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Year: 1874

Twenty-seven Nashville ladies' determined to
practice economy; vowed not to wear anything
more expensive than calico dresses to church
and they stuck to it, as none of them have at
tended church since.
Year: 1874

Some, besides the Radicals, will De sor-
nv over this Connecticut electiOn-this glO-
rious Yankee Democratic election that has
lust gone all one way, that has put It's
hands as it were upon the party OF the
Republic and blessed it in the Hame OF the
constitution and the laws. n triumph
was expected there, but not that sort OF a
triumph which has beaten Radical and
temperance fanatic, the Puritan and the
Pharisee, which has swept over the legs
lative districts as an inundatiOn, and which
guarantees the election of United States
Senator who believes that the war Is over,
and that official robbers, no matter whetil-
er loyal or disloyal, should be put In the
Penitentiary.


1t is not difficult to apply the moral OF
this most satisfactory result. AS long as
the present form of government exists,
there must of necessity be two evenly bal
anced and bitterly antagonistic parties.
1t is the attritiOn of these-the constant
watchfulness and circumspectiOn that pro-
duce all of official honesty there IS Ill the
administration of public affairs. Radical
ism can find reason for all of its mon
strous corruptions in the fact that for
dozen years of its existence-because OF
the despotism established by the war-ll
was not made dependent upon the natural
| order of politics. 1t was thing OF revO'
luton and the sword 1t could live long
er under excesses, survive more criminal
mistakes, and maintain fora greater perioc
its superb organization than dozen 9th
er parties of any kind where there wer'
no sectional or abnormal influences to sris
tain them and shelter them under the drill
and discipline of military glories and re
membranes. Time, however, is bringing
back tie inevitable. The party OF Law
and conservatism is the Democratic party
and so when the reign of the proves
marshal and the proscriptionist is over
the result as in Connecticut will be on


of consolation to all who value libert


and honor the constitution.-St. Loui
| Disrnfch
Year: 1874

A weed! What is weed? Nothing but
a little plant which grows where it is not
wanted. 1t may do no harm in itself, but
it takes the place of other more useful veg
citation. In nsome parts of the world seed
or two of some foreign plant have been ac-
cidentally brought into the country. In
time these have proved so fruitful that the
plants growing from them have almost
filled the land, doing more lasting injury
than even an army of soldiers. This is
said to be the case now in South Africa.
In consequence of the introduction of the
merino sheep, one single weed (the Kan
ttium Spinozun) has spread TO such an ex-
tent that it threatens to leave no room for
anything else to grow, and the farmers are
going to work with all their energies to
eXterminate it. Just as spark OF fire, II
left alone, will burn down whole city. OF
bad habit, if indulged. will ruin a noble
character, so single weed is capable. II
not repelled, of destroying the prosperity
of an entire province. A curious circum-
stance is, that this same weed in southern
Europe keeps within moderate bounds
and troubles the farmers no more thar
others of its kind.
Year: 1874

The Springfield (Mass.) Union relates the
following: IS. NJ. Cooper, of Stock
bridge, who died on Friday night. had a
remarkable presentiment that his death
was near. He was an active, robust and
healthy man, but he had said to several
persons that he should never live to see his
fortv-fourth birthday. He was fOrty-three
in January. His father and grandfather
had died at fOrty~three, but of diseases OF
which he showed no symptoms; yet his
conviction that he should not survive the
year was so strong that he had been max
ing various arrangements of property, ETC.,
with reference to that impression. a few
weeks before his death, when at work with
his son on the mountain, he had a slight
attack of illness. but it soon passed of, and
he eniOined it upon his son to make no
mention of the occurrence at home. On
Friday he rose in his usual health, attend
ed an auction in Glendale in the forenoon,
was about ut the stores on StOckbridge
Plain in the afternoon, procured cheek
at the bank there, for the payment OF a
life insurance policy, went home and re
tired early, but to all appearances well.
He soon had occasion to get up to look TO
one of the children, and while standing by
his own bedside, was seized with a sort OF
internal distress, lay down and in less than
an hour was dead.'


