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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-08-29
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Schneider ct al l62 The People er rel Scocks
1870. Deugnore agt the Atlantic agt Board o. Estimates
AMI Pacific L. K Co. 153. Young, &e sgt Young &C
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1873-12-18


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The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1873-12-18
NORTH BENNINGTON.

On Wednesday, Of last week, as
Harvey Iiowes, who recently removed
here from Faithayeu, was riding 10y Hon.
G. L. llougbtou's, the forward aXlgtrce
of bis carriage broke, aud hi, horse, a
tlne spirited animal became uumanageablc
bat De succeeded 10 refining him ap 70
the bank building where the carriage
cap,ized, prcgipiutire him upon the
frozen ground with grea, violence pro-
daeing various aoi severe eaH and
brui,c., bus nothing which proved very
egffan- Mr. fIewr4. though ii man g4-
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1873-12-18

Our Sociablo this week Thursday af-
teruoou and evening at Henry b. kont's.
Several of our people, including Mr..
6, NJ Sykes aud wife, Mr., II. b. Kent
and wife and Mrs L. B. Armstrong went
to Rutland on Tuesday to hear Mfr.
Coughs lecture.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1873-12-18
last DOR MT

The new school house Is nearly com.
plcted aud two rooms are furnished,
ready for occupancy. Ike house is a
model of convenience and a credit to the
place. The upper story is calculated for
a large school room, or a school room and
recitation room and the second story has
10 eommodious school rooms with closets
etc. and the basement Is for wood, coal.
etc. Tho rooms arc finished with chest.
nut. and the desks are from the Sterling.
m. mandatory. the best in tb, country.
The rooms are welIBghted and ventilated
aud copaf Ia any school room. IN the
country. and parents. teacher. and ,cbal.
ar. should mite in determination to
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The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1873-12-18

South Dorset eau boast of the largest
woman in the State, Mrs Joseph Richie.
She weighs ilg pounds, is feet inches
in height, measures 70 inches around the
waist and = inches around the arm.
Notwithstanding her vast proportions
Mrs. Richie is as spry and can walk OF
as smar,ly as most women Of ordinary
weight
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1873-12-18

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D rising vote.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1873-12-18

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The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1873-12-18

There was a donation visit at the
house of George Draper last Thursday
evening, for the benefit Of Elder Wood.
About seyenty-fye dollars was received
in grcenbacks besides other yaluablcs.
"A dance at Benefits hall is the pro-
sramme for Thursday evening, the 2jth
inst. Music by Durts Cotillion Band,
tickets $500.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1873-12-18

New sigu-, Ibis time from II. T.
Eaton, announce marble and granite 10
per ccut. cheaper than ANY place OF party
iu rhal line Of tnsiucs-. Cali and zee li.
specimens of Scotch granite aad leave
your order We notice a pretty head
stone for child OF Mr. and Mrs. G. f.
Clarke, which came from the shop above
noticed. Eaton has several large orders
now making, Give him your early
orders
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-12-05
Jefferson on Marriage.

Harmony in the married state is the
first object to be aimed at. Nothing
can preserve affection uninterrupted but
a firm resolution never to differ in will
and determination in each to consider
the love of the other as of more value
than any other object whatever, on
which a wish has been fixed. How
light, in fact, is the sacrifice of any
other wish weighed against the affec-
tions of one with whom we are to pass
our life And though opposition in a
single instance will hardly of itself pro-
duce alienation, yet every one has his
pouch in which all these oppositioRs are
put, and while this is filling the aliena-
ton is insensibly going on, and when
filed is complete. It would puzzle
either to say why because no differ
ence has been marked enough to pro-
duce a serious effect by itself. But he
finds his affection wearied out by a con-
slant stream of checks and obstacles.
Other sources of discomfort, very COM
mon indeed, are the cross-purposes of
husband and wife, in common CONVEX
sation a disposition to criticise and
question whatever the other says, a de-
sire always to demonstrate and making
him feel himself wrong, especially in
sympathy. Nothing is SO goading.
Much better, therefore. if our compan-
ion views thing in a different light
from what we do, to leave him in quiet
possession of his view. What is the
use of rectifying him if the thing be
unimportantP And, if important, let
it pass for the present, and wait softer
moment and more conciliatory occasion
of revising the subject together. 1t is
wonderful how many persons are rem
dered unhappy by inattention to the
rules of prudence.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-12-05
What Gen. Sherman Says.

