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Year: 1869

The New York Commercial of Tuesday
says: The excitement among the bro
kers in Broad and Wall streets, grow
ing out of the action of the district at
torney in summoning large number of
the leading brokers, stock operators,
railroad directors, bank presidents,
cashiers and others before the grand
jury, continues to be the engrOssing
subject On the street, in the banks, back
parlors and on the stock exchange.
To- day the grand jury were in session,
and had before them several of the lead
ing brokers and bank presidents. The
head of one of the leading banks of the
city, when asked if he had at any time
exacted more than the regular rate of
interest, promptly and unblushing re-
spondGd that he had done so frequently.
One of the jurors inquired if he was not
aware that in doing so he violated the
law; and answered that he was, but that
everybody seemed to regard the law as
a dead letter. This admission ought to
place the bank president in danger of
being indicted for taking usurious in
tcreSt. 1t is evident that the grand
jury have taken up the consideration
OF a matter which will occupy their
time for several days, and the result of
their investigation will be looked for
with much interest. 1t is understood
that indictments have been found
against money-lcnding brokers and
bankers, and that the papers are being
prepared and arrests will be maze to-
morrow and the indicted parties
brought before the court. The jury, ii
is understood, is to pursue the investi-
CATION, and many others may be expect
ed to be indicted"
Year: 1869

We are afraid that the Democracy
will find but little cause for congratula-
tion over the recent election in Virgin.
10. Walker, their standard bearer and
the successful candidate, asserts that 1t
was Republican victory and the tri.
umph Of the policy of President Grant"
What does the REGISTER think of it !
We are afraid it will have to take the
"back track" in its immoderate eulogy
of Mr.. Walker and the glorious achiev-
ments of Democracy-a bitter pill we
know; but then, that which is the most
nauseating sometimes proves the most
benefcial.-Parkersbnrg Times. y


The REGISTER thinks it is all right in
the Times man to shout and whistle, in
order to keep his courage up. If we
were passing a graveyard, we don't
know but that we'd whistle too. 1t
makes people think You amt scared,
don't you see.
Year: 1869

During the recent floods in Kansas,
at a school house on the road from
Humboldt to Fort Scott, the water
came suddenly up around the building
to such height that they were COM
PEELED to send for teams. A mule team
with fifteen little boys in wagon, took
fright, became unnanageable, and ran
INTO creek about ten feet deep, float
ing of the wagon body, but all the lit
Tie ones were got out, though it seemed
almost impossible to save them.
Year: 1869

A boy fell asleep in one of the Cleve-
land Churches, on Sunday night, and
did not wake until after the lights were
out, and the church was locked up fer
the night. About an hour after this
several people were alarmed by cries
proceeding from the interior. and, in q
few moments, large crowd assembled,
the sexton was sent for, the door was
opened, and the boy ran out with good
will.
Year: 1869

evening with his heart full of rage
and evil against me for thwarting hin
IN his efforts to get an honest living
he said he knew he had been bad
enough, but it was because no one
had ever trusted him, and just as he
had found one man who was willing
to give him a trial, it aroused all his
worst passion to be turned out again
upon the wide world vagrant at the
door of ruin.


So Boy became one of US after that
we trusted him and he gave US an un-
divided service that money never
could repay. He did not become at
once a shining example of Christian
influences, and after taking him to
Sabbath School, and doing all we
could, We left him to Annie; she
taught him by flowers and stars, and
a child's happy theology, the way to
God, easier than we. with our doc
trines and explanations, could have
possibly done; and he repaid her by
long devotion during her years of
studied youth and hourly suffering
and it was on him the sweet eyes look
ed their last, as she pointed upward,
and passed away from our weeping
gaze to the endless summer of the
spirit land, there to complete her
beautiful, unfinished life. We have
no child now but the Boy on whom
our declining years rest, and who is
the comfort of our household, whom
once turned from our door; to re-
deem him was Annie's mission
where she laid down her work he took
it, and carries it on to completion
he is our Boy now.
Year: 1869

