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Year: 1876

WASHINGTON, Aug. l4.-There is some
talk among few prominent senators of
endeavoring to amend the house resolus
tion to provide for final adjournment at y
o clock to night, but it is improbable that
the majority will consent to fix an earlier
date than tomorrow, or possibly Wednes-
day.
Year: 1876

EDITOR ARGUS:


In the last week. ly issue of the
Intelligencer is a communication
from Port Townsend signed "Inde-
pendent" which, so far as being in
dependent of the truth, is certainly
a prize essay. The attack on the
Custom House officials is of that
chronic kind which has prevailed in
this town ever since the Custom
House was first started-whether
Democratic or Republican admins
tration ruled-and the same cry has
been used by those whose desire
seems to be to become "swift wit.
.nesses." There are plenty of people
in town who remember when the
Custom House was in the building
now occupied by DR.. Hill, and when
that staunch and uncompromising
old Democrat, Squire Frost was Col
lector. A Democratic meeting was
held at the Court House and one of
the candidates for a county nomina.
ton in his speech remarked, "Gin-
tlemen, I'm a Dimmycrat Of long
standing and a true Sthevens man
be jabers, but I'm down on the Gus
tom House like dam! It's not the
building name, but the occupantsl'
The mania for being down on the
Custom House is the same now as it
was in Squire Frost's day, and " In
dependent" seems TO have been look
ing over some old files Of newspapers
Of those times for his source Of in
formation. A.
Year: 1876

MONTREAL, Sept. 30.-Three men fell from
scaffolding Of the Gore Street Methodist
Church to-day: One was Instantly killed, and
the other two fatally injured. About the same
time man fell from the new Catholic Church,
and will probably die.
Year: 1876

THE opinion of Associate Justice c. A. Tweed, in the case of Charsulau ys WOfenden, published in another part of this issue of THE CITIZEN, is a paper well worth the readers attention. The opinion sufficiently outlines the case in hand, to render it unnecessary to go in- to farther explanation, even to a strang. CT to our local court affairs. There is nothing of which the casual reader need be afraid in the paper, for although la- boring under the suspicion attaching to law documents generally, of being dry as dus', there is nothing dry about it, and it most etfectually dusts some musty old practices in law. Under sufficient judicial cslmness and dignity, there runs through the whole opinion, & delicate but clearly drawn vein of gallantry which reveals some very pleasant lines of thought and character in the Associate Justice, and ought to make him very popular, with married woman especially.
Year: 1876

Next Monday Is the day, and Recorder

 Meyers office Is the place, foT holding ths special election ordered by the Village council, on petition, to decide upon the continuation Of the municipal organIza ton Of Tucson, or disincorporstlon. While our sympathies are on the side Of the present incorporation, we have hitherto

 refrained from making any remarks on

 either side Of the issue, in these columns.

 Because, while in larger communities in

 terests become so strong and conflicting, as

 to call for the most marked advocacy or opposition in a public journal, still, in the

 smaller communities there can more good

 be often effected by endeavoring to allay

 strife and contention, as far as possible.

 And we have now but little to say in this

 disincorporation issue. We recognize among those who are working for disin- corporation, good and honorable citizens.

 They think that some Of the measures Of

 the present corporate authorities are un-

 necessarily severe and burdensome, and

 injurious to their business. We regret that

 any law abiding citizens should have

 found cause Of complaint, but allowing

 that the cause is just, for the sake Of argu-

 ment,) we appeal to those complaining, to say as fair men whether the present cor Porate authorities Of Tucson have not done a great deal of resi good for the village.

