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Year: 1874




In view of these facts, it is no wonder that
Credit Mobilier stock rose rapidly in the es-
tmation of capitalists and that it was soon
announced that none was to be had. NO won
der that dividends were declared to the am
ount of 545 per cent. on the capital stock in
one wear! 1t was bad for them that the
members of this corporation quarrelled about
the division of their plumber as many of
these gentlemen's names might have been
handed down to posterity as public benefac-
tors. 1t is well for the country that they
did quarrel, Tor without this fearful warning,
Congress might be led to aid the schemes
which are at present being urged npon it and
the treasury thereby rendered bankrupt


The inside of the operation of the Central
Pacific Railroad construction has not yet
been brought to light. 1t is said, however,
that the Union Pacific transaction is honor
able in comparison. If this is true, the
blackest page of scoundrelism is yet to be
written.


1t is just to say that the figures in this ar
tice are from an exhaustive paper in Scrib-
ner's Monthly on the Credit Mobilier.
Year: 1874

We do not read anonymous letters and commupi.
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all indispensable, necessarily for publication
but as guaranty OF good faith.


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

TO LEI.
One large Store House on Cnstom
House Wharf, suitable for heavy storage
or Fish packing. e0
One store suitable for Grocery or other
light business, with dock privilege.
Apply to
Year: 1874

The Society for the Prevention OF Cruelty to AMI
mails respectfully gives notice that ALoNzo H.
LIBBY, Constable whose Office is at No. so Middle
street. Cup stars) has been appointed Agent of the
Society.


The public are therefore requested to give prompt
information to him of any cruelty to animals that
may come to their knowledge, and he will see to it
that the offenders brought to speedy and strict
justice. Per order.


aD29 sniff
Year: 1874

The following tale is from the


Whitehall Times. Whitehall is u
town in Washington county, State
of New York :-"Our readers will
remember, when General Kilpat-
rick returned from Chill three years
since, his having a remarkable
operation performed upon him by
a physician in New York, who re-
moved a fleshy formation from the
Generals neck by filing it full of
needles and then attaching a gal
vanic battery to it. Ten minutes
after the current of electricity was
let on, the bunch had entirely dis
appeared. A remarkable Opera
ton was proformed by a Whithall
physician few days ago. A gen.
tleman who had been suffering from
a superabundance of adipose tissue
consulted the physician, asking for
relief from its burden. The
doctor told him he could relieve
him if he would consent to a pain
full operation. The gentleman con-
sented, and with the medical prac-
titioner entered the telegraph office
at this place. The fat man was
requested to remove his coat and
vest, after which the physician SUI
rounded him with wires, attaching
the ends to powerful battery.
At signal from the doctor, Mana
ger Eddy let on the current. The
patient writhed and twisted when
he felt the current passing around
him still he stood like a martyr.
Presently he began to shrink he
grew smaller and smaller; his
clothing hung in bags about his
fast diminishing form /; the doctor
felt much pleased at the result of
his experiment, while the formerly
fat mans joy was very great, al
though he seemed to be suffering
acute pain. All of sudden there
was heard loud clicking at the
instrument, as if Pandemonium's
great hall had been let loose. Tho
operator sprang quickly to the call.
He ascertained it was from the
New York office. He quickly ask
ed. What's up! An answer came
back as if some infuriated demon
was at the other end of the wires.
What in thunder are you about9
Cut off your wires quick-you are
filling the New York Office with
soap grease"
Year: 1874

IAN English Jesuit, Robert Southwell wrote the
following lines Of much merit, two centuries and
half ago. The philosophic strain OF the piece is
worthy of admiration.l


The Topped tree in time may grow again,


Most naked plants renew both fruit and flower;
The sorricst wight may find relief from pain,


The driest soil suck in some moistening shower.
Times go by turns, and chances change by course,
From foul TO fair, from better hap to worse.
The sea of fortune doth for ever flow,


She draws her favors to the lowest ebb;
Her tides have equal times to come and go,


