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Year: 1874

A Young man about twenty years old,
living in Randolph township, Burlington
county, New Jersey, some months ago be-
came deeply attached to the daughter of a
neighboring farmer, who, although large of
her age, was not fifteen years old. She re-
ciprocated his love, and he agreed to wait
five years, or more if it was necessary, be-
fore wedding her; but when he made his
preparation to go to an adjoining county
to work she was so heartbroken that an
elopement was decided upon, and meeting
him agreeable to promise, they trudged
seven miles to his fathers house, where she
was taken care Of till the next day, when
they were married, the girl telling the Off
ciating alderman that she was eighteen
years OF age.


sister, at Haddonfield, where they were
bride, armed with a warrant for the arrest
of the groom for abducting his daughter
The accused was seized. taken before a
magistrate and committed to Jail, from
which he was finally baied. He was in
dicted under the twelfth section of the law
in relation to crimes, for taking away te-
male under the age of fifteen without the
consent of her father.


Last week the case was called for trial In
the Burlington Court of Oyer before Judge
Woodruff, the court room being crowded
with deeply interested crowd at the trial


The girl, in her examination, declared
her love for him, and assumed her share of
blame In the matter, expressing her belief
in his honorable intentions, belief in which
the spectators seemed to share.


Col. G. S. Cannon, formerly State Attor-
ney, made an eloquent appeal, but the judge
charged the jury that the law had been vic.
lated, and the jury should not be be- influenced
out the entire night and came in several
times for instructions. Finally they rem
dered their verdict of guilty, united with
recommendation to the mercy of the Court.
AS soon as the verdict was announced the
young man was seized with convulsions,
which lasted so long that it was deemed
best not to sentence him, and bail was &C
cordingly given for his appearance at the
December term.
Year: 1874

The following extract we take from ths
New York Independent, and commend 1t TO
the careful consideration of the boys and
young men among our readers


The first thousand dollars that young
man, after going out into the world to act
for himself, earns and sdues, will generally
settle the question of business life with him.
There may be exceptions to this state
ment; yet, for rule, we think that 1t Will
hold true.


The first condition is that the young man
actually earns the thousand dollars IN ques-
tion. He does not inherit this sum. 1t
does not come to him by streak of good
luck, as the result Of a fortunate venture in
the purchase and sale of a hundred shares
of stock 1t is the fruit of personal indus
try. He gives his ii =, and his labcr for
it. While he is thusr ling and saving 1t,
he must earn two or three, or perhaps four
times as much to pay his current expenses.
He is consequently held sternly to the task
Of industry for a considerable period. The
direct consequence to him is steady, con-
tinuous and solid discipline in the habits OF
industry-in patient, persistent, forecastlng
and self-denying effort, breaking up all the
tendencies to Incidence and frivolity, and
making him an earnest and watchful econ
omist of time.


He not only learns how to work, but he
also acquires the love of work; and more
over he learns the vGlte of the sum which
he has thus saved out of his earnings He
has toiled for it; he has observed its slow
increase from time to time; and III his estI-
mate it represents so many months or years
of practical labor. His ideas of life are
shaped bv his own experience These nat
ural effects of earning the first thousand
dollars we hold to be very large benefits.
| They are just the qualities of mind and
body which are most likely to secure busi-
ness success in after years. They constl-
tute the best practical education which
man can have as acorker in this working
world. They are gained i'll season for hte's
purposes, at the opening period, just when
they are wanted, when foolish notions are
most likely to mislead an inexperienced
brain, and when, too, there is full oppor-
tunity for expansion and development IN
| later years.


Men have but one life to live; and hence,
they start from opening manhood but once.
And the manner in which they start, the
purposes they have in view, and the habits
they form, will ordinarily determine the
entire sequel OF their career on earth. To
succeed, men must have the elements of sue
cess IN themselves One great reason why
there are so many useless, inefficient, and
poverty-stricken men on earth-or, rather,
boys seeming to be men-consists i'll the
simple fact that they do not start. A
prominent reason why the children of the
rich SO frequently amount to nothing may
be found in the luxury, ease and Incidence
which marked the commencement of their
| lives 1t is the law of God that we should
be aoorkers on earth and no one so well
consults the best development of his being
as when he conforms his practice to this
law. The workers in some suitable sphere
are the only really strong men in this world.
Year: 1874

