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Year: 1874

before tho bar Of tho House will be tho nse
thing In order the reassemblipg In the mean Tune,
several men who were, In lsT2. known as innnentai
members of tho lobby and whose connection with this
parouar lob ia notorious are In great trouble In antcl
patton Of their before the Committee Several
of them have already prepared written Statements
which they intend to read when called upon and II the


inquiry. 80 far as they concerned could only stop
with these statements. they would DO happy; outa
animation Is what they most fear ana now 10
escape It Is the problem to be solved II the Committee
does half duty they will not escape H. ana "he'her
Irwin speaks or not the country will hnd out nto whose
bands few hundred thousands at least OF the corrnp
ton fund went when 1t loft Twins.
Year: 1874

Special Agent Knsella and his associate
having finished their Investigation OF the Customhouse
haye made their report and left the city. Collector
Arthur stated that the prospective changes would
be very violent The object was to retrench expenses
40 far as practicable and to render the remaining
employees as eficiont as possible. Changes would
gradually be made from until Feb. /,
hut not IN any way to impair the service
NJ tbe Government It was proposed to consolidate
scattered branches Of the Revenue service First
them the prospective concentration of the lquida
through the several divisions Tho investigations of
the special agents did not relate to any alleged frauds
but were conducted simply with view to render the
seryioe more efficient and less expensive.
Year: 1874

dollar so far subscribed to promote it. hence the Commission did not follow it's own wishes and resign their commissions, and let the nation and it's vile press be responsible for the failure o1 grand enterprise favored by all influences until abandonment of 1t could only be nation al disgrace. Tweed and Genet were not ''original" members nor any other kind They have never had any connection with the Commission, and it is an mex cusable if not vicious falsehood for The Bulletin to assert otherwise. The Com mission by act of Congress of 1872, has been deprived of the financial manage ment, and a Board of Finance created whose members are men of wealth and highest integrity and in no sense profes- sional politicians. John Welch stands at the head of this Board, and a more up- right man does not live, and for the first time in his life is he awake to the fright ful dishonesty of the press in it's persist ent misrepresentation of himself and associates. With his eyes moist with tears, we heard him express amazing re- gret that the press and some very prom. inent members of Congress labor as zealously to unjustly break down the best men and enterprises as they could bad ones, and how heartily he had become disgusted with his very small expenence in public life.

 The Bulletin in its own mean way says a local body ot prominent and reliable citizens can doubtless be selected to manage the affair Gas mere local ex- position) and make it grand success. A local body of just such citizens now have financial charge of the exposition, and yet The Bulletin conveys the idea that they are rogues. Such logicI and yet it seems easy and rational with The Bulletin. It has for few years been mainly devot- ed to blackening the character of the best public men and enterprises, and undoubt- edly finds encouragement in the fact that the selfstyled independent press" is, with rare exceptions, as bad as itself.

 If the Centennial Exposition designed by the Act of Congress approved March 3, 1871, does not come off as intended, no blame can be justly put upon the Centen- nial Commissioners, but upon the vile press of the land united with set of cow ardly and false officers, some of whom were in Congress when that Act passed and voted for it.
Year: 1874

We just shake hands at meeting With many that come nigh; We nod the head in greeting To many that go by; But welcome through the gateway, Our few old friends and true; Then hearts leap up, and straightway There's open house for you,

 Old Friends, There's open house for you! The surface will be sparkling, Let but sunbeam shine; Yet in the deep lies darkling, The true life of the wine! The fruth is for the many, The wine is for the few; Unseen, untouched Of any, We keep the best for you,

 Old Friends, The very best for you! s The many cannot know us; They only pace the strand Where at our worst we show us The waters thick with sand! But out beyond the leaping Dim surge 'tis clear and blue; And there, Old Friends we're keeping A sacred calm for you,

 Old Friends, A waiting calm for you!
Year: 1874

Col. H. A. BIGELow, who is well versed in mining circles at Prescott, writes that the law recently enacted by Congress to extend the time for performing labor on mines located prior to May 10, 1872, is " the worst setback to this section !of Arizona we ever had. There are men of means here who have been waiting for months to take hold of old claims, who are now perfectly disgusted. ,...

