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Year: 1873

Freia the New York World


| What is coming to light about the conduct O


lne Credit McDiltcr Congressman can be nothing


else than matter of profound regret to dtory
right-minded American, be he Republican or be


he Democrat Nothing Is further from our minds


at least than to consider 1t chiefly in a partisan
point OF view, MS double shame to every mem.


ber of the party in power, whose trusted leaders,


IN the highest places, are brought to this open
shame. lt is disgrace to all Americans and a
/ scandal to the American name. N


This is not another general order" business
Scurvy placemen Ike Lcet acted only after their
Kind. They disgraced and still disgnce them
selves and the power which put them in place
and to-day keeps them in place. But in tliis
Credit Mobilier business, men whose private pro-
bity nobody has hitherto called in question, men
whose private probity everybody would rather be-
lleve than disbelieve in, turn out to be not only
men who are capable of turning their public
trusts 10 their private profit, but men whose word
cannot be taken even when they give it the add-
tlonal sanction of an oath. This is not pleasant
thing, it is painful thing, TO believe of any one
OF them But the belief is forced upon u.s.
Oakes Ames is not willing witness in this mat
ter lie is most unwilling witness. And unless
he has fabricated a statement not only which it is
strongly against his interest TO make but series
OF circumstances and a series Of documentary evi-
dences OF the truth of that statement, men who
have hitherto stood fairly before the world are
henceioTth TO stand before il convicted of being
either downright liars or what Is worse shufiling
ana sneaklng pteVarlcators. And these men, up
on whom Ii Is proved that they are unfit TO Sit
among gentlemen, and of whom it is shown that
their plighted and sworn word has no sacredness
for them, sit to-day among Legislators to make
the laws of a land, ITO execute Justice and TO
maintain TRUTH" Let the reader recall what oc-
CURED when the outline of this story was given
to the public during the canvass. let him re-
member how many men denied, ia the most in
dignant and explicit way, that they were con
cerned at all in the transactions there related
Nnn1 nHag.. sra =
NAL has not been shown to be false All the rest
are convicted of tampering with the public conf
dence, in all degrees, as we said, from downright
falsehood to contemplate prevarication.
Year: 1873

After several months relief from

 writing up Apache murders in Ari-

 zona, we began to entertain a strong

 hope that the painful duty was at an

 end; but MT. E. N. Fish, who got

 back from Prescott on Thursday,

 brings the distressing news of the

 murder of three more men on the

 Hassayampa about ten miles below

 Wickenburg, on or about the 1lth of

 this month, viz: Augustus Swain,

 John Mcdonald and - Taylor,

 the latter the eldest son of Peter

 Taylor for years the superintendent of work on the Vulture mine. The young man must have been about twenty-one years of age.

 Of the exact circumstances of these murders, we are not advised, but it seems that although committed about the same time, each was separate from the other. MT. Taylor's body was terribly mutilated with spears or similar weapons, and it is thought from the place the body was found and other facts, that he was taken alive and tortured to death. Many of our readers may more readily un- derstand the place where these lives were taken, by stating that it was near and below the McWilliams ranch or station at the foot of the canyon below Wickenburg.

 It is believed the Tonto Apaches murdered these men while on their return from a temporary sojourn in the mountains between the Gila and Colorado rivers, whither they went to escape punishment by the troops who have for weeks past been operating in Tonto Basin; and judged by the trail and other incidents, 1t is thought the party must have mum bered 600 to 700, and that it was made up of all ages and sexes, including their horses. It| seems quite probable that this theory is the correct one, inasmuch as no successes in Tonto Basin have been reported, and it is certain that a large body of energetic troops have been in there for some weeks but, if not interfered with, Gen. Crook will ere long make the "hide and seek " business very uncomfortable for the Apaches.

