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NEWS GLEANINGS.
From twenty to thirty car loads of
iron oar are shipped daily from Gadsden,
Ala. .
Railroad property in Georgia increased
two and a quarter million dollars in
value last year.
In Bouth Carolina the contending
local factions are called the wet ticket
and the dry ticket.
The asset* of the Ladies’ (Jallioun
Monument Association, in South Caro¬
lina, now amounts to nearly $70,000.
A colored female preacher from Spar¬
tanburg is'.cariying on a revival in the
colored Baptist church at Anderson,
». C.
Women whoareput'in the city prison
in Knoxville are net to work on “ rock
plies,” in public view on one of the
principal thoroughfares.
Capt. Martin, of Anderson county, S.
C., made from one pine tree on his place
2,520 feet of straight edge lumber and
350 feet of rough edge lumber.
St. I.Uke’s Hospital has been incor
porated at Jacksonville, Fla. Mrs. Al¬
exander Mitchell, wife of the promin¬
ent Milwaukee railroad man, is the Pres¬
ident,
A correspondent of the Fredericks¬
burg Star says that he counted off the
shore of “ The Neck,” King George
•ounty, Va., ninety vessels engaged in
taking oysteis.
In Macon, Gn., the little two year
♦Id boy of officer W. W. Henderson
was found dead in bed. It had slipped
between the railings and the footboard
during the night and broken its neck.
A thriving and profitable enterprise
in the neighborhood of America*, Ga ,
u the fur trade, the skins lining princi¬
pally those of the beaver, otter and
coos, and a few wild cat and rabbit
pelts.
Major B. W. Bellamy, living sixteen
miles from Quitman, Ga., lins a farm of
10,000 acres, with 0,000 under cultiva¬
tion. Over 1,000 negroes live on the
place, and they raise 800 bales of cottons
with all necessary supplies.
The Avalanche says three times as
many beater skins have been’broughtto
.Memphis during the past season as any
in the past fifty years. A dam has bee-i
built twenty miles from the city six feet
high, eight feet wide and forty feet h ig
Wj >uuVattEtA.
AU any (Ga.) News: “De you want a
local.?” said an Albany matron the otha
wr day. “ Y’es'm.” “ Well, you may
say that beax are so scarce in Albany
that the girls have all resolved to catch
the first one that comes along, cage him
and keep him as a natural curiosity.”
Houston (Ga.) Home Journal: A suc¬
cessful farmer of Houston county told
us the other day that he considered corn
at$l per bushel equal to eottou at twen¬
ty cents a pound. That farmer sells
borne raised corn, wheat and oaia every
y#ar.
Jefferson Davis delivered a two-hours
apeoch at tho French opera bouse in New
Orleans Tuesday night, before a meeting
called to raise funds for a building in
which to preserve the Southern war
rehives and other papers of the South¬
ern Historical society.
A fruit dealer in Savannah has an al¬
ligator in a box in front of his store,
and was much annoyed by people pa
ing along and poking sticks at him. The
fruiter put tip this sign: “Every idot
who comes along is expected to shove
sticks down the alligator’s mouth,”
T.ie alligator is let alone now.
Ileidsville (N. C.) Times : Bill Gunn
brought to Wentworth yesterday a joint
anake he dug upon bis place near that
town. It was examined with much in¬
terest by several of the citizens, Col.
Bottle offering $10 to catch him one just
like it. The tail could be easily taken
to pieces.
Henry W. Grady says the extent of
the cutting which Senator Hill, of Geor¬
gia, has been subjected is not realized
by the public. One-third of his tongue
has been taken out—the entire left floor
of his his mouth—the glands in the left
side of his neck. The last operation was
the most severe, and probably success
ful. When he was put under ether for
it, it was intended to only take out a
email lump that had hardened on the
gland in his neck, Vfter ho was iu
sensible it was determined to adopt the
heroic treatment and take out the entire
gland, ile was kept under the knife
two hours.
As a young shaver of live or six years
was reading at school one day, he came
upon the passage, “ lips Keep from thy tongue guile.’
from evil and thy
Master Hopeful drawled out, “ Keejv—
thy — tongue—from — evil—and—thy—
lips—from—girls."
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
Cadet Whittaker is in the West
marching for employment.
New Mexico ,
After ail the Indians in |
and Arizona are to get the worst of it. j
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The New York Sun has it that Frank j
James js at the present time sojourning
in that city.
