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Year: 1873

Strict economy is, doubtless, a
beautiful thing. But we fancy that
even Poor Richard never heard of so
picturesque an instance of this virtue
as the two which come from Iowa and
Virginia. The Iowa tale is that of
farmer whose infant daughter was late
ly attacked by a snake. A quick
witted woman seized a spade and kill
ed the animal, in the effort breaking
the handle of the weapon. What did
the high minded farmer do?' He made
the woman, under threat of lawsuit,
pay the full value of the spade-65
cents. 'Tis height of virtue to which
few men could attain. The Virginia
story is that of happy bridegroom
who, on departing from the parsonage
where the fatal ceremony had been
performed, handed the parson a fat
yellow envelope. 1t contained large
piece of brown paper-and nothing
more. The loveliness of a character
which, ia the midst of youth, and Joy,
and affection, and good clothes, could
so tenderly endeav0r to make a minis
ter happy, may we'll be revered.


The writers in some of our maga-
zines are becoming anxious as to the
growing celibacy among the wealthy
and fashionable. classes of society.
When all were poor all could afford to
be married, but now, with ten times
more wealth and comfort than our
fathers had, our young men are "too
poor to marry" We do not confess to
any anxiety ourselves on this subject.
When young men get so proud that
they will not begin their married life
in a cottage and young women get SO
fashionable that they must follow all
the tortuosities Of the grass-hopper
and the Grecian Bend, We cannot re-
gard celibacy as anything else than a
merciful provision Of Providence
against the perpetuatlon of the species.


One of the wittiest as we'll as one of
the most brilliant men Pennsylvania
has produced, was the late George w.
Barton, of Philadelphia, who once oc-
cupied a seat on the bench. Trying a
case before a judge who was chiefly
remarkable for obtuseness, he took oc-
casion to say that he had often seen
great ass in judicial robes. you
speak from experience, Isuppose, was
the angry retort.


Not at ALL replied Judge Barton,
Il am speaking directly from observa-
tion.'-Harper's Magazine.


Ladies in delicate health should go
to Colorado. The case Of Mrs. Prath-
er, of Golden City shows the wonder
full restorative effects of the climate.
She could not even sweep her room
when they lived in Ohio, but in less
than a year after her arrival in the
Territory she chased her husband a
nile and a quarter with pitch fork.
Year: 1873

1t was great pity that our Govern
ment caught Jefferson Davis in his
flight to the seaboard. We should
have helped him out of the country,
and supplied him with all the boats he
needed to carry himself and his plum
der anywhere, so long as it was away
from our shores. He might have still
been wandering in some foreign land,
disguised as an old woman, and might
have taken from the South, by the
force of attraction, some of the kind
red spirits of both sexes that hover
around him like foolish gnats around
an expired candle. BY his capture
the world lost reconstructed granny
and we gained an elephant. If some
of our boys, when they got their hands
on the old traitor, had practically
illustrated that song


"woll hang JEFF. Davis to sour apple


treer'


the sudden taking off would have had
good effect on the public peace. But
the hand of retributive justice was
stayed. By the action of Greeley
and other sentimental grannies, he be.
came martyr; was bearded at the
public expense for about two years,
and but for his hatred of Yankee
greenbacks, we doubt not he would
have entered suit against Uncle Sam
long since to obtain heavy damages
/ for defamation of character and false
Imprisonment. By the capture of Sur
ratt we robbed the Papal government
of poor soldier, and restored fugi-
tive from justice to the status of o eli.
izen. By catching Davis, we prevent
ed an old woman from Travelling un.
der an assumed name, and inflicted
upon the South q greater injury than
the war itself Davis appears to us
/ like the ghost of the defunct Confeder-
acy. just when the people forget his
evil work, he walks into their midst
aud frightens everybody from the la
Dor Of rebuilding what he tore down.
The men of the South know him pret-
ty we'll; they remember his ignomi-
nious flight from Richmond when Lee
was fighting like lion to protect it;
his naughty, overbearing nature, when
in authority, and his craven spirit
when captive; and they are about
disgusted with him and his antecedents.
But the women like him, for some rea-
son or probably because he
tried to pass for one when he fled and
knowing this, the arch traitor goes
about with his blarney, inducing the
women to train their children to hate
the Federal Government, and when
they grow to manhood to fight against
it if the opportunity offers. We hear
Of him in Southern schools. at fairs,
legislatures-anywhere and everywhere
he can get word in for the lost cause.
His last appearance was before gath
ering of ex-rebel officers, styling them
selves "The Southern Historical Socie-
ty," at Montgomery White Sulphur
Springs, Virginia. This last speech is
little better than treason itself, and if
his words have any effect, they have
done incalculable mischief to the pros
perty of the South. 1t is about time
for Davis to subside. The South has
paid dearly enough for his advice, and
the sooner they give him free pass
to Spain or France, or some other
place where busybodies and agitators
are wanted the better it will be for the
peace and prosperity of the whole
| nOuntrv
Year: 1873