 Unsalaried, unhOnored and unsung, they

 have labored early and late to set the affairs Of this frontier town in order, until to-day it Is doubtful fany better governed corporation exists in most Of the States. But granting that with the best Of fiuten- tions they have made some injudicious enactments, would not dlSincorpOration be too radical remedy for the evils com plained or Does 1t not savor of burning ones barn to kill real or expectations rats? Would not disincorporstion, at this period Of our history as a town. do much to iRjure Its good name and business, and the value Of it's property? Would not the business and property Of those fayoring disincorpOration suffer with the rest? plaints, and cannot these remedies be reached inside or corporation7 1T, gentle men for disincorporation, you are strong enough 10 make a majority Of the votes cast next Monday, wouldn'tiit be wisdom on your part to derer this victory; to save the incorporation Of this village, which is now noted for Its good order, prosperity and thorough organization, and bring! these votes out at the next municipal cleo ton, and put men in office, pledged to your views? You have your own business 10 protect and your own interests to look 1fter, and we wish you nothing but the largest success therein, but we certainly l .hink you are going at this thing wrongly. ! lust give this matter a little serious

 thought, between now and Monday, and . ice if it don't occur to you that you can t sfect some compromise with your oppo- lents. At all events, preserve the corpo-

 ation, and make the contest at the next

 egular municipal election.
Year: 1876

Some months ago, parties started in

 good faith 70 sink an artesian well in

 Tucson, but partly for lack Of proper

 machinery, experience and funds. work

 was suspended. Lately proposition has

 been put in writing for an iueorporation

 with 6. capital stock Of 5000 to prosecute the work, and about one-sixth Of the stock Is subscribed. We are sure more would be readily subscribed If the fncor- poration were so framed as 10 insure the success of the enterprise. The document before us contains this That If the amount subscribed be exhausted before srtesian water is struck, then the whole of the stock shall be liable to assessment, should the corporation conclude to pros ecute the work. This gives no guarantee that water will be found. The people Of Tucson can we'll afford to expend ten to nfteen thousand dollars for arteslan water

 and we have little doubt If & company De SO formed as to insure success, the means would te forthcoming. The capital stock should oe not less than SIG, 900; shares at slO or so; at once assess all stock five percent. and keep doing so from time to time as funds are needed, until artesisn water be found. Probably not above two or three assessments would be required. One first resolution of the corporation should be- that srtesian water must be found before sinking be abandoned. On thls basis, veI know Of several Hundred dollars that could at once be guaranteed, that cannot be on the presen; proposition. We are in- formed that the machinery on hand has been perfected and that an experienced artesisn we'll borer is here.
Year: 1876

THE registration law passed by the last Legislature, seems to us from casual ex- animation to have effect at this present time. This law prescribes registration, and attaches such requirement. tO all cleo tons taking place six months after the passage Of the law. The law governing disincorporation elections, places such under the same rules as other municipal elections, and registration would there fore appear a necessary attribute Of next Mondays election. Anyhow, voters might do we'll to get registered, and they can go through this almost painless operation by calling at the County Recorders office to- day. You needn't take your purses 1; 1t doesn't cost a cent. You simply call on Recorder Carpenter, and he registers you, and you walk away on your ear or other wise. We only wish the law went farther, and required the Recorder 10 register a man and then pay him fee for the trouble Of getting registered.
Year: 1876

We can assure them that our facilities

 For Buying are Unsurpassed, AS mem bers Of our firm reside both in San Francisco and New York, with no other object than to watch the declines in prices there and take advantage Of a fs- YOrsble market
Year: 1876

YESTERDAY a lady called at the East
New York station, and in deep distress
told Roundsman Herbert that her husband
had been acting so strangely ever since
the beginning of the year that she con
sidered it dangerous to remain in the
house with him. The roundsman sent
Officer Palmer to investigate the mat
ter, and when he arrived at the lady's
residence he found her husband in an up
stairs apartment, where tora minute or two
he converscd with the officer in Il quite ra-
tional manner.


Presently, however, the conversation and
acts of the unfortunate gentleman showed
him to be insane. He told the officer
that he wished him to buy his house in
which the interview took place, after
which, added the lunatic, IL will set
fire to it, when will get the insurance
money, and we can have good time. l
mean," he continued, "to give employ
ment to all the poor men in East New
York" His project for doing this he
explained to the officer. He stated that he
would at once begin to dig canal from
Canarsie Bay to connect with the Ridge
wood Reservoir, and that the streets
on either bank were to be paved and
graded.


