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Year: 1874

Doctors are usually unappre-
ciated. They are generally poorly
paid, and the community has but a
faint idea of the amount of good
they do and the relief they bring to
suffering humanity as they unosten>
tatiously move in society. 1t is so
seldom too that they have their
merited position before the public
that it is with pleasure that We
publish the article to their praise
be found on our first page.
Year: 1874

A question was propounded to US
by friend a few days ago and We
mention it in our columns that
so1.e of our readers may have the
opportunity of answeringit. Where
did the expression "Like oil upon
the troubled waters originate?


1t may be Of interest to mention,
that it is a fact, discovered by an
accident, that by pouring oil upon
a tempestuous sea a vessel may
saVely harbor where it would be
impossible to do SO otherwise. The
matter has been recently discussed
in the Scientific american and il
is there related that during severe
storm whaling vessel poured over
board quantity of oil, which com
posed its cargo, in order to lighter
the vessel, when to the surprise of al
it SO allayed the force of the waves
as to render the vessel secure from
danger. 1t is claimed, however
that this fact was first noticed b,
| Ben. Franklin.


As the matter has become one o
practical interest to the scientist
the curiosity as to the origin Of tn
phrase quoted above becomes NOR
absorbing. Will not some of on
literary readers enliphtep US?
Year: 1874

In various portions Of our State
we are now witnessing the disgust
ing sight of judges manevering for
Office. We fear for the spotless-
ness of the ernine when Judges
have to resort to chicanery for
popular votes.
Year: 1874

The Finance Commute of the
Senate held a long session on Sat-
urday last on the currency question
There appeara no difficulty among
the members on the general feat,
ures of a free banking clause of
which they are in favor, but they
can come to no agreement on the
other features Of bill on this sub>
iect.
Year: 1874

Democracy gave us all the law
lessness and violence Of the hu
Klux. Republicanism gave us law
and order.-Raleiqh Era.


We differ with the above slightly.
Democracy gave US constitutional
republic. Radicalism gave US the
socialistic dreams and fanatical out
RACES of the commune.
Year: 1874

The activity displayed, by the
democratic party in the municipal
elections throughout the State on
Monday augurs we'll for the gener-
al result this summer. Oncs more
to the breach and We may yet see
Carolina ruled by her sons.
Year: 1874

tho Finance Committee of the Senate:


First That money paid as duties In accordance with
any decision or ruling Of the Secretary OF the Treasury
shall not be refunded repaid except In pursuance OF
special appropriations made therefor or IN accordance
with judgment OF court OF the United States giving
construction to the law.


Second: That no ruling or decision once made by
Secretary OF the Treasury giving construction TO any
law imposing Customs duties shall be changed by the
same succeeding Secretary unless 1t be IN concur
renee with opinion favor Of such change given by
the Attorney General, by reason OF Judicial de-
cison OF OF United States affecting the same


Third That the Secretary Of the Treasury shall III MS
annual report Congress give detailed statement OF
the various sums OF money refunded under the pro-
visions OF this act, OF any other act OF Congress
relating TO the revenue together with copies OF the
rulings under which the repayments were made
Year: 1874

sons belonging 10 the Committee What impression
these gave him he courteousy declined to state, and
was not willing TO declare whether he thought the
general report true which represents the COMMITTEE
as unanimously in favor of a modification OF the
present laws. To an inquiry about his personal
opinion of the working of the existing system, he
replied with moderation ut is not credtable to the
Government" and afterward added, 81 should not
like to have any part in it," With respect to the ex-
tent of the demand for reform in the various ports
of the country, he sand that it could not be neces
sary for him to give an opinion the means which
THE TRIBUNE had for knowing the feeling in New
York. Boston, and Philadelphia, were superior to his
own.


The Questioner then touched upon the Sanborn
contracts. Those said Mr.. Dawes speak for
themselves" When asked TO say plainly if he
favored their repeal he retored, "Conld you ques-
tion thati Have ever done anything to make you
think that would support such arrangements as
those contractsp When asked if he thought the
House of Representatives generally in favor Of their
repeal, he returned that the documents had not
been printed when he left Washington, and his
absence precuded his speaking of the Congressional
sentiment. As the subject might come before the
Committee on Ways and Means, be considered that
any remarks of his upon the matter wonld be as
improper it would be for judge TO SPEAK OF the
merits of a case before its decision
Year: 1874

ENGLISH PoLITIcs-THE NEW GOVERNMENT


THE END OF THE DIsRAELI MINISTRY


THE COMING MEN.


