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Year: 1874

Some four bills have already been introduced
to district and apportion the State, and bill by
Mr.. Murphy to enumerate the inhabitants of the
State. There has also been one to the same
effect in the Senate. This looks as though there
might be fight over this apportionment mat
ter and that it was thought best to have the
census taken first
Year: 1874

MELONS are yet in this market but of an inferiCr quality. They have been abund- ant and good for nearly three months. QuinceS are now plentiful and cheap, and peaches are still in the market at about a bit a dozen and of fair quality Some new lemons were recently brought from Sonora, and oranges may be looked for very soon. All in all, Tucson is fairly supplied with fruit at almost all seasons of the year, but more of it should be grown in our valley.
Year: 1874

CUR MILL NOW BEING IN FULL V operation, we are prepared to furnish the market with a quality of Flour, which factured in the Territory, and fully equal tO the very best imported from California. We will keep constantly on hand at the Mill, and at our several agencies

 Three Qualities of Flour,
Year: 1874

They have arranged to have arrive Month ly, complete assortment of such goods as the people of Arizona want, and they Can Sell them at Wholesale and Re- tall Cheaper than they can be Afforded from any other

 Market, Not excepting the much extolled Guay-

 mas route.
Year: 1874

EARLY this week, J. W. Clark, of this place, received letter from bis sister in Nevada city, saying that at the time of the fatal accident to Mrs F. R. Tully she had just lighted cigarette and the match was dropped among her clothing which was soon atire. The horses became frightened and she fell out AS soon as her companion, Mrs. R. w. Fully, could stop the team, she did, and upon return ing to the place of the accident found the unfortunate woman's clothes all burned of, and of course her body so severely burned that death soon followed.
Year: 1874

SIX prisoners, all of Mexican birth, es- capped from the Pima county jail on last Sunday night about eleven o'clock, as we stood him aright, they were all under sen- tence, and that none only committed for trial escaped. He informs us that the es- capes were in an upper cell, and that they broke through the roof, passed over the of the school building and out through the back yard Of the latter. They took their chains and blankets with them, and at last accounts nothing had been heard from them. Under Sheriff Van Alsline and Constable Esparza, spent a day or so valnly searching for them.

 Mir. Linn says the roof over their place of confinement is covered with but few inches of dirt and that it was not diff cult to break through it. He was sleeping in the jail corral at the time of the escape, and did not discover the fact until mex morning.
Year: 1874

WHAT THE MANAGEMENT CoNTEM- x4xrE--A


DOUBLE TRACK TO BE LAID AND TIE RuNSuNo.


TINE SHORTENED. y


The management Of the New York Elevated RAN.
road intend In the absence otsother rapid transit
to furnish the public douhle tnck from tho Bat.
terry 70 Harlem River. Since the veto by Governor
Dix OF the bill TO extend this road 500 feet so that
the tine might end at the south Ferry, where the
company intended to erect commodious depot
for passengers and SO save them the trouble oil
walking through mud, snow and rain to catch
trains at the different stopping places down town,
the directors have been somewhat puzzled as to
what course they snould take to prove 70 the
doubters that their project was feasible one.
The company have at last resolved to extend their
road at once to the Harlem River, and contracts
for the IRON work. Tor the steel rails and Tor the
building OF the road have been gwen out and just
as soon as the weather win permit the work IN
tended will be commeLced. The iron wor4 is a.
ready uuder way. and the rails, which are TO
be Of the best Bessemer steel, VIII, no doupt, be
ready by the time they are required Tor laying
down. In regard TO the double track the engineers
have decided to commence 1t at Bank street and
run IL Tor q distance Ol 1000 eet up Greenwich
street. This win give road bed upon which iour
or fve engines with their trans attached can be
run without trouble or danger, as the switches
will be placed at such convenient distances as TO
afford accommodation Tor all coming or going
trains as quickly as desired. Should 1t be found
necessary, as the travel over the road Increases,
to lengthen the line Of the double track II viii be
extended as far up as Twelfth street. with the
same precautlOn IN regard to switches. BY this
new arrangement the distances that noW>require
about thirty minutes for the run will madc,
according TO the engineers estimate, IN seven
and . hall minutes-a saving OF time valuable to
ali business men. In regard to the lower extcn-,
sion no steps have yet been taken to have the
road pushed; but 1t Is the inteEtO OF those in
terested TO yet secure such influence as will In
the end carry the measure through.
Year: 1874

In times like these, of great disaster and
universal calamity, it behooves all in.
volved, and that means every resident in
our State, to bethink himself of some
means of protection and assistance. The
association, whose name heads this article,
offers to the labOring man, the mechanic,
the clerk. and the capitalist and property
owner, the means of mutual aid and benefit.
The affairs of the corporation are in the
hands of men of known worth and integ-
rlty, and the objects of the organization
appeal at once to mans self-interest and
his inclination to be Of service to his fellow
man.


