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Year: 1874

APARTY of sixteen ladies were bathing
in a group at Long Branch the other day,
and a Boston drug clerk who stood near
declares that the paint and powder turned
the water a bright orange color for COLI
siderable distance around.
Year: 1874

When kellogg reached the Executive Of
fee this morning. Gen. Brooke approached
the Governor and informed him he was
prepared TO turn over TO him the StatehOuse
and all the records and public PROPERTY be-
longing to the State, which had come into
his possession, at the time Of the surrender
of the insurgents. Everything, the General
said, would be found in precisely the same
condition as il had come into his hands.
The Governor. accepted the transfer, and
Gen. Brooke thereupon Immediately re-
tired
Year: 1874

From the Washington National Republican,


On Saturday afternoon Onicers McHenry ana
Reardon, doing duty at the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad station, were probably the only inter.
ruption between o young girl and future life Of
shame. Just before the train for Baltimore left
the station these policemen noticed young man
named Peck alight from carriage IN front OF the
depot with girl about fifteen years or age, and
presented $40 bill to the hack driver. On receiv-
ing the change he passed 1t to his female COM
pdnlon-whose name Is known, but Withheld on
account OF her iamiiy--who appeared undecided
whether TO accept IL or not, but finally
purchased two uckets for Baltimore, at the same
time showing convincing evidence that he was
partially drunk, and the girls actions indicated
that she accompanied him with reluctance. She
was young, quite prepossesslng In appearance,
and belonged to q respectable family on Capitol
Hill, ana the offcers suspected there was some
thing wrong transpiring or their conduct would
be dinerent they knowing the girl and where she
belonged. Determined to satisfy themselves, they
watched an opportunity and gained conversation
with her, when they learned that Peck was
almost total stranger, and that he had induced
her to accompany him to Baltimore saying tnas
they would return In the evening. She acknowl-
edged that her parents knew nothing OF ner in.
tended departure with the man. and would nos
permit it II they knew. When informed by the
Oicers that the trip might terminate In her down.
fall, ana that Peck was not in condition to ap-
precate o respectable lady's company and using
the more powerful argument that they should ac-
quaint her parents with the fact or her going she
Immediately changed her mind and resolved to re-
turn home. Peck swOre roundy for q time, but
finally left the railroad station.
Year: 1874

NEW YORK, Oct 8. 1874
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD


see that attention has been called In your coli
umns to the disgraceful scene at st. Bridget'a
church last Sunday. l trust 1t will prevent
repetition OF such scenes in future. II may be
suitable at camp meetings or sensational"
pulpit ike Plymouth church, but hope we shall
never see 1t repeated In Catholic church. Truly
the "money changers are in the Templen when M
Is gravely announced In advance that q newly
married fashionable couple will attend, and an
extra charge IS made for all who attend divine
service Pous people who came to pray as usual
found the church converted into something like 9
theatre by the crowds who came not to pray, but
to gaze on the welded pair Knowing that strict
discipline which prevails In our Church ieet
confident the prelate who rules this diocese or
those who act In his absence will see to the mat
ter, I would suggest that the reverend gen.
tleman who drew such a crowded house would
make an admirable theatrical manager, and Ia
wasting mis- tune In the humble vocation OF
Catholic priest. II the church is to become FASH
ionabie one 1t would oe well to change the name
from st. Bridget to St. Della, as is done by those
upstart irish who think the former name too
vulgar, and endeavor to become genteel BY the


AN INDIGNANT IRISH CATHOLIC.
Year: 1874

CRY CONSERVATIVE CohAITrEE.-A meet
Ing OF the members of the City Conserva-
tive Committee was held last night. Some


business Of party interest was transacted.
Friday night of each week after this week
was adopted as the time for the regular
meetings Of the committee.
Year: 1874

on one common purpose, to he shown to
Mrs. Tiltun and 10 reconcile her to her
husband. and my letter of that date was
designed t. effect the further or collateral
purpose of giving her confidence in Mr.


