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Year: 1874

From the Wost we get true story which gloony
suggests some of Feydcau's weird and horrible
fancies 1t is we'll for manknd's peace OF mind that
things like this which we about to relate sell
dom occur. Tho st. Louis Chief of Police was very
much agitated the other morning by the receipt Of
telegram from the conductor of Vandalla train
then approaching the city. In the briefest manner
the dispatch stated that in the baggage car of that
train was trunk emitting so diabolical an odor
that it irresstibly suggested murderous tragedy;
and further that its owner was the tram and the
number of the check was so-and-so. A whole batta-
lion of policemen and detectives Immediately
sent to the depot. the train arrived, the trunk was
quietly coniscated, and its owner secretly accom-
panied to his botel not to be arrested until it's fatal
contents were revealed. Then followed scene to
which only the pencils of a Kaulbach and Dor6
could do justice. The lid Of the heavy trunk was
slowly lifted in the presence Of a hoTor-stricken
group, and-it is hard to mention the fearful fact
to their dilated eyes disclosed the CHASTITY
forms Of six 10y Liniburger cheeses
Year: 1874

Mr.. Kelsey, formerly member Of Congress
from this State, gave some testimony before
the Ways and Means Committee yesterday
which throws ray of light on the schemes
by which the Sanb0rn contracts were made
possible by Congress. Nobody is found will
ing to acknowledge any responsibility for
the existence of the clause which has
been made pretext for this great con-
spiracy; but MIR. Kelsey says that he
drafted the section and that Senators Saw
yer and Cole were especially interested in it..
Mr.. Sawyer has since acquired undesirable
notorety III connection with these contracts.
Mr.. Cole of California is not now in the
Senate. He was reputed to be thrifty per-
son who would not let slip any opportunities
to turn an honest penny. Perhaps it would
be useless to question either of these gentle
men as to their share in the business; but
the records of the House ought to afford some
useful information in this direction.
Year: 1874

One week ago a bill passed the Senate in
creasing the legal tender circulation to four
hundred millions; fOrbidding National banks
paying any interest on balances due by them
to other National banks; requiring National
banks to keep three-quarters Of their reserves
in their own vaults. and permitting the aggre-
gate amount of National bank note circulation
to be increased to four hundred millions. We
now learn that it has been discovered in Wash
ingtOn that this bill, so far as its Immediate
effect on the circulation of the National banks
is concerned, is not the measure of imitation
it was supposed to be. All of which shows
that the mental capacity of the "cheap money"
statesmen is nicely adapted to the business of
regulating the best currency we have ever
"had." so that everybody may have enough
and no one a superfluity. However, it seems
not to be necessary for lawmakers to have
knowledge of existing laws or be proficient in
that relic of darkness and despotism-arith-
metic.
Year: 1874

The steamship Greece arrived last evening
with the officers and passengers of the lost
French steamer Europe The most diligent
inquiry on the part of our reporters has failed
m elicit any satisfactory account OF the
Year: 1874

We have had the pleasure OF reading the
advance sheets OF Prof Summers historical sketch of
paper money in America. shortly to be published by
Henry Holt Co. Of this city. This work contains
within small compass 3 great mass OF Information In
regard to the various schemes Of paper money which
have been tried in this country from early colonial times
down to the present day II also gives the history OF
the pseudo convertible currency furnished by the State
and National banks from the OF this CEN
tury until 1862 No country In the world, England
not excepted has had rich experience with paper
money as the United States and the Colonies out of
which they grew. All the falaces OF the present day.
so confidently put forth by the Morons and Kelleys
as or ginal discoveries, current more than GEN.
tury ago. and cost ancestors dear to satisfy them
selves OF their fasity. Prof. Summers work supplies
want which long been felt in the United States IL
deals with facts than with theories, and the his
torical information which it contains has never
been brought together before within the COM
pass OF q single work. Our financial history em-
braces an uninterrupted succession OF failures
in undertaking to substitute something else
than q specific quantity Of gold or silver for the
standard Of value In gone by our bank note cir
culatiop secured by from five TO fifteen per cent Of
specie was failure and fraud. In years to come our
paper money secured by specie at ALL and having no
angle element OF stability will also provo to be failure
and fraud as the pasters issued in the last
century by Massachusetts,, Rhode Island and the
other colonies.