This, he said, would relieve The suffer-
ing that now exists among laborers. By
urging him to see the authorities about
having the contract signed for the per-
formance of the work, Officer Palmer
got him to the station-house. Immediate
" on arriving there he went to the wall
on which thermometer was hanging,
and seizing the instrument, he dashed it
upon the floor, breaking it into frag-
ments.


| During ten nights it was ascertained
the poor creature, whose madness thus
made itself apparent, walked up and down
his room, in which were three loaded
muskets that he would not allow his wife
| to remove.


Frequently he seized one of the guns
and frightened the distressed lady terribly
!
showing her how suicide might be com
mitted, by almost touching the trigge,
with his toe. Luckily on these occasions
none of the weapons discharged. Some.
times, also, he threatened his wife, and on
several occasions wounded her by hurl
ing missiles at her. Yet, such was hel
love for him, end her consequent repug'
nance to having him taken to the asylum
that she bore the terrors of being alone
with him until her body was so exhausted
owing to the want of sleep that she had tt
ask the aid of the police.


An inquisition of insanity was prompt
ly held in the case, and on an order from
Charities Commissioner Mi1as the help
less lunatic was removed to the asy lum
this morning. He is gentleman who
has always been in good circumstances
and deep sympathy is felt for him and hi:
faithful wlfe-Brooklyn IN. ~ Eagle.
Year: 1876

A PHYsIoGNoMIsT writes that regular
white teeth, seen at once upon the mouth
opening, but not projecting, nor always
entirely seen, denote acuteness, truth and
goodness. Small, short teeth, which are
seldom pure white, denote strength; long
teeth always imply weakness and want of
spirit Those which are firm and strong,
whatever the color, denote strength and
firmness. If the upper gum is much seen
Immediately on opening the mouth it
generally denotes dullness and GOODNESS.
Year: 1876

WHAT is said to be good dentifrice,
largely sold and advertised, is made of a
half drachm CASTLE soap, dissolved in
one ounce alcohol, three -fourths of an
ounce of water and quarter of an ounce
of glycerine. This is colored with cochi-
neal and favored with peppermint, win
tergreen and Glove oils. The powder
which accompanies each bottle is mkt
ure of precipitated chalk, powdered orris
root and carbonate Of magnesia.
Year: 1876

"A French physician announces that
distressing or excessive palpitation of the
heart can almost always be arrested by
bending double, the head down and the
arms hanging, so as to produce tempo
rary congestion of the upper portion 81
the body. In nearly every instance OF
nervous or anemlc palpitation the heart
Immediately resumes its natural function
If the movements Of respiration are ar.
rested during this action the effect is still
more rapid,
Year: 1876

BROOKLYN is the home of charming
girl with face so sunny and alluring that
an old gentleman recently said to her: :" If
kisses had been entirely unknown she
would have invented them"
Year: 1876

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES says that
young men from nineteen to twenty five
ought to be put under barrel. 1t does
seem as if the average young man about
that period in his life should have head
put on him.
Year: 1876

1t is better to wear calico dress with.
out trimmings. if 1t he paid for than to
owe the shopkeepcr for the most elegant
silk, cut and trimmed in the most bewitch-
ing manner.


Better to live log cabin all your own
thah in brown stone mansion belong
ing to somebody else.


Better walk forever than run in debe
for a horse and carriage.


Better to use the old cane seated chairs
and faded two ply carpet than tremble At
the bills sent home from the npholstefer.
for the most elegant parlor set ever
made


Better TO meet your business acqnaint-
ance with a free, "don't owe yon-a cent
smile than to dodge around the corner
| from dun. ales


Better pay the organ grinder two cents
for music, If you must have it, than owe
for piano.


