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Year: 1870

The passenger train on the Chicago and
Alton railroad from Chicago, due ut .pring-
field at Gas yesterday morning, did not ar
rive there until 2:4O in the afternoon. The
detention was caused by q portion of the
train getting off the track, FIRST at Willow
Springs Station, and afterward about SIX
miles south of Joliet, the last by the break
ing of a rail. No person was injured.
Year: 1870

The Grand Jury for the County of Done
gal, Ireland, have forwarded to London q
recommendation that the habeas corpus be
immediately suspended, citing as a reason
therefor the growing insecurity of the life
and property throughout the country.
Year: 1870

E SUFFRAGE Editor Rutland Herald :,
I exceedingly regret to see my name SC
prominently and frequently paraded in
your columns, for under any circumstance
such publicity and controversy is distaste-
fnl to me, but more especially SO at this
time, because neither the quotation from
the report of my lecture at Wells, which
was SO hastily and sharply criticised by
Equal Suffrage" or the sentence referred
to by mediator" reflect my real senti-
ments, but'constitute portion of the in.
accuracies of the report of my lecture,
which, as before..stated had .beenlcorrected
for your weekly edition, before the ILL
advised criticisms of Suffrage" appeared
in your columns. -. ,5 -.-s


Suffrage" is pleased to acknowledge
ms as a director of public sentiment"
If such be my position, I ought, and shall
endeavor to hold and advocate with true
courage, all right sentiments, and when I
am convinced that it will be for the
public good, and for the elevation of
woman, to give her the ballot, shall take
my position in the serried ranks of
woman's rights advocates, but until the
day of my political conversion dawns, I
claim the right to entertain and advocate
the opposite view.


This is my last reply to Suffrage" until
he shall write over his true name.


r e. MILLS.
Year: 1870

cred him certainly one of the most dis
tinguished subjects for examination ever
brought before a committee. Mr. Gould
was as neat and trim as if just out Of a
handbook. Sharp as piece OF Sheffield
cutlery, cool, resolute, armed at all points,
perfectly affable and polite, he seemed to
understand himself, his position and his
interrogators, quite as well as anybody
present.


After the examination was over Fisk
drew out his cigar case and offered every
body present "weed," at the same time
taking one himself, and ended up by ask
ing the committee to a spread" at
Walkers. Both Fisk and Gould returned
to New York Saturday night, and WASH
ington can now devote its undivided
attention to the Prince
Year: 1870

A LICENTIOUs PERSONAL PRESS. The
New York Tribune lately administered &
we'll merited rebuBe to the World for al
article abounding in sensational personal


tiles published in that paper. The fol-


lowing remarks Of the Tribune are wor.
thy of public attention in some other
places we know of, besides New York:


Nothing can restrain a hcentious press
nowadays but the pressure of public
sentiment or the fear of cow-hide II
is only little while since another paper
accused well-known and respectable
lawyer of being vile instrument through
which the Secretary of State was bought
by the Spanish government. The story
was repeated day after day, with such de-
tails that unthinking persons naturally
assumed it to be true. 1t was aslibel, and
has been proved utterly without founda-
tion of any kind. What could the law
yer do What could the Secretary of
State do p? What could be done in another
infamous case, where morning newspa-
per announced on New Years Day that a
certain well-known and most estimatible
citizen, whose character is above the
breath of reproach, would receive calls at
place which turned out to be a notorious
house of prostitution Who is safe if the
public tolerates this sort of journalism /?
We shall fall back to the condition. of a
generation ago, when the horse-whipping
of an editor was a common street scene,
and the whole profession of journalism
was held in reproach through the infamy
ofal few of its most conspicuous members.
There is no remedy but one, and that is
in the hands of the public. No class of
journals depend SO entirely upon the fa-
vor of the hour, as the sensation-mongers
who commit these offenses of which we
speak. No class is SO amenable to popu-
lar Indignation as those who have no
principle of action except the sale of their
wares. If all decent men would frown
upon attempts to malign the innocent and
exaggerate the wiokedness of the guilty,
we should soon witness reform. But so
long as the public is ready to buy lies, the
market is sure tie be stocked with them.
Year: 1870

