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Year: 1875

THERE is q mistaken belief that the Dis
trict Board of Health has exceeded its au-
thority in attempting to condemn the wooden
pavements in our streets-particularly
Pennsylvania ayenue-as nuisances and
prejudicial to good health. Any one who
has occasion to travel over the Avenue
early in the morning, when the rays of the
sun begin to develop the exhalations of rot
ten wood and putrid excrement will agree
that the Board is right. There may be GER
tain kinds of wood which will endure for
years as q pavement without becoming
ofensiye, in this regard; but none ofitis to
be found in the different varieties with
which Pennsylvania avenue is paved.
Year: 1875

ARKANSAS is beginning to send wheat
away for sale in the Northern markets.
This unexpected proof of the progress of
that State is entirely due to the labor revo-
luton which has taken place there. In
stead of making cotton" as the absorbing
product of the soil, the planters have be-
gun to farm and TO raise their own bread
stuffs. The germ Of thoroughly Republi-
can independence has evidently taken a
firm hold, and all that remains to be done
to make the State one of the most pros
porous in the Union, is to clean out the
Democratic of1ce-holders who repell immi-
grafton to it by refusing to maintain free
schools, and by maintaining an inyidious
distinction in the administration of Justice
by which their political friends and SYM
pathizers are favored and their opponents
made the victims of oppression.
Year: 1875

THE New York Democrats, and such
hybrid journals as the Tribune, seem to
think that Governor Tilden is the only llv-
ing man who can effectually break down
the infamous canal ring. Up to this time,
however, he has failed to do anything in
the direction of reform, except to sanction
the arrest Of Assemblyman Lord. 1t
should be understood in this connection
that the Tri6uneS support was bought by
Tilden for $50, 900 when he ran for Gov
e1nor, and it is therefore not improbable
that its present attitude of support to him,
at time when his acts do not justify the
claim it sets up in his behalf is also the
result of bargain and sale.
Year: 1875

receive commeDdation for its labors in our be-
half, in these days when even Republican jour-
nails in the North, deceived by the persistent
misrepresentation Of Democratic press agents
and Democratic newspapers, and by the clamor
of the independent press, help to circulate
the idea that Republicanism In North Carolina
Is fat upon It's back. Had It not been for the
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN it would not be known
In the Northern States that we have popular
majority In the last election of not less than
fifteen thousand votes, being g change In our
favor over last year Of thirty thousand"
Year: 1875

of bribery If not at the bribes. Democrats
cannot afford to enter into contest with Re-
publicans upon records of honesty in office
anywhere, in either State or National trusts.


The veterans of the party know this and
are silent 1t is only the paid scribblers
and over-zealous juveniles who make
such charges and allegations as we have
referred to above. These make rule to
repeat every lie they hear which they
imagine will injure the Republican party.
Year: 1875

| 9 dollar Of any kind, or eny couatef8t IL III
bank, lie put out sign that, until he coulc
! convert some of his vast real-estate posses.
.6ions into cash, be would close the doors Of
| his bank.


That Mr. ALLEN was an adVenturer, and
! never had in Chicago the lenst financial sub
stance, is beyond all question, He was for
! ever seeking Influence" Like Mr. Ca177Es'-
DEN seeking paving contract at Washington,
he was always ready to pay any man who had
"inhuence," and would exercise it to induce
other people to put their money in his bank,
aud he was followed by q pack Of men who
were bleeding him on that pretense. How
much ho paid for 'induence to hnye the
inspection funds placed in his concern may
yet appear How much be was topay for
ttintluenoe" to have the Internal Revenue
collections deposited with him, and how
much he was to pay to have the State funds
brought from Springfield and put in the Cook
County Bank, may never be known, because
both attempts failed 49,:


But, in the case Of I. the attempted raid on
the State Treasury, we hare Mr. ALIENS Own
testimony as to who was one Of the agents
using political influence for that purpose,
and, before week is over, we will probably
be able to give the Whole history OF that
transaction, 80 far as HI. ALLEN has put it On
record.


