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Year: 1869

OLIVE LOGAN AT LONG BRANcH.--A cor
RESPONDENT of the New York World thus gos-
sins about Olive Logan, the female lecturer
and former actress De Cordova and Olive
take long walks together and try to make each
other sick with the funny things they get off.
De Cordova has great deal of pluck, but this
sort of thing is very trying to the nervous sys-
tenn. and I think he will have to give up. Olive
is getting handsomer and ruddier every day:
She gets up every morning at S clock, and
walks five miles before breakfast, all alone
After breakfast she puts on a brown linen suit,
and goes down to the beach to bathe in bloom
or costume. She is the best swimmer of her
sex so far; paddles, floats, treads water, dives,
swims backward, and scares the bathing mas
ter by going away out where the sharks are.
After the bath she puts on blue dress and
pIays billiards for two hours, to the astonish-
ment of the billiard marker, who swears he
never saw the like Then she puts ON q
gorgeous silk for dinner and after dinner
She goes out driving; and the way she
handles the ribbons is a caution to Grant. In
the evening she puts on a satin dress with q
long train, and all befurbelowed with red velvet
and yellow lace, and goes to some hotel where
there is a hop; and here she comes out strong.
er than in bath, billiards or bowling along the
avenue. At ii o'clock she comes home, puts
on a suit of brown merino and writes about
woman rights till bedtime"
Year: 1869

THE Town HALL.-The corner stone of our
town hall was not laid on Monday. The Ma
sonic fraternity were not able to secure the SER
vices of their grand officers and the co-opera-
ton OF the other lodges-or not many of them
owing to the shOrtness of the time, and were
compelled to abandon the affair." The Town
Commissioners will perform the task to morrow
morning at 9 clock, when some speeches may
he pxDectpd
Year: 1869

II you can't nd friend the hotel any Of the other
Of his accustomed haunts step around to Wanamsker &
Browns and you be to lind him buying suit the
Largest Clothing House Oak Hall has become
change body there and matter whom
looking for he is an honest will be likely
find him there than at any other place. ti..'.
Year: 1869

The Old Guard says: A woman's rights pa.
per calls us an old fogy. We hope we are So
as distinguished from the abominable new tool
cries which now tear our country to pieces
We believe that children have some rights; for
instance, that they have right to be born Of
quiet, orderly, and modest mothers, whose TEN.
per is very likely to impress itself upon the
character of their offspring. And that they
have right to be nursed by attentive and af:
fectionate mothers, who sweeten home with
the constant presence of contentment and pu-
rlty of heart. And as we do not believe that
orawling women, who run about after ballot
boxes and negroes, can ever properly admins.
ter these sacred and charming rights of chill
dren, we proudly enroll ourselves as an old fogy
to all these vile notions of modern harlotry and
humbug. From the depth of our heart we
pity the husband and the children of these
strong 'tongued and fiery -passioned women, who
cannot be content with the angelic duties of
home For the benefit of the state, such fierce
Amazons ought never to have children. Nor
ought they to have husbands, unless the State
should ntllct such women upon its criminals as
Il punishment more to be dreaded than hard
work III the State prison for life
Year: 1869

WoN'T HAVE IT.-Chas. A. Dana, editor
of the New York San, was Assistant Secretary
has been loud in his praise Of Grant 1t was
expected that the President would give him
either Cabinet appointment or Foreign
Mission he offered him the place of Appraiser
in the New York Custom House. Dana has
very decidedly declined to take it. He is moi
likely to be praiser of Grant in future.
Year: 1869

TIE KIND THAT SUITS GRANT Pinch
back, the negro whom Grant has appointed as
Receiver of the Land Office in New Orleans,
is the colored individual who thus expressed
himself in the Louisiana Convention, against
the whites. He said:


| want to tell them to beware ] want to
tell them they have nearly reached the end of
their string. The next outrage of the kind
they commit will be the signal for the dawn of
retribution-a retribution of which they have
not dreamed; signal that will cause ten
thousand torches to be applied to this city, for
patience will then have ceased to be a virtue,
and this city will be reduced to ashes
Year: 1869