In case of war Gen. Sherman has no
fear that the American soldiers will be
able to give as good account of them
selves in Cuba as they always have else
where. He thinks that if war shall be
determined upon a great saving in ex-
pense could be effected by raising the
number of men in each company of the
regular army to one hundred. In this
manner fifteen thousand men could be
added to the army without the necessity
for additional officers. 1t is no uncom-
mon thing in the armies of Europe for a
captain and two lieutenants to handle
as many as two hundred and fifty men.
This idea of Gen. Sherman's is unques-
tionabIy good one. The great trouble
in our late war was that so many of our
patriotic citizens who desired to serve
the country wanted to do it with epau-
lettes upon their shoulders, and of all
the tenders of service that are made
now, none comes from those who are
willing to be high privates. In case
there should be difficulty, the govern
ment would save very large amount
by adopting Sherman's suggestion. The
general says there is abundance of
everything in the way of supplies for
the army at the different dt pots, and
that the alsenals and magazines are all
well stored with arms, ammunition and
all warlike appliances.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-12-05
Views of Senator Sumner

Senator Sumner, in a recent inter
| view, said he had sent to New York 9
letter to be read at the meeting there
The haste and heat of popular clamol
he did not think calculated to generate
sound and sober views. "I suppose,
he remarked, "that / shall be attacked
for what / have written, unless they
suppress the letter. They have con.
trived to get up . vast deal OF excite.
ment on this question. There is heed
less popular indignation, which over
looks the real issue. Give the people a
little time to cool of, and they will lis
ten to calmer views"
Mr.. Sumner also remarked ON the at
titude of certain London journals in
this matter, some of which, never very
friendly to the United States, are doing
all they can to rouse Indignation in the
country. We need to be very careful,
he thought, how we adjust our policy to
opinions received from that quarter.
They would be too glad to involve us
in war with Spain. They do not like
Republicanism in Spain, and would on
ly delight to have it crushed by Repub-
licanism in America. England would
rub her hands with glee if she could
make out the Virginius a second Ala
bama. She would be glad if we placed
ourselves in the same position as her
self, by recognizing the Virginius.
AS to the legal aspects of the
case, Mr.. Sumner said they appeared to
his own mind very clear. The fact that
the vessel went under the United States
flag does not necessarily compromise
our honor. If she was a filibuster, the
flag and the papers were only part of
the pretense. It would be foolish, how
ever, he remarked, to make the Virgin
ius a plea for the recognition of Cuba.
1t would be cruel, too, to precipitate a
war with Spain, unless we were really
driven to it we must save the Spanish
republic if possible.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-12-05
New York Postofice.

Few persons are aware of the vas
business done by the New York post
office. independent of the fifteen or
sixteen stations in different parts of the
town, itemploys over six hundred clerks,
some three hundred outside attaches,
and has more transactions than any
three offices in the country. 1t has
now, / think, over 5000 boxes, and
yields to the government, above all ex-
penses, not far from 81, 900, 900 year
an income that is steadily and rapidly
increasing. The other offices of the re-
pablo Just about meet their disburse-
ments, so that the profit to the depart
ment depends entirely on New York
Nearly 1850, 900 of letters are delivered
every week, while 100 tons of mail mat
ter pass through the Office every twenty
four hours. The immense increase in
business will be perceived when it is
known that in 1854 the amount of mail
matter passing through the Office was
but eighteen tons per day. Eighteen to
twenty thousand dollars of money
orders are sent. and some eighty thou
sand dollars are cashed per week.
Not less than $40, 900 worth of stamps
are daily sold, making an annual aggre-
RdbC Vi COuSluCidDlC lIlOAC btlhu gnltNbNs-
600. The amount of business in the
registering department may be estimated
from the fact that from $4,000, 900 TO
$1S, 900, 900 of bonds are usually regis
tered on steamer days. Nearly sixty
regular mails leave the Office, and about
as many are received every day. Some
thirty mail steamers sail hence every
week, all of them, especially the foreign
steamers, carrying heavy mails.
These facts and figures may appear
large, though they would not to any one
having occasion to visit the Office. The
corridors are thronged during business
hours by persons of every nationality.
The swinging doors communicating with
the street are constantly sounding from
perpetual ingress and egress, and the
boxes are so ceaselessly receiving letters
that they sometimes get choked with
the quantity. There are boxes for
printed matter; for letters for the north,
east, south and west, as we'll as for
Great Britain, different parts of the con-
tinent, the East and West Indies, etc.
1t is curious to stand inside and OBJ
serve the continuous stream of letters
flowing from the different boxes. A
man stands before each, and with a
small wooden rake, not unlike that of
the continental croupiers, collects the
letters and packets of every size, form
and color, and hands them to an as
sistant, who prepares them for the mail.
At the stamp windows, at some stamps
to the amount of one dollar and up
ward. and at the others amounts OF less
than one dollar are sold, cues are always
formed, New York resembles Paris in
the prevalence of the cue system, each
new conner taking his place at the end
of the cue, and patiently awaiting his
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-12-05
An Original Exposition of the "Fall.'

