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Year: 1873

We have a late letter from Gov Mccormick, stating why he did not go to Vienna and referring to other matters of interest. New Territorial business swelled upon his hands to a degree wholly unexpected. The Tue son and Yuma town-sites needed at tention such as might not have been so fully and early given in his ab- sence. Then 8 larger number of the Centennial Executive Committee went to Vienna than was expected when the Governor decided to go, and thus removed any official necessity for him indulging in the luxury and heavy expense.

 Referring to the exercises at Phila- delphia July 4, he says they were grand, and that the Exposition is not longer a matter of doubt, and is fast assuming its proper national charac- ter; that he has attended all meet ings of the Executive Committee and will try to be present at all in future, and see to 1t that Arizona shall not suffer at the Exposition unless her own citizens neglect to do their part in representing her iberallty and re- sources.

 It is due to the Commissioner of the General Land Office to exactly give this paragraph of the Governor let ter:

 This week I am to have full hearing in the Yuma case, and the Commissioner promises to reach a conclusion, if it is pos sible. The points you called attention to and all others will be considered.

 And the telegraph has already in formed us of at least one conclusion, viz: That the disputed strip of land in the town of Yuma, is under the jurisdiction of the proper Arizona off, cers. This implies decision favora- ble to Yuma on the application for patent, yet there are some vexed and mixed points i'll the case which may possibly defer its issuance. In this as i'll other cases, Commissioner Drum mond has shown his accustomed care and patience in passing upon impor- tant questions properly before him.
Year: 1873

TIE Oregon Statesman is respon- slble for the following: We are told that Colonel Nesmith welt yesterday 10 Professor Fowler to have his bumps examined, with a view, we learn, to ascertain if he had a head for Con- gress. We learn further that the Colonel is more than ever satisfied that phrenologists and phrenology are humbugs-Fowler told him that he would make a good mechanic!
Year: 1873

A PORTLAND man, who was re- gently caught fishing in stream be- longing to another person, silenced the remonstrances of the owner by declaring that he was not trying to catch fish, but was only drowning a worm.
Year: 1873

A Methodist preacher, having a charge
in the Southern portion Of Giles county
went to call upon one of his members
one day not long ago,and was very cor
daily greeted, and earnestly entreated
to make himself perfectly at home. The
lady then stepped out to "wring" the
chicken,and when she came back found
the parson in the act of taking up the
ashes in the fireplace and putting them
in the scuttle, preparatory to taking
them out. "Lorze-me, Bro.-,what
are you doing that for?" "You told me
TO make myself at home, madam, and il
I'd been ut home and found all these
ashes in the fireplace, l certainly would
have taken them up" Wilted, did she
don't you bet on Giles county lady be.
ing thus easily outwitted. She wen
straight to the kitchern, stuck every
feather back ON that chicken, sewed it:
head on and turned it loose, and tn,
smart preacher didn't get bite Of it.
Year: 1873

1t is recorded that a certain impecu-
nious man who boards around in the
Second District, was some days ago
aroused to the melancholy fact that he


was almost shoeless, and that the fall


was on him, to be followed in due course
Of time by the stern and rigorous win
ter, when no. man with the proper
amount of feeling in his feet could go
barefoot. The matter was one of pain
full interest to him, and he pondered
long and deeply on the way he should
overcome the misfortunes of depleted
purse, and at last he got an idea, an un-
usual thing for him but strange to say,
1t was a brilliant one. He acted on it,
and this is how he did: With the as
surance of a man with well-filled
pocket, he entered shoe store and had
his measure taken for a covering of his
foundations. The obliging Crispin re-
ceived particular instructions as to the
manner and style of make, and his new
found customer left, but only. to, enter
another shoe store some squares below
where the same performance was gone
through. - i---i ID e'.tsi' "-s"


In time both pairs of shoes were
made, and the. shoeless man with the
dignity of free and respectable citizen
and legal voter, called ON shoemaker
No. 1, tried on the right foot shoe and
came to the conclusion that it might fit
better il he had on pair of socks.
Would the shoemaker be so obliging as
to let him. take that one shoe home?
and if it suited he would come back for
the other. OF course the shoemaker
was but too happy, and the purchaser
left, and No. was visited. From him
the left foot shoe Was obtained in the
same manner, completing the pair. =, q


