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Year: 1874

Our people ought not encourage ex-
travagance in these times of general
financial depression, yet man exhibit
ing a luxurious and elegant milking
stool of black walnut in front of the
post-otfice the other day, kept an in
terested and sympathetic crowd about
him for an hour. It was a sort of easy
chair milking -stool-a nice seat for the
operator, Il swing-shelf for the milk
pail, and a slotted standard in which
to secuse the cows tail, with a sliding
rod to shoot the tail out when the milk
ing is done. The pail shelf shuts up
like a jack-knife blade when the pail
is removed, and the operator marches
off with the stool under one arm and
the pail of milk in the other hand, leav-
ing the cow too surprised to remon-
strate. It is too elegant for milking
stool, but is just the thing for smok-
ing chair, the shelf being admirably
adapted to hold spi-cuspiiOr, and the
shooting rod to ram home the tobacco,
provided one uses a pipe, or to knock off
the ashes il one smokes Partagas. But
black walnut Is extravagant for o milk
ing g-stool.-[Danbury News.
Year: 1874

An Irishman being asked, on a late
trial. if he could produce a certificate
OF his marriage, barred his head, and
exhibited a huge scar, which looked
as though it might have been made
with fire shovel. The evidence was
deemed satisfactory,
Year: 1874

HOW POPE HODNETT SWINDLED HIS


CLIENTS.


During the latter of days of the investigation
it will be remembered that John P. Hodnett,
graceless scamp, who by some hocVs pOcuS had
been admitted to the practice Of law, by the
arts of low demagogue and the high-sounding
title of the worlingmen's friend, gathered to-
cetber. about eleven hundred poor, unpaid
laborers and made them believe that he could
be in some way instrumental in securing the
pay due them, both by the District government
and contractors. After several impromptu
public meetings and innumeraole harangues, ne
made visit with his deceived "clients" to the
Capitol while the committee were in session.
When the bill making the appropriation was
passed IT contained among other items, Sl75,OOO
to pay the wages due laborers by the Board Of
Public Works and S75, 900 to pay wages due by
contractors. The action of the committee in
making this suggestion and the House in max
ing the specific appropriation was predicated
upon knowledge Of facts arrived at by the
| committee during the investigation, without
any possible reference TO the low buncombe Of
| Hodnett.


Now, however, that the money Is to be paid,
| the remarkable interest of Hodnett in the well
fare of his clients (so called) is made apparent.
! With shreWdness enough to know that an ap-
preparation would certainly be made, he gath
| cred together these men, as class the most
| ignorant of the lAboring men in the city, told
| them what he would endure for their sake, how
he would labor to get the hard earnings due,
and finally sealed the bargain by entering into
a contract with the eleven hundred and forty
who composed his victims that in the event Of
payment they would give him twenty-five pei
cent. of the amount received, and this money
he expects to demand and get as soon as the
Commission begin payment. Under the Law
of the District the salary Of its employees can


not be garnisheed, and in the interest of righ


and justice 1t is TO be hoped that the Commis


sioners Will instruct the men that Hodnett wa


in no way instrumental in securing their pay
and that if they submit to his eXtorttng on


fourth Of the sum for which they have worke'


and waited so long, they submit to downright
robbery.
Year: 1874

with no option of redemption, and their free
dom from all taxation, give them certain at
fractions for investors possessed by no other
bond yet issued. The recent legislation in re-
gard to the financial affairs Of the District Is
only just beginning to be understood, and Is at
tracing considerable attention to District Sc
curities from class of people who have been
ayerse to looking into them before. The con-
sequence is that there has been an appreciation
Of ten to fifteen per cent. on all classes within
the past three weeks. The payment OF the July
interest on the bonded debt put the price Of the
four million loan held in Germany back from
n, to which 1t had dropped on the Frankfort
Bourse, under the influence Of the investiga-
ton, to par in gold, and it deserves remark in
this connection that the District of Columbia
has never yet defaulted on the payment OF in
terest on the debt, and never before received
any aid from Congress to that end.
Year: 1874

HON. A. G. RIDDLE TO PROSECUTE


HAYES AND BENTON.


