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Year: 1875

the conscience, and deliberately and
heartlessly damns the confdIng victim.
This was the manner in when beechef
alone could describe the Scriptures
There are four things passing my
comprehension. The way of an eagle IN
the air, the way of serpent upon
rock, the way of ship upon the sea, the
way of minister with maiden.
Laughter The question at issue IN
this case was whether the influence Of
this great church and its minister
would overcome truth and the
issues of Justice, or, in behalf OF Henry
Ward Beccher, an appeal was made
to our sympathies and judgment, and 1t
was hard to judge such man. 1t was
hard to condemn such man, but the
question is whether law and justice shall
prevail over the influence o: Henry
Ward Beecher and his supporters. Inc
jury knew before they were empannelled
the efforts that were made on behalf ot
the innocence of Henry Ward Beechcr
by the community, but some circum--
stances had arisen which had changed
the face of affairs, and their verdict had
already been anticipated by the world.
The jury were TO consider whether this
case would be determined by these
rules and regulations, given
to us by the law for our
wisdom or guidance. Counscls learned
friend had endeavored to fix upon Tllton
the blame of bringing out these stories,
and the charges of blackmail against
Tllton and Mouton. The first event in
the case was the publication Of the
Woodruff card in May, 1871. MIR. Til
ton certainly had nothing to do with the
publication of this card, and the other
side concede this, as he had not
been introduced to Mrs. Woodruff
until subsequent TO this. Then there
was the church ditficulty-thiS uneasy
feeling on the part of the members OF
Plymouth Church, which was bubbIlng
and rising and then settling down again.
from the year 1871 down. Counsel then
referred to the West testimony as TO the
appointment of the committee TO wait
upon Tilton and confer with him about
his withdrawal from the church. Mr..
Beecher was appointed II committee of
one to wait on Tilton, which he did, and
reported that it was better for the church
to take no action in the matter. This,
said counsel. was in the year 1872.


The court here adjourned.
Year: 1875

HdHsUUIU DtIUUtTaI.I


We announce by authority this week
Mr.. John Poitevent as a candidate for
Representative from the counties of Han.
cock and Pearl. Mr.. Poitevent is a ma
tive of Hancock and well known to the
people Of the county as eminently quail
lied for the position to which he aspireq.
He is a Democrat and we presume if a
Convention is held he viii submit bis
claims to il and abide its action whatever
it may be.
Year: 1875

tied to recover. The county court rendered
Judgment for plaintiff pro torma. The
question was whether the defendant was
guilty of such negligence in having such a
place in his granary, and suffering plaintiff
to go there. provided the plaintiff was in
the exercise of due care and diligence, as
would allow plaintiff to recover. Judgment
OF county court reversed and Judgment for
defendant. Wales & Taft and T. R. Hard
for plaintiff; Phelps and II. Ballard for de-
fendant
Year: 1875

panies great intellectual capacity. Similar
ly with regard to criminal lunatics, though
the average weight Of brain among single
dozen Of these, examined BY DR.. Orange Of
Broadmoor, is an ounce and half under
the general male average, there are in that
limited number two brains which exceed
that Of Chalmers in weight, and one that
outweigs those of chalmers, Daniel Webster,
and Sir j. Simpson, and is within half
an ounce of being equal to that of Good
sir. Small-headed people may take COM
fort from these statistics. But assuming
equal quality, superior quantity of brain
would, as it is natural to assume on grounds
OF physiological analogy, unmistakably
tell the result.
Year: 1875

How To GET RID OF HoUsEHolD PEsTs.-
| have not seen bed-bug or a flea IN my
house for many years. Ii an army of them
were to be brought in, mercury would
speedily exterminate them but think
cleanliness the best and perhaps the only
preventive. The common house ilv do not
molest, believing that it more than compen-
safes for its trouble by clearing the arfnos-
phere of etiluyia and the animalcules which
always arise from the putrefaction Of decay
ing substances during warm weather. So
also with the birds, which are quite numer