A story which may be classed under the
same head is told by the Scranton pa
Times thus: -Four persons were killed
at recent railroad disaster upon the jet
ferson branch of the Erie. One Of these,
the engineer, John Harding, had sister
living in Carbondale. She was sitting al
the table reading at the time of the acci-
dent, and at the very instant, as afterwards
ascertained, of the catastrophe, she leaped
up from her chair and cried out, Jack is
dead She then ran to the depot, told
them something had happened to he1
brother, urged them to telegraph, and in
/ few moments thereafter came the news el
/ his terrible fateD
Year: 1874

A correspondent, writing from Edo,
New, says that there are hot springs there
in which numbers of fish can be seen swim
ming about, though the water is SO hot that
eggs are cooked in less than three see
onds." The explanation of this pheno-
menon lies in the fact that these hot springs
rise in the banks of the streams, the water
of which is intensely cold. The cold water,
on account of its greater SPECIFIC gravity,
runs on the bottom without mixing much


with the water above, and the fish keep IN
cool stream. The water above the springs


showed a mean temperature Of forty-two


degrees, and by means Of thermometer
fastened to the end Of pole and kept as
close as possible 10 the bottom, the temper
ature Of the bottom water from above the
springs to point below them was iound
| to be very low. This stream is one Q. me


many that form the head-waters OF the
Columbia River. and to this point, one
thousand eight hundred miles from its


mouth, the saltwater salmon come hun


dreds in the spring and fall to spawn.
Year: 1874

THE QUEEN COMING OUT.-A late Lon
don letter says: 1T is understood that
the Queen is greatly charmed with her
new daughter-in-law, and she is also de
lighted with the reception. 1t has, in fact,
operated upon her as quite revival OF IN
tcrest in life, and it is expected that she
will now come out much more into public
than She has done since the Prince Con-
SORTS death. met her driving in the Ken
sington Gardens this morning, and talking
as brightly and merrily to her daughter
Beatrice as in the old days when she used
to ride there with her nurse on donkey.
The Queen has intimated that she will ac-
company the Duke and Duchess to great
civic entertainment to be given by the Lord


Mayor and Corporation about the second


week after Easter.
Year: 1874

AH-Kow's way of thieving in san Fran
cisco is to wear brOad-brimmed hat when
he steals. and change it for small cap
when he gets around the corner. Then ne
walks off with blank innocence of face
which is impossible TO anybody but Chi
uaman.
Year: 1874

In the District Court of the Fourteenth Judicial
District of the State of California, in and fol
the County of Placer.


Charity A. Given VS.. Isaac p. Given.
The People of the State of California send greet
ing to Isaac p. Given, Defendant.


\OU are hereby required to appear in an ac-
l. ton brought against you by the above
named Plaintiff in the District Court of the Four
teenth judicial District of the State of California.
III and for the County of Placer and to answer
the complaint filed therein Ga copy of which ac-
companies this summons), within ten days Tex
elusive OF the day Of service after the service on
you OF this summons - # served within tn is
county; or If served ont of this county but within
this judicial District within twenty days; or, if
served out OF said District then within forty DAYS
or Judgment by default will be taken against
yon, according to the prayer of said complaint
The said action is brought to obtain decree of
this court dissolving the bonds of matrimony
existing between You and plaintiff, all of which
is more fully set forth in plaintiffs complaint on
ME, herein to which special reference is hereby
made


And you are hereby notified that If you fail to
appear and answer said complaint rs above re-
quIred, the said Plaintiff will apply to the court
Tor the relief demanded in the complaint


- Court of the Fourteenth Judicial Dis
SEAL trict of tn State of California, in and
Wv ~ for the County of Placer, this ninth
day of June, in the year of our Lord. one thou
sand eight hundred and seventy-four.


b. F.. BURT, Clerk


Jel3-2m by f. ID. ADAMS, Deputy.
Year: 1874

We commit the still greater error OF
plunging into ice water every morning;
then scrub all the skin off with horse
hair brush or n coarse board towel (; sit
down to a breakfast of oatmeal sawdust;
dine oil a tablespoonful of wheat and
two berries, and make Il supper on cat
nip tea; then are put through Rus
sian bath of 500 degrees sleep under an
open window when the thermometer is
at zero; wear long hair; dress the


women in pantalOons make all our


property over to them then sit down


in the kitchen cOrnerand nurse the baby


and when it is asleep wash up the tea


things and go to bed at nine o'clock to


be tout of the way" What will be-


come of US men? Surely we have fallen


OH evil times. A better, truer mode OF


life is to have plenty of everything that


is good to eat and drink, which imparts


nourishment and strength and as much


of it as you want. The idea of getting


up from the table hungry is unnatural,
absurd and hurtful, quite as much so as


getting up in the morning before your
! sleep is out, on the mischievous prinei-
pie that "early to rise makes man
| healthy, wealthy and wise"