The association is is now in active opera
tien; their transactions are of the most lib
eral nature. For the purchase and sale of
lands, the management offers the best in
ducements; Offering to purchasers long
credit and favorable terms, and assuring
vendors of certainty of payment.


Another important and economical move
ment, which it is the intention of the asso-
citation to inauguratea at an early day, is the
system of cooperative stores, concerning
which their circular has an array of facts
and figures that appear incontrovertible.


Parties desiring information concerning
the plans and working Of the compaLy, are
invited to call at the Office of the company
foot of Canal and Common streets.
Year: 1874

During the last westward voyage of the
steamship Kenilworth. Of the Philadelphia
and Liverpool line, an incident occurred
which is worthy of record as illustrating
one of the phases of sailors life, and
showing how it depends sometimes on a
slender strand.


After the steamer had left the Mersey, a
dense fog set in and sharp lookout was
kept. While in the vicinity of the North
west Lightship, Captain Prowse heard the
sound OF mans voice crying for help, and
looking over the side of the ship, saw the
head of man in close proximity to the
steamer. The engines were stopped, life
buoy was Immediately thrown to the man,
the boatswain jumped overheard and Mr..
Bacon passed down the ships side, and in
less time than it required to write this para
graph, the man was passed on board and
rescued from death. He is now one of the
steamers crew. His story was that he had
shipped, at the last moment previous to the
sailing, on an American sailing vessel
bound to New Orleans, and had fallen over
board from the yard arm. He did not know
the name of the American ship.


The people ON the KenilwOrth heard the
sound of voices through the fog, and indi-
cations that boat had been lowered from
the sailing vessel to rescue the man, whose
name has probably been entered on the log
az lost overheard.


This event occurred on the fifth of Feb
ruary. By copying this paragraph, New
Orleans papers may relieve the mind of an
American shipmaster, as well as the friends
of the rescued sailor.-Nep York Nautical
Gazette.
Year: 1874

Lake Pontchartrain, in consequence OF
wind from an unfavorable point yesterday,
went up to height bat few inches below
filing both navigation canals uncomfort-
ably fall. Indeed, water was running over
the Canal Carondelet banks, preventing the
draining machine operating. Now is the
time for our city to come back at the lessees,
paying in kind. The company once charged
the city enormous sums for draining our
surplus water into the canal; now Mayor
Wilt can bring in bill, and with as much
deceDcy as did the canal corporation. How
ever, it is not likely he would meet with
better success than did the lessees when
before the Supreme Court.


There are indications that the rear por-
tiOns First, Second and Third Districts will
be overtlowed unless the lake falls speedily.
The heavy rain yesterday morning was un-
propitious.


The river remains one foot below high
water mark of 1871, and the levees in front
of our city are all serene.


The Bonnet Carre crevasse will probably
continue master of the situation until the
Mississippi comes down several pegs.


The Hickey crevasse, West Baton Rouge,
has flooded the entire parish, and it is a
quarter of a mile wide. Bayou Plaquemine
takes off some Of the food, but not sufficient
to do any good. Mr.. Hickey's dwelling
house is entirely ruined.


More than 800 men are at work On the
McCullen crevasse, with prospect that the
flood will be stayed in less than two weeks.


Orange trees and young cane are ruined
by water in the vicinity Of Pattersonville,
and nearly all the planters have discharged
their hands. The future is nc. promising
for anything in that section.


