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The New York herald., 1870-12-20

L'OR SALE CHEAP-~A VALUABLE FARM OF ABOUT
fifty large house, barns, ouhouses, &c also
good fruit orchards. delirhtfay situated bay, with
beautiful lawn In 'front.' shade hours ride
from New York onehaf of tho price remain bond
and mortgage required For particulars address HOME
STEAD, 207 Front street, New York.
The New York herald., 1870-12-20

COUNTRY RESIDENCES, ON THE BANKS OF THE
~ Hudson for sale let, furnished unfurnshed
almost station the line of the Hudson River Rail
road parties desiring to purchase hire will find full
cuars as to price and Location and be personally shown
the property by apply to s. EMERSON 42l Eighth
nne who has made this line speciality the past ten years
Office open from A. NJ. TO 2 r. NJ.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-06-04

once summoned. DIR. Tildsn eng
the first physician callsd When
he arrived, only ten minuhss afler
the shooting. the suicide was d the
arms of death, and in minute tns
spirit of the bride expectsnt had
flown to the God forgiting
An inquest was held at about 3
o'clock in The afternoon, but nohing
concerning the origin or eause> 8
the suicide was elected. The oniy
testimony given was that Of her
mother and BIr. Gray, who were
present at the time of the occur
renee. The revolver, five-shooter,
had been taken from the drawer of
a table in the room. IL was tho
property of her father, a former po-
iiceman in the city, The weapon
had been placed close against her
breast when discharged, and tie
ball had passed through the heart,
lodging in the back, causing almost
instant death.
Later in the afternoon the CORPSE
was dressed in the robes prepared
| for LIES eeremony-the tsneme1f
decked in holiday robes, while the
spirit appeared in the celestial gar
den OF the assembled Groom. By
the corpse kind friends waited 81
night. The funeral viii take pa d
to-day.
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DOUBLE sHEESAsn11E AMERICAN SATURDAY, JUNE 1870

