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Year: 1874

Here is a true story of low-life in England, which is not without its pathos as well as its horror. William Parker enlisted in the English army when he was twenty-one !; he served for ten years in India and elsewhere he wss a good soldier, and remarkably kind, patient, and pleasant man. He was married when in the service and two children were born to him. He was discharged at the end of his service; his health was broken down his wife soon died, and he was left with his two children. He was devotedly attached to them, and there never was k1nGer or a better father. Times grew hard with him his bad health prevented him from getting work; and last No- vember he found himself owing 92 los. for rent and not 8 penny in the world. His landlady, herself very poor wo. man, was very kind to his children, and fed them out of her own scanty means ; but her husband at last said that he could not allow her to keep them any longer. She told Parker this sad news with 8 heavy heart. He received it quietly he went to the room where the two children were in bed he took them into his arms one at time, cut their throats, allowed the blood to drain into bucket, replaced them in bed, and walked to the police station, where he gave himself up for the murder of his two children. He appeared to be very i'll, but was perfectly calm and collect ed, although he seemed to be in very distressed state of mind. There was not particle of food in the room, and there was every indication of extreme poverty. Parker was tried for the murder of his two children, and was of course convicted. A feeble attempt was made to show that he was insane, outlt failed. He was sentenced to death, and there is no hope that MT. Lowe will let him off.-London Letter. '...-.
Year: 1874

A woman living in the canton of zu- rich, Switzerland, recently resorted to curious mode of revenge. Her cat, of which she was exceedingly fond, had for some reason or other been killed by an official. She accordingly procured several mouse traps and caught some fifty mice, which she immediately in- closed in box and sent to the offend ing person. He, suspecting nothing, opened the package, and was horrified the box and run all over the place. At the bottom of the box he found a note containing the following words "You have killed my cat have therefore the honor to send you my mice."
Year: 1874

The stealing scrape into which the
young Russian Grand Duke has got him
self reminds the World of the stern old
Marshal Won Wrangel, the veteran Of the
veterans of Prussia. The Marshal's only
son having got himself into miserable
position in very much the same way, the
iron old soldier sent for him, threw o
loaded pistol on the table, and said to
him: "When a Prussian officer has dis
graced himself, there is but one thing for
him to do, and left the room. The son
blew out his brains, and from that day
forth his name was heard no more from
his fathers lips.
Year: 1874

The Gonzales Index commends the
action Of the Printing Beard, and
does not think Gov. Coke would do
wrong knowingly, either in that, or
other matters. The News war
against Coke has not made many
friends for that paper in any section
of the State, and particularly in the
southwestern portion ofitps
Year: 1874

The Governor of Arkansas will not
sign tho amnesty bill passed by the
Legislature Of that State, and the Ga
zette commends his action, Tor rather
want OF it,) and thinks the bill will
die a natural as well as deserved
death. Is the Gazette engaged in
the task of making treason odious ?
Year: 1874

While Miss Mary Crommuer, gay young
he rseif at O picnic In Heid's hamilton Park last
evening, she made the acquaintance Of James
Riley, an oysterman at No. 20 Stanton street.
After enjoying each otbers society for an hour or
two in the giddy dance Riley invited the young
lady to relresnment. which she declined. walk
agreed. They sauntered up Third avenue, then
through several side streets, until they came to
vacant lot IN First avenue ana Sixty-D,nth
street, when the young lady, In order to rest her.
self, sat down upon the stump OF q tree Riley
made several propositions OF an unbecOming char
acter to her, 10 all OF which she Indignantly de-
cllned, at the same time begging him TO take her
back TO the Park This he refused 10 do, and,
without warning struck her In the face with his
hst. Then he threw her TO the ground and at
tempted an outrage Her cries for help brought
ODlcef Jonn Burns, OF the Nineteenth precinct, to
the spot ana, on complaint OF MISS CrommuIier
ne was arrested and locked up III the Fiity-ninth
street station house Tor the night.
Year: 1874

Mayor Havemeyer sent yesterday two vetoes to
the Clerk oil the Board of Aldermen and the Clerk
OF the Common Council. One relates to the CON-
missoners OF the new County Court House, and
His Honor states


