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Year: 1874

The New York Times says that tho
estimates for street.cleaning IN that
city during the current year fall but q
few hundreds short Of a million Of
dollars. Five hundred street-sweep-
ers are supposed to be employed dur
ing the whole year, and to supplement
their exertions an additional 100000
is appropriated ITO remove snow and
ice,' For twelve or fifteen weeks in
Winter and Spring the street.sweep-.
ers have no work. The actual exis-
tenco of five hundred sweepers is re-
garded by the skeptical as exceedingly
doubtful; but pay for their services at
the rate of $1,000 per week is drawn
from the city treasury with unim-
peachable regularity, Boss Tweed is
securely immured within the walls Of
tho prison az Blackwelrs Island; but
bis spirit still survives in the Empire
City, in fact, we are forced to the con
clusion that there are worse men than
Tweed out Of Jail.
Year: 1874

The DIsTRIoT SAFE BURGLARY. The
report of the Solicitor Of the Treas
ury upon the district safe burglary
shows that the suspicion of q diabol-
ical plot on the part of certain mem-
of the District of Columbia ring to
blacken the good name Of an enemy
of the ring has been fully sustained
by evidence elected in careful in
vestigation. Secretary Bristow's &C.
ton in view Of this finding is just
what it ought to have been. He dis
missos all Of the employees Of his de-
partment who are clearly shown to
have lent themselves to the conspira-
tors, and satisfied, as many others
have been for a long time, Of the en-
tire corruption Of the Secret Service
Bureau, wipes it out Of existence SO
far as its present organization is con-
cernod. II now remains for the
Grand Jury of tho District Of CO.
lumbia to attend to the case Of Assis-
tant District Attorney Harrington;
and they cannot be too quick about
IL.
Year: 1874

The Cincinnati Commercial says
that Grant is no longer the central
figure in Republican politics, He
does not do everything that is done
for the benefit Of the people as much
as he did, He is no longer pohti-
cal necessity. The opposition de-
veloped in the agitation Of the third
term question has satisfied the poll
ticians that, even we're any party
foolish enough to take Grant up for
q third term, he would b over
whelmingly defeated.
Year: 1874

The young man who drives IL Q OK.
press wagon TO which weare indebted
for an occasional basket Of blessings
from the city brought in box, and
by way Of apology for smoking his
cigar while in the hall and waiting for
bis pay remarked to the ladies': ~
hopo you will excuse my smoking,
but / have lost my mother lately, and
smoking is great comfort to me"
Year: 1874

The Detroit free Press man is dis
gusted at the disappearance Of the
comet. Hear him: "If q man can't
bring out q better comet than this
after working for fifteen years, he
had better quit the business and 90
TO selling wooden seeds.
Year: 1874

1t is rumored here that Senator
Carpenter of Wisconsin is anxious
for the President to call q special
session of Congress about the first of
October, ostensibly for the purpose
Of regulating affairs in the South but
really with the view Of repeating the
Poland press-gag law.
Year: 1874

W. NJ. Tuthill, Suffolk County, N.
Y, writes the Bulletin:


zone of the most essential things,
in winter, is TO have a warm house
for chickens to roost in. The best
way to have a house constructed for
winter use is to have it partially uR-
der ground, facing the south, with q
slanting roof reaching within three
feet of the ground on the north side
and front or south side covered with
windows, so that the fowls may en-
10y the warm rays Of the sun with
out being exposed to the piercing
winds and frosting cold. For a
summer house the building should
be above ground, with ventilatOrs,
so that the fowls can be kept com
Portable during the hot nights of
summer. In the fall, as the weather
becomes cool, shut up your summer
roost, and your fowls viii soon take
to their winter quarters again. In
winter 1 give my fowls q warm pud-
ding for breakfast, then keep corn
by them during the day. 1 also
keep scrap-eake by them from early
fall till spring"
Year: 1874