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The beer drinkers of Vienna are on a ;
strike, demanding a decrease in the
price of • , b eer. _
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The New York Legislature has passed
a bill prohibiting Judges from appoint
ing relatives to office.
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A general exodus of Jews has Bet in
in Russia, and the destination in almost
every instance is America.
There are in Arizona 2,273 enlisted
soldiers and 140 officers, in addition to
the forces under General Forsyth.
Cool weather, with accompanying
frosts the fore part of May, should be
credited up to Vennor. He predicted it.
Cotton factories are rapidly increas¬
ing in Georgia. One hundred thousand
■pindles were added during the year 1881.
The arrears of rent in Ireland are
estimated at $30,000,000. It will per¬
haps be some time before these figures
will l>o diminished.
The English Government seems to
have lost it* grip on Ireland, and Irish
•nbjeete are happier to-day than they
have been for years.
Tun wife of Edmunds is to receive a
gift of a silk quilt from the women of
Utah as a mark of their appreciation of
her husband’s recent service.
Haid Mr. Maher to Mr. Sprague In
the New York Legislator!! the other day.
“The gentleman, if hois a gentleman,
is an infernal liar.” Wonderful polite¬
ness those legislators have.
A New York scientist named Kruger
killed himself because he failed in his
endoavor to perfect a flying-machine.
He has gone where the art of flying is
ono of the accomplishments.
During the Parliamentary recess Mr.
Gladstone recreates by writing ono or
two long magazine articles, and count¬
less letters and postal cards, and fills up
any spare momenta with chopping trees
in his woods.
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There is an honest man in Italy.
King Humbert refuses to allow an ap
propriation to pay the debts of Victor
Emmanuel, but takes upon himself the
honorable duty of paying his father’s
debts, and hvesi close.__
Poor Prince Leopold, ’Dukeof Al
bany. ” (a. the Queen is determined U>
ptsrn: have him <wlleduBMkklvWvwd troubled with r skin
rtfs mm bebu a
disease since his birth, and for weeks at
a time ia a helpless invalid.
Mm Gladstone says the aharge of
treasonable practices against Mr. Par¬
nell will be withdrawn. Mr. Forster
gives as the reason for his withdrawal
from the office of Secretary of Ireland,
that he could not agree to release sus¬
pects.
The Queen has given special and par¬
ticular orders that her youngest son is
never to be styled Pnko of Albany, but
ho is always to bo described as ' Prince
Leopold, Duke of Albany ” Her Maj¬
esty does not wish tho name of her late
revered uncle to be forgotten.
It seems the astrouomers have discov¬
ered a system of canals on the planet
Mars two hundred rnilos iu width.
Now let these astronomers keep on and
discover tho mules. What monstrous
animals they must bo. Look for their
ears, astronomers ! Look for their ears!
The Cincinnati Gazette sounds this
note of warning :
'‘There is too much money in the United
Staten Treasury. This tempts Congress to
make liberal appropriation* and squander Congress the
funds squeezed out of taxpayers. and adjourn, this
ought to reduce taxes is doing not
would ba popular. What it is
popular, as member* will discover when they
return to their constituents.”
Mysteriously the saloons in Cedar
ville, Ohio, suddenly blow up. What it
is in the whisky that explodes at so un¬
expected an hour of the night and shatters
things genesOy, must remain an un¬
solved problem. However there seems
to bo little doubt that to conduct a
saloon in that village is a great risk of
life.
Mr. JosErn F. James, in a paper read
liefore the Cincinnati Society of Natural
History ou the worksof Charles Darwin,
expressed the belief that the publication
of Darwin's “ Origin of Species ” would
“make an epoch in science like the age
of Sliakspeare in literature, the discovery
of America in history and the advent of
Christ in theology "
A 825,000 pi ano of unparalleled splen¬
dor, is the Prince Of Wales’ wedding
present to Leopold. Wo never could
understand how people who are so hope¬
lessly in debt as is the iTince of Wales,
aid afford to make such lavish pres
Tliis fellow is eternally begging
for money from the government be¬
cause of the burdensomeness of his
debts.
