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Year: 1874




Y. Tribune.


With money in my purse, l felt that l
must buy something Spanish, something
that would recall my wild chase after q
republic; something that | could hand
down to posterity as the relic of my
peninsular campaign. Spanish fans are
now made in France; in fact, the only
bit of womans toilet not imported
from France is the mantilla, and when ]
went to call upon pretty Spanish wo-
man she knew just how to buy one.
You must not 90 into a shop, she
said only foreigners do that and get
cheated. There are women merchants
who 90 from house to house selling the
property of ladies. The Spanish wom-
en- are great traders. Even the rich sell
their dresses when they tire OF them,
and now as times are hard, there is a
great deal of old lace in the market at
reasonable rates. Many are disposing
of real lace mantillas, and can get
you one cheap The saleswoman will
be here directly; but let me warn you
against showing an eagerness about
purchasing. Double the amount is ask
ed that the woman will take, and your
indifference will lead to reduction OF
prices. Now remember"


In came the little old woman, and
remembered. With desire in my heart
but nonchalance in my manner, / turn
ed Jew. | would give so much. The
woman declared that the lady to whom
the mautilla belonged would kill her if
she did not obtain twice the sum. l
laughed at the imposition. The little
old woman delivered an grafton to prove
how, since the beginning of the world,
there never had been anything so cheap.
/ shrugged my shoulders: The little old
woman held the mantilla before the
light, that l might see the beauty of the
rich black lace. She would part with
every hair on her head before she would
take one real less for such work Of art.
The north pole could not have melted
less than |. Oh, very we'll, then the
little old woman would 60 elsewhere
She would not basely sacrifice her
clients property; and to my dismay
/ saw her pack up the mantillas and bid
US good morning. Give yourself no
concern" said the pretty amiable Seno-
IA; "she will return. That is part oi
Year: 1874

I IVII tIIV I "7-17 " 7-'--FI


This forenoon, at livery stable, near
the Erie depot, the pole had been taken
out of wagon and stood on some boxes
leaning against the wall. Some one
disturbed it, when it came down with a
crash, and the small end, after making a
sweep Of twenty feet, landed square on
the woly pate OF an old darky who was
summing himself on the sidewalk 1t did
not more than half wake him up, and
yawning, he muttered to a gentleman
standing near him, Did you speak to
me, sah2 Just how hard that negros
head is will never be known, for there is
nothing in existence that would make
any impression on it, unless it might be
E Lake Erie pile driver.
Year: 1874

The friends of the Republican party every
where will rejoice to know that Judge Peters
has consented to permit his name to be used
in the senatorial campaign. This probably
ensures Mr.. Hamlin's defeat and the final
breaking down of the regime which has be-
come so distasteful to the Republicans of
Maine. The great popularity of Judge Peters
in the eastern part of the state guarantees a
strong support in Mr.. Hamlin's own personal
stamping ground, and his freedom from all
complications with the cliques and rings,
which are such obstructive parasites upon
the party, commend him to the good graces
of all men who are willing to stand for the
party against Its internal foes. 1t is hardly
necessary to give any account of Judge Peters
TO the people Of Maine. He has long been
well known as a lawyer of great eminence in
private practice and as Attorney General, as
a brilliant and efficient representative of the
fourth district for three terms in Congress,
and, later, as dgnifed, discreet and abe
incumbent OF a seat on the Supreme Bench
of Maine. He would honor himself and his
state in the Senate of the United States.
Year: 1874

''THE Generalization of the modern dolr'
is the latest theme for those who preach SER
mons from lecture platforms or deliver them
through the columns of newspapers. One
great objection to the modern doll is that
there is about her suspicion of the Partisan
"half-world," in the trick of her eyelash, the
turn of her head, the extravaganza of her
dress. The imagination must be prurient in
deed that finds suggestion of evil in the wax
frame and silk frippery of French doll.
However, as pruriency is prevailing fault
nowadays, it may be as well 10 return to
the rag babies of our ancestors or at least to
put the miniature maid into chemiloon.
Year: 1874