 We all along had fears that our people would grow too careless i'll the belief that the Apaches were at peace. It is true that since we have fairly got rid of the professional and pestilential peace commissioners, and General Crook has had sway to administer punishment to Apaches off and give better treatment to those on reserves, that the frequent massacres of our citizens have almost ceased - this being the only one for about five Unless upon the coming of summer weather, it is the purpose of the reservation Apaches to go on the war path, we are confident that Gen. eral Crook (unmolested) can and will soon make all Apaches sick of war and give Arizona peace so far as they are Last year it was late in October before he was free to act without the peace commissioner in reference.
Year: 1873

SOME new buildings are going up in Tue son; many are being repaired; new corral walls are being constructed some streets are to be widened, graded and otherwise improved; and therefore we take it that dence in the value of real estate in Tucson than they have now.
Year: 1873

We SHALL MEET AGAIN.-The follow
ing is said to be one of the most bril-
liant articles ever written by the lament
ed Geo. D. Prentice:


The fiat Of nature is inexorable. There
is no appeal for relief from the great
law which dooms us to dust. We
flourish and fade as the leaves of the
forest, and the flowers that bloom and
wither in day have no Trailer hope up
on life than the m;ghtiest monarch that
ever shook the earth with his footsteps
on the shore. Men seldom think of the
great event of death until the shadows
falls across their own pathway, hiding
from their eyes the faces of loved ones,
whose living smile was the sunlight of
their existence. Death is the antagonist
of life, and the cold thought of the tomb
is the skeleton of feasts. We do not
want to go through the dark valley, al
though its dark passage may lead to
Paradise; We do not want to lie down in
damp grave, even with princes as bed
fellows. In the beautiful drama of
'.Ione," the hope of Immortality utter
ed by the death devoted Greek, finds
deep response in every thoughtful soul.
When about to yield his existence as a
sacrifice to fate his Clamantha asked if
they should meet again, to which he re-
piled: 81 have asked that dreadful
question of the bills that look eternal
of the clear streams that flow forever
of the stars among whose fields of azure
my raised spirit has walked in glory.
All are dumb; but as I gaze upon thy
living face, l feel that there is some
thing that mantles through its beauty
that cannot wholly perish. We shall


meet again, Clamantha.
Year: 1873

Confucius said: To dwell with a good
man is like entering house wherein
are the fragrant elan" flowers; after
while you may not seem to smell the
fragrance, because you yourself have
changed (your whole person has be-
come impregnated with the fragrance.)


To dwell with bad man IS like en-
tering market Of abalones Ia large shell
fish !; after while You do not notice
the stencil, because you yourself have
changed-(your garments are saturated
with IT'D


The vessel in which cinnabar is stor-
ed will have the carnation color; the
vessel which contains black varnish will
become black.


Therefore. all ye gentlemen, take
great care with whom ye associate.


Association with good men is like the
fragrance. of the lan-wai flower. Let
one man ultiyate it, and all people will
enjoy its fragrance.


Association with bad men is like car
rying child to the top of wall; Il the
man misses his step, both will meet
with disaster.


In the family sayings of Confucius it
is said: To dwell with good man is
like walking in gentle mist; although
your garments do not become suddenly
wet, yet they are all the time imbiblng
the moisture.


Among mankind we use riches to try
friendship-(real friendship is tested by
wealth and poverty.) Fire is used for
trying gold. With water We take stick
to sound it as to deepness or shallow
ness.-Orerland Monthly tor january.
Year: 1873

IN THE SUPREME COURT.
The case is this:


The plaintiff filed his complaint in
the District Court alleging as his cause
of action:


That in July, 1869, defendant com
menced suit against him in the District
Court of King County. to recover sum
Of money alleged to be due.
That issue was joined, and, the cause
heard, and. that defendant testified in
the case, which testimony was wilfully
false, and was given for the purpose OF
wronging plaintiff herein.
That he was taken by surprise by
reason Of said testimony.
That the District Court rendered judg-
ment against him in said cause; motion
for a new trial was made and overruled;
that in truth, and in fact he owed de-
fendant nothing.


That a bill IN equity was filed by the
defendant to subject separate property of
plaintiffs wife, to payment of said judg-
ment; that by advice of able counsel he
paid the judgment.


That the matter of said alleged per-
jury was laid before the Grand Jury,
Who fully Investigated the charge, and
refused to find bill.


All of these proceedings of the de-
fendant in bis suit in said court, against
plaintiff, were malicious, and for the
sole purpose of annoying and injuring
the plaintiff herein.


