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Year: 1869

Bills were introduced in the City Council
Monday night by Major Hall to lay wood pave
ments on 18th street and 9th street. We are glad
70 see this BAH put in motion and hope il will be
pushed forward until on some street in this city
the experiment of a good wood pavement has
been made. We should also be willing to see
the concrete pavement tested on some carriage
drive. But to begin with let us have at least
one street laid down with wood pavement. And
whatever street is first in the field with the wood
pavement will make itself the street OF the CITY
~ fashionable resort and as a thoroughfare.
There can be no question about this. The result
has been the same where yer the experiment has
hees tried-in Chicago, st. Louis, Cincinnati,
San Francisco and every where. Iu Chicago
where the wood pavement has been
more fully tested than in any other
American city, the City Councils. at single
sitting, recently ordered the LAYING of twenty
>n miles OF streets with this pavement
An Our opinion there is no other city where the
wood pavement can be used so seryiceably as in
Washington. We want a smooth, pleasant.
cleanly pavement, adapted especially for light
vehicles. The ponderOus rough paving stones
used in commercial cities where there is heavy
dTayage, are entirely out of place in our streets
But the wood pavement Is equally adapted for
heavy or light work. In some of the business
VI SnieagO' "here arays carrying loads
Oi four or five tons are passing constantly, the
wOOd-Iavement laid half dozen years ago
shows no PercePtible marks of heavy usage.
There l. no one thing that would be of so much
service to the city as good system of pave
ments, such as would provide good drives, and
l'ut under the mud Of winter and the dust of
summer And only woOd-pavements will do
this Nosort of stone will answer, because in
our wide streets the attrition from travel over
them creates an amount of dust that is in itself
an insupportable nuisance. The pavement we
need II one that shall not only keep the original
dust Uader, but that shall not create dust bv
ah'">iOn, and this desideratum the wood-pave-
mtHt supplies.
Year: 1869

Notwithstanding the unfavorabIe weather last
night a very large audience assembled at the
National Theatre, and the fine drama, s.Trod-
den Down" was performed with such spirit a.
To make the entertainment a very agreeable one
tor all who were present. The applause was
frequent and hearty. All did well, but Vary
i entitled TO special praise. Mr.. and Mrs. Wat
kns are both at home in this play, and make the
most CT the effective situations in which it
abOnniS
Year: 1869

Some of the New York papers suggest the
abolition Of the custom of sending children from
school TO their homes with lessons to study. on
the ground that when child leaves the school
room IL should leave its books, and its school
cares behind it, This is the position taken long
ago by The STAR.
Year: 1869

BETWEEN four and five o'clock, In
Pittsburgh, Monday afternoon, a little
boy, son Of John Loss, a boot and shoe.
maker, doing business on Penn street,
between Twenty.fifth and Twenty
sixth streets, Twelfth ward, while look
Ing out OF the building, was shot In
the head and almost Instantly killed.
The ball entered at the cheek bone, and
passed on and lodged In the brain. In
five minutes afterward the lad was
dead. Deceased was just six years of
age, and q bright and promising youth,
No one knows who fired the mysterI>
ous shot, and young man who sat In
a carriage, two doors from Mr.. Loss
house did not hear the report OF gun
or pistol, and knew nothing OF the
affair until after Its occurrence. The
missile is supposed to have been rifle
Year: 1869

LIFE AssuRANoE.-The important subject Of
Life Assurance is gradually and deservedly
gaining public attention by the force Of its
own merits. The time 10 not far distant
when the death OF man leaving his family
unprovided for by policy Of Life Assurance
character. It is . duty which every man
owes to his own dependents and to the COM
munity. He who neglects is not good hus-
band, father or citizen. He has no right even
to risk the chance Of throwing the future
support OF his family, in case Of his death.
on the community st large, or on relatives rel YES
and surrey to provide against such contin-
gencies. OF all the companies doing business
the Washington stands second to none.
Year: 1869

SPECIAL TO THE COURIER.


