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Year: 1876

will flock into it and keep it well stocked


with brain and energy.


But how is agriculture ever going to be


developed until the educated young men do


put their brains and energy into it? All,


Mr.. Editor, there is the hard problem. Ny
friend will not educate his son lest be edu-
cate him away from tie farm. and the con-
sequence is that but few young men are
educated at all. Suppose. now, that all our
Young men were educated, not according to
the whims of their parents, but in such
way as to bring ,out whatever Of talent
there is in them, and let them indicate their
:. calling" Is there any fear that few of
them would be called to agriculture? By
the necessities os the case the most of them
would be. Some of the professions are full
TO oyerfowing, now. There would. ia this
case, be redistribution of educated men,
and the industrial occupations would get
almost all the excess. Send your boy to
college. then. my friend, and persuade your
neighbor to send his. and you will have
done something toward making it certain
that educated young men-ifnot your boys,
then some other mems boys-will put their
education to the service OF agriculture
Year: 1876

The President, in conversation with a
gentleman, on Wednesday, alluded to the
madman who has recently given such ro-
mantle testimony before the Committee on


Expenditures in the Interior Department.
The President says that for many weeks he
could never leave the White House without
finding this maniac turn upon him at some
street corner and lower upon him with his
raving eyes. This espionage became intol-
erahle, and the President one day stopped
the man and told him that it must cease or
be would have him arrested. The madman
still continued 10 haunt the White House
grounds, and was finally taksn to the asy-
lum. lie had been there but short time,
when his friends told the authorities that
they would take him to his home in Ireland.
if he should be released. The request was
granted, and he was sent to Ireland. How
he came back to this country is mystery.
Year: 1876

MIR. VANCE who was the last rebel gov
ernor of North Carolina and very rabid
one at that. is now the Democratic candidate
for the same position. In his speech the
other day he declared himself the white
mons candidate, and asserted that the re-
construction acts and negro suffrage are both
unconstitutional. Governor Vance is an
earnest supporter of Samuel j. Tllden and
every Democratic paper which refers to
Vance will advocate his election.
Year: 1876

are said to be earnestly considering propo-
sition to prefer articles of impeachment
against Secretary Robson with the under
standing that they will be referred to the
judiciary not to be taken up till next winter.
Of course this disgraceful scheme is in
tended simply for political effect.
Year: 1876

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
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 reserve commu-
nications that are not used.
Year: 1876

SUNSET Cox was apparently experiencing
one of his crooked whlskey days Tuesday.
At least this is. the most charitable explana-
ton of his remarks on the subject of the
Hamburg massacre. His zeal in the service
of his southern masters got the better of his
discretion to such an extent that Mr.. Lamar
saw the necessity of repudiating his senti-
ments by denouncing the Hamburg affair as
disgraceful and terrible. Mr.. Cox received
the most severe drubbing from Mr.. Towns
end that he ever experienced and came out
of the fight utterly discounted. Altogether
it was very bad day for Cox.
Year: 1876

EVERY regular attache Of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate countersigned by Stanley T.
Pullen, Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer a favor upon us by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent our
journal
Year: 1876

the amount of losses reported during the
past eight years.


That Confederate Senator feels that he has
made great blunder-a blunder resulting
from the conviction that Democratic organ
can tell the truth about Republican officials.
Year: 1876

tee must lay Immediately at it's door the primary
responsibility for the many abuses offences and
crimes with which this report is so amentaby
replete.


The Governor controlling that board as we
have shown. cannot shift his extensive share of
the responsibilities.


Your committee are of the opinion that the
PHI which was passed by your Honorable body a
lew days since. and which is now before the
senate Tor concurrence. contains the most ample
remedy Tor the cure of the great evil we have but
feobly sketched We end with an earnest horp
that the bill may soon become law and that
the Metropolitan Police and its present odious
board shall bc abolished forever. Your commit
tee further recommend the printing of the
record accompanying this report in pamphlet
form. In such number as your honorable body
may determine.