room for the wounded. A low moan
at your feet and a feeble grasp of
your clothes arrest your attention.
1t is a comrade from an adjoining
town-from Dorchester; STRIPPING
Of scarce eighteen summers, the darl-
ing child of only too fond parents
He was their only one-their all, and
never until now had the chill winds
of the world visited him roughly. Re-
luctantly and with heavy hearts they
had yielded to his prayers that he
might serve his country. The effects
of privation and exposure upon his
delicate frame they had indeed dread
ed, but 0, they had not dreamed of
this. You try to cheer him with the
hope of going home. "Yes," he faint.
ly murmurs in reply, eyes, l shall go
home, and they will see me once
more; but, o, my poor father my
poor mother! | shall never look up
on them in life again A few days
thereafter, perchance, you lie suffering
upon that very floor You question
the attending surgeon after your young
friend; he mournfully shakes his
head; you ask no more, for you know
that he is dead. Alas, alas for that
sad home and those bereaved parents,
to whom the gentle boy will return
shrouded for the tomb


You notice a still form upon cot;
his cheek is ashy, his eyes are closed,
and the dews of death are gathering
fast upon his palid brow. My Godl
Can this death-stricken form be one
who parted from you but few hours
ago with a gay smile on his lip and
hope strong in his heart? At the
cot-side sits ministering angel in
woman's shape. She has listened to
his last wishes, received for the dear
ones at home his messages Of love
that will survive the grave; and now
she lightly places her kind hand upon
his cold forehead while she prays for
the departing soul; the soft and ten
der touch recalls him for a brief in
stant to life and memory; he thinks
he recognizes that gentle hand, and,
sweetly smiling in her face, he muir
murs mother p and another mother,
far away, is stricken and childless.-
The kind nurse softly closes his eyes,
kisses his cold lips, that have just pro-
nounced that holy name, and upon
that lifeless form falls a tear which it
should have been his mothers privi-
lege to she'd


30, Woman in our hours of ease,


Uncertain, coy and hard to please;
And variable as the shade


BY the light quivering aspen made;


When pain and anguish wiring the brow,


A mnsterng angel thouP'


Gods last, best gift to man Shield
ed in her loving arms we pass happi-
ly the defenceless days of our infancy /;
she is the guardian and guide of our
youth; the counsellor and friend Of
our manhood; and our heavy head
rests III death, as at BIRTH on the true
heart of wOmanl
Year: 1869

The Scventh-Day people of Rich
ford are getting out the timber for a
new church at East Richford. 1t will
be of wood, "a by As feet. The So
ciety are holding meetings in school
house at that place about once fort
night.
Year: 1869

In order to be a successful politi-
clan in Montana it is said that a man
must either have the poorest memory
of any man living or be one Of the
greatest liars of the age.-Erchange.
Year: 1869

The following extracts snow the state OF the New
York money market yesterday


From the Herald.


''The convalescent feeling after the late sweeping
raid upon the stock market was more manifest to-
day, although the recovery was not steady and
appearances-whch are oftenest the least reliable
sign in Wall street.-The bear speculation has cul-
minated, and reverse movement been inaugurated.
The late bears were still worrying the market to-
day, assaling it at each advance and gave evidence
OF desire to purchase. All clique movements
depend for their success upon @the secrecy
with which they are conducted: Hence Ia
| bears are compelled to keep up desultOry fire.
under cover of which to make purchases on their
own account as well as to induce an increase of the
| short interest. That the market was being 50
| manipulated to-day evidence was plentiful. There
| was raid in the morning and a general talk of
| tight money, under which prices Went OF to nearly
but was once more assailed. AS it went down
while they tempted the street into going short
The day closed ,rS with ,odt another rally and


which suddenly advanced to Y in consequence
of a new deal, by which Mr.. c. X. Garrison is to be


stration effected at the next election. AS the short
interest in Pacific is very arge,it easy to mp
| the price. Hence in the scramble to cover there
was an advance from 72 to II. Ne York Central
opened at 2O4, fell to 100, aud was thenceforward
directors, which comes of on Wednesday, at
| Albany stimulates buying, and the bears are
Shore is sti in cloud and viii remain so until
there has been sufficient probation for its late mis-
deeds. The money market was quite active, but
stock houses We're fully supplied at gold interest
before O'Clock. There was no dispute about paying
this rate, which fact seems 20 indicate that the
change in the stock market is the Initiation OF bull
| movement. There is better demand every day
from the South and West for funds; so that it is
hardly probable the money market will be less active
before the MIDDLE OF winter. We are fairly


launched into active money This natural strin-
gency was aided by movement to make green
backs scarce, as an offset to the bull move


atter market dedanty @ ADVANCED the price ID 'e te
1879, which they were the better able to do
from the approximations OF difficulty on the Cuban
question, the Gold Room circulating a story late in
the day that three gunboats were being made ready
at the Navy Yard to proceed TO the island In ques-
tion The gold bulls repeated the Old threat OF ad-
vancing the market slowly and steadily day by day,
until the bears refused longer TO buy, when they
| would refuse to lend the gold which they control,
J and thus make ruiD0us corner
Year: 1869

