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Year: 1872

Il was about the buckwheat cakes. l
told Maria Ann any fool could beat
her making those cakes, and she said |
had better try 1t. So l did. | emptied
the batter all out Of the pitcher one
evening, and set the cakes myself. 1
got the flour, and the salt and the
water, and learned by the past, put In
q liberal quantity Of eggs aud shorten
Ing. I shortened with tallow from
roast beef, because l could not hnd
any lard. The batter did not look
right. l lighted my pipe and pom,
dered-yeast, yeast, to be sure. L had
forgotten tho yeast. l went and woke
up the baker and got six cents worth
yeast. set the pitcher behind the
sitting-room stove, and went to bed.
In the morning got up early aud pre-
pared to enjoy my triumph; but l
didn't. That was yeast strong enough
TO raise the dead the batter was run
Mug all over the carpet. | scraped II
up and put 1t into another dish. :! got
a fire In the kitchen and put the griddle
on. The first lot Of cakes stuck to the
priddle. Tho second dittoed, only
more. Maria came down and asked
me what was burning. She advised
me to grease the griddle. | did it;
One end of the griddle got too hot, anu
i dropped the thing on my tenderest
corn while trying to turn around. FL
nally the cakes were ready for break
fast, aud Maria got the other things
ready. We sat down. My cakes did
not have exactly the right flavor.
took one mouthful and lt satisfied me.
/ Lost my appetite at once. Maria
would not let me put one on her plate.
1 think those cakes may be reckoned
as a dead loss. The cat would not eat
them. The dog ran of and stayed
three days after one was offered TO
him. The hens won't go within ten
feet Of them. 1 threw them Into the
back yard aud there has not been a pig
on the premises since. l eat what Is
nut before me now, and do not allude
to my mothers system Of cooking.
Year: 1872

This wonderful deposit of pure silver was worked with great success many years ago. One piece of pure silver weighing over 700 lbs. was taken out but the ravages of the Apaches prevented further search for the pre- cious metal than picking up the ung- gets of pure silver that were found near the surface, and for a number of years the mine has been abandoned. Lately other discoveries of similar character have been made not far from the old blanche, and at this time quite a large working population is being attracted there. The location of these mines are on and near the line between Sonora and Arizona, nearly due south from Tucson, distant about seventy-tive miles. We have this week seen several specimens of pure silver from there, and have been told that quantities of the same kind have been found. Should the dis coveries prove as good as anticipated, 1t will open new and rich resource to Arizona.
Year: 1872

Escape of Antonio Bravo from the

 Apaches After Being Eight Hours

 Captive.

 Antonio Bravo reached town yes- terday morning and relates the fol- lowing thrilling narrative. Hei IS one of the three mentioned as killed in another column on the hill at the head of Davis Canyon: He says they were attacked and two of his companions were killed at the first fire, another fled, and he was instantly seized and made prisoner. They then took him about mile up the mountain, formed circle and placed him in the center and held council over him. He said he was composed and expected to die. During the council one of the Indians felt of his heart and said: "You do not seem to be afraid" he told him no, he was not. They had long conference over him and kept him prisoner for eight hours. They finally ordered him to take off all his clothes, which he did, and then said to him: "Com- padre, you may go." He said he walked leisurely away and one h. dian followed him for some distance, rushing up frequently with lance drawn as though he was going to throw it through him, but he did not hasten his steps in consequence nor try to avoid it, and kept on with an even pace until he was out of sight of them, when, he says, he burned the ground until he thought he was out of danger. He passed a station eighteen miles east of Tucson before daylight, but fearing in his naked condition they would think h1m an Indian and shoot him, he did not dare to go to it. He says the Indians told him they had killed Lieutenant Stew art and Corporal Black and he saw with them their guns and clothing.