We should all live more healthful, more
useful and longer lives, did we SO employ
our activities to extract from them that en-
ioyment which is their natural and legltl,
mate result. Let every one be sure that, II
his work is toilsome, arduous and depress-
ing, there is something wrong; some of his
faculties are restained, while others are
overburdened some of his powers are ex-
hauste6, while others are dormant. 1t is
not rest so much as change that he needs
not to lay down his work and fold his hands
in idleness, but rather to embrace other
fields of action, hitherto untrodden. 1t will
doubtless be difficult to apply this to all the
details of practical life, but we shall have
gained one important step towards It,, II
we appreciate and firmly hold to the truth,
that rea; happiness can only be attained by
activity of mind and body, and the more
fully and harmoniously all our powers are
exercised, the fuller will be our life, and the
more real enjoyment will it yield.
Year: 1874

1t is singular fact, says Parlsian writer,
that man generally requires very differ
ent qualities in a wife from those he admires
in a sweetheart. While lover, he expected
to see his future wife neatly and stylishly
dressed whenever he chose to call, either
morning or evening, and the girl busted
her little brain all day in efforts to please
his taste. If he left town for few days,
he sent letters full Of sweet nothings that
filled her soul with joy. Then came de-
lightful rambles in the moonlight and hours
spent in charming tete tetes after the
family had retired, when the two saw no
one but each other in their world of love-


Alas ! that such bliss must ever be dis
PEELED. Time brought preparations for the
approaching wedding; for this devoted couple
imagined that their happiness could never be
complete until the Hymeneal knot was tied.


So the wedding and honeymoon were
soon over, and the parties settled into the
matter-of-fact part of life. The bride
knows nothing of housekeeping. Since her
schooldays she has spent her time in study
ing the tastes of her lover, which certainly
seemed to incline towards dress and senti-
mentality ....


Now, alas she discovers that his stomach
demands food of the best quality; and be-
cause she knows not how to cater to his
pdldCe DIS love SecllS 10 De waning. w uile
he is vainly trying to appease hunger with
sour bread and burned steak, little does he
appreciate the sweet nonsense and honeyed
words which used to be so satisfying to his
sentimental nature .


All, men are so unreasonable. They ex-
pect to find every quality of excellence in
the woman they marry, yet have not pene-
tratlon sufficient to choose the most worthy.
To shine in society, to exhibit every fem
inine accomplishment, both at home and
abroad, are duties which they require in the
woman they marry, and what have they to
give in return? 1t seems impossible that
those delicate attentions which character
lied the lover should be so Withdrawn by
the husband.


The other day when heard a neighbor
demanding his dinner in not the most pleas
ant tone, thought, "Can it be possible that
he ever played the ardent lover to that pale,
detected woman, whom he calls his wife 2"
The lover who could scarcely tear himself
away from his sweetheart at midnight is
the same man who now leaves his wife to
spend her evenings as best she may, while
| he passes the hours in doubtful enjoyment.
! All !! how soon men forget the solemn
VOW to love and cherish till death ! And
how many women regret that the charming
delusions of courtship were ever exchanged
for the unpleasant realities of marriage.
Year: 1874

A SHORT SERMoN.-As a monk was as
cending the rostrum one St. Stephens day
to preach a sermon in praise Of that saint,
the officiating priests, fearing that the holy
father would be somewhat longwinded,
whispered in his ear a petition that he
would shorten his discourse. The monk
gravely entered the pulpit, and after short
exhortation, he addressed his auditors: "My
brethren, this time twelve months ago told
you all which could be said concerning this
saint. AS [ have not learned that he has
done anything new since that time, I have
nothing to add to what | then related"
Year: 1874

A BIRD LAw.-Like contributor to
the State Agricultural Journal we advocate
the passage of a stringent law prohibiting
the killing of birds for certain period, or
the limitation of such killing to certain
months. Soon all of our beautiful singers
and useful auxiliaries in the war with in
sects will be gone. They should be re-
tanned. Let the sportsman be restrained,
and these little feathered friends will not
be lost to our forests and fields. The Leg
slature should enact rigorous bird law
WiZDein0tOn Star.
Year: 1874