The State Treasury of Illinois, in January
last, when the new Treasurer took possession
of the Office, had in its vaults fraction over
TWO aEu11oNB or po11Ansi How much Of
this sum-whether one-fourth, one-third, or
one-hnlf-was contracted by Il PALMER, Of the
Inter- Ocean," to be transferred from Spring
field to the Cook County Bank, does not ap-
pear from those portions of ALIENS daily
record which our correspondent has
sent to us; but We hope to have
the full particulars. We, however, have
to congratulate the people Of Illinois that
they escaped the calamity which would
have attended such q transfer. Whatever
had gone into that bank would hive been
lost. We have no doubt that, so desperate
was the condition Of the man when PALMER
went to Springfield on that mission, he
every dollar brought to bis bank. Hence the
people Of the State may understand the prob
ablo price which ALIEN was to pay for the H.
fluence which would have transferred the
State funds to his then empty bank-vaults.


Wo must, in justice to hr. RDowAx, the
state Treasurer, say that there is nothing in
ALIENS daily record to show that he had
made any such promise to deposit the State
funds with either ALLEN OF his bank. The
only thing TINT appears is that "PA1nER, Of
the Intr-0eean," assured him that he o.
had fixed the matter, and the money would
come up as soon as the Treasurer got into
office
Year: 1875

ST. LOUIS, Sept. 16.-A meeting of promi-
nent citizens was held at the Southern Hotel
last night to adopt measures for calling a
National Convention, to be held in this city,
for the purpose of mcmorializipg Congress
to grant such legislation as shall secure the
construction of another railroad to the Pa
ciic coast, and to consider means. for the
reduction of the cost of transportation be-
tween the Atlantic and Pacific, the Lakes
and Gulf, and between the Mississippi Val
ley and the Atlantic seaboard. A resolution
was adopted to the effect that national
railroad convention be held at st. Louis on
the 2sd of November next, and that the
Chair appoint an executive committee Of
fifteen, with power to appoint sub-com-
mittee to carry the resolution into effect.
Year: 1875

in consideration of the frequency Of
these peculiar attempts at what may be
called "class homicide" it would be idle
TO pay much attention to the details of
each case 1t is evident that these are
phenomena illustrating law Of nature
not hitherto recognized or classified


Whether the occurrences are due to the
particular iuiquity Of San Francisco law.
yers, as body, or to the particularly
narrowing and exasperating nature Of
tie domestic litigation which they con-
duet, remains to be ascertained 1t may,
however, help the inquiry to note that
there is no apparent limitation of age or


previous condition in these occurrences,


but that old women attack young law
yers, and young womea murder old law
yers, and all sorts of women precipitate
themselves upon all sorts Of lawyers, as
if there existed secret and mysterious


propensity in the female breast Gas de-
veloped under the influence Of San
Francisco fogs and gales) to hit a law
yer's head whenever seen.
Year: 1875

The London correspondent of the New
York Times writes: ''The club life Of
London has now developed to such per-
lection that there is special house and
staff of walters, WITH of course, dis
tinctiye uniform and club-button, not
only for every variety of social clique,
but for almost every shade of political,
religious or scientific opinion am not
aware that the Mormons or the Crema-
tionists have yet set up a club, but if
they have not the omission will probably
soon be supplied. 1t would be difficult
to say how far the members Of club
feel bound to regard the central princi-
pie which unites them as an article Of
implicit faith; and l have observed that
wherever there is good cooking and a
we'll kept cellar there is usually cheer
ful acquiescence in the tenets of the in
stltution, whatever they be, while on the
other hand, there is disposition to fight
shy Of doctrines which are associated
with an Indifferent kitchen"
Year: 1875

An Agent Wanted for Each Town


and County in the United states.