 This is the second instance we have ever known of Apaches allowing a captive to escape. In the other in stance they supposed their prisoner to be insane, and no doubt for this reason Brovo's life was saved. He is large, gray haired venerable looking man, and not showing the least fear, they undoubtedly con- sidered him insane, and as they have 8 superstition against killing lunatics, they let him go. One of the savages had the appearance of being Mexican captive and spoke good Spanish. He told Bravo that they had large force in tho moun- tains-pointing towards the Dragoon mountains.
Year: 1872

THE Feast of San Augustine con- menced on the 2Sth. A large number of people have gathered here from the neigh boring towns of the Territory and from Sonora. We have often been asked by persons not familiar with the customs of our Mexican citizens the reason for hold ing these feasts, and embrace this op- pOrtunity te inform them. The Catholic church designates certain days for the commemoratiOn or celebration of each Saint, and each town has selected patron Saint for that particular town. San Au- gustine being the patron Saint of Tucson, it has been the custom since the town was first built to commence the celebra- tion on this day, and often continue it for ten or fifteen days; relations and friends for many miles around come to it to renew their old friendships and have 0 good time. The Feast is held on the public square, and a large circle is smoothed and covered in the center for dancing, and is generally in use from morning until late at night. Booths are erected on the outside where gaming is carried on and all kinds of refreshments are sold. These Feasts are looked for ward to and prized as highly as Fairs in the older States, but we fear they are rather too numerous for the real pros perity of the people.
Year: 1872

WE have had several fine showers during tables look remarkably well. Grass is abundant everywhere and our people are losing at least one hundred millions of dollars annually by not having herds to eat it. If we could enter into negotia- tions with the Apaches, and they would abide by it in good faith, to give them one half of our increase, and they in consider ation thereof to cease murdering and rob- ping, we could make them and.ourselves rich. What say you, Cachise, will you give us your hand on it
Year: 1872

An ancient and exciting epic is thus paroded
to fit the times


Ping Wing, the fireman's son,


Was the very worst boy in all Canton,
He stole his mothers picked mice,
And he threw the cat in the boiling rice.
And he ate her up, and then says he,
"Nle wonder where the NEW cat bf. i'i
Year: 1872

No one has better opportunity Of
witnessing the wonderful workings of
God in the wide field of nature than
the farmer. His occupation brings
him every day in full view of them.
He is familiar with the progressive de-
velopment Of the young plant, and ths
matured beauty of its full growth.
He is we'll acquainted with the SUM-
shine and the shadow, the softly fall
ing dew and the heavy rain, the gen.
tie breeze and the rushing tempest.
Some from their very familiarity with
these evidences of divine wisdom, lose
all interest in them with little mo1e
regard than the beasts that perish.
O,hers, indeed, recognizing the hand
of God, look en- its movements with
awe and dread-but go no further.
But it is only the Christian that can
see in everything the hand Of "a father.
Other men may wonder and admire !;
te can love and praise. Everywhere
around he sees the fingers ef God, and
he rejoices to know that God is
his friend and when, ia the tempest
or thunderstorm mems hearts are fail
ing them for fear, he can be in peace,
knowing that he is a son Of Him
whom the winds and the seas obey.
Truly, the Christian farmer possesses
greater pleasure and more exquisite
joys than other men have any idea
Of, aud if they have not experienced
these, they have never met true hap.
piness. Reader, have you?
Year: 1872

aoout uluseiI, that the prospect W n'a
return is really fthe only comforting
thought I have now to support me. l
know this is weak in me, and that
his coming back poor can lead to no
good result for either Of us. But he
is the only living being left me to love,
audi can't explain it-but I want to
Put my arms round his neck and tell
him about Mary.


March 14th. I locked up the end
Of the cravat in my writing desk. No
change in the dreadful suspicious that
the bare sight Of it rouses in me. I trem-
bic if so much as touch it.


