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Year: 1875

THE Ar1zona Minute Men paraded through the streets of Tucson on Tuesday, and numbered among them most of our leading Mexican and American citizens. The object of this organization is to pro- tect the frontier from the frequent mur- ders and robberies that have been incident to close proximity to the Mexican line. They hold themselves in readiness to go at moments warning to secure stolen property and arrest criminals. It is the desire and intention of the organization nora and to assist them to recover proper ty should it be stolen and brought here, expecting of them like assistance when property is stolen here and taken to Sono- "a. The object of the organization Is to aid the enforcement of the law, to give peace to the people on both sides of the line, and help to put down the thieves and murderers who infest the border and con- init crimes in Sonora and flee to Arizona for safety, and then repeat their crimes in Arizona and escape to Sonora. The or ganization Is commanded by James Lee, who is one of our best and most law abid- ing citizens, and we believe that it will be the means of giving protection to good men on both sides of the line. Those who have lived for years by murder and theft may as well take warning by these gentle hints, for the good people of Sonora and Arizona have suffered by them until a limit has arrived to their endurance. If there are men among us who, (as it is charged,) are engaged in buying stolen stock from well known thieves, let these words be @ sufficient warning, for these minute men are determined while they are engaged in protecting our own inter- est, 10 see that no wrong is perpetrated upon the good people of Sonora.
Year: 1875

FURTHER ATrEMPTS ON THE CHARTER.
PROPOSED BILL TO ABOLISH THE BOARD OF EsT1-


NATE AND APPoRTIoNMENT, AND TO TRANSFER


IT'S DUTIES TO TIE BOARD OF ALDERMEN, WITH


VETO POWER VESTED IN THE MAYOR


IBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE1


ALBANY, March A project is understood to be
nnder discussion among the Democratic leaders,
which will involve change of considerable magni-
tude in the New-York City Government if carried
through to completion. This contemplates the abo-
Gtion of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment.
and their transfer of its duties to the Board OF
Aldermen, giving the Mayor the same power OF veto
over single items of the city budget as is now pos
sessed by the Governor over items in the Supply
bill The law is not to 60 into effect until after
the election of q new Board Of Aldermen, so
that its members may be chosen with especial refer
ence to this duty 1t is urged in behalf OF this meas
ure that it will put in force in the local government
the principle which obtains in the State and Fed
eral Governments of allowing the Legislature to
decide upon appropriations. and would impose this
duty upon men chosen directly by the people for the
work and responsible TO them for the manner IN
which is done 1t s also urged that the prepara-
ton Of the immense budget of New-York City IS too
great task to be left to four men, not specially
elected for that purpose. This scheme Will PROD
ably encounter the Objection WHICH c"hio 'o
near wrecking the Costigan bill-that u Is Only al
attempt to tinker the charter and not to remedy IT,
1t is not thought likely that Gov. Tiden VIII favor
anv patchwork measures with the charter. The
project is being privately canyassed. and is still IN
an inchoate state. If any considerable sentiment ls
found to be against it it may never see the light
Perhaps it will not do to suspect Controller Green
to be the bone of contention in every New-York bill
but it is worthy of note that by this measure the
Controller would be deprived Of a voice in the de-
Termination Of appropriations.
Year: 1875

THE FUTURE OF PAClflC MAIL.
PROPOSED REDUCTION OF THE FLEET-iNrESIioN'
OF TIE CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD AND ooCi-
DENTAL AND ORIENTAL STEAMSHIP coNfANi
PLANS FOR THE CHINA TRADE.
The revolutisn in Pacific Mail was the sub
,ect of general discussion In wast yesterday ana con"
lecture was busy concerning the future movements u
tho now continuation At the Company's once qi'ct
nrevailed during the day. No meetings were heiu "u
no additional changes were MADE. hui"s h"..i' W..
still continues In the position OF uanssns VI =,
said in regard to the plans OF the Compauy' W" "
reduce our fleet. Now there are ."eh'y .. - ,,o
in active use OF these. we shall take one iioln .D


W. yorh and Aspinwan line, two from those plying
no,een San Francisco and Panama, and four from 'ho
China lines. Some Of these Will De taken on pei
nen,lv and are ready for sale as soon as we can hn


ureaser Tho others will be docked and brought ino
use when the times are busy-say along IN july Wneh
the ten trade brisk At other times the mep VIII oe
Maid OF and the ships laid up"


