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Year: 1874

Tess per annum snan wuxs vucy wero
under Judge Russell, his predecessor. Notwith-
stanuing all these circumstances his behalf the


piue oloods OF Beacon Hill don't believe in him.


and since the defeat OF Butler. his Chief they have
commenced enorts which may eventually cause


with the Treasury Department Mr.. Simmons
went far out OF his way TO reject
upon his predecessor. and when the
correspondence was made public 1t chilled the
anecton oi some who had heretofore been the
Collectors warmest irlends. and this act alone
SELL the object OF his attack, IS IN foreign coun-
try, and when his defence OF simmons charges
arrive the pressure for MS resignation Is more
than likely to be such that he cannot well resist
IT.. But while he does stay he 10 bound to live up
70 the m0sto OF ''rerrenchment and reform"


In TACT, have IL from good authority thar the
investigation has already been Initiated. and that
the 0n1cials OF the yard and the Navy Department
at Washington The expenditures during the
campaign were so extraordinary and reckless
that it Is now almost impossible TO determine
where the money went TO. The Old and regular
employees are so clamorous and loud spoken
that the yard authorities well as the admins
tration are looking around 10 see what tney can
no less than 900 OF the Yards Iunds was used
up to procure the election OF Mr.. Gooch,
and the amount now remaining on hand
TO carry on the yard VIII permit only OF
on expenditure Of about $500 per day to
the end OF the nscal year-June so. This sum Will
only a1ord employment to ABOUT $50 men against
over 1900 who were employed before the election,
disturbed until next summer. The discharged
men are thrOnRing the streets OF CharestOwn
to-day, and their denunciations OF the treachery
oil the administration are loud and bitter
Year: 1874

In kerosene lamps the light often Ia
unsatisfactory while all Is apparently
In good order. IL should be borne In
mind that, Though tho wick Is but very
gradually burned, IL Is constantly be-
coming less able to conduct oil. Du-
ring several weeks some quarts Of oil
are slowly filtered through the wick,
which stops every particle OF dust or
other matter that will with the utmost
care be In tho best kinds OF oil. The
result 10 that the wick. Though IL 10
Of sufficient length aud looks as good
As ever. has its conducting power
greatly impaired, as its pores 80 to
speak. or the minute channslsby wi ich
the oil reaches the place to be burned.
becsme gradually obstructsd. IL ID
often economy to substitute q new
wick for an old one, even u that he
plenty long enough to serve for ssmo
time to come.
Year: 1874

In another column will be found the full text
Of an opinion as to the constitutionality Of the
Wisconsin Railroad law rendered by Attorney
General sloan, at the request Of Gov. Taylor.
Tho conclusion is that tho Inv is valid. Mr.


Carpenter mnnifcstly contributed something for
the information Of tho Attorney General by his
letter to the Madison papers recently published.
Year: 1874

The Gate Cltp takes this view Of
the seiection Of judicial candidates by
the Bar.


The lawyers at Des Moines have
had Mmeeting aud agreed to call a
lneesiiag of all the lawyersof that Ju-
dicial District, to select nominee
foa Judge, without regard to politics.
1t is all we'll enough to keep parti-
sanshlp out of judicicial matters,
probably, but if it is the business of
lawyers to choose a Judge, and the
people havn't sense enough to do it,,
then let us have law saying that
the people are to have no hand In the
matter: that the lawyers shall be au-
thorized to elect the judges. And to
have the thing completely fair, let
the law further declare that the law
yers slaall pay all the expenses OF
maintaining a judicial system: that
the people shall not be taxed for this
purpose. To our thinking the law
yers have the same right in selecting
a Judge as an equivalent number OF
other citizens: neither more nor less.
And we would prefer to trust the
equivalent number of other citizens.
Because our observation OF the action
OF lawyers in choosing a Judge has
nearly disclosed the primary purpose
of most of the lawyers to be the
whollyselfisir one of getting some
successful practitioner out Of the way
so they can have a chance at his
practice. Which isn't a very lofty
plane to build the selection of Judges
upon.
Year: 1874

The Ottumwa Courier of last Mon
day evening announces that il has
information, upon authority which il
cannot doubt, that the call for the
Republican Congressional Convention
in this district Is to be issued imme-
diately. The Courier regrets that
the call Is to be made so soon, but as
sures us that this action "has no pos
sible reference to any candidate"


