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Year: 1874

A noted hunter of South Hero fears
that he has been the victim of a'isell. !"
He has q gun that scatters shot badly,
so that it is not of much account. A
while ago ne saw an advertisement
in city paper, offering to send in
formation whereby such scattering OF
shot could be prevented, on receipt OF
fifty cents. He sent the money, and
in due time was informed that to pre-
vent his gun from scattering" he
should ''put In but one shot"
Year: 1874

THE Chaplain Of the United States
Senate excited the ridicule Of the news.
papers recently by returning thanks IN
his prayer for the repeal Of the Back Pay
law the morning alter the day on which il
was repealed. Prior to the repeal he had
not alluded toit. Now he IL in the news.
papers again on account Of the following
prayer on Tuesday last, in reference, as II
Is supposed, TO certain wicked Washing.
ton correspondents.


10 Lord, our God, we come In this
place to deplore before Thee the spirit Of
lying which 10 abroad, and we beseech
Thee to rebuke the giant demon OF slam.
der that stalks forth casting upon all the
earth fearful shadow. Paralyze The
hand that writes the willful detraction;
palsy the tongue that utters wanton cal.
umny, the things which tend 10 under
mine all confidence In the good, and give
. malignant power to all the bSd elements
Tor the decentralization and destruction Of
human society. Let Thy flaming spirit
take vengeance upon the false accuser, and
consume THE spirit of ruin from all OF the
land. This We 8sk In the name and for
the sake OF Him who was truth itself.
Amen.


This reads like small sized Bull from
the Vatican at Rome instead Of q PRAYER
in the American Senate.
Year: 1874

THE Directors of the Pittsburgh,
Wheeling & Kentucky Railroad had q
meeting yesterday at the Grant House.
We are not informed that anything OF
special moment transpired at the meeting.
We have the impression however that
some steps have been taken lately
that look to the completion Of the enter
prise. Stranger things have happened
than the completion Of that road thil
year. We do not makel this remark
however, by way of evoking q fresh
burst Of indignation from the WelhburR
Independent. -r..s..
Year: 1874

A cALLRn meeting OF the Washington
Presbytery will be held in Wheeling on
the 96th ol March. The object of the
meeting Is to act upon the resignation OF
the pastor OF the Presbyterian Church al
Lower Buffalo Wash. Pa, ObSever.
Year: 1874

Dom Piatt, in the Capital, TINS vim
dicates General Grant: I'VE meet the
President almost daily as we pass the
Executive Mansion. going to and from
our Office, and while his countenance
is not that of teetotal Jonadab or
Dashaway III good standing. there is
nothing in his manner to Indicate the
frightful excess with which he is char
ged. He looks to us like bon picant
who puts himself outside of bottle or
so at dinner, and retires at night in n
happy state of elevation that is as far
from sobriety as it is from drunken
ness"
Year: 1874

The Universal Yankee is nothing if
not modest, and if there is anything
lovely in life or in death, it is modesty.
Modesty is a quality that highly
reporter. In fact modesty is very
fine thing, and like the currency and a
good many other good things of life.
our Northern brethren have at least
their full share of it.


Who but a modest New Englander
would have spoken thusly, as did the
Boston advertiser, of his own, his
native land?


Says the AdUertiser:


Iceland and New England are the
only two instances known in modern
history of colonies founded on prin-
ciple and peopled from higher mo-
tives than those of gain or want, and
i'll the intellectual development OF
each there is seen day the same in
dependent spirit and the outlines of
the same forms of local government.
The town meetings of New England,
which put an end to King Georges
power in the New World, are the
''chings" Of the Norsemen, where in
Iceland. Norway and Sweden the peo-
pie in each district gathered and made
the laws of the land, levied taxes and
raised armies, and without whose
sanction even the Kings mandates
were void.


Did ever any one see a finer speci
men of modesty than the above 1t
fills the bill precisely.