Early rising, in civilized society, al
ways tends to shorten life. Early rising


of itself never did any good. Many a
/ farmers boy has been made an Invalid


for life by being made to get up by day
light, before his sleep was out. Many a


Young girl has been stunted in body and
in mind and constitution by being made
to get up before the system has bad its
full rest. All who are growing, all who


work hard, and all weakly persons


should not get up until they feel as i


they would be more comfortable to get
up than to remain in bed; that Is the


only true measure of sutiiciency OF resi-
and sleep. Any one who gets up In th'
morning feeling as II he would giv'
ANYTHING in the world" to remain ii
, bed a while longer, does violence to hi
own nature, and will always suffer from
! it-not Immediately, it may be, but Ger
T tainly i'm later years, by the cumulativ


i'll effects of the most unwise practice
! In any given case, the person who get
: up in the morning before he is full
4 rested, will lack Just that much OF I'll
r energy requisite for the days pursuit.
q AS people, we do not get enoug
n sleeD, we do not get enough rest, we WI
a NOT take time for these things: hem
; our nervousness, our irritability, OF
q bastv temper, and too premature givin
a ont of the stamina of life. Half of us
4 old ct three score, the very time ma
! ought to be in his mental, moral an
e physical prime. Half of our wive
i especially in the farming districts, d
= long before their time, because they
IS not get rest and sleep propOrtionate
o their labor. Nine times out OF ten
a would be better for all parties II the Ia
" mer should get up and light the hres al
" prepare breakfast for his wife, she cor
re ing directly from her toilet to the brea
4 fast table. because it almost always ha
n mems that she has to remain up to s
1e things right, long after the husband h
"a gone to bed, when really he has nothiI
lis to do after supper but to got to bed: III
n is a monstrously cruel imposition
n wives and mothers.-HdlPS Journal
HIN
Year: 1874

results of an observer. This observer
saws that ''the seums of the city came
up solid against Woman Suffrage" that
f"the affirmative votes were cast by the
most respectable and temperate portion
of the people" This was the case there
and ali over the State
Year: 1874

WOULDN'T it be good idea to have
the Government interfere to prevent law
lessness in Indiana, in view of the hor-
rible outrage committed by the three
white men who robbed poor French
man and then tied him-across the rail
road track, where he lay until passing
train cut off leg and released him :?
Even the White League of Louisiana
would resist the temptation to such
cruelty, and as several journalists are
anxious to protect the lives of people in
the South, we suggest the propriety of
paying little attention to the protec-
tion of poorFrenchmen in the North. We
don't want to be understood as affecting
any sarcasm in the abuve.
Year: 1874

HERE is what the Republicans of the
First District think on the currency
question That the system of curren-
cy founded by the Republican party
has proved the best ever devised for the
purpose intended, and while we would
favor no violent change which might be
oppressive to either the debtor or the
creditor class, we would recomend a sys-
TEN of free national banking based upon
some safe plan for redemption, and re-
turn to specie payment at the earliest
practical period consistent with suffi-
cient supply of currency to meet the
reasonable wants of business.
Year: 1874

A MILWAUKEE dispatch says: "Tues-
day morning at O'Clock switch engine


on the G. aDd n. W. Railway ran into
the river at Kinnikinnick bridge The
draw was open, fact which the engineer
did not perceive, owing to the dense fog.
The engine and tender were driven into
the stream. but nobody was Injured the
engineer and stoker jumped from the
locomotive and saved themselves. The
bridge was enabled to swing. consequent
IL no delay to trains was experienced.
Year: 1874

The letters from Clusters expedition
to the Black Hills of Dakota present
some very pretty pictures. The climate
the soil, the scenery, are things uneX-
pected and unexcelled. Beyond all these
in attractions is the gold. which is said
to be SO plenty that the roots Of the
grass are weighted with its dust. These
epistles are all very fine, and calculated
to excite fever of exploration. But it
must not be forgotten that this territory
belongs to the Sioux; that if the law
which makes the white mans home sa
cred and law protected does not apply in
good faith to their possessions, they will
fight for them. An Indian fights to kill.
and the Sioux, though they had no al
iiances with other tribes. are nation
powerful enough to make the valleys Of
the Black Hills crimson with the blood
of white men. Gold-hunters had better
remain at home for year or two, unless
they wish to die early under the scalp.
ing knife of the Indian. There is no
sense 10 getting excited about the Black
Hills Post and 1HdH.
Year: 1874