We agree with the Courier that the
Congressional Convention should
follow rather than precede the State
Convention. Though 1t may be too
early TO talk about the matter, the
time has certainly not arrived for
choosing our candidate. Give us
time for consideration, and let har-
mony prevail, that the right man,
upon whom all can heartily unite,
may be chosen.
Year: 1874

1t is said that those members OF
Congress composing the majority
who favored the currency bill, now
propose to get even with the capital
lists, whom they consider responsible
for the veto, by restoring the tax up
on incomes of $1,000 or more. III
this should be done the nabobs
would still have the advantages Of
contraction at a cost which they
could easily afford. The motive in
dicated may not be justitiable, but
the end would not be far from right.
Year: 1874

THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
In commenting upon the failure of
J. Y. Scammon, of Chicago, as a
newspaper manager, Mccullough, of
the st. Louis Globe, one OF the most
successful journalists of the West,
tells plain truth in the following
words: The business of journalism
will continue to be an inviting field
for experiment to those who have a
large amount of egotism. A man
who, having edited newspaper un-
til he was forty, should suddenly
announce himself lawyer, would
be regarded as a fool by the legal
profession; and yet, we often hear of
lawyers of forty making sudden pre-
lenses to journalism. There is an
idea that the business of editing re-
quires no apprenticeship; that edi-
tors come forth from the law offices
and colleges fully armed for the
profession, like Pallas from the
brow of Jove. 1t is mistakes; there
is not in America to-day a single
journalist of national reputation
who has not devoted more time and
hard work to his profession than,
with equal fitness and application,
would have made him a great law
yer or good doctor. And yet
ninety out of every hundred men
you meet on the streets will hesitate
about carrying hod or making a
pair of shoes, whereas there will
probably not be one in the hundred
who cannot, in his own Judgment,
edit any newspaper in the country
better than it is edited, no matter in
what manner or by whom.
Year: 1874

MUsT RISE AND ENPLAIN.-Friend Stout will
have to give an explanation to his Grange brcth-
rem hereabouts, when he comes back from Tope-
ka. They are ont of sorts, and nothing short of
a clear explanation will satisfy them. He voted
against the consideration Of Anthony's resolution
relative to giving up railroad passes aud retain
ed his pass. They say that in his speeches, du-
ring the campaign, he most emphatically declar-
ed that he would suffer his right arm to be sew
cred from his body before he would accept pass
from any railroad company. A pass is a handy
thing to have in family, and we believe in ev-
cry man taking them when he can get them, and
then voting as he pleases; but the GranGers be-
lieve differently, and want to know why Stout
has gone back on bis solemn pledge.
Year: 1874

Mrs. Tilton says that her sin, for which
she was so deeply penitent, was in allow
ing her love for Mr.. Beecher to supplant
her love for her husband But as Theo-
dore had solaced himself with Wood
hull's affection, we don't see that he had
any particular reason to get mad about
that. or even if Mrs. Tilton had gone
further than she admits The fact is,
the world is growing wiser and fairer in
this matter. as the world always will if
it is let alone. y man may be false to
his wife. forsake her love for the tiaunt-
ing charms of strange women, and the
wife must suffer on in silence. But if
the injured wife follows in her husbands
footsteps, for the least distance, If she
make ever so little a hi5tep, 10, the
faithless husband who has broken and
disregarded every pledge he made at the
altar, either hunts up the destroyer of
his hOnor-heaven save the mark and
promptly pistols him and is as promptly
acquitted of the murder by a jury of
sympathizing and, perhaps, equally sin
ming married Inen. or else if he has an
aversion to powder, he ruSheS into print,
publishes his wife's shame and his own
Shamelessness to the world, and howls
for sympathy And the world is grow
ing tired of these fellows. 1t is begin
ming to believe that what is sauce for the
gander is sauce for the goose, and if
husband boldly, shamelessly and openly
sets his wife the example Of ffaithleSsness,
what right has he TO complain if she is
not better than himself. ''You want us
to be angels, do you!" cried a female
lecturer, pretty figures you would cut
beside angels, you brutes" And she
embodied the whole argument and the
whole philosophy of the equality of the
sexes, right there
Year: 1874

n CELEBRATED artist of Boston, who
excels in painting animals, saw as lie
was passing through one Of the rural
towns of Massachusetts very animated
looking bull. Thinking he would like
to take him on canvas he got permits
sion of the owner. an honest farmer, and
i'll due time produced an excellent like
ness of the bull, which he sold for 500.
On seeing the farmer soon after he told
him he had sold the picture of his bull
for $500. Good graeiOus.' said the
man, ''why l would have sold him the
bull for less than that. - Worcester Put
Laliinm.
Year: 1874