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address ofthe writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve COM
municatons that are not used.
Year: 1874

THE President of the United States re- gently sent the report of the Centennial Commissioners to Congress with a brief but vigorous message urging national aid and closed by saying:

 Let us have complete success in our Gen. tennial Exposition, or suppress it in its infancy, acknowledging our inability to give it the international character to which we ourselves aSpired.
Year: 1874

APACHEs have lately been here, there and almost everywhere to the north and northwest of Tucson. Their trails and thefts as well as one murder are fresh hereabouts. They have also been busy writes that the night before they shot one of his cows with two arrows. Eight of them attempted to steal his cattle but his dogs and shotgun frightened them away.
Year: 1874

THE Papagos always indulge in a after they kill an enemy, and they are now going it lively. It is said, however, that any one who kills an enemy, is de- barred from speaking to anybody for forty days and that during that period he never touches his body with his fingers or hands; done, he must do it with sticks-but is not deprived of handling the sticks. All dish es out of which he eats food during the forty days, must be destroyed, and other fooiery is rulable which we don't now re- member.
Year: 1874

THE Papago Indians are friends to this community and this community is a friend to the PapagOs. It would be well for all ignorant or even intelligent ruffians to understand these facts and not OvertaX the legal forbearance of our very best citi- zens by abuse of the Papagos.
Year: 1874

GEN. CROOK is undoubtedly now in the vicinity of San Carlos and Camp Grant, giving personal direction and imparting his own vitality to operations against the hostile Apaches. Good news may daily be expected from that direction.
Year: 1874

AT last joint resolution has been presented to
the Senate Of the United States recognizing Cupa
as one of the Independent nations OF the earth,
and proposing that the United States will observe
strict neutr ality between the contending parties
to the present struggle. The resolution was re-
ferred to the Committee on Foreign Relations,
where We hope it will not be allowed long to
rest but th at the Government will exhibit some
show OF its disapproval of the cruelty and inhu'
mauity of Spain in her horrid warfare on tht
rights of man.
Year: 1874

After oil that has been said and written about
the robbery Of the Wilmington Post-ofhce, In
which it was charged that the Government lost
about $500, through the bad management OF
the Postmaster, or by q dishonest assistant no
punishment is meted out for the crime or redress
had for the loss.


As to the question to whom the guilt attaches
the people are just as much in the dark as ever.


The prosecuting attorney has reported to the
Court that he found it impossible to convict, AID
advised his superiors in Washington of this fact
and has obtained from those in authority there
their sanction TO the entrance of nolic ffoseqm
upon the records of the cause, and thus ends an
other of he thousands Of cases in which, nnde
this Administration, millions OF dollars nave
been lost.
Year: 1874

While the gov ernmeni has been spending money
Tor fortihcations along the Delaware for many
years it has never appropriated anything toward
protecting our city and the important works on
the Christiana and the Brandywine. 1t is mat
ter of Importance that should command the at
tention OF Congres q. This city is at the mercy
OF any small iron clad that should take notion
to run up our river and rsplenish its stock OF pow
der and provisions. A fort at or near the Iigh
house might save millions OF dollars from de
struction
Year: 1874

will require the direct attention of
Congress to render the enforcement of the
system binding upon my [hisl successors
We cannot better express our convictions
than by adopting the language of the
highest officer elected by the people
There is public feeling in this country,
founded on reason, comprehending the
best interests of the country, which de-
mands reform in the civil SERVICE and the
elevation and publication of the civil
service of the Government will be hailed
with approval by the whole people of the
limited Statpa ~
Year: 1874

gives fair idea of the spirit of the piece, which not
even the most frantic admirer Of Verdi would think
of commencing as a specimen of funeral music,
though its grace and elegance are beyond dispute
IL ends with familiar tour de force which enables
Sig. Carpi to bring out an excellent high fiat
The bass solo, "Conluatis." is not open to the OBJ
iections which apply to the "Ingemisco' for it is
noble and devotional in STYLE and not at all inferior
TO the preceding solo merely as bit of absolute
melody. repetition of the striking chorus on the


Dics ir" brings us back suddenly to the terrors OF
the Judgment hymn, and leads naturally to the
grand concluding ensemble, built upon the follow
ing theme which is given out first by the alto solo
and afterwards by the bass:
Year: 1874

There is no great ingenuity in the harmonies of this
piece, and certainly the subject is simple enough.
but when the hymn finishes with the Amen" no
one will be found in the mood TO dispute the excel
lence of the whole effect.


