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Year: 1874

LITTLE ROCK, August 2S.-The conven-
ton to-day struck out the section in the
finance report forbidding the Legislature
State levee bonds, railroad aid bonds. and
Halford bonds, in all about all GOO, 900.
This was test vote On reputation.


Judge Clendin, of the seventh judicial
circuit, has refused mandamus to compel
the State Treasurer to pay the expenses of
the convention and State government out
of the sinking and school funds It is
thought the convention will adjourn within
a week
Year: 1874




While the railway share market was not ma
terialy affected last night the authoritative an
nouncement of the Presidents veto of the Senate
Currency BILL yet the market has been in hubbub
of excitement and feverishness all day. AT the
start prices were to 1a below the latest Official
figures of last night, from which they made aspeedy
descent of to per cent under the violent demon
stration made against the leading stocks by those
bear operators anxious to beat down figures to
point where the profits on new purchases for an ad-
vance will be the wider. A good many short sales
had been made, and the effort to cover them rs
also to buy for long account, provoked steady
reaction to opening figures. Again was the market
raided with violence ard vigor the depression car
rying down prices below those previously reached
only to recover again. to give way third and fourth
time to the repeated onslaughts of the clique leaders
Of the market we may say that it has consisted OF
consecutive series of alternate advances and de-
clines behind all which, however, there was evil
denced a sincere desire to buy for long account on
the part of strong parties. The general market
closed weak and at the lowest prices touched. The
opening highest lowest and closing prices of stocks
I'll,
Year: 1874

A BAD FIX.-It has never been def
nitely settled to the satisfaction Of the
public who the Man in the Iron Mask
was, but generations to come will know
all about Dick Palmer of AIacomb street,
who recently got into something worse
than a mask. His mother sent him after
a brass kettle which one of her neghbors
had borrowed, and on his way homo the
boy turned the kettle upside down and
put it on his head. Another boy gave it
a blow and it shut down over Dicks face
as closely as a clam in his shell, one Of
the "ears digging into the boys head
behind, and the other pressing on his
nose. The victim shouted and jumped
and clawed at the kettle, but he couldn't
bulge it. a man came along and lifted
at it, but Dicks nose began to como out
at the roots and the man had to stop. A
crowd ran out of the corner grocery,
Dicks mother was sent for, and the boy
danced up and down and cried, "Oh,
gollyw without ceasing. One boy said
they would have to take a cold chisel and
drill Dick out of the kettle, and another
said they'd have to melt the kettle off,
while everybody raped on it to see how
soidly it was on. Then they tried to lift
it off, but Dick roared murder until they
stopped. Some said grease his head,
some said grease the kettle, while the
boys mother sat down on the curbstone
and sobbed out, "Oh Richard, why did
you do this?" The crowd took it coolly;
it wasn't their funeral, and boy with a
brass kettle on his head isn't to be seen
every day. Tears fell from the kettle,
and n hollow voice kept repeating, I'll
never do it again" Finally they laid
Richard on the walk, and while one man
sat on his legs and another on his stomach
third compressed the kettle between his
hands and the boy crawled out, his nose
all scratched and twisted out Of shape,
a hole in his head, and bump on his
forehead. His mother wildly embraced
him, and all the boys cried hip la !"
and little Richard was led home to loaf
around on the lounge and have toast and
fried eggs for q ek.-DeroH free


PypSc
Year: 1874

How TO KEEP A SrrUslTIoS. - Be
ready to throw in an odd half-hour or an
hours time when it will be an accommo-
dation, and don't seem to make a merit
Of it. Do it heartily. Though not a
word be said, your employer viii make
a note oft. Mako yourselfindispensible
to him, and he will lose many Of the op-
posite kind before he will part with you.
Those young men who watch the clock
to-see the very second theirworkirg hour
is up-who leave, no matter what state
the work may be in, at precisely the in
stant-who calculate the extra amount
they can slight their work, and yet not
get reproyed-whor are lavish Of their
employers goodwill always be the first
to receive notice, when times are dull,
that they are no longer required"
Year: 1874

There arc shrewd boys in Burlington,
Vt. On the night Of n recent charter
election they got a drum and fife, ara
went noiselessly 20 the house Of one the
successful candidates. He thought they
were the voters who had supported him,
and flung wide his hosptable doors. Be-
fore he could get the boys out they had
eaten most Of the supper that had been
set for the real voters, who found the ta-
bles barren when they came.
Year: 1874