NICELY TRAPPED.-A rogue lately got di.
vorce from his first wife in Chicago to marry
widow who was said to have 100000. He
married her and discovered she owed $4,000
and had nary red, but lots of paste jewelry.
Year: 1869

The Hartford (COnneeticat) ISBaes, Of
the 4tb, relates the following sad story:
This afternoon will be buried the laet
member of what a few years since was
one Of the happiest families in town.
Blessed with plenty Of this worlds
goods, nothing seemed 70 trouble them,
and everything went on smoothly. Bat
the man went into ospeculatiOns, and lit
tie by little the money was lost until he
was considerably reduced and forced togo
to work for a living. With whatremain-
cd of their fortune, the wife furnished
house and kept number of boarders.
But nothing seemed to prosper. The
boarders left, leaving unpaid bills, and
one of them at last sedueed daughter
Of the 1andlady, and when her shame
became known the guilty man was
found to be a clerk in q Main street
store. He was forced to marry her, but
Immediately after left for parts uD-
known, and has not been heard Of since.
The girl gave birth to a daughter
which lived few weeks and then died.
Last fall the father of the family died
very suddenly at o'clock in the morn
ing and was buried at o'clock in the
afternoon. Last week the mother was
taken sick with diptheria and died
in a few hours. Her remains were con-
veyed by the midnight train to q neigh
boring city and buried the next morn
ing. The daughter took the disease OF
the mother, and after few days of in
tense suffering she too was released by
death, and so the last member of the
family is gone.
Year: 1869

THE Tenure.of. Office bill goes to
grass. GRANT won't displace the lns
while it remains in force. The Outs are
compelled to advocate its suspension as
to him. What Congress wouldn't do in
STEWARDS case, it will have to do for
GRANT personally; it must relieve him
from the operations of an inconvenient
law, or there will be no partition of
plundor. For straightforward con
viucing argument, commend us to one
like President NUNS, Repeal the law,
or there can be no removals"
Year: 1869

1t is a we'll established fact that fully one.
half Of the female portion of our population are
seldom in the enjoyment Of good health or, 10
use their own expression, never feel well. -
They are languid, devoid of all energy, extreme
ly nervous, and have no appetite.


To this class Of persons the BITTERS, or the
TONIC, is especially recommended.


WEAK AND DELICATE CHILDREN


Are made strong by the use of either of these
remedies. They will cure every case Of IA.
RASMUS, without fail.
Year: 1869

PERSONS ADVANCED IN LIFE,
And feeling the hand of time weighing heavily
upon them, with all its attendant ills, will find
in tho use of this BITTERS, or the TONIC, an
elixir that will instil new life into their veins
restore In measure the energy and ardor OF
more youthful DAYS build up their shrunken
forms and give health and happiness In their
remaining years.
Year: 1869

Some of The Radical journals say the
Democrats are anxious that Grant shall
break with his party" Not so. They
are only anxious that Grant shall
break" his party, and himself be
caught in the falling ruins.
Year: 1869

A new made widow went lately to
life insurance Office to receive the
amount of a policy on her husbands
life, whick had provideDtislly been
made payable to her. The president
thought 1t only p!oper to cOUdols with
her on her bereavement. IL am truly
sorry, madam, to hear OF your loss"
That's always the way with you mrn.
You are always sorry when a poor wo-
mau gets a chance to make a little
money!
Year: 1869

MUsIc.-The Mayor Of Brooklyn complains
of twelve thousand dollars in the public school
expenses of that city as improperly spent in
music, and utters some particularly stupid
commonplace on the impropriety of teaching
music in the public schools, and in favor of
what he calls "a little infusion of old-fashioned
republican simplicity" Does the Mayor sup
pose that the children of the public schools are
taught music for twelve thousand dollars
year? The pianos that are bought with this
money and the teachers that are paid are
among the most efficient part of the school
machinery in developing the better part of the
intellect. The children are taught only 50
much Of music as gives a cadenced step in
marching together in and out of school, and
enables them to sing together some fine little
patriotic songs, and these things tighten study
and are better In the end than even much
arithmetic and stupendous smattering Of
geography.
Year: 1869

Inc hesult Of the French Elections.