Some days ago Hon. Geo. P. Fisher, United
States District Attorney, requested that the
Attorney General should designate some men,
fber of the bar 10 assist In or take charge Of the
prosecution of Benton and Hayes, both of
whom are under indictment and incarcerated
for the burglary of the safe in his office. This
request was evidently made for the reason that
the mystery attending the affair had not as yet
been unraveled.


Taking all things into consideration the At
torney General concluded to comply with the
very reasonable request, and yesterday desig-
mated Hon. A. G. Riddle, Of this city, to take
entire charge of the prosecution. Mr.. Riddle
Is at present absent from the city, but It is al
most certain that he will take charge as re-
ouested, and in that event the people may
expect, through the crucible of the court room
and public prosecution, to arrive at the truth
of this wonderful crime.


The trial will take place as soon as possible
and some extraordinary developments are an
ticipated by parties on both sides Of the ques-
ton.
Year: 1874

A son DEFENDS his MOTHER AND IS


COMPLIMENTED BY THE JUDGE.


John Horan went to the bar ofthe New York
Tombs last Tuesday morning 70 make charge
of felonious assault and battery against his son
William, youth aged twenty years. he told
the Judge that his son, at whom he looked now
and then with q sort ofsardonic grin, had beat
en- him most numerically, without provoca-
tion. William looked so quiet and decent that
the Judge called him up to tell what he had to
say. William modestly stepped up to the desk
and was at first inclined to say nothing, but
suddenly thought struck him, and he said
tsIfI let myself be brought 10 jail she will not
be safe" "Who will not be safe ~ asked the
Judge. "My mother" said William, in
very low tone, as he looked towards his father.
He told his story, which ran as foilowss-"He
whips my mother now and then when Pm not
around, and she never tells me, because she
knows there would be a row in the house. But
l hear it from others, and then tax her with it,
but she always denies It. would have brought
the case to court long ago, but my mother,
although she is poor, is lady, and would not
come here. She prefers to keep her little mis-
fortunes 20 herself. This morning mother
asked this man for some money for soap. He
told her she could not have 1t, and made some
taunting remark about her pride in keeping
clean. Mother never answers him back, for
she knows how cross and rough he is.


"He hit mother in the face with his fist. 1t
was the first time he ever dared to do it in my
presence, and was determined It should be
the last. told him weak woman was no
match for him, and suggested that he protect
himself, as intended to give him good thrash 2
ing. He did try to protect himself, but with
out success. If have broken the law, 1 don't
object to being punished, provided that man is
put where he will not be able to whip my moth
er until come back TO take care of her."


Judge Wandell said:-"Young man, am
proud to see that you love your mother and
are anxious to protect her, but your violence
towards your father has been of a very yigo-
rous character. Try and keep your hands off
your father; but, in any event, protect your
mother from injury. You may 60"
Year: 1874

COW, and he drove the COW back and rendered
her to the defendant, but he refused TO receive
her, and the defendant took her home again,
and put heavy yoke on her TO prevent her
jumping fences, and by reason Of her yoke she
broke her neck and died; and If the jury be-
leVe that the defendants interest In the grocery
was worth anything, the plaintiffs note worth
less and the COW good for nothing, either for
beef or milk, then the jury must find out for
themselves how they will decide this case; for
the court, if she understands herself, and she
thinks she does, don't know how such a case
should be decided"
Year: 1874

During the storm on Saturday evening
large portion Of the tin roof of the machine
shop Of steam engineering was torn of. The
frame work and sheathing Of the west end of
the western ship-house was started out of
place and several windows blown out. The
slate on the roof of the shell-house and two
windows were somewhat damaged. On the
iron foundry the skylights were blown on and
the slate slightly damaged. Two chimney
tops were blown down on the ordnance ma
chine shop and the tin roofing slightly dam
aged. The tin roof Of the magazine was
slightly damaged. Many Of the other build
ings in the yard we've more or less injured.
The damage done to all the buildings, fences,
walls &c is estimated at about 81 500.
Year: 1874

'Tf the jury believe from the evidence that
the plaintiff and defendant we're partners in
the grocery, and that the plaintiff bought out
the defendant, and that the defendant paid
note by delivering to the plaintih COW, which
he warranted not breachy; and the Warrantee
was broken BY reason Of the RF'aealRss' q iRs
Year: 1874

In the District Court of the Fourteenth Judicial
District of the State of California, in and for
the County of Placer


Charity A. Given VS.. Isaac p. Given.
The People of the State of California send greet
ing to Isaac P. Given, Defendant.


