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Year: 1876

"You see this hoss, don't you?n call
ed out woman about forty years of
age, as she drove up to a Grand River
avenue blacksmith shop yesterday.
The smith came out and replied that
his sight was good.


81 want a shoe on that hind foot
right to once" she continued, and she
jumped down and had the horse almost
out of the old wagon before the smith
reached the curbstone. She led the
beast into the shop, sat down on the
bench, and prepared to take smoke,
and as the blacksmith took down shoe
she observed:


ssNo fooling now. / want the shoe
to stick to that foot for whole year.
You can't impose on me cause I'm a
woman.''


After the hoof had been prepared the
horse suddenly became restive, dancing
around and bothering the shoer SO that
he could not proceed.


"You don't seem to have had any
experience with horses" remarked the
woman, as she rose up and laid her pipe
aside. 81 know this beast from Dan'l
to Besheba, and you just git back a


The smith retreated few feet, and
the woman caught the horse by the bit
gave him two hundred pound kick in
the ribs, and yelled:


whoa! Charles Henery, git around
stand over and take that-and this
and some morel Now come up and toe
the markl''


Charles Henry kicked the anvil off
the block as she kicked his ribs, but she
kicked the hardest, and when the horse
shoer stuck his head into the shop, the
horse was half over a bench but as
quiet as lamb.


''Now purceed," said the woman, as
she picked up her pipe. "When a hoss
goes foolin around me and aching for a
row, he's layin up sorrow for his gray
hairs!' Detroit Free Press.
Year: 1876

Nathan Lieberman returns his heartfelt
thanks to the people for the increased
patronage that has been bestowed upon
him the past year of 1875, which has been
with us the best business year of that OF
any clothing house in Delaware. Our prices
are still the lowest, and we shall continue
to use our great increasing business advan-
tages, and give the people the benefit of 1t,
as we have sold last year ~ per cent of the
ready made clothing that has been sold in
Wi mington. We can buy goods from Is to
% per cent. lower. than any other house in
the city, and on that account we can afford
to sell the people clothing at retail what
others have to pay wholesale, and for the
New Year of 1875 we must swing clear of all
combinations and customs,-with all de.
partments reconstructed, we anticipate
a marvellous and unprecedented increase
of business. Respectfully,
Year: 1876

ance of more than 200. This is high and
flattering success.


This being the last anniversary of the
present conference year, surely a good re-
port is sure for g. Zion sunday school.


Exclusive OF this, there is a climax which
is constituted of the amount OF nearly $62.
90, which the scho sends as a greeting to
the conference for the noble missionary
cause. Finally, the occasion was divine and
rich in grandeur and was fraught with food
to supply the appetite of several columns Of
your neat and coveted COMMERCIAL. More
at another time. OBSERVER.
Year: 1876

Crazy Horse nor Rain-in-the-Face was never more bent on taking the scalp of his enemy than were McClary and Dennis yes- terday afternoon. The first bout resulted in a draw game and on being brought up before Judge Otis each paid SlO for the amusement and was told to go his way and sin no more. Subsequently an agreement was entered into between them to go beyond the city limits and fight it out, but on the way they became so blood-thirsty that they cOldnt wait and renewed the combat at the corner of Montezuma and Goodwin streets where Dennis was getting the best of it when Constable Knott interfered and with the assistance of Marshal Murray marched them both to the lock up to await his honor's pleasure this morning. Dennis who had been that way before, and seemed to know the road, went singing, "Home, home, sweet, sweet home."
Year: 1876

LIEUTENANT PHILIP READE, superinten- dent of military telegraphs in California and Arizona, is still at these headquarters, hay ing been ill since his arrival some two weeks since. The Lieut., besides being good of- flcer, is gentleman of superior literary at tainments, very entertaining conversational ist and valuable acquisition both to the ser vice and society of Arizona. Just now and until new poles are provided for this line, for which there appears to have been no ade- quate appropriation made by Congress, he and all connected with or in any way depen- dent upon the line for news or business dis patches are being much annoyed. Cotton wood poles are of little practical use beyond one season, when they become rotten and fall down upon the slightest provocation.
Year: 1876

