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A CITY OF THE PLAIN.
From the Denver (Col,) New*, December 19. 1
TBI TALI AN AEIZONA TRAVELER TELLS?
Rb INS 0? A ONCE POPULOUS CITY.
Col. W. T. Roberts, who went down to
Arizona with the Mike Gray parfyjhunting J
after diamonds and things, had some won- (
derful stories to detail upon his arrival
home, concerning the land through which he
passed, the people he saw, hardships endured
by the party, and discoveries made. The '
parties started for Arizona from Denver, 1
outfitting at Paebla. j
Beyond the San Joan Rivor, to the southward
and westward, they eame into a dee- 1
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perace loosing unmnaotiea region, senium
trod by foot of civilimd mas, and ah tinned
by the indians. It consist* of a succession ?
of elevated plateaus, covered by sand and
cut up by deep, impamable gorges cut out in
the sandstone by the heavy rains which prevail
there. On the top of many of these
metas is a scanty growth of nut-pine and
scrubby cedar, while others are covered with
bunches of grass, upon which the wild
sheep, in greet numbers,'fatten. There is s
no water in all these regions, except iu the j:
deep holes washed out at the bottom of tho *"
canon, and gorges washed by the winter f
torrents, where the water stands and grows ,
stagnant under the scorching summer sun. _
For miles and miles, further than the eye
can teach, these barren wastes stretch in a n
continuous succession of desert table lands D
and yawning chasms.
Tm party were repeatedly lost on the last 1!
trip, none of them knowing the trail, and
keeping, as was wrong, on the tops of the
mesaritostead of is the valleys. At one time (
they wandered fourteen dayn without the
least idea of where they were going, and ?
suffering greatly for water. At ene period 1
of their wanderings they were thirtv-si^
hours without water, and nearly perished of f
thirst. They travelled until many of their 1
mules gave out and several of the men de- f'
clared they could go no further. Captain 1
Grey, Col. Roborte and Ben Harpending, a p
ni>nha? nf A Harnendinc. rode on a short
"vf"v" ? ? I o> _
distance, and fortunately found a pool of
water, which provod the salvation of the P,1
entire party. They traveled on day after .
day, resolutely struggling against despair,
and finally, by good fortune, fouud a way
out of the desert.
Roberts tells a strange story of a strange 1
city?or the remains of otie?away down ai
there in that desolate land, it was while P
attempting tc find his way out of the gorges P
into which the party had stumbled, that Roberta
came out upon a mesa, and was astonished
to find before him the ruins of what a
was onoe evidently a populous city. It co- an
vered an area of about three square miles, ov
and wa? enclosed by wall of sand and f?
stone, neatly quarried and dressed, ten or ^
twelvo feet high, and which, judging by the
debris, was fifteen or twenty feet high be- , u
fore its tall. In most places it had crumbled .
away aad fallen, and was covered with sand, ln
but In tnjmy places it was standing six or a
eight ft. above the sand banks which had driftted
around it. The entire area inside of
thia Had at nne time been covered with ,.
houses bailt on aoli! sand stone, which 1K
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showed excellent masonry in their construe- ,
tion. This ancient city is situated in Ari- I
tuna, ninety miles from the boundary line of
Utah and Arizona, and the same distance; '
from the western Colorado line. It has the
appearance of being an old Aztec city that
baa been deserted for hundreds of years and
fallenAo ruins. It is entirely stone, and not ,
a stick of worked timber is to be seen among
the raius. Nothing but the walls are stand- v5
ing, and none of them are now left more "T"
than eight or ten feet above the sand, which ^
is eight or ten feet deep. The walls still
bear traces of many hieroglyphics, cut deep
into them, showing various Indian customs ![
and superstitions. There are also the ruins :a
of stately monuments, built of square block ^
sandstone, well squarred, and showing good rc
masonry, which are worked with notches PJ
and crosses cut into them at regnlar inter- ^
of
Till.
The city is covered with sand, which, it is ai
thought, was blown there from the desert. ni
The sand has become solid and packed by jj'
the rains. Under the sand is a bine clay J"
six qr eight feet doep. No bones, imple- .
ments or relics of any kind were found, with
the exception of some pottery of dark color.