There are two mad men. down town
and if the shoe-purchasing chap ever
crosses the way of either there will be
trouble.-Ne,o Orleans Picayune.
Year: 1873

Ayisorous effort is set on foot by the
civil authorities in China TO put stop
to the long established practice Of par
ents killing their female infants. A
proclamation has been issued in one OIL
the Provinces denouncing the practice,
and after giving the reasons which par
ents plead in Justification of their crime
the paper. says: .-i '.-'.-


ssNow all these are the most stupid OF
reasons. People seem to be ignorant OF
the fact that no men are born from
heaven without ssme share Of its bless
ings, and that hunger, cold or oodiiy
comfort are matters of predestinationi )
so also with sons and heirs. which are
even in a greater degree dependent upon
the destiny of heaven and cannot be
foreibly coaxed out of it. ga
All that those have to do who are un-
able through poverty to feed their child
rem is to send them to the Founding
Hospital, where they will be reared up
until they become women and wives-a and
where they will always be sure Of en-
joying natural lifetime. -


With regard to the question of money
or no money in the bridal casket, means
or no means Of bringing up q family,
why the bare necessaries of life for such
children in the shape of the coarsest
gown and head gear 10 not cost much.
There are cases enough of poor lads not
being able to find wife all their lives
long, but the treasurer has yet to hear
of poor girl who cannot find hus-
band, so that there is even less cause FOR
anxiety on that score" s


Many other arguments are applied
which make out a strong case against
inianticine, and if the edicts are enferc-
ed, the practice will be broken down In
time.
Year: 1873

The editor of the Christian Register thinks
that if some of our restless 'reformers'' could
attend few golden weddings they might OBJ
tain new and wholesome revelation of the
beauty and dignity of permanent marriage.
Such scenes are among the best antidotes to
'free love" and easy divorce.
Year: 1873

young man who processes to have travel
led says that the only difference in the whis-
keys OF the two principal cities in California
is, that after taking drink of Sacramento's
chain lightning you Immediately take short
cut to the railroad and go to sleep on the
track; whereas. after imbbing little of San
Francisco's bottled insanity, burning desire
takes possession of you to steal horse and
buggy
Year: 1873

He fingered week or moro in great suffering,


rnving about his vito and child, now conducting
IN orchestra, and then singing snatches Of songs-
He died on Sunday last. His funeral Was on
Thuraday, in the midst Of the fearful storm It
was very simple funeral-a worry sad funeral.
Although the time Of services had been an
nouuced in both the English and German papers,
just four persons found their way to the Hos
pitai, upon whom the deceased had no claims
except those OF common humanity. By the
time they arrived, the service had been already
read, not friend or acquaintance having been
present, and they four then took charge OF the
body and placed it upon tho cars for nosehiu in
charge OF the undertaker''s assistant, and poor
Grosscurth went to his grave alone in the midst
OF that piti1eas storm, which WAS fitting type Of
the storm which had beaten upon his life, and
swept him out Of it.


Whatever his life may have been, whatever
his faults may have been, could there ho more
pitiable story than this? In whole city full
OF acquaintances, with hundreds here who had
clung to him while he WAS in his fortunate daYB,
and we're willing to elevate themselves By means
Of his fame, With many relatives, even, residing
here, he dies in q hospital; without
friend at his bedside, and goes to his grave with
no one but an undertaket's assistant to see to
his burial. Is it an improper question to ask,
whether there is any charity in music2 Since
his death, the four who provided for hia burial
have decided to purchase lot in Rosohill Cemo-
terry, where fnendleas musicians and artists OF
genius may be docently buried, and some me-
mortal Of their lives be preserved It is the inten-
ton to remove AIr. Grosscurth's body to this lot
and erect 3 stone over his grave, and also to re-
move the remains Of Henry Ahner from
the old City Cemetery to the same spot,
and ever thereafter to keep this lot sacred to
those who die helpless and almost friendless, in
poverty and neglect, as died Ahner and Crosse
curth. This is a. matter which appeals not only
to charity, but to common humanity. It is an
act Of tardy Justice which musicians should take
into their own hands. 1t will require but
small amount to effect thisp1.pose; and We there
foroappe1 to the Singing Societies, and to all who
profess an interest in music, to lend helping
hand ANY contributions to this end may be for
wardod to Florence Ziegfeld, Esq, at the Chicago
Academy Of Music, who will hold them in trust
and apply them rs the Committee shall hereafter
designate.- Surely, il there is any charity in
music, this much should BIO done for tho sake Of
common humanity.
Year: 1873