GEORGE w. DUPRE.


Chairman


VIM. j. HAMMOND.
Mr. e.. IT, Hall. a member of the committee
was suddenly called away from the city owing
to the dangerous illness of his wife Tho report
was not then ready.


In the prelimi innry consultations Mr.. G. J..
Hail agreed in substance with the ideas and find
ingS Of this report and we have no doubt of his
signing tho same on his return


(SignoU GEORGE W. DUPRE,


Chairman.


VIM. J. HAMMOND.
Year: 1876

HERCULEAN efforts are making among officers of the army to frighten

 the Military Committee out of the con-

 templated sweeping reduction. As

 soon as the project for cutting down

 inc army was made known. every chan nel by which influence could be brought to bear was filled with protests and

 hints to stay Congress from action, and every paper in the city and through out the country in sympathy with army officers or friends of army officers be gan howl about the indecency of a Confederate Congress cutting down the ranks of an army that had beaten them. In spite of all this, however,

 the plans of reduction have gone on

 steadily, and if the Military Committee

 heSitates, Congress itself will put its shoulder to the wheel General Ban ming, liberal Republican, Chairman of

 the Military Committee, completed

 the steps toward a reduction of the Army estimates, which are embodied

 in a bill to cut of extra allowances and communication to officers not on active duty in the field. These will confine these officials to monthly or yearly pay proper, and the law pre- IScribes that allowances may be drawn by officers on active duty, but they will not receive, as ROW, communications

 This will strike at a great abuse, and

 save very handsome sum to the treas ury.-Wa Washington Dispatch.
Year: 1876

THE Arizona Sentinel, of February l2, contains harsh criticism of the production of 8 poetical writer in the San Diego papers, whom we have be- come accustomed to recognize as ID" :" finding fault with the grammar &c, of some of the poems. This Is 8 late day to undertake to confne the muse with shackles of grammar or any thing else. But the attempt to do so is sim ply in consonance with efforts to shack le the press and to intermeddle with sacred things generally, which dis position seems to be peculiar to the times. We have all read the beauti- ful poems in the papers referred to, and Tn behalf of their author and the general sentiment of the reading com munity we deprecate any thing but the highest praise thereof They are read and known and treasured by thousands of discerning admirers of the higher order of poetry. Their only defect hitherto has been their brevity, but now that the author is continuing each of his fine efforts through several issues of the papers, the cup is full. If the judgment of an humble admirer would have any weight with D." we would venture the suggestion, (merely suggestion, that fivre act poetical drama on shells, would be nice. We think Shells" afford the greater scope to his weird fancy. We may be wrong though
Year: 1876

FUN is one thing. Meanness is another. Hop Kee, with an eye to variety, has diff ferent soup for each day in the week. One ofthese kinds of soup is the inebriating OK tail, and on that particular day, to the boarders' inquiry as to the kind of soup to be had, Hop has invariably ' replied, ''oxen- tail" But wag of bOarder, getting dis satisfied with the monOtonOus course things were settling into, kindly told the poor Chinaman the other day that he was mistaken In the specific name Of this soup; that it was not Oxen-tail, but cat-tail soup. In the innocence Of his heart the celestial adopted this name, and now on one day in every week he has a scene with each Of his boarders in succession, on his solemn announcement that the soup for that day is the genuine and unmistakable cat-tail soup.
Year: 1876

ACCORDING to late dispatch 1T The Alta, the Secretary of the Treas ury has twelve millions of silver coin now on hand and will commence redemption of the fractional currency immediately. As far as the people generally are concerned, they are more interested in getting rid of the dirty, rotten and dishonorable frac- tional currency, than in the entire resumption of specie payment.
Year: 1876