It appears that the establishment of a
new administration organ in New York
can no longer be considered doubtful.
The presses are actually being built, and
a part of the old Herald building, on
Nassau street, has been already secured
for an office. The new paper will be
known as the Republic, and will be the
size and style of the Herald. The cap
ital stock is put at half million OF
dollars.
Year: 1874

The New York Tribune wants to know
If it is not ''about time for sincere men
and sound minded people generally to
cut loose from the dismantled hulks call
ed parties % The Post and Mail thinks
there Is a good deal of concealed humor
in the plaintive query, and likewise a
keen sarcasm on the Liberal party
which the Tribune assisted at it's birth.
Year: 1874

THE Milwaukee & ST. Paul r. r. has
just committed a piece Of cruel injustice,
obviously out of mixed feeling of spite
and a desire to make political capital for
the approaching election, though it will
injure their cause far more than it will do
them good. They have discharged SO
per cent. of their employees at the car
works using as their excuse the parrot
cry, "the Potter law, although the law
has not yet been enforced, not single
train less has been run, or a pound less
freight carried. The reduction of the
salaries Of the managers, assistant man
ayers, and other officers, who have made
a royal income out of the road, by just
SO per cent. will pay these poor men s
wages and good deal over. Most of
these men have their families here, and
have built little cottages, into which all
their savings have gone, and the policy
of the company has always been to make
its rage first felt by them, knowing that
their all is tied up here, and they cannot
get away. Every working man i'll the
city knows this. 1H71aulcee Sentinel.
Year: 1874

| to by q dozen unconvicted keepers?
Observe the effect this terrible silence
causes. Men require words to keep their
brains alive; and when they are deprived
of them they sink to the level of the brute.
Does q prisoner show hollow eye and
faded cheek Does his frame tremble and
his pulse halt 2 Does he start at slight
noises Then solitary confinement in a
dark cell has done it's work. His nerves
are shattered, and but little more would
give him death of raving lunacy. Is he
overcome with stuporl Does his brain
seem torpid. and does he manifest no inter-
est in our inquiries He has been crushed
and quelled by cruelty till scarce vestigs
OF man is left.


Sirs, it is no slight zask you are set about.
Perform is earnestly. sincerely and tho
roughly, and you will not only earn the
gratitude Of the unfortunate wretches
whose very silence pleads SO eloquently,
but receive the praise and honor all good
men delight to shower Oh the good and
faithful servant.


You will find the law on the subject re-
garded in hardly any respect. Prisoners
sentenced to imprisonment are notoriously at
work on plantations and on private works
Section 1855 OF the Revised Statutes posi-
lively forbids their being employed outside
OF the prison walls. ''The Ring" have act
ed as though superior TO law and Indifferent
to the claims of humanity. Gentlemen of
the Legislature, the case is before you.
Year: 1874




The Philadelphia Press gives some de-
tails of the autopsy of the twins which we
did not receive by telegram. Speaking of
the results of the dissection Of the bodies
the Press says:


Approaching the band, the lower portion
of the ensiform cartilage, or breast bone,
in each joins by doubling or bending out,
making almost a long union with q dis
tinct joint at the central point of union,
on which the bodies hinge freely. The
joint is somewhat similar to, but not so
complicated as that ut the elbow. The band
at the smaller part has q circumference of
nine inches, and when the link was
stretched, and when the twins were stood
as far apart as possible, there was Il space
of eight inches intervening. Yesterday
the skin Of each body was cut through pos
tcriorly, and thrown back from the band
and adjacent structures, exposing superb
cial and deep fascia or fatty tissues in the
rectUs muscle Of each.


