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Year: 1874

QuOr - an ImtOx1cAte0 keerSOm.


Judge Buskirk, of the Supreme
Court, yesterday delivered an opinion
in the case of tile appeal of Jerry Far
rell vs., the State of Indiana, from
Hamilton T.. c., in which case, in the
lower court. the appellant was fined
for selling. liquor to an intoxicated
person. The judgment below was re-
yersed The opinion applies the same
rule Of eonStruetion to that section of
the Baxter Bill which imposes a PEN
atty for selling liquor to an habitually
Intoxicated person, as was applied to
the law of 1859 in regard to selling
liquor to minors Ii the State proved
that the defendant, from his personal
acquaintance with the party applying
tor liquor. knowledge of his habits,
or from the indications apparent when
the man asked for the drink, was
possessed of sufficient facts to make
the subject one Of inquiry, then the
case Eas made out But if the defen-
dant could show that from lack of
knowledge of these conditions he sold
foe liquor in good faith. he was not
liable to prosecution from the sale. In
the case appealed, there was no evil
dence addnced by the State to show
that the defendant was so possessed of
these facts, and the Judgment is there
fore reversed
Year: 1874

:. Extract nom the Eu,ess pronoanced in
by Congressman Rots.rt {. Elliott lsnioredl'
Ut South Carolina.


Charles Sumner, in his mortal
limitations, Was an American: more
narrowly, he was Massachusetts
nan; more narrowly still, he was a


White man but to day what nation
shall claim him, what State shall
appropriate him, what race boast
him. He was the fair consummcte
flower of humanity. He was the
fruit of the ages, He was the child
of the past and the promise of
the future. The whole world,
could it know its relations, would
mourn his departure, and mankind
everywhere would join in his hon
ors But, fellow. citizens, il any
fraction of humanity may claim q
peculiar right to do honor TO the
memory of this common benefactor
of the world, surely it is the colored
race in these United States. To
other men his services may seem
only vast accession of strength to
q cause already moving with steady
and assured advance; to us, to the
colored race, he is and ever will be
the great leader in political life,
whose ponderous and incessant
blows battered down the walls of
our prison house, and whose strong
hand led ms forth to the sunlight of
freedom. do not seek to apropri-
ate him to my race; but I do feel.
to day. that my race might ain os.
bid the race to which by blood he
belonged, to stand aside while we,
to whose welfare his life was so
completely given, advance to do
grateful honor to him who was our
CRATE benefactor and friend.


Once only in ali this splendid and
faithful career did Charles Sumner
part company with the great mass
of friends of freedom, and on this
he needs no silence. Differing, as
could not but differ, from his
judgement in the last national cam
paign, l point to it to day, as one
of the highest proofs of his utter
devotion 10 the call of duty. Still
was he true. utterly true. To his
convictions, to the commanding
voice of conscience. He had been
faithful in defeat: conld he be faith
f,ll in successl Draw no veil Of
silence over this passage, but write
it high on his monument that, in
old age, when the weary frame
longed for repose. he could brace
himself for the conflict in: which
nearly all the friends of lifetime
stood arrayed against him.


.Npthing Is here for tears, nothing 10 wall
OR knock the breast, no weakness, 70 con-
tempt,


Dispraise or blame; nothing bui we'll and
fair"


TO have lived such life were
glory enough. Success was not
needed to perfect its star bright,
immortal beauty. But success
came. What amazing contrasts
did his life witness!
Year: 1874

