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Year: 1872

The Fourth of July was celebrated in great style
at Chester, S. c.. and some extraordinary informa
tiOn was given by Judge Mackey. He said that he
had been to Washington and had enjoyed an inter
view with Gen. Grant who told him to say to s. tho
Republicans of South Carolina that he had sent his
infantry his cavalry and his artillery down there to
protect the people I; but unless there a speedy
change for the better in the affairs of the State he
would come with stronger pOwer"-i e., with moro
of his infantry his cavalry, and his artillery-and
he would if necessary, remand the State back TO
provisional government" SO it appears that the
President not only owns all the military power Of
the country, but can do what he pleases with tho
Statesl
Year: 1872

A new danger has appeared at some of the
seaside resorts. At various points, persons in
bathing have been attacked by paralysis or
symptoms of such disease. One or two fatal
cases which have occurred within the month
make it appear likely that these sufferers have
gone into the water with blood overheated,
with much indigested food in the stomach,
and while the sun was high. All of these con-
ditions are dangerous; and sea-bathers should
be warned that bathing Immediately after
eating in the heat of the day, or in state
of perspiration, is to the last degree hurtful.
Year: 1872

Bids were made for McCunn's vacant place
on the Superior Bench before he was in his grave,
and there are eager candidates already coming for
ward for the place which will be made vacant before
long by the conviction of Barnard But this hasts
is not quite as unseemly as thar of a well known
politician wbo anxious TO succeed to the late Alder


man Hartts seat in the Board of Aldermen APP
preached Mayor Hall on the subject during the funeral
services of the dead Alderman The Mayor at first de-
clined to talk to the mportunate gentleman but was
finally induced to give him "only word" Mr..
Mayor began the politician, to be plain with you.
l would like to take Hartt's place. I'm willing"
replied the Mayor; o. just apply to the undertaken"
Year: 1872

be accomplished this session, and we should
be delighted to hear of a regular adjourn
ment. We shall make kn0 wn developments
as they transpire.


Somebody, who furnishes the American
Press Association with New Orleans news,
says:


1t is pretty we'll settled conclusion that
neither the Republican opponents of War
moth nor their Democratic sympathizers
will make war against the government by
cOntending against the government troops.
The question of bloodshed is, therefore,
virtually settled. The general opinion,
however, is, that were the United States
forces not present, the Warmoth question
would be speedily settled by his impeach-
ment and deprivation of Office


Perhaps that writer will condescend to
say where and by whom that general
opinion" is expressed.


An Associated Press dispatch from New
Orleans says:


The action of the President in preventing
a conflict seems to be giving general salts
faction to the citizens. in view of the early
coming of the congressional committee.
which promises peaceable solution of all
the political troubles.


Perhaps that correspondent has since
announced that peaceful solution of all
the political troubles" has been already
reached by the return of the revolutionary
members to their seats in the General
Assembly without the presence of the con-
gressiOnal committee.
Year: 1872

1t has been learned that the National
Democratic Executive Committee will not
meet until after the Philadelphia conven-
ton, to decide when and where the National
Democratic Convention shall be held. 1t
is thus proposed to adhere to the Missouri
policy until all the plans and purposes of
the Republican party on the Presidential
issue are fully developed, and it is therefore
maintained that there is ample time for the
committee to call the Democratic convention
portunity for all elements opposed to the
continuance of the present administration
to unite in opposition to the Presidential
ticket. This view of the course to be pur-
sued meets with the approval, it is under
stood, Of many of the Democrats in Con
gresS,
Year: 1872

Colonel George Williamson and Major
Martin Tally left yesterday, via New Or
leans, for Washington City-tEe former
gentleman on private professional business,
and the latter in the public interests of the
city of Shreveport. We wish both gentle
men pleasant time of it, and hope that
much good may inure to our city through
the representations these parties will be
able to make at the national capital.
Year: 1872