HERE WE ARE AGAIN WITH A FOUR
Ill horse Wagon which we challenge any Shop
i. the State to beat. We don't file our work to
make it smooth just take look at it. Tape is
the lucky man. SAMUEL ISAACKS.
Year: 1869

The Berlin Tribune relates an incident OF
recent occurrence which is not without inter-


est for business men, particularly for stock
brokers. banker and broker in Vienna
sent his CORE spoDdent in Berlin the laconic
telegram: ''Sell 500 Credits" The commits
sion was executed as desired with all punctu-
ality, and the Vienna broker received a des-


patch to that effect; only the $500 Credits
had multiplied under the manipulation of the
telegraph, like Falstatfs men in buckram, to
five thousand. The shares just then fell, and
the Vienna broker, who was nothing 10th to
buy the balance at a lower and and deliver
them at higher price, had the telegram Tor
mally attested by a notary, and claimed from
his correspondent tenfold the profit on whil
he had at first calculated. The latter Of
course protested Indignantly, and argued
very plausibly he could in no case sell more
shares than his Vienna friend possessed at


the time he sent him the commission; but
the latter, on his side declared that such a
sale was not without precedent in their tran
sactons, and adduced several cases in which
it had actually occurred. The matter is to
be referred to the decision of legal tribunal.
Year: 1869

GENERAL CANBY's appointment to the COM
mand Of this military district win not interfere
with MoUNTcAsTLE's new process OF bronzipg
old gas fixtures. Call and see some OF the hand
some work turned out by MouK TcAsTLr. At So
Broad street all kinds OF house furnishing goods
NAV he Hound
Year: 1869

Washington MAY 2o correspondence of the Even


Ing Post


- said by some Of the best Informed men, who
are In position 10 know whereof they speak thar
the reucence Of President Grant In regard TO foreign
affairs and his extreme dealing with those
Foreign questions which occupy the public mind do
not come from weakness or hesifancy on his part
but that he feels that just long as Executive acton
IL entirely subordinate to the Will Of the Senate he
can do nothing. He takes ground, therefore in re-
gard 10 the senate controlling foreign relations
similar to that assumed by him when the question OF
the repeal or the Tenure OF once bill came mn
In Congress. SO long, therefore, as the British
government can ask him what reason there II 10
suppose that IN case he should carefully prepare
treaty It would receive even the attention Of the
Senate he thinks 1t would be useless TO attemns 10
negotiate one. He feels that ne IL fetered not he
the sSenatc has the right 70 discuss reject or
ratify treaty made by the Executive but from the
fact that they virtually have the entire control OF
foreign AFFAIRS, which was assumed under the last
cases made the most reckless use. Under these
circumstances he has resolved TO wait the Judgment
which the people will most sssuredlv pass upon the
question OF senatorial assumption when they come
decided ~ them, and when things are brought back
70 their former condition II will be time for him 10
take more decided steps.


There Is no longer any doubt that the Sandwich
ISLANDS reciprocity treaty ADD the san Juan conyen-
ton, which were both postponed BY a decided ma,
jority In the Senate the most strep
uous and able opposition OF Senator Sumner were
brought about and the votes Of Senators Controlled
Sand Island treaty case the sugar interest con
trolled the votes OF the majority OF Senator'S while
the San Juan convention owed iis postpone fneut Ia
tue Pacific Railroad lobby, which from the nrsl
showed determination 70 defeat u. Thus under
the regime Instituted by the extraordinary assunp
tions OF power ny the Senate, . treaty NAV be de-
feeted by the very men who force upon Congress
such Ioonstrous measures az the Copper TsrIf bili
Year: 1869

Washington May I9l CORRESPONDENCE OF the Boston


Advertiser.l


At the cabinet meeting yesterday there was full
Discussion OF the eight hour law, and 1t was at last
concluded that the sole intent Of Congress In pass-
ing 10 muet have been to reduce the hours OF labor
without reducing the pay. II was decided In order
y prevent different Interpretation Of the law by
the various departments, that the President should
Issue an executive order or proclamation, stating
that g full days work for government employs
snail be eight hours and that for this they shall
ceNe the Gay Of ten boure' labor.
Year: 1869

