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Year: 1872

CUnE For HORSE PULLING AT HALTER
year ago, had II four year Old horse which
had contracted the habit of pulling back
whenever she was fastened. She would be
sure to break loose, if what held her could be
broken by her drawing in a backward way,
She was cared of the habit by taking rope
few feet hong, fastening one end around her
body just back of her shoulders, and passing
the other end through the ring of the halter
and tying to the post. She lay back for her
usual pull few times when fixed in this way,
but soon found she WAS drawing from her body
instead of her head, which she did not relish
and soon gave 1t up entirely, She can now be
left anywhere with perfect safety, as nothing
will induce her to pull back when fastened.


Cor Country Gentlemen.
Year: 1872

DINNER-TABIE TALK.-"We put our
kitchen" said uncle, sin the darkest and
poorest room Of the hoHse then we en-
trust its care to a person whose ignor-
ance forces her TO put upwith the pittanee
we pay her; and from her, either by her
own unaided exerIions or under the
guidance of mistress who is frequently
more incompetent than she is, we expect
to obtain food prepared with skill and
art, though such preparations is study
which requires natural abilities, much
special application, and is a field in which
higher order OF talent, if not genius,
could find full scope.


A innocentmindcd Brooklyn girl said to a
Year: 1872

We know Of no more singular case of
canine sagacity, says the Hartford Times,
than one which was related to us day
or two since. The gentleman who own
cd the dog lived, al the time the occur
rnce happened, i'll Southington. 1t was
a good while ago. His dog, q hound,
was bitten in the nose by red adder.
This is snake whose venomous quality
is only inferior to that OF the rattlesnake
1t will always kill man.


The dog, though bitten, continued to
assail the snake, and succeeded in killing
him. To the surprise of his owner, who
had witnessed the combat, the dog then
turued and fed at his best speed for
home, the home being two miles distant.
Fhe people at the house saw him come
rushing up the road and plunge into the
open cellar-way.


There they found him energetically
paving up the moist earth of the cellar
bottom, and into the hole thus made he
stuck his nose, aud then, holding it there,
he paved more dirt around lis head, SO
rs to bury his face and head out OF sight


They could not call or coax him away,
and theIe he staycd-so far as the family
were observers OF him for two days,
with his head and face buried in the
moist ground in the cellar. Then he
came forth, all well.


How did that dog know that that
singular treatment would save linn?


\ Western minister had been in the
habit Of preaching DEGREES III way
which his wife, among others, regarded
rs borl,r,ng on tatalism. Observing one
Saturday, as he was about TO leave home
to meet ii frontier missionary engagement
that he put his rife in unusually good
order, she rallied him upon his supposed
Inconsistency. "My dear" she says,
" why do You take this rifle with you
Ii you are to be killed by an Indian dur.
iny this "trip, that rifle wouldn't prevent
it and, if you are not TO be killed, Of
course you do not need it," ''Yes," he
replied, ''to be sure, my dear, that is a
very proper view; bu, you see, suppose
| should meet an Indian while | am gone
and his time had come, and hadn't my
rifle with me, what would he do? You
see, my dear, we must all contribute oul
part toward the fulilment Of lhe DEGREES
of Providence"
Year: 1872

A son of Col. Waring of Newport went out
to gather mushrooms, the other morning, at
three O'Clock. One of the servants saw him,
thought he must be walking in his sleep, and
in short time the whole family were chasing
that young man; they found him at last, and
although he appreciated their benevolent
solicitude, he was not quite so grateful to the
reporter who tried to interview him in the
afternoon. g -
Year: 1872

Macaulay's New Zeaander will have a hard
puzzle if, when he comes, he chances to get
can he be expected to guess, for instance,
that the following is the announcement of a
political speech: The Tall Sycamores of the
Wabash will give specimen of how crows
are eaten this evening at the stand in the
courthouse yard
Year: 1872

when John Adams was ninety years of
age he was asked how he kept the vigor of
MS faculties up to that age. He replied: By
constantly employing them. The mind of an
oid man is like AN old horse; if you would
get any work out of it you must work it all
the time"
Year: 1872