BY TELE APH.
LATEST NEWS FROM ALL POINTS
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS YESTERDAY
BRIDGING THE OHIO
ADJOURNMENT NEXT MAY
TELEGRAM FROM GENERAL EMORY
NEW ORLEANS TROUBLES OVER
SHOT BY A eLANDERED WOMAN
RECORD OF GOLDSMITH MAID
DISASTROUS FIRE AT SEA
TERRIBLE LOSS OF LIFE
PET HALs1EAD's MURDERER HUNG
FUNERAL OF GENERAL EWELL
PENNSYLVANIA HOUSE MIXED
Year: 1872

MR.. PHELPS IMPROVING-THE MYSTERY STILL


UNSOLYED.


The condition of Mr.. Phelps, the Sixth-aye.
eweler, was much improved yesterday He slept well
on Sunday night and seemed stronger His mind Is aBo
becoming clearer and he is able to talk with copcsure
of the terrible through which he passed lie can
give no moro definite description OF the thief who shot
him than Mr.. Palmer, the young man who struggled so
rnanfuy with the rufan, and who would have secured
him had those the displayed sufficient presence
Of mind TO go TO his assistance.


The police are very rcticent with regard to the affair."
and decline give any Information relative to the clues
which they claim TO have. 1t doubtful whether they wl
succeed in ferrctng out andauesng the assassin and ms
accOpce 50 long period having elapsed since the com
mission OF the crime. The comments OF the press ana me
public with reference TO matter have lad the effect
OF urging the police to make even greater Efforts tnan
they otherwise would have made, and something may
grow out OF the search persistenty made IN every
quarter where miscreants OF the class 10 which the
assassin and his confederate belong would DO apt to
gather.
Year: 1872

Officer MeGuire of the Sixth Precinct, Brook
yn, while patroling his post yesterday forenoon, was
informed that a woman lying dead in her apart
rnent at No q Marsha-st He FASTENED to the place,
and bursting open the door, found Louisa Giliom lying
on the floor bleeding from ghasty wound in her neck


Her throat had been cut from ear to car It IS believed
that she had committed suicide while temporarily in
sane. She was unmarried woman, age a. and lived
alone pail and large carving knife were found by
the side Of tue body
Year: 1872




In growing peaches for profit, like all
other kinds Of frnit, the largest yield is
produced from "a given space of ground
where every plant has grown and trees
are AS near uniform size as possible BY the
time such trees are old enough to bear
fruit This is an accepted fact by all
those who understand the subject of fruit
growing. Now the next point TO be con-
sidored is what is the most economical
plan to follow to bring about this regularity
and uniformity of growth in an orchard.
Experience steps in and says, start the
young tree in the nursery row, as the
best and cheapest way of starting young
trees of either peach, pear or apple. In
propngating fruit trees, either for sale or
homeplanting, the quickest time is mad e
and best trees are grown by following the
regular routine. 1t forms the exception
when any one gains time in .ruit culture
by attempting SHORT cuts and in eight
cases out Of ten disappointment and an
irregular lot of trees is sure to follow such
course. For these reasons, you had bet
ter cut of the tops Of the trees where they
now stand, and bud with such kinds as
yon may decide upon during next Sum
mer.
Year: 1872

II is many years since | fell in
love with Jane Jcruslla SkcggS,
thc handsomest country girl. BY
far, that ever went on legs. By
meadow, creek and wood and dell,
SO often did we walk, and the
moonlight smiled on her melting
lips, and the night winds learned
our talk. Jane Jcrusha was all to
me: for ny heart was young and
true, and loved with u doubled
and twisted love, and Il love that
WAS honest too. I roamc,i all
over the neighbors' farm, and l
robbed the wildwood bowers, and
tore my trousers and scratched
my hands in search Of he choicest
flowers. In my joyous love l
brought these t" my Jcrusha
Jane but | wouldn't be so foolish
now: if l We're q boy again. A
city chap then CAME along, ali
dressed up in fine clothes, with a
shiny hat and a shiny vest, and a
moustache under his nose. He
talked to her Of singing schools
(for her father owned a farm) and
she left me, the country love, and
took the new chaps arm. And
all night | never slept, nor could
I eat next day, for [ loved that
girl with q fervent love that
naught could drive away. l strove
to win her back to me, but it was
all in vain; The city chap with
the hairy lip, married Jerusha
Jane. And my poor heart was
sick and sore until the thought
struck me, that just as good fish
remained as ever was caught in
the sea. So l went to the Meth
odist Church one night, and saw
q dark brown curl peeping from
under gypsy hat, and 1 married
that very girl. And many years
have passed and gone, and think
my loss my gain and l often bless
that hairy chap that stole Jerusha
Jane.
Year: 1872