Her loom doth weave the fine and coarsest web.
No JOY so great but runneth to an end
No hap so hard but may in time amend.
Not always fall of leaf, nor even sprifg;


No endless night, nor yet eternal day;
The saddest birds season find TO sing,


The toughest storm calm may soon allay.
Thus with succeeding turns God tempereth all,
That man may hope to rise, yet fear to fall.
A chance may win that by mischance was lost


That net that holds no great takes little fish
In some things all, in all things none crossed


Few all they need but none have all they wish.
Unmingled joys here TO no man befall
Who least, have some; who most, hath never all.
Year: 1874

1.-THE following, which is the end
of the above entitled story, was by
accident left out of last weeks is
sue:]


escape, and of how / had saved
him, he vowed he would never for
get it. He kept his word. He
started John in business, lived with
us, and made his will in our favor.
Now express and mail trains no
longer give us sleepless nights,
though we never ourselves travel
by rail without thinking of that
fearful night in the signal-box.
Year: 1874

Well, thank goodness, house
cleaning is over with for this sea-
son at my house.


Any man with the least spark of
ambition about him, who does not
feel like leaving home on some pre-
tense of business for q few days
during house cleaning time, is too
good to live, and some one ought
TO consider himself o committee OF
six, appointed for the special pur-
pose of ending the poor creatures
existance.


| returned home to tea a few
days ago, taking friend with me,
and of course l bolted straight for
the parlor, and-well, any married
man who has withstood house clean
ing once or twice can easily imagine
what a state of things l found in
that room. There were carpets
torn up, chairs piled up in one cor
ner, a heap of straw on the floor,
and-well, that is enough. We left
the apartment, and entered the sit
ting-room, only to find matters, if
possible, in q much worse condi-
ton. l of course appologized to
my friend, and endeavored to make
him comfortable.


Just at this moment the door
opened, and my wife Arabella came
to greet my early return, but as
she discovered that l had an ac-
quaintance with me, she threw up
both hands, and with a piercing
shrek, quickly vanished. Think
ing that my dear wife was not well,
l followed her, only to reap the fol-
lowing reward:


"Now, Quence, what in the name
of creation did you go and make O
fool of yourself and another of me
for, by bringing any one home when
you knew l was cleaning house
Oh, you are u brute anyhow, and
have a mind to show you how easy
l can keep you at home for week
at least"


She had not finished speaking
when / found l had occasion to picl,
myself up from the floor. In the
use of the potato-masher on my de-
voted head, she was a success. In
that little "jar" which ensued, l hat
one eye BACKED and the skin
knocked off my nose, when I escap
cd to the stitting-room to find tha
my friend had left his card ant
sought other quarters.


For two weeks / remained a
home, helping straighten up thing
about the house and garden, and a
the end of that time my nose ant
eye were again ft to appear in pub
lie.


MORAL.
Year: 1874

As the eastern bound train yester-
day morning over the n. G. Railroad
was nearing this city, and when nearly
opposite the new Fair Grounds q rock
was thrown by a negro man into the
passenger coach, narrowly missing the
had of Mr.. J. Med. French, of Zeta,
Pa, and striking that gentleman on
the hand, hurting him severely. The
train was Immediately stopped, but
the cowarlly rascal had escaped. NIr.
French saw him when he threw the
rock. We understand this is not the
first time this thing has been done
lately. Could the miscreant be caught
he should be severely dealt WITH
Year: 1874

We saw yesterday at Whiteville a
sheep which was really a curiosity.
1t had four well formed horns, two of
which grew out Of the top of it's head
and two came out just above its ear
Each one of its horns was at least six
inches long. The animal was tied to
tree for inspection and attracted con-
siderat.4 attention. There was, how
ever, several parties in the crowd who
had taken on double that number OF
horns during the day, but did not at
tract half the attention that this sheep
1il
Year: 1874