u . I.
Henry, in his celebrated speech,
from the Bible-Jeremiah vi, II.
CA living dog better than dead
lion" is also found in the Bible
Eccles. TX, 4.
"In the midst of life we are in
DEATH" commonly supposed to be
in the Bible, is found in the burial
service in the Book of Common
Prayer.
"God tempeEs the wind TO the
shorn lamb" commonly supposed
to be in the Bible, was written by
Lawrence Sterne, in bis "Sentimen-
tai Journey"
"See, the conquering hero comes, +"
and ''When Greeks joined Greeks
then was the tug of war;" are from
the drama of Alexander, the
Great" written by Nathaniel Lee
about the year 1880.
cover the hills and far away
and awhile there is life there's
hope" are from the opera of "Th'
Beggars;" written by John Gay.
aOf two evils the less is to b
chosen" is from Limitation o
Christ" by Thomas s'Kempis, 14OO
"By robbing Peter he paid Paul,
Rsbelais, 1900.
| "a thing of beauty is joy for
ever" John Keats "Endymion."
"Whom the gods love die young
is to be found in one of the play
of Plautus.
/ Sir Edward Coke is the author o
the saying that "a mans house i
his CASTLE"
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Equally ready are the Scotch in
their replies. At the battle of Wa
terloo, q Frenchman, who could
speak little English, called out {;
Quarter quarter!" to one of the
Forty-second Highlanders. "The
muckle dell may quarter ye for
me- was the reply. 81 ha' nae
time to quarter We; We must cen be
content to be cuttit in twa," and he
suited the action to the word.
A witty reply was that of an A
merican medical student in Lon
don college, who, being reproved
for inattention when the professor
was lecturing upon the disease
known as Kings Evil, replied, that
since the Revolution in America, his
countrymen had not been troubled
with that disease!
"The saying, "To leave no stone
unturned," may be traced to a re-
Spouse of the Delphic oracle given
to Polycrates as the best means of
finding a treasure buried by one of
Xerxes' generals on the field of
Platea.
Every man the architect of his
own fortune" is ascribed to Appius
Claudius Caecus, the earliest Ro
man writer whose name has come
down to us. In B. C. 312, he began
the celebrated "Appian Way from
Rome to Capua."
Of the very common saying,
"Where the shoe pinches," Plu-
tarch relates the story of Roman
being divorced from his wife. This
person, being highly blamed by his
friends, who demanded: "Was she
not chaste! was she not fair ? hold
ing out his shoe, asked them whe-
Their it was not new, and well-made?
"yet;" added he, "none of you can
tell where it pinches me-"
The saying, when at Rome do
as the Romans do" is said to have
arisen in this wlse:
St. Augustin was in the habit of
dining upon Saturday, as on Sun
day; but being puzzled with the
different practices then prevailing
(for they had begun to fast at Rome
on Saturday. he consulted st. Am
brose On the subject. Now at Mil
an they did not fast. On Saturday,
but the answer of the Milan saint
was: "When l am here l do not
fast on Saturday; when at Rome /
do fast on Saturday"
Butler in his "Dyet's dry dinner"
written in 1899, says: at is unsea-
sonable and unwholeseme in all
months that have not an in their
name 10 eat an oyster"
The Spectator says that Tobias
Hobson was the first man in Eng
land hat let out hackney horses.
When man came for q horse he
was led into stable where there
was a great choice, but he obliged
him to take the horse which stood
next the stable door; SO that every
customer was alike well-served,
according to his chance, from
whence it became proverb, when
what ought to be your election, was
forced upon you, to say "Hobson's
chnina g
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II. often remained in the Psrlis
ment while his speech was takeI
into consideration. The debates
amused his stated mind, and were
sometimes, he used to say, Gas good
as a play"
Hume, in his history of England
ascribes to William of Orange, the
saying, "Die in the last ditch.'
When Buckingham urged the inev-
liable destruction which hung over
the United Provinces, and asked
him whether he did not see that the
Commonwealth was ruined, he re-
piled: "There is one certain means
by which 1 can be sure never to see
my country's ruin-I will die in the
last ditch"
The expression "Stesl my thun-
DER" is familiar, and Disraeli &C
counts for it. The actors refuse d
to perform one of John Dennis's
tragedies to empty houses, but they
retained some excellent thunder
which Dennis had invented, and
rolled one night when Dennis was
in the pit, and it was applauded.
Suddenly starting up, he cried to
the audience: "By G., they won'i
act my tragedy, but they steal my
thunder"
The well-known verse, "Thirty
days hath September" etc, is said
to have first appeared in the Abridg-
ment of the Chronicles of England,
by Richard Grafton, 1890, under the
title, ga rule to knowe how many
dayes every moneth in the yeare
hath"
A speaker at the recent Muir
dinner quoted the lines, mo pent
up Utica contracts your powers, "
etc, and ascribed them to Pope,
whereupon Chicago paper took
the trouble to criticise the gentle
mans knowledge OF authors. The
lines referred to were written by
Jonathan n. Sewell, an American,
about the beginning of the present
century, and are to be found in an
epilogue to "Cato," for the Bow
Street Theatre, Portsmouth, N. II.
"By uniting we stand, by diVid-
ing we fall" occurs in stirring
liberty song written by John Dick
inson, in 176S.
That celebr ated modern political
saying that "To the victors belong
the spoils," was first made by VIM.
L. Marcy, of New York, in a speech
in the United States Senate, in
January, 1882.
"First in war, first 10 peace, and
first in the hearts of his country
men," was written by Henry Lee,
in resolutions presented to the
House of Representatives,, on the
death of Washington, in 1899.
Thomas Paine said OF Edmund
Burke, that "He rose like a rocket,
and fell like q stick"
what win Mrs. Grundy say 20
was first asked by Thomas Morton,
in his drama of Speed the Plow."
"Plain as pikestaff," and ''Facts
are stubborn things" are found in
Smolletss translation of "Gil Bias
"D~-e~ $4,000 whan there ia no
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A MorHER,s yENGEAxCE.
strange scene i'm a Wisconsin, Court

Strange scene i'm a Wisconsin, Court
A dispatch from GAINESVILLE, Wis
consin, dated May IL, relating the
conclusion Of the Stowe murder
trial, says:
The arguments Of counsel in this
case were prolonged until 3 o'clock
p. NJ. to-day. Judge Lyon then de-
livered his charge to the jury, in
structipg them that according to she
law and the evidence they mrst Ell
Their find the defendant guilty Of
murder or Of manslaughter in the
third degree. The jury then retired
for deliberatiOn.
An exciting scene occurred ct the
close Of the speech Of the District
Attorney. Mrs. Roberts, the aked
mother Of the murdered man, who
had been a quiet and attentive lis
to the argument, arose and said she
desired to make few remarks to
the jury.
The Judge requested her to sit
down, but she was persistent, and the
Sheriff was compelled to interferS
She took her seat for q moment, and
the officer stepped away, when she
again sprang to her feet enchanting:
"He killed my son and l viii kin
him." rushed upon the old man
Stowe, and grasping him By the
throat and head, caused the blood
TO flow from the wounds she inAie-
ted. The Sheriff and his assistants
interfered, and she was forced from
the court room, still declaring that
she would yet accomplish her pur>
pose. 1t produced quite a sensation
among the audience for q brief pc
Rod, but the officers promptly re-
stored order.
| The conduct Of the aged mother
on this occasion may well be ex-
eused, bereft as she had been Of 9
son, on whom she and a feeble hus-
bsad had for many years depended
for nsOlation and support. She
believed be had been murdered in
cold blsod by the old man Stowe,
without just cause or provoestieh,
while delirOus from q drunken De-
bauch-she well knew the unc "
tainty Of the law, and that criminal
after criminal throughout the land
was escaping on plea Of insanity,
or other frivolous pretext, and she
became frenzied, and determined to
take the law into her own hands,
and mete out justice to him whom
she believed had committed q greAt
crime against God and humanity.
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APT QUOTATIONS.
Repartee and witty Epigrams-Ori-
gin OF Familiar Quotations.