SENATOR RAMsEY's POSTAL TELE-
GRAPH BILL.-Our members of Congress
in favor of an impartial and uniform
telegraph system in connection with the
Post Office Department, and upon all in
favor of cheap dispatches, to give help
ing hand to Senator Ramsey's Postal
Telegraph bill. We call upon our con-
temporaries .of the newspaper press
throughout, to ventilate this subject, so
that we may know who are for a private
corporation monopoly, and who are for
fair play and equal rights to the people
We want to know, and we want Congress
to know how the land lies.
Year: 1870

THEFT OF CUBAN DoCUMENTs.-The Gu
ban Junta recently sent lady to Washing
ton with precious box OF documents bear
ing ON their side of the question, for use in
converting susceptible but stubborn Congress-
men. The box containing these highly I'M
porant and valuable papers was double lock-
ed and carefully concealed at the bottom OF
trunk that stood in her room, and which she
took special care never to leave open. Return
ing the other evening to her apartment, she
was surprised to find the door standing aiar,
and upon entering the chamber discovered to
her utter asionishment that the trunk had
been forced, the box taken out, the lid wrench
ed off, aud every scrap of the contents stolen.
AS proof that the robber, had not been COM
mitted for plunder only, her iewelry, laces,
and objects OF great vaiue, that were In the
trunk, ully exposed to the observation OF the
burglar, remained untouched.
Year: 1870

Coop ApvICE-Wc commend the fol.
lowing t. the careful consideration of the
parents Of boys:


\ word TO parents. Keep your boys at
home after dark. If absent with your
leave, know that they are not in mischief
or disturbing your neighbors. The street
is the schoul for all manner Of vice, and
few boys are proof against the many temp
tations Of wicked associates and the dark
ness that conceals their deviltry. Parents,
if you do no. wish your b ys to learn habits
and tricks that will qualify them for the
penitcntiary, and perhaps the gallows, keep
them off the street during the night time
Make your homes pleasant for tho boys
Get them books and papers to read, and
teach them to love their homes. Many
boys are not to blame for running the
streets at night. They would, many of
them, prefer home after darkness, but they
are told, in some instances, "do go out and
play till bed time, and let us have it quiet
i'll the house for little while" Parents,
you do yourselves and your boys great
wrong by driving them into the streets at
night. Better far to have them raise a
little mirthful rumpus under your own
eye than to raise the devil in the streets to
the great annoyance of your neighbors. If
you think it manly in your sons to chew
tobacco, swear, &C., furnish them plug"
and a spittoon, and let them give you
evening exhibitions Of their proficiency.
This will relieve them Of the necessity Of
going into the shops to find "chcw,"
and perhaps something else of more value.
Year: 1870

We have vague impression that not long
since one of our exchanges had an item to
the efFoct that the witty and graceful writer
and popular lecturer, Grace Greenwood, :"
belonged TO the ranks of the opposers of wo-
mans enfranchisement We should say
it was the CdledoniaH, were it not for the &C
curacy that usually characterizes the state
ments of that paper. Whether this is so or
not, we are quite sure all our readers will
York Tribune, written after visit to New
York:


On my return was greeted on all sides by
the sad tidings, by no means sadly convened,
that the Woman Suffrage cause was dead !
Some ascribe its untiHely taking off to the
action Of certain distinguished ladies at the
Capital, who are solemnly protesting against
the ballot-and some to the absolute separa-
ton of the Boston from the New York branch
of its advocates. They say it died under the
operation-just so, according to the opinion
of surgeons, the Siamese twins would give
up the ghost, or ghosts, should the vital lig-
ature which connects them, be severed.
Strange l attended the last New York Con-
vention of the American Woman Suffrage
Association, without suspecting that the
lively proceedings were of the nature oil
funeral obsequies. | must say that our emf
nent President, the Rev. Henry Ward Beech
er, was uncommonly jolly for so mournful an
occasion. | also venture TO declare that he
did not then know of the decease of his poor
protege ge-neither did the corpse.


remember once to have read in that spir.
itual aurora boreahs, The Banner Of Light,
something quite strange and startling, pur-
porting to be the after-death deposition of a
Union soldier. who fell at the first battle oi
Bull Run. He said he was in the midst oil
the fight, or fight, when something happened
that took him off his feet. He supposed he
was shot right through the heart, but the
first thing be knew he was standing erect
somewhere, feeling as well as usual, and was
face to face with an old army comrade, whom
fifteen years before, ne had seen killed in
Mexico. Good God, Tom a" he exclaimed
|" thought you were dead"


so am" was the calm reply, "and Sc
are your


And this, be informed his medium, was th'
first intimation he had of his change of con
Year: 1870