AN irreverent metropolitan journalist is re-
minded by Mr. Colfaxs former and present
utterances on Credit Mobiler Of the nonse>>s e
rhyme which afiirms that


"There was an old man who said "How
Shall flee from this horrible COW?


will sit on the stie


And continue to smile,


Which may soften the heart of the cow"
Year: 1873

A New Haven tobacconist has offered s12
lor the petrifed Indian lately sent to Yale
Oonege from California to use as cigar sign,
and the faculty think some Of realizing on the
corpse, k owing that at simple hint the
students would steal it back for them.
Year: 1873

The Oberlin New Era saws of suicide
tnere that "a pair of shoes belonging to the
deceased were found sitting on the ground
near the cistern" We hardly know which to
admire most in that pair of shoes, their in.
telligence or their touching devotion.
Year: 1873

A GENTLEMAN and Lady wishing quiet nome
"A 6pd pleasant rooms with board at No
Cotton street, second door from Free street. One or
two single gentlemen can be accommodated also


ian7
Year: 1873

Apropos of Pullman in London, they tell
story over there OF an uncultiva'ed New York
er who received the IA ewell card of friend
with the cabalistic ''P. P. c." in the corner,
and after long puzzle as to what it meant,
finally had the bright idea that it meant Pull
mans palace car, and that this was the pho
nographic way his friend had of telling him
that be had gone to San Francisco.
Year: 1873

A Western editor, who received half a doz-
en- soft-shell crabs the other day, says in the
next issue of his paper, -'Tt ey were indeed
delicious, but were evidently intended to be
eat n when dead, as one of the cusses went
skittering up and down our throat two or
thre times before we could mash him with
our boughten teeth.''
Year: 1873

gS~ When John Quincy Adams was
President, the Potomac played him a
mean trick one day, While taking an
old fashioned schooboy bath in the riy.
or, the water rose SO rapidly as to sweep
away his clothes As Mr. Adams walk,
cd toward the White House in the garh
which nature gave him, he may have felt
like president, but we venture to say
that he did not look like one When q
man cannot find his clothes, after taking
his bath, and is some distance from
home, he is very apt to he in anything
but serene, christian state OF mind.
Year: 1873

~ A Connecticut deacon, who made
a sharp bargain by trading lame horse
TO the minister, was asksd what he tho't
the Lord would say to him for cheating
so. He said there was no evidence 70
show that the Lord knew louud.red
horse any way,
Year: 1873

WASHINGTON, Monday March g. 1873


The Agricultural College bill was reached In due
course Speakers table this afternoon. Mr. Pierce,
who had charge Of it when 1t passed the House, and
who tried get Conference Committee ordered upon
IL on Saturday had changed his mind, and said he
hoped there would be conference The House,
therefore, refused to order the conerepce and the bl
was thus finally disposed Of No further attempt 10 get
il up will be made. A number of members who voted
for It when passed the House would not support it
now in any shape.


The Conference Committee on the Geneva Award bill
was unable agree upon any mode Of distribution. and
reported substitute for both the Senate and House
bills bill directing the Secretary of the Treasury to
vest award in United States five per cent registered
bonds, and hold them subject TO future legislation by
Congress- This throws the question over until next
Winter The conference report was agreed to by both
Houses.


Mr.. Dawes reported the testimony taken by the Ways
and Means Committee relating to the alleged corruption
in the passage OF the Pacific Mali Steamship subsidy
last Summer and moved that be sealed up and depes
tied with the Clerk Of the House. to be laid before the
next Congress for action. The motion was agreed 70.