Rcpnrtee and witty Epigrams-Ori-
gin OF Familiar Quotations.
q good instance of epigrammatic
quotation is recorded of Hamilton
Reynolds, well-known as possessing
among other requirements, an ex-
ceptionably great acquaintance with
Shakspeare's works. He was pres
ent at Gore House, one evening, a.
mong a number of distinguished
men, and as the Countess of Bles-
sington saw him to the door, on his
departure, she said a: 81 understand,
Mr.. Reynolds, that you enjoy the
reputation of being able to give
Shakspearean mot suitable to every
occasion. Come what have you
to say now p Madame" replied
Reynolds, without a moments hes
itation, 81 take my leave
'"Under the shade Of melanchO~
ly boughs.' "
He bowed profusely as he spoke,
and went.
The following epigram on Sir
John Vanburgh, the author and ar
chitect, in aIlusion to the ponderous
character Of his buildings, has often
been cited as an example of terse
and biting wilticism
"Lie heavy on him, earth for he
Laid many a heavy load on thee.
A capital burlesque on the Ott-re-
peated sentiment Of the ancient ep-
itaph-
Light lie the earth on these re-
mains"
AS well as clever hit at Sir John.
Speaking of epitaphs reminds US
forcibIy OF the epigram on epitaphs
in general, abiding to their ntenda
cious character it is excellent
"Friend, in your epitaphs I'm
gIieved
So very much is said
One half will never be believed,
The other never read"
The epigram on Colloy CIbbers
obtaining the laureateship is in
point, and most tremendously cut
ting and severe
''In merry old England it once
was rule,
The king had his poet, and also
his fool;
But now we're so frugal, I'd have
you to know it,
That Cibber can serve both for
fool and for pot"
Rude, uncultivatcd wit and intel
ligence are frequently of the hap
piest sort The Duchess of Ports
mouth used to say that the most
tlsttering compliment she ever had
paid her was from a coal HEAVIER,
who said please, your ladyship,
let me light my pipe at your lady
ships beautiful eyes.
The Irish are famous for this
natural, or mother wit. A pcntlo-
man riding in the State of Maine,
found an Irishman fencing in mis-
cradle, barren spot of ground.
"What are you doing that for, Pat ?"
said he; "the cattle will starve on
that wretched land" Aud sure,
it isNto keep the poor bastcs out iv
it, yous honor" was III" "-N - ~
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BREvITIEs AND LEyITIEs.