 "I had three men for two months 10 put the legal work on the most valuable of my claims, and intended to relocate on two lodes, and cramped myself to do what I did; and still was perfectly satisfied to let everything else go by the board- Now we all feel as though there was no bottom to anything. Extensions may be continued indefinitely for all we know. Let us hope that the extensions of our lives may be sufficient to enable us Co see the end"
Year: 1874

THE COLORADO AGRICULTURALIsT com plains of the falling behind in the produc- ton of wool in that Territory. While they have millions of acres of grazing lands, capable of sustaining ten times the present mum Der of sheep, the supposed prospect of suddenly acquired wealth which mining offers, tends to withdraw capital and labor from wool growing and other agricultural pursuits.
Year: 1874

THE CARS ExCLUsIvENEss.-T


Gar is a parsonage about as easy of
approach as Mikado of Japan. It is
related by one correspondent, with bated
breath, that Count SchouvalOff, Chief of
the Gendarmerie, "speaks with the
Emperor every day, as few or none may
do" A remark is imputed to the Ouch
ess of Edinburgh which throws some
light on the dread mysteries of royal
life in Russia. She could not understand,
she said, after few weeks of English
experience, how the royal family here
could admit the nobility to such familiar
intercourse with them. Had she heard
what cronies the Prince of Wales and
the Duke of Sutherland are, and that
the latter has key to the private door
to the grounds of Marlborough House,
hard by his own more magnificent STAT
ford House? In Russia, said the positive
minded young Duchess, we do not look
upon our nobility as belonging to the
same caste as ourselves, nor ever admit
them to social equality. We do not visit
them. Sometimes, when the Emperor is
travelling, he occupies a nobleman's
house, because it is better than o hotel,
but in that case he takes possession Of
it as his own,and uses it as such so long
as he likes; then he goes away, and the
noble thinks himself honored by his
imperial masters condescension.-[Lo Lon
don Letter to n. Y. Tribune
Year: 1874

The following concise and comprehen-
sive note was sent to an Illinois merchant
by a neighboring farmer the other day:
"Send me trace chain and two hinges
Jane had baby last night-also two
padl0cks.n
Year: 1874

There was presented in the House Of
Representatives to-day protest of the Gen
eral Indian Council of the Nation country,
organized under the treaties Of 1866, against
the establishment of a territorial govern
mani In that corrnfT-v
Year: 1874

with such Limitations as were set forth in
the annual report OF the Secretary of the
Treasury, in 1872. 4 statement had been
made here, that during the first four years
no progress mad been made towards a re-
turn to specie payments. This he denied.
In 1869 the average price of gold was S2ss
Year: 1874

The life of the keepers of the Faral- lon light, on the California coast, is singularly lonely and monotonous. Their house is built somewhat under the shelter of the rocks, but they live in what to @ landsman would seem & perpetual storm; the ocean roars in their ears day and night; the boom of the surf is their constant and only music !; the wild scream of the sea- birds, the howl of the sea-lions, the whistle and shriek of the gale, the dull threatening thunder of the vast break CTS, are the dreary and desolate sounds which Hull them to sleep at night, and assail their ears when they awake. In the winter months even their supply vessel, which for the most part is their only connection with the world, is sometimes unable to make a landing for weeks at time. Chance visitors they see only occasionally, and at that distance at which a steamer is safe from the surf, and at twhich girl could not even recognize her lover. The com merce of San Francisco passes before their eyes, but so far away that they caRnot tell the ships and steamers which sail by them voiceless and with out greeting; and of the events passing on the planet with which they have so frail social tie they learn only at long and irregular intervals. The change from sunshine to fog is the chief variety in their lives the nasty landing of supplies the great event in thelr months. They can not even watch the growth of trees and plants and to 8 child born and reared ill such a place, a sunny lea under the shelter of rocks is probably the ideal of human felicity.
Year: 1874

Nature varies the oak tree in Cali fornia into large range of forms, scrub trees, apple-tree oaks, grand masculine structures that hold out their branches properly at right-angles, and superb, towering, spreading, arching forms that blend with natural majesty of their stocks the grace of the elm But none of them have the fiber and muscle of the New England oaks. It is said that there is no timber in the State hard enough to made good ax-handle out of. The most stalwart-looking of the structures, if cut down would be likely to break asunder in half-a-dozen places by the shock of its fall. But they are glorious to look at when every downward branch is decked with deli cate pendants of green gray moss. This moss is collected, boiled and dried, to be stuffed into beds. It is very hard to kill, and requires long cooking in the hot water, and when cured, it comes out black and resembles hair.
Year: 1874

Paralysis, according to an English traveller, is rare, much that passes for paralysis being curable, especially through the imagination. The opinion is supported by the statements of one of the best medical men in Paris, who, in 1849, was 8 physician in the great hos pital there, the Hotel Dieu. In that year this hospital was particularly fa- nous for the cures effected in it. and many were the hypochondriacs whose imaginations sent them home we'll after stay in it's wards. One odd case was that of young girl in the department of the Ain, whom sudden fright had rendered dumb and paralyzed. Local physicians could do nothing for her, and at last asserted that only the doc tors of the Hotel Dieu could cure her.