Better eat thin soup from earthern dish.
es, If you owe your butcher nothing,
than to dine off lamb and beef and know
il does not belong to you.
Year: 1876

How TO GET RIcH Nothing is more
easy than to grow rich. 1t is only to
trust nobody--to befriend none-to get
everything and save all you get-to stn,
ourselves aud everybody belonging to us
TO he the friend Of no man, and have
no man for our friend--to help interest
cent upon cent--to be mean miserable
and despised, for some twenty or thirty
ycrrs--and riches will come as sure as
disease and disappointment And when
pretty nearly enough wealth collected by
disregard Of all the characteristics OF
the human heart, and at the expense OF
every enjoyment, save that of wollowing
in filthy meanness--death comes to fin
ish the work--the body is buried in a h ole
the heirs dance over it; and the spirit
goes--where
Year: 1876

To KEEP SWEET PoTAToEs. M. S. Cot
terrell, of North Bend, Nebraska, writes
as follows to the Prairie Farmer. al fine
the following plan to be successful in this
part OF the country First dig your po
latoes and let them lay in the sun unit
they are dry. Second, b i've ready a pit
sufficiently large to hold what potatoes
you wish keep over. Put in the bottom
of the pit six inches Of straw, and then
put in your potatoes the same as you
would pit Irish potatoes and cover them
with straw, and let it stay three or foui
days, until they go through " the sweat. u
Then put on more straw and light GOV.
eriDg Of dirt. As the weather gets cold.
er, pn' on more cover, anough to keep
them warm.


l have kept my potatoes in that way
Tor number of years, and never failed
lhe potatoes should never be allowed tc
touch the earth Keep straw and chat
tucked around the sides Of this pit.
Year: 1876

The BEST MARKET FOR CoRN.-As q
general rule the best market for corn is
undoubtedly iD the stall and pig-sty.
Yet there are exceptional cases when
grain may be sold with advantage. But
when it is best to sell it, and when to fecd
it on the farm depends on ,.s.,1 price oflhe
grain, the price OF meat, butter, cheese
or wool the value of manure on each par
ticuar farm. and on what it would cost
To buy the manure. In the case Of pigs
seven bushels of corn, fed properly will
give, on an average one hundred pounds
Of increase in the i've weight. The ma
nure from the corn is worth twenty cents
for each of the seven bushels. When,
therefore, the ordinary pigs arc worth
seven cents pound or over, live weight
it is clearly better even at this price for
the pork, to feed our corn to pigs than
to sell il at seventy cents per bushel.
Finally, it is true that none Of the other
domestic animals will gain as fast in pro
portion to food consumed as well bred
pig
Year: 1876

LONDON, May 22.-Tt is understood
that the government will ask that Wins
low be further remanded tomorrow, and
as Baron Pollock is not likely to make
any difficulty, there is little probability
OF the prisoners, immediate discharge.
Indeed, a feeling is growing up here
among those interested in the case, that
the government will not adhere 10 its
position, but wiz seek some other solu.
ton OF the question than g refusal on its
own responsibility TO comply with the
requirements Of the treaty. The Pail
Mall Gazette which has hitherto strong.
ly indOrsed the position Of the govern
ment, in leading editorial to-day on
Secretary Fish's letter OF March 3lst,
still maintains that the government is
obliged to obey municipal law in pref
erence to treaty stipulatious, but says
that the government ought to take steps
to refer to the courts the question
whether the AshburtOn treaty is except
ed from the operation Of the act Of 1870.
In last res OCt, says the Pail Mall Gazette,
Il is q question not for the law officers,
but for the law courts, and there are re-
cOgniZed mesns Of raising it In the lat


ter for their decision. Oar government
will not be wholly free from responsible.
ity to the United States until this ques-
ton has been so raised and decided,
Year: 1876

been two years previously while serving
in the Onion army operating against
Lees army in Virginia. His life was
both varied and eventful. Leaving
home while yet boy, he early learned
the lesson OF selfrelisnce, which wss
mis- conspicuous trait OF character, and
in the course Of many years OF travel
he acquired much Of the lido
syncTatic habit by which those
who knew him best will longest
emember him. AS journalist he wac
found equal to sll the demands of his
profession, and he never failed to invest
even the simplest paragraph with q
"little Of himself" OF humor Ia its
brosdest sense he had none, but OF the
nov "quaiut and forgotten" sort, for
which his race has ever been distinguish.
ed, he bad fund on which he drew at
plsasuTe His old a. socistes on the AP-
PEAL have never ceased to regret that
sickness divided him from us, and they
still more desply regret that his voice is
hushed, that the tongue that wsgged 80
wittily and so well is stilled forever, and
that his generous hand is nerveless now
foreveTmoTe.
Year: 1876