Our exchanges 10 all parts of the country are
utterlng warnings against the folly Of working
men striking. This is the most unfavorable sea-
son for strikes that we have ever had in the
United States. Upon the principle that halt
a loaf is better than no bread, reduced pay is
better than Doue, even ii its acceptance should
Cause temporary embarrassment. Our advice
to worklugmen is, stick to your work, and wait
patiently for better times.
Year: 1874

have to pay for it, and took considerable In
terest In the work as It was going on, and
noticed how it was done in every way, shape,
and form. A gang of men that was there
/ suppose there could not have been less than
l5O-and, gentlemen, there was not really room
for twenty men to work; one half Of the men
had to wait and stop, while the other men
could dig and haul away. complained to the
man who had chargeo of the road, and told him
If be must employ so many men that he must
divide them-put one party on one side, and
one party on the other. In four or five days
he did so, but it was the same thing all the
way through-the character of the work.


By the Chairman: Q. Was this road let by
contractl A. No, sir; Il was days work; It
was hard to find out how it was done; Il was
days work and contract, and days work and
(on,ract, and everything else.


By Mr.. Bass: Q. 1t must have been one or
the otheri A. The contractor would commence
q job, and In about week they would give It
up, and then go on two or three days in the
week.


Q. That was, so far as you could find outf
A. Everybody talked about it. There was no
secrecy about It at all; everybody knew It.


By Mr.. Mattingly: O. Isn't that In litigation
nowi A. That Is in litigation now 1t went
into litigation because we were Obliged to go
into litigation. called upon the gentlemen Of
the Board of Public Works, as did all, think
ing, from the enormous amount OF the bill tnat
they had rendered US, they had made clerical
error; that they had rendered me q bill for the
whole amount Instead of one-third; they wrote
me back, "No," the bill was right; they had
rendered me bin for one-third Of the work.
Then told them that preferred judicial de-
cision. We could not agree upon the law, as
they understood IL, and asked them If they
would agree to throw no unnecessary obstruc-
tons in the way and let the court decide the
matter at once. II the court decided we were
TO pay, we were all prepared to pay our INSTALL
ments. ! got an answer from the Board OF
Public Works stating THAI they would not throw
any obstruction In the way; but at the same
time they turned It over to their attorney, and
did not Hike to interfere at all with his business.
By that suppose they are going to throw all
the obstructions they can In the way Of having
an early Judicial decision, II we have got 70
pay these bills, we might as well know Il at
once. We can pay them on the ive-instali-.
ment plan. There are great many people on
the road that take an interest In; and I.dont
believe any Of them can ever pay the bills In


Ises Eighth Pase.l
Year: 1874

The Breakwater shed its light over our city
yesterday and the night before Its bfllhaney
was in no wise increased by coming in contact
with a member of our School Board in places
not often frequented by stars of the first magni-
tude. But the light faded not until the morn
ing star had passed high up and the hand of the
dial pointed among the small figures then
balmy sleep required the heavy lids to obscure
the orbs from the approaching day. So faded
the l.qAt away.
Year: 1874

The South Carolina Moses, it is not generally
known, is a son o: Chief Justice Moses, of the
Supreme Court. There Is also a negro on the
Bench, and the consequence is that Gov Moses
has his own way pretty generally in South Car
olina, regardless of the fact that he is bankrupt
and q thief.
Year: 1874

The folly of not getting ready before you
begin is we'll illustrated In the case of an
Iroquois On couple, who went before the
psrson to be married. but failed to procure
the necessary license. The minister refused
changed her mind and refused to be mar.
ria al a
Year: 1874




MALAcB.-Thc attack upon the GAZETTE by
Ercry Eccainq, the organ of the Custom House
clique, yesterday, was false and malicious, and
shows how utterly regardless that paper is as to
the language It when it hepes 10 injure
contemporary by the utterance of falsehoods.


The GAZETTE, every one knows is not a favor
,se with Radical ofice-holders, and its reporters
were rot of the favored few to whom the secret
expedition was made known. 1t is doubtful
whether the reporter of the organ of the Custom
House clique would have been made party to
the excursion to the Capes and Lewes, in the u.
s. Revenue Cutter, il there had not been desire
10 have the affair and those connected with II
highly cxtolled. 1t would be a new thing, and
almost objectionable in the Radicals to have ta-
ken a GAZETTE reporter with them. Indeed, We
DO not think he would have felt at all at home in
the company Of some of the parties, or cared to
have accepted of IN invitation had il been cx-
tended to him.


