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Year: 1874

One Of the strongest points that we
have seen made against the new finance
Tor Senate) bill, is that made by the New
York Nation, which Is that as long as
gold stands at any point higher than from
z to 10 per cent, premium, silver coin can
not be maintained in circulation, because
Il would beexported as fast as it could
be issued. In other words, the market
ratio olsilyts 70 gold being % 100 to 100,
Whenever gold got much above 100 it
would lit nlver, to point at which Il
would be profitable to export Il. To
make the point still clearer we may quote
the words Of the Nation, that whenever
one hundred ounces Of our standard silver
will bring more in foreign markets than
can be bought for $125 in currency, we
cannot keep silver in circulation. The
thing to be done, therefore, Is to provide
that the gold premium shall not go above
l09 or ITO. So long as this Is the case
the difference between silver and paper
will be so small that 1t will not be profit
able 10 export tho silver, How shall the
paper be approximation what is the same
thing-the price OF gold be brought lower.
The bill authorizes tho Secretary Of the
Treasury to hoard gold preparatory to rO.
sumption in 1870, and 1t Is believed that
this boarding of gold will appreciate the
value of paper to the extent required.
Gold has ruled for some time past in
New York at LII 10, and the heavy
prospective increase in the silver product
Of Nevada will undoubtedly, as Is
thought, have q palpsble influence 10
keeping down the value OF silver and
bullion. Meantime the members OF tho
House are home among their constitu.
ents listening to all sorts Of comments
and suggestions about the new measure.
When they reassemble 1t is not improb.
able that some amendments may be sug-
gested.
Year: 1874

THEODORE THOMAS has discovered
that when his orchestra plays a church
seleCtion in one key while the organist
accidentally plays It in another, the
amount Of applause and praise bestowed
by the audience is not In any way less
enthusiastic.
Year: 1874

TIE physicians OF jackson, Michigan,
have banded together, and give notice
that they will refuse to treat any person
who Is thirty days in arrears for any doc
tors bill. An unusually healthy season Is
arnankad
Year: 1874

SUBMARINE DISCOVERIES. The sub
marine survey Of a portion Of the bed of
the Pacific, which has been proposed as
the lineof the te!egTaphic cable to Japan,
has revealed Inequalities that may well
cool the confidence Of the most ardent
protector. One ridge Of sub-oeeanic
mountains ranges from five to twelve
thousand feet in height. The apexes of
these cones are covered with lava and
coral, 50 hard that the sounding cylinder
IS Mdeuted by impact Manifestly it will
never do TO lay a cable on such in a
straight line, a. the strain and abrasion
which would result from It's suspension
between such steep and jagged peaks
would be fatal 20 its operative integrity
in "a very short time. \ protraeted and
accurate survey and careful charting of
the Pacific bed Will be necessary, and
after all. the line viii have TO be 50 zig-
Zay and tOrtuOUs a. tn consume hum
dr-d- OF mile, Of extra cable.
Year: 1874

ENCHANTED PARK ~ COLORADO-It
is a beautiful valley about a mile III
length, walled in on either side by per
pendicular walls from 200 TO 300 feet in
height. There is but one entrance 10
this enchanted spot, and that Is by q
rugged and dangerous pathway, and the
footman experiences great difficulty in
the descent. Upon reaching the valley
We could hear the rustling Of the winds
through the lofty pines on the cliffs
above Us. sounding like the roar Oi some
devastating hurricane, while tie grass
beneath our feet lay calm and still a.
death. Not even the slightest breath Of
air could be felt Everything was 30
still that a person standing at the lower
part Of the valley could distinctly COIL
prehend persons speaking at the upper
end
Year: 1874

DI-RNELI Is said 10 have formed a
warm friendship for the Duchess of Ed
inburgh, and 10 have declared that she
i the most gifted and cultivated lady
he ever met The Duchess speaks all
continental languages, with but very lit
tie Tartar accent.
Year: 1874

To the Eiiior Of The Cincinnati Gazette:


You assume that the adoption of the
license clause will leave the Legislature
free to prohibit. This is a disputed
point The Wdchter am Erie says by its
Year: 1874

