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Year: 1874

"Chilly, a.; cool; moderately cold, such as
{" to cause shivering; as, a chilly day, night, or
" air." Thus is it that the Great Unabridged
defines a word which is now much in the
mouths of everybody, and especially in COM
pany with the morning mullins. Now it is
that we begin to wonder whether just pint
or so of warm water would not make CRATE
full addition to the pre-breakfast bath !;
whether we shall not tell Mary Chambermaid
to put cover OF two more on the bed !;
whether it is advisable to leave the tOp-sash
of the window little down during the night
as usual; whether we shall start the
furnaces and acknowledge that the Winter
is here. Now is the lover of Shakes
peare frequently reminded of the beginning
of that wonderful scene: Hdmlet-The air
" bites shrewdly it is very cold. HOrdtio-
at is a nipping and an eager air." We are
driven by it into a fuss of preparation. In a
small way we are like poor Dr. Kane, slowing
and fitting his little bark for hyperbOrean
adventure. Yes; frost and snow and congela-
ton are at hand the nights of % above 0 or
of 10 below are steadily sweeping toward q
present of low temperature and daylight of
only nine or ten hours duration. We can
play the summer syDarltt Ho lOHReT we are
reminded that the old Mortimer were our
cousins the Winter comes All through
honest October we 20 through our preparation
like so many Robinson Crusoes. We get in
coal. We attend to the furnaces We put up
the storm door and the double windows. We
furnish and fortify as for siege. For the
Winter is at hand.


1t is curious to think as we grow more and
more homeish in our feeling, with the
abbreviating days, how with the perfection of
modern improvement we have abolished the
freside, which glows and radiates now only
in poetry. We are Fire -Worshipers pure and
simple no lODger-we are only sect of that
persuasion, the devOtees of Hot Air! Seated
around register or stove, maybe we love
each other quite as well, but the fireplace
brought play of fancy, and old romantic
dreams it was plain and honest, and not in
the least scientific until DR.. Franklin, who
meddled with everything. put in an iron back
with pair of iron wings, and from that time
to this we have sought inventions OF calOrif-
cation, until their name is considerably more
than legion. Now is it that the newspapers
arc full Of the literature Of stove adver-
Year: 1874

The Southern Outrage business did MT pay
very well In Ohio Indiana did t IL begins TO look
as If tho demagogues and deadbeat politicians, who
have been living the hatred engendered by a war
which was ended nearly ten years ago, had at last
reached the emo Of their rope.


Would be Granger candidates often encounter
a good deal OF unpleasant fraukness among the class
they seek to impose upon. politician In Indiana, who
had tried In vain get office from every party thas
had existed plentfuy sprnkled his hair with hay
seed and began to the Grangers In o brief bio
graphical sketch which he had worked into one Of his
speeches he introduced this agricultural remark YES
may truly say was born between two rows OF corp"
In the slight pause which followed a heavy handed
farmer who knew OF but one kind OF vegetable which
pumpkin. by thunder" The speech was never finished.


There is great activity in the Navy-Yard at
Portsmouth, Virginia. Congressman Plat Is very anx'
ious to get back to Congress- and his constituents
very he should stay at home. Consequently the
NavyYard is filling up rapidly with "loyal' workmen,
who are convinced that the safety Of the country and
the glory Of the Republican party demand that the
great American franker be returned to his post.
dispatch to The Petersburg Inder aud Appeal that
men are being employed at the rate OF 200 day, and
that the force is over 1900 II Mr. Patt can only
make the OF the NavyYard superior Ia numbers
to the OF his district in order 10 have sure
thing OF II.