The time Of the year has now
come when fires are to be re-kindled.
Old cracked stoves will be brought
out suddenly and put up the first
cold snap. Unsafe and soot-filled
chimneys are crowded with two or
three stove pipes. The consequent
ces to some body will be disastrous.
The house, store or shop viii take
fire some day and burn up before
you are aware of it. And then
some one will find when too late,
they had no assurance. Be wise be-
fore the fire. Look to your stoves,
know they are whole. Examine
your stove pipes, clean your chin
ney. See that all cracks and holes
therein are securely plastered up.
Put up your stoves well, and then
come to


I. IL. KELLER,


and get an Insurance Policy on
your building and all its contents.
I have q splendid line of Companies.
There are none better. Many rep
resented in this city will not stand
the test. Look at the following:
Year: 1874

The late Marshal Concha was thus
described few days before his death,
by G London Times correspondent


Happily it seems that Marshal Concha
inspires an extraordinary terror in
every one. he wants everything done
we'll, and looks after everything himself
He asks doctor to breakfast and pumps
him thoroughly as to the minute of his
arrangements. He asks commissariat
officer to dinner, and causes him an at
tack of Indigestion by cross questioning.
He has way Of showing young officers
what they shoald do by telling them
what he used to do when he was young.
Concha is decidedly nuisance to any
subordinate who does not do his duty
properly, and hence every one breads
his presence. In this respect he is quite
an exception to the rule of Spanish gen.
erals. He seems to me to treat a com
mon soldier with more kindness than he
does an officer. He never gives any
notice when he intends departing nor,
once be is on the march, does he give
any hint where he is going, or what he
intends to do. and every person around
him takes very good care not to put the
question"
Year: 1874

Speaking of Avignon and the coming
Petrareh festival in that town, the Ion
don News says: The incident which
makes Avignon more famous in the
worlds annals than any other is one
which happened on a soft spring evening
in the church OF st. Clair, so long ago
as the year Of grace 1927 On the 9Th
of April in that springtide, young Fran.
cisco Petrarch, then a law student Of
twenty three, handsome in person and
learned in books, being at vespers,
looked up from his breviary and saw for
the FIRST time Laura de Sade, the
Year: 1874

THE New York Graphic says the Cen.
tennial agitation has developed the un-
comfortable fact that there are several
millions Of people who would like to
dance without paying the fiddler.


The Graphit's head Is clear. 1t Is also
a fact that unless more vigor is soon dis
played in the Centennial business than
has characterized the recent discussions
Of the subject by the State Legislatures
and Congress 1t will be huge and dis.
graceful failure.
Year: 1874

Important Results OF the Autopsy.,


Evidences that Cutting the Band o


Union would have Caused Death


LBy Telegraph to the Now York Trlbune.l


PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 16.-The scaIpe


was first used on the connecting bond bo


tween the slsmese twins this morning


the work on previous days being confined
to taking casts, photogrsphiug, embalm
Ing, and examining tho viscers, whicl
were found not to differ from those o.
ordinary beings, tho heart, liver, spleen
and digestive canal being well developed
in each, Approaching tie band, tho low,
er portion OF the ensilorm cartilage ol the
breast.bone In each joins by doubling OF
bending out, making almost a long union
with distinct joint at the central point
Of union on which the bodies hinge free.
ly. This joint Is similar 10, but not so
complicated 90 that OF the elbow, The
circumference Of the band at the smallest
part Is nine inches, and the chins OF the
twins, when as far apart as possible, arc
eight inches from each other. To-day tho
skin Of each body was cut through pos.
teriorly, and thrown back from the band
and adjacent structures, exposing the rec.
tus muscle Of each. Abdominal sections
were made, and the question whether
severance could have been made safely in
life settled IN the negative with almost
certainty. The lining membranes of the
abdomen in each were found 10 enter the
band and form pouches, overlapping each
other at the centre oi the band.