The said commissioners were appointed under and by
virtue II OF the Laws OF 1870 and BY provis-
ions of said section empowered to complete the
Court House and succeed to all the heretofore
by the Board supervisors
and completion Of said building The occupancy OF a
them in the building in the progress erection
ana completion il Is night necessarily
sung from the duties imposed upon them by law and
conflicting with the title the Corporation the build.
ing in question and 1t further appears TO that the
installing themselves in empty In said build
ing, be used by them Office. both proper
and step to carry their functions such
Commissioners. well act economy tending O
the city a large amount OF money which they
would have been necessarily compelled expend for
ONCE rent


The second veto relates to the permits for street
stands, show cases, &c. His Honor recommends
that the proposed change in the amount Of the fee
be deferred for action to the 1st OF May 1875 when
the date OF the present license expires.
Year: 1874

A carpenter. named George W. Fowler, fell from
the top Of the new tribune building, distance Of
sixty feet, yesterday and was instantly killed. He
was at Work on scafiod near the centre of the
building with mia father, and, stepping a piece
Of loose timber his foot tripped and he fell head
long 70 the ground moor, striking the iron beams
with his head and right leg during the descent.
His neck was orOken and he died almost instantly.
Fowler was young man, OF very respectable
appearance, and resided In Jackson street, Will
liamsburg. Warden Brennan, VINO was accident
ally on the spot, had the remains Of Fowler taken
to the Centre Street Hospital preparatory to their
removal to the late residence OF the deceased.
This Is the first death that has occurred during the
erection OF this building.
Year: 1874

now, or you will raise commotion
in the camp and the Republican
Changers will "go back on US before
the election, and neither Of you can
be elected Clerk"


How will the honest Changers like
being hitched to the Democratic kite
for tail /? How do they fancy being
insulted by their pretended friends
that their organization is "ephemer-
al" and only for the time being


standing in the place Of the Demo-
cratic party" and that "none Of us
have the least disposition to curse
the bridge that carried us safely over
the chasm." Here Is gratitude such
as Democracy gave to the negro after
his race had for years carried the
burdens, and gave his blood, under
the lash of slavery, to the Democra.
cy, except that the curses were not
spared. How long will the Grange
go and come at the bidding of the
same men, and the same willy, dom.
ineering spirit, simply because it Is
not cursed for its service? And how
long will IL be after il refuses to play
the part of slave before it will receive
the untempered curses Of the dough.
faced friends who can no longer use
il rs a bridge?
Year: 1874

4 F..


Gov. Stones letter withdrawing
his name from the roll Of candidates
for the Sixth District Anti-Monop.
Congressional nomination, appears
in these columns to-day. As 10 APP
pears to our Radical vision 1t was a
matter of serious moment only to the
Governor himself whether he allow
ed the Ants to use his name or not.
His is not the party that will name
the winning man this year unless
the Republican Congressional Conven
tion should commit a greater blunder
than did that OF. 1872 in nominating
the present incumbent. We do not
anticipate any such ridiculous trian-
guiar squabble, in our convention,
nor any such unwise, inexcusable
and suicidal nomination, as the Gov
ernor and his Democratic and Anti
Monopoly allies are praying for. Ii
there were any probability that the
Ants would elect their man orr
Year: 1874

A farmer near Ottumwa sang so
many psalms and fought the rail,
roads and generally saved the coun-
try to such an extent last summer
that he raised only about half crop
enough to carry him through. The
Courier man observed him one day
last week on the streets buying corn
at 55 cts. per bushel and hay at 81
per ton. He looked as cheerful as
funeral procession.
Year: 1874

The Wester,l Farm Journal and
Iosca Homestead, pretty good Grange
authority, by the way, says in re-
cent issue, emphasizing as below:


The National Grange, at its last
session established the following rule
for the government of subordinate
Oranges in all the States and Terri.
tories:


TO be eligible to membership in the
Order, the candidate must be engaged
in agricult,u'di pursstits.


Does the Grange in this county
abide by the law, or does 1t violate it
with impunity whenever found in
conflict with the purposes of the
Anti-Monop leaders? Let the ques-
tions be answered with recent events
in view.