Brashear is now partly overfowed. The
water in that section is now uncommonly
high, caused, it is believed, by the Hickey
and other crevasses. 1t is possible that the
Morgan railroad trains will be interrupted,
but as yet the track is all right.
Year: 1874

Not long since, says writer in the Hort
cu!teriSt, l was at a friends, and going
through her conservatory was much struck
with the luxuriant growth of Gala. The
leaves were borne on stems three feet or
more in length, and such leaves! l never
dreamed that calla leaves could grow so
large before. They were of the richest
green, too, and everything about the plant
indicated that it was In the most perfect
health. 1t had one bud, on a stalk three
feet long, which was as large as any Gala
buds had ever been when they had attained
full growth and we're ready to unfold, and
this bud was hardly half matured, thus Civ
ing promise of becoming an immense flower
if nothing happened to prevent its devel-
oping. fs


1 asked the secret of such magnificent
success in Gala growing, and my friend
told me in what it consisted. In June she
takes her callas out of doors, and turns the
pots containing them over on their sides
under tree, or in some shady place, and
there she leaves them through the hot
summer months, giving them no attention
whatever.


OF course the old leaves die and drop of,
and the earth in the pots bakes into the
consistency OF bricks. One would think
such harsh treatment would be the death of
the flower, but, on the contrary, the Gala
likes it. In September she brings the pots
in and begins to give the plants water. A
short time suftices to start them into growth.
AS soon as the leaves appear she makes the
water quite warm. The result is that her
callas are superior to any 1 ever saw before.
She boasts of having larger flowers than
any one else, and, judging from the size of
the half matured bud l saw, she has
foundation for saying so. She tells me that
her callas are never without flowers through
the winter, often as many as four or five at
once. She never removes the new ones
which form about the old plant, but as they
grow shifts the plants into large pots.


! have seen so many sickly, spindling
callas, that want to say to my friends try
out of doors last summer, and brought it in
two months ago, and it is flourishing finely.
1t is an easy plan to try. and am sure it is
successful one. ought to have said be-
fore that my friends conservatory is heat
ed from stove in the sitting room, there
fore this treatment will apply where only
few house plants are kept and steam heat
ing is not used.
Year: 1874

1t is now eight days since full mail has
been received from New York and Wash
ington. The good news is afforded Us, how
ever, that the steamer Great Republic took
on three days mail at Vicksburg, which
will be received this morning. The officers
of the boat deserve great credit, since they
bring the mail through to US without prom
ise of reward.
Year: 1874

I. w. S.-Look out for the grand parade
to take place this day at P. NJ, starting
from Hawkins saloon, as the public will
have An opportunity to see the stock to be
sold on Monday next.
Year: 1874

Astronomers are pretty nearly agreed
among themselves that the interval be-
tween our planet and the sun is equiva-
lent to about 95,000,000 miles. This is u
very large number-a mere trifie, how
ever, when compared with Others that
we meet with in astronomy-and leaves
a vague impression on the mind. How,
then, is it possible to form some definite
idea of this wide distance?


Lei us suppose 9 train of cars to have
started from New York for the sun on the
first of January, 1874, with constant
speed of thirty miles an hour. 1t would
arrive at its destination in the year 2235,
or about three hundred and sixty years
from now. In this length of time the
imaginary train, moving with the same
speed, would have circumvented the
earth 1896 times!


Light travels at the rate of $4,000
miles in second of time. A single ray
flashed from the sun at precisely six
o'clock this morning would reach us at
about eight minutes and seventeen
seconds past six.


If we suppose the intervening space to
contain atmospheric air, and the sun to
be nhabited-which is barely possible
man standing on the earth and shout
ing with all his might to his neighbor
up above would not be heard by the
latter until fourteen years and two
months after he had given utterance to
the sound!
Year: 1874

A cuckoo sat on bough bitterly COM
planning. "Why art thou so sad, dear
friend? ?" sympathizingly cooed the turtle
dove to her from neighboring tree. els
it because spring has passed away from
us and love with it? that the sun has
sunk lower, and we are nearer to the
winter?


"How can help grieving, unhappy
one that / am" replied the cuckoo.
"Thou shalt thyself be the judge. This
spring my love was happy one, and
after awhile became mother But my
offspring utterly refuse to recognize me.
Could haveever expected such return
from them? And how can l help being
envious when | see how ducklings crowd
around their mother, how chickens hasten
to the hen when she calls to them? Just
like an orphan / sit here utterly alone,
and know not what filial affection means"


Poor thing" said the dove; Z" pity
you from my heart i should die out
right if my dovelets did not love me.
But tell me, how did you bring up your
little ones? When did you find time to
build nest? l never saw you doing
anything OF the kind; you was always
uylnS anu nutleTllR dDOut.


eyes, indeed" says the cuckoo, "pretty
nonsense it would have been if had
spent those fine days in sitting on nest
What can possibly be a higher pitch of
stupidity than that? ] always laid my
eggs in the nests of other birds"


"And yet you expect your little ones
to care for you" says the turtle-dove,
not without feeling of Indignation.