MOulton. This will be obvious from the
reading of the letters. The following is
the full text of the letters Of that date
from copy verified by one Of your Com
mittcc, for have not to this hour been


permitted to see the originals of either of
them ur Of any other papers which


had deposited with Moulton for safe
Keeping. have no recollection of see
ing or hearing read the letter Of Mr..
Tilton of the same date In nv letter to
Mrs. Tilton alluded to the fact that


didn't expect when | saw her last to be
alive many days. That statement stands
connected with a series of SYMPTOMS
which | first experienced in 1856.
went through the Fremont campaign.
speaking in the open air three hours at a
time, three days in 4 week. On renew
ing my literary laborS | felt that | must
have given way. very seriously
thought was going to have apopIe1v or
paralysis. or something Of the kind on
two or three occasions. While preach
ing | should have fallen in the pulpit if
| had not held IN 10 the table. Eerv
often l came near falling in the streets.
During the last fifteen years have gone
into the pulpit, | suppose one hundred
times. with Il very strange impression
that ! should never come out of il alive.
l have preached more sermons than any
human being would believe when |
felt all the while that whatever had
to say to my people l must say it then,
or | never would have another chance to
use it. Ill HAD consulted a phvsiclan
his first advice would have been, You
must stop work But ! was in such a
situation that l could not stop work.
read the best medical books on symptoms
of nervous pro>tration, overwork and
paralysis. and formed my own judgement
Of my case. The three points l marked
were, Il must have good digestion, good
sleep. and | must go on working These
three things were 10 be reconcilsd. and in
Year: 1874

well content to have it evaporated so and
then thinking he WAS generous in his
time. This seemed TO me the end of the
trouble, and with Il sensitive and honor
able man who had no ultcrior designs to
accomplish it would have been the burial
of the difficulty. supposed Tilton had
given up the idea of intentional wrong
on my part and forgiven my unInten-
tional wrong. plainly understand now
what | did nj then suspect, that my
trouble of mind was to be kept alive and
nourishcd, so that it might be used To act
on my friend in securing from Bowen
the money which Tilton claimed a,
compensation for his expulsion from the
two newspapers. Moulton and Tilton
both strOve To oblitcrate from my mind
all belief in the rumorS that had been
circulated about Tilton, there was much
going on in silencing the explanation
arranging, &c, that | didn't understand
There was but one Of them of which
were convinced, viz: that
Year: 1874

and that | blamed myself with great Sc
verify for the disasters of the TlIton fam
ilv. | had not then the light that | now
have. there was much then that weighed
heavily upon my heart and conscience
which now weighs only on my heart. !
have not the light which analyses and
disseminateS things, by one blow there
opened before me revelation full Of an
ruish. on an organized family whose
inmates had been my friends greatly be-
loved, the husband ruined in worldly
prospects. the household Crumhhng 10
pieces. the woman by long sickness and
suffering. either corrupted to deceit a
her husband alleged, or 50 broken IN
mind as to be irresponsible, and either
way it was her enthusiasm for her pas
tor. as | was made to believe that II was
the first of the trouble 1t was for me to
have forestalled and prevented that mis-
chief my age and experience in the
world should have put me more on my
guard could not at that time tell what
WAS true and what was not true OF
all the considerations urged upon me by
Tilton and Moulton.
Year: 1874

cxhaling deadly vaPorsi for six weeks
the nation has risen up and sat down
upon the scandal; not great war nor a
revolution could more have filled the
newspapers than this question Of domes-
tic trouble, magnifed thousand fold,
and like a sore spot in the human body
drawing to itself every morbid humor IN
the blood. Whoever Is buried with II.
it is time that this ahomination be buried
below all touch.


Here we receive more from Moulton;
but as it has already been published we
will not reproduce it.-ED.l
Year: 1874

in which lay those who had been warm


friends, and they alleged that had
helped to plunge them therein. That
seemed enough to fill my soul with sor-
row and anguish No mothor who has
Year: 1874

lost a child but will understand the wild
self-accusation that grief produced
against all reason, blaming herself for
what things she did do and for what she
neglected to do, and charging upon her
self for neglect or hecdlessness the death
of her child; while ordinarily every one
knows she had worn herself out with her
assiduities.


Soon after this l met Tilton at Moul-
toms house. Either Moulton was sick or
was late in rising, for he was in bed. The
subject of my feelings and conduct to-
ward Tilton was introduced. L made
statement Of the motives under which l
had acted in counseling Bowen of my
feelings in regard to Tilton's family, dis
claiming with horror the thought OF
wrong, and expressing a desire to do
whatever lay in human power to remedy
any evil | had Occasioned, and TO reunlte
his family.