The jury before whom the Malley
boys arc being tried at New Haven for
the raurder of Jems Cramer, are all
blondes. ’They wei seen red by the;
strategy of the couub for defense under
the belief that they nm 70 **** ?° con "
vict than a darker Jpe of humanity
WO uid be, brunettes regarded as
possessing greater individuality and
jxwitivenoss of charaq cr -
Gait. Howgate wrl < ’ fi to a friend in
Washington from his Riding place and
asks for money. He j»dicates hij pur
P ORe 40 be liar ‘ d , fjt 1 any day the
civernment feia'T . ,rt . a[ ia . intimates intimates
high may , expect
that rascals in Biay
to l>e thoroughly fhov’n up. There is
no doubt but that 00 “ 1 “ *?“ a
great many wonderful onei s, but there
is no probability that H ever will.
The Star Route ease Rve again been
postponed, this time ecause of the
absence of John W. DoVy sojourning .brother of
ex-Senator Dorsey, trooA® in
Texas, New Mexico, A»>n». etc. The
great anxiety for trial all “ consequent
vindication” that sprang so spontane
our-sly when the charge of conspiracy
were first brought, seemfto have died a
natural death. The In I" country is a
good hiding place for M« jP or8 e y
Sincf, the “ removal” o; Jesse James
Missouri seems to be s| is lied. How
about the rest of the gang or does re¬
moviug Jesse vindicate x ? Why
do the authorities regard Lie probable
presence of Frank James ij * communi¬
ty with a profound sense ‘a >awe ? And
why is there no effort g de even to
discover his whereabouts! for El is the
State taking a breathing Tp to begin
again as soon as it can i Mover from
the late conflict?
Messrs. Vanderbilt ami Field may
regard their escape from & traction by
dynamite as a moat narro; lone. Had
not one of the machines be I accident
ally exploded by the jar of car > be "
fore reaching their destination there is
no question but that they Id have
accomplished the purpose” t or which
they were intended, during process that
of opening them. Forther BOi ' e .
their senders were Nihilists there does
not seem to bo a particle of tPuBk.
The almost simnltanenqg ; death of
Adams and Jefferson seerm 1 scarcely
more remarkable to their coni mporaries
than is the closeness in tins between
tho funerals of the two a hors who
have most contributed to tljh. litetTary last
fame of the United Stated du ’the
half And, century—Emerson looking the and watt I |he ^gfi’llow. near¬
across
ness between the deaths of lA r vtdn and
Emerson reminds ns that en Jjr was in
his way a founder of a school J/thought,
and that by this joint bereave®!- 11 * bo * b
England and America lose thf* J reco 8*
nized intellectual leaders .
A morbid Citizen of Si to/ ijfeiotad *
with au ardeutdesire w0
~ f uilftll, UIUPUMII Mill UIRI|flWp *«i«r
mean but amusing joko, Stgaenody,
who knew his wish, shipped fto him a
couple of worn-out streetcar horses, for
which he cheerfully paid a fanLy price,
Tl,« The twM-henRii. poor beasts h^ in the tl.ncmiraA course ml Inf thpir their
than arduous their lives, full share had encountered of the sling more and
arrows oi ouuageous lormne aW were
in a sorry condition when they reached
St. Louis. But they were beautiful in
the eyes of their owner, and he i exulted
exceedingly over his purchase until some
had c , made , a fool . , of . himself.
The Chicago Tribune relates b°w Ni¬
agara Falls are to be utilized as an elec¬
tric apparatus. It says
The preliminary Btep has been the purchase
of the twelve acres known as Prospect Park,
adjacent to the falls, which of substantially gives
the purchaser the centrol the water-pow rof
the entire American falls, estimated at 2,000,
000 horae-power, or ten times the amount of
steam-power iu Chicago and all the rest it
Cook County—a force equal of to this that of prodigious 12,000,
000 men. The control
power having been obtained, it is pro¬
posed to erect immense buildings and nonder
ons machinery upon the brink of the fails,
whero tbe water can be easily reached. “ to bo
returned after use.” After generating the
electricity by this unlimited hydraulic force, it
is to be conducted through properly American insulated ckiis
casoa to sixty-five illuminating prominent and is
and towns for purposes,
also to he used for operating machinery and
ultimately for heating purposes. AltOcether
there will be ten thousand miles of ccpi>er
cables with machinery to correspond.
The Cincinnati Board of Health does
not seem to Y>e accomplishing much.