Gus here during the summer. Instead Of
shooting them or setting up searecrows to
irlghten them away, throw cut every pos
slbie inducement for chem to build their
nests in my fruit trees. The birds capture
a large share Of the insects IL the larya
state, and thus the millers are prevented
from depOsiting eggs for future worms. As
to the lost Of fruit by the birds the latter
are always sure to be on hand in force in
the season of ripe fruit, whether they come
early to take the worms or not. For the
residue of insects which iulest my yegeta


bic garden find that the laboratory Of the
chemist furnishes materials fatal TO them all,
among which white hellebore and clenyne
pepper are of the most utility. The bug or
worm which cannot find vegetation undavor-
ed with these articles viii seek it. breakfast
elsewhere and leave a garden unmolested.
\ few drops Of carb0lic acid in pint Of
water will clean house plants from lice in
very short time. Ii mosquitoes or other
blood-suckers infest our sleeping rooms at
night, we uncork bottle Of the oil Of pen


nyroyal, and these insects leave in great
haste, nor will they return 50 long as the air
in the room is loaded with the fumes of
that aromatic herb. If rats enter the cellar,
little powdered potash thrown into their
holes, or mixed with meal and scattered in
their runaways, never fails to drive Aem
away. Cayenne pepper will keep theNut-
terry and storeroom free from ants and cock


reaches If a mouse makes an entrance
into any part of your dwellings, saturate a
rag with cayenne in solution and stuff it
into hole, which can be repaired with
either wood or mortar. No rat or mouse
will eat that rag for the purpose OF opening
communication with the depot ofsupplies.-
Charles Thompson IN Scientific American.
Year: 1875

DIR. Hall declares unhesitatlngly that
il is wrong TO eat without an appetite,
for it shows there is no gastric juice in
the stomach, and that nature does not
need food and not needing il. there
being no fluid to receive and set upon
it. it remains there only toputrefy, the
very thought of which should be sum
cient to deter any man from eating
without an appetite for the remainder
of his life.


Ifa tonic is taken TO whet the ap-
petite, il is a mistaken course, for its
only result is TO cause one 70 eat more
when already an amount has been eaten
beyond what the gastric juice Is able
to prepare. .


The object to be obtained is . large
supply of gastric juice, not larger
supply of food and whatever fails to
accomplish that essential object, fails
to have any efficiency toward the cure
of dyspeptic diseases.


The formation Of gastric juice i
directly proportionate to the wear and
tear of the system. which is to be the
means Of supplying, and thiE wear and
tear can only take place as the result
of exercise. The efficient remedy TOR
dyspepsia is work-out-d0or work
beneficial and successful in direct pro-
portion as it is agreeable, interesting
and profitable.
Year: 1875

The thief who stole the package OF
bills from the treasury department .
few days ago remains undiscovered.
Gen. Spinner seems worn out with
anxiety. Charges have been made that
several banks which sent packages OF
money to the treasury have been re-
ported short in their remittanses, and
the banks have been required to make
up the deficits. Treasury officers say
that such discoveries have been rare
and the evidence is conclusive that the
hanks had made q miscount.
Year: 1875

A man without money is like the
following things, according to our ex-
perience and observation:
Like body without soul.
Like a wagon without pole.
Like thresher without fail.
like ship without sail.
Like lever without prop.
Like drunkard without o drop.
Like church without preacher.
Like a school without teacher.
Like a hunter without gun.
Like day without sun.
Like a mill without a wheel.
Like a negro without q heel.
Like a poet without sonnet.
Like a woman without bonpet.
Like maid bereft of her tongue S tip
Who cannot join in the gossip.
A pair OF spurs without the rowels
In the matter as far as feelings can go
He feels like girl without beau.
If man fails te have money the fol,
lowing things generally occur.
The men all doubt him.


The women all rout him.


The children all scout him.
The men call him green.


The women call him mean.
The children call him lean.
A moral can be drawn from our OBJ
servatiOns:


The root of evil is love for pelf,
But the want Of it, friends, is tn
devil himself.
Year: 1875

She was the mother of five children.
Her sixth babe was yet unborn when she
was exposed to the cold and wet in walk
ing home from a neighbor's house, and
was seized with intense rheumatic and
neuralgia pains.


