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Year: 1874

This great prophet of tho Latter
Day Saints is opposed to lifo assu


rance on polygomical principles. In
one of his late discourses in the
Tabernacle, he gave vent to his saint


ly feelings in the following strain


Brctheren, | am down on life insur-
ance. II is the invention of the
same evil one who tempted Eve in
the Garden of Eden. He promised
to give woman the upper hand Of her
husband, and life insurance does the
same. a life insurance agent has
more brass than dozen Yankee
clock peddlers One had tho impu


dcnce to ask me to take out policy
for the benefit OF my wives and
children, and before could recover
my breath no commenced TO draw up
an application, and verify believe
would have filed it out If he could
have crowded in the names. Now
I ask you, brethren what would most
likely become Of your Prophet if
insurance on his life were effected to
the amount Of $4,000 for each wife ?
l have only thirty, and that would
make the chances thirty to one that
l should enter the realms Of glory
before the end of the year. AS u
father OF Isreal, I have the Gospel
privilege of sealing tho daughters
thereof, but l have no wish that they
should seal my fate. l am ready to
ascend to my seat on high, but I do
not want to be sent up in an insur


ance balloon. The wives of the
faithful are too much tempted already
and how could they resist the inge.
NOUS device Of the Gentilcs. Touch
not, taste not, handle not, my breth-
rem. Let tho Gentle insure his life
in the biggest sum for his wife, and
when she is widow, let one of our
apostles make love to her aud bring
her on this side Of Jordan. I want
no life companies in Utah of which


| am not the presiding spirit. Life
insurance makes the wife indepeni
ent of the husband She fools that,
if she should by accident drop some
strychnine in his Cruel, she has some
thing to fall back upon to keep her
children from want. Women should
be kept under. They should trust
in the Lord, and not in life insur


ance. II they have n bad husband
and an insurance policy on his life,
they are always praying secretly for
his death, and if the ir prayers are
not answered readily, they hurry up
his predestinatiou. Beware of life
insurance. II is satan in disguise.
Turn your back upon it, shut your
ears against it, flee from it as from n
pestilence, for verify it mould bring
rebellion into tho land of Mormon
Year: 1874

A man may lose friends, home, po.
sition, fortune. They arc different
from an umbrella. He may lose them;
he is sure to lose that But he keep
on buying or borrowing them. If
he buys one some one borrows it
and returns it to the wrong man
without knowing it. If he borrows
one some one steals it outright, and
he has to borrow another from
another source tomake it good. We
don t understand it. Nine Of every
ten men who to-day possess um-
brellas are not the owners of them
Heaven only knows where the own
ors are. Perhaps they are dead
perhaps they are in axle, and, per
haps, which is more likely. are under
other umbrellas. People will bor-
row an umbrella when they won't
borrow anything else They will
borrow it rs long as there is bit of
cloth or rib to it. They will borrow
the stick If the slide is in it. While
it bears the remotest semblance to
an umbrella they will borrow it aud
keep it, We never vet saw an
umbrella so reduced but that some
would take it in. The only time an
umbrella is really invaluable is when
you want it, and that is the exact
time it fails to appear. When the
sun is shining brightly and the dust
il five inches thick on n level, an um-
brella becomes one of the most re-
pulsive objects in Christendom. On
such occasions it meets you on every
turn. You shut door and down it
comes and spreads out and trips you
up. You haul down your linen coat
from the closet aud find something
is holding it. II is that umbrella.
You move the flour barrel TO look
for q rat, and out comes that misera-
BILE umbrella and scrapes your shin


II raps you on the head in the stair
way, and trips you up in the hall,
and falls down on your head from
the garret, and when IL amt doing
anything else it stands up in corner
and wrings its hands and swears ai
society.-DInbury Ne,cs.
Year: 1874

EXCELLENT INTEREST RULES For
finding the interest on any principal
for any number of days, the answer
in each case being cents, separate the
right hand figures to express it in
dollars and cents;


Four per ent-alultiply the prin.
cipal by tho number of days to run;
separate the right hand figure from
the product and divide by 3.


Five per cent--Multiply by NUM-
ber of days and divide by ~.


Six per cent.-Multiply by number
of days; separate right hand figure
and divide by 6.