The New York Times London correspon
dent writes of the coming men in the new
political deal of English politics under Dis
raeli: BY precipitating the crisis, Mr.. Glad
stone has certainly done the country good
turn. There can be no doubt that his col
leagues are quite as sick of him as every
body else is. The dissolution was desper-
ate expedient, to stave off split in the cab
met. The premier wanted a more servile
majority In the house of commons, in order
TO enable him TO coerce or dismiss any mln-
lister who declined to submit to his arrogant
dictatiOns: and the trst result of victory in
his favor would unquestionably have been
another reconstruction of the ministry. L
should think that the almost personal Bit
terness of the feeling against Gladstone can
hardly be understood at a distance, and
that there must be disposition TO set 1t
down as exaggerated. l can only say that
what have written is not exaggerated, and
that the defeat of the government is really,
to great extent. a personal question, and
expresses the universal distrpst with which
Mr.. Gladstone is regarded. He has alien
ated his own supporters quite as much as he
has exasperated the conservatives; and
the reason of his downfall Is simply
the conviction that there Is nothing
he could not bring himself to do, no
re solution in the constitution, no at
tack on property, no subversion of freedom
and class equality, which he could not per-
suade himself to be right and necessary and
inspired from heaven, il it only happened to
serve the ends of that personal absolutiism N
which 1t is his ambition to establish. When
he was turned out of Office on the reform
| bill he traffickad with sedition in the streets
and encouraged the mob to howl round the
walls of parliament and to make intimidat-
ing demonstrations of physical strength {;
and, whether justly or not, everybody no ~
believes that he would be quite capable OF
abolishing the church or the house of lords,
Year: 1874

hundred murders. r. s-r-.i........ ..I.


County-Attorney Ryan trapped him into
making several innocent statements; but he
would try to explain without, even for
moment. losing his presence of mind. He
identified the gun ana boots as belonging 70
him, and explained that he had taken the
gun to the store, and left it there several
days before for the purpose of trading II TO
q young man who sometimes visited the
store. He denied being any place where be
could have got fresh blood on his boots,
HIS shirt sleeve had a large spot of blood on
1t which he had evidently tried to wash
out. He claimed that it was
stained with tobaccoIjuice: The store
claimed that he had been in the store and
contracted with Ferris that day at twelve
o'clock, and had received SIS from him to
replenish the supplies OF the store; and he had
met him again that night about eight O'Clock,
near the store, in company with a strange
man. He said that Ferris told him he was
going east on the night train, and wanted
him to take charge of the store in the morn
ing. His story was very thin, and he Kept
contradicting himself and making matters
worse every time he tried 10 better 1t. About
six o'clock Judge Hanback, came into
court, and appeared as COUNSEL for the
witness, and told him to refuse answer
ing any more questions. His testi-
mony was then read to him, and he cor
recsed il in a number of particulars; but,
under the advice of his counsel, refused to
sign his name to it. The court then ad-
journed till o'clock tomorrow morning,
when the inquest will be renewed, with
Frank Olds, the father of this precious
monster, on the stand. The old man runs
an express wagon, and has always been
considered an honest. industrious citizen.
Public sentiment is undecided as to his
guilt or innocence, but 1t hardly seems pos
sible that he has no guilty knowledge ofthe
deed.
Year: 1874

Down the steep path we wound with careful tread,
Stones slipping. rolling, bounding lar below,
And where u vista opened wide ahead,


We paused in sunset glow.
Before us the white Jungfrau, far away,
lowered up into the blue and silent sky
All rosy with the light and Of dying day
The silberhorn famed high
Down swept tho glaciers rough and tortuoas lines
Till lost to sight below, while silvory clear
The laughter of lost streams and stir of pines
Made music far and near
Sudden the path curved round the wall of stone
With Alpine roses corniced fair and sweet,
And there within ta hollow, all alone,