The speaker was an elderly negro
who had been a "hand on one of the
vessels in the Lower Potomac. He
said the devil first tried to get Adam to
eat the apple, "but emmy man in all he
senses mighter knowed de debil couldn't
er done dat ar Adams too smart fur Ole
Nick when he had muffin but hisself ter
tux care on. But de debil knew, Gaze
he was in heben fo' de Lo'd frew him
outen dar, he knew dar was a woman TO
be made, an so he Just hove out de an
chor and waited fur de woman. When
Eve cum long he knew he'd got sure
ting on dat ar apple an he hove long
side whar she's a settin' an whisper in
her ear an say she's mighty nice gal
an she's so tickled wild his fine speeches
dat she JUS say guv her dc apple when
he ask her don't she want it. De debil
so pleased'to see she fooled 80 easy he
liked to larf out loud. Women is
mighty hard creeturs TO do anything
sensible wild dey JUS done go contrary
ev'ry time dey can, an when Eve got
her min made up to eat dat apple, she's
eat it eff de Lo'd hisself tell her let um
alone. Soon's she done eat it de debil
say to hisself, 'She made muss dat ar
garden Eben, an she kinder hear what
he tink, an make up her wicked min
to 'tice Adam to eat toder one. So she
cum longside one time when she seen
him settin' under de tree, an say, 'Ad-
am, eat dis yer, he's berry nice. But
Adam say he won't, an she keep teasin'
him, an sayin' how she love him, and
finally he's 'ticed, an eats dat bad ap-
pie, an den de angel Gabriel fly long
dar an druv 'em bof outen de garden,
an say dey bof hav' ter work fur der
livin'. But Adam neber eat dat ar apple
'cept Eve done gone 'tice him an he
didn't do it den less he love her, an
she such tongue, like all de women,
she make him bIieve brack is white. -
atlantic Monthly.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-12-05
The Greatest River of the World.

| The Amazons is the most vol1minous
of rivers. At the narrows of Obydos,
six hundred miles from the sea, half a
million cubic feet of water pass any
given point every second. Born in Lake
Lauricocha, among the Andes of Peru,
the main trunk runs northerly for five
hundred miles in a continuous series of
rapids, and then, from the frontier of
Eucador, it flows easterly twenty-five
hundred miles across the great equato-
rial plain of the continent. The average
current of the great river in its passage
through Brazil is three miles an hour.
At Tabotinga, two thousand miles from
its mouth, the width is a mile and
half, with a depth of eleven fathoms;
at the entrance of the MADEIRA, it is
three miles wide, and below Santaren it
is ten. The tributaries are in keeping
with this colossal trunk. In fact, the
Amazons is great river system, rather
than one river, It has twelve affluents
over a thousand miles long, the largest
the Misunderstanding the Arkansas,
entering the Amazons nine hundred
miles from it's mouth.
Besides these and a host of minor
tributaries, there is a wonderful network
of natural canals alongside of the main
river and joining the tributaries, called
igarapes, pardnGs, and furO8. These
bypaths are of immense advantage for
Accommodation. They are charac-
teristic of the country, and are so numer-
GUS that Amazonia is truly cluster of
islands. Altogether, this vast island of
fresh-water sea drains a territory of two
million square miles, reaching from
the Andes to the Atlantic and throwing
out its arms to the OrinOco and Para
quay. On the Lower rAmazons the annual
rise reaches its maximum about the
middle of June, and its minimum in
December, the difference of level being
about fifty feet.
No other river runs in so deep a chan
mel to so great distance. No other riv-
can furnish over six thousand miles
ef continuous navigation for large ves-
sells. For two thousand miles from its
mouth the main stream has not less
than seven fathoms of water; and not a
fall interrupts navigation for twenty five
hundred miles. The Pongo de Name
richie is the western limit to navigation !
on the Amazon proper. While the cur |
rent is ever east, there is a constant |
trade-wind westward, 20 that navigation |
up or down has always something in its |
favor. In August and September a |
strong breeze sweeps over the lower |
part of the main trunk, so that schOoners |
often go from Para to Obydos in ten |
days, or one-third of the ordinary time. |
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-12-05
Cranes as Food.

Men can live and work on grapes and
bread. The peasantry of France, Spain
and Italy make many satisfying meal
in this way, and of the wholesomeness
of the diet there can be no doubt.
Medical men constantly recommend the
use of grapes for their patients.
Scarcely any plant can equal the vine as
regards the beauty of its leaves and
fruit. As covering for bare walls and
for affording shelter and shade it is a
climber of the first rank. To sit under
ones own vine has in all ages been con-
sidered the acme of rural happiness
and emblem of peace, symbol of plen-
ty and picture of contentment. That
pleasure. though perhaps not in all its
fullness, may become the heritage OF
thousands in these temperate climes.
Neither our latitude. longitude, nor
leaden skies nor erratic climate forbid
the growth of the vine. In many dis
tricts its fruits will ripen more or less
perfectly. In almost all it would ripen
sufficiently to be useful for eating or
wine-making. Even green grapes are
useful for conversion into vinegar, for
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-12-05
Sale of Circus Property.