Parties desiring to act as agents must ae-
company their application by letter of rsooa-
mehdation as to character and responsibility
irom and signed BY the editor of a newspaper
published in the town or county for which
agent proposes to act. The agency is to sell
the bonds of the Industrial Exhibition Com
Year: 1875

For there, for at least three days,
Might no wight from me flee And !
should have forced each one to take An
Endowment Policy From the warden
high to the humblest guard At the Peni-
tentiary.p
Year: 1875

They took him to the Tombs, They
penned him in the cage, Yet neither
bolt, nor bar, nor lock Could quench his
noble rage, For he would teach 10 each
prisoner The premium at his age.
Year: 1875

rushed on blindly to ruin, repeating ana
aggravating the very excesses from which
they are now suffering. For the Republican
party was not defeated last November by the
detection of the South. Even If it were true
that Intimidation, reigned supreme " in Ala
bama and the Red River country, Dir. kel-
logg's' supervisors and Gen. Sheridans
soldiers were good enough at counting
to prevent the loss of Louisiana, and
Healy and the overflow bacon TOOK
care of the other State. 1t was the loyal North
that repudiated Grantsm, not the conquered
and gagged provinces of the South, and no
one thing injured the Republican party 80
deeply as the course of heroic treatment 70
which it had subjected the unfortunate people
who are ruled and robbed by carpet-bas
adventurers.


There was chance that wise and patrionc
counsels in Congress might repair the disaster
of the Autumn and open for the glorious oid
party q new career of honor and usefulness
But that chance has been thrown away. Inc
Presidents friends have thrown down gage
of defiance to the honest sentiment OF the
country. We cannot doubt the issue OF the
contest which Is to come.
Year: 1875

Three months of deliberation, investigation,
and debate should have been enough to
teach the Republicans in Congress the mean-
ing of the November elections, and show them
what the party ought to do to recover its lost
prestige Committees have visited various
parts of the country to look into the state of
politics, and there has been a great deal of
free criticism and discussion among the Ad-
minstratiOn leaders at Washington. The
clamOr of dispute and recYiminatiOn is now
husbed. The Administration policy, if there is
any such thing, Is disclosed; we are informed
what, in the Judgment of Congress, was the
matter last Autumn, and what must be done
in the next campaign These statesmen
believe that they want nothing but
more money and more troops. Their
attempts at political legislation may be reduced
TO precisely two categOries In the first we
include such measures as the Force bill, the
sole object of which was to facilitate executive
interference with elections in the Southern
States; and the ridiculous and useless Civil
Rights bill, whose only purpose is to renew
the fading cOlOr-line in politics and check an
inclination the freedmen are just beginning to
show towards an alliance wi'h their former
masters. In the second category we place the
appropriation of $3OOOOOO towards the cam
paign expenses of the Department of Justice,
the exOrbtant allowances for expenses of
Federal marshals. and Mr.. Logan's monstrous
Bounty bill.


These are fair samples of all the remedies the
active Administration leaders in Congress have
proposed for the desperate disorder of their


II


among the majority who saw the folly of
such a policy, and protested against it with a
zeal which will be remembered to their credit
when the day of reckoning comes. But they
were not needed. aud the mob of partisans
Year: 1875

ton of having been the best Speaker the
House of Representatives has had since Henry
Clay. This is not partisan verdict, but the
Judgment of both sides of the House and the
graceful expression given to it yesterday by
Mr.. Blaine's opponents was only more for
NAL recognition of what they have for years
admitted.
Year: 1875

The easy passage of the third bill of Mr..
VConors reform series was apparently fore
shadowed yesterday by the action OF the
Assembly in Committee of the Whole. The
bill was ordered to its third reading without
amendment. and will receive decisive con-
sideration to-day.
Year: 1875

Alderman SimOnson deserves thanks for the
resolution Yesterday carried through the
Board instructing the Committee on Streets
to report upon the advisability of forcing the
different telegraph companies to bury their
wires, and stop cumbering the sidewalks with
unsightly telegraph poles. 1t is doubtful if
another city in the world of the size of New
York either does or would permit anything
like the abuse of its streets in which the tele-
graph companies are here indulged. There is
less reason for it here, since the necessities
of our climate make it almost matter of
public safety to have the wires out of the
reach of sleet and snow. Ii the Aldermen
will act promptly there may yet be time to
procure whatever aid from Albany they may
think needful befOre'the adjournment of the
present Legislature.
Year: 1875

