which assembled at Durham. The difference
in the condition of the working classes in the
two countries must account for the difference
in treatment OF the special advocate of the
labor interests. Our laborers are still content,
but the absolute poverty of the same class in
England makes them discontented, and so
they regard with favor any political dema-
gogue who processes to point out to them the
way in which relief is to be obtained All this
bodies i'll in the end for the continuance of
that state Of society where there are only the
hereditary rich and the hereditary poor This
becomes a real grievance to be redressed at
all hazards, especially when to be poor means
constant labor in condition of seml-starva-
ton. If the laboring classes in this country
ever become depressed as the miners are in
England it will bea death-blow to the Republic
In England it must prove death-blow to the
aristocracy. But so long as the contest is
conducted by means Of public meetings,
managed by political hucksters, the aristoc-
racy is safe.
Year: 1874

At the Canadian rifle meeting some of the
gentlemen who have been for months prac-
tising steadily at Creedmoor for the match
between the Irish and American rihemen
have achieved considerable success. They
went over the border as o test, and the result
shows the quality Of men that will sustain the
reputation Of American Workmanship in the
coming international match. One of the gen.
tlemen made the highest possible score, OBJ
tanning seven bulls eyes In succession, and
another made ffty-four out of possible fifty
six. Colonel Gildersleeve and Mr. Cantwell,
the fortunate marksmen, will probably form
part of the American team in the coming in
ternational contest The chances of an Ameri-
can victory in the coming match may be
judged from the fact that neither of these gen.
tlemen obtained the highest place in the COM
petition for place in the American team. As
the time for the international contest ap-
proaches the interest in the match increases,
and, in view OF the splendid shooting of the
marksmen practising daily at Creedmoor,
there is every reason to look forward with
confidence to the result of the match. No
matter which team wins, American marksman-
ship will not be lessened in foreign estimation
by the performance Of the men selected to
represent America In all probability the
average scoring will be as high as at Wimble-
don. To secure this result at so early a stage
is itself victory of no small importance.
Year: 1874

The RECENT DROWNING Es.-The Cor
oner's inquest at Long Branch on the body of
Mr.. Schilling severely censures the bather of
the Mansion House for gross neglect in not
providing the appliances for rescue. This is
common neglect. At the beginning of the sea-
son the professional bathers are very attentive
but as the people get reckless the attendants
get careless. This is the principal cause of
the frequency of drowning cases. In France
the Humane Society has patrol of boats to
keep thoughtless persons from venluring too
far from shore. When the boats rescue
a reckless swimmer he is fined if he
is drowned he pays nothing. A rule of this
kind at our seashore resorts might save the
i've, of many persons, excepting those of very
economical habits. In the meanwhile it is
the duty of To-, hotels to compel faithful SER
vice from the persons hey employ.
Year: 1874

ST.. JoHN's GUnD.-The benevolent work
of this institution is earnestly continued, and
the fact that by its means four thousand five
hundred infants and their mothers have been
taken on excursions on the bay is sufficient
evidence Of the good it is doing our poorer
classes. Next Wednesday the seventh excur-
sion will take place
Year: 1874

The CATHOLIC and royalist press of the South
of France has received special mark of favor
from the Count de Chambord in the form of
letter of thanks and praise addressed to M.
Roux, editor of the Gazette du MIDI and presi-
dent OF the congress of royalist journals at
Tours The placid Bourbon expresses his
complete satisfaction with the course pursued,
and evidently believes that it is of great help
to his CAUSE
Year: 1874

sponsible to John Kelly, though that gentle
man may have in his eyes the same consid-
Grafton in his support of the charges that
would be accorded to any other citizen who
might be prepared to support the charges, or
any citizen who might be prepared to sustain
the Mayor against the charges. 1t appears to
us, therefore, great error on the part of the
Governor to contemplate the charges against
Mayor Havemeyer as in any especial
sense the concern of the citizens who
made them, more than they are, when
once made, the concern of every citizen
interested in the purity of government Upon
such an assumption continuance in our law
that is intended to secure for the benefit of the
people the supervision over the government of
every citizen, and which prescribes the steps
by which that individual supervision shall
assume the form of public legal process, will
fail of its purpose altogether or will degen-
crate into mere machinery for the conven-
ience of political strikers" and charges will
constantly crop up in the camps of discon-
tented politicians, to be as constantly dropped
and smothered if the incriminated functionary
sees fit to satisfy his assailants By this
means good idea in our political system will
be brought into contempt. 1t is good for the
public interest that the government should be
constantly subjected to the scrutiny of every
citizen, and the public welfare may even
utilize the keen vision Of partisans and oppo-
nents for the detection of official misconduct;
but the charges that result from such scrutiny
are only to be considered when thew are of
consequence and are in consonance with a re-
spectacle part of public opinion, and then they
are not to depend upon the caprices and pos
sibilities Of intrigue; they are not to be
subject even to the men who made them
they are to be acted upon and carried to
a legitimate conclusion by the public au-
thorities.
Year: 1874

9 The Lake Superior and Puget
Sound Land Company. a Maine corpor.
alton, organized to buy town sites ON the
line Of the Northern Pacific Rail-
road. and to deal in lands generally on
or in the neighborhood of the line, is
to be wound up and go out Of existence.
The necessity is said to have arisen from
the hostillties of the directors of the
Northern Pacific Company, these gem
tlemen having refused from the start to
sell the Town Site Company an acre of
land, or to promote their success in any
way whatever. An arrangement was
made last Thursday between the two
companies that the Town Site Company
should sell enough of its stock to give
thu Northern Pacific Railroad Company
the control of its organization, and
should part with all the land it owns
along the line of the road and elsewhere
at fair prices, to be paid for in Railroad
Company's bonds. These lands will,
we are told, be thrown into the General
Land Department of the Northern Pa
cifc Company and be sold as its other
lands are. The Railroad Company will
surrender the charter of the Town Site
Company. The bargain made is said
to be hard one for the Northern Paci-
fic; but its directors found it necessary
to remove all occasion for talk about q
" Land Ring" within their organization.
-Wnaond Miran. Republican.
Year: 1874

The Walla Walla Union says: In all
directions we hear of very deep SHOWS
in the mountains. There has already
more snow fallen this Winter than in
any other proceeding one for many
years. And thus far there has been no
thawing in the mountains, all the snow
that has fallen is still lying there. Not
. week passes but that more is being
added. The prospects now are that
when the SHOWS on the head waters of
the large streams begin to melt there
will be very high waters soon after
Portland will need to move her cellars
back on higher ground before the 10th
Of June. But the pleasing feature of all
this is that there is better prospect 70,
q good mining season, and a heavie,
yield Of gold than we have had for some
time.
Year: 1874

MUSICAL. = The Philharmonic and
Choral Society of Seattle will hold its
next rehearsal and business meeting on
Monday evening next at seven O'Clock,
at the Congregational Church. At its
last meeting it was unanimously resolv-
ed to give a public concert during the
month of March. The Society already
numbers about sixty menbers, and is
rapidly increasing. and composed of the
best musical talent in Seattle. Under
the leadership of Prof. Ward, the Musi-
cal Director, rapid progress is being
made. and musical treat may be ex-
pected when the Society makes its pub
lie entree, and favor and encouragement
at its first concert to be given during
the coming month.
Year: 1874

The GRANaERs.-The rapid increase
of the order of the Patrons of Husband
ry is among the marvels of the age. and
shows that the great mass of the produ
cling classes were prepared to embrace
any opportunity or join in any move
ment which promised relief from the
growing expressions of chartered mo-
Dopolies, the tyranny of the party eau.
Gus system, and the immunity to official
peculation and corruption. The organ
ization is nominally and ostensibly nom
political; that is, there is nothing in the
ritual or obligation Ct membership pre-
scribing political or religious test; but
the objects of the association are such
as can only be attained by political &C.
ton. and it would be folly to suppose
they will hazard the main object of their
organization by division of their strength
upon political or party issues foreign
to the subject. Like the Grand Army
of the Republic, or the Methodist Epis.
coral Church-neither of which apply
any political party test to membership
the Grangers will vote as unit in all
political elections in which party issues
are involved. This is the only way in
which they can make their organization
of any avail in reforming the political
abuses at which they aim. If they sew
orally adhere to their old party organi-
cations, allow their votes to be controll..
ed by manipulated caucusses and pack
ed conventions, in the main managed to
defeat instead of to express the popular
sentiment, they but aid in perpetuating
the wrongs of which they complain
without taking any efficient means to
remedy the evils.


