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Year: 1874

The Brown County News, the
Democratic organ Of the county,
hasn't a word to say (editorially)
about Neal in its lastissue. Iteopies
the proceedings of the Convention
from the Cincinnati Enquirer, with
ont note or comment. On the other
hand, it has an editorial on Judge
Tarbell, consolating him for his de-
feat with the reflection that he made
a good fight, "and only came out
Just little in the rear.


The indications are that the De-
mocracy of Brown will not tear
their under-garments in trying to
roll up their usual majority for Neal
Year: 1874

The Woman's State Temperance
League of Ohio have set apart Fri
day, August 18th, as a day of fasting
and prayer throughout the State.
Election on the New Constitution
takes place on the 18th of August.
Year: 1874

PROF. SwING's HERBsY The Controversy
Ended at LGst.-The Presbyterian synod OF
northern Illinois, in session in Chicago, yester-
day voted by large majority TO sustain the an
peal of Professor Patton from the vercfct of the
chicago presbytery in the Swing case, and sub
seQuently the report of the committee appoint
ed 10 express the action of the synod in refer
eEce to the matter was submitted with the
recommendation that the synod proceed to vote
on The charges and specifications severally and
that the synod be at liberty TO take such fnaI
action after the vote as in the wisdom OF that
body may seem best. The report was adopted
After further discussion the following was
adopted: First. The synod sustsins the aDneal
and reverses the action OF the court below. Sec
0nd. The synod finds that both of the charges
were proved. Third. The synod believes that
the proof of these charges would, under other
circumstances, require it to pronounce the sen
ter ce Of suspension from Gospel ministry on the
Rev. ID. Swing, but In view of the fact that Mr.
Swing has not appeared before the bar of this
syEoo, and has in fact declared himself 70 be an
independent ministe-, this synod forbears to
pronounce this sentence, and disposes of the
case by requiring the presbytery of Chicago to
erase his name from the roll. This ends the
Swing matter for the present, at least.
Year: 1874

A FEMALE MARBLE CUTTER-Ho,g She IYga
her W0y in the WOTId.-I found here a widow
iady-a Mrs. Geo. Peasly-at work in a marble
shop with number Of men. She is cutting
grave stones, taking them la herough the same
as men, and is getting her SO day, and puts in
as much time as the average of men. She has
a number of children. AS short sketch of her
history may be an encouragement to other lone
women, give ii as follows when her hus-
band DIED she was not able TO buy a headstOne
complete, but bought marble slab in the rough
and finished it, and 1t can be seen standing at
the head of his grave, near the village OF Hen
deTs0n, MINI. She then carved some work
and took it 20 a marble worker in the city of
Minneapolis, end told him she was a widow with
"A family Of children, and vaDtod work. The
dealer examined the work, said it was good aud
that be would give her work on two conditions
First, she should promise not to work for auy
other dealer In the city; and, secondly, she
should promise not TO open business on her zn
account in the city of Minneapolis. She said
she would agree to this if he would agree to
keep her in work all the time But this lord OF
creation would agree to nothing of the kind
She went TO ST. Paul, and there got work with
out special agreements. Finally she came to
ttis city, and is now in the employ of Mr.. Ed
v B CART WiRona (Aich.) CorTtspondsncs Chi
cdgO tribune.
Year: 1874

NELLIE GRANT is goiHg home in Jsnuary-os
course with him. suppose that an interesting
event may be expected about that time and the
young wife would naturally wish to be with her
mother at such q season. Moreover q bow horn
out OF the United States can not be President.
ana II Is well to look forward to even distant
eyentualitiee-Londoa Letter 10 Gr1nAic
Year: 1874

DRsTITUTIoN IN NEBRAsKA-Mr f..
Chandler, secretary OF the State Aid society Of
Nebraska, states that there are from 100 To
1000 people who will have to be fed during the
coming winter, and aid win be Necessary
Year: 1874




among the ticket-holders in this magnificent
scheme.