March 10th, 10th, 18th. Work,
work, work. If I don't knock up, l
shall be able to pay back the advance
in another week j.; and then, With lit
tie more piuohiog 10 my daily e.pen.
sss, I may succeed 10 saving . shilling
or two to get some turf to put over
Mary's grave-and perhaps even few
flowers besides, to grow round it.
March 18th: Thinking Of Robert
all day long. Does this mean that hc
is really coming back ? If it does,
reckoning the distance he is at from
New York, and the time ships take to
get to England, l might see him by the
Year: 1872

BY JULIA WARD HOWE. s#
They tell me am shrewd with other men;
With thee I'm slow and difficult of speech,
With others | may guide the car of talk


Thou wing'st it oft to realms beyond my reach.
If other guests should come. I'd deck my hair,
And choose my newest garments from the shelf:
When thou art hidden, would clothe my heart
With oliest purposes, as Tor God himself
For them while the hours with tale or song


Or web of fancy. fringed with careless rhyme.
But how to find fitting lay for thee. ."
Who hast the harmonies of every time?
O friend beloved I sit apart and dumb


Sometimes in sorrow. oft in joy divine:
M y lip " ill falter but my prisoned heart .4-


Springs forth to measure its faint pulse with


thine.
Thou art to me most like a royal guest.


Whose travels bring him to some lowly roof
Where simple rusics spread their festal fare.


And. blushing. own it is not good enough.
Bethink thee. then, whene'er thou com'st to me-


From high emprise and noble toll to rest,
My thoughts are weak and trivial, matched with


But the poor mansion offers thee its best
Year: 1872

How A LAWYER WAS OuT-LAwED BY
A School MAsTER.-Prof. Hiram Orcutt
of the Tilden Seminary at West Leban-
on, knows thing or two about pianos,
as a Boston dealer can testify to his joy,
and '' York State" lawyer to his cha
grin. When Mr.. Orcutt taught school
in New York town a dispute arose as
to the ownership Of piano which one OF
the villagers had bought but not paid
for, and which, without paying for, he
sought to mortgage to a creditor. Or
cutt informed the real owner in Boston,
who, to save himself, made ont bill of
sale of the instrument to his informant,
and when the officer and attorney came
to attach the piano the school teacher
forbade them, and with the aid of some
Irishman successfully resisted them
He then shipped the piano by night
to Boston, aud had another instru-
ment shipped to him, with the proper
evidence that number two want number
one.


Meanwhile the attorney raised a breeze.
and everybody was up in arms about the
matter. But the lawyer didn't seize the
goods, and the school master took an old
piano-number three in transaction
and sent it, covered, by truckman to
the depot, as if to ship IL to Boston. The
truckman passed the lawyers house and
the latter said, SHOWS the time p and
with an officer and posse repaired
to the depot, where they had an en-
counter with the school masters posse,
who according to instructions allowed
themselves to be conquered. The victo-
rious attorney then drove through the
streets, mounted on the piano, swinging
his hat and shouting, Music, music p


On arriving at his barn to store the
goods he took off the cloth to feast
his eyes, when To- it was an old and
worth ess instrument, and he was liable
to be sued for trespass by the school mas
ter. He was sued instanter, and the
crest-fallen attorney sought Mr.. CIRCUITS
Office and begged terms, which we're $3.50
and indemnity for all further litigations
arising out of the debt. This was at
court time, and many new hat did the
attorney have to buy for his brother law
yers. His name is withheld, as he is
still living, and no doubt profits by his
lesson from that Yankee school master.
Springfield Union.
Year: 1872

FALSE DELICAGY.-There are thous-
ands of mothers who will talk with the
kindest unreserve to those not bound to
them by any tie but that of friendship,
who yet feel the most false and foolish
delicacy with their own daughters. I
know to be the case. A great many
young girls have come to me for infor-
nation and advice on personal subjects,
whom an unnatural reserve kept from ap
plying to their own mothers. know it
again by experience. | found it much
harder to do my duty in this respect to


my own daughters than to the daughters
of others. And yet the duty is an i'm
perative one which requires to be at
tended to both much earlier and more
positively than was necessary in your own
case. For, assure yourself Of one thing
that the knowledge which came to wo-
men half century ago only as the re-
suit of experience, is ready now at every
street corner and in every kitchen for
your little girl, as answer to her first won
dering intuition. Science Of Health.
Year: 1872

Fanny Fern writes in the Ledger:


1t has long been question with me,
whether what woman gains in strength
she does not lose in grace. am sure this
need not be so at least only so long as
we are in the crudities. Ijealously watch
every conversation on such subjects be-
tween the sexes. Not long since, / over
heard some remarks of relative to q
widow whose husband. a builder was just
deceased. She had been as much a
stranger to business up to this period as
one of her own children, when she sud-
denly announced her determination to
complete several houses for which he was
under contract. Friends stood aghast
But, nothing daunted, spite of indiffer-
ence and encouragement, she went brave
ly on. The men in her employ soon
found out that they could not be eye-ser-
wants; for was not Madam upon the
ground as early as seven in the morn
ing, to see if they were at their posts,
and performing their several duties
Nor were they forgotten when pay day
came. Money was given out and re-
ceipts were taken as if she had been
brought up on ledgers and accounts.
pricked up my ears. Wa this the
looming" woman? Had she children !?
Who washed their faces, mended their
clothes, spanked them when necessary,
and kept the raspberry jam intact


While listened for an answer to these
queries, | found others had been curious,
particular the male sex. One from whom
| expected notes of admiration, remark
ed with raised eyebrows. Sharp woman
that-where was the baby the while? 2"
From not one did l hear an approbative
remark. And yet these very men would
be the first to deplore an added burden
to the already over-weighed father or
brother.


inquired as to the graces-whether
she had lost sight of them during this
spasm of business. | found that my la
dies bonnet was daintily trimmed by her
own fingers as if they had not been
smirched by ledger accounts. She enter
tanned at dinner; she presided at tea
she graced reception. Still the men
shook their heads, What could be the
matter3 For long time l puzzled my
head in vain; for her character to my
eye seemed to be as round as a circle.
AT last | hit upon it. DR.. Holland, /
hit upon it She was not "the clinging
vine 2" She stood on her own feet,
though the oak was felled to the earth.
Moral: Every woman should carry
staff though she may not need to use
| it.
Year: 1872

WoMAN's FoRTITUDE.-Ih have often
had occasion to remark the fortitude with
which women sustain the most over
whelming reverse of fortune. Those dis
asters which break down the spirit of
man, and PROSTATE him in the dust, seem
to call forth all the energies Of the soft
er sex, and give such intrepidity and
elevation to their character that at times
it approaches to sublimity. Nothing can
be more touching than to behold soft
and tender female, who had been all
weakness, and dependence, and alive to
every trivial roughness, while treading
the path of life suddenly rising in men,
tai force to be the comforter and sup
porter of her husband under misfortune
and abiding, with unshrinking firmness
the bitterest blast of adversity.- Wash
ington L'ving.
Year: 1872

At a town near Boston three young
ladies residing in the same house with a
well known physician recently determin-
ed to play practical joke upon him.
They made up bundle of dainty linen
embroidery, etc., in the shape of an in
FAINT, the total value ofths fictitious child
being probably about $50. They put
the make-believe infant into basket and
tied the basket at the door handle
Ring went the bell, and the young ladies
stood at the window above to see the
physician take in the child and be taken
in himself Their horror may be imag-
ined when they saw man deliberately
walk up to the bundle and as deliberate
ly walk off with it. They are now
mourning the loss of twenty-six yards of
fine linen, twelve yards of thread lace,
four hemstitch pocket handkerchiefs,
and other valuable property.
Year: 1872

Sir Toby has been spending few days
in South jersey, and philosophically OBJ
serves of one of the experiences of his
visit !:


never did have that animosity tow
ard the mosquito that most people feel,
but when | saw him in his glory down
here, deliberately leaning against my bed
post, his legs crossed and his right flip
pers resting carelessly on his hip, watch
ing for me to 90 to bed, it struck me that
for a vampire, his behavior was imperti-
nent and exasperating in the extreme"
Year: 1872

The only branch of the Supreme Court which will
be omen during July will weeks Of the
Leonard viii hold Court Mondays and Tuey and
Judge Smith the remaining days Of the week JUDGE Pratt
will remainder Of the month There indication o.
busy Rumbe Of motions await hearing and with
these will be nmnged ny and applications for
orders and discharges from bail and proceedings Of exclusively
er pa character Wednesday Judge Barrett, who has presided at
during the past month will hold special session for the
settlement Of orders.