Eightpcr cent.-AIultiply by num-
ber of days and divide by 49,


Nine per cent.-Multiply by mum
ber of days separate right hand
figure and divide by 4.


Ten per cent Multiply by num-
ber of days aud divide by 36.


Twelve per cent.--AIultiply by
number Of days; separate right hand
figure and divide by 3.


Fifteen per cent.-Mnltiply' by
number of days and divide by "a.


Eighteen per cent.-Multiply by
number Of days separate right hand
figure and divide by 2.


Twenty per cent.-Multiply by
number Of days and divide by ID.
Year: 1874

When you see the leaves falling,
do not hastily conclude that the fall
is leaving.


Be kind to tho little foundlings, for
you don't know how soon you may
be founding yourself


Why is the earth like school black
boardf Because children Of men
multiply upon the face of it.


Employment is said to be like a
window the higher it is the worse it
hurts to be thrown out Of it.


A circus elephant, wintering at
Louisville, is ON the watch for the
man who tossed him an apple full Of
catarrh snuff.


A chiropodist announces on his
business cards that he has removed
corns from several Of the crowned
heads OF Europe.


A youthful correspondent wants
to know what magazine would give
him the highest position the quickest.
A powder magazine would hurry him
a few.


When you want TO get rid Of the
rheumatism, persuade q wild steer to
chase you. A Savannah man, who
gave It fair trial, and had q hot
ace Of forty rods 10 tree and up
{, certifes that be had not o rheu
latic twinge since. This cure hai
not been patented. and any one car
try Il without fear Of prosecution 10,
en- 'iafINetioa Of pAiept right laws
Year: 1874

This new house, newly furnished and
is now open TO the travelling public. II is
located near the depot. No effort will be
spared by the proprietor to make the stay
Of his guests pleasant and agreeable.
Year: 1874

Early in the summer OF 1872 number Of spirited
citizens or Newark acting upon the suggestion of
another. resolved to hold an industrial exhibi-
ton the characteristic feature OF which was to be
the exhibition solely OF articles OF use and orna-
ment made in the city, which justly boasts being
able to turn out almost everything in the way of
manufactures, from q needle to an anchor,
patent coffee pot to steam engine,
babys bonnet to a costly bridal trOussedu.
The resolution was carried into effect, the
Rink the largest building in the place. hired, and
the exhibition opened IN the fall. IL was decided
success, ana won high encOmiumS from both Pres
dent Grant and Horace Greeley, both OF whom
visited 1t during their candidacy for the Piesl-
dency. 1t Kept open six or seven weeks Next
year 1t opened un0er still more favorable auspices,
cess as in 1872. This year It has opened
about month sooner than before and has now
been running week, but with very unsatisfactory
results so lar, the nightly attendances having
been very slender and the number or exhibit
tors the same. On Saturday night not over one
hundred persons were present. and these could
scarcely be seen In the vast building. Large
vacant spaces and beggarly array OF empty cases
stared the visitor In the ace President George
a. halsey ana secretary H0brook express the
belief That this week an impetus will be given to
the enterprise by the citizens and manufacturers,
but In other quarters the opinion is expressed that
success this year IL was last and IN 1872 The
novelty OF the thing has, to great extent. worn
away. This, with the hard times, 1t Is thought,
win operate to the disadvantage OF the show.
Among manufacturers there Is great dilatorincss
In sending their DISPLAYS.
Year: 1874




York. The public sentiment OF that city was
demonstrative, but was everywhere apparent, and
was largely owing to the powerful and persistent
advocacy OF his name by the HERALD. For months
that paper had urged the nomination" No public
journal ever gave political party more timely
advice, and no political party ever so signally
failed to take advantage Of tide which would
have led IL on to fortune. The most sagacious OF
the democratic leaders saw that the HERALD was
right, and cautiously tried to have its advice
adopted. About month before the assembling
Of the Convention, Mr.. Belmont, chairman
Of the Democratic National Committee, wrote a
private and confidential letter to Mr.. Chase, with
out consultation with anybody, as he stated, but
saying he was satisfied that most OF the leading
democrats OF New York favored Mr. Chase's nomi-
nation. Among those leading democrats the most
pronounced was Horatio Seymour. on whom the
Convention afterward forced the nominations; but
he had no correspondence or otner communication
with Mr.. Chase. The volume before US contains q
long and interesting letter from Mr.. seymour
written less than twelve months ago upon this
subject. The veteran and retired statesman,
calmly reviewing the canvass OF 1868. after The
lapse OF five instructive years, has NO
doubt that his party chose the wrong
road ana that its failure to nominate Mr.. Chase
was a great national calamity. Mr.. Seymour
closes his letter by saying :-"I believe that If Mr.
Chase had been made President in 1868 the difri-
culties and dangers which now perplex our coun-
try would have been this time satisfact torily ad
ipstaa-n Re had NO donbt that "Mr- Chase wnnd
Year: 1874