President Huntington OF the Central Pacific Rail-
road when asked yesterday how the revolution IN Pa
cifc Mail affected him. said that he was neither long
nor shor" and consequently was not affected In the
least He could tell whether David d. Cotton would
accept the position ofirector Mr. Cotton would be In
the city to-day and would probably answer for himself
AS to his own alleged prospective election as director
of the Pacific Mail Company, Mr.. Huntington said thot
his time was too limited TO attend to the
interests of tho stockholders Of that corpora
ton, and therefore he could not accept
Nothing that had been DONE he added would interfere
with the fixed purpose Of the Occidental and Oriental
Steamship Company to run their steamers One OF
them was loading now for Hong Kong China The new
Company expect to have their vessels at China at the
time of the moving Of the tea crop large portion OF
which the Company hoped to secure Mr.. Huntington
thought it was likely that harmonious arrangement
would effected between the several companies inter
esed bat il the Pacific Mail Company should conclude
to violate a contract, that Company did year ago.
the Central Pacific Railroad did not intend TO be de-
prved OF its share Of the China business. The Occi-
dental and Oriental Steamship Company was therefore


fixed fact and an accomplished Legitimate enterprise,


intended to earn as much money as possible for its
stockholders.
Year: 1875

fr~-,A ftll .li4 NstI |N- HfH


The saving to the State of the BIZ
epnial session feature of the new
Constitution is an immense one, and
this, too, when we reflect that the
government will be equally as rigo-
rously and effectually administered,
is peculiarly grdtefnl feature of
the new Constitution. This single
feature alone nspeakss IN trumpet
tones, in favor Of its adoption by
the people. There is little or no
reason why ninety men should as.
semble At the State Capitol yearly
% do the work which can be. quite
"a .sfectually done by the sane
namber meeting once in two
ytAfs and mileage and per diem is
saved. .nasl es
Year: 1875

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A Kansas paper tells story about
man who had the tootlIache dread
fully. He was too mean to go into
town and pay dentist fifty cents for
extracting the tooth, so he determin-
ed to dragit out with the popular
method of the noble red man. So
that Kansas person proceeded to the
woods and wrapped a piece d cop
per wire tightly around the offending
bicuspid. Then he took his mule,
and rugged up block and tackle and
bent down stout sapling to the
ground. He lay fiat on his back,
fixed the wire firmly to the tree, and
reached over and cut the rope by
which the mule held on. In about
one second certain sufferer from the
tooth ache might have been seen pro-
crossing toward the blue ethereal
sky at lightning speed, and turning
successive somersaults and flip flaps
and things, as he went.


After tearing around up there for
a few minutes, grazing the monarchs
of the forest, and moving about forty
yards onward, he swooned down into
apond, and began to strike out for
shore. His tooth is in its socket yet
for the wire was wrencbed loose
from the tree. But you never met a
man who seemed to have a more
whole-souled detestation Of Indian
customs than that man has. He
says it disgusts him to think about a
red man now.
Year: 1875

You kissed me. My head had dropped


low on your breast,
With a feeling of shelter and infinite


rest;
While the holy emotion my tongue dared


not speak,
Flushed up like flame from my heart
tony cheek;
Your arms held me fast; oh, your arms


were so bold.
Heart beat against heart In that passion
ate hold;
Your glances seemed drawing my soul


