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Year: 1873

OFFICIAL PATRIOTISM ANDSE
DENIAL.-IOwa has been SO un.
fortunate as to present n laudable
example to the country, In the
proceedings of her Presidential
Electors. Having met on the day
prescribed by law, and cast their
ballots for Grant and Wilson.they
were confronted by grave diff
Guilty in the fact that so MANY of
their number wanted the honor
of and profit of carrying the vote
to Washington but they finally
surmounted it by drawing lots.
There was nothing particularly
worthy of emulation thus far, but
when they came to fix the COM
pensation due them for their SER
vices, these electors proved them-
selves very different from ordi-
nary officials. The law allows
them the same pay as members of
the Legislature, which in Iowa is
five hundred dollars per session,
and each elector might have pork-
eted this amount. But they con-
cluded that it was more than their
services were worth, and they de-
cided to take only five dollars for
each one of the few days occupied
IN the discharge of their duties.
We fear that it will be hard to
find a companion to this picture
OF official self-denial.
Year: 1873

ALUM IN BREAD.-From time
immemorial bakers have been in
the habit OF using alum in bread
for two purposes s,promoting white
ness and preventing sourness. If
there is any object in detecting it's
presence in the bread we use, by
pressing cold knife into q loaf of
hot bread, or Il hot knife into a
cold loaf Of bread, if there is alum
in it, it will adhere to the knife :;
if no alum, the knife will come
out as clean as it went in.
Year: 1873

GOVERNOR OF THE NEW STATE or
JACKSON If West Tennessee, South
western Kentucky. aud Northern Miss
issippi succeed in forming Themselves
into a State. We ask that Dyer>burg he
made the capital and we want 40 br
the FIRST Governor We think too.
that the Governor salary should te
large one. so that the best men would
be willing TO take upoo their shoulders
the cares of State We don wish it
uuderstood-that we shall seek the Gev
ernorship, but we do desire the Uoy
eruorshiP to seek Us. for we believe,
with all other really patriotic men, that
the position should seek the man, aud
not that the man should seek the posi-
tion That i Why we think Of ou-
self in connection with the hi-h aud
responsible ollice We recommend
ourself to the people a the proper
man for the place. and ieel confident
that they will take advantage of this
opportunity 10 exalt the position by
giving it 10 US II there are other
lucrative positions 10 be filed we have
great numter of poor kinsio.k, any
of whom would be glad to have good
fat office W have friends, too. for
whom we'd like to secure good paying
Offices uuder the new State Of Jack>o
To our poraries who support Us
we shall give lucrative positions. -
Dycrs5urq Progress
Year: 1873

IVANrRD-$lo.OO1. FOR AN INTEREST TO EXTEND
at once an established manufacturing and wholesale
business Of large profits and very safe;
at present few; advantage them considerable
in part monopoly. ADDRESS box LAS New York Post
Office.
Year: 1873

WANTED-AN ACTIVE AND ENTERPRIsIyG BUsr.
w ness man for lucrative business agency in Europe
one having some acquaintance and experiences there


and able furnish small amount Of capital Call at 535
Broadway, from to 10 in the evening
Year: 1873

From tine Lawrencebrrg Journal.


The engineer corps Of the Memphis
and Knoxville railroad company reach
ed here Thursday. and viii pass a little
nerth of the Square. We understand
they viii continue the survey as far as
Fayetteville, and then make a map of
the whole route together with a report,
giving the distances and altitude of diff
ferent places. the estimates of the cost
of the road, the character of the coun-
try. its mineral and other resources.
This Will be worth to the country twen
ty times as much as the cost of the sur
vey. Il will show the capacity of Law
renee and Wayne counties to the peO-
pie at distance, and when this is done
we can get a road or roads if our people
viii manifest the proper interest. Some
say they think this is blind, and that
we will never get the road. What a
mistake If we never get the road it
will be our own fault. If we do moth
ing and discourage every effort, of
course we viii miss this and all other
roads. But the main projectors of this
scheme are anxious, very anxious for us
to have this road if we will lend little
assistance.