Hats lined with cork are a novelty in the
stores. But they must not be confounded
with the corked hats worn by certain military
ofhcers, nor yet with that kind into which
pugnacious persons sometimes threaten to
knock their antagonists. A social buffoon
suggests that the object of the cork is to stop
the hat in case it should be blown away.
Year: 1872

As MENTIONED some time ago. q dane
ing party will be held at the " Mountain
House next Friday evening. We are
assured on good authority that Junction
City and Oregon Guch will. send large
delegations to join in the festivities, and
it being but short distance from town
we hope to see a good attendance Of
pleasure seekers from this place.
Year: 1872

To meet very general demand, we Will
furnish the WEEKLY suN from July to January
Jor hdU dollar. This will embrace the Presl-
dental Campaign. Believing that THE wEEKLV
Sun will prove an efficient agent in the battls
against corruption in high places, and in the
restoration of purity and efficiency in tho Gov
ornment, We invite our friends who are In eaE-
nest In this patriotic work to aid us In extend
ing Its circulation.


The WEEKLY SUN Is the cheapest Journal In
the world 1t contains eight pages OF reading
matter, and Is In every respect, both AZ family
and political newspaper, fully equal TO any othor
published In the country not merely in interest
and ability, but In the quantity of useful infor-
nation and pleasant entertainment which its
columns furnish.


Address THE SUN. New yorb city.
Year: 1872

Are sure drawback on personal appearance
and personal comfort. Therefore, keep them
in good repair with that established aDtidOte
for all the diseases that assail them, fragrant
SOzODONr.
Year: 1872

Davenport, this evening.


More Spring and more snow.


The Mechanics Loan Association meets this
evening.


Young men cannot spend their leisure time
at better place than at the Workingmen's In
stitute Library Room.


Application has been made to the Governor of
Pennsylvania for pardon for the unfortunate
Deawarean who was sentenced to the State
Prison, last fall, by the Delaware county courts,
for being an accomplice in thievery
Year: 1872

Based upon the amount of money

 needed for public school purposes in

 Pima county in the 1873, which

 amount was estimated by the Terri

 torial Superintendent of Public h.

 struction (the Governor), the Board of

 Supervisors have fixed the levy at 20

 cents on each $1OO of taxable prop

 perty. In doing this, the Board ex-

 hibited the right spirit-a spirit of

 proper regard for the community at

 large, as we'll as for the rising genera

 tion. We know the mass of the tax payers will cheerfully pay this tax and if there be any who will not cheerfully pay it. we rejoice that the Board has provided the unwilling task for them. The knowledge that good public schools are kept up in neigh borhood, is of real value to all the property in it, and 8 positive recom- mendation of worth to the property owners. Property is always more desirable within easy access of public schools 80 situated, it attracts the in telligent purchaser and valuable citi- zen. It IS neither @ good excuse morally nor financially for a man to object to paying public school tax because he may have no children to reap its advantages. The value of property and security to life are just ill proportion to the character of the government over them, and the gov ernment is good or bad according to the intelligence and public virtue of the people who conduct it. There is hardly a higher duty resting upon a people than that of educating their and it is the judgment of the American people that III the pub lie school is the only place this can be generally and successfully accom- plished. Hence, we say "well done" to the act of the Pima county Super visors in the matter of the levy for public school purposes.
Year: 1872

San Francisco has been in a spark ling excitement for some weeks. Our readers last week were advised of the diamond company which was formed in San Francisco, capital $10, ,000, 900. Reports say the stock sold rapidly and men of wealth and common sense made investments. The Alta treats the subject at length and apparently as job of merit. The Bulletin does not deny but rather admits the credi- bility of the statements made, but cautiously refers to the standing of 8 few men who seem to have led off in working up the project. The Bulletin is informed, as it thinks credibly, that the diamonds were found on the 32d parallel, near the Sonora line not far from, and probably within, Arizona. In this we are quite positive that journal is misinformed, and if the diamond stories are true in the main, we can easily understand why the manipulators would want a stable paper to mislead the public. We have many reasons for believing that this diamond excitement is based upon stones found near and probably in the northeastern part of Arizona. It is not necessary for us to fan the fervor of this excitement. The papers far and wide are discussing it as genuine, and we will go slow and watch devel- opments, neither urging any to go to or stay away from wherever they choose to believe the gems exist.
Year: 1872

