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Year: 1875

HENRY WILSON'S FUNERAL is seldom
the demise Of public man occasions such
sincere regret and widespread grief as have
been felt in the death Of Henry Wilson. His
unostentatious manners and ready sympathy
with the wants Of the people endeared him
TO the whole country, and lis countrymen,
forgetting all the prejudices which come
from party differences, united to do honor to
his memory when his life work was ended.
Since the death Of President Lincoln
there has not been such an imposing
funeral cort6ge in this city as that which es-
corted the remains of the dead statesman
yesterday from the Cortlandt street ferry to
the Grand Central depot. When conspicu-
Gus ability and tireless service earn such
honor we need not despair Of the Republic,
for while the hearts Of the people are respon-
sive to the generous emotions occasioned by
the death Of the Vice President the Ameri-
can masses, as they always have been, can
not fail To he true * liberty.
Year: 1875

THE FRENCH AUTHORITIES are afraid Of free
speech, and it has been resolved to prevent
all meetings Of a character TO excite disorders.
Such precautions can only precipitate the
parties are allowed freedom of opinion the
expression Of it will bring its own antidote.


LIBERIA. After all national debt is very
like national blessing as has just been
illustrated in the case Of Liberia If the
Republic was without bondholders in Eng
land it would also be without friends but,
being in debt, the creditors are seeking aid
and protection for the Liberians.
Year: 1875

The reopening of the Grand Opera House
attracted a share OF the public attention last niSht
Messrs. Hamilton and Wheclock have presented
the spectacde OF Around the World" In handsome
dress and with good ballet and fine stage ehects'
Low prices Will prevail at this theater under Its new
management and thus its entertainments VIII DC
placed villain te reach OF even the poorest classes Of
nj
Year: 1875




INDOOR AMUsEMENTs. Cut two or
three leaves of cabbage into small
pieces, then put them into small ba.
sin and pour pint of boiling water
on them. Let them stand one hour
and then pour off the water, into a de-
cauter. Then take four wineglasses
and put into one six drops of strong
vinegar into another six drops of So
luton of soda, into a third Il strong So
luton of alum, and let the fourth re-
main empty. The glasses may be pre-
pared some time before, and the few
drops Of colorless liquid that have been
placed in them will not be noticed. =
Now fill up the glasses from the de-
eanter, and the liquid poured into the
glass containing the vinegar will be
transformed into beautiful red, that
put into the glass containing the soda
will become fine green, and that
poured into the empty one will of
course remain unchanged. Now work
another Transformation by adding a
little vinegar to the green liquid and
it will Immediately change to red, and
add a little solution of soda to the red
and it win assume fine green color.
The experiment not only amuses, but
shows the action of acids and alkalies
OH vegetable blues.
Year: 1875

The principal topic of interest just now is
the controversy about Two Orphans" in
the Superior District Court. and motions
are even just now. The property of Man
ager DeBar has been seized the perform
ance stopped, and all defendants must
purge themselves Of contempt this morning
for allowing the performance to take place
Sunday evening. On the other hand, the
defendants made SO much fuss about the
little matter of the disposition of their prop
erty and profits that the sheriff exaoted .
bond of indemnity of $4,000 from MI.
Howard before he would execute the writ
Then, besides, they have two motions to
quash, to be heard at the same time with
the rule for contempt.


The Kerrigan case came before the Supe-
rior Criminal Court, but Judge Steele was
unable to see any illegality in the confine-
ment. But he did in the conduct of Court
Officer Thomas Houlihan. 1t appears that
Kerrigan was put into the dock by Justice
Evans for disorderly conduct during the
hearing, and his good humor and that of his
counsel was utterly ruined. On the way to
the Parish Prison both got into row with
the officers in charge and were knocked
down and finally taken there in a cab.
When the deputy sheriff with the writ of
habeas corpus arrived he attempted to
serve a copy on Houlihan. 1t was treated
with contempt by him. thrown down and
stepped upon. For this, Judge Steele sent
him five days to the Parish Prison, o very
mild punishment.
Year: 1875

SAN ANTONIO, October 1s, 1875.


General Ord will not return from Fort
Clark and Fort Duncan before Thursday.


