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Year: 1878

A boy in Darby last Wednes,
day fell off the roof of a three
story house, fifty feet, to the
ground. lie is only twelve years
of age, and it is thought this is
doing pretty well for SO young a
lad-and afflicted with liver COM
plant at that. His parents feel
very much encouraged, and are
confident that be will be able to
fall twire as far when he has a lit
tie more practice. II boy can
do as we'll as this at twelve, what
may we not expect from him
wheE he is of age, and can 60 fall
ing around just as he pleasesY
Year: 1878

The want Of the age is con
densed homeopathic drinks in the
shape of pill, so that a fellow can
carry a happy drunk in his vest
pocket and become beastly with
out going out between acts, and
disturbing the congregation,
Year: 1878

Once it ran through narrow detile where
the mountain seemed cleft in train, and
where its perpendicular sides rose far,
far above us, looming up in the deep
shadows of the chasm to such an extreme
height that the sky above us appeared as
Unsupported by their SUBMITS; it seemed
az if the world were rent in two, and we
were moving onward near its center. 1t
clung midway upon the side of a juttlng
cliff that stood far out into the vast
abyss-a strong abutment to the mountain
wall of rock-and made us pause while
threading the narrow shelf that wound
around its outmost angle, for the brain
grew dizzy, and the breath came short
while looking into the wondrous depths
so far, far below the crumbling edge on
which our cautious mule could scarcely
find foot-rest, and still kept in my
mind the picture of broken world, with
our group gazing upon its massive ruins.
No horse could ever have passed along
that trail, nor could lowland mule
have performed the feat; but these
mountain mules will go where even q
goat could scarcely pass in safety. In
turning such short passes, he moves only
one foot at time, and placing it eau
tiously, tries if it is secure; and so
crawa, as it were, around the projecting
point. rode around such points where
I would not have ventured to walk, and
somehow could not avoid leaning to-
ward the rocky side of the trail, and away
from the deep charm below me. Long
toiling, slow progress at last accom-
plished the descent, and we found our.
selves in deep valley, on one side of
which ran the arroyo Coyegache, rapid,
turbulent stream, which rushed noisily
over its rocky bed, and had it been foot
deeper would have prevented our cross
ing it. We forded it by the guidance of
an Indian, who, seeing the train de-
scending the mountain, came out to meet
us, and to show US the ford; and brief
ride brought us to the rancho where we
were to tarry for the night.-Bees0a9, in
8. r. Commercial Aduocdte.
Year: 1878

CONTEMPLATING SILvER.-There is
danger that silver coin will be very ex-
tensively counterfeited, in case the silver
bill passes, for the obvious reason that it
can easily be done with standard silver
and at profit. Base metal need not be
used at all. The counterfeiter will only
have to copy the Government coins faith
fully, and he has chance tu make profit
the same as the Government does. Both
the authorized and the unauthorized
coins will be equally good, both being of
pure silver; the only difference will be
that one is made by law and the other in
spite of the law. If silver dollar al
ways contained dollars worth of silver,
then the counterfeiter would be obliged
to use alloy, and that would betray the
falsity of the coin in its color and its
ring. But if silver dollar contains only
ninety cents worth of silver, of course it
will pay counterfeiters to make it out of
pure metal, and derive q ten cent profit
on every dollar at that. The complica-
tions of this silver business are many and
curious.-KaSs. PL0ughnaan.
Year: 1878

Thinking is very important part Of
our lives. A great many, when they do
a thing which is not right, they say, Il
didn't think" 1t is quite possible l am
one Of that kind. But | think that when
a person is in the habit of speaking
carelessly, or before he thinks what he
is saying, then if he forgets once in
awhile, and has to write an essay for do
ing so, | think it is pretty thin.