A LITTLE boy was playing with a
couple of fye,cent pieces the other eve
ming, which a friend had given him, and
putting his finger on one Of them said,
This one l am going to give to the
heathen." He kept on playing till at
last one of the pieces ran away, and he
could not End it. Which one have you
lost?" "The one was going to give to
the heather, Z" replied the cherub.
Year: 1874

A CERTAIN near-sighted lady could
never be induced to admit the fact, but
persisted in declaring that her sight was
excellent. One day waggish neighbor
stuck needle in the side OF barn and
placing her on the other side Of the road,
asked her if she could see it. "Oh, yes"
she replied, looking in the direction,
"but where's the barn?" Do you see
the point?
Year: 1874

SENSIBLE ADVICE. - When a man


milks COW he should not attempt to
smoke a cigar at the same time. A
young man out in the country tried it.,
and got along well enough until he low
cred his head and touched the cows
flank with the lighted end of his weed.
The next instant himselfand cigar were
dreadfully put out" The COW intro
duced about two tons weight into her
her hind leg and then passed 1t under the
mixers jaw. When he ceased whirling
around, and the myriads Of stars had
disappeared, he said farming was the
hardest work a man could put his hand to.
Year: 1874

From the New York Tribune. Dec, %.


The terms OF an important contract be
tween the New York Central railroad and
the Canada Southern are said to have beer
closed yesterday, 1t secures the working
of a through passenger aud freight line
from New York to Toledo ever the Cen
tral road to Buffalo, and thence oyer The
Canada Southern, and the transfer OF
Wagner 5 ears to that line. The melting
cause of the contract is said to have been d
fear that the Erie would make it il the
Central did not
Year: 1874

parties, aud slaves and pinches herself
to give her handsome outfit, after she
has deprived herself of her. income to
secure to her an advantageous match.
This exemplary parent develops into a
delicious grandmamma. She leads her
grandchildren through paths of pleasant
ness, and is the buffer between them and
the disagreeable facts Of existence with
which infancy is familiar. She would
swallow a phial OF medicine if by so
doing she could only induce her grand
child to take spoonful quietly. What
she spends in toys and picture books
will only come to light after her de-
cease. Considering all this, one should
not speak sneeriDgly of the honorable
mention priests make of the brides


mothers. Protestant brides pass through
a more trying ordeal than Catholic ones.
They have not had auricular colloquies
with the minister as preliminary to
the nuptial benediction and sermon, so
that all he has to say to them he says,
and that by no means briefly, in public.


A part Of the ceremony consists in the
presentation Of family Bible to the
newly. married pair, who, he trusts, in
the interest both of church and country,
will hereafter fill the blank leaf with the
baptismal entries. Weddings here do
not exercise the same amount Of fascina-
ton in nursery maids and little girls as
in London. A French child, if taken
to a toy.shop, would probably choose
doll dressed like Marvellous" in
nreference tn one rohed in white and
wreathed in orange blossoms. She looks
forward to the wedding day as prisoner
to sort of Jail delivery. She will from
that time forth be free TO walk ost
alone, to wear jewels, to run in debt, to
patronize the bouffe opera and the
younger Damas' plays, to lunch in the
garden Of restaurant, and, in fact, to
lead semi masculine existence. Until
verging upon forty the French woman
is scarcely-unless in love of dress
feminine. AS gray hairs crop up she
becomes the most womanly Of women
Year: 1874

REPORT OF THE WESTERN
HOG AND Corn CROPs.-Iowa
has an excellent corn crop, but
only rs per cent. as many hogs
as last year, and greatly reduced
in weight. The Illinois corn
crop will be about one-third less
than last year, and hcgs one
half less, and much lighter
Missouri will have a poor corn
crop and a large falling off in
hogs. In Kansas and Nebras-
ka there will be a great reduc-
ton in both corn and hogs,
Year: 1874


My Life is like "a SUNNI eI.


