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Year: 1874

Progress of the Temperance Crusade


From the Cincinnati Gazette's re
port we collate the following items
of the extraordinary Temperance
movement in this State.


AT GREENFIELD, HIGHLAND COUNTY.


The interest in the temperance
cause here is unabated. Another
victory was gained yesterday. One
Scott Powell, who has been keeping
a drug store in a prominent place in
the town since last September, was
made to feel the virtue of the civil
law. One case was tried, fouud
guilty, and fined to the limit Of the
law.


Martin Kaiser was also arrested
yesterday, for violation Of the liquor
law, but owing to the dying condition
of friend, his case was postponed
Friday, Feb. 9th was observed as
a day of thanksgiving and prayer
iTne business houses and the public
schools were closed all day.


There now remains but seven out
of fifteen dealers, and it is only .
question of time with the balance,
So says one of their number. The
ladies are more determined than ey-
er, and say they will slight it out on
this line if it takes all year"
Year: 1874

TREATMENT OF THE AGED.-A little
thoughtful attention, how happy it makes
the old They have outlived most of the
friends of their early youth. How lone
ly their hours Often their partners in
life have long filled silent graves; how
often their children they have followed
to the tomb. They stand solitary, bend.
ing on their staff, waiting till the same
call shall reach them. How often they
must think of absent, lamented faces, OF
the love which cherished them, and the
tears of sympathy which fell with theirs,
now all are gone Why should not the
young cling around and support them
cheering their gloom with songs and
happy smiles
Year: 1874

people have best rooms for. IL really is
a mystery; tor they always keep them
closed aud dark-no ray OF sunlight ev-
or peeps through the curtains or falls
upon thec carpet or pictures. Everything
is cold and stiff, and Bort of awe-in-
spring atmosphere pervades the whole
room and you feel involuntarily like
raising your hat and making profound
bow when you enter.


A few times year the apartment is
aired, and two or three times opened for
(" grand company" But how uncongen-
ial everything is One feels like walk
ing on tip-toe the children are sure to
talk in whispers, and there is pervad-
ing feeling that the carpet is too nice to
walk on, the chairs too easy to be en-
joyed, the pictures too beautiful to be
commented upon, the books are too
handsomely bound to be looked at and
read. So you sit bolt upright and talk
politics and theology until you get as
rigid as your surroundings


Now, l don't like such roomsl l don't
believe in having things that are too
nice to be used they always make one
nervous. If have nice dress l want
to wear it; If | have nice. pleasant
room l want to enjoy it when have lei
sure, and not when have a roomfull of
company to entertain.


always think soft carpets are to walk
upon, easy chairs to lounge in, beautiful
pictures to look atand admire, handsome
books to read and talk about.


How / love to throw open the best
rooms now and then and spend quiet
evening there; have father and brother
put on their dressing gowns and slippers


mother bring her knitting, and sisters
their crochet and embroidery have
some one read good entertaining story,


or sketch from some fayorite author


then play an innocent game of some


scrt, laugh and talk just as much as you


please, or sing pleasant, CHEEKY song,


with piano for accompaniment.


Presently father will begin one of his


long thrilling stories of his early life in


new country; mother will look CON-


placently round upon the family g-oup


and think what happy change time


has wrought How bright and happy


those faces are around that hearthstone


Soon the clock gives warning that it ia


an hour past bed time-and where has


the time flown Happy good nights are


spoken, and happier hearts think there
is no place like home, and there isn't.
Now, this is what | call enjoyment


and putting our best rooms to proper
; use and / am confident that if more
f parents thought SO, and would labor t.
make home the happiest place on earth
there would be far less dissipation ant
crime among our young men than ther'
/ is now.


There is nothing that sheds such
glow Of warmth through the soul as tn
r feeling that there is one place on eartl
where we can find rest and that is home
! place where we can enjoy the soeiet.
e of those most dear to us, and where al
: is peace and happiness.