THR CENSUS BUsrNEss-We have been left entirely in the dark as to the Juggiery going on at the Capital, except that on Sun day morning the Secretary answered dis patch of ours sent on Friday morning, say inc that he had been restrained from making the apportionment. This morning, how ever. we received the Citizen of the 18th and 18th full of self-righteousness on the part of the people of Pima County, and re- itersted charges of fraud against the Census Marshal, Board of Supervisors, and people of Yavapai The high water in Salt River and Gila last week deprived us of our Tue son mail entirely until this morning so near the hour of gong to press, that we are unable for want of time to give the matter that attention that it seems to demand. It is but fair, however, to say that if it be true, as charged in the Citizen, that certain names have been duplicated in the Yavapai roll, people who wished to be honest them selves would be more likely to attribute it to a mistake of the Marshal or his deputies, than to jump so eagerly at the idea of fraud The clear duty of those having charge of the rolls, whether before or after they were passed upon by the Board of Supervisors, would. in common sense view of the case, be to correct any errors discovered instead of jumping to the conclusion that the oifi- cers are all rascals. As to the charge that Judge Alsaps name appears in the favapal roll. the Marshal understands the law to bear him out in entering the names of all persons residing in the county at the time of the enumeration, whether temporarily or per manently, and Judge Alsap was at the time a temporary resident of Yavapai, in attend ance on the District Court. But we have not time to pursue the matter further to-day. Shall have more to say next week.
Year: 1876

The California mail due here Monday morning did not arrive until Tuesday fore noon, being delayed at Wickenburg on ac- count of the non-arrival of the Tucson mail. It seems not generally understood that ac- cording to the Government mail schedule the mail time from San Bernardino to Pres colt is six and half days and in the event of the Tucson mail being behind time the California is necessarily detained at Wick enburg until the hour of departure as fixed by the Department. It is understood that the failure of the Tucson mail to arrive at Wickenburg was on account of high water in the Agua Fria or beyond. Since the above was written we learn by telegraph that the Gila and Salt Rivers caused the detention of the mails but that they were both falling rap idly on Wednesday morning and the mail was again on time.
Year: 1876

FURNITURE SALE.-E'er our next issue the auction sale of Dr. Lippincott's furniture will be of the past. Thursday next at Fort Whipple will be rare chance to obtain household goods of every description at your own prices. Carriages will be sentto convey ladies and others to the sale on orders left with the Auctioneer.
Year: 1876

Fifty-one skeletons have been discovered
within the old Battle bitches of Saffron Wal
den. The subsoil is chalk, and most Of them
inferred barely foot in that stratum. The
grave of one was deeper than the rest, and
as necklace of glass and silver beads, with


three metal ornaments, and large knife or
dagger, were found in it, it is supposed by
some to be that OF Saxon chief. With two
exceptions, they were buried with their head
to the west There are also evidences of
battle, some Of the bones being broken, and
one having had piece cut out from the
right side of the skull. The remains are in
very good state Of preservation. There are
evidences. also, of earth dwellings, some
about seven feet in diameter, and portions Of
vessel used for cooking g-London Times
Year: 1876

A New Jersey Coroner not long since was
examining doctor in an inquest on the case
OF a little girl run over by horse car. The
doctor said death resulted from injury to the
opine. Doctor" interrupted the Coroner.
"was it the spine ST her back!"
Year: 1876

The query, why do no young men get
married is all aummery. They do get
married, and too much for their own and
the girls good. 1t is all well enough if
they marry wisely, and not too easily, or
in other words, without considering what
they are doing. They court a girl few
months, fill her head with soft nonsense,
fill her dreams with the imaginations of
fancy, paint cottages and love, ignore the
flour barrel and potatoes, and she, poor
tlattered frowsy bird, hops into the cage
he has built for her. Then he awakes.
He fattered himself that he had thought
it all over, and weighed all the conse-
quences, but he did nothing of the kind.
He was not in state OF mind for think
ing seriously of anything. Now he sees
plnching want and semi-starvation ahead
on his small weekly salary, and feverish
restlessness growing out of the fact that
even that salary may be cut off at any
mOnent.