The announcement Of a drawing on the day
named is POSITIVE AND FINAL, and it is
hoped that all intending to purchase ticket
will order promptly, that there may be no
confusion or disappointment in filing orders.
The object is good one, the confidence OF
the public in the good faith Of the manage
ment is thoroughly established, and the re-
mainder Of the tickets will sIl be sold by the
time appointed for the drawing. All agents
are required to make their returns on tie
2Oth March
Year: 1874

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN l am certainly
glad to see 30 many ladies and gentlemen,
White Leaguers, in New Orleans. ZAP.
plause. | understand have been attacked
in newspaper called the Republican. /
am not in the habit of stopping to answer
those who are as innocent of argument ae
they are guilty of bad manners. TCheeR.l
But if there be reporter of that paper in
this house, let him come to this table; will
give it to him and let him report my lect-
urc. They think it very strange that /, as
priest, should have anything to say upon
matters which more or less pertain 10 the
political order of society. /, as priest In
my duties, do not lose my rights of citizen
ship. My cradle was rocked in the South;
my grave shall be dug in the South. And
while in the moral order the nations are bat
one in the Christ of all, in the political or
der Of nations If there ever comes up n
question in the world as between race and
race, and the interests of one race against
the instincts of another, common human
interests tell me, and as religion does not
prohibit me, stand by the white race, and
not simply from natural reasons APP
p!ause.] 1t has built up the civilization OF
the world in the material as well as in the
moral order.


| remember, | was 10 Mobile on the
election day. have been often blamed
for speaking on political subjects. don't
care a straw who blamc7 me, Of course APP
plause.


But TO show you my ignorance in poll
tics, never voted in my life before | did
want to vote for Jefferson Davis once
Applause,


There was one Of our priests in Mobile
who had been in the Yankee army.
reckon God will pardon him for that. He
was a perfect Yankee Irishman. He pro
nounced COW kc oiO The night before the
election few Of us priests got together in
one of our rooms, and we made Il terrific
onset on this noble priest to convert him.
With a great deal Of persuasion we did con
vert hin.


lie had voted the Radical ticket before
that but on the day Of election We went
arm in arm TO the polls. | never had voted
before, but he had


One of his Radical friends offered to us
ticket, and said, "Here is your ticket. "
lie answered, ! reckon he pronounced
the word reckon, / gtes8-"I reckon
not. This time vote the Democratic tick
ct. % They had small ropes there, and ]
said TO him, Father, you know the ropes
better than |, you go first. So be went
first and voted tho Democratic ticket
Year: 1874

Young Vermonter offered his hand to nice
little dairy maid saying "If you don't choose
it, cheese it," She chose it.


The Boston Nelcs considers that Mr.. Beecher
can take up that mortgage if the lecture season
holds out well at Thousand dollars night
This is what reputation and very extraordinary
advertising do for a man.
Year: 1874

COLD weather is upon us ard many
have not yet received their Winter sup
ply of fre-wood. One business man was
compelled 20 close up early the other eve
ming on account of having run out Of
wood next morning he found quantity
piled up against his front door.
Year: 1874

PUsHING AHEAD. J. c. Mason tells
us that the Union Hill tunnel is in a dis
tance Of 105 feet also that the shaft is
nearly down to the level Of the tunnel, so
that a second gang Of men can soon be
put to work. The tunnel will be pushed
to completion with all possible dispatch.
Year: 1874

Congressional circles are still excited over
Mr.. Jones and the Presidents memorandum.
They regard it as ruinOus to the party, dicta-
torial and unprecedented, besides having a
variety of other bad qualities. We do not
find it worth while to pursue the inquiry they
have so spitefully started as to who wrote
the memorandum. Certainly it did not come
from the same brain that inspired the silly letter
to Mr.. COwdrey. 1t is just as certain that 1t
is out of keeping with number of other ex-
pressions which have been attributed to the
President, and with much of his action during
the past Winter.


But what would gentlemen havef People
whose sole object is to make political capital
may find it desirable to continue growing at
the President even when he does what they
want. AS for us, confess that we value
sound financial legislation and the adoption of
sound financial views by the Administration
far more than we do any partisan gains or
personal triumphs


