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Year: 1872

There is perhaps no country in the world blessed with more fertile soil, or richer min erals than Arizona. Nor is there place compelled to suffer so many outrages at the hands of savage Indians. Whites have never at any time since their settlement, felt them selves secure from Indian outrages. It has been scene of terror, treachery and blood shed.

 The Government which of right ought to protect its citizens, has left them defenseless, or at least it has permitted them to rely alone upon their own weak arms, and strong hearts for safety It has been deaf to the cries and entreaties of its own fellow citizens while it has fed, armed, entertained at Wash ington, and protected the bloodthirsty and villainous savages in their depredations on the peaceful and industrious whites. Dwellings are burned to the ground and the inhabitants shot and scalped as they att tempt to escape. Camps are pillaged, stock stolen and driven away, and yet the Govern ment clings to its worthless and contemptible "peace policy"

 So often has this existing state of things been laid before the President at Washing ton, and no relief sent, that the people deem it useless longer to turn to him again.

 When the appeals of the terror stricken people of Arizona become so loud as to dis tnrb the quiet of the President in his place of safety, the treacherous and cunning Ca- chise is sent for to come and shake hands with his great White Father and receive fresh assurances of the Administrations determin- ation to cling to tEe accursed "peace policy" :" which is the cause of so much bloodshed and misery in the Territory.

 When the parade and entertainment has lasted so long that it begins to stink in the nostrils of the people, the redskin is sent back to his work of destruction, which con- tinues without interruption until the chiefs are summoned to the next annual parade and prayer meeting of their white brethern in Washington.

 We ask in the name of what little there is of good in the administration (if any there be) how long is this "peace policy" to last ? How long is Arizona to suffer under these af1lictions with no hope of change Has not enough labor been spent in trying to teach them the scripture, to convince any sane per son that no good can result from such a policy with savages. We are convinced that it is time now to put into execution Sheridan's policy of returning rifle balls for bullets. For the security of the Whites and as the only means of developing that country, let | it be pursued.
Year: 1872

The rapid destruction Of the so.called Hrs-proof
buildings is now the common subject Of discussop,
and the general opinion 10 that the Mansard roofs
are responsibls for the calamity. The Board Of
Aldermen OF New York have forbade the erection
of Mausara roofs. A resolution has been adopted
by the Commercial Exchange Of the same city
disappearing the construction Of Mansard roofs ON
large and lofty buildings.


One OF the most eminent architects in the city
expresses his opinion Of Mansard roofs in the terse
remark that we build fre-proof structures and
then load them with . lumber yard. And in this
remark lies the full significance Of the Boston fire.
1t was the Mansard roofs which did the business.
Away up the air beyond the roach Of the streams
OF water, these trail and fairy structures all
ablaze. and the dames famed by the light breeze,
at first curled and twned around the delicate or.
fermentation and quickly spread from one house.
top to another. Then the wind, rs il increased,
bore the blazing fragments across streets and
squares and set hundred AAnsards adame at
once. The burning timben fell in upon the Aoors
They burned away, dropped one upon another
the fire fed BY the rich stock Of goods until each
massive stone structure became . very Volcano
Then the solid granite blocks heated, melted
crumbled eway, and then even exploded with
noise like that made by gunpowder. It is tn
substantial are proof part Of Boston that now lie
in ruins.-Press.
Year: 1872

The pencil marks you see around this
paragraph (thus) mean that your sub
seription Is out and unpaid, and that you
are requested to pay up at once. We
would take great pleasure in extending
credit to our friends and patTons, bat
cash alone win pay expenses, and We
are forced to adhere to a strict cash
rule. We hope you viii eonpreliead
and appreciate she necessity Of such =
course, and renew your subscription
withoHt delay. We solicit your favor