I Parents, open your best room !" oe
, casionally, when only your family is t
: grace it, and see how much comfort yol


can take, and how great sn amount Q


happiness you will afford those owe
whom you have control.
Year: 1874

Now that nearly all the InfatiOnIsts in Con-
eress are coming out in favor of specie pay
ments, and twO-thirds of the Senators are
pledged in favor of actual resumption four
years and eight days from the date of this
mornings TRIBUNE, the quotations showing
the market prices of gold and silver will
henceforth have special interest. 1t is not
without feeling of melancholy that we hear
of one million dollars in specie, already packed
for shipment to Europe, to depart from New
York by to-day's steamers. Since the begin
ming of the current year sixty million dollars
in gold and silver have been exported from
this port alone, in addition to a considerable
amount shipped from San Francisco. Aside
from the quantity of the precious metals con-
sumed in the arts, the export movement
has absorbed this year, as usual, the entire
production of the mines. This expectation of
our gold and silver has been going on with
great regularity, year after year, since 1868.
We find nothing in the bill which has just
passed the Senate which has the slightest
tendency to stop the outflow of specie,' unless
the Secretary of the Treasury. chooses to in
terpret the third section Of the bill to give
him power to sell bonds for gold and ac-
cumulate the coin in preparation for resump-
ton. Should he act on this Interpretation the
effect would be to cause an immediate rise in
the premium on gold, which would be fatal to
the hopeful project of giving the people
chance to handle silver dimes and quarters.


Such an extensive and persistent expectation
of gold from the United States in the months
of November and December as has been going
on for the last five or six weeks is a novelty
in our foreign trade. Considered simply as a
fact, it is a convincing proof that there is no
expectation on the part Of those in New-YOrk
who control the movements of coin of any
efficient measures toward the restoration of
the specie standard. Outside of the quantity
of gold absolutely required by the importers
to pay duties and the Government to pay its in
terest there are in all probability not ten million
dollars in gold in the country this side of the
Missouri River excepting of course that owned
and held as a reserve by the Treasury for the
last seven or eight years. We speak of sum
as absolutely required by the Treasury and
the importers, meaning thereby the coin which
il paid out regularly as interest on tho bonds
and paid in as regularly for customs duties.
Year: 1874

An endeavor was made to push the financial
measure of the Senate through the House yes
terday, but the Civil Rights bill was brought
up to block its passage. Discussion must
bring out the Objectionable features of the bill
Sn strong relief, and it's prospect of success in
the House is clouded by this delay.
Year: 1874

Judge McCues order in the TiltOn- -Beeoher
suit requiring that either bill of particulars
be promptly furnished or cause be shown
why it is not, looks like an effort 10 hurry
forward at least one branch of these litiga-
tions. Some sprightly conversation on the
subject from one of MIR. TiltOns counsel will
be found in connection with Our report of the
DrOceedinCs in the case,
Year: 1874

DR. WAIT g. SON, 45 EAST 23D-ST., have
Ia new for Artificial Teeth which lighter stronger
and cooler any being perfect conductor Of animal
heat, II perfectly per They also insert
nor Plstna GOd low prices Fine Gold Plugging


specially Teeth pure fresh 81 for the h
and Soc each succeeding young lady in attendance.
Year: 1874

CONDITION OF THE PENN, NATIONAL AND CENTRAL


CoMPANIEs-REAsoNs FOR WITHDRAWAL FROM


NEw-YORK.


fFROM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE rRIBUNB.l


PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 22.-The officers of the
Penn Fire Insurance Company Of city, when shown
the article In today's TRIBUNE In relation 10 the re-
ported withdrawal Of their Company from New-YOrk,
said that il true. There small impairment In
the capital which would be made up the meeting Of the
directors held on Thursday The Insurance Com
missioner of New-YOrk. account OF this impairment
had directed suspension Of business in tnzt State The
directors prominent and wealthy business men,
and the Company was perfectly solvent. The 1st Of
September WAS the time when a company always
made the worst showing for the reason that
the heaviest part OF the years business
was always late In the Fall and In all policies Issued In
and November OF the preceding year. on ac-
count OF which the Companys liability bad almost ex
pred the full amount Of 80 cent for reinsurance
was estimated a part of its Liabilities. The officers
further stated that they did safe conservative bus
ness and always kept hand a considerable amount Of
United bonds end other securities that could be
instantly converted into money, in order 10 meet
sudden or unexpected demand upon the Company.
They complained action OF the National Insurance
Board which they said disposed prosecute com
panies refusing to join II. The National Board was
com posed of old and wealthy companies. and Influenced
State Insurance Commissioners to act in unfriendly
manner toward new companies which cut under the
rates prescribed by the Board.


