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Year: 1874




WASHINGTON, Feb, 9.-The country
IS at last in fair way to get at all the
facts with regard to the expenditure
by Attorney General Williams of the
contingent fund Of the Department of
Justice. The House Committee in the
expenditures in that department are
making preparations to go into an IN
vestigation of the manner in which its
appropriations have been expended
from the date of its organization. The
Attorney General has been requested to
meet the committee on next Wednesday
10 furnish such information as they de-
sire that ne may be able to give.


The accounts of the United States
Marshals and all other law officers.
and for all expenses of United States
courts, viii come within the scope of
the investigation. Committees on ex-
penditures of the various departments
have been IN existence for great many
years, but until this winter they have
not manifested any disposition to do
anything Of any Importance. If they
were to attend to their duties in bust
ness way every year, the chances would
be very much against the illegal expen-
ditures Of public moneys by depart
inert officials.
Year: 1874

PITTSBURGH, Feb. ia special to the
Commercial from Johnston, Pa, states that
by the capsizing of a pot of molten meta
at the Steel Works of the Cambria Iron
Company, sixteen men were seriously
burned and one it is thought will die
Several had their clothing completely
burned hom their bodies. The Cambria
Iron Company will take care of the injured
men while unfit for work.
Year: 1874

TEXAS newspapers commend very
highly the new Judges of the Supreme
Court of that State appointed by Gov.
Coke. IL is unnecessary to state that
none Of the old members who were in
such haste to declare the recent election
illegal were reappointed. Such men
are too full of zeal to make good
Judges They are excellent ornaments
to private life.
Year: 1874

THE municipal council Of Geneva
has resolved that the Hotel Beauion at
Paris, beq1eathed by the duke of Bruins
wick, should be sold in private, andthat
the jewels should be sold, either by
private arrangement or public auction.
The articles having an historical or ar
tistic value are not 30 be included; and
it was further resolved that some Of the
personal objects of the duke should be
placed In the Archaeological museum,
IN memory of his bequest.
Year: 1874

COLUMBUS Feb. 11.-This afternoon be
inc the time fixed for consideration of the
contested election case of Weimer against
Welch for State Treasurer, both gentlemen
appeared and were authorized to appear by
counsel. Aspecial committee was appoint
ed to prepare bill for the government of
the trial to report on Friday evening, at
which time it was agreed the trial should
commence.
Year: 1874

tion, and before two years were over he went
away with the funds OF Q bank.


RELIGION Is NO BLACK ANGEL.


with eyes and wings aud legs OF black; but "her
ways are ways OF pleasantness and all her paths
are peace" Only remember that we shall all have
to give account for our recreation. At that great
day the Haymarket, Drury Lane ana all the the
atres OF Inc world will be under one inspection.
and each one Of us with be there. That dread day
will be the scene. The stage win be the rocking
earth, and kings, lords and clowns Will alike ap-
pear on II. There Will be no tDsel and no gaud.
The tootlRhts will be a ndlIng fire. The galleries
will be filed with en- innumerable company OF the
heavenly host. The applause Will be from the
foods o. the mighty sea; The curtain wll be the
heavens and earth rolled together; the tragedy
the doom OF the lost, and the farce the futile
attempts OF mankind to serve at the same
time God and tie world. But the last scene OF the
last act Will be the nations rushing rignt and eft
some TO 30 away into everlasting 1re and others
into hle eternal. Let, tnen, the wicked man now
"forsake his way and the unrighteous man his
thoughts; and let him return unto the Lord and
He Will have mercy upon him. and to our God, for
He Will abundantly pardon.n Let us PROSTATE
ourselves at the feet OF the dying Jesus


DR.. Talmage announced that In consequence OF
having to preach sermon next sunday morning
commemorative OF deceased lady, O member or
his congregation, he win continue the subject OF
tins sermon on the following Sunday morning,
when he viii consider the objections which have
been raised 70 bis treatment OF his subject BY the
press.
Year: 1874

