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Year: 1874

HoNoRs TO PETRARCH.-The five hundredth
anniversary of the death of the great Italian
poet Petrarch has been celebrated at Avignon
with great pomp, and made the occasion of
something like international rejoicing. It is
noteworthy incident that lover who in
life was only writer of sonnets to o fair
woman who did not requite his affection
should in the lapse of time become bond of
union between nations. The wonderful
sweetness and tenderness Of Petrarchs poetry
is known to all acquainted with Italian litera-
ture, but it is questionable whether his genius
would have suficed to win for him the recog-
milton he received at Avignon had not the
political necessities of the hour made it de-
sirable to draw back Italy into sympathy with
France. The idea was a happy one, but we
question if even o well-timed compliment to o
dead poet will make Italy forget the menaces
directed against her independence by an un-
wise party in France.
Year: 1874

whore shoula tho Line be Drawn,
The New York Observer, >one Of our most
cautious religious newspapers, recently sub


mitted some admirable views relative to


the intimacy that should exist between
pastor and his flock. The editor
cansNres clergymen severely who ''encour-
age tEeir people to come to them with
family matters or secret sores" Gossip
should not be permitted, and no familiarity,
especially on the part of the femaledenomina-
ton. The editor imagines how silly woman.
'pious, perhaps, but very soft and shallow"
may come under the influence of q pastor.
''be reused, warmed, soothed, emitted, she
thinks edited" and in course of time become
an annoyance and the cause of sorrow to him.
''Such people, says the editor, '.never 90 to
their pastor to ask what they must do to be
saved 1t is to tell him how good they feel,
how he is 'exalting' them, filling them with
joy, peace and love- We cannot 90 into par
ticulars without offending the tastes of every
reader. We make our meaning plain. We
wish to be understood as saying that what
worldly preachers and sentimental women
call communion Of soul and kindred spirits.r
mutual help and holy sympathy and words,
in the same strain, is not religion-it is not
even religious. It is of the earth, earthy.'
1t is 'carnal, conceived in SIM It is simply
the lower nature the human passion of ono
creature toward another. God is not in it."


There is much wisdom in these comments,
At the same time the relations Of Christian
minister to his flock are necessarily Of the
most intimate and confidential character In
sorrow, care, anxiety, expectation, to whom
would the Christian be more apt to go than
to the clergyman for consolation and advic4.
The Catholic Church recognizes this N the
sacrament of the confession, and probably
none of it's sacraments contributes so largely
to its discipline and power. The ministry
imposes great responsibilities if it involves
corresponding temptations. The true lesson
to be learned is that no man should assume
its solemn and awful functions unless he feels
the strength of divine graoa. When priest
who accepts these sacred duties abuses them
no punishment can be too severe What
would be crime in q man of the world
becomes sacrilege in the priest.
Year: 1874




this country is matter of very little conse-
quence for in the great contest which is yet
to be made in the interest of higher education
the sectarian colleges win find that they must
be tried by Herbert Spencers doctrine of the
survival of the fttest But while the sec
tartan colleges, including Harvard and Yale
and Columbia and Princeton, will be COM
pelled to contend with the national universi-
ties, we do not think it would be wise to begin,
what President White seems to demand, o
general and comprehensive system of State
universities. Our higher education must be
growth. Already Columbia College has o
powerful rival in the College OF the City of
New York. IF we are ever to have o great
conservatory of music in this city it must be o
part of the public school system. The city
must also give US q school Of mechanical
and civil engineering to equal the French
Ecole Polytechnique. 1t must also supply Us
nificent laboratory and college for applied
science. We have just laid the foundations of
q museum of natural history which must be-
come q part of the system. Every great city
ought to have within itself all the resources of
o great university; but it would be mistake
TO build universities among the hills before
the hills require them. So far the State uni-
yersities which have been founded are even
more feeble than the sectarian colleges. What
N NRnt Is the GRADUAL deyelopmspt Qf ou'
Year: 1874

the corruptions in the Street Cleaning Bureau


OF the Police Department. He did not think
the charges deserving of consideration, andhe
insults the people of New York by entering
into laudation of the two convicted Police


Commissioners, especially of Oliver Charlick.