Again: The Constitution forbids
political action. DO the county
Council and the subordinate
Oranges obey this law? Recall the
events of last year, and answer.
If the Grange will not be hOrest
with itself, and true to its own laws
and promises, how can il hope to
hold the respect Of its own member
ship or secure the confidence OF those
who are not members And how
can we hope that the party of which
the Grange is now the temporary
basis, will be purer or better than
either of the old parties ? Let us
look calmly at the facts, and choose.
Year: 1874

q A. SHAFER is carrying on the Carriage
y. and Wagon business in the same build
log where he is prepared TO do all kinds Of
woodwork in neat and substantial manner.
All persons in need Of work are invited to
give them a call at their shop. (tf.)
Year: 1874

The Commercial says that the GAZETTE
"made mistake of sixteen members OF
Congress- in six States" Any one Of Or
dinary intelligence would have seen at a
glance that the GAZETTE figures" mark
ed the number of Republican members
in the 4tth Congress, and not the whole
number to which the States named were
entitled. The figures were made up from
the 7'fbuae's table and copied into the
GAZETTE. And had the Comm creial been
fully conversant with the heavy losses
which its party had sustained in the
Congressional delegations of the States
named it would not have shown its own
ignorance, or fallen into the error of pa
radins figures which SO fully portrayed
Republican losses and Democratic gains,
in what it calls Gazette errors" The
would-be U. S. Senator had Better show
u little common sense before he under
takes again to place himself before our
people for such high honors. Delaware
has not fallen so low as to need carpet
bagger TO represent her in the national
councils.


But the Comasrial puts Nevada in its
column, which shows its ignorance Of
the fact that that State win be repre-
sented in the Forty fourth Congress by a
Democrat. Nor does it recognize the
fact that the revolution las just COM
menced; that in the rising political tide
many of the fourteen States with their
G3 votes may be swept away in 1875,
il not before. 1t can scarcely be expect
ell that tidal wave that is so powerful
as to carry Massachusetts from her polit.
ical moorings will subside before it takes
with it most of the offspring of the Old
Bay State. And we can assure the Com.
n,crcial that we do not err when we state
that the Massachusetts Democrats hope
t. be able to hold their State and cast
her vote for Democratic President in
1876. They are tired of Butler and San
born and the Credit Mobilier frauds and
her people are determined, like those oi
the other States that have seen the foul
corruption of Republican politics, tc
grant the Radicals leave Of absence fo,
the future
Year: 1874

Ii anybody wants to know why the Re-
publicans have been suffering defeat
Hard Times" will furnish an answer. 1t
VIII not do fippantly to sneer down this
reason. There is not any doubt that the
timos are hard. There is not any doubt
that the things which make them hard
relate and grow out of the government
we are having government which de-
preciates tho currency, and By keeping
one section in anarchy keeps all tho rest
deprived of the help and work and pro-


ducts of that section. There are no e1-
cusos for hard times. Ours ia q country
of almost infinite resources. 1t is capable
Of working, feeding and prospering 5OO,-
100000, instead Of less than 10000, 900
people. There should be work for all and
opportunity for all. To that end the Sec
tions should be ct peace under a policy
which would rate the several States as
free and equal policy which would
outlaw thievery instead Of putting it in
ottice-a policy which would lessen and
cheaper the central administration in
stead Of making it moro complex and
costly than any monarchy in existence-a
policy which would make money worth
specie, and not be merely better sort Of
rags. We're these things as they should
be, times would be more prosperous. Be.
ing as they are, times are bad. Tho peo.
pie see it. They saw it out West. They
gave netice for change. They see it in
New York. For these reasons is a chang,
most desirable. We doubt if candid Re
publicans will themselves deny the desir
ability of a change in affairs. If it be no


by the gentlemen in power at Washing
ton, a change OF them viii infallibly oc
cur two years hence. They can tale tn


hint now Of their departure at the en-,
OF their terms. AS the best way to re
form the policy of men row in Office. O
to change those men for better ones. Ney
York throw her influence against the ad
ministration candidates. That will rigb
things, or lead to the selection of thos


who will right them.-New York Herald
Year: 1874

No information has baen received at
the Executive Mansion when the Presi-
dent will return.


President Grant has sent telegram to
the Secretary of the Treasury requesting
the latter to meet him at Long Branch
on Thursday next, for the purpose OF
consulting upon official business.