Rose.
Ny life is like a summer rose
That opens to the morning sky.
But ere the shades of evening close
Is scattered on the groun1 to die.
Yet on the roses humble bed
The sweetest dews of night are shed,
As if she wept the waste to see
But none shall weep tear for me!
My life is like the autumn leaf
That tremblrs in the moons pale ray;
It's hold is frail, its date is brief,
Restless and soon to pass awayl
Yet ere that leaf shall fall and fade
The parent tree will mourn lis shade,
The winds bewai the leafess tree
But none shall breathe a sigh for me!
My life is ike the prints which feet
Have left on Tampa desert strand;
Soon as the rising tide shall beat,
All trace will vanish from the sand.
Yet, as if grieving to etface
All veStige Of the human race,
On that lone shore loud means the sea
But none, alas! shall mourn for mel
Year: 1874

In Court. young Ketcbum, an
impudent limb Of the Law, try
ing to frown down a female
witness's evidence one day, said,
Gentlemen, the witness on the
stand has brass enough in her
face to make a kettle She curtIy
replied And you've enough sap
in your head to liil it.
Year: 1874

A Louisville gentleman who
had his nose bitten off in a row,
wrapped it up in paper, and
sent it home to his family. The
rest of his body be threw away,
there being but little left.
Year: 1874

The Buffalo Courier speaks
of q rustic settlement in New
York where George Washing
ton is d tradition and fifty cents
anincontroyertable fact" There
is little doubt that fact in that
case would always get the bet
ter Of tradition.
Year: 1874

dated Winclone, Minn., says:


"There are fields which few
days ago promised an abundant
harvest that to-day are as des-
titute Of anything green or ver-
dant as the streets within our


city, and this is the work of the
grasshoppers, and they arc not
yet as large as house fies.-


What may we expect when they


become full grown if they are
not by a merciful providence
destroyed? 1t was in view of
these facts that the people Of
several counties conferred to-
gether and concluded to meet in
convention to consider the best
and the most proper means of
providing against this great ca
lamity, and | speak what l do
know when / say that it was
never in the mind of any that
this convention should be called
for the purpose of asking for
more present relief and the ques-
ton that will be discussed at
the convention is whether if it
becomes necessary, we will ask
our neighbors to furnish US with
sufficient to sustain us for an
other year, and remain and pre-
pare our farms for another crop,
or abandon our new but pleas
ant homes.


Other newspapers reports
state that the inhabitants of
half a score of counties in that
part of the Union are fleeing
before the grasshopper vista
ton as people sometimes do be-
fore the pestilence. That may
be the best way for the Mime
sotians to do under the circum-
stances, but it was not the way
in which the people of this Ter
ritory saw, met, conquered
and triumphed over the locust
swarms year after year. Our
farmers planted and replanted,
and with their families fought
and refought the grasshoppers,
bagging, drowning and burning
them by bushels, while they are
young, as it is of little use to
fight them when full grown
The tillers of the soil here
fought it out on the line, if it
took them all summer, and it
did take several summers until
the victory was secured, and
universally bounteous sharvest
followed.


AS regards the whole Terrific
ry, the ravages Of the grass
hoppers were only partial, not
universal, though general, and
in some localities severe enough
and almost destructive of all
crops year after year.


Our citizens were glad to get
rid of the grasshoppers, but are
not glad that the people east
ward are afflicted with them.
On the contrary, those who have
once endured the grasshopper
season know how to sympa-
thize with any other people who
may be similarly troubled, for it
is grievoHs visitation.
Year: 1874

! Our readers will see from an advertise
ment in another column that the Grand
/ Gift Concert, which was to have been given
| by the Masonic Re lief Asst citation Of Nor


folk, Va, on the Sd OF September, has been


postponed until Thursday, the 18th OF Nc
| yembcT.


As the Directors remark IN their Gard.


there are many persons who desire and in


tend to invest III this enterprise, but have
been deferred from so doing by the beIiei


that a postponement would take place, aud


they were unwilling to purchase tickets un-
til they iclt assured that day had been
! fixed when the drawing would positively
! take place. In consequence ot this i'm
| preston, the sale Of tickets-yShile largely
in excess of the number sold previous to
| the pOstponement OF the first Gift Concert
| given by the AssoCatiOn-bas not been to
such an extent as to enable the Directors
! to make satisfactory distribution OF prizes
OF tc accomplish the object of the Concert
I proposed TO be given. 1t is therefore the
interest of al concerned that the drawing
be deferred until the day designated in the
announcement: and we doubt not that the
action of the Directors will meet with the
herty approval Of their patrons, and the re-
suit will prove satisfactory to them.