She was q quiet, Industrious, uncom-
planning woman. 1t was when she was a
fresh-looking, curly-headed girl that a
man, several years her senior, returned
to her neighborhood from long and
venturesome voyage to the Arctic re-
gions, whittier he had sailed in pursuit
of whales. He had met with terrible
disaster While engaged in blasting a
way through the ice-feld which had
frozen around their vessel, premature
or miscalculated explosion had burnt
both his eyes and almost totally extin-
guished his sight. He could perceive
the difference between night and day,
and that was about all.


Still she married him, and they man.
aged to get along, as people do in the
country, on almost nothing, and yet
their children always presented re-
spectacle appearance. She had a sunny
disposition, and the big flock of chick
ems which she contrived to have ready
for the early market gave lively and
home-like aspect to the yard around their
cottage door.


The chills, which destroy so many
constitutions, says the Ledger, pulled
her down through the summer; her face
grew more wan; yet no one thought she
was walking side by side with the angel
of death and so near to him, until her
return from neighborly call which we
have mentioned, and the sudden pros
tration that followed it. Three days
later, a soft Sunday morning, the first
of the present winter, she said she felt
relieved of pain and wanted to sleep.
She slept, but walked not. And that
night heavy rain was falling monoto-
nously on the humble roof of that humble
home. 1t was one of those dark, stormy
nights which seem to add an unusual
gloom even to the chamber Of death
and there were the five children, hardly
yet realizing how entirely the loss OF
fond mother changes the future OF life
the blind husband and father, and one
or two friendly neighbors who had come
in


No one thought, we say, how this
young mother was wasting away. II
would have been better if some had
thought in season. if the few comforts
and some of theluxuries, 50 hard for the
poor to obtain, but SO easy to the rich,
had been generously provided for her
She Might--it is not certain-but she
might have lived longer to take care Of
the children to whom her loss can never
be made up. 1t is, after all, well to re
member that while we have the poor al
ways with us, our duties to them always
remain incumbent upon us.
Year: 1875

A gentleman in Des Moines owns n
very intelligent dog, which he has trained
to bring him hismorning paper from the
front gate, where it is left by the carrier.


The other day some one stole the paper
directly after the carrier had left it, and
Carlo was greatly mystifed about the
matter. Fearing his masters anger if
he entered the breakfast-room without
his accustomed burden, he secured about
in great distress. A happy idea struck
him, however, as he espied journal
lying ON the doorstep Of the opposite
neighbor; and galloping off in high glee
he soon came into the house with ears
Year: 1875

The great farmers of the West are, one
by one, yielding to the pressure of the
times, and going through the ordeal of
bankruptcy. The country is full of
farmers who purchased large tracts in
the hope of becoming millionaires, by
the advance which they believed to be
inevitable, and now they have to pay ten
per cent. for money to enable them to
retain their kcld upon FARMS of which
they cultivate but small portion, and
which do not return more than three to
five per cent. In many counties railroad
bonds have added greatly to the burden
of taxation, and in these the big farms
are being broken up. Germans are on
hand to take the pieces, and these will
add much to the wealth of the country
by purchasing small farms, and thor
Year: 1875

One of the largest factories in South
Baltimore is devoted to the making OF
molasses and oil barrels by the following
process: The slaves are sawed to the
proper size, with the edges merely trim-
med, and passed to a boy, who sets the
number required for each barrel loosely
in frame. A man then draws the
slaves tightly together with a machine
for that purpose, after which two IRON
hoops are put on loosely to hold them Ia
place. This rude, unshaped compound
is next passed to q third workman, who
fastens it in a huge lathe, and in less
than minute the barrel is trimmed to
the proper size, and is as smooth inside
and out as if it had been sandpapered.
While it is in the lathe, the bung- hole Is
bored, and o groove is made IN the
chimes to receive the heads, which are
now sawed and inserted by another ma
chine. The whole process does not oc-
cupy more than five minutes.
Year: 1875