VOU are hereby required to appear in an ac-
l. ton brought against you by the above
named Plaintiff in the District Court of the Four
teenth Judicial District of the State of California,
in and for the County of Placer, and to answer
the complaint filed therein "a copy of which ac-
companies this summons), within ten days lex
elusive OF the day Of service) after the service
you of this summons - If served within this
county, or, if served out of this county but within
this Judicial District, within twenty days; or, if
served out of said District then within forty days
or judgment by default will be taken against
you according to the prayer of said complaint
The said action is brought to obtain decree of
this court, dissolving the bonds of matrimony
existing between you and plaintiff all of which
is more fully set forth in plaintiffs complaint on
tile, herein to which special reference is hereby
made.


And you are hereby notified that if you fail to
appear and answer said complaint as above re-
quired, the said Plaintiff will apply to the court
tor the relief demanded in the complaint.
- Court of the Fourteenth judicial Dis
SEAL trict of the State of California, in and
NV for the County of Placer, this ninth
day of June in the year Of our Lord, one thou
sand eight hundred and seventy -fonr.


B. F. BURT, Clerk.
el3-2m By f. d. ADAMS, Deputy
Year: 1874

The contractor on the Palace Hotel,
San Francisco, has given employment
to one hundred and sixty boys in lath-
ing that immense building. The work
is done under the superintendence of
an experienced workman and is pro-
crossing rapidly, to the entire satisfac-
tion of the architect. The workmen
employed on the building are well
pleased with the course of the con-
tractor, many of them having found
employment for their own sons by this
means. When the card was published
in the city papers offering employ
ment to boys, many letters were
brought by sons of widows, giving dis
tressing accounts of want at home as
a reason for urging employment for
their sons. This is a step in the right
direction and worthy of imitation.
There is great complaint in this. and
every other city about bad boys, hood
lums, etc. The boys are not so much
TO blame as the parents and grown
people. 1t is the duty of parents and
guardians to provide employment for
the boys of the community in which
they live, and there is no reason why
they should not do it, while there is a
multitude of the best reasons in the
world why they should do it.: First, it
cultivates industrious business habits
in the boys; second, it prevents the
contraction Of thousand evil and
viscious habits; they become self
reliant Mt an early age; they learn to
put in practice all useful i'll
formation they receive at school.
No man should be considered edu-
Gated until he can make himself
useful. and he cannot make himself
useful without employment. The boys
OF this city who tramp the streets
from morning till night, are not lazy;
they are idle only because there is no
employment for them. III card APP
peared in the morning papers, calling
for nifty boys TO work at anything


which boys can do, there would be a
hundred applications by noon. There
are u hundred buildings now in pro-
gress OF erection in this city
and each building could give
profitable employment to one, two, or
halfa dozen boys. Men neglect the
boys aud this neglect is the fruitful
source OF crime in every community.
The contractor on the Palace Hotel
should have gold medal presented
70 him as a benefactor of his race.
Year: 1874

VIRGINIA CITY, October 30th. The
shaft burned was commenced in Au-
gust, in order to give better ventila-
ton to the Belcher, the air previously
having been conveyed into the mine
through the Crown Point and Yellow
Jacket. The draft since the new shaft
had been built had always been down
into the mine, but the fire caused the
draft to turn in an upward direction,
otherwise the fire would have burned
the timbers in the mine and the loss
Of life by snftocation would have been
appalling. The men who were injured
were all volunteers. Superintendent
Smith was the first to go down the
shaft upon the alarm of fire.