Our latest news from Paris confirms what
we have said before in regard to the elections.
Out of Paris, and in the departments generally,
the government candidates have been success
full. Paris as whole has gone against the
government. 1t was not otherwise with Paris
on the occasion of the general elections in 1868.
Then as now the government was beaten in
every circumscription The only difference is
that in the present instance the opposition
elements are stronger. 1t is the general opinion
that the opposition will be numerically stronger
than it has been since Napoleon mounted the
French throne. 1t is not long since the oppo-
sition numbered but five members. Last year
the number was twenty-five. Now it is calcu-
lated that there will be not fewer than ninety
or ninety-four sturdy oppositionists whom M.
Rouher will have to face. 1t is certain that
when the next session of the Chambers is
opened Napoleon will be compelled to make
up his mind either to go forward and grant
further Parliamentary privileges, or to go
backward, arresting the progress of the popular
power by fresh coup detat. This formidable
opposition must in some way be quieted.
How will Napoleon do it? Will he silence
them by force or will he humor them by grant
ing further reform?
Year: 1869

POLITICAL PROGRESS. BY the operation of
such principles as the niger voters in Wash
ington are bringing into use we may simplify
political calculations very much. Every man
differing with the mass would be knocked on
the head, and opinion be thereby kept all one
way in any given community. If man felt
an inclination to differ and cared about his
head he would leave. aud settle in some COM
munity of the other view. Thus we should be-
come organized, and there would be political
harmony everywhere. If communities came
in collision there might be some little civil
wars, but that would only be what they have
had in Africa these thousands Of years, and
the sun shines on Africa still, as hot as ever.
Year: 1869

TIE FIRST DIVORCE CASE IN South
CAROLINA. Southern papers are discussing
novelty in the shape Of the first divorce case In
South Carolina. The first divorce case In that
State was brought up in 1861, when South
Carolina attempted to dissolve her bonds of
union with the United States. But Judge
Uncle Samuel refused to issue decree Of
separation, and the State remains pretty much
as sbe stood de noUa, slightly damaged by the
weor and tear and expense Of the trial.
Year: 1869




Mr.. Attorney General Hoar has gone beyond
his official duty to aid telegraph monopoly
and to throw cold water on transoceanic tele-
graph enterprises. We do not say that he did
this designedly or from an improper motive,
for there is no evidence of that; but neverthe-
less the fact is apparent that he has exceeded
his duty, and that the effect will be to delay
or prevent the French cable and other trans
oceanic cables being laid, to the manifest ad-
vantage of existing monopolies. He has
the effect that foreign telegraph companies
cannot land cables on the shores of the United
States without the express permission of Con-
gress, and that no State of the Union has the
power over its own shores to grant such a
concession. No State, he holds, can concede
any franchise of this sort to foreigners, for the
sovereignty of the United States over terri
tory, by the law of nations, extends to at least
the distance of one marine league from its
shores. Then he maintains that the laying
and working Of telegraph cables comes
within the power of Congress to
regulate commerce with foreign nations.
Notwithstanding Mr.. Hoar's dictum, it is
q question whether the transmission of in
telligence by telegraph cables-the conversa-
ton, so to speak, between people of different
countries-comes under the head of commerce.
Suppose the people Of Canada and the State Of
New York chose to hold speaking intercourse
across the Niagara river, If their voices could
reach or they were to use speaking trumpets,
could the federal government stop them till a
special act of Congress for that purpose were
obtained? viii any one admit such an alb
surdity? Yet what is the difference between
communicating in this way and the transmits
sion Of thought by telegraph cables2 1t does
not seem to us that this Is commerce in the
sense of the constitution or that Congress has
the power alone to regulate 1t. splitting
lawyers like Mr.. Hoar are too apt to lose sight
of great and general principles and to decide
wrong. But there was no necessity for such
an opinion at all. The Attorney General is
not required to answer the questions of letter
writer's or private individuals. His duty is
simply to give an opinion when called upon by
the administration as one of the branches of
the government, and to defend, when brought
before him officially, the constitution and laws
of the United States. BY thus exceeding his
duty he has suffered himself to be the tool of
monopolists and may deprive the people of
this country of the advantages Of more ocean
telegraphs and healthy rivalry. His dictum,
however, is not law, and we hope the French
cable company or any other will go on with
the work and test the question in practical
manner.
Year: 1869

