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Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-11-11
TTNION COUNTY, s.s.

Il
r, a, The state of New Jersey, To the Sheriff
IL ''I of the County of Union.
GREETING Summon Henry Clay, builder. and
Mary Ann Turner. wife of William Turner, owner,
and William Turner, her husband, to appear be-
fore the CT cult Court In and for the County ii
Union, at Elizabeth. in said county, on the twer-
ty-fourth day of November next, that said Henry
Clay may answer unto Jonsthan 4. Roll of plsa
Of trespass the mon promises to his dam
age eight hundred dollars Is said, for which
said nathan Roll claims q building lien in o
certain building and land of said Mary Tur-
ner, wife of William Turner. The said building 10
two story frame dwelling house. thirty eight feet
front by thirty.f four feet deep, with extension
in the twenty-three feet eight inches ard
twenty. seven feet seven inches wide, on lot or
curtiiage situate the city of Elizabeth. county
Union and state of New Jersey be. inning at u
poi t in the easterly line of Madison avenue dis.
tant one hund ed and ninety feet southerly from
the southeast corner OF said avenue and Fanny
street; thence running easterly at right apgl TO
said avenue one hundred and seventy feet thence
thence westerly parable with the first course 0,e
hundred and seventy feet t said line of said ave-
nue. theme along that line no lherly sixty-tour
feet to tie place of beginning.
And have you then there this writ.
Witness: David A. Depue. Esqrire, a Judge 81
said Circuit Court, at Elizabeth sfoiesaid, the
twenti-th day of October, in the year tne thou
sand eight hunUred and seventy-thrte,
HENRY k. CANNON. Clerk.
J"sHPH ALwARp, attorney.
trup copy
SETH B. RYDER. sheriii
M oaw 4wTu
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-03-22

A correspondent writes from Little
Rock as follows: 1T is proposed in
the Arkansas legislature TO disrupt
the whole system of probate courts,
and transfer the subjects of their jul
risdiction to ten or twenty chancellors.
All lawyers having little to do at
home should migrate to Arkansas
The more courts, the liyelier the lit
igation of country. the poorer the
people. the richer the law
yers. People will soon learn how use
less becomes the accumulation of
wealth, when it must be inherited by
the blessed courts and lawyers. Mis-
slssippi is peculiarly blestin multiplied
courts. The more courts, the more
litigation; the more lawyers and the
iollier the dram drinking. jury making
community of litigants. Poverty be-
strides and besotted law rides it down,
in rags, to poverty and death. The
simple, honest old probate courts of
Mississippi and Arkansas saved help
less widows and orphans at infinite
ly less cost than will these grave chan
cllors, with solemn faces and endless
forms, long pockets, itching fingers
and numberless bills of cost. Let
everybody in Arkansas administer,
while he still lives, each. upon his own
estate. Widows and children thus re-
lieved ofailworldly cares and anxieties
need only starye with grace and Dig
pifv -
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-03-22
THE Common School bin which has

TIE Common School bill which has
passed both Houses Of the Legisla-
ture, is the county system with 4 State
Superintendent added. The tax to be
collected is ten cents on the
hundred dollars, and 10 order that the
sum thus raised may be more satisfac-
torily expended, the School Districts
are to be incorporated, with power to
elect District Commisioners and to levy
a tax, not greater than the State tax,
provided their share of the school
fund is not sufficient to keep the
schools in operation for FIVE months in
the year. This District feature Of
the bill, though rideuled by some
knowing ones. we especially endorse
and think that. whilstit gives better
security for efficient schools for child
rem, it will prove to be a system of ed
ucation for adults-training them for
the work of self-government by in
ducing them to take an interest in the
management of their District affairs,
then of those of the county and ulti-
mately, of the State and Of the gener-
al government. We are satisfied the
system is as good one as could have
been adopted under the circumstances,
and all that's needed to make it effici-
ent is hearty desire, on the part OF
the people, to promote the end 1t aims
at-a good Common School education
for the children of the State.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-03-22