There will be no trials IN the Superior Court duubg july The only
Court Special Term Judge Freedman VINO ha
held this Court during will continue TO hold I'll the
second the MONTH after which Judge Mcneil VIII preside m
The Court does not I'll IL m On Sar
dayst will x


In The Cont OF Common Pleas there Special Term during
JnlT Judge Van Brn will the Judge Joseph
H. Day The Judge Laremoe the remainder OF the



The only tried Court Of Oyer and Teminr in
July will be that Of Stokes. ,.,


The gnment Judges OF the Marine Court previously hIei
will hold good % the end Of the year
Year: 1872

The defeat of the Athletics by the Balti-
nine at Baltimore last week places the Boston nine
in very advantageous position in regard to the cham
ponship for 1872 The championship record stands as
Year: 1872

The people who went to church yesterday had a
feeling OF tenderness in their breasts, and the
solemn services were to them doubly impressive
The event which happened SO few hours ago-the
death OF great and much-loved journalst-had
cast mournful shadows on their hearts. All
classes-those whose prejudices or prin-
ciples compelled their opposition to the la
bors Of his life well as many who
had been his disciples in thought and action since
frst his great brain shed its erratc light on the
sphere OF journalism-felt their sincere sorrow
seconded by the holy reflections of the Sabbath
deep in their hearts, and 1t made their prayers
more pathetic and more eloquent. Coming so soon
after the anthems OF thanksgiving had arisen In
the same temples to the ears of God, the blow that
shocked the senslbitles OF a nation Swoke signih-
cant and conscientious retrospects and perspec-
tives that are seldom occasioned by like episode
Of the personal histories in the story Of Q country


A great many Of the sermons preached yesterday
were on the death of Mr. Greeley, and will be found
elsewhere, where they viii be read with profound
Interest. being able and touching.


The churches were crowded, and the cold
weather seems not only to have warmed peoples
blood by compelling exertion, but also their con-
sciences. The sermons Of general character will
be found below.
Year: 1872

Mr.. Beecher preached last night to a crowded
congregation from the Gospel Of st. Luke, x, s.
THAT the children OF the world are in their genera
tion wiser than the children OF light.n


These words occurred in q parable OF Christ, and
1t Is parable that has puzzled more men than any
other parable. In this respect 1t differed from all
other parallels. Mr.. Beecher then read the para
BILE, and made running commentary upon
1t as he went along, and reading certain
apparently obscure passages paraphrastically.
1t Is my purpose said MT. Beecher) by
the explanation OF this parable TO show
that men act more wisely in building
up their interests for this world than they do for
things that are invisible. There is q dennteness
and purpose In the pursuit OF worldly avocation.
In this respect there Is marked contrast between
the building OF the spiritual house within and the
building OF the house without. don't blame the
man for wanting to redeem himself from the labor
Of life, and striving to achieve real estate and
stocks. 1t Is right But 1t Is not right to live for
this only. For manhood, for conscience, Is 1t not
have men


DEFINITE PLANS


but long foresight, and steadlness and dcniteness
OF understanding. DO men seek for virtues as they
seek for treasures? There are sonnet etlng affecting
to me to see the ransacking OF creation that goes
see the restless Yankee and the steady going Eng
lishman boring up the surface OF the earth. 90
where icebergs are; go where storms stir the
earth, and you Will see men expose themselves to
the elements; go where fever and heat are and
men speaking foreign tongue, and you will see
the hand OF industry stretched out; and one
grand aim all the time, the desire for
the enjoyment OF the fruits OF life.
We say they are wise, and we call them the sons OF
enterprise. DO men go through such forms that
they may have glorious receptions in the heavens
Then, consider what watchfulness what precision
men use in the pursuit OF their worldly business.
true business man, who commands who can
weigh the wants Of one Kingdom with another.
VINO can look so minutely as to bring great wealth
out OF his ventures-he ls q large man. and we ad-
mirc such men, We are sorry when such capacity Is


STAINED WITH MEANNESs


and dishonesty. But do men use such powers
In seeking the glorious success OF the lie to
coLleS Look with what wisdom some men in.