The Last Grand Gift Concert in
aid of the Masonic Relief AssOcia-
tiOn of Norfolk PostPOned,-TO
tie Public.


In selecting the the 81 day Of September
as the date upon which TO have their last


Gift Concert, the Directors Of the Masonic
Relief Association were influenced by the be-
iiet that there would be a sufficient length of
time between the publication Of the scheme
and the abOve-m entioned date to enable
them to dispose of such number OF tickets
as to ensure a lull drawing and avoidance
of scaling the prizes. While the enterprise
has been literally patronzed by a large
number Of purchasers Of tickets in every
section of the United States and the Brit


ish Provinces, yet the impression seems to
have prevailed with many who were will
ing to aid in the work OF completing the
Masonic Tempe in this city, by investing
in this scheme, that the Concert would be
postponed, and as a consequence they have
declined to purchase tickets until an an
nOuncement should be made that day had
, been fixed upon when the drawing would
positively take place. The Directors, be-
ing assured that their patrons Will be salts
fed with the reasons aetuating them in a
| pOstpOnement. have selected


Thursday, 18th day OF November,
as the time TO hold their Second Grand Gilt
Concert and Drawing, and they hope that


orders for tickets will be sent Immediately


by all who desire to obtain one or more of
the valuable Cash Prizes " hich they Of


fer. The public may be confident that the


same fairness and honesty which character


lied their first drawing will be observed in


this. BOARD OF DIRECTORS.


i Masonic Relief Association.


By HENRY V. MOORE, Secretary.
Year: 1874

In the Sd District Court to day Cannon
gave $1,000 bail TO answer from day TO
day on the charge Of polygamy, a further
indictment against him having been
found under the territorial law for laaclv.
ious cohabitation.
Year: 1874

bill through the Legislature, giving him I'M
limited authority in the matter of sppoint-
mcnts, which be promptly used TO siap them
in the fce They thought ID would be fine
thing to let Gov. DIX take care of his own
reflection; and, as result, are held in part
responsible for tho overwhelming defeat in
New-York, which is likely to prove the death
of Grantism. And they played their game 80
openly that no one in New-York understands
it better than Gen. Dix himself.


Once more fate has thrown great political
chance in their favor only to let them see
how they have themselves thrown it away.
Alderman Vance, who is an every way respecta-
ble Republican, and who will doubtless dis
charge the duties of the MayOralty well,
has been politically affiliated with the
Administration set. But for the quarrel with
the Governor, less inscriptions men than
they might easily procure a reorganization oil
the Police Board, and perhaps of other Com
missions. AS it is, there does not seem to be
the least probability that they can do any
thing. They get Mayor of their own for
month, without the least ability to profit by
the delusve advantage.
Year: 1874

In the sorrow with which the friends of
Mayor Havemeyer contemplate his sudden
death there is certainly great compensation.
He has died in a manner lie might himself
have chosen. The irresistible summons came
to him at his post of duty, just as he had sat
down to his days work. He was an active,
combativc man from his youth up-work was
always pleasure to him, and rest was the
most irksome of tasks. He was nearing the
end of his term of official service, and it Is
only fair to suppose that the struggles and
contests of his busy career would have ended
with this year. His was not the character
which would have delighted in long and
ipdolent sunset of life. 1t was fitting that his
last moments should have been passed IN the
chair where the suifrages of his native city
had placed him, and that he should have been
spared the slow process OF disabling age and
gradual decay. However various may be the
judgments passed upon his political career.
there will be no discord in the praises in
which all who knew him will Join in relation
Year: 1874

are to be trusted thousand times moro than
tho drugs of the Iuaationists and the ex-
pedients of those whose longing eyes are
never removed from the Treasury. This, we
believe, is tho opinion Of the great majority
Of all classes OF the community. This is the
lesson of the elections. The people do not
want moro of the kind of government which
has emanated from Washington for the last
half dozen years, but less. Let the majority
take heed.
Year: 1874

As announced yesterday in TIE TRIBUNE,
William NJ. Tweed will be brought into court
to day on writ of habeas corpus. This Will
be the beginning of proceedings for his release,
at the final success of which none acquainted
with the uncertainties and absurdities Of the
law would be surprised.
Year: 1874

q Gen. Butler has so far recovered from the
paralysis brought on by the recent election
that he has begun to pay his debts after the
popular fashion of politicians of his own
school. An anti-Butler man had an in
spectorship in the Boston CustOm-h house; a
Butler man had been promised the place;
Gen. Butler spake the word and the Butler
Year: 1874