The Mayor had, indeed, glanced at the report


of the Assembly committee, and had observed


some testimony leading to the belief that


small sums had been taken from citizens for
removing garbage, &C., but he had not seen q
single thing to impeach the integrity OF any
commissioner of police. 1t is singular that
the Mayor should have overlooked all the
testimony in regard to the filling OF Long
Island lots, in which Commissioner Charick,
and, we believe, Mr.. Havemeyer, are interested,
or that he should have failed to see that the
whole report, fixing incapacity and dishonesty
on the bureau, was, in fact, an impeachment
of the Commissioners who controlled the
whole management of the bureau But he
deemed the report of the Assembly com
mittee partisan affair, unworthy Of his
official notice. It is for Governor Dix
TO approve or condemn this judgment
of legislative investigation. 1t is possible
that he may deem such an inquiry one OF
the most important that can take place; that
he may find no justification of the charge Of
craftsmanship. malice and unfairness made by
MIR. Havemeyer against the Assembly commit.
tee, and that he may regard it as having beer


the duty OF the Mayor to take notice OF the


grave charges of corruption and incompetence
.n.sda sgainst the bureau uthe committees Ea
Year: 1874

The diocese of Posen, says the Pail
Mall Gazette, is evidently the theater in
which the struggle between Church and
State IN Germany is destined to be first
fought out to the farthest extremities.
The case of Father Kubeczak at Xions,
who has been excommunicated for ac-
cepting a living from the patron with
out seeking the consent of the Posen
Bishop and chapter, brings the latter
into Immediate collision with the law.


The Dean of the Chapter will be
summoned before the Ecclesiastical
Court, aud the result will probably be
to deprive the Chapter of the support
it receives from the funds Of the State
That would have taken place before the
present time if the law regarding the
administration of vacant Bshoprics
passed by the Landtag last May, had
been accepted by the Diet in the shape
in which it was presented by the Gov
ernment.


The thirteenth clause in the original
draft Of the measure declared that ca
thedral chapters which failed to appoint
Wears en- the occurrence of vacancies
would be liable to be deprived Of all
funds allowed to the members by the
State till they sheuld obey the law.
From some scruples that such provl
sion was too severe, the clause was
struck out of the bill as passed. Had
it stood, the Posen Chapter must have
become liable to the penalty it threat
ened, because it failed to appoint a
Vicar when the episcopal see was made
vacant in consequence of a sentence Of
the Ecclesiastical Court, as required by
clause vi. Of the act of the Goth of May
last.


Probably Prince Bismarck and his
Minister of worship now regret that
they did not press the acceptance Of the
omitted clause on theDiet; for the Posen
chapter has adopted an attitude of pas
sive resistance, and declining to admit
the competence of the proceedings un-
der which the see has been deprived of
episcopal guidance, has, of course, re-
fused to cooperate with the commissary
appointed by the Minister of Ecclesias-
tical Affairs to administer the property
of the see. TIE consequence has been
great inconvenience and even pecuniary
loss to many persons in the diocese who
had an interest in its property.
Year: 1874

BY law of Congress approved June 9, 1874, entitled An Act for the relief of set tiers on railroad lands," 1t is provided

 That in the adjustment ot all railroad land grants, whether made directly to any railroad company or to any State for rail- road purposes, if any of the lands grant ed be found in the possession of an actual settler whose entry or filing has been al- lowed under the pre-emptiOn or home stead laws of the United States subse- quent to the time at which, by the decis- ion of the land office, the right of said road was declared to have attached to such lands, the grantees, upon proper relinquishment of the lands so entered or filed for, shall be entitled to select an equal quantity of other lands in lieu thereof from any of the public lands not mineral and within the limits of the grant not otherwise appropriated at the date of selection, to which they shall receive title the same as though originally granted. And any such entries or filings thus re- lieved from conflict may be perfected into complete title as if such lands had not been granted.
Year: 1874

The apparent indifference of the people

 at Desert Station to the actions of W. P.