SAN DIEGO BULLErIN-W are in receipt
of the first number Of this new paper, edited
and published by VIM. II. Could 1t is a
twenty-four column sheet, well filed with
original and selected matter and makes a
good impression as to its future usefulness
and success. 1t is true to the interests of
the southern portion of the State, and should
receive liberal support. If the Bulletin
has any politics, we fail TO discover them 10
this number OF the paper. We wish the
Bulletin every success.
Year: 1869

1t will be said, the best of course. But
why? Simply because the most is to be
obtained where but one COW is kept
And is this benefit No one will deny
that it is. The better your,cow is kent
the greater will be not only the benefit,
but the profit on the keeping. This lets
the secret out of the bag. If it is profit
able to get tiae best COW and keep her in
the best manner, then it is profitable to
get a whole dairy on the same principle.
Will any one tell why this is not done i?
We can answer this readily. There is
slackness in the case; we are in the hab.
1t Of not doing it. 1t is necessary for us to
get out Of our tracks; devote a little
time to this thing-nost Of all begin
right. Keep less cows, and keep well,
and those of good quality-and do not be
discouraged if you do not succeed as
well rs you anticipated; remember al
ways that there are those who do sue
ceed, and that all succeed in the long
run, and should be profited immediate.
ly, just as man who keeps a good sin.
gle ecow is pro1ted ipmediately-that is
in short time, at Least. 4 single COW
generally improves, so will a herd, II
kept equally we'll.


Let us then get single cows for our
dairies. In doing SO we will find out
it will be more in the keeping than in
the selecting unless we have reference
to blood P1''e, Furne~.
Year: 1869

thrilled them with fear. They had
often thought Of flying to some distant
land; but some inexplcable influence
kept them near the remains Of their
victim. Terrified by the deposition Of
his wife, the old man made a similar
confession; and six weeks after, the
guilty couple expired on the scaffold.
Year: 1869

ABUSES OF CHuRcH GONG. A Bos-
ton preacher, of considerabelocal fame,
delivered discourse on Sunday, on
the abuses Of church going, He SAID
that many persons went to church who
might as well not go, and who would
get more benefit from a stroll in the
fields, or in some other rational mode
of Improvement and enjoyment. 9th
ers go to church mechanically, from
the force OF habit and in observance
of time honored Gust m, while other
go for the purpose OF seeing and being
seen. Another class OF persons 60 to
church to be specifically entertained
by eloquence and still another TO pick
flaws and make trouble, all of which
il it did not originate IN Boston, is the
truth. The preacher omitted TO point
ont the method by which these abuses
could be radically reformed.
Year: 1869

MIR. L. w. Knight writes us from
La Grande Oregon, that the country is very
dry there. though improving in the way OF
being settled very rapidly by people from
Oregon proper. He thinks Missouri Will
have quite an addition to her population this
Fall by carpet-baggers from Oregon The
continued dry weather has ruined the pros
pect for hay and grain crops this year
Nothing hurts a Webfoot so badly as dry
weather, and they intend to get away. Mr.
Knight las sold his farm and will bring his
family TO 0wyhee.
Year: 1869

Brick Pomeroy is in travail about
the income on General Grants salary, whicn
he has discovered does not appear on the
assessment books. Had the erudite editor oil
two Democrats paid more attention to facts
and INDUCED less in fable, he would have
known that the income tax OF officers sala-
ries is deducted from the amount due, and
that the officer never handles it at all
Year: 1869

FROM CoPo-A correspondent of
the State Capital Reporter writing
from Carlin June 18th gives the fol-
lowing with reference to the Cope
Dist:


The discovery of new placer and
quartz mines to the northward of
Carlin is now the great attraction
among our people, and during the
past week there has been quite a
stampede from this place and Elko
to the new Ell Dorado. | have de-
ferred writing about the mines, hop
ing to gather some definite and reli-
able Information for your readers.
Parties have returned from the dig
gings who state they are located on
the 0wyhee river, about thirty miles
from Carlin, in a northeast direc-
ton that the placers extend fifteen
miles up and down the gulch. One
man who came in last evening says
miners are making fifteen dollars a
day with pan. The largest humps
found are as large as grain of corn.
My advice to your readers is to
make haste slowly in going there at
present, but rather wait for further
developments. Carlin is the near
est and most accessible point on the
railroad to the mines.
Year: 1869