The Burlington Qowa) Hawkeye man
Eays: The other night man who lives
out on Columbia street was kept down
town by business until very late hour,
and his wife, knowing how cold he
would be when he got home, put an iron
on the stove, and when she heard him
open the gate she jumped up and hur
riedly wrapped the iron in piece of
flannel, and chucked it into bed for him
to warm his great feet by. The man was
cold, and taciturn, and cross. He crawl
ed into bed with groan, and shuddered
with cold as he stretched himself out.
Then he gave yell that shook the roof,
and jammed his head through the head
board, aud screamed fire, and waltzed
out on the floor and around the room i'll
the dark, filling the darkness with weird
profanity. When his wife lighted the
lamp, they discovered beautiful photo
graph Of a sadiron ON that mans foot,
and it was found that the flannel had
somehow got off the foot-warmer. The
man says that hereafter, if he must sleep
with hardware store, he wants it put in
ooI1
Year: 1875

A RAILROAD QUEsTIoN.-The courts
have held that railroad time table is a
contract entered into by the company,
and that there is responsibility for
damages when it is not complied with.
Thus any traveller may sue for any loss
occasioned by train being behind time,
and should this right be generally en-
forced the companies would soon be
overwhelmed with litigation. In Illinois
and Iowa this winter the Legislature
will he naked TO relieve the companies
Year: 1875

An observant writer has started the
question whether animals know when
Sunday comes. A friend of mine has
dog that always runs with the wagon.
On week days the wagon turns to the
right from the gate and goes down to the
factory. On Sunday it turns to the left,
and goes to church. The dog runs
ahead; ON Sunday he turns to the left,
and no intimation is given. Six days the
sagacious animal runs on in advance to
the factory. Even the horse understands
the day as well as the way to church. No
one that has passed weekday in Venice
will have failed to see the pigeons fed at
the hour of noon. Far more than 100 of
these little animals have come at noon
for their food. They never mistake the
hour. They never come at ten or
eleven. When the bell of ST. Mark s
begins to clang out the hour of noon, not
bird can be seen before the bell
ceases the air will be black, and doves by
the hundred fly to the windows. On
Sunday no grain is given. The old bell
jars out twelve o'clock, but no birds ap-
pear They can count-they know when
Sunday comes --B0StOn Journal.
Year: 1875




Dear mother, how pretty
The moon looks tonight,
She was never so cunning before
Her two little horns
Are 20 sharp and so bright,
hope she'll not grow any mere.
II l we're up there


With you and my friends,
I'd rock in it nicely, you see;
I'd sit in the middle
And hold by both ends
o, what bright cradle t'would be
would call to the stars
To get out of the way,
Lest we should rock over their trees
And there l would rock
TIL the dawn of the day,
And see where the pretty maon goes.
Year: 1875

A CARD FROM THE HON. WAYNE hACVEAGH-oSh


MANLY VOICE FROM PENNSYLVANIA.


70 the Edttor or The Tribune.


SIR: was sorry, but not at all surprised, to hnd
in your issue OF yesterday virtual acknowledgment
that the meeting at Cooper Institute ON MONDAY
night was in q great measure composed oil the ad-
herents of the Democratic party. For that result
Won blame Republicans, saying that " they generally
seem to have determined TO make partisan matter
of the Louisiana affair and to adopt blindly what
ever measures it may please the President to deter
mine upoD."


The gravity of the charge thus made can scarcely
be exaggerated, and ask you to enter my protest
against the accuracy of your inference. No man
honors Mr. Bryant and Mr. Evarts more heartily
than do and it was the plain duty of the latter as
the leader of the bar of the country,.to give the
weight of his learning and his character 10
the imperiled cause Of constitutional liberty.
/ can even appreciate the generous disregard
of misconstruction which led those gentlemen
to express their opinions upon the subject ~
that meeting; but surely it Is possible Tor other
members Of the party to be loyal to the cause
of good government and yet to feel unwiihhe W
take an active part in O political demonstration
which begins with Mr.. August Belmont and ends
with Mr.. George Ticknor Curtis. aud over which
the ceDtly-elected Democratic Mayor OF New
York City presides. ! do not at all question
the sincerity Of these last-named gentlemen;
1 do not even question their desire, or their
ability to forget their relations TO their party ana
to view the outrage in Louisiana exactly as they
viewed attempts in other days TO stife the express
SION of the popular will in Kansas. try to believe
they were freedom shriekers" then, as you and
were, and that in their present denunciations OF
Grant and Sheridan there Is not even unconscious
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Year: 1875