through my eyes,
As the san draws the mist from the sea


to the skies;
And your lips clung to mine till l prayed


in my bliss,
They might never unclasp from that


rapturous kiss.
You kissed me! My heart, my breath


and my will,
In delirious joy for the moment stood


still;
Life had for me then no temptations, no


charms,
No vista of pleasure-outside of your


arms;
And were this moment an angel pos


sessed
OF the glory and peace that are given


the blessed,
1 would fling my white robes unrepin-


ingly down,
l would tear from my forehead that


beautiful crown,
To nestle once more In that haven of


rest,
With your lips upon mine and my head


Oh your breast.
You kissed me! My soul in bliss so di-


vine,
Reeled and swooned like foolish man


drunken with wine;
And l thought 'twere delicious to die


then, if death
Would but come while my lips were yet


moist with your breath;
'Twere delicious to die, if my heart


might grow cold,
While your arms wrapped me round in


that passionate fold;
And these are the questions ask day


and night
Must my life taste hut once such exquis-


ite delight?
Would you care if your breast were my


shelter as then?
And if you were here would you kiss


me again?
Year: 1875

A lady read the following para
graph in paper,


"a young wife once cured her hus
band of a disposition to absent him
self from home at night by providing
a good dinner, and saying to him al
terward, George, if you find a sweeter
spot than our home describe it to
me. and will rival it if die in the
attempt. A kiss and a few tears
completed the victory"


This lady tried that game ON her
husband. He wasn't melted bit;
he merely said'


sWhen you can get the boys to
come here and smoke cigars, and talk
politics, and you set up a keg of Ia
ger, you can count on me"


Our lady saw that sentiment had
no effect on him. So she didn't
throw herself on his neck, and hug
and wet his paper collar with tears
but she took saucer and fired it at
his head, and followed it with a
cup, and ended by singing dish OF
strawberries on his shirt bosom.
Since that time he has been an ex-
emplary husband. Yet he does seem
very anxious for her to visit her dear
mother as often as four or FIVE times
O week.
Year: 1875

This is what the editor of the Ohio
State Journal has seen:


ave have seen the management of
the Central Lunatic Asylum Building
Fund taken ont of the hands of an
unpaid Board of reputable Trustees
and put into the hands of an ex-
pensively salaried Commission, with
the work delayed from inadequate
appropriations and inefficient man
agement. We have seen a Democrat
ic Superintendent of the Soldiers
Orphans Home convicted of lewd
practices and permitted to resign, af-
ter short administration which
largely increased the running ex-
penses of the institution. We have
seen an attempt to oust the Superin-
tendent of the Reform Farm, and put
in a partisan successor, before his
term expired, We have seen the
Ohio Penitentiary demoralized in dis
cipline, and its net proceeds reduced
to nothing, while the number of con-
victs has beon larger than at any pre-
vious year of its history, and the pro
ceeds should have been correspond
ingly increased. We have seen the
Superintendent of the Northern Ohio
Lunatic Asylum secretly examined
on charges similar to those against
the Superintendent of the Soldiers
Orphans Home, the reporters for the
press excluded, the witnesses dis
charged for testifying, and the SUI
perintendent "allOwed to resign"
We have observed the ruling price Of
one hundred dollars head for dem
ocratic reform Legislature, and the
suppression of material part OF the
record of an investigation, under q
resolution of the body implicated.
We have seen Democratic Governor
unable TO sign his own name, and
carrying on the Executive functions
by means of a stamp signature in the
hands of subordinates. We have
seen the only creditable performance
of public duty in institutions still un-
der the administration of officials ap-
pointed nnder Republican control
We have seen the democratic party
rent into factions, and its platform the
laughing stock of Republicans and
Democrats alike everywhere outside
the State. We have seen senile
candidate for Governor eat his own
forty years. record in the vain hope
of gaining votes on what Is declared
by the National Democratic organ to
be san absurd and prepOsterous plat
form" We have seen the brains of
the party, even in Ohio, opposing the
platform and denouncing it, or pre-
serving a grim silence toward il"
Year: 1875




Not the least absurd of the silly
catch-words adopted by the imitation
quacks is "bloated monopolies." The
national banking system may be all
wrong or all right, but it is no more a
monopoly than the milling business,
the foundry business, or any other
which requires capital to go into it.
Under the existing law any man or
set of men in any State can 60 into
the national banking business, pro-
vided they have the necessary means,
and can enjoy all the benefits of the
system by complying with the re-
quirements of the law. There is no
limitation as to the amount of bank
ing capital or the number Of hanks
which may exist in any State or in
the country at large. 1t is true the
government aflixes certain conditions
tothe banking business for the safe
ty of depositors and hill-holders, but
every citizen can engage in the bust
ness by complying with those condi-
tions. National banking is no more
a monopoly than the dlstilling husi-
ness, which has to be carried on TN
der certain legal restrictions, or than
the retailing of liquor, which M per-
son can engage in without license.
Those. who call it o monopoly are
either ignorant of the meaning of the
word, or else they use it dishonesty
and for demagogical purposes. AS
the law stands every man may en-
gage in the banking business who
complies with its provisions. The
only way to make it more free would
be to authorize every man to print
bank notes, affix his signature there
to, and issue them as money, and
probably this is what the imitation
quacks will finally demand.
Year: 1875