1t is hardly to be expected that all Of





Essex District will do sensible thing 10 unite
upon an independent candidate Their course in the
past has not been such to act OF so much
wisdom. The Salem Gazette however, very cautiously
urges Of that kind, and suggests as GOOD
candidate Judge Otis p Lord OF Salem saying OF him
Judge Lord unquestonaby Buffers equal In ability.
and would be greatly his superior unselfsh public
servant, statesman, and man Of ncerrupuble integ
rity We believe his last political ONCE was that oi
Speaker OF the Massachusetts House OF Representative
when the Wings in power, at which time he was
very popular leader. When the Superior Court sup
planted the old Court OF Common Pleas, Mr.. Lord wM
appointed Judge and from that time he has been win
drawn from active political life Upon s questions o.
finance and the payment OF the public debt. Judge
Lords views would be found in harmony with the
views OF the Republicans OF the district tnan zen.
Buters were; and AS protector Oh ane eoSntrs
against mOiety contractors aud public oummer OF ONO
sort and another district would present Al aa'ocato
who would find few equals"


A curious illustration of the extremes to
which the grinders Of the Southern Outrage" mill are
mn, IN order TO md material with which TO IRE the loyal
heart has lust como to light In Pittsburgh, Penn.
largo gun that city received last month
several osass iss arms and ammunition 70 10 cent =
Year: 1874

life for few moments on purpose as we suspect, to
reply to the appreciative obituary notice which We
published last week. Whether its reappearance is
10 prove genuine resurrection, or the embalmed
corpse, as our correspondent r. W. l.. suggested is
10 be borne around from house to house. it is too
soon yet to Judge But in either event we must re-
ioice that body which has provided much intel
lectual entertainment Is spared earth yet little
while LONGER. ~
Year: 1874



 MT. s. R. DeI.ong came in from Apache Pass on Wednesday. He reports having seen Cachise lately and heard him talk that the "old man " is peaceful in expres- sions and actions; that he says the San Carlos and any other raiding Apaches shall not find refuge on his reserve; that since he made peace, it has been safe for people to travel over his reserve and he intends it shall continue to be safe; that he has an easier and better time at peace than he would or could have if at war. MT. DeLong thinks he is sincere and we are not going to deny it, and shall rejoice at every new evidence Of good faith on his part and that of his Indians.

 We have several times been asked who would be successor to Capt. Jeffords as agent. We have not the faintest idea who he will be. We never had nor have we now any candidate for the place, and are not vain enough to believe that we could get the position for any one. We don't des-- ignate men for offices, and never have nor never will oppose man in office in the hope of getting a billet for friend. We know that it is impossible for the mass of mankind to believe this, but an inquiry at the departments at Washington and of all who truly know us, will elicit but one re- Sponse and that just as here indicated.
Year: 1874

Last Winter the stock-raisers of Cobra do lost hundreds of thousands of dollars by the weather killing their animals, and this Winter the loss has been very large in other northern Territories owing to the same cause. The Nevada papers report Gov. Bradley and his son having recently lost cattle worth S75,O0O to s9O,OOO by the cold weather. Their cattle ranged through the eastern part Of Nevada and south of Elko. It is a fact that the loss of stock from cold weather in the Territories north of here, amounts to much over the loss in Arizona by Apaches and all other causes; and in making this statement, we mean comparative and not aggregate loss. The present hostility Of the Apaches will undoubtedly retard the introduction and growth of stock In Arizona, but only re- tard, for safety will come and so will mill ions of cattle and sheep and they will multiply and prosper amazingly.
Year: 1874

We ask attention of the public to a clip ping in to-day's CITIZEN from Washing ton paper regarding the contents of a com munication by the agent of the Cachise reservation to the Commissioner of Indian affairs. For the sake of brevity, we at once accept it as a truthful statement of the case, and point with just pride to the record made by this paper in the premises

 When we verbally and in print charged that the Apaches raided from that reser- vation into Sonora, it was denied that the Cachise Indians did it but admitted that others from other reserves did so. We then replied that inasmuch as the troops were forbidden to go upon that reserve for war purposes, it was the duty of the Ca chise warriors to prevent other Indians from coming there and making ii base of operations, and that the agent should not ration any such. These propositions were not acted upon and consequently we, with many others, had reason to believe that bad faith was practised by both agent and Indians on the Sonora business. We always contended that the agent and Ca Ctlise could and should stop hostile Ind ians from raiding into Sonora from or across that reserve, and right here we have the agents testimony that they have done it within the past few months, and in these words:

 am happy to inform the department that it has been now over two months since any complaints whatever have been made against these Indians (CachiSe'S band) either by the citizens of this Terri tory or by the people living on the other side of the Mexican line, and I have strong hopes that we have heard the last of this raiding in Sonora. The Indians here, find ] was wa 'ttrr imputed m G to them have @ been more earnest in their efforts to prevent it, and are using every endeavor to prevent other parties from crossing the reservation with that intention, and apparently not with out good results.
Year: 1874

