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TELEGRAMS.

Heavy snOw-storms were reported by
telegraph yesterday from various points
in Colorado.
One of the Atlanta fire-companies cell
ebrated its twenty-secOnd anniversary
Friday.
George Kile and John Cox INDUCED in
a cutting exercise at Atlanta, Thursday
night. Cox got one in the neck, under
the left jaw, and Kile ran away. The
wound is considered serious.
The tub works of Messrs. Graft & Co.,
in Pittsburg, were destroyed by fire last
night. Loss fifty thousand dollars; in
surance, thirty thousand dollars.
Detective-sergeant Green, of the Lon
don police, arrived in New York yester-
day. en- route for Havana, with papers
necessary for the extradition Of Bidwell,
charged with defrauding the Bank of
England.
The New York World, yesterday,
says intimations were given out Satur-
day, as if on authority, that the money
locked up the past week will be restored
to circulation by Wednesday or Thurs
day.
A sanguinary dispute occurred in Da-
rien between the CauchO collectors and
Indians, and large body OF the former
were driven OFF by the Indians, of whom
quite number have since been coward
ly yassassinated by other Cauchos seekers.
A New York telegram last night said
that Alexander 7. Stewart, though sta
ted by physicians to be convalescent
! from severe illness, is believed to have
passed Saturday in a very critical con-
dition. His complaint is Brights dis
ease Of the kidneys.
A Richmond special saws Chief JUS
tice Chase will not be there to preside in
the circuit court, but to overlook manu-
scripts of reports of decisions in the
courts of that circuit before the war, by
General Bradley T. Johnson, whom he
is visiting.
Panama papers, 10y the Ocean Queen,
report the bark Albert at Aspinwall on
the nineteenth of March, from Boston
| She had two mates and four seamen
/ badly frozen the first day out, from the
effects of which the first mate and one
sailor died and were buried at sea. The
others disabled having lost their fingers
and toes.
The legislature of Texas have unani-
mously passed a concurrent resolution
requesting Governor Davis not to COM
ply with the petition from Secretary De-
lanO and President Grant for the pardon
of the notorious Indian chiefs, Santants
and Big Tree, who are now confined in
the Texas penitentiary.
The strike of workmen, notwithstand-
ing their places had been to a certain
extent filled, occasioned the turning of
of the supply of gas on the west side
of New York city. During Saturday
and at one time yesterday it threatened
TO leave portion of the city in total
darkness. On some Of the streets the
lights burned very dimly, and candles
were used as a substitute for gaslight ip
many Of the newspaper and telegraph
offices.
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NOTICE TO GAS CONSUMERS
We offer for sale the
Walsh Gas Burner and Regulator,

Walsh Gas Burner and Regulator,
Which we WARRANT TO SAVE FROM S no 50
PER CEHT. over any burner IN use, and az the
same tine give Brilliant and Steady Light.
We are permitted to refer to the following
well-known citizens, who have been using the
Walsh Burner for the last four months:
TNIer 4 Co, Register Office, jefferson street.
n a. Idttleton, p Madison street.
c. Fl. Bracket, Livery and Sale Stables.
Madam Vincent BacigalupQ.
Felix Fransiola, go Front street.
]. II. Priddy, SO6 Second street.
f. B. Wilkinson, III Main street.
We would caution the public against an iu-
ferior article which has been sold as the Walsh
Burner. The genuine Walsh Ges Burner can be
obtained from the undersigned. All response
BILE parties having twenty or more lights will
be given time, If desired, 10 become satisfied
that the Burners are as we represent.
Orders left at the Wilson Sewing Machine
office, 353 MafR street. will be promptly
filed by J. H. CROFOOT 3 co.
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NOTICE.

rTsHE regular monthly meeting Of the Mem
L phis Building and savings association
the office OF the Globe Mutual Life Insurance
Company, Al Madison street. Stockholders
are all expected to be present.
BY order G. b. JUDAH, President
s. STURaI, Secretary. apo
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AN AcT % amend the eharler Of an

AN ACT to amend the charter of all the in
cOrpOFated towns and cities in the state.
section BE 10 enacted by the General As
SeHl6ly Of the State Of Tennessee, That where
any Incorporated town or city has, by virtue
of presumed authority to lay special assess
ments for specific purposes, levied and col
lected taxes, or special Assessments, the right
to make which levy and assessment was alter
ward declared void by the supreme Court OF
the state, said town or city shall have the
power to levy a tax, in addition to all other
lakes allowed by law to be levied, sufficient 70
cover the entire cost of-the improvement
with interest thereon, for which said special
assessments were illegally made, and in the
leyying of such additional tax authority Is
hereby given to such town or city to al
low, as valid payments on said additional tax
any sum or sums, with interest, paid by per
sons in satisfaction, or in part satisfaction, OF
said special assessments, Illegally levied and
collected as aforesaid.
Section 2.--Be It further enacted, That this
act shall take effect from and after its passage
the public welfare requiring it.
Passed March Is, 1873.
VS.. MCGAUGHEY,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
At. LACEY,
Speaker of the Senate.
Approved March q, 1873.
JOHN c. BROWN, Governor.
certify that the foregoing is true copy OF
an act Of the General Assembly of the state
of Tennessee, the original of which is now on
file in my office. -
CHAS. N. GIBBS,
Secretary OF state.
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AVOID QUACKs.

A VICTIM OF early indiscretioa, causing
"A nervous debility, premature decsy, ese.'
having tried in vain every adv issd Fsiils,ly'
has discovered a simple means OF sel5-e VI
1-htch be will send free 10 his fellow utiei ar
aj,irs>s j. r. REEVES,
mbs Is Nassau street, New AorE.
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W. 3. MCGAUGHEE,
Speaker of the House Of Representatives.
Approved March 2l, 1873.
JOHN G. BROWN, Governor.
/ certify that the foregoing Is a true copy Of
an act of the General Assembly of Tennessee,
the original OF which is now on file in my
CHARLES n. GIBBS,
Secretary of state.
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Speaker Of the House of Representatives.
A T. LACEY

AN ACT to repeal section 7 of an act entitled
IAN act TO encourage the planting, improve
ment and other interests OF the state OF
Tennessee, and for other purposes" passed
June 9, 1855, and to repeal an act entitled
IAN act to amend an act passed March Z,
1867, chapter 81, entitled an act to amend the
charter of the Memphis and Charleston
Railroad Company, and for other purposes, -
passed January Is, 1868.
Section BE it enacted by the General Is
sem6lv Of the State Of Tennessee, That section
OF an act entitled "An act TO encourage the
planting, Improvement, and other interests of
the State of Tennessee, and for other pur-
pOses," passed June 9, 1850, and an act entitled
IAN act to amend an act passed March :, 1867.
chapter 81, entitled an act to amend the char
ter OF the Memphis and Charleston Railroad
Company, and for other purposes" passed
January Is, 1868, be and the same are hereby
repealed.
Section 2.-Be it further enacted, That this act
shall take effect from and after the first day
Of November, 1874.
Passed March 90 1873.
A. T. LACEY,
Speaker of the Senate.
5. MCGAUGHEY,
W.Speaker of the House.
Approved March %, 1873.
JNO. {. BROWN, Governor.
l certify that the foregoing is a true copy Of
an act OF the General Assembly of the SeAte
of Tennessee, the original of which is now on
file in my office,
CHARLES n. GLIB
ap5 Secretary of State.
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IMPERIAL, LONDON, ENGLAND,
LAWS OF TENNESSEE

AN ACT to provide fOrthe payment of costs
OF keeping prisoners arrested in the county
of ObiOn. in the jurisdiction Of the Law
Court of Union City.
Section BE it enacted by the General As
seJabIJ Of the State Of Tennessee, That the state
costs Incident to the guarding of prisoners ar
the Law Court of Union City, and the costs of
the confinement of the same is hereby made
a charge upon the county Of ObiOn, in misde-
meanor cases and in felony cases q charge
upon the State of Tennessee.
Section 2.-Be Il further enacted, That when
ever the Sheriff of ObiOn county, or the cor
porate authorities of the town of Union Cit Y
have incurred costs in the keeping Of state
prisoners, said sheriff or corporate authOri-
Ties shall be authorized and allowed to collect
the same from the said county of Obion, in
misdemeanor cases and in felony cases, a
charge upon the State Of Tennessee.
Section 3.-Be 10 further enacted, That this
act take effect from and after its passage, the
public welfare requiring tt.
Passed March % lSl3.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
MASONIC NOTICE.