While working the pile OF Senate bills on the Speak
ers table tonight the House struck Senator Summers
old half-forgOtten Civil Rights bill few Republicans
wanted pass it, but they got little support that they
gave up the attempt.
Year: 1873

THE TRADE UNIONS THOROUGHLY ORGANIZED


THE STRIKE TO BEGIN IN APRIL OR MAY


HOW THE LAST LABOR MOVEMENT IMPOv.


ERIsHED CAPITAL AND LABOR ALIKE, GRIP
PIED THE BUILDING INTERESTS, AND DROVE
AWAY TRADE.


As the season Of strikes draws the trades
unions of this city are thrown into fever Of excite
ment and employers into chill! Of apprehension a,
the prospect Of the renewal of the attempt made
year ago by Labor 10 extort concessions from Capi-
tai at a critical moment OF trade. Rapid transit
has been called the citys great problem, but the ma
terial prosperity of the metropolis depends in large'
measure upon a satisfactory solution Of the labor
question: for il the suburbs increasing IN popula
ton at the expense Of New York from the delays m
local travel 80 also metropolitan trade and industry
are flowing into outlying channels in consequence %
the labor revolt. From capitalists and workingmen
alike comes the assurance that last years campaign
will be renewed late in April or early IN May and
that the battle will be fought with even more
earnestness and vgor each side. The trade
organizations making extraordinary efforts
10 gain recruits 80 as TO move with solid front
when the signal for revolt is given. But employers
will not be taken by surprise they were last year
in view of the uncertain conditions Of labor they
have not ventured TO take large contracts, and
hence they will not be at the mercy OF workingmen
and, moreover, they have stolen the secret Of the
trades -unions-or rganizaton-and will cooperate IN
making a general defense.


Last years experience would be priceless If the
suits were summed up by SO discriminating a body
as the Massachusetts Board OF Labor Statistics aud
yet there is not simpler sylogism in the world
than this II factories and workshops lie idle wages
are lost and capital goes 10 waste. cautious est-
mate places the loss of wages and profits during a
single month last Spring at 500 co., and for the
whole period Of the strike at over SiOO00cO, which
was equally shared by workingmen and capitalists
This direct result of the rupture between iaboi
and capital and yet it is only fraction Of the entire
loss, for such movement paralyzeS business enter
prise cripples local industry, and drives away trade
into neighbOrng cities. In the building interest oI
instance, there was a falling off last year Of S232
900 in the value of projected buildings, aud a total
loss in city improvements Of Sl2,5Ss. .O00-fully one
half of which fell upon the aboring population. "a
seriously was this great interest affected that
according TO one informant, not one man in ~ Is now
employed in the trade.


This mode of reasoning will be regarded ~ unfair
by workinglnen inasmuch their own suilerngs aud
privatons are not taken into account and this can
not be done until Bureau Of Statistics organized.
Year: 1873

The MURDERER OF MARY


HoLMEs.-Horace Venable, young
colored man, convicted OF the murder Of
Mary Holmes, a colcred girl, in this city
last summer, is lying in Jail here con-
demned to be hanged on the 9th of De-
cember. His counsel will ask the su-
preme court FOR new trial when it meets
here in November, but they have little
hope of favorable result. The prisoner
says that he has made his peace with
God and is prepared to die. He confesses
hi crime. This murder was accomplished
by pushing the girl in one of the canal
locks as she was returning from a party.
She had sustained intimate relations with
the prisoner and he was jealous. 1t has
been thought all along in this city, in con-
sequence of the execution being deferred
Tor six months, that it was the intention of
his excellency the governor to commute
thelsentence to Imprisonment for life. AS
hanged party Horace Venabe will be of
no account to himself or any one else, AS
a llfe-pounder of rock and other light ma
terlal, on state account, he would be
minute accession to her industrial re-
sources.
Year: 1873

PROMENADE CONCERT AND BALL.
There are numerous places of pleasura-
Bile nature that will be open to the public
during the present (Fair) week, but surely
none Of them will prove more attractive to
our-music loving community than the
grand promenade concert and ball to be
given at. the First Regiment armory by
Professor McCann's full band and
orchestra on next Thurday night. That
celebrated cornet soloist, Mr.. Henry S.
Page, will intersperse the evenings enter.
tainment with some of his delightful solos.
Those who do not dance will be we'll repaid
for their attendance by the music that will
be rendered.
Year: 1873

CHEsAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILROAD.
1t is stated that since the completion of this
road there have been opened along the line
seventeen coal mines and seven iron ore
beds, and twelve blast furnaces have been
built. The new furnaces completed and in
course of erection will have total annual
product of one hundred and twenty thou
sand tons of pig iron, anu H7E stis
Year: 1873

WYMAN.-During the present week
the Virginia Opera.house will be enliv-
ened by the presence Of this distinguished
professor Of the art of legerdemain. Wy
man, always popular here, was never
more so than now. He gives away to
his audience each evening many valuable
gifts.
Year: 1873

HARMONY DIVISION FAIR.-A gentle


man or lady wishing to spend pleasant


evening, should not fail to call at the fair


room, next door to Woods drug store.
The fair is for the benefit of Harmony Di-
vision Sons of Temperance. Old and young


should make them visit to encourage such
a noble order. The fair will continue


through the week. They especially invite


their country friends. .as fsfs.-
Year: 1873

Judging of certain matters, c

 the tenor of which our citizen

 are advised, we feel warranted Il

 stating that the financial saga

 city of the business men of Yumi

 is to be pretty thoroughly

 tested within a month. A line O

 of action can be adopted by oul

 Board of Supervisors which may

 prove of paramount importance to this town and section in the

 near future. To Yuma il may prove the first step toward a magnificent plan of develop ment. the like of which has not yet been witnessed on the Pacific Coast. The one thing most to be guarded against in this matter IS, indifference. We want to make

 

 of Yuma growing town, and eventually a metropolitan center of trade. To do this, the auxili- ary means which it is in our power to win over, should be cultivated in no timid spirit. Our whole hearts and our best energies should be enlisted. This is, if we under stand it, something that should be deliberated upon in no narrow spirit of purely local jealousy, but with broader, higher, better aims. From present indications we shall doubtless be appraised, early in July, of the direction certain influences have taken-whether or not they have been con- trolled in Yuma's interest. Till then, and pending the action Of the Board of Supervisors at its next meeting, we can only urge upon our citizens the importance of looking upon these probabih-. ties in no captious, unkind spirit. but calmly to bring to their con- the irresistible logic of coming events. Put these mat ters to the crucial test of mere financial sagacity, and their util- ity is apparent at once.

 We shall watch the unfolding of causes that may produce eff fleets of the highest importance to this section, with nothing short of intense sOlicitude, and shall report each phase of their development to our readers.

 Richard Burchangel has re- gently been appointed Postmaster at Sanford, Pima county, A. T.
Year: 1873

The common and increasing use of tobacco
IN its various forms in our own community,
is isappalling. fany one doubts the asser-
tion let him count within the range of his
own acquaintance and observation those
who are habitual users of tobacco, and COM
pare the number with those who do not Use
it, and see if it be not correct


The habItual use of tobacco tends 10 idle
ness, hlthiness, and in large majority of
lases, poverty, dissipation, and even crime.
ct Injuries health, it rObs men of time and
money which might be spent to very much
better advantage, and what is still worse it
Greatest thirst for strong drink Almost
every poor man is habitual user of ottobacco.
Almost every lounger by profession upon
our street corners is 4 habitual user of to-
bacco, chewing his quid and squirting
tobacco juice in every conceivable direction.
Almost every inmate of our jails and aims
houses Is a habitual user oftObaccO. Almost
every criminal brought before our courts Of
justice is habitual use Of tobacco \ major


ity Of prOfane swearers and professional
gamblers and bank robbers are habitual
users of tobacco. Almost every dealer in
intoxicating liquors Is habitual user of
tobacco. Almost every habitual drinker Of
intoxicating liquors uses tobacco in some
form. Lawyers, doctors and merchants
who use it habitually have filthy Offices and
stores, and, strangers it may seem, in most
cases they do not appear to realize it. The
use Of it Is a nuisance, and great nuisance
in our churches, public halls, hotels, and
cOnyeyances for public travel. Ii Is hardly
known upon what principle our railroad
companies invariably run the smoking
car forward of the regular passenger cars,
instead Of running them in the rear where
they properly belong, unless it be upon
the principle that dirt always goes before
the broom The Rev. DR.. Hawes in his
far-tamed anti-tobacco sermon sad " II