But may be mistaken, for, as we all
know, the best of people will make mis-
pie will say It is Blessing % in ",is disguise uiS
for us poor boys to write what they call
essays.
Year: 1878

A few years ago Maine was the great
est numbering state in the Union, but
now she is the sixth on the list, and the
business is rapidly falling off by reason
of the wasting away Of the forests and
the competition Of western men. Ship
builders at Portland say they can get
pine masts and spars from the Pacific
coast cheaper than they can cut them
in their own woods.
Year: 1878

One of the most urgent needs of our
our county schools is fit men for direc-
tors, men who know something of the
wants of the schools under their charge;
men who are heads of families, and
therefore will take living, personal in
terest in the schools; men who can real
ize the Importance of hiring efficient
teachers, who, if the township board fix
wages at so small figure as to drive all
competent teachers to go elsewhere or
seek more remunerative employment,
will circulate subscription, as direc-
tor in Buffalo did not long since, and
raise sum sufficient to hire teacher
who can do good work. For when in
competent teachers are employed, what
ever their salary may be, it is money
thrown away.
Year: 1878

County Superintendent: Why do the
meridians come nearer together as they
approach the pole?


Applicant for Certificate: Because it
is colder as we 60 north and warmer as
we go south.


Supt.: Were the earth axis perpen-
dicular to the plane of the ecliptic, what
would be the result?


Applicant: Why, think we should
all fall off


The above questions and answers may
be found on record in our County Su-
perintendent's office. Now, what do
they show? Evidently that persons are
applying for certificates who themselves
are yet sadly in need of primary instruc-
ton. But how came these young per-
sons to be ignorant of things which
school boy nine years old ought to know
by the time he has studied geography a
week? There can be little doubt that
the primary instruction which they have
received was at fault. Their teachers
must have been inefficient. Must such
state of affairs continue to exist? If
not, what is the remedy? Surely, there
is remedy for all this, one remedy,
and only one We must have more eff
cient teachers in our primary and mixed
schools, teachers who have had exper-
ience and success in the work wherever
this is possible Always those whose
scholarship is accurate and sufficiently
extensive, who are able to apply and ex-
plain what they know, are apt to teach,
and who have had some special training
to fit them for the teachers work. In
these primary and mixed schools the
foundation for all culture is based, and
if this foundation be insecure no solid
superstructure can be erected 1t must
be remembered that schools are not IN
stituted for the benefit of those who
would get little money by teaching,
but that teachers are employed, or
should be employed, to serve the best
interests of the schools. To such, then.
as can serve these interests we'll, and to
such only, let the sacred duty of edu-
eating the young be entrusted.
Year: 1878

a MASS meeting was held at Cooper
Union recently, presided over by Cyrus
W. Field, to protest against proposed
reduction in teachers salaries Among
other utterances on the subject were
the following wise words of VIM. Cullen
Bryant:


| am heartily with you and other gen
tlemen who demonstrate against the
proposed reduction of teachers salaries.
We want the ablest and best men and
women in the community to engage in
the vocation of teachers. To reduce
their compensation will cause many of
this class to resort to other occupations
and will prevent many of them from de-
voting themselves to the instruction of
our youth. In this way it will cause
the degeneracy of our school system,
and have most injurious effect on the
generation which is to take our place on
the earth. Again, the poorer class, the
class for which our public-school system
is mainly adapted, have deep interest
in this matter 1t is important for them
that the teachers should be of that class
who are the most skillful in communi-
eating knowledge, and training their pa
pills to habits of order and diligence.
This cutting down of the salaries will
cause many of the best teachers to open
private schools, and thus pass them over
to the richer class, depriving the body
of the people of the advantages which
the law was supposed to have provided
for them.
Year: 1878

Chenille trimmings and ftinges are
used on autumn dresses.


A thick rouleau of satin is now used
to finish the edge of the flowing train Of
| handsome dresses.


Silver necklaces composed of four rows
of graduated rosettes are worn with
black and wl.ite dresses.


The newest short dresses have wrin-
kled apron and knife plating in front,
and three knife plaitings in the back.


Wreaths of silk roses, shading from
pale buds to blossoms gorgeously deep
in color, have been made up for fall
| bonnets.


