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Year: 1874

An escape from death as wonderfu as
any ever related by the pen of fiction


was made by an individual on the De-
troit and Milwaukee road few nights
ago, as chrOnieled by the Free Press of
the former city. 1t seems that an uf-
known man was permitted to ride on


top of freight train on his representa-
ton that he had no money to pay his
gay to Grand Rapids, and was willing
to do any thing he was called on to do
in COMPENSATION. The brakeman forgot
to tell him of the several low bridges on
the route; aud about midnight when the
engineer, having discovered cattle on
the road, whistled ''down brakes" the
stranger was the first up from the ca
boose. In running forward over the
cars, he suddenly observed the dark
form ola bridge close above him. There
was scarcely time to think, and as by
instinct, he sprang off when within q
foot of the overhanging structure, and
striking a slOping embankment, fell
down and rolled TO the track, where one
of the wheels caught his boot heel,
crushed it off close to the sole, and Whlri-
ed him around SO that the next wheel
sbeared off the rim of his hat. When
the train was stopped he climbed into
the cabOose entirely uniDjured in person,
INT with some such feeling as he may
have who has risen from the lightning
siroke which has tumbled the )use
about his ears, ,butleft himself unlDJureo'
Year: 1874

The District of Columbia investigating
committee have agreed to report bill
authorizing the President, by and with
the advice and consent of the senate, to
appoint a commission of three persons
who's shall exercise ali the powers of gov
eminent now vested in the governor and
the board of public works.
Year: 1874

COLUMBUs, O., June y.-At three
O'Clock a fire broke out in LOvejoy's
extensive planning in the northeast
quarter of the city, and soon spread to
the adjoining property. The large
amount of seasoned lumber stored in
the ward adj Jining burned like tInder,
and the flames are not controlIable by
the fire department at this writing.
Several frame houses are on fire, and as
these are located in the midst of pop
ulous district, it is impossible to predict
the damage that may result. The peo-
Die in the neighborhood are wild with
excitement, and an immense crowd oi
people are attracted to the scene by the
flames.
Year: 1874

New YORK, June Title SWaLOrai
with the scientists who are to watch the
transit of Venus on board, started for the
south Pacific yesterday. She carried
two hundred persons, twenty-six of
whom comprise the scientific party.
She will reach the last of the astrOmical
stations, on Chatham island, about the
first OF December, and await there until
after the observation on the tenth. Her
voyage is expected to last year and a
half
Year: 1874

RUTLAND, VT, June 9.-Annie
Frieze's house here was burned this
morning. The body Of the woman,
dragged from the flames, was found
covered with stab wounds. No trace
can be found of the money or jewelry
she WAS known to possess.
Year: 1874

A Body-Snatcher With the Corpse OF .


Young Lady Captured . Train.


From the Louisville Courier-Journal, Oct. ISL


case OF body-snatching was developed In Sey-
mour, Ind, on saturday last on one OF the last
days OF the past week young lady OF respectable
family, very popular with her friends. and much
beloved in that city, died OF consumption and was
buried In the cemetery near that city. The day
alter her interment some near relatives went to
the cemetery Tor the purpose OF decorating her
grave. But what was their alarm and horror on
finding strong indications that the grave mad been
tampered with--such marks as to lead at once to
the suspicion that the body had been removed. As
quickly as possible the family caused the earth
be removed, and on opening the CONN, their sus-
been stolen.


The friends and relatives or the deceased In
stantly set watch for the thei, and endeavorcd
II possible to arrest him. On Saturday night last
man got on The east bound train at Hardens-
S SaGgt 20 on tue ONO ana Mississippi! Railroad and
trunk checked for CINCINNATI. AS soon the
trunk was put on board the train some relatives
ol the family, who were on the train watching for
suspicious characters, went for the baggage car,
and, discovering an unpleasant odOr arising from
the trunk, had 1t opened and found the body OF
the young lady closely wedged within IT, To get
the corpse into so small space 1T was necessary to
cramp It in a manner whicn indicated that much
violent force had been used. she was lying on
nei, ner siae WIN her knees doubled up under her
side in corner OF the trunk.


The man having charge OF the trunk was imme
diately arrested, and when the train reached
North Vernon Was taken on, with the trunk and
It's CHASTITY contents, to await the arrival OF the
west bound tram TO take him back to Seymour.
When the news reached that place the greatest
Indignation was felt among the people, and opin-
Ions were freely expressed that the body snatcher
would be lyncnei on his return there.