The late law of Congress taxing
newspaper exchanges with postage and
imposing the same burden upon the
the people for county papers, is re-
trograde movement, but in full accord
with the policy of party that relies
for its success in the overthrow of the
government upon ignorance, on the
part of the people, of its nefarious de-
signs. To embarrass the press, and
check, as far as practicable, the dissem-
ination of information on subjects of
universal interest, Congress deemed it
advisable to enact law that may, and
probably will, crush many of the coun-
try papers, and thus defeat the rapid
and general diffusion of a knowledge
of its doings. And this they have
done whilst protesting deep interest
in the education of the people as a
means of protecting themselves against
insidious assaults upon their constitu-
tional rights. In the political educa-
ton of the masses, the press plays the
part of common schools, in laying the
foundation for the acquisition of that
knowledge embraced within the re-
stricted generalization. This law is
step towards Interior Capitalization
and as such, should be execrated and
denounced by every honest lover of his
country and of the rights guaranteed
to him by its organic law.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-03-22
Bells and Church Divisions.

4. writerin the Baptist Weekly says:
A very hard hearted clapper in an
old church-tower protested the inten-
sest distress because its bell was hope
lessly cracked. Many people thought
it pitiable position, and wished the
sad-hearted clapper better bell But
just then the ghost ofancient Diogenes,
the sage, foated in through the window,
and whistled most angrily: Master
Clapper: cease your noise, aud remem-
Der, in the first place, you cracked the
bell, and, secondly, nobody would have
known it had you not told them" 1
have observed often that those who
bemoan divisions in church are they
who make them; and | also observed
sometimes that they who make them
are most ready to publish the facts: /
observed another fact, viz, that all
clappers are not of as good metal as
the bells they crack.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-03-22
The Agricultural College Bill-A Stu
pendOus Grant,

After giving away hundreds of mil
lions of acres of land to railroad cor
porations and making other enormous
grants and subsidies for other pur-
poses it is not surprising that Con-
gress should propose to donate half
the public lands that remain and about
a million and a half of dollars year to
the Agricultural College scheme
Since the republican party came into
power, at the commencement of the
war, it has gone into plunderiDg the
people, privately and collectively, on
the most stupenduous scale, upon the
pretext of promoting the general well
fare. This Agricultural College bill
is in keeping with the monstrous ex-
travagance of all its acts. When the
bill was taken up in the senate Mr..
Window said it would dispose of for
ever one half of the public lands. Mr.
Sherman, of Ohio, remarked, Yes,
three-quarters." But Mr.. Window
adhered to his statement of one half
He added, however, that even upon
that basis-for the government, we
believe, is to furnish the money on
the basis of the public landslide bill
would in effect pledge the government
to these colleges for t! G sum of ninety
four millions of dollars, and he did
not think the country could afford
that. All the opposition to the meas
ure appeared to be unavailing. Every
motion to postpone or amend it was
voted down, and it only passed over
on Monday night because upon a
count of the Senate there was found to
be no qorum. Mr. Morton said dur
ing the debate, that it was evident
the bill would pass, and predicted that
its passage. ike the passage Of the
Fugitive Slave law and the repeal of
the Missouri Compromise, would leave
behind it feeling that absolute in
Justice had beeen done-an element
that must in its nature tester. The
words of the able and veteran leader
of the administration party in the SEN
ate seemed, however, to have no
weight. Education, no doubt, is good
thing. and should be encouraged, but
this wholesale grant of public lands,
by which State or Territory with a
hundred thousand inhabitants will
get as much as New York, with four
and half millions, and that not for
general education, is, as Mr. Morton
designates it, absolutely injustice. 1t
is squandering away the public domain
that precious inheritance of the
American people. Should the bill pass
Congress let us hope the President
will veto it. If agricultural colleges
are TO be established-and we do not
say they should not be-let us have,
al least, less extrayagant and sweep
ing measure, and one that will be
more just and equal in the distribution
of the land grant, according to popu-
lation.-Nec Fork Herald.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-03-22