She stood with sun-browncd feet
An Alpine maiden, with her simple store
OF berries waiting on the rocky shelf
For travellers who should pass her open doori
And singing to herself
Some quaint old Switzerland song, born of the


sound


OF mountain brooks from cloud-lost SUBMITS


leaping,
And mournlul .cadenced as tho wind that round
Their s;orm-worn peaks comes sweeping.
Then, as we p. used to taste the dainty food,
" Where is vo school ~ we asked the noun


tain queen,
Wondering at foreign words she understood,
And at her gracious men.
She raised her brown eyes to tho mountains grand
Beyond the rne-tops and the valley near,
And with a graceful gesture of her hand


She answered simply, i" Here
o short wise answer, striking deep to truth


The shallow question did not dream to reach
Such wisdom as in everlasting youth


The schools can never teach

All camo to her. who never straycd to seok;


Her teachers came of every land and race,
And taught her all their foreign tongues to speak


But learned from out her face.
The strength of all the hills, their patience high


The beauty and the grace about their feet
That left their Impress on the brow and eye.
And made the soul complete
And bore with them nfar upon the sea-


To distant lands whore'cr their footsteps
strayed,
| Perpetual blessing in their memory,


Tint simple mountain maid.
--Hdypc's Maya .,nt.
Year: 1874

Peter Van Dyke, an old chap, who
died in New Hampshire the other day
worth sl40. 900 in cash, requested in hi.
will that no one "should shuttle and shed
crocodile tears at his funeral, but cover
him over and then hurry home to fight
over his money"
Year: 1874

A solemn warning might be taken from
the fate of Western editor who starl,d
out to "astonish the natives" with a Ice.
ture but a snow-storm arose, the driver
lost his way, the wagon upset, and the
lecturer broke his collar bone and two
ribs.
Year: 1874

Herbert Spencer, in a recent article,
undertook to prove that the feminine
brain differs in texture from the CORES.
ponding organ in the mail Uranium. Now
we have, as another bit of nineteenth.
tury wisdom, the statement, propounded
by a certain DR.. Smith Of New York,
that the female stomach, likewise, is un-
like the male receptacle for nourishment,
and cannot bear the pcrnicious effects Of
alcohol as a beverage 1t might be a
question what stomach, male or female,
can stand alcohol as beverage? But we
will be generous to DR.. Smith, who is so
deeply concerned for the health of woman
kind and take him at what he means. not
what he says. lie means that the use OF
liquors containing PERCENTAGE OF alcohol
is more injurious to the feminine than the
masculine organizatinn. Carl Benson,
however, and doubtless many more with
him, thinks differently. He takes up the
statement of DR.. Smith, and asserts that
what is good for the male, it is reasonable
to suppose, is good for the female stomach


and rice rerSa. He also cites the well
known health OF Euglisl. women, who drink
habitually malt and other liquors. 1t is
not attention to fanciful theories about the
organism of the stomach, we believe, SC
much as plenty of exercise, pure air. warm


clothing and thick boots, that will im


prove the health of American women


and it is to be hoped that new era o


muscle and rosy cheeks will Danish al


fear from manly breasts that the female
sex is likely 10 die out, and thereby CD
litcrate at once the source OF both Joy ant
Year: 1874

Sam Mcdonald is called the millionaire
murderer" He is in jailat Baltimore charged
with stabbing gambler named Berry Amos
to death. Somebody who knows Mcdonald
tells the newspapers short story OF his short
life as follows His father was millionaire
of Baltimore, and had two children, Sam and
a daughter. Sam was sent to England to be
educated, and returned an accomplished and
splendid looking young man. His father died
soon after Sam return with an education and
polished manners, and this event was shortly
followed by Sans twenty first birthday, when
he came into possession of a vast property.
The birthday was celebrated at the elegant
family mansion near Baltimore. Sam invited
all the city fellows to see him attain his ma
jOrity, and there was the most sumptuous prl-
vate festival ever given In the city OF Baltl.
more. Among other outlandish specialties
there were fountains constructed to spout
champagne and an illumination that looked, a
mile off like fire. The whole thing was a
fire just beginning 70 consume an estate and
burn out young and vigorous life. The rev.
elry lasted all night, and after this there were
often revelries by night and oblivious sleep by
day. The house was awake only at night, be-
cause it did not dare to look at the damage
that daylight would have revealed. ln year
or two Sam Mcdonald made trip West with
some of the city fellows. OF course thev were
on big spree. In the vicinity of Terre Haute,
Ind, Mcdonald bought farm and stocked ii
with fancy stock. lie called it his hunting
lodge, and he and the city fellows hunted on
the prairies and filled the farm house with the
worst kind Of scandals. The good people Of
Terre Haute would have nothing to do with
Sam Mcdonald and his farm after they found
him out. Thus Sam became an outcast in hi;
luxury and magnifcence. They say he spen