QUALIFIED SUPFRAeE.-Nigger suffrage In
Washington Is free Of the odious qualifications
that prevail In certain of the Northern States,
but has one not down in the law. The privi-
lcge Of voting Is qualified by the high pro-
liability that man will have his throat cut II
he opposes the majority. This consolidates
the vote and makes unanimity of sentiment
very advantageous in politics.
Year: 1869

THE GREAT PROBLEM for the city authori-
ties to solve, according to the Mayor, is chow,
towards nightfall, to afford two hundred thou
sand people an easy and rapid access to their
homes from their places of toll and business"
The solution is declared 10 lie In three rail-
roads the whole length of the island; no
enterprise to be preferred for any other reason
than Its feasibility. This Is the popular iuds-
ment also.
Year: 1869

SoRosIs. is the matter with Sorosis,
that 1t is getting up hospital for itself at this
early stage of It's existenceP bad sign, this.
Healthy youth, buoyant with exuberance Of
life, never dreams of the necessities Of age or
believes in the possibility Of decay.
Year: 1869

THE PRINTERS CONVENTION ON Color
The Printers National Convention at Albany,
luton for abolishing all distinctions of race
and color in the craft. This means
that the distinction of color is to
be enforced as an objection to the black
man, and as it is with the printers SO it will be
with all the other Trades Unions. They will
all be arrayed against negro equality in their
workshops, and the admiaistration before long
will hear from them at the polls.
Year: 1869

tional development ON this Continent, and the
intimations and even threats of serious COM
pllcations that were to result from it have
proved as idle as the summer breeze. That
policy was adapted to its era and has consum-
mated its work. 1t is no longer a question OF
founding new colonies or extending European
influence over old ones. The colonies have


become nations, and national development has
brought new needs and new demands. The
wonderful prosperity of the American people


under our system of union has for long time
given impulse to spirit of imitation in the
countries south Of us, and failure to attain the


same results is now developing desire to


participate in our scheme of government and


the material advantages which it brings.


This development is giving rise to coun-


teracting spirit among the partisans of Euro


pean rule and European influence. Wherever


we find the one we encounter the other, and
at this moment both are working with remark


able activity in the islands of the American
Mediterranean. There the European idea
takes the shape of Stree trade Antilles, con-
federated under European protection and
which shall mediate for the independence Of
Cuba" 1t is claimed by the partisans of this
movement that the enormous debt of the
United States will infict an unbearable taxa
tion, while our high and protective
tariff will destroy their trade and
agriculture. The fallacy is an evident one
but yet in the hands of skilful politicians and
diplO ticfs nd u,ifb nd
argument, it will produce effects which, for a
long series of years to come, will be felt to our
prejudice. 1t is likely to be the more successful
from the indefinite form and aim of the pro-
American feeling No one can tell what is
the best shape for it to take On one side we
find protectorate to be the controlling form,
while elsewhere it takes the equivocal name of
annexation.


The action of our government should be
addressed to the removal of these doubts and
of this misapplication of terms. 1t is not pur-
chase; it is not acquisition; it is not annexa-
tion. The true question for the nationalities
south of us is the pure and simple question Of
admission to our Union. In this shape private
feelings and public rights are respected and
preserved. Equality before the law is its
pedestal, and the preservation of the right of
local legislation for local needs is the column
of the argument. Herein lies the great impor-
tance of the st. Domingo question as presented
to us to-day. 1t will be the formula for the
great national growth which is the sequence of
the Monroe doctrine. 1t will consign fibus-
terism and territorial purchase alike to the
dead past. For these reasons it should be
consigned to the ablest hands in the govern
ment, and when presented to Congress it
should be accompanied by an expression of
our national policy as consonant with the
feeling of the American people to-day as the
expression Of President Monroe was conso-
nant with our national feeling fifty years ago.