A LOVE LETTER.-The follow
ing is a true copy of a letter picked
up on the street not q thousand
miles from Utica: "Der Miss /
reed a note from you to Day with
q fotograft Of Myself and Request
ing me to sene you one that |
had Of yours that'you had from
a Lady friend that Wanted one
and you wished to give her one
and had mono for her | am very
sorey to think that You have a
lady friend that you would take
you're pictycr from me and give it
to anyone for do ashore you that
there is none on earth that | Love
as | do you sens the Death Of my
wife the furst time | ever saw YOU
l have loved you and when l ex-
changed pictyers with you l was
IN hopes that at some feutur time
that you and Eye would live in
the andjoymeuts Of this lite and
father my Family are all we'pIesed
with your fotograft and Bette has
put it in her albumin and fancy
my Babcy who is 6 years old kis
il Every Day and Gales it mama
aud from these concider Rations
Eye should hate to give it up But


will say to you that you are my
choise from all others and will not


sen the pictyer until hear from
you a game | Made the swap il
good faith But if you are in earn
est Let me no and l will recant
But I do hate to give You VI


Bcleave me yours, true lover, IN


til death,
Year: 1872

One OF our merchants was troubled
all day with something in his boots,
and. on drawing of: that article in the
evening. discovered his wife's Sunday
hat IN the toe of it. It nearly spoiled
the hat.
Year: 1872

The continual changes in the postal
laws Of the country require persons to
keep continually on the qui rirs, or else
to run the risk of having their correspond,
ence quietly dumped into the dead letter
office.


Under the old law the rate Of postage
for mail matter was three cents per half
ounce for letters, and the regulation pro-
vided that in ease the requisite numb Of
stamps to pay the full postage was not at.
taChcd to letter, the postmaster at the
place of destination was required to col
lect the remainder. For instance, if
letter which weighed one ounce only had
a three cent stamp attached, it went on
to its destination ana the remaining three
cents due upon it was collected there
The law in this respect las been material
Iy changed. Under decision Of the Post
Office authorities pOstmaSters are required
to collect double the amount which re.
mains unpaid. Double postage is also of
course to be collected on wholy unpaid
matter which may by chance reach the
Office of destination. This is under the
new Code, Section lj2, Letter writer's and
business men will avoid much confusion
in future By bearing in mind the new
law on the subject.
Year: 1872

A new phase in bill posting was oh.
served the other day by Broadway pedes-
trians in New York. A horse had sue
cumbed from the heat on the previous
evening, and his remains had not yet been
removed. The day was cloudy, and the
umbrella people we're out with their post
ers. One of them, an umbrella man, at
once seized his opportunity, and COM
mcnoing at the neck he plastcrod the un-
fortunate animal from end to end with his
announcements. With a smile at his
triumph over all competitors he then left
for other fields of victory.
Year: 1872

Attention is called by the New York
Journarof Commerce to the fact that the
post Office is being used as mere political
machine, the mails loaded down with
hand bills, circulars, speeches and other
sensational matter to affect the election,
prepared by salOried post office officials,
and mailed by them under the frank of
some partisans of the Administration.
Their proper work is neglected. In fact,
there is a general decentralization Of the
whole machinery of transportation and
delivery occasioned by the friends OF Gen.
eral Grant. At Washington, clerks are
detailed FROM different departments to
direct documents at the headquarters of
the Grant Committee, and then the mails
arc loaded with this matter to the exclu-
sion of legitimate business. This is one
of the many ways by wlioh tue Grant
"Ring" rob the people.
Year: 1872