The Ohertory is quartet with three themes, the
first being the following andante phrase
Year: 1874

CoLoRED ScHooLs.-A colored man Of this
town makes an earnest and Just appeal in
another column. We see that the Wilmington
Board of Education has voted unanimously
that application be made to the Legislature at
the coming session, for the passage of law
authorizing the levying of tax on colored per-
sons for school purposes. This is right, and
we are glad the Democrats in that body sec
their duty, for duty it surely is to provide fol
the education of all the people. What say oul
LegislatOrs2
Year: 1874

Mr.. Elitor:-I want to say word in ref
erence to our Schools, in your paper. We have
no Schools for our children and we have not
had any for about year and six months, for
lack of funds. We have been using every ex-
erton, trying to pay for our Church, and as
we are all poor it has taken all our means. that
we could spare, to 60 to that purpose, hence
we have not been able to carry on School aud
Church too. AS there are but few of us to
carry on the work | went around among the
white friends of this town, about two years
ago, and they assisted US. They gave me about
forty dollars and we applied every cent to that
purpose, so We carried on School until our
funds were exhausted, and then we were COM
PEELED to stop. We were in great hopes that
we would have been taxed before this time so
that all of the colorcd people would have to
help support the School; but we hope the
time will come when we will all be taxed SO we
can support our own Schools. 10 our present
condition we are not satisfied but if you will
tax US and let us have our own Schools to our
selves then we will be satisfied. Please don
understand US to say that we want mixed
Schools. By no means, for that is not our
desire. But we mean for every man to pay
tax to support our own School We want to
open our Sdhool shortly and if you won't tax
us please to sympathize with US and give VI
some money. Your Obedient servant.


LEWIS HAMILTON.
! SMYRNA Nov, 7th, 1874
Year: 1874

WHAT WILL THE DEMOCRATS DO WITH
NEGRO SUFFRAGE?-The New York Herald
has no doubt that the rights Of the negroes will
be more secure in Democratic than in Republi-
can haRds It says that the Democratic poll
ticians both of the North and the South, have
always displayed remarkable capacity for
controlling ignorant voters. They have in
former times been the active party in extend
ing the suffrage; that party has always been
foremost in defending the political rights of
citizens Of foreign birth; it has always felt the
most undoubted confidence in its ability to
array the most despised orders of the commu-
nifty on its own side in politics and make them
its faithful allies. The Democratic party has
genius for managing such classes of voters,
and it would belle its antecedents and tenden-
cies if it should disfranchise the Southern
negroes instead Of attempting to manage
them.


After making these deductions the Herald
goes on after this fashion:


Nothing is more certain than that the mas:
of the negroes will never act independently il
politics. 1t is their destiny to be led. The,
have thus far been led by the Republican
party and arrayed by 1t against the enlightened
public sentiment OF the Southern communities
but from the moment the Democratic party
gains control of the federal government tn,
Republicans will have no advantages for actin,
on the negro mind. which will then fal
under the control of local opinion.