VlHE STATED COMMUNICATION OF a
Angerona Lodge, No. 1853, will be held/V\
MONDAY EVENING, April 7th, at ~
O'Clock, for dispatch of business.
All NJ. MS are fraternally invited.
By order c. g. LOCKE, W. M.
b. RICHMOND, Secretary. ape
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PRIVILEGES FOR ORPHANS BALI

'ECHTS, until the 10th inst. The Commit
e reserve the right to reject any or all bids.
mh10 j. A. HAYES, JR., Secretary.
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PACHA
CLOTHS
For suItIngs, to which the par
ticuIar attention of Ladies is
invited. The remarkably low
price
800

at which tAese goods are offered
Will make them a great point
of attraction during the week.
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The supposed message of the governor
which you published yesterday morning
has been riddled by the lawyers and
laughed at by sensible people. In fact,
the big scare which the two papers ex-
cited has oozed out at the finger-ends Of
dhe Legislature, and many say now that
the railroad steal" was no steal at all,
but the best measure, in many of its re-
.,pects, discussed this session. X.
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ST. LOUIS, April 6.-The police at a
late hour last night raded the keno
houses of the city and captured sixty
five persons, and seized the apparatus of
tha yariOuS hOuses visited
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-06-26
Stages and RaiIWavs.

The first stage coach in America
started from Boston from the site of
No. 90 North street, in 1861. The
first line of stage coaches between
Boston and New ork was established
in 1882, coach leaving each city
once month fourteen were rcquired
to complete the journey. In 1902 the
mail stage started from Boston for
New York OH Monday morning at 8
O'Clock, and was due in New York at
noon on Friday. ~On the seventh of
April 1884, the first train of railway
passenger cars started from Boston to
Feedham, to which place tie Worces.
ter Railway was then opened ). the
Western Railway was opened to Al
bany December 81, I841. Railways
did not cross the Mississippi river un-
til 1871; and on the 10th of May,
1869, they reached the Pacific. The
number of miles of railway in the
world is one hundred and forty thou.
sand, of which one-half are in the
United States.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-06-26
Curious Calculations.

What noisy creature man would
be if his voice was in proportion to
his weight, as loud as that of locust
or a katydid. Either of these little
creatures can be heard forty rods, or
one eighth of mile. a man of or
binary size will weigh about sixteen
th ousand times as much as locust,
and if his voice could be heard sixteen
thousand times as far, he could stand
in Omaha and make himself heard
with ease in Portland, Me. or, being
in Chicago, could hold easy conversa-
ton with the citizens of New York
His sneezing might alarm the citizens
of Buffalo, and his faintest whisper
would roll like thunder through the
streets of Detroit.
Supposing flea to weigh one grain
it really ways trif1e less-and to
jump a yard and half; a man of $50
pounds weight, with jumping powers
in proportion, could readily leap 12,-
500 miles, or from New York TO Cam
ton, China.
Aristophanes represents Socrates
and his pupils deeply engaged in cal
culatiops of this kind, and speaks of
them sitting around table waxing
fea's legs to see what weight it
would carry in proportion to its own.
Unfortunately for the curious, the re.
suit is not given.
Who has not seen an ant carry a
grain of corn outweighing itself many
times. If man was endowed with
proportionate strength might the fahu-
lous performances of Atlas become 2
reality?
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-06-26
A New Idea IN BufIdfng.

Wire netting for plastering is being
rapidly introduced to take the place
Of laths. 1t takes less labor to place
on the walls; is more continuous, and
will not burn. Coarse netting, with
one inch mesh, and made of strong
wire, is found to answer best. For
ornamental eornice work it is espe-
cially valuable, for 1t can be bent into
any desired form Secured to iron
studding in brick building, our great
est danger on account of fire would be
removed. A still further application
Of this plan is to maze round bags of
wire, resembling barrels, and to coat
them inside and out with cement
When it hardens they resemble stone
barrels. Filled with stand and sunk
in rows and masses, they make excel
lent building material for break waters
Another extension of the idea has
been tried with success in England.
It consists in making iron framed
buildings, covering them with wire
netting and spreading concrete on both
si1es. It is claimed that q house
walls, floors, roofs, doors, partitions
and all-has been built that is strong,
firm and absolutely incombustable.-
Various applications ofthe use of wire
netting and plaster or cement readily
suggest themselves, and the matter is
worthy the attention ofmechanics AID
builders,
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-06-26
A Terrible Punishment.

Mr.. James Greenwood has publish
ed a frightful account of the silent
system which is in operation at the
Polloway Model Prison, in London:
1t is an offense for a prisoner to
speak one word, and he is never ad-
dressed except in whispers, so that he
may be in prison two years without
hearing the natural sound of the hu-
man voice. The effect of this is so
terrible on the mind that prisoners
will speak out in desperation, at the
risk OF any punishment, rather than
endure the terrible silence.
The prisoners never see one anOth-
er, but remain IN perpetual solitude.
One poor wretch, driven to despera
ton by nine months solitude and si-
Ience, recklessly broke out in Mr..
Greenwood's presence:
For Gods 5 sake governor, put me
in another cell. Put me somewhere
else. l have counted the bricks in the
cell l am in till my eyes ache"
The request of the tortured wretch
was refused.
There is fine hole in the cell, and
as the wardens " ear shoes of India
rubber soles, the prisoners can never
be sure of being alone.
Those condemned to tie treadmiIl
have to ascend 1900 steps every al
ternate twenty minutes for six hours.
And this is place so hot and close
that prisoners often lose in perspira
ton three stone in as many months.
Every day the prisoners are taken
to a chapel SO arranged that they see
no one save the chaplain, and him on
ly through an iron grating. And thus
is the order of devotion Observed
Wardens arc constantly on the watch,
lest for a single instant they, through
the whole of the service, de
part from the rigid rule of .'eyes right .
They must look steadfastly at the
preacher; must raise and lower their
prayer book with the elbows squared,
and all at once, like soldiers at drill,
They may not scrape their feet with
out having afterward to explain the
movement They scarcely wink an
eye or sigh without danger Of rebuke
or punishment. God help them, poor
wretche5
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-06-26
The ventriloquist on the Dock.

Quite an exciting time, says re-
porter of the Cleveland Herald, oc-
Cured at one of our wharyes recently
The hands Of one of our steamers
were engaged in rolling off q cask,
when to the surprise and consterna-
ton of the persons performing that
operation voice was heard inside the
cask.
':Roll it easy; these plaguey nails
hurt. Id rather pay my passage than
stand all this"
Holding up their hands, their eyes
expanding to the size of two saucers,
the two laborers exclaimed
THAT beats the dickens -
The mate coming up at this moment,
and unaware of the cause of delay,
commenced scolding them for their
dilatoriness, when within the cask the
voice came forth:
you're nobody, let me out of this
casE"
Whats that? p said the mate.
why it's me-" said the voice. 81
want TO get out; l won't stand this
any longer"
up end the cask," said the mate.
"Oh, don't, you'll kill me- said the
voice, 30, how these nails prick =
Look out-dou't!'' again said the
casked-up individual, as the men were
turning it over.
Cooper" said the mate, ''unhead
that cask and take out that man."
As the adze sundered the hoops, and
the head was coming out, the voice
again broke forth:
''Be easy, now; is there any one
about? l don't want to be caught -
Quite crowd had gathered round
the scene of action, when low gut
teral laugh broke forth, which made
our hair stand on end, and the cash
was found filled with bacon.
"What does that mean ?'' says one
''It beats my time,'' said the mate
We enjoyed the joke too well to tell
| what it meant as we walked off arm il
arm with the Ventriloquist.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-06-26
How A Married Man Sews on a
Button.

