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Year: 1872

/ THE Apaches are about Tubac and again at their business of theft. Sev- eral days since, they stole twenty head of cattle there, drove them off to safe spot, killed every one, and carried the meat into the mountains, as is positively known by citizens tracing the thieves to where the kill ing was done, and to their entrance into the mountains. At the same time, Thomas Gardner went from his farm l in the Sonoita Valley to purchase 1 provisions at Tubac, and while in camp there, the Indians stole three of his best horses, among them being one he recently purchased of MT. E. N. Fish for $175,

 Now here is case where the get-a- horse business was practiced on man who had not found gold and got rich, but was trying to produce barley and corn whereby he could live honestly :; and the twenty cattle were taken from men of like condition. There is a re- port here that these fresh cases of theft were induced by Lieutenant Whitman's encouraging presence at Crittenden. He probably omitted to inform the thieves that his location at Crittenden was ill measure to dis courage theft and murder, fact not to have been inferred by the Christian Apaches from the royal disgrace's con- duct at6xant.
Year: 1872

--A Western paper aesoribes the manner
OF loye-making practiced among some OF Its
readers, In the following paragraph The
young people who were seen feeding each
other evening, had better be q little more
cautious In the future"
Year: 1872

anced by the great expense to the State
which attends them, and the inconven.
ience occasioned by the loss of time and
consequent injury TO business to which
the officers and men are subjected by
reason of their absence from their reg
ular pursuits for several consecutive
days"


The following communication in re
gard to the military organization ofthat
State may also prove of interest:


GENERAL HEADQUARTERS,
Year: 1872

The original and, until recent days, the
generally accepted meaning of the word
''meat" is simply food. This is apparent
for example, in the proverb, "What is one
mans meat is another mans poison" and in
the sign, Horse meat and mans meat.
which disappeared from wayside inns only
within the memory of the last generation.
The change in the meaning of the word
would seem to indicate general conclusion
that flesh is the most important article of
mans diet, and so is par excellence meat or
food. If so, this conclusion itself has been
not without its effect in the advance OF the
price of this article of food; and it also
indicates change in customary diet, which
we venture to say is not entirely bene-
fetal. In particular does this last remark
apply to our own country. There is
no civilized country in the world in
which so much meat is eaten, or in which so
much is wasted by bad cooking, by profusion.
and by absolute unthrift as there is in this
country,


Whether this meat-eating is beneficial
seems to be more than doubtful. Are our
men or our women stronger, healthier, larger
limbed, ruddler than Europeans of cores
ponding occupations and habits of life2 The
irsh girls VINO come out here, and go into
domestic service, come generally with rosy
cheeks and full figures. They probably have
not eaten fresh meat once a week in their
lives, in many cases not more than once
month. Once here, they rush ravenously at
the joints, the steaks, and the chops, Whlch
are to them luxuries and the great signs Oh lux
uriOus living. The result is almost lnVaria-
bly, that they lose the figures ana tne rosy
cheeks and the health that tney prouSnI
with them and that came with, IL not OF,
diet of potatoes and buttermllk. Inc more
Year: 1872

The Buffalo Express" feelingly says:-
"When an editor has collected his thoughts
as well as his scraps, and is ready to go to
work, in comes somebody to scatter both,
and talks or rustles his papers, and makes
him feel very much like swearing. All busi-
ness is suspended until quiet is restored by
the retirement of the intruder and work is
resumed only to be interrupted dozen times
in the same way during the day. If editors
are not saints, they certainly would swear
under such circumstances, but they smile
and smile-but mediate murder while they
smile. If people would only consider that
editors have work to do, that their work re-
quires profound stiffness, and very few wri-
tiers or readers can either write or read un-
less they are entirely alone, they would not
think an editorial sanctum SO proper a place
to spend their leisure hour, in"
Year: 1872

ANN KENNERsoN waited three years for
her lover Fred to get ready to marry her, and
then suggested the propriety of fastening
matters little. He was willing to the ex-
tent of giving her $40 to invest in an outfit
for the event. Gracefully accepting, she
made her preparations to marry--not Fred,
but another fellow. On the night appointed
she entered his room after he was asleep and
gently removed his clothes, then in the pres
ence of all the boarders the marriage was con-
summated. During the ceremony some one
awoke Fred and told him what was going on,
but his wardrobe was not sufficient to war
rant his appearance in the parlor TO forbid the
nuptials, so he had to be contented with
bringing her before justice next day on a
charge of cheating him out of so.
Year: 1872