One day this week, Judge Vim. J. Berry walked around town, and collected upwards of sixty dol lars, which sum he has applied to building fine platform for the Band of the 23d Infantry. The Judge was never yet known to tire in the cause Of the people of Prescott, and we only wish his ef forts in their behalf would bring him something valuable, in the shape of position, money or q better half.
Year: 1872

This firm has now a 6ne stock of goods. of every de scriptiou which they selling very cheap Owing the absence of Col Head and the arrival of their goods Mir Marks the junior partner has not had time i make up an advertisement but he wishes to say 10 th people that his firm motto is to sell cheap.

 June g, 1872,
Year: 1872

hands and at the same time the body of
the rascally Spanish mate came tumb-
ling down into the water between the
two vessels by shot from Haywood's
pistol. At the moment he was shot the
mates musket went off and the ball
striking Sinclair in the right arm
caused him to drop the axe. | jumped
out on deck and seizing the axe, which
fortunately did not fall overheard, with
one blow succeeded in parting the rope.
Another shot rang close in my ears, and
with yell another Spaniard who had
run aft on the cutter and was about TO
fire on me, tumbled to the deck by
shot from Sinclair's pistol. We now
jumped as quickly as possible into the
hold, and Haywood, having fastened the
wheel straight ahead, squatted below
the guards of the pilot house. We were
none too quick, for volley of musketry
from the Spaniards ratified above our
heads. Then we heard orders in Span
ish to bring the brass gun to bear upon
us, and a minute afterward we heard
heavy and protracted cursing and
swearing. | dislike very much to hear
swearing, but must confess that the
cursing of those Spaniards when they
found their gun spiked and useless was
music sweet in my ears. They gave us
another volley of musketry, most of
the shots of which fell short. We were
now safe and standing out upon deck
we shouted back our derision and def
ance and made our steam whistle scream
when our voices could no longer be
heard by our captors. We headed
straight for the port in Cuba from
which we had set out. Capt. Sinclairs
arm, though painful (the ball having
passed between the bones of the fore
arm) healed rapidly and he was not at
any time obliged to lay up on account
of the wound. We reached our destina-
ton without any accident, gave up the
tug, got our passports and left on the
first steamer for New Orleans. AS we
were passing out of the harbor we met
the cutter coming in and passing close
by her could not refrain from hailing
the Captain thereof and asking
him if he had his gun unspiked yet.
His only reply vas volley of impreca-
tions and shaking his sword at us. We
reached New Orleans in due time and
| returned first to Capt. Sinclair's plan
tation and from there to Memphis. |
afterward met Col. Haywood in the
city and he told me that the Spaniards
returned to the Island, and dug up al
most the entire side of it in search of
the treasure, which they finally found,
and which consisted of Peruvian gold
coins of about seventy-fve thousand
dollars value in United States currency.


lost my time and some money in
this adventure, still ! do not regret it.
When think how | had to pull off my
boots and give up that bright gold
(about fifteen hundred dollars), I take
a grim satisfaction in picturing to my
self the Spanish mate tumbling into
the sea from the shot of Haywood's pis-
tol. My ankle still shows the scar
where that hard gold rubbed and chafed
it during the walk from the place where
we found the gold to the tug. All
things considered, do not think that
would again engage in an expedition to
hunt for pirates gold in the West India
Islands.
Year: 1872

1t would be interesting to know how
a Jury is to be obtained to try Stokes
for the murder of Fisk. If there is any
man in New York possessing sufficient
intelligence to serve as juror who
has not read the affair in the news
papers, it is to be hoped that he has
enough selfrespect to deny it, even if
that should involve perjury. How then
are twelve good men and true to be
gathered into the jury box? The diff.
culties Of these are increasing. and
threaten ere long to block the machinery
of justice, unless some remedy is de-
vised. The only system that promises
TO meet the emergency is for the


courts to have a special panel of two or
three dozen men on hand all the time
and keep them under the influence of
an anssthetic until their services are
required to answer a conundrum OF
Guilty or not guilty."-Chieago Tines.
Year: 1872

