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Year: 1874

London journals have frequently Of
late had articles on the subject of "a
Third Sex" and writer in the Woman S
Journal thus alludes to the matter
"rhsre is growing up in England large
class OF women who do not marry, and
who apparently wish not to marry.
They deliberately devote themselves to
literature, to teaching, to some trade,
generally an artistic one, at any rate to
some occupation that gives a livelihood
and tends to culture, and this they
choose for life. The marrying instinct
seems dead, or rather never to have been
born in them. They do not seem to be
thought of as out of place, but, on the
contrary, they move into fit places in
the great societal organism easily and
naturally and are accepted without re-
mark"
Year: 1874

JEFFERsoNvILLE, IND, Aug. 4.-Two men
causing the death of one Gardner. whom it is
alleged they robbed and fastened to the rail of
a railroad track, when he was run over and so
injured as to die. The prisoners were sent from
Henryville to Charleston Jail under a strong
guard last night, 1t IS reported that the o2ant a.
habeas corpus. Should such an attempt be
made it is thought vigilence committee will
hang them If they undertake to take them
from jail it is feared fearful fight will follow,
as it is said the sheriff is determined to protect
the prisoners at all hazards.
Year: 1874

Portland Wholesale Markets.
FRIDAY, Aug. 4.-Corn has advanced several cents
ON bushel and now sells for 96 q SSc. The supply
is very small Sugar is very firm and the prices are
ruling high. Potatoes are dull. They are SO poor
that the dealers do not to invest in many There
have been but few shipped as yet. Molasses is quiet


and the demand is not large
Year: 1874

HARBoR PREsERvATIoN.-Yesterd Messrs.
Warwick and Farley of the Board of Harbor
Commissioners had consultation with COM
mittee of the city government in reference to
the wharves now existing beyond the harbor
line 1t is understood that large appropriations
of the general government will not be expended
on the improvement of the harbor. because of
the wharf Instructions, and the question was in
reference to the cooperation of the city with
the commissioners in removing the obstacles to
harbor improvement. The question was be-
yond the reach of the city government, but it
is quite possible that the matter will next be
heard Of in the report of the grand jury.
Year: 1874

AccIDENT.-A man employed by the Eastern
road had his foot crushed at Kennebunk yes
terday afternoon while handling railroad iron.
He was brought to this city and had his foot
dressed, 1t was found to be seriously injured.
Year: 1874

SAD AccDENT.-Mr. Benjamin Spencer of
this city received dispatch yesterday morning
from his wife, who is stopping at Rockland,
saying that their little child, about We years
of age, fell down flight of stairs twenty five
feet long, yesterday, and was not expected to
live. 1t appears the child was left alone in the
house for few moments, and when her mother
returned she found the nearly lifeless body
at the foot of the stairs lying in pool of
blood. Mr.. Spencer started for Rockland on
the noon train yesterday.
Year: 1874

In spite of your teeth,
Both above and beneath,


Being lightly enamel'd and thin,
They will never break down,
Nor turn yellow nor brown,


If the SOZODONTS daily brushed in
ouo1 Q,u1w
Year: 1874

A WONDERFUL DIsCovERY.-The editor OF
the Belfast journal has been searching about
that city in quest of something new, and has
succeeded in discovering prolific vein of the
protoxide of hydrogen. OF course be felt 1t
necessary to commit this discovery to print
and now the state papers are announcing 1t
with sincerity and innocence which shows
sad lack of knowledge in commonwealth
which is run on cold water principles. To pre-
vent the depletion of the population of other
towns and cities from a wild rush to the mines
of Belfast, we feel it incumbent upon us to an
nouuce that the protoxide of hydrogen is moth
ing but cold water-a statement which will
effectually prevent any further influx into Wal
dos capital.


Senator Jones arrived at his house in Gold
Al lin
Year: 1874

AshIAouA6 Afd'J 1SSpuDlASau.