SO we'll indeed, that we do not see
how the Adreriser, being a newspa-
per, and a good one too, barring its
politics, can escape ruin, fer we are
quite sure that it is universally ad
mitted that modesty will ruin a news
paper. Possibly, however, the 1drer'-
Hser is lady newspaper.
Year: 1874

DR.. Curry, the noted Northern Meth
olst preacher and editor, ana one Of
the loyalist.men that ever..anathematiz-
ed a rebel, has been down South re-
Gently. and has gone back home with
some of his pet theories in state of
utter demolition. For instance, he
concludes that the project of mixing
whites and blacks in churches at the
South is an utter failure IF the ne
groes predominant the whites stay at
home. and if the latter predominate
the darkey stay at home. Curry had
better go TO Washington and give his
brethren in Congress the benefit of
some of his new light.
Year: 1874

The Nashville Banner, in referring
to the corruption pervading the Re
publican party, says that the country
is surging with indignation at the dis
graceful state of affairs brought to
light 10y the Sanborn investigation.
That the country is making a note of
what is going on, says the Banner, is
evidenced by the Spring political
freshets we referred to the other day,
and all the indications are that the
Fall freshets will be simply irresistible
in their impetuous sweep in the same
direction.
Year: 1874

Out in Mount Vernon, Ohio, the
women have now got things reduced
to system. Instead of being at the
trouble to go around in the mud to
pray and sing, they just put up a
sentry box in front of each saloon, and
station a lady in it to take down the
name and note the condition of every
man who enters or leaves it. It is
said to work like charm. The fair
sentries delight in their duty, and do
not welcome the rustic of petticoats
that indicates the approach of the re-
lief. The occupation has an irresist,-
BILE attraction for the feminine mind,
combining as it does the present charm
of minding other folks business, the
permanent utility of laying up so re-
liable a stock of gossip as these obser-
vations afford, and finally, the COM
Portable sense of serving a orcat moral
reform
Year: 1874

Mr.. T. G. Jones informs us of the
singular death of little colored girl
on his farm, near Auburn. The girl
went to some sills that had been used
for the purpose of cutting up meat, and
on which there was large number of
red ants. While asleep the ants by
hundreds m .de an attack on the child,
and when she awoke she was literally
covered with them, and all busy biting
and singing. They were SO ferocious
that a woman on the place had to
sweep them off with brush broom.
The biting and singing were SO very
serious that fever eLsued, which,
coupled with the poison of the bites,
produced death two days afterward.-
Opcliha (1fa.) Observer.
Year: 1874

Are you watching for me, darling,
On the sands down by the sea,
Where the music of its surges


Wakes rare melodies for me?
Do gou hear the fishers stories,
AS they glide far out the bay,
While you listen for their footsteps
AT the purple close of day?
Are you watching in the moonlight,
Meath the silver gloom of stars,
AS the scarlet flush of evening


Softly fades to violet bars,
And the sky with all its splendor
LoolSeth down on you and me,
Where the shadows kiss the water.
Where the gold lies on the sea:
| can see your amber tresses


Family touched with golden light;
l can hear the song you sing me
In that Silly summer night,
Soft the music comes. like dreaming
OF that far off magic time,
With its tender dream of sweetness,
And its soft, delicious chime.
List, the bells are DER with Ginning
Out upon the evening air;
See, the west is full of crimson,


And the stars are more than fair.
Are you watching for me, darling? ?
Soon my footsteps you will hear,
For the sands will sing my coming,
For the sea will say I'm near.


-Varerly MGga-ine
Year: 1874

After years OF careful study
and close observation an Iowa
professor is able to announce
that frogs can see sideways,
and that music has more of in>
flunence on them than this
careless world has any idea of
Year: 1874

Eoery Evening, yesterday, contained an edi-
torial paragraph which seemed to intimate that
the COMMERCIAL waited for its issue (E. E } on
Wednesday, in order to obtain the election re-
turns. To which we have only to say that we
had our own returns sent from all parts of the
State, by special arrangement previously made,
the last Of them from Sussex reaching us on
Wednesday afternoon. We were thus enabled
TO make up complete tables of the result on
Wednesday evening" as stated yesterday, and
might have put them in late edition of the
COMMERCIAL, but for the time occupied in re-
vision and footing up.
Year: 1874

What weather we have had for month ! A
period 30 prolonged of clear skies, soft sunshine
aud balmy air is scarcely equalled in long term
of years, and surely few spots on tie Earth sur
face can claim more delicious season than this
of our American Autumn.
Year: 1874