TiIton was Silent and Sullen.


He played the part of an injured man.
But Moulton said to Tilton, with IN
tense emphasis, That's all that a gentle
man can say, and YOU ought to accept IL
as an honorable basis of reconciliation.
This he repeated two or three times, ana
Tilton's cGuntenancc cheered up under
| Mouhons strong talk. We shook hands
and parted IN friendly way. Not very
long afterwards Tilton called me to his
house and said that he should be glad to
have the good old times renewed. l
don't remember whether | ever took a
meal after that under his roof, but GER
tainlv was invited by him to renew my
visits a. formerly. never renewed my
intimacy with the family, but once or
twice | went there soon after my recon-
ciliation with Tilton and at his request


A Scene at TiIton's House.
| particularly remember scene which
took place at his house, when he talked
about his wife and me in II very gracious
mood He began by mourning over his
sorrows. He was very desOlatc, and the
future seemed quite dark. After impress
ing us with his great patience he
grew generous praised me to MS
wife. saving that | had taken upon
myself all the blame of the past troubles
and had honorabIy exculpatcd her and
telling me that his wife likewise had
behaved very magnanmously, had
blamed herself and declared that | was
blamclcss, and he closed his homily with
increasing hope and cheer, saying that
deep us was his misery he did not know
but that it would work out in the future
more cheerful home than he had
, before.
Year: 1874

If any man would do me favor let him
tell all he knows now. 1t is not mine To-
Law down the law Of honor in regard 10
the Use Of other persons confidential
communications but So far "a my own
writings are concerned there is not let
ter nor document which | am afraid To-
have exhibited, and | authorize any, and
call upon any living person TO produce
and print forthwith whatever writing
they have, or any source whatever.
1t is time for the sake Of decency and
public morals that this matter should b.
hrOurht 10 an end.
Year: 1874

set of possessing sound constitution-a
welI-balanced organization. It shows the
relation and importance which human
agency holds in propagating sound and
healthy stock. 1t presents constantly be-
fore US for imitation that perfect standard
and image in which man was created, to-
gether with an embodiment Of those laws
and conditions with which we must comply
in order to secure the greatest amount of
happines and the longest duration Of life.
1t teaches every individual more clearly
what are the peculiarities and weaknesses
of his own constitution, as well as what are
his particular dangers or liabilities to dis
ease. 1t is this exact, this definite and
personal knowledge that may be turned to
the greatest account in the preservation of
health. If every individual could thus
be made thoroughly acquainted with his
own physiology, together with the laws Of
hygiene in his own case, We should soon
see most surprising diminution Of sick
ness as well as of early mortality.
Year: 1874

u


CONGRESSIONAL MANNERs.--Says the
Washington correspondent Of the Loais-
vile Courier-Journal: "While the vote
was being taken in the House for Speak
er, boorish member stretched his form
at full length upon two desks in the centre
of the hall, while he talked to another
member. There in the diplomatic gallery
sat the French Minister and wife, the
English Minister, and the Japanese, who
have come here to study our ways. There
wers hundreds of distinguished ladies and
gentlemen present to witness this violation
of manners. IF these men have no self.
respect, then there should be some rules
for good behavior adopted. The Speaker
might call from the chair: The gentleman
from Arkansas will please sit on the chair.
and not make bed Of his desk. The gen
tleman from Missouri will please put his
feet upon the floor and not elevate them
above his head. The gentlemen will find
lunch.room convenient, and are forbid
den to pare their apples while the House
is in session, and throw their peelings on
the floor. Everything now looks so clean
and handsome that it seems pity that it
should SO soon become defaccd,"
Year: 1874