We yesterday had call from the little
four legged girl and her father, when we
had an opportunity of witnessing this Won
derful freak. The little girl is in her
seventh year, and was born in Lincoln
county, Tennessee. Two of her legs are
of natural size for child of her age, while
the extra appendages are some three or
four inches shorter, and are corresponding
ly smaller in size. One of her feet is
somewhat misshapen, the ankle appearing
twisted, but with this exception, the four
legs are perfectly formed, and present a
healthy appearance. The little girl walks
with ease on her two natural legs, and is
quite interesting in appearance and con-
versatiOn. Altogether she furnishes a
wonderful example Of the freaks in which
Dame Nature is sometimes wont to in-
dulge.
Year: 1874

To save any reader the trouble, who
may feel an itching to con suit a die
tionary while reading about the tran
sit of Venus, We may be permitted to
state that ''cusp" is thehorn or point
of any crescent-shsped luminary.
Year: 1874

and could secure for themselves whatever
was right. On the same principle there
would be no ruling of the negro over the
white race. The people were able to
govern themselves, and they should be al
lowed to do it. In closing, he spoke fer
the rights of the minority. Though he
would not argue that the SOutherners
could claim any rights, they constituted


A MIGHTY POWER


The General Government might crush
them out, but We wanted no more war, no
more force, no more blOOdshed. WeshOuld
strive to find those grounds Of amity on
which harmony between all sections and
all classes can be secured.
Year: 1874

The Louisville Courier-.Jou8'-
nal. has the following sensible
remarks-regarding the manage
ment of a newspaper: L


Some people estimate the a.
bility of a newspaper and the
talent of its editor by the guam


tity of original matter. 1t is
comparatively an easy task for
q frothy writer to pour out dai-
Iy 4 column OF words-words
upon any ard all subjects. His
ideas may flow in one weak,


washy, everlasting food, and
the command of his language
may enable him to string them
together like onions, and yet
his paper may be a weak con-
Germ. Indeed the mere writing
part of editing a paper is but u
small portion Of the work.
The care, the time employed in
selecting, is far more important,
and the tact of a good editor is5>
better shown by his selections
than anything else; and that,
we know, is half the battle
But, as we have said, an editor
ought to be estimated and his
labor understood and appreci-
ated by the general conduct of
his paper-its tone, Its uniform
consistent course, its aims, man
illness, its dignity and its pro-
pricty. To preserve these as
they should be preserved, is G.
nough to occupy fully the time
and attention of any man. If
to this be added the general SUI
peryision of the newspaper es-
which most editors
have to encounter, the wonder
is how they find time to write
at all.
Year: 1874

President White, of Cornell,
says that he knows of but one
single instance among the young
ladies ofthe University of inabili-
ty to keep we'll mp with the class.
He observes that as a rule they av-
erage about ten per cent. better
on the examination papers than
do the young men that they have
raised the average of conscience
and manliness and decency more
than ten per cent. and that the
young women who took degree
last commencement stoed easily
among the first fifteen of hun
dred.
Year: 1874

A New Yerk lawyer as dcd
q witness: "Were you noe, on
the night on which you say you
were robbed, in such a state Of
yinous excitement as to preclude
the possibility of your cOinpre-
hension of your situation with
that accuracy and precision nee
essary to a deliEeation of the
truth?" The Judgemade him ask
the qnestiOnoVer again this way:
''We ere you not on the night YOU
spoke OF, blind drunk?
Year: 1874

A petition has been sent to the
French National Assembly ask
ing for the passage of q law pro-
viding that every child shall have
its name and the date Of its birth
tattooed on its arm. The OBJ.
ject is to facilitate Identification.
Parents neglecting to have their
children thus tattooed are to be
punished by a heavy fine.
Year: 1874

An exchange recommends that
when yon buy a new lamp chin
ney, put it in a vessel Of cold wa
ter, stt it on the stove and boil
Yo1 can never break that chin
ney, unless you throw a fat iron
at it, and it won't break even then
--if you miss it. ,II
Year: 1874

If you think a word always
means the same, try putting Col.
before your name, and then lift
it over and put it down at the
end of it, and back off and look
at it.-GldsgoaC, Ky., Times.
Year: 1874

One of the ablest and best
known lawyers of IMassachu-
setts once said: "There is no
such thing as knowing what a
law is until the Supreme Court
has had an opportunity to guess
at it."
Year: 1874

FINE KENNEBEC RIVER ICE.
and will receive orders fort coming Summer.
Persons who want good, lear solid ICE during
ne summer months would do well TO call and leave
Their orders with them early and they Will be guar


apr22-u
Year: 1874

Brought to Light.


