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Year: 1874

PUBLIC DEBT AND SRscIE PAYMENTS.
There is no royal road to the extin-
grushment of the public debt. and no
royal road to the resumtion of specia
payments. The exiting aishment of the
public dept must be through the chanel
of taxation and the way to the resum-
ton OF specie payments is to prove by
law for the prompt con7ertibility of the
notes into specie, or into some form Of
specie equivalent. If Government finds
itself unable to give gold for greenbacks
In consequence of not having now or at
any time a sutfisiency of gold in the
Treasury, it should do the next best
thing, it should give specie interest bond


(say 5 per cent. bonds) In exchange for
greenbacks at par Government should
also get as early as possible and keep in
the Treasury gold reserve equal to one
quarter or one third of all the green
backs and national currency outstanding;
when this is accomplished it may safely
redeem greenbacks with gold and decline
the alternative of giving therefor in ex-
change specie-bearing bonds. It would
be well that the greenbacks thus receiv-
ed in exchange for bonds should not be
again issued, except in re-exchange at
par for the specie-bearing bonds so
that the principal of the public debt
need not be thereby disturbed, either by
being increased or decreased -Repu5hc
Year: 1874

na- The tide eofimmigration Is steadily set
ting in, and the first thing eastern people do
Is to throw away their New York Hats and buy
n new one of DESMOND. They say there is no
comparison between the two. 2L1
Year: 1874

the man you are looking for. He Will give
YOU the incest fitting garments TO be had in
the city; cloth of the hest material; work
done upon honor, and the best satisfaction
generally. Call on him and have a full suit
made at once. Jy2 IT'S
Year: 1874

Plain and Fancy
PLAIN AND FANCY


PLAIN AND FANCY
JOB PRINTING
B PRINTING


COB PRINTING


JOB PRINTING
JOB PRINTING
Printing in COlors.


PRINTING IN CoLORs


PRINTING IN COLORs


PRINTING IN CoLoRs
PRINTING IN CoLORs
Year: 1874

VIZ are told that lady in Iowa put
vitriol on her scalp for the removal OF
dandruff. We 10 not care to present
painful scenes. but she certainly said 1t
was the dsndrutisst experiment. she ever
undertook.
Year: 1874

How much better is your farm than
it was one year ago? How much bet
ter are your implements? How much
more lovely have You made your home
by planting trees and shrubs? How
much have you added to the value of
your properly Explaining orchard trees
and the small fruits? How much bet
ter your stock of horses, of sheep, of
cattle? How much Of error have you
discovered in your mode of treatment
of the different crops you have grown?
How much have you learned from your
neighbors, from your agricultural pa
per, from your experience in relation
to your farm operations? How much
have you done to aid your wife and
daughters in their household duties by
furnishing them with improved house,
hold utensils and the better location and
arrangement of wells, cisterns, walk,
woed-piles. cellar and dairy rooms?
How much of Kindness and charity
have you. exercised toward the needy
and helpless How much better hus-
band, father, brother, man are you
than you were a year ago? Now is the
time to reflect upon all those things
Prairie Farmer.
Year: 1874

A writer in the Spectator says
There is one point connected with din
ner on which opinion seems still to be a
little chaotic, and that is the arrange
ment of the guests. The tendency is to
let them arrange themselves, and as this
is in accordance with modern manners,
the object of which is unrestraint and
the note of which is temporary init
macy, the tendency will probably pre-
vail. 1t diminishes the trouble of en-
tertainiDg and abolishes the RESPONSE
bility of the entertainer, but we have a
doubt about it nevertheless. Where ev-
erybOdy is really en- familie, leissez
fare ought to succeed; but even then
it is slightly selfish, marks partialities
too much, and leads to that neglect of
disagreeable persons which it is the last
lesson of high breeding to avoid and
where the family character is a momen-
tary assumption it produces confusion.
In company where precedence IS self
evident an inexplorable precedence
would do as Il substitute for order; but
it would be a wearisome substitute, and
is very seldom completely appli-
cable. Relatives would sit too fire.
quently together. Sitting next the ex-
act person you do not want to meet is q
trial to ones sdUOir-UiUre which, though
morally most benefcisl-for, after oil,
to be agreeable to ones enemy predis-
poses one to forgive him-does notalways
tend to the enjoyment of a dinner, and
dinner in the sense in which we are
using the word just now is primarily
intended to be enjoyable. 1t is not to
be an edifyinR social exercise, but an
enjoyment. We doubt whether in a
large dinner the host is not the best
person to decide where his guest shall
sit. He is often the only man who
knows them all he can judge pretty
accurately of their predictions, and his
decision terminates all chance of marked
aYoidancea.n
Year: 1874