A good size-Exercise.
''True as steaI'-Wall street brokers.
A swell of the first water-The Ocean.
The pale of civilization-PearI powder.
The miser's disease Aoney-rasnia
Parlor magalnes-Kerosene lamps.
Popular distinguishing big
salary.
All time belongs to us, fQ5 al time Is
hours
Maritime commerce-The sale Of cadet
ships.
Clutch handouts" is the present fash
ionaDle name for pretzels. L
Saratoga has new spring-the spring
of the landlord upon his prey.
Stage experimentation who saw the
air and bore the audience.
An object of interest-A Treasury note
coupon.
The cadetship don't appea to sail very
well in pecuniary waters.
The stick that stir people the wrong
way-the toddy stick.
The only blusterer from whom q brave
man win take blow is the wind.
What is bigger than the biggest nut
megl A nutmeg crater.
Why is pigs tail like carving knifes
Because il is hourished over ham.
1t is great pleasure to be alone, says
Podkins, especially when one has hts
sweetheart with him
ga kiss, }" says French lady, ''costs
less and gratifies more than anything else
in existence.
A witty French writer says that every
body in Nice Qtaly) speaks English ex-
cept few fashionable Americans.
Some one remarks that if the best8
mans faults were written on his fore4
head, it would make him pull his hEt
over his eyes.
"Why are doctors called physicians
mamma z" said little inquisItiye girl TO
her mother, who had Just been visited By
one OF them. physicians, replied
mamma, who was seldom at loss for an
answer, ''comes from feeseek, as the doc
tors ride about all day to seek fees
The Nation is reminded by tie theo-
logical agitation now going on in Boston
OF Theodore Parker's remark TO lnRtic.
The iunatIc met him and warned him OF
the approaching and imminent destruction
and total collapse of the universe. "Oh,
that don't affect me, y said Parker, 81 1--we
in Boston" g
A man was tried for stealing pair OF
boots from shop door in Grand street
with which he ran away. The Judge said
TO the witness who bad seized the prison
er, "What did be say when you caught
himl" Witness-ssY Honor, lie said
he took the boots in joke" NJudg9--
'How far did be carry the joker Wiz.
ness-''About forty yards, please your
honor
a well-known Judge, when be mp
came to the bar, was very blundefl8
speaker. On one occasion, when be 3Ds
trying case involving right OF proRef-
ty TO lot Of pigs, be said: Gentlemen
of the jury, there were just twenty -four
pigs in that droye-just twensy-four,
fundamentally twice as many IS
there are in that Jury box"
LUM LING WAU, q native Chinese ply
sican, proposes 10 settle in New York and
enter upon the practice of his profession.
He brings with him his wife, an inter
prefer, Lu Sing; two Chinese spOtheca-
ries, All Mok and All Sam, and an endless
assortment of drugs and medicines
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O ttery be drawn. And that each
adventurer shall receive their money
back il the said lottery be not
drawn and finished before the first
day of February next"
There were other famous Gazettes
about these days, principal among
hem the Gazette de Hollande, from
which Prince Paul recites the notice
of his intended marriage to the
Grands Duchesse, and the Gazette
de France, which was established
in April, 1881, and the publication
of which has been continued in
Paris to the present time.
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YOng nj, FU q 2SumTncr t McGav Rd
You H, lot Harding saddt
Harriet Hardin
CroshWate Harp
eth river
rcsN andNWR bnovna O
frfohet eCarns hers
",
Beeman ares
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Fiat was a left-handed recommenda-
ton giyel By Western paper il ecog-
mending candidate for Office, Eh4t gu.
ring the war his friend had reeve
wounds enough TO kin ''any ordinary
mule.
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uRr denn SS% they have or
Aforesaid the
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Returns from the counties n ne -. -:
Congressional District Of Iowa snos es-
Palmer, the present incumnA"
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-10-31

Approved April %, $50.

be IL enacted Ly The Senate aud Horit Of .RcPrestH.'
atires II the United Sdtes 0f America Ia Compress
assembled:
That the rate Of Interest upon Judgments or de-
crees. and upon the loan or iorbcarance Of any MON
cy. goods, or things In action, shall continue 10 be
SIX dollars upon one hundred dollars for one year.
and after that rate for d greater or less sum, or Tor a
longer or shorter time. except. ~ hereinafter pro-
vided.
tracts hereafter to be made II shall be lawful for tbs
| parties TO stipnlate or agree In writing that the rats
Of ten per cent. per aiillnl, or any less sum, OF H.
trrrst shall he taken aud paid upon every one nun
dred dollars OF money loaned. or In any manner due
and owing from any person or corporation IN III,
District,
Sec. ;. And be II further enacted. That II any per
son or corporation In this District shall contract To
receive a greater rate Of Interest than ten per cent.
upon any contract In writing, or six per cent. upon
any verbal contract, such person or corporation
shall forfeit the whole Of said Interest 80 contracted
to be received, and shall De entitled only 10 recover
the principal sum due to such person or corpora
ton.
Sec. (. And be Il further enacted. That II any per-
son or corporation within the District Of Columbia
shall directly or Indirectly take or receive any great
or amount OF interest than Is provided for In this
act, upon any contract or agreement whatever, u
shall be lawful for the person. or his personal repre-.
sentative, or the corporation paying the same. 10
sue for und recover all the Interest paid upon any
such contract or agreement from the person or his
personal Representatives. or from the corporation
receiving such unlawful interest: provided. that the
sull to recover back such interest shall lie brought
within ono year after such unlawlulintcrcst Mail
have been paid or taken.
Sec. q. And he II further enacted, That nothing III
this act contained shall Lc construed to change the
general laws in force In relation 10 banking associa.
lions organized under the act T.. provide u national
currency secured by d pledge OF United states bonds
thereof, approved June three, eighteen hundred nni
slxtv.lOuT.
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time the owner Of the ship known as the stevens
battery, originally commenced under contract for
the United States Government. and upon the bnlIl'
Ing OF which large sums OF money were spent b. Ills
brother and himself, did, by his last will and tesla.
Incnl Qhe United States having previously rcllr'
1uIslIed all claims 10 said ship. leave the same ID
be finished BY his executors at an expense not ca
cepsIing the sum OF one million OF dolllrs. and when
finished 10 b. offered to the State OF New Jersey h-
a present, TO be by her received and disposed OF m
the said State should deem proper; AMI whereas.
doubts have been suggested n 10 the right Of the
said State TO accept the said beQuest without The
consent OF Congress under the prohibition VI tile
first article OF the Constitution OF the United states
therefore,
ResoIrei Ly the Ssndte and House Of RcJrnsentd
fir,s Of the United Sates ~ AmerioI in COHDro''
assembled:
That the consent Of Congress Is hereby given that
the State Of New Jersey shall receive and dispose vi
the said ship according TO the terms and conditions
of Klid beUlIest,
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Zellers, Elias

