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Year: 1878

men knew. / found them crooked. /
guess their parents were sqaare enough.
l know my parents were. was pushed
into the business, had money. was
pushed into the crooked business, and
then the crooked men tried to ruin me.
1 was the only one that had money, and
they wanted it. l can stand thief, but


I can't stand liar. With a liar don t
know what to do"


The reporter then visited two criminal
lawyers, each of extensive practice.
One of them said: "You want to know
about the domestic lives of men that
handle the jimmy, do you? Well, the
best of them-I mean the most success
ful-are brave men. The man that
takes the jimmy in his hand TO break
into house is not driven to it by any
sudden impulse. The scheme must be
planned. He always risks both his life
and long Imprisonment. These men
are just the kind to win a girls heart.
Ii is astonishing how often they marry
into good families o. win a mistress
from them. The women are true to
them when they get into trouble. The
children generally do the wrong way
through force of circumstances, though
the parents are desirous of bringing
them up virtuously. The usual home
of a thief is in furnished rooms, where
no references are required, and where
there is no tea-table gossip. They eat
at restaurants. The affection between
husband and wife is often intense, but
1t is seldom lasting. A woman who
pawns all of her jewelry to pay the cost
of getting him out of prison will, per-
haps, in the very next case be witness
against him.


"The same Characters are coming up
again and again in my business, but |
never know until l talk to them what
motives are actuating them. The i'm
pulses of the criminal classes are gener-
ally good. | know a woman, for ex-
ample, who keeps disreputable house.
Her daughter il now being educated In
a fashionable convent school, but doesn't
know how the money is got that pays
herschool bills"


The other criminal lawyer said: ''The
average thief cares no more for his chill
dren than he cares for Jumps of wood.
He generally becomes attached to a dis
reputable woman. He may love her
intensely for time. He does nothing
from day TO day, while he lives on her
earnings. Now and then he will make
strike in his line. This money soon
goes in gambling, and then he lives
again on the woman. I notice this that
when the man is arrested the woman
will pawn her clothes and wear her
shoes utin running to lawyers for him,
but when the woman gets caught in
shop lifting, the man never comes near
her. But the affection even of the
woman Is shortlived. Let either man
or woman be sent to prison for year
or over, the other will not wait month
before he or she picks up another COM
panion. Ii they are married, the one
out of prison will not marry again, be-
cause iJ would be bigamy, but never
knew a case where real faithfulness ex-
listed between pair of criminals. The
wife may visit the prison and so keep
up show o! faithfulness, but it is only
ia form.
Year: 1878

A New DEPARTURE.-A gentleman who


resides in this city near the corner of State and


Cumberland streets, is at present the owner OF


large and noble specimen Of a cat of the


Maltese breed. "Jack'' has always been a


terror to the rats and birds in the entire neigh


borhood, scarcely day passing by that he


would not carry some trophy of his cunning


and prowess home to lay at his masters feet


for praise AMI commentator. He has been
punished time and again for destroying birds,
aud on the other hand, received due praise for
all the rats that he has dispatched. Lately,
however, he has taken new departure, giving
up the killing of the birds, and instead Of that
he now returns home every few days with a
live green snake from foot to foot and a
half in length, and persists in making his way
into the house to display his agility, much to
the 'pleasure and delight of'' of the family.
The last one he brought few days ago was
entirely wound around his neck, but after OBJ
tanning admittance to the house Jack" shook
him off and surveyed the gliding round of the
snake over the floor with apparently a great
deal of satisfaction. Ehe ladies of the house
hold have at last come to the conclusion that
they would feel jast as well satisfied and con.
tented, if "Jack" will hereafter confne him


self to his first love. to wit: birds and rats and
dispense with the snakes.
Year: 1878

In order to set at rest the foolish report that
Barnum would not exhibit as many attractions
in Portland as in Boston, Mr.. Gayler, press
agent, tslegraphed to the great Snowman and
received the following reply:


"The report is incorrect of course. Ask the
papers to add one more to the many obligations
am under to them, by publishing the letter
you will receive on Sunday addressed to them"


P. T. BARNUM


The following is the letter:


