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Year: 1868

ALLEGED CHILD MURDER.-A case of what
was supposed to be child murder occurred
last week at Lyndon Centre. A little boy
aged seven, son of Edward Randall, died
very suddenly,-was at school one day and
a corpse the next. Reports had before been
in circulation, of ill-treatment Of the boy by
his step mother, young woman of twenty
five, Who had been married a year or two to
the childs father.-and after the childs death
rumors that it was caused by starvation,
whipping and abuse, became SO wide spread
that an examination was ordered, as the re-
suit of which the respondent was discharged.
The Lyndon Union reports the testimony,
and sums it up as follows:


During the examination Of the doctors the
case wore a serious look for the defendants,
as strong evidence of external injury was dis
closed, which, taken IN connection with the
increasing rumors of cruelty ahOat on the
street, made it appear quite probable that
the step mother had disposed Of the boy. But



establish habitual cruelty on her part and on
only one occasion was any severity proved,
and even this was for an oft repeated
offence, which mild punishment had wholly
failed to correct. On the other hand the de-
fence proved that the mothers kindness and
sohcltude for the chlld's best interest and
the childs affection for the mother was quite
marked


She kept him tidy, took great pains with
/ his education and treated him with usua
mothers love. The woman may have
been severe in discipline, but the examina-
tiOn elected nothing of the kind Her ex,
animation on the stand was commendable
and If she was deceItful she is a cunning de
ceiver. She is fine appearing woman with
an intelligent dark eye, regular features
aud would be selected from an audience o
ladies as one Of those quite prepossessing
Her countenanee indicates more than ordi
nary spirit, and we should not be surprised
if she was the first man in the family. Ii
as we have heard, she was quick tempered
headstrong and passionate, We must res
content with the fact that her accusers coulC
not bring out such facts on the examina
ton.


Last Tuesday morning nearly every persol
in the community believed the woman ha'
by slow degrees tortured the boy to death
and some even were almost ready to imitat
the example Of Judge Lynch, and execut
the popular judgment according to tn


rules Of his code. The case furnishes goo
example of how groundless rumors vii
sometimes grow into a mountain OF suppose


facts, and influence community to eye


execute criminal without hearing
There are many even now that believe th


woman guilty of the charge. But th
larger portion of the people rely upon th
tr al and are perfectly satisted with tn


conclusion OF the examining justices.
Year: 1868

1t Is said that Economy and retrench-
ment, will be the battle cry of the Democracy
in the next Presidential campaign. The diyi-
sion OF the House Judiciary Committee on the
question of paying three full mileages to the
present Congress shows the fitness of the
motto. The two Democrats on the commit
tee were in favor OF the payment, and all but
one OF the seven Republicans against it.
Year: 1868

Low WATER.-We hardly remember
time when complaints of low water or entire
absence of water in the springs and streams,
were SO numerous and widely extended,
throughout the north and Canada, as they
have been of late. Since .rly in June, Cen
tral and Western New York have been with
out rain. The st. Lawrence river has been
lower than in many years but for week


past has been rising. In this region, the
scarcity of water in the wells and streams


has been much felt. We are informed that


no water has run from Hinesburgh pond in
three weeks-something not known in forty
one years and the mile upon the stream
which forms the outlet of the pond have been
obliged to suspend The Winooski is also
very low In this city many of our citizens
have been drawing their water in barrels
from the Lake for weeks.
Year: 1868

The committee of 25 appointed at the
Grant meeting in Cooper Institute on the
18th inst, held a meeting on Thursday eve
ming, A T. Stewart in the chair A circu-
lar letter was adopted to be cent to business
men throughout the country urging them to
organize meetings similar to the one at
Cooper Institute, exclusive of parties, Tor the
purpose of urging Gen. Grant as candidate
of the people OF all grades OF politics for the
next Presidency.