A CANADIAN ELECTION DoDGE.-One
of the best jokes of the election campaign
came to us the other day from Dundas. An
itinerant who is said to know and be known
in every household in the united counties,
in the course of his peregrinations last month,
found that large number of six dollar bills
OF Nelson's bank were in circulation in Dun
das. 1t was not long before he ferreted out
the fact that these bills had been giveu as
bribes to secure votes for one of the candi-
dates to whom he was opposed. With true
Hibernian wit-we say nothing about hon
esty, which as general thing is, we fear,
scarce commodity at election times-he set
out to work, and persuaded any number of
greenhorns that they had been sw;ndled-
that no one ever heard of six dollar bills
being used by any bank in Canada, that they
were bogus bills which had been especially
struck off in Ogdensburg in order to swindle
electors out OF. their votesi In many cases
his story was believed, and it is an undoubted
fact that several gave up to him the assumed
bogus six dollar bills in return for four dollar
bills on the banks of Montreal, and in disgust
at the trick they believed had been played
upon them, took his advice and voted straight
for the other candidate! We do not know
how much money was made by this transac-
tion, or how much it influenced the result of
the contest; but we know there was good
deal of astonishment manifested when some
people deemed safe for one candidate record
ed their votes for the other, and that good
deal of soreness exists among those who were
parties to the original brbe, at having been
so ourtageously sold.-CanddG paper.
Year: 1872

An inquiring citizen of Madison, Ind,
thrust his fingers into horses mouth to see
how many teeth he had. The horse closed
his teeth to sec how many fingers the man
had. Both of the animals are satisfied but
the man is not quite happy yet.
Year: 1872

We credit the latest snake story to Oyster
Bay L. l., Xhere man drawing bucket of
water from well to slack his thirst, was re-
minded ere he took the cooling draught, of
the general uncertainty of things and partic-
ularly of the proverbial slip 'twixt bucket and
the lip, by the unpleasant sight of fifteen
snakes squirming about in the bucket. The
history of the affair mentions the occurrence
of no interval between the dropping of that
utensil and the period at which the neighbors
had been sufficiently aroused to cause gem
eral assemblage at the brink of the WELL
When it had been determined to clean out
the den of reptiles, ''no less than fifteen hun
dred large and small snakes" says the ac-
count, ''were taken out and killed." state
ment which leads to the suspicion that there
could have been no room for truth at the bot
tom of that well.
Year: 1872

GEN. SHERMAN ON EUROPEAN ARMIES
AND FfRE-ARMs.-I think there is quite as
much intelligence among the rank and file of
European armies as in the United States, but
we consider here that one year makes a very
fair soldier, but in England they saw that it
takes four years to turn out competent man.
The French are admirable for the faculty of
making the most rapid rally after defeat, but
the Germans are acquiring this art rapidly.
as may be seen by the late war A marked
simplicity In the menGuvers seems to be
pretty general. l think however, that Eng
land must change the gaudy red uniform for
oneof more somberand less conspicuous hue
If she goes to war with the blue clad armie. of
the continent. The French zouayes, in their
picturesque, unserviceabe uniforms, were
NOW down as badly at Sedan as their New
York prototypes were at Bull Run. l was
made present of a gun, called the Henry
Mantilini, by the secretary of war, which is
pretty generally adopted; but it hardly comes
up to some of our American breech-loaders.
Everywhere l went in Rurope noticed that
some of the many systems were in use. The
laminated Springfield we use is not inferior
to any weapon L ever saw there, and even is
susceptible of improvement. The constant
interchange OF ideas ON military matters be-
tween the two countries and the presence
here OF European representatives have in
measure made America and Europe familiar
with respective improvements and inven-
tions. noticed the cavalry corps of most
countries was very large, but this may be ac-
counted for on the ground that monarchies
require so many household troops to parade
on state occasions that they are more kept
for ornament than use. l notice the English
set great account on the traditional "British
square" to resist cavalry; but with breech-
leaders cavalry are incapable of attacking to
anything like the relatively proportionate
numbers, as at Waterloo.
Year: 1872

