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Year: 1878

morning, the storm having passed away
eight herdsmen, mounted and armed,
waited until the corral gate was openedi
The stock poured out.Suddenly up sprang
the Apache. Vaulting on the nearest
horse, he clutched his name with one
hand, while with the other he waved his
red blanket and yelled like a demon.
In an instant every hoof made rush
and the stampede began. The horse,
frightened darted into the midst of the
flying cattle, as in frenzy they went
through the gateway. The Apache
clasped his arm armed the horses neck,
and, throwing his body on one side Of the
maddened animal, disappeared from view.
A thousand men ranged in column
could not stop that rush of the crazed
herd down that valley. The herdsmen
fired volley, which wounded and killed
some of the cattle. Two bands of Apaches
darting out from opposite sides of the
valley, closed up from behind the herd.
-Four hundred head of cattle were thus
captured and run of by the daring and
cunning of the Apaches.-Bearer Utdh)
Square Dealer.
Year: 1878

Il


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immediate vicinity of Of the largest
richest and best known silver mines OF Colorado TILE pant
from VIII sell cheap for cash exchange for
stock Of merchandise suitable for the Western trade


This property offers unusual Inducements 10 party with
moderate capital wishes mine for the legitimate profits
mining who has facilities for handling Mining stocks
and wants o get In Oh the ground door"


All communications strictly confidential Address X, Box
Trihu
Year: 1878

AN ASTONISHING FAcT-A large propor- tion of the American people are to-day dying from the effects of Dyspepsia or disordered liver. The result of these diseases upon the masses of intelligent and valuable people is most alarming, making life actually burden instead of a pleasant existence of enjoyment and usefulness as it ought to be. There is no good reason for this, if you will only throw aside prejudice and skepticism, take the ad- vice of Druggists and your friends, and try one bottle of Greens August Flower. Your speedy relief is certain. Millions of bottles of this medicine have been given away to try It's virtues, with satisfactory. results in every case. You can buy sample bottle for ten cents to try. Three doses will relieve the worst ease Sold by all A. s. Wright & Co.,, of Lttchfield.
Year: 1878

Another peat machine is noticed in the pa- perS AS now being manufactured at Lakeville. 1t is said to first reduce the peat to 6 powder, and tAenL by heavy pressure, to compress it into substance nearly as dense as coal. The peat thus solidi6ed is said to be almost equal to hard coal for fuel.
Year: 1878

The sufferers by the Tariffville accident held meeting at Winsted. last week, with a view to obtaining compensation for their in- jurie& We imagine that there is no liability on the part of the bondholders of the Conneti- cut Western railroad and, there is apparently no responsibility anywhere else. Ought not our legislature to provide that there shall be some responsibility somewhere for injuries to passengers through the carelessness or neglect of bankrupt nailroad cnrnorations.
Year: 1878

We dislike to annoy the public with our private affairs, but as we are about to take fresh start il Tucson the fol lowing quotations may be admitted:

 If from Cum, they are valuable as coming from one who knows how to make 400 0pound steer weigh 800, and who has saved out of $l 300 per an nun enough money to buy a printing office Enterprise

 Bro. Cum was in Tucson a few weeks since, endeavoring to get such security for CollingwoOd as would be accepted by him before he would al. low the press to leave Florence.-Star.

 After reading these extracts the pub. lie will know exactly who owns THE CITIZEN, and just where the money came from. We have simply to sug- gest to the Enterprise that our record will bear investigation. It is certain that we kept the Apaches al peace, and didn't need to borrow any rations from the military. If We made an extra 400 pounds of beef we are that much ahead, while it is evident that no one has been injured. But Marion can't prove anything: he has tried that over four years, and now he better take a rest.