A PERSIAN TALE OR, LITTLE THINGS
MAY BE UsEFUL.-There was once prince
who, having been much displeased with
one of his mobiles, determined to punish
him. The prince commanded that he
should be shut up in high tower. Into
this tower there was only one entrance,
which was walled up Immediately after the
nobleman had been placed there. Thus
all hope of escape seemed to be cut of,
and the unhappy man was left to perish.
Inside the tower there was long winding
staircase, by which the prisoner reached
the top. While looking down from there
he observed his wife, who had come, indulg-
ing a f. int hope that she might be able by
some means or other to aid her husband
in escaping from his place of confinement


On inauiring if she could be OF any ser


vice to him, he replied, o, yes; 60 and


procure black beetle, little grease,
skein of silk, skeiu of twine, and long
rope.' The poor wife fastened to obtain
what her husband asked for, wondering


no doubt, at the strangeness ofhls request.
She soon returned furnished with the things.
Her husband then directed her TO put the
grease on the beedle's head, to fasten the
Silk TO its hind leg, the twine to the silk,
and the rope to the twine, and then to
nlaee the beetle on the wall of the tower.
On being set at liberty on the wall, the
beetle, smelling the grease on its head and
not being able to discover where 1t was


crept up the tower in search of it until II
arrived at the top. The nobleman caught
it. and taking the silk from its hind leg


carefully drew it up. When he came tc
the end of the silk he found the twine
Year: 1870

Florida is proud of the possession of a
youth who can handle snakes, scorpions
and centipedes with perfect impunity- He
makes pets and play-fellows of the larger
kind of rattlesnakes. twisting them around
him, and dallying with their forked tongues
or twelve rattles. Tie actually has car
ried scorpions in his bosom, and wasps and
hornets in his sleeves and pockets, without
receiving bite or sting. In the loneliness
of the grove or forest, or in any secluded
place infested with snakes, he can, by
few talismanic words, call around him any
number of snakes, whom he can charm into
perfect obedience to all his mandates He
can pick them up and down at any given
place. and at his bidding they will remain
there until his return after an absence
sometimes of hours. He can take rat
or n mouse and SO manipulate it-so-put
that inexplicable tyrant spell upon it
that it at once becomes mute suppliant
for favor. is quiescent, and may be tum-
bled about at pleasure. The young ma
giciau AYERS that this miraculous power is
given him by spirits, whether good or evil
be knows not.
Year: 1870

The ATMosPHERE.-The air is describ-
ed in general way as composed of two
gases, nitrogen and oxygen, four parts of
the former to one of the latter There is
not a proper chemical division between
them, and air is not compound in this
sense. And this renders the constancy of
the proportional quantities four to one,
so much the more singular among the mys-
teries of nature which make it possible for
air-breathing animals TO live. We can
understand that two substances in chemical
combination, as in water, should be found
in definite proportions when the mixture
is only mechanical of these gases. The
nearest analogy is in the watery solution.
Water will take up certain amount of
salt and no more-which is called a satu-
rated solution. Oxygen has a peculiar
function in promoting the activity of life.
1t is a stimulaut as effective as ether or
alcohol. If taken undiluted it will destroy
life by over stimulus of the vital action.
Nitrogen is inert and serves for dilutiou
perhaps it is analogous to water and holds,
in sort of saturated solution, just the
right quantity of oxygen TO promote
health. Yet this does not fully answer all
the difficulties of the problem. or explain
the wonderful fitness. nicety and persist
ence of an adaptation without which the
life of animals would be impossible.
Year: 1870

A circus troupe went by the Wallingford
Community house the other day. There
were twelve camels among the animals
The elephants came along an hour after
ward. There was one said to be the
largest in the country. another the smallest
1t happened says the Circular. that
they had to turn out of the road just here
to let the carriages pass. SO we had an
opportunity of looking at them as leng as
We liked. We were very much amused
and astonished at their sagacity and the
fexibility of their trunks. We fed them
with crackers aud potatoes. The small
elephant would take crackers out of Mr.. SIS
pocket. The oil one would draw back
from the basket of potatoes when the
small one attempted to eat from it, and
spend the time in taking up dust from the
road and sprinkling it all over his back, but
when the driver began TO make motion to
go. the large one. making hollow in the
middle of his trunk. took all the potatoes
that were left in the basket into it, and
soon transferred them to his mouth.
Year: 1870