The body-snatcher Is German, but we were un-
able to learn his name or anything concerning
him.. Immediately alter his arrest he confessed
the deed and said he had been engaged IN busi-
ness lor two years, getting his subjects from along
the line OF the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad and
other roads running into Cincinnati The price
he said he was paid was $40 subject. He seemed
TO be so terribly frightened that he could give no
lntelligibe account of himself or his conleder ates
Year: 1874

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD


address these few lines TO you. hoping you will
give them place In your valuable paper, which
has always been and is the best advocate OF tho
fine arts, am student OF ornamental drawing
and, wishing to perfect myself, applied at that
noble institution founded by the venerable Peter
Cooper. there learned that the applications on
file for the ornamental class alone amount to the
number or students already admitted. Now, will
not some patron OF the arts whom Heaven has
blessed with plentiful purse follow the example
OF Peter Cooper and establish school on the same
plan as that OF the cooper Institute, and enable
the hundreds OF young men who are eager TO
learn, but find themselves IN the same predica-
ment as myself? He VINO woulf do this would not
only be cOnferring benefit on the students alone.
but TO the country In general. The value or high
art applied to industry Is felt throughout all the
great commercial cities Of Europe and has long
been needed by our manufacturers In this coun-
try. Hoping tnat these lines VIII meet the eyes OF
proper persons, remain, yours truly.


j. DEYOUNGH.
Year: 1874

A we'll known sporting character be-
ing on his deathbed was attended by
friendly divine of somewhat nervous
temperament, who, to console him, ex-
pressed a conviction that he and his
patient would meet hereafter as winged
angels. "Are you sure of that?' in
quired the dying man. "Quite sure"
replied his adviser. "Then I'll fly
you for sovereign" replied the incor.
rigible gambler. An enthusiast of
this sort seems, according to a local
paper, to have greatly distinguished
himself, on the occasion of fire which
lately broke out at the cotton, ,samplipg
Office of a firm in Liverpool. While
the conAagration was at its height, and
the burning cotton was beiug thrown
out of the windows upon the flags be-
low, a number of brokers stood in the
street discussing the sum which the
waste would realize. One among them
offered to bet n guinea that the burnt
cotton would fetch Els, aud, as this
WAS apparently tar beyond its value,
he found no difficulty in finding per.
sons willing to take the bet. This be
did till twenty people had accepted
the wager for guinea each he after
wards went to the sale and bought the
cotton for e16, which he then sold foI
G12, sustaining a loss of "a upon the
purchase, but pocketing sixteen guin.
cas-, as the balance of his profits on
the transaction.


Ben Cox has a big farm and a big
lot of hne hens. The owls have beer
"going for" Ben's hens. Ben got 9
pole, split it at one end, and inserted
a sharp scythe blade for the owls t.
light upon when they come for hens
Ben put it up the other night to try ii
The next morning he went out anC
gathered about a gallon of owl toes
and he doesn't miss any more hem
either.


A youth who attended Scotch re
vival meeting for the fun of the thing
ironically inquired of the mininiste
whether he could work miracle o
not" The young mans curiosity Wa
fully satisfied by the minister kicking
him out Of the church, with the male
dIction, "We cannot work miracles
but We can cast out devils !"
Year: 1874

greater economy must be practsed in the
several departments, and retrenchmcnt
prosecuted whenever It can be without
serious injury to the public service. 1t is
not likely there will be any provision
made Tor an increase Of the revenues at
this session Of Congress, At all events,
there will be no increase OF taxation.
Year: 1874

Taking 450-347 Of whom are in the
Hospital-as an approximating lumber
Of insane in the State, and divide the
present number Of inhabitants by the
same, and the quotient will be about one
10 erery eIeren hundred From the liberal
margin allowed in this calculation, the
figures are sufficiently correct to render
very favorable comparison with other
States as well as with other nations-as
will appear by the annexed tabular state
ment:
Year: 1874