To say that the church.gone people OF Jersey
City were astounded at the revelations in yester.
days HERALD concerning the pastor OF one OF the
churches would be the mildest expression OF the
public sentiment A reporter had interviews with
several prominent members OF the Presby
church in relation TO the case. Tney were all
PANIED at the aspect the case has now assumed,
and would willingly, for the sake OF the church,
nave the whole matter trodden under loot.


One gentleman connected with the First Presby-
views as lollows:-'l am inclined To think the case
Is not as bad as representedat least hope 1or
know nothing about the case. But VIII say POSI-
lively that nave known M. Glendenny ior q long
time, and regard him as q high-toned, ciever
honorable young man. That there was strong
there is little doubt, but l understand Mr..
Giendenny is prepared to meet the charge. At
the same time the Church must take actlOn in
dependent oil the legal proceedings, and tell you


tclenchlng his hand) If there be anything IN this
case, OF goes his head with deterulnat tion).
He may then appeal TO the Presbytery. have the
best reason Tor believing that a special meeting
be promptly investigated. We have four courts
the Church, the Presbytery the SYNOD and the
General Council. Any person condemned by the
lower court has the right OF appeal to all the
Othersr


Another gentleman. who lived in proximity to
the residence OF the accused pastor, and who
seemed overwhelmed with astOnis nment, re-
marked, al could hardly believe 1t when read it
IN the morning papers. Mir. Glendenny and Miss
Pomer0v visited my house frequently together and
II was well known IN my family that they were en-.
gagged TO be married.n
Year: 1874

cabin is most intensely wrought upon
in this matter" sublimely forgetful Of
how the feelings of poor whites are also
intensely wrought upon. He thinks
law is a great educator with Americans
and would abolish social distinctions as
well as political. No doubt George
thinks Congress could educate our
forty millions of people into good
church-going Christians if it
would but enact the appropriate
legislation. He wants thenegro young
idea to have thestimulus and inspiration
of contact" and rivalry with whites,
which looks very much like confes-
sion of the negro ideas natural inferi-
ority. Else, why can it not find this
stimulus in contact with its own race
as well as others do? He defes the
abolition of the school system, saying
it would only throw the negro on his
own resources and develop his man.
hood. Besides, he threatens us with
invoking by such abolition flood of
Northern sympathy that would swarm
the South with Yankee school msrms.
Heaven protect us.
Year: 1874




OF the four classes of students in
Bowdoin College, Maine, three have,
with few exceptions, been expelled for
refusing to submit to military drill as
part of their education, and that
staid and independent paper, the Nea0
York Journal Of Commerce, defends the
young rebels:


The war has left US with an abund-
ance of military men In civil offices,
and a military spirit pervading every
thing. The atmosphere at Washing
ton is highly military, and the White
House is a sort of army headquarters.
Federal laws are enforced by military
officers, and troops are called out on
tue slightest provocation. If an Illicit
whisky still is to be seized. that
operation, even In this city and
vicinity, is no longer performed
by deputy marshals in plain
clothes, armed only with the
majesty of the law, but by regular
troops, who march through the streets
with guns loaded and bayonets fixed.
All through the South, since the wal, the
Government has put reliance mostly
on its soldiery. The tendency of this
military spirit is to encrOach upon, and
finally overawe, the civil power; and if
things 60 on ,,as they are drifting now
we shall not be surprised to see cOrdons
of Federal bayonets hristling about
the polls in the most peaceful commu-
mites. Against this tendency there is
need of perpetual vigilance, and Occa-
|. .sionally emphatic protest. Therefore
we cannot look with Indifference on the
combined action of the BOwdoin Col
lege boys in refusing to be turned from
students into soldiers. They only show
that antagonism which persons of stu
dious and thoughtful minds must feel
to the domination of the military idea
in civil life.


