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Year: 1867

The railroad connection between Omaha and the


East is now complete, and the earnings of the Union
Pacidc on the sections already finished for the first
two weeks in May were $1ts,o0O. These sectional
earnings as the road progresses will much more
than pay the interest on the Company's bonds, and
the through business the only line of railroad
between the Atlantic and Pacific must be immense
Year: 1867

Redundancy of language, and words even, is
never found with deep and thoughtful reflection.
verbiage may indicate observation, but not
thinking.


DISSEMINATION in youth is the forerunuer Of
perfdy in old age it's appearance is the fatal
omen of growing depravity and future shame.


The greater the difficulty, the more glory is
there in surmounting it. SkiIful pilots gain
their reputation from storms and tempests.


Ifyou would have thing kept secret, never
tell it to any one; and if you would not have a
thing known of you, never do it.


Truth irritAtes those only whom II enlghtens,
but does not convert.
Year: 1867

LITTLE KINDHEssEs.-Small acts Of kindness !
how pleasant and desirable do they make life
Every dark object is made light by them. and
every tear Of sorrow is brushed away. When
the heart is sad, and dependency sits at the en-
trance Of the soul, kindness drives despair
away, and makes the path cheerful and pleasant.
Who will refuse kind act : 1t costs the giver
nothing, but is valuable to the sad and SORROW
ing 1t raises from misery and degradation,
and throws around the soul those hallowed joys
that were lost in Paradise.
Year: 1867

Two centuries ago, not one in a hundred wore
stockings. Fifty years ago, not one boy in q
thousand was allowed to run at large at night
Fifty years ago, not a girl in thousand made a
waiting maid of her mother. Wonderful i'm
provements in this ago
Year: 1867

The following we find in the Congress
sional Globe. The question was on the
adoption of a resolution to exclude all
business except that connected with Re-
construction, and Senator Upton asked
privilege to introduce bill to protect
the border against hostile Indians:


Mr.. Upton. do not wish to be
at all discourteous to my colleague but
as we are on This subject, and as bis side
of the Senate has had two speeches on
II already from the neighboring State Of
Kansas, as matter of course | feel a
little tenacious that we on this side rep
.resenting Nebraska should have an Op-
portunity of saying one word. | do not
wish the country TO understand that Kan
sas has all the Indians that are West
[ wish it had.


While Idesire at all times TO be able
to concur, especially with that part of the
Senate with which am politically iden-
tifed, in the passage of any resolution
that seems to receive such universal ia.
vor as this does, yet must admit | am
somewhat embarrassed in regard to vo-
ting for the original resolution /; and 1t Is,
as the Representatives from Kansas have
already indicated. on account of the con-
dition of the frontier. l have all faith in
the Secretary of War and all faith in the
chairman Of the Military Committee of
the Senate as to their good and kind in
tentions toward US upon the frontier: and
get / do not believe that our present
system of warfare is worth anything; and
| mean more than is couched in that
word "anylhing' when | utter it. 1t has
done nothing for US on the frontier,-
For the last three years onr people have
been slaughtered every, day and this day,
as it is now about the hour of half past
one o'clock, undoubtedly has had its
victims also Every day on the frontier
our people are massacred.


UndeT these circumstances we want
some kind of relief, You ask me what
[ tell you frankly I do not know but !
want any experiment, anything for a
change. Ill could WELD the Legislative
power of this nation to-day | would SC
remodel the whole system that / would
make il a high crime for any regular
Army officer to cross the Missouri river
for the next twelve months; would offer
a premium for savage Indian scalps
would enlist the men Of the frontier
whose lives are identified with the
frontier. and l would I'll volunteer
army by the frontiermen themselves;
would appoint as comanders Of that army
The men who understand Indian warfare
IF il Is 10 be UNDERSTOOD at all. Our pres
ent system is inefficient, We never have
successfully Combaued with savages,-
We may worry them Out by the power o.
of this nation but-we want an expert
ment as relief of some kind.