What was most peculiar here was the
presence Of two such pouches from the
body OF Chang, the upper one shorter
than the lower, but each tapping one
from above and the other from below the
single pouch Of Eng. Holding the first
joint of the fOrehnger between tho thumb
and finger Of the other hand will give an
exact idea Of the arrangement OF these
pouches. A line passing down the centre
OF the band would sever oil three Of these
prolongations and open tho abdominal
cavity OF each Of the twins II the knife
had been used in life death would there.
fore probably, If not necessarily, have 70.
suited. The examination also showed to.
day and tonight that there was a clrcu-
lAtion throughout the band, as is seen
from the passage Of injecting matter used
in embalming. The abdominal organs
lie close in Contact with these pouches,
but are not continuous into them. To-
morrow the most important investigation
will take place by making a deep section
into the band, with view OF nscertsining
the umbilical connec tions bearing on the
physiological manifestations in the leotal
life Of such beings. The report Of the
College Of Physicians Wednesday night,
for which invitations are marked, "Pri-
vate only. will be a verbal one. The
formal written report Is to be prepared
subsequently, for publication in the Medi.
cal journal.
Year: 1874




In yesterdays Cincinnati Gazette there
Is special dispatch from Memphis read
Ing as follows


MEMPH1s, Feb. 1.-THE carnival TO-.
day was somewhat dull, the rain having
fallen during last night and at intervals
during the day, and but for the sloppy
condition Of tho streets and the vile.
drunkenness and wdnessdisplayed there
might have been q much better time. As
II was there were but few respectable
people on the streets, and tonight OF the
balls there Is little but laclviousness and
drunkenness. The station houses are full
and hardly an hour passes that there is
not an arrest for cutting or shooting.
The parade Of tho Memphi tonight did
not come up 10 that Of last year, and this
will probably be the last occasion OF the
kind that will ever be held here.


The streets were too muddy for the
procession to-day, and were in conse-
quenCe filed with the worst mob ever seen
In the city.


The balls tonight are well attended,
except that Of the too select eMemphi, at
which there were several fights.


The country will read such news as
the above from Memphis with feeling
near akin to disgust. 1t was only a lew
weeks ago that death stalked at noon and
at midnight through the streets Of that
city, and laid low innumerable victims.
A decent respect Tor public opinion, leav.
Ing out Of sight any other consideration,
would have dictated q winter oI sobriety
after such visitation. But according to
the above dispatch the city Is as besotted
In debauChery and rufflanism as sodom
and GomorTah. We do not wonder that
the better class of people made themselves
scarce in the streets, considering the
character of the display, nor that
the Mardi.Gras business has fallen
into disrepute among them Tor the
future. Such q carnival will do for
New Orleans, where it has fourished for
years as an institution OF the place, but it
is not susceptible Of adoption in every en-.
yious town and city on the Mississippi |
river that is jealous Of the prestige OF New
Orleans.
Year: 1874

The Washington Reporter Of yesterday
has tho following paragraph about the
agricultural outlook in that county:


"The wheat fields OF Washington county
never presented moro promising appear.
ance at this time Of the year than they
now do, and the heart Of the husbandman
Is accordingly gladdened, The grass fields
also present q tine appearance, and unless
the high winds and severe troets Of March
interfere the next crop Of grass and grain
will belarge."
Year: 1874

AN enterprising member Of the Ohio
Legislature has introduced a bill in tho
House to authorize the appointment OF a
commissioner to compile and prepare a
series Of text books for use in the common
schools of Ohio. We wonder what school
book publishing company has persuaded
this verdant Representative to father the
Inh9
Year: 1874

WEsT ALEXANDRIA; Pa, Feb. II, 1874.
Quite a conflict has been going on be-
tween the Board Of Education Of Done
gal township and that Of this borough,
about q lot at this place which the town
ship board sold short time before the
incorporation Of the town, Since being
elected, the borough board claim thew haa
no right to do this, because Of the Tronnd nn
being donated to the town for school pur.
poses. The matter will como before the
court.
Year: 1874

REGISTRATIoN.-Thosew who have the right
to register and have not already done so,
and those who have to get transfers from one
voting precinct to another, ought to perform
that duty to-day.
Year: 1874

1t is generally supposed that a
hotel is an institution where food
and lodgings are furnished to
guests. And when a traveller puts
up at hotel for the night, he of
course wants to rest his body and
mind from the scenes and trials of
the day just passed.


