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Year: 1874

The man who welcomes in November has
vet to b0 born. Every other month has had
it's crown and its poet, from maiden May to
boary December but only Hood, and that in
a fit of ill-temper, has sung this wretched


season, as cursed of God and man, and
wrapped it as in winding sheet, in an immOr-
tai fog. English fog does not follow it to this
country, but even here it is the most cantank-
erous, crOss-g grained month of the year, set
apart to moods, and intolerable, as all other
moody people. You go out dressed in your
airy finery to suit the morning sunshine, and
come back drenched with cold rain. You
wran Yourself in hannels and furs to brave
the nipping wintry wind, and in an hour find
n blazing sun overhead and the perspira-
tion streaming over your sweltering face.
The wild ivy that draped your neighbOrs
bouse through the Fall with royal GRIM
son. ON the first day of November turns into
a web of dry sticks, through which the red
bricks glare tediously at you. The garden,
with its late tints of purple, cleaning ruby,
and mellow bronzes, set in the dark mossy
greens of October, becomes, after black
frost. n soft, squashy stretch of mud and dead
leaves, wherein yellow cucumbers and rotten
tomatoes lie shameless in their decay. Even


in the markets the dead Summer appears in a
miserable funereal show Of haggard peaches,
wilted cabbages, the very ghosts of corn. De-
luded by frosty day, you venture on a
Winter breakfast of rich meats and hot
cakes. and are left to cry out "mea culpa!"
TO your stomach for week thereafter.
You wonder why Church and State
decree Thanksgiving in such day
of false pretenses, and set it down as grim
touch of IRONY. You understand why May
Year: 1874

By yesterday the result of our Tuesdays
elections must have been known to all people
in Germany, France, and England who read
the daily papers, yet we see no evidence of
that prOstration of the national credit which
we were told was to follow the defeat of the
Administration. On the contrary there was
q slight improvement in the prices received
by cable, though the Bank OF England
lost bullion during the week since its last
official report was made.


There are many causes besides those affecting
the permanent value of the security which
influence from day to day the market prices
of United States bonds, but. other things being
equal, signal demonstration of the capacity
of the people to govern themselves ought to
exert a favorable effect on public credit. If our
citizens were stolidly Indifferent to the faults
of THEW rulers. il C.eY tamely submitted to
Year: 1874

the House of Representatives on the Republi-
can ticket must submit their credentials to the
scrutiny of strong Democratic majority, and
they certainly will not be admitted on fraudu-
lent returns. But this is not all. An inquiry
will doubtless be ordered to ascertain whether
Louisiana has republican form of govern
ment. and either under that or some other ap-
propriate order an investigation will be made
into the shameful proceedings of 1872. Depend
upon it, this will be no sham inquiry. If the
Administration has any sense-and we have
now and then suspected that at odd moments
il has little-it must see that it will be to its
advantage, when that day of reckoning comes,
to have Kellogg safely impeached and out OF
the way. Durell deposed, and the Conserva-
tives of Louisiana in much better humor
than they are now. Kellogg has done his
masters bidding pretty well but he is of no
use now, and Grant will find him very ex-
pensiye to keep.
Year: 1874

be ruled by the rusty machinery OF primary
meetings, it might be inferred that the Re-
public had passed the period OF its YOUTH
and that the Government and everything con-
nected with it was in q state of decay. The
elections show that such is not the fact.
Year: 1874

While the storm of the political contest of
Tuesday was at its hight score of members
of the National Academy of Science were Sc
renely assembled at Philadelphia, holding
regular meeting, and apparently oblvious of
their obligations as citizens. 1t is not to be
supposed that the Academy, which is organized
by act of Congress as the scientific adviser of
the Government, meant any disrespect to the
author of its being; but since the Milesian
sage stumbled into ditch while gazing at the
stars, there has not been o finer illustration
of the indifference of the scientific mind to
mundane affairs. On our third page we give
a report of the first days proceedings, which
include further researches of Prof. Loomis
respecting the laws of the winds, of Prof
Mayer on the nature of the electric discharge,
of Prof. Packard on the specific gravity of
sea-water, and of Prof. Hunt on the decay of
crystalline rocks. The paper of Prof. Mayer
presents the most novel researches.
Year: 1874