Many dyspeptic Cr@sus would be willing it is
said, to give half his wealth for an easy stomach If
this is fact why do any of our "solid men, continue
to endure the pangs of indigestion? Is it not patent
to the whole community that Hostetter's Stomach
Btters will cure the worst of chronic dyspepsia
in six or eight weeks? No occasion for the expend-
ture Of half fortune; few dollars will suffice to
accomplish the object. Surely every man who is not
"sand blind' to the great utiaran facts of the day
must know that this celebrated vegetable specific
promptly relieves all diseased conditions of the stom
ach liver bowels and nervous SYSTEM restores their
vigor and imparts regularity to their functions. Is
your epigastrium uneasy? Is the vulture, disease,
gnawng at your liver? If So resort at once to the
Bitters.
Year: 1874

No change has been made in passenger
| rates. The above rates are an increase over
those which have prevailed the past summer


on account of competitive cutting under, the
reduction in such cases being from twenty to
| forty per cent, lower than the old rates.
Year: 1874

We do not read anonymous letters and commune
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve COM
munications that ere not used.
Year: 1874

for the purpose of nominating candidates for 4
Senators, Sheriff, County Treasurer and COUNTY
Commissioner to be supported at the State election
IN September.


Also to choose County Committee, and to act
upon any other business which may properly come
before the Convention.


The basis of representation will be as follows-Each
city and town will be entitled to one Delegate and
additional Delegate tor every go votes cast for
Sidney Perham for Governor in 1872. A fraction OF
IS votes additional to the full number will enttle the
city or town to an additional Delegate. This basis


i'll give the following delegation and apportonment
Year: 1874

single dose taken when the symptoms Of any
bowel complaint manifest themselves, will prevent
any serious attack So beneficial is this elegant prep
araion in regulating the proper flow of the gastric
juices, that fermentation of food and generation of
acid gases during the summer season, are rendered
impossible, il taken daily during hot weather. We
recommend it for the prompt relief of
Year: 1874

room and to quiet them during wor-
ship Mr. j. Shrieve on one side of
the window. Mrs. Richard Shrieve sat
opposite to him, for Richard Shrive
seated h mself in front of the window,
ana the servant girl was seated near a


table in the centre of the room. The
bible had just been passed to Mr.. John
Shrieve TO commence the service,


when the death dealing electric
stroke came. The heavens were over
cast with a dark, angry cloud, and a
few large, scattering drops of water


had fallen as the only premonitions or
precursors of that awful electric stroke.


The eldest of the children came into


the room Immediately after the report
and surveyed the scene, and gives the
only ineligible account. Her father
and mother were PROSTATE or the
floor. Mr.. John Shrieve was stagger-


ing about the room. uttering some in
coherent words, and soon fell to the
floor. The servant girl was paralyzed


with terror. The little girl thought to
place her hand over her fathers heart
and it was still beating. The nearest
neigbor was a half mile distant.
The servant girl was unacquaint.d
with the road, and finally the cldes:
gill. leaving the other children IN that
house of death, piloted the servant girl
through the storm to the nearest
neighbOr for aid. The Rev. John
Shrieve recovered, but the electric bolt
did its perfect work with Richard S.
Shrieve and his wife, furnishing one
Of the most startling exemplifications
of the truth of the line in the burial
service in the Book of Common Pray
er, to-wit; "In the midst of life we
are in death" That family worship
began on earth, in the thoughts of the
preacher, to echo and end in Heaven.
Year: 1874

their names being written high in the
annals of their country, where ages
and ages may pass away and yet not
be forgotten.


Again L will say, the value of these
institutions to Our land, can cot he as
certained. They are the principal
cause of many degraded PERSONS ele-
vatiOn in life. 1t is true the colored
population have the opportunity of at
tending the public schools. which
lave been so literally provided for
them by our Government. But how
much longer this School System will
last, is matter of great cOntrOUerSy.-
In accordance with Mr.. Brownl0w's
prediction, they will not be in opera
tion, long and [ must say am very
much Of his opinion, notwithstanding
am not an advocate to the co-educa-
ton of the races.