PRoaREssINa.-Th macadamizing of French
street is progressing with considerable activity.
The square from Third to Fourth street. is COM
peted, except little more rolling, and the


quare between Fourth and Fifth is also nearly
finished. The pavements on the sides of the
street are much wider than those on Fourth
street, which will be partial security against
The annoyance of clouds of dust.
Year: 1874

At county convention of the Catholic Total
Abstinence Societies. held this city yesterday after
noon, letter was read from the Hon. Richard 0'Gor
in answer TO invitation to address the Cooper
Institute demonstration MAY 19 He pronounces the
Total Abstinence Union a necessity account OF the
widespread abuse OF liquor says there is Outcry OF
alarm in the land; tnat drunkenness has paralyzed
many nations tAat II is no Office OF the law check
this sin the cure must come from above, from within
and the great moral and re Ous force OF organ


zatOIs ike the Catholic Total hbstlnence Union which
promises sold, substantial and permanent reform.
CAaras Roberts r will read. to morrow night at Asso-
Year: 1874

REPUBLICAN HEADQUARTERS.


The Republican Executive Committee met
Yesterday morning at the headquarters, Clark
street. .The special object Of the meeting WAS to
hx the assessments upon the several candidates
to create m election fund. Tho attendance OF
candidates was larger than upon former occa-
eioas, they having been drawn hither by polite
invitation from the Committee. A large number
nf outsiders, who are not distinguished for their
marty prejudlces, we're also on hand. Hero was
a gentleman Who in years gone-by, was
member Of q dcbating-society. who thought
himself fit to scatter c1oqucnce through the
CITY the coming week at the rate Of $40 per
night. Here WAS the publisher Of an illustrated
PAPER. who wished to impress the Committee
with the yirtuo Of his abominable cartoons aud
the immcnsity Of his individual influence. The
ward-bummer WIS also on hand, eager to grab
snvthine in tie shape Of money in exchange for
the yotes he carried in his pocket And be-
side these were representatives Of al imagin-
able classes, dis:g1eeing in politics but happlly
blended together in the common purpose to get
eli thev could, and hold on to all they got.


Tho first real business hanEacted Was the
fixing OF


TIE ASSESSMENTS.


Altar Some debate and divers consultations. the
following figures were agreed upon as necessary
for the SUCCESS OF the party. which we're Kindly
furnished By member of the Committee:
Year: 1874

to the enjoyment Of the fruits of their in


WHEREAS, This unjust combination Of
capitalists and monopolists Of the Eastern
States are imposing burdens and hardship
upon the industry of the west ana sooth'
more intolerable and unjust than that i'm
posed by African slavery; and


WHEREAS, The law Of self-preservatlon
is the first in nature and the most import
ant to man, it is therefore the duty OF the
laboring and producing classes OF the West
and South to unite in an effort to free them
selves from a combination so unjust and
oppressive; therefore


Reso!ved, That we recommend to the
laboring and producing classes Of the West
and South the propriety of calling con-
vention for the purpose Of freeing them,
selves from the oppression and injustice OF
the Eastern States.


Second, Resolved, That we invite our
brother laborers and farmers Of the West
and South to take measures for calling a
convention to be composed exclusively Of
the laboring and producing classes, tc
meet in St. Louis on the 22d of February
next, to interchange opinions as to the best
mode of accomplishing this much needed
end, and to do such other acts as they may
deem polite and necessary for their future
protection and security in the premises.
Year: 1874

The tendency to reorganization of parties
on new issues is undeniably so great that moth
ing but the prompt and energetic action of the
Republican party in placing itself in the front
Of the reform and snti-monopoly movement,
and In selling the initiative OF the national


olicy of retrenchment, reduction of taxation,
publication of the civil service, and emancipa-
lion from railway monopoly, has saved the
party from disintegration ere noH.-St. PaHl
p.sxs
Year: 1874