The long talked of woman's commu-
nifty within the limits of the town of
Woburn, twelve miles from Boston,
was actually begun last month, by the
raising of the frame of the first build
ing. In this community all the land
is to be owned bv women; and, so far
as the management of the affairs of
the village is concerned, woman suf-
frage is to prevail to the utter politi-
cal disqualification of men. The men,
bers of the community are obliged to
assent to constitution which is to
govern it, but further than this they
are not restrained; except, that they
are expected to attend, at least once a
week, upon the uncertain religious
service to be held This village is to
be called Aurora. Each house is to
have its garden. The main reliance
for moneyed success is to be on cor
porative schemes. One of these is the
establishment of a laundry where full
facilities are to be afforded for doing
work ON large scale, and competing
with the famous Troy laundries. Men
are not to be excluded from the village,
nor from some ownership OF property,
nor from the opportunity of work; but
widows and maiden ladies will likely
be regarded as preferable to married
women, even though the husband be
only a kind of inferior adjutant to the
woman.
Year: 1874

The fair for the benefit of st. Patrick g
Church was well attended last night.
Although just comenced, the enthusiasm
already displayed proves that this fair will
be the most successful of the season. The
voting contests are already becoming ex-
citing, the friends Of the various contest
ants canvassing freely and voting early and
often. OF course it is impossible to give
anything more than a guess as to the state
of the polls when che voting closed last
night. The indications are that the con-
test for the horse and buggy, between his
honor Mayor Witt and District Attorney
John McPhelin, will be remarkably close.
The fair continues tonight and throughout
the eusIipU week
Year: 1874

The South, weekly journal Of New York
Orleans, Louisiana.


"A description will convince the most
sceptical Of its accuracy. From the top of
a high and picturesquely wooded hill the
spectator looks on plain seemingly sew
eral miles wide with single tree maths-
mactically planted in the centre. A collec-
ton of buildings which might represent
either the grain elevator or the Ursuline
convent, are apparently floating at the
bank of a remarkably circuitous river,
which is covered with square rigged YES
sells that grow larger as they recede. On
the left buildings are as numerous and
densely packed as they appear in photo
graph of London. Far above the innumera.
Bile spires that are as thick As pins in
well stocked cushion, towers high above
the surrounding buildings a magnificent
dome with a figure on top that may be the
goddess of Liberty Or-may not. Whether
this is intended to represent the Parish
Prison, enlarged to signify the terror it
afflicted the artist with, or his idea of the
Masonic Temple, when built, it is impossi-
BILE to determine. Perhaps the great alti-
tude Of the hill, back Of town, from which
he surveyed the city, may have affected his
nerves. In the background appear the
mountains of Algiers, a snow storm appar-
emily raging on the summit of one of them.


The editorial comments on this gem of
art are in 80 brief paragraph, and display
such keen appreciation Of its beauties, that
it would be cruel to separate them:


Our engraving is representation of the
city Of New Orleans, the famed Crescent
City Of the South, one of the most beautiful
cities in the world, and the scene of the
greatest possible alacrity. The broad bosom
Of the Mississippi is studded with sails,
from the big European steamer to the tiniest
craft. The people OF New Orleans are Of a
vivacious temperament as is manifested by
the galas once peculiar to their city. but
now spreading to other cities in the South.
Year: 1874

The Nashua tNew Hampshire) Telegraph
says the familiar sentence, ''One touch of
nature was beautifully illustrated by
three little girls who not long since lost their
mother by death. Hearing that lady
friend OF the family was dying, these three
Little children went to their grandmother,
called her aside and whispered in her ear !:
Mrs. -is dying. and we want you to go
to her and tell her to give our best love to
our mother"
Year: 1874




IT is instanced as perhaps the most
striking of the many proofs of the
enormous brain-power and capacity of
the Great Napoleon that he could die
tate upon different subjects to several
secretaries at the same time, or us fast as
each could write, and continue sucr die
tation for an indefinite time. The matter
is stated as fact in several of the lives
of Napoleon, and | have never seen il
questioned in print indeed, | believe
that something very similar is narrated
of one or two other celebrated char
acters. The faculty is truly marvellous
one and the ability to carry on two or
more manual operations at once, which
are not merely automatic or mechanical,
is only less wonderful. But what an
astonishing exhibition would it be to see
the same person perform simultaneously
two mental and two manual operations!
The nearest approach to this that occurs
to me is the case of the itinerant musi-
clan who many of us have seen perform
upon two or more instruments together,
but il is always the same tune that Is
played upon both. If a single instance
can be given of a performance by the
same person at the same time OF two
entirely different tunes upon two different
instruments, steadily and without lapse ol
break, | will readily, admit that the
exhibition would be quite as wonderful
| as was that which | am about to relate