at least $780, 900 the first year he was at Terrt
Haute. That sort of thing could not last for


ever, unless there were corresponding profit


coming in from some otherquarter But there
were none. The whole fortune was enlisted


in dissipation, and it is supposed was nearly al
gone. Sam Mcdonald lately visited Batimor


to see some of the old city fellows who had no


participated in his recent prOdigaties. h


found plenty of them, and he and two com


panons were together and alone in a saloon a


two o clock in the morning. One of the tel


lows was Berry Amos. There had been n


quarrel or unpleasant words. Probably San


had never killed man and wanted to see if h
could. He had done almost everything else
He took long knife out of his pocket an
; walked up to his friend and stabbed him t
the heart without word. This is the way i
; which s I'M Mcdonald ceased to be million
naire and became a murderer at twenty-five.
Year: 1874

1t was a wild and dreary part of the country,
on the plains OF India, while iourneying, that
one day friend and self sat down under the
shade of a banyan tree. We were enjoying
meal of various edibles when we were disturbed
by the arrival and the noise of a troop of large,
black faced monkeys The branches overhead
literally swarmed with them. They looked on
us as interlopers, no doubt; and fol some time
their gestures appeared so menacing that we
were apprehcnsive they would dispute the
ground with us. We had Just risen from our
meal, when, to our surprise, one Of the mon
keys Ia young one) fell down from high branch
at our feet. 1t was quite dead. The clamor
that arose above us on the occurrence of this
calamity was deafening. The whole assembly
of monkeys clustered together for a confab
Long and loud were the chatterlngS and various
the grimaces Of the tribe, each individual vie
ing with the other in the loudness of his tongue.
Their looks and gesture made it apparent that
they suspected us of being the cause Of the death
of their juvenile comrade. But we were un'
armed, and the good sense of the monkeys
seemed to tell them that there must be some
other culprit. Having come to this conclusion,
one monkey, apparently the senior and leader
OF the whole tribe, separated himself from the
rest, ran to the spot on the branch whence the
young monkey had fallen, examined it care
fully, smelt the branch, and then glided nimbly
down one of the pillars or pendant roots, and
came to the corpse of the monkey, took it up
examined it minutely, particularly the should
er, where there was small wound. Instinc
Immediately turned suspicion into certainty
He placed the corpse on the ground again
and, turning his gaze in every direction, en-
deavored to pierce the foliage in his search fol
the murderer. After little while something
seemed to rivet his attention. In an instant ht
had mounted the tree, sprung to the spot, anc
with one clutch had seized long whipsnake
with which he hastened to the ground. Nov
occurred most curious scene. The whole
monkey rabble following their leader, were OF
the ground almost as soon as he. Then a
many as could ranged themselves on each sid'
of the snake Each monkey put his hand OIL
the reptile, clutching hold of the skin OF th'
back tightly. AT la given signal the execution
ers dragged the writhng snake backward ant
forward on the ground till nothing was left o
the murderer but the back bone. The mode o
execution was effectual, and in the way it wa
carried out showed the clear understanding
which the monkey language conveys. .-Iraret
IN the East.
Year: 1874

SPOILED His PIETY.-IIorace Greeley used
to affirm that newspaper men were the most
patient people, as class, on earth, and he was
not far from right, though there are times
when patience ceases to be virtue with the
most enduring. Nearly everybody in Michi-
gan knows Burr, who used to start news
paper about once a month the year round, gen.
orally bringing them out in Grand Rapids, but
sometimes making a flying trip to other points.
Burr could stand to be told that he lied about
circulation, was on the fence as a politician,
and that he didn't know anything about pub
fishing paper and when men threatened to
sue or thrash him, he only smiled a sad smile
and wished that mankind wouldn't get excl
ted. During religious revival in Grand Rap.
ids, Burr was converted, and it frequently hap
peued that religious people called at his Office
to talk with him. One day minister came
in, and after talking while, he proposed
prayer. He was in the act of kneeling, when
his foot struck one of the outside forms, which
was leaning against leg of the stone, ready
to be lifted up, and over it went, making a
half-bushel of "pi." Burr looked at the ruin
wrought, thought of the two weeks of over
work, and commenced taking off his coat
saying:


" l am trying to be Christian, and set ;
good example, but rat my buttons if [ can
lick you in just two minutes p


The clergyman backed down stairs in NJ
time, lodging the lye-brush on the way, ant


Burr back slid at once, and sent down for
pint Of stimulant.
Year: 1874

MUTTON PIEs.-From a fellow passenger
on the same steamer with the young couple
whose wedding created such commotion in
this country, the correspondent of the st.
Louis Republican learns the following:


Mrs. Sartoris never left her state room but
once on the passage. She came on deck for a
few minutes one morning in blue wrapper
and white shawl but, before it was well
known she was out, she had disappeared again.
Mr.. Satoris did not share this seclusion, but
was around most all the time. He said his
wife was not sea,sick, but home-sick. " Poor
Nellie We could all of us understand that
she might be-for, of all the dull youths who
part their hair in the middle, land it's your
dell youth who always does that,) Mr.. Alger-
non Frederick-and the rest of it-Sartoris is
the dullest. While we waited our turn at the
dock in Liverpool, he, with some others, went
ashore and bought some mutton pies; so that
the first really good view of Nellie Grant we
had after she came aboard was standing rest
ing on her husbands fat arm, her eyes full of
trusting affection, her heart full of confding
love, and her mouth full of Liverpool mutton
pie -
Year: 1874

THACKERAY ON FEMALE SOCIETY," is bet
ter for you to pass an evening once or twice
week in lady's drawing room, even though
the conversation is slow, and you know the
girls song by heart, than in club, tavern,
or the pit of theatre. All amusements of
youth, to which virtuous women are not ad-
mitted, rely on it, are deleterious in their
nature. All men who avoid female society
have dull perceptions and are stupid, or have
gross tastes, aud revolt against what is pure.
Your club swaggers, who are sucking the
butts Of billiard cues all night, call female So
ciety insipid. Poetry is uninspirng to yokel !;
beauty has no charms for blind man. music
does not please a poor beast who does not know
one tune from another but as pure epicure
is hardly ever tired of water, sancy, and brown
bread and butter, Iprotest | can sit for a whole
night talking with a well-regulated, kindly
woman about her girl Fanny or her boy Frank,
and like the evening entertainment. One of
the great benefits a man may derive from a
woman society, is that he is bound to be re-
spectfu to her. The habit is of great good to
your moral man, depend upon it. Our educa-
ton makes of us the most eminently selfish
men in the world. We fight for ourselves, We
push for ourselves, we yawn for ourselves, we
light our pipes and we say we won 60 out
we perfer ourselves and our ease and the
greatest good that comes to man from woman S
society is, that he has to think of somebody to


whom he is bound to be constantly attentive


and respectful.
Year: 1874

THE NATIONAL FOILY.-The New York
Tribune after the Fourth said


One riot, six brutal affrays, thirty-fve fires,
forty children seriously wounded, at least three
persons killed outright, and one child burned
to death, form the total of the casualties conse-
quent on the celebration of the Fourth in this
city and Brooklyn. And as these are only the
casualties which were thought serious enough
to be reported at Police Headquarters, doubt
less the full extent of loss and suffering can
never be known.
Year: 1874

The cure for hydrophobia is for any person who
has been bitten by mad dog to get himself or
herself Immediately bitten by viper-the
antagonism between the virus of the animal
of the reptile securing the patient from the ill
effects of either bites. This discovery was, it
hand, we die Bottled viper sting should,
therefore, be sold.
Year: 1874

Bishop Cummins has been canonically de-
posed from the ministry of the Protestant
Episcopal Church and from his Office of Assis.
tant Bishop of Kentucky. How absurd all
this seems when we remember that apostolcal
had already left the Protestant Episcopal
Church to found a Protestant Episcopal
Church of his OWN. T. Herald.
Year: 1874

SELF sAcRIFIcING.-The Baptist Weekly in
sinuatcs, As one result of the panic, several
of the upper ten have felt it duty to give
up their pews in fashionable churches; and if
things go on at this rate they fear they may
have to relinquish their boxes at the opera"