HENRY WARD BEECHER, IN one of
his lectures, gives his opinion that the
Railroad rings are, through the power
of their concentrated capital, now con-
trolling State and Federal legislation,
and that if the people do not reform
this abuse, there will be a revolution
within ten years. We allude to his
prophesy not because the fact stated is
not potent and the result propable but
to express our surprise that one so well
aware of the dangers impending over
the liberties of the people, should CO.
operate with the party whose usurpa-
ton and corruption are the source
whence the dangers arise. If he
would give due weight TO his utter
ance, he should begin by proving him.
self honest and consistent
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-03-22

WE clip from the Nashville Jour
nal of Commerce, the subjoined ex
tract from late speech of Col. Sykes,
on building railroads with subscrip-
tions of lands lying contiguous on
either side of the proposed roads.
This idea we urged some months ago,
in behalf of the Princeton road, and
argued that the Stockholders could by
this means. build and keep the road
out of the hands of Tom. Scott and
other representatives of monopoiies.
That by this plan, immigration could
be promoted, population multiplied
and taxes diminished and the people
kept free from the heavy burden of
having interest on bonds sold at q
heavy discount, to raise the money for
building the road: Mr.. Sykes said
he could suggest plan for building
this road, which would burden no one,
and benefit all. There are within
three miles of the line of this road,
which is eighty miles in length, 301,-
200 acres of land. OF this not more
than a fifth is in cultivation. Let one
fifth of this land be subscribed to the
company. This would amount to 2l,-
$50 acres. Let the land be sold in
tracts not exceeding 100 acres, upon
credit of ten years with interest. The
average value of the land would be Sl2
per acre. and this would bring $780,
400. This, with the money subscrip-
ton already obtained. would build the
road and equip it. There would then
be additional settlers TO the amount of
1874 families, occupying these lands
The company could issue first mortgage
bonds fortified by the land notes, for
sum amply sufficient TO complete the
road in a short time In this way the
road would be built, and the country
settled with an industrious, working
population, who would afford business
TO the road. The subscribers would
retain four-ffths of their land, which
would then be worth nearly twice as
much as the whole now is. They
would get settlers in the country who
would be in debt for their land, and
would not only cultivate the land they
had purchased, but would assist in
cultivating the lands retained by the
stockholders of the road, at fair wages.
This is the best plan, not only to build
railroads, but TO secure immigration
and labor. The difficulty is in obtain
ing the land subscriptions, although
men aredoing nothing with their land,
and it is going to waste. p"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-03-22
Newspaper Postage.

For the benefit of our readers-and
to prevent constant answers to queries
on the subject, We publish the fol-
lowing ofthe laws concerning
newspaper postage just issued TO post.
masters.
SEC. 13S. That no newspaper shall
be received to be conveyed BY mail
unless they shall be dried and enclosed
In proper wrappers. IS
SEC. 139. That when packages of
newspapers or other periodicals are
received at postoffice directed to
one address. and the names of the
subscribers to whom they belong, with
the postage for quarter in advance is
handed TO the postmaster, he shall de-
liver such papers or periodicals to
their respective owners.
SEC. 40. That postmasters shall
notify the publisher of any newspaper
or other periodical when any subscri-
Der shall refuse to take the same from
the office. or neglect to call for it for
the period of one month Sc
SEC. al. That publishers of news
papers or periodicals may print or
write upon their publications, sent TO
regular subscribers, the address of the
subscriber and the date when the SUBJ
scription expires, and enclose therein
bills and receipts thereto without
sHbjecting such matter to extra post
| age e -
SEC. 142. That any person who shall
enclose or conceal any letter, memo
randum, or other thing in any mail
matter, not charged with letter postage,
shall, for every such offence, forfeit
and pay FIVE dollars. and such news
paper or periodical shall not be
delivered until the postage thereon is
paid at letter rates.
See 150. That on newspapers and
periodical publications, not exceeding
four ounces in weight, sent from a
known Office Of publication to
regular subscribers, postage shall be
| charged at the regular rates perquarter,
namely: On publications issued less
frequently than once week, at the
rate of cent for each issue; issued
/ once week, 5 cents; and cts. addi-
/ tional for. each issue more. frequent
budu ODct u Ntch. AL duultiuD2l
rate shall be charged for each addi-
4 tional four ounces or fraction thereof
in weight,
/ SEC. 159. That on newspapers and
other periodicals sent from known
Office Equalization to regular subscri
bers, the postage shall be paid before
delivery, not less than one quarter mol
more than one year, which payment
may be made either at the Office o.
mailing or delivery, commencing al
any time, and the postmaster shall &C
count for said postage in the quarter
in which it was received.
i SEC. $50. That the Postmaster
General may provide, by regulations
for carrying small newspapers, issued
less frequently than once a week. il
packages to one address from known
Office of publication to regular subscri
bers, at the rate of one cent for eacf
four ounces or portion thereof.
! SEC. l6l. That persons known al
regular dealers in newspapers and pc
riodicals may receive and transmit b,
mail such quantities of either as the
may require, and pay the postag,
thereon as received at the rates pro
rata as regular subscribers to sucl
publication, who pay quarterly in ad
vance.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-03-22