 Firmly believing this herself, the girl was sent to Paris and admitted to the hospital, where the hurried physician merely examined her as matter of form, promising to return the following day. When he came he heard to his astonlshment that the patient was in- clined to speak. He spoke to her and she answered instantly that she thought that she could walk with @ little help, and she did walk twice around the ward very easily. The next week she returned to her native village as well as ever.

 "I knew," she said, "that the Hotel Dieu would cure me p

 It would be hard to find more strik- ing instance of the mysterious power of the imagination, and of strong belief, upon the physical structure.
Year: 1874

Dr. Brown Sequard, in his last Bos- ton lecture, says there are many facts which show that nor bid phenomena of respiration can be also stopped by the influence of arrest. Coughing, for in- stance, can be stopped by pressing on the nerves on the lip in the neighbor- hood of the nose. A pressure there may prevent 8 cough when it is begin ming. Sneezing may be stopped by the same mechanism. Pressing in the neighborhood of the ear, right in front of the ear, may stop coughing. It is so also of hiccough, but much less so than for sneezing and coughing. Press ing very hard on the top of the mouth inside IS also a means of stopping coughing. And may say that the will has immense power there. There was a French soldier who used to say, when ever he entered the wards of the hos pital, "The first patient who coughs here will be deprived of his food to- day." It was exceedingly rare that patient coughed then. There are many other affections associated with breath ing which can be stopped by the same mechanism that stops the hearts action. In spasm of the glottis, which is ter rible thing in children, as you we'll know, as it sometimes causes death, and also in whooping cough, it is possible to afford relief by throwing cold water on the feet or by tickling the soles of the feet, which produces laughter, and at the same time goes to the gray mat ter that is producing the spasm and arrests it almost at once. I would not say that we can always prevent cough by our will but in many instances those things are possible, and if you remember that in bronchitis and pneu- monia, or any other acute affection of the lungs, hacking or coughing greatly increases the trouble at times, you can easily see how important it is fer the patient to try to avoid coughing as best he can,
Year: 1874

PovERTY.-Six children were recent ly found in small rear room in Aven- ue A who were supported entirely by the proceeds of..their mothers knitting work, which she peddled around the streets. Some days they had bread and milk, and some days they had little or nothing. In the evening the m other, having no. money for either coal or light, would pick mp bits of wood or coal in the street, which served some- times to kindle little fire in the cold dwelling.
Year: 1874

Some of the Greenland glaciers attain a vast size. Dr. Kane reports the great Humboldt glacier as sixty miles wide at its termination. Its seaward face rises abruptly from the level of the crater to a height of 300 feet, but it is not known how deep it may extend under the sea. Another important ice- stream is the Glacier of Elsblink, on the Northwest part of the island. It projects seaward so as to form promontory thirteen miles in length. It comes from an unknown distance in the interior, and plunges deeply into the sea.
Year: 1874

Our Stark county men say the worse
skunk skin stinks the greater the de-
mand, and at Plymouth they can get
more for skunk skin than at any other
place.-Knor Ledger.


Our Plymouth fur dealers are pretty
sharp; but they were beaten by Stark
county man in a little confidence game,
the other day. He. brought over lot Of
szCer for skins which were so exceeding
ly fragrant that they were bought up by
the first dealer he met. But what was
his modification and surprise after the
seller had left to find out that the fra
grarce had departed with him! The fur
dealer is now looking for Stark county
man-any one will do. He wants to
secure his services long enough to dis
pose of those skins to some other dealer.
on the same plan, and he is willing to
pay well for middle man. Old long
primer shoe pegs, do you want jobs
Year: 1874

We clip the following item from the
New York Days Doings. and of course
cannot vouch for its truthfulness:


A South Bend Qnd) young lady
quarrels with her "feller," and goes into
Mysteries over it and raves for twenty
tour hours, after which she is restored
by the magic touch of her lovers hand,
who, bv-the-way, didn't take back seat
for anybody" The young man was at
tending charity concert with another
young lady Wien called upon by the
physicians; but he faced the music, and
after seeing lady No. home, he proceed
ed to the residence of lady No. and &C
complished in a minute what three ply
sicians had failed to do in day. Better
come east young man. Boston needs you.
Year: 1874

Reports from all parts of the county
come to us of revival meetings being held
and many have been converted and J
large number joined the church


At the 81. a. Church in this place O
deeper religious feeling is manifest than
has been known for several years, though
there have been no new conversions.
Five have united with the church.


The Presbyterian Church are also enjoy
ing precious seasons, and very gracious
work IS being wrought. Rochester Spy.
Year: 1874

and these were molten into the KAISER
glocke," it now hangs in the south cam
panrle at Cologne. These guns weighed
500 cwt., valued at ST ,60600.