The defendant interposed his demuc-
rer in tbs court below for the reason
that the complaint does not state facts
sufficient to cause an action.


The demurrer was sustained and
Judgment rendered for defendant, who
brings his cause to this court for re-
view, alleging the ruling of the District
Court on demurrer rs error.


This is most extraordinary proceed
ing; it IS IN fact an attempt to retry
question of fact tried by the District
Court in another and different case.


The original case of Murddock VS..
Kellogg raised the question as to the in
debetedness of Kellogg to MaddocKs that
issue was tried and decided against the
plaintiff herein. He made his motion
for a new trial on the ground of sur
prise; this motion was denied, but IN
stead of presenting to the appellate
court the question as to the correctness
as to the judgment of the District
Court, he has brought this suit to again
try the same question:


1T would be against public policy,
and convenience; it would be productive
of enuless litigation and it would be
contrary to established precedent to al
low the losing party to try the cause
over again in counter suit, because he
was not prepared to meet his adversary
at the trial of the first suit, and in
Phelps VS.. Stearns, Gray 105, it is
held that there is no precedent for such
action, and that the authorities are nu-
merous, that no such action can be
maintained at common law.


Were the position of counsel for
plaintiff correct, such proceeding as q
motion for new trial would be heard
of no more in our courts. But the same
issues would be from time to time
heard in collateral proceedings. The
courts would be filled with actions and
counter actions. The end of a case
would never be reached.


The judgment of the court below
should be affirmed.


LEWIS, J.
We concur, o. JACOBS, G. j.
r. S. GREENE, j.
Year: 1873

About one month ago Dexter Horton.
Esq, made proposition to the Seattle
Library Association to donate five hun
dred dollars upon condition that one
thousands dollars be contributed to the
same object By others within thirty DAYS.
At meeting of the Association. on
Tuesday evening, the Secretary report
ed that nine hundred and one dollars of
the additional one thousand had been
subscribed by responsible parties. After
short and pertinent address by Rev.
T. Whitworth, the subscription was in
creased to 1867 SO; leaving $31 so to be
raised to secure the munifcent donation
of Mr.. Horton. This small balance will
be Immediately made up, and on next
Saturday the subscribers will be called
upon for the money. This fifteen hun
dred dollars in addition to the books on
hand, will give the library two thousand
dollars worth of choice standard works;
a splendid nucleus around which NAV
be built an institution of ever increasing
honor to its projectors and pleasure and
profit to the citizens.


In mere material view this is most
judicious investment, and needs but the
active and cordial cooperation of all
good citizens to greatly enhance its val
ne. All other societies and social or
carnations for mutual improvement or
enjoyment may make this common
centre fer literary exercises without det-
riment. Connect with it reading
room where the stranger and sojourner
may resort and read the current news of
the day and learn from the persons
he meets there the most attractive as
poets CT our city and the surrounding
country; and where our young men
without homes may find an agreeable
and instructive refuge from the haunts
Of vice and demoralizing recreations.
Associate with it the lyceum and lecture,
public readings and literary entertain
ments, making the library the centre as
well as source of ALL Thus it will grow
and increase in usefulness and influence
until it becomes the pride of every citi-
zen and the chief attraction Of the town,
every dollar paid for its support return
ing large dividend in the benefits it
will reflect upon the cause of education
religion, public morality and general in.
telligence, and the attraction which a.
of these offer to the better class of inn
migrants to make their homes amid
such surroundings, and contribute their
capital, industry and enterprise to the
material wealth of the community, to
the great enhancement of all real val
ues.