Senator Hannibal Hamlin, of Maine,
in his speech at the recent Republican
Congression Convention at Bangor, said:


'.Any reading and thinking man must
see that spirit of progress animates our
parTy-a disposition to open up new
channels of commerce and to increase
the production of the cOuntrG, a dispOsi-
ton to aid all genuine projects ealcula-
ted to benefit the nation at large, a spirit
of liberality to aid the Government in
its upward course, desire to have
stricter accountability between Govern
ment officers and departments, strong
purpose for economy in every branch of
the Governmental these are charac-
teristies of the party to which the Gov
ernment is intrusted, notwithstanding
the ISLANDERS and scandals set afiOat by a
portion of the press. There has been too
much of this slander by innuendO. The
man who boldly charges me with crime,
and fixes the time and place, | regard as
a gentleman when compared with him
who endeavors tofix it upon me by in
nuendO. The fairest flames have been
blasted by this underhanded, whispered,
half-cOnceaIed method of abuse, when
lllcIt WIS Dbt lll- Sil.llitSI grain Vi
in the slander-when it was false as hell
itself The sO-called independent press
has nothing to do butt scandalize the
whole people, and public men in partie-
ular, it Is the food they live on L do
not say this because they have accused
me Of stealing God knows how soon
they wild, but because it has been IA
crying evil. In this country, as in all
others, war has been in some degree a
cause Of decentralization: but We have
come out of the greatest the world ever
saw. and have taught the world n lesson.
We have demonstrated that u republic
is not only the best but the strongest
form Of government, and that ours has
done TFp-, than any other of which his
tory tells "a, to correct this demOraliza-
ton For thirty years past have
known THr Presidents and heads of de
partueutS, many Of them intimately and
state here on my reputation, which hold
dearer than anything else in this world,
that there is as much integrity in public
officials to-day as at any hour since we
have had n Government. | do not say
say that we have no corrupt men in Of
flee, but do say that the Republican
Administration has done more to get rid
Of them than any other government.
Year: 1874

a NOTABLE WEN.-Young Stevens,
son of the battery man, has gold galore,
but what are millions to a man so de
formed that dogs bark at him when he
goes halting by, and lovely women, even
when the golden luster of untold wealth
glitters about his head, faints at sight of
hims From his birth a peculiar wen,
growing larger and larger every day. has
made his face and neck hideous. Gov
cred with long hair it looked like a re-
pulsive wild animal clinSing to his head
Stevens hid himself from the general
eye, and mOped in loneliness. In early
youth he was betrothed to a beautiful
young girl, but as the wen grew great
his love grew less; rather his deterInina-
ton never to infiict his horrible deform-
ity on a fellow-creature was firmly form
ed. The best surgeons of Europe and
America gave him no hope. They were
unanimous in declaring that to remove
the wen was to permanently remove the
patient. But recently he met Il daring
practitioner who declared that it was
within the skill of the surgeon to lOp off
the eXcrescence and restore the afflicted
man to a healthy and normal condition.
Stevens listened gratefully, '.Do IL, ="
said he, ''and your reward shall be $3.50
OOO." With electric knives the eonfidentI
cutter went to work, and in a very brief
time had earned his mammoth fee. The
skin beneath the tumor was sound and
smooth and Stevens is in excellent
health He may now have his picture
taken, enjoy his wealth, and say to his
Duleinea, Gwen, oh. wen shall we wed y
-ChicdgO Times.
Year: 1874

a POOR Irishwoman applied to a lady
for flower or two to put in the hand Of
a dead infant, and when a handsome
bouquet was handed TO her she offered 70
pay for it, which, of course. was declined
when, with a look full of gratitude, she
exclaimed, May the Lord Jesus meet
you at the gate Of heaven with crown
Of roses" Nothing could be more touch
ingiy beautiful as well as poetical.
Year: 1874

We do not wish to cast reflections on
an honorable profession, but it il iHteres-
tingt TO nOte, in connection with the state
ment that the IceIanders are probably
the most virtuous people in the world,
that there are only two lawyers ia the
whole island
Year: 1874

CAUSES FOR TRIAL AND ARGUMENI
At the May Term, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy four, before
the Superior Court to be held in New Castle,
in and for New Castle County
Year: 1874