Nothing SO strongly indicates the man
of pure and wholesome thought as habit
ual purity OF speech. BY his converse
ton among his own kind you may al
ways pretty accurately form an opinion as
to the moral worth of man. 1t is there
where no restraint IS supposed to be
placed upon his words, that you discover
his true nature If he be given to loose
ness Of discourse, or his mind wanders TO
the discussions Of subjects prescribed in
mixed company or respectable society,
you may justly mark him as one with
whom association is undesirable.
Year: 1874

Il The doctors request their patrons to call early
in the day to insure prompt attention to patients in
the country. Special attention given 10 chronic
diseases and operative surgery. Office always open
and one doctor In constant attendance-no-10.
Year: 1874

GONE HOME; TIE BEANS ARE BURN
ING."-Last Sunday morning ii family
living i'll the suburbs of the city went
to a suburban church, leaving little
glrl about seven Years of age and Il boy


about twelve years of age in charge oi
the house. The family were to have
beans for dinner, and these were left in
vessel on the stove to cook The lit
tie girl while playing suddenly began
to smell the oder of burnt beans, upon
which she rushed out OF the house over in
tothe church where the pastor was grave
ly and earnestly preaching the profound
word of God. The first person of the
family the little girl espied was young
lady cousin and to her in IL loud voice
which startled the assemblage consid-
erably, she cried, Come home, come
home the beans are burning" and I'M
mediately rushed out again. The as
constituent was great, and all the sol
Year: 1874

l told Mr.. Anglesea if he ever
wanted any cross-examination done in
any of his law cases, he was at liberty
to send for me, for tho l might not
ask just the right questions thought
that might make up for that slight
defect by the number that l was con-
fident from my three-quarters of an
hours practice I could ask.


Mrs. Crump, the deaf wife of the
magistrate, is the only other person
| shall here introduce to the reader.
She was more gaudily dressed than
any Of my other callers, and such a
voluble talker that one found it not
only difficult to get very thin word
in ed gewise, but even to understand
the opposite party. The opposite
party talked in cascades. She rained
her words upon you. She came down
in torrents. You felt drenched be-
fore she had been with you FIVE min
utes. But for all-and her insur-
mountable love Of gossip learned
to like the woman, l heard that she
was good-hearted and in time found
her SO, and tho l am naturally preju-
diced against little weazened-up
women, that look as if a moderate
gale of wind would blow them away
and land them somewhere on the 9TH
er continent, came, in time, to repose
great faith in the kind motives and
well-meant though awkward acts OF
my new neighbor.
Getting up after half hours call
agreeable, on the whole-to 60
she chopped now, Mrs. Anglesea, you'll
come to see me soon, for my house
though humble and would have been
much less so, but Mr.. Crump though
a magistrate and would have risen in
his profession except tor his lamenesS
had slaved hard for his family and
the law is a hard profession. as both
Of us can testify having been bound
in it, not that [ would mention Mr..
Crump in the same breath with Mr.
Anglesea who is rising member Of
the bar, and so hope you will come
and not feel above any Of US here in
town for there are some good people
Joneses you know and Bakers-and
though humble ever open to you-and
though as I said it is a slavish profes
sion and its now nine year that we've
been in this very place and indeed il
the same house, except the yard which
has been enclosed and two chimney;
back, and not feel above any Of us
and come. Do now"


| And SO now, my dears, you are &C
quainted with my pastor, the servant
the senior warden, my plans for 1
| little church in Chatterwild and tw'
or three of my female neighbors.
| CONTINUED NEXT WEEK.)
Year: 1874

A GENTLEMAN who was on the lll-tated
Pat Rogers states that while he was
standing on the forward part of the boat,
making ready to spring into the water,
he heard one Of the officers of the boat
tell lady, who was standing near him
with little girl, fhat the time had come
when she must trust herself tothe water.
The lady, turning to her little daughter,
inquired if she could summon courage to
iump into the water. The little girl
glanced at the approaching flames, then
at the water, and responded in a firm
voice that she would jump if her mother
would follow her The mother assured
her that she would leap in after her. The
officcf threw mattress overheard and
told the girl to jump toward it. With
out q moments hesitation the heroic
child leaped into the dark and swiftly
gliding water, the mother instantly fol
lowing, but both at once sank to rise no
more There were grown women, and
even strong men, who shrank back from
the whirling wsters, almost preferring to
perish in the flames to trusting them
selves to its treacherous embrace. But
this brave child saw the situation, and
appreciating the only means Of escape
presented baae her mother follow, and
boldly flung herself into the raging flood.
Such heroic resolution is not often ex-
hibited, and the world has lost cour-
ageous woman in this dead child.-LOuis-
Ui2le C0uyser-J Journal