To make his book more useful Professor Sumner
has added an instructive chapter on Austrian
Paper Money, history Of the struggles Of England
with paper money from 1877 TO 1929, and the
full text OF the celebrated report Of the
Bullion Committee Of 1911 to the House Of Commons
Tho recommendations OF that Committee, though re-
,ected by twohrds vote OF the House in 1871, effected


revolution In the opinions Of the mercantile and gov
ernng classes England, and were finally made the
basis OF legislation for the restoration Of specie pay
,nents In 1872 The principles embodied in the report


ara those which to-day regulate the movements Of the
Rank of England and its authors, Horner, Huskisson
and Thornton take the highest rank in England as men
who were fret and foremost to promugate correct
ton, of the nature OF money and dpe the countless
errors which superficial observers have ever been swift
TO entertain. But the strength Of Prof Summers work


lies In its long record Of the disastrous failures In which
all experiments with paper money, without solitary
exception, have ended. As such we cannot imagine
mind 90 stupid not to be impressed after reading it,
1t appears opportune moment and is destined
cannot doubt to have wider circle Of readers than has
been the fortune of most works in the important science
a. oh ff
Year: 1874

less than a teaspoOnful of water. /
have seen two or three ounces of ice
fed to six months baby in this way
with decided benefit. 1t will sound
like very heterodox practice, but |
asked the advice of one of the best reg
ular and hospital physicians in New
York about it, and he commended it as
most iudicious.


Lastly. babies need plenty of nursing
and petting. They take great comfort
i'll lying in the arms of :; healthy per
son. Weak ones ought not to be put
off in pcrambuiators and little chairs,
and made to sleep alone at night in cool
weather. The sympathy of the mother
or nurse does more for them than the
doctors do. Gently rubbing OF rather
str"king downward from head to foot is
good for them. and Young babies will
lie on the bed under ii strOking with
both hands ina trance of delig ght.-!Shi
ley Dane IN HedrH and Home
Year: 1874

\ WORD To MOTHERS. "Dear
mother said ii delicate little girl. Il
have broken my china vase" "Well.
you are Il naughty. careless. trouble
some little thing, always in some mis-
chief; go up stairs. and STAY i'm the
closet till send for YOU" And this
WAS Il Christian mothers answer to the
fearful little ulprit, who had struggled
with and conquered the temptation tu
tell falsehood to serene her fault
with disappointed, disheartened look
the sweet child obeyed: and at that
moment WAS crushed in her little heart
the sweet flower of truth perhaps never
again III after Years to revive to life.
o, what were the loss of ii thousand
vases IN comparison 'Tis true, an an
gel might shrink from the responsible


ties of mother. 1t needs I'm angels
powers. The watch must not for an in
slant be relaxed; the scales of Justice
must always he nicely balanced the
hasty word that the overtasked spirit
sends to the lip must die there ere it is
uttered. The timid and sensitive child
must have word of encoura cement in
season: the forward and presuminr
checked with gentle tirmness there
must he no deception, no trickery for
the Keen eye of childhood to detect /:
ana all when the exhausted frame sinks
with ceaseless vigils, perhaps. and the
thousand petty Interruptions and un-
looked for annOyances of every hour
almost set at defiance any attempt at
system. Still must that mother wear
an unruffied brow, lest the smiling
cherub on her knee catch the angry
trown. Still must she rule her own
spirit, lest the boy, so apparently en-
crossed with his toys, repeat the next
moment the impatient word his ear has
caught. For all these duties faithfully
and conscientiously performed, Il moth
ers reward is in secret and silence.
Even he, on whose earthly breast she
leans, Is too often unmindful of the
nolseless struggle till, too late, alas he
learns to value the delicate hand that
mas Kept In unceasing flow the thousand
springs of his domestic happiness.
Year: 1874

