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Year: 1874

Speaking of the heavy costs con-
nected with crimin.l prosecutions, the
Manchester DeE..ocrut says:


The actin Of the Comptroller in
calling a convention of the Judges and
Attorney Generals of the State was APP
prJyed by the press generally, and was,
@e think, step in the right direction.
And it seems to us that the political
canvass this year should turn upon the
questions of economy in the public ex-
penditures, and change in the law
under which they are made. No man
who has not exhibited some financial
ability and a disposition to economize
IN the management of his own
affairs, should be entrusted with
public business. in the selection of
members to the Legislature such quail
ifications should especially be sought
for. The exhibition of sound judg-
ment and a prudent foresight in his
own matters is a sure guarantee of
fidelity to other interests with which
he may be charged. The standard of
qualification for the Office of legislator
has been too low We must elevate it.
The Office must seek the man, no It
the man the Office. The people must
protect themselves. Their fate Is In
their own hands. Let them give the
cold shoulder to every aspirant for leg
islative hOnors who has not the requi-
site qualifications
Year: 1874

probability Of the fatal effect of ones
death upon the other. The idea of sep
arating them by a surgical operation
had been often broached, but physicians
had generally agreed that it would kill
them. Therefore each was haunted
with a dread of being left bound to his
dead brother, with almost a certainty
of dying under any attempt to sever
him from the corpse. While IN Paris
and London, they consulted the mOs5
eminent surgeons. One experiment,
however, dashed all hope of separate
existence. The hgatUre was compres sci
until all circulation Of blood between
them was stopped. Eng soon tainted.
and a removal of the compress was ne
cessary to prevent death. This provel
that neither could sustain a separate
circulation Of the blood, and to hav5
cut the Ggature would have killed both.
With this knowledge, they returned tJ
their homes and lived as they had dOn5
before. Later the health of Eng grew
worse, and Chang was frequently
obliged, although well himself, to keeo
to his bed with his sick brother. But
about a year ago Chang suffered par
alytic stroke, from which time his health
was the worse Of the two. He took 10
drink as a relief from suffering, and the
lives of the twins grew wretched indeed


The details of their death are meagre-
Chang died first, and few moments
afterward Eng, who had for few days
been well, became deGriOus and Tayed
wildly. This may have resulted from
the mental shock and apprehension as
to his own fate; but more likely it was
the result Of a cessation of blood circu-
lation between him and his brother. A
stupOr followed, and he died two hours
afterward
Year: 1874

LOUISVILLE, Jan. 23.-Suit Brought by
the city in the Chancery Court yesterday
against the Louisville and Portland Canal
Company for one hundred and fourteen
thousand dollars of unpaid taxes. The
canal company resists the payment claim
ing the canal TO be the property OF the
limited States government.
Year: 1874

The Republican State Central Committee
are now in session in the Senate Chamber
with a full attendance from all parts of the
State. Resolutions were unanimously
adopted protesting against a new election
rs likely TO cost the lives of hundreds of
colored men in the northern part of the
State and Red river
Year: 1874

This drawing has been legalzed by special act OF the
Legislature Virginia raise funds Tor the complexion
Of The Masonic temple in the city Of Norfolk. rhe
Concert will positively :take place on


TUESDAY MAY s. 1874
Year: 1874

been much happier man but who can
tell what might have been the fate OF
the nation, bnt for the pnre. unseihsh
and wise administration of Abraham
Lincoln from March, 1864 CISCO p to
the day when the hand of an assassin
opened grave for Mr.. Lincoln, then
President of the United States.


My personal relations with him were
IS close and intimate as the nature OF
our respective duties would permit. 10
know him personally was to love and
respect him for his great qualities OF
heart and head and for his patience and
patriotism, with all his d.sappointments
from failures on the part of those to
whom he had entrusted a command, and
treachery on the part of those who had
gained his confidence but to betray 1t.
never heard him utter complaint nor
cast censure for bad conduct or bad
faith. 1t was his nature to find an ex-
cuse for his adversary. In his death
the nation lost her greatest and the
South her most just friend.
Year: 1874

