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Year: 1874

made Ben's hands 80 clean, and why they put
| a flannel gown on him instead of trowsers.
Afterward, when he took his sled out to slide
down the Himalayans alone, he cried to him
self bitterly enough. And there was the great
mass of privet and Italian willow growing
over the wooden seat which just held two.
One night he had sat there with No
matteri 1t was not the childiens mother
These early loves and friendships were like
the dreams he used to have lying on the
grass yOnder under the old cherry tree, when
he came, young fellow, home from ollege.
Love and dreams and ambitions shrunken and
withered like this narrow strip of garden-bed
between two fences, which was once all the
world to him.


Yet there still comes a queer, unaccountabe
pleasure to him, sOftening of his disciplined
heart a half wrench of pain in it at the sights
and smells of the old garden, which never
reached him in all the wonders of foreign
travel. He draws a quicker breath when he
finds the old asparagus-bed unaltered, and
haunted still by the gigantic race OF SPIDERS,
red and yellow, which were the terror of his
childhood. He goes out just after dawn, and
finds hOar-frOst edging with pearl the
massed green clover; whitening the redeemed
leaves of the rose-bushes and their yellow seed
vessels, and glittering over the ruby berries
of the honeysuckles. A strange delight at the
beauty of it all fills his eyes with sudden
tears. Yet ordinarily he cares nothing for
beauty in art or nature. He is glad, too, when
Bob, his boy, comes in just as he used to do,
on fire with triumph at finding dozen
hens eggs, or "reckons that stone spring
"house was something like the house Jack
"found the Giant COrmoran in" lie goes
down in the dusk to look for Lucy and spies
her seated on the bench, which holds but two,
with young HOrseley, who has followed them
up from town. 1t is cold and the privet over
head drops bright leaves on them, but their
cheeks are warm as though it were midsummer.


He goes softly away, plucking late rose
from a leafess bush. 1t is the very rose which
his mother used to be so fond of, pinning
bud in her bosom every morning. He knows
the bush, and the old spicy perfume. She is
dead long ago; her very bones are dust.
Something of the fragrance of the flower will
soften his sermons against the evils oil the
time when he goes back to town. For it
seems to him just now somehow that the
evils, vulgarity, scandal, crime. death itself
are only for day, but that the child's thought
and the roses and love bloom freshly together
from year to year and generation to genera
ton.
Year: 1874

ment as to the effect, on the one hand, of en-
cOuraging Gen. Grant to believe that the peo-
pie approve his course and want to have him
candidate again. or, on the other hand, OF
stimulating revival of the old rebel and
Tweed Democracy
Year: 1874

Details of the process of harrying Louisiana
by arrests and the display of military force
are given in our dispatches. There is some
doubt in that State as to what effect this pro-
cess will have upon the election; about its
effect upon the canvass in Northern States,
there tln be little question.
Year: 1874

On the Goth inst. joint resolutions
were passed by the Legislature OF
this State, thanking President Grant
for his refusal to order bayonets to
the protection OF the Davis Govern
ment. We do not know how far this
refusal is referable to his respect for
The rights Of the people. We trust 1t
was the sole>moving cause. However
that may be, we are content that it
was made, and are satisfied to enjoy
the substantial results of the act,
without inquIring into the motives
debating it.
Year: 1874

We publish, in another place, q
resolution adopted by the House of
Representatives, at Austin, on the
Goth, ordering the removal of the
cannon which frowned down from the
Capitol grounds upon the city OF
Austin. Placed IN position by the
Kadical usurpers to overawe the
people who were likely at any time to
raise in their might and strike blow
at their oppressors. This chimera
haunted the sleep OF the Radical
power during its whole term, and the
"red artillery" was ready to shed red
blood in defense Of atyranuy odious
alike to the people it was intended to
suppress" and to the world.


How significant is the resolution
we are considering. The. government
OF the people, and by the people,
needs no artillery to defend it from
tie people. 1t is throughout in accord
with their wishes, ends, aims and oh.
jects. 1t is responsible alone TO the
people, and strong IN the conscious
ness Of the rectitude Of its inten-
tlons, the Legislature asks no defence
against the men upon whose liberties
1t meditates no wrong. The reverse
of this conclusion was true of the late
Radical State administration. thad
nothing in common with the people
over whom it had been swaying the
sceptre of power foreign to their
wishes and every best interest
and all of its energies bent upon de-
vising schemes of oppression and rob-
berry. Is it any wonder that their
first thought was of brute force to
protect them from the people, upon
whose every dearly priced privilege
they had trampled with ruthless
disregard of every right, as well as
every protest.