These were embellished with paintings of .
flowers and ornamental figures in blue co- jl
lore. The coloring matter is of a blue mineral
substance of some kind. It is perfectly 111
indelible, and pieces of the pottery which tr
have been exposed to storms which have
worn away the solid masonry of the walls of
the city, show their colors fresh and bright so
to all appearances as when new. The pot of
tery itself has been found to be perfectly ra
fire-proof, when tried in crucibles and fur- Si
naces. p<
After the discovery of the city, which, by fc
the way, Roberts was the only "one to see, m
the party moved on. Afterward one of the pi
explorers was lost, and wandered without st
food several davH. He finally made his way u
to Defiance, ana then fonnd his companion*, tc
Story of tuf. Poor Little Stephen s(
Girard.?The man lives in Philadelphia Sl
who, when young and pooor, entered a bank,
and aayshe "Please sirdon'tyou wantaboy?"
And the stately personage said. "No, little
boy. I don't wan't a littld boy." The little d
boy. whose heart was too full for utterance, *
chewing a piece of licorice stick he had
bought with a cent stolen from his good and a
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pious aunt, with subs plainly audible, ana i *
with great globules of water rolling down his I
cheeks, glided silently down the marblestcpB s
of the bank. Bending his noble form, the ; *
bank man dodged behind a door, for he ! <
thought the little boy was going* to ahy a t
stone at him. But the little boy picked up '
something and stuck it in his poor ragged I
jacket. "Come here, little boy," and tho i
little boy did come here, and the bank man '
said, "Lo, what pickest thou up?" And be '
awnrewd tod replied, " a pin;" and the bank <
man said, "How do yon vote?recuse me.
you go to Sunday school?" and lie said he
did. Then the bank man took d <wn a pen
made of pnre gold and flowing with pure
ink, and he wrote upon a piece of paper,
"St. Peter." and he asked the little boy
what that stood for, and ho said ''Salt Peter"
Then the bank man said it meant
'Saint Peter." And the little boy said,
14 Oh!"
Then the bank man took the little boy to
his bosom, and the little boy said " Ob!"
igain, for he squeezed him. Then the bank
nan took theHttle boy into partnership and
?ave him halfthe profits all the capital, and
le married the bank man's daughter, and
low all he lias is all his, and all his own too.
STORY OF ANOTHER LITTLE ilOY.
My uncle told me this story, and I spent
ix weeks nicking up pins in front <>f a bank.
[ expected the bank man would call me in
md aav " Little boy, are you good?" and I
raagoing to say "Tea;" and when he askod
ne what " St. John" stood for, I was going
0 say " Salt John." Bat I gneas the bank
nan wasn't anxious to have a partner, and
guess the daughter was a son, for one day
ays he to me, "Little boy what's that you're
ticking up?" Says I, awful meekly, "Pins."
lays he," Let's see 'em." And he took 'em.
nd I took off my cap all ready to go in the
tank and become partner, and marry his
aughter. But I didn't get an invitation.
Ie said, "Those pins belong to the bank,
nd if I catch you hanging around horo any
jore, I'll set the dog on you!" Then I left,
nd the mean old cuss kept the pins. Sach
1 life ss I find it.?Mark Twain.
Private CoRRKSPONDENCK.-*-The folding
letter from a probable future Preaient
to his sister, which is going tlie rounds
f the newspapers, is classified as an Epistoiry
Effort:
?? " TLa ia nil rr -\t tVo orv!^
JL/CAK Ut r4?? 1 1IU I1UIQC0 10 uit i*uv v|/iramie
very badly. Us boys bad so much
urn the other day! Little Frank's had glue
unnin' out of his noee, po we knew he had
;, and we t ok him into the bath room, and
ot 6omc o; ma's fine towels and wrapt #his
gs up in hot wator, and burned sulphur
latches un ler his throat, and swinged his
tanc off and the paint came off his legs, and
rank can't ride him any more. Wasn't it
>l)y? Then the matches put us in mind of
iving a B ston fire, so we coaxed sister
?die to giv" us her box of Swiss h mses you ,
ought he. from Urip; and we set 'em up ,
id touched'em off, and let'er rip. The ,
wn went like blazes, and we thro red some (
sis's dolls in for dead bodis, and the saved ,
e arms and legs for trofvB. ,
But you bet we got scared when the >
rnes went so high, we turned on the hose, j
d that fooj Jim Blain let the wa; it ran all j
cr the floor and down the kitchen on the
ok's head, and she thought the pipes had (
isted, run for a man to fix 'cot, so ma (
ugbt us in there, and the boys run home, j
it I got a thrashing. It didn't hurt much (
tuse I had on thick clothes. Our Frank is 1 (
pants. He went in last Sunday. I've got (
new girl. I don't like Jennie ilird any , y
jre, cause when I give her a h ndful of
anuts she throwed 'em in my fine, and I (
pect Jim Blnin told lies about me. I'd
k him. only his father keeps a candy store, d
I get ail the candy I want for nothin'.