From the same gentleman who related
| to nae the anecdote of Gouverneur Morris
which was published in Hearth and Home
I have the following relating to the SAINT
eminent parsonage. My informant wa
present upon the occasion to which an
about to refer, is still living, and is per
fectly reliable so may claim that tn
story is sufficiently authenticated;


During one of his visits to his vas
possessions In the northern counties o
New York several persons were with Nh
Morris in his office one day, when tn
conversation happened to turn upon tn
remarkable power of Napoleon TO whic
have alluded Some one remarked tina
the ability TO dictate to Two or NOR
amanuenses at the same time was an eS
traordinary one. g.


mot SO much sO,n said Morris, a
the ability to write on two different sui
jects at the same time with pen in eac
hand. f...


"That is true" was the Tejoinde
but never heard of any one wh
could do that


81 think cam" remarked Morri
"Let me try"


Turning to his desk he arranged tw
blank pieces of paper before him an
took pen in each hand


81 was about to fill out descriptio
in deed,n he said, and | must ais
write letter to the grantee to accon
pany the deed, Now let Us see If ca
do it all at once" -


Y And 20 the amazement and admirati0
of all present., each Of whom we may
} sure scrutinized the performance wit
critical watehtulness, he did 10 as clever
and rapidly as though he had been wri
I ing either separately, and the task WI


performed with excellent penmanshi
Year: 1874

A new she'll invented by or for the
Russians bears the strange title of
" Sczaroch," and is thus described in q
foreign Journal:


cit is well known that with the ordi-
nary elongated bolt ricochet fire cannot
be maintained and as this species of fir
ing is very effective against masses of
troops the loss is matter of considera-
BILE moment. The sezsHeol, for such is
the name of the new projactile, is u per-
cussion time shell and shot, the latter
of which ricochets beyond the point of
explosion of the bursting charge. The
she'll portion is a simple iron cylinder, to
one end of which is secured, by a thin
sheet of lead spherical shot, On leav-
ing the gun the combined projectile acts
like an ordinary elongated shell; but as
soon as the explosion of the charge takes
place the cylinder of course flies in
pieces, while the shot, impelled by the
additional velocity and by reason of its
form, ricochets for hundreds of feet
ahead. In firing ut batteries the double
effect of this projectile comes into eX-
cellent use, as the shell might be ex-
! ploded among the guns, while the ball
would strike far in the rear among the
reserve troops; or while the shen might


burst in the front rank of an advancing


column the ball would continue plow.


ing its way through several succeeding
! ranks,
Year: 1874

WASHINGTON, NOV. g.


Gen Spinner's report is complete and
in the hands of the printer. He devotes
considerable space to an argument in
favor of issuing interchangeable bonds,
to bear interest at the rate of 3.65 per
cent. His arguments on this point are
in the main the same as those of last
year, except that he believes that it
would be wise to allow holders to eX-
change the 1865 for outstanding . and 8
per cent. bonds. He says that the great
est objection to a metallic currency is its
lack of elasticity and is Of the opinion
that the adoption of the convertible
bond will correct this evil He thinks
the rate of interest will be high enough
to sell the bonds, to the absorption
of any surplus currency, at any time,
while it will be enough to force return
of the bonds in exchange for legal-ten-
der notes when the business of the coun
| try demands more currency. The rate
| of interest at one cent day on the hun
dred dollars would be popular with the
people, he says, because it is easy OF
| computation. He argues that the con
version of the IS and IS into low-ratC
| bonds in the event of the condition ol
the currency demanding such conver
sion would result in the material reduc
! ton of the interest on the public debt
aud make it payable entirely in nationa
currency at home, and not in gold to for
| eignerS.
Year: 1874

the local authorities do more, or is there
any necessity for any more being done ?
When the State authorities have ex-
hausted their means in surpressing in
surrections or violence of any sort, then,
article 4, section l. of the Constitution
of the United States, comes to our re.
lief; it guarantees to every State re-
publican form of government, and pro.
tects each of them from invasion, and
on application of the Legislature, or of
the Executive, shall protect them against
domestic violence.