The strike of the Knights Of st. Crisrin 81
not general beng confined 10 the cutters These men
complain that hours work every day in close shop
is very injurious their health well being gener.
ally demoralilne and they therefore demand lighter
hours of labor In replyo their demand for the reduc-
ton Of hours many OF the manufacturers have offered
TO put the plece-wOrk az the price list already
established by the wOrkmeu themselves To this propo-
stiou the workmen have agreed and already
again at work but Others who quite steady
their habits, demand pay for eight hours O..
they had been receiving for ten The manufac urors
say that the loss of time by tie cutters
viii throw all the other branches
of the business that are dependent on them,
and DO very injurious to those who employed oy
piece work. IL VIII require al least one-fourth many
TO do the tree work than before and none
Of them will oe able to earn good wages formerly.
Tne cutters been receiving from $40 la Si
for ten hours labor, and now they demand the same
wages for eight hours. The manufacturers say that
they cannot afford 20 lose the two hours daily especially
the busy aud will certainly have ~ resist the
demand unless the men chose 10 do their WORK by the
piece thereby compelling them 10 keep steadily at work
In order make the wages that they have formerly
received No definite arrangement had been arrived At
last evening


The strike OF the capmasers has ended the Canakers
Union having withdrawn their obnoxious rules and
regulations, sud permitted their members ~ resume
work Several shops have. however, entered into Gu
gagements with other persons during the strike. and
many OF those who formerly had steady employ ment
still without work
Year: 1874

enable to ship IL IN an AineTlcdn NesSc IL "dS SohI
TO Penang at cost OF several hundred dollars.
The prices OF this article are, as general thing,
the same at Singapore they at Penang Just as the


rce ~ articles would about the same In the City OF
philadelphia and the City OF NeW-fOrK. Under the
rulings Of the Treasury Department goods shipped
from Belfast with the consular oath taken at Belfast
and subsequently shipped from Liverpool simply pay
the duty that they would have paid # they had been
sh,pped from Belfast direct Under this ruling, and
with that understanding. we never thought OF such
thing as adding to the invoice the cost Of shipping this
block TN from Singapore to Penang. 1t was mere
matter OF convenience the amount was not added to
the invoice but was added in our accouncurrent from
our correspondent at Penang. In his annual account
he charged for kilograms and reiShs between
the two places. making on the whole something IKE
Al 900; and that amount. 1 suppose, was what
they claimed vitiated forfeited these two Invoices
We did not really know what the case was. The Gov


rrment had our books and papers. We could not get


nc accurate idea as TO the amount which the Govern
,Dent claimed had been undervaued. We made every
effort TO obtain information but all that we could learn
WAS that IL small in proportion TO the invoices


then made this proposition to Judge Davis that they
conld 90 over the invoices that were objected TO, take
out the various items that were undervaued aud az
Vreeate the amount, and we would give our check for
r. These invoices they pretended TO examine, but we
ware peyer present at any such examination, nor any
representatives OF our house and we nave no idea or

the manner in which they made up this s27l.cOo Mr.
Jaync probably has IL his carpetbag bat we do not
know thing about il all we could learn was that 1t
was horrible case


CUsToM-HoUsE OATH


Now, in regard The oath Mr.. Jayne presumes that,
having been a merchant for forty years. did not
know what a Custom.house oath In the in
teryiew In the dark place. he took out the oath aud
read II to me- he read II 10 you yesterday-he oath
taken by our firm IN Liverpool, when the goods were
shipped. But he did then exactly what he did yester-
! day he said there was nothing there about market
value that 1t oath that that the exact
or the goods And u Is And that has the Oath
since 1872 for aught know Ii is a common thing In
NewYork TO say that something OF account Is about
equal TO the Custom house oath We are not accustomed
falsely, but nneenths OF all the entries made
| in the City OF New-York, according TO the
| strict rule OF this oath, would be made
| under the Implication Of perjury. Mr.. Jayne did
exactly on that occasion he did yesterday he read
the.one form but he did not read the other Here e1