Under its management there has been
ilmost a steady increase of smallpox for
the past four months until the number
nf now cases now reach in the neighbor¬
hood of 300 a week. This is somewhat
alarming. That the infection has turned
several million dollars worth of trade
over to other cities less unfortunate
fliere can be no question, and that the
financial success of the forthcoming
musical festival will be severely
and perhaps seriously effected by it will
be only too plaiuly shown by the dimin¬
ished sum total of the receipts and the
ibseaee of strangers on the streets.
An inefficient Board of Health—and
they seem to be the plague of many
sections—is decidedly an expensive in¬
stitution to a community.
A woman iu .Liverpool against brought dead suit
for breach of promise her
sister’s husband. The Judge dismissed
the case without a hearing. Under the
law of England refusing a mau can his uo promise more be
sued for to keep to
marry his his grandmother. debased wife’s sister than to
marry
When we asked our girl to marry us
she said she didn’t miud—and we have
since found out that she didn’t —Totedo
A merican.
Cruelty to Animals. I
The cruelty of man to the animals that !
labor for him, afford him pleasure, clothing, food, of
and the materials for his is
ten such as to render it questionable,
which is, after all, the inferior beast,
The establishment of humane societies
in different States, cities and towns,
however, is a step toward the protection
of dumb animals from human barbarity,
The shame is, that these are at all neces
sary in this boasted century of religious
teaching and general intelligence. It is
a fact, how ever, that the invocation of
stern law is yet needed to bring many a
human tiger to a sense of what is due
even to flagrant the brutes he slaughters. The
most outrage that wc have to
note in this direction, is afforded at the
stock-yards, near this city. It is the
practice of those whose business it is to
kill the cattle at the slaughter the houses, just to
spear them with a knife in neck,
back of the horns. It lias been discov
ered by the officers of the humane so
ciety that when the animals are restless
and seek to evade the knife, the mad
dened butchers pierce the eyes of the
victims that they may not see the ap
proacli of the death-dealing knife. Ar
rests of these inhuman monsters are lie
iug made, and the proprietors of the
packing houses, to their credit be it said, 1
are seconding to the the horrid society practice. in its efforts Farm- to |
put a and stop farmers’ and hired help,
ers, boys presented,
who shudder at the facts here
are you unconsciously, not guilty of a measure of toward eru
elty, perhaps, and other
your work team, your cows,
domestic animals, that you may, as well
as not, avoid ? Kindness and gentleness
toward the lower animals, not only en
noble the master, but they par in dollars
and cents, as well .—Prairie Farmer.
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The Encore A nlsance.
We have cried out again the encore
nuisance until many friends regard it as
a hobby of ours, but even that will not
prevent us from voicing the sentiment
of all sensible people. It is time that
the newspapers took up the cudgel in J
tho name of sense and decency, and
protested against the practice of encor- ;
ing everything upon any and every
stage, and is for all fearful performances strain whatso- the |
ever. It a upon
nerves of sensitive people to foul see the cur- ”
tain go down upon “a most murder,
and, at the instance of a riotous mob of
gallery gods and enthusiastic flats, have ;
the poor, gory remains re-endowed with
life and come smirking and smiling out 1
before the curtain. Applause is all very !
well, and no one enjoys and appreciates
it so’ much as au actor; but to be called J
from the grave to bow and smirk isn’t
just the thing. Where the curtain can 1
be raised and a tableau presented just as
the actors were last seen, it is well i
enough; but, for there the sake be of resurrection people with j j
sensibilities, let no 1
of the dead for these purposes. A call
for a singer, or some fine little speech is !
tolerable, if not too much overdone; but
repeated demands and importunities
from these dramatic body-snatchers wearisome.— are lurf, as
disgusting as they are
and Farm. —
Field
A Tramp Tells the Truth.
A tramp entered the door, and ap- ,
woe-which implies %£% SS? (soj
so much
mi ten cl-v k °
could noUparo
time to throw him out doors, and re
tabling a firm hold of the subject intellect, under
discussion with our towering
an( * one hand on the manuscript, we
passed him the coin. “Thank you
Bir, said he, “you have saved my life.
H is words were tinged with that settled
me i anc holy that comes of feeling that
he ought & to have Btruck us for a quarter,
^ d out and was gone from
our gaze ]ike a beautiful dream. Me
chanically we glanced out of the emerged window
and across the street. A form
from the saloon door across the way, and
sleeve, the back of his neck or his
pantaloons. the We could not see but the
features of mysterious unknown,
where had we seen that form, that atti
tude, that general contour and tout en
semblef We tried to recollect. Memory
toyed aud then for a moment with it the flashed long ago,
all of a sudden upon
us like a dark lantern. Seven minutes
ago that person had assaulted us fora
dime. As we continued to look we could
see that a smile of hope, a smile of al
most perennial sweetness (he had evi
deutly put sugar in it) lighted up the
hitherto dreary expanse of his eounte
nance. Ho had said that we had saved
his life. And It was so -P^ Nun.