A recent decision by the
Court of Appeals of New


York settles two important
questions of law. Amarried wo-
man had brought suit against q


Railroad Company forlost bag.
gage, and had obtained iudg-
ment for $4,000. Oman appeal
the court above affirmed ejudg-
ment. The ticket Oh which the
lady was riding contained a
clause limiting the responsible
ty of the Company for the loss
of, or damage to, baggage to
500; but the Court held that
the Company could not thus re-
strict its responsibility. The
other point for the defense was
that the proper party plaintiffin
such a case was the husband and
not the wife. The opinion of
the Court was, however, that a
wife may bring an action to re-
cover the loss of personal ap-
parel, even though it was pur-
chased by her husband. As
the latter question depends on
the code of that State it is Of
less general interest.
Year: 1872

An ingenious scoundrel recent
ly cheated a Southport bank out
of 800 by asking for change for
a 500 bill, receiving it, then
asking, in an off hand sort of way,
"Well, amt you going to give me
that bill?" The cashier unwitting-
ly gave him the bill, and was too
busy to find out his mistake until
after the swindler had left.
Year: 1872

When Rufus Choate was alive.
people ascertained at which hotel
the great barrister stopped, by
looking down the register until
they found two blots and-a spatter,
that no one could read, which
stood for his name.
Year: 1872

Nor AsHAMED.-T other
day, in the city Of London, the
people were astonished by a
Hindoo gentleman. 1t was in
their grand park-Hyde Park
where people go to drive and
ride, and walk. This Hindoo
was a Mohammedan, and the
hour Of prayer came while he
was in the park. So unrolling
a small mat which he carried,
he laid it on the grass, and
kneeling down on it went
gravely through his prayers
He did not think of emitting
hisprayers because people would
see him pray. How often does
it happen that our boys and
girls dono pray in the morning
or at evening because they are
ashamed to be seen praying
In almost every case they would
be more respected if they went
forward not minding what peo-
pie thought or said. Even if
any one should laugh at them,
what would it matter? Christ
wants US to confess Him before
men-never be ashamed of
Him.
Year: 1872

A veteran observer says: 81 neV-
er placed much reliance on a man
who is always telling what he
would have done had he been
there. | have noticed that some
how this kind Of people never get
there"
Year: 1872

SMALL-Pox IN BALTINoRE.-No
ieoncealment is made of the fact
that this dreadful disease is rapid
I ly increasing in the city OF Balti-
more. On Monday afternoon a
communication from the health
commissioner was made to the
city council, in which that officer
says:


Melancholy though it be, it has
become my duty, as commissioner
Of health, to inform the legislative
department of the city govern
ment, that smallpox in epidemic
form has made Iodgment among
US. and that it is feariully ON the
increase, there being now at the
Marine Hospital torty.fve cases,
to which number new cases are
added daily, and that there are
now concealed III private houses
many cases Of the continent type."


The commissioner urges the
duty Of vaccination and re-vacci-
nation as the best known preven-
tive.
Year: 1872

Here is what they sing at pub
lie examinations in a Vermont viii
Iage, to the tune of Yankee
Doodle" visitors and all joining
in the chorus


l anything on earth can make


A great and glorious nation,
1t is to give the little ones


\ thorough education.
ChoYeGS-Five times five are twenty five,


Five times six are thirty,
Five times seven are thirty-five,


And five times eight are forty.
Year: 1872

A STORY ABOUT STRAUss-The great COM
poser is a very engaging person. His complex
ion is quite dark. His eyes and hair are as
black as possible. It is related of him that
when he was in st. Petersburg the fair Russian
bellies made frightfni series OF demands upon
him. for locks of his hair. Strauss viewed the
prospect with alarm All these souvenirs would
leave him bald. Then he had brilliant idea.
His dog was huge black Newfoundland. Its
shaggy coat was of precisely the texture of his
hair, and to-day many a Russian album is en-
riched by the possession Of a cherished lock of
hair from Strauss dog. When he was coming
to this country he could with difficulty be re-
strained, it is said, from bringing along the dog
as precautionary measure for similar emer-
gencv
Year: 1872