REMEDY FOR DIPrHER1A-The follow
ing is said to be thoroughly tested and
etfectual remedy for diptheria or sore throat.
Gargle or wash the inside of the throat fire.
quently with teaspoonful of tincture of
black cohosh, diluted with a little water.
commence using it on the first symptoms
OF soreness or inflammation. 1t does not burn
or cauterlze, but soothes and relieves the
irritation DO not swallow, as it will nau-
seate. Continue the use once in two hours
until relieved. The tincture can be had At
any drug store
Year: 1874

Two K1Nps.-There are two kinds of
girls: one is the kind that appears best
abroad, the girls that are good for parties,
visits, ball, &C., and whose chief delight is
in such things. The other is the kind that
appears best at home, the girls that are use
full and cheerful in the dining room, the sick
room, and all the precincts of home. They
differ widely in character. One is frequent
ly torment at home; the other blessing.
One is moth, consuming everything about ut
and gladness all along the pathway. Now
it does not necessarily follow that there
shall be two classes Of girls. The right
modification would modify both a little,
and unite their characters in one.
Year: 1874

~ If there is one man on this conti-
nent that ought to feel under obligations
to the Southern people it is U. S. Grant.
If the Southern people had never seeded
he would now be makinga a bad quality of
leather in Illinois instead of drawing a
$4,000 salary at-Long Branch.
Year: 1874

Now, a few words about that We now occupy
the superb House heretofore so favorably known as
the Messrs. Brem Brown & Co! Dry Goods House,
to carry on our Retail business, and as Excelsior"
is and always has been our motto, we claim also in
that line to excel in stock to excel in lowness of
prices and to excel generally. We will, in that
House, have a corps of thirty Statesmen and Sales
Ladies, all experienced, affable and obliging.


cE-We make the Millinery branch a specially


WITTKOWSKY & RINTELS.
Year: 1874

"Bclore states were used pcop.c multiplied
ON the face of the earth Boggs, who takes
joke about as hard as he would a blow in
the face, read this to his school class to show
what wrctched peryersiJns of fact newspaper
people are led to publish, and then went into
q computation to show that the use Of states
cannot have scnsibly affected the increase of
the worlds population, because, first, states
are only used as covering for human habi-
tations in very small fraction of the earth 5
surface; secondly, because in those countries
where states are used but a small fraction Of
the population use them, the use of thatch
tiles, shingles, tar and asphalt also prevail
ing; and thirdly, because the ratio of the
number of persons injured by the falling of
states in the most populous parts of the most
slate-covered cities to the whole population
of such localities is said to be expressed by
the decimal .OO703900012.
Year: 1874

Although the trade unions Of working
men have been roundly abused for the prin-
ciplc @! combination against what they con-
cciyc to be ''thc common enemy of their
Interests, the principle is of very extensive
application IN commercial and industrial en-
terpris1S. Oar great railway and similar
lnonopolics are founded upon it, almost
and combination against the travelling public
i, far more universal with them than is the
combination in trades against employers.
One Of these combinations on II grand scale
has just been dissolved at Liverpool by
mutual consent of the parties to it and the
result is likely to be bcnccialy felt in the
reduced rates Of lrcights on the Atlantic
Ocean. Hitherto all the transatlantic com
panic, whose headquarters are at Liverpool
were combined for the adoption and support
Of uniform rates Of trcight---all Of which
combination was to the direct injury of
trade and at the expense Of the consumer.
Now the combination has been rcinquiShcd
and competition will operate. Already it is
reported that offers are made to carry freight
at half the previous rates. In the cause
that dissolved this combination we see the
natural moral of all these cndcayors to keep
up prices by artificial means. As the com
bination was in the trade from Liverpool,
shippers We're driven to other ports. lf in
Liverpool irciyhts were made high by the
combination, competition and free trade
made them cheaper elsewhere, and shippers
went where they were cheap. These COM
panies thought it was great thing to con-
troll Liverpool; but, as they could not coli
trol the whole shipping world, their game
fell short, and proved to be not 50 much n
plundcring Of the shipper as an injury to
the port and the trade in whose prosperity
they We're directly concerned. And this in
dcatcs the limitation Of combinations. I'M
mcdatcly and on a small theatre they are an
advantage to those who combine. but ulti-
matcly and in the largest application they
are an injury, for they either drive the trade
in which they are applied to some other
point or they kill it altogether.
Year: 1874