Mr., EDIToR-My greatest show on earth is
advertised to exhibit in Portland on Saturday.
June 9Th, and as never fail of keeping my
appointments you may safely conclude that it
Will be there on time. l always Keep faith
with the public IN every particular, and never
disappoint my patrons Except by giving more
than promise) and neuer divide nay shoao, so
that you may rest assured that it will appear
10 Portland, and everywhere else where it ex-
hlbts, in its full strength, without diminutiOn
or curtailment. Also that all the various acts
will be given and all the performers will appear
which were given or who appeared in New
York, Philadelphia or Boston, where my
Greatest Show on Earth" attracted immense
audiences at each performance frequently
three times in one day-and received the loud
est demonstrations of favor from the public,
and the most hattering approval from the press.
Were to specify, name and describe all the
attractions exhibit, in any advertisement,
should monopolize more space than you would
willingly give up to me. always show much
more than advertise, as will be seen when my
"Greatest Show on Earth" is exhibited in
Portland.


By giving this publicity through the Medium
OF your paper you will do me great favor and
dsabuse the public mind of an error which
otherwise might tend to injure my business
and-what is more dear to me-my reputation
for fair dealing and keeping my word with my
patrons and the public generally.


1 remain, dear sir, yours and the public's
humble servant p. T. BARNUM
Year: 1878

THE PHoNoGRAPH.-Mr. SmardOn was over.
run with people on Saturday and SO has con-
cuded to stop over today SO that all who desire
can see this wonderful instrument before he
leaves the city. The price of admission will be
fifteen cents today and no one should miss this
opportunity.
Year: 1878

ARREST OF FRANK KANE.-A despatch re-.
ceved in this city Saturday stated that Frank
Kane, who ran away to prevent answering to
an Indictment for an assault upon Officer
Morse, had been arrested in Montreal under
the extradition treaty. He is to have formal
trial today and Officer Morse has gone on to be
a witness at that trial. he will no doubt be
brought here and put on trial.
Year: 1878

KILLED ON THE CARs.-James Smith, sea-
man who was discharged from the brig Ysidora
Rionda in this harbor Saturday, was killed at
Norwich, Conn, in the afternoon while on his
way to New York where he shipped. Nothing
is known of him on the ship except that he was
a pensioner of the navy and was on his way to
New York to draw his pension at the time ol
his death. He fell from the train and wal
killed Instantly
Year: 1878

have good facilities for transporta- ton, and then the country will readily yield in its exports a capi tai far beyond its needs in imports.

 OUR GARDEN CROPS.

 These grow with a profusion and variety of range that cannot be surpassed. Gardens can be planted all months in the year and will yield abundantly. Last year some of our farmers planted potatoes in this way and had this esculent new upon their tables constantly throughout the year. Of course in the winter the hardy vegetables should be planted.

 THE MOUNTAIN RANCHES Of the county are well adapted to the growth of corn and potatoes, and offer most inviting field to all who wish to enter upon the profit able pursuit of pork-making. Sur rounded as many of them are by heavy thickets of oak there is abun- dant mast in most seasons, so that little other feed is required for large herds of hogs. As grazing regions

 FOR SHEEP AND CATTLE. The mountains and smaller valleys offer pleasant locations and great profits. Large herds of sheep and cattle now occupy some of the graz ing lands, and all are reported healthy and in fine condition. With abundance of nutritious grasses, pure air and water, and oc- cupying the best climate in the world, it is but natural that this should be so.

 OUR MINERAL WEALTH Is beyond calculation. Many of the richest and best gold and silver mines of the Territory are within the bounds of Maricopa county. To those already being worked, every day is adding new discover ies, and we hazard nothing in saying that when developed the mines of this county will employ an army of laborers so great that it will require the thorough cultivation of every acre of its arabic lands to sustain and feed them.
Year: 1878

Barley and wheat are the staple products of the fifteen to twenty thousand acres of the valley now under cultivation. Two thousand pounds of clean grain to the acre is the ordinary yield, Last year one of the large ranches gave return of three thousand pounds of barley to the acre. Oats seem to be indig- enous to the soil, and grow plenti- fully in any grain field that may be allowed to lie fallow, with occas- sional irrigation. This crop is held in no esteem except as pasturage. The grain crop is the present staple, for the simple reason that the de- mand of our home market lies in that direction. As soon as it may be required, the country is ready to show q rich prOductiveness

 IN OTHER CROPS.