hbitiug paper Is tie oath in which that


Invoice represents the actual cost and quantity Of the
Year: 1874

/ think that the mysticism of Emer-
sons style was not wholly native and
spontaneous to him. But his intuitions
told him, and rightly, that without it
he could not gain his Just influence
our community would deny him hear
ing if he should begin by telling us
bluntly what he thought. The most
conscientious readers are often the most
bigoted. In order not to provoke the
needless enmity of these good people,
Emerson employed an exquisite obscur-
antism in his style. Persons of mature
preiudices passed him by as incompre-
hensible. They did not take the trouble
to understand him; they took up the
cudgels and quarreled with enemies
whose weapons were coarse, but far less
lance. But the young, meanwhile, the
ardent and delicate spirits of the times,
were reading his sayings with glowing
hearts. In them they found the cool
ness, the freedom, the mystery of
Nature; his sentences seemed to flow
down from the mountain springs. Emer-
sons thought was attended to ; it gained
its deserved influence, and has colored
the better character of America. 1t
was the triumph of wise method. do
not say that here a wise method was
all. Only genius could have wrought
SO admirable a weapon as Emerson S
style. But it was this that gave him
opportunity. A categorical clearness
in his first volume would have been
ruinous. If vulgar people had known
what he meant, he would have been
whirled away into their CULTS of contro-
versy, and we should have lost Emerson
and the best of New England culture. -
Lippincott's Magazine.
Year: 1874

twelve natives, and an ample store OF
stones is kept, which they throw both
with slings and with the hand, with
great force and precision. At the foot
of each of these trees is another hut, in
which the family usually reside, the
tree house being only resorted to al
night and in time of danger. In fact,
however, they are never safe from sur.
prise, notwithstanding all their precau-
tions, as the great object in life among
the people is to get each others heads.
Captain Simpson found row of twenty
five fresh human heads fastened up
across the front of a chiefs house.
Raids are made to get heads and to eat
the bodies. The heads of men, women,
and children are all taken, and the
wonder is that the island has not be-
come depopulated.


The people of this and other islands
are not, however, noted for their cou-
rage. Such a thing as a stand-up fight
between tribes is almost unknown, but
they prowl about for prey, attacking
whenever they have a victim in their
power, without risk to themselves. In
some of the islands the men have long
hair, which they wear in fashions like
those adopted by the other sex in civil
lied lands, the favorite modes being
the chignon or loose down the back /;
the women, whose hair is shorter than
the mems, wear it loose and undressed.
'In their clothing there is not at
present opportunity for European or
any other fashions"
Year: 1874

Many years ago there stood on the
bank of river in Tyrone County, Ire
land, an old Jail, which was so terribly
infested with rats that the prisoners
were often bitten while sleeping in their
cells. Every method of determination
had been tried without avail, and the
authorities had almost determined to
forsake the premises and leave the rats
in possession, when one day a wretched,
weird-looking old man, who was incar-
cerated for some offence, requested an
interview with the Governor of the Jail.
His request was granted, and when he
was alone with the Governor he stated
that he was able and willing to extermi-
nate every rat from the place by the
next morning, if he might have his free,
dom in return. He also stipulated that
no questions were to be asked concern
ing his method of doing it, nor was a
single rat to be molested by anybody
during the time intervening. The Gu
riosity of the Governor was aroused and
he consented to the old mans request.
He then asked the Governor for pen,
ink, and paper, which were given him.
He wrote something npon the paper and
placed it in the largest rat-hole he could
find. He invited the Governor and the
officials to assemble next morning on
the lawn in front of the Jail. At the
appointed time they were all anxionsly
Watching the door, when to their amaze
ment out came, first, an old gray rat
bearing in his mouth the identical pa
per which the old man had placed in
the hole, and following after him in
single file came about two hundred rats,
marching slowly onward until they dis
appeared in the distance. Never after
ware was a rat seen or heard of in the
place. This story has been handed
down through generations, and vouched
for as an authentic incident.
Year: 1874

The young clerk marries and takes a
house. which he proceeds to furnish
twice as extensively as he can afford,
and then his wife, instead OF STRIVING
to help him earn a livelihood, by doing
her own work, must have a servant to
help her spend his limited earnings;
Ten years afterward he will be found
struggling on under double load OF
debts and children, wondering why the
luck was always against HIM, while ms
friends regret his unhappy destitution
of financial ability. Had they from the
first been frank and honest, he need not
have been SO unlucky. The world is
full of people who can't imagine why
they don't prosper like their neighbors,
when the real obstacle is not in banks,
tariffs, bad public policy or hard times,
but their own extravagance and needless
ostentation.