Administrators are liable to account
for interest on funds in their hands,
although no profit should have been
made upon them, unless the exigencies
of the estate rendered it prudent that
they should hold the funds uninvested.


When a house is rendered untenant-
able, in consequence of improvements
made on the adjoining lot, the owner OF
such cannot recover damages, because
he had knowledge of the approaching
danger in time to protect himself from it.


A person who has been led to sell
goods by means of false pretense can
not recover them from one who has
purchased them in good faith from the
fraudulent vendor.


Permanent erectiOns and fixtures,
made by mortgager after the execution
of the mortgage upon land conveyed by
it, becomes part of the mortgaged
premises.


A seller of goods, chattels, or other
property, commits no fraud in Law when
he neglects to tell the purchaser of any
laws, defects, or unsoundness In the
same.


Money paid for the purpose of set
tling or compromising prosecution for
a supposed felony, cannot be recovered
back by the party paying it.


A day-book copied from "blotter :"
Year: 1874

The New Orleans Picayune gives the
annexed description of the neatest in
strument for street fight that has yet
been produced IL is a weapon with a
sinister and cynical appearance that
would make even the bravest man trem-
BILE. It consists first OF an ordinary
pair of brass knuckles, rather sharp, in
order 10 produce telling effect. To
one end is attached a gimlet knife, to
the other n revolver, whose trigger
forms one Of the divisions Of the brass
knuckle. Thus armed a man might
defy an army. If he were to get hold
of one individual man, the effect is ap-
palling every blow he strikes with the
knuckles would not only break the as
saulted persons skull, but lodge q half
dozen bullets in his heart, while the
oimlet attachment is cutting away At
his throat A man who had been treated
20 that weapon would be killed At least
a dozen times before he knew what was
the matter not only killed, but so bat
tered, bruised, and cut TO pieces, that a
sardine box would prove roomy coffin
for his remains. Somebody ought 10
name the weapon it deserves a name,
1t is small, but telling in its effects
Year: 1874

The mothers heart can take care of it.
self. the mothers hands m st be busy


whatever her station in life. But the


mothers intellect has too often been


allowed to suffer and die, with no one


wise enough about her to lift warning
voice. And look at the results. The


children grow mp to young man and


Wbmanhood, secretly in their thought
less hearts despising her for her want
| of a wise and broad culture. She car
ried her brain into little tucks aud EN-


broidery to ornament their beautiful
childhood but for this they have no
thanks. The pretty lresses are worn
out; now they need mother who can
command their intellectual respect, and
teach them some of life's highest les
sons before they go out of the house
hold forever. Plain, strong clothing,
then, would have left time for loving,
strong wisdom nov. The husband, who
has been growing as men always grow
who are continually mingled with the
world, rubbed sharp and bright with
its frictions, and compelled to pick up
many chapters from it's varied expert
ences, may be still kind, loving, con-
siGerate to the faded, inanimate wife,
whose mind has remained stationary for
a score of years. But he must be rare
man if a very thorough contempt for
the female intellect does not worm itself
into some of the secret, inner chambers
of his soul. Has any wife a moral right
to suffer herself to be outgrown in char
acter by her husband? Cakes and jel.
lies may fall into the background, but
ideas, in the family economy, must rule
always above par. Working women
more than any other need the strength
and consolation which are to be derived
from wide field of ennobling thought,
need thorough and persistent self-edu-
cation, and all the dignity and respect.
fuI consideration which is always given
by rich and poor alike to well-culti-
waited intellect. The highest work which
can be done for ones family is teaching
them practically that the mind is Of
greater worth than the body. Little
children accustomed to see an honored
mother studying habitually, if only for
half an hour every day, must learn
early to respect the wisdom which is 60
highly priced. Is any woman ambitious
for her family? There is no better way
of steadily promoting their welfare.
Example is immensely better than pre-
cept, and she more influential than all
other teachers in forming their plant
characters. As mary plants turn the
face of every leaf ond petal TOW ard the
sun, so human being who early learns
that knowledge IS its own exceeding
great reward will turn toward it in
stinctively in every emergency. "No
distances are so great as moral dis
tances. ."-ReU. AYatOinette BldckUeU.
Year: 1874