As it would not induce contractors to bid fraction higher by featuring them before putting in their bids, we saved ourselves from being laughed at by not delivering lectures to them; and as it will not put a cent in the pocket of farmers to print 0 tear provoking article uow, we'll refrain from printing one. We fully appreciate the farmers condition, but neither written nor spoken words will change 1t for the better. Billy Shakespeare says that " to mourn a trouble that is past and gone. is the best way to bring new trouble on; 1" and this seems to be about the only poetry applicable to the situation.
Year: 1874

FEBRUARY P, the House Committee on Indian Affairs agreed to report a bill, the main features of which make it penal offence to cheat or defraud an Indian or to fraudulently obtain his signature or mark to receipt for money which has not been fully explained to him.
Year: 1874

WE have no definite advices of the bids made at Grant, Bowie and Apache for forage and fuel, and hence do not yet know to whom the contracts for these supplies will be awarded. It Is believed by close figurers that the local bids will be lower than those put in at headquarters at Prescott. ..
Year: 1874

WE are advised by way of San Diego that "Governor Stafford and party left Los Angeles on the 9th," but nothing as to which way they were going or who com posed the party. Judged by the matter of time, we think they must have started for Arizona and are probably now this side the Colorado river

 This mornings mail brought letter from the Governor, saying that he would start as stated above, and also that he had purchased 1000 fine ewes and expected to be about eighteen days on the way here.
Year: 1874

TIE venerable ex Governor Joseph
J Johnson, of Virginia, has written TO a
member of the General Assembly in
auiripg whether there is now among
the members OF the Legislature any
one who sat with him IN that body in
1915. He says be is still hearty, and
continues to 20 regularly to his church
and to the county court house in court
days, as he used 10 in old times. He
was a colonel in the war OF 1872 and
led q Virginia regiment. He is the
frst native OF New York ever Governor
OF the State. Governor Walker was
the second.
Year: 1874

SOMEBODY will get hurt in that Ar
kansas foollshness il il is persisted IN
much longer. The adherents OF the
two Governors are simply two armed
mobs composed mainly OF negroes
whose rage is stimulated by inflsmms-
tory haraugues made by designing
politicians, until they are ready to COM
NIT murder or any other crime in the
calendar. The position Of the United
States officers is rather a delegate one
They are forbidden to favor either side
Of the quarrel, but are commanded to
keep the peace and prevent bloodshed
Thus far they seem to have had
much less difficulty in hold
ing the Brooks men than IL
restraining the BAXTER crowd. The
Brooks men act upon the defensive
they are in possession nt the nffice'
and all they want is ITO be let alone.



The United States troops stand between
them and danger, and would doubles
be compelled to join with them in re
pulsing an attack upon the State House
Whatever may be the result OF the row
BAXTER has shown himself bad Gov
ernor in that he is himself setting tn
bad example of attempting by violenc
to set aside the decree OF a lawiu
court. Whether the decision oustiD
BAXTER and seating Brooks ]
just and right or the reverse, does no
alter the case. 1t was rendered in &C
cordance with the forms OF law and ca
only be properly set aside by simila
legal and peaceful procedure.


The dispatches from Little Rock thu
morning show that firearms were use
rather recklessly last evening and tha
serious riot was only prevented b.
the vigilance and promptitude OF Colo
mel RosE, OF the United States Army
and the troops under his command.
Year: 1874

AN OYSTER DISPUTE SETTLED. The
oystermen of Queen Anne's county,
Md, have long claimed that Talbot
county oystermen had no right to take
oysters in that prong of the Wye river
which entends into the former county.
The question, however, was finally
settled last week by the Circuit Court
throwing open both prongs of the
river to the oystermen Of each county
respectively. The decision, says the
Centreville Observer, was based upon
the seventeenth section of the oyster
law, which gives to citizens of Queen
Anne's and Talbot counties the use Of
"the waters of Wye river and the
mouth thereof in common" The
court Judges Wickcs and Stump)
held that Notwithstanding the fact that
one branch Of the river was wholly
within the limit Of Queen Anne's
county, yet by proper construction
oftse section both branches were in
cluded in the title wye river," which
is expressed in the law in the singular
number. ... 'n
Year: 1874