Among the most important work undertaken
by the Bureau of Engineers in the War De-
partment is the survey of routes for transpor-
fation from the West to the seaboard. Four
routes were indicated for this survey, by the
Senate Committee, and there is also a route
TO be considered which forms an extension of
the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. An accurate
knowledge OF what it would cost 70 earry ort
Year: 1874

An interesting letter on our second page
describes the political revolution in Massa-
chusetts, which seems to have been as much
surprise to the victors as to the vanquished.
Even those who worked hardest for the sue
cessful ticket had few hopes; and now, re-
viewing the field, they do not claim it as
Democratic victory. 1t was protest against
Butlerism in politics, and this fact, shown by
the joy with which the tidings Of the election
were received throughout the State, is still
more clearly revealed by an analysis OF the
votes of the candidates.
Year: 1874

A letter from the Rev. DR.. Jeffery, pastor OF
the Marcy Avenue Baptist Church, states his
sentiments and position on the question OF
Open Communion. He does not differ from
the great majority of Baptists in his belief
that immersion should procede participation
in the Communion. He simply objects to any
legislation on the part of the Church that
would discipline its members in order to
enforce the exclusion from the Lords Supper
of those who have not been immersed. There
is some evidence in this letter, as in our
previous reports of the discussion OF this
question. that the whole matter is not so
much a difference of doctrinal belief as of
personal feeling.
Year: 1874

os OLEs
NoTIcE.-This ceremony OF initia-
ton Is used during the absence of
the lady members. Their initiatory
ceremonies are entirely different,
being much simplified, as they should
he
Year: 1874

Mr.. Galloway has called attention
to the fact that if a Davy lamp be
burning TRANQUILITY in an explosive at
mosphere, the transmission of sound
wave, produced by a slight explosion
of gunpowder, IS sufficient to cause
the communication of flame from the
lamp to the surrounding atmosphere.
Hitherto 1t has generally been assum.
ed that the occurrence of colliery
explosion, after firing a shot, is due
to actual communication of flame
from the gunpowder to the fire damp,
but Mr.. Calloway's experiments show
that 1t is much more likely tnat the
explosion is brought about by the
noise of the shot being propagated
through the galleries of the mine to
the safety lamp.
Year: 1874

AS finally patched up in the Senate
yesterday, the finance bill is a sort of
triangular compromise between Eastern
capital, Western want of capital, and
the Radical party in charge of the Fed
eral Treasury. Unable to stem the
West and South, the East has driven a
clese bargain The original title of the
bill called for free banking, but it will
puzzle the wisest to find anything in
this bill savoring of free banking. On
the contrary, it increases the national
bank monopoly. The amount
of the imitation is ninety
millions-forty-four millions in
greenbacks and forty-six in national
bank notes. OF the greenbacks, how
ever, twenty-six millions have already
been absorbed in the effort to help the
reyenuesinmeeting the heeStraYaganeesof
Radicalism. The inhationists have Sc
cured morepaper. Thenational banks get
more double interest circulation. And
a Radical Treasury is left at liberty to
squander the forthcoming sixty-four
millions, as it has already squandered
twenty-six millions. And yet the peo-
pie are not happy
Year: 1874

SECRETARY RICHARDSON'S pitiable
exhibition before the Sanborn Investi-
eating Committee has either driven the
journals of his party into profound ST.
lence or indignant protest concerning
him. The Worcester Spy says the Sec
retary and his subordinates ought to
resign ct once, since the country can
have no confidence in their honesty or
capacity; and in regard to the abilities
of the eminent discoverer of the S5 re-
sumption scheme it has the cold-blOod-
ed cruelty to remark; ''Few people ever
believed that Mr.. Richardson was fit
for the Office. He was respectable in
smaller place, but the requirements of
his present high Office make his small
talents look ridiculously meager, not to
speak of the grave reasons for suspect
ing that lack of talent is not his most
serious deficiency"
Year: 1874

The bill to provide for the payment of
the bonds of the Louisville and Portland
Canal Company was taken up, the pending
question being to refer TO the Committee on
Judiciary


Messrs. Thurman and McCresry opposed
such reference and favored the committal of
the subject to the Committee on Finance
which was adopted,
Year: 1874

Mr.. Schurz said he felt hu1niliated as an
American citizen It the action Of to-day.
The gentleman who favored the bill might
think themselves benefited, but the day
was not far distant, when they would curse
the hour they gave such a vote! The day
was not far of, when the people would re-
cover their senSes,and save themselves from
tltese statesIueu who would bring the coun-
try to ruin.
Year: 1874

Mr.. Carpenter said he only arose to say
that those upon his side had agreed among
themselves to remain silent in order thai
tliere might be rOte. They Rad resolved
to say nothing, and sinitten upon one cheek
TO turn the other.