"a We enter no new naInes on or
books without the money in advance.
Year: 1872

In the Stokes trial the patience o
everybody was exhausted by the ex-
animation of the physicians and
medical experts. Each contradic-
ted the other, and all together
proved that our medical science is
in a very rudimentary state. The
question between medical systems,
like that between religions, seems to
be which is the best one to die by,
and in choosing physicians the pro
blem would seem to be narrowed
down TO the point Of mere clever
ness. The jury showed their good
sense, and the value Of all such tes-
timony, by pushing aside the whole
medical evidence pro, and con, as Of
not the least value. Hereafter it
may be wise to throw the testimony
Of medical experts with their medi-
cines to the dogs. GOgden Age.
Year: 1872

There is 4 solemn duty resting up.
on every good and true Democrat
By the word Democrat We mean eY.
cry man who is opposed to Radical
ism. That duty is to see that
Brown is elected Governor, and
Maynard defeated for Congress.
The latter can only be done, IN our
humble but honest judgment, BY
voting for Cheatham.
Year: 1872

The whole situation can be sum
med up thusly: when the Grant
politicians had got the cards nicely
placed 20 suit them, the people took
the whole pack in their hands and
gave them a thorough shuttle for q
new deal with q new trump, which
is likely to be king Of hearts and
not the old knave OF diamonds Of
which they are heartily sick. And
this ig what siIs The politicians.
Year: 1872

DEATH ON THE RAIL.-A young man
named Nicholas Branton, employed as a
blacksmith in James Halls foundry, in this
city, was killed near Dunlop's station, on
the Petersburg road, yesterday. His mother
and sisters reside in Petersburg, and he had
accompanied them home from visit to
Richmond. Wishing to return on yester-
day in order to resume his work this morn
ing, he got aboard crowded excursion
train, and to avoid the crowd got on top
Of one Of the cars. AS the train was pass
ing under the county road bridge, near
Dunlop's station, Mr.. Branton was struck
on the back of the head by the bridge, and
so badly injured that he died before he
could be taken off the car. The body OF
the young man was left at the station and
taken back to his mother and sisters by the
first train southwark.
Year: 1872

FINE BUILDING IMPRovEMENTs.--
The large new buildings, at the corner oI
Main and Eleventh streets and Bank and
Eleventh streets, will, when completed, be
most elegant ornaments to their respective
localities. The brick work of these houses
is completed, and the carpenters have them
in hand and are pushing their work forward
rapidly. The new structure at the corner
Of Bank and Tenth is also progressing
finely.
Year: 1872

The celebrated teacher, Rabbi Meir
sat during the whole of one Sabbath
day in the public school, instructing the
children. During his absence from the
house his two sons died, both of them
of uncommon beauty, and enlightened
in the law. His wife bore them to her
bedchamber, laid them upon the mar
riage bed, and spread white covering
over their bodies. In the evening, the
Rabbi Meir cane home.


Where are my two sons" he asked,
"that | may give them my blessing? |
repeatedly walked round the school, and
| did not see them there"


She reached him goblet. He praised
the Lord ut the going out of the Sab
bath, drank, and again asked:


"Where are my sons, that they, too,
may Crink of the cup of blessing ?'


"They will not be far off," she said,
and placed food before him that he
mig mt eat.


He was in gladsome and genial
mood and when he had said grace
after the meal, she thus addressed him:


Rabbi, with thy permission would
fain propose to thee one question.


" Ask it, then, my love-" he replied.


"A few days ago person intrusted
some Jewels to my custody, and now he
demands them again; should l give
them back p


"This is a question:" said Rabbi
Meir, which my wife should not have
thought it necessary to ask. What
wouldst thou hesitate, or be reluctant to
restore TO every one his own?'


"No," she replied "but yet
thought it best not to restore them
without aciuainting you Herewith"


She then led him to the chamber,
nd, stepping to the bed, took the white
covering from the dead bodies.