 Of these cotton and sugar cane will undoubtedly be a source of great wealth and importance to this  valley. Both have been tried and succeeded perfectly. Cotton does not winter-kill, and the new plant springs up year after year from the old root and bears abundantly. Su- gar cane has been grown for the last two or three years with great success, and as there are no manu. featuring facilities as yet, it is only made up into syrup and the crude Mexican sugar cakes called panoche Important industries will grow out of these products as soon as we
Year: 1878

The arabic lands of Maricopa county cover an area of half mil lion acres. Of this area the Salt River Valley contains more than one half and is by far the best az ricultural region in the Territory. In this respect it will yield the pre- cedence to no country on the globe that lies within the same parallels of latitude with us. We have here an alluvial soil of incomparable rich ness and strength, and while depend ing upon irrigation for crops, there is no danger of failure, as in other valleys, because our water supply from Salt river is never-failing The other streams of the Territory frequently dry up in summer while Salt River continues to pour out her plenteous flood, always gladden. ing the heart of the husbandman with a rich reward for his labor. This valley in its portion best adapted to extensive farming is about thirty five miles long and will average fourteen miles in width.

 Of this rich agricultural tract Phoenix is the center, and as soon as ditches sufficient to irrigate the whole valley shall be completed, we will have a farming region that can not be rivalled in the world.

 FRUIT PRODUCTS.

 The great capabilities of the soil are fully demonstrated in the wide range of its productions. Here the chosen fruits of the tropic and tenn perate zones seem to vie with each other in their cxuberance of growth and plenteousness of yield. Here the apple and the almond, the orange and the vine, flourish side by side. The even temperature of climate is such that as a wine producing country this valley is certainly des- tined to take high rank. Enough improvement in this direction has already been made to show that here is the paradise of the fruit grower.
Year: 1878

full authority Of said committee in every
particular, and with the power to sit in Fori-
da and Louisiana, wHLh subcommittee
shall be committees of this house, and the
chairman thereof shall be authorized to ad-
minister oaths; that said committee and
sub committees may employ photographers
and be attended each by deputy sergeant-
alarms. and may sit during the sessions OF
this house. and during vacation, and that
said committee proceed in this enquiry, and
have leave to report at any time.
Year: 1878

Two old people were cold the other
day at the church door at parish in
Qnehec incnmbe.cd with farm. to the
highest bidder. They hand d over
their property to their children. on con.
dltion that so 'o1g as the old people
lived these children should lodge and
board them. wash ard mend their
clpthiag. furnish them with outer gar.
men.s and linen, shoes and heaadrcsSes,
all suitable to their coudition take
! them to divine service on Sundays and
feast days. and bring them home; place
horse and vehicle at their disposal on
demand; fetch. and fee the priest and
doctor when desired; keep in good or.
der the best bed reserved for them I'M.
I'll the death Of the survivor allow
them access to all buildings and land
they may wish to enter satisfy all their
necessary wants, spiritual or corporal.
and in time of sickness furnish them
with due Injuries and finally, at their
death bury them in the parish ccmc-
terry provide an ordinary funeral SER
vice ana memorial service at the end
Of the year. beside having ten low
masses chantcd for the repose of their
souls. The new rossessors otthe prop
erty failed, and now the property is
offered for sale snhjcct to the charges
in the deed Of donatiors. This is a
very common practice IN Lower Canada
aud many OF the contracts made would
be worth reproduction, if only to show
how carefully old Inhabitants, dispo'-
ing Of their property, provide for such
(no') uncons'dcrcd triacs as clay pipes
and nutmegs.
Year: 1878

Section GO of the new tax law contains
the following provisions. Viz: "On the
first day Of June Of each year the county
Treasurer, shall return to the county Audi
tor the several tax lists in his hands, etc.,
And thereupen penalty of ten per cent
shall immediatly accrue. and thereafter
be charged upon all Delinquent taxes.
And any Auditor who shall make out and
deliver any statement Of Delinquent taxes
without including such penalty therein,
and any Treasurer who shall receive pay.
ment of such tax without including such
penalty shall be lisblc to the county for
the amount Of such penalty" 1t will be
observed by the extract published above
that the Auditor aud Treasurer have no
option. and cannot grant any extension Of
time even for one day.