Mr.. Flanagan hoped the bill would be
Vetoed and said such action on the part of
the President would but add to his great
fame.


Mr.. Morton said there would be an op-
pOrIunity to reply 20 these most extraordi-
nary speeches and he would avail himself
of it. But for the present he would for
bear.
Year: 1874

Dio Lewis said in a speech in New
York last week, that the praying
women of Ohio in the temper
ance crusade use the time formerly
devoted to their hair. A man who
makes ESQ per night from the
"woman's movement" might treat
them respectfully, especially as his
claim to be the father OF the move
ment is a fraud.
Year: 1874

In Felix township, Grundy county,
school marin had, on last Friday
some trouble with a ten or twelve
year old boy scholar in attempting to
chastise him. The boy showed fight,
and with club made for her, who,
in a frightened rage, siezed q chair
which she brought down upon the
boys head with such force az to
break his skull, causing his death.
Terrible if true.
Year: 1874

Ben Butler takes his defeat, it is said
with savage threatenings. interviewed
the other day by n New York Sun repor'
ter, he would not talk. But afterward
when some local politicians of Massachu
sets came about him, Old Ben roarcd
out: "What did ! tell you last winter
in Washington, you Id fools told
yoa then then that the democratic party
was the party Of the poor man, and that
oil h--ll couldn't keep it out Of power
the very moment the stealings and the
plunderings Of the war were all squand
cred. Well, am beat, and that pleases
some Of you think but let me tell yor
another thing: There's going to be Q
stampede into the ranks Of the democrat
ic party before long because many believe
it is the coming party. If you don't looh
id spry, Ill beat some you there, i
know tie way, which is saying more thar
id sight Of you can say
Year: 1874

The Helena World reports an interview
of Hon. W. II. Grey, late commissioner
of State Lands, one of the most intelli-
gent colored men in the state, and long
time adherent of the fallen minstrel dy-
nasty The World reports him as say
ing the action OF Smith is


Both detrimental to the material inter.
ests Of the state aud ye!y damaging to
the republican party. He thinks that the
movement is only 10 create confusion III
the state, and will ultimately amount to
nothing. He thinks that the republican
party throughout the state are generally
and are satisfied To acknowledge Garland
as governor, he having been elected by
an overwhelming majority. He had the
pleasure to call upon Gov. Garland a
short time since, and was received most
cordially by his excellency, who spoke
freely upon all matters pertaining to the
future welfare of all the people of Arkan-
sas The informed Mr., G. that in the
conduct of state affairs he should know
no political party. race, color or previous
condition, and do for the best of all. Mr..
G. spoke very fatieringly of the late In
cumbent of the gubernatorial chair, his
relations with Governor Baxter, and the
friendship that existed between them ;
and further said that since reconstruction
was ushered upon us, no Governor OF
the State had done for the colored
people as much as had Elisha RaXter.
Year: 1874

Gy- A man was describing to Douglas
Jerrold the story Of his courtship and
marriage-how his wife had been brought
up in convent, and was on the point Of
taking the veil, when his presence burst
on her enraptured sight and she accept
ed him as her husband Jerrold listened
to the end Of the story, and then re-
marked " She simply thought you bet
ter than aaA
Year: 1874

EE-" The best rule" says a wise
writer, :" is to say all the good we can OF
every one, and TO refrain from saying
evil, unless 1t becomes clear matter OF
duty to warn some one against him.
Slander is sin much verse than theft
We should no more bite one with our
words than with our teeth. An angry
word is as bad as blow often, and sa.
trcal word is like sting
Year: 1874

Said Smith is about thirtylye years old
fie feet six or seven inches high, slightly but
compactly built, weighs about one hundred
and twenty or one hundred and twenty five
pounds, light complexion, has straight, very
light brown hair, gray or light blue eyes
small features; is quick and nervous in move
ment and speech, Of taciturn disposition, bu
ready and sufficiently polished in his address
when last seen he had on - dark business
suit, and wore a light mustache and full goa
tee.