Between nine and ten O'Clock yesterday
morning fisherman named Dunavan discoV-
cred the lifeless form OF an unknown woman
floating in the river, at the foot of Trezevant
street. Dunavan hauled the body to the bank
and notified Deputy Coroner Matt. Shelby of
the fact. This official summoned Jury OF
Inquest, and upon examination the body was
found 10 be that of bright mulattO, whose
forehead was horribly crushed, as If the un-
Fortunate person had been struck with q
heavy piece OF timber or an iron bar. The
woman was neatly attired in a calico blouse,
and gave evidence OF having been a respecta-
bic person. Despite the terrible muLiIation of
the forehead, the face bore signs of great
beauty, and IL was only after a thorough ex-
animation had been made that she was found
TO be mulattO. There was nothing on the
body 10 show It's identity, or give the slight
est clue TO the time and author of her death.
II is thought she was a chamDermaid. and af-
ter being struck fnsensible by some unknown
person, either fell or was thrown overheard.
The body evidently had not been in the water
more than two or three days. The jury's ver-
dict y 5 that "the unknown deceased came to
ner dealh by having her skull fractured, or
from drowning. or from some other unac-
countable occurrence which indicated viO-
lence." The body was buried by the county
undertaken, and the cause OF death may
forever remain another mystery OF the Missis-
Sippi river,
Year: 1874

2ith.l


On Tuesday night, in accordance
with the announcement, fair representative
portion OF tile county met in the courthouse 10
indorse the new ticket, and each and every
name was read, and solemn promise given
that each and every one would stand by the
ticket and support IL 20 the best of his might
and ability. The courtroom was full and
great enthusiasm eviDced. Every one present
felt the importance Of unity OF action and
purpose. The colored men particularly
were very demonstrative in their feel
ings' and shouted until they were
horse. 1t is useless to go into de-
tails, but we must tell you that White in his
speech held his hand aloft in pledge for those
pre- sent and the co ored people OF his party,
that they would stand by the white men until
the carpetDaggers were routed from the
county. II was a fearful moment, and the
shouts that succeeded the promise seemed to
raise the very roof from the building. 1t was
the grandest success OF the campaign, and
bad The effecs Of harmonizing any bad feeling
tnat might have existed. Nay God speed the
good work. We now call upon every body to
work late and early. There is no time 10 lose,
and the glorious ratification of tuesday night
will be followed by a more grand achieve
ment on the thirteenth of October.
Year: 1874

10000 bales. The question is how long will
the large receipts last2 II Is The second and
third pickings that al up the deficiencies and
make up large crop. And II any reliance Is
10 be placed on the reports OF the bureau of
agriculture, we fear that after the first pick
ing season the cotton yield will be meagre.
Year: 1874

There are no less than ten different
grades of rattan. The first quality should
be of bright color, of a straw yellow,
but, in addition, must be supple, and not
sticky, trade word, meaning dull and
wanting in elasticity. 1t requires great
deal of experience to decide what is good
rattan or the kinds which will work up
best for particular sorts of goods. The
very choicest rattan comes from Bes-
jamassing. Both outside and inside have
their special uses I'll outside being
used for seating chairs. There is a single
factory in the United States which turns
out daily enough chair cane to cover
10000 chairs. The inside of the rattan
is employed in variety of ways. 1t is
shaped by machinery either round or
fat, and so worked up into innumerable
articles. Baskets, brooms, mats, mating,
are all made from the inside of the rat
tan, and an immense quantity Of It is
worked around demijohns. But the in
side and outside of the rattan are en-
ployed in the manufacture of furniture.
This branch of industry we have un-
doubtedly copied with Chinese accuracy
from India. Perhaps even with the ad-
dition of our numerous mechanical helps
we have but very little improved on the
models as to appearance or solidity.
There is an exquisite comfort, lux
urious ease, about a real rattan chgiss
longe, such al is made at Singapore, that
we can hardly equal. -a ~. ~"
Year: 1874