Charleston despatch states that Gen.
Candy has issued an order for the convention
to meet in that city on the 9th of Jan.
The total official returns give little over
5000 majority for a convention.
Year: 1868

ALCOHOL AND THE BRAIN.-We all
know that, when we drink alcoholic IL
quor, it affects the brain Immediately
Most of us are aware, too, that it affects
the brain injuriously, lessening at once
its power to discern and discriminate
If /, at this 10 A. NJ, full of interest on
this subject, and eager to get my view
of it upon paper, were to drink glass
of the best port, Madeira, or sherry, or
even glass of lager beer, 1 should lose
the power to continue in three minutes !;
or, if l persisted in going on, l should be
pretty sure to utter paradox and spurts
of extravaganza which would not bear
the cold review of tomorrow morning.


Any one can try this experiment. Take
two glassss of wine, and then imme-
diately apply yourself to the hardest
task your mind ever has to perform, and
you will find you cannot do it. Let any
Year: 1868

student just before he sits down to his
mathematics, drink pint of the poorest
beer, and he will be painfully conscious
OF loss Of power. Or, let any salesman
before beginning with difficult, but i'm
portant customer, perform the idiotic &c
ton of taking drink" and he will
soon discover that his ascendency over
his customer is impaired. In some way
this alcohol, of which we are so fond,
gets to the brain and Injuries it.-Parton
IN the Atlantic.
Year: 1868

Success rides ON every hour; grappleit
and you may win f; but without a grap-
pie it will never go with go with you.
Work is the weapon of honor, and he
who lacks the weapon will never tri-
umph.
Year: 1868

The story is going the rounds of the
papers that Mr.. Henry Keep intends to
found an art gallery in the city of New
York for the benefit of the public, and
that, having spent more than quarter
of million for the land, he proposes to
expend NIL on more in addition on a
building. Who is Mr.. Henry Keep !?
His biography is another illustration of
the striking changes which take place
among us in few years. As his father
died poor he, with his mother, was thrown
upon the town. His first recollections
are connected with the poorhouse of JEFF
ferson county, New York. When old
enough to earn his bread he was bound
to neighboring farmer, who gave him
plenty of hard work, but no schooling as
he had agreed to. The lad took the work
OF righting himself in his own hands !;
50 gathering up his all in a handkerchief
he ran away. We next meet him riding
a horse on the Erie Canal thus paying
his travelling expenses. He brings up at
Haneoye Falls, near Rochester, does odd
jobs for a miller, and then becomes a
man of all work for Gen. Gould. He at
once shows his thrift in saving money
earned by extra work. Next we hear of
his investing in Monroe county bonds,
which gives him a handsome return.
Then he goes into Canada, collects silver
money, brings it into the States" and
makes his profit. So much patient toll,
forethought and economy bear golden
fruit. Next he becomes a banker in Wa
tertown, N. Y, marries and becomes one
of the foremost financiers of the town.
He establishes other country banks.
Then we find him among the first brok-
ers in New York and in the recent cleo
ton of the Chicago and Northwestern
Railroad Company he controlled twenty
eight out of the thirty millions of stock
represented, owning himself million
and half dollars.


What stride this is from the pauper
boy to the millionaire. But the pathway
from the poorhouse to the mansion on
Fifth avenue and the presidency of
great railway is one of toll, care and
struggle. The conquesthas cost years of
earnest striving. He is the type of a
selfmade man. He has prodigious self
reliance-rarely asks advice, but relies
on his own judgment. He, therefore,
leads men. His influence in financial
circles is very great. One or two Incl
dents are told of him as illustrative of
character. Although his transactions
amount to millions it is said that he
keeps no accounts but his hand book
During the war he maintained it was the
duty of every man to stand by the gov
ernment; SO he invested very largely in
United States bonds, and is probably now
" bloated bondholder."


Altogether the biography of Mr.. Keep
is remarkable. If the reports in the
newspapers be correct, he is about to
crown his life by an act of public benif-
cence which will give lustre to his name
more enduring than that of his gold. 1t
is very desirable that men should, as far
as possible, be their own executors. Mr..
Keep, if the story be true, follows in the
path of Peabody, Peter Cooper and Ezra
Cornell. The results of his life's labor
are not wasted. They will live in works
of genius that shed glory and happi-
ness all around them Christian Regis
ter.
Year: 1868