The said Wheeler is about thirty four year,
of aye, five feet eight inches in height, wei
and strongly built, light complexion, straight
brown hair, light blue eyes, iall lower fact
manner courteous and decided. n
Year: 1874

The Olmsted County Union P. Of H.
are contemplating the building of a
grist mill The reasons of the movement
are the inconvenience and loss arising
from being compelled to exchange wheat
for -four, instead Of having their own
wheat made into -four


The Farmers, Mechanics and Labo-
rers' Mass Convention, held at Feather
stone on the third instant, determined to
hold a delegate convention, consisting of
three delegates from each town, at
Featherstone town hall on the Oath Of
the present month, commencing at ten
o'clock A. NJ, to place in nomination a
full county and Legislative ticket. Let
every town in the county be represented.
This means business.


The editor Of the Grange Advo"ce
received six votes for County Attorney
in the Republican convention. 1t is
hardly fair to nominate man under
such circumstances, without any warming
and when he is not present to defend
himself.-IN Paul Press-


We have learned that the nomination
was made by an honorable man, not
politician, and hence he knew nothing
Of the bartering, wire pulling and SELL
ing of ones self and friends, that must
preccde nomination in Irregular
strait convention Of the present day,
and that to nominate a man who had
not made the necessary arrangements
was not only sacrificing the ulan nomi-
mated, but was an element Of discord
that would not be permitted at such
state Of the game without danger Of dis
placing some Of the nicely laid wires,
and must be suppressed as promptly as
murder, treason or any other terrible
ofense. Therefore, though the nomi-
nation was made in our absence and
without out consent. we fully "condonc
the offense and hope the Press will do
the same.
Year: 1874

If YOU once get a new dress or q
new dictionary. or a new convenience
of any kind, did yeu ever notice that
you immediately have occasions that
prove that YOU could not have lived
another minute without it?


-IPhitney.


When l find any one hard upon
doub.ers | always doubt the quality
of his faith. | have known people
whose power Of believing chiefly
consisted in their incapacity to see
difficulties. Macdonald
Year: 1874

An old French shoemaker, who boast
ed tnat nothing could frighten him.
was put TO the test by two young men.
Ono OF them pretended to be dead and
the other, going TO the shoemaker, in-
duced him to SIT up" with the sup
posed corpse. The shoemaker was in
a hurry WITH some work he had prom
lsed To have completed the next NOR
ming. 30 he took his tools and leath-
er and began working beside the cor
pse. About Il o clock at night a cup
OF black coffee was brought him to
keep MIN awake. He drank it and
resumed work. About l clock, the
coffee having exhilaratcd him aud for
getting that he was in the presence Of
death, ne commenced to sing a lively
tune, keeping time with his hammer.
Suddenly the corpse arose and exclam-
ed, III a hollow voice


When man Is III the presence of
death he should not sing ~


The shoemaker started, then sudden
ly dealt the corpse blow on the head,
exclaming at the same time


when man is dead he should not
speak"


1t was the last time they tried to
scare the shoemaker.
Year: 1874

He boasts that the Administration
party has investigated its own corrup-
ton; but carefully omits to mention that
it utterly refused the task until driven to
it by popular clamor, and that its lead
ers in each case skullSed and denied
down to the moment of conviction, while
their associates. in the blind fury, have
been making warfare upon the press
that exposed them and compelled the
investigation.
Year: 1874

JERSEY CITY, August 3-The main reservoir
which supplies this city with water gave way this
afternoon, and sent about thirty million gallons OF
water over the city and down Pennington avenue
with a mighty rush, filling the cellars Of most OF
the houses for quarter Of mile, The breach Is
In the south end Of the reservoir, and IL about
twenty-five feet wide ut the top. There was no
damage done aside from filling the eellars, and
carrying away Of fencing II was caused by the
leakage from an old pipe which was left embed
ded IN the soil when the new reservoir was built.
Year: 1874