And according to my observation,
if there be anything that there is more
lncOnsistence in. or that is more like
ly to prove ruiuous to the cOlored pop
ulation. than the erroneous idea of The
co-education Of the races. 1t is undis-
coyerable or beyond conception, I do
not believe al y intelligent minded per-
SON would advocate such a thing,
knowing that it is absolutely unad-
vised.


Nevertheless we stand badly in need
of education. Therefore | now appeal
to generous public, and ask is there
any chance of establishing an institu-
tion for the colored population in S.
w. Virginia and if there be such, to
aid and assist in this lrlise worthy
object in educating and Istianizing
our poor and ignorant race?


Mr.. Editor, will you please favor US
with your views on this matter, also /
would be glad TO hear from some Of
our prominent ministers on the sub
Ject. Very respectfully,


your most obj Servt.,


COLORED C..
Year: 1874

Bristol, Ia. &c Tenn,


Still Alive andKioking.


Suits for Ten Dollars


And suits for Fifteen,


As new and as tasty


As ever was seen.


"A grade or two better,


We have these in plenty,


And even yet cLOicer,


AT Eighteen and Twenty


suits in profusiOn


For business or street,


And suits for the parlOr


Surprisingly neat;


For church or for wedding


For party or ball,


No suits in the market


Can beat us at all.


We are ahead in all Seasonahie
GOODS for Men and Boys. Whatey-
er others may do, we are quite conf
dent that our prices will be found con-
siderably less, while our goods are ill.,
fariOr to none. We only ask a call
and examination OF our Stock LefOre
purchasing elsewhere, rs we have
bought up our stock of piece goods at
panic prices which We are now daily
having made up and receiving We
feel confident that during the remain
ing Winter month and Spring to offer
inducements rarely met IN this mar
ket. With fair dealing and polite at
tention we hOpe-to receive a liberal
patronage
Year: 1874

The accounts Of this Office up to the 1st
of January, 1874, were appraised with the
property of the late Joseph Walkup, and
by order of the Probate Court they are re-
quired to be settled within ten months from
November last. We gave notice to this
effect some time ago, and many came for
ward and settled, and many others have
neglected to do So Those in arrears know
it, and we would again state that prompt
ness will save trouble to all
Year: 1874

IT is now admitted by the leading East
en journals that the bill for cheap transpor-
tation, and the regulation of fares and
freights on interstate railways, will in the
end be thrown overheard by Congress. We
have never believed This Congress would do
anything on this subject. it is composed of
the wrong material.
Year: 1874

The Argus last week discourses and
quotes at great le1gth on the claw of Ii
BEL" This of course is of deep interest to
the rsople of Placer, since there is not a IL
bel suit in her courts, nor likely to be, un-
less that institution keeps on slandering its
betters until forbearance shall cease to be
a virtue. No reference to ourself in the
above, as we are equally armed, and when
beat are willing to stand it.
Year: 1874

IT must be quite consoing to the Booth
Republicans in Placer, who clung to the
1rgus last fall because that instrument
clung so closely to Booth, to read its denun-
cietions of that gentleman lately. Did we
not tell the people its alteration of the Gov
ernor was not real +? Earnestly. How
long. people of Placer, will you be blinded
by sophistry and led by hypocritcs? Yea,
how long
Year: 1874

THERE are some folks in the world who
are not willing that others should be better
and smarter than themselves, especially
where they lack costly experience They
forget that some are smart enough by ma
ure to profit by the foles of others.
Year: 1874

BUILDING, in a sense, is an incomplete
science. There is scarcely an individual
who engages in an enterprise Of that nature
who has not to pay more than he originally
expected. 1t appears to be impossible to
draw up specifications which are complete.
1t appears to be out Of the question 10 ex-
pect plan which shall not require modiil-
cation as the structure rises AT least, if
not impossible and cut Of the question,
they are rarely produced.
Year: 1874