Although little late in Issuing, we feel proud
Of this New-Year's number of the Chie. As q To-
cal paper, its equal was never seen in this Coun-
ty, if in the State. We have a good list Of local
items from every Township in the County, and
from every town of any consequence, except Sew
erance. For some unaccountable reason, "Grang-
err" Observer" and the balance of them, who
have kept ms supplied with items from there
have all failed this week. We also give the
names of the officers elected for the ensuing year
in every Masonic and Odd Fellows organization
in the County. Besides, we have several inter
esting communications, to say nothing Of editori-
ais. In fact, the inside of paper is about all
original matter. Our correspondents have come
to time admirably this week; and we call atten-
tion to it now, to show what can be done toward
making valuable County paper, when people
all over the County take an interest in it. 1t is
not only benefit to us, but to every community
in the County. Can not our friends try them
selves, and keep up The same interest through
out the yearf
Year: 1874

AFTER HIM.-Our County Treasurer has receiv-
ed circular from the Attorney General of the
State, setting forth that the Auditors Report
shows Doniphan County to be delinquent to the
extent of 500 on the proceeds of the sale of
school lands; and that if not settled forthwith,
suit will be commenced fer its recovery, and the
Treasurer will he ousted from office. The Treas
urer says his books are all square and correct
and that there is not dollar due the State. If
any such thing is made to appear, it must arise
from some peculiar manner in which Auditor
Thoman kept his books; or it may be, that lands
which were forfeited by the purchasers failing
to make payments are charged up against the
Treasurer. A special officer, who visited every
County in the State, over year ago, to look af-
ter this school land matter, reported Doniphan
County square, Bob says that he is panic-proof
and investigation proof, and tha' they may come
down upon him whenever and in whatever shape
they like.
Year: 1874

We dislike to do anything to interfere with
the plans of our friend George W. Martin, State
Printer; for we feel assured that whatever he
undertakes will he done honestly and well. But
he has submitted proposition for the considera-
tion of the members Of the Legislature, which
would involve an onilay of money that would he
Of no practical benefit TO the State. However,
he gives them figures and particulars, so that
they may act underStandiugly, and know what
they are going into, if they accept His proPo-
sition is TO issue daily Journal of the proceed
ngs of the Legislature, to be devoted to that ex-
clusively, containing pages each. He will fur
nish the Legislature 1000 copies per day, for fifty
days, for a, 500. The Legislature would have to
furnish its own sienographic reporters, three in
number, (two for the House and one for the SEN
ate,) at a cost of g 900. This would allow each
member and officer about 25 copies Of the Jour
nal per day. The printing is cheap enough, but
it strikes us that s1666i per day is pretty stiff
wages even for stenographers.


Legislative reports have been tried time and
again, and have never given satisfaction. At one
session, they were taken by 3 stenographic re-
porter, and were still unsatisfactory. The only
apparently good reason urged in their favor is,
that each morning the members OF either House
can see what was done in the other on the previ-
ous day. But they eau learn that just as well by
other means, and avoid a vast amount of non
sense and useless trash. Twenty-Five copies q
day to each member would enable him to send
them to bnt very few Of his constituents, at the
expense of all, and large majority would know
nothing at all Of what was going on. 1t might
please the favored few, but would gain the menu
Der the ill-will of those who were slightcd. The
coming Legislature can begiu the work of re-
form in no better way than by putting its foot
down upon these Legislative Journals and news
paper subsidies. The newspapers of the State
will report and ventilate all that is necessary in
the Legislative proceedings, and every man can
pay for his own paper.
Year: 1874

Y An article is going the rounds Of the Kan
sas press, to the effect that there are too many
newspapers. We have been thinking, for some
time, that there were too many issned from thi.
office, and have been looping number of them
of But new names are coming in, faster than
had cases are dropped.
Year: 1874

II The Lawrence Daily Journal has been de
creased in size one column to the page. The rea
son given is, that in the present state of business
the demands upon its columns do not Justify 6
larger sheet. An excellent reason. The Law.
renee Daily Tribune was some time ago reduced
TO half size.
Year: 1874

n German philosopher attributes the rreat
prevalence of emotional insanity to the increased
consumption Of oysters. Emotion in an oyster.
Who knows but that the mania for suicide may
be the effect of indulging in cold buckwhsat
cakesi
Year: 1874