 To the Star, we can say that howev- CT poor we or our credit may be, we have never been compelled to issue on brown paper" nor 10 barter our col umns to a Mining Company for job office.
Year: 1878

Captain Bogardus has returned from Europe and states that he will accept the challenge of Dr. Carver to shoot eight hours-Carver to shoot with his own rife at his own distance, cooling cleaning and loading his own weapon Bogardus to use his own set of barrels under the same conditions and shoot ing from a trap, twelve to fifteen yards rise. He is willing to wager $5OOO that he will beat Carver in such a match. Bogardus is ready to deposit 5000 forfeit any day.
Year: 1878

A little form is missing, A first-bOrn nursling flown, There is anguish in the household

 Left desolate and lone. There is a new mound in the graveyard,

 A short and narrow bed, And parent hearts are grieving

 And mourning for their dead. A little crib is vacant now,

 Tiny garments made in vain, A baby voice no more shall moan

 And sob with earthly pain. You fold away the little robes

 Your loving fingers wrought, It has changed for robes immortal

 The fading ones you bought You may weep beside the little grave, You may kneel and kiss the sod, But think, oh, stricken mother,

 Your child is now with God. Yes, safe with God, and safe from pain, From sorrow, care and-sin, Far safer than those without the fold Are the lambs who have entered in. Oh, think where is your little one, Not in its cradle bed, Not lying in your weary arms,

 Nor with the molderlng dead, But safe above in Heaven,

 Upon the Saviour's breast. With his loving arms around it, It takes the sweetest rest. Strive not to check your tear-drops, Let them fall like summer rain, For beam Of hope shines thro' them You may meet your child again. Yes, weep, but with exultIng: That rare bright gem you've given, To receive a glorious setting In the diadem Of Heaven.

 Oak Leaf in N. v. Weekly.
Year: 1878

There is not a business house in Tucson that will endorse the attack ci THE CITIZEN last week upon Gen. Will COX, but on the contrary all condemn lit We defy that paper to find sin gle endorsement of it's course in this particular in this city, among those whose opinions carry weight in the ccmmunity.-Star.

 This is rather severe on TIE CITI- ZEN, especially as we expect the next issue will be in Tucson. l. will be a rough road for us tO travel
Year: 1878



 Another book has been written ol Arizona with the above title and by the aforesaid author. Florence has tn, misfortune to own this demented ole fossil as a resident. His new worl is the most disgraceful attempt a rhyme we ever saw. It is totally un worthy of editorial comment and would not be noticed had not the author made shameless personal attacks on some oi Arizona's best citizens. The poet (?) stoops to low, vile personalities, but this is in keeping with the man and his work. Last winter he came io us with his manuscript and wanted his bosh and slrrs published in THE CITI. ZEN, but after a brief examination il was promptly rejected. The old man and his sayings are harmless where his true character is known, but his book may be read by some who are curious to observe the extremes of human fol- ly, and it is our desire to acquaint such with the true character of the author. Every true critic will at once condemn the work. The following comments on this new book appeared in the News Letter of August 24

 The author of this remarkable work, in the second paragraph of the intro ductiOm, says: Ut was written in mud hut, on dirt floor, without the advantage of single book of refer ence, and no more knowledge of met rical composition than a donkey has of yardstick, and goes into the world a simple child of the desert, like the author" If this is the truth, and we. see no reason whatever, from the con- tents of the work, to dOubs it, why under heavens it was attempted: Why was so much time, paper, presswork and composition wasted in giving to the world a mass of the most insuffer- able bosh it was ever our i'll fortune to encounter? Was there no kind friend to advice MT. Poston not to rush sol wildly in poetical(D life? Why didn't the printer show some consideration for this misguided man, and refuse tol the job: Why was his MSS. not rejected from the first? We con- fess to having looked it over, and al- though we have become much unset tied and rendered rather nervous byI it's perusal, we cannot refrain from giv- ing a few quotations, from which an opinion of the entire work may &C., be formed:

 Fort Yuma now stands on the hill Where Gila's brighter waters All The Colorado's muddy bank, Just opposite tbe soldiers tank. Twas built on site Of Yuma land, By brave old General HeintzeIman, On the other side, on sandy ground, My chief with him laid out a town, But neither now from Squatter band Can claim a single foot Of land.

  We bought this land from Santa Ana When he sold under the hammer, The old one-legged Peter Funk Ten millions must have made him drunk. 1 The treaty made with old Gadsden Was all very we'll as things went then. For old titles now we've no regards; We've become nation of Communards; We'll confiscate these old estates, And then make tracks for Eastern States. l And so on through one hundred and 'orty-one pages.
Year: 1878

The Board met in regular session. all the
members present and President Bell in the
chair.