 Hall and Charles V. Moore has been @ subject of much remark within our hear

 ing, and it was our purpose to have made mention of it fast week, but other matters filled our space. Even after the firing

 was heard, all hands very calmly took a view of the fight and then retired to

 breakfast. Alter Hall and Moore return ed, they were permitted to take break fast and indulge in some unbecoming language about what had been done, and afterwards quietly and without any moles-

 tation to take the course that suited each

 The testimony published last week, in dicated this much to have been the case i; and it also impresses an impartial reader with the belief that the men at the station felt some unnecessary if not wholly un- warranted action was intended by Hall and Moore in their haste to go out and meet the two Mexicans. The testimony also shows that those at the station asked Hall and Moore to let the men come up to the station, but does not show that any other effort was made to restrain them from going out Then after 1t was plain that shooting was going on in clear sight, no steps were taken to go and prevent it or see what injury was done until after Moore and Hall returned and all hands ate breakfast. Probably the men at the station did what others would have done under like circumstances, but as the sequel shows, they might have pre- vented the killing; and their own testi- mony implies that Hall and Moore meant violence to the MeXicans, for they had arms and borrowed shotgun at the sta tion just before starting on their work of death.

 We don't care to censure the men at the station, but to call public attention to what they might have done with great propriety and credit, and what ought to be done under like circumstances. ItI surely is right and proper for citizens who have reasonable ground for suppos- ing personal violence or killing of fellow men to be intended by others, to do what they can to prevent it. The force at the station was sufficient to have controlled the actions of Moore and Hall and, if necessary, to have taken into safe GUS tody the Mexicans who were killed with out any provocation, so far as we can learn, for all accounts go to show them to have been men of excellent character wherever known. The whole commun- ity should wake up to a keener sense of the enormity of the crimes of murder and of killing innocent people. Especially should station keepers and men obliged to travel the roads much with a little money or property, or both, be alive to prevent such bloody work and assist Tn punishing the perpetrators of it when done.
Year: 1874

The New York EUeHing Post, in re-
ferring to one of the last duels that
took place in that city, says The Park
Theatre duel WAS very peculiar affair,
and seems more like fiction than fact.
Stephen Price, native of an adjacent
county, was a theatrical manager in
this city for many years. After he had
been here few years his brother Benia-
min came to town, and was frequent
visitor to the Park Theatre, then under
Stephens control. One night Benjamin
Price was in private box accompanied
by young lady. In the next box sat a
British officer, who stared at the lady
in a rude manner. Price entered the
officers box and pulled the latter's
nose. In few moments the officer
sent in his card (the first step to chal-
lenge), accompanied by a statement
that he had intended no offence to the
lady, and was not aware that he had
been guilty of any rudeness. Mr.. Price
Immediately regretted his haste and
apologized for his violence, and thus
the matter rested.


Subsequently the officer went to
Canada, whittier gossip soon conveyed
report of the scene at the theatre.
His associates, being strict construc-
tionists of the law of honor, determined
to cut his acquaintance, and he was
forced to return to this city and chal-
lenge Price or lose caste. A duel at
Hoboken was the result. Price was
killed at the first fire, and the officer
returned to his regiment with vindica-
ted honor. One of the active promoters
of this bloody affair was a Captain Will
son, who afterwards came to this city
and stopped at the Washington hotel.
While here he referred to the affair,
and his words were soon brought to
Stephen Price. The latter repaired to
the hotel and offered an insult which
led to meeting" and the Captain
was killed. It is said that the affair
was so private that the friends of Cap
tain Wilson were for long time under
the supposition that he had gone sud-
denly to England.
Year: 1874

Men neglect what concerns them
nearly if they fail to note the approach
of harder winter than we have had for
years. Not severe by reason of more
frequent storms or keener blasts, but
hard in the lack of enterprise in COM
mercial circles, stagnation in trade,
dullness in most branches of business,
amounting to paralysis in some, and no
work for those who cannot live without
employment. A recent examination
through three of the Eastern States re-
veals that machine firms have but half
their usual force of men occupied, and
that no contracts are in hand or ex-
pected in the immediate future. While
the skies are yet serene the workshop
doors are haunted by care-worn faces
seeking vainly for work. We are told
that much suffering exists. If it be so
now before the leaves have fallen, how
are working people to go through the
winter? During the stringency which
prevailed after the panic of last year
many were discharged but the previous
years having been reasonably prosper
Gus their small savings afforded sup
port until spring, when better times
were hoped for. But the spring came
and went the summer has passed !;
already the hillsides are blazing with
the fires of autumn, and the ranks of
the unemployed are fuller than ever.
Their little fund is expended and their
services are not in demand. How are
they to liver