We are all of us apt to pick out here and
there the counterfeits of Shakespeares women !;
we find DesdemOnas and Juliets among our
Virginia cousins, ROsallnds nearer Boston, and
Cressida among honest folk who never guess
at her real name. But POrtia, everybody
knows, belongs to Venice-tO Shakespeare's
Venice of ages ago. She is inclosed as mex
orably in that immortal court which sits from
century to century, and wherein Antonio and
the Jew stand forth, undying, as her fair
counterfeit was buried in the leaden casket
Who would look for this wise young judge
with her weary little body and golden fleece
of hair on Broadway or in the bathrooms OF
Fifth Avenuef Yet we all of US saw her this
Summer; and whether it was at Saratoga
hop, or the beach at Long Branch, or Adiron-
dack farm house, We fancied when we passed
her by that she had met US before at some
best moment Of our lives, and that she had
helped to make it better and higher Or was
il that she was like that first love Of ours
when we were boy, or like our mother, or
some masterpiece of a picture which had
suited our whim and mood once better than
any otheri And it was Portia we were think
ing of after all.


This modern Portia assuredly never had re-
earded herself in the light of masterpiece
or heroine from q book, or anybody's first
love. She did not regard herself at all there
was the startling delicious charm that brought
all men about her. Nobody pronounced her
beautiful or even pretty-nobody thought of
her looks. Polly's chubby flesh, carnation
tints and sparkling eyes ought to have thrown
her altogether in the shade; yet after the
homely young girl with her innocent face had
been quietly going in and out among us for q
day or two Polly's harmless coquetries began
to seem vulgar and underbred. 1t never
occurred to the coarsest man to ask the age of
this woman, or to talk of her points" as he
did of horses and all other women. There
was about her that wonderful freshness and
Inconsistencies of self which make baby
royal Children are usually the most conscious
of creatures.) Every man and woman there
fancied they alone had discovered the singular
charm in this silent little girl with the soft
brown dress and yellow hair; how younger
than all the others she was, how dewy and
fresh was her lip how the blue veins showed
in her temple, what merry mad-cap
laugh she had when once it broke out.
Nobody could tell how much or how little
she knew there were no doctors robes or
cap from Padua now to cover the blushing
cheek or soft bosom we all liked to think
her only "an unlessoned girl, unschooled,
Impractical, happy in this she is not bred
Z" 40 dull but she can learn" Yet when you
silenced your adversary in that metaphysical
debate one day you fancied, BY her listening
Year: 1874

and while he admits the payment OF the
preyious $4,000 through Moulton, ne asserts
that it was expended on Bessie Turner In Dis
(Tilton's) name.


What. then, is the result of this latest ana
let us hope last, of the statements1 we can
onlv repeat what we have said so many times
before. that strict legal Investigation Is I'M
peratively necessary for the vindicatlon OF
MIR. Beecher, If be is ever to be vindica'eu
at all. Mr.. Tilton has already begun
a suit which ought to accomplish
final settlement of the case one way or the
other, and Mr.. Beecher must meet that suit
with alacrity. Happily it is brought in form
which throws the main issue at once into
court, and if it is pressed in good faith and
fortified with the same line of proof
which TiltOn puts forward in his state
ment to-day, it will result In the
utter ruin of one of the two parties. There
is too much reason to fear that there has
been not only a vast amount of lying and
perjury in this case, but an Infamous, shock
ing conspiracy. The Church Committee GER
tainly failed to get at the bottom facts"
Let us see if the courts will be allowed to
do IL
Year: 1874

PRESIDENT PORTER on MODERN SCHOOLS.


1t is not for the first time that we write
down the hope that the men most worthily
known in the higher instruction will by and
by see the duties they owe to education in the
lower. 1t is not enough that a profound and
practical American scholar should animate and
dignity the College to which he belongs by
SO much as his culture is noble and his infiu-
ence large we look to see him have a care for
those lower ways Of education which lead to


the university door. All college authorities
are not plodders ;-and among those who have
the wit to realize the selfshness of ignoring
the secondary schools, and the manliness to
discuss them, it is pleasure to welcome and