We invite dealers both city and country, TO examine
stock prices are as low as the same goods
can be sold in whole packages by any Wholesale house,
while we offer many sy les that confined exclusively
to ourselves.
Year: 1869

All who have real estate for sale or to let,
and those desiring to purchase rent such property
will nnd II to their interest 10 advertise in Tue TRIBUNE


Its aggregate circulation exceeds that OF any other
paper, and in addition to this advantage THE TRIBUNE
will be found, not only In NewYork and all its cities and
villages but in every State and Territory throughout the
Union The advertisement should be as brief ss Will
allow OF the advantages claimed being made clear TO the
reader We would especially dwell on the fact that the
subscribers for the three editions Of THE TRIBUNE, Daily
Semi Weekly and Weekly comprise individuals In every
business professon consequently advertisements in each
are read by all classes. THE TRIBUNE devotes especial
attention to reports OF sales Of real estate both In city
and country thus adding greatly TO the value OF It's col


umns advertising medium. The charges for Adyer
Using follows: DAILY TRIBUNE IS cents per line
for each msertion WEEKLY TRIBUNE, q per llne SEMI


WEEKLY TRIBUNE IS cents per line About ten words Of
our wide columns average line Terms cash in advance
Year: 1869

CoAL.-The people of the country, espe-
cialy those in the Eastern States, are work
ing hard to secure the removal of the duty
from coal. Those from New York urge in
their complaints that the cost of coal at the
mines in 1859 was from 65 cents to less than
81 per ton, and never up to that time sold in
New York for more than 81 per ton. now
the price has been raised to $780, ana tnuS
under the pressure of the tarih on coai 'ne
price has become so exorbitant as to distress
the people. Coal has now become almost as
necessary as air and water to the existence OF
the nublic in large and daily extending re-
oion of the United States, and the duties now
imnosed seriously impede industry and en-
baIrass all manufactures depending upon
steam power or other use of fuel, thus dimin-
ishing the national wealth and revenue, while
increasing the profits of the monopolists and
their power to oppress the people. A large
number of Republican Congressman are urg-
ing these points and that the entire duty on
coal be removed.


A petition for removal of duty on coal, nu-
merously signed, will be forwarded from this
city.
Year: 1869

THE NEW YORK BOND FoRGERIEs.-The
New York Herald asserts that facts have
come to light which point directly to certain
officials in the United States Treasury service
as aiders and abettors in the circulation OF
forged securities and bonds which have lately
startled the public. 1T further declared that
certain clerks in the Treasury Department
are paid and have been paid a commission
upon the forged bonds received by them and
passed into the Treasury, and it is equally
true that forged securities are NEGOTIATED With
the full knowledge of Treasury officials.
Year: 1869

From the Little Rock Gazette. 5th.]


Our information from Augusta, the
headquarters of the Department of the
Northeast" came by the last steamer
from the upper White river country.
Upham's militia has increased from one
hundred, at the date of Dsnforth's re-
port, to one thousand at the present TINA.
These comprise both whites and negroes,
and are lying about idle, without disci-
pline or drill-a mere mob, with loose
pickets thrown out and squads of for
ayers coming and going in all directions.
A thousand men are thus being fed,
clothed and mounted from the private
property of few counties. Add to
that what these rufiians will carelessly
waste and purposely destroy, and the
aggregate loss to the people of that sec
ton will equal the total fruits of the past
years labor, and generally all that they
possess, save perhaps the soil. What
will the sensible, sober, unimpassioned
people Of quiet sections of our country
think of these things when they shall
come to know it all ? There is no longer
room for doubling the truth of the repre-
sentatons made concerning this brigand
militia, for it is matter of public record,
aud The North can learn the main facts
from the Radical press ITSELF Then,
since even the best disciplined troops
will commit some outrages while in the
field, what shall be expected of body
Of men wholly without discipline Or sup.
plies, and with malice in each heart,
often ofyears' growth, turned loose under
the leadership of unscrupulous men for
the avowed purpose of makisg the ex-
ecutive branch of the government felt"
1t is even difficult to restrain men from
encroachments on each others rights in
the most quiet times, and by the aid of
the wisest laws. What, then, is to be ex
pected where there is no law but mob law,
and when the sggressors are plainly told
that those in their power have no
rights" 1t has been intimsted that Gen.
Rousseau intended an investigation. We
hope so. 1t is time the General Govern
ment interposed to afford relief aud pro-
lection to our suffering people. If there
we're no other or stronger incentive, COM
mon humanity requires it.
Year: 1869