NEW PANE OF GLAss.-Wm. II.
Curry, tho halter, No. 414 Market
street, who had the large pane ofplate
glass in his store window broken, some
time ago, had it replaced by new
pane yesterday afternoon. The work
was done by the United States Plate
Glass Insurance Company, and the
agent took the broken pane along with
him, this being the principle on which
the company works. The amount
paid annually by the insured party IL
considered IA pay for the work.
Year: 1874

The Jury in the case of James Brown
Us Pusey & Rice returned last night with
a verdict of $l0l. .l8 for plaintiff.


There is good authority for the
statement that liquor licenses were
granted to all who received them last
wear
Year: 1874

been any tincture of Bourbonism in Mr. Cox s
democracy and he was one OF the earliest
members Of the party to accept the political
results OF the war. The Southern DEM
ocrats would prefer a candidate who has
made more aggressive defence of
their section, and the members from
the South will have great influence in the
democratic caucus. No man can be elected
Speaker against their united opposition, and
they are more likely to unite on some other
member than on Mr.. Cox.


Fernando Wood is the last name on the list,
and he is likely to excite more positive feel
lngs both Of favor and repugnance than any
Of the others. There are grave objections to
him in his own party. and they will be urged
with heat and acrimony in the earlier stages
of the canvass. He was o salary -erabber in
1873, and has political record as Mayor Of
New York which is pretty certain to be dug
up against him. But if these things could be
obliterated Mr.. Wood would be admitted to
have Us high qualifications for the Speakership
as any democratic member of the new House.
He has dignity Of department, thorough
acquaintance with parliamentary rules, great
frmness, imperturbable self-possession and
the wealth and manners for supporting the
social requirements of the place. If he can
get the vote Of the Southern members it
will be difficult for his Northern opponents to
beat him, Objectionable as they deem him
in many respects. His position in 1861
will not hurt but strengthen him with the
Southern democrats, and the back-pay
argument is sword with o double
edge. Mr.. Carpenter, the republican
presiding officer Of the Senate, not
only voted for and pocketed the back
pay, but publicly defended it in elaborate
speeches on the stump. This would estop the
republicans from making any party capital
out Of MIR. Woods election to o similar posi-
ton in the other House, and it will be alleged
by his supporters that the complimentary vote
given him tor the Speakership Of the present
Congress did not damage the party at all, as is
proved by its great victories this year. His
supporters will contend that there is less haz-
ard in making him the Speaker OF the next
House than there was in making him the dem
ocratic candidate for that Office in the last.
The main argument urged in his behalf by
his Northern supporters will be founded on
an idea that has already been promi-
nently put forth by the democratic organs
namely, that the chief business of the next
House will be to probe and investigate the
public departments and drag forth hidden
abuses. It will be said by Mr.. Woods ad-
vocates that he is peculiarly fitted for pre-
siding over House of which this is to be the
main business He is SO thoroughly familiar
with the public men of the country and the
methods of public business that he would
seem to be especially fitted to appoint impor-
tant committees, and raise the investigation
from partisan level to the dignity of an i'm
partial reform Of the government
Year: 1874

TIE POLICE COMMISSIONERS yesterday de-
cided that the cleaning Of the streets and the
removal Of ashes and garbage should be done
in the day time. If the streets are cleaned of
any time the people will be delighted aud sur
prised
Year: 1874

mood to follow Durell's example Of suicide
there is no way in which they can do II 30 ef.
fectually as by trying to uphold Kellogg after
the public opinion of the country has been sc
emphatically declared in support Of Senator
Carpenters view
Year: 1874