RECORDER CARPENTER has a perfect boudoir Of an office now. With carpets on

 the floor, pictures on the walls and neat ness and order reigning generally, it is a

 pleasant place to have to visit occasional ly. His books and papers seem to cores

 pond with the rest. As the extra furnish ing has been done entirely at his own ex- pense, he should receive the full credit Of

 what is really the best appearing public office In Tucson.
Year: 1876

There is no lady deserving of the
name who could witness without feel
ing of horror the process of preparing
for use the feathered beauties which
form such conspicuous ornaments in the
present style of women's hats. If those
who wear such ornaments knew the
tortures to which these helpless little
creatures are subjected, and the heart
less cruelty with which the business is
carried on, they would shrink from even
indirect completely in it. OF course the
impression prevails that all birds used
for personal decoration are killed i'm
mediately when caught and prepared in
the ordinary way by taxidermists but
here is where the mistake is made. The
birds are taken alive, and while living
the skin is skillfully stripped from their
quivering, ghastly bodies. By this pro-
cess it is claimed the feathers retain q
firmer hold upon the skin. Such is the
method by WHICH all birds used in the
decoration of ladies' hats are prepared.
Think of the exquisite humming bird,
the blue bird, the cardinal bird, the
oriole, and numberless others of beauti-
full plumage, struggling beneath the
knife of the heartless operator think of
this, tender hearted ladies, as your ad-
miring gaze rests on the latest novelties
in fashion by which our city bellies are
crowned! Hundreds of thousands OF
birds of the brightest plumage arc liter
ally fayed alive every year, and 80 long
as our ladies will consent to wear such
ornaments, just SO long will this crue
business continue. The Baroness Bur-
dette- Coutts has placed herself at the
head of movement in England de-
signed to put an end to the brutal busi
ness, and it is to be hoped that she will
meet with cordial encouragement and
co. operation on this side of the Atlantic.
Year: 1876

Says writer: 1t is very exciting,
but the sea was not very rough. The
surf board is n rough plank shaped like
coffin lid, about two feet broad and
from six to nine feet long. The men,
dressed only in malos, carrying their
boards under their arms. waded out
from the rocks on which the surf was
breaking, and, pushing their boards be-
fore them, swan out to the first line Of
breakers, and then, diving down, were
seen no more till they reappeared as a
number of black heads bobbing about
like corks in the water. What they seek
il very high roller, on the top of which
they leap from behind, diving face
downward on their boards. As the
waves speed on and the bottom strikes
the ground the top breaks in huge
comber. The swimmers appeared pos
ing themselves on its highest edge by
dexterous movements of their hands and
feet, keeping just at the top of the curl,
but always apparently coming down hill
with slanting motion. So they rode in
majesticallr, always just ahead of the
breaker, CT ed shoreward by it's mighty
impulse at 40 rate Of forty miles an
hour, yet seeming to have volition of
their own, as the more daring riders
knelt and even stood on their surf
boards, waving their arms and uttering
exultant cries. They were always ap-
parently on the verge of ingulfment by
the fierce breaker whose towering white
crest was ever above and just behind
him; but just as one expected to see
them dashed to pieces, they either waded
quietly ashore, or, sliding off their
boards, dived under the surf, taking ad-
vantage of the undertow, and were next
seen far out at sea, preparing for fresh
exploits. The great art seems to be to
mount the roller precisely at the right
time, and to keep exactly on its crest
just before it breaks.
Year: 1876

An unusual marriage took place in
Omaha, Neb., the parties thereto being
Spencer Wright and Miss Bessie
Roberts, daughter of United States
Deputy Collector John Roberts. The
ceremony took place at the house where
the young man boarded, as he was too
ill to be removed elsewhere. The Rev.
L. +. Britt, pastor of the First Metho-
dist church, performed the ceremony.
Mr.. Wright has been failing in health
very rapidly of late, and the physicians
here having given him up, his father,
who is merchant tailor in New York
city, arrived to take his son home to
die of consumption. Miss Roberts, to
whom young Wright has long been
affianced, decided to go East with her
dying lover, and give him all the care
and attention that her love could prompt
in his dying hours, and the better to
enable her to care for him, she decided
to have the marriage ceremony per.
formed before the journey to New York
was undertaken. While the wedding
was sad in its attendant circumstances,
it was lightened up with the great cheer
fulness manifested by the bride in TAX
ing up her labor of love.
Year: 1876