1t was graceful act of the
Legislature, to order the removal OF
the cannon, and we trust that meyer
again in the history of Texas, will
be seen the grim engines of war
trained upon the breasts of an un,
armed and innocent people, by any
power emanating from themselves.
The present Government asks no
other protection than the people
themselves, and Indignantly orders
out of sight the Representatives of
military power and military. governs
ment.
Year: 1874

a Paris letter writer says: Evidently
difficulties are fast closing in about us.
and every day we have some fresh
cause for rejecting upon the security o f
the moment. The spirit which ami
mated the Commune is very far from
being crushed. Some men are once
more organizing for another attempt,
and just as they did before in 1913 and
1871. Societies Of workingmcn arc form
cd in each arrondisement under the di-
rection Of district commissioners which
take ,heir orders from q central com
mittee. The next step is TO bind the
men by making them solitaire in all
dangers aud benefits, and by the ele-
mcnt Of secrecy always attractive 10 the
uneducated Members of the society
who have work, arc privately taxed and
one-half Of the proceeds is added 10 the
sinking fund reserved fora war budget.
The rest goes to aid those who are out
of work and in distress.
Year: 1874

An Anderson county correspondent
of the Knoxville Chronicle says that the
people seem TO DO well satisfied with
what Col. Thornbnrgh has done and arc
perfectly willing TO send him back, and
will try 10 do 80 when the election
comes around.
Year: 1874

Saturday afternoon, sad-eyed
boy, with dirt on his chin and
tear on his nose, called at one of
the police stations and asked the
sergeant if he could be sent to the
Reform School he being a homeless
waif. As he had committed no
offense, he was told that he had
better go to the work house, but
he replied that his brother was at
the school and he'd rather go
there: A gentleman who was
present, after consultation with
the sergeant, said, "I guess we
can fix it. I am going to leave
my wallet on the desk, and the
sergeant and l will go up stairs.
If you take the wallet it will be
stealing, and you will be sent to
the Reform school," The wallet
was left. the men went up stairs
for a moment, and when they came
down the lad was nowhere in
sight; neither was the wallet, con-
tanning Sc; and, to be brief about
it, the lad and money are still
missing.-[D Detroit Free Press.
Year: 1874




The East Wayne County lTenn.)
Citizen says: Mr.. Kyle was at a
neighbours house-raising, and his
wife, with her youngest child, went
to a spring near by to her
washing. After being engaged
sometime she heard a scream from
her little girl, whom she had left
at the house, and fastening to the
scene, it was her horror to behold
9. large ,rattlesnake there with its
fangs fastened in the child's arm.
She succeeded in killing the snake,
and then, thinking Of the child
which she had left at the spring,
fastened, there only to find that
this one had climbed up to the tub
of water and fallen in and was
drowned. This nearly crazed her,
and she ran with all her might to
where the house-raising was, and
screaming with excitement, called
to her husband, who was upon the
building at the time, and he,
through excitement in trying to
get down, pulled a piece of timber
upon himself and fell, killing him
instantly. The friends then went
back to where the child and the
snake were, only to find each 1ly-
ing dead on the floor. This all
happened within thirty minutes.
Year: 1874

Six wagons loaded with China
men and their traps left Dalles
Oregon, a few days ago bound fol
the interior gold mines. One load
was taken up the Columbia river
to the mouth Of the John Day.
where they intend mining on the
bar near that localityF7
Year: 1874

THERE was an old couple at the Cent
raj Depot yesterday, waiting to go thro'
to the West, and they seemed loving
enough until the old man went out and
returned smoking five cent cigar, and
with his bat slanting over his left ear
The wife looked at him twice before she
could recognize him, and then opened her
mouth and said " Is that you, Philetus
Remington What'd tell We before l
left New Jersey? Didn't say you'd go
and make fool of yourself the first
chance you got ?" He tried to pacify
her by saying the cigar only cost five
cents, but she shouted: You teased
and teased til l let you go and get your
boots BACKED; then you wanted some So
da water; then you bought apples on the
train, and here's another five cents throw n
away. 1t all counts up. and if you don't
die in the poor-house then my name amt
Sary. .''-Detro1 Free Press.
Year: 1874