The British system Of appeals is even more
technical and complicated than our own, and is
Just now the cause Of much wel1-founded COM
plant. First, there is IN appeal from Judge and
jury to the full Court; second, from the full
Court to tho E1chequer Chamber; and third,
from tho E1chequer Chamber to the House Of
Lords. The process is described as exceedingly
dilatory, and it is certainly clumsy and unfair
in the circumstance that two Judges may over
rule two subordinate Courts consisting Of nine
Judges. This system OF appeal, along with the
hereditary slowness Of the Chancery Court,
offer good subjects for reform, concerning
which the legal minds Of Great Britain are sgi-
tated Just row.
Year: 1873

Thore is member OF the Illinois Legislature
who need not pursue the shirt of the Happy
Man He is without politicH-not . solitary pol
itic, as similar beatifed individual once e1-
pressed himself. A man who has no politics and
serves in State Legislature is certainly good
deal Of a curiosity, but his condition is not 30
anomalous - the circumstance that such ran
should have been elected to the Legislature. He
was neither Democrat, Liberal, nor Radical; he
vas not Masonic nor anti-Masonic; he did
not act with tho Temperance party nor against
tho Temperance party; he did not pledge him.
self to vote for Republican or for the Opposi-
tion in the case Of Senator. Yet he WAS elected,
and openly declares that he has no politics,
This could have happened under no other sJB-
tenn than that OF Minority Representation.
Year: 1873

Tho Railroad Gazette publishes some statistics
on railroad accidents for tho past twelyo months
which arc not very encouraging to folks who are
partial to safe and quiet journeys. Tho record
Year: 1873

The true girl has to be sought for.
She does not parade herself as show
goods. She is not fashionable. Gener-
ally she is not rich. But, oh what a
heart she has when you find her so large,
and pure, and womanly. When you see
it YOU wonder if those snowy things out
side were woman. II you gain her love,
YOUR two thousand are millions. Shell
not ask you for a cirriage or first-class
house. She'll wear simple dresses, and
turn them when necessary with no vus-
gar magnificat to frown upon her econo-
my. She'll keep everything neat and
nice in your sky parlor, and give you
such welcome when you come home
that you'll think your parlor higher than
ever. She'll entertain true friends on q
dollar, and astonish you with the new
thought how little happiness depends
on money. She'll make you love home
(if you don't, your brute), and teach
You how to pity, while you scorn poor
fashionable society that thinks itself
rich, and vainly tries to think itself hap
Year: 1873

and award of the ten valuable prizes by
the Judges, who will be elected from the
gentlemen present. The programme In
full is published in to-day's APPEAL
and every one viii read the announce
ment with pleasure and delight. When
we see such efforts made for the good,
the amusement and benefit of our people
we are compelled to praise the gentle
man to whose magnanimity is due the
Inauguration and successful manage
fnent Of an enterprise of this kind.


ST. Georges Picnic


The sons of st. George, of this city,
will hold their annual picnic at James's
park tomorrow. All the famous old
country games will be introduced, and
fun and frolic will be the order Of the
day and night. The Old Memphis brass
band has been engaged for the picnic,
and will play some of their most choice
dance-music for the delectatiOn of the
devotees of TerpsichOre.


Central Methodist Festival.


On the evening of Monday the ladies
belonging to the Central Methodist
church will inaugurate a grand festival
for the benefit of the church. The ladies
will have everything on their tables
that comes under the name of delica-
cies, and their stock of strawberries
smothered in cream will be delicious.
They are determined that the festival
shall at least equal, if it does not sur
pass anything of the kind given in
Memphis this season.


The Union Picnic Of the Catholic sun.
day Schools.