Corruption in the Methodist Book Concern.


The y. Y. Times makes the following editorial
announcement, which will occasion q stir in
Church circles. The Concern" of which men
tion is made does an enormous business in sup
plying the churches of the denomination with
books, and is, in fact the central repository for
all such works appertaining to this branch OF
the Christian Church,


1t Is with great reluctance that we give cur
rency to a very unpleasant report which has
reached us in regard to institution which of
all others in the land ought to be beyond re-
proach, or even suspicion. The authority, how
ever for what we are about to announce is OF
such character that silence on our part would,
under the circumstances, amount to delin-
ouency We are credibly assured that the new
Agent of the Methodist Book Concern, Rev. Dr.
Lanahan, has discovered in that establishment
great corruption and fraud, involving losses tc
the amount of several hundred thousand dol
lars. The subject, we understand, is undergoing
investigation, and as soon as the details car
be given to the public without prejudice to any
but culpable parties, we shall endeavor to fur
nish them.


These frauds IL is said, have been going OF
for some eight or nine years, and OF course theil
full extent Is not yet ascertained with precision
The magnitude of the busiress transacted by
llIs eeLeern, and the reputation which u ha
Year: 1869




Early in the past summer three human skele-
tons were found under house at Parkville, No.,
under the following circumstances:-A boy, son
of the people residing in the house, had bor-
rowed an axe of neighbor, which, instead of
returning, he placed under a rock forming part of
the wall of the building. Some time after, being
asked by the neighbor what he had done with
the axe, he told them where he had placed it.
On going to the spot and rolling away the stone
to obtain the axe, human skull was brought to
light. Further investigation by digging resulted
in the startling discovery of three human skele-
tons of men, covered with n slight depth of
EARTH The teeth OF one was found to be filled
with gold filings, proving that the skeletons
most unquestionably belonged to white persons.
The excitement occasioned by so horrible
discovery was intense. Fresh horror is now
added to it by a discovery which may throw
some light on the terrible mystery. On Mon
day, September 13, little girl, daughter of the
family at present residing in the house, went to
a closet to hang up some clothing. Instead OF
coming out backward as almost everybody
would, and as undoubtedly great many had
done who had visited the closet perhaps hun
dred times, she turned around, when her atten-
ton was attracted by some writing on the wall
before her (Which had escaped the notice o.
those who had previously visited the closely;
calling the attention of the family TO it, they
Mortified to find the following


John Brink, California, Me. Should ] not
get away with my life, will some one report me
TO DIR. VI. Cotter, California, Mo. They are try
ing TO murder US.


FEB. 3, 1857"


Undoubtedly this has. a connection with the
bodies under the building and may lead to some
developments which will show that murder mos
foul was committed, and that one of the skele
tons found was that of the writer of the above
and the others of companions whom he indicate:
were with him. The idea occurs to us. says the
Leavenworth Times, from which we take oul
account that these men may have been "Fret
Statesmen either on their way to, or kidnapped
from Kansas in 1857, and killed by ''borde
ruffians." But speculations are needless fo
IN any theories might be advanced and nom
of them be correct. The house in 1857 stoot
isolated from all others, upon hill. Now othe
buildings surround it, and the hill is grade'
down. But at the time indicated by the writint
discovered in the closet, the building was so fa
removed from Others that foul murder coul,
have been done without alarming any Of tn
neighborhood The proprietor at that time i
still living in the county, but many differen
families have since lived in it. This man, it i
stated, was then considered an upright man, an
although suspicion must now point very strongl
towards him. the people of that section do nc
think it possible that he is the murderer. Tn
building is now owned by citizen OF Leaven
Year: 1869