stopped at the Boss Hotel about
ten o'clock one evening, and called
for bed. The clerk informed me
that there was only one unoccupied
bed in the house, and that was in n
large room with two other beds. !
accepted the situation, and sable
waiter proceeded TO show me up
yes, up four flights of stairs,-to a
room sixteen feet square, with three
beds in It. | found the other two
occupants of the room very earn
cstly engaged in a consultation as
to what should be their course Of
action during the night. l heard
something about killing or dying in
the attempt. This made me feel a
little suspicious, but as / learned
the drift of the conversation, | felt
little more easy, but much out OF
humor, for | soon found that the
Counsel of war" was the planning
of some means by which they might
lessen the number of occupants in
the beds, whose chief business 1t
was to keep wearisome travellers
awake nights by their pcslxy biting
when n man is sleepy. We three
soon hit upon a plan which we car
Iied out with entire success. We
took the beds down, and inch by
inch went over every part that
would hold q bed-bug, and after
catching and depositing every Of
fender we could find In the water
pitcher, we lit our cigars, enjoyed q
smoke and then retired. Not
bite during the whole night.


Next morning at daybrealk, We
were aroused from Our peaceful
slumbers by hearing the beautiful
strains Of an old familiar air. We
listened to the serenaders for some
time, and then got up to find, il
possible, from what sourso came
such sweet music. 1t was found a
last. Half o dozen matches heC
accidentally been thrown into the
pitcher of water, and the bugs
having made a raft thereof, wer
floating and singing:


"a life on the ocean wave,


A home on the rolling deep"


We called the landlord up, AM
that evening be paid for an oyste
supper.
Year: 1874

Let the manners flow from the character.
Let them be the fragrance of the flower and
may there be a variety Of flowers and per-
fumes. The character has a right to ex.
press itself in manner, and will do so if all
hinderanccs are removed. AS in the fairy
tale the hair from the princes head gave a


description of his character and ofthe scenes
he had passed through, so should the pres.
ence give US the result of life, The manner
should express the habitual character, and,
dimly limiting at what has been or may be
felt, should add the light or shadow of the
momentary mood. The exquisite charm Of
that manner which only the most varied and
refined society can impart, which says and


does and looks the right thing at the right
moment, may not be for us Americans,
But even this divides itself into two parts,
one of which some natural sentiment and


high culture, even with a retired life, can
bestow. Without the graces of court we
may have that rapid aud delicate appreca.
tion Of every shade of meaning and Of feel


ing which makes person a most delight,
ful companion; and we are perhaps the more
likely to keep it, the less we are conscious
Of it, the more we are occupied with things
themselves and not with their effect on others,
Year: 1874

A sailor, explaining quadrille to his
messmate, thus described the third figure
"You first heave ahead" said he, and
pass your adyersary's yard-arm, regain your
berth on the other tack in the same order,
take your station with your partner in line,
back and 6ll, and then fall on your keel,
and bring up with your partner; she then
man@uyres ahead, off alongside Of you;
then make sail in company with her until
nearly astern Of the other liue, make stern
board, cast her of for to shit for herself,
regain your place the best way you can, and
let 20 your anchor"
Year: 1874

WoMANs ISFLUENcE-Like the olive
tree-said to fertiize the surrounding soil
there are some few mnisteriug angels in
female guisc among US all, and about our
paths, who sweetly serve to cheer aud adorn
life. Our amusements are insipid unless
they contribute to them our efforts of no.
best ambition feeble unless they applaud,
its reward yalueless unless they share them.
There are, too, some rude spirits in the
world whose bolder nature female influence
admirably serves to refine and temper aud
perhaps it is an extreme eulogism of the
poet, that without that influence many a


man had been "brute indeed !" The
concurrence Of both sexes is as necessary to
the perfection to our being as to the exist.
ence oft. Man may make fine melody but
women are also required to make cup harmony.
Year: 1874

TnE KEY-NorE.--This is the keynote Of
ereation-that God is giving forth bis own
life to raise men from the lowest form to
next higher, from this to the next higher,
aud from this to the next higher. If we
are Christ's, 1t is because we interpret and
exemplify, as he did the true love Of God.
Year: 1874