Your affectionate brother,
Ciiart.es.
P. S.?Ph ase brine: mc a goat.
j
A Littei: Composition on Wheelbar)\VB?The
Danbury Xewsman sa\ s :lfyou
ive occassi n to use a whcelbarr< v leave it,
hen you are through witlr^t, in front of
e house with the handles toward the door,
wheel barrow is the most complicated
ingto fall over on the face of the earth,
man would fall over one when he would
iver think of falling over anything else,
e never knows when ho has got through
llingover it, either; for it will tangle hii
gs and his arms, turn over with him and
ar up in front of him, and just as he
tuses in his profanity to congratulate himIf,
it. takes a new turn and scoops more skin
f of him, and he commences to cvolute
lew and bump himself in fresh places. A
an never ceases to fall over a wheelbarrow
itil it turns completely on its back, or
'ings up against something it cannot upset.
. is the most inoffensive looking object thero j
, but it is more dangerous than a loeomovc,
and no man is secure with ono unless j
i has a tight hold of its handles and is sit- {
ng down, on something. A wheelbarrow ,
is its uses, without doubt, but in its leisure (
omcnts it Is the greatest blighting curse on (
ue dignity.
~ i
An Atlan a wife, whose patience had been
rely tried by the continued drunkenness
' her hush, nd, an employee of oi.e of the
lilroad sho; s, went out on her muscle last
aturday. Before she returned she had
funded tl e proprietor of a whi key shop
ir selling lor husband liquor, slightly puinicll
d the 1 ireman of the railroad shop for
ivine her 1 usband his earnings v hllo in a
J o # # -. ,
ate of intctication, returning home in trimph
with ier hand in the collar of her indicated
lo d. This is certainiy a more vigrous
warf'a e than any of our t. mperance
jcieties ha introduced, and w j are not
are if not vastly more effectual in certain
aaes.
Curious and Useful Crow ?J. Snyler,
of Vir Lna, owns a crow wli ch serves
is a substit ,ite for dogs, cats and all other
lomestic sentinels. He destroys very frog
ibout tho well; allows a mouse 10 chance
or his lih; drives away hawks from the
wultry, and bids fair to a i tho best
iquirrei ao" in me country, i c reauny
pies the squirrel, either upon tli fence or
>n the tree-, and with a natural antipathy
x) the Bnuiirel tribe, hit* shrill, k< *n note is
eadily detected hy his owner, a' -ompanied
jy rapid darts up and down,- and the owner
s thus led to his uatne. The me? t reinark>le
feature about the crow is tin t ho inva iably
keep five or six days' ra'ions ahead
>f time, well concealed.
DUELLING.
Apropos of'duelling and duels, which arc
becoming too prevalent in this section, Mark
Twain contributes the following in the interest
of humanity :
The only merit that I can claim for the
followiug narrative is that it is a true story.
It has & moral at the end of it, but I claim
nothing on that, as it is merely thrown in to
curry favor with the religious element.
After I had reported a couple of years on
' the Virginia City (Nevada) Daily Enterprise.
they promoted me tho editor-in-chief?and
lasted just a week, by the watch But T
made an uncommon lively newspaper while
I lasted, and when I retired I had a duel on
my hands and three horse-whippings promised
me. i ne inner i maae no aitcmpu vj ouilect;
however, this history concerns only the
former. It was the old "flush times" of the
silver excitement, when the population was
wonderfully wild and mixed; everybody went
armed to the teeth, and insults had to be
atoned /or with the best article of blood your
system could furnish. In the course of my
editing I made trouble with a Mr. Lord,
editor of the rival paper. Ho flew up about
some little trifle or other that I said about
him. I do not remember now what it was.
I suppose I called him a thief, or a bodysnatcher,
or an idiot, or something like that.
I was obliged to make the paper readable,
and I could not fail in my duty to a whole
community of subscribers merely to save the
exaggerated sensitiveness of an individual.