1t has been customary for each of the
Catholic Sunday-schools to hold picnic
during the month of May. This year
they have decided TO join in grand
union picnic, to take place at James 5
park on Thursday next. ST. Peters
Sunday school will be marshalled by
Mr.. J. ]. Duffy, and headed by the So
dality Junior band; st. Patrick's school
will be led by Marshal. Daniel Lynes,
with the Christian Brothers college
band, and st. Bridget's school will keep
step to the music of the Hibernian cor
net band. The procession will form on
Adams street, and march by way Of
Main, Beal, De Soto and Vance streets
to James's park. The usual festivities
will be carried out at the picnic grounds
and the preparations making give pro.
mise of glorious time at James's park
on that day.
Year: 1873

The Brooks ring at Little Rock will
find the proposed election of Baxter
from office q bootless task; so palpably
profitless that the effort will hardly be
made. Little Rock politicians and
newsmongers would have given no ere
dence to the story that such purpose
was gravely entertained if Brooks's
character was not so thoroughly well
understood. The ex-preacher is the
most daring, reckless and desperate ad-
venturer in Arkansas, and Rice, the ex-
senator, whose fate is that of Brooks, is
BroOks's trusted adviser. 1t is the
character and desperate political fortunes
of these men that excite apprehensions
of danger at Little Rock aud give an air
of probability to statements affecting
the conduct Of warning factions.
Year: 1873

One of the best cement cellar floors in
this town is that of Main street resi-
dent, and the one who sincerely and
even profanely regrets this fact is the
man himself. His wife left a plate of
bread pudding on the cellar stairs, Sat-
urdsy, to cool for dinner, and unknown
to her he went down there for a pitcher
of cider. When he and the pudding
met there was a time. His wife heard
an awful crash which almost paralized
her, but before she could move to see
what was the matter, he came tearing
into the kitchen With one hand on his
pistol pocket, and the other swinging
mysteriously in the air, and a streak Of
streaming pudding the whole length OF
his back, and he was shrieking camphor
and profanity at every leap.
Year: 1873

NEW CASTLE, May l7.-Ihis was
whipping day here, ahd two white and
five colOred thieves received twenty
lashes each. One man stood in the pill
lOry for an hour, which was part of the
sentence for cutting his wife's throat.
Year: 1873

LITTLE Rock, May 17.-Matters
about the Statehouse are unchanged.
The opponents of Governor Baxter have
as yet made no move toward a forcible
possession of the building or any part of
it. An armed guard of the new militia
are on duty again tonight. Nearly all
the officers of the old militia have been
mustered out, and their places filled
by men more in sympathy with the
opinions of Governor Baxter. The in
action of some prominent Republicans
opposed to Baxter, provOkes considera-
bic speculation.


Unified STATES COvuIaisiouer SufudIes al
Year: 1873

THE steamship Atlantic plying be- tween New York and Liverpool, went ashore about twenty miles from Halifax on April 2. There was 8 dense fog and something of storm at the time. There were 1000 pas sengers aboard and all but 250 were lost. Not woman or child was saved. This will rank as a noted disaster among the many of the kind.
Year: 1873

IN a private letter of date March 12, Delegate Mccormick writes: At the next session of Congress, when it Is known what total amount of in ternal revenue has been collected in Arizona, and what additional sum Is required for the purpose, will move in the matter of the Territorial prison.
Year: 1873

TEE mining interest in and about Tue son is weekly gathering increased interest and encouragement to all interested. A great many men are at work prospecting and opening up mines for patent. Appi- cations for survey for patent to four mines and two mill-sites have been made this week
Year: 1873

THE concert on Wednesday night was in every way a creditable success. We are pleased to know that the Fifth Cavalry Band realized Sl20 above expenses, as well as that the people generally enjoyed the entertainment. The programme of nus c was given last Saturday in THE CITIZEN.
Year: 1873

other way. The lntest intelligence by special


correspondent direct from the stables is that
the horses are On their feet and. are
doing Us well as could bo expected
titer the excitement OF the week. The Jubilee
vas litt1e too much for them, as they never
had the honor Of owning o great public man for
.1aster before they entered the service Of their
rresent distinguished boss. :,
Year: 1873

John Thompson, the veteran editor OF
Thomps0n's Bank Note Rporfcr, thus re
marks on the financial situation


It is now quite certain that we shall get
during the Fall and Winter. nearly fifty
millions Of gold from Europe. lift could
be lodged in the sub-Treasury, and gold
notes of small denominations obtained
against it, it would be a vast relief in moy-
ing the crops.