The great question of whether they
could have been separated in life was set
tied in the negative by various abdominal
sections which were made. The perito-
neum or membranOus lining of the belly
in each was found TO enter the band, and
four pouches or cuis-dc sac overlapped each
other at the centre of the band. The most
marked feature here was the presence of
two such pouches from the body Of the
larger brother, Chang; the upper one
shorter than the lower, but each tapping,
one from above and one from below, the
single pouch of Eng. An almost exact
idea of the arrangement of these cuLs-dc-
sac may be obtained by holding the first
Joint of the forefinger between the thumb
and finger of the other hand. The as
and curious fact was developed
that line passing down the centre of the
band would sever all three of these pro-
and open the peritonial cavity
Of each liver. If the knife had been used
in life, death would have, therefore, most
probably, If not necessarily, resulted.
Year: 1874

The late Charles Dickens it was gener-


ally known, was separated from his wife.


In the third volume Of Forster's "Life of


Dickens" just issued in London, the great {


novelist himself explains his mysterious


family troubles: "poor Catherine and ]


are not made for each other, and there is


no help for it. lt is not only that she


makes me uneasy and unhappy, but that


make her so too-and much more 30.


She is exactly what you know, in the way
of being amiable and complying; but we
are strangely ill-assorted for the bond
there is between US. God knows she
would have been thousand times hap
pier If she had married another kind of
man, and that her avoidance of this des-
tiny would have been at least equally good
for Us both. ! am often cut TO the heart by
thinking what q pity it is, for her own
sake, that / ever fell in her way and IL
were sick or disabled tomorrow Z know
how sorry she would he, and how deeply
grieved myself to think how we had lost
each other. But the same incompatibility
would srise the moment was we'll again
and nothing on earth could make her un-
ders-and me, or suit Us With each other.
Her temperament VIII not 90 with mine.
II mattared notso much when we had only
ourselves 70 consider, but reasons have
been growing since which makes it all but
hopeless that we should even try To strUg-
Sl0 on. What is now Eetalliug mo / have
seen steadily coming, ever since the days
yOu remember when little Nary was born
and / know to well that you cannot, and
no one can, help me. Why I LaYe writ
ten 4 hardly know, but 1t iS miserable
sort Of comfort that you should be- clearly
aware how matters stand
Year: 1874

From the Daily Republican, august 26th


" If MIR. Candy represented the views
OF the Republicans Of the 9TH ward, he
could have been regularly nominated
And the fact that he refused on declined
being regular candidate is prima facio
evidence that he could not receive a ma
jority of the Republican voters of the
ward


If he is not the choice Of the Republi-
cans, by whom then can he expect to be
elected? 1t is certainly bid for the
Democratic vote. Or, even worse, an ef-
fort to divide the Republican vote OF the
ward to elect ID Democrat Councilman" !"


The tyranny of the Ring has driven Il
large number Of Republicans to abandon
the Republican party, and Mr.. Candy is
complying with the urgent request of
come of those gentlemen in Offering him.
self to the Independent voters of his
ward. This he has civil, as well as
political and moral right to do. Few
men have the courage to attempt to run
for an Office in defiance of their party,
and doubtless Mr.. Candy has greater
cause for taking the step he has taken
than We Democrats can now see. Indeed
he is not man who courts Office, nor has
he sought popular favor. His word,
therefore, should command the respect
OF his friends, and Just now it would be
highly com1nendable in the Republicans
to elect Mr.. Candy, and send him to the
Council untramelled by party caucuaes
in order that he might be free to propose
any reform that he may conceive neces-
sary for the good of our tax ridden little
city. Why is it that Dir. A. II. Grim.
shaw, who has also announced himself
an independent candidate in the Seventh
Ward, is not assailed as Mr.. Candy has
beenP Do the Republicans suppose they
can treat him with contempt? The fact
is these gentlemen represent II great
body OF the Republican party who feel
the cost of the extravagant politicians
that are now Ringing the very blood out
OF our people; and they know that it is
necessary to stop the ruinous course
But the Ring cannot stop! 1t is bound
TO go on, or go to pieces.


The writer in the Republican holds that
Mr.. Candy is doing the Republican party
more harm than Democrat could do
He Is allowing himself to be used as a clul
by other Republicans to break the Ring
Ii SO we say uod speed him. For every
Democrat must feel like striking tn,
Ring, Ii. e., the Republican party,) Will
every weapon we get hold of, that ma,
be used to give an honest, square and di
rect blow. No righteous man can hon
estly declare that the Ring ought to b,
sustained; then let it be defeated.