This little fable readsa lesson to parents
they would do well to ponder. There is
in it no excuse for undutiful children.
Irreverence on their part, and want of
respect and affection for their parents,
are always reprchensible. But if they
are suffered to grow up apart from their
parents, or left forother hands to mature,
their parents will have only themselves
to blame if they derive little happiness
from them i'm their own old age. Those
who would have the cool and spreading
shade to sit in at the close of the day,
must plant and nurture the tree in the
Morning haurs of life
Year: 1874

DIR. Mary j. Studley, in her lecture
entitled practical Lessons to Woman"
assures mothers that no amount of pray
ing would counteract the miscries attend
ing the breaking of natures laws; that a
child's best Inheritance is perfect
physique. Little girls should take more
outdoor exercise; there is no reason, ex-
cepting the restraint of her dress, why
she should not be allowed the same sports
of her brothers. Three hours of school
each day, and these not consecutively, is
all she would allow q child. Regarding
the talk of difference between mans
and a woman's brain, there is none.


With the most careful examinations
made under the microscope it is not pos
sible to tell the one from the other.
Therefore, with the physical SYSTEM
strong and healthy, there is no reason
why woman should not strive for and
accomplish, in the world ofletters asmuch
as man. This does not apply to girls who
are overworked in school, finishing their
education at an age when the boys is
fairly begun; nor with those whose habits
have been made irregular by the dissi-
pations of fashionable life. In connection
with the eyes, DIR. Study gave the oft
repeated caution against dotted lace
walls. The healthy vail is of thinnest
gauze, which does not obstruct the vision
sufficiently to strain the eyes, and of
some color plant to them, as gray,
smoke or blue.
Year: 1874


Full well know the meaning Of that word
Its joyful, solemn import fills my heart;
II means that we have taken each for life,
That we are pledged TO be OF each part.
We are engaged tolove--to satisfy


The noble cravings of an earnest soul
To grow the passion 10 holy height,


Aud feel the rapture Of It's sweet control.
We are engaged 10 counsel and direct,
Not with the stern, fierce heat of battlefield
But kindly offering To each our thoughts,
The wrong to right will soon and gladly yield.
We are engaged 10 love each other well,
To try 10 read each other as a book,
To offer sunshine when there IL a cloud,
And guide our every motion, tone and look:
We are engaged TO have our honeymoon
A fount perpetual from year to year
The careful elegance of wOoing time
Must never wane TO bring the sorrow-tear.
We are engaged 10 teach and entertain
Each IN the sphere where special love may shine
To sow the garden of the soul with seed
That yields fruitage useful as divine.
We are engaged TO havea worthy aim,
A lofty standard looking to some end.
We are not to garner for ourselves alone
But 10 share the treasures with needing friend.
We are engaged to love our future home
To cluster round IL every hallowed tie;
TO make Ii paradise by every means
Delightful to the mind, the ear and eye.
We are engaged to see how much OF bliss
Two splendid natures evolve from life
I'm engaged 10 he model husband,
You're engaged to be model wife.
This Is engaging in the sacred sense,
From sach high purpose may we never stray.
Here is the ring. When two engage as we,
There's glory in the name OF wedding-day.
Year: 1874

OYSTER SAUsAaEs.-Chop a pint of
oysters with quarter pound of veal and
a quarter pound Of suet, some bread
crumbs; season with salt and pepper |;
pound them in mortar; make them into
little cakes with an egg; -four and fry
them dry. Serve hot.
Year: 1874