Satin or velvet bodices are much worn
with white muslin skirts. With these
costumes the petticoat is of white silk,
and the washer-woman overskirt is
trimmed with satin to match the bodice.
Monograms that had been little used
of late are restored to favor since the
fancy for embroidery began. The mon
ogram is wrought on linen collars, on
parasols, on lace mitts, on the insteps of
stockings, and sometimes on shoes.


The white muslin pleatings once SO
fashionable for trimming black silk and
colored dresses are coming into use
again. They are worn under black lace,
or else they peep from beneath ruffies
of the dress material. A great deal of
white lace of very open pattern is also
used on dark silk dresses; among these
are church lace (or Irish point, Honi-
ton, Flemish laces, the open-meshed
torchon without any pattern upon it,
and Valenciennes of new open designs.
These are all modern laces, yet they are
given look of age by being dipped in
weak coffee until they are quite yellow.
They are very much used on the panier
and Vatican dresses of damask and of
foulard that are ordered for fetes.


The style for dressing the hair varies
according to the occasion. For walking,
it is dressed high in the neck, and fiat on
the top of the head For dinners and
ordinary evening wear at home, the hair
Is rather more elaborately arranged, and
for full dress all fanciful styles are re-
sorted to, such as long curls and puffs,
the hair being generally more becoming
when falling over the shoulders, espec-
tally with low-neck dresses. In the
country the hair can well be worn falling
loose in net. A pretty way of dressing
the hair for q dinner is to have it
crimped aud fiat in front, and the whole
back of the head covered with very light
puffs. A style for full dress is to have
the hair curled, falling gracefully down
the back, and long puffs on the top of
the head. 1850
Year: 1878

A paper published in Virginia City.
New, says: DIR. J. s. Meyer of this city
claims to have discovered the secret by
means of which the ancients we're able
to make tools and weapons of bronze
and copper of temper superior to that
OF the best steel. He says he is conf,
dent he can make bronze that in wear
and tear, temper and elasticity, will sur
pass the best steel. The doctor has
samples of the new metal which he will
show to persons desirous of seeing them,
and considers that he is near perfection
He says the metal when completed can
never be analysed, on account of its
peculiar manufacture. He hints that it
is combination of copper and iron,
brought about through the addition Of
some third metal or other substance.
The doctor wishes some who can fur
nish from $500 to $500 to Join him in
the manufacture of the new metal; that
he is to make sufficient quantity for
testing, to show that it ia really what he
claims for it.
Year: 1878

The mission of the watermelon is to
be enlarged, a company having been
formed in California with large capital
to make watermelon sugar and oil,
which claims ability to get ten per cent.
of the sugar from the juice, twenty-five
per cent of oil from the seeds, and alco-
hol from the rind and pulp.
Year: 1878

| While our readers are congrauulat- ing themselves over the excellent pros poets of railroad being built to Mari copa Wells during the coming winter it may not be uninteresting to give some facts relative to railroad building from the east.

 Two powerful companies are push ing their lines toward the eastern boundary of our Territory, and each company is now grading on New Mexico soil with all possible speed. The Denver and Rio Grande Company, are constructing a narrow gauge road which strikes the Rio Grande at Ala mosa, and is now rapidly pushing south.

 The Atchison, Topeka and Santa F6 road, is owned by very wealthy and energetic company Their road,-a careful constructed broad guage-has been completed to the western limits of Colorado for some years and has been doing a large and constantly in- creasing business as will be seen by a statement published in another column. Jay Gould's combination last Spring in favor of the Union Pacific and Denver & Rio Grande Railways will interfere greatly with the through business of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe road This interference has imposed upon the last named com pany the necessity of forming a con necJion with the Pacific Coast as quick Y as possible