The EXCISE MoNEYs.--An attempt is said to
have been made to induce the Commissioners
Of Excise to retain the license money in their
possession until after January / in the
belief that if paid into the City Treasury after
that date 1t will 60 into the Sinking Fund and
not be distributed among the charitable insti.
tutions already selected to receive II. The
Excise Commissioners are said to be anxious
to secure the benefit Of the money to the
charitable institutions, and hence refuse to
accept Comptroller Green's suggestion that it
be withheld. The attempt to divert the
amount from the purposes of charity would
not succeed, as the constitutional amend.
menis clearly authorize such use Of the
excise moneys as is already provided for by
law.
Year: 1874

Diphtheria and the Board Of Health.


Somewhere in this town, it is believed,
there ia Board of Health. Regularly, at
least there are published some well poised
paragraphs Of vital statistics, which are given
as emanating from An officer Of the Board Of
Health, and if there Is an officer Of the Board Of
Health, "argal," as the Gravedigger would put
It, there is Board Of Health, unless, instead,
the Registrar is survival" mere relic
and evidence Of an extinct existence. There
il tradition that once upon time, on one
Of the occasions when this city was visited BY
the cholera, an upper section was divided
from the lower section by board fence, and
that In the familiar and irreverent style OF the
people that fence was called the Board Of
Health. Perhaps that Board Of Health was
OF very great service in its time, especially as
it is now recognized that prevention Of the
spread of cholora has pretty definite relation
to the prevention Of intercourse with the in
fected. 1t is to be presumed that that con-
servative Board Of Health kept quiet and re-
manned in absolute ignorance OF the nature Of
the disease that it was keeping down-keep-
ing down town, at oil events. It
prevented the spread Of cholera without any
consciousness Of the way in which 1t did Il.
On the part of our present Board Of Health
we could be satisfied with q similar efficiency
against the existing epidemic Of diphtheria.
Our Board OF Health is like the other board
in nearly every respect except the important
one-it does not control the disease. It is
very quiet, which is commendable and easy.
We trust it knows there is an epidemic of
diphtheria, and knows at least the etymology
Of the name But on this point there is
no evidence. Winter is coming, however, and
is the season when the conditions Of life In the
city are such as to afford the fullest sway to
the ravages Of malady that deficient sani-
tary administration has permitted to inger
through the summer with sufficient force to
give it dreadfully effective start when the
time for its greatest activity comes and there
is reason to believe as things 90 that the Board
Of Health will know what dlphtheria is before
the winter is over.
Year: 1874




ton Of 1879 declares the party creed on this
subject They will invent specious reasons
for not making Mr.. Kerr their candidate.
They will say that the Speakership is not the
only important position in the House; that
the Guardianship of the Committee of Ways
aud Means is, in financial view, of more
consequence that Mr. Kerr is, Of all the
members elected to the next House, the one
who is the most admirably qualified to be the
head of that committee, and that, while it
would not be difficult to find as good pre-
siding officer it Is impossible to select SO trust
worthy financial guide among the members
Of the new House. Mr.. Kerr himself will
easily be persuaded to acquiesce in this view.
1t has been the practice Of recent Speakers to
give large entertainments and to make more
social display than Mr.. Kerr can afford His
honorable poverty, after long service in Con-
gress is one OF his best titles to public
respect, but it disqualifes him for meeting
the social requirements of the Speakership on
the scale that has for some time been estab.
lished. His hands are clean not only Of all
participation in the salary grab but from
every kind Of illicit gains. But he has pride
enough to wish to maintain the social dignity
of the position if he should be elected
Speaker, and might prefer the Chairmanship
of Ways and Means even il IL were the unani-
nous wish Of the democratic members to
make him their presiding officer.