THE denomination, by Grant, of his
brother-in-law, Casey, as Collector of
New Orleans, is a bold defiance of
public opinion, at which many of his
friends are shocked. So much rascal
ity has been proven upon Casey, and
his denomination coming just on the
heels of the Credit Mobilier exposure,
is calculated 10 create the impression
that the President is striking an inten-
tiOnal blow at official honesty and
public virtue. The nomination of
such man to Il responsible position,
is an outrage that becomes a crime
when the consideration Is, that the
nominee is the brother-in-law of the
Executive.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-03-22
Public Roads.

The bill on public Roads, adopted
in the House of Representatives in
lieu of all others, has the following
leading provisions.
The County Court is required to
lay off counties into road districts
appoint commissioners, whose duty it
shall be to lay out new roads, change
those already established. employing
a competent surveyor, to have roads
and bridges repaired; to assess taxes.
two thousand dollars worth of prop
erty to represent a hand; all male in
habitants between the ages ofeighteen
and fifty to work FIVE days. Taxes
may be paid in labor, and also by
teams, wagons, plows, etc. limestone and
gravel are to be used where it can be
had; overseers to be appointed by the
commissioners, and work under their
directions. a
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-03-22

POSTAL MATTERs.-The Washing.
ton correspondent of the Cincinnati
Commercial says: The country has
been generally misinformed in relation
to Congressional legislation with re-
gard to the postal laws of this session.
Mr.. FarnswOrth's bill reducing letter
postage to two cents, and providing for
the prepayment of postage on all mail
matter, passed the House but failed in
the Senate. There was an amendment
to the Postoffiee Appropriation Bill,
which repeats all existing acts with
regard to free mail matter. This, of
course, includes exchanges between
newspapers and free postage on papers
circulated in the counties where they
are published. This law takes effect
on the LIST of July"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-03-22

In the Illinois house of represen-
tatives the following was adopted as a
part of the proposed new jury law, and
the bill was ordered to third reading:
Provided further, Thatin the trial of
any criminal cause the fact that aper-
son called as juror has formed an epin-
ion based on rumor, or newspaper
statement of the truth of which he
has expressed no opinion, shall not
disqualify him from serving as juror
in such cause, if he shall on oath state
that he believes he can fairly and i'm
partially render verdict therein, in
accordance with the law and the ev-
idence, and the court shall be satisfied
of the truth of the statement.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-03-22
GOD In THE CONSTITUTION.