Paris has had sensation in the way OF anti
art NJ. CarpeauX had executed and put up in
front of the new opera house group OF figures
in marble. The centre figure OF the group is a
man holding aloft a tambourne, and beneath
him are some naked women dragging each other
roundin ring and supposed to be dancing. 1t
must be acknowledged that these nude figures
seem heartily ashamed of being thus exposed to
the public gaze. The group when first exposed
was variously criticized, some people contending
that the artist deserved well of his country for
launching into something original, and others
declaring that his originality was nothing but
ndecency. But the other night somebody
quietly smashed bottle of ink over one of the
nude girls great outcry has been raised
against the author of this piece of vandalism,
and no such attack has been made on public
mon ument since gentleman broke the nose of
one OF the colossal female figures in the Place
de IN Concorde, because the lady resembled his
WlIe. similar outrage has been committed In
the garden OF the Luxembourg. bottle of ink
was thrown over the marble group of Acis and
Galatea OF the Medicis fountain.


Fiery AuthOress Wants 10 Fight


Sensation number two has been created by a
lady challenging Journalist TO fight duel!
Madame Olympic Audouard. who lately read OF
lIc,Used in your city in The Jerome Theatre
Year: 1869

enjoyed for probity in its management, conspire
portance. It is only six months since we had


the satisfaction of saying of this institution, iu
the columns of the Times, that it should be
recorded, to the honor of all concerned, that not
a dollar has ever been lost by the defalcation of
its managers from the commencement of the
business" in 1889. Unfortunately that cannot
be said of the Methodist Book Concern any
pnnr
Year: 1869

feeling herself aggrieved by an article in the
Figaro has called out NJ. de Villemessant This
fiery authoress begs to inform the editor of the
Figaro that he need have no scruples as to ac-
cepting her challenge, seeing that she is
widow, and has neither father nor brother She
is, moreover, a capital shot, and informs her
adversary that ball fired by feminine hand is
quite as murderous in its result as any other.
Year: 1869

The dissatisfaction of the Democracy at
their local ticket Is not confined to Philadelphia
alone. All over the State the respectable por-
ton of the Democracy repudiate the tickets
which have been forced upon tnem by the rings.
N. Y Tribune.
Year: 1869

A celebrated Partisan belle, who ac-
quired the habit of whitewashing herself
so to speak-from the soles of her feet %
the roots of her hair with chemically pre-
pared cosmetics, one day took a medica-
ted bath; and on emerging from it, she
was Mortified at finding herself as black as
an Ethiopian. The transformation was
complete. Not vestige of the sc supreme
Caucasian race" was left. Her physician
was sent for in alarm and haste. On his
arrival he laughed immoderately, and
said:


Madame, you are not ill; you are a
chemical product. You are no longer a
woman, but a sulphwet. 1t is not now a
question of medical treatment, but of SIM
pie chemical reaction. I shall analyze
you, Gomez I shall submit you to a bath
of sulpuric acid diluted with water. The
acid will have tho honor of combining
with you, 1t will take up the sulphur, the
metal will produce a sulphate, and we shall
find as a precipitate, very pretty wo-
man." The good natured physician went
through with his analysis, and the belle
was restored to her membership with the
white race. Young ladies who are am
bilious of snowy compilations, should re-
member this, and be careful what powders
and cosmetios they use-if they use any
at all.
Year: 1869

ABOUT Ana prominent physician
attributes much of the sickness in Winter
to the bad effocts of coal gas. He says in
nine houses out Of ten that he enters he
notices coal gas in the air they breathe.
Many times he finds the damper in the
stove pipe closed to, save coal. and the re-
suit is room full of gas, not noticed by
the inmates, perhaps, but by those who
come in from the fresh air. These are i'm
portant suggestions, too little needed,
The injurious atmosphere from this cause.
at first greatly offensive, becomes accom-
modated to the sense after short endurance,
and unconsciously to the victims acts per-
niciously upon the vital organs, Too
much Importance cannot be attached to
the presence of pure atmosphere, and the
cold months, imposing house confinement
more strictly, is the season when it should
be especially guarded against.
Year: 1869