The Secretary OF the National Insurance Company,
which was aso reported withdrawn from
ness in New-York said that the Company had taken
action its books showed that business
that State Improbable II would also withdraw
from Massachusetts It's expenses last year had
been $4,000 aud ts receipts only t59oOO There had
been official examination of the affairs Of the Com
pany for year; but the Secretary had objection
saying that a slight technical impairment OF
its capital Policies TO the amount OF s2S0OOO would
expire In the OF the next so days, and the
would then show large surplus the liabilities.
The Directors OF the National at their last meeting. de-
termined TO oin the National Board. and same
Of New-York Massachusetts, and Connecticut


The recent Investigations Of raising OF stock
tincates by officers OF the Central Insurance Company
creates OF confidence in all companies known
to have abundant capital and honest management. The
Central had neither When 1t started checks we're
drawn by of the officers banker who had not
dollar Of their money and these checks put 10
represent capital Afterwards when it necessary
TO show of TO the State Insurance Commits
soner twentyfOur shares Of railroad stock pur
chased at Of about o. 200 and each certificate
raised 50 that the original twentyfour represented
pretended value OF sl2sCOO. The fraudulent concern
went on transacting business without any genuine cap
ta aud was only exposed after $4,000 had been bOr-
rowed on one Of the raised certificates.
Year: 1874

THE ESCAPE OF PRISONERS FROM THE PRISON VAN


HOW DIsTRICT-ArTORNEY MANN WAS ExoNER-


ArED FROM BLAME-ANOTHER CHAPTER OF RING


RULE.


fPRoM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE rRIBUNR.l
PHILADELPHIA, Sept 21.-The affair of the
release Of the two noted criminals from prison
at the door of the Quarter Sessions Court such
mockery OF all forms OF Justice that u shocked the feel
ings the people OF this city who accustomed
under Ring rule 10 seeing thieves let loose and honest
men harried by the machinery of the law that
they are Over-sensitve. The public excitement Is
alayed by Saturdays proceeding In Court. Before
those proceedings took place tt was reported on
the streets that Distrct-AttorDey Mann, upon
whom everybody instantly LAID the blame Of the
extraordinary jail delivery would be exonersted. and
that Judge Paxson would the full responsibility
Mann IS a candidate for reelection this Fall Paxson
owes his nomination for the Supreme Bench wholly TO
Mann's maohinatons. Under the Constitu-
ton no is sure Of election, however distasteful
70 the people. Mann has to face the people In
November and will have hard fight These
facts are worth remembering in connection
with the case When the Court met Saturday Judge
Paxson said he had ordered the DISCHARGE OF tho prls
Moore aud Williams under the "Twoterm law,
that the clerk mad omitted to he order on the
record Whereupon the other judges SAID IN effect that
II Brother PaxsOn" said IL was all right IL must
right and, without further inquiry, ordered the dis
charge OF the deputy clerk and tine DsrlcAttorney's
special officer who had liberated the prisoners from the





paper warrant their action Good lawyers say That
the law under which prisoners who have remained In
ai without trial during OF court emitted
at large did not apply TO the TWO forgers Tor the
reason that their continued on their OW ap
picaon. Whatever guirks bubbles OF the law were
brought play effect their release do not change the
facts affair far they influence the unanimous
verdict public condemnation upon tue lax admnls
tration OF justice which has turned loose upon
sOciety two dangerous criminals who . were
enc of which the robbery OF the United
Treasury OF elS0O0O IN drafts The P0fic edger
na
guge speaks or the extraordinary ana repre-
hensbe circumstances connected with the discharge Oh
he rrfannera."
Year: 1874

upon the amendments 20 their State Constitution, and
approving of the womsn's movement


The state Committee which called this Convention
was continued for the coming year. The Convention
then adjourned and afterward the Conference Commit
meeting, and decided TO invite the Executive
Committee OF the Prohibition party; the Committee on
Political Action, representing the Grand Lodge OF Good
Templars and any other representative committee in
sympathy with the movement, to meet with them az
the Globe Hotel IN Albany, Thursday, Oct l. at II
Year: 1874