There is no Democratic leader in the Nortl
who does not know that the party would b
ruined By an attempt to upset negro suffrage
aud there is no Democrtic leader in the Soutl
who does not feel that negro voting would b
perfectly safe if the politics of the section wer
left to the control of local leadership and inte
ligence. The era of good feeling between tn
two races will dawn with the removal of extei
nal Instructions from the white demagoguc
who will lead and bambooze the negroes
They will think it easier to accept negro su
trage and control it than to resist the Norther
domination which would be reinsta.ed by futi
attempts to subvert it.
Year: 1874

A curious phase Of the Butler defeat in
Massachusetts is that in several instances the
defunct statesman failed to receive as many
votes on election day as he did in the caucus
Thus, the town of Hamilton gave him 10 votes
in the caucus and only AZ at the polls.
Year: 1874

bit and tore each other like wild beasts.
Webster and the boy meantime watched
and kept the peace as we'll as they were
able, till at last, ON the thirty-frst day
of their ordeal, the boat was seen and
picked up by whaling vessel, which
brought the crew to Calcutta When
they were rescued they were still 900
miles from land"


The English journal justly observes
upon this wonderful story that its mos
striking feature is the distinction it estab-
fishes between the moral power of q
man like Webster and the moral impo-
tence of men like his three companions,
under precisely the same pressure of cir
cumstances. Famine and despair, which
reduced them to the level of wild beasts,
lifted Webster to the heights Of heroism.
But how much stronger is the contrast
between the moral power of such man
as this honest Scottish sailor and the
moral impotence and corruption of which
We have had 50 many fragrant examples
around US, here in America, during .he
past few weeks
Year: 1874

She got into the street-car just before
reaching switch. She only weighed
two hundred and ten pounds, including
market basket. She hauled herself
towards the front of the car, and was
moving rapidly when it switched off.
1t was a snap-the-whip movement. A
frail-looking lady sat just where this
mass of avoirdupois was compelled to
light. 1t didn't come down like robin
for crumbs. 1t was more like a pile
driver looking for employment. The
frail woman disappeared. She went out
of sight forthwith She was painfully
submerged She might have made a
remark, but the general impression was
that the noise issued from the cracking
of the market basket beneath the ponder
Gus weight of the struggling woman.
The two-hundred-and-te ten FOUNDER was
hastily snatched away from the corner,
and search was Immediately made for
the frail little lady. She was there, but
she resembled a summer pancake on
its last legs.
Year: 1874

The woman who is more or less green


or snobbish borrows clothes, ribbons,
jewelry and bonnets with which to dress.


The genuine lady is never guilty of such


a degradation. The high-toned woman


is above having articles of dress or jewelry
IN common with another; she never will
run to borrow new gloves, new ribbons,
new cloaks, shawls and other articles of
apparel with which to cut a dash. To
dress mud lark in yellow feathers does
not make a canary, nor will dressing a
woman in borrowed plumage transform
her into a lady


Men seldom display such weakness.
The real gentleman never will appear in
borrowed articles of dress or jewelry-
Nor will the woman who has real pride of
character so cheaper herself as to appear
in goods not her own.


A gentleman friend of ours, who loves
his wife dearly, was constantly buying
for her costly and beautiful articles. He
filled her lap with such little things as he
saw from time to time which he thought
would please her. She lived in board
ing-house. One day her husband noticed
that she was without certain articles he
had bought her only short time before
lie began to inquire and learned that her
landlady had borrowed her furs to wear
to market; that her sister had borrowed
of her jewelry and other articles to wear to
a party; that lady friend had borrowed
her new bonnet to wear on the street,
and that scarcely one Of the beautiful
articles he had bought for his wife, be-
cause he loved her and wished her to
have them, was in her possession. Who
ever should see her in company even with
her own articles on her person would
think they were borrowed of those to
whom she had loaned them rather than
lose their friendship.


As the articles were returned to their
owner, some of them torn, broken, soiled
and damaged, like a sensible man he
threw them into the fire and told his wife
that if she did not love him enough to
keep for her own use such ornaments as
he bought for her alone, she might buy
for herself hereafter There is no differ
ence between a borrower and beggar,
except the borrower is the most selfish of
the two and the least entitled to respect.
Year: 1874