UndeRthese circumstances, therefor,
say emphatica.ly that | am embarrassed
Year: 1867

The circumstances which induced the
the writing of the follwoing touching and
thrilling lines are as follows: A Young
lady in New York was In the habit of
writing for the Philadelphia Ledger on
the subjeotOf Temperance. Her writing
was so full of pathos, and evinced such
deep emotion Of soul, that friend of
hers accused her Of being maniac on
the subject of Temperance-whereupon
she wrote the following illness
Year: 1867

How TO MAKE A WATERFALL.--Wc
give the following recipe for the bcne-
fit OF our lady readers: Take four
pounds ofrags and bunch ofshavings,
an old tin pan, and lot Of straw next,
get tan old stocking and stuff itwith pa
per, and if it is possible, put in u mole,
then get some old china, and q nutmeg
crater, and make them up in a nice lit.
tie roll; put all these in net of red,
and glistening beads must cover them
all then fasten it on the back of your
head, and you will have o waterfall"
Year: 1867

The total Democratic majority in
Kentucky is 42,2OS, which, taking into
consideration the small vote polled
throughout the State, renders it almost
absolutely certain that in August next
Helms majority for Governor will not
be less than $4,000 over the Radical
and third parties combined.
Year: 1867

great public responsibility, act more
from passion than from reason. They
seek more to enlarge and perpetuatc
their power, than they do to advance
the public welfare. Bitterness, malice,
noisy professions of loyalty, coupled
with spirit of relentless oppression
and vindictiveness, are wantonly pro
truded before the public as the highest
perfection ofpatriotism and statesman
shin.
Year: 1867

THE GOVERNOR SUPREME.


These laws are intended to make the
Governor supreme; they are intended
to clothe him with all necessary power
to force the re election of himself, rs
well as q Legislature subs' rvient to his
views. 1t is with him to appoint reg
isters of voters in the several counties.
No one can vote except by the permls-
sion of his appointee, and if registra-
ton is made, however fair, which by
any possibility is likely to cast ma
jority ofvotcs against him, and his time
serving followers and expcctants, a
stroke of his omnipotent pen annnls the
whole and leaves the citizens Of such
counties as may come under his dis
pleasure, disfranchised as long as his
malice may choose to continue them in
that condition; or, he may order an.
other registration in which he can con.
hne the privilege Of voting to those,
Year: 1867

PgofosED AXESDxESTs TO TIE CONSTITUTION.


The late Legislature Of the State of California pro
posed several amendments to the Constitution OF
the State. which will come before the people at the
approaching election for adoption rejection. Up
to the present time, but little or attention has
been paid to them. and it is probable that their
adoption by the people viii not be questioned
They appear to commend themselves to public IA
vor, and will not probably. meet with opposition
from any source. They are as follows:


Section three of article six is amended so as to
require the Justices Of the Supreme Court to be
chosen at the gener elections, instead of holding
special Judicial elections for that purpose; each
Justice of the Supreme Court is to hold his Office
for ten years, with one to be elected every two
years.


Section five of article six, divides the State into
sixteen Judicial Districts and reqnires the Judges
thereof to be chosen at the General State Elections
who are to hold their Offices for six years, they
now do.


Section seven of articl>sx is amended so as TO
require the County Judges to be chosen at the
general election and hold their Offices as at presen;
for four years; it also makes q separate and dis
tnct Office of the Probate Judgeship who is also
to be elected for the term of four years.


Section one of article nine is an ended so that
the State Superintendent shall be chosen at the
general election and hold his Office for the term of
four years.


The design of these amendments is to abolish the
separate Judicial elections now held in October,
after the general State elections in September.
The experiment of a separate Judicial election is
generally conceded to be failure, as they are new
ertheess controlled by State Conventions, and by
the result of the general elections. The purity of
the judiciary depends quite as much upon the pub
lie virtue OF the people it does upon special cleo
tions. These amendments do away with the sepa-
rate judicial election and unite it with the general
election. As doing away with much useless trou-
bic and public expense, they commend themselves
to the favorable consideration of the people


The follow ing amendments also submitted 10
the people:


No person shall be qualified allowed to vote
at any election for public officers in this State, un
less he shall have paid such poll tax as may have
been levied upon him by authority of law, and be-
come payable during the year next preceding such
electon such poll tax TO be fixed by Act of the
Legislature, and not to be less than two nor more
than five dollars per annun per capi Ia


SECTION %. The Legislature shall have n9
power TO make an appropriation of money for any
purpose whatever for longer period than two
y ears.
Year: 1867