To achieve these benefits which are
manifestly acknowledgements only
united purpose and unity of endeayor
among all of those interested There is
no cause, and there should certainly be
no occasion given or taken, to entertain
any personal jealousy or diversity of
sentiment that might obstruct or impair
its benign Influence. 1t is as much
common interest as the air we breathe |
Or the water we drink, and every mem
Der of the community is as directly in
terested in maintaining its vitality and
preserving its purity.
Year: 1873

A California correspondent from the
lava beds says it is no disparagement to
the soldier to say, GAS a rule, they are
not good Shots" for such is the fact.
This, I take it, is owing to two causes ;
First, they are not drilled enough at
ta1gec-shooting Second, the guns all
shoot too high and wide, especially
after being fired O number of rounds. l
think I am pretty good shot with a
rifle or o six-shooter but know o
Modoc would be tolerably safe before
me with an army gun-either carbine or
Springfield musket have tried them,
and, while you can shoot fast and at a
long distance, they will not do for tar
get work and that is just what shoot
ing at Modocs is-and very small tar
get they are, too, generally speaking.
The safety of our men during the late
fight was owing, in great measure, to
the fact that the guns used by the Mo
docs were those captured in the fight of
the 18th of January, and almost inyari-
ably they shot over their mark,
Year: 1873

1t is now possible, says an Iowa cor
respondent, to give something like a
connected and consistent account of the
tornado which wrought so much de-
struction of life and property in this
county. 1t was not so at first, when
everybody who had suffered from it was
at his wits end as to what he should do
next, and in very unfit state to give
an account of what he had seen and
done during the disaster. The wit
nesses generally say that for some time
before the storm burst upon them they
heard loud noise, which they describe
as being like that of distant thunder,
the rumbling of train of cars, can
nonading, and the like. The sky was
clear or clearing (for rain had fallen in
the morning), and the people were sur
prised when, shortly after hearing the
roar of the wind, they saw hail descend
ing in sheets and each drop of enor-
nous circumference-as much as five
inches in some cases. AS to the tor
nado itself, some describe huge black
cloud shaped like o balloon and gyra-
ting rapidly, which came down from 100
or 200 feet in the air where it was first
seen, and as it went along, demolished
or absorbed all in its path. Others saw
two clouds and others three, which
seemed to be playing and tumbling
about each other till they coalesced like
drops of mercury merging into each
other and went on in their path of de-
struction but all agree in the balloon
form, with its pointed peak toward the
earth. Claps of thunder came from it
frequently, but there seems to have
been very little lightning. Its rate of
speed in going from Haysville to the
Iowa river was about twenty seven
miles an hour; there are no means of
measuring the velocity of its gyration,
but it must have been enormous, as
from side to side in its path huge tim
bers which had been sucked up were
driven deep into the ground. Mr.. Mar
burg was standing within a short dis
tance of it when it passed, but did not
at first feel any violent wind. 1t was
hurrying towards the school-house
where his children were, and he ran af-
ter it. Then he got within its draught,
and was hurried along so that in his
running he sometimes went eight feet
at leap. At times it would bound
from the ground and go up for 200 feet,
and again descend within quarter of a
mile from where it started. Sometimes
it returned upon it's path, and at others
separated into two or three parts, one
of which would go in one direction and
another in another, but again all would
come together. In hue it was intensely
black, and when it descended upon an
object completely hid it from sight So
far as [ can learn the domestic animals
showed no symptoms of fright Gas in
such instances they are commonly re-
ported to do) at the approach of the
storm, except those which may readily
be accounted for by the great noise
and the descent of the unusual hail and
rain.
Year: 1873

Parents, whose prudent care for thei1
children we would not diminish, may
internit much of the solicitude with
which they are apt necessarily to worry
themselves. This gratuitous anxiety
often, moreover, defeats its own object.
1t renders the child, by constantly re-
minding it of the risks to safety, un-
naturally timid, and prevents that calm.
ness of mind and development of ami
NAL courage essential for the prudent
avoidance of and bold resistance to dan
ger. The overwatched children are no.
toriously those who are the most con.
stantly exposing their health and lives
to hazard. They are so accustomed to
move at the will of another that theil
own volition loses its power to great
extent, and becomes hesitating and un-
certain. Their muscles, accordingly,
act with little precision, and render the
step faltering and the hold insecure.
The child who is left free to run, climb
and Jump, though he may apparently
expose himself to thousand risks, gen.
orally escapes danger by his habitual
readiness of expedient and practical
precision of movement. The freer child
rem have, moreover, the advantage of
protecting themselves by various means
of security denied to those kept under
too close a supervision. Swimming,
riding, running, leaping, using firearms
not to speak of wrestling and fighting
all of which may in their turn become
important means of safety, are the ordi-
nary acquisitions of the emancipated
boy, but seldom of him who is subjected
to an unceasing parental control. 1t is
obvious, too, that the greater freedom
of the one is more favorable to health
than the constraint of the other. 1t is
equally advantageous to the moral as to
the physical health and development
that the parent should not allow his
anxiety about his children to become
too apparent, or to interfere too much
with their freedom of conduct. The
self-reliance and independence of char
acter which are essential elements of
all human excellence are to be acquired
only by learning early to act from yolun-
tary motive. If the parent fixes him.
self as fnger-post at every turn, the
child will hardly ever find the road of
his own accord, and must necessarily
lose his way when deprived of his habit
ual guide.
Year: 1873