The New Orleans Picayune gives an
account of an auction sale of what pur-
ported to be some of the material of
Burnum's Great American Circus, which
last year made the tour of the south.
The Picayune says:
"The company remained in this city
for a week, but a succession of terrible
rain-storms and similar disasters not
rendering the position a pecuniary sue
cess, the whole concern bundled up and
started somewhere up the country-we
think for the Teche. Here it remained
for while, but not drawing as largely
as was expected, returned to the city
and disbanded-a portion of the ami
mails being sold here, while the others,
back north, though large portion of
the 'plunder,' consisting of wagons,
tent-poles, stuffed animals, &C., was left
in Algiers. The sale opened with a lot
of about twenty wagons, which APP
peared in the grand parade as a vast
cavalcade of caravans, purchased at an
enormous expense Upon these the
bidding opened lively, but notably
failed, the lot being purchased by va
rious parties at an average of about
collection of stuffed animals, announced
in the play-bills as a rare assortment
of animals, exhibited by no other show
No one in the crowd, apparently, wanted
these at all !; and they were finally
knocked down for $5. This was GER
tainly astonishing, but the lively auc-
tioneer announced: Nov, gentlemen,
/ would desire to show you one of the
greatest curiosities of modern times,
which is calculated to have cost not
more than $4,000. Look at it = And
public attention was directed to the
large stone figure which all who visited
the circus will remember as the Cardiff
Giant. One bidder said fifty cents, an
other dollar, then a dollar and half,
and, finally, it was knocked down to a
prominent wholesale dealer for SO. It
might be apropos to mention here that
the buyer, after spending $lS to move
it from its place, and not knowing what
to do with it, turned it over to a junk
dealer in disgust. With these figures
it can we'll be imagined the rest of the
articles sold for mere song. Thirty
robes, in which, according to the old
placards, a gorgeous panoply of hand
some ladies and gallant gentlemen will
parade through the streets, brought as
a lot 800. The tent-poles, seats, etc.,
we're purchased for $50, and sundry
other smaller relics for from SO to
$25. These figures must not, however,
be accepted as a standard, but as a sam
pie of the hardness of the times, and
that there are not many in the Crescent |
City or neighborhood to start a circus"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-12-05

JEWS VS.. CHRIsTIANs.-From an ex-
animation of the census statistics Of
Austria, Russia, Turkey, Germany,
England, France and the United States,
writer in the Medical Record has as
certained that the mean average dur
alton of life among Jews exceeds that of
Christians by about five years. Accor-
ding to Mr.. Mayer, a leading authority,
one-haIf the Christians die before reach
ing 30 years of age, while, among the
Jews, one-half live to be 30 years old.
Of the former, too, only 1874 per cent.
live to see their 10th year, while of the
latter 27.4 per cent. reach that age. A
proportionately smaller number of chill
dren, it is also found, die among the
Jews than any other race, this being at
tributed to the fact that the Jews marry
at more favorable ages.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-12-05
Disraeli and His Wife,

If anybody desires to know what a
wife may be to her husband, with what
pure unselGshness and devotion she can
give up everything that she has to his
service, and find noble happiness in
doing it; what support and comfort
she can be to him under the inevitable
sorrows and misfortunes of life how
magnifcently she can inspire him to
fresh exertions, and stand as bulwark
between the adverse world and himself,
any one who wishes to comprehend all
this need only read the story of Mr..
DisraeIi's married life It will be found
that in such a case the devotion is not
all on one side. The affection of good
woman kindles the nobler qualities of
a man, and he will repay her dew tion
with lofty fidelity. If Mr.. Disraeli
had, as he once said, the chest of
wives, =" he, on his part, proved the best
of husbands. Till the last day of her
life he paid to his wife those attentions
which are too often associated rather
with the romance of youthful inter
course than with the routine of married
life. When he rose to the highast point
of his ambition, the only favor he would
accept of the queen was a coronet for
his wife. He was scarcely ever absent
from her side until the dark day when
the fast friends were to be parted. She
knew that she was dying, but refrained
from telling him so, in order that he
might be spared the pain of bidding her
farewell. He also knew that her last
hour was at hand, but kept silence lest
he should distress her. Thus they
parted, each anxious to avoid striking a
blow at the others heart. The domes-
tic lives of public men are properly
held to be beyond the range of public
comment; but in an age when marriage
is the theme of ridicule from '1eaders of
progress" it may be that this passage in
Mr.. Disraeli's career may be pondered
with some profit by the young.-Attara-
tic HfO11tEIv