The careers of Messrs. Boutwell, and Rich
ardson, in the Treasury Department, do not
give high promise of the success this Admin
istraton is likely to have in carrying out any
rational financial scheme. But craftsmanship
is not insisting upon ideally perfect theories,
or work; it is the art of getting the best thing
that happens to be attainable. For good or
ill Gen. Grant is to be at the head OF the
Government for two years yet. After long
dallying with imbeciles on the one hand and
inflationists on the other, he has at last
planted himself squarely on the side OF the
party of honest currency and the National
faith. We do not propose to stand
looking the gift horse in the mouth.
No matter what stupid mistakes he
may have made on this same subject
in the past, for this occasion the President is
right, and the financial safety of the country
is in his hands. The wise thing is for the solid
men of thecountry to hold them up till the going
down of the sun, and the completion of the vic
tory. Let Congressman rage and the infationists
imagine vain thing. In this matter OF the
currency we are on the side President Grant
has lately assumed, and the country is there
Year: 1874

No more agreeable topic could be suggested
for discussion in these sultry days of June,
than that which the voyagers in the British
ship Challenger have forced upon us. It is q
question between floating icebergs and terra
frma within the South Polar circle. Consult
ing our feelings and the thermometer, we are
inclined to embrace the iceberg side of the
question as the lesser risk of getting into hot
water. Letters from the Challenger expedition
published in England and here, describe q
circuitous voyage over portion of country
laid down on some imaginary maps as the
Antarctic continent and thereupOn many patri-
OTIS have been struck with gloomy forebOdings
that the British lion rampant was about to
claw into shreds the records of American
discoveries in polar geography in general, and
of Commodore Wilkes and his South Polar
expedition in particular. We propose to keep
cool and examine the facts.


History, as we all know, repeats herself !;
perhaps geography has tho same failing. At
all events mems minds change not much
though they cross all the seas between the
arctic and the antarctic circles; and
there seems to be besetting hallucina-
ton among polar navigators to mistake ice
fields for highlands in high latitudess In fact,
after much reading of arctic literature, we
are inclined to the belief that il all the
instances of "sighting land" were arrayed in
two columns, ono Of which should contain the
instances of remaining solid ground such as
Wordsworth talks about, and tho 0ther Of
Year: 1874

The steamers are crowded as usual during
June with Americans, who find 1t cheaper. to
summer in Europe than in the Catskills or
Newport and Long Branch. The crowd going
out is not so great as last year, owing partly
to tho decrease in the exOrbitant prices of the
hotels, and partly to the wholesome dread of
fashionable folks of coming panic in Sep
tember. The gay birds have vague idea
that their plumage will be torn off and their
nests rifed again "when the crops begin to
"move," though why, or how, they are not
quite clear.


This reflex emigration back to Havre and
Liverpool is curious and amusing study, by
the way. The least number of pilgrims to the
Old World. strange to say, are of those who
came thence and have achieved success in the
New. Sandy and John Bull grumble and jeer
at their new home at first, and swear they
will only stay for year. But they never go
back to that purer state of morals and manners
they have left behind, but remain to grumble
ON happily to the end. Even Pat, who has
sloughed his jacket and caubeen for broad
cloth and high beaver lat, contents. himself
with sending photograph view Of his glorifed
estate, and does not 60 to hear the applause
and wonder of his neighbors.


1t is the American who thinks he has "made
"his pile" that hurries over to the old home
stead with a vague idea of learning how to
spend it. There is, too, in provincial neigh
borhOOds kind Of patent of aristocracy ac-
cruing to the man who has "been abroad" "
that urges Smith and Jones as soon as they
can command the means to hurry off to take
q glimpse of London or the Jungfrau. 1t
does not occur to them that they could find
as big o mountain in California, or as much
art, music, libraries, and specimens of varying
nationalities as they are educated to compre-
bend, In their own seaboard cities. 1t is the
prestige Of travel which they travel for, not
its ends. Yet in fact they are unconsciously
taught certain lessons, although the stored
knowledge of the older countries is lost on
them. They come homo with better percep-
ton Of the size of their own village, and their
own insignifcance, unless indeed they have
gone forth and returned, clothed with the
feathers of the American eagle, and carried
the crow Of that immortal bird with them to
the dulling of all other sounds. But the num-
Der of these patriotic souls is not large; COM
mon sense is q cOmmoner virtue than is pop
ularly supposed, and there can be no better
remedy for self-oonceit, especially in the case
of young man, than travel, the more extended
the better. He may be pleased to be looked
upon with wonder az bird Of passage when
DO comes homo, but in bis heart DO knows hs
Year: 1874




From time to time we are reminded by some
great catastrophe, where the failure oil ma
terials to support some strain imposed deals
widespread death and destruction, OF the facs
that we are all largely dependent for our
safety almost every day and hour upon tho
skill and faithfulness of the work OF civil en-
gineers. On them rests serious responsolh'y:
In many other professions the mistake OK
the day may be repaired on the morrow or rat
worst its consequences may be conhned 10
loss of money or reputation. But Oh o fargo
proportion of engineering works, the most
essential feature is their safety-a safety that
is primarily dependent upon the skill of their
construction-a safety which involves human
life.