1t has long been commonly believed
that the water in which unpeeled pota-
toes have been boiled is poisonous. 1t
is now said to have been discovered that
this poison, like many others, possesses
certain remedial properties.


The disease for which it is particu-
larly recommended is rheumatism, and
there is some evidence which goes to
show that the belief in its efficacy is not
without beneficial effect.


A laborer, wilhelm q state of perspira-
ton, few days ago, became chilled by
a sudden fall of rain. This brought on
an attack of rheumatism, which made
him so lame that he was quite unable
to pursue his usual avocation. The
potato water was recommended to him.
He tried it in the evening, and much to
his surprise, found himself on the fol-
lowing morning as well as usual. He
believed the result was attributable to
the use of the potato water.


Another case was that of o man who
had been drenched by exposure to a
cold storm. The second day afterward
he was seized with sharp pains of al
most unbearable severity, and indica-
tive of infammatory rheumatism. He
used the potato water, and experienced
immediate relief from intense suffer
ing.


This remedy should be used only ex-
ternally. The potatoes should be boiled
with the skins on, and the water applied
as hot as it can be borne, to the part
affected, by rubbing. Of course we
know nothing as to whether it would
produce any such effect in other cases
as it seems to have had in these two.


Carrying a raw potato in the pocket
has a similar effect. Many very serious
cases of rheumatism have been ef-
feetually cured by this very simple
! thing.
Year: 1873

A very important bill was introduced
into the last .. S. Congress by Mr..
Haldeman, of Pennsylvania, and has
now become q law. 1t provides that
every future sale of government land
shall be with the condition that at least
ten per cent. of the timbered land shall
be kept perpetually as woodland and
if the land be not timbered, then the
patent is to be issued on the condition
that ten per cent. of the quantity is to
be planted with forest trees within ten
years, and kept forever as woodland.
If this be done, an abatement of fifty
per cent. is to be made on account of
the expense of the planting. A viola
tion of this agreement is to be met by
the forfeiture of the land. 1t is also
proposed that any one who may wish
to acquire title to the public land, under
the homestead act, can do so by proof
of the fact that he has had, at the end
of three years after taking possession, at
least one acre under cultivation with
timber for two years, and that this shall
be continued until one acre in every ten
is planted with trees, in clusters not
more than sixteen feet apart.
Year: 1873

Some of the bridges in China are of
extraordinary beauty and magnifcence
There is one near Pekin built entirely
of white marble, elaborately ornament
ed. Others are found over the canals
of still greater magnifcence and with a
grand triumphal arch at each end and
some, instead of being built with arches,
are flat from one side of the canal to the
other, marble flags of great length being
laid on piers so narrow and airy that the
bridge looks as if it were suspended in
the air. From the amazing facilities
afforded by the numerous canals for
transportation of goods by water, these
bridges do not require to be built of
great strength, for only foot-passengers
use the bridges, which is the reason
they are of such an elegant and fanciful
construction. These bridges are built
with a number of arches, the central
arch being about forty feet wide, and
high enough for vessels to pass without
striking their masts. The great eleva-
tion of these bridges renders steps nee
essary. They resemble, in this respect,
tho old bridges of Venice, on. which you
ascend by steps on one side, and de-
scend on the other in the same way.
Chain bridges were not made in this
country for more than eighteen centu-
ries after they were known and used in
China