The scriptures assure US that
"Christ's kingdom is not of this
world which is equisalentto the
declaration that His power is purely
spiritual; yet these fanatics, forgetting
that their movement is towards union
of Church and State. liken Him to the
Pope by claiming for Him both spirit
ual and temporal power, and would
build up under this guise, theocracy-
--such as crushed Italy and Spain in
times past. The wide spread corrup-
tion at the North instead of being at
tributable--as is claimed-to the abb
sence of recognition of God by the
Constitution, is due solely, to want
of His recognition in their own hearts,
where alone, he seeks TO rule, and to
that innate meanness which has never
felt the regenerating influence of
Christ's spiritual power over the hearts
of men. Ask the Credit Mobilier
swindlers and the voters for back ra-
lions if the name of God, in the Con-
stition would have kept their thieving
fingers out of the peoples treasury
In fact, this whole recognition move
ment is designed in aid of the 'Wo-
mans Rights" humbug-the same she
orators are enlisted in it and the same
masculines back them, hoping to decoy
other females into the trap, by pro-
claiming their cause to be the cause of
Christianity, and their object, the cure
of moral corruption for which they,
are so largely responsible Puritan
ism too, has finger, conspicous, in
the pie, and as its policy has ever been
to cloak its villainy under professions
of extra piety, the public may rest as
sured that this movement is the initia-
tory step towards some Interior design
against the liberties and institutions
of the country. in accordance with
New England's theory of centraliza-
ton.
The fanatics who are disturbing the
country with the senseless cry-tbat
God must be recognized by the FEEDER
al Constitution, may learn a little wis
dom from the recollection that the Al
mighty is fully recognized in the ten
commandments and throughout the
Bible. Yet that recognition does not
restrain Radical officials from stealing
nor northern clergyman from sins that
are specially forbidden. Nothing but
a spirit of blasphemy can demand re-
cognition in an instrument that is daily
defiled by the foul hand of Radical
corruption. 1t isargued that the want
/ of this recognition encourages athe-
ism. We do not believe it. But were
it true, we believe that an honest athe-
list is more acceptable in the sight of
God than a protesting Christian who
continually deties Him by violating his
commandments Honest and truly
devout Christians recognize God every
where and in everything and none but
hypocrites demand His recognition in
the Constitution, with the hope that il
will cover, if not sanction, the iniqui-
ties perpetrated by those who, in vio-
lating the Constitution would then be
in open rebellion against God.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-03-22

THE funding bill has passed both
Houses of the Legislature. The OPP
position to it was considerable, and it
may embody Objectionable features,
but mixed, as that body is, harmony is
out of the question and it is only by
compromise that anything can be ac-
complished and in every such compro-
mise there is a sacrifice of the interests
of the people, though they themselves
are to blame, in so far as they forget
those interests IN their choice of re-
representatives..
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-03-22
Valuable House and Lot for Sale

Will be sold publicly at the court house
door, on Saturday, April 8. 1873, at II O'Clock
A. NJ, If not privately sold before that day.
the house and lot on Madison street, lust
east of the Female Academy and opposite
]. l.. Glenn's residence known as the Hen
derson property, fronting 200 feet ON said
street, running back some 3il feet. The
house contains rooms, 3 OF which are
basement rooms. This is desirable home
and II bargain will be given.
farms: One half cash balance in and
IL months. Notes bearing interest, and a
lien retained. Title perfect. Call on DR..
Cobb for further particulars.
March y, '7s-2t
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-03-22

THE GAINESVILLE Chronicle has gone
back into the hands Of its old propri-
etors-James Grant and Sterling Neb-
lett-they having purchased the inter-
est of Mr.. j. Baldwin. The Chroni-
Gle is a good paper-in fact, We may
say it has always been a good paper.
-Pdducah Tobacco Plant.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-03-22

THE Bank of England covers five
acreso of ground and employs 900 clerks,
There are no windows on the street
Light is admitted through open courts;
no mob could take the bank, therefore,
WITHOUT CANNON to batter the immense
walls. The clock in the center of the
bank has fifty dials attached to it.
Large eisterns are sunk N the court,
and engines in perfect order arc always
In readiness in case offire. This bank
was incorporated in 1894. Capital,
500, 100000.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-03-22

SAN FRANCISCO, March 1S.-All
quiet in the Modoc lava bed. The
military are awaiting the action of the
new peace commissioners. The pros
pect is favorable that the Modocs will
come out and have another talk. If
not the soldiers will proceed to attack
them Immediately.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-03-22

GALVESTON, March 1S.-Superin-
tendent Durand announces the com.
pletion of the Hamilton and Texas
Central Railroad to Red River City
connected with the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas road Through trains will
run from Galveston to Houston and
st. Louis, commencing on the oath in.
slant.