A very curious exhibition to ethnologists Is
now, says the London Standard, to be seen at
the Lyric Hall, Great Portland street. 1t is q
hairy-faced man and his child the latter q
bright, smart, engaging infant of three and Q
half years old, over whore face and nose the
down of hair is already Shickly spreading. The
fathers face is-with the exception of the eyes
completely, we might almost say densely,
covered with fine, soft, brown hair of from
about four to five inches in length. Even the
ears are just as thickly covered, and with hair
of the same length as the forehead, cheeks,
and all parts of the face in fact, the whole
head of the man Is like that of q very long
haired and woolly-looking Skye terrier. The
effect is anything but prepossessing, nor do the
mans features tend to dispel this impression.
He is dressed as well-to-do Russian mujik,
and seems quiet enough, but at times Is said TO
be sullen and morose. When he and his son
were captured about year ago in the forest Of
Nostroma, in Russia, they were clad in skins.
They could speak no language of any kind |;
even now the man only speaks few words of
Russian, end does so with difficulty and re-
luctance. What they have been able to ascer-
tain from him is that the mother of his boy
died about three years ago; and this exactly
tallies with the tales Of the charcoal burners,
who assert that about that time. they used to
see at a distance hairy-faeed woman sucking
an infant, who fed ct their approach.


1t was not until this village tradition grew
into history that o real search was made,
which resulted in the capture Of this man and
his son. Neither would eat anything but raw
meat for some time. It has been supposed that
they are the relics of an extinct race, and the
extraordinary appearances Of the man would
almost justify this supposition; but the face of
the child, which is full Of intelligence is hardly
consistent with such theory. It Is deserving
of notice that neither father nor son have more
than four front teeth in the lower jaw, and
one single massive incisor in the upper. A
surgical examination has shown that no other
teeth have existed, or are likely to, and that
this peculiar deformity Is eongenial. The ap-
pearance of the father recalls the case Of the
''porcupineD man, who was exhibited in 1871,
and whose grandchildren were shown as late as
1902; these were covered with long, hairy
warts, which they shed every spring, as q stag
does his antlers. The race, however, died out,
and If the hairy-faced men should become ex-
tinct, too, they viii be no loss, In spite Of the
little bright-eyed boy, whose face Is already
like cyg1et when its plumage Is coming.
Year: 1874

A newspaper paragraph has It that at the
ballet in Berlin, where the opera is under
cloud since Lucca's departure, the Prince of
Wales and his newly married brother left royal
box and event below to q small box, whence
they could better see and more conscientiously
praise the dancers" II, in the heyday Of
the honeymoon, the legs of the Imperial Russia
are to be thus neglected by the British sprig
who has promised 70 love, cherish and protect
them, Alfred may find himself in receipt Of Q
royal box on the ear,
Year: 1874

A chapieT would be required instead of this
paragraph merely to mention the thousand
shades that the artist in color prescrbes here fr
the Alexandra kid gloves that are made IN
Pnris-the brand with which Stewart gloves New
York for i've millions Of dollars ANNUALLY A
pleasant study in color these as box after box
OF gloves lies open upon the counter-shades 90
nearly akin that the eye must study long and
compare them well 10 detect any difference Sil-
very gray and silvery drab are to be the hues of
the season; hence gloves are imported in untold
quantities in these Bilyery shades to match cos
Year: 1874

A DESPERATE RETURNED TO TIE PESTTES-
r1AEY.-Andrew Gill, a negro man, who was
sent to the penitentiary from Lynchburg for
burglary, and who escaped therefrom more
than year since, was recently captured at
Pamplin's depot. after determined and des-
Derate resistance, in which he was aided by
three reYolvers, and received several severe
wounds. He was thence conveyed to
Lynchburg, and yesterday evening brought
down and lod ged in his old place of coufine-
ment. During the period Of his liberation
he made Lynchburg his headquarters, and
on more than one occasion set at defiance
the efforts made to capture him.
Year: 1874

III they make trouble give tablespoon,
iui ot warm water with one drop of am,
monia IN it to neutralize the acid. or lei
a particle of ehlorate of potash melt in
its mouth. II is tasteless and harmless


Ieetbing babies are kept quiet when
their gums are feverish by giving them
splinters of ice no bigger than broom
straw. The little things clutch for them
and change their day-long moan for
placid content. The splinters may be
split OFT piece of ice with pin. They
are too small to chill the stomach. be-
cause they are only drops os warm water
when swallowed, but they cool the burn.
ing mouth most gratefully. Ice given
in these minute particles chills less than
teaspoonful of water. have seen two
or three ornces of ice fed to a six months
baby in this way with decided benefit.
IL will sound like very heterodox prac.
tice, but l asked the advice of one of the
best regular and hospital physicians in
New York about it, and he commended
it as most judicious.