He did not weigh these things at all, or,
if he did, the fancy for the girls pretty
face-Or, admit it, his love for her-fell
into the scale, and the calculation side
kicked the beam. Something ails these
young men. They call it love, but no man
can truly love girl who would be willing
to run the risk of subjecting her to such a
life of haphazard existence. They call it
love, but it is only mixture of fancy and
the restless yearnings of nature, which
simply make them blind and foolish. No
young man with health and good spirits,
and in an assured way of winning in lifei
should say, with Othello: al would not my
free unhoused condition put in circum'
scription and confined for the seas worth,
because such young men should take to
their hearts for life some fitting companion
from the gentler sex. But of those less
prepared young men-how and wheni
Perhaps all the advice that could be cram
med into the columns of paper would
eject but little, for when people get the
matrimonial mania they will marry in
spite of all argument.


The cynical young man is Of the opinioy
that the young ladies show no disposition
to encourage poor young man by hersel
making sacrifices. She is right. She is {
sensible young girl if she does not encour
age poor young man to commit SO fool
lsh an act as saddening himself with wifi
before he can pay his own board bill
promptly. She is a good sensible girl, ant
the world had more such we should hav
happier marriages and happier homes
nut, bless US, they are as scarce as hem
teeth. They win encourage him, and W
10 believe she would even if she could iii
'ne veil OF futurity and see herself frowsy
sipsnod, unloved female in backwood
cabin, and that swarming with tow-heade


cniidren. These girls get the mania jus


as bad and just as often as the young mer


Inc trouble is these girls think because


young man wears good clothes, possibly
Year: 1876

diamond, patent-leather boots, red neck
tie, and switches cane down the avenue
IN the dusk of an evening, that he has
money and can support wife.


1t takes very little love on her part to
teach her arithmetical progression, and
gives her strange ideas of these things. She
does not know that many a young man
dong this, is doing it by draining his purse
OF its last cent, or still worse, drawing on
future salary by doing it on credit. He is
trying to lead $l5 existence on 81 sala-
ry. When the lovers get edging along
toward orange blossoms and white lace, she
may get little anxious to know how well
may ask HIN about his income. Perhaps she
he can support her, or her mother, with an
experience, desires the information The
soft eyes, like the unblemished blue of the
lily, watch him as he answers, watch with
hope in them. Does this little maid imag-
inc for an instant that he will tell her the
truth about his income.


No greater mistake ever crept under the
meShes Of her soft brown hair than that.
lie knows that if he told her the truth,
there would be shrinkage of the value of
her love, so he lodges the question, and
like legislator lays it on the table. Per.
haps he thinks her father will aid them.
She knows that her father can barely meet
his present obligations, and that he has
been straining point in order to keep his
daughter in presentable clothes. And 50
both cheat and when in the delightful
honeymoon the masks are off, there is a
drop of loves thermometer like the thug
OF stone in a well. 1t is all well enough
to talk about sacrifices to secure bliss and
comfort, but the first one should be made
to honesty in the courting days. A lie
may be husbanded for awhile. and even be
made to do terrible execution, but when il
comes to the surface, it brings with it a
CHASTITY train of circumstances.