Information has been received at head
quarters that General Hatch has given
bond for his appearance to answer any
charges against him at the next term of the
District Court of Kinney county, which
bond has been accepted by the sheriff


General Hatch has also applied for orders.
which have been issued by the General
commanding for him ID go to Brownsville
and answer any charges that may be pend
ing against him in the District Court at that
place. 'BEXAR.
Year: 1875

The uesset4 murdcr-case becomes moro
mysterious on longer acquaintance. All
that seems to bo clearly established now is
that some member of the family has been in
tho numbering business, but who the man is
nobody can tell off-hnnd.
Year: 1875

Morton has folded up his bloody shirt and


retired from the Maine stump, after deliv-
ering himself of some speeches that will DO
more than little toward swelling the dem
ocratic vote in the Pine Tree State. We
congratulate the republican party of Mains
on his early departure.-B Post.
Year: 1875

ton. can not but congratulate you upon


having selected place so beautiful, so In


viting, and so worthy of the occasion. 1t is


more beautiful than even st. Peters at
Rome-H,ith theIdome of the sky above
you so grand and magnificent. st. Paul's
Cathedral even sinks into significance
In comparison. When we can let rs 60
into the open air in contact with nature and
derive wisdom from pure source. higher
than all on earth. It Is good to 60 into the
open air to do honor 10 those who served
you in war, and may God look down upon
You and bless every one of vow, and may
q love of your country, and teach
those little children she lessons You
have heard this day, good and
sound lessons, worthy of this grand
occasion. thank you. [Creet appiause.l
Year: 1875

TEE Lexington (Ky.) gazette thus de-
scribes "a right funny scene" which took
place the other day at one OF the stations
on the Kentucky Central: "A couple Of
negroes cut down tree across a teleqrapb
wire and broke it. The operator came
out at once and determined on revenge.
lie quietly took his seat and told the two
negroes to bring the two ends of the wire
together and mend it. Each seized end
and end, but the moment they came in
contact there was sharp electric shock,
and they let 60. 1t was raining and the
battery was strong. However, the ne
groes did not know where the shock came
from, and tried it again. BY this time,
their clothes were so wet that tho current
would pass if one but brushed the other.
Frightened and bewildered, they brought
the wires together again and again: each
time, to thair astonishment, an electric
shock convulsed them. And when the
train started there sat the operator in the
shelter Of the depot, still urging the ne
groes TO fresh efforts.
Year: 1875

DR.. Groussin, of Bellevue, has contrived
machine which he calls a 6erceau-ba1ance or
pese6e6e, by means of which the anxious
young mother may assure herself from day to
day, or even from hour to hour, that the
baby is going on satisfactorily as regards
increase of weight. 1t consists of an ordin-
ary cradle, to suit the taste, fitted with bal
ance underneath which will tell the exact
weight of the cradle and its contents without
any need of disturbing the child. 1t is said
that after two complete days of life child
weighs four ounces less than at birth. When
a week old it will be of the same weight as at
birth. From seven days to five months the
average increase should be three-quarters of
an ounce daily. At five months the weight
should be double that at birth. At sixteen
months the weight should be double that at
five months. OF course, infants vary from
time to time, and each individual has a rule
of its own; the great point is that growth
ought to be constant.
Year: 1875

A medical correspondent of an English
journal says that the advantages of asparagus
are not sufficiently appreciated. They who
suffer with rheumatism are cured in few
days by feeding on this delicious esculent;
and more chronic cases are much relieved,
especially if the patient avoids all acids,
whether in food or beverage. The Jerusalem
artichoke has similar effect in relieving
rheumatism. 1t may be well to remark that
most plants which grow naturally near the
seacoast contain more or less iodine, and in
all rheumatic complaints iodine has long
been favorite remedy. One who has been
in the drug business told the writer some
years ago that many of the popular patent
nostrums which some disinterested people
'for the good of their fellow-creatures" -
sold at So bottle, consisted simply of a few
cents worth of iodine in solution. Iodine is
however, in overdoses, affecting
the eye.
Year: 1875

had managed this delicate intrigue, and had
tested him, and now gave him her wealth,
title and everything.