Esther Johnson, the celebrated Stella
was Dean Swift's pupil, and her attach
ment for him grew as her mind, pure
and beautiful, to cease only with death
Swift wooed and won this beautiful girl
whoes noble heart he broke by his
strange, mysterious conduct. Hope de-
ferred and an unenviable position in
society were not enough to try the con.
stancy of poor Stella; she must have a
rival, and that she soon found in Miss
Vanhomrigh. Swift became acquainted
with this lady when at the hight Of his
power and full vigor of his faculties;
when the chosen companion of statesmen
and courtiers. She possessed a grace
full person, lively disposition, and taste
for mental cultivation, which Swift soon
perceived and admired; and the graft
tude she felt for his attentions soon
ripened into the lover, which broke her
heart While Swift found pleasure in
the society of Vanessa cher poetical
name), Stella suffered alone in Ireland
the paugs of wronged affection. He
could not be blind to the nature OF
Vanessa's regard, nor the hopes she
might reasonably entertain from his at
tentions; nor are we to suppose this love
one-sided, since the tone of his journal
to Stella implies the contrary. Vanessa
waits anxiously the Deans declaration
of his passion-but in vain; so at last
she determines to know her fate, and dis.
closes the secret of her heart to the
Dean. Without power to accept her
love, or courage to refuse it, he offered
his friendship and esteem, and strove to
parry her Just remonstrances by his wit.
After her mothers death she followed
the Dean to Ireland, which placed him
in peculiar circumstances, for how could
he treat one whose only misfortune was
to love him too we'll, harshly, for well
might lady of youth, fortune
and fine genius expect more from
her lover. Meanwhile, the sorrows
of Stella began to show on deli
cate and sensitive frame, and to
save her from q premature grave the
Dean made her his wife. But only in
name did she enjoy this sacred title;
they lived apart till death at length re.
lieved her of her sorrows. What added
fresh hope to the fond dreams of Stella
proved fatal to her less fortunate rival.
After having nursed her passion for
eight years for the Dean, and refusing
two suitors for her hand, she wrote to
Stella to learn if her suspicious were
well founded, and Stella, wounded to the
heart that another should share the
Deans love, wrote back a reply that
marriage united them, at the same time
forwarding her letter to the Dean.
Swift's fury was as unreasonable as his
former conduct; he hastened to Marley
Abbey, the residence of Vanessa, threw
her letter in rage on the table and de-
parted-having sealed the doom of one
who loved too well, for soon after she
died. A few years after Stella followed
her unfortunate rival.
Year: 1874

AS 10 tue young men


First-In the cities and towns they


are deferred from it from selfish consid.


erations. 1t is not so much because they


fear wife's extravaganza as it is that


they do not like the idea of restraining


their own extravagant expenses, and


divide their weekly earnings with wife


They spend about all they make now on


unnecessary boarding, costly clothing,
cigars and the saloons. They cannot
make up their minds to sacrifice these
illusory pleasures for the comforts and
joys of home, wife and children. They
fail to see, at least to realize, that, as
Michaelet says: To be a man in the
true sense is, above all things, to have a
wife"


Second-The same extravagant pro-
clivities in the young men of our time
lead them to consider the marriage prob
lem in this light. Not whom to marry,
but how much to marry. The result is
they procrastinate. waiting for prize;
often aiming too high, they are Tilted,
get discouraged, blame the young ladies
for their disappointments, and drift into
old bachelorhood And if such injudi-
cious ambition succeeds in winning a
prize, it generally turns out that both
become victims Of their folly, for, as
Margaret Fuller tersely says: They
who marry where they do not love, will
be very apt to love where they do not
marry"


The most general reason why young
ladies do not marry is their want of con-
fidence in young men to live sober in
dustrious aud moral lives. When they
find that their suitor earns ten, fifteen,
or twenty-five dollars week, and that
he spends it all upon his own person, for
dress and trihing Qualifications, and
when they learn from observation among
their married acquaintance that such
men do not change their habits after
marriage, but leave their wives to cook
and scrub wash and sew, mend and
darn, twelve to fifteen hours day, wear
ing away their lives in rearing ten or a
dozen children in about as many years;
when they see such fate inviting them,
it is not strange they draw back and say,
" beg to be excused"


Intelligent and thinking girls prefer
to depend on their own efforts for COM
Portable support, to slavish servitude
as the housekeeper and nurse of some
inconsiderate and domineering man.