A man in an adjoining county died
recently who had taken his county pa
per for twelve years without paying for
it. Upon the day of his burial the
kind hearted, forgiving editor calledi to
see him for the last time and stuffed a
linen duster and couple of palmleaf
fans into the coffin. He was prepared
for warmer climate.
Year: 1874

 "Don't slop over," the old man said, AS he placed his hahd on the young mans

 head,

 " Go it, by all means-go it fast; Go it while leather and horse shoes last; Go it while hide and hair on horse Will hold together. Oh, go it, of course Go it fast as ever you can, But don't slop over, my dear young man. "Don't slop over. You'll find some day That keeping an eye to windward will pay; A horse may run a little too long, A preacher may preach just fraction too

 strong,

 And a poet who pleases the world with

 rhymes

 May write and regret 1t in after times. Keep the end of the effort ever in view, And don't slop over, whatever you do. Don't slop over. The wisest men Are bound to slop over now and then: And yet the wiSest at work or feast Are the very ones that blunder the least Those that for split milk never vail Are the ones who carry the SteadleSt pail. Wherever you go, go in for the fat; But don't slop overland freeze to that! !" Don't slop over. Distrust yourself, Nor always reach to the highest shelf; The next to the highest will gen'rally do, And answer the need of such as you. Climb, of course, bnt always stop AnG take breath this side of the top; And you will reach it in wind and strong Without stopping Over Thus ends my

 song."
Year: 1874




From the Knoxville Press and Herald.


JONEsBORO, March IS.-For some time
we have had a temperance mass meeting
each week, at one or the other of the
churches in the town. These meetings are
we'll attended and a strong, deep feeling
exists in this community in favor of tenn
perauce reform. At the meeting last Fri
day night, a committee of ladies was ap-
pointed to canvass the town with temper
ance pledge and procure the signatures of
all that were willing TO sigr it. They have
been carrying this pledge TO ever family in
the town and many are signing it, but the
work of canvassing is not completed yet.
Aside from the strong, deep conviction that
this movement is making on the public
mind in favor of temperance and against
the liquor traffic, some of our most useful
citizens who have been constant drinkers,
have made public confessions and pledged
themselves to abstain ever afterwards.


A committee of ladies was also appointed
by the mass meeting to prepare an address
TO the grocery keepers, appealing to them
to desist from a vocation so destructive of
their own souls and the happiness Of others.
This petition is prepared and they are get
ting signatures 10 it. Nearly every one in
town will sign 1t, men, women and chill
dren-even the poor drunkards themselves
will sign it. If in the face of all this, and
the full knowledge of what he is inficting
upon innocent, helpless women and chill
dren, a man will persist in his work of
desolation and ruin, what will be his doom,
Our people are not excited immOderately,
but they have enlisted for life and they ex-
pect to perSeyere and never retreat.


\ deep religious feeling peryades the en-
tire community. Religious services are
held almost every night in some one of the
churches.
Year: 1874

Prom the knOXYlIIe thrchIeIei MATCH q.


Yesterday evening about dusk two boys
fishing in First Creek noticed the body Of
an inian' floating down the stream near
the Mabry street bridge, and informed
Officer Cain. DIR. TadlOck examined the
child and found it to be white newborn
babe, of the female sex, we'll developed,
and on testing the lungs, it was ascetained
that the child had been born alive, and was
consequently afterwards strangled with a
calico string which lad been drawn twice
tightly aynnRd its neck. The child was
round with this string around its neck and
a piece of cloth around its body.
Year: 1874

THE Neuc York Tribune tells an un-
palatable truth to many Republicans in
this way: at will doubtless take Gen.
Schenck, and most other leading Re-
publicans who have been out of the
country for some years, good while to
find out-what they are finding very
rapidly in Boston-that the Republican
party is not now in power, and that, if
it is not already in direct conflict with
the party that is in power, it is liable
to find itself in that predicament at any
moment >,
Year: 1874

ANEW wrinkle about the age of horses
is the discovery of an Illinois farmer, who
determines the age of all animals over nine
years old by the following novel method;
After the horse is nine years Old wrinkle
comes on the upper corner Of the lower eye
lid, and every year thereafter be has one
well-defined wrinkle for every year over
nine. If, for instance, horse has three
wrinkles, he is twelve; if he has four, he
is thirteen. Add the number of wrinkles
10 nine and yOa will get it.
Year: 1874

ent Secretary of the Treasury, an outside
and independent party having taken care
of this debt.