Probably the majority of citizens have not
expected with an impregnable confidence that
the deliberations of the Aldermanlc Commit
tee on Rapid Transit would solve speedily
and satisfactorily the problems which that
much vexed subject presents. Those deliber-
atoms have resulted in two reports. The ma
joIity report favors the building of a rapid
transit road by private capital, if it can be
secured, and by city outlay if capitalists hold
back. An act is proposed to authorize any
cities in the State to provide rapid transit
roads. While this majority report has little
faith IN the prompt efforts of private capital,
the minority report has none at all, and favors
putting the burden of rapid transit directly on


the municipality. The diligent reader of both
reports may incline to the opinion that
Ncw-lOTk Is not much nearer the goal,
toward which there has been so much effort,
than before the Aldermen took up the matter
Year: 1875

The closing scenes of the XLIlId Congress
were marked by such excitement and confu-
sion that it will be several days before the
country will know all that was done in the
last twenty four hours Of the session. Our
Washington dispatches give an interesting
sketch of the circumstances attending the dsso-
luton of either House, and on our second page
will be found full list of the laws enacted
during the secopd session. OF course the last
Year: 1875

There will be general regret at the decision
Of Judge Robinson in the case of John Taylor
Johnston against the Christopher and Ienth
Street Railway Company. In effect it aiiirms
the right of the railway companies to pile up
snow against tho sidewalks as heretofore.
Doubtless this is good law, or the Judge
would not have SO decided; but 1t Is not
equity, and it ought not to be law. IL tne
courts cannot give redress, we trust that Mr'
Johnston and other public-spirted citizens
will carry the matter to the Legislature, which
can,
Year: 1875

Members Of the Emigration Commission make
light of the investigation Of their department
which has been threatened from Albany.
They assert that no real investigation is IN
tended and that the suggestions toward IN
curry are only made for effect. Very sturdy
IN assertion are representatives of the Com
mission, and they boldly challenge the sharpeSt
scrutiny, asserting that in economy and dis
cretion the operations of the Commission have
not been excelled. If equaled, sby those OF any
commission or department in the city. 1t Is
unfortunate that this economy could not keep
the Commission above water financially, and
that the appeal must needs go to Albany for
an appropriation of 100000. and an increase
in the head-mOney.
Year: 1875

In the Superior Court yesterday it was de-
cidcd by Chief-Justice Mcneil that street
railway company has perfect right to eject
intoxicated persons from their cars, and that
the company is not responsible for damages
in the event of the fatal injury of person
elected under such circumstances. The Chief
Justice not only dismissed a complaint of this
kind, but warmly commended the conductor
whose act the company defended, On the
ground that conductors should be encouraged
and protected in the exercise of the duty OF
saving passengers from being disturbed or
endangered by the disorderly and improper
behavior of drunken men.
Year: 1875

Tie Gilroy Leader says: Advertising
is a great bother. 1t only brings lot
of folks to your place of business. If
they want you let them hunt you up.
Then if you get your maize in the paper,
you will be bored with drummers. and
people from the country will call on
you, and you will have to show them
goods, and like enough have to do up
bundles which will exhaust your stock
so much that you will be obliged to buy
more goods. which is great trouble. II
you advertise, too, it gives your place a
reputation abroad; folks will 60 there
and crowd you. and make it too lively.
If you don't want to do anything, keep
as still as you can.
Year: 1875

w A Tennessee girl told a fellow
she would give him kiss if he would
catch her. She ran well till she got out
of sight OF the old folks, and then gave
in. This shows what a Tennessee girl
will do when she is hard run.
Year: 1875

II At the commencement exercises
of Abbott Academy, Andover. Mass,
Prof. Smith told the young ladies that
while he was not prepared to send
them forth as captains in tie social ship
there would never be any difficulty in
their finding situations as first mates. "
Year: 1875

The wires of the Western Union
Telegraph Company were put to work
at Hueneme Saturday, amid intense
rejoicing Of. the people, who look up
on the acquisition of telegraphic COM
munications as great aid to the grow
ing commerce of the place. 81
Year: 1875

How strangely our ideas Of growing
old change as we get on in lifel To the
girl in her teens the rIper maiden Of
twenty-five seems quite aged. Twenty.
two thinks thirty-fve "an old thing"
Thirty FIVE breads forty, but eongratu-
lates herself that there may still remain
some ground to be possessed in the ff-
teen years before the half century shall
be attained. But fifty does not by any
means give up the battle OF life. 1t
feels middle-aged and vigorous, and
thinks old age a long way in the future.
Sixty remembers those who have done
great things at threescore; and one
dnubts jf Parr, when he was married at
12O, had at all begun to feel himself an
old man. 1t is the desire of life IN us
which makes us feel young so long.
Year: 1875