A CORRESPONDENT says: Several
ladies were sitting together on the
balcony of the Clifton, Niagara, the
other night, when the moan, although
full was not demonstratiye. A nat
ty little fellow came toward the group
and softly said, sPussie, darling,'
whereupon all the young ladies
jumped up and came toward him
eagerly. He selected one and walked
away with her. The other brides
sat down and told their respective
Romeos afterward that it was too ri
dicnlals far anything and that they
were meyer SO embarrassed in the
whole course of their life.
Year: 1875

A YOUNG man who is praised by
his employer for his faithful eff
cheney at his desk, and admired espe-
cially by his friends for his thought
full kindness to his wife, was seen
about five o'clock the other morning
washing the windows of his rented
home. A little merriment at his eX-
pense elected the frank response:
"Never mind; l can't afford to pay a
washerwoman to do it, and perhaps
if l demonstrate my ability to take
care of house the world will let me
own one some time" And so he
will, some time, own house, and be
able to hire it cleaned, too. This
brave independence in economy is
not only worthy of imitation by
hosts of young men in these close
times, but the example of mutual
burden bearing in the domestic cirs
Gle is all praise worthy. How many
feeble women are every day tugging
away at heavy burdens of domestic
toll that are trying their very heart
strings, while their genteel husbands
are perhaps lingering lace and silk
over a counter, or pushing a pen in
an elegant counting-r room! Hus-
bands, there ought to be masculine
muscle in the wash room, cleaning
house, sweeping heavy carpets, and
in doing dozens Of heavy tasks in the
household. Try it these long morn
ings, and see how amiable and devo-
ted your wife will be,-IrOy Times.
Year: 1875




1t has been said of old that ga
bird in the hand is worth two in the
bush." Try it. Take a bird (any
bird will do) in your hand, and hold
it securely; then take a passage in
the first vessel you can find (any YES
sci will do) and proceed to the Anti
podes, still retaining the bird in the
hand, where the bush is supposed to
be. When you arrive, examine the
bird which you have in your hand,
and compare it with any two you
can find in the bush. Estimate their
value. You will find that the proverb


has led you astray.
Again it has been said. at is the
last straw that breaks the camePs
back" Impyimis, how long would
man go about until he had salts
fed himself that he had found the
slast" straw? But we will grant for
the sake of argument, that the "last
straw" has been found. Now take
your camel (any camel will do) and
cautiously deposit that straw on the
back of the camel, and carefully OBJ
serve whether the spine of that quad
ruped is 6islocated. 1t is to be i'm
agined not. How then the proyerb-


Once more. 1t has been spoken
and written, that if you take care
of the pence the pounds will take
care of themselves. Make the ex-
pertinent. Take pence, say three
pence, and place them in your purse,
and put your purse in your pocket,
if your purse is buttenable; or de-
posit three pencs with your banker,
or invest them. in a Canadian OIL
well. Next take q sovereign (any
body's sovereign will do) and place
it on the pavement (the center OF a
coal plate Is not bad place and az
ter retiring up the stage, and ''dis
sembling," observe how that SOW
ereign will take care of itself.


THE total amount of greenbacks
and fractional currency outstanding
Year: 1875

Those farmers who experience considers
bic difficulty in hiring help to care for
dairy aud who are SO unfortunate as to be
unable. to carry it on with their family help,
and they are many, look to wool growing as
sls aebstituse; aud would, If IL were not
for the low prices of wool and sheep abandon
dairying.