MANY adults possess a spirit very
much like that of the timid little boy
who was recently overheard to say Will,
alone in dark room, go Lord, don't lei
any one hurt me, and I'll go to church
next Sunday and give you some money!"
Year: 1874

fifty fowls might be kept upon quarter of an
acre or less by providing two Enclosures with
the buildings between them. The fowls
should be changed from one to the other
weekly. While one is vacant it should be
carefully cleaned and dug over at least a foot
In depth, to bring up fresh, clean SOIL The
houses should in this case be cleaned daily,
and lime-washed at least monthly. Sick
fowls should be weeded out of the flock on
.ne hrst symptom of disorder, and either put
.l IN quarantine or killed. One rooster to twen-
'n,t .Y.nve Iowls is sufficient. During the warm
So weather plentiful supply of chopped cab
page or punches of fresh clover should be
gwen, and shady retreat should be pro-
vlded. The houses and nests should be made
of smooth, closely fitting boards, and every
crevice should be carefully filed With the
lime wash. Then if young fowls are kept
one may expect constant supply of eggs
during the greater part of the year, and dur
ing the summer a fair supply of young chick
ems for consumption, and to replace the old
stock which should be renewed each year.
If the grand requisites of roomy apartments,
perfect cleanliness. a moderate supply Il
TODD, varied occasionally, fresh water,
occasional doses of sulphur, pounded
oyster-shells, and quietness with per-
iect regularity in the treatment, so
that the fowls are contented and kept health
full, are attended to, any person of ordinary
tact may provide without difficulty for all the
contingencies that may arise after a very
short experience.-N. Y. Times.
Year: 1874

We don't see why so many of the papers
are pitching into Ben Butler for saying that
the government can take the shirt off mans
back. This is only delicate way of saying
that it can take the rag off of everything,
when it chooses to-
Year: 1874

SOME time since a gentleman was
travelling on a railway train, that had
but one passenger coach attached. The
gentleman is addicted to the bad habit of
smoking. He had but one cigar at the
time, and longed for a smoke, but hesit-
ated, thinking that smoke might be un-
unpleasant to fascinating lady passen-
ger-the only one on board. Finally he
could endure the deprivation no longer,
and, taking out the cigar and reaching
toward the seat where she sat, asked if
she objected to smoking. Oh, no."
said she, reaching for and taking the ci-
gar, " l left my pipe ter hum"
Year: 1874

A YOUNG lady at Norristown put a
piece Of wedding cake under her pillow,
and went to bed with the happy belief
that she would dream Of seeing her fu-
ture husband. That evening, however,
she had eaten two plates of ice-c cream,
about pint Of strawberries, several sweet
cakes, and two large pickles. and she
now says she would rather remain single
all her life than marry the man she saw
in her dreams,
Year: 1874

A YOUNG fellow in a Western town
was fined $40 for kissing a girl against
her will, and the following day the dam
sci sent him the amount of the fine, with
a note saying that the next time he kissed
her he must be less rough about it, and
be careful not to do it when her father
was about.
Year: 1874

As a specimen Of a recent kind of news
paper wit, the following is very good :
" a man who has been an inyeterate
smoker for twenty years, has suddenly
and permanently given up the practice.
He knocked the ashes off his pipe into a
keg Of blasting powder"
Year: 1874

A YOUNG lady of Sedgwick county, in
Kansas advertises that she will give 5000
for young man who will love her in a
kind and gentle manner. A young man
of that kind, warranted to keep in any
climate, is worth more than the amount
she mentions.
Year: 1874

A PICNIC recently cost one young fell
low all his teeth and another a bloody
nose, all because pretty girl was along
whom they each wanted to monopolize.
SO they went to Fighting, and meanwhile
Il peaceloving youth stepped in and car
ricd of the prize. Life is chock full of
such things.
Year: 1874

THE New York Mail thus tilts at the
third term croakers I'VE are glad to
learn that somebody has told somebody
else that the latter heard some one say
that the President was believed to be in
favor of third term. This is getting
definite"
Year: 1874

THE Western clergyman who preached
a sermon in billiard saloon and made
nineteen points, and had just got warmed
up to his work, when the proprietor en-
tered and told him to "run out"
Year: 1874

THE other day young lady in Phila-
delphia became so much embarrassed by
proposal from her lover that, in her
agitation, she swallowed a needle. We
say to young men they cannot be too
cautious about such things. They should
never make such propositions to girls
until they have thoroughly examined
their mouths to see whether they have
any needles in them or not.
Year: 1874

THE Cincinnati Enquirer offers to bet
that no fashionable lady ever goes to bed
without first looking in her glass, and a
rival is willing to risk the same sum that
no Cincinnati editor goes to bed without
drinking out of his.