Mr. Lord was offended, and replied vigorously
in his paper. Vigorously meanB a great
deal when it refers to a personal editorial in
a frontier newspsiper Duelling was all the
fashion among the upper classes in that
country, and very few gentlemen would
throw away an opportunity of fighting one.
To kill a person in a duel caused a man to .
be even more looked up to than to kill two f
men in the ordinary way. Well, .out there ,
if you abused a man and that man did not j
like it. you had to call him out and kill him;
otherwise you would be disgraced. So I
challenged Mr. Lord, and I did hope he
would not accept; but I knew perfectly well
that he did not want to fight, and so I challenged
him in the most violent and implacable
manner. And then I sat down and suffered
and suffered till the answer came. All
our boys?the editors?were in the office
' helping" me in the dismal business, and
telling about duels, and discussing the code J
with a lot of aged ruffians who had experience
in such things, and altogether there
was a loving interest taken in the matter ]
which made me unspeakably uncomfortable. I
rhe answer came?Mr. Lord declined. Our 1
t>oys were furious, and so was I?on the sur- "
'ace.
I sent him another challenge, and another r
rnd another; and the more he did not tlant ?
o fight the bloodthirstier I became. But at
apt the man's tone cbSnged. He appeared
o be waking up It was becoming apparent (
hat he was going to fight mo, a(\er all. I ,|
mght to have known how it would be?he
vas a man who could never be depended ,H
lpon. Our boys were exultant. I was not. ''
though I tried to be.
It was now time to go ont and practice.
[t was the custom there to fight duels with F
iavy six-shooters at fifteen paces?load and
?mply till the game for the funeral was se- '
lured. We went to a little ravine just out- ,
tide of town, and borrowed a barn door for
1 target?borrowed it of a gentleman who was (
ibsent?and we stood this bam door up, and 1'
stood a rail on end against the middle of it
represent Lord, and put a squash on top t
)f the rail to represent his head. lie was a P
s'ery tall, lean creature, the poorest sort of f
material for a duel?nothing but a line shot n
;ould -fetch" him. and even then you might
split your bullet. Exaggeration aside, ihe r
ail was, of course, a little too thin to repre- 8
sent his body accurately, but the squash was i
ill right. If there was any intellectual dif
Terence between the squash and his head it
tvas in favor of the squash. g
Well, I practiced and practiced at the barn ?
ioor. and could not hit it; and I practiced at
the rail, and conld not hit that; and I tried I
bard for the squash, and could not hit the "
squash. I would have been entirely dis- [
bearteqed, but that occasionally I crippled c
me of the boys, and that encouraged uie to
bopc. t
At last we began to hear pistol shote near *
by, in the next ravine. We knew what?that u
meant. The other party were out practicing \
too. Then I was in the last degree distress- r
ed; for, of course, thoso people would hear ?
our shots, artd they would send spies over the
ridge, and the spies would find my barn ?
door without a wound or a scratch, and that [
would simply be the end of me?for of course, i
that other man would immediately become as *
bloodthirsty as I was. Just at this moment '
a little bird, no larger than a'sparrow, flew '
by and lit on a sage bush, about thirty paces
away; and my little second, Steve Gillis. who :
was a matchless marksman with a pistol? <
much better than I was?snatched out his 1
revolver, and snot tne Diru s ne&a on. ?vo ]
all ran to pick up the game, and sure enough, ;
just at this moment some of the other duel- t
ists came reconnoitcring over the little ridge.
They rau to our group to see what the mat- 1
tor was; and when tfocy saw the bird. Lord's '
second said: "That was a splendid shot. '
How far was it ?"
Steve said with some indifference:
"(lh. no great distance. About thirty pa1A(I
ft
C6R.
"Thirty paces 1 Heavens alive, who did it?" |
".)/</ man?Twaiu."
The mischief he did! Can lie do that of- ,
ten ?" i
"Weil?yes. He can do it about?well
about four times out of five." . ,
I know the little rascal was lying, but 1
never ^aid anytcing. I never told hitu so.
He jras not of a disposition to invite eonfidenee
of that kind, so 1 let the matter rest.
Hut it was a comfort to see those people
look siek, and see their under jnws drop,
when Stove made these sentiments. They
went off and got I^ord, and took him home;
[ and wlieu we got home, half au hoar later.