TIE HAND-All will admit that moth
ing contributes more to the elegance and
refinement of a lady's appearance than a
beautiful hand. A well-formed hand,
white and soft, with tapering, rosc-tinted
fingers and polished nails, is a rare gift
bur where nature has denied symmetry of
form and outline, it is easy, by proper
care and attention, to obtain delicacy of
color and grace of movement which will
place it sufficiently near the standard of
beauty to render 1t attractive. Gloves
should be worn at every opportunity, and
these ought invariably to be of kid or soft
leather. Silk gloves Or mittcns, although
a pretty contrvance, are far from fulfilling
the desired object Night gloves are con-
sidered best, from the unctuous substances
with which they are prepared, to make the
hands white and soft, but they are atten-
ded with inconvenience, besides being
very unwholesome. A moderately warm
bran poultce laid on the hands about once
during a week is very excellent applica-
ton. 1t must be remembered that the
color of the skin of the hands, in common
with that of the whole body, is dependent,
in great measure, on the general state of
the health. The hands should be washed
in tepid water, as cold hardcns them, and
predisposes to roughness and chaps, while
water beyond certain heat makes them
shrivelled and wrinklod. In drying them,
they ought to be well rubbed with mod
erately coarse towel as friction always
promotes a soft and polished surface.
Stains from ink or other causes should be
Immediately removed with salt and lemon
juice-a bottle Of this mixture should
stand ready for use on every toilet. The
soaps to be preferred are such as are free
est from all alkaline impurities. The
palm of the hand and the tips Of the fin
gers should be of pale pink color. The
growth and preservation of the nails de-
pend, in a great degree, upon the treat
ment they receive; they ought to be fire.
quently cut in a circular form, neither too
fiat nor too pointed. The root, which is
sometimes called the half-moon, from its
crescent shape, should be always visible.
1t is winter than the rest of the nail, and
is connected with the vessels which supply
the nail with nutriment. When the nails
are disposed to break, some simple pomade
should be frequently applied, and salt
freely partaken. A piece of sponge, dip
ped in oil of roses and fine emory powder,
gently rubbed on the nails, gives them
polish and removes all inequalities.
Year: 1869

Should not upbraid his green. By unperceived
Degrees he wears away, yet, like the sun,


Seems larger at his setting"


The writer has rapidly traced the public
life of John Marshall, from his boyhood
amid the old mountains, and green valleys
of his native county, with his BIBLE, his
Milton, his Shakespeare and Pope, and
Dryden We have seen him in the front
ranks in the days of Colonial struggle, do
ing battle along with Washington, and La
Fayette, and his own honored father we
have watched him rising by the force of
his own strong intellectual vigor, and
sterling worth, from position to position,
in his native State, in the national coun-
ellis, in the several Departments of State,
as ncgotiator with a foreign government,
and finally, as the reluctant recipient of
the last great honor thrust upon him, TAX
ing his seat as Chief Justice of the United
States, surrounded by the greatest judicial
intellects of his day, and stamping the i'm
press of his own profound mind upon the
decisions of that august body in the in
tervals of official duties writing biogra-
ply of his beloved Washington in his
old age assisting. by his name and coop
Grafton, two important State Institutions
and, at the close of life of three
score years and ten-a life well spent
q Passing serenely to his final rest,


While the soft memory of his virtues, yet


Lingers, like twilight hues, when the bright sun
has set'


The next article will close the sketch of
the life and character of John Marshall {:
and, it is hoped by the writer, that when
concluded, the moral had in view will not
be lost sight of by the young men who may
perhaps read in the present degeneracy of
public men, and the low tone of public
morals, the patent fact, that i'll the history
of people there are eras Of elec0tiOn, and
degeneracy, that mark them as distinctly,
as the science geology demonstrates its
theory, by the " testimony of the rocks. !"
Gro BE CONCLUDED IN NEXT NUMBER.)


am glad to have it in my power to repro
duce that portion Of Mr., MAXWELL beautiful and
noble effort, both on account of the subject which
he knew SO well how to treat, also from de-
sire on my own part TO pay his own memory q
tribute so well deserved. Much older than my
j
Year: 1869

Among all the pulpit celebrities Of the
age and country, Henry Ward Beecher,
whatever we may say or think, undoubted-
ly holds the palm. As specimen of rich
humor, as well as for the purpose of Civ
ing his own denial of story which has
had general cerrency, the following from
his pen in recent number of Bonner's
Ledger, will well repay personal.