A. Tower County Treasurer
April 10th 1878.
Year: 1878

The House committee on Military
affairs will soon report bill, which has
been agreed upon, for the reduction Of
the army and ofthe pay Of Officers. The
number of regiments will be reduced
from forty to twenty,six and the total
number Of men from twenty five thou.
sand to twenty thousand.
Year: 1878

Agricultural writer's are inclined to
recommend small farms. As we'll ad-
vocate doing business Of any kind on a
small scale Better have small farm
paid for and we'll managed than to
owe for large one without the means
to work it we'll. But if "a farmer is
able to own large farm, and has the
ability to manage, no one need to waste
any sympathy on him. Large farms
are often poorly farmed, so are small
ones. The difficulty IS not so much
with the size ofthe farm as with the
capacity of the farmer. Good farm.
ing can be done just as well and more
economically on large farm than on a
small one. Teams, Implements and
farm hands can be used to better ad-
vantage or the large farms, for the
farmer can afford to have variety
suited to his needs. 1t is foolish to
seek to get large farm just for the
sake of room. but if the large area is
fully utilized then We sec no objection
10 i.
Year: 1878

SpoRTsMEN are cautioned to remcm-
ber that, according to..the latest revised
game law. they cannot enter nor allow
their dogs to enter growing grain, and
that they must have the permission Of
the owner to enter his enclosed grounds
at any time. Violation of these pro :
visions subjects the transgressor to a
penalty of ten dollars.
Year: 1878

On Third-ave., from Ihirty-ffth to Fifty
nnh-s the engineers engaged in building the founda-
tions for the Elevated Railroad have many obstacles TO
points, they with solid rock at depth below the
street surface varying from few inches to three
four feet The here is laid in the centre of the
street. and in making the connections with the houses
either side. excavations have been made IN this
rock The is about fourteen feet below the street
surface, while the excavation for the piers OF the
railroad is ordinarily only six feet and ten inches Where
OF the sewer connections encountered the excava
tion for the pier carried to depth OF eight feet ten
inches aud the space filed with TO the ordinary
level When this concrete becomes hardened II be
tnelled without disturbing altering the foundation
or the pier In some cases, where the connection
directly under the centre Of the pier arch built from
the rock either side and upon this the pier is built j.
e. Hnrichs the engineer In charge OF this secuon is
pushing the work forward 40 fast as possible.
Year: 1878

READING, Penn, Jan. 3.-FOr several days
past there convention in session IN this city AT
which delegates from nearly state IN the Union
present The business Of the convention has been kept
very secret nevertheless has leaked that the
tir Of the convention tends towards The formation Of
new National party. II Is expected the convention will
adjourn
Year: 1878

SEVENTY SHOWS PREDICTED self-confi-
dent individual yesterday at the depot de-
clared to a crowd of persons, with much
gravity and positiveness, that within the
next ninety days there will be seventy
snow falls. He could give no cause for the
prophesy further than it came to him like
inspiration. His foretelling of the storms,
he also asserted, was corroborated by Ger
man almanac in his possession. The snow
falls would be light each day, the prognosti-
Gator added but the CONCEALED article would
accumulate until its depth would accumu-
late until its depth would be such as has
not been witnessed for many years. Will
some person who has time and patience
please note the falls of snow during the
time mentioned and report the result?
Should the prophesy prove correct the gen
tleman shall be presented with chrome,
lottery ticket and prize package. Il Bradford
(Pa.) Breeze.
Year: 1878

About this time the young lady of the
country learns through series of deep,
dark plottings that her young man wears
number four boots. The same young man
will be sorry that he prevaricated, when he
tries to thrust his number seven feet into a
beautifully worked pair of number four
Christmas slippers. i Rockland Courier.
Year: 1878

The Christmas bells have already begun their
tuneful chimes Far away in the radiant East
the merry peal has broken forth, and Westward,
with the Star of Empire, will il take its way,
travelling on the wings of the hours, until when
the gray light of tomorrow morning breaks over
our city, every steeple shall pour forth its joyous
paeans and every bell shout aloud for joy.


