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Year: 1879

The eye is chiefly attracted by the
women Of Delecaria, not by their beauty,
but their dress. They wear very long
brown or green petticoats with eolored
border, red jackets which allowed the
white sleeves to appear, close red caps
fitting tight to the back Of the head,
coarse red stockings, and strangely
shaped heels to their shoes. At church
OH Sundays, when the chemise and
neck-handkerchiefs are clean, and a
large bunch of flowers in their hands,
they have a smart look, and are more
attractive, though they have broad ugly
features, and their compilations are
bronzed by exposure to wind and
weather. but on working days when rain
and Lard labor make them disgustingly
dirty, and they throw coat of coarse
gray frieze over their other garments,
one is shocked at their unsightly appear
ance. They leave their native homes to
earn living in Stockholm, and when
they have saved little money and are
growing very home-sick, they take their
earnings to their friends at home, and
then return to the city and begin their
toilsome life again. loilsome indeed it
is They do work which | have never
seen performed by women anywhere
else; they help the masons, they cart
sand, they mix mortar, they climb scat
foldings. Most of the wherries are
rowed by these women; they also manage
u particular kind Of boat whose paddles
are turned by men instead of steam. In
the evening, till ten or eleven o'clock,
they may be seen sitting in their boats,
waiting for work, and with the earliest
light Of morning they are again busy at
their laborious employment.
Year: 1879

Indiana for long time enjoyed ur- enviable nOtorlety as the State ln which divorces could be obtained without any difficulty But in time Indian got ashamed of the business, and fortified its laws regulating the dissolution of the marriage tie. For a time Utah succeeded to this very doubtful buSi- ness, but the exposure which was re gently made has done much 10 break it up. It was not unusual, for a time. for persons to be divorced who had no knowledge that any proceedings were in progress. We regret 10 learn that an effort IS being made to force Arizo- na into the position which has been in measure vacated by Utah. The pro cess there is not by legal purse, bul by invoking the higher power of the Legislature. We hear of case now in progress before that body, of this character, in which prominent citi. zen of this city figures The bill was engineered by Thomas Fitch, who is at present a member of ths Legislature of the Territory. IL is a measure wh- ch is not at ali calculated to reflect credit on that young community. If it pass es, Legislative divorces will become 8 regular line of business, and Arizona will pass under a moral cloud which cannot fail 10 retard its progress. But its cbivalrous Governor is not likely to permit such a stain to be cast on the Territory over which he presides. If the attention of Governor Fremont is called 10 in tune, there is no probabil ity that such line of doubtful policy will be pursued with his consent.-S. F. Bulletin.
Year: 1879

A bill has been introduced in the legislature 10 grant a subsidy to local corporation to build a railroad from Maricopa Wells 10 Prescott. The bil. was referred to the Committee on Ter ritorial Affairs, and We imagine that committee will will smile upon It and return with an unfavorable report What may be the advantages to be gained by the enormous outlay neces- sary to construct a railroad over that rough country 10 the mountain town of the north, are not stated, nor is il likely they ever will be- We admit it would be very nice If the Territory would build railroad for the accom- mediation of legislators and Governor. Then too the Commanding General could take his pleasure trips for inspec- ton with greater ease, and when our Chief Justice goes to attend the supreme court he would not be exposed to the horrors of a blackboard, get a cold in his off eye, &c., but the dear people are not always as careful for the com fort of these dignitaries as they should be, and therefore are not likely to in cur the expense. We would be glad to see Prescott grow and thrive, but we do not think that the people should resort to extraordinary means to attain that end. No; the necessities for this road are very dim. The Territory could afford but faint assistance and we are sure the counties north are too much in debt to think of building even a five mic section.
Year: 1879

 saw tonight the man loved

 Three little years ago, l did not think so short time

 Could change a mortal sol There were none like him in those day, So strong, so true, so wise; He had lofty, marble brow,

 And tender, soulful eyes. A voice of music; hair by which

 The ravens wing would seem But pale indeed; face and form

 To haunt the sculptor's dream. But when I looked at him tonight. I saw no single trace Of the old glory; only just

 A very common face. No marble brow, no soul lit orbs:

 The face was round and sleek That once to my love-haunted eyes

 Was so intensely Greek. ] know full we'll he has not changed So very much. An, mel But was blind in those dear days.