The hasty appeal to armed violence
as a cure for all the ills that flesh
is heir to, 50 common everywhere with
nations and individuals, is a remnant
of barbaEism. Without military drill
in the use of death-dealing weapons, a
college education is deemed incomplete
In this Christian age and land, where
one might wish in vain for the day
when spears shall be beaten into
pruning hooks and swords into plough
shares.


The antagonism mentioned by the
Journal Of Commerce really exists; it is
for the people to say whether they will
foster the fighting elements in society
and the despotism that inevitably fol
lows, or encourage all the influences OF
peace, liberty and good will We can
not have genuine peace under thedomi'
nation of the military notions of past
ayes. They are the offspring of wal
conditions and influences, and so long
as they are propagated, they forbid any
progress toward higher and better
development of mankind.
Year: 1874

HAVANA, June Captain General
Coneha has issued decree intended to ar
rest the rapid rise of gold, which is con-
sidered to be solely due to the recent law
compelling importers to pay 25 per cent Of
the duties in gold, the Treasury no longer
receiving the equivalent of this 25 per cent
in paper as was done at first. Concha or
ders the Spanish Bank to sell gold on ac-
count of land TO the Trtasury az a less per-
mission than that quoted on exchange or
by brokers. COncha fixes the amount of
the premium for which Government gold
is to be sold daily, the rate for the current
day being posted at the entrance of the
bank every morning at o'clock, so that
merchants can make their calculations be-
fore business hours.
Year: 1874

THE NeD York Herald had not heard
from Oregon when it said on the 4th
inst: Democratic victories are be-
coming quite common, a fact that is
not without its significance for the
party in power" The year is big with
victories of the same sort Vet to come.
Year: 1874

Announcement is made this morning
that ROchefOrt will deliver no more lee
lures on this side of the Atlantic, although
arrangements had been made for him to
appear in Boston and Philadelphia. Many
reasons are assigned for this sudden change
of programme. but the generally accepted
one is, that failing to excite popular inter
est thus far, there is no need for further eX-
pertinent. The audience at the lecture
last night was decidedly small and exceed
ingly appreciatiye.


LATER-RochefOrt, Paine and Benedict
sailed for Europe to-day. A few French
men, known communists, were at the dock
to see them off
Year: 1874

A letter from Lowell, Cherokee county, Kansas, says: But the worst difficulty to solve is how are we to raise another crop? The time has now ar- rived for fall wheat to be sown in order to prepare for crop the coming year, but with an army of grasshoppers on hand to be fed it would be folly to SOW single grain as they would devour it as fast as sown. For one whole week these troublesome pests have been com ing, and still the end is not yet. As far up as the eye can reach they can be seen wipging their way southward, and continually dropping to the earth. The sight resembles a heavy snow storm when the fakes are large and rapidly whirled through the air by 8 breeze. The ground is covered, and in some places they lie piled one upon another as if, wearied with their long flight from the Nortb, they would rest before joining the destroying army already at work. At every step great storms of them rise all about you, and in their eagerness to get out of the way continu- ally striking against you as though pebbles were hurled at you. When they enter peach orchard they gener- ally make clean sweep of all the fruit, leaving the stones still hanging from the limbs.
Year: 1874

On road marching by the flank, says Gen. Sherman in his " Lessons of the War, it would be considered "good order to have 5000 men to mile, so that full corps of 3O,OOO men would extend six miles but, with the average trains and batteries of artillery, the probabilities are that it would draw out to ten miles. On long and regular march the divisions and brigades should alternate in the lead, and the leading division should be on the road by the earliest dawn, and march at the rate of about two miles, or, at most, two and 8 half miles an hour, so as to reach camp by noon.s Even then the rear divisions and trains will hardly reach camp much before night. Theoretically, march ing column should preserve such order that by simply halting and facing to the right or left it would be in line of battle but this is rarely the case, and generally deployments are made s'for- ward, by conducting each brigade by the flank obliquely to the right or left to it's approximate position in line of battle and there deployed. In such a line of battle brigade of 5000 infan- try would occupy mile of ''front ;'' but for a strong line of battle, 5000 men with two batteries should be al- lowed to each mile, or division would habitually constitute a double line, with skirmishers and reserve. on 8 mile of (. front"
Year: 1874