And solet the times be never so hard, let the
winter be never so cold and dreary, Christmas
always receives the same glad welcome every
where and is sure OF the same cheerful greeting
in every quarter of the globe Tomorrow, as ever,
the light of Christmas will dawn upon many a
home where want and distress are not strangers,
and upon many hearthstone which has been
darkened by death and sorrow during the year.
These will not be forgotten, let us hope, by those
upon whom fortune has smiled more kindly, and
there can be no better season in which to remem-
Der the poor and the neglected the erring and the
unfortunate, than this festival which celebrates
the birth of Christianity and the bountiful char
acter which it teaches


The preparations for the enjoyment of Christ
mas and the ensuing holidays in this city are
quite extensive, and, after the usual soemnities
in the Churches, those in pursuit of pleasure nave
long and varied prog anime from which to
select. The Churches announce fairs and festivals
innumerable; the Sunday schools offer all manner
of enticing entertainments; and the theaters are
all coming out in a dazzling blaze of glory. Then
join in the general good cheer, everybody; but
amid all your merry-makings remember ye the
poor and remember them practically and sub
tantially:
Year: 1878

were taking the best course to do so. The
hope that sections Of the country were
standing hand to hand in old fellowship
was weakening daily and would disap.
pear II that line Of conduct was persisted


Mr.. Clymer tried to get tho floor to 70.
ply, but the motion to adjourn prevailed
Year: 1878

perience of all nations we are asked to try
again under conditions not differing from
those which have heretofore obtained a cur
rency system which has always proved costly
and sometimes even ruInous to the peoples
who have adopted it. Our Greenbackers are
like the often-quoted boy who, falling into
debt and dissipation, was warned by his father
who had been through the same extravagant
course and come out with slender purse and
broken health. Not satisfied with the sad
experience of their elders they want to see
the folly of it themselves.


But we are told that the doctrine of the
Nationals is something new, that the scheme
they favor is an american system of finance
discovered and perfected by the inventive
genius of our people. That is not true.
Their doctrine is as old as paper money.
Their arguments have been refuted time after
time. Their schemes have been tested by
the most conclusive of all tests, that of actual
trial. The fallacies and sophistries advanced
by their orators and newspapers are to be
found in the pages of ingenious but unsound
thinkers like Prudhom, and visonaries like
Berkley, and have been put to trial by dar-
ing adventurers like Law. Not proposition
is brought forward by them which was not
brought forward and overthrown during the
great currency discussion in England in the
first years of this century. Instead of new
financial system they urge upon this country
an old one which has been tried many times
and has always proved costly and burden
some. This country will fiud it cannot afford
to make an awful example of itself for the
benefit of some future historian or publicist
who wishes to point the moral of the folly of
paper money with an illus trious example.
Year: 1878

GROOM, who sued Peter Cooper for libel, is
fair example of the sort of men who in
many localities are running the greenback
movement. He was dead-beat who saw
chance to make money out of the enthusi-
asm of honest believers in the greenback doc
trine. He is but one of many. Men like
him, quick-witted and smooth.tongued, are
establishing themselves in places where they
record to plague them, with the intention of
living on the new party. They are worse
than the potato-bugs, for they are not SO
we'll known.
Year: 1878

Paper emissions by the government are
of n nature SO Liable TO abuse, L may sny
so certain to be abused, that the wisdom of
the government will be shown by never
trusting itseIf w th SO seducing and dam
gerOus a power.o


ALEXANDER HAMILTON.
Year: 1878

we DO not read anonymous letters and comnuni-
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used,
Year: 1878

EVERY regular attache Of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate couptersignes by Stanley T.
Pulen, Editor All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon us by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent our