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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-12-30
200 PIANOS AND ORGANS, q: y;

s.d-hans. Of rir.s.sl.:s M:hsr. 80 y I'D q. i.:wss
Counsry durtng this Financial Crisis and The He'll
days. b. HOkACk WATERS T. son, NS. ASI Broad
Wsn.S1Sr q. 'sk o. asors' tsiy SIssed flsds.; tss.
eerto Orchestral Organs. illustrated Catalogue
Malice. Great iaducsasnts % the Trade. large
dlscevnS 70 pistsrv. Chvrehss Sxntax oshes u. sls
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Alarble ano 8late Manifls.

C,TEWARTn Slate Mantels, Marble and WOOD 100
Msn Rehspa elegant deagns Al the oss pees |<o ana 80
wet Twenty.th between Seventh and bRhthstt
V'HE PENRHYN SLATE Co.; have removed
~ Ind, nss ysreroos Union Fourth and seven
oasnng ns. sssorsw en' OF sAnhLs
s mauy unique designs pee' casDsnpAs
| ssmsetspon
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4 An EAST 34TH-ST.-An EXTENSION
~ ROOM with 6n.-cass BOARD for man and wife SIN
gle gentlemen permanent party moderase references e.
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Ciip Real estate for Sale.

NOR SALE or EXCHANGE for improved
~ d.y proDery-5o Desirable LOTS and valuable
AyATgR FRONTS on the upper end OF The island -. -.
LBsPINAsSB d FRIEDMAN, IL PneS
NOR SALE-At a bargain, handsome, new,
- BROWN STONE all nprovemen hard weSG hnS
Sc Hill Apply on the premises oil u L. hbHNfDi
hsider. 40 Basi Thirty seVentb1sI
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-12-30

Jff EAST 6OTH-ST .-Elegant ROOMS, with
M Bos gentlemen gentlemen aud wives house brown
stone, everything 6rsl .clasa Apply al the week.
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lll EAST 14TH-STETWO II


<~@~ ROOMS, nicely furnished; hack Room also large
Front Piro suitable gentleman and wife or two gentle
elss Roarl
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REAL ESTATE.
Nrw.yoRK. Monday. Dec. 20, 1878.

There were two legal sales made at the Ex-
snange sslesrooms to-day. Richard " harnett solo, oy
nrer OF the Supreme Court under direction OF Nathaniel
Jaryi, ir referee the story brown stone house and
lot on the north side of seventythrds feet west Of
lot 7oxso feet, TO James EsrleSor 800.
u M Seaman, representing William Kennedy, sold by
rer of the Court OF Common Pleas under direction Of
William II Gardner referee, the Sstory brick basement
md frame house on the south side OF Seventy
"a. feet east of Secondave lot 25x02 TO Jacob Eschl
snan for N4s7 so.
Below Will be found full report OF the Department Of
Buildings for the week ending Dec. a.
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Dentisrrp.

~ ard hr ta,p ssy other esblhment ia the city, Can Ans
kIcg nadsr gss At the usual price Dr. WAIl SON
corner Twenty third o. and Fourthsve
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Real Gstaie to Grrhan1e

EXCHANGE for FARM, large, modern,
FuehroOf HOUSE Elizabeth in complete order One stree
pleasant surroundings good stable ard with
and within FIVE minutes Of depot Photograph
q Office. j. o. HOYT q SON III Broadway,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-12-30
Gitn propertp 10 fct.

A TTENTlON.--lf you wish to rent house
~ hons. rented and the rents collected with prompt
turns, or to LIVINGSTON Co, 92 East lsthst
'VNO LET-An extra wide STORE on Fifth
Il sdjoinng the of Twenty hrd.st Apply to
(R l446) H. II. LUDLOW Co, 3 Finest
rTO LET-A furnished ,three-stOry, high
HOUSE perfect order TO desirable party Rent very
low. Apply 322 West Tweny.thhst
TJNO LET, FURNISHED--A 3-stOry HOUSE,
longer perfect order rem, 500 month to
q desirable party. Apply 312 West Twenty sfihs'
rINO LET-With immediate pOssession-a very
pretty ttreestory DWELLING Seventy seondst Third
FITZPATRICK. / 900 Third-ave
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1873-01-18
TRIRTY cEYrrRIEs OLD.

The Oldest relic of humanity extant is
the skeleton of the earliest Pharaoh,
encased in his original burial-robes,
wonderfully, perfect, considering its
age, which was deposited eighteen or
twenty months ago in the British AIu-
scum, and is justly considered the
most valuable of its archaeological
treasures.
The lid of the coffin which contained
the royal mummy was inscribed with
the name of its occupant, Pharaoh Ny
kerimus, who succeeded the heir of the
builder of the great pyramid about ten
centuries before Christ Only think of
Z the stcc.anarch whose erambling bones
citing the wondeseof numerous issyiszefs
in London reisned IN Egypt before
Solomon was born, and only about
eleven centuries or so after Misraim,
the grandson of old father Noah, and
the Pharaohs, had been gathered to his
fathers. Why, the tide-mark of the
Deluge could scarcely have been OBJ
liberated, or the gopher-wood knee tim
bers of the ark have rotted on Mount
Ararat, when this man of the early world
lived. moved and had his being. His
bones and shriveled skin are contem-
porary with the nineteenth century, and
the date of the crucifixion is only about
midway between this era and ours.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1873-01-18
THE ORDER OF NATURE.

Thou, who wouldst read with undarkened eye
The laws by which the Thunderer bears sway,
Look at the stars that keep, in yonder sky,
UnbrokSs peace from Natures earliest day.
The great sun, as he guides his fiery car,
Strikes not the cold moon in his rapid sweep;
The bear, that sees star setting after star,
the blue brine descends not to the deep.
The star of eve still leads the hour of dews;
Duly the day star ushers in the light;
With kindly alternations Love renews
The eternal courses bringing day aud night.
Loye drives away accursed War, and keeps
The realm and host Of stars beyond his reach.
In one long cain1'the general Concord sleeps
: Theelernents. and tempess each 70 each
The moist giyes place benignly to the dry;
Heat ratihes q faithful league with cold;
The nimble flame springs upward to the sky;
Down sinks by its own weight the sluggish mold
SdH sweet with blossoms is the years fresh prime
Her harvests still the ripening summer yields;
Fruit-aden Autumn follows in his time, i
And rainy Winter waters still the ields.
The elemental harmony brings forth
AID rears lfe,
It sweeps the breathing myriads from the earth,
And vhelrns and hides them to be seen no more.
While the great Founder, He who gave these laws,
Holds the firm reins and sits amid the skies,
Monarch aud Master, Origin and Cause,
And Arbiter supremely just and wise.
He guides the force He gave; lis baud restrains
And curbs it to the circle it mast trace;
Else the air fabric which His hand sustains
Would fan "a Payments in the void of space
Love bin the parts together; gladly still
They urt His kind command and wise decree,
Unless love held hem subject to the viii
That gave them being, they would cease TO be.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1873-01-18
SHELL MOUNDS.

San Pablo is about fifteen miles from
Oakland, and lies almost due north, and
the road follows the beach. When
within three miles of the town we came
to n shell mound, rising up from the
the plain to almost the dignity of a
hill, and which is now covered with a
growth of shrubbery. There is no
telling when or by whom that mound
was raised, that is almost mile long
and half a mile wide.
Fragments of pottery made of red
earth, not to be obtained any where in
this State, are found ON the surface and
near the top, and about two years ago
Mr.. McHenry, the owner of the land,
dug a trench, and at the depth of
twenty feet, sixty feet in from the west,
near the base, found numerous skele-
tons, of Indians of all sizes, and some
bones of dogs and birds and many i'm
plements of stone. One baby had been
rolled in monstrously long piece of
red silk, like the mummies, and had
been covered with coating of a sort of
asphaltum. Mr.. McHenry also found
in other parts of the hill evidences
enough to show that this mound was a
burying-place for some extinct tribe OF
Indians, as the skulls are different from
all others known in some particulars.
Where the red silk came from would
puzzle any one to know, as this must be
primitive race, Judging by the rude
implements and utensils. All the skele-
tons were in sitting posture, with
their faces turned northward. The
shells that form this mound are oyster,
clam and mussel shells, all having been
exposed to the action of fire, and nearly
all broken fine. Very rarely are entire
shells found. The same kind of mounds,
! though not so large, are found near Sar
| Mateo, on the San Francisco side. They
are all near the shores of the bay, ano
have been made of shells of the oysters
and mussels that the Indians used a'
food, and which they evidently roasted
to open. Some think it impossible tina
such enormous quantities of oysters
ETC., could ever have been eaten, an'
would never have. believed 1T had
:, not seen gentleman eat roast oyster
once, and seen the pile of shells he left
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1873-01-18
. ONCEIN EIGHT YEARN.

NJ Paul Janet, French writer, has
shown that since the year 1798 there
have been twelve different governments
in France, the average duration of
which has been from seven to eigh%
years. What is curious in this connec-
ton is that none of these governments
has been the expression of the free viii
of the people, but all have been usurped.
Every eight years therefore force in
France overthrows the regular authori-
ty, and creates a new regime of chance,
which is itself in time destroyed by the
same weapons that had raised it. Wheth-
er the government of NJ. Thiers will
survive the allotted eight years remains
to be seen.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1873-01-18

SPIKE making is about to be carried
on extensively in Allentown, Penn.
VIRGINIA City, Nevada, recently re-
ceived one consignment of quicksilver
weighing about 10000 pounds from San
Francisco
THE Danish Government recently in
vited tenders for 10000 tons of rails,
and the New Zealand Government for
1000 tons.
The portions of the great steel works
at Essen, Germany. liable to sufferfrom
fire, were recently insured for the im-
mense sum of 81, ,67O, 600
THE British Society of Arts has offer
ed large gold medal for the best speci-
| men of steel in next years Gondon)
International Exhibition.
TWENTY-FIVE bills authorizing the
construction of tramways throughout
Great Britain are to be submitted to the
British Parliament at its next session.
/ THE San Francisco sugar refners are
endeavoring to break down the two beet
sugar factories, because the latter not
only refine their own beet sugar, but
also foreign cane sugar, at a time When
the refners usually suspend work.
A coMPANY is organizing in England
to construct and run between Dover and
Calais line of steamships fitted with
Mr.. Bessemer's suspended cabin, and
possessing other improvements which
will, it is expected, prevent sea-sickness.
The American Railway Master Me-
chanics' Association offers a gSemiuIn of
S75 for the best drawing of machinery
for removing snow from railroad tracks,
and $50 for the best drawing of appli-
ances for supplying locomotive tenders
with water or fuel The drawings are
to be submitted before May 13, 1873.
Mr.. SAMUELsoS, a British iron mas
ter, who recently transferred his inter-
est in iron works making $4,000 tons per
annum, allowed S4OO,OO0 of the sum
due him to remain as a mortgage at six
per cent. per annum. This transaction
indicates the lower rates of interest
manufacturers pay in England, compar-
ed with those current in the United
States.
CRUSHED bones are compressed IN
Melbourne, Australia, into cakes SIX
inches square and three inches thick,
in order that they may be exported
economically. The cakes or tiles thus
formed are just adhesive enough to ad-
nit of their being handled freely, and
vet, when required for use as manure,
they can be readily crushed or melted
by the application of little hot water.
This novel plan has been devised to turn
to account the large quantities of bones
which the new meat-preserving opera
tions accumulate. 1t may possibly be
| employed with advantage in Texas sne
/ South America as means of utilizing
! the bones and other animal refuse 50
plentiful in those places.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1873-01-18
0UrDo0R LIFE.

Our girls want more outdoor life, and
less reading novels and embroidering in
rooms darkened with green blinds. If
there is any one thing more beautiful
ItAs. tiixI II ssstrJIe1I of ao.---ere,
that thing is beautiful girl, with sun
bonnet on her head so wide and capa-
cious that you have to get right square
before her, to see the glowing cheeks
that are sure to be there if she is accus-
toned at all to garden walks and works.
Physically, there can be nothing better
for daughters, and, indeed, for many
wives, than to take sole charge of a
small flower garden. The benefits de-
rived from early rising, stirring the soil,
snuffing the pure mountain. air, are
freshness and glow of cheek and bright
ness of eye, cheerfulness of temper. Wig
or of mind and purity of heart. Conse-
quently she must be more cheerful and
lovely as n daughter, more dignified and
womanly as a sister, and more attractive
and contiding as a wife. If you have
not the door-yard ground, then get a
pot and plant the seeds of flowers to
your taste. The care and attention re-
quired to rear and train the growing
plants, occupies the mind to the exclu-
sion oftentimes of senseless novel read
ing, a senseless waste of time. You list
less, pale-faced, fragile thing of a girl,
throw off your mock delicacy, put on
gloves Il Won will but work In the flow
er garden until your checks vie in color
with the blush of the rose which you
cultivate
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REMEMBRANCE.

NJ longer nlosirn Tor lle .BlcIl.L ara .dezg
Than you shall hear the suriy, sullen bell
Give warning TO the world that 1 am fed
From this vile world, with vilest worms 20 dwell.
Nay, if you read this line, remembey,not
The hand that writ it +; for love you so,
That in your sweet thoughts would be forgot
If thinking on me then should make you woe.
o, if, I say, you look upon this verse
When l. perhaps, compounded am with clay
Do not so much a. my name reheafse,
But let your love even with my life decay
Lest the wise world should look into your moan.
And mock you with me, after 1 am gone
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1873-01-18
THE MAN REVIVED.

AsIleked upon this lonesome au-
tumn Virginia scene, and the deliberate
and warming poem of Whittier came to
my mind, with its too truthful ending,
o, more than all thy dead renown,
We're now one hero living,
/ endeavored to believe what manner of
man might this have been who in our
day would be an impossibility in public
life. For nearly thirty years he was in
Congress. Like Thaddeus Stevens,
who possessed some of his power of
scorn, he was bachelor; for years he
was Chairman of the Committee of
Ways and Means, and jefferson habitu-
ally Consulted him. Benton-a cold,
dignifed eritic-says that for thirty
years he was the political meteor of
Congress, and often the planetary
plague, and, as the scourger of preten-
sion, meanness, vice and demagogery,
the benefactor of the House.
And on that hilltop he lies, like the
Indians of whose blood he boasted
felt upon his fellow-sinners 81 am the
victsn," he wrote, ''of my own uncon-
trolled and uncomfortable sensations. -
He was the inheritor of a decimated
and artificial gentiiity, which had run
along in Tidewater Virginia, like the
friable soil, steadily toward barrenness,
for nearly two centuries; and he could
not distinguish between the affectations
of this social inheritance and the simple
sympathies of new Republic. With
out-a slave to OWN, he might have risen
to the radicalism of fanatic, and been
the monster of that conservative age, in
stead of its curiosity; for the few near
things that he did were not the emana-
tions of mean nature, but the fruit OF
provincialism and fury. With all his
toadying for Old England, the Throne,
ETC., he could write, when the prints
burlesqued his mission to Russia: ''Fhe
yearnings of my heart after home have
been stilled by the monstrous and ma
lignant calumnies which have beer
heaped upon my t,nofending head. y
Thus it was with the archer, when an
arrow which might fit his quiver strikes
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VOL. TX. NO. 2.
SONG.

We sail toward evenings lonely star
That trembles in the tender blue;
One simple cloud, dusty bar
Burnt with dull carmine through and through
Slow snOuldering ia the summer sky,
Lies low along the fading west;
How sweet TO watch its splendors die,
Waye-cradled thus, and wind-caressed
The soft breeze freshens leaps the spray
To kiss cheeks with sudden cheer.
Upon the dark edge Of the bay
Lighthouses kindled far and
And through the warm depths Of the sky
Steal faint star-clusterH, while rest
In deep refreshment, thou aud I,
wave-cradled thus, and wind-caressed.
How like dream are earth and heaven,
Star beam and darkness, sky and sea;
Thy face, pale in the shadowy even,
Thy quiet eyes that gaze on me
o realize the moments charm,
Thou dearest, We are at lfe's best,
Folded in Gods eneircling arm,
Wave-cradled TINS, aud wind-caressed!
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1873-01-18
NI1GAR4 FAILS WITHOUT WATER