The Executive has not considered it
necessary to make this call, and it has
not therefore been made, and if it had
been, suppose President Grant would
have replied to his Excelency, as he did
to Governor Ames, of Mississippi, and
Governor Baxter, of Arkansas, by telling
him there was no necessity for Federal
intervention, and that the State must
first exhaust her own resources. The
only reason that prompts the writing OF
this article, is to contribute something,
if possible, to the preservation Of States
rights and State sovereignty, and to ar
rest the tide of consolidation that is so
rapidly sweeping over the conntry.


An ENQUIRER.


O.
Year: 1874

Whatever railroad men may think
about the comparative advantages OF
the ordinary and narrow-gauge. tracks
for freight exclusively or general busl-
ness on great routes If travel. there Is
no doubt that roads built on the mar
row gauge principle can be used to
great profit in new and in mountainous
regions where it would not pay to build
railroads on the old plan. The Monte
rey and Salinas City Railroad IN Cali
fornia affords an excellent illustration
of this fact. The farmers along the
line built the road themselves and put
it in operation. They had previ-
ously made calculations from which
they learned that the people
who would be Accommodated
by it were paying SSSO,OO0 per annum
for the transportation of their crops to
tide water. They ascertained that for
less than this sum they could build a
narrow gauge road from the Salinas
plains to Monterey, a distance Of lo4
miles, together with a wharf at Mon
terey and suitable warehouses. The
result of their enterprise is that they
get their grain carried to tide water
for S2. .25 per ton instead of paying $3.50
as they had been doing. which is a
saving to them of 1885, 900 the trst
year of the roads existence. The ex-
perienee of these California farmers
proves that under favorable conditions
a narrow gauge road can be and has
been built and equipped for less morey
than would have been paid by the peo-
pie of the district through which 1t runs
for freight alone in a single year.
Year: 1874

Louisville Courier-JOurnal, Nov 20.


A rather mysterious affair occurred few
nights ago in the Louisville Medical Col
lege building, corner of Fifth and Green
streets. Two of the students have been
paying attention to the same young lady,
wholives but a stones throw from the Med
ical College, and they got into quarrel
with each other about her. 1t was at last
proposed that each take pistol and fight a
duel in dark room in the College build
ing. So the pistols were selected, seconds
chosen, aud the party, when no one was in
the house at night, entered a room and,
locking the door behind them, prepared for
the encounter.


The light was extinguished. and, at a
proper distance from each other, at the
word, each fired. The gas was lit, and an
investigation only proved that the powder
and balls had been wasted. The light was
again extinguished, and again at the word
the pistols were again discharged.


This time one Of the duelests was found
slightly wounded in the left arm. The honor
of the medical gentlemen having been thus
satisfied, the two became friendly again
and shook hands with each other. The af-
fair was kept very quiet, and only leaked
out yesterday morning The students
won't let the two duelists alone now, and
their lives are burden 10 them from the
worry.
Year: 1874

We knew it was coming. We felt it
In cur bones. The National Coffin
makers Association is in process of
formation. What a grim monopoly
they seek to build up, growing fat on
human rottenness. How can a man
dare to die these times, when they get
up corners even IN cofins. Let the
cremationists seize the golden oppor-
tunity.
Year: 1874