Samuel 8. Cox has some useful qualiAca-
tons for the speakership, and is personally
very popular. He is an old member is per.
fectly familiar with the rules OF the House
he could not be obfuscated tor moment by
any sharp parliamentary dodge, and be would
be certain to treat the republican members
with unexcsptionabis courtesy. He refused
his share of the salary grab and his personal
integrity has never been iupoaohsd. But the
Southern members viii probably prefer .
Year: 1874

Charles Warren Stoddard has been in
the ball of st. Peters dome at Rome, and
writes: "a dozen good people, with hard
" one good lung full Of breath between
them, awaited their turn to enter the
globe, beyond which no man desires to
20 in the flesh. A plump gentleman
preceded me; three ladies Of assorted
sizes followed. The steps we're now so
narrow that it was convenient to mount
them crab-fashion. We are at last en-
tering the throat of the globe; having
wedged our way up the corkscrew steps
we came to a perpendicular ladder that
led to the goal o. our ambition. The
portly leader valiantly sprang on to the
first round of the ladder. He managed
to work his way into the narrow tube
that communicated with the globe, and
there he stuck fast and firm. | helped
him ts return in a very stewy condition
and full of indignation at the absurdly
small entrance to that most desirable
chamber. Somehow we, he and |, man
aged to pass one another, miraculous
perhaps, and l started to enter the hall
alone. The ladies, terrified by the ILL
fortune Of our corpulent friend, relin-
pushed the chase. l squeezed through
the aperture at the top OF the ladder and
found myself alone in the ball on the top
Of St. Peters. The copper globe is ca
Year: 1874

Says New York religious Journal
Many of our churches tire of the pres.
ent mode Of conducting the services Of
song in the house of the Lord. In some
cases singers hardly get the burnt cork
off their faces in season for the morning
worship. Italians and Jewesses who
sing at the theater until midnight on
Saturday at heavy salary, appear in
the church to praise the Lord"
Year: 1874

publicans and Bonapartists, and the special detestation ofroyalists. Hence, too, their insisting with Chambord upon the retention of the tricolor of the Revolu- ton and the Empire. knowing that the restoration of the white flag of the old Bourbons would be an indignity the army would lead rather than follow the people in resenting. Hence, too, their latest scheme for the constitution of Second Chamber, in which high army officers, ,and government appointees are to monopolize a large sharge of the positions, thus at- tempting to conciliate McMahon and the army at the expense of the representative branch of the legislature. Hence, too, the patience of Gambetta, and the ex- tremists with an unpopular government which they hope to overcome without a revolution, fearing, quite as much as do the royalists. the result of an appeal to the army. It certainly looks now as if their waiting" policy might win a bloodless victory in the end; and yet the Republic is under much such guardianship as smoth- cred poor little Edward V, in tho Tower.

 No one can say that France would have had fewer revolutions without than with her standing army; but history does show that in every instance, revolutions have been caused by an attempt of some ruler to destroy constitutional guarantees and make himself absolute by means of his standing army. Bonapartes have gener- ally been supported by the army in these attempts, and there has been a coup q etat; Bourbons have generally been deserted by the army and there has been a revolu- ton. It is indeed the undue strength which their control of this terrible weapon gives every French executive that makes the establishment of genuine representa- tive government so difficult in France. The legislative branch is always so de-

 fenceless in the face of an executive back ed by an army, that it can be easily over thrown unless it is supported by the armed mob of Paris, as in the old revolu- tion, or by public sentiment sufficiently strong to make the army waver in it's loy- alty to the executive. Hence, if the French republicans are successful. we hope they will make the executive power as weak, the legislative as strong, as possi- ble. The English executive, which is practically mere legislative committee removable at pleasure by the House of Commons, would be far preferable for republic with large standing army to an American executive with it's independent authority, and its fixed term of office.
Year: 1874

The election of Congressman in North Carolina has resulted in Democratic victory. They elect their state ticket, gain twenty members of the legislature and two congressman. Local elections show Democratic gains in Tennessee where the question of Civil Rights was the main issue
Year: 1874

The Stock Breeders Association adver- tise State Fair at the Charter Oak Park, Hartford, beginning on the 22d and ending on the 25th day of next month. The Asso- citation offer premiums for stock, for veg etables and other farm products, as well as for improved machinery and for fast horses. The Association propose to make blooded stock the great feature of their exhibitions. This year some of the best cattle in New England and tho Middle and Western states will be entered to contest for the premiums, and a display of sheep, oxen and swine such as has never before been seen in this vicinity may be expect ed.