%
there was a note iying that Mr. Lord per- j i
(mtorily declined to fight. 1
It was a narrow r escape. We found out i
afterward that Ldrd had hithisinark thirteen .
times in eighfeennfliots. If he had put those 1
fourteen bullets through me it wonld have i
narrowed mv sphere of usefulness a great i
deal?would have well nigh closed it, in fact. (
True, they could havo put pogB in the holes, i
and used me for a hat-rack; but what is a <
hat-rack to a man who feels he has intellec- 1
tual powers J I would scorn such a posi- t
tion. ; '" s
I have written this true incident of my f
personal histry for one purpose, and that pur- i
pose only to warn the youth of the day t
against the pernicious practice of duelling, c
and to piead With them to war against it. If j
the remarks and suggestions I am making i
can be of any service to Sunday school teach- c
.era and newapapele interested in the moral {
progress of society, they are at liberty to use
them, and I shall even be grateful to bays
them widely d nominated. so that they may t
do aa much good as possible. I was young V
and foolish when F challenged that gentle- t!
man, and I thought it' was very fine and ]j
very grand to be a duelist, and sUod upon ?
the "field of honor." But I am older and 0
more experienced now, and am inflexibly op- e
posed to the dreadfal custom. I think it is a
every man's duty to do everything he ean to tl
discourage duelling. I always do it now; I ti
discourage it on every occasion. tl
If a man were to ohalenges me now?now tt
that i can folly appreciate the iniquity of h
that practice?I ijould go to that man. and *
take him by tha hand, and lead him to i j
quiet, retired room?and kill him. - . f(
~zr? ?' m.
A Britis* Claim for Computation. ai
?The following amusing equib is from the k<
London Punch. Mr. Punch, considering it ol
his duty to step forward at tho present mo* p<
rnent, and to suggest nn ea?y and honorable cj
srrangement of the American question, has ol
prepared the following schedule of English ]i<
claims for compensation. It is manifest that oc
they are all absolutely just, and he is sure p<
that the Angric&u Government will admit so
that fact. Therefore, all that remains to be si:
lone is this iftiet Mr. Hamilton Fish anpeud ca
lis signatttrland the words, *'All rq?nt!" ai
he might a& "old boss," or not, as ho may su
hink the American nation would desire.)
ind then thf two governments have but to
sxehange receipts for their respective claims: A
Her Majrtty'b Government Claim* Com pen- vi,
tsativ)i 01
? a. (1. oo
For twentyjrsarsof vio- fr
ent abuse poured Upon
England by 7%f JitK YurL Pl
ifernld in the Interests of 4
la very, and. up to the date hi
vhen the editef of that pa- V(
>er was informed that he .]
?.ii ... v. i.._ > :ri.? 1
?-?'V ""r u
srwaswEfr--'"- *??*
For similar nbrtae, in cl
lobody'a interest In par- ar
icular, since the abote to
late, 0 0 0} ?
For encouraging Fenians ^
nd putting Canada in P0
Iread of a Fenian inva- a ol
on, ' 0 fl OA he
For permitting the Irifli * he
tmericun press to abuse , .
inglnnd, . 0 0 0}
For inducing many per- ,ni
ona to use the word w<
'reliable" instead of
'trustworthy," 50,000,000 0 0 0 ag
For allowing 0. F Train
. p . _ no
our enemy) to he out of a
unatic asylum, 0 0 0 tu
For the use of the work9 or
f Ancient Engliah an- at
hors, from Wm. ShaJie- f0]
peare downwards, and .
or calling them American
uthors, 100,000,000 0 0 0 "1
For spoiling a great 00
lumber of decent second be
ate English actors, and.
ending them home with J
he idea they were Keans ^ ot
nd Kenibles, 0 7 ?>\ 06
For insulting the King's ne
r Queen's English by sq
peaking it for fifty years v
lasally, * 20,000,000 0 0 0 ^
For eclipsing the harm- do
nssgayety of nations by *r
uddenly stopping the sup- di
dy ofcnpifalhiggcr stories cl(
ihich have now entirely
eased. ' 1.000,000 0 0 0
For out raging humanity
iy not annexing Mexico,
nd putting an Ind to its po
.trocities. 100.000,0000 0 0 fp]
For putting us under obigation
by the graceful
eturn of that Arctic vcs- $6
el, "Thy Love is Worth'* 1,000,000 0 0 0 cr
For attempting to de- wj
troy the monarchial priniples
of H. R. II. the 00
'rince of Wales, by treatng
him with so much rtc
'imlnouQ and k start i I n 12#??
hat U. R. II. wu induced p.
o think well of Rcpublianistn,
100,000,000 0 0 0.