to honor the President of Yale. Ills recent
Year: 1874

face, she understood you better than he {; and
when the superb Miss Oranch from Boston aD-
surdly misqu0ted Tasso, the girl could not Keep
the mischievous sparkle out Of her eyes. After
she had become friends with everybody too,
she threw herself with such childish earnest
ness into the pleasures of the place played
crOquet, hotly anxious to win, without
thought of the fit of her skirts or boots-could
not hide her i'll humOr when she was beaten
found such inexhaustible beauties in the
little river and farm hedges that she was
perpetually dragging you here and there to
look at them. When Van Mort took her
down to see the sun set behind the woods,
the calm on the river and the fury oil color
in the sky, and the beauty of it brought
rising chorus of "0hs !" from Polly and Miss
Cranch, she stood silent, the tears in her eyes.
She gave herself up to the little place so
utterly you could hardly believe, when Miss
Cranch told you, that the girl knew her own
country from Mt. Desert to the Yosemite, and
had travelled up the Rhine and Nile. The
farmhouse grew more homely and common
as a background to Miss Cranch's magnificent
beauty and dress, and found even Polly's pref
tiness too much to carry. But our Portia
lifted it and us up with her. she fitted into
the cheerful morning light and country sights
and sounds, and made them picturesque and
rare as she; nothing could be common or
unclean when she was by.


So the drOwsy August days went by; you
were vaguely glad that POrtia was in the
world you had always Joined in the popular
slang about the fastness of silly American
girls here were purity and strength which
would redeem the WHOLE and there was the
end of it for you. Presently Bassanio came
sensible but commonplace fellow, according
to the judgment of the house. Sensible
enough, however, to know which casket held
the treasure, and to make it his own. Portals
wooing was held not beneath Venetian skies, but
those of Rhode Island or of Jersey; but the moon
slept soft for her upon messy banks as for
Jessca. "Troius, signing his soul toward the
"Grecian TENTS" was not, we fancy, half SO
manly a man as he who woOed her, nor was
:" Dido with the willow in her hand" so fair or
worth the winning as our American girl. we
all thought of these brides of ancient days
while they sang the old immortal song to each
other, forgetting that any could hear 1t. Its
burden brought back some remembrance to
each of us that made us tender and silent
toward them, and when they passed out OF our
sight we quite forgot to ask how mucn they
had to marry on, and whether they belonged to
the Brahmin or shOp-keeping class. They
we're POrta and Bassanio for us and whatever
rent they pay now for their house, we are sure
it is palace and the little candle within
throws its beams far across the night and shines
like good deed in a naughty world.
Year: 1874

the United States. To which we reply that II our
inquirer is q native in the predicament described.
he may be elected President. as the Constitution
does not hold responsible for the birthplace
of his parents o matter which he could scarcely
Year: 1874

There is curious story, calculated to make
the people of Portugal unhappy, that new
scheme for Iberian union has its origin "in
"the brain of Prince Bismarck" What pos
sible advantage the German Chancellor might
expect TO derive from such course is not
stated. Nevertheless, the prospect is SO alarm
ing that the Government at Lisbon may have
some trouble in convincing the Portuguese
that Germany has no time, even if she has an
inclination, to pursue meddlesome policy on
general principles
Year: 1874

The way in which the Safe Burglary case
is manipulated at Washington has received a
further illustration in the action of Judge
Fisher. Our readers already know how far
he is implicated in the discharge of
the burglars. Now he decides not to
remove his assistant Harrington, who is
under indictment, until after trial. 1t
begins to be time to think of removing
Judge Fisher. simultaneously with this pro-
ceeding we have the release in this city ON
the trihing bail of 81 900, of Albert Cunz, one
of the men who were indicted for this con-
spiracy by the Supreme Court of the District
of Columbia.


Senator Morton at Indianapolis has illus
trated bis inability to see more than one side
of the case in this Louisiana business. To
him the entire affair presents itself as simply a
elimination of the old spirit of the Rebellion
and hatred to the negro. He regards the
effort to defeat Kellogg in 1872 as "a gigantic
fraud: and he finds occasion Tor eulo-
gizing that official and his career
All the old stories of negro massacres
and Ku-Klux ontraees are revamped for the
occasion, and we are asked to contemplate
the spectacle of the suffering Republicans OF
the South. as if they alone had wrongs W
Year: 1874

Don't Charley" came to my cars in a
sweet, musical tone, while i was seated
in railway car, lastsummer. should
not have heard the soft touching voice
had it not been very near me. l look
ed to see who it was had spoken, and
saw a sweet, beautiful woman upon the
seat in front of me. A half sad look
rested upon the young face that was all
aglow with love and tenderness. A
young man was seated by her side
whose face wore a restless, dissipated
look and in a momentI comprehended
it. all. His face was flushed slightly,
and | knew why it was thus. He was
talking very fast to some one in ad-
vance of him, and once | heard a low
oath. Don't Charley" she said
again, in the same sweet voice. But
Charley did not seem to heed, but went
on in half-wild way to the man. Sew
eral more oaths came from his lips /;
but the woman remained silent, yet
looking so pleadingly at the erring one
that L thought. if he had been half
human, he would have needed the
mild, loving reproof that was so visi-
BILE in her tear-dimmed eyes.