Ry the order of Gen. Hancock, elsewhere
published, it. will 10 that ho doclines TO
set aside the registration in Texas on the
ground that certain classes had been excluded
and others admitted TO the registration wrong
fully. He will not assume to revise or correct
any action of the Boards of Registration in
matters which, by the Reconstruction act, are
submitted to their judgment and discretion
This is right. We are more inclined TO ques-
ton the propriety of his refusal to order
military tribunal for the trial of murderer In
a frontier county. where no question OF color
was involved, and the only reason for desiring
a military trial was that no adequate means
existed for OBTAINING the prisoner in custody
until a trial before the ordinary tribunals could
be had. The intention of the Reconstruction
acts was to put an end to all lawlessness at
the South whether among the whites alone, or
between the races
Year: 1868

Three of the Judges of the Supreme Court
are relics of the old pro-Slayery era, when to
doubt the divinity of Slavery was to be ex-
cluded from Office. They were appointed, like
Taney, for their fidelity to the man owning
aristocracy OF the South and have survived in
their places on the bench without change in
their political sentiments while the aristOcracy
which appointed them has been hurled from
power, and shivered into thousand fragments.
But they still worship at the ruins of their
ancient altars, and call those ruins " the Con-
" "stitutiOn.r They read the Constitution through
the spectacles of Calhoun, and find its lead


ing idea to be the sovereignty of the Southern
States over the National Government, and of
their ancient aristocracy over the Southern
States Two more Of the Judges are somewhat
mixed in their political views, but their ante
cedents are with the pro-Slavery element


Suppose the Chief-Justice and his two associ


ates to vote one way; the three antediluvan
Justices vote the other, and the other two
divide. There is a tie. Suppose the question
before them to be whether the legislation of
Congress for the reconstruction of the Union
and the deliverance of four millions of
people from bondage. A single Judge,
wavering ono way or the other may sustain
the law or destroy it, restore the Union or
introduce anarchy that shall involve years Of
strife and thousands Of lives! We all know
Mat tho pretense that thers is apy moro con-
Year: 1868

Mr.. Washbune Of Illinois is entitled TO the
thanks of the country for his persistent efforts
to prevent the sequestraton of the public lands
by railroad corporations, for the benefit mainly
of foreign stockholders There might be some
excuse for these grants if their recipients did
not uniformly neglect to build the roads for
which the lands are granted until the prospects
of travel are sufficient to induce private enter
prise to build them without the grants. Mean
while they are constantly besieging Congress
to extend their time to perform their part Of
the agreement; Congress, instead of getting
back the land, extends the time, and thus con-
tinues the title in these spectators, and pre-
vents the land from passing into the market,
while the road is built when it will pay to
build it, and no sooner. The case of the Dn-
buoue and Sioux City Railroad offers no excep-
tions to the general rule. The true mode for
those who favor retrenchment is to shut down
on all further legislative grants to railroads,
and let the lobby howl.
Year: 1868

About three months ago a special Cable
dispatch to The TRIBUNE from COnstantinOple
announced that there had been a complete
rupture between Russia and Turkey, and that
these two countries were drifting into war
The correctness of our dispatch has since been
fully verified by dispatches from all the capi-
tails of Europe. The Turks believe in the
immediate imminence of war, and urgently
implore the aid of France, Austria. and Italy
All the Austrian and French papers believe
that some decisive Russian movement will
soon be made
Year: 1868

stitutional law in the Judges decision than
there was in the act OF Congress which he
overturned is sheer bosh. 1t is political bias,
and that only, which guides the decision. Why
should the political bias of one man oyerrule
the legislative voice of the nation The vote
of three fourths or two-thirds of the Supreme
Court should always have been required to any
decision against the constitutiOnality of an act
of Congress.
Year: 1868

Since the great event in the War Depart


ment, there has been some talk of another effort
at impeachment Whoever desires to study out
the chances of such a movement should first OF
all get a COPY of THE TRIBUNE ALMANAC OF
1868 in which they will find careful analysis
of the vote on Mr. Ashley's bill for that pvr-
Year: 1868