NIJ CARA FALLS. WITHOUT WATER,
On the Goth of March, 1913, the river
presented a remarkable phenomenon
There is no record of a similar one, nor
has il. been observed since. The winter
had been intensely cold, and the ice
formed on Lake Erie was very thick.
This was Ieosened around the shores by
the warm DAYS of early spring. During
the day stiff easterly wind moved the
whole field up the lake. About sun
down the wind chopped suddenly
around, and blew a gale from the west.
This brought the vast tract of ice down
again with such tremendous force that
it filed the neck of the lake and the
outlet, so that the outflow of the water
was very greatly impeded. OF course
it only needed a very short space Of
time for the falls to drain off the water
below Black Rock The consequence
was, that when we arose in the morning
at Niagara we found that our river was
nearly-half gone.-The American chan
mel had dwlndled into a respectable
creek. The British channel looked as
though it had been smitten with quick
consumption, and was fastpassing away.
Far up from the head of Goat Island,
and out into the Canadian rapids, the
water was gone, as it was also from the
lower end of Goat Island, out beyond
| the tower. The rocks were bare, black
and forbidding. The roar of Niagara
had subsidized almost to a moan. The
scene was desolate, and but for its nov
city and the certainty that it would
change before many hours, would have
been gloomy and saddening. Every
person who.has visited Niagara. will re-
member beautiful Jet Of water which
shoots up ont of the water about forty
rods south of the outer sister in the
| great rapids, called, with a singular con
tradiction of terms, the "Leaping
Rock.
The writer drove a buggy from neal
\ the head of Goat Island out to point
above and near to that Jet. With a log
cart and four horses ne had drawn from
the outside OF the outer lsiauu = stlch
of pine timber, hewed twelve inches
square and forty feet long From the
top of the middle island was drawn q
still larger stick, hewn on one side and
sixty feet long. There are few places
on the globe where a person would bt
less likely to go numbering than in tht
rapids of Niagara, just above the brinl
of the Horseshoe Fall. All the people
of the neighborhood were abroad ex
ploring recesses and cavities that had
never before been exposed to mortal eye
The writer went some distance up the
shore of the river. Large fields at the
muddy bottom lay bare. The
singular sincupe of the waters lasted ali
i the day, and night closed over the
strange scene. But in the morning oul
river was restored in all its strength,
beauty, and majesty, and we were glad
to welcome its swelling tide once more.
1 Afrco Tr.rprp ~rre A A.-rrpco,- q ,-oof-
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LOST.


T. WILKINS.
Lost! Lost Lost.
thousand jewels rare;
a thousand gems Of priceless cost,
4 thousand visions fair.
Lost treasures We can ne'er regain,
Lost joys, that viii not come again
The weary heart viii weep
Ger hopes that could not last;
Ger well beloved forms that sleep
within the elouded past,
The hopes that once were bright are He'd !;
The Summers blooming flowers are dead.
We have lost some gem,
Which to our hearts was dear:
some flower broken from the stem
That we had cherished there.
We wept, bat all our tears were vain;
Twas gone to ne'er return again.
The stream Of time rolls on
Along its misty shore,
And watts load Of pleasure gone
That from the past it bore.
It bears them to boundless sea,
The ocean Of eternity,
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VISIT TO HIS HOME-HLS NEIGH
BORHOOD REPUTA PERSONAL
CLARA CTERFSTICS.
[Gath III Chicago TribuneI
''Yonder is the house of John Ran
doIph. of Roanoke,e said an engineer of
the railroad, who sat at my side. wood
BouIdin, of the Virginia Court of Ap-
peals, lives there now. He is no kin to
Randolph that 1 know OF, Beuldin's
father, Tom, succeeded Randolph in
Congress and died of paralysis in his
seat, as he rose TO announce Randolph's
death, in 1894. Yes, sir, this is Ran
died here also. ire land .iisil Il S Worth 50:
an acre.
looked up and saw on high hill
top, among large forest-trees, and back
ed by dense and extensi~ woods, the
hermit-hke home of this celebrated cd
ditv and human riddle The place had
been altered by its later proprietors, but
there still remained the small clump OF
negro quarters, and the two wooden
houses separated from each other-one
of logs, the other clapboarded-whe
in sort of savage lawn, the great slave
holder passed so many years. 1t was
hardly more than Indian comfort as 1T
seemed-low buildings, only one-story
and a garret high, with few and small
windows, and on one a low, log porch
How different are the ideas of comfort
in different agesl What American states
man now would hive like Randolph for
his land? And vet he merited the re-
spect of widely different types of men.
The Quaker poet of New England sang
of him with mistaken ideas of the geo.
graphy:
There. where with living and eye
He heard Potomac's flowing,
Aud through his tall, ancestral trees
saw Autnmn's sunset glowing,
He sleeps still looking to the West,
Beneath the dark wood shadow,
As if he still would the sun
snk down ON wave and meadow.
The second line ought to be: q" He
heard the Staunton's flowing, if it is
meant Ito denote his resting place; for
Randolph's ashes still rest here, in the
midst of the forest near his log-cabins,
a tree by the grave, and formerly also
an unmarked stone He was the last OF
! his race.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1873-01-18

THERE is a nice little bit of romance
of the good old-fashioned kind Just
come to hand. Miss Matilda Philips,
sister of Adelaide, has lately rescued a
young man from drowning at Genoa
1t seems to have been a very brave
deed, and in writing to her sister she
says we are great friends ever since,
and he can scarcely do enough for me.
I have had beautiful letters from his
mother and sisters, and feel so happy
to have done something to bring SO
much happiness to any one. She
speaks of the grateful youth familiarly
as Walter, and the consequences are
evident.