A friend BY my side whispered in my
ear, They have been married just one
year"


" He is a BRUTE" I only said in re-
ply.


AT that moment | saw the young
husband wink silly to the man, aud then
they both arose and went in the bag
gage-car. | understood the movement
when | saw a bottle protruding from
the husbands coat pocket


Don't, Charley; don't go, the
young wife had pleaded before he
had got beyond her reach but he tore
himself from her slight grasp, aud
rushed along. Her eyes filled with
tears, and a low moan came from her
pale lips, and then she bowed her head
and wept silently.


He came back in afew moments, his
face flushed still more, and his voice
was key or two louder than before.
He brushed rudely past the wife, evil
IDENTIFY to get near the car-windOw.


Let me alone, Mag" he said, as she
laid her white hand upon his arm.
Women are always in the way, he
said, again turning to the man in front
of him.


The wife turned away, and | did not
hear her sweet, reproving voice again.


How | pitied that young, loving wife,
and how often / wonder if her sensi-
tive heart must suffer and bleed for
many long years think not for her
tender, loving soul, and frail, slender
body will not bear such unkindness.
Strange how soon liquor will transform
human beings into unfeeling monsters,
and chill the ardent, loving nature OF a
tender husband and trusting wife :
American Temperance.
Year: 1874




IT is safe to say that if the colored
people had no vote, there would be
no Radical legislation in their behalf.
The last Radical bid for the colored
vote is thus noticed by the Cincinnati
Enquirer


The Civil Rights Bill reported by
the judiciary Committee in the Unite d
Senate has twonOtable features. The
first is that it gives to negroes the
full and equal enjoyment Of inns,
public copveyances on land and water,
theatres and other places of amuse-
ment, and of common schools aud
other institutions of learning. The
second is that violation of this act are
tried in the United States and not in
the State Courts. The penalty Is fine,
Imprisonment, or both, at the pleasure
of the Court. If it become q law
ho;el-keeper can be punished If he
does not allow negroes TO sit down at
the public tables with whites, or if he
refuses to put them in the same bed
rooms together. This would run pret-
ty generally athwart the feel ngs, the in
stincts and traditions of the people.
The negroes would be foolish If they
ever attempted to make Of this law
more than a dead letter.
Year: 1874

MAYFIELD Democrat, 9th: "Neyer
in the history of Western Kentucky
has the wheat prospect been equal to
that Of the present spring. The past
winter having been unusually mild, we
can not hear Of the wheat being frozen
out in any direction. If the weather
does not remain too wet so as to induce
rust, seab or some other destructive
disease in the wheat. we shall have a
larger yield of this article west Of the
Tennessee river than we have ever
known. Oats are coming up finely
aud making a handsome show for a
profitable crop.
Year: 1874

THE man who lives under an habit
ual sense of the divine presence keeps
mp perpetual cheerfulness of temper
and enjoys every moment the satisfac-
ton of thinking himself in company
with his dearest and best friends. The
time never lies heavy upon him; it is
impossible for him to be alone. His
thoughts and passions are the most
busted at such hours when those of
other men are most inactive. he no
sooner steps out of the world, but
heart barns with devotion, swells with
hope, and triumphs in the conscious
ness of the presence which everywhere
surrounds him
Year: 1874

A MICHIGAN Patron urges brethren
to be blind TO all opinions in discord
with the general wishes of the Grange"
He adds =" We are strong enough to
meet and have no fears of our outside
foes. But there is another, the most
dangerous of all foes. namely, internal
discord, differences of opinion which
have tendency to break down the
unity Of action necessary to success,
This advice is given because of oppo
sition in some of the Oranges to county
purchasing agents and because Of the
tendency to Centralize power, &c.