The Post Office of this city does not accommo-
date our people as it should in the opinion OF very
many citizens. We refer to the closing OF the OIL
Il ,e on holidays. or days on which the masses OF
our citizens close their places of business and abb
stain fro I'M their daily occupation. Yesterday, Tor
instance, being thanksgiving. the Post Office was
closed at O'Clock. a. m, and no gentleman could
get his mail matter out of the Office after that hour
during the day, although all the important mails
arrive after that hour. This is certainly very
great Inconvenience, to say the least, and must be
felt by large number of our business men, The
Government certainly is able to pay clerk for
two or three hours service on such days. 1t was
formerly the custom to close the Office after the ar
rival and distribution of the mails in the morning,
and open it again in the evening. This allowed
those who anticipated letters and other mail mat
ter an opportunity to secure it. We hope We do
no injustice in making this statement we mean
none. and will make correction if We err.
Year: 1872

We again request water renters to call at the Of
Fl % of the Water Department. N. Il. Corner OF
Tenth and Market streets aud examine their bills
for 1878; and also give notice to the Registrar Of
any sales or exchanges Of property before the lst
OF December, so that the charges may be made
against the real owners, otherwise those whose
names appear on the bills as owners OF the proper
ty will be liable for the water rent and required
to pay it. although they may have transferred the
property to some one else. We make this note al
the request Of the Registrar
Year: 1872

DIsdRAcEFUI. - Since the commencement of
the extra meetings at Union NJ. T. Church,
crowd Of boys, and young men have been causing
much annoyance to those who attend the SER
vices. They collect in a crowd in front Of the
church, where they make it a special point to in
suit any one coming ont Of the church, By their
boisterous and profane language. This surely
ought to be stopped and at once.
Year: 1872




MELTON VEAL.-This Is standard
dish at the Melton Races In England.
and Is composed of alternate slices Of
veal and ham. Butter q good sized
bowl and slice as thin rs possible six
hard-boiled eggs, then line the bowl
with the slices. Place in the bottom \
layer of raw veal steak In thin slices,
and sprinkle over it small quantity
Of salt, pepper and grated lemon-reel /;
proceed In the same way with thin
Slices Of raw ham, but leave out the
salt. Fill up the bowl In this manner.
Cover IL with thick paste Of flour and
water. so stiff as to be rolled ont. Tie
q double cotton cloth all over the top
and boil three hours, putting It. Into
boiling water at the frat, and keeping
the water just below the level of the
bowl. When cooked, take oif the cloth
and the paste, and let the veal stand
until the following day; then turn 1t
out on to 4 platter, and cut very thin
after 1t comes TO the table; garnish
with sliced lemon and parsley. 1t is u
"dainty dish" to set before king.
1t Is also delicious as side dish for
dinner, aud makes good breakfast.
Year: 1872

DErEsrApLE.-Figaro says: II there
Is one animal that Is particularly de-
testable, It Is one Of your GROWERS.
Ie growls at his wife and children,
and his grocer. butcher, merchant and
tailor. lie growls because his dinner
Is ready and because 1t isn't ready. lie
yrowls II there are buttons on his shirt
and when there are no buttons on his
shirt his coffee is not sweet enough
or it Is too sweet; his victuals are
cooked too much or not enough; the
children are too dirty or they are too
clean the weather Is too cold or too
hot. His growing Is heaviest at his
newspaper-there Is too much or not
enough poetry In it; too much politics
or not enough. aud so on AL intinitum.
His growing Is never ceasing and
when he dies he will get up big
growl at the devil for keeping such hot
fires during warm weather.
Year: 1872