The resignation of Thomas F. Shaw as
Inspector ON Grand and Price avenues was
accepted


The bids for improving and repairing
sidewalks during the coming year were re-
jected and the Clerk directed to readyertiss
for bids.


The payroll of the salaried force of the
Water-works for half a month, amounting
to 81, 400 80, was approved.


The Superintendent of the Water-worss
was directed to put in proper repair the
drinking fountain on Fountain Square,
Fifth street.


A resolution was adopted, which required
that whenever a complaint of the manner
in which any contractor of street repaiFs
was doing his work should be made tho
weekly payment of the contractor shall lac
withheld until he proceeded to remove the
cause of complaint
Year: 1878

The first discovery of fossil shells upon
Cape Cod has been recently made by War
rem Upham, assistant in the geological sur
vey of New Hampshire. They occur at
three localities in the cliffs which form the
east or back side of the Cape, all in Truro.
They show that when the sand and gravel
in which they occur were deposited the sea
stood certainly one hundred feet higher
than now. All of them are such as are now
found living in the sea-
Year: 1878

The Aldermen of Providence appointed
one of their number theatrical censor, and
instructed him to prevent immodest dress
ing by women on the stage in that city. He
made rule that all skirts must reach at
least to the knees, and burlesque company
performing in a variety theater had to be
suddenly disbanded in order to save the
houses license. But the censor found his
duties too onerous, and has resigned
Year: 1878

In the evening a grand court dinner was
held at Whitehall Palace at which one
hundred and twenty persons were present.
The Crown Prince Frederick William con.
graduated the illustrious statesmen upon
the realization of his hopes that the bless
ings of peace crowned their efforts.
Year: 1878

MRS. HARDIN, who dwelt near Bijou
Basin, was left with her two children
just previous to the recent terrific snow
storm. The snow drifted and the wind
howled about her house. Her provisions
were nearly exhausted, and the fire was
dying out. The supply OF matches had
given out, and all the efforts of the
mother to infuse lie into the dying en-
bers in the stove proved fruitless. The
snow fell through the chimney and
smothered the fire, and, after an hours
effort to keep herself and the children
warm, the mother, brooding over the
possible result of the storm and wonder.
ing at her husbands long absence,
gathered her children in her arms and
ventured out into the storm, intending
to make an efFcrt to reach the house of
her father-in-law, which was three miles
distant. The next day her ifeless body
was found buried in the snow, cIasping
her two dead children.
Year: 1878

A DEAD-BEAT may be jugged In
Mexico. while with US he is cock of the
walk. If you are beaten out Of money
or property by swindler you can put
him in Jail and keep him there. In fact
you've got to keep him there, because if
he gets out the very first thing he does
will be to slap you in. The only safe way
to let fellow out of Jail is to make him
give bend with approved security that
he viii not retaliate.-CH Harding's Mexi-
can Notes.
Year: 1878

A DoCTRRss writes to the Australian
Star that more quarrels arise between
husband and wife owing to the electrical
changes affecting their nervous systems
by occupying the same bed than by any
other disturbing cause. "There is
nothing" says she, " that will derange
the system of person who is eliminative
in nervous force like lying in bed all
night with another person who is almost
absorbed in nervous force. The absorber
will go to sleep and rest all night, while
the eliminatOr will be tossing, tumbling,
restless and nervous, and wake up fretfuI
and disheartened." No two persons
should habitually sleep together, accord
ing to this authority; one will thrive and
the other lose.
Year: 1878

The Columbia (S. C. Register is evidently


suffering from u severe attack Of mental
dyspe,sia under an effort TO digest the
present and prospective political situation. 1t
views the horizon and studies its indications
with serious alarm that is full of terrible
conjurations as to the inevitable c0nse-
quences Of certain events that are within
the range of human possibilities, If not
probabilities. For instance, it treats the
election of General GRANT in 1870 to the
Presidency with all the trepidation that
should attach to foregone conclusion Of
very serious import. With his eye sufiused
with blood, the editor Of that delectable
sheet cOntemplates the reelection of that
hOnOred hero aud statesman, and eXclaims
with much frenzy the" total extermina-
" ton of the negro would thus become Il
necessity. The work would be short, and
" the end certain but before it could be ac-
" complished untold miserics would accom-
pany the bloody crusade. These are the
"daugers which overhang the country should
the Republican party place General
GRANT in the Presidential chair In lssO.