From this point of view the Convention OF
Civil Engineers, whose proceedings we record
to-day at great length, has more than the
passing interest which we accord to great pro-
fessional gatherings. These are the men TO
whose estimates of strength and soldity We
must intrust our lives. Over the rails they
have tested, around the curves they have
calculated, on the bridges they nave
built. under the shadow of their reser-
yoirs. beneath the arches of their brick or
iron or stone or wood, we ale whirled along
on the errands of business or pleasure. They
have met not only to interchange hand
shakings and cordial greetings, but to relate
their experience in their work, to compare
their knowledge, to consult how best they can
offer in their structures the minimum OK
danger, the maximum of security.


They tell us. through Committee that has
investigated the work-Or rather, its remains
that the wretched dam at Williamsburg.
Mass, was never fit to be classed with works
of engineering. They tell us that in all
structures in which iron enters as COM
ponent there are hidden dangers Which
can only be asccrtained beforehand
by system of tests that has not
yet been made universal. The engineer of the
great bridge over the Mississippi tells us OF
the safest and most economical mode of con-
structing bridges of longest span. The terri
bly, destructive work of an aquatic worm is de-
tailed by an observer. The improvements in
the water front of this city are the subject OF
another address. Altogether, in one days pro-
ceedings the American Society of Civil Engi-
neers have presented great variety of inter-
esting topics, and their importance exceeds
their interest.
Year: 1874


swarmlng myriads. r


The class perhaps next to young people for
whom foreign travel is desirable are men and
women just passing middle age, who. through
the abandonment of their business, failing
health. or the settling and marriage of their
children, feel that they have reached tho cul-
mination of life without having touched the
end-tf,at their work is DONE hereafter lies
dull waste of years, into which they carry no
definite aim or motive of existence. man
needs sometimes intellectually to DO born
again, and the change nearest akin to hrst
entrance in the world is q sudden new per-
ception by the adult man of nations, climates.
languages, habits of thought differing from
his own.


One requisite in going abroad is oddly neg
lected. The mass of travellers are careful To
provide themselves with passports, guide
book, sea and land wraps, but neglect the spe-
cial line of knowledge which should connect
and give consistency to all that they would
see and hear. They fling money away on
courcrs and expensive hotels, fly here and
there, and come back with q confused medley
of art which they did not appreciate, Jargon
of tongues, badly cooked food, high charges
and sea sickness. If they had had any defi-
mite aim or study, however small-pictures'
geology, human nature, bric-a-brac-in the
pursuit of which they had lived cheaply and
entered into the life of the people about them.
their range of ideas would have received
certain widening and new vitality.
Year: 1874

to the seizure of merchants books. The 'ast


named provision will allow the prosecution 70
demand any specified book; but the Court
must decide whether the demand be reason
able. The House has yet to act on these and
several less important amendments. Therefore,
there is ample opportunity for the enemies OF


the bill ITO kill it before it can receive the
concurring vote Of both branches OF Congress
Year: 1874

Watchful politicians will have their atten-
ton aroused by the Indiana Farmers, who met
in a Reform Convention yesterday. These
men appear to be very much in earnest. They
have a wholesome terror of trading poll
ticians, and their resolutions are business
like, decided, and SAVIOR OF real work.
Year: 1874




Connecticut is somewhat exercised over
railroad DISPUTE, known as the parallel line
coptroyersy. Two railroad cOmpanies-the New
York and New-Haven and the New YORK ana
Eastern-contest the right of way between this
citv and New-Haven. The first-named cor
noration declare that the project OF the other
company is not a valid one. The new cor
poration announce their intention to construct
n more direct line than that now IN operation
by the New-YOrk and New-Haven Company
Arguments are now being presented 10
the Connecticut Legislature. Tho summary
printed on our seventh page (supplement)
very clearly states the case as far as 1t has
proceeded.