OMAHA. Nov. 2O.-An unsuccessful but
bold attempt was made TO burglarize the
national bank al Nebraska City this morn
iup, but the burglars were driven of by the
assistant cashier, who was sleeping in the
bank.
Year: 1874

In London five families have been
trying the experiment of a confeder-
ated home. a large house in the
Bloomsbury region was taken, and ar
rangements for the regulation of the
household were made with precision.
There was a common dining room,
and each family had a set of rooms
which is furnished at its own convent
ence. One cook prepared the meals,
and couple of servants did the other
work. For two days affairs went well
enough. Then trouble began. The
dinner was a standing subject Of dis
pute, the unfortunate cook being as
unable to please five families as the
two servants were to answer five bells,
all ringing at the same time. The chill
dren of the different families quarreled,
and before a fortnight had elapsed the
confederated home was broken up.
Year: 1874

There are in the city a dozen members
of the House and some twenty Senators,
and among them there is a good deal Of
speculation over the specie resumption pol
icy which the President promises to recon-
mend to the Republican party in his COM
ing message. Among the plans suggested
is one to retire the legal-tenders put out
after the panic Of September last. by is
suing bonds. This would increase the
bonGed debt, and some object to it on that
account. Another method is to receive a
certain percentage of the customs in legal
tender notes; and cancel the same daily as
they are received. This would be a steady
and gradual contraction of the currency,
and several members are in favor of it.
Year: 1874

pay more to get it. He said his title


tDus decd from CHAPMAN. He ad-
mitted that he was told the lot was
fenced in and held by other pdrties
when he bought it, but that he was
sick and had not seen the land when
he paid for it. He had no answer to
make to the question that it appeared
strange that sick man should pay
nearly every dollar he had in the
world for II lot to which the person of
whom he bought admitted he had no
title, and that the property was held
and in fact owned by others. Mr..
BEAUDRY very properly refused to
have anything to do with this fellow,
unless he established his claim to it,,
in which case he told him he would
either buy it or he could sell to other
parties. At this point ROBERTS for
got his cunning and exposed his game
by threateningly saying to Mr..
BEAUDRY that he had many influen-
tial friends in this city, and unless he
came to his terms he aOoUld injure his
election. These are the facts concern
ing the "poor sick man" " over whose
case the ErpresS affects to weep lit
tie rivulet of tears. CHAPMAN had
no claim on the land whatever and
admitted he had none; and when he
could not force money out of Mr..
BEAUDRY, the "poor sick man." ROB-
ERTS comes in OH the same trick and
threatens Mr.. BEAUDRY that if he
does not come to terms with him, he
will use his mighty influence and that
of his influential friends - meaning
the ErprcSS-to defeat his election.
If the ErpresS can cite more fragrant
case of attempt at blackmail, outside
of it's own career-its zeal in this in
stance indicates that it was party to
tive shall be pleased to see it on
record. This is the quality of material
out of which libelous ISLANDERS are
manufactured against gentleman
and worthy citizen of this city. We
trust every man in Los Angeles will
read the facts we have here narrated,
and compare them with the vile
ISLANDERS the Express has attempted to
pass off in lieu of them.
Year: 1874

A PROMINENT stakeholder in the
Gas Company informs us that the
proposition of the company to light
the street-lamps was S5 So per lamp
per month, on n contract for three
months; and that this offer was made
i'll response to petition from the citi-
zens to have the street-lamps lighted.
Another proposition was made by the
company to light sixty lamps on q
five-years contract at 81 per lamp per
month. Both of these propositions
were made some time ago. The gen.
tleman denies that his company are
seeking to enter into tive-years con-
tract with the city to light the street.
lamps at the rate of Sc l6 per lamp per
month.
Year: 1874

Tho Ex-confederate Chieftain Seeking Confs-
GATED Papers in the War Department Cata-
combs-Reminiscence of the Ludicrous
Climax Of the Rebellion-The Famous


Petticoat in State OF Demolition


The Pistol and Carbine