A boy thus Describes his misdeeds and
their punishments: My sister Em has got
fellow who has been coming to see her
every night for some time. Night before
last, just to have little fun, went in
to the parlor and crawled under the sofa
on the sly and waited until he got settled.
and just AZ he was asking her-if she
was willing-to become his dear partner
for life, and trust to his strong right
arm for support and protection, ! gave
three red-hot Indian war whoops and
fired of an old horse pistol that 7 had
borrowed Of Sam johnson and my graci- =
Ons, how that fellow jumped up and
scooted for the doorl He never stopped
10 get his hat, bnt tnmbled head over
heels kown the door steps. As for EN-,
she Just squatted right down on the floor
and screeehed like blue blazes till dad
and mother came running in with moth
ing on hut their night clothes and want
ed 10 know what the matter was. Bat
Em only yelled the louder, and kept
pointing under the sofa till dad got
down on his knees and saw me there,
and pulled me ont by the hind leg.
When he got me ont to the wood shed he
wrapped me over his knee and went at
me with an old trunk strap, and I've not
got over it nicely vet.
Year: 1875

Tn recent address before the Smith
sonian Institute DIR. Lincecune gives the
following interesting report of the cur
ious little balloon spider and its work:
al once observed one of those spiders
at work in the upper corner of an open
outside door-shutter. She was spinning
gossamer, of which she was forming a
balloon and clinging to her thorax was
a cluster of minute yonng spiders. She
finished up the body of the balloon ard
threw out the long bow-lines, which were
Tapping and Auttering in the now gent
ly increasing breeze. Several minutes
before she got ready for the ascension
she seemed to he fixing the bottom and
winding her hammock shaped ballooni
and now, the breeze being suitable, she
moved to the cable in the stern, severed
il, and her craft bounded upward, and
soaring Northward was soon beyond the
scope of observation. ."- Exchange.
Year: 1875

Do EVERYTHING WELL.-It is the
result Of practical, everyday experience
that steady attention to matters of de-
tail lies at the root of human progress,
and that diligence, above all, is tho
mother of good luck. Accuracy also is
of as much importance, and as invari-
BILE mark of good training in a man;
accuracy in observation, accuracy in
speech, accuracy in the transaction Of
affairs What is done inSbusiness must
be done we'll, for tits better to accom-
plish perfectly small amount of work
than to half do ten times as much. Yet,
in business affair.", it is the manner in
which even small matters are transacted
that often decides men for or against
you. With virtue, capacity, and good
conduct in other respects, the person
who is habitually> inaccurate cannot be
trusted; his work has to be gone over
again, and he thus causes annoyance
yexation, and trouble.
Year: 1875

The Cincinnati Commercial correctly
says


1t il amazing that the Californians,
even to crafty an ambition to outdO the
world at the Centennial Exhibition,
should have permitted workmen TO cut
down one of the mammoth trees in the
Mariposa District to get section to
exhibit in Philadelphia, or allowed the
digging up of the great Mission grape
vine, whose prodigious size and fruitage
have made it famous throughout the
world The age of the tree. estimated
by the yearly rings, was over 2,250 years
possibly $500, for the outer rings were
so fine that they conld not be accurately
counted, and it might possibly have
lasted another two or three thousand
years, for when cut down there was no
evidence of decay in trunk or branches
Thinx of sacrificing such a monarch of
the forest, more venerable than the
cedars of Lebanon, and a young sprig of
tree when Solomon was apostrophizing
their ancestors, merely to CRAFTY curios-
ity and enable couple Of spectators to
put money in their purse. There could
hardly be a greater outrage. And the
Mission vine-the only consolation for
the loss of which is that a thrifty scion
remains to fill its place some time in the
futnre-what compensation for it's de-
struction can be offered in a World =
Fair? Were such tree and vine to be
found in any civilized country in Eu-
rope, the people would 90 to war for
their preservation, were any one to be
found SO reckless as 10 propose their de-
struction.