Each should be thoroughly honest
Stilted talk should be dropped and they
should tell each other the exact pecuniary
conditions. The glamour of love is tran
sient thing, sort Of misty moonshine that
it will melt away when it is to be freighted
with hard pinchings to make both end:
meet. Love in cottage, with bird o.
bright plumage in the love-lit air, is nice
sentiment walking with her under thC
leafng naples, with the first thrill of bird
song in the trees, but the bare, practical
bread-and-butt antagonism of life, which
must be met is another. Better commence
meeting these by sprinkling them intC
the pleasures of the courting days. Do no
keep it penned up to drift into the light o
common day. If you must build cloud
cities with arrowy Ininarets and swellin,
towers, glistening with fretted sunshine
sheen like Macedonian pixies and globes o
flame, then remember that the city shoulC
have its pantry filled with earthly things


Better wait till you can see through tn,
mist and moonshine-the light that is t
you, brighter than the light that neve
was on sea or land,' and then marry.-Ea
Year: 1876

Oh Miss Flip. of New York city, lately went to see
the show
That's held in Philadelphia this season as you know
And the things that damsel and heard the things
she learned and felt
Would fill an anchorite with joy, or heart of Nero
melt.
Ihcard her tell her dearest friend about it all one
day,
And beg to tell the story in her sweet girlish
way
Il saw. oh, Rosy! lots of things The trip was oh so
fine
Iwore my ecru polonase with white embroidered
The loycliest machinery. 50 grand, you know; and
Twas fun to see them working t-those lovely, dirty
Mycavaler went wild with rage because watched
them so
These nobby fellows always are so jealous dear you
know.
The fine art gallery they say is nice as it can be;
But really there was such crowd did MT try to see.
In the Janpanese department I bought me such a
fam
Iwonier how they ever learned to make things in
Japan.
And oh the way rushed around on foot. dear, and
on chairs,



stares.
l din't mind because its only every hundred years
Centennias come and no one cares how just one girl
appears
so uncle said). But one can't hep ones feelings
after all,
When ones feathers all get mpsy and ones puffs get
squeezed SO small.
But it really is when all is done, satisfaction, dear
To have been at the Centennial and not seem green
and queer.
And then the silks and flowers, and lovely lace-oh
my.
They make you wild because, you see, they're awful
hard TO buy
To see them does expand the mind and give you new
ideas;
I'm going to copy me dress that's shown by Madame
Speers
In going to get bonnet too made jus like the one
\ perfect darling just mass of roses, lace and
straw
saw real live Turk one day (but didn't like tc
look
Al dressed in sword and trowsers like picture in
book.
You needn't go abroad they say for all the world i;
there;
And really do feel US I'd been most everywhere.
There's everything Oh earth to see-sUch iewelry and
lace!
must say the Centennial is just the sweetest place
went to the TrOis Frees and had, oh! such
heavenly time
With Mr. F and Harry B. who really turns ou
prime.
such lovely cream although they charge outrageous
ly, they say
Which doesn't matter much TO girls as ce don't hGv,
TO pay
Oh, mercy on Us! aut go. But I'm glad I've seer
the show,
And told you all about it, and the things you ough
10 know.


-HdJpers Bazaar
Year: 1876

There never was an earthly dream
OF beauty and delight,
That mingled not too soon with clouds
As sunrGys with the night
That faded not from the fond heart
Where once it loved to stay,
And left that heart more desolate
For having felt its sway.
There never was glad bright eye
But it was dimmed with tears.
Caused by such ills that ever duh
The sunshine of our years
We look upon the sweetest flower,


Tis withercd soon and gone;
We gOzed upon star to find


But darkness where it shOne
There never was noble heart,
a mind of worth and power,
That had not in this changing world
Pain and misery for its dover,
The laurel on the brow hath hid
From many a careless eye,
The secret OF the soul within,-
is blight and agony.
There never was, there cannot be,
On earth previous spring,
Where waters to the fcyercd lip
Unfailing we may bring
All changeth on his troubled shore,
Or passeth from the sight
Oh for that world where joy and peace
Reign as eternal light
Year: 1876

A writer, who thinks he knows, fixes it
up this way:


A man should always be little older, a
little braver, a little stronger, and a
little wiser, and a little more in love with
her than she is with him. woman should
always be little younger, and little
prettier, and little moro considcrate than
her husband. lie should bestow upon her
his worldly goods, and she should take
good care Of them. He may owe her every
care and tenderness that affection can
prompt; but pecuniary indebtness to her
will be burden. Better live on a crust
that he earns, than fortune she has
brought him. Neither must be Jealous nor
give the other cause for jealousy-neither
must encourage sentimental friendships
with the opposite sex. Perfect confidence
in each other, reticence concerning their
mutual affairs, even to members, CT their
own families, is a first necessity. A wife
should dress herself becomingly whenever
she expects to meet her husbands eye.
The man should not grow slovenly, even
st home. Faultfnding, long arguments Of
scolding ends the happiness that begins in
kisses and love making. Lovers are lovers
no longer after disturbances occur, and
married people who are not lovers are
bound by red hot chains. If man adj
mires his wife most in calico, she is silly
not to wear it.
Year: 1876

A THOUGHTFUL WILL.--The following.
clause in will, recently presented for pro-
bate, speaks volumes for the happiness and
love in the household concerning which it
treats: "Second. give, devise and be-
queath unto my beloved wife, -, all my
property and estate, of whatsoever kind
and wheresoeyer situated, which may re-
main after the settlement of all lawful
claims against me or my estate. | make
this disposition of my property, not from
any forgetfulness or disregard for my chill.
dren, but because think it more suitable,
under all the circumstances. My daught-
ers are well provided for, and my sons would
prefer that their mother should be first
cared for. have confidence that she will
make such use and disposition of anything
she may thus receive as will be in accord.
ance with the needs of all concerned"
Year: 1876

The biggest corn story of the season
comes from Mount Carmel, ILL.,, where it is
asserted, on the farm of William Johnston
is stalk of corn the top of which is forty
feet from the ground. There are two ears
OF corn growing upon it at the distance of
thirty odd feet from the level of the sur.
rounding country.
Year: 1876

The NEW PosTAL LAw.-one of the most
sensible items in the new postal law, and
one which every body will appreciate, is
that which allows person to write his or
her name on the wrapper and also the
word "from," to let the party receiving it
know who it is from without violating the
law. lt ri
Year: 1876

There is no pathological fact more clearly
ascertained than that the most formidable
phases Of nervous disease are directly trace.
able to imperfect digestion. Insomnia, with
Its train of direful consequences, proceeds
mole frequently from weakness of the stom.
ach than from any other cause. Mere seda-
tives are powerless to cure nervousness, and
soon cease TO palliate its symptoms. The
true way to strengthen the nervous system is
to invigorate the digestive and assimilative
organs, upon whose unobstructed action its
equilibrium is absolutely dependent. The
daily use of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters will
do more to brace and soothe the weakened
and irritated nerves, and induce sound, re-
freshing sleep-nature's grand catholicon-
than all the so-called nervines to be found in
the pharmacopeia or out of 1t. A wineglass-
full OF the Bitters should be taken before each
meal
Year: 1876

Has made the most Astonishing Cures {.
so quick, so rapid are the changes the
body undergoes under the influence of
this truly wonderful medicine, that
Every Day an Increase IN Flesh and Weight


is Seen and Felt.


The Great Blood Purifier.
Year: 1876

Clymer had an animal that he
knew it was well to give very long
rope, and none of the Committee
wanted to ask him any ugly ques.
tions. They stood OF very respect
fully, were very polite and consider
ate, and put none but the most gen.
eral interrogatories. General Butler
came In with fun In his eyes. He
was all ready for tilt with the bully
Blackburn, and was very anxious to
have it, but Blackburn wisely kept
his distance, and did not opea his
mouth during the entire examine
ton, which was very short. No one
seemed inclined to get any evidence
out of the witness. 1t was a dam
gerous task that had to be UNDER
taken, and was finished as easily and
quickly as possible. When General
Butler had finished and was dis
missed, the Committee drew very
long breath and looked very glad
that their job was over.-[ Washing
ton Special to the Chicago Inter-
Ocean.