The announcement that Col. Mcclure had
obtained possession of The Philadelphia Press
excited so much CONSERVATION among the poll
tlcians of that city that they have prevailed
upon Col. Forney to recede from his bargain.
The straits to which the Ring leaders of the
Quaker City are reduced must be very serious.
They must have feared unutterable things
from Mcclure to be so anxious to retain
Forney, who himself does not spare the rod
nor spoil the Ring. Perhaps 1t is an organ of
soft money they want in Philadelphia, as Col.
Forney has seen that misguidng light some-
where on his journey from Paris to London.
At all events, it seems settled that FOrney,
and his party, whatever that may be, retain
The Press, and the redoubtable Mcclure is to
set out on the war-path about the first of
January with an Independent newspaper of
his own.
Year: 1874

The annual report of the COmmissary-
General of Subsistence to the Secretary of
War is brief and business-lke document,
mainly interesting to the officers of the army.
His suggestions are evidently the outgrowth
of experience, and their practical air gives
them weight.
Year: 1874

There have been frequent threats of the
establishment Of a rival line to the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company. The news of this
morning will probably convince people that
,hey were something more than idle.
Year: 1874

The recommendation to consolidate the post
Offices Of New-YOrk and Brooklyn will take
most people by surprise. At first blush it looks
like a measure in the interest of economy
and simplicity of administration. The busi-
ness at the Brooklyn Office is not so large as
that at the Bible House station of the New
York Office, or indeed at some others, and would
be quite as easily managed. The cOnsollda-
tion with New-York would relieve the Trea-
sury of considerable expense, would secure
unity of management, and would prob
ably give Brooklyn much better postal facili-
ties. Brooklyn politicians are not likely
to think well of it, but it seems probable that
the people of Brooklyn would have reason to
regard it with favor
Year: 1874

The apprehension of war with Spain in
consequeuc. of the Virginius affair was turned
to good atnoaut .by the Navy Department III
placing o considerable number of our disused
war vessels upon war footing. The report
of Chief Engineer Wood to Secretary Robson
gives q detailed statement of the work done
under his supervision to this end, together
with full review of the operations of the
Engineer Bureau of the Navy Department
during the past year. Mr.. Woods remarks
concerning the small number of qualified ap-
plicants for positions in the Naval Engineer
Corps recall subject of growing importance
Well educated and thoroughly trained
engineers are as necessary to the efficiency of
a navy as are surgeons, paymasterS, or even
officers of the line, but we imagine that the
number of such persons entering the service
will be smaller every year until the Govern
ment offers to the graduate pecuniary induce
ments equal at least to those soliciting his
acceptance in the practice OF the same pro-
fession in civil life.
Year: 1874

The plain English of all the long story told
of the latest legal embarrassments and tinan-
cial subtcrfuSes of the Erie Railway Company
will probably be surprise to some of its
directors, and certainly to some of those of
the Buffalo, New-YOrk and Erie Company,
which it is proposed to sacrifice in order to
save the failing credit of the main line. The
Buffalo, New-York and Erie is company
which for eleven years has been under lease
to the Erie Company. Its stockholders, we
believe, received seven per cent from the Erie
Company, though why the Erie should, under
a reformed management, have purchased its
per cent Obligations at $50 while it was sell
ing its own in the London market at 90 or 70,
is one of the mysteries which neither
American bookkeepers nor English experts
can find out But to load the last road
with a mortgage of ten millions now would
seem to be to swamp it absolutely. Doubtless
the Erie needs the money very much, but as
the bonds have not been issued the suit begun
Yesterday in the Supreme Court may prevent
the success of the scheme
Year: 1874

The proprietor and superintendent of the
Fourth Avenue Stage line, lately convicted of
cruelty to animals perpetrated by their em-
ploy6s, were very properly released yesterday
after light fine. Personally they had COM
mitted no offense; technically and legally they
were guilty. We hope that other owners of
stage lines will recognize that this decision
and action establish the authority of the
Society which appeared as prosecutor, and
will cease to oppose the humane laws it en-
forces.