Woman’s Dress.
“Many a plain, YorkVmM, quiet little woman-* utterly
says the New “is
tired of the ceaseless labor of trying to
make as effective an appearance as her
richer, handsomer acquaintance. But
what would her husband say?” He
would say, if a sensible man, that, she
was a sensible wqmau to dress according
to her means. If not a sensible woman,
it is of no consequence what he would
sav. There is an everlasting drift of
nonsense about the dress of women, such
as the Herald encourages by its silly
and simpering remarks on the subject of
women’s dress. -
It is possible for a woman of good
taste to make herself not only present
able, but attractive in calico at five cents
a yard. It is the art of knowing how the to
dress, rather than the costliness of
material used in dressing, that tells.
There is a vulgar notion abroad that a
woman is not dressed unless she is
loaded down with the costliest of fabrics
and jewels to correspond, plainest yet dresses we have
seen women in the of so
admirablv corresponding to their com
plexion and figure that they outshine
the more elaborately dressed women in a
society gathering. What is needed is
good taste m the selection and make up
of matena 1 and even then we are in
clmed to adopt Dr. Joanson s idea that
the woman whose conversation is so
charming as to make one forget how she
is dressed is the best dressed woman m
buv assembly where a display of fine
clothes is thought to be the chief point
of interest. — t'inciunnti Com mercial.
Teachers in England are they now did getting few
much higher salaries than a
years ago. Out of 12,981 certificated
teachers, only ;*232 132 are receiving less than
*250 a year ‘and teachers get SI, 250 to
«1 500 137 are in receipt oi $1,500
and over
Clever Crows.
I have not said any thing about the
crows, which are a feature of Yezo, and
one which the colonists would willingly
dispense with. There are millions of
them, and in many places they break
the silence of the silent land with a
Babel of noisy discords. They are
everywhere and have attained a degree
of most unpardonable impertinence, and sagacity
mingled which almost with a cunning level with
put circumstances. them on a of
man in some Five
them was so imprudent 'as to alight on
two of my horses, and so be ferried
across the Yurapngawa. In the inn
garden I saw a dog eating a piece of
carrion in the presence of several of
these covetous birds. They evidently the
said a good deal to each other on
subject, and now and then one or two of
them tried to pull the meat away from
him, which he resented. At last a big,
strong crow succeeded in tearing off the a
piece, with which he returned to
pine where the others were congregated, all
and, after much earnest speech, they leading
surrounded the dog, and the smallpiece
bird dexterously dropped the his mouth,
of meat within reach of
when he immediately snapped at it, let
ting go the big piece unwisely for flew a
second, on which two of the crows
away with it to the pice, and with much
Butter and hilarity they all ate, or rather
gorged it, the deceived dog looking va
cant and bewildered for a moment, after
which he sat under the tree and barked
at them inanely. told that he
A gentleman piece me in like saw a
dog holding a of meat man
ner in the presence of three crows,
which also vainly tried to tear it from
him, and after a consultation he separ
ated, two going as near as they dared to
the meat, while the third gave his tail a
bite sharp enough to make the dog turn
round with a squeal, on which the other
villians seized the meat, and the three
fed triumphantly upon it on the top of a
wall. In many places they are so ag
gressive as to destroy crops, unless they
are protected by netting. They assem- pick
ble on the sore backs of horses and
them into holes, and are mischievous in
many ways. They are very late in go
ing to roost, and are early astir in the
morning, and are so bold that they often
came “with many a stately flirt and
flutter” into the veranda where I was
sitting. I never watched an assemblage
of them for any length of time without Nestor
being convinced that there was a
among them to lead their movements,
Along the sea-shore they are very arnus
ing, for they “ take the air ” in the
evening, seated on sandbanks facing the
wind with their months open. They and are
threatening to devour the settlers, a
crusade is just now being waged against
them, but tbeir name is legion.— Miss
Bird's “ Unbeaten Tracks in Japan."
HUMORS OF THE DAY.