"Small size this is the echo o.


most mems wishes. They want som,


one to pet, to fondle, to protect, they


say and this is truth when they fee
| good natured. Cynical women say they
| want some one thew eau tyrannize over,
but we are not inclined to take q cynical


view of the subject.


Very few men willfully tyrannize


over their wives and children, but the


tyranny is there, nevertheless, and in


tellectual men, such as the world ad-


mlre, are most prone to exercise ii.


They are so wrapped in their own plans,
theories and speculations they do not
discover the fact that their own house
holds are famishiDg for the bread of
love, and fainting for the gushing
springs of sympathy. They are SO ac-
customed to adulation abroad that the
simple home affection seems tame and
spiritless as the purest water of the
deepest well is tasteless to one accus-
toned to the sparkling and burning,
but poisonous draughts of intoxication.
In our zeal to vindicate the "lords
of creation from the charge of wiiful
tyranny we are leaving our two bache-
lors and their imaginary wives too long
neglected.


Small size is mans fancy, not the
physiological knowledge. 1t is an al
most universal fancy. The larger, the
rougher, more burly the man, the more
sure he is to prefer small-sized woman.
&" I am determined to have a wife whom
can pick up in my arms and carry her
over all the rough places" said a
young farmer, whose softest tones
sounded like clap of thunder. As he
spoke he snatched the largest and
heaviest girl in all his acquaintance,
and lifted her over the brook. His
words are echoed in the selection made
by most large sized and stentorian-
voiced men. Their ideal is of some
thing the reverse of themselves, and
thus fragile figures and low tones are
to tham the perfection of feminine at
traction. Our solution of the problem
lies in the supposition that it is an un-
educated action OF philoprogenitive-
ness, shown in the desire for some small
creature to pet, to fondle, to caress.
Those who have watched the world for
fifty years know how sfteD is enacted
the sad tragedy which may be named,
The Bride of a Year.
Year: 1874

The eel season is now at hand the re-
cent rains having started them in the
Susqnehanna and all the creeks and
streams on their fall journey back to
tide-water, and the consequence is that
large numbers have been caught in diff
ferent parts of the country within the
past few days. The eel travels up stream
in the spring, and returns down to the
salt waters in the fall, always going in
large schools. There are a great many
peculiarities connected with the eel that
but few people know of. For instance,
there are some eight or ten kinds of
them, of which several never enter into
fresh water. Some Of the varieties are,
when full grown, ten or twelve feet in
length, weighing one hundred pounds.
The kind here, the common fresh and
salt water eel, is usually from twelve to
twenty four inches in length. Eels, it
has been proved, have both sexes in one,
and spawn somewhat after the manner
of other fish. Like the turtle, they can
travel out of the water for some dis
tance, from stream to stream, so that in
almost every rivulet, however small,
they can be found. The gills or breath
ing organs. are covered up by a most
delicate curtain, which acts like valve
and reservoir for water, so to speak,
to keep its gills moist during the time
it is out of the stream. It has heart
in its tail, the same as is known to xist
in the salmon, with pulsations at about
ninety. four to the minute. PennsyI.
Ua11jG paper.
Year: 1874

in which original charges are first made
will not be received in evidence as a
book of original entries.


A stamp impressed upon an instru-
ment by way of a seall is as good as a
seal if it creates double impression in
the texture of the paper.