1t will be remembered that in his now
celebrated ANSWER" in the Ann Eliza
divorce case, Brigham Young made oath
that he had but one wifeeMary Ann
Angell-who was lawfully married to
him on the 10th of January, 1884. This
venerable woman, whose relation to the
prophet and his Celestial concubines"
has been that of drudge and social
outcast for a quarter of a century, first
saw the legal document recognizing her
position yesterday. BY the Kindness of
a sympathizing sister in misery, copy
of the Tribune containing the important
confession of her faithless husband was
placed in her hands, when, with tears
streaming down her sad, wan cheeks, this
sole and only wife of cruel tyrant read
the instrument over and over again, un-
til satisfied that at last the hand of
righteousness had sent His consoling
sage. After many long and weary years
pathy cheered her life, this deserted wife
finds the law of her country friend she
never hoped for in the world, and look
ing up toward the giver of all blessings,
thanked Him that His name was vindi-
Gated among men. Forgiving the i'm
measurable wrongs and heartburnings of
her best years, this woman, true to we
mans nature, kissed the words that de-
clared her the wife of her husband, and
wept with Joy on finding that though
deserted, she was entitled to the highest
dignity which Christianity and Chris
tian civilization can bestow upon her
sex. A scene such as this is indeed
worthy of respectful mention, which we
delight in making, and congratulating
Mrs. Young of Che moral triumph which
our beneficeht laws have secured to her
in her old age.5SdH Lake Tribune. Z" :
Year: 1874

The diocese of Posen, says the Pail Mall


Gazette, is evidently the theatre in which
the struggle between Church and State
in Germany Is destined to be first carried
out to the furthest extremities. The
case of Father Kubescak, at Xions, who
has been communicated for accepting q
living from the parson, without seeking
the consent of the Posen Bishop and
Chapter, brings the latter into immediate
collision with the law. The Dean of the
Chapter will be summoned before the


Ecclesiastical Court, and the result will
probably be to deprive the Chapter of
the support it receives from the funds of
the State. That would have taken place
before the present time if the law regard
ing the administration of vacant bishop
RIGS, passed by the Landtag last May, had
been accepted by the Diet in the shape
in which it was presented by the Gov
ernment. The thirteenth clause in the
original draft of the measure declared
that cathedral chapters which failed to
appoint Wears on the occurrence
Of vacancies would be liable to be de-
prived of all funds allowed by the State
till they should obey the law. From
some scruples that such a provision was
too severe, the clause was struck out of
the bill as passed. Had it stood the
Posen Chapter must have become liable
to the penalty it threatened, because it
failed to appoint vicar when the Epis-
copal See was made vacant in conse-'
quence of sentence of the Ecclesiasti-
cal Court, as required by Clause vi. of
the act of the Goth of May last. Proba-
bly, Prince Bismarck and his Minister of
Worship now regret that they did not
press the acceptance Of the omitted
clause on the Diet; for the Posen Chap
ter has adopted an attitude of passive
resistance, and declining to admit the
competence of the proceedings under
which the See has been deprived of Epis-
copal guidance, has, of course, refused to
cooperate with the commissary appointed
by the Minister of Ecclesiastical Affairs
to administer the property of the See.
The consequence has been great inconve-
nience, and even pecuniary loss, to many
persons in the diocese who had an inter
est in its property. n''' t
Year: 1874

A correspondent of the San Ffaneisco
Chronicle says. off q white man Is tired
of civilization and wishes to lay off, then
he can come to the South Seas and find
some romantic little nook where, under
the bread fruit trees, amid cocoahut
groves and banana forests, he can loll to
his hearts content. But such a man
must have lost his grip, lost all hopes,
and come to the conclusion that he is a
Weak and imbecile creature unable to
war with the great seething caldron
called civilization. l find such white
men on the islands,of these seas, but what
wrecks they are! Utterly lost, they lead
an aimless life, and vegetate rather than
live. They are most miserable specimens
of the great European races which have
conquered and civilized this EARTH As
compared with the natives of the South
Seas they are inferior-mentally, morally
and physically. When white man goes
to wreck here the wreck is so complete
that there is nothing left of it but a mere
shadow. Many are the desolate, broken
hearts of this character to be found float
ing about these islands. A picture COM
pletely the reverse is to be seen in oc-
casional yachts which visit these waters.
Their owners and guests are moneyed
men. They see the bright side of life +;
they are fondled and feasted; but they
get false ideas of the actual state Of
affairs. After enjoying themselves, living
like princes, and making love in the Don
Juan school until they are surfeited with
delight, they then return and write i'm
passioned books about life in the South
Sea Islands"
Year: 1874

Unbelievers have often told us that the
story of the prophet swallowed bys great
fish was an absurdity. They say that,
being 80 long in the stomach of the
r1ehster, the minister would have been
digested. We have no difficulty in this
matter. Jonah was q most unwilling
guest of the whale. He wanted to get
-oht. However mitch he may have liked
fish, he did, not want it three times a
day and all the ,tiiiie. So he kept up 4


idget and struggle and ttirhifig, and
gave the whale no time TO assimilate him.
The man knew that If he was ever to get
out he must be in perpetual motion. We
know men that are so lethargic that they
would have given the matter up so
quietly that in few hours they would
have gone into fukesand' fshbones, blow
holes and blubber. Now we see men all
around us who have been swallowed by
monstrous misfOrtunes. Some of them
sit down on piece of whalebone and
give up, They say Il, -.