The damage done is estimated by
the officers of the mine at $1,000 The
men down in the mine when the draft
Year: 1874

IT is claimed that 100000 would re-
lieve MoRGAN's Sons of their embar-
rassment and enable them TO resume
operations immediately. The CaIifov-
MIA Granger thinks that as the firm
became insolvent in the scrape in an
effort to help the Changers out of one,
it would be good thing on the part
of the Changers to set the firm on its
legs and suggests that one thousand
farmers loan the Sons 800 each on good
security for year or two. The plan
is practical and the difficulty may be
arranged in no time, provided the one
thousand farmers and the good secur-
ity can be found.
Year: 1874

THE Visalia Times mentions that
some of the old citizens of that locality
want to sell out and go to warmer
country. This Is worse than child
crying for the moon. Those good peo-
pie can find but one warmer place and
to reach it they must cross the dark
river over which no earthly goods are
ferried; so there is no use in selling
out "a preparatory step TO starting.
Year: 1874

changed, describe II as like whirl-
wind.


A report was raised in the early part
Of the evening that one other man was
missing beside Morrison, who was sup
posed to have gone down the mine, but
1t is now definitely stated that no per-
son is missing.
Year: 1874

We are in doubt whether it should be deemed
a good or bad omen that the recent bloody
and shocking collisions between the two races
have occurred in States like Kentucky and
Tennessee where the white population is so
large that it has nothing to fear from the polit-
ical ascendancy or the physical preponderance
Of the negroes. In neither of these States do
the blacks even hold the balance of power be-
tween the two parties Both are securely dem
ocratic by majorities which cannot be shaken
with the aid of the negro vote. The legisla-
ton of such States is in the hands of their
white citizens, all taxes are laid by their rep
resentatives, the people are perfectly safe from


the evils and perils of negro government which
oppress and incense the property holders of
Year: 1874

SOME OF Our INDIAN TROUBLES are compli-
Gated by the bitter hatred Of one tribe for an
other, and are no. entirely caused by the gen.
sral hostility to the whites. An example of this
is given in our correspondence from Omaha
to-day The Sioux are reluctant to abandon
their hunting grounds on the Republican
River, not so much because of their love for
the buffalo as for their hatred of the Pawnees.
To 90 to the White River will be to abandon
their annual war; Little Wound refuses to
obey orders and resolves to hunt upon the
Republican, but General Sheridan has taken
measures to check his insolent march.
Year: 1874

The INQUEST in the case of Robert Sands,
who died soon after taking medicine at New
York drug store, resulted in verdict that his
spirits. The druggist was honorably exon
Grated from the suspicion Of carelessness. but
the advice OF the jury that the practice should
be discontinued of selling opiates to unknown
persons it would be wise to heed.
Year: 1874

There is scarcely any class of outrage that
more naturally and properly excites the indig-
nation of rght-minded people than that of
cruelty to children of the sort of which one Of
our charitable" institutions has just been the
scene An athletic wretch, left to administer
machine benevolence, switches into his grave
poor little boy of five years. helpless little
creature out of the city streets AS the testi-
mony taken before the Coroner shows, he
beat the naked child for five minutes with
rattan; and as he was in q violent temper it is
readily enough conceived that such creature,
at once brutal and ignorant, laid the blows on
with all his might. Then the child was put
into bath, and when be came out, and while
yet naked, he was beaten again. Such pun
ishment for such subject is as if full grown
man should receive on his bare back about two
hundred and fifty strokes with the cato nine
tails. Not one man in hundred could sur
vive such an inAiction, and we need
not wonder that this baby did not survive.
With surface peculiarly susceptible to irrita-
ton and nervous organization incapable of
great resistance, boys like the one just killed
are peculldIiy lheiy W De Iue NiCtiiiib VI buCu
catastrophes and it is disgrace and q scan
dal that the institution supposed to have the
countenance of this community could be in
charge Of man who did not kno W this, or,
knowing was savage enough not TO heed it.
The establishment in which this event has oc-
Cured is one of those traders on popular be-
nevolence that we felt called upon to expose
|


is an evidence of the spirit in which it admin
listers charity. 1t collects money from the
public for its schools, spends the greater part
in salaries on the relatives of the Superintend-
ent, of whom the present culprt is reported
as one, and if any innocent child whose ill
health subjects him to a disagroeable infrmity
attends it's school inflicts savage discipline
until he leaves or dies under the blows; and
this is charity.
Year: 1874

TIE RIFLEMES of this country are likely to
have an early opportunity of reciprocating the
attentions everywhere shown our base ball
representatives during their visit in Great
Britain. The famous Irish team will shortly
arrive in this city and series of international
matches Will be contested at Creedmoor.
Year: 1874

States like South Carolina and Louisiana,


where the colored inhabitants are majority.