Those still at the wise and loom may
learn lesson from the woes of others,
and if prudent before, curtail still more
in their expenditures, for they have no
assurance that a sudden turn of the
wheel may not unseat them also. Let
them hold on to every cent which is
their own, cut off all superhuities, and
if they were faithful to their trusts be-
fore, increase their efforts, so that they
may be indispensable. The stocks of
machinery in this city at the present
time are larger than they should be,
with little or no demand. Railways are
decreasing their pay rolls, purchasing
little or nothing except absolute neces-
saries, and on every side we hear of
curtailment and cessation of production
in manufactures. Up TO New Years
day the cotton spinners Of Fall River,
Mass, have decided to run on half
time, and this will inevitably cause
much distress.


It is to be hoped that all these pres
ent evils will work their own cure in the
season approaching, thai natural wear
and tear will demand new supplies, and
that the spring of 1875 will see the
whole country better fol- the enforced
economy now plainly demanded. d.-NeaO
York Sun.
Year: 1874

They were two very impecunious
characters, but they loved each other.
Occasionally one of them would have
some money. When this was the case
it never escaped the other. But Brown
had theatrical ways about him that
cast a glamour round such amounts as
chance put in his way, and made them
to uninitiated hearers assume the mag
nitude of dollars when they were only
cents. He would run his thumb and
fore finger ostentatiously into the
pocket of dilapidated vest, and speak
of piece of fractional currency there
as "ten-er" to his friend Sanders,
and Sanders mouth would water. The
last was more especially in seasons when
the temperature stood high. On one
such occasion, Sanders was asked If he
would partici pate in a smile. He did
not refuse. That, with q man like
Brown, was not his habit. But Browns
foresight induced him to tell Sanders
that it was to be a five.cent smile, and
to that effect the understanding was
had outside of the Sample ROOM"
They entered. "What will you have,
Sanders, my boyp' blithely chirruped
Brown.


ga leetle good Bourbon"


"What Is yours, Mr.. Brown?" polite
ly asked the waiter.


Oh, me-yes-well, I'll take a gill
of water"


Gulping down his water with a look
of infinite disgust, Brown threw down
his "tener."
Year: 1874

A STRANGE SU1oIDE.-A man who
could net live with his wife tried to
live peaceably with another woman.
Failing in this, he declared that "a
man who can't live with women with
out quarreling amt fit to live," and
hung himself to a clothes peg. This
occurred in Newark, and the unhappy
man set very bad example to the mar
ried community.
Year: 1874

Men of talent often fail from turn
ing their talents in a wrong direc-
ton. Chief Justice Chase, for ex-
ample, would never have made a
successful barber. He lived for q
while in his youth with his uncle,
Bishop Chase, who prepared him
for college. One morning he told
the budding Salmon to kill and
dress a pig. The incipient states
man was not much of a butcher,
and, when he came to the delicate
operation of scalding the pig, hor-
ror! the hair set. But in his ex-
tremity he bethought himself Of his
uncle's razor and in due course OF
time, he had porker shaved from
tip of snout to tail-c=id. The bish.
op, on his return, complimented
his nephew on the neatness witt e
which he had perfoHaa


When IbeeTeT the Old gentIemal
came to shave himself.his cherished
razor was found in a sad plight
An investigation followed, anc
young Salmon received some YER
serious advice.
Year: 1874

DECIDEDLY PERsoNAL.-Mr. Rus
kin: ina recentnWnber Of Flors CLAW
eriga, says:


1T is quite possible for the sim
plest workman or laborer for whom
I write to understand what the
feelings Of a gentlemen are, and
share them if he Will but the crisis
and horror Of this present time are
that its desire of money and the full
ness Of Injury dishonesty attain
able by common persons are gradu-
ally making churls of all men; and
the nobler passions are not merely
disbelieved, but even the concep-
ton of them seems ludicrous to the
ordinary chrul mind: so that, to
take only so poor an iDstauce OF
them as my own ief-because I
have passed'it in allns-giving, not
in fortune hunting: because I have
labored always for the honor of
others, not my own, and have
chosen rather to make men look to
Turner and Laini than to form or
exhibit the skill Of my own hand ::
because | have lowered my rent,
and assured the comfortable lives
Of my poor tenants, instead Of
taking from them all I could force
for the roofs they needed; because I
love wood walk better than a Lon
don street, and would rather watch
a sea gull fly than shoot it, and
rather hear a thrush sing than eat
it: finally, because I never disobey-
ed my mother, because I have hon
ored all women with solemn wor-
ship. and have been kind even to
the 1nthankful and the evil; there
fore the hacks Of English art and
literature wag their heads at me.
and the poor wretch who pawns the
dirty linen Of his soul daily for a
bottle of our wine and a cigar talks
Of the 'efjeminate sentimentality Of
Ruskin.
Year: 1874

Does she remember our Friday
spelling class, how I strove to be
always next her, but still below her?
and if perchance she could not re-
member "big word" how I took
advantage of the masters absent
look, to whisper it so softly in her
ear? Does she remember it? But,


oh, my little witch-wssn't I repaid
by the tender smile or sweet kiss
Year: 1874

The Emperor of China has set
good example in the encouragement Of
spinsters. According to Shanghai
journal, he has recently decreed that
special honors be paid to two old maids,
one of whom lately died after life OF
devotion to the memory of her betroth.
ed, while the other, who is still living,
declined in her youthful days to make
a most tempting match on the ground
that she could not leave her parents.
A Michigan paper says: "Young
man, ifyou are looking for wife come
TO Michigan, tae noble Peninsular
State, and we'll put you on the track
of a young lady who can husk her fifty
bushels Of corn per day, yoke oxen,
drive horses, teach school and saw with
oross-cut saw. She wants 10 be low
ed for herself alone.
Year: 1874

. - u tssysss.Sz u vittiis-te.s haste tslss
l-TheFes sss1sss1 ffaE oyer e. ned meat


the large consumption of sugar, syrup
and starchy food, that is common ameng
us, the necessities of the system for car
bonaceous food are fully, if not over
supplied. The use of excessively fat
food then is a waste of material, and 1t
probably induces some of the bilious
disorders which are so common. With
regard to poultry these remarks are es-
pecially applicable. The markets of the
cities are filed with fowls that are lined


with fat, useless addition that is q
loss to the consumer, and its production
has been at the expense of waste OF
food to the feeder Besides, housekeep-
ers complain of these over fat fowls,


that they are deficient in deiicacy OF
flavor, and are coarse and greasy, thus
losing in quality as well as III weight.
/ This matter is in the hands OF farmers
to remedy. They alone decide as to
what degree of fatness their fowls shall
be brought, or rather, not knowing ex-
actly how fat they are, they continue to
feed them much too long for their own
profit. A very thin fowl can be brought
into good condition for the table in
three weeks feeding. Generally fowl


from q grain-stubble or barn-yard at a
time when waste grain is scattered about
! literally, as well as at other times, when
the housewife undertakes the feeding OF
the poultry, is sufficiently fat for the
market, without extra feed. If poultry


is marketed at the age of two years,


and none older than that kept, tue quail


ity of the flesh will be all that can be
desired, without any examining of extra


feed, and the extra fat that is laid upon


an old fowl, is no addition to its good
ness, but rather adds to its bad qualities.


A good Judge of poultry looks to the
age of a fowl, and passes by the old


birds that have been crammed TO fit
them for market. t.-AgriculturiSt,
Year: 1874

Hong Chin Foo, Chinese exile, who


has been educated in the United States,


has Iectured in Rochester. He said that,


of all the people the Chinese came in
contact with. the Americans were most
liked. While hundreds of young China
men were sent to this country to be
educated not one was ever sent to Eng
land or France. The people who came
to this country, as rule, did not prop
erly represent the Chinese nation Ihey
were low and ignorant, and the treat
ment they received here from the lower
classes did not give them any compli-
mentary or truthful character of the
American people. He explained the
reason why American missionaries la


bored under such great disadvantages
in China. He said that the Chinese had
been taught by Confucius TO regard
propriety of conduct as of the utmost
Importance. There was but one way
for their clothes to be fashioned, one