DEAD.-Judge McCunn, of New York, who
was recently removed from Office by the unan-
imous vote of the Senate, died on the morning
of July 9th. The cause of his death is said to
have been depression and grief at this action
of the Senate.
Year: 1872

The neighbors thought, from the terri.
BILE crash, that house had fallen down,
and rushing into the street, were aston
ished to learn the real nature Of the disass
ter. Half dozen men, on being appraised
by the hysterical female occupants of the
row, that there was a child under the
boiler, fastened to procure q lot of scant-
ling, as levers, and pry it off. The poor
child was crushed and mangled beyond
recognition. Her little fingers were still
around the rope she had been turning,
and, with her disengaged hand she
seemed still reaching out for her play
mates. The tive children were probably
killed by the boiler as 1t bounded from
the street, and instantly. Their taking off
was as If they had been transhxed by a
thunder-bolt from cloudless sky.


The names of the children were Cora
Kohl, Emma Forbus, and Alice Thorn
ton. Two of them-Alice and Emma
lived in the row of buildings in front of
which the boiler fell; the other, Cora,
lived on Baymiller street, above Poplar
1t was Alice who was crushed by the boil
er. She had just been dressed to come
douIn tarun, and uUaH playing ON tho eido-
walk till her mother came to take her.
Little Emma had all the medical attention
that could be given her, but her case was
considered hopeless from the first, and it
was not believed that she would live
through the night.
Year: 1872

A CORRESPONDENT in Mature gives an
account of fight between a cobra di cap
pello and mongoose, the latter a small
mammal well known for its services in
destroying the poisonous serpents of In
dia. The writer states that the mongoose
was bitten by the cobra in the course of
the fight, but that the latter was ultimately
killed, and its destroyer went into the
jungle for a time, as though in search of
some remedy, and came back in a few
hours after the fight apparently quite
we'll.
Year: 1872

DYEING BLACK SILK,-A German au-
thority forwards to the Scientific American
the following directions for dyeing black
silk piece goods: Clean the silk in the
usual way with soda, wash off the fluid,
and pass the fabrics through tepId bath
containing little tumeric and vitriol
Wash them once more, and leave them
during one night in bath of solution
of nitrate of iron of the strength of So
B. On taking out, wash them well, and
put them in a bath containing fustic and
logwood, increasing the heat by degrees.
If the silks be overdyed by the last pro-
cess (this will be detected by its brown
color, put them through slightly acid
bath, If not, put them in lukewarm
bath, containing soda and the double
muriate of lin in the proportion of two
parts to three; leave them in this bath till
the requisite shade is produced,
Year: 1872

CLEVELAND was recently the scene of
an awful case of mysterious warning
and sad realization. The circum-
stances are related as follows: A
young and beautiful married lady,
whose husband was down town at
tending railroad meeting" stepped
into neighbors house to while away an
hour or so until he returned. While en-
gagged in knitting a stocking, she was
startled by the sudden dropping of all the
stitches from one needle. She proceeded
to gather them up, when a lookingglass
in the room fell and broke; she then felt
that some deadly peril hung over her hus-
band, and rushed home. The front door
was open; his overcoat hung upon the
floor, and his plug hat was placed upon
the marble bust of Daniel Webster in the
parlor. With an undefinable feeling of
terror, she rushed to her room-only to
find her warning realized; there he lay
on the bed, with his boots on the pillows
and the ace of spades tightly clutched in
his hand. She did not faint, but denied
trumps and played a club-arOund his
head-until he promised to give up such
'tricks."