The Introductory paragraph of the last
will and testament of the late Chief JUS
tice George Robertson, of Kentucky,
reads thus: Uniting our destinies when
she was not sixteen and | was only nine
teen years old, my devoted wife and my
self, without any patrimonial estate, ac-
quired, during happy union of more
than ffty-five years, a comfortable in
dependence, nationally enjoyed as the
fruit of our cooperating energies. After
devoting to the advancement of our child
rem at least $50, 900 in various ways, still
retaining property sufficient for the COM
fort of nv desolate old age, desire that
what shall leave behind me undisposed
of in my lifetime shall be distributed
among my descendants in such proper
tions as will as nearly as possible approach
legal equality, ana for efectuating that
end / now publish the testamentary dis
position of the residual estate which
Providence enabled my admirable wife
and myself, by habitual industry, to
earn, and by self-denying economy and
systematic prudence to save.
Year: 1874

One hundred and fifty respectable citizens of
Ripley, o., declare that recently they beheld a
beautiful little angel floating in the air, and
they appeal to the scientific to explain it. We
make no pretence to sceatific knowledge, but
think that the matter might be explained by
the supposition that on one occasion in Rip
ley, Ohio, hundred and fifty respectable
citizens must have been under the influence OF
spirits.
Year: 1874

Immediately after the nominations,
Senator Conkling addressed the Republi-
can convention, at Utica, N. Y, at same
length, a brief synopsis of which is given
below:


zone of the catch-sayings of our op-
ponents has been that the mission of the
Republican party was ended when slavery
and the rebellion ceased This is a sense
less thought. Not a grave public uues-
ton would be safe without the Republi-
can party, and the present decentralization
and discomfort in the south are results of
the great war, brought on by themselves.
being misguided and deceived by the lead,
ers of the Democratic party. But much
OF the present woe of the Southern people
comes from the lamentable course of the
men who have been freely forgiven by the
nation tor one of the bloodiest crimes in
the Book of Time.


After the surrender of the Southern
armies no man was denied suffrage, not
even jeff Davis. BY the votes of three
tourths OF all the States, the ring-leaders
who had taken and broken an oath, be-
sides committing treason, were not allow
ed to hold Office unless relieved by Con-
gress, though none who ever applied for
relief were refused, yet this was consider
ed an affront too grievious to be borne,
and they set to work to make the worst
of their local affairs, refused to help elect
reliable men to the legislature and public
offices, deferred capable men from accept
ing public positions, tried to prevent Sc
cession sympathizers from joining in the
restoration of order and prosperity in the


lsEE FOURTH PA0E.f
Year: 1874

conduct Of the great corporations of the
country. They disregard it with impuni-
ty, and fix and change their rates at pleas
ure, because no citizen can afford to con-
test with them in the courts the question
of their power and duty in the premises.
Small carriers are controlled by statute as
to their charges. The proprietors of
street cars, omnibus lines and of public
carriages of all kinds in our cities. are
limited by law to such charges as are
reasonable The right, the power, to reg
ulate great corporation as to its charges,
is precisely as clear as is the right to do
the same thing with small carrier.


THE EVIL AND THE REMEDY


| believe there are evils connected with
the railway transportation which should
be remedied IF the rates charged by
railroad companies for carrying freight
and passengers were fixed in the manner
that most prices are fixed, by fair, open,
free competition, it might not, and | APP
prehend it would not, be necessary for
Congress to interpose. The wrongs of
which we hear so much, the injustice of
which there is so much complaint, the
discrimination of which is so common and
so unjust, probably would never have ex-
listed if the rates of freights were fixed,
as have said, by free and open and fair
competition. But the rates charged by
these great corporations are fixed, not by
competition, but by combination; and it
was the shrewd aphorism of old George
Stephenson, "that competition is impossi-
BILE wherever combination is possible"


About twice every year, and sometimes
oftener, the agents of the great through
lines meet and agree upon the rates to be
charged. Of course SO long as there is
no power to control them they will make
the rates as high as they possibly can
without stopping transportation. On the
first of January last these freight agents
met in New York and put up the price
upon all freights from thirty to fifty per
cent. And they were honest enough to
state in their meeting that they did this
because the lakes and rivers were closed
by ice, and their monopoly had therefore