An agreement by the holder of a note
to give the principal debtor time for
payment, without depriving him of the
right to serve, does not discharge the
surety.


The opinion of witnesses as to the
value of dog that has been killed, is
not admissible in evidence. The value
of the dog is to be decided by the jury.
Year: 1874

again before them On the following
evening, when the performance was ac,
cordingly repeated, and was continued
for several successive nights, until an
indisc~eet member of the troupe unfor-
tunately divulged the fact that the
masked wrestler was not distinguished
nobleman but only one of the clowns
attached to the circus. This led to
disturbance-the" "great unknown mar
rowly escaped being torn to pieces by
his late admirers, the manager and his
troop had to fly for their lives, and the
circus building would probably have
been dismantled and destroyed but for
the exertions of the police, who with
great difficulty succeeded in repressing
what promised to be serious riot.
Year: 1874

To fill the place of the jauntS lace
pockets that ladies took delight in
wearing on the left side all summer,
fashion has decreed for winter a saucy-
looking, but very pretty, pocket made
of fur. The European style, we hear
from correspondent, is made of mink,
with an edging of seal, or seal, with
sable edging, ornamented with silk or
silk and chenille tassels. They are at
tached to the waist with heavy brown
silk cord. Mink will again be largely
worn, cut seal is all the rage-sealekin
jackets especially.
Year: 1874

EDrroR OF THE V. B. PRrss


We notice by your paper Of last week
that the Messrs, Brodic have been using
their influence to induce your subscrib.
ers to discontinue the Press. We sup
pose, if this is so, it is on account of
your differing with them in the choice OF
delegate to the Convention. Surely you
had as much right to your choice as they
to theirs. This action of theirs is mat
ter of astonishment to both your and
their friends Have they forgotten
the defence made by the Press for them
in the unfortunate difficulty ofa younger
brother with Jesse Morton, and how you
worked for them in times that true men S
friendship was desirable--that the blood
thirst Anderson party threatened to de-
stroy the Press Office for that defence
And have they further forgotten the
more recent trouble with the notorious
John Reed The action Of yourself and
the prompt sustainance from the Press
for which it was openly attacked and
they char ged with murder by the Fayette-
willie papers. or all sins we think IN
gratitude the meanest. But go ahead II
will take more force than those crying
out against the Press, can bring to break
1t down. o
Year: 1874

That night he gave Mr.. Snow no.
tice that he must quit, and on the
following morning he went to the
Dindery. For two days he had bu,
little TO do, but on the third day "a
heavy job came in, and Peter Stau
wood had steady work. He was
happy-more happy than ever, for
he had learned two things first,
what noble wife he had aud sec.
ond, how much resources tor good
he had in his own energies.


Our simple picture has two points
to its moral. One is-no man can
be lowered by any king of honest la
Dor. The second-while you are
enjoying the fruits of the present,
forget not to provide for the future
for no man is so secure but that the
day may come when he will need
the squanderings of the past.
Year: 1874

The Cincinnati Times is greatly grieved at
the advice in an agricultural paper, snake
manure of your old fodder" 1t evidences,
it says, great lack of filial affection ON the
part Of somebody.
Year: 1874

1t is very lucky for Theodore Tilton that
he didn't attend the last Friday evening
prayer-meeting of Plymouth church. Had
he done so he would have been advertised by
this time as another and exceedingly serious
case of lost boy.
Year: 1874

A pouting bride, on her first voyage writes
home: "The motion Of screw steamer is
like riding gigantic camel that has the heart


disease, and you do not miss single throb.


know of nothing to compare with it for


boredom, unless it be your honeymoon when


you have married for money!
Year: 1874




the Virginius Prisoners.


NEW YORK, December 2S.