STRANGE HALLUcIEATIoN. - George
Coulson, aged twenty-five, was recently
tried at the Central Criminal Court in
London and acquitted, though he had
told three different persons that he was
guilty Of murder. The person murdered
was one Margaret Ball, his aunt, mar
lied woman, with whom, as well as her
husband, the prisoner was always on
friendly and even afectionate TERMS
She was found hanging to the balusters
Of the house where herself and the pris-
oner's mother and sisters lived, her feet
touching the ground. 1t was supposed
that the prisoner going hastily into the
house was so surprised and alarmed at
tae sight Of the dead woman, that he be-
come possessed with the hallucination
that he himself had hanged her. The
Lord Chief Justice remarked that it was
one Of the most remarkable cases that
had came within his knowledge during a
long forensic and judicial experience.
Year: 1874

At the opening OF the Court OF Oyer and Termi.
Der yesterday morning, Judge Barrett on the
bench, motion was made to admit Coroner Rich
ard Croker In whose case the jury were di-
vtded, six being for convection and an equal num-
Der for acquittal-to bail.


District Attorney Phelps, in reply to the motion
made by Mr.. Clinton, said:-The subject OF the
trial Ia SO fresn in Your Honor's mind and all the
circumstances attending 1t as familiar as any
statement could make do not think have any.
thing to say on the subject. shall be content for
Il may be exercised.


Judge Barrett am OF opinion that the prisoner
u entitled to be admitted to bail. l am as clear
about that now as was clear that he was not en-
titled to bah on the previous occasion. Ny reasons
are briefly these 1T was proved by the trial that
under no circumstances, was 1t in the nature OF a
capital case felt bound to charge the jury that,
under no circumstances, could they find from the
evidence verdict OF murder IN the first degree.
That was one consideration. Another Is that IL
was connict-a serious connict-of testimony as
70 whether the prisoner was guilty OF murder In
the second degree. 80 grave was that conflict as
70 cause an equal division OF opinion among the
twelve very respectable and undoubtedly lntelli-
gent men, and, as was informed, that those who
were in favor OF conviction lor murder in the
second degree were willing, some OF them for the
purpose OF obtaining verdict and inducing their
brethren who were for verdict OF not guilty to
meet them, to reduce their verdict to manslaugnter
in the third degree, not | am bound to say, as
m original conviction, but as means OF recon-
ching differences and to bring ABOUT what we all
desired-a final result. In case where we all
agree 1t was not murder in the first degree, where
there is grave conflict OF testimony, where there
mas been one tral-a fair. impartial trial, with an
equal division or opnion-T think the prisoner Is
within the legal rules which entitle him abso-
lufey, In the exercise Of reasonable judicial dis
cretion-not an arbitrary one-to be admitted TO
Dall. Whatever my own opinion may be as TO the
iact, feel bound to say as matter or legal right
the prisoner Is entitled to bail. | think the sum
ought TO be conslderable-even large. l viii sug-
gest $4,000.


Mr.. Clinton-That will be satisfactory TO us.


Soon alter Edward Kearney, butcher, OF No. %
Lexington avenue became bondsman Tor Croker,
whose discharge from The TomDs Immediately fol-
lowed.
Year: 1874

The public are familiar with the facts and cir
eumstances OF the case OF Carl vogt, and 1t is un-
necessary, on the present occasion, to repeat
them further than to say that, under recent
treaty OF extradtion entered into between the
United States and Belgium the surrender OF vogs
Ii demanded by the Belgian government on q
charge that he had killed and ROBBED the Count de
Bois de Blanca at Brussels, and afterward set fire
70 the apartment In which the body OF the mur-
dered man lay for the purpose OF destroying all
evidence OF the crime The German government,
OF which vogt is subject demanded his surren-
der from the United States on the ground that,
though the accused committed the offence In Bel
gum, the German authorities had right TO follow
him all over the world ana bring him back to be
tried In Germany for crime charged to have been
committed in another country; but the State De-
partment, basng Its acton on the opinion OF the
Attorney General refused to accede to this rather
arrogant demand OF Germany. The prisoner was
discharged from custody, but was subsequently
arrested on civil suit Instituted against him In
the State Court. Yesterday the prisoner was
brought up for examination before Commissioner
White. BY an understanding between counsel on
both sides the case went over TIL Wednesday.
Year: 1874

Double Divorce Suit.