"Dora" was being enacted in a


Western city where the choice of actors
is not great. and Mary Morrison, on
making her exit to bring on her little
Willie, of four years, was shocked to
find lubberly boy of at least fourteen,
who must go on, as no other was to be
had. The Farmer Allen of the play was
no doubt equally shocked to sec Mary
coming upon the stage with boy near
ly as big as herself. What was worse,
the audience began to litter. But Farm
er Allen was equal to the emergency,
and instead of asking "How old are
you, my little boya" said: elbow old
are you, my strapping fellowl" proba-
bly, hoping that the boy would have the
good sense to give an age more suitable
to his size. The boy, however, with
painful fidelity to the book, and in a
sepulchral voice that made the answer
all the more preposterous, said /: "Four
to five, grandpapa." Forty-fve |"
exclaimed the other, cheerfully "you
look it, my boy, you look it p There
was laugh at the moment, but the
play was saved from shipwreck. 1t was
told of famous tragedian that at the
close of an act in which he had been tho
prominent character, a goose's head was
thrown upon the stage by some one who
had a spite against him. The tragedian
picked it up, handed it to one of the
Others to take away, and said, with per-
feet nonchnlance "Tho gentleman
who has thrown his head upon the stage
eau get it back at the close of the pes
formance."
Year: 1876

There is something alarming about
the part of the confession of Piper, the
belfry murderer, of Boston, in which he
says that he killed his victim under the
influence of an insane desire to shed
blo6. Others cases of this kind of
mania have frequently been brought to
light. 1t has in some instances existed
as an almost uncomfortable predisposi-
tion. After it has been once gratified,
without discovery or punishment, by q
man possessed of it, the desire for a
further qualification OF it is apt to in
crease in intensity, while at the same
time the cunning of the criminal grows
with his experience in murder. Two
women with this mania, who made away
with several victims, have appeared in
American criminal records as poisoners,
within recent years and some time ago
there were a man aud woman possessed
of it in France, who jointly made away
with over twenty victims. Piper of
Boston killed q girl and a woman, and
attempted the life of another woman
aud, if he had not been caught, he
would doubtless have kept up his muir
derous practices, II Is dangerous TO
have persons with this mania q. large.
Year: 1876

Tho Feelings OF bernard Bailey, who She
Himself In ~. Louis Because hc wa
Tilted.


To THE PUBLIC: Would you like h


know how man feels who Ia about Il


commit suicide In the first place, III


must feel SO badly that no matter wha


is to come hereafter, it is more endura


BILE than the present; and secondly, h
must feel that, more enduIable or not
he cannot help the act; that II even the
future ia worse than the present, tho
present is uncomfortable. I suppose
medical men would like to know just the
mental condition OF one who can shuttle
Off this mortal coil.


It is this: My nerves and senses arc
as sound as they ever were. I can attend
to business rs efficiently, and as fully
realize that the chief end OF man is tC
gather ducats, as l ever could. but ]
can also realize that without my better
half am as a perfect engine without
steam-useless.


Doctors of divinity would doubtless
like to know my moral and religious
ideas. My moral idea is this: That man
should do his duty in spite of obstacles
and consequences, and that so doing il
the only thing which will bring the
peace which passeth all understanding.
I acknowledge that I was too weak 80 to
do. In regard to my future state, my
reason does not fully accept that thereis
future state of which we will be con-
scious. I believe in the Immortality OF
the soul, or the life principle, or what.
ever it is, as believe in the immortality
of a bushel of coal; that it may change
it's form go essentially MS to be uncon-
scious of having ever existed before, but
that still, as the coal, it is not destroy.
ed, but simply changes its form. My
heart may speak differently to me, but
even then 1 believe that whatever is, is
inevitable, as it must all proceed from
one great original, and so must be in
accordance with his will.