For persuading Mtn'lle. J?
silsson to leave London kl
or America, and for still
letdining that songstress, 100,000 0 0 0
For inventing Ilerr ,l
itreitinnnn, instead of leavng
to some Englishman
he honor of inventing hitn 100.000 O O O to
For inccssautlj repro- wi
lucing pictures from w
f'imrh, and never nckuotvl- 0!
xlging their source, No charge. .
This is our bill. i;4-L2,200,0UU 8 4.J M
A Great Discovery?A N?w FUEL.?
A committee of citizciiB of San Francisco tr
recently made and investigation of the pro- d>
pcrties of a new article of fuel, discovered fc
ni.il patented by a California invontor. The tn
experiments were made in a brass foundry tl
i>i the aouvc cny. ine At/aimi vanjormun p
says: ft
"They were shown into that portion of the ?
establishment occupied by the furnaces, and S
in one corner found a brick furnace some 1
eight feet long and six feet high. On the
top of this was an iron tank holding about
ten gallons, which was lilled with crude ?
petroleum. From this tank, a pipe about an g
inch and a half in diameter led into the aide a
of the furnaro. A suiall jet of oil, sot larger *
a -J?? * ?
than a small goose quill, was permitted to
Bow out of this tubo; a light is placed beneath
this jet and immediately ignites.
Another pipe about an inch in diameter leads
from a steam boiler stationed some fifteen
Poet away. This pipe leads a small jet of
iteam upon the burning oil, and the moment
-he steam strikes the oil the oxygen in the
rater it set free and iginites with a tremend)U3
roar, generating in a few moments a most ,
ntense white heat. From this small source
he entire chamber of the furnaoe, which is
lome two feet by five feet, is filled with a -i
lame so brilliant and dazzling that one canlotgaze
on it for more than a moment at a .
ime. This flame possesses all the heat of an 1
?xy-hydrogen flame, and beneath its fierce
jower the hardest metals melt in a fow 1
notnenta." The inventor claims that tha
lost of this fuel for a furnace will not exceed t
12 for twenty-four hours. I
Stoyis i* Railway Caieiagb.?With
he Baltimore Sum, wu are of opinion that ,
he recent calamity at Corry, Peso., where
he horrors of a railroad accident, with broken
imbs and crushed bodies, were made doubly v
d by the literally roasting alive of a oar fall o
f passengers, ought at least to hare the ,
ffect of abolishing etovee in paeeenger care
nd heating them by atoam. Accidents on j!
be rail are sufficiently frecpient anddeetrucive
of life, and in many instances beyond
be avoidance of the greatest care; but cer- f
linlv there is no neoeasity to keep a red u
ot stove in one or both end* of a ear that t;
ould be. certain, eran if no damaga were
one by a collision or run-off, to be jostled ^
om its place, and in the confusion burn B
nne one to death, especially when there
re so many other entirely harmless ways of
eeping the cur comfortable. It is the duty "
f railroad companies, without regard to ex* *
?naA fn nca OWAWvt muana *V-A ??
V, v.wij ulbMIB HUK BVilCUin aUQ
ire auggest to protect the safety and Jives cl
' passengers, and it is a duty that the pub- 01
c have a eight to demaod shall be performL
At the late aeeident at Conry many u
trsons were bnrfied to death whom it is readable
to suppose were uDinjured or bat ~
ightly injured by thtf overturning of the
ir; but, fastened in a car bottom aide up. .
id both ends on fire, they were either is
bothered or burned to death. ti
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How a Pistol Indefinitely Postponed
Wnddino.?There is absolutely no safe p]
ny to carry a pistol except to carry it with- c<
it a charge. A young man lost a wife re- q,
ntly by trusting to the directions of a*
ieDd who t ?ld him how he could carry a ,
stol without danger. His Mary Jane reded
some distance from the city, and he r<
id a great horror of does, ao he put his re- C(
dver in the hip pocket of his Sunday
othes one evening when be started to see in
>r. The prospective mother-in-law met him ft
the door and told him to take the rocking ai
lair, and as he did so, the report of fire
ms caused the old lady to scream and fall _
a? -u:t- - ' ?
me uuui, nunc it ure in tne rear claimed ^
liarles Henry's attention and oonsnmed a ?