One Of the best farms in Franklin


county is owned and managed by two


brothers, whose locks are now silvered


by many years Of honest labor. Their


well-kept lands extend over hundreds
of acres, including some of the most
fertile pastures, where Craze in the
summer seventy-fve or eighty head of
young cattle-One of the best herds Of
Durhams to be found in New England.
Hundreds of acres Of woodland are
covered with a heavy growth Of tim.
Der, aud instead of being pillaged and
robbed by the invading axe, are in
creasing in value every year. Exten-
sive orchards are in the best bearing
condition, and frequently contribute
over thousand dollars to the annual
income. They own Il dairy Of some
twenty cows, and the golden butter
produced is some of the best that finds
its way to the Boston market. Each
Of these brothers has family, and
they reside IN two grand old farm
houses in close proximity, beneath the
spreading branches of magnificent
elins. But what seems little remark


able in this age of greed and seliishness,
is that the relations Of the two fami-
lies are always most friendly and in
perfect harmony. They share every
thing in common, There is no divi-
sion of the proceeds Of their well.pay-
ing farm. Either draws for the wants
Of himself and family, as the occasion
requires, without any particular con
sultation with or permission of the
other. There is confidence and a
reliance upon the Integrity Of each
otner that is as rare as it is beautiful.
II member Of one household is sick,
be or she is cared for as tenderly by
those from the noighboring house as
by those beneath the same roof. There
is no finding Of fault because some
may think they are doing more than
their share Of the common work. As
the wife of one Of the brothers is an
invalid, the management Of the dairy
has fallen to the lot of the other; but
this extra duty is charged as a matter
of course, and is the source Of no un.
pleasantness. Each Of the brothers
has son, and it is probable that the
grand old farm will be transmitted TO
them still undivided, and thnt the
same pleasant family relationship viii!
be continued for another generation.
We doubt if a like instance Of happy
co-partnership can be found in the
country Greenfield (Mass) GG=ette
Year: 1872

The following is the experience of a
mechanic, concerning the benefits of a
newspaper:


Ten years ago I lived in town in
Indiana. On returning home one night,
for / am carpenter by trade, | saw a
little girl leave my door, and | asked
my wife who she was, She said Mrs.
Harris had sent her after their newspa-
per, which my wife had borrowed. AS
we sat down to tea, my wife said to me
by given name:


II wish you would subscribe for the
newspaper, it is so much comfort to me
when YOU are away from home"


81 would like to do so, said |, but
you know l owe a payment on the
house and lot. 1t will be all | can Do
to meet it.


She replied


"If you will take this paper, I will
sew for the tailor to pay for it"


] subscribed for the paper; it came
in due time to the shop. While rest.
ing one noon, and looking in it, | saw
an advertisement of the county com.
missioners to leta bridge that was to
be built.


| put in bid for the bridge, and the
job was awarded to me; on which |
cleared three hundred dollars, which
enabled me to pay for my house and
lot easily, and for the newspaper. If l
had not subscribed for the newspaper,
would not have known anything about
the contract, and could not have met
my payment on my house and lot, A
mechanic never loses anything by tax
ing a newspaper.
Year: 1872

The New York Herald since the death of
its senior editor has been leaning for Gree
ley. It is getting very lukewarm since the
North Carolina election. But it has cor
respondent travelling i'll interior New York.
He says in his letter he is a Greeley man
and started out thinking Greeley was GER
tain to sweep New York. He writes as
follows:


I am sorely puzzled what to make out of
the countrymen away out here in the west
ern portion of the State, for they do not
seem to be as strong friends of the Greeley
movement as [ was led to expect and as
nine-tenths of the people in New York city
believe they are.


THE DEMOCRATS. 5.


What struck me more than anything else
during my journeyings was the conduct OF
the Democrats whom chanced at the inns
or depots to get into conversation with.
No matter how small the place where L
stopped / was sure to come across few
Democrats who either declared that they
would not vote at all or out of sheer spite
they would vote for Grant. This found
to be the case among the old men especial
Iy, who, in all probability, had never in all
their lives voted anything but the straight
Democratic ticket, no matter how good or
bad the nominations may have been.
In the Eighth ward of Rochester, which
has always been Democratic, a thorough
canvass has brought to light the astound-
ing revelation that only fifteen Republi-
cans will vote for Greeley, and that eighty
Democrats will vote for Grant! Take this
vote and calculate it by the rule of three
and where will it leave the country?
I talked with Democrats and Republi-
cans and Liberals, and roamed about to
find out just how the tide was running and
must confess that my confidence in the
strength of the Greeley party in the country
became every day beautifully less and
small by degrees.