 And now, alas! l see. 'ris very dreadful 10 be blind,

 or course, and yet tonight should be happier, far, if

 Had not received my sight. One little thought will trouble me

 only wish l knew Whether he still is blind, or if

 His eyes are open, too. -Carlotta Perry in Burlington Flaw keye.
Year: 1879

WE learn from the Stock Report that the Silver King Mining Company of Arizona are about to rebuild their mill and adapt it to the working of ores by the regular amalgamating process. Shipments of concentrations will there fore soon cease altogether This is a very wise movement and the company would now be some thousands of dol lars richer had they adopted the anal gamating process sooner.
Year: 1879

A Carson paper recently published
a canard announcing the death of r.
D. Ferguson at Bodie Although sill
ly joke its effects were no means harm
less. A lady residing here, Mrs. Ne
mo, an aunt Of Mr. Ferguson, read the
account of her nephews death and she
was in delicate health, it had the effect
to throw her into a severe fit of illness.
Last evening her nervous rrostratipn
was SO serious that the attending physi
clan considered her recovery exceed
ing doubtful If the lady dies, we will
not envy the followings of the person
who originated the hoax.
Year: 1879

MAYOR SWEENEY publishes card in this
mornings paper, explaining how the
Spiritualistic show come to get a permit to
perform at the Opera House Sunday night.


We have no doubt that the Mayor was
imposed upon by the Interpretations
Of the party applying for the permit. We
trust that hereafter he will scrutinize more
closely the applications Of all such people.
Year: 1879

Next week will close up the peach
crop for the present season. Already
the shipments have fallen off one halt
and next week they will grow gradu ual.
ly less, until the last basket or crate
will have been sent to market. The
crop this year has been source of but
little revenue to the grower, but then
the railroads have made the money.
Year: 1879


The Farmers in the Southern Part
Of the County Form
Themselves into q


League.
The Principal idea Of Which is the
Protection of Property


Against Horse


Thieves.
A Rempen Crayat Prov ded for any
Gentleman Who May be
Caught in the Exercise
OF His Mercur!sI


Propensities.
Year: 1879

LEGIsLATING for " glory" has not yet been indulged in to any unexpected extent by our present Legislature. Hon. Pat Hamilton has let off one big Democratic sky-rocket, but it wont make blaze enough to scare anybody. He has compounded an Act to re- peal the so-calfed Railroad Act of the last Legislature. Most of the provisions Of that Act afford protection to the lives and pro- perty of the people as much as they give aid and comfort to the monster monopoly" The clause exempting property of the rail- road from taxation for six years is probably unconstitutional, and therefore void anyhow. But if constitutional it will "stick" and be made use of. The moment the Southern Pacific Railroad Company commenced work Cn the Arizona side of the Colorado river it acquired rights under that same Act which no amount of repeating" by tooral-looral legislators can take away.

 Still, there is some glory in making record as "friend of the people," and an enemy of corporations.

 The Chinese must go!
Year: 1879

A RURAL yonng man of Massachusett id this:

 Sprightly as lightsome fairy, Charming goddess of the dairy; Maiden with the milking pail, Listen to thy lovers vail!

 While with true love I am burning. You're the happy day churning! Q, it sometimes makes me shudder To suspect you love an udder! After giving me your word, After all that has o'curd,

 To keep faith you will not fall, Maiden with the milking pail! But I swear by my dejection, By the cream of her complexion, By the sun in heaven glowing, By the kline in meadows lowing, By the gentle morning zephyr, That no other one shall heifer. I will have no maiden butter, And I'll keep her when I've got her; Yes, I'll win her, come what may Where there's will, there is whey!
Year: 1879

Very few persons outside of army cir cles have any adequate idea of the amount of work dore by the army officers on the frontier in scouting and exploring the vast unsettled territory in the region ot the upper Rio Grande, and also in the eastern portion of that mysterious ex- panse known as the Staked Plains. It has been generally supposed that the LlanO Estacado was an immense desert, destitute of animal or vegetable life. Army officers who have secuted over it report that it is the resort of the buffalo, in many places IS well watered and in every way adapted to cattle raising Wherever the buffalo can live cattle can be successfully raised, and the day ie not far distant when the dreaded Staked Plains will be covered with countless herds