1ulai cost 10 ReQ bluU... SJl9, ,ZJ1 ol


This shows an average cost for the mere con
struction of the road of less than Sl2 900 per mile
and Hr. Lewis, who is well known a the Engineer
for the San Jose Railroad and the wall saws the
estimates sufficient to cover the probable cost
of the road


On showing like this a company of energetic
and responsible men backed by national grant of
land amounting to II 500 acres per mile, ought to
he able to command the money to build railroad
up the Sacramento Valley forthwith. The advan-
tages of the road to the whole State and especially
to San Francisco have often been presented to these
columns They are more striking when we reflect
that the road viii be part of great system, con
Meeting with the Pacific Railroad and uniting the
Columbia river with the Golden Gate. The Com
pany hope to uate their enterprise with the Cali
fornia and Yuba Railroads from Folsom to Marys-
would add 35 miles of settled country to the bus
ness of the road, and connect directly with the Pa
ciiic Railroad which now that the Western Pacific
Railroad has been bought ont, will be extended d.
rectly to San Francisco BY the time that the Cal
ifornia and Oregon Railroad Shall have been built
to Red Bluff, so miles above Marysyiile. 1t VIII
have the business of Is miles Of rich farming conn
try along its sides be drawing from the contiguous
mining counties of Placer, Nevada 1uba Sierra,
Butte and Plumas. and he connected with at least
road leading to the Bay Of San Francisco 1t
could not but command lucrative business, and
the lands granted To the Company would soon pos
sess great value. With good management it could
be made one of the finest railroad investments in
the United States. Its necessity and value as a
means of inducing immigration and promoting the
development of large portion of California are
self fevidcnt.-Buisfin July 18th
Year: 1867

- BoRAx.-A company engaged in taking out Bo-
rax in Lake county, viii soon he in condition to
extract i've tons OF this article per day from the
Borax Lake as they have just received new and
powerful steam dredger, and an immense pump
with which to exhaust the water from the Golfer
dams. This pump is rather on the mammoth or
der, weighing something over thousand pounds,
and is to be worked by steam.
Year: 1867

MAN in the neighhorhood Of Presque sic, on
the coast of Maine, recently had TO redeem bis
horse and wagon by payment Of ss5, the same
having been seized by Collector Drew in the act OF
smuggling three quarts OF rum, gross of matches.
and pound Of tea. Rather an improbable opera
Year: 1867

THREE of r1ie four candidates presented by the
July convention have resigned their nominations.
The papers supporting that movement, do not ap-
pear to be entirely resigned TO such resignation
However they concentrate their force upon the
remaining candidate, with firm and unalterahe
determination not TO be entirely "out-Jefleryed
by those they so unsparingly denounce.
Year: 1867

Tur S.ER,ru DAY OF REST TO THE MiSESS.
rour of the leading companies on the Comstoek
have already agreed to the proposition to suspend
labor in their in their mines on the Sahoath and
will shortly issue orders TO that effect
Year: 1867

According to recent enactment in
Great Britain, as we learn from the
New York Medical Journal. no medi-
cal student can be admitted to lectures
until after successful examination in
the higher branches of an English edu-
cation, and, also, mathematics and the
Latin language. The examination for
his final degree is not had until after
attendance upon four winter sessions
of lectures, or three winter and two
summer sessions, including in each
session all the branches of medicine,
with physics, botany and general his
tory.
Year: 1867

In Boston and New York the news
papers are complaining of the style OF
coffee served at the restaurants, and
they think it would pay some one to
start new restaurants upon good coffee
principles.
Year: 1867

a dull season this Summer. Their ex-
pectations will probably be realized.
People are much less inclined toward
lavish expenditure in these times than
they have been at any time during the
last seven years. The expenses at the
watering.place hotels are enormously
heavy, and not half OF the people who
would tolerate them last year are able
TO do so this. The nominal price OF
board at the hotels is "a, 90 per day, and,
taking this as the tlrst point in the sea-
sons's expenditure, ii will be able for
those who have been there before to
form an approximate estimate of the
cost of a brief Summer visit.
Year: 1867