SOME of our exchanges read our legislators
very serious lectures for ''playing fox and
geese" with the statutes, if any one knows
what that means. The cause of this lecture
is the report that the liquor laws were re-
pealed by blundering on the part of statute
thinkers. We think that the suspicion that
we have no law to prevent rumselling is not
well founded. The wonder is that there are
not more of such b]unders made in amending
the statutes, particularly the liquor laws,
which, instead of being submitted to the Ju-
dietary Committee for modification, have, in
our legislatures, been referred to joint spe-
cial committee having no special acquaint-
anee with the statutes and no experience in
revising or constituting the meaning of them.
A special committee is well enough for an in-
vestigation, but when legislature has two
committees which are made up from mem
bers supposed to be acquainted with the stat
utes and possessors of skill in drawing and
interpreting the same, it does seem that the
modification of such important statutes as
the liquor law should be committed to them.
Another special committee was appointed
last year on the land agency for the purpose
of taking steps to abolish the office. In course
of time the committee reported bill to dis
> continue the office and the same was enact
ed. 1t since turns out that the office of land
agent is established by the constitution of the
state. While we shall never attempt to COM
bat the prevalent idea that any man who nev-
Or tonk hand OF od;
much better than the unfortunate fellows
who have tried it, we insist that the Judic-
ary and Legal Affairs Committees of our leg
islatures are best qualified 20 amend or tinker
the statutes
Year: 1874

a feeling of vague bodily disc,mfort, which does
not amount to positive illness and yet is incompati
BILE with health, is ofte- aptly described by the
phrase, "Not very well This feeling usually arises
from deficiency of che nervous 'ower which is re-
quired to keep the vital lmachinGy in vigorous and
6ealtbful ouerosion Nervous weakness has too ire
ouentlv tied out to be th prelude of some serious
mei-riy to admit OF any dotbt in the matter, In


activity of the bodily uneions as surely begets their
arrangement as cause pssedes effect.
Year: 1874

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all 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 Democrats of the Illinois eleventh
congressional district have district commit
tee made up of men of uncommon judg-
ment. There were nine candidates for the
congressional nomination, excitement ran
high, and there were anticipations of great
fight. The wise committee with commend
able foresight selected the anti-license town
of Roodhouse, where there were no saloons
and no whiskey, for the seat of the nomina-
ting convention. The delegates were very
indignant aud very thirsty, but there wasn't
spirit enough in the whole town to get up a
fight, SO the much-feared row did not
coma off
Year: 1874

An active contest Is now going on for the control
of the surveys in the Western Territories. The fol-
lowing is the present position of affairs During
many years the surveys at the West were almost
exclusively the work of army officers. Since the
war the magnitude and Importance of these surveys
has greatly increased, aud they have been divided


into two distinct classes; those under the Engineers
Bureau Of the War Department, and those supported
by appropriations through the Interior Department
and by tho funds of tho Smithsonian Institution.
To the latter class belong the exploring expeditions
of Prof. Hayden and of Major Powell The War
Department claim that all surveys Of States and
Territories should be put under their management
to insure unity of plan aud results On the other
side it is stated that the typographical surveys of
the army arc principally Of value only for specific
purposes. and that they do not yield tho general
results for the bonedt of science and tho country at


large that are attained by tho other surveys. The
dispute Crystalzes over Senate bill, authorizing
Year: 1874

The Senate Finance Committee have pro-
duced another of their amazing Ola pOdrida
finance bills, compounded OF ingredients suited
to the taste of both inflatlOnists and anti
infationists, and therefore disgusting to all
sensible men.


We object to tho provision in the bill
reported yesterday allowing two dollars
of irredeemable National bank notes to
be issued for every dollar of greenbacks re
tired of the 3S2 millions now out. That il
imitation pure and simple, and eOncedes that
the GO millions in greenbacks issued by Mr.
Richardson are permanent part of the legal
tender circulation, a position which neither
President Grant, nor Mr. Richardson, nor Mr..
Boutwell, has yet taken. We object to the
ninth section, providing for unlimited swap
ping of five per cent bonds for grcenbacks
after the 1st of January, 1877, as meaning
nothing and being of no account except as a
lever for the inhationists to work with upon
the President. This is not the Congress to
legislate for 1877, nor is it the kind of specie
payments which, as we hope, will be insisted
Oh by the Congress which will legislatc for 1877.
The money which we advocate is money con-
vertble dollar for dollar into gold, except
that part of it which is gold. Our
standard of value is gold itself, not Govern
ment credit. Neither do we see anything very
promising in the experiments which 1t Is pro-
posed to make with the reserve requirements.
We should certainly prefer to see all require
ments in regard to reserves abolished, except
publicity. rather than such changes made as are
proposed. Men would then deal with banks
solely at their own risk, without any delusive
guarantee of protection from the Government.