"No tisel / fwill never get my money,
or restore my good name, or recover my
health.n So


They float out to sea and hfe never
Htdru vi. OtnerSl TIE nlOHucHt tney RO
down the throat of some great difficulty,
begin Immediately to plan for egress.
The make a rapid estimate of the length
of the vertebre, and come to the con-
clusion how far they are in. They dig
up enotgh spermaceti out of the dark
ness to make light, and keep turning
this way and that, till the first you know
they are out. Determination to get well
has much to do with recovered invalid
ism. Firm will to defeat bankruptcy de-
cides financial deliverance. Never surA
render to misfortune or discot,ragemeht.
You can, If YOU are spFy ehotigh, make
1t as Uncomfortable for the whale, as the
whale can make it uncomfortable for you.


There will be some place where you
can brace your foot against his ribs and
some long upper tooth around which you
may take hold, and he will be as glad
to get rid Of you for tenant as you are
to get rid of him for a landlord. There
is a way out, if you are determined to
find it. All our sympathies are with the
plaintiff, in the suit of Jonah VS.. Levia-
than.
Year: 1874

ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BAKEBs' UNION Al
the annual meeting of lthe Bakers Union, Oh
Monday evening next, the association will be re.
organized on n new basis. The past year has
been one OF trial and difficulty TO the Union by
reason OF its internal dsscnsions, but it Is hoped
all differences will lie healed on Monday night, or
at least that all impediments will be removed IRON
the consummation oil its original purposes.
Year: 1874

A REpENTANT bride recently wrote
to her parents from across the seas:
"The motion of a screw steamer IS
like riding a gigantic camel that
has the heart disease, and you do
not miss a single throb. l know
nothing to compare with it for
boredom, unless it be your honey
moon when you have married for
money"
Year: 1874

rE Ifyou have been picking or hand
linz acid fruit and have stained your
hands, wash them in clear water wipe
them lightly, and while they are yet moist
strike a match and shut your hands
around 1t 50 as to catch the smoke. and
the stain will disappear.
Year: 1874

er A Wisconsin man says that the
flames of burning kerosene can be ext'n'
gushed by throwing on -four II seems
reasonable that any absorbent material
not readily combustible might os elective
for such a purpose.
Year: 1874

GRAssHoppER GLUrroNY.-While
healthy OK may be a very fair, steady
gated digester, there is no comparison
between the slow assimilating process
of his burly bread, basket and the quick
electric stomachic machinery Of the
speedy and voracious grasshopper A
nomadic family. Of gluttons can
eat, digest, and extrude three times his
own weight in green corn, four times
his bulk in peaches, without sugar or
cream six times his stature in raw tur-
nips, four pounds Of green tobacco and
a peck of onions every twenty-four
hours. And radishes, which are quite
trying to the ordinary human stomach,
the grasshopper digests Is calf does
milk.-Montano Herald.
Year: 1874

II have heard of IN old farmer
giving his testimony in case of cattle
having trespassed on meadow in the
fall and consumed its rowen, that be
would sooner have his medow pastured
in the Spring. Perhaps he got into the
extreme, but the more person thinks on
the matter the nearer he will come
to agreeing with the old farmer.
Judicious treatment of per-
manent meadows On most lands calls for
manure on the weak places, until they
have been raised to the level of the av-
erage, and then no hoofs allowed on
the land except those necessary to har-
vest hay crop that will come but once
in Il year.-Er.


"A mans character is stamped up
on his face by the time that he is thirty.
We had rather put our trust in any
human beings countenance than in his
words. The lips may lie. the face can
not. To-be-sure, !" a man may smile and
smile and be villain" but what
a smile it is-a false widening of
the mouth and creasing Of the cheeks
an unpleasant grimace that makes the
observer shudder. Rascal" is legibly
written all over It.