 During the past year Gen. Ora has been paying much attention tc the exploration of that almost unknown country lying between the Pecos river and the Rio Grande, of which there have not been any correct maps made, all those which pro- fessed to give the natural features of the country being mere fancy work; ranges were laid down where none ever existed. Almost every square mile of this vast re- zion, equal in extent to the New Englard States, has been secuted over and accu- rately mapped, so that the department commander will soon have as complete a map of that uninhabited territory as can be obtained of any other portion of Texas. It is found to be we'll watered, and the grasses are much stronger and more fat tenlng than elsewhere in the State, horses becoming rolling in Q short time from fattening on them. All this country, comprising the best sheepwalk in the world, has been closed to civilization by

 

 few hundred rcd devils from Mexico and from the Fort Stanton reservation. If Congress grants the additional appropri- alton for the erection of two more posts, the occupation of the country by the ad- vance wave of immigration may confident ly be expected. It is to this country that Gen. Ord refers in his annual report in the following language: In this connec- tion I have to report that the explorations, by scouting parties, of the mountain country west of the Pecos have devel- oped, unexpectedly, well watered and ex- tensive grazing lands, both plain and val ley. Silver, lead, iron and copper dis tricts have been discovered, and speci- mems of both gold and silver ores brought in. A map of the country, which will give most valuable information, is under Galycstop Nclrs.
Year: 1879

About 7:30 a. M. yesterday, as chariot No. %
was passing down the Avenue toward the Capt.
tol, Baltimore and Ohio Express wagon, laden
with freight, coming down Four-and "a half
street, struck it amidships and the pole of the
express wagon ran through the side of the
chariot, scattering the marketing in q basket
promiscu0sly around and narrowly missing q
boys back who was sitting in proximity to the
side crushed in. Captain Denty, one Of the
passengers, was thrown unexpectedly in the
| opposite direction, aud there was some little
excitement among the passengers for the time
being. All OF which was through the careless
ness OF the express driver.
Year: 1879

The AGRICULTURAL FAIR--Dame Nature
herself endorses the fair next September.
Not content with the most prolific fruit crop
ever known, she is running opposition to the
normal state OF things and producing double
fruit.
Year: 1879

is than Chicago time, for he knows,
and if he does not tell, it is because
he is uncivil. just as the train is
coming, and the agent is closing
his ticket window to go out to the
train, rush up and tell him you
want ticket. Don't say anything
about where you want to go. See
how near he can guess at it. Give
him a $40 bill, and after he has
hurried up to get out his change
box. if there is any silver among it,
say to him "Here, l guess | have
got the change" for this is the way
to find ont his dispn nsition. This is
a good time To tell him you have a
trunk to check. The world was not
made IN a day, and what's the use
of being in hurry, you know Put
your ticket in your pocket book,
and button two or three coats over
your pocket Don't make move
to get 1t ready for the conductor
until he asks you for it for he may
miss you and you would be that
much ahead. Then he has lots of
time to wait, but if he hasn't, it 5
not your fault During your trip,
ask the conductor all the questions
you asked the agent, for perhaps
the agent has lied to you about
some of them. If the conductor
answers you short, in reply to any
of your questions, it is because be
is mad at your buying a ticket. He
wanted you to pay him so he could
knock down the money-for they
all steal, you know.
Year: 1879

West field letters to the Spring


field Republican: Within a few
months and in radius of nine
miles from here, can call to mind
three or four widows, comfortably
welt OFF, who have married chaps
that came tramping along A while
ago YOU noticed the case of the
Southwick women who committed
this folly, md whose husband Is
now n'jsil for abusing and threat
ening the lives of his wife and
mother in-Iaw. His favorite form
of amusement was to place the
women folks in chairs side by side,
and, after poking the loaded gun in
their faces, to fire, it off at the tar
get lust above their heads. Five
weeks ago q respectable and we'll
connected woman in this town,
whose husband died less than two
years ago, leaving her a nice little
home and two thousand dollars in
cash, got struck on young tramp
who came to her door, and, though
twenty years his senior, she mar,
ried him. Since then her house has
been rendezvous for about all the
tramps who came along, and appa.
rently the good news is being wide
ly spread among the fraternity A
few days ago the woman appeared
with badly bruised face and dam
kaged eyes, and her friend had hei
Year: 1879