However, shall probably know more
about it in twenty.four hours than all
the d. DIS living. lam not crazy. l
know til t tho world is full of good and
enjoyable things, and that they were
put here for our good and benefit, and
that we should strive and work to obtain
them.


But I am unable to care for them
without the love of my darling. I wish
to state that Miss -- is in no way re-
sponsible for my having loved her; that
almost before she had ground for think
ing that my feelings toward her were
more tender than those of friendship,
she informed mo that her heart was an-
others, and that, while she esteemed
and cared for me as a friend, ! could be
nothing more to her. But she was mis-
taken in that, ana though I could not
convince her of it while living, she will
realize it when l sleep the sleep that
knows no waking. A sweet good night
to all.


On the back of sheet of note paper
were the words: "Respect this" On
the other side was written the following:


81 wish to be buried just in the
in which die. Do not move
me from where / am found, except to
my grave.


"Bury me in plain pine coffin, and
have me carried to my grave in a one
horse spring wagon. Do not let the
total cost of my burial exceed IS. As the
last request of dying man, I conjure
you to respect these instructions.
Year: 1876

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20, 1875
POLITICAL AFFAIRS IN NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.


OF THE RIVAL REPUBLICAN FACTIONS.


There is new movement here for the removal OF
Pease Postmaster at vicksburg, the Ames men being
very anxious to got this mark OF the Presidents favor
TO strengthen them in Mississippi and keep them at
the head of the republican party.


The question OF Ames' impeachment still hangs un-
decided in the Legislature at Jackson A significant
circumstance is reported from Jackson AT n recent
local election there the republicans have carried their
entire ticket The majority Of candidates white
men, OF substance and intelligence and thus the
ticket was popular. republican, mot OF tho Ames
wing. writing from there says:-


BY taking such course throughout the State we can
form party that will be lasting but the party
consist only of carpet-baggers and negroes will insure
our defeat always. II is rope Of sand.


1t reported that the Ames leaders say II Senator
Alcorn wants to be taken back into the republican
party he first sit the stool OF repentance They
acknowledge that his leadership would advantage
to the party, but they will not take him back unless he
eats humble pie
Year: 1876

OF the amnesty question may have given him notoriey,
possibly reputation a shrewd and skilfu parliament
tartan; but It will fail 70 do that which be hoped
bring TO him strength as candidate for the
Presidential nomination. Until Bristow dsposcs Of
the whiskey Ring cases in ST. Louis and Chicago, par
tculary those the former city, and until the fight
which s 70 determine Babcock's fate has been ended
IL will be apostolic TO decide how high in tho list OF
Presidential aspirahts Brisow deserves to be placed


Conkng begins to loom up INTO prominence
than formerly One great advantage possessed by him
those named above is the belief among men OF
his party generally that in Grant concludes that
third term Is impracticabe or beyond his reach-the
only reason, by the way, which will deter him from
attempting TO itthon the entire influence OF
the administration Is TO be cxcrtod 10 make Conkng
the Of Grant. Conkling favors third term
n success Is probable; II not, conkling avors conk
ling hrst last and all the time


The foregoing statements offered solely as the
opinions or conclusions OF tho HERALD correspondent
but are derived from careful survey Of tho political
Geld gained from impartial study OF representa-
tive men and leaders Of the republican party In the
same connection efforts have been made TO ascertain tho
probable action OF National Democratic Convention
but as yet everything is beyond the range or
probabilities The same motives which decided the
selection OF Cincinnati the place for holding the Re-
publican Conventson-the desire influence the vote
OF OHIO the State election In 0ctobcrmay influence
the democrats TO wisely choose the same place


II confidence is 10 be accepted as an indication Of
Grant and hts immediate adhorents regard the
third term = matter whoss accomplishment Is al
most assured The aspraloIs Of neither Blaine
nor Bristow nor Morton arc looked upon
with serious concern And Is safe 70
saT ha, Grant is 70 be defeated In his efforts 70 OBJ