It is bad enough to see a bachelor
sew on button, but he is theembodi-
ment of grace along side Of q married
man. Necessity has compelled eEIier.
ience in the case Of the former. Int
the latter has depended upon some.
one else for this service, and; for
tunately for the sake Of society, it is
rarely he is obliged to resort to the
needle himself. Sometimes the patient
wife scalds her right hand, or runs q
splinter under tie matt of the index
finger of that hand, and T. is then the
man clutches the needle around the
neck, and, forgetting to tie Knot in
the thread, commences to put on the
button. It is always in the morning,
and from five to twenty minutes after
this he is expected down street He
lays the button exactly on the site of
its predecessor, and pushes the needle
through the eye, and carefully draws
the thread after, leaving about three
inches of it sticking up for lee way
He says to himself;-
We'll, if women don't have the cas-
lest time ever saw"
Then he comes back the othet way
and gets the needle through the cloth
easy enough, and lays himself out to
find the eye, but in spite of a great
deal of patient jabbing the needle
point persists in buclling against tho
solil parts of the button, and finally,
when he loses his patience, his fingers
catch the thread, and that three inches
he has left to hold the button slips
through the eye ia a twinkling and
the button rolls leisurely across the
floor. He picks it up without single
remark, out of respect for his chill
dren, and makes another attempt to-
fasten it. This time, when coming
back with the needle, he keeps both
the thread and button from slipping
by covering them with his thumb, and
it is out of regard for that part of him
that he feels around for the eye in
very careful and judicious manner,
but evidently losing his philosophy
as the search becomes more and more
hopeless, he falls to jabbing about in
loose and savage manner, and it is'
just then the needle finds the opening,
and comes up through the button
and part way through his thumb with
a celerity that no human ingenuity
can guard against. Then he lays down
the things, with a few familiar quota
tions, and presses the injured hand be-
tween his knees, and then holds it un--
der the other arm, and finally jams it
into his mouth, and all the while he
prances and calls upon heaven and
earth to witness that there has never
been anything like it since the world
was created, and bowls, and whistles,
and means, and sobs. After awhile
he calms down, and puts on his pants
and fastens them together with stick,
and goes to his business a changed
man.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-06-26
Cheap Disinfectants.

One pound of green copperass cost
ing seven cents, dissolved in one
quart Of water, and poured down a
water closet, will etfectuallv destroy
the foulest smells. On board ships
and steamboats,, about hotels and
other places, there is nothing so nice
to purify the air. Simple green cop
peras dissolved under the bed in any
thing that will hold water will render
hospital, or places for the sick, free
from unpleasant smells. For butcher s
stalls, fish markets, slaughter houses,
sinks, and whatever there are often
sive, putrid gases, dissolve copperas
and sprinkle it about, and in few
days the smell will pass away If a
cat, rat, or mouse dies about the
house and sends forth an offensive
gas, place some dissolved copperas
in an open vessel near the place where
the nuisance is, and it will soon purify
the atmosphere.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-06-26
Arguments for Free Liquor.

CuIcAGo, June 11.-At Decatur, Ill.
O. Thursday might, young man
named Bicks, while intoxicated, began
to abuse his mother, and when remon-
strated with by his father drew a re-
xolver, and reaching across the table
where they were sitting at supper, shot
his father in the head. Then turning
the pistol to his own head he put a
ball into it. Neither one is dead, but
neither will survive his wounds.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-06-26
Domestic BIiss--Love in a Cottage.

Ten o'clock.-The wife digging po
tatoes; two children crying, and two
others lighting. Husband not about.
Half past ten-Wife returns from
potato patch; finds pig in the kitch-
en-, and six youngones in a general
fight. Makes fire and goes after
water.
Quarter to eleven-Wife returns,
finds all the children crying, and the
pig in the meal barrel. Fire out
Eleven-Renews the fire; puts on
the potatoes, whips five children, then
goes for more water.
Twelve-Husband returns and finds
no dinner; swears at few and whips
young one. Wife gets mad, and
makes for broomstick,
Grand TableauN-Wife beating hus-
band with broomstick; three chill
dren holding on to their fathers coat,
and three to their mothers dress hog
running in the distance with potato,
and dog III pursuit. Curtain falls.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-06-26
rTosocs Attempt to ESCAPE.

SAN Francisco, June 1S.-The fol-
lowing dispatch has been received:
YREKA, CAL, June 1S.-While the
Modocs were being removed from the
peninsula of Tule Lake to Fort Klam-
ath, one of the Indians, known as
Curly Headed Jack, who surrendered
with the Hot Creek band to General
Davis at Fairlield's Ranch, shot him
self He has since died. 1t is also re-
ported that some of the Indians WHO
were ironed nearly succeeded in filing
off their irons, but were detected IN
time to prevent their escape"
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1873-06-26

A woman in Chester interfered with
her brothers courtship, and begged
him to stay at home evenings He
waited until the evening when she ex-
pected her own lover and complied
and she says that fraternal affection
is heartless mockerY.