DEAR CITIZEN 1t is remarkable
that few casual remarks made by
an old maid in their defence should
arouse one of the bachelors, and
cause him to take up the cudgel.
Let those vince who feel that they
have need. My motto is, hew 20
the line, let the chips fly where they
may. If they accidentally hit the
wrong one, 1T is not our fault.
While we favor the most scrupu
lous delicacy in criticising, we do
think if some of the bachelors who
write for the CITIZEN would review
carefully their past failures, and
search the cause, they would in fu
ture decide how to obviate them.
admire the candor of Kully's argu-
ments, and if he expressed heartfelt
truth in his apologies, see no rea-
son why we old maids may not ex-
plain why we think "there is small
choice in rotten apples" Ali of the
old bachelors are not capable of eX-
pressing such conviction. L did
not intend to convey the idea that
all of the bachelors were composed
of very Indifferent material. Ac-
cordiDg to my ideas, some of them
are being modelled upon that of per
fection itself Still, there are those
so distinct FROM this class that more
euphonious expressions than those
used in our last communication
would be affectation. To ridicule
olG maids in the spirit of fun is one
thing and the grotesque misrepre
sentation we often witness is an
other. 1t has ever seemed tC
ne the essence of folly and imper
tinence for any one to indulge il
that sophlstry which enables then
TO think they are acting from noble
impulse, when they are in reality
acting from some groveling motiv,
which aves many from the pang:
of copscience. We suspect that Ju
das persuaded himself that he haC
some better motive than getting the
| thirty pieces OF silver.


| DOITRTFTI
Year: 1879




The democratic party fourteen
years ago was in a minority so
small in the Congress of the United
States that it was incapable of re-
sistlng the many outrages the ma
jority was infiict ng on the Consti-
tuition. There were only thirty
four or five democrats in the House,
and hut seven or eight in the SEN
ate The great Mogul of the rad
icals was Thaddeus Stevens of
Pennsylvania, who boldly declared
that he and his party were legislat-
ing outside of constitutional limits,
and he who asserted to the contra
ry was either a knave or a fool 1t
was only necessary for him to crack
his whip and every radical sprang
to his feet ard into line. There
was no toleration for individual
opinion. To kick out of the party
traces was so hazardous that no one
d Jared to perform the feat. King
Caucus blocked out all political leg
islation, and the measure was often
forced through the House without
discussion. In this way many laws
were enacted which are disgracelul
to a free country. When it was
necessary to hitch on their caucus
offspring to an appropriation bnl
they never failed TO do it. The
very law authorizing the appoint
meht of Supervisors and Marshals
to control elections was attached to
the sundry civil service bill Not q
voice was then raised in the radical
ranks against this Legislative mode
of procedure. All was then lovely,
all was patriotic, all was exactly as
1t SHOULD be. 1t cannot be success
fully denied that such was the ac
tion of these seifsty led loyalists tor
eight long years, or until the peopl,
rose in their majesty and hurled
them into a minority. II was Ma
dame Rowland vino exclaimed on
the scaffold "Oh! Liberty, how
many crimes have been perpetrated
in Thy name" This sentiment,
since the close of the late wal,
might have been fitly paraphrased:
''Chl Loyalty, how many pohtiea
outrages have been perpetrated III
thy name" Now that the demo
Gratis have majority in both
branches of our National Legisla
ture, the old cry of "rebef is
podred out of every radical mouth
That this cry has no foundation to
rest upon is Known to every intelli-
gent man, North or South, East or
West, and is only kept up TO delude
the ignorant. There is no part of
this Union more loyal to good gov
ernment, or more desirous for the
resumption of fraternal relations
with the North than the South. But
how can she be otherwise than
''solid" against her slanderers-
against the party that has fastened
upon the country enactments which
are oppressive and would better
befit a monarchy? Cease your war,
gentlemen, and the South will re
cognize your action as the dawning
of a happier day.
Year: 1879