Before Judge ]. +. DAILY.


The trial OF divorce suit, IN which John J.
Smith Is plaintiff and Ann E. Smith defendant
was began yesterday In this Court. The grounds
OF the limited separation sought for are cruelty
and ill-treatment OF John by his wife, intoxication
and want OF proper care OF their child. As far as
the proof has gone II was shown that the de-
fendant drank little ale, ana that on one occa-
sion she threw bowl OF hot bread and milk at
her husband for refusing to give her money, and
that she caused his arrest on TWO occasions, on
what charge does cot appear The ofdcer who
served the summons in this case found the child
lying on the moor, near an open window, with the
rain pouring in. The de eendant in answer, prays
for limited divorce, on the ground OF cruelty and
iltreatment, and puts In denial OF PLAINTIFFS
allegations and states that her husband has
beaten and kicked her on several occasions; she
further alleges that on one occasion, while mold
ing the Child in her arms, he knocked her down,
kicked her and gave her black eye.


Decision.


BY Judge Van Brunt


Huebner VS.. Roosevelt-Order settled.
Year: 1874

The further hearing OF the case OF the United
States vs. three trunks containing kid gloves. &C.,
claimed by sampson Lewey, was resumed yester.
day In the United States District Court before
Judge Blatchford and jury. The claim OF the
government was that the goods had been SNUG.
geo into this port, and that fore, they ought
to be condemned. The claimant set up tnat he
intended TO enter the goods In a regular manner
at the Custom House and pay duty on them. 1t
has been enormously stated that the claimants
offered money 10 Custom House ofncer as
brbe TO let the goods pass through This offer was
made to the offlcer on the dock By some person
whom he stated he did not know, but no such
offer was maze to him By Mr.Lewey. A consider
able portion OF the day was taken up IN discussing
the legal aspect OF the case, as to the question OF
intent, and whether the claimant, when he
brought the goods into this port, Intended to de-
fraud the government out OF the duties payable
on The goods IN question. In charging the jury
verdict either ior The government or for the
claimant, and also answer the three following
questions in the affirmative or negatIve:-
Was the landing Of the goods without
government OF the United States Did
Lewey wlfuly and knowingly, with Intent TO de.
fraud the government, bring those goods into the
United states and cause them TO be Withheld from
person who knew those goods, or OF the manner IN
when they were imported, iacihtate tn sr con-
cealment after importation With actual intent to
deiraua the United otatest The jury, after hav-
ing been in consultation for about an nour, came
into Court and SAID they had agreed upon gen.
eral verdict Tor the government. with regard TO
the three questions put to them Dy the Judge
they said they coud not agree as to the first ques-
the affirmative. The value oil the goods Is be-
tween 81, 900 and 5000.
Year: 1874

ONE Of our subscribers, Mr.. 8. H.
Oathout, Of Iowa, writes as follows:


AS the season of thunder, lightning and
balls of fire is fast approaching, l will
mention two that saw one evening. 1t
was in the county of Clayton and State of
Iowa, in June, 1867. 1 had been to mar
ket, was returning home in the evening,
and before me lay to the west a fearful
shower, in which all the elements seemed
angry without cause. AS must of ne
cessity pass through this shower, my eye
was upon it continually, contriving how
to escape its fury. Presently saw ball
of fire in the front cloud as large as full
moon; shortly it began to move toward
the south; it went about half mile, and
then exploded with terrible crash. In
about ten minutes I saw another ball of
the same size in the same place, and
moved in the same direction, and In like
manner as the first, and exploded with q
crash that made the earth tremble. These
two balls of fire were standing still when
I first saw them; I had ample time to
view them perfectly before they began to
move. They were round as full moon
and very bright, with thin cloud in
front; when they exploded it was as dsrk
as Egyptian darkness. This I conceive
to be rare sight, and but few people have
ever seen anything of the kind.-Prairis
Farmer.
Year: 1874