THE fifth annual report Of the statistics
of Minnesota, just published, IS a gratifying
exhibit of industrial progress in that State
The agricultural returns for 1873 show an
increase in the averages of all crops, except
barley. rye, buckwheat and sorghum. The
apple crop was small here as elsewhere, and
the loss of stock by exposure during the
severe winter of 1S72-3 was necessarily
very large. The number of farms in the
State at the close Of 1870 was 46,5DG, and a
gain of 1870 is reported during the past
three wears.
Year: 1874




preparations Down


at all hazards to the level of the revenues.
They didn't believe in that. They be
lieved if cutting down such as ought to De
made for its own sake. 1t was the busi-
ness of the House to provide the ways and
means to make up the deficit. It was the
business of the House to fix it when il came
TO the place where taxation was necessary
to fill up the deficit. The Committee on
Appropriations proposed that whenever
there was an appropriation growing up OUT
of the wa. or otherwise that might safely
be Topped off, to lop it of, and when an eS-
penditure that could be postponed without
serious injury to great interests OF Inc
Government to postpone it. When the
Committee had done these two things,
they didn't propose TO cut down another
dollar anywhere. He went into detail of
the estimates and appropriations for the
next fiscal year, aud stated as the figure
of the reductions $:}4,3000OO be
low the gross estimates, and his figure was
liable, of course, to be diminished by yari-
Ous appropriations which might be made by
Congress, such as the appropriations Tor
the centennial celebration and for the


washington Board Of Public works.


He thought, however, that he was per-
fectly safe in saying that the expenditures
for the next fiscal year, exclusive OF the
sinking fund, would be reduced TO $27e,
100000, provided the House should assist
the committee in its bills as it had al
ready assisted it on the bills reported. He
believed that a revival of business and
restoration of the public confidence would
enable the government to go through this
year and the next without additional tax
alton, but if, at the end, ali efforts to bring
down the expenditures to the basis indi-
Gated, Congress found it necessary to tax,
he had no doubt this Congress would stand
up manfully and restore taxes where they
had been cut down. He did not believe
that would be necessary. He believed that
when they met next session there would not
be deficit. but a reasonable surplus.


Mr.. Beck said he was prepared to demon
strate the fact that


The Sinking Fund Was Embraced
in Mr.. Dawes statement of the eXpendi-
lures of former years, as well as in that of
the current year, and that when Mr.. Dawes
took it back, which he had made in this
respect, he did what the facts did not war
rant.


The committee lose, and the House took
a recess until 7:30, the evening session to
be for the consideration of the bill to re-
wise the statutes.
Year: 1874

A special to the Times, from BayOnne,
contains the following news, obtained from
Carlist sources: Don Carlos has an
nounced that it is not his intention to i'm
pose a contribution on the people Of Bill
boa, when that place is taken. On his
entrance into the city he will proceed to
the Cathedral and be crowned King Of
Spain. He will swear to support the lib
critics of the people and will constitute a
government with EliO as President of the
Council. An appeal viii be made to for
eign powers to recognize the belligerency
of the Carlists. He will declare SpaniarJl5
exempt from allegiance to any other gov
ernment than his own. He will draw 500
100000 as the first installment Of loan
TrayipI1Siy confrapfad
Year: 1874

To Try a Negro for Numbering


white.


MEMPHIS, March 5.-In the Criminal
Court to-day a mixed jury was ordered IN
the case of a colored man charged with the
murder of a white man. This is the first
instance Of the kind in this city.


A laborer. who was deck passenger on
the steamer Chok, suicided last night Of
poverty and whisky. From papers found
on him it is supposed his name was j.
Woods.
Year: 1874

bodily ont of his fDaweS) statement 70
make it correct, not only the bottom h;id
gone from the cause of alarm, but the alarm
ought to have gone with it. He stated
to the House the conclusion arrived at oy
the Committee on Appropriations, they
having first settled it as a principle thaI
thew
Year: 1874

self on his stomach, he dropped over the
ledge to wrench the delicacy from its fast
ness. Abalones are univalvular, and if,
in detaching one from the rock, to which
it can fix itself almost immovably, one
happens to not wrench it loose at once, it
often closes its single shell on