They were married with great pomp, and
accompanied the Arch Duchess to Paris.
Napoleon to crown the happiness of his ia
vorite, made him at once General of Division.
Year: 1875

On, let the soul its slumber break.
Arouse its senses. and awake


To zee how soon
Life, in its glories, glides away.
And the stern footsteps of decay


Come stealing Oh.
And while we view the rolling tide.
Down which our flowing minutes glide


Away SO fast.
Let us the present hour employ
And deem each future dream JOY


Already past.
Let TO vain hope deceive the mind,
No happier let us hope to find


Tomorrow than to-day;
Our golden dreams of yore were bright,
Like them the present shall delight


Like them decay.
Our lives like lasting streams must be
That into the engulting sea,


Are doomed to fall
The sea of death, whose waves roll on,
Ger king and kingdom, crown and throne,


And swallow all.
Alike the rivers lordly tide,
Alike the rivulet's humble glide


TO that sad wave!
Death leaves poverty and pride,





Within the grave.
Our birth is but the starting place;
Life is but the running of the race,


And death the goal;
There all our glittering toys are bought
The path alone of all unsought,


Is found of all.
See, then, how poor and little worth
Are all these glittering toys of earth,


That lure us here
Dreams of sleep that death must break,
Alas! before it bids us awake,


We disappear.
Long ere the damp OF earth can blight
The cheeks pure glow of red and white,


He passed away.
Youth smiled, and all was heavenly fair
Age came and laid his finger there


And where are they?
Where is the strength that spurned decay,
The steps that roved so light and gay,


The hearts blithe tone?
The strength is gone, the step is slow,
And JOY grows wearisOme and woe,


When age comes on!
Year: 1875

A Brave GIRI. Liverpool pa
per mentions that on a Sunday u orn.
ing desperate encounter took place
between o hoase-breaker and q girl
fourteen years OF age, named Alice
Slack, at vfikrge near that city
John Wallwork aud family went to
church in the forenoon. leaving the
girl and a baby in the house. The;
girl was going into the yard for rng.
when the man, who was lying under
the window. sprung into the house,
seize.l her by the tnruat. and swore
he would murder her if she did not
tell him where the money was. She
refused. and he pushed her down the
cellar steps ana threw chair after
her.


She got up and found that he was
going up stairs, she screamed and
went up after him. and pulled him
down by the jacket. He turned and
knocked her dawn, and pulled her
across the kitchen Aoor by the hair
of her head. He then got heavy
walking stick frm the iobby. with
which he struck her twice on the head
ard several times over the hack -
He then got her against the lobby
wall and kic ed her severely. She
screamed and struggled hard, and at
last he pitched her into the parlor,
shut the door. and left the house,
ATTAINED nothing. TN the previous
Friday. the same man came to The
house with a big bulldog, and said Mrs
wallwork, who had just gone out.
had sent him 10 get his tea at the
house. Thi .irl then shut tho door
in his face
Year: 1875

Last year the Commercial opposed the
negro nominations made by hing rule
Ter City Council; but this year advocates
the election Of the city ticket made by
the votes Of negroes under the same rule.
"oh, consistency, thou art a jewel"
Year: 1875

After writing up tho account OF the
accident yesterday, wo expressed the
hope we should not be called upon
soon to chronicle another accident for
some time to come but the ink was
hardly dry on our paper until report
Was being circulated through the city
that the same road had again drew an
nnlucky card, and that this time ALEC
the grim messenger of doath lowered
over the wreck. The accident, it APP
pears, was caused by the wet weather
Tho rain Bettling on the track--on a
fill, causing it to spread, and thereby
tumbling nine cars down tho bank in
to the valley below. The scene of the
accident was about two miles east of
Lucas. and few miles from Charlton
at the foot of White Breast grade
Nine cars were thrown Off the EN- bank
ment. However, the engine crossed
in safety, and left some cars still on the
track in the rear.


At tho time of the accident it was
supposed that there was no loss of life,
but when the train men camo to open
box car loaded with shelled corn to
let it run out, the dead body of a man
was found in the corn where he had
been smothered. We understand that
the train men knew nothing Of his
presence, until they found the body
lie was stranger to every person on
the train, and the general supposition
Is that he was riding in that way to
save paying fare, None of the men
belonging to the train were injured.
Year: 1875

II desire to see q speedy healing Of
all bitterness OF feeling between Sec
tions, parties, or races of citizens, and
the time when the title of citizen car
ries with it all the protection and
privilege to the humblest that it does
to the MIDST exalted" - President
Grant, June 10, 1872.