the Creator intended that men should take
snuff he would have made them with their
noses the other side up How often do
we see the tobacco chewer when he looks as
though he had better 60 back to first prin-
cIples and wear his bib. There Is one
thing that tobacco Is good for, it is good to
| kill rdrmiH." Those who use tobacco are
responsible TO- their example If men did
not use it boys would not How many sons
would not use it if their fathers did not It
Is hard to preach what we do not practice.
How often do We meet upon oar streets
boys, even small boys, smoking pipe or
the stump Of an old cigar. \ boy does not
naturally love tobacco be lOathes 1t , he
learns to smoke and chew from example,
and thinks it Is manly how much more 30
To let it entirely alone. 1t cannot be claim
ed that we are too radical upon this sub
iect, while ninety-nine out Of every hun
dred habitual users Of tobacco readily ac-
knowledge that it Is filthy habit and
heartily wish themselves entirely rid of it.
For the sake Of morals, for the sake Of the
rising generation, there ought to be some
thing done to ahate the evil. J. P.
Burlington, Dee. 26, 1872.
Year: 1873

bers of the Republican State Committee,
and others who are presumed TO be inform
ed of the Internal management of Florida
politics, indicate that neither Osborn nor
Governor Reed can be elected, but that the
coming man must be one of character and
ability, if he can be found in that State.


The Democratic members of the Indiana
Legislature are supposed to be nerving
themselves up to the point of resigning, 50
as TO leave both Houses without quorum,
in order to defeat the Congressional Appor-
tionment bill.


The Utica Herald brings out the follow
ing points of historic interest 81 Gratz
Brown is the only candidate ON an electoral
ticket who was ever voted for for President
and Nice-President at the same time. He is
also the only candidate for whom an elector
on the same ticket refused to cast his vote
for either office. This is about all the noto-
riety that he gets out Of the crash which
has oyertaken the party whose origin he
engineered -


The Memphis Aral0,che Is Democratic,
but is sensible enough to say: - To ask
the President not to sustain Judge Durell
is to ask him to override the civil courts of
which, in Louisiana, Judge Durell is the
highest legal representative.
Year: 1873

CHRISTMAS At GRASS Noun. Not
the least among the Christmas festivities in
our city was that at the spacious mansion OF
Lawrence Barnes on Christmas evening. By
invitation the fine chorus choir of the Baptist
church were in attendance, together with
the entire circle Of children and grand
children Of the hospitable host and hostess.
The early part of the evening was largely
devoted to the singing of solos, Duets and
ehoruses which were rendered by the choir
and Others in a most charming manner.
During the evening Darius Green and his
Flving Machine" was introduced to the
party and not little much to the merriment of
tbeocession. After an hour or 80 spent in this
cheerful manner. all marched to the refresh
ment room where was revealed not only table
laden with all the good things Of the season,
but also an elegant tree hung with presents
10 the value of several hundred dollars The
names of every one present were announced
in the distribution of gifts, and that of the
little grand daughter at least score of
times. After several hours ofmerry making
the party separated, feeling that they had
had merry Christmas indeed
Year: 1873

client. After the arguments had closed the
Squire turned to the jury and thus address
ed them: . Gentlemen of the jury, you
have heard the evidence in the case, and
also much that has been said by the counsel
relative to what is common law. Now,
gentlemen of the jury, common law is
common sense and trust you are all men
possessed of enough common sense to know
what common law is. You can retire and
make up your verdict.
Year: 1873

One of the Boston steam fire engine COM
panies owned pet cat. Last Tuesday af-
ternoon, while member Of the company
was sweeping the floor, he accidentally
struck the cat with his broom and frighten-
ed it from where it had been asleep. 1t ran
into the open furnace Under the engine and
eurled up there on the shayings which were
always ready for kindling A short time
afterward the FIRE bell rang. All was ex-
citement, the horses were brought out, the
furnace door was slammed to, and the fire
was lighted The cat had not emerged and
was forgotten, until on the return from the
false alarm discussion on the peculiar ma
ture of the coal used that day led to the rev.
elation.
Year: 1873

Under a new system of telegraphing
known as the automatic, DOW in operation
between Washington and New York, it is
claimed that the circuit can be opened and
closed a thousand fold faster by machinery
than by hand The practical daily opera
tion between New York and Washington
shows that thousand words a minute can
be sent with the same facility As three or
five hundred. This rapid transmission shows
that where twenty wires were required to
meet the demands Of the Morse system, one
will answer by the automatic. 1t Is assert
ed that this economy viii extend itself in
various ways to the benefit Of the public.