We think there is money in wool growing
If well managed. A farmer makes a fair
statement of the case in EARN Talks" in
the Mirror and Farmer


You cant farm in these parts without
sheep. At present prices there isn't any
money to be made in raising beef we are
too far from market to sell milk, and but
ter-makiDg is out of the question where you
have to hire help to make it, so about the
only stock which will pay taxes is sheep.
Of course you can't keep all sheep, for you
must have other stock TO do your work and
keep the family in milk and butter, but
when go to figuring find the only net
profit l get is from sheep. Yes, as you say,
wool is low, and lambs are about dollar
head lower than last year, though why they
should be don't see, for l don't hear as the
butchers charge any less for their meat than
they did year ago; but even at present
prices | can make money on sheep. win.
tered Just an even hundred grade South
downs sixty ewes, thirty-three wethers
and two bucks. | don't know how much
wool have got here, but guess there are
$50 pounds, or $157.50 worth. 1 raised
fifty.two lambs, and have sold forty of them
for $40, and can get about $50 for the
old sheep will sell to make room for the
lambs have kept. This makes an income
of 1927 80, or 1927 each from the sheep.
Now the pasturing has not cost over $50,
for can buy good pasture back on the
mountain for "a an acre, and well fenced
at that. The sheep ate little grain and
poorish hay last winter, but not more than
the value Of twenty tons Of hay, and you see
have got for it almost $14 per ton, which
is all it would have brought had l sold it at
the barn. Now there is no other stock that
knew of that will return you $40 ton for
the hay it eats. Then like sheep because
they are out Of the way more than any other
stock. They 60 early and stay late, and il
they are well brought up had rather fence
against them than against cattle. They are
less care than cattle, too, in the winter.
They water themselves, do not have to be
cleaned out every day, need no carding OIL
bedding down, and do not hook or fight.


believe they are better for farm than
cattle. They eat bushes and briars, then
droppiDgs are ready spread, and the bes
manure l get comes from the sheep-pen. !
calculate to feed half my hay to sheep, anC
if fed three-fourths of it l should be bet
| ter off
Year: 1875

EDIToR VERMONT FARMER While at.
tending LamOile county fair, was much
surprised to see the increased numbers Of
j Jersey cattle compared with the number
shown but few years ago. Judging from
this they seem to bo coming into favor
among dairymen. As butter aud cheese


seem to be destined to be the principle pro-
ducts Of Vermont it becomes a question Of
very serious Importance, aud a question that
many are trying to solve, what breed of
cattle are best adOpted to our Vermont farms,
with other circumstances considered. l
have been acquainted with this breed over
forty years; aud while admit their very Pc
culiar qualities, can but give word Of eau.
tion, lest many by going with the multitude
will be disappointed. am very sure that
they are not the breed for a majority Of
farmers to keep. And one very great and
serious objection would be that they are
very tender as regards enduring cold. II
they are kept to the exclusion of other cat
tie, and receive the same miserable care and
shelter often times having to stand on the
north side of an open fence, and with poor
and coarse fodder, and too often with
scanty allowance Of that, think they
would be almost complete failure. Another
objection is that they are SO small that i
adopted they would greatly reduce the sup
ply Of meat, not only at home here in Yer


mont, but throughout New England and the
Eastern markets. am not sure but
should be safe in saying that the reduction
would be one.half Nor is this all, the COS


Of producing one hundred pounds of meA


from jersey is much more than il wOul'


be from any other breed. And AdmittinI


that almost every farmers business is b


keep dairy, it very frequently happens tina
Year: 1875

It has long been our custom to top turuips
with hoe and pull them with hook, draw
ing four rows Of tops into ridge and the
four rows Of roots into another. And after
hauling of the turnips to gather portion Of
the tops and cart them away for the cattle.
The quantity of tops on an acre is so great
that il is not prudent to turn in cattle except
for short time, unless most Of the tops are
hauled off The tops are in the way about
pulling and gathering the roots, and they
are cut up and trod into the dirt, and many
wasted. This year we have tried on ito
us) new wriDkle---cutting and hauling of the
tops before pulling the roots. Haul two
rows together as they are topped. A man
follows along with q pitchfork and throws
them into small cocks. The team
comes along, astride of row lrOws three aud
half feet apart and the tops are thrown
on and hauled of. Two men topped and
hauled to the barn the tops Of an acre in
half day, and pulled, cleaned and put them
in the cellar 1900 bushels) in two days more.
The work of finishing up the harvest of the
fed was found to be much more satisfactory.
And we wonder why we never thought Of it
before.


Turnip tops are valuable article of food
for any stock. These suggestions are early
for the next crop, though rather late for
this