A Germnu recruiting officer once came
up with an Trishman who was anxious to
enlist 10 the German army but there was
oue obstacle iu the Way-he could not
speak a German word. After some delib'
GRAFTON and consultation between The parties
The recruiting officer told tho Irishuau
that If be would resort to bit OfStrltagom
be could get him through. lie informed
him that only three questions would be
asked him by the enrolling officer, and
these be would prepare him to answer,
Firstly, be would be asked how many


years hc was Of age; the answer be must
give would be thirty. Secondly he would
Year: 1874

THE RAN,-At this writing, after mid
night, the atmosphere has undergone a
very decided change and the rain is com.
ing down in . steady and gentle, yet quite
copious measure. The indications are
that it is general throughout this region,
as yesterday was more or less cloudy
and the air sultry, moist and close. Such
a rain Is worth an untold sum to the
Upper Ohio Valley, even Stthis stage OF
the game" and will give the potatoes and
corn, and also the pasture fields, a now
lease Of life. As It falls steadily and pat.
teringly OF our window, and as we breathe
the ireshened and cooled air Of this early
morning, we think OF the expressions of
thankfulness that crossed the lips Of the
Greeks in"the retreat Of the ten thousand"
when they beheld the waters oi the long
sought Euxine sea,
Year: 1874

JUDGE MELVIN is under promise Of a


visit OF rustication here at an early day
Come along, Judge, and leave dusty
Wheeling and musty Blackstone to dry
up and cremate If they will.-HansOek
Courier. NJ " " q
Year: 1874

Tho connection Of this line to the East
will be over the Panhandle road. That
road proposes TO strike the Monongahela
higher up than OF present, so as to get an
air line to Greenaburg, there connecting
with the Pennsylvania road, and thus
saving nearly eight miles more. This
will make 1t the great through route TO
the East from this city, and 1t will be
sought for by trade and travel from the
country round about, even as low down
as Parkersburg.
Year: 1874

The BALL To-NIGHT.-This evening the
Montgomery Guards will give their second an.
nual ball at City Hall. 1t will be remembered
that the initiatory ball last year was grand
success. The arrangements this year are more
elaborate and an even larger attendance is con.
fidentIy looked forward to. Chambers quad
rile band will furnish the music, which cannot
but be of the best. Tickets are still for sale
and those who wish to enjoy good dance this
evening will have good opportunity
Year: 1874

POLICE NoTEs.-Tuesday evening gentle
man made complaint to Deputy Williams that
while on the street man made snatch at his
watch chain. He afterwards discovered that
he had lost one of the links and gold coin
that he had in his pocket with the watch.
About midnight drunken man csme in for a
lodging and on his person was the missing link
of the chain aud the gold piece. Yesterday
he admitted that he had been drinking hard
at the time. He says it is his first crime.


parallel case to the above occurred last
night. A man came into the station and ap-
piled for lodging, but being quite drunk they
locked him up. An officer soon came in say
ing that an officer from Skowhegan was on the
lookout for man named Charles A. Hersey,
for stealing $50 and lot of goods, This being
the name of tse would be-lodger, word was
telegraphed to Skowhegan giving description
of the man. An answer was received saying
that it was the right one, and that an officer
woald be sent for him to-day.


There were four men hauled to the station
last night, dead drunk.


A large store key awaits an owner at the
police station.


Officer Rice arrested John M'Fane John
Brown for an affray on the street last night.
M'Fane is the captain of small coaster in
port. Rice brought both his men to the station
without assistance
Year: 1874

The National Health Board organized at
Washington yesterday.


Adyices from the mining regions of Pennsyl
yania say that it is generally conceded that
the miners will not stand out for the advance
Of wages demaded some days SINCE neither
will they submit to reduction of pay.
Year: 1874

SovERrGNs OF INDUSTRY. order of Sow
erigns of Industry are making arrangements to
call public meeting of both sexes, for the pur.
pose of fully explaining to the public the object
Of the order. The meeting will be held at the
City Hall within two weeks.
Year: 1874

" The Chief Clerk Of the City Council of a. Loui,
kicked an interviewing reporter Of the Gios few dsys
ago This s sad But II the reporter Of the pattern
that many Of the nervewers the kicking was proba