We are of opinion that the Currency question
cannot be settled by any compromise measure,
or mutual delusiOn on the part of leading
contractonists and in1atiOnistS that each has
the better Of the other.
Year: 1874

The curious case Of thrice married woman
who draws alimony from two divorced hus-
bands was discussed in the Supreme Court
General Term yesterday. The court below at
one time put a sort of premium on divorces
by refusing the application of one of the dis
carded husbands to be released from the tax;
but the General Term hesitates to confirm the
Judgment.
Year: 1874

The sale of pews in the church of which the
Rev. Mr. Sabine is to have charge, elsewhere
reported, would seem to indicate the full sue
cess of this initial movement of the Reformed
Episcopallans in this city.
Year: 1874

Gradually, and without much friction, the
troubles between the workingmen and the
master mechanics seem to have subsidized. The
attempt to restore the old ten-hour rule has
been abandoned, and men are working eight
hours except in the trades that employ and
pay men by the hour. What effect this brief
disagreement will have upon wages later III
}be Summer is not now very clear.
Year: 1874

The ST. Paul Daily Press believes that THE IRIB-
une immensely exaggerates the magnitude OF the
expenditures necessary to construct the great puDhc
works. embraced in Mr. Wlndoms scheme for sys-
tenn of national free water ways. From ten TO
twenty millions year." says The Press. us all that
would be required to carry them on" mere trliie,
of courses and any Leading Statesman who makes
fuss about a little matter of that kind ought 10 DO
ashamed of himself With twenty millions year TO
be paid for canals, and an indefinite sum for the
Centennial, while Congress hestates to vote Tor
further taxaton and there is chance Of any great
Increase at present in the national revenues IL
might not be impertinent to ask the advocates Oh
these vast plans what they suppose the financial con-
dtion of the country will be after few years OF
such prncely extravaganza We have no doubt that
two or three canals through the Allegheny Noun
tains would solve the transportation problem but
before we determine to build them let us inquire
first whether We have the money, and secondly
whether the money, if we have it, Is likely 10 De
honestly applied to the work.
Year: 1874

After each recurring first of May. when rents
are renewed and long leases expire, Broadway,
first of all metropolitan streets, begins the
demolition of the old and the erection OF new
buildings. This year the activity In TINS
direction is not as great as it has been IN the
past, and yet, as will be seen by the article
published elsewhere, many important changes
are to be made in the great thoroughtare'
And it may be safely predicted that this year.
as IN the past, the new buildings to be erected
will indicate a steady advance i'll architectural
beauty and skill.
Year: 1874

In letter to The AthenGam Edmond About tells
story of the late Ernest Beul6. the archeologlst
which shows how trivial an event may point the
road to distinction. Beul6 was amusing himself at
Athens. when q blunder of his mothers suddenly
diverted him to the pursuits upon which his fame
WAS to be built. He was q musician, an elegant
dancer tolerable rider and much more occupied
with the modern world than with Greek archie
ology. queer accident changed the course Of his
life His mother, whom he had left in Paris, turned
up one fine morning at Athens as goyerness to the
Young Soutzos She had accepted this humble
postion in order to be near her son, without ever
thinking that she was killing his prospects as man
of fashion in little city where the vanities of birth
and wealth are all-powerful. ] must say that he
recovered from the shock in credtably short time.
He shaved off his mustaches sold his horse, sent
his piano back to the man of whom he had hired it,
broL Le with the world and threw himself into
archaeology as a man of less energy would have
thrown himself into a well"
Year: 1874