"Ah, my sons, my sons u thus loudly
lamented the father; "my sons the
light of my eyes, and the light of my
! was your father, but
we were my teachers in the law


The mother turned away, and wept
bitterly. At length she took her hus.
band by the hand, and said


Rabbi, didst thou not teach me that
we must not be reluctant to restore
that which was intrusted to our keep.
ing? See; the Lord gave, the Lord
udtu tdhcH away anu Diesseu De the
name of the Lord ~


Blessed be the name of the Lord p
echoed Rabbi Meir; "and blessed be
His name for thy sake, too, for well it is
Whose hath found virtuous
wife, hath greater treasure than costly
pearls she opened her mouth with wis
iom, and in her tongue is the law of
kindness
Year: 1872

THE Sutro tunnel has now penetrated
the mountain distance of over 1000
feet. All the signals between the two ends
of the tunnel are made by electricity,
the arrangement of the apparatus being
the same as that in use on the ordinary
telegraph lines.
Year: 1872

WHETHER for use on man or beast, the
Merchants Gargling Oil will be found an
invaluable Liniment, and worthy of use by
every resident in the land. We know of no
proprietary medicine or article now used in
the United States which shares the good will
of the people to greater degree than this
". Y. Independent.
Year: 1872

THE Elmwood Collar is just the
thing for hot weather. The folded edges and
perspiration-proof finish prevent it's breaking
down under any circumstances. You can wear
it longer than any other collar. Ask your Fur
nisher for the Emwood.
Year: 1872

A CROWD of Horse Men, and others,
daily throng the store in the country and town
for Sheriddn's CdUdlry Condition Po,cders.
They understand that horses cannot be kept
III good condition without them. and with
them can be on a much less quantity of grain.
Year: 1872

| It is within the memory of all men of middle age and upwards, when these tribunals were regarded by the people with almost reverential awe and spoken of with much humility. It was made 6 test of partisan fealty to submit without criticism to the famous Dred Scott decision by Chief Justice Fancy, but the people declined to either respect the dictum in that case or be long bound by it.

 Coming down to fresher work of these exalted tribunals and the peo- ple's treatment thereof, we cite the ir- resistible denunciations of the acts of certain judges of the New York Su- preme court, and the impeachment and removal of them in obedience to the popular demand. The Supreme Court of California has recently been denounced by the press of that State with the utmost freedom and treated with scorn and contempt. Still later, the Supreme judges of the great State of Illinois, have been denounced as supreme asses by the press of their State and to liberal extent all over the country and we believe it was in 1871, when the Nevada judges were handled with great severity by the press of that State.

 In Illinois, the Court thought it could vindicate its fancied sacred character by arresting noted jour nalist for contempt, and succeeded in bringing upon itself a storm of 1n- dignation and undisguised contempt of almost the whole nation-especially of the intelligent observers of public men and their acts.

 It Is now a subject of general dis cussion in the journals of highest standing throughout the country, whether or not Supreme Courts give greater encouragement than dis to wrong and the most henious crimes. In fact, this class of courts have ceased to inspire awe or more respect than their acts warrant, and it almost argues general lack of manhood that 1t should ever have been otherwise. The New York Times and other leading eastern jour nals, regard Supreme Courts as ref uge for murderers, and the Fair and other cases go far to make the charge good. The Chicago Tribune demands that Supreme Courts be more spe- officially governed by statutes, to the end that notorious criminals may not escape because of some error of law in lower court proceedings which, if it had not been made, could in no wise have affected prisoners guilt or in- nocence.

 Supreme Courts can, if they will, do much to regain the respect lost by their own acts, and avoid the necessity of having them made to promote justice by legislative enactments.