Looking at the question of marriage,
in its remote as well as present bearings,
it cannot be regarded as great evil that
our daughters do not now marry any
more or sooner than they do.
Year: 1874




Mark Twain in his new book about
England, tells how be had the toothache
one night in London, and gave some
pleasing recollections of the dentists
shop which he was wont to patronize
when he lived in Elmira. he says:
Zone night that tooth did jump, and
every time it jumped it raised my head
right off the pillow. How / did lie
awake and think about that dentists
shop in Elmira, where | had been under
torture so many times-of thoss pretty
dental instruments, so polished and so
cold How | did long to lay my cheek
against one-one of those short, thick,
heavy, twisted chaps, with the bow-legged,
fluted, and curved handles and short
hawksbill jawsl How l reveled in de-
light at the thought of having such
thing clutch my refractory tooth, and
yank itl With what pleasurable en-
otions came crowding into my mind the
recollections Of that dentist and his
rooms and its fxtures-his big easy
chair, with the pretty, white curtained
window before it, and the nice, big, red
glass spittoon to the left, with the whole
in the bottom, and the bits of wet cotton
and the bright pieces of gold and streams
of bloodstained saliva on the sides. And
then the pretty little bureau with the
bottles on the top, and the little yellow
drawers which he jerks out so gently
when seeking for some new and more
delicate instrument of torture. And
then the beautiful little round velvet
covered stand on the gas fixture, cover
ed with the nice drills and pretty files,
and the lovely little crowbars with the
stained ivory handles, and the long steel
crochet needle with which he hunts for
new cavities, and the little round paste
board box full Of gold plugs and the
dirty little napkin and the rubber ball
syringe, and the singular smell of his
thumb, and all that Oh, how nicer'
Year: 1874

This is a Department which we need not
say much about; but we intend to supply one
and sll IN, With n the The, latest styles Of Clothing
offered in Eureka. We invite oil to call and
inspect for themselves, as our stock is cheap,
excellent. and complete in all its branches.
Year: 1874

The outpouring of the people yester-
day enthuses all to fresh and hearty
effort. Nothing was lacking. The in
spiration Of numbers, fervid oratory,
favoring skies, waving banners, soul
stirring music, and best of all the en-
couraging smiles of sweet womanhood.
We can no longer chide the
people with lethargy. Every
class of our best citizens was
represented in force. From the field
and the counting-room, the Office and
the work shop, farmers mingled with
merchants and the workmen with pro-
fessions. 1t was the first barbecue IN Da-
wilson for fifteen years-years VI war
and desolation. 1t recalled the old
days of peace and plenty. The whole
burnt Offering gave a sweet odor. All
felt it was good to be there.


Be it said with pride that the best of
order prevailed throughout amid this
vast assemblage of humanity reused
TO the highest pitch of enthusiasm.
Thanks to the live chairman of the
Executive Committee and his assist
ants, the day was triumphant victory
Of peace and good will


The speeches of the day were practi-
cal, as well as inspiring, and every
listener went home feeling stronger for
the cause and its success. The enthu-
siasm was contagious. These four
thousand will bear it forth like wild
fire to infame the whole country. The
line is drawn. The race issue forced
upon us by negro insolence and the
mercenary whites who would use the
negro as a foOtstool to power. is
fully recognized and met. We have
taken up the gauntlet, and girded our
loins for the struggle. 1t is the old
struggle of seven centuries for Anglo
Saxon rights-for the rights Of self
government But it comes IN an in
tensifed shape, such as our fathers
never dreamed of. 1t is a fight for our
homes and firesides, for the unsulied
purity Of the family-for our wives and
daughters, and those that come after
Year: 1874

Mrs. Maggie AbSton, who was severely
burned last Friday by the explosion Of a
coal oil lamp, died about IL O'Clock yester-
day. Her husband is now absent up the
river on a boat, and has had no information
concerning the deplOrable accident. The


deceased was well known and highly re-
spected by the citizens of the Seventh ward
i'm which she lived at the time of her death.
Year: 1874

NEVER marry for wealth, but re-
member that it is just as easy to love
a girl who has a brick house with a
Mansard roof and a silver-plated door
bell, as one who hasn't anything but an
auburn head and an amiable dispOsi-
tiOn ....
Year: 1874

COMPTROLLER BURCH intends to
recommend to the next Legislature, the
re-establishment of the old Bank of
Tennessee. The only drawback to
such a scheme is the ten per cent. tax
on other than national banks by the
general Government, but the COmptrol-
Ter thinks this was merely war meas
ure. and is unconstitutional. He thinks
that the proceeds of this bank would be
enough to pay from one-half to two
thirds of the taxes of the State, and
that in ten years the entire annual in
debtedness of the State would be paid
from the net profits of the bank
Columbia Mail and Herald.