This Is one of the important things
for which the Republican party should
live. The party has already made the
statusry provision, for the protection of
every citizen, but In practice the law
is not observed, especially in the south
half Of the Union, and indeed in some
portions Of the north, by the same
class OF people who rebelled, and those
who sypathized with them. 1t never
will be observed unless the Republi-
can party support and sustain it.
Year: 1875

After commenting upon the gloomy


past, and disappointing present, the


New York Times remarks that the
prospects for tho last half of the year
arc decidedly encouraging. Tho har-
vest of cereals will unquestionably be
good, after all deductions have been


made on the score OF the short yield of
certain localities. The South may not
grow more than an average cotton
crop, but IL has taken one very es-
sential step toward renewed prosperi-
ty by devoting great deal moro land
than usual to food crops. There secms
no reason to doubt that, taking the
country as a whole, the wealth ex-
tracted from the soil this year will be
greater than it has ever been. Even if
its nominal value be less, the purchas-
ing power will be greater, and that is
the ultimate test of tho riches Of the
country. During the last two years
there has been wiped out good deal
of fictitious capital, with tho inevitable
rcsnlt of giving credit serious shock
and causing a great deal of distress.
Our future growth depends moro up-
on tho solid increase of the country'a
wealth, and less upon the mortgaging
of the future than it has recently done
Year: 1875

A young man in Oswego jumped
into the canal and ruined fifty-dOl-
lar suit of clothes to save cross-eyed
girl, and then wouldn't accept but
ton-string which she collected for him.
He said that honesty was its own re-
ward.-Eree Press.
Year: 1875

that the train mon on 81 Sec No. u
used all ordinary precauiion TO pre-
vent The accident, but were unable to
do so oa account of the terrible storm
which prevailed, the wind blowing in
The same direction with the train, and
the heavy rain having tendency to
prevent the brakes from taking effect.


STEpuESsoN
Year: 1875

A WORTHY Quaker thus wrote: 81
expect to pass through this world but
once. If, therefore, there be any kindness
| can show, or any good thing l can do
to my fellow beings, let me do it now
Let me not defer nor neglect it, for will
never pass this way again"
Year: 1875

A NEAR-sIGHTED citizen stepped into
butcher-shop recently with the inten-
ton of ordering six pounds Of meat sent
to his house, but after sitting down on the
butchers rat terrier, which was lying
cured up in a chair, the citizen changed
his mind and went to another shop. 1t
is curious how the purpose of the mind is
sometimes changed by the merest trife.
Year: 1875

Mr.. Carruth, the editor who was shot,
and his family have returned to Vine
land, N. j. Carruth, says correspon-
dent, has become very corpulent and
looks remarkably well. His sight is very
much impaired, and he has to move his
head to cover the width of q newspaper
column. He thinks the ball is lodged
behind his right eye, and if it should
trouble him seriously in that region he
intends to have the eye taken out, SO
that the ball may be sought through the
socket. He can walk or ride without
much Inconvenience, but exertion is in
variably followed by loss of strength.
In addition to the thirteen acres of land
which he owns in Vineland, and which
is free from incumbrance, he owns
property in Wisconsin. He is deter
mined to spend the remainder of his
life in his Vineland home. If his in
come be exhausted before his death, he
says he will go to the poorhouse of
Cumberland county. He has no. made
a complaint against Landis, as he sayshe
supposes the people will do what is right
about it. His recollection of the Incl
dents attending the shooting are very
much confused. The report that nego-
tiations were progressing between him
and Lands on the question of damages
is unfounded. Neither party has as yet
made any advances to the other on the
subiect
Year: 1875