When MT. John Clark (afterward Lord Eldin) was at the bar he was re- markable for the s0,ag ;fro5d with which he treated the judges. On one occa- sion junior counsel, on hearing their lordships give judgment against his client, exclaimed that he was ''sur- prised at such decision" This was construed into 8 contempt of court, and he was ordered to attend at the bar next morning. Fearful of the conse- quences, he consulted his friend John Clark, who told him to be perfectly at ease, for he would apologize for him in 8 way that would avert any unpleasant result. Accordingly, when the name of the delinquent was called, John Clark rose and addressed the assembled tribunal CT am very sorry my lords, that my young friend has so far forgot ten himself as to treat your honorable court with disrespect. He is extremely penitent, and you will kindly ascribe his unintentional insult to his igno- rance. You must see at once that it did originate in that He said he was surprised at the decision of your lord ships. Now if he had not been very ignorant of what takes place in this court every day, had known you but half so long as have done, he would not be surprised at anything you did.
Year: 1874

A Port Huron, Mich. paper tells the story of man who some years ago lived there who was we'll known to most all of the citizens. He was a painter and photographer by profession. His children were three daughters, of more than ordinary personal attra actions. He was strict member of the Methodist Church, and endeavored to conduct the affairs of his family with all the stern rigor of discipline provided for by the doctrines of that church. After the de- parture of the family from this place, but little was heard of them. A few days ago variety troupe visited Port Huron, land 8 young lady, dressed rather showilY and with jewels flashing on every finger, walked into the edi- torial rooms and introduced herself as the youngest of the three children who had left there eight years before. She said her sister next older than herself, was the Mime. .Sanyeah we had heard of, and that she was legally married to the man whose name she bore. He had been attracted by her pretty face and engaging ways, and made her his wife. Then he had taught her to join with him in the perilous flying -trapeze per- formance, and she had shared his dan gers until one day in one of the most thrilling feats her nerves failed her and she fell. Her arm was shattered, and when she left the doctors care her ca- reer as gymnast was ended, for one arm was stiffened so that she might never use it again.

 Then the younger sister had taken her place. She naively bore testimony to the peril of her calling. "It is all chance work in some of the perform ances," she said, whether you catch the bar or not. No practice can make one sure of not falling, for the length and boise of the swings are changed at every place, according to the size of the room where the performance is to take place." She had only four months experience, she said, and had had one fall, which had laid her up for many days. but she liked the business after all, and so did her sister until she was l disabled,
Year: 1874

When young lion reaches the age of two years, he is able to down a horse or an OK and so he continues to grow and increase in strength till he reaches his eighth year, when his talons, teeth and mane are perfect, and he grows no more. For twenty years after he ar rives at maturity, his talons and fangs show no signs of decay but after that he grows ss chubbish." He is no longer a match for the tremendous buffalo he prowls around the cattle kraals, and snatches lamb or kid, just as he did when he set out with his parents nearly thirty years before. A woman or child at night shares the same fate. His strength and sight now decline more and more, till the mighty lion grows lean and mangy, and crawls about from place to place, eating any offal he can pick up, and despising not even so small an animal as the field mouse; and he starves and dies, or is fallen on and slaughtered by a few cowardly hyenas, or is discovered, unable to move, be- heath tree, and. knocked on the head by some wandering Kafir.
Year: 1874

Many person is half persuaded that @ Cabinet Organ would be capital thing for his family; worth much more than its cost. Yet they are not sure that 1t would be permanently valued, but fear that after few months use the family would tire of it, and so it would prove a poor investment. The Mason & Hamlin Organ Go. now offer their famous Cabinet Organs on terms which will satisfy all such. They will rent an organ with privilege of pur- chase. The party hiring may try it as long as he pleases, paying only the rent for it while so doing. If he concludes to purchase within year, all the rent he has paid is allowed and deducted from the price of the organ.