One of the most populor writers for folks IN Ame
ca Readers Of Jack Hazard "A Chance for HIMSELF
and Doing his Best" will understand what a capital
treat is in store for the in Mr. Trowbrses new sty


All these Stories will be Splendidly Illustrated.
Year: 1874

PATTY IN THE sPRING-HOusE,


Patty had that morning gone 10
the spring-hnuse, as usual, to strain
the milk.


Can it be possible that any be-
nighted reader does not know what
a spring g-house is? A little log cabin
six feet long by FIVE feet wide, with
out floor, built where the great stream
Of water issues clear and icy cold
from beneath the hill. The little
cabin-like spring house sits always
in the hollow; as YOU approach it
you look down upon the roof Of
rough shingles which Western peo-
pie call "clapboards,' you see the
green moss that has overgrown them
and the logs, you see the newborn
brook rush out from beneath the logs
that hide its cradle, you lift the home
made latch and open the low door
which crcaks on its wooden hinges,
You see the great perennial spring
rushing mp eagerly from its dark
subterranean prison, you note how
its cslld waters lave the sides Of the
eArthen crooks, and in the dim light
and the fresh coolness, in the pres
ence Of the rich creaminess, you feel
whole eologues Of poetry which you
can never turn into words. s


It was in jus. such . spring house
that Patty Lumsden had hidden her.
self. .4


She brought clean crocks--earth.
esware milk psns--from the shell
outside, where they had been airing
to keep them sweet; she held the
strainer in her left hand and poured
the milk through il until each crock
was nearly full; she adjusted ths
crooks in their places among the
stones, 90 that each one stood hal
immersed in the cold current d
spring water; she laid the smooth
pine cover on the crooks and put I
ciesn stone atop that 10 secure il.


While she wss thus putting swas
the milk her mind WAs on 4mtcn
ShsNundssd wias her father hat
Year: 1874

While it is perfectly proper that any and
all classes of citizens should meet and or


ganize for the protection and furtherance Of
their own interests, there seems to be just a
little spice of arrogance in the meeting of q
few property owners, under the title Of
taxpayers and assuming e. speak for
that large class of people who did not par
ticipate in their proceedings, but who are
really as much or more the taxpayers Of
this District asthemselVes. There's are many
large property-owners here against whom
taxes are assessed, but who are only the
channels through whom the taxes are passed
into the treasury. The lessees Of their i'm
proved property are the parties who really
pay the taxes in the shape Of rents-and
high rents at that. But there is another
very large class Of real taxpayers here who
were not represented in the meeting Of
tax payers" Of last night. We refer
to those citizens who own and
pay taxes upon the houses and lots
which they occupy. This class in
the aggregate far eutnumbers that repre-
sented in the association which was formed
last night. We hazard little in saying that
their interests are much safer in the custody
of and will be much better cared for by the
three Commissioners selected by the Presi,
dent than they would be in the hands oi
the self-constituted committee Of so-called
taxpayers, who propose to act as On ad.
visory beard to the Commissioners, if the
latter will take their advice, and to Ego for
Year: 1874

The course of the New York Herald
upon the third-term question supplies an
other illustration of the truth Of the popu-
lar saying, that it is impossible to please
everybody. That journal for over year
has been fighting the idea, and now a cor
respondent writes to the EUeHiBg Post, of
the same city, that ''the continuous and
almost daily recurrence TO the subject has
''familiarized the public with the idea and
''hclped to build up a powerful party in
favor of the project" The same CORE
spondent writes somewhat inconsistency
There is one consolation for those who
''think ii inexpedient that the President
should be accorded a third term, and that
''is that the HsraId's candidates have never
''been elected, though that profound organ
''of public opinion perhaps might be able to
''prove from its files that they had always
''wOn." The Post says, editOrially: Look
'fng at tie matter from a party point OF
''view, the first appearance of third-term
proposition is prepOsterous, but when one
''passes in review the present condition Of
''party organizations and management the
''matter becomes somewhat serious.