We hope the bill just passed through the
Senate of New York, appropriating $500, 900 for
the relief of the poor Of New York, and the bill
paying $4,000 for the relief of the poor Of
Brooklyn, will not pass until very satisfactory
proofs are advanced that such charities will do
more good than harm. No suffering exists In
either Of thess cities which tho ordinary PUBLIC
Year: 1868

and private means of relief are not fully ade-
quate to provide for If the bills are a nero
race between the two Houses for votes, they
will soon find they can and must run the same
race in every city, town, aud village in the
State
Year: 1868

We print elsewhere an abstract OF the cor
respondence between Gov Jenkins of Georgia
and Gen. Meade, which resulted in the removal
of the Governor as an obstacle in the way of
reconstruction.
Year: 1868

If the Democratic Convention had been intent
on selecting that candidate for President least
likely to win Republic an votes and most certain
To arouse and intensity Republican opposition,
IL could not have hit the mark more exactly,
HOTatio Seymour has been the deadliest, most
implacable enemy throughout, of the ideas
and discontinue OF the Rebellion. He was an
open advocatean champion OF that Nebraska
bill wheleby slavery shamelesBly repudiated q
solemn compact whereof she had reaped the
full advantage, and strove to wrest from free
labor vast region which she had quitclaimed
for valuable consideration IN hand. For the
victims in Kansas OF Border Rutfian arson out


rage, and murder, he had never a word OF cheer
or sympathy. He was for Buchanan against
Fremont when this State gave the Pathfinder
plurality of $4,000. He was for anybody
RgsIlAt LineC.n ia 1859, when New YORK gave
Year: 1868

Such ticket, resting on such platform, in
spires no apprehension of success Seymour,
with all his aoility, has never filled a national
Office, and his reputation is not great outside
the state. Blair, who once stood we'll with the
Western volunteers, has ruined his standing by
his recent surrender to the enemy The ticket
therefore, is not strong one 1t will not bring
out even the full Democratic vote, and 1T will
assuredly disgust the non partisan element,
without whose support the Democracy would
under any circumstances, strive in vain. Mr.
Seymour was more than usually candid yester-
day when he told the Convention that "he
could not be nominated without putting him
thing but succession of miracles can save 1t
from defeat.
Year: 1868

contest, the first statesmen In the Democratic
party-the one who most fully represents its
principles who has the most onsummste
ability to pound them with luminous clear
ness whose m nd is the broadest, whose culture
is the most thorough, whose dignity Of char.
acteT and bearing Is best fitted to a1orn u great
station, and TO magnify even the high office for
which he has been nominated. He possesses,
in pre- eminent degree, every personal quail
fication and accomplishment which beht the
Chief Magistrate OF great nation,


In the next place. MIR. Sey mour has strong
grasp of the questions which relate to the re-
suscltation Of the shattered prosperity Of the
country, and the maintenance of the financial
honor OF the country-thaJ Is to say, of the
questions which will chiefly occupy attention
during the next Presidential term.


Again:-Mr Seymour has always been so con-
sisIt nj and thorough Democrat, and his popu-
larity and influence in the party are 80 uu-
bounded, that he alone possesses the moral
weight requisite for adapting the policy of the
party to the altered circumstances of the coun-
Try. lie can do all which Judge Chase could
have done, and can do 1t with a moral authority
and fulness of Democratic support which Mr..
ever he may concede will be accepted as q con-
cess,on TO necessity, and not secuted as the
Indulgence Of q partiallty for negro suffrage or
for any of the radical heresies.


The nomination of Francis p Blair, Jr., for
Vice President will meet with general ac-
ceptance. 1t was fit that the candidate for
Vice President should be Western man. q
soldier, and a representative OF that large
class OF Republicans who have become
oisgusted with the revolutionary mea-
unimpeachable record during the war, his dec-
sion of character, and his vigorous oppoSi On
10 the reconstruction policy of the radicals,
commend him, and the ticket on which his
who fought for the Union but abh)r negro
supremacy.
Year: 1868

The die is cast. The Democratic Convention
has decided that our next President shall be
General Grant. There was a splendid oppor-
tunity offered this Convention, in the nomina-
tion of Chief Justice Chase, to carry of the
balance of power from the Republican camp,
North and South, East and West, and to inau-
gurate in the approaching Presidential election
q substantial and enduring conservative revo-
Hall Convention had q different game to play.
Seymour against Grant in 1868 amounts to


Democratic surrender or a disbanding of the


Democratic party. The ticket of Mcclellan


against Lincoln was q strong ticket com pared


with this of Sey mour against Grant. 1t has no


prestige but that of defeat.