An army officer who arrived in
Chicago from the Yellowstone val.
ley a day or two ago, told a story
of what happeneS to herd of buf
faloes that were migrating south
ward. The herd numbered two
Thousand five hundred head. They
had been driven out of the Milk
river country bv the Indian huu ter~
belonging to Sitting Bulls band.
The herd struck the river near
Crow Island and ventured upon
the ice with their customary conf
dence. The animals came upon
the river with a solid front. anc
began the crossing with closed
ranks. The stream at the point OF
crossing was very deep. When
the front file, which was stretched
out a quarter of a mile IN length,
had nearly gained the opposite
shore, the ice suddenly gave way
under them. Some trappers who
were eye witnesses of the scene said
it seemed as il a trench had been
opened in the ice the whole lengGh
of tile column. Some four or five
hundred animals tum Dled into the
opening all in heap. Others fell
in on top of them and sunk out OF
sight iE a twlnkling. BY this time
the rotten ice was breaking oil
short under the still-advancing
herd The trappers say that in
lessthan a minute the whole body.
of buffaloes had been precipitated
into the river. They were wedge,t
in so thickly that they could do
nothing but stEuggle for "a second
and then disappear beneath tue ice
a d the swift current. Not "A beast
of all that great herd turned tan
and tried TO escape when the ice be
gan breaking up. In a solid pha


lanx they marched to their fatal
bath in the "Big Muddy" In q


minute from the time the first lce


broke, not buffalo head or tail


was to be seen.
Year: 1879

When you get to the station, hunt
up the agent and ask him what
time she next train goes. Never
mind about telling him which way,
for he can ask you that. 1t will
show whether he is paying any at


.tention to your question. Then
ask him what time ali the other
trains come, just to see if he knows.
If YOU think of it, ask if they stop,
if they are freight or passenger, and
any other little things you car
think OF, for you know he gets paid
for answering questions, IL don't
matter whether you intend riding
on the train or not. If you are
tired, 60 and sit down, hut do not
rest longer than necessary, for you
have not inquired. if the road is go
ing to change time soon. and whal
time the. train will be likely TO gel
through on the new card Ask
him what time the trains rvn by on
his road, and how much faster thai
Year: 1879

The wrlier having been tor sev
eral years one oil the most extensive
and successful ad'v, rLisers in East
tennessee, has this tG say ON Jhe
subject: 1t pays to advertise, pro-
vIded you know how. Go To work
at any job and botch it, and YOU
will make nothing by it. A ten
cent advertisement will not bring
YOU one hundred dollars. But il
you spend one dollar and receive
one and halt, you hav made a
good profit. A good advertisement
generally pays four or five times
this percentage. But that depends
upon the amount of work you do
for the advertisement. If you write
it well, watch its effect, see that 1t
reaches the proper persons, and
change it when necessary, it Will
pay you better than anything you
can do to help your business. If
you find that ten dollars spent in
printers ink returns good profit,
try twenty, and go on increasing
your Investment so long as it pays
you to do so, just as you would any
other branch of business.


Advertise the plain truth. False
hood will out, especially when it is
made public. Don't advertise in a
general way that you are the larg
est, best, cheapest, ETC.; your neigh
bors can say the same. Every
good business house has some pc
cuhar advantage over every other
in the same place. Increase this
advantage and advertise it.


When a man starts out to pub
lish great announcement he finds
that he must have something to put
in it. 1t has not enough peculiar
bargains or special attractions to
call attention to. he will make some.
He will put down a line of goods
below the market, SO as to be able
to advertise the TACT. Next time
he goes to market he will look out
for special inducement TO advertise,
and finally every thing in the house
will be a special inducement and a
goou trade. He will become more
attentive to his calling and in every
respect a more. thorough business
man The people know this They
know it does not pay man to adj
vertise falsehoods, ana that no sen
sible business man does SO. Aud
experience has proved to them that
the store which continually keeps
them on hand Tribune.