Areporter of the Tribune, who boarded
the Juniata, obtained full particulars
from variety of sources concerning the
treatment received by the prisoners at the
hands of their Spanish captOrs. All these
reports agree in one particular, namely
that the treatment received was uniformly
harsh and in some cases barbarous. A
fact which has not generally been known,
by statements of prisoners now comes TO
light, which is, that they were robbed by
the crew of the Tornado, and nearly all
who owned anything were robbed of
money, jewelry, watches and other valu-
ables. The prisoners were taken to the
Jail of Santiago soon after their arrival in
port. Here they were crowded together
like cattle; here their sulFerings began.
They were not confined to separate cells
indeed, there was no opportunity for
such confinement in the contracted quar-
ters of the Santiago jail-but the entire
party of nearly 200 were driven into a
small room, hardly fifty feet wide
by ten feet long. Here they were
obliged to live as best they could,
though the air, of course, was
almost deadly, and there was little or no
opportunity for exercise. The prisoners
were supplied with provisions which,
though sufficient as regards quantity,
were poor in quality, and hardly fitted to
sustain life. The provisions consisted
wholly of rice and water. One night the
prisoners were stealthily taken from the
Jail and marched with The greatest haste
to point seven miles below the city, in
the vicinity of Moro The road lay
through rough tract of country. and the
journey was most wearisOme, while some
OF the prisoners were so sick as to be al.
most unable to stand. The sutierings of
the number were intense, and no pity was
in the breasts of the Spaniards. At this
point on the coast they were placed on
board the steamer BaZean, which at once
set sail for Havana. AT Manzeilla 1t was
met by the mail steamer coming in the
opposite direction. On the steamer was
General Burriel, who at once ordered the
Bazean to return to Santiago. She turned
about, but soon run aground, and the pas
sengers were transferred to another
vessel There they suffered horrors
heretofore unknown. They were crowded
in the hold of the vessel, where scarcely a
ray of sunlight could struggle in, and the
air was poison. The darkness was almost
continuous. The food they ate was
wretched in quality and insufficient in
quantity, aud the water they drank was
what remained in the buckets after the
dumb animsls were satisfied. These ami.
Year: 1874

mails consisted mainly of horses and
mules. They were kept on the deck above
the Virginius' prisoners, and were thus a
constant source of annoyance to the help
less people confined below, 1t was in the
midst Of all this filth and suffering that
the prisoners were not allowed to wash for
ten days, and their arms were pinioned
behind them the larger portion of the
voyage. They were occasionally. beaten
on the slightest provOcation, and some
times on no provocation at all. These
punishments, however, seem not to have
been Of q nature so serious as to produce
any lasting effects.
Year: 1874

The feature of the stock market to-day has been
the inward movement in Lake Shore which, having
opened at 7Sa rose TO 19s, and finally closed al 10


The buying of this stock was stimulated by rumors
70 the effect that a dividend was the tapis: that
Commodore Vanderbilt had gone to Cleveland for
the purpose of ettecing lease Of the road TO the
n Y Central and Hudson and lastly, that tho
earnings of the Lake Shore for the first half OF tho
month of October exhibit increase of receipts over
the corresponding period for 1873. Ii is possible
that the promulgators of these rumors have rem
dered themselves liable to the discipline OF the
Stock Exchange under recent rule relative TO tho
circulation of false reports The balance Of the list
scarcely responded to the rise in Lake Shore. In
fact the rise in this stock barely saved the list from
AN exhibition of positive weakness. The statement
concerning Wabash which has for several days
been given out to the effect that tho company had


competed its negotiations to enable it TO meet the
November interest on its bonds, appears TO have
fallen still-born, if one may judge from the
movement in the price of the stock.
possihv onerators have awakened TO the fact that
tho navinc of compound interest by corporation IL
not Tho biob rood 70 success on the part Of those
ono,o oino in sucb fnanciering. The general stock
market TODAY was only moderately active and was
u,,rLoa hv GENERALLY narrow fluctuations. The
onar;nc nrices ~ a rule were to below the final
ofac;aI figures of Saturday. though Erie suddeuly
dsva,oped a rise from 90 to SOl. which stffened
the general list that it went into the First Board


10 higher. Those who think they know some
thing about the market considered this good oppor'
tunity to sell and free Offering sent Ere down per
cent and the entire market followed its course at .
respectful dAtapce. The afternoon brought stsaaS,