Recent events, says writer, have
called public attention to the intimate
relation of morals and manners. It may
be said that there is no greater peril to
morality than much that is called merely
free and easy manners. Young men, and
even young women, permit themselves q
freedom and license of manner which,
having all the aspect of impropriety,
may very readily acquire its substance.
Edward addresses Emily with loud and
jesting intimacy of tone and conduct,
which might be expected in the sailor
saloons, but which is repulsive and odi-
GUS i'll the drawing-room or among re-
fined or gentle persons. Edward and
Emily would be amazed to be told that
they have not the manners of q gentle
man or Of lady. They think that they
above all others know what is the rule
of high society. But they are merely
vulgar, and have the manners of those
who are worse than merely vulgar.
Coarseness cannot be gildeG into refine
ment. The young woman who habitual-
ly calls her young friends of the other
sex by their Christian names, or who
suffers anything that can be called ia
miliarity, although it fall short of actual
indecorum, should reflect carefully.
"Sir,' said lady to policeman who
took her elbow to pass her over the
street, eff 1 wish you to touch me I
will ask YOU" No woman of high
sense of personal dignity wishes any
man to lay his hand upon her thought
lessly or unnecessarily. Nor will such
woman permit any kind Of rudeness in
the tone or manner of men.
Year: 1875

There were ninety and nine that safely lay
In the shelter Of the fold
But one was out on the hills away
Far off from the gates Of gold
Away on the mountains wild and bare,
Away from the tender Shepherds care.
lord, Thou hast here Thy ninety and nine ::
Are they not enough for Thee ~
BuS the Shepherd made answer: "This OF


mine


Has wandered away from me
And although the road be rough and steep,
go to the desert to find my sheep"
But none Of the rausomed ever knew
How deep were the waters crossed
Nor how dark was the night that the Lord


passed through,
Ere He found His sheep that was lost
Out in the desert He heard its cry,
Sick AMI helpless, and ready to die.
'hord, whence are those blood tracks all the


way
That mark out the mountains track ?''
They were shed for one who had gone astray
Ere the Shepherd could bring him back"
Lord, whence are Thy hands 80 rent and


torn Z"


." They are pierced tonight by many a thorn.
And all thro' the mountains, thunder riven,
And up from the rocky steep,
There rose cry to the gate Of heaven,
"Rejoice! have found my sheep ~
And the angels echoed around the throne,
Rejoice for the Lord brings back His


own" Moody and Sankey's Hymn.
Year: 1875

Coarse plug tobacco made into a
strong solution, will, in two or three
applications, kill ringworm. An equally
sure remedy for this disease, mango in
animals, or itch, is equal parts of blue
precipitate, soft soap and lard, mixed,
rubbed in and kept on over night
washing off with CASTLE soap and warm
water in the morning.
Year: 1875

Although the police are blamed for the
burglary in West Eleventh street, we do not
see how any part of the evil can Justly be
placed to their account; and the occasions are


so few when injustice of this sort is done
them, or when a word is to be said in their
defence, that we the more willingly seize this
one. 1t is evident that if there were forty


policemen placed on every corner in the city
they could not guard or guarantee the people
against crime Like this. No vigilance of
public authorities can be 80 close as to pre-
vent the entrance to private house of two
men in the guise of mechanics, who come
with plausible pretext and that is the only
aspect of the present case with which the
police could possibly deal. No vigilance
could be SO minute and effective as to meet
such difficulty without ten times as many
policemen on the rolls as our people are will
ing to pay for and even then the people
would object to and repel protection that
must necessarily become meddlesome and i'm
pertinent In some countries custom-the
experiences of many generations has led to
the acceptance Of the notion that the people
at large are musings in the hands Of the
police authorities, and that if window is up
too far or down too far-if too much smoke
comes from the chimney, or none at all--it is
the duty and the province Of the policeman Of
the occasion to investigate the cause of these
"effects defective" But people here would
regard such attentions as domiciliary visits,
and demand q change in the Board of Com
missioners Without such attentions, how
ever, and carried out Systematically at that


how are the police to know at any
given hour that two rogues, who have been
letinto house without violence, have gagged


an old lady and are examining the crannies
of the establishment in hunt for portable
property For our part, we can see no other
way in which the police can prevent such
crimes, unless it be conceived as possible
that by general course of long continued
vigilance our brass-buLtoned guardians might


eventually make the city too warm for any
one or two Of the gentry who are given To
| such habits toward old ladies. But as all the
rogues have never yet been driven out Of any
city, is it supposable that they will ever be
out Of this city2 But there is one provision
AGAINST burolarias like the above. and it is with