seat in a first-class car on the
Philadelphia division, and if there
was no seat there he was not re-
quired to stand, and in such an
emergency he had a right to pass
through the entire train and seat
himself in any first-class seat he
might find unoccupied. And he
had the right to remain in it until
informed by the conductor, or he
knew Of his own knowledge that
other seats were vacant in a first
class car; but he could not be re-
quired to leave it and pass from
car to car while the train was in
motion-he could not be required
to jeopardize his life; and if the
company, by its officer, desired him
to leave that seat for another, the
train must be stopped and he re-
qnested to move. Levan took a
seat in the sleeping car, and if the
train was stopped at Landisvillo
and he was requested to move to
another seat in a first-class car and
he refused, they had the right tC
eject him, after waiting a reasonable
time for his compliance with thu
request. The jury, after deliber


alton of over two hours, returned (


verdict for the plaintiff Of sS50C


damages.
Year: 1876




Pgof. Ravid Swing, ehleag9.i


OF the hundred cases of fraud
that a year or month reveal, not a
tenth part of them spring from the
old passions that were once wont to
devastate society, but from a new
madness the frauds SPRING "a hun
ger for home magnifcence. The
Roman Republic was compelled
once to pass q law forbidding the
oonsuls from going in professions
with white horses to their cars.
The empire had done enough Of
that. The people had seen the tax
lists and the wars and the brides
that came from this splentor, and
they ordained by law that their Re-
public should make an experiment
in simplicity. But the law was
vain. The barbarian love Of dis
play was all through and through
the people. To gratliy their taste
they would sack any city and strip
the rings from the dying women, OF
gold from the altars Of the gods
When Rome diod it was full Of fur.
niture and tapestry and marbles
but empty of soul. No men OIL
women of mind and Of virtue haC
trOdden its elegant parlors for ,
hundred years. When high style
comes in at the door, reason flee
out at the window,
Year: 1876

ital. Once in the hands of men who have the enterprise to go ahead and the Knowledge and power of machinery to place it in marketable form, then the busi- ness will go forward. Our opin- ion is that the timber lands of Arkansas are A. No. l to invest capital in, even if parties do not want to utilize the timber; that it is q capital place to build more either water or stream saw and grist mills, these to be followed by mnch-necded wagon anu fur niture factories, and other shops for mechanism, that will hell to swell the home market equal to what the foreign will be.

 The. heaviest forests of oak, pine and cypress are adjacent to the rivers, twelve or fifteen of them navigable the year round. The railways complete a system of transportation that is always open to carry the products of this trade, with competition enough to make it cheap. Spirit of Arkansas.
Year: 1876

Too many of our people might as well erase the word economy from their vocabulary; for they have no use for it. Economy and meanness or stinginess do not mean the same thing at all, but some appear to consider them synonymous terms. Seriously, we throw away, or suffer to go to waste, great deal that might be converted into money or moneys worth. Shall we not "turn over a new leaf" and make virtue of necessity" during the hard times. which by the way may last as long as the government under which we live? Look at the farm tools left to rot and rust in the fence corners, look at tue unsight- ly heaps of cotton seed and other manures which, ii spread on the land, would double the next crop. Look at our wasteful manner of feeding, sometimes wasting some forth of the feed "thrown" to our stock It would take a book of many pages to enumerate all our wasueful practices. In Virginia, North Carolina and ev- anywhere at the north, barn yard and other manures arc carefully saved, spread on the lands and the reward is sure, for crops are always increased and frequently doubled. In fact, on many farm in some sections of the world, no increase at all could be expected without the aid of fertilizers. When the habit of saving once becomes fixed 1t will not seem irksome, but it will be pleasure to economize. Let nothing go to waste, but save everything worth saving and you will have more to spend for home comforts and home luxnries.
Year: 1876

We wish to lirect attention tc this much neglected crop. Let every farmer plant one, two or three acres in broom corn, and there is no doubt but that it will be found profitable, and after the first year more will be planted. The machinery to manufacture brooms will cost but little. The raising and making of brooms, will give employment to q mum, Der of persons, keep money at home and thus help us all. T.