What President Grant can afford to do we do
not propose to discuss Perhaps it is not
of much consequence. But it is of some
consequence to the Republican party,
already somewhat under cloud. to consider
whether II can afford to take the chances OF
supporting any longer the Infamous Ring
which rules Louisiana. This Ring cheats the
State of its honest choice. Tho President sus-
tains the Ring. Will the party sustain the
PRESIDENT That is the simple, plain question.
If it does, it requires no prophetic gift to
read the future of the party. For 1t cannot
upon any pending question, whether it be
finance, currency, civil service, tariff, civil
rights, or what not, be so wise or so States
manlike as to wipe ont the memory of this
great and continued wrong. And no series Of
Southern outrages, whether genuine or manu-
featured, no reign of intimidation and violence,
no reports of Outrage Committees or fictions
of Department detectives, no fear OF rcputlia-
ton, or of cotton claims, or of any of the
campaign bugbears, will hinder the American
People from voting out of power the perpe-
traitors of this great crime against popular
institutions and honest elections. Is it worth
while for the Republican party to commit
suicide on behalf of the Presidents invest
ments in Louisiana
Year: 1874

TO speak of Compulsory Education" it
seems to us, is to employ a phrase which is
at least ungracious, and to suggest fallacies
which, in the conduct of schools, it would be
much better to avoid. The etymOlogy of the
word Education implies leading and not
d,icing. Physical force may he necessary to COM
pei attendance, but our new law which goes into
operation with the new year will fail in some
most important respects, if not IN all, should
its enforcement carry into the schOOl-rOoms the
idea of police and the prison. The teacher to
whose care the little waif will be committed
will doubtless receive from tho law different
authority, and will become in some respects
minister of public justice; but in the very
beginning it is extremely desirable that this
power should not DO ueedles,ly obtrudcd. and
Year: 1874

For some time we have been waiting pa
ticntly to sec whether the owners of horses
and harnesses were to have absolute sway in
certain sections of Kansas forever, and whether
the stealing Of the steed or his caparison was
TO remain crime too great for tho jrrisdic-
ton Of regular judges and jurics there. The
horse, we admit, is q noble animal yet we do
not know that in the eye of the law he is any
noblcr than the pig or the COW. But in that
country of centaurs Justice Lynch is nothing
if he be not equestrian; he beams with cOmpar-
ative mildness upon murders, and he is lcnient
with ordinary larcenies, but whoever helps HIM
self feloniously to q rusty old bit or o ragged
old saddle is doomed to incontinent hemp and
the convenient wayside bough; for there is
something quite Arabian in the Kansas farmers
deep and undying affection for his horse and his
horse furniture. In other parts, Lynch grows
stern and Industrious for other reasons. In the
yirtuous town of Fairfield, Ill.,, for instance,
the Lynchers are all for female virtue and
chastity and the icicle on Dian's temple"
and all that sort of thing and tho other night
they thought it necessary to burn certain loose
ladies out of house and hOme-a moral method
which wo are not surprised to ilcarn has here
tOfore proved more savage than satisfactory in
Fairfield. But in Kansas it is horses, with now
and then an exception like that which wo
shall notice presently.


For our first story we are under obligation
to the Lawrence newspapers. Ten miles from
that city, in Clinton township, q man bearing
the euphOniOus name Of Barkaw was be-
reaved of set of harness. Suspecting a boy,
one Ray, of stealing it, he hired a quartet
of rufiians to waylay the lad and to deal with
him inQuisitorially. They mot him about 10
o'clock at night dragged him from his horse,
smothrroI his cries in Q blanket carried him
Year: 1874

The sense of patriotism is 80 strongly de-
veloped among the French that they have
very often been charged with seeking for
scapcgoats to bear the odium Of their military
reverses. 1t will not be very difficult on this
theory to account for tho charges recently
made against Gen. Garibaldi by Committee
of the French Assembly. Garibaldi, in retail
ating with counter charges against Gen.
BourbaAi, makes it necessary for the French
Committee to continue its investigation with
greater show of impartiality, before for
cgncrs are likely to be satisfied with its
Judgment.