 Mir. W. R. Morley, engineer for this company has been in Florence several days and from him we learn that the road IS being extended west at the rate of a mile q day. This work will be continued without cessation until the read forms a junction with the South ern Pacific. The track is now being lad over the Raton mountains. A tunnel will be built through this noun tam, but in the meantime track will be laid over the mountain with a grade of 374 feet to the mile, and the work on the New Mexico side will continue with all possible speed. The contracts for grading and building are let out as far as Las Vegas, and the line is determined upon as fur as Al berquerque on the Rio Grande. MT. Morley thinks the road will be built to the Arizona line within two years. His business in our Territory at the present time is to examine and survey the various routes so that the com pany may determine upon the most advantageous line The location of the road, however, will depend some what upon the course of the Southern Pacific. If iC goes to Tucson the east ern road will go there also, unless the California Company meet them beyond If the Southern Pacific stops a. Mari copa Wells, the eastern road may come through Railroad Pass, down Arivaipa Canyon and along the Gila to Florence as this is the route just surveyed by MT Morley.

 The people of Arizona may conf dently hope to see a trans continental railroad completed through our Terri tory before the end of 1880
Year: 1878

In the first issue of THE CITIZEN in Florence on November 9. 1877, we saluted our readers in an article head ed Here We are" and now after ten months of pleasant labor among this community we choose an equally brief and expressive head under which to say farewell.

 THE ARTZnNA CITIZEN was estab- lished in Tucson just one month less than eight years ago by Hon. John Wasson. The paper was owned and ably conducted by him until October last, when it was purchased by us and removed to Florence. Journalism was an entirely new field for Us, we knew little of its arduous duties. cares and. annoyances, but we have labored faith fully and we believe successfully for the best interests of our County and Territory and not without substantial profit to ourself.

 Our local patrons well understand our motives in going back 10 Tucson. It should not be inferred that Florence is q failure, nor that the town has failed to give THE CITIZEN a com paratively liberal support The fact is we have prospered beyond our ex- pectations, but we regard Tucson a larger and more profitable field, and as all business men are guided in their operations by business prospects, so we are induced to return to Tucson feeling that we can command greater prosperity there.

 During our residence in Pinal coun- ty we feel that we have secured many warm friends and a few sufficiently bitter enemies. At our beginning we declared that we should seek only to' know right truth and justice, and with these we should stand, without fear or favor, against all opposition. and that having chosen new field of labor we should devote our energies toward the advancement of the best interests of the. whole Territory leav- ing olG issues with the buried past."' We believe we have acted consistently with these and other purposes pro. fessed at that time. Our recent posi- tion on the use of the army is a new issue under entirely new relations and causes. We believe that during our brief editorial labors, We have main- tained the dignity of our position and the confidence of our readers. To have done this IS sufficient honor and sue cess to claim as the beginning of such an arduous and important profession. In our new field we hope to derive. great benefit from past experience; i; we shall concentrate purpose and ener- gy to bring THE CITIZEN into the high est sphere of true journalism.

 We leave Florence entertaining ;heI most pleasant feelings towards her citizens and the best wishes for her prosperity and future greatness. We trust these feelings are reciprocated, and thai a goodly share of the patron age we have enjoyed here may follow us to our new field We shall endeavor to keep posted on the developments in Pinal county and shall chronicle the same with pride and fairness.

 More words are useless, we believe our position is understood and ap preciated by our friends, and others will not be convinced by much writ ing THE CITIZEN will return 10 its natal town, but we trust it will con tinue popular and useful in the fair village of Florence where it has lived and fiourished for nearly one year Of. it's existence.
Year: 1878