A circumstance occurred lately
in the Circuit Court Of Mclean
county, which shows the progress
that has been made within the past
few years. The Deputy Clerk of
the Court Department was called
away from his duties to attend the
funeral Of a sick child, and Miss
Belle Murray, Deputy Of the Re-
cording Department, was called up
on TO preside as Clerk Of the Court;
and to say that the position lost
nothing in dignity, grace or cor
rectness in the discharge Of the du-
ties is detracting nothing from the
merit of tho regular Clerk. Who
would have thought, ten years ago,
that in the year Of, our Lord, 1878,
lady would, without challenge
and without question, be recog-
nized as Clerk of a Circuit Court,
and in that capacity issue legal doc.
uments and perform legal functions.
Yet such is the case. But this Is
not the only evidence Of progress
furnished by this circumstance.
One of the first duties devolving
upon Miss Murray was to issue a
jurors certificate to a negro juror.
Only think Of it! A lady as clerk
of it! A lady as clerk Of court
issuing jurors certificate to a
darkey! We venture that such a
thing has not before happened in
this country within the past decade.
And truly that change has been
wonderful. 1t is but few years
since that the colored man was out
Iawed by the laws Of Illinois, and
woman was, in legal sense, non
entity. Now the colored man is
clothed with all the rights and dig
nifty Of free citizen, and woman
has already travelled more than half
the distance to the same proud en-
inence. Truly, the world does
move, and Mclean county leads
the van. Here it was that the Re.
publican party Of the nation was
born, and here it is that woman re-
ceives the recognition to which she
is entitled by her talents.-Bloom.
,ngton (M.) Leader.
Year: 1874

From Washington Cor. Boston Journal.


The fuss the papers make over
the carriages and outfits of the
President, i'll prepares one for the
quite ordinary stud Gen. Grant
keeps for his own use and tat of
his own family. The old stable of
Buchanan's time is now partly
conservatory and partly woodsLed.
Nearly quarter of a mile away, on
the new and yet uncultivated part
of the public grounds-outside of
the presidential garden-stands a
low, brick cditice, somewhat castel-
lated, and this is the presidential
stable. A coach of modern style.
trimmed wholly in black, except the
handles, with no ornament Of any
kind except "U.S.G." on the panels,
is the state and family carriage of
the hiefMagistrate. 1t would not
be fashionable coach for a New
York snob. 1t would need but lit
tie change to turn it into first class
mourning carriage. A small, light
driving wagon is the favorite for
the President when he drives him.
self. To this is hitched a small
black mare of marvellous speed, that
came from the state Of Maine. The
carriage horses are beauties. One
OF these is over sixteen hands high.
He was picked up in a hack in this
CITY, where he attracted no atten-
.tion. He cost but $4OO. He could
not now be purchased at any price.
A fine sum would be paid for mate.
A pair Of black ponies of great
speed and grit, driven to a low bas-
ket wagon, with a rumble behind,
is the fayorite team of Nellie Grant.
The horse OF mark in the stable is
Cincinatus, the old war horse of
the President. This animal is a
deep mahogany bay, slender and of
wonderful symmetry. His life work
is done. He is eighteen, a cripple,
and will live in clover to the end of
his days. A four-year-old colt of
great size and speed completes the
horse outfit of Gen. Grant.
Year: 1874

A New England exchange relates
the following: "a body of water
said to cover an area oftwo acres OF
more, has just been discovered on
the top of one of the mountains in
Glastonbury. Some Of the oldest in
habitants say that many years ago
it was known l. be there, and was
so called the '1.ost Pond and that
one day Stephen Pratt, then of Ben
nington, VT, and two other gentle.
men were roaming about in the
then seemingly interminable for
rests, trapping. Happening to have
hooks and lines in their pockets
they determined to see if there
wasn't some trout in the small
brook which they came across. AT
ter getting everything in readiness
they threw their hooks into the lit
tie brook, and, to their amazement
as they afterwards expressed i,
themselves, 'it was filled with trout!
They tished along up the stream a
few rods, and, to ther utter aston.
ishment, came to the pond above
mentioned. There they said the
trout took hold too fast for sport!
They caught more than they could
bring home through the woods, and
were consequently obliged to leave
some, but with a determination that
they would visit the pond the next
day. After long march they final
ly reached the road to town, where
they had left their team, but greatly
fatigued. They travelled all the
next day, but could not find the
pond, and it has not been discover
ed until now"