How TO SAVE TooLs.-lIavc Il place for
every tool, no matter how insignificant it
may be, and ON closing shop see, or cause
to he seen, that every tool is in its place.
This, though an old rule, has been the
foundation of many fortune. Anothe
good rule is to keep your tools sharp, and
otherwise in good order. The hands will
never loosc sight Of them so long as they
are in usablc condition. And still another
rule i never to buy any but the very bcS:
tools 10 be procured either ut home or
abroad. \ poor workman may turn out
tolcrablc work with good tools. when Il
good workman can do nothing but boch
with bad tuol-
Year: 1874

said: "Even now we only ask even-
handed justice. You know how men
to suffer from the excessive heat.
We have met YOU in spirit of fairness,
and you submit an outrageous PROPOSE
ton, which we cannot accept. Because we
don't submit, we are denounced as being
arbitrary. You make yourown prices, but
when the scale was made you didn't
expect it to go below three cents, and it
suited you very we'll then. Now you
say we don't meet you in the proper
spirit, that we don't understand you


Mr.. Jones-My understanding was
that when the card rates went below three
cents the scale was to be readjusted.
Iron is now really lower than before the
war, when we only paid three dollars
and half for pudding. The time is
fast coming to close in which to con-
slider the matter. Only few more OF
the thirty days are left. Then something
will have to be done, and We feel that we
have acted in all fairness.


The meeting then adjourned until next
Saturday.
Year: 1874

A DECISION interesting to both Lie
Insurance Companies, and to those IN
surcd therein, has recently been given in
the United States Circuit Court for the
Western District of Missouri. A policy
was issued BY an eastern life insurance
company upon the life of certain indi-
vIdual. The usual supply of questions
We're propounded, and satisfactory re-
plies given. Finally the assured signed
Contract to the effect that if any of his
answers to the questions asked were
false, the policy should be void.


In about a year after taking out this
policy, the assured died. His executor
demanded the money on his life; but the
company las Life Insurance Companies
frequently do declined to pay without
aIawsuit. In this action, the company
alleged that for the reason stated above,
The policy had been forfeited, and the
Judge upheld it in this position. He
said, that as it had been shown that, the
questions asked were material, and rs the
answers had been proven untruthful IN
many particulars, judgment would be-
gwen in favor Of the company.
Year: 1874

T ACES-We have determined to regain our
~ former prestige for having the best stock Of
LACE GOODS in the city, and have this sea-
son imported very largely of them. With US
will hereafter be found every NEW Sly LIE
OF LACE that comes out in Brussels, and at
reasonable prices.


HAMILTON EASTER s. SONS.
gs- Samples supplied by mail on application
Year: 1874

A HORRIBLE INCIDENT The San Francisco
Chronicle gives the particulars of the recent
galows decapitation which occurred oear An
tioch, Cal. The victim was Marshal Martin,
aged ftty.t three years. who had his head torn
from his body ou the galows, to which he had
been condemned for numbering Valentine
Elschler, an old German, whose wife lostlgat
ed Martin to the murder, and who afterwards
proved raviug maniac and Is now shut up IN
lunatic asylum. Martio was a very weak
aud half imbeeile creature. The gallows scene
is described as follows


When the drop fell Martins body shot
sudden eIastic-hke spring, the black cap few
into the air at least eight feet and spatterlng
the blood 10 great spots over the rope, the
whitewashed wall, the trap, the chair in which
the doomed man, sat, and the sheriff's 5 boots,
it rolled away 10 one corner of the lncosure.
The body of the poor man fell to the ground
with great thud, and Two red, geyser-llke
lets spurted UP from the neck and fell down
ca the ground in torrents. A closer look, and
then the horror. striker faces showed that the
awful nature Of the occurrence had burst upon
them. The poor old mans head had actually
lecn ierked from his body, and was even then
lying IN the black cap where it had rolled in
the corner. The headless trunk lay weltcring
in the blood which poured from the neck. Not
a word was spoken. After the first thrill Of
horror strong men turned away sickened at the
horrible sight. The faces ON the platform were
bIapched and ghasty. The poor sheriff was as
white as chalk but he was cool and collected,
and did much to inspire those arouud him.