There is a leakage of S46,343 which is
not accounted for at all; this portion Of
the assets is clear gone and cannot be
traced. No explanation is given in refer
ence to it, either in the form of bad debts
or otherwise. The bank had at the time Of
its failure about S2T2, 900 in mutilated cur
reney, which had not been sent to the
Comptroller for cancellation. This money
came from other banks, and its retention
was breach of confidence reposed in this
institution.
Year: 1874

PHILADELPHIA, March 21.-TwO sons
of the Siamese twins have arrived here and
will leave tonight for home with the re
mains of their parents. They deny thlai
the family Intend to exhibit the remains,
and say they are to be at once decently in
tered. The SONS have obtained from the
physicians statement denying that the
bodies were given them for autopsy as the
result of pecuniary arrangement.
Year: 1874

THE Menaphis Ledger gives us some
information which is important, If
true" That journal says:


1--WE hope our cOtemporary will give
itself no further trouble on account of
the repudlators of Shelby county.
There is not corporal's guard of them
all told. We only know of three out
of about 10000 voters, and they can
neither bear the price of bonds nor
bear the current Of public opinion"
Year: 1874

The Vicksburg. Miss. Times tells the
foIlowg in its issue of March 4th: ''One
day last week the residence of Mr..
Powell. near the head of navigation Oh
SunhOwer river, was attacked by a gang
of wild eats. Mrs. =. threw a blanket over
the first one and threw it out the door.
This one was soon followed by another
Which she killed with small ak. BY
this time cOlord cook was attacked by
another short distance from the house
and she alarmed white neighbOr, WHO
was at work near the place who came
to her assistance and killed it whith a
hatchet but not until the cook had been
pretty well ''chawed' by the kitten.
The gentlaman then went TO the relief
of Mrs.. Powell. at the house, when two
of the cats attacked him and injured
him quite severely before he succeeded
in di>patching them. Four Of the pack
were killed and several wounded before
thev could be scared away. The hides
of the four cats that We're slain were
brought 10 this city on steamer Lizzie
Yesterday. \ day or two after this at
tack the carcass Of deer was found
buried near this place, with evidence of
it, being the work Of this same pack Of
cats. ThiS account comes 70 u through
a areIiable source and We can vOuch for
the veracity oft The natives attribute
the attack 70 hunger
Year: 1874

A license to weaken and paralyze the
strong man. TO destroy intellect to de-
throne reason; license to transform the
noble and afTectionate husband into a
monster of cruelty. TO break the heart
of the gentle, conhding being whom he
had vowed to love and cherish; license
even to darken the morning of innocent,
Joyous children, by depriving them of
fathers love, guidance, and protection,
bequeathing them the sad legacy of rags,
wretchedness, and tears, and the dire
curse of example; license to injure and
rob thy neighbOr whom thou art coin
manded to love as thysef, take bis last
penny, drain his purse, then spurn hun
from your presence; license to spread
net for thy brother man, enslave him,
mock the effort of thy yictom TO break
his fetters and escape his fearful thral-
dom; license TO blight the fond hopes Of
parents by destroying their noble prom
ising boy. taking from them the prop of
their declining years, and bringing their
gray hairs with sorrow to the grave !;
license TO kindle hatred and strife, to in
fame the vile passions Of depraved hu-
manity, to nerve the arm Of the robber,
whet the knife of the assasion, harden
the heart, scar the conscience, debase
man. createdIn the image Of his God, TO
a level with the beasts that perish /;
license 10 desecrate the Sabbath, open
the fiOOd-gates of wickedness and change
this beautiful world into sink of cor
ruption and hell upon earth, and train
and educate man for an endless perdi-
ton, for no drunkard shall enter the
Kingdom of Heaven Review the dark
catalogue Of crime TO which thy nefar-
ious license leads, oh! cruel ruInseller;
thy work of destruction is truly appall-
ing; thy mission is fearful; whilst ae-
cumulating thy unholy gain examine
thy license. VIII It stand investlga-
ton at the bar of conscience, or the
tribunal of the great GOdi Remember
for all these things thou shalt be brought
into Judgment.
Year: 1874