The nobbiest thing in boots is a
bunion.
Song of the cheese—“Will yon love
me when I mould?”
A stockholder in a street railway
company—the driver.
The proof of the pudding is the
rapidity with which the children get
away with it.
“Well, I’ll bo bound,” as the man
remarked when he heard quoted the
lines, “Chains of gold are fetters still.”'
A man who “traveled on his shape”
insulted a young lady, and her father
knocked him down and traveled on his
shape, too—walked all over him.
That little girl unwittingly gave utter¬
ance to the principles of many of her
elders when she wrote in her composition:
“ We should make mistakes and tell lies
as seldom as it is convenient, ” .
Girls should be careful how they are
vaccinated with virus taken from a
lover’s arm. One at St. Paul has taken
to swearing, sitting cross-legged, and
smoking a brier root pipe .—Detroit Free
Press.
Mr. Brown wants to punish the liquor
drinker as well as the liquor seller.
Fogg says he will go a step beyond Mr.
Brown. He wants the liquor itself
punished and he is willing to punish all
he can of it .—Boston Transcript.
“Pa," asked Fogg’s hopeful, the
other evening, “what kind of combs “UoxriP dc^
you use to curry chickens with ?”
combs,” replied Fogg, promptly. Fogg
says he believes in always answering a
child when you can. —Boston Transcript
“No,” said Gallager, “I don’t keep a
bull-dog because I want a dog to fight.
I’d rather give $50 than have my dog
fight. But by Judas, I do like the'satis¬
faction of feeling that he can chaw the
stuffing out of any blame dog that comes
along. ”
“Alas, we must part,” as the coat¬
tails said -when the street-car passenger
took his seat. “But we’ll meet again,”
as the coat-tails said when three fat
women got aboard. “United we stand,”
as the coat-tails said “ for the rest of the
ride .—Louisville Courier-Journal.
They tell of a man out West who was
putting a blast in a well, and it went off
prematurely and blew him out into an
apple tree he about fifty feet away. In a
moment recovered himself, and re¬
marking, “The Lord knows better than
I do after all; I guess it is almost time
to go pruning,” took a large pruning
knife from his pocket and set to work.
Fun at a dinner party: The youngest
gentleman (it is his first visit) has broken
the ice at last by inquiring the name of
the hostess’ little daughter, to which the
child has replied “Ethel.” “And why,
Ethel, do you keep patting me on the
arm?” “Because mamma says your
a muff”—(awful pause, during which
the child strokes him down)—“but you
don’t feel like one, you know.” [Tableau;
child complacent—nobody else. ]—
Agriculture in Arizona.
Yuma and Mohave counties embrace
the great Colorado 1 alley, which con
tains thousands of acres of the richest
soil in the United States. Owing to its
yearly overflow, the valley is rife covered ££
with a coating of vegeja ■ V s s
-onsta au
. . . , 0 . K
overflow no Wetter soil fot cotton, sugar,
Qemp and semi-tropical fruits is found
on the continent. In some places the
bluffs come down to the stream, and to
other points the valley is from one to
five miles wide. Below Ehrenberg the
wea of the valley land is much greater
than above. To bring the waters of the
Colorado bv canals over its rich valley,
S an< j prevent the river from overflowing,
no doubt be an expensive under
takiD „ but the hundreds of thousands
a f acres of magnificent land which
WO uld thus be reclaimed are a prize
worth striving to gain. A company has
3n gar-cane, which has already begun
operations in the valley below the town
y uma • but with the exception of small
patches cultivated by the Indians, the
rich valley of the Colorado is still virgin
so ji. Between the junction of the Gila
Colorado, there is a tract of very
t -; c h bottom, by some estimated at 30,
000 acres, all of which could be brought
unc ier cultivation at a moderate cost,
Xh 0 two largest streams of the Terri
tor y, flowing on either side, would give
an inexhaustible water supply, and the
configuration of the ground is such that
caal be easily irrigated. There are
several W fine ranches Count?, along the vallev of
toe in Yuma which *1J
good crops rf gram and vegetables 1 he
ntlmcomuy Colorado, is about Mohave 2,50a County, The valley prl
of the in
gents the same features as in Yuma, but
is uo t so extensive. Tho soil is requires equally
as rich and productive, but it
capital to open canals, throw up embank
mC uts, and put the land in a condition
f or successful cultivation. At present
f arn ri n g in Mohave is confined to tne
Big Sandy, in the Southern part of the
county, where there are about 1,000 acres
und er cultivation, producing fine crops
0 f grain, vegetables, and fruit. Suc
cessful fanning in Arizona depends en
tirely on irrigation. No finer crops are
raised in any country than in this Terri
torv, where water can be had. There
; [ are " thousands of acres of which productive be
] an j i n the leading valleys, distribution can
' m ado available by a supply. proper While the
G f the present water
wealth of Arizona is in its mines, agri
culture will alwavs products be a profitable the soil
£Snd and the of com
a good B price.-A’esonrces F of Ari
- c0?in
.