Editors Dispatch Please allow me space
for statement in reference TO the recent diff
ticulty at the new tolgate. While there can
be but one opinion as to the criminal Jolly OF
destroying the toll-gate, yet the company has
not been free from blame. This anomaly OF
O turnpike was chartered before the war, with
special provision allowing them to take
tolls when built to Hughes's. This is about
one and three-quarter miles from tbe.clty
limits, while the new road TO Blakey's milD
is seven.tenths of mile from the terminus
at Hughes's instead of two miles, as stated;
and the company have collected tolls for two
miles inste I'd OF the even..tenths actually
travelled. Some years since the company
built two miles on the Central or Darbytown
branch, making three and three-quarter
miles in all, while the general turnpike law
requires five miles before allowing tolls to be
collected.


Several efforts have been made to have the
company extend the road, but this corpora
ton demands at ttfe hands Of cit Zans living
on the road $4,000 per Aile, while it can be
built for less than half Of that price. An act
was passed by the General Assembly last
winter requiring this company to complete
Its road within two years or forfeit its char
ter, and at the hearing before the Senate
Committee on Roads it was proved that since
the war this company had doubled its capital
stock by vote without dollar being paid in
by the stockholders; also, that no reports
have been made to the Board ofaPublc
Works, as required by law. Wesuppose the
stock was doubled to prevent the State from
receiving the excess over Is per cent. divi.
dend, and the same reason may have prevent.
ed them from making reports of its condition
to the proper authorities.


If the road was kept in good condition 1t
would not cause so much difficulty but it is
rather hard for the lumber and wood deal.
ers to haul their loads from three to twenty
miles over country roads and then to be re-
quired to pay toll for so short distance over
q road but little better. FAIR PLAY.
Year: 1875

President goes TO Long Branch.


Especial telegram to the Dispatch.l


WAsHINGroN, June 2, 1875.
The President held q council with the In
dians at the Interior Department to-day,
from which reporters of the press were ex.
cluded, the Department acting under the im-
preston that its reports would be of more
value than those of the press representatives.
1t comes out, however, that the council re-
suited in nothing more than is already
known.


The Indians insist upon recognition of
their greatness and the Government makes
no new points. The whole thing is big
farce, and the Indians will 60 home leaving
the entire question for which they were
called here to consult upon as unsettled as
ever.


The President will leave in the early train
tomorrow for Long Branch. There Is no
intimation as to when be will return again.
Year: 1875




New YORK, June 2.-The dedicatory cere-
monies of the new Masonic Temple in this
city began this morning with procession
of Masons, which was probably the largest,
most imposing, snd most important civic dis
play vet witnessed here. In all directions
along Broadway and Fifth avenue and the
principal streets near these leading thorough.
fares flags and bunting were hung to the
breeze, and everything indicated gala'day.


AS the time for the procession to move
came on, the streets, and windows, and
doorsteps of the houses on the line of march
were filled with people. The twenty.six di'
visions into which the participants in the
procession bad been divided took up their
places in admirable order and with military
promptitude in the various streets, begin
ming with Ninth and ending with Nineteenth,
abultipg on Fifth avenue; the right Of each
division resting in each case on the avenue.


The Masonic Grand Lodge of this State
re reassembled this morning and proceeded TO
Washington Square to review the great pro.
cession. Many of their guests accompanied
them to the platform.
Year: 1875

NUR MILL NOW BEING IN FULL V operation, we are prepared to furnish the market with a quality of Flour, which we guarantee far superior to any manu- factured in the Territory, and fully equal to the very best imported from California. We will keep constantly on hand at the Mill, and at our several agencies

 Three Qualities of Flour,
Year: 1875

New York. March 1.-THE bank
ing men are very much excited over
the action of the Internal Revenue
Department at Washington, to estah-
lish an inquistorial system of investi-
CATION into the manner of transacting
business at the banks, with view to
learning whether any checks, which
were not properly stamped, have been
paid. Banks were called upon to
furnish evidence of any carelessness
or omission on their part in this res
pect, the object being to collect a
penalty of fifty dollars for every check
discovered to have been paid without
n stamp.