Here we find the pure oozings Of treason
and rebellion, and the warning does not
Year: 1878

For the benefit of the numerous Pacific
Slopers so-callcd, temporarily resident in
Washington this winter, and others who
may be interested in them, THE NATIONAL
REPUBLICAN will hereafter print daily re-
ports Of the Western mining stocks as re-
ceived from the authorized stock boards OF
Ban Francisco and elsewhere up to the houI
Of going to press. This will enable ouI
friends from the Occident to find out each
morning how things have been going on
the day before.
Year: 1878

BULL-DoZING is all very well in the eyes
of the Democracy when applied to Repub-
licans; but when it is reduced to practice
among themselves it is u little objection
able. At a municipal election recently at
Augusta, Ga, for the selection of site for
city market.house, bull-doziug was re-
sorted to in all its license. There was no
party politics in the question, and hence the
Chronicle and COHstiiWtiOadIia becomes dis
gusted and piOusly exclaims' I'VE must
"preserve the purity of the ballot If we de-
sire good government for ourselves aud
our children
Year: 1878

THE average Democrat devoutly consigns
the cipher-dispatch business to lIades aud
be done with it, Then he recalls the re-
mark, because he don't want to hear of the
confounded thing again, as he would if the
consignment were to he carried into effect.
Year: 1878

IT has not escaped general attention that
the Northern Doughface Democracy in the
House came to the front promptly at the
beginning ofthe session, as they did eight
cen years ago, IN defense of the Southern
Bourbons. The same infamous sycophancy
will be observable in the Senate to-day.
Year: 1878

TITS argued that Mr.. BLACKBURN would
not make good Speaker for the next
House because he speaks too much. But
il should he said that he always speaks his
mind freely and truly. There is no half
way business about him; he is u Southern
Bourbon and is proud of it. BY all means
let us have him for Speaker, instead of I.
Northern Doughface, who would, after all,
as SAM RANDALL now is, be nothing more
than plastic tool in the hands of the
BOuTbOns.
Year: 1878

he may probably have been tired of liv- ing and took that opportunity to make an end of himself.

 Failing to accomplish anything with their bows and arrows the Indians fell back and again counciled. They seemed to think the only way was to watch the fort and starve out the garrison. Creep ing up close to the works not head could be raised or a hand exposed but 1t brought 8 dozen bullets from the grass. One Indian was observed creeping al- most within the works when @ shot from Maxwell laid him out The men saw an other approach, lying on pony, and fired, hitting the pony in the head and leaving the redskin to scramble off as best he could.

 The water was giving out and tn e Il becoming thirsty. To meet this new danger passage was dug under the breastworks and one of the party crawled out, under cover, went and get water. Another man got some wood, and i'll the morning tie besieged surprised the say ages by building large fire. Mrs. Max well had had tent put up, and when the Indians saw the improved condition of the little garrison their rage was very great. Dashing down to the fort they fired over hundred shots at the fire, but Mrs. Maxwell bravely stood her ground and quietly went on cooking while the balls were flying all around her.

 The Indians circled about the beseiged for over two hours, but only fired occa- sional shots, which showed that they were getting short of ammunition. About noon on the third day they drew of, one calling out, ''Good bye, we're going now" When asked who they were, the Indians replied, "Sioux and Neg Perces." :" Eight Indians were seen to fall during the fight, and it is likely double that number were wounded.