General Spinner has designated VIM.
Bchrens Tor chief clerk of the Treasury
Office; James Goltllen has accepted the
position of Appointment Clerk Of the
Treasury Department.
Year: 1874

The Journal has private advic"s from
Orange county saying that half wlttrd
fellow, who was addicted to petty thieN-
ing, was taken from the custody OF con-
stable and hung about five miles from
French Lick Springs this morning. ii"
Was under arrest for petty larceny when
lvnched by between twenty and thirty
men. His name could not be learned.
Year: 1874

A GREAT NEWSPAPER READER.-The peri
odlc.,l press has lately lost warm friend
and patron in the person Of a wealthy in
babitant of French provincial town, who
lately died there under circumstances as sim
gular as those of his life. He lived alone in
a secluded house, admitted no one to it but
a eharwoman who cooked for him. and q
newspaper agent who sold him thirty or
forty journals at time. at length ne
did not appear TO open the door to
these habitues when they sought en-
trance. They accordingly applied TO
the palice, who, being armed with the ne
cessary powers, forced their way into the
house of the eccentric owLer, and broke IN
the door of the bedroom, the threshold OF
which nc one had ever been allowed to cross.


Here the poor man was found lying dead.
The state Of his room and OF his clothing
was simpls indescribable but the really un-
common feature of this squalid den was the
amount of literary matter it contained. The
bed could only be reached from the door by


passing through rayine, the sides OF which
we're composed of thousands of newspapers
and novels, their perusal hayipg formed bis
sole occupation aud delight. ~ - !
Year: 1874

PoIsoHED By CONCENTRATED LYs.-Dr.
William Fl. Taylor, State assayer and chem
ist, and coroner of this city, is engaged at
present in making an analysis of the stomach
of child of Mr.. Anthony Nichols, of Nor
folk county. The child, it is feared, was
poisoned on the 9th of January by the ad-
ministration Of quantity of concentrated
lye. Accompanying the stomach was an
apron which the child was wearing at the
time the poisoning is alleged to have occur
red. This apron, it is thought, has been
somewhat burned by the lye, and the Doctor
will test the truth of the suspicion. The
child's mouth and throat are also repre-
seuted to have been badly burned. Indeed,
the little sufferer, it is said, was unable to
swallow at all after the dose was admins
tered The case is very interesting one,
and if the stomach and apron contain lye,
the Doctor IS Of opinion that he can easily


detect it. 1t may be remarked, in conclu-


sion, that suspicion rests upon person in


the neighborhood of the supposed poisoning.
Year: 1874

THE CENsUs.-Mujor Poe, chief Of police
has in his Office a correct list of all the resi-
dents of the city, (white and black, male and
female. numbers of their residences, and the
streets on which they reside, taken recently
by detail of the city police force. The
Major will be glad to satisfy all persons who
are aggrieved thereby and think that the
number of inmates of their houses has not
been properly taken and reported, if they
will only visit his Office and examine the
census list
Year: 1874

ALE FOR FAMILY UsE-ENGL1SH ALE, CREAM
ALE, AND PoRTER.-To supply a demand from his
many countrymen here, HENRY BOWLER has now
an ale that he flatters himself will fairly compete
with their home beverage both in favor and quality
and with his universally-approyed - cream ale'' and
porter will enable him TO please the paates of all.
Orders to Spring Park Brewery promptly filed.
Year: 1874

LEG INJURRD.-Ned Pearson had his leg
cut and was otherwise slightly injured on
Broad street on Saturday morning as the &C,
commodation train was coming in on the
Fredericksburg road. Ned was knocked out
Of the furniture wagon which he was driv-
ing
Year: 1874

THI SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH eXten-


sion will soon be sufficiently near completion
to permit its use by the congregation, and
the ladies are making industrious efforts to
nrovide carpets and cushions for the church.
Year: 1874

A PLACE SELECTED FOR THE SITT1NGs OF
THE HUsr1SGs CouRT.-On Saturday morning
Judge Guigon selected a portion Of the large
building fronting on Capitol street near
Ninth for his courtroom, and issued the ne
cessary orders for it to be fitted up appro-
Year: 1874

Grand Master Cochrane, of the State
Grange of Wisconsin, exhorts Patrons
to vote for men who will stand by the
Potter law.-Erchange.