the rock, prisoning the spelling
hand and causing inexpressible
agony. This was poor "Chowder's"
fate AS his evil star would have
it, the abalone was unusually large, and
the poor Chinaman, unable to release
himself, must have early realized that
he was doomed. From his position,
leaning over the rock, he could not brace
himself, or obtain any leverage by which,
at the sacrifice of the hand, if need be, he
could free himself. We can imagine the
agony suffered by the poor wretch as he
waited for hours the rising of the tide
which should end the misery by death.
The actual pain endured must have been
unspeakabse, and NO help was nearer than
eighteen miles. We can conceive of
nothing SO horrible as such a situation,


except the ancient Persian punishment OF
the "boat," described minutely by Plu-
tarch, in which the victim was thrown
to the ground, boat was thrown upside
down over him and staked, and his face
was smeared with honey to attract the in
sects. There he was left to die. The
poor Chinaman's plight was almost as
bad as this; but happily the returning
tide prevented the torment from being as
lasting. The inexorable waters, however,
shortly did their work. There came a
time when the poor Chinaman could
strain no longer, and when the briny
flood sucked from his lungs the breath OF
life. When yesterday Chowder's body
was recovered by brother Celestial his
dead hand was still clutched in the re-
morseless grasp of the abalone which had
so terribly avenged the invasion OF his
rocky home. The agony the poor fellow
had endured in this novel martyrdom was
imprinted on his face.-San Diego World.
Year: 1874

WHAT an exhibition Of human weak
ness is made in the petty superstitions re-
garding so-called Omens, and lucky and
unlucky days! Let us run over few of
these fOllies, not yet exploded in certain
sections of the population.


Odd Misunderstanding the ever-fatal
thirteen are thought to be lucky. The
shrill piping of the household cricket is
prophetic of happiness to the hearth it
haunts, as surely as the settling of stork
upon Dutchman's rooftree bodies pleas
ant times to the dwellers beneath it. That
forlornest of animals, the masterless dog,
that follows close upon the heels of q
nght-walker, and will not be baked of
companionship, is a certain luck -bringer.
Black cats should be at premium, con-
sidering stray puss of that hue who
takes fancy to establishing himself in
house, introduces good fortune; while a
cat of any color, whether an unlimited
visitor or an acknowledged member of
the family, ought never to be restrained
from sharpening his talons at the expense
of the tables legs, since, when he thus
scratches, he scratches for luck. Pat
kindly the head of the first lamb of
spring, if you have the chance; it will
bring prosperity to you and yours; but
avoid the innocent creature II 1t presents
its tail to view. Hail the first hearing of
the cuckoo's voice with thankfulness, if
he salutes you upon your right hand
then his greeting is an assurance you will
make your way in the world, and attain
the highest object of your ambition; and
begrudge not sip of good liquor to the
busy, curious, thirsty fly, dropping into
your glass, but welcome the intruder as
heartily, if not as POLITICALLY, as Oldys
did he brings good luck to the glass, and
the drinker too.


To come suddenly upon couple of
magpies, to pick up pin lying with its
head toward you, to find--ot course with
out seeking-a four-leaved clover, or bit
of old iron, is matter fer rejoicing: if the
iron takes the shape of a rusty nail or an
old horseshoe, the omen is so much the
more fortunate. Absent minded and care
less dressers are likely to be often in
luck's way To put on any garment
wrong-side out, provided we are not neat
enough to spoil the charm, is an infalli-
BILE prognostic that something is about to
happen which will profit the sloven great
". Mr. Village tells us, in the Connois-
segq, how his pretty country cousin came
down to breakfast one morning with her
cap on wrong-side out, whereupon her
mother solemnly charged the needless
lassie not to alter her head-gear all the
day, for fear she should change the luck.
When the Conqueror was arraying him.
self on the morning of Hastings, some one
limited he would get the worst of the
coming bout, because, in his haste, he had
donned his mail-shirt hind part before;
but the ready-witted and confident Nor
man declared it to be a token that he was
about to be transformed from duke into
king; an Interpretation, at any rate, not
2 to be disputed a few hours later.


Trouble will never come near folks
whose eyebrows meet Ladies with over
much down, gentleman with overmuch
hair upon their arms and hands, carry