A fashionable baronet has said, with no less
feeling than high moral sense, 'Happy, thrice
happy the man who has the means to keep a
servant to stretch the tight boots before he
wears them himself"
Year: 1872

Miss Phoebe Cozzens, an intelligent and
withal handsome young woman of St. Louis,
who has educated herself as a lawyer, has
settled in Salt Lake City and been admitted
to the bar there, with hearty welcome by
the United States judge and all the leading
members of the profession. Another young
woman, Miss Snow, Mormon girl and to
the manner born, has also become member
OF the legal profession in the same city.


a ohlcago lawyer has just recovered the
loss OF his library under the decision of one of
the courts, to the effect that it is an impera-
tive duty for an insurance company to give
notice of the expiration of policies. -.
Year: 1872

ITO tell the TRUTH" said John Havi-
land, as he threw his evening paper
aside, and fac ID the little group in the
parlor, am growing out of patience q.
the text A womau at the bottom of it. >
1t would be strange In this world, made
up, as far as we are aware, of nothing
bnt the two sexes if a woman would not
occasionally be found at the bottom of
"a scrape. A woman. mind you, IS never
accused of being at the bottom of any
thing that is good. 1t is the injustice of
the thing that makes me angry. Now
there are hundreds Of us poor fellows
who owe all we have, all we are, and all
we hope to become, in this world or the
next, to the unselfsh love of woman"


The gentleman's face was flushed, and
he spoke very warmly and freely, so
much so that his wife, rocking her baby
to sleep in the further corner of the
room, inquired


But why should you care, John p
II has always been so, and always will
be. We don't think much about it now
because We have been taught to expectit."


"But you should care! and you should
fight for each other more than you do.--
There is one chapter in my life history
that have always kept locked in my
heart, but tonight I feel as if it we
my duty to open it for your inspection !;
and ] do it for the love of woman Who
made me what am-worthy to be the
husband of good woman"


"Why, Johr." said Mrs. Haviland,
softly approaching baby still held tight
frighten me-"


Lets have the story" said the rest
of the group. certain that something
good might be anticipated; and John
commenced at first little timidly, but
gaining confidence as he advanced.


When I first came to New York, at
the age of twelve years, to seek my for
tune, I can call myself precocious
chap, without danger of being accused
of an unusual degree of self-appreciat
ton. 1 was quick to learn everything
the bad as well as the good. My en-
ployer used profane language ; 1 picked
up the oaths he dropped with natural
ness that surprised myself even. The
boys in the Office all chewed tobacco.
This was little the hardest 1 ever at
tempted; but after two weeks of nausea
and indescribable stomach wrenchings,
1 came off victorious, and could get
away with paper day with the best
of 'em.


"Oh, John, interrupted Mrs. Havi.
land, her pretty face drawn up into
knots,


"True, every word of it," continued
the speaker.


Zone afternoon was sent with note
from my employer to house in the up
per part of the city. I hadn't anything
to read, but had plenty of tobacco,
and with that / proposed to entertain
myself during the three or four hours
that must spend in tn, passage. For
some distance did not notice who were
beside me. but by and by a lady said
very softly and pleasantly" Would you
please. little boy. be more careful 1 am
going to party this afternoon. and I
should hato very much to have my dress
spoiled"


1 looked into her face. It was the
sweetest face I ever saw. Pale, earnest.
and loving. to my boyish heart it was
the countenanee Of an angel.
Year: 1872

THE VALUE OF NEwsPAPEg,-The
following is the experience of ME-
chanic concerning the value of a news
paper:


Ten years ago 1 lived in town in
Indiana. On returning home one night,
fer l am carpen er by trade, saw
little girl leave tie door and asked my
wife who she was. She said Mrs.
Harris had sent her after their newspa-
per which my wife had borrowed. As
we sat down to tea, my wife said to me,
by my given name.


II wish you would subscribe for the
newspaper, tits so much comfort to me
when you are away from home.


II would like to do so, said, l, "but
you know owe a payment on the honse
and lot. 1t will be all can do to meet
it."