The report of this survey will be
worth thousands of dollars to Lawrence
county. We have not yet quite raised
enough to pay for it; we lack five more
men who viii guarantee eleven dollars
and fifty cents each, to bepaid between
this time and the first of February.
Can we not oct ten men who Will 90 on
this roll of honor: Let us not weary
in well-doing. By all means let Law
renee do as well as Wayne, which has
secured and naid the whole $500.
Year: 1873

been officially advised of it, but that Santa
Rosa had given him a good deal of trouble.
He was once before condemned to death as
a pirate. After consuming ream of pa
per and sending and receiving numerous
cable dispatches, this. government secured
his release. Only d few weeks ago Santa
Rosa wrote to the Secretary sdyitig he owed
the the protection of his life to him; therefore
the Secretary thought that Santa Rosa was
not wise in again periling his safety.
Year: 1873

Alderman Cicalla. for the alleged crime
of drawing ratiOns from the Relief Com
mittee for fictitious persons, and apprOpria-
ting the same to his own use, was arraigned
before a committee of the board this after
noon. The evidence was very conflicting,
and the committee reserved their decision
until tomorrow.
Year: 1873

a dispatch from Minister Sickles states
that the Madrid Government had no infOr-
nation of the execution until after it had
occurred. The only information that the
Government now has is the fact that the
Virginius was captured and several persons
on her executed; but as to what waters or
under what circumstances the vessel was
captured, no information has been received.


Until these facts are known officially, the
Government will take no action in the mat
Year: 1873

The question being a very delicate one,
it is the intention of our authorities to take
no step which cannot be maintained under
the law of nations. Our Government is
not satisfied that the Virginius is entitled
to the protection Of the United States. 1t
is true that she sailed from New York un-
der an American register; but it has been
charged that she was sold to Quesada some
fifteen or eighteen months ago at ETacOa,
and since that time has been sailing both
Cuban and Venezeulan flags; and if that
charge should turn out to be true, she cam
not receive the protection Of our Govern
ment
Year: 1873

cowardice or brutality. Men and women faced
death with oalmness and resignation, not for
getting their earthly affections in their religious
hone and trust The thought OF Judge Peck
ham. An instant before hfs death, speaking
words of comfort to his wife; of Captain
Hunter. who doubtless sacrificed his own life in
irving to save his family, saying to his
daughter, God will save you. because there
ais work for you to do" with faith justified
by the event of those Protestant pastors and
Catholic priests standing side by side admins.
tering each the consultations of his own religion,
appreciating each other at last-these are
thoughts that relieve the blackness of the
tragedy, and bring some consolation to the
sorrow on the sea-"
Year: 1873

Il


No one who has watched tho discussion and
traced the order of progress in the canvas,
upon the merits Of the new Constitution TO
be submitted to the people of Pennsylyania
to-day can doubt that there is a much more
important question in issue in the vote than
the simple acceptance or rejection of tho in
strument prepared by the Convention Had
the debate been confined to the merits or
defects of the act. and no underhanded
measures been taken by its opponents 10 secure
its defeat, it is not likely that the interest IN
1t would have I. brought out large
vote. For the election does not i'm.
mediately involve any personal successes.
There are no candidates to be chosen
to positions of honor and smOlument no in
dncements to rival offce-seekers to bring their
friends to the polls in large numbers or spend
considerable sums of money to bring out the
Indifferent and the venal. IL is upon tiie sur-
face a pure question of principles, that should
not arouse prejudice or influence the mereIv
personal feelings, which form 30 large mart
of the staple of our periodical election excite.
ments. Were it in fact q question that did not
touch, and Immediately and potentially touch


personal interests thore would bo but ittle
Year: 1873

these dens may DO Inferred from the fact that
in one of them $500 in pennies was found
These places are emphatically the gambling
houses of the Door; their suppression would
be a real boon
Year: 1873