The membership Of the Oranges in
the United States now number over one
million, and organizers are kept con-
stantly employed in every State adding
to the numbers. There are now 1O9
Oranges in Oregon and 81 in Washing
ton Territory. where it has only been
started within the last year. Is it rea-
sonable to believe that this vast body Of
intelligent voters. drawn about equally
from each of the old political parties,
will consent to become the tail to par
~ kite with no other guarantee than the
promises Of professional politicians.
Year: 1874

correspondent of the Lewiston Journal writes ::
In Montville, on the Goth inst, there was dead
body found by Luther Gregory and son, in said
|Gregory's pasture. 1t is supposed to be the body
Of one James Whitten, who was pauper of said
town. The ovcrseers were Immediately notified
and made examination calling witnesses who iden-
Titled the clothing, hat and Shoes as those belong
ing TO and worn by Whitten, beyond a doubt.
Whitten has frequently run away from the town
farm, and often said that he would kill himself, but
no one believed that he had courage to do the


deed Prior to his leaving the town farm, the last


of last May or first of June, he told the chairman
of the board of ovcrseers that he wished to visit
some friends in the town of Enfield. Consequent
ly no great inquiry search was made for him.
Mrs William Hussey stated that Mr.. James Whit
ten was at her house the last of last May or the
first of June, and when about to leave she asked


him to come again. He replied that this was his


last visit, and he should never come again, and


left going across Mr.. Stephen Strouts field, in the


direction where his body was found When found


he was by the side of three small spruce trees,


standing close together. There was large cotton


handkerchief lying on one shoulder which had


been tied at the corners and one was broken


Off leaving the knot on the other 1t was the opn-
ion of those present that he hung himself to Of
the trees. He had been dead so long that he was
much decaved, and the head had dropped from the


BODY Mr.. Whitten was about sixty-seyen years


of age
Year: 1874

Mr.. Corydon Chadwick and Mr.. Sullivan Erskinc
have pasture in common at South China, which
they use for the pasturage Of cattle. They have
the present season had several yokes of cattle in
the pasture. Mr.. Chadwick and Mr. Erskinc have
each an OK with Topped or crooked horn, the
right horn of one and the left Of the other having
that peculiar formation. These oxen were turned
loose into the common pasture, and it was between
them on that spot that


The PITCHED BATTLE


of which we are to speak, took place. For sever
al days these cattle had been missing; when the
other cattle came up, these were not among the
number How many days they had been missing
before search instituted is not definitely
known, but becoming alarmed the owners went
in quest Of them. Coming TO an opening in the
woods, covering an area of about half an acre, Mr..
Chadwick, who went in search, came upon


A SICKENING SPECTACLE!


The Topped horns of the oxen were clasped and
the exhausted animals, united as compactly as any
Samese twins, stood face to face, waiting for death
having apparently given up the struggle 1t is sup
posed that while they were engaged in play then
horns became entangled; failing to disconneci
themselves, a terrible struggle oil several days
took place. The open space


LITERALLY Torn UP,


as though it had been ploughed with sub-sol
plough. When they were turned into the pasture
they were large, fat, sevcn-feet oxen, but now
they had become emac lated and famished tina,
person could almost clasp them round with his
arms. They were perfectly docile when found
bntN Ju,;o ~ he
horn of each was sunk into the others head, and
1t was only by calling help, and saving the horns
off, that separation could be effected. There
were fostering sores where the horns went in
Thus mortal


CONFLICT, LASTING EIGHT DAYS,
had been going on between these oxen, who il
that time had not partaken of any sustenance
and perhaps had not been able to lie
down. The intense suffering of the poor impris
oncd animals no mortal can tell. Their jaws had
to be pried open, and cruel administered to them
Their heads had been united so closely that theil
faces were bare to the bone 1t is possible tha
the animals may live 1t is doubtful if another
such singular and distressing accident is on rec
ord.