She replied:


&C If you will take the paper, will sew
for the tailor to pay for it. ~


l subscribed for the paper; it came in
due time to the shop. While resting,
one noon. and looking at it, saw an
advertisement of the county commits
sioners to let bridge that was to be built.


I then put in bid for the bridge, and
the job was awarded to me, on which
cleared three hundred dollars, which
enabled me to pay for my house and
lot easily. But for the newspaper, 1
would not have known anything about
the contract, and could not have met
my payment ON the house and lot. A
mechanic never looses anything by Ia
king newspaper.
Year: 1872

We know that portion of tho
Republican State Central Committee
favor the calling of a convention for
tho nomination of delegates to the
national convention in March, and
the holding -eftho c0nyention for the,
nomination Of State of1eers iaeshe
latter part of August. We do not
favor this plan. Four years ago one
convention did the work without the
least trouble or inconvenience, and
We cannot, for the life of US, see why
it is not only legitimate but q saving
Of time and trouble to have one con-
vention to be called, for the 10Th or
22d Of May next to do all this work.
After the State convention is over
the congressional, judicial and coun-
ty conventions will give the people
plenty of this kind of work to do af-
ter tho holding ct the national con-
-anfinn-E Eepccially -~-~V ViIc con.
gressional conventions to be this year
assemblings Of Importance and much
interest, and would it not be well to
have the State convention over and
out of the way, leaving the coast
clear for these district conventions?


Again. if no convention is held
during the session OF the legislature,
it will avoid all semblance of proof Of
the charge that is often made, and
will be made again doubtless, that the
result of the convention is but the
issue of the we'll laid schemes of Leg
islators, and with which tho people
will have very little to do. We GER
tainly think it is we'll to so arrange
tho time OF tho convention as to avoid
all this, though the charge may be
regarded as wholly groundless.


Again. what good reason can there
be for having delegates to the ma
tional convention appointed some
three months before the sitting of
that convention. We do not think
thero can be any reason at ell for it,
which could be regarded as worthy
of moments consideration.
Year: 1872

We have before referred to bill


now pending in the Legislature TO
hedge school boards about with q
law preventing them from making a
change in school books oftcner than
once in FIVE years, and making it a
penal offence in case of violation.


There may be abuse in the prac.
tice of school boards in changing
school books, doubtless is, but We
think this difficulty could DO fully
remedied by placing the authority
for q change in the hands of a suff-
cient number Of officers so as to pre-
vent anything like sot up job for
the benefit Of publishers.


Surely ID the case Of Independ-
ent Districts with q Board Of six
directors TO determine upon tho
the changes, whore four Of them
must agree in order 10 effect it, there
can be no need Of this hedging Of
them certainly. As rule these di-
rectors arc men in every sense just
as we'll qualified to determine such
matters as are the Legislators, who
would lay down general rule for
their conduct, etultifying tho com
mon sense of school officers. Wcro
the bill to pass, the progress of Eve
years in methods Of teaching and
the books adapted thoreto, would be
essentially tabooed, no matter
what the circumstances or need for
. change Of books arising frequently
in the moderately advanced condi-
ton of many of our schools.


We are decidedly opposed to tho
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Year: 1872

onoer tne aPportionment bill pass-
Cd by Congress-, Iowa will have nine
members OF the Lower House of
Congress. The re-districting of tho
State for this purpose will furnish a
Joo OF no inconsidcrable labor and
importance to our Solons at Des
MONIES on their re-assembing after
the recess. We hope it will be done
IN such manner IS to show that it is
not fixed up for this or that man or
sol or men. Let the distributing be
untrammelled BY the Congressional
ambition of any man.
Year: 1872

How CAN 1T BE OTHERWISE That small
manufacturers make baking powder to sell
at less price than the actual cost OF ma
teriaIs used in D.. Pfce's Cream Baking
Powder, unless by largely sdulterating.
Year: 1872

from lands end to lands end, that all may
read, and reading, believe, that for the
countless millions who are on the road to
al uusimely grave with bilious com3laints,
there is bat one truly great and reliable
remedy, and that is
Year: 1872

The TAX BILL.--The tax bill is likely
to fail of passage. The whole thing was
voted down to-day, and as tomorrow is the
last day of the session, there seems to be
little prospect of its passage.
Year: 1872

SALT LAKE, December 1S.-In st.
Johns valley, Tocelle county, tO-mor-
row has been appointed day of fasting
and prayer, that the Almighty may be
so merciful as to prevent the spread OF
smallpox.