There is nothing in Seymour, nothing in his


record, nothing in mis- platform that will bring


sir gle recruit TO the Democratic party, but


every hing to rally the whole floating vote of


the United States, with all the conservative


Republicans, around the glorious banner of


Grant. 1t is supposed by his friends and poll


tical trainers that Seymour is at least good
cratic majority of last fail. That majority,
however, was delusive, the result of Republt-
can disa ffections and divisions, which only the
nomination of Chase as the Democratic candi-
date could have turned to q substantial adVan-
tage in this campaign Seymour against Grant
will bring all the Republicans into line, and
the result will be another political reaction,
thirty, or forty thousand majority. Seymour Is
behind the age, and Blair, as soldier, pinned
to his ticket, makes mockery of the comnnl-
tion. Grant and Colfax against such a ticket
will sweep the country from the Atlantic to the
Pacific, because the blOckheads of the Demo.
cratic party will have 1T that still living


under The regime of poor Pierce and Buchanan.
Year: 1868

Never put pin in the mouth or between the
teeth for single instant, because sudden eff
fort to laugh or speak may convey 1t into the
throat or the lungs, or stomach, causing death
in a few minutes, or requiring the windpipe to
be cut open, to get it out if it has passed into
the stomach, it may, az it has done, cause years
of suffering, seaseless only when it has made its
way out of the body through the walls of the
abdomen other portion of the system.


1t is better to have no button or string about
any garment worn during the night. long,
loose night-gown is the thing to sleep in Many
a man has facilitated an attack of apoplexy by
buttoning his shrt-collar.


If you wake up Of cold night and find your
self very restless, get out of bed, and standing
on piece of carpet or cloth of any kind, spend
five or ten minutes in rubbing the whole body
vigorously and rapidly with the hands having
previously thrown the bed clothing towards the
foot Of the bed, so as to air both bed and body.


Ii you find that you have inadvertently eaten
too much, instead of taking something to settle
the stomach, thus adding to the load under
which it already labors, take continuous walk
with just enough activity to keep up slight
moisture or perspiration on the skin, and do not
stop until quite relieved but end your exercise
ir a warm room so as to cool off very slowly.


Never put on a pair of new boots or shoes on 4
journey; rather take your easiest, oldest pair ;
otherwise you will soon be painfully disabled.


n loose htung boot or shoe, while travelling In
winter will keep the feet warmer without any
stockings at all, than a tight pair, over the
thickest, warmest hose.


Riding against cold, piercing wind immedi
ately after singing or speaking in public, is sui
eide. Many public speakers have been disabled
for life by speaking under hoarseness of voice.


If you happen to get wet in cold weather,
keep moving on foot with rapidity sufficient to
keep off feeling of chliness until you get into
a house, and not waiting to undress, drink in-
stantly and plentifully of hot tea of some sort
then undress, wipe dry quickly, and put on
warm, dry clothing.


Never go to bed with cold feet if you want to
sleep well.


If A person faints, place him instantly fiat on
bed, or floor, earth, on his back and quietly
let him alone at least ten minutes if it is simply
fainting fit, the blood flowing on a level will
more speedily equalize itself throughout the sys-
TEN. Cold water dashed in the face 2 sitting
position are unnecessary and pernicious
Year: 1868




party which sent two millioI of men to
their graves and satdlcd the country with
three thousand millions Of debt. What
American citizen can sustain such party
What naturalized foreigner in America can
favor such party ? He left Europe to en-
JOY the blessings of free government and
will be the last man to vote for the rc-estab-
lishment of a government similar to the one
from which he fed. Consider this, ye natur-
allied foreigners, and shun Democrat as
you would the devil. The word Democracy
deceives you. In Europe it means freedom
and free and liberal institutions; in this
country it means their opposite and if you
aid in achieving the success of the Demo-
cratic party you but simply re-establish q
government despotic in form and 'diaboli-
cal in spirit. 5aHlgs 4a