Dr. Holbrook, who was present, first emptied
tn, black cap of its sickcniug contents. He
lifted the cap at the top and the head rolled
away over the ground like a cannon ball. The
rope had severed the neck as oleanly as though
il had been done with knife. The vertebra
had actually been pulled away from what the
doctor called the atlas The laryDx, the arte-
reS. the teudons, were all torn apart. the latter
ouy showing Struggling ends Death, it is
hardly necessary to state, was instantaneous.
From the time the headless trunk struck the
ground there was not even quver of the h,-
tic finger The body lay like lump of lead
The horrible remains were at once placed 10 a
coffin aud hidden from sight.


No blame is attributable to Sheriff Ivory for
this terrible mshap. The rope was adjusted
for fall of six feet and it was said that this
was no more than is usually given.
Year: 1874

II
HIS REFUSAL TO ANSWER A CERTAIN QUESTION


ASKED BY TIE COMMITTEE LEADS TO TIE OR


DERING OF HIS ARREST BY THE HOCsE--lIE WILL


DE BROUGHT TIE HOUSE TO-DAY.


TBY TELEGRAPH TO TIE TRIBUNE.


WAsuISGrON Dec. 21.-As Mr.. Dawes was about
TO call the previous question in the House on the
resolution of the Ways and Means Committee. ask
ing for the arrest of r. b. Irwin for contempt in re-
fusing to answer certain questions in the Pacific
Mail investigation, Mr.. Alex. II. Stephens rose in
his seat and opposed the resolution. the grouEd
that under tho act of 1851 Congress had given up the
power to punish contempt and delegated it to the
courts. He was supported by Gen. Butler who took
occasion to make an attack on the whole theory
that the House had power to investigate
at all, "Wherc do you find in the Consti
tuition" he exclaimed, authority for this new
tangled mud machine called an investigation Look
at that in which member Of the Ways and Means
Committee asked q witness il he had ever heard
any rumors about me. and then got miserable cor
respondent to say that the committee saw my coat
tails" At another time he referred to tho Credit
Mobilier Investigation, and said that at that time
there were black faces all the House except his
Mr.. Stephens and Butler were apparently unable
TO convert any number Of the members to their way
Of thinking fJr when the vote on the Commit tees
resolution was taken not more than halt a dozen
voted i'm the negative. Mr.. Irwin was arrested this
evening and Ill be brought into the House IL the
Year: 1874

The following, which appeared in the
Scientific Press, was condensed from an
article by Charles "aldeyer, in the last an
nual Report of the IT, S. Commissioners OF
Mining Statistics.


Already chasms of a thousand feet verti-
cal depth are successfully crossed by huge
iron pipes to convey water to isolated points
The practical test has proven that air can
never collect at the lowest point of the in
veried siphon, the point where the greatest
pressure of water results. Uncalled for as
this remark may seem, it must be excused
for the reason that actually men OF good
sense and some engineering capacity, ex-
pressed fear that air would be carried down
with the water to the lowest point of the
pipe or siphon, and collect there finally to ID
great extent under the pressure of two i'm
mense columns of water, and might explode
at any moment as in an over-charged air
gun. This question was decided like the
dispute about weight or no weight of the
fish in water" not 10y philosophy, but by
practical experiment. After the great pipe
of the Spring Valley canal and Mining Com
pany, of Cherokee, Bite county, was laid
across West Branch-a depression of about
900 feet-great care was taken in filling it,
and the air valves were carefully watched
These air valves showed action on that side
only from which the pipe was filled: when
the column of water rose to the point of dis
charge not sngle air bubble could be per-
ceived, and the water declnted gently and
without ripple. AS the danger Of accu
mutation of air was only feared from pipes
conveying water under enormous PRESSURE
the experiment cited above must necessarily
dispel all false theories, and it must be ac-
knowledged that the only question III the
conveyance of water through pipes is that Of
sufficient strength of pipe to stand the pres
sure of the water, be the vertical height
500 or 900 feet.


Thus the field for hydraulic operations is
immensely enlarged almost all gravel de-
posiis are accessible, no matter at what ee-
walton they are found, and the production