 

 Vfck,s EInraI Guide for I213
Year: 1872

A FIRE TO PoKE.-Hnw can a person be
attached to house that has no centre of at
traction, no soul in it, in the visible form of
glowing hire, and warm chimney, like the
heart in the body? When you thiuk of the
old homestead, if you ever do, your thoughts
go straight to the wide chimney and it's burn
ing logs. No wonder that you are ready to
move from one tireplaceless house into another.
But you have something just as good you say.
Yes, have heard of it, This age. which
initiates everything. even to the virtues of our
ancestors, has invented fireplace with
artificial iron or composition logs in it, hacked
and painted, in which gas is burned so that it
has the appearance of a wood fire. This seems
to me blasphemy. Do you think a cat would
lie down before itf Can you poke ~ If
you can't poke it, 1T is fraud. To poke a
wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost
anything else in the world The crowning
human virtue in man is to let his wife poke
the fire. do notknow how any virtue what
ever is possible over an imitation gas-log.-
What sense of insinceri,y the family must
have if they indulge in the hypocrisy of gather
ing about 1t With this centre of untruthful-
ness, what must the life in the family be p
Perhaps the father will be living at the rate
OF ten thousand year on salary Of four thou.
sand perhaps the n. other, more beautiful and
youngerthau her beautiful daughters. will use
rouge; perhaps the young ladies will make
wax>work. A cyuic might suggest as the
motto of modern life this simple legend, but
l am not eynic, aud hope for the re-
kindling of wood fires, and return of the
beautiful home light from them"


!Seribner's Honthly.
Year: 1872

particular mode of worship. As we said last week, it attempts to harmonize the va rious evangelical denominations, and en. deavors to induce them to regard each other as co-workers, though in their different ways of doing it, for the accomplishment of one end, common to all the salvation of souls.

 In regard to your remarks concerning the Truth being the image and reflection of the Mind and Will of Almighty God, we would not presume to dispute, and when you say that two and two cannot be both four and five; that is to say that the truth is the truth and cannot be but one it is four and not five, that assertion is correct but the truth is the will of God made known to us by His Word, and that truth is the fig ure four alluded to. We have not learned that anybody was trying to make five out of four, but the Union Allocate would have us believe, that although your com bination of the figures two and two make four, if MT. B. chooses to use neither of your twos to obtain the same result, but in. stead will take three and one together, his four would be as complete and accept able to mathematician as yours. Or fur ther: If MT. c. comes forward with his problem solved to his satisfaction, the re- suit of careful study on his part, and in bis search after the truth, has discovered that to attain the result almed at, four ones combined will do it. is he not right? and then here is D: who does not understand the Word as the others have, yet has stud jed from the same book. He goes at it perhaps more labo. lcusly, and finds that two and one-half and one and onc-half make four, all the difference between D. and the rest being, he makes more fuss about it. His four is precisely the same as the others; no more nor no less, nor no better. We feel to assert that the writer of that article mistakes. The Adoocnte does not urge Christians of different denomina- tions to throw aside their distinct organiza- tions. It simply asks that while holding on to their own modes of worship, they acknowledge and commune with all other professing Christian bodies, who are agreed on the great fundamental truths of the gospel. This is, as we understand it, the aim of the Union Adsocate It asks us to realize, that in our religious us we'll as secular affairs there are different ways of doing the same thing, and when we can see but one particular way of doing it, asks us to be generous toward others who will ac- complish the same end but are doing it in a different way, and not set up howl at the rediculous aspect of our neighbor, who is laboring with three and one, to make of them the -four we shall make with our two twos.-Ed. NEWS.
Year: 1872

ana aQd that we regard 1t as the most beau- tiful place we ever saw, and one that for reasons we will speak of hereafter, we think is the most desirable watering place in this section of the country.

 In the afternoon of last Friday, we saw what is rarely seen at such seaport coun- try as that section of the Vineyard where usual severity. It seems as though the weather clerk had arranged matters for our especial benefit, and had intended to get up show for us that would not be easily eclipsed. At the proper time, old Boreas arose and invited Neptune to regular old tear, and be assured the water was not long.in obeYing his summons, for soon the snow capped waves, high in the air, came chas- ing each other in rapid succession, till they plunged upon the beach in the widest con- fusion. The sublimity of the ocean in a storm, genuine s'Sou'- Sou Easter" was fully realized on this occasion, by "ye ed itor," natural born Gland lubber." Se- curely housed in the elegant Pavilion ucaA Cuc Ocd fAeW hOuSe, WILL tue DTOaQ expanse of the Atlantic spread before us, we watched with much satisfaction, the heaping up of the waters and their unceas ing roar. Are there any who can look upon such scene of commotion; such g tumultuous uprising of the elements such awful chaos, and not reverence, yea wor ship Him, who, on similar occasion, by 8 simple command brought almost in stantaneous peace to the troubled waters We repeat; Are there any2 If so, may God have mercy on their souls.