If the reporter was the nosing, prying jiIl.fiirt
who calls himself Ford, the boot leather was nut
to good use. The only fear is that tho kicks
may not have been hard enough, aud too few of
them.
Year: 1874

u The recent Senatorial campaign is said to
have been conducted fairly and honestly. But
it was marred by one incident which we think
might as well have been omitted. We mean
tho preconcerted onslaught of Moonlight and
Price on Lieutenaut-Governor Slower, in the
Joint Convention. 1t was out of place, aud uu-
called for and, considering that the attack was
made upon the presiding officer of the body of
which these two Senators are members, it was
discourteous in the extreme. Il was like two
roughs wsylayingA man in the dark, when he
Was unarmed and unsuspecting, and despatching
him, because he was not of their gang. 1t might
have come with better grace, if tho record of
either of those valiant gentlemen for consistency
had been inyulnerable
Year: 1874

Cough is symptom by which various diseased
conditions Of the throat, bronchial tubes and
lungs manifest themselves. But whether it ari-
ses from the irritation produced in the throat and
larynx by taking cold, from an attack of Brou-
chitis, from incipieut Consumption, or from vari-
ous other causes, nothing will allay il more
speedily nor cure it more permanently than Dr.
Pieces Golden Medical Discovery. II does not
matter whether it be recent attack or lin
gering cough, the Discovery is in either case
equally well adapted for its relief and perma-
nent cure. In fact, it will cure cough in one
half the time necessary to cure 1T with any other
medicine and it does it, not by drying it up. but
by removing the cause subduing the irritation,
and healing the affected parts. No time should
be lost in commencing the use of proper medi-
cine for the relief of a Cough, for unless this
course is pursued, serious aud dangerous disease
of the lungs is liable to result.
Year: 1874

THE LADIES' FAIR AND BAZAR is still going
on, opposite the post-otiice, and will continue
during the present week. The room in
which it is held is very spacious, and when
lighted up at night presents beautiful ap-
pearance, with its pretty display Of goods
and tastefuly y.arranged and decorated tables.
But decidedly the greatest charm about the
affair is the exceedingly tender regard the
Young ladies have for a mans pocket, and
he is not made 10 blush up to the roots Of
his hair when he cannot afford to buy more,
as is too often the case, by the persisting fair
creatures.
Year: 1874

CoRoN1AL STATlsrIcs.-During the past
month Coroner Taylor was called upon to
hold inquests in three cases. The first in
quest was upon the body of an infant, found
in the eastern part of the city, supposed to
have been slain by an unknown mother; and
the other two upon the bodies of two in
fants who were smothered accidentally.
Year: 1874

The First National Bank Of Norfolk


WAsuISGros, October 31.-The Controller
OF the Currency has authorized a dividend
of twenty per cent. among the crea'tors o
the late First National Bank OF Norfolk
This is the first dividend declared.
Year: 1874

Nora soon learned the ways and manners
of lady. She seemed to be instinctiyely
delicate and ladylike. She was pretty, too,
when the hungry look went out Of her eyes.


Miss Buckingham, though on the lookout,
never discovered vice in her. Whatever
may have been her oaiginal faults, she
seemed to have shed them with her rags,
aud the great gratitude felt for her benefac-
tress overwhelmed everything. She seemed
to live but to do something for Miss Buck
ingham.


The lady began to feel that virtue is its
own reward. Not all the pleasure she had
found in taking the very cream of life had
given her so mu,h happiness as this one
poor child.


Almost without knowing it, she went out
less, and her life gradually shaped itself
into something like a loving mothers life.


TO Nora, life was like dream--a dream
Of heaven, at that Always warm, always
fed, always safe from roughness, surrounded
by things so beautiful she scarcely dared to
touch them every want attended to before
it was felt 1t was too wonderful to seem
true. la dreams she would often return to
the desoate shanty where the wind blew
through the cracks, and the old ricketty
stove was no better fed than her mother and
herself. She would feel her fathers blows,
and wake 10 fnd herself in her snug warm
bed, 10 her room next to Miss Buckipgham's.
Year: 1874

In the Matter of the Estate of Franklin
Small Deceased.


Notice is hereby given that the Judge of
the Probate Court of Redwood County, has
fixed upon the first Tuesday Of each and
every month for the next six months, and
the Probate Office in said county, as tb e
times and place when and where he will
receive, heaI, and adjust all claims Of per-
sons against said deceased, and that six
months have been limited as the time for
creditors to present their claims against
said estate.


Dated the 4th day Of December 1874.


IRENE SMALL
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