The Grand Jury has presented the Commits
sioners of Charities and Correction upon
charges of wasteful extravaganza "tending to
corruption.p If ever extravaganza Is made
an indictable offense, the Penitentiary will
soon stare half the city and county officials in
the face. The action of the Grand Jury is
healthful sign. We know not or-care not how
true or false the charges are; the present.
ment itself shows vigilant criticism of pub
lie officials which, exercised in the past, would
have saved New York many millions OF money,
and is calculated to greatly reform the evils
of misgoyernment she still suffers under.
Year: 1874

The gross, fat Knight whose means are now as
slender his waist is great has not only raised his
countrys expenditures and prepared insanity for all
legal historians he has gone INTO song and antic
In short, with Roger softened to Ruggiero,
he has been made the hero of an opereta which has
been successful at Rome and is coming out in Paris
1t is even proposed to turn La Causa Ticciborni"
into ballet but the picture of the immense rotund
Claimant In tight satin doublet and trunk hose
executing fantastic pas deur before his judges Is
not propitious Meanwhile this vulgar humbug,
picking oaum in his prison, has the satisfaction of
knowing that his counterfeit presentment is filing
the Continental eye and ear with the good "coesp
and awful woes of the first tenor.
Year: 1874

One of the most curious phenomena of
metropolitan life is the annual change in busi-
ness localities. An article elsewhere shows
how Fourteenth Street, Union Square, Lower
Fifth Avenue, and Twenty Third Street have
gradually been occupied by business houses to
the exclusion of residences Madison Square
too has this year been invaded, and an ad-
vance guard in the shape of restaurant on
top of Murray Hill warns Fifth Avenue dwell
ers that they must soon seek the parts of the
Avenues facing Central Park or consent to
share their once secluded and select quarter
with tue shopheepers.
Year: 1874

The octogenarians are coming rapidly to the front
of late years 1t used to be said that old men shone
most in council and young men in war. President
Lincoln once said he had not much confidence in
any general older than himself, and he was OF that
age which the Germans call in besten JGkren" But
Moltke rcbabilitated the old fighting men in the
late war with France. Fied-Marshal Wrangel re-
Gently celebrated his nineteth birthday with great
eclat in Berlin. General Concha Marquis of Duero
who is past eighty, executed last week that brilliant
and rapid movement on the Nervion which resulted
in the retreat Of the Carlsts from Bilbao
And to prove that the old men have not lost their
prominence in counsel, while they have been TAX
ing away from the boys their lead in war, the


first party leader in Europe to-day is NJ Theirs, who
has just completed his seyenty-seventh year, and
the most energetic and industrious of American
Governors is John A. Dix, who was Major and Ad-
jutant in the war of 1912. We think the poets may
as well stop wailing over these degenerate days.
Year: 1874

PROF. w1ScHEIL 8 STATEMENT.


Prof. Winchcll said that he did not
see any gold in the Black Hills, nor did
any one bring any to him for examina-
ton. Some brought what they thought
was gold bearing quartz, but on exami-
nation he found it to be mica scales
stained with iron rust. Iron often gets
into mica and colors it. causing frequent
mistakes in that way. He would not
say but what there was gold there, and
some parties may have discovered gold,
but he saw none, and therefore he was
of the opinion that there was none
there. He was led to believe that the
reports Of gold were groundless from
another reason, viz: that the character
of the men who talked up the cxpedi-
tion urging the government to explore
the Black Hills, would lead any one to
distrust their statements. These men
were miners and adventures who pro-
fess t. be practical miners, but who have
always lived on and profited by excite
ment. They were stock jobbcrs who
probably own extinct claims now in
different parts of the country and who
wish to prof: out of this expedition.
He did not say that Gen. Custer or the
military authorities have been influ-
enced by these men. They may have
been practical miners but they were
also practical schemers.


The reporters accompanying the ex.
petition derived all their information
concerning the reported gold discover
les from those men, and so did General
Custer, No one but these men pre-
tended to have taken out any gold, or
to have seen any anywhere. 1t would
have been very easy for them, with the
view of raising this excitement, to have
taken with them a quantity of gold
dust and then washed it in their pans.
He would not say that they did so, but
that they might have done so, and in
deed the possibilities for so doing were
SO great that he thought it a good rea.
son for distrusting their statement.