Lastly, babies need plenty of nursing
and petting. They take great comfort
in lying in the arms of healthy person.
weak ones ought not to be put off in
perambulators and little chairs, and made
to sleep alone at night in cool weather
Inc sympathy of the mother or nurse
does more for them than the doctors do
Gentle rubbing or rather stroking down.
ward from head to foot is good for them,
AID young babies will lie on the he'd
under stroking with both hands in a
trance of delight.-Shirzey Dane IN
Hearth and Home
Year: 1874

A SHORT CHAPTER FOR MOTHERS AMI


NURSES.


A young mother, who says she is alsc


a foreigner, writes to know what she cal


do to strengthen her baby, that is seven


teen months old, yet does not show any
inclination to walk. and hardly to sup


port itself. Poor, wee bonnie lambsl Tt


be born into so much trouble, and find


such hard time at first merely trying
to live. The happy mother of as bright
and healthy child as ever lived writes
this, but her abounding pleasure in the
growth and gladness of that blessed lit
tie creature has only intensified her won
der and pity over the weakling specimens
of babyhood that meet one on every hand.
A healthy baby is the exception not the
rule. You find the pink-tinted flesh,
that only deserves Browning's likeness
of "rose- misted MARBLE" and the clear
rivulet like eyes, bright as crystal over
agate or forget-me-nots, once out of TWEEN.
ty babies that are pale, purple streaked
as wind flowers, with Opaque eyes and
lips TRANSLUCENT like thin horn. The rea-
son why people don't like babies is they
are so unhealthy they must be always
mewling and fretting in that rasping way
that makes iddle-strings of older nerves.
They look sour and cross and uncomfort
able, because they are so wretchedly un-
comfortable, poor things They suffer
with much unnoticed patience through
sorelytried little lives till God kindly
lets them drop into little graves that are
after all, more welcome than their moth
er's bosom. Why can't we have well
babies =? They cost too dear, and draw
and wind too many hearts round them,
10 droop and be lost tosight behind white
head stones so early. A healthy baby
is such happy thing, so rogush, so
full of good will to everybody; rich in
tiny practical jokes and small, sweet sat
ire, with cooling music in its voice that
suit with murmuring pigeons, laughing
leaves, and streaming water, all things
that babies love. They are lovers and
poets, too, from their birth, as any moth
er believes who has watched the little |
soul come to its windows and take its
earliest peep at this world. Bonnie was
little more than six months old when his
nurse took him to the Central Park.
Weeks after his mother took him again,
him she loved in her arms from
the cars. As they entered the shady
paths that led to Willow Water, Bonnie
seemed to recognize the place, and a
smile Of qualification stole over his baby
face as he was taken into the maze of
dropping branches. There was no gilt
tering sunlight, nor bright flowers to
catch his eye, only the deep, soft greens
of hazy clouded August day, evidently
grateful to the little poet-soul as he lay
absorbed in watching them from his
bosom. Little babies like soft
color and picturesque form. A child
three months old will lie studying the
lead gold figures on the wallpaper, or
Year: 1874

In speaking Of persons faults


Pray don't forget your own;
Remember those with bones Of glass
Should seldom throw a stone;
If we have nothing else to do


But talk of those who sin,
lis better TO commence at home,


And from that point begin.
We have no right to judge man.


Until he's fairly tried;
Should we not like his company,


We know the world is wide;
Some may have faults-and who has not
The old as well as young.
Perhaps we may, for aught we know,
Have fifty to their one.
I'll tell you of better plan,


And find it works full well;
To try my own defects to cure


Before of Others tell;
And though / sometimes hope to be
No worse than some know,
Ny own shortcomings bid me let
The faults of others go.
Then let us all. when we commence
To slander friend or foe,
Think of the harm one word may do
To those we little know.
Remember curses. sometimes, like
Our chickens, roost at home:"
Don't speak of others faults until
We have none of our own.
Year: 1874

1t is no proof of mans understand,
ing to be able to confirm whatever he
pleases; but to be able to discern that
what is true is true, and that what is
false Is false-this is the mark and char
aeter ofintelligence.-.S.oedeaboro. of