While the Prince of Wales was in
Paris he called upon his old French in
structor, NJ. Brasseur, who told him
that his great ambition was to possess
the ribbon OF The Legion d'Honneur,
but that he had not sufficient interest
TO make his claims known to those in
power. The Prince laid his case at once
before the Emperor, and before night
the teacher was Chevalier.
Year: 1867

A brutal murder case occurred at Peoria'
Mahaska county, Iowa, on Tuesday morn
ing 23d inst. It seems that an old man
by the name of Ellis Jones had decided
away all of his property to his sons, with
the condition that they should support him
the rest of his life. On Tuesday morning
quarrel arose between the father and a
son, 16 years old, about a most trivial mat
ter. During the alteration the son drew
pistol and shot his father in the left side,
inficting wound which caused his death
in six or eight hours Public opinion In
that neighborhood seems to incline to the
belief that the affair was premeditated
one, concocted by the brothers, and that
the boy who committed the act was merely
made the tool of the older but more cow
ardly ones.
Year: 1867

CLoTHTYG.-We desire most especially to call the
attention OF everybody to the magnificent stock of
ashionable clothing now TO be found In the OLD
established house of William Ira Smith 4 Co.,
1905 Main street. From their practical experience
and constant application they have placed them
selves I'm the front rank Of their profession and
without disparaging the future labor OF others I'm
tn cir line We would advise all, If they desire to
become proficient in their liner to examine their
stock and styles, and profit thereby, and to the
cons sumers especially We would say, II you want
to witness the most extended aud magnificent as
sortment ever offered In this city we would advise
you to all at their large, new and palatal store,
erected since the great fire for the express purpose
Of pursuing their old line Of business at 1875 Main
street. 1t is worth the trip and expense OF hun
dred miles to witness the magnificent display or
mems, boys, and, chiIdrens clothing, from nve
years old to grown man. suitable for all kinds OF
taste and persons, even the most fa'tidious. Be
sure TO call them before king your purchases,
and We are confident you will never regret the
step, and will save money.
Year: 1867

REGISTRATION IN MADISON WARD.-Re-
gistration in Madison Ward will commence
on the sth day of July, and continue until
the 18th, inclusive. The place of regis
tration to be at the City Hall. Madison
Ward includes all that portion of the city
running north and south and lying be.
tween the east line Of Fourth and the west
line Of Fourteenth street.
Year: 1867

WHITE MEN WAKING UP.-At last the
white men Of Monroe Ward are waking up,
and We are to have a vigilance committee
to look into the frauds which are evidently
being pcrpetrated in their midst by the
registration Of nonresident negroes. Up
to the close of the books last evening 2 1893
black voters had been listed. Now, every
citizen Of the ward knows that there are
not more than from LOO to 1900 black
men over twenty-onc years OF age in i.
They have already registered more blaC'is
in this single ward than Mr.. Dabncy NJ.
Miller, the city assessor, could find in the
whole city this spring for taxation. We
do not believe that Captain Rose, the re-
giStering officer, has knowingly admitted
single name of black or white that was not
entitled to register. He tried to get intel
Iigent and impartial white persons to act
as chalcngers, but tried in vain and the
white men Of the ward have themselves to
blame that they did not secure the
services and have at the registering
Office daily such persons as were well
acquainted with the colOred residents,
and could have kept off the large num-
bers that have come in from other wards
duu llOH tIlc Couhtls w IcSlolCi' ho IL
is, we are pleased to know that an ener-
getic vigilance committee are going to
work to call at every house in the ward,
and make a complete alphabetical list OF
every man--white and black-over TWEEN
ty-one years of age. In this way they will
be able to detect and expose the frauds
which have been committed, and bring
every man who has improperly registered
to the punishment which the law inilicts.


Let vigilance committees be at once or
ganizcd in every ward, not to keep legal
voters of any color away from the regis
tering office, but to see that none but
those legally entitled to register are ad-
mitted.
Year: 1867

Action for Damages Against A City Railroad
Company Conflicting Statements of Wit





Before Judge Mason.


Patrick Fsnnelly administrator, ps The Central Park
and North and East Rvr Railroad Company This case,
which action against the defendants the Belt Rail.
road Company to 900 damages for the killing
OF William Brophy the night Of March s, 1866 was
submitted 70 the jury yesterday afternoon


The evidence for the plaintiff was reported in the
HERLD Of yesterday and tended to show that deceased
was pushed OF tho car By an employe Of the company
which resulted in Brophy's death.