LIVE as long a. You may. the first twen-
" years form the greater part Of your
life. They appear so when they are
passed they seem TO have been 30 when
we look back 70 them. and they take up
more room in our memory than all the
wears that succeeded them.
Year: 1874

THEY have extraordinary children III
Tennessee. One recently died in Mem
phis al the tender age Of two months;
yet a local paper tells its readers that
she rose as star, and beamed lucent
ly with neteoric resplendency along the
horizon Of her parents, lighting their
pathway with the sheen of hope
Year: 1874

Of pups into studies which they are totally unable 10
understand Thousands OF childreu," saws The Tos,
" are sent out from the public schools every year Win
only smatterng OF knowledge. They know some Ger
man some algebra a little chemistry, some philosophy
some astronomy but not ,himblefu OF learning when
will over proye valuable 10 them. III they had peen
made good readers and spelers had been taught the
correct use OF the Eogsh language and had iearncu
the fundamental principles Of arithmetic and geography
they would have had some tools with which TO nave
gone to work In the world As It s they arc crippled


A correspondent of The College Courdnf
complains in relation to preparatory schools 'n"' no
course Of instruction in most of them is not arranged
and pursued with reference to securing dehne oegreo
Of educatiOn-that Is, OF mental discplne-ahd 'hus
really qualifying hoy for the work OF college, out 10
getting HIM into college with the least possible expend
ture Of tme labor and money Everything he says
mot absolutely necessary admission TO college is
omitted and whatever cannot bo omitted Is crammeu
into the boy and arranged with special reference to
a coming examination, while the student Is not MADE
to digest and assimilate it to his mental being.
To get in and get through college is the great end
OF students labors. Every teacher OF preparatory
school is too familiar with the student who presents
himself for admission with the announcement, often re-
iteraed by parent in letter. or in person, that he
must be fitted for Yale, Harvard, some other college,
one two years, the may be; and, II this
school cannot do it, no will 20 to school which can


lie may be utterly ignorant OF the 1rst elements OF
common English education; he may have only the
mercst smattering OF Greek and Latin, and less OF
mathematics; and yet he must be pushed over certain
course of study in year OF two, IN order TO get
college"
Year: 1874

An ingenious correspondent reminds
us there is very high authority for the be-
lief that it will be useless to struggle
against the re. election OF PresdentGrant.
His argument is simple: Mr. Grant is,
or was, tanner; and "a tanner" says
Shakespeare, will last you nine year "
We will have had the tanner for eight
years on the 4th of March, 1877, and il
be then enters on his ninth year, we must
have him for four years longer. We have
turned this argument over in our mind
very carefully, and we cannot say that
we see any flaw in it, except that the
authority quoted by our correspondent
makes at least an implied exception in
the case of tanner who is rotten
Year: 1874

his wife came into his path again like a
guardian angel, and all around her was
light. There was beautiful romance in
the long severed, now united oDes, in
that railroad waiting room, and the
bright little boy belonging to both was
there as an intercessor for each. The
train went on without Karl. There was
but one path left for him, and that was
path of happiness with his wife and
child. And Karl and Katherine will not
return TO the banks OF the Rhine. She
went in that direction. and her path is
not theirs evermore.
Year: 1874

An exchange gives the following
account Of q weaseps stratagem, with
the suspicious remark that it is vouch-
ed for 10y friend: A grist mill was
infested with large rats until 3 weasel
came there and destroyed nearly all
of them. There was, however, one
large rat which he could not con-
quer. They had several pitched bat
ties in which the rat whipped the
weasel, until whenever the rat ap-
peared the weasel would seek safety
In flight. They were watched for sew
eral days, when the weasel was OBJ
served to be digging q hole in the
earth under pile oflumber. After he
had completed 1t. he appropriated the
mill, and the rat came after him as
usual. He made some show Of fight
until he got the rat interested, and
then ran into his hole. The rat fol-
lowed, when the weasel was seen to
come out at the other end Of the hole,
and run at the entrance after the rat.
Subsequent examination proved that
the weasel had made the hole large
enough for the rat to enter, but had
contracted the other end 80 that he
could not get out Having thus en-
trapped his antagonist, the weasel
took him in the rear, and easily con-
Quered him.
Year: 1874