lie. C. Cooke, Justice Of the Peace In and for
Township No. 3, County Of Storey, State Of Ne;
vada, and cx-oficio Registry Agent OF said
Township, hereby certify that the foregoing Is
a full and complete lit Of all tho names regis
tered by me from the 18th day OF March A. D;
1870, to the 2lst day Of October. A. D. 1870, and
now remaining on the Official Register, Of per
sons chtitled 10 vote IN the Filth and Sixth
Election Districts Of Storey county, at the gen
cnl election to be held In the o OF Gold Hill,
on the 9Th day Of November, A. d. 1870.
And | hereby give notice that ! will receive
objections to the right to vote on the part OF any
pcrson no registered, until 8 o'clock, =. u. on the
Sd day Of November. A. d. 1870. .
Witness my hand, this twenty-sccond day OF
October. A, d. 1870. +. C. COOK,
Justice OF the Peace. Township No. 8, county
Of Storey, and cx.ofllcio Registry Agent.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-10-31

Be IL enacted BY The Sraatn aud Houe Of R,pe.cu,.
d.seHbled,
That neither the act OF July twcnty.hnh, eighteen
hundred and siXty-siS, entitled AN act Increasing
lie pensions OF widows and orphans, and for other
PURPOSES" nor the act Of July twcnty-SevrntlI
eighteen hundred and siNyelght, entitleti act
relating to pensions" shall be so construed as to in
crease the amount directed 10 be paid In my special
nets be construed 20 az 10 reduce the same when
ever such act fixes definitely the amount of pension
10 which the person therein named shall be entitled,
10 excess Of the rate fixed BY general law for The
rank in respect TO which such special pensions may
have bcen or may hereafter Dc granted.
Sec. ?, And be II further enacted. That this act
shall have the effect TO restore 70 the persons Affected
Inc construction hcrelnbeforc prohibited.
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TO OWNERS OF DOGS.
TWILL ~nERRAFTRRs

L enforce to the letter Ordinance ~
No. 81, entitled IAN Ordinance to6-~
Provide for the Levy aud Collection Of u n An
nual Tax on Dogs" passed by the Town Trus-
tees, September 2, 1861. In accordance with
the provisions Of said Ordinance, all persons,
whether male or female, owning or keeping any
dog or dogs, mus, lake out and pay a license Of
five dollars per annum on each and all Of said
dogs, having them duly tagged BY the Town
Marshal in consideration thereof. AL dogs
found running about without such tag will be
summarily arrested and put in tho public pound
charged at the rate OF any cents per day for
board and lodging. II the owners ofthc dogs do
not come forward and nay their license, to-
gcther with thelr board bill, they (thc dogs) will
be taken out and shot, or otherwise slaughtered,
In accordance with law.
II. CRANDAL.L, Town Marshal.
Gold Hill, Oct. l, 1871. Off
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Resolred by The Senate aud House Of Rrprnenfd-
Tires Of the United States Of dmcricd IN Congress
~a.emIied.
Tina, hereafter, In addition 10 the number Of copies
Of documents eiuanating from the Department al
State which may be ordered 10 he printed BY either
house Of Congress. II shall be the duty ~ the Con-
~grcSionnl Printer to cai,sc TO b. printed for the isr
Of that Department Ave hundred copies Of every
such document. when requested TO do 10 BY the Sec
rtary Of State; provided, that the expense Of tho
sLmr shall IN no case exceed the sum Of i've hun
'ircd dollars.