That he may have been misled or deceived by
some is especial cause for rejoicing by our neigh
bor bnt considering it was doing the work for
The Radical officials interested in the affair, il
does not show much enterprise to have reported
it in its third edition. 1t had not q single tele-
gram on the subject, and yet complains that the
GAZETTE, which was not one OF the party, had
none.
Year: 1874

The party secretly organizsd in this city to
.'gobble up" the emugelers' brandy at Lewes did
not succeed in the main object. This is quite
evident from the testimony, they missed the
immense stores of old brandy that was supposed
to be hid away for future sale.


The whole expedition looked SO much like n
party Of pleasure seekers that many crsons were
deceived into believing that the Government
vessel was being used for private purposes; and
in fact it seems to have been in part SO used rs
the invited favorites of the Custom House and
the L. s. Marshal, including reporters from their
separate organs were taken to Cape May and NO
Joubt Jared sumptuously. Precisely how much
it has or will cost the Government to make these
few arrests will never he known. They could all
have been arrested quite easily by citizens
summoned by the u s. Marshal at Lewcs, unless
the Government officer there considered in
competent or derelict in his duty.


The whole aiI,ir was more of failure than
success, and the attembt of Erery Erening to
make it n matter for which the officials deserved
any special glorifcaticn will prove dead failure
Year: 1874

regard as snare, and canning fruits is TO
them Dut fOOlishness. They mould themselves
on sone lofty model-Eugcnie de Guerin, if
religion is their hobby; or il they are literary,
pore over the brilliant successes of this poetess
or that lecturer with bitter bewailing over
their own baked chances Now if these and
all other aspirants for eminence would but
consider the hordcs of commonplace people
about them, what a wholesome change society
would experience. The vesta virgin who
slghs over tho lack of intellectually in Smith
VILE will never find Mrs. Browning or John
Stuart Mill there, but the carpenter who is
building her hen r0ost could give her ideas
about the qualities OF woods, and the belts of
timber through the States that would be new
to her. and the Ostler in the stable belonged to
a mCnagcrie once and knows queer traits and
stories about the brute beasts more suggestive
than any idea in Casa Guidi windows. With
our everlasting straining after high ideas we
shut our eyes to the mass of ordinary Weghty
facts about US, which would give breadth and
foundation to our minds, just as in our cropping
for refinement we see nothing of the sound
sense, the good feeling, the honesty of our
grocer or our milkman.


1t is high time that we knew, and taught
our children to know, that it is among the com
mon people, the decent, uneonspicuous. un-
published masses not one of whose names
ever gave head line to an Associated Press
report, that the sound faith in Christ islto be
found, the weight of plan common sense, the
faithful marriages, the countless well ordered,
happy homes, the charities, the mOdesty, tho
cheerfulness which make American life the
purest and fullest of promise in the world


The record of our superior people gives
another impression to outsiders. But as most
of US have the luck to belong to the unknown
majority, we can take courage and 60 forward
~. y Tribune
Year: 1874

A MONKEY IN TROUBLE-Sam Wicoxea
has a small mcnagere of monkeys, badgers,
foxes, and the like. He also has large New
places one of his pet monkeys when he is going
for walk about the tOwn-the monkey fastened
to the collar of the dog by a string. As gem
eral thing the monkey enjoys his ride but We
saw him day or two since when be would
willingly have traded himself off for some less
privileged specimen of his species. His canine
steed, being allowed to roam the streets at viii,
saw another dog that he thought he could whip
and forthwith went for him. La q moment
both dogs were on their hind legs, and going
tor each other like two sausage machines! This
made times very lively for the monkey, as the
stranger dog evidently considered him as a
part and parcel of his antagonist. Such walls
OF despair as that monkey uttered, and such
hldcouS faces as he made, we never heard or
saw. lie would climb down the side of the
dog he bc>trOde opposite to where the war was
going on, and thence peep over occasionally
his jaws quiyering, his visage distorted, and
his eyes staring from their sockets with terror.
As the dogs were constantly changing sides, it
made times awlully lively with the monkey
When he jumped to the ground the string held
him, and he found himself trampled under the
feet of both friend aud foe-and he was glad
t0 get again upon the back of his steed and
face the battle The poor monkey, had not
the dogs been separated, must soon have been
rendered fit subject for the insane asylum.
Az it was, he did not get over examining the
end of his tail for wounds for four hours after
the battle.
Year: 1874