If the Savings Banks that have timidly
locked up millions of currency would let 1t
ont in some iudici0us manner. 50 that pay
rolls can be paid. those banks will be much
more likely to run smoothly through the
Winter than by hugging the currency to the
arrangement Of labor


This panic will be Of short duration, and
will be called in future the great scare. They
will be- the lucky ones who buy and invest
before tie tide turns. Contraction of busi-
ness without any contraction Of currency,
foundation. economy, and stagnati0n, ore
sure to he followed up with cheap money
and adyarcing prices for good property ind
sound bonds. The balloons mast all bust
and the wrecks all sink out oi sight; then
the track will be clear iuranother good rnn


Economy. retrcnchmcnt- and sober COM
mon sense are now in order. About one
million OF the population OF the United
States have fallen from the top TO the
bottom Of Fortunes ladder in Il month.
Those who have not fallen can well afford
the example Of economy and retIenchment,
and in many cases 90 further and help
some poor deluded SireH who has gone
railroading 10 utter destruction. Ii re-
quired just such n panic and just such
downfalls TO bring daring and giddy for
tune-hunters to common sense. More good
than harm will follow Religion and
morals will be elevated when the newly
made millionaire returns to an honest
livelihood.
Year: 1873

lis DAY IN--Once in q while. SAYS
the Danbury Nars, there is day when q
man is ont of work, and he stays at home
After breakfast Is eaten and the dishes are
removed. he pulls out the family drawer. and
dumps the contents on the table. to look for
a PAPER Of suddenly acquired importance.
Having got a chair which has lost leg, and
for that reason has Leen set aside where no
body will be apt to get into trouble with it,
he drops into it, ana it Immediately comes
apart, and deposits him under the table.
lie Jumps to his feet at once, and kicks the
chair into the hallway, to the imminent
danger of his wife and the woman who lives
in the other part of the house. both of
whom. being under the impression that one
of thu children had fallen from the mantle
piece and broken its back. have started to
the rescue. lie Immediately asks his wife
what kind Of an idiot she is to leave broken
chair where any one can sit down on it and
ieopardize lite and limb and sarcastically
inquires if she wanted to kill him. or merely
cripple him for life, and scouts with scorn
indescribabe the intimatiOn that the chair
was placed where no sane party would ever
think of looking for one. After that he gets
n new chair which he is confident will throw
him and hurt him, and says so, and pores
over the paper again,


Pretty soon he is attended hy one of the
children who is making herculean efforts to
scale one of the table legs with view to
getting on top to see what is going on. As
the little round head with the swelling
cheeks and bulging eyes and tumbled hair
and very dirty mouth, appears above the top,
and beams up at him, he nery0usly cries,
Hey, YOU, now, come out Of that and start
after your mother; she wants you" But
the child knows that its mother doesn't want
him. and 50 does he, and being at a loss to
explain why, he falls to work at the papers
again. In very little while, one very
chubby arm is thrown on top of the table,
and the eyes have reached the level, and are
taking in the wonders of the display There
is another move up, then a sudden weakness
in the legs that are tightly Rugged to the
tables legs, then desperate but hopeless
clutch at the papers for safety, andthe little
head disappears with lightning velocity, and
then an ominous bump, and then scream.
and the miserable man is on his feet again,
holding the suffering child wrong side up ana
screaming for help. The moment it is in
its mothers arms, and the camphor is in
reach, the man, who stays home because he
has nothing to do, puts on his coat and hat
and Beats hasty retreat, leaving the wife
to calm the distracted breast of the child
and set the table Ia rights. When he has
another day to himself, he dumps out the
drawer again, and goes over 4 similar
performance
Year: 1873

In acquiring possession Of Charlestown.
Boston is particularly complacent over the
consequent acquisition of Bunker Hill. The
tri-montane city is now talking about the
erection of statue of Gen. Joseph Warren,
near his birthplace, which happens to be
in that part of Boston which was once Rox-
bury and is now the Highlands. The provi-
dent City Council of Roxbury long ago set
apart a spot for monument upon the old
Warren estate, which is now nearly covered
with buildings.