Where is Grand Mastor Patrons!
Why is he not heard.in behalf of cheap
transportation and the regulation OF
railroads! He is as silent as an oyster.
But if anyone says aught to hurt the
Republican party, he chatters away
like squirrel whose nuts are in dan
ger. What is the matter! If it be
right for the Grand Master of Wiscon.
sin to appeal to the people to sustain
the Potter law at the ballot box, would
it not be right for Master Parsons to
appeal to our grangers to vote for men
who will regulate railroads and give the
people cheap frcights!
Year: 1874

The people Of Dakota county will be
glad to learn that their old friend and
neighbor, Isaac NJ. Ray, cx-Justice Of
the Peace and Sheriff, is candidate on
the Peoples ticket, in Mower county,
for County Commissioner. If he is
elected and gives as much satisfaction
to the people Of Mower county as he
did years agone to thu people Of Dako.
"a county, they will insist on keeping
him in Office as long as he lives.
Year: 1874

THE WAY TO SUCoEED.-There is no
royal road to success any more than to
knowledge. He who would succeed must
work and after all there is more real
enjoyment in work, which has a worthy
object, than in play or pleasure, intend
ed to kill time. We remarked a few
DAYS ago to business man whose pres
ent means are simply sufficient but who
worked really harder than any of his
numerous employees, that he ought to
stake it easy" Said he: 81 am never
50 happy as when | have more than |
can do. | may wear out in working,
but dread to rust out in idling." He
was right His work was part of him
self, part of his life. and it was al
ways faithfully done. To apprentices.
especially, this earnestness and interest
in their work is necessary, if success is
ever to be attained.
Year: 1874

EMBALMING.-Modern science discov-
ers that the system of embalming. com
mon to the ancient Egyptians, was
sanitary measure necessary to the health
of the inhabitants. Unless the process
of converting the dead bodies mot only
Of men but of animals) into mummies
had been adopted, it would have been
difficult to prevent putrefaetivc exhala-
tons from continually poisoning the air


owing to the impossibility Of securing
permanent burial-places for the dead in
land like that Of Egypt. subject to
continual changes of the surface Of the
soil by the annual overflow Of the Nile.
Year: 1874

BEAUTY AND DREss.-A clever writer
says: providence meant women to make
the world beautiful as much as flowers
and butterflies, and there is no sin in
tasteful dress, but only in devotlng too
much money or too much time. This
is most sensible view, and is the true
medium between the one extreme of
straight and rigid simplicity and giving
the energies of lifetime to vanity and
frivolty. But after all, what is this
rage for dress, but an effort to attain the
beautiful The reason why the beauti-
full is not always the result is because
so many women are ignorant or merely
initiative. They have no sense of fitness
The short wears what belongs to the tall
and brunettes sacrifice their natural
beauty to look like blondes, and well
they may, for blondes seem generally pre-
ferable.
Year: 1874

GIRL LoAFERs.-When girls are taught
at the mothers knee, at the home fire.
side, in school, and in society, that it is
disgraceful for them to be loafers as it
is for their brothers, we shall have girls
demanding and getting that thorough
ness of mental and technical training
is needed in the successful pursuit Of
any employment, and not before. We
shall have standard then for scholar
ship. and women win look upon educa-
ton as something better than mental
ruffies and furbelews. or as mere means
of enabling them to support themselves
in genteeI independence until they can
marry, and We shall hear no more lack
of enjoyment for women.
Year: 1874

Let the foundation of thy affection be
virtue, then make the building as rich
and as glorious as thou canst ; if the
foundation be beauty or wealth, and the
building virtue. the foundation is too
weak for the building and it will fall !;
happy is be the palace of whose afec-
ton is founded upon virtue, walled with
riches, glazed with beauty, and sealed
with honor.
Year: 1874

How THEY Do IT.-WhitehalPs ex-
else board refuses to issue licenses this
year, and the poet of the Whitehall
Times depicts the fearful consequences
as follows


If body meet body


When body's dry,


Where'll body take body


To treat him to old rye


Every laddie has his CLASSY


Bottle Of old rye,


So all the lads now 20 and smile
Behind the door when dry.
Year: 1874

WIDowHooD IN BENGAL.-The very


day girl becomes a widow her eolored


clothes. silver and gold ornaments, are
all taken of. Henceforth she has to
dress IN white, ard wear no ornament Of
any kind whatever during her lifetime.
Her daily meals arc reduced TO one, and
that is prepared in the simplest way pos
sible. She is strictly prohibited the use
of any sort of animal food. Each wild
ow is required to cook her own food,
and to abstain entirely from food and
drink two days in every month. Or
the fast days, when the burning sun driei