A REMARKABLE NEGRo GENu.-At the
last meeting of Lexington (Ky.) Presby-
terry, a negro applied for a license to
preach, and it was accorded to him, but
not until after most searching examina-
ton, during which he showed textbooks
required to be studied By Presbyterian
theological students. The Lexington Ga
zette says the negro is singular compound
OF physical deformity and mental activity,
painful to look upon. and with a very large
head. out of all proportion to the rest Of
his person. He is reputed son of the
great lawyer and orator. S. S. Prentiss,
and at one time member of Congress from
Mississippi, where he was looked upon as
a perfect prodigy of eloquence and mental
attainment. This son of his seems to pos
sess his peculiarities in an exaggerated
degree, and may yet prove as marvellous in
mind as distorted in body. His appear
ance so prejudiced the members of the
Presbytery against him that they would
have refused him license If be had shown
any deficiency. He was required to deliv-
er sermon Of his own composition, and
the matter of it was not only good. but
the manner of delivery was composed and
admirable.
Year: 1870

The competition of reporters for "ex-
clusive' bits of local news is as ener-
getic in England as it is in this country
In one instance a reporter had very
nearly go: into trouble by his zeal. He
lived mile or So out of town, and on one
side of the road for considerable part
Of the way, was thick grove. AS he
was returning home late one night, after
having seen the paper to press, he OBJ
served that one OF the trees near the
roadside had an unusual appearance
Going within the fence, he discovered
that the body Of a man was suspended
from une of the branches. Hurriedly
cutting it down, he drew the body into a
part of the grove where the underground
was thick, intending to conceal it.
This done he went home Next morn
ing he was taken into custody, on a
charge of willful murder, and brought
before a magistrate A gameke-psr
going tn, ough the wood. at early day
light, had discovered the body in its
place of concealment, and some other
person remembered that, about mid


light. he had seen the reporter issue
from the grove. The case was suspi
cious-until constable, searching tht
pockets of the dead man, discovered ;
written statement containing his name
and place of abode and declaring t)a
domestic misfortune had made life 81
undesirable that he had resolved to com
init suicide. Of course the reporter was
discharged. lis explanation was tt
the effect that, finding such fine bi
Of "local" az this too late for his owl
paper, he had concealed the corpse, il
order that the rival journal, which wa
to appear on the next day, should no
profit by the news? But for the suicide
confession, pretty srong case of cir
cumstautial evidence might have bee'
made to the peril of the night of th'
pen. Another of this class entered TIL
editorial room in an excited manner ant
with rapid steps. "A capital fatal accl
dent :" he exclaimed. About tel
minutes ago my mother-in-law tumble'
| down stairs and broke her neck. | hav
desired them not to say anything abcu
it to the neighbors until the morning, s
that we shall have it exclusively 70
our paper" His heart was in his cal
ling. undoubte lily.
Year: 1870

A correspondent of the Cincinnati
Gazette writes from. Wyoming Terri
| tory:


Wyoming Territory is governed by
J. A. Campbell, late of Ohio, and it is
IN this territory that women suffrage
reigns in all its glory. There women
sit on jures and administer laws. The
last grand jury drawn at Laramie shows
a clear majority of female names. A
short time since, the Governor appoint
ed several ladies justices of the peace,
and they have entered upon the duties
of their Offices. One of the new justices
is for the mining region at South Pass
City. The single miners seem to like
heir female judges, and pay great res
ppct to the court. The South Pass
N'eus gives this account of a case re-
recently tried before Mrs. Judge Nor
rs:


"Much interest is manifested in a
trial held in our city on Wednesday
last, not so much from the Importance
of the case as from its novel character.
It was a prosecution against one of the
offirers # Carter county, to recover a
fine provided hv the law making the
new county of Sweetwater, in case Ger
tain officers should fail to deliver over
the records of their offices to their sue
cps>ors The proceeding was com
monced before Mrs. f Morris, the new
lv-appointed and qualified justice of
the reace, and much interest was mani
tested to witness judicial proceeding
with woman for judge.