BISHOP CUMMINs AND HIS CHURCH
Bishop CumminS is staying at the Sanitarium,
Auburn. n. Y, for the benefit of his health.
He will begin this month systematic visitation
to the Reformed Episcopal Churches to organize
new associations, ordain ministers, &c, begin
ming in Canada. He does not think the general
Protestant Episcopal Convention this fall will
take any step for the revision of the prayer
book, and says that fve-sixths or seven eights
of the clergy holds High Church views He
believes that Low Churchmen, like the younger
Tying, will see the hopelessness Of their cause.
withdraw and join the Reformed Episcopal
Church. The differences between the two
parties in the parent body are too radical TO be
reconcied. The General Convention of the
Reformed Episcopal Church, which meets in
Chicago next May, will elect several more
bishops, including one for Can ida. Numerous
applications have been received from ministers
of the Protestant Episcopal Church, but there
is at present no field for them. The growth
OF the new church will be necessarily slow, bat
its success is assured.
Year: 1874

NOVEL READING AND A HIGHER CULTURE.
The examining committee of the Boston
Public Library has come to the belief that
novel reading is better than no reading at all,
and that books even Of the lightest order exert
upon those who can appreciate no higher kind
a certain educational influence. The commit
tee has, therefore, concluded not to depre-
cate novel reading, but it nevertheless greets
with pleasure every sign OfimprOvement in the
public taste and every measure designed to
raise the standard Of reading" In the Bates
Hall collection of the library there are many
valuable standard works, but no novels, and as
a consequence this collection has not been as
much used as the general library. Last year
the books in the Bates Hall were collected in
classes Of biography. history and travel, and
lists were prepared of them. The effect du-
ring the last eight months has been to raise by
- per cent. the use of books of history, biog-
raphy and travel, while the addition to the
amount Of fiction used has been less than three
per cent. by comparison of the use made of
books of history in June, 1874, and June 1873,
II is shown that there has been an increase of
200 per cent. during the year, while the entire
reading Of the lower hall or general library has
increased only half of one per cent
Year: 1874

DRowNED.-A young man by the name Of
Alfred Thaycr. was drowned at Ilayman's
Ferry on Wednesday afternoon last. lie was
assisting to cross n dreye Of Mules by ford
Ing, riding n horse In the lead, when the
horse from some cause refused to swim and
both sunk to rise no more alive.


The body had not been recovered up to last
N
Year: 1874

COMFORTS AND LUXURIES OF THE FARM
There Is a class Of farmers who are living only
to grasp more acres Their farms can never
be large enough, nor can their workmen or
themsevs ever do quite enough work. They
cannot be satisfied with the income of farm,
nor could they be with that of any other busi-
ness But those who understand that the
highest object of labor is not simply to make
money but to provide the largest amount Of fmeans
of improvement and innocent enjoyment that
the world affords, can make the persult of agrl
culture furnish more luxuries that really con-
tribute to our well being than any other em
ployment requiring an equal amount of capital.
Their farms are not so large as to make slaves
OF themselves and sons, and their wives and
daughters are not worn out with incessant
drudgery. Their door-yards blossom with
flowers, their tables are supplied with many
varieties of we'll grown delicious fruit, their
houses are made cheerful by the influence Of
books and music, and taste for the pure and
innocent enjoyment of lite is developed i'll their
children. Here and there a farmers home
exempli6es all the cOntentment and happiness
possible TO a race doomed to labor and disap-
pointment-Erdc. Farmer.