 On the morning of the fourth day all looked well, but the garrison did not venture out, being satisfied the Indians had only moved short distance from the Notifications. During the day Col. Baker (Second cavalry), with g strong force, was seen approaching the fort, guided by the man who had been sent out for assistance. Mir. Maxwell had a very narrow escape, ball cutting away a lock of his hair and another one graz ing his jaw. Your correspondent did not learn the name of the wounded man, but it is said he will recover. MT. Max well and party lost twenty-six head of oxen, captured by the Indians, and one pony killed, but all are only too happy to have escaped with their lives. This is one of the most memorable sieges and defences ever known on the Plains, and stamps every one engaged in it as gen. uine hero and heroine. Colonel Baker brought the little party back to Tongue river, where they are now being feasted and fast recovering from the excitement of their terrible adventure. It is not likely MT. Maxwell will soon again de- sire to settle on the Little Missouri.
Year: 1878

In the present stress of business. pen- pie are obliged to contract their expenses and live economically, and many to whom this comes as new. experience, find the lesson difficult one to learn. Such 8 periodical is boon in these times, when it becomes necessary to stop all the leaks. It teaches ladies how to make their own garments and those of their children, un- til the expression has become proverbial ill the tens of thousands of households where the BAZAAR is taken, Myself and children are much more nicely dressed than of old, and it costs me less money" !" It teaches how to create, from a mere abiding place, refined and complete home, and how little inexpensive things produce the transformation.
Year: 1878

The New York iStar gives the result of interviews with Irishmen of that city relative to movement against England. One.of the persons interviewed, who is @ captain in the Fenian army, said:

 "Well, to be candid with you, we have come to this final conclusion, to give an- other shake-up to the old enemy, and you can bet your bottom dollar that we mean business, and no humbug this time I don't care a continental if the whole royal family know our mode of warfare and you can publish. this, for the world will soon know It. I could snow you samples of the weapons we will use. We want no cannon, but we may use balls, and, let me tell you, those balls will deal death and destruction when we com mence"

 "When will the fight commence ?"

 "That is just where our enemy will be kept iii the dark" said the Captain. "But the day of reckoning is at hand, and I would advise all cur friends who are in the British army to make them selves scarce, for we hold England in the hollow of our hand. One small ball dashed through window, burst on a fortiication, or among the Queens po- lice, or let one drop in the House of Commons and another in the House of Lords, and the slaughter will be dread fr1l, and lamentations will be heard from one end of the British realm to the other"

 "Captain p exclaimed the reporter in astonishment, "can it be possible that you will sanction mode of warfare so destructive of life and property?"

 I am ready to be party to any thing" said the Captain strongly, "that will revenge us upon our enemy who have pursued us. and driven millions of our race from the land of our birth v

 Another gentleman who has peculiar facilities for knowing the plans and tenn per of the Brotherhood, said:

 "I was with General O'Neill when he made his last raid on Canada, which proved such fiasco. told them that the movement was premature, and that the wiser plan was to delay action until 8 strong combination of forces could be effected. This time no such mistake will be made, and no premature and ill., judged action will be taken. No filli- bustering is to be indulged in. No pub icity is to be given to our meetings. Everything is to be as secret as the grave until the hour to strike. To-day we have 10000 pledged men in New York, and we can concentrate 100000 fighting Irishmen inside of week at any given point England will be at tack by sea, by land, and right at home ]"
Year: 1878

l dove once in Mobile Bay, where I put over three hundred chains under an iren-elaa, says noted diver. fhe great. est annoyance that we had there was sharks. They didn't hardly dare tackle us, because with our armor we looked more like scarecrows than anything else. They would come sailing along, and gradually swim up towards us with their great big mouths wide open, but when within few feet of us they would stop and lay there happin' their fins and look ing, it seemed to me, like the old Harry himself. Finally we devised way to scare them off that never failed to frighten them so that they would stay away an hour or longer before they dare to come back. The armor that we wear is air-tight, you know. Our jacket sleeves were fastened around our wrists with an elastic, so that the air could not escape. By running my finger under the sleeve of my jacket I could let the air out, and as it rushed into the water it would make sort of hissing noise and a volume of bubbles shoot up. So when ever those internal sharks would come proving around me I would hold out my arm toward them and, putting my finger under the elastic of my jacket sleeve, I would let lot of air out and send a stream of bubbles into the sharks face with hissing noise like steam from a gauge cock. The way that those sharks would go scooting off WAS funny to be- hold.