1.-The trial was held in a crowded
houee. and it must be admitted that in
the manner of holding court our justice
might we'll be taken for an example in
point of dignity and propriety of action
and department. The case was ds-
missed by Justice Morris, on the
ground that she being the successor Of
the accused herself, could not with
nropriety try the case, as being party
interested. This, whether technically
correct or not. shows deIicacy of fee:
ing in regard to the rights OF others very
crpdi'ahle to the head and heart Of our
new official, and which is eminently
worthy of imitation.


"There is one of these Wyoming fe
male JUICES who administers the police
affairs of a certain young city, and who
is said to have caused great commotion
by the severity of her judgments or
offenders If you take a drop to much
of the 'crather up you 60 for the full
extent of The law, and no amount Of
pleading or promises will soften the jn
dicial heart. Then if a weak sister i:
caught, there is an end to her SHINING
for she is locked up hard and fast ant
kept in durance vile until she is ready
to migrate to other lands, where no fe
male judges are.'
Year: 1870

A Touch CASE. In Arkansas, Elder
KNAPP, while baptising converts alta re-
vival meeting, advanced with WY,
sharp-eyed old chap in the water. He
asked the usual question, whether there
was any reason why the ordinance Of
baptism should not be administered.
After pause a tall, powerful looking
chap, with an eye like a blaze, who
was leaning on rifle, and quietly look
ing on remarked ::


"Elder. don't want to interfere in
this yere business any, bat want to
say that is an old sinner you have got
hold of, and I know one dip won't do
him any good. If you want to get
the sin out of him you'll have to anchor
him out in deep water over mig ght."
Year: 1870

An old farmer, whose son had lately
died, was visited by neighbor who
began to condole with him on his loss.
my loss y exclaimed the father, "no
such thing it was his own loss--he
was of age"
Year: 1870

An EARrHouAKB IN NEW YoRK.-The supply
OF sensations In New York is evidently not vet
given out. The World states positivelv Win
copious scientific commentary, that the CITY was
visited by asmall earthquake on Saturday after
noon. The event was not generally known, but
there were many people on the east side who
felt the shake, and ran into the streets in alarm


Shortly Afterwards the thermometer rose four
degrees. The World describes the shock as last
ing about second and a-half, and coming with
an unusual noise, like a smothered explosion
In mud" and "a tremor in the ground" under
foot, and thinks 1t probable that this 'was but
the outskirts Of a more tremendous one of which
we are vet TO hear, ~
Year: 1870

NATIONAL UNION LEAGUE MEETING I'M NEW
loRK.-The National Executive Committee of
Nicholas Hotel, in New York, yesterday, with
VIM A Newell in the chair, and Thomas j .
Becker, of New York, secretary. The secre-
tary's report was read giving an encouraging
account of the republican party throughout the
Union 1t showed that the system of orpaniza-
ton was 30 far complete as to insure victory in
the Congressional elections about to take plaee
IL declared that by faithful work in New York
the State could be redeemed from democracy.
Year: 1870

New HAVEN, June 29-The summer races of
the Yale NAVY came off yesterday on Salton-
stall Lake. The Scientific crew won the shell
race IN nineteen minutes thirty and quarter
seconds, beating the University crew. The
single scull race is not yet decided, foul being
claimed.
Year: 1870

BAKKRs' STRIKE AT MARsEILLEs, FRANCE
There II general strike among the Journey
men bakers at Marseilles, France. Their EN-
ployers are willing to concede an advance Of
wages, but refuse TO agree to certain condition.
insisted upon by the men. In consequence or
me nearly Total suspension of work at the bake
ries the price of bread is advancing
Year: 1870

The NEW CURRENCY BILL.-The Committee
OF Conference on the disagreeing votes OF the
two houses on the Currency bill hs ving agreed
upon report. 1t was taken up in the House
yesterday afternoon, and although no vote was
reached the temper OF the House appeared to
be in opposition to the BILL The bill as agreed
upon by the Conference Committee simply
provides for an additional issue of forty-fiye
million of bank notes. the cancellation of the
forty-two millions of three per cents. held by
the banks as their lawful reserve, and for a four
per cent. gold bond for free banking purposes.