Two families lived in one house, and
each bad little boy about the same
age. These boys slept together: one
OF them said prayer every night,
and repeated some good verses which
his mother had taught him; the other
little boy had never been taught to
pray Now the little boy who prayed
was tempted not to, but to jump into
bed without first kneeling down, just
az his little playmate did; but he was
q noble boy aud did not yield to the
temptation. He prayed aloud every
night and said his verses. Now comes
the best part of the story. The little
boy who had never been taught to
pray learned his little companions
prayer and the verses by hearing him
repeat them, and he never forgot
them. He grew up to be one of the
best Of men, and lived to be old. The
boy who prayed grew up and became
q noted man in Washington. When
the other one lay on his dying bed be
went to see him, and the dying old
man told him that it was his little
prayer, SO faithfully said every night,
which led him to Christ. he repeat
ed the prayer and the verses wOrtl for
word, aud with his dying lips thank
ed his friend that he had been the
means OF saving him.
Year: 1874

The work at the Centennial grounds
very rapidly. The northern portion
of the foundations for the permanent
Memorial Hall, together with most Of
the interior piers, is ready to receive
the masonry while the southern
front is now receiving attention. The
front, facing south, will be arranged
with q central projection, as well as
one at each end, thus breaking the
mOnotony Of a continuous front OF
the long distance prescribed for this
portion of the structure. In another
portion of the Park there has been
COm mDleLed q large one story building,
and fitted up for restaurant for the
Of the mechanics
who will soon be engaged In the erec-
tion Of the exhibition pavilion. Tool
houses and carpenter shop dot the
ground in every direction, and there
are few spots In the city that present 8
scene of so much hustle and activity.
For the Exhibition buildings the lev
cling Of the ground has nearly been
completed. The storm of Saturday
night materially assisted the survey
ors and workmen in discovering the
hollows as the water filed them.
Everything preparatory to the driv-
ing of plies for the pavilions will be
completed by the coming week. In
the meantime work has been COM
meneed upon the wrought iron


beams, the first Of which are to be
ready for delivery by the 18th OF next
Observation-Disclosures Ledger.
Year: 1874

A young lady in San Francisco is
engaged TO 3 gentleman who has well
nigh caused her death on several Oc-
casions. About three months since
this young man, when on the point
Of separation from his affiBnced until
the next evening, made 3 mistake in
his selection of Overcoats Ia the hall,
and, finding q revolver in the pocket,
he drew it out and commenced toying
with the weapon. It was aecidently
discharged, as q natural consequences,
and the young lady received . severe
wound in the arm. This mishap re-
tarded the eourtship for . time, out
the maiden finally recovered, and the
current of true love was gliding very
plseidIy again, when she accepted an
Invitation to ride out with her lover.
The couple had scarcely started when
the horse ran away, the buggy was
capsiZed, and the young lady was
thrown down Q bank, sustaining
fracture Of the leg and severe bruises.
This accident will sRain defer the eul-
minatiOu of this disastrous eourtship
for several months longer. With pa
thence and the exercise Of prudence,
however, they may be happy yet.
Year: 1874

A Boston artist, who excels as an
animal painter, saw as he was pass
ing through one Of the rural towns Of
Massachusetts,, q very animated look
ing bull. Thinking that he would
like to take him on canvas, he got
permission Of the owner, an honest
old farmer, and In due time produced
an exeelleBt likeness OF the bull,
which he sold for 500. On seeing the
farmer soon after, he told him he had
sold the picture Of his bull for 500.
"Good gracious !" said the old man
"why, l would have sold the bull for
less than that 90
Year: 1874

We wonder how many people re-
posing in the peace and security Of
their country homes are aware Of the
fact that at this time Of the year It Is
impossible to get dress made in New
York OF course, there are persons
who pretend to make dresses at this
season but all the genuine, A No. l
mOdEsts have gone upon their annual
pilgrimage to Europe, In search Of
new styles for the coming season. AS
usual, Paris is the Mecca Of this
fashionable piIgrimsge.-M y Letter.