The CAMPAIGN-It has been matter of
observation and remark that the campaign lust
closed, like that Of two years ago, was tame
and inSipid in contrast with those of years gone
bV-"when we were young" as some of our cid
men remark. The whole tenor of political
campaigning seems to be undergoing a change.
The parade and the taudry display that came up
and reached their zenith in the days of that
same old coon" and the 'log cabin have well
nigh run their course, while stump oratory is
but the mere skeleton of its former self Even
the best political speakers found themselves,
this campaign, talking to audiences of but a
few dozen, and at no time did they have occa-
sion 10 refer to the sea of upturned faces =
that they used to always mention in their
harangues. Political oratory does not draw as
in days of yore. The great American public
in this day of cheap newspapers, no longer
takes its inspiration from the stump speaker.
As Mr.. Garfield, Of Ohio, said in recent
speech, We have entered upon period when
no man can sway great masses of people as he
pleases, as has been done in the past We
have entered upon period when the average
citizen Is as we'll posted as the average pOliti,
clan on the stump. The war made US nation
of newspaper readers, and it's the newspaper,
at one or two cents per day, that has leveIed
up the general Intelligence Of the nation, and
destroyed the monopoly of smartness' that
formerly existed.


Another noticeable and cOmmendable feature
is the fact that the campaigns of the past few
years have not engenLer4d those asperities of
feeling that used to characterize them. Poll
teal discussion is no longer of that obtrusive
character of the past when it insinuated itself
at the sacrifice of friendship aud the disrupting
Offamily ties. It's dspassioned and reasonable,
or not at all, as rule almost without an ex-
ceptiOn. This is a great improvement over
even anti JelLum times The waspish temper
has been taken out of the debate, and the
debate has almost abandoned the social circle
Year: 1874

LIABILITY FOR RAISED CHECKS.-On the
18th lust. Judge McKennan, of the United
States Circuit Court for. Philadelphia, decided
point where the question at issue was the
amount paid by a bank on a raised check,
which decision has excited some surprise and
considerable discussion among bankers and
those doing business through the banks The
plaintiffs, who kept all account with the Cen
trail National Bank Of Philadelphia, drew a
check 10 favor of confidential clerk for 500.
This clerk raised the amount to 90, 100 The
bank paid the amount, the drawer absconded,
and when the bank book of the firm came to
be settled, some time afterward, the forgery
was discovered. The alteration was by writing
the. word twenty" before the word zone
hdndtsd The bank deducted The whole
amount, $2,l0Q from the balance due the de-
positors, and the latter sued to recover the
5000. and they failed. Heretofore the de-
cisions have generally been the other way, but
IN this recent case the court instructed the
jury that If there was nothing unusual in the
appearance of the check, nothing sufficient to
put careful person on his guard, the bank
could not be held responsible for paying il
The JoHrnut Of Commerce says 1--WE do moi
see what safeguard any man has who issues I
check If this Is sound law"
Year: 1874

A despatch from Fortress Monroe says that
n large fire is raging in the Great Dismal
Swamp, and the smoke is so dense that at
night the Old Point Light cannot be seen at
the distance Of mile, and the fog bell has to
be kept ringing.
Year: 1874

Walter Harris, aged 35, was found dead in
his bed at Baltimore yesterday morning, his
body being terribly burned. He had o hibit
of smoking in bed, which was probably the
cause of his death.
Year: 1874




When friend dies and is buried,
there's an end of him. We miss him
for space out of our daily existence,
we mourn for him by degrees that be-
comes mercifully less We cling 10 the
blessed hope that we shall be reunited
m some more perfect sphere; but so
far as this earth is concerned, there's
an end of him. However near and
dear he was, the time arrives when hc
does not form q part of our daily
thought; he ceases TO be even an ab.
straetion. We go no more with flow-
ers aud tears into the quiet cemetery;
only the rain and the snow flakes fall
there we leave it for the fingers of
spring to deck the neglected mound.


But when our friend yan;shcs unae,
countably in the midst Of a crowded
city, or goes off on sea voyage and
is never heard of again, his memory
has single tenacity. lie may be to
all intents and purposes dead to us,
but we have not lost him. Tho ring
of the door bell at midnight may be
his ring; and approaching footsteps
may be his footsteps; the unexpected
letter with foreign postmarks may be
from his hand. He haunts us as tho
dead never can.


The woman whose husband died
last night may marry again within
lustro OF months. Do you suppose q
week passes by when the. woman
whose husband disappeared SO mystic
riously ten years ago does not think
OF himy There are moments when
the opening of door must startle her.


There is no real absence but death.
IT. B. Aldrich in atlantic Monthly.
Year: 1874

A Thirsty Phi1ndelphiar, during fit Of Cen
tennial ecstasy, didn't pay much attention to
what he Was taking hold OF. and accordingly
frantic With anguish until tao PHYSICIANS assured
her that the dye could be recovered by an
autopsy.