The defence set up general denial Of all the allega-
tons In the complaint and called as witnesses number
Of drivers and conductors, who testified that the do
cedent not passenger car So on the night In
question: that they not of any person having
been injured their line Of road at that tmc &C. One
witness testified that he had seen man who was in q
Of intoxication elected from liquor saloon in the
vicinity, and that he had heard him called "Brophy"


car driver testified that on tho night Of the
he had while driving his car passed who lying
on the opposite track gcanng as II in pain that he did
not because tho rules Of tho company forbade him nom
stopping and he would not stop under any circum-
stances; and the conductor Or thsar upon which tits
vas not 81 The car and that no alteration q any fnd
took place. Several police ocsrs test!aed that they
under OATH ana that they were man Of Suspicious ana


4 witness for tne dsfsscs named Augustus Bunan,
vicinity Of the accident ct the time Of It's
stated ON the direct examination that he truck
and s some distance sha. E. SSsrd %sn
groan, but saw no person lying the ground. In the
cross-examaation this witness stated distinctly
that he saw man lying on the ground and heard him
goan. Upon being nterrogatsd By the Court regard
to his statement on the direct examination, that he had
mot seen man lying on the ground" the witness
stated that he bad not given such evidence but ut-
maey made his mind to say that he did not sec any
person In tho position he previously described.


The case was summsd up by the respective counsel
after which the Court proceeded charge the jury on
the points TO be considered in their deliberations and
directed sealed verdict TO be rendered this morning
For plaintiff, Edwards Pierrepont; for tho defendant,
A. j. vanderpoel.
Year: 1867

The Warren (Ohio) Chronicle. of Decem-
Der 26, has the following strange story =
Ed. Day, (colcred) convicted of burglary at
the last term of the court. was taken last
week to the penitentiary, making the third
term at that institution. He seems to be an
incorrigible fellow, but claims to have been
more sinned against than shining. lie
claims to be the victim of merciless set of
persecutors-an organized band of thieves
and counterfeiters. Our readers will remem-
Der that we lately published two instances in
which surgeons extracted NEEDLES from Day 5
neck and breast while IN Jail awaiting his
trial Four large button needles were cut
out of his person, and the Surgeons say he
has great many more-perhaps hfty-In
different parts of his body. But as the nee
dies do not seriously affect him, except when
they work to some especial sensitive part, he
does not like to have the surgeons operate on
him. We we're present on one occasion when
he was being examined by surgeon, and ii
was easy to observe the locality of the nee
dies in his face and neck. When first asked
how they came TO lie in him, he ob.tinately
refused to tell but taking sick, and think
ing, perhaps, he had not long to live, he
yielded to the frequent persuasions to divulge
the secret, under conditions that it should





way of lis prosecutors. He claims that his
business has been to discover the schemes
and rascalities of certain parties, and then
10 black mail them to keep from divuigipg
Some years since the Treasurer's Office IN
Astabula county was robbed. Day claims
he was made cognizant of the robbery and
employed to carry several thousand dollars
to a certain party, but instead of doing so be
appropriated the money to his own use
This so incensed his confederates that they
determined to punish him. lie was taken.
bound, and while in this helpless condition
hot needles were forced into his fesh and be
was forced to swear eternal secresy, under
penalty of suffering like punishment if he
did not keep his promise. Two years ago
last summer, party of counterfeiters in
this place endeavored to engage him to Dc
some work for them. Day is tolerabe
engraver. After finding out their pats. he
refused to do the work, but told them he
wanted several hundred dollars hush money.
One night he was decoyed into a place on
Main street, knocked down, manacled and
carried to a certain point on back street.
and put to tortures that would shame the
cruelties of the Spanish Inqusition. One
plan was to tickle the soles of his feet until
be would faint under the excruciatng
agony. After somewhat reviving, red hot
needles were driven into his body, legs, arms
and cheeks. He says he knows the parties,
but is afraid to make their names public
How much truth there may be in his story,
we will not pretend to say. The fact that
his body is literally needle cushion, leads
to the inference that some forcible means
were probably used to place them there.