Surely there ought not to be any chronic trouble
with the negroes in Kentucky and Tennessee.


where white supremacy can so easily be main
tained through the ballot box, and where law
and order, regular trials and only legal punish
ments would he expected from the constitu-
ton OF society and the numerical proportion
OF the two races. While it is a just cause OF
alarm that bloody outbreaks have taken place
in such communities let us hope that they
are merely accidental local disturbances,


which the sentiment of order in those States
Indignantly disapproves aud which their au-
thorities will promptly punish, making them
warning and terror to the evil disposed.


The Governor Of Kentucky has acted with
praiseworthy energy. and it is to be hoped
that the authorities of Tennessee will initiate
his example But when excited passions and
the animosities Of race lead to such outrages
in the border States, where the negroes are
few and destitute of political power, there is
reason for the gravest apprehensions as to
what violent and desperate men may be i'm
PEELED by their blind, unreasoning passions to
do in those States further south, where negro
insolence and white evaporation are in con-
slant danger Of coming into deadly collision.
Year: 1874

THERE WAS BEAUTIFUL WEATHER for the
Long Branch races yesterday and the oppor-
mile and half race and Bayminster the mile
race. The third contest was brilliant and ex-
citing, as it required five heats before Jack
Frost could beat the veteran Fadladeen.
Year: 1874

THE REPORT of the Investigating Committee
will be given to Plymouth church this evening.
yesterday" we are informed, ''the exanin-
ing committee was employed in reading the
proofs of the report" but we regret to say
that we doubt if there are any proofs.
Year: 1874

South, and we are glad that there is to bs an
end of it.


The whites Of the South, we are pleased ahss
to perceive, have some rights which the re-,
publican party is bound to respect for fear of
the secession of the whites, which, though few
in number comparatively in the South. stin
leaven the whole party and give
its unity and power even in South
Carolina In word having trotted
their black elephant around the country On
triumphal tour of fourteen years Duration.
and having given him all the rights he could
in reason demand under the existing state OF
things, would it not be we'll for the republican
party to stop this superfuous civil rights pro-
cession and try some other game


Another Republican Blow at the Third


Term.


The Republican Convention of Kansas has
boldly taken the bull by the horns and made
an unequivocal declaration of its hostility TO
President Grants well known aspirations.
1t delivers its shot squarely, like soldier
meeting his adversary in the open field, dis
daining to skulk behind any bush for the pur-
pose of concealing its aim. Though not
first in the field, like Pennsylvania Kansas
has the higher merit of saying explicitly what
it means without any softening subterfuge.
The Pennsylvania republicans put on the thin
disguise of naming Governor Hartranft as q
suitable candidate for the Presidency in 1876.
seeming to ignore the existence of the third
term question, while virtually condemning
another reelection of General Grant. The
republicans of Kansas are less artful and
more manly. They face the real situation with
out finching, acknowledging the existence Of
the danger by recognizing the necessity of
public declaration on the subject Their
resolution is in these words:-'That
the unwritten law enacted by the example of
the Father of his Country in declining re-
election to the third Presidential term is al
controlling qs though it was incorporated in
the national constitution, and ought never to
be violated This timely protest is the
more valuable as coming from o State where
the republicans were not prompted to make it
by any local party exigency. If parties were
equally balanced in Kansas and the contest
doubtful the republicans might have made
this declaration for strategic reasons to pre-
vent the democrats from turning the scale on
that ISSUE But, in point of fact, they OUT
number their opponents more than two to
one Their protest against third term is
not, therefore, extorted from their doubts of
local success, but is the expression of their
Judgment and their Justly alarmed patriotism.
If the other republican conventions would fol-
low this wise and courageous example they
would quiet the fears of the country and de-
prive the President Of the merit and opportu-
nifty, which he has so long neglected, OF maxi
ing voluntary and graceful retreat