The lesson for every young man is
this: AS long as you have the health,
and have power to do, go ahead if you
fail at one thing, try another, and a
third-a dozen even. Look at the spi.
der. Nineteen times it tried to throw
out its web to its place Of attachment
and on the twentieth succeeded. The
young man who, has the gift of continu.
ance is the one whose foot will be able
to breast the angry waters of human
encouragement.
Year: 1874

and when at last they had to be replaced it
would be on so mean and cheap scale that
speed, safety and comfort would alike desert
railroad travel


Unquestionably there are monstrous abuses
in the management of American railroads;
but, in our attempts to rectify them, We must
proceed in a spirit of fairness and justice.
We must beware of q blind, impulsive, over
heated zeal, which would be too certain to
muddle what it attempted to mend All the
real rights of the railroads must be respected;
the community must not grudge them fair
care should be taken not to give wider scope
to the jugglery by which railroad gamblers
are enriched at the expense both of the stock
holders and the community. This last is the
monster evil, the source of 80 many ill-gotten
fortunes, and it may be fairly questioned
whether the making this kind of property de-
pendent on shifting legislative caprice would
not enhance the worst abuses Of the system.
A hostile Legislature. tor example, passes an
act reducing charges; the stock falls, the
gambling bears exerting themselves to carry
it down to the lowest point They then make
up great corruption fund TO bribe a succeed
ing Legislature to repeal the law, and they make
colossal fortunes by the subsequent rise of the
this danger in prosecuting necessary reforms.
We can better insure these necessary reforms
by carefully discussing the whole situation.
Year: 1874

were buying corn for future delivery upon the
assumption that the drought would continue
and the crop be light OF failure No orders
have been received on that account since the
storm of Tuesday night 1t may now be con-
sidered that the corn has been saved and that
the early anticipations Of a large crop will be
realized. When it is considered that the rain
fall was as much needed for potatoes, oats
and grass as it was for corn, the commercial
value of the change Of weather and the differ
ence in profits to the farmers of half dozen
Northwestern States can be estimated only by
millions of dollars. Never was rain more
needed, and never was the blessing more
gratefully received. The cable brings news
from England of beneficial rains there when
have largely bettered the crop prospect
Year: 1874

The anniversary of the battle of Aughrim
was celebrated yesterday in quiet way by tho
Orange lodges in this city and in Jersey. Un-
fortunately, the day has acquired sad noto-
riety in this city. The celebration, from
whatever point of view we regard it, is foolish
and unnecessary, and We cannot but hope
that the leaders of the Orange Society may
see the advisability of wholly discontinuing it.
at least in this country. Here the old enmities
ought to be allowed to die. This country is
free to all, and those who love the orange may
worship it to their hearts content, but they
must keep the peace 1t is, perhaps, little
unhandsome to keep up the memory of bat
tie which was won, not by Orange Irlshmen,
but by Dutch and English troops some two
hundred years ago. 1t would be much wiser
for both sections of Irishmen to avoid these
pohnco-religious displays. They effect no
good for any one, they only render the men
who take part in them ridiculous and bring
their common country into contempt II
Irish Orangemen have nothing else to be
proud of than the successes gained by for
eign troops over their own countrymen they
can scarcely expect people of other nationali-
ties either to sympathize with or respect them.
We are glad that the leaders of this Orange
organization have resolved to render the cele-
bration of the victory of Aughrim az little
offensive as possible and we hope their oppo-
nents will show equal good sense in refrain
ing from all interference with the 'loyap'
celebratonists. The surest way to put down
this foolish parading is to take no notice of it
Whatever importance it ever had was given to
it by the senseless opposition Of the rival fac
tiOn
Year: 1874

CoMMUN1sT1c BANQUET. The escaped MEM
bers of the Communistic family assembled in
London to celebrate the escape Of their friends
from New Caledonia and welcome them once
more to brotherly arms. Citizen Rochefort.
however, was rather coy and refused to be
embraced, on the plea that demonstra-
tons of this nature were much more
likely to damage than to serve the
cause of republicanism in Frnnce The
enthusiasm of the eIles was not
to be suppressed, and as they could rot have
the brilliant illumination of the Lanterne they
were obliged to content themselves with
lesser light, Paschal Grousset, as substitute.
The banquet was very nearly terminating in
general row, through one of the patriots ''imi.
tating the coarseness of Cambronne at Water
Loo" but finally, quiet was restored, and
after venting their wonderful theories for tho
regeneration of man the tired orators went
home ''to sleep, perchance to dream Of the
realization of their Communistic theories.