THE PRINTERS CONVENTION ON Color
Year: 1869

The Bangor JefsrsOHiaR tells of a
Penobscot fruit-grower-a genuine
Yankee-who stopped at Washington,
last winter, on his way home from lit
tie trip to Florida. He determined
to see Gen. Grant, and therefore called
at the War Office, telling the door
keeper his wishes. What followed was
this:


The General is engaged


We'll, | want to see him.


Upon businessP


No, sir, l want to see him. don't
want an Office O., l don't want to speak to
him even, 1 don't want to occupy a
moment of his valuable time, l want to
see him merely


He is busy


when will he be outp


'Iu about four hours


well, l am not going home with
out seeing General Grant No, sir, and
unless | am thrust out with your leave
| will sit here until he appears Then
dropping into a chair he resigned him
self to the probable four hours sitting.


Presently the door keeper was miss
ing, but he soon returned with, IF you
you viii go with me will show you
General Grant


He followed him into another room
and was introduced to General Grant.
The General extended his hand, and
expressed himself happy to see him
He shook the Generals hand, took q
good hearty look at him, and turned to
depart, saying, My ambition is satisfied,
l have seen General GrantP


Take chair, sir, take chair said
the General, appeaIingly. al am hap
Py to see you


Thank you, sir, will not occupy a
moment of your valuable time. l came
to see General Grant; l have seen him.
His time is valuable; so is mine. Good
by, sir And, bowing, he left the
room, followed by merry laugh from
the astonished President elect.


Shortly afterwards it was announced
in the New York Herald that there was
a mysterious stranger in Washington
who did not want an Office, and the ed
itor nervously asked, Who is il ? and
called upon the detective force to arrest
him as conspiring against the dignity of
ofice-seeking as one of the most repect-
able Of all the professions.
Year: 1869

not be repaid IN case of aad ck os disaster to the
speculator Sch operations thrive with luxurssnt
and unnatural growth in secrecy and darEnsss put
OF the exact and detailed condition OF o company 9
assets and liabilities.


The receipts for customs and the receipts, pay
ments ana balances at the Sub Treasury IN this city
sum ND as follows-
Year: 1869

ave just been completed over the worst of the
'untain streams in this district, one on each
Fe OF the village of Kipahulu- They are plain
pa serviceable, but show the same lack Of good


e-nent IN their erection, that is noticeable in


many OF our public works The fault hers
In the foundation, which consists of small
we stones, piled up on the solid rock. Here
the very best natural foundation that could


been sought for, and had the stone work,


essary to raise it to grade, been laid in
Ynent and made as firm as the rock below, il
Year: 1869

COUNTY JAIL-The only committal to the
county Jail during the past week was an act OF
mercy. An unfortunate poor old man, suffering
under an attack of delirium tremens, was found
by Sheriff Good on tho street in such condition
that unless housed and cared for Immediately, he
must perish. So he gave him the best shelter he
could in the county Jail. The man is improy.
ing in health and condition that he will doubt
less in few days be able to take care Of himself
again.
Year: 1869

- An Ass often strayed around q
country house, whose occupants were mus
ical people The lady of the house had a
splendid voice. As soon as she began to
sing. the Ass went close to the windows to
listen. One day, when she was practising
abravurs alone, her performance so delight.
cd him that hc walked up the steps, crossed
the entrance hail. and stole into the draw
ing-room unperceived In the midst of a
brilliant passage he expressed his approval
by braying with all his might and main.
Year: 1869

- To make wLitewash that will pre-
serve its whiteness. and not rub off, take
common starch and make it up as you
would for stsrching clothes. and add it to
whiting and water made ,f the right con.
sistency for whitewash, and add some salt
end little blueing, and mix the whole
we'll together let the water be little
warn, the. tls starch may more readily
mix WITH the wash. ~