A lady is preparing to occupy the pull
pit of one of our orthodox churches in
this city.


There is a division among the Gen
tiles as to calling a Territorial Legisla-
ture respecting the remedy to be applied
to the adherents of MOrmonism.


There is great enthusiasm over the
prospect of branch of the Utah North
ern railroad from that point through the
Northern settlements of the Territory to
Montana.
Year: 1872

A man by the name of James Barnett
living in the lower edge of Roant
county, near the Cumberland line, COM
mitted suicide by hanging himself, on
the second instant. Taking advantage
Of the absence of his wife, who was out
some distance from the house washing,
he attached to the rafter rope, which
was spliced with a comforter, connected
to his neck, and with this arrangement
succeeded in strangliDg himself to death
before he was discovered.
Year: 1872

The Bessemer ocean-steamer double
action elastic berth has demonstrated
Mr.. Bessemer's ability to steel awhile
away only TO demonstrate the versatility
of genius. That this elastic swinging
bed is the offspring of genius, men who
wept over in the old-school bed, and
have come back in the Bessemer berth,
are voluble in swearing to. But it only
illustrates what some great pen wrote,
that with the offspring Of genius, the
law of parturition is reversed; the throes
are In she conception, the pleasure In
the berth" - Cincinnati Enquirer.
Bessie-mere ought to know.
Year: 1872

SAN FRANCISCO, December 1S.-Ef-
forts have been made for the past few
days to create an impression that certain
bankers and spectators were working
TO create a corner In the money market
IN this city. Up to the present time the
schemers have not succeeded In causing
any panic as no remarkable stringency
In the money market has occurred, and
The conspirators will doubtless be fOlled
Year: 1872

A woman at Utica. n. y. last week shot
at "thc buck and hit the doe That is.
she shot fellow in the face who had
been fooling round her for year or
two, the ball crashing through h.s Jaw
and killing his friend sitting by his side.
The shootist isa widow With three chill
drcn. and her intended victim naugh-
ty married man with large and re-
spectacle family BY the way. these lit
tie incidents are getting to be an every
day occurrence in the higher latitudes


II would, Of course. be improper to say
that the devil is going up and down like
q. roaring lion, but any one who will
read the daily papers from the North
and West, can have no trouble in arriv-
ing at the conclusion that moral and
social anarchy prevail to an alarming
extent in those portions Of our country.


IT WAS rumored in Washington the
other day that Grant had determined to
make sweep through the White House
and the Now York Custom House and
cleanse them Of their corruptions, as
did Hercules cleanse the accumulated
dung from the Augean stables. The
rumor, however, needs confirmation.
Year: 1872

The imam of brains of the Rcpub-
lican part doesn't like our wise and pa
triotic President. In his recent lecture
at Boston ON the Situation he is reported
to lave said that "hc regarded civil SER
vice reform rs at present contemplated,
rs Il magnificent dclusion; that lie did
not expect to live to see one iota of it
put into practice; that he had no more
confidence in that great soldier (mcan-
ing Grant, than he had in other carpet
haggcrs who had gone SOUTH Con-
sidcring the source, this is pretty heavy
on the man of the numerous household.
Eut his friends will probably meet it by
saying that they always considered
Wendell very little better than Il half
cralcd fanatic and mi-chicf-makcr.
Year: 1872

An exchange says: y good many
young men with long faces are seen
about these days, hanging around the
vicinity of cigar stores, chewing pieces
Of boards snd iurtively watching each
other Do not pass these poor boys by
with scOrn they were once happy like
yourself, but "swore off, smoking ci-
gars on New Years day, and are now
unhapp! and ready to commence again.


AN old traveller tells q pretty tough
story about being lost in the woods
with his dog, where he could find moth
ing to eat, and had to cut of the dogs
tail, which he boiled for himself, and
sfterward gave the do. the bone! We
would rather borrow 8 hundred dollars
than believe that story.


The judiciary Committee OF the Sem
ate report against women suffrage AZ .
right under the Constitution.