Xature’s Toilette.
“ Vitro has seen Nature getting up 'i
tLe momlBg? She sleeps a’ night in
ber e , a es. yet they’re never rumpled I
her awakening face she turns up, dewy,
to t be sun, and Zephyr wipes it wi his
^ without disturbin’its dreamy ex
pression Never ye sce her hair in pa
.
for> crisp and curly hn-streamin'
- d wide-wavin’ are her locks, as alter
shadowB and sunbeams dancin’ o’
some joyous river, rollin awa’ to the far
off sea. Her e’e is heaven—her brow
the marbled clouds, ane after a lang
dooa doon-gazing, serene and spiritual orison
look o’ hersell, breathin’ her
prayers, in the reflectin’magic o’some the
inland ocean, stately steps she free
‘east!”
(’harlot! e fm.'
m ^
kb*
-
This wS<b«toltabfc
a ? d tbe entire structure is nearly
thirty-four feet. The only inscription »
the name “Charlotte Cushman wlnoh,
J^deed, Cushman is was all a that native is required. of oston, Miss and
father ^Krunt^ was bankrupt, ZZ ana sue went on
the stage for the purpose of affording a
support for those she loved. She deyel
°P e< * a 11 extraordinary appreciated dramatic by the genius, pub
which was fully mcluded hl he9 ‘
lic > and be * ro le g
^auge of Shakespearean , characters,
Hence she drew immense audiences, and
as a result her professional emolumento
was always nigmy noerai ui ntr reia
tives > and left them an estate estimated
ft a half million. Miss Cushman was
distinguished unmarried. tragedienne The that
went through life unknown, but rea- it
son of her celibacy is
be supposed that her bold, xnascu
manners were too repulsive. but She
bad one admirer, however, no one
knew the reason why he was unsucess
* ul : Ferhapshe shrank at l^t from of
fe ™S hls band to °P®
R,ld autocratic , disposition or him some pique hope
“ a y have led her to reject m
°* a more distinguished match. What
f ver be t ;e rcason slie remained Cliar
,
P lected lo | in J Mt Auburn time
a some
before her death, and showed her usual
prettily situated at b gentle 8
.
^“charles'River remarked i^ the dritan^’ time^f
p -^ e * f base' at the
th F ^ j ’ “Here I shall be
“J 1 { d Boston » l mme di
® ft h Jeath (FebruarT 18 1876)
at a ^J - a “'‘ ,, . , , bearing 8 he/name was
erecte , w u ic b eventuallv gave i place * to
the above meutloned , obellsk , ’
Advice to Sir Charles.
When Sir Charles Lyell, the eminent
geologist, was in America, he seems to
have had some curious advice given to
him about traveling on the Mississippi
steamboats.
“Never pay your fare until you are
compelled to,” was the first of wisdom
_
thrown at Him.
And why t. . ,
pray n e qu~ e ,
I with Enghsh straightforwardness, whispered
‘ Because,’ was the almost
rffifiy, “your chances are better m case
01
. kmdly , . ,, explain - .
! astonished, yourse beyond _ ,
.
slr/ sal
„V ” answered the American with
. T sigmfic ^ a nt leer lit “when l was
trave f ing the river March, some
, ^h . cr ed out, ‘Passenger overboard!’
e P t aiu hurried to the office, and
. Ha3 the man overbo ard paid
Ia f. ? . 0n being | an6 wered in the af
S^differentlv t Godhead the nil t and
®^ d -> 1 ’ it’s ad
’
t > ,,
° '
j A Brooklyn -j— man reear* -z.-jUu
rr
damages from a street-car company lor
the loss of a leg, and now tne drivers
have to stop tneir horses every few
blocks to pull enterprising citizens off
the rails .—Philadelphia Aews.