There will be great ama1ement and discom-
future at the result of the Sprague trial. rms
man was tried on an indictment charging MIN
with embezzling the public funds while he was
Treasurer of the City of Brooklyn He has
been acquitted on that indictment; others are
pending. But the Court decides that he can
not be tried on the remaining indict-
ments. Rodman turned States evidence
in this case. He cannot be tried, as his immu-
nity from prosecution was one OF the cOndi-
tiOnS on WnlCn ne gave eViuenCo aBaiuo'
Sprague. This lame and impOtent conclusion
of the whole matter is a conspicuous failure
to find out who stole $15O.0OO of public money
and to punish tho thief.


On the seventh page of THE TRIBUNE to-day
is printed suggestive paper on the Indian
Ring. This gives various points in the discus
sion now going on. The wellinfOrmed reader
will at once see that it represents the side OF
the lately resigned Indian Commissioners.
The charges made against the management OF
| Indian affairs in the Department of the lnte-
rior are serious. But it is quite apparent that
no investigation of these charges, if made by
the House Committee on Indian Affairs, would
be satisfactory to the Commissioners and those
who are confident that there is something rot
ten in the Indian Office. 1t is notorious
| that there is q vast amount of thievIng IN the
Indian business. A reorganization OF the In
dian Commission will not stop it, unless the
officers of the Interior Department are able to
| set up barrier against the thieves This has
not yet been done.
Year: 1874

The inability of President MacMahon's Min
istry to carry through the French Assembly
any measure for organizing the Septennat is
foreshadowed by the intelligence that defeat
has already been suffered on the proposition
to restrict the right of suffrage to persons over
20 years of age. The question is vital one,
and il it does not result in the fall OF the
Ministry it will not be for want of an adequate
cause. The total number of votes cast was
large one, and the majority against the Gov
Year: 1874

Through the kindness of the editors
of La CrOnica, we are enabled to fur
nish our readers with the following
translation: How certain it is that an
intelligent man always finds some
thing to admire, objects worthy Of a
careful study, things that require a
minute investigation, though in places
where the absent-minded and ignor-
ant find nothing worthy of note and
particular attention. Some days ago
our good friend, DR.. Gelcich, made an
excursion to his new claim in the San
Fernando petroleum district, a mile
distant from the Rice claim, in COM
pany with Mr.. Miguel Bruphy and
the superintendent of the works, Don
Luis Diaz. Before us we have plan
of the place, which, after having re-
ceived the necessary eXplanati ons,
was drawn by our able publisher, and
which will materially aid us in our
work.


About a quarter of a mile from what
is known as the Rice claim and due
southeast, they penetrated a cafion,
finding very soon yeritable curiosity
to which they gave due consideration.
1t consisted of a trunk of a tree,
fprty feet long and of corpulent
thickness, perfectly petrified. 1t
layed across the crystalline waters of
a creek, and it's roots were lost in it's
bottom. Before us we have samples
of the petrified roots and bark of said
tree, and when simply viewed it diff
fers but little in resemblance to the
bark and roots of tree In its natu-
raj state; but their weight and the ma
ture of the matter composing them
are very convincing proofs of their
petrifaction. How tree of such di-
mensions and in such a situation
could have been petritied, is beyond
our comprehension; but perhaps, the
tree having fallen centuries ago, time
and the rains have changed the tOpo-
graphy of the ground there until dis
covered transformed to its present
condition. They likewise found pet
rtied shells, which is another proof
that in some distant day the waters of
the ocean flowed toward these heights.
But, perhaps the most curious thing of
all is species of cake formed by a
petrified bone of round shape, and
twenty-eight inches in circumference;
one side is smooth and appears to have
been exposed to the action of the
waves for years and years, the other is
spongy and has clearer indications of
its nature. It's color is nearly natural.
The Doctor thinks that said bone is
part of the vertebral column of a
whale, and we do not hesitate to adj
nit that it is from some of the great
cetaceans known by antediluvians; it
| is a noticeable fact that these fossil re-
mains abound in this locality, which
af1irms our theory.


Following their way through the
cailon, they found about seven natural