BEFORE this paper reaches our read CTS the greater portion of the office material will be packed aud ready for shipment. Our wagons are in town and will be loaded without delay We cannot, of course, issue paper next week, and the very bad condition of the roads may compel Us 10 omlt two issues. We beg our patrons to be pa tient and assure them the removal will be as expeditions as possible.
Year: 1878

would have resulted but for the interference
OF friends MCGEE ID is alleged returned TO his
home and Informed his father OF what had happened.
and the pair thercupon determined to punish
Gedney Young McGee, armed with razor.
and his parent with brickbat. last night lett
their house. No. 26l Mulberry street, in sear,h OF
Geney and met him in Crosby street in the rear OF
Niblo's Garden The elder McGee raised his arm to
hurl the brickbat, but before he could do
SO his son rushed on Gelney. erapped with
him. and ut the same time drew the blade OF the
razor across his throat inhicting wound which at
present it il believed will prove fatal. The Mcees
away and the injured man fell to the sidewalk
bleeding profnsey He was found second later by some
friends. who raised alarm. Officer Cream"r. OF the
Fourteenth precinct. heard il. and noticing young
Ncoice running away gave chase and captured him.
The prisoner and the wounded man taken to the
Mulberry street station house where ambulance was
telegraphci for and soon arrived. The surgeon
stopped the flow OF blood from the wound in God
neys throat after which he taken to ST vincents
Hospital. MCGEE placed before the wounded
man, who fully identified him the man who had
cut him. The latter locked up.
Year: 1878

WHY THEY WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BE EANx


RoBBERs-A SUSPICIOUS sATcHEr4


The officer ON post in Chambers street last Sa.uf-
day night told by kohlcr. who keeps
saloon at No. 90 Duane street. that five suspicious
looking in the habit Of visiting
his saloon aud that he had noticed them taking OBJ
scrvations of the East River Savings Bank, No.
Chambers street Captain Petty, of the Fourth pre-.
cinct was immediately notified and officers
TONED TO watch the bank. The Captain ther
visited the saloon and told by tho proprietor
that the five men had been in his place all day Saturdays
that or two of them would come in at time. sit
down and talk and be followed shortly after by the
others. lie saw them examining the bank building
and talking to each other in low tones.


Later in the evening Captain Petty again visited
the saloon. accompanied by of his detectives.
and two of the standing about the doorway
talking together. They seemed to recognize
the Captain and at his, approach moved
them enter q West Broadway hotel he made
inquiries of the clerk who stated that the frst he
ss Q, that wa thew M saa ro
which they took Q check and then went
of. The clerk further stated that tho
Petty's opinion that it contained masks. The two
men who were followed by the detective well
dressed. and he thinks they We're professionals.


LOWERING ABOUT THE DANk


hfspecia officer on post at the bank kept sharp
watch and the detectives were in the immediate neigh
borhood all Saturday night. Two three Of the
men during the night, hut the presence OF
the in uniform seemed To dsconcert them.
On Sunday morning two men. supposed 70 be MEN,
bers of the gang walked past the bank anu after TAX
ing look it turned away talking in low tone
to each other and went Immediately 10 the hotel in
West Broadway On their way they discovered that they
followed They entered the hotel but came ont
almost immediately. one of them carrying the mys-
tcrious satchel. They then jumped on Sixth avenue
car and went up town. The detectives discontinued
shadowing them and returned to the bank. but
nothing further was seen of the men on that day.


THE BANK BUILDING.


Captain Petty. during examination on Sunday.
says he found that the bank could be easily
entered from the saloon III whech the men
had met He thinks it their
intention to first force entrance into the saloon and
then proceed to the roof. From there they
could cross to the roof of the bank and de-
sccrd through scuttlc to the banking
rooms. The building through from
Chambers street to Duane, and is three stories in
height. On Monday morning the president Mr. w.
II. Slocum, told Of Ill that had hap
pened, and he and the Captain agreed
that it had been the intention of the
five men to force entrance to the bank Saturday
night The president said he did not what could
have bern the object of the men. as there was but
very little money left in the safes over night;
that any it would have been impossible to force
open the safes had the gained admitancc to the
building,
Year: 1878

VEaETINE-Whent the blood becomes lifeless
and stsgnant either from change of weather or
of climate, want Of exercise. irregular diet,
or from any other cause, the Vegetine will re-
new the blood carry off the putrid humors.
cleanse the stomach, regulate the bowels, and
mpart tone Of vigor to the whole body.