 All day long was seen constant stream of sail vessels, filing along as rapidly al they dare, past the Bluffs, to place of SC curity at Vineyard Haven, distance iron us of about 2 12 miles, and the next morn ing as we sailed around point of the island on our way home, there we found then all snuggled down close together, remind ing one of flock of fowls who had beer driven into friendly shed by a summer
Year: 1872

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all Its friends know, works with equal facility in all
classes of work and on all kinds OF goods II sold for
the peoples price and its proretors do not belong
combination organized for the purpose OF keeping
sewing machines up to fancy prices. Saesroom at 7W
Broadway, New York. and in all other cities in the
United States. The company want agents in country
Year: 1872

evening she did not appear, manifestng sne
same good sense in staying off the stage
which she had shown in going on it II was
not the young girl SO much as the gossip-mon-
gers who committed the ''unaccountable
freak in the Cincinnati theatre The stage
is honorable, and though it has perils which are
peculiarly its own, and offers at best only hard
life of hard work, it is not to be summed on
that account except by people who expect to
find the dramatic profession all ease and
honor. The debut of young people is thing
to be preached against but not contemned; an
aspiration to be discouraged on account OF its
risks and hardships, but to be honored when
it is the result Of settled purpose, and, as was
thecase with this Cincinnati lady, when it is
made in the only way by which real excellence
in dramatic art can be attained
Year: 1872

Mir. Stiles and other citizens of Florence and other points on the Gila, were at Camp Grant on the l7th inst, and made applca- tion for an escort, to examine the country from the mouth of the San Pedro river to the Gila and San Carlos-where new post is to be built-to see if it was not practica- ble to make wagon road, which will be of prime importance in case it is determined to have permanent post there. At latest ac- counts the party had not returned from their exploration.
Year: 1872

The Ku-Klux law of Congress has expired by limitation It was very bad, dangerous and despotic law, and we are glad that it is no longer in force. President Grant and the U. S. Senate wanted it re-enacted, but its bayonet provisions were too odious for the House. In its place, the following was adopt ed and passed:

 "That if in any county or parish in any Congressional District, ten citizens request the Judge of the United States Circuit Court to have the registration or election guarded and scrutinized, the Judge shall appoint two citizens of the election district or voting pre- cinct, of different political parties, as super visors of elections, they to be paid, and not empowered to make arrests or perform other duties, except it be in the immediate presence of the officers holding the election, and to witness all their proceedings, including the counting of the votes and making returns thereof"

 Even the foregoing would not have passed, but, for the fact that, in the Senate, worse Enforcement Act" was tackled on the Gen. eral Appropriation Bill, which latter bill the Senate refused to pass unless the accompany ing despotic barnacle, or something like it, would also pass. So that somebody and his Senatorial friends have been playing very low down strategy.
Year: 1872



 We will endeavor to celebrate the coming anniversary of the independence of our coun- try, in some way. Itis one of our inalenable rights, and no matter what 'ce, the people of Prescott and other places in Arizona may see fit to do on that day, we, the editor of the MINER, mean to have good, old fashioned blow out on the glorious anniversary. We would, if we could,

 Bring forth the big gun made of brass

 That forges July thunder!

 Bring forth the flag of Bennington,

 And put the Indian under

 But we can't do that so long as Govern ment feeds the families of the red men who are and have been fighting us, and gives said red men the freedom of certain military posts ana reservations, so that they can supply themselves with arms and ammunition.

 But, this state of affairs will not last for ever, our country calls us to celebrate, and, "rght or wrong, our country"