to do, she set up vigorous shouting as
she ran, which attracted the hunters at
tention in that direction, who, seeing the
eagle quite near him, and lady rushing
down the slope with streaming hair and
garments, and wildly shouting. concluded
at once that there was something strange
and perhaps dreadful in his immediate
vicinity, and he alse set up vigorous
hsllooing, and proceeded to reload his
gun with much precipitation, forgetting
to 60 after the game which be had just
shot. The eagle Goon became aware of
the formidable opposition he would meet
if he attempted to recapture his prey,
aud thinking better of it, he wheeled
round and swung himself in one grand
swoop across the river and disappeared
behind the shelving rock which forms
the opposite bank at that point before
shot from the hunters gun was ready to
speed its fight to his bold heart. When
the girl came down to the hunter, she
fell stiff and was not able even to indicate
what was the matter. While the rough
gallant was endeavoring to restore her to
consciousness, he heard the scream of
child, and leaving the slowly recovering
girl, he went toward the spot where the
screaming came from, and beheld fine,
healthy, rosy boy, with torn clothes, but
otherwise uninjured, endeavoring to raise
upon his little feet Thetears stresmsd
down his innocent cheeks, and his face
wore a most piteous expression. He
took the baby in his arms and carried it
to the girl, who was now sufficiently
recovered to comprehend at once
that her beloved charge was safe.
She clasped it to her bosom,
covered it with kisses, and wept with
joy. In the meantime the mother and
father of the child had returned hsme,
and finding it empty, with no sign to in
dicate where the inmates had gone, save
a bucket of spilled milk out near the
barn, where the girl had dropped it in
her fight, they became anxious and un-
easy but the return of the servant, the
hunter, and the wonderful little voyageur,
whe had had the most thrilling adven-
ture that was ever heard of, restored
them to tranquility. There was Truly a
merry and joyous Christmas in that
household.
Year: 1869

Library, was also thoroughly searched, but
nothing explaining the fever was found ;
tho drainage and sewerage were explored
and found to be very perfect. Curiosity
was now 50 much excited that more ex-
tended survey Of the locality wns made.
when It was discovered that before the
erection of the castle a sewer was con-
structed through these grounds for tho
purpose Of draining q section Of the town
lying beyond. into the Thames. This old
sewer was examined. and defect In It's
wall was found directly under the library
room where the Prince was accustomed to
spend much time. The escape Of foul
sewer-gases into that room was clearly
established, and hence the cause Of this
fatal typhoid"


"But," said the pastor, show Is Il that
such offensive material can drain into
drinking water and not be ut once detect
ed?n


ION the contrary" I replied, ''such wa
ters are generally more agreeable 20 tho
taste. The salts contained In the organic
matters which eLter tho well or spring
give the water great apparent purity, and
they sparkle like the mineral waters Of the
shops. The following incident occurred
in my own experience: A small colony Of
Germans lived upon tho slopes Of u small
basin, In the center Of which was n large
spring. from which they took their supply
of drinking water. These slopes formed
a water shed, and the spring was tho nat
ural receptacle of much Of the surface
water. Typhoid fever broke out In this
colony, and the spring was decided to con-
tain tho ncrms, derived from the surface
filth. The whole colony protested against
such conclusion. and the water was pro-
nounced the best ever drank. And such
It appeared. but bottleful was examined
by chemist, who declared, without know
ing It's source, that privy or sewer
drained into It,"


According to your reasoning" said the
pastor, "in the case Of this family We must
look for some contamination by the excrs-
tn of human beings"


"Yes," replied, "that will probably be
found to be the cause, though I do not
wish to be understood rs saying that tho
into the system Of other forms
Of putrescent animal matter may not be
the cause Of typhoid fever"