rtion of his best doeskin " smalls." The w
j lady swooned, tbe girl ran in, forgetting
tr disordered dress and hair, and followed
sr mother's example The old man and te
s double -fisted boys ran in, and seeing nc
other and daughter lyiong on the floor, re
;nt for that young man, and he went in
rough the window, carrying sash and glass
he went. A big dog, aroused by the j,(
lisc, made for the fugitive, who, in his Wl
rn, made for the city about a mile a half ^
two miles distant, emptying his revolver
the deg as he went. The dog wss dead
r that young man in more than one sense, .
r he dare not approach the house now lest 10
e old man may revenge the loss of the dog
f him. Had he shot only the old woman t?.
i would have been forgiven, but the old /
xn says he will never forgive the murder 01<
his dor. If anv nn? ulri iK?t *? ? I?a?
i likes Amanda Jane, he says that her g*
irves are too delicate for a country girl, ?ii
d betrays au anxiety to drop the subject, to
it he oonfided to a friend tnat in sitting 0Q
wn the hammer of his revolver caught the u
m of the rocker, and it was in that way
charged, whereupon that houae and his
)thes became too hot for him. !
Ecantville([n<1.) Journal. hu
to
Made Him Pat.?When General Jackn
was President a" heartless clerk in the .
easury Department ran up an indebted- J.
?s to a poor landlady to the amount of
>0, and then turned her off as he did other
editors. She finally went to the President
rth her complaint, and asked him if he .
uld not compel the clerk to pay the bill ? 6
"He offers his note," ^he said; "hut his
>to is good for nothing." 01
"Get his note and bring it to me," said the T(
resident. n
The clork gave her the note, with the w
ering request that "she would let him
iow when she got the money on it!" p<
Taking it to the President, be wrote "An- tl
ew Jackson" on the back of it, and told her ni
ie would get tho money at the bank. hi
When it becams due the olerk refused to C
i pay the note, but when he learned who
as tlie indorser, he made haste to "raise the
ind." The next morning he found a note ^
i his desk, saying that his services were no ^
nger required by the Government?and it
trved him right. ^
tl
Susan B. Anthony recommends the down
widen sisters to strike for high wagea for
uties. The schedule suggested is so much
>r every baby born. No grcenbaoks, no tj
lore population, no uiore boys to carry on
>e enterprises of the age. The scale of
rices for muternal duties will perhaps be as *
?llows: (iirl babies, SI00; boy babies,
200; twin babies, SI100 ; twins, both boys, 11
400; triplets, $600; triplets, all boys. S
l.mru.
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The man who was so laay that ho hired f
n artist to draw his breath has found eon- p
enial employment in a store that doea no R
Jvertising. lie now oomplaina of want of 8
jmeUiiug to do. r
ADVERTISING RATES,
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ac*. ' '1M. 2 M.' 8 M. IV. If
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1k|W? 8 001 ft 00 8 00 13 60 lft ^
2 aquarea 800 9 00 12 00 18 Otl #? ?
I aquarea 9 0? 18 00 lfi 00 24 00 86
4 aquarea 12 00 16 00 20 00 80 00 48 3
I column 16 00| 19 00 24 00 84 00 60J*
} column 20 OOj 80 00 40 00 66 00 90ffT
1 column 80 00] 60 00) 60 OOj 90 00)160^
All Traaalenf Advertisements will he ekargCi
Ova Dollaa per Square for the ftrat aadSmeft
rr-im Cbjitb p?T Square for iuk subaeqnaBt
inaertion Single insertion, $1 60 pelr aquare.
~OTO OfflP-BASBET.
The coming man?A waiter.
Nature' tailoring?A potato patch.
a Dad policy?Una tnat has expired.
A powder mill?A duel with pistols.
Common acenta?Musk and rirbcia.
Mr. Yell is a loud-mouthed politician in
Texas.
Whan is a eat like a teapot? When
jron're teasin' it.
A Minnesota editor has organised himself
into a brass band.
Professor Pepper's principal assistant in
tfr. Joseph Spice.
A Buffalo wax-work man has worked otor
he Duke of Wellington into Hedry M.Stan*
ey. *
The best preparation for hope, is a toad or
wo in each hill. They will make the fines
airly jtmp.
The Countess of Skenna, a Swedish kdr,
rill lead, in person, an expedttjen In fctm
fDr. Livingstone.
Provide***, Rhode bland, gentlemen
streets hit wifo from wielding kltt before
oiks by stealing bar false teeth.
The married ladies of Hminibel, Me., here
orated s "Come Home Husband Glub." It
i shout four feet long sad has s brush ou
lie end of it.
Mrs. Partington reading of the strike of
be wire drawers, remarked: "Ah, ma! what
ew fongled things won't they wear sett ?'
A Wheeling man is doing basinee< at the
go of "Hooray, beans, sained ootn, eaaaod
imstoee, buckwheat flour, rasoii."
A guileless Banbury man saw a beautifhl
bromo advertised "for fifty cents," sad seat
a the money, and received the jadt of ehtbe.
A Western editor triumahantly ttclaime:
Man shall not lire by bread aloae," and then
knowledges the receipt of i'jig of "old
ourboa."
A Conneetieut dog, whieh had run a task
ito bis foot, went to the doctor's offiee oh
tree legs and bad the hounded member at*
udsd to. -
a contest Detwsea tire pancake eaters took
lace at Newton, N. J., recently. The soemful
competitor demolished 68, and his
lareat rival 60.
A;l lady asked one of onr gentlemanly
)ok-store elerka if he had ,:Feetna." MNo,
iplicd the elerk; "but I'm afraid ? boil ia
miing on the back of my neck."
An Irishman, on being told that a newly*
ivented store would save just half its usual
iel, replied : "Arrah, than, I'll heve two,
id save it all, my jewel."
An aristocratic New York tailor ia eogaid
in evolving a suit of clothp to consul
itirefy of a cravat that will wind about the
idy from neck to ankle, and be fastened
ith a diamond pin.
A father living in TitusviUe, who baa
ro or three very eourtable girle, placed e
>tice on his front door one night, whiok
ad: " Shut down Tor thirty daya : no stove
the parlor, and but one lam.p" .
A lady about to marry Was warned that
ir intended, aJtnougn a very good mam,
w very eccentric. " Well/' mid eke, "if
i ie very unlike other m?a he it likely to
i a good husband."
An impudent lawyer of New York, meet
g a soldier with very fuH whiskers, said,
] say, my 'sar fellow, when are you go lag
put your beard on a peace footing V*?
Not until you plaee your tongue on Ike
ril list," was the retort.
"I wonder wither thoaeeloudsare going?"
id a poetic eootributer to a awgadwe, peorely,
as she pointed with her defecate lager
the heavy misers that lotted in Ike sky
ttside -the editord's window. "I think they
e going to thunder," seid the editor.
The boy that recommended a few drape of
inegyric on sugar for the ehild of disquiedehas
his autch in aaelher, whov after
cceesfully spelling "chicaner?," defined it
be a "large coop (o raise chickens."
Physicians hear some queer diagnoses
om a mate ares sometimes. Oar friend Dr.
. was called recently to see a sick man, and
?n inquiring of his vifehowhewasaffeoti,
reoeired in reply, "Well, you see, do?,
r, the things what be-eats gits sorter taaglI
around his heart, and he suffers awftil."
A rural paper in Pennsylvania, in an obit*
iry notice of Forrest, says: " She Was ne>
r equalled in her time by any terpeieoan
artist, though Bonfanti and Betty Bigi
ere formidable rirala in her latter yean."
These are the refreshing Western style of
irsonals: " Mr. Waggoner found fault with
le beef at s Memphis hotel, the other moring,
and the ooroner made three dollars on
im." " Peter Ink, and old cititen of Knox
ouuty, Ohio, waa blotted out the other day,
jed 75."
u Willie," ftftitl ft aouog . parent, at toe
reakfast table to ftn abridged edition *of
imself, ft?d who had joit entered the grainier
class at the high eehoo), M Willie, my
ear. will you pau the butter?" "Tbirlinly
thir, ittakthea me to pertbe ftnything.
luttcr ith a common thubthadtive, neater
ander, agreeth with hot roils and if got*
mcd by thugar?molftthed being anderlood."
A reporter on a Western paper thus rap.
)dise? over a lecture recently aenrerea id
in town: " Without a written word, for
lore than an hour, he piled op gems and
old, truth and beauty, in radiant tiers.?
Ve thought of it at times as a majestic crytil,
brilliant in its noble bulk, and radiating
rom innumerable lines, facts, philosophy,
oetry, ethics, and religion. Seldom does so
ood a mass of truth so richly phrased and
o luminously uttered, souie within the
each of ?ny sudihuco."