rug BILL OF THE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE FOR THE


REPEAL or THE BANKRUPTCY LAW-T Is


AGREED TO CONSIDER THE BILL ~ THE HOUSE


TO-DAY. }|>-a1fA~


(BY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRBCNgl


WASHINGTON. Dec l5.-The bill of the Judiciary
Committee for the entire repeal of the Bankruptcy
law was brought into the House to-day by Mr.. Ire
main 1t works 0 total repeal of the original law
and all supplementary and, amendatory acts, and
takes effect Immediately after its passage Pro-
visions are made to enable majority, in value, of
the creditors, in all cases pending whether an
adjudication has been decreed OF not to make any
compromise. settlement. or arrangement. or to dis
pose of the estate OF the bankrupt they may
agree without prejudice to the interests of other
creditors an agreement signed by majority of
such creditors to be put in force by orders of the
Court. Mr.. Treman wanted to rush the bill
through at once. under a suspension of the rules,
but Messrs Poland and Wilson insisted that the un-
derstanding in Committee was that there should be
an opportunity given for debate Finally. by vote
of l49 to 49, tomorrow set for the consideration
of the bill tho discussion to be limited to two hours.
The opposition to repeal comes almost exclusively
from the South, where there is more general dis
position among the debtor class to take advantage
Of the law than in any other section of the country
Year: 1873

passed in order TO induce private bankers TO come
under the provisions OF the National banking act.
Considerable further discussion may be expected
upon this bill before its passage.
Year: 1873

The true secret Of the failure of many OF
our southern factors is explained in the fol-
lowing remarks Of II. Hale, Of Columbus,
Miss. He is practical manufacturer, and
he understands the subject fully that he
discusses. Why will we not heed his words
Of warninga Why will not men Of capital
use their means in improving tho country
and thereby enrich themselves. Listen to
what he says;


"Unbounded forests are all around US,
yet we buy buckets made in Massachusetts,
and brooms from Connecticut; minerals
are in our earth, yet for want Of capital,
skilled labor and commercial aid, we import
all our nails, our plows, our axes, and
even the handles. We produce the cotton,
and away it goes whizzing on our railroads,
to be worked up in calicoes and muslns,
coming back to the same line increased five
hundred foldin value by northern labor, fed
from northern cribs, while our own are
filled to oyerhowing. send iron in its raw
state to the foundries of St. Louis. where
it is made into wheels for our southern rail.
roads. And why do do so For want Of
capital to put up the necessary machinery
first, the want of sufficient capital to ena
Bile me to prepare and put up the required
machinery beforehand, SC as to take con-
tract and complete it in given time, by
collecting and concentrating all that is need
ed to complete the job. Capital must
come out literally in the support Of our
mechanical and manufacturing interests.
Capital is, however, sensitive and timid. If
says the rich planter, you can insure me
twenty cents on my capital, ! will make
the investment? Does be do so when he
buys farm Does he not take the risk OF
the seasons Does he not take the risk OF
the market2 Then.why not take some risk,
where, under proper management, he may
calculate upon as good dividend as upon
his farming operations? One thing is in
the way, and that is, the want Of skilled la
bor Owing, however, to the ingenious ma
ShtHSiJ ubW ~ dllilUsb every DTuuCu Oi
manufacture, fewer skilled men are wanted
than formerly, the first class men always
find employment at their own price, and in
their own country, which in many instances,
is large one. This throws upon the pub
lie and the South, which is only in it's in
fancy, SECOND class, who are floating about
for uations--knowing how eager we are
10 get good men, they put extrayagant
prices upon their work with us, when at
home they would hardly have journey
mun's place in the shop and we, ignorant
and destitute Of the requisite knowledge
ourselves, employ them until too late we
find out that they are not our men another
ard another are thus employed with no
better results. Thus many Of the pioneer
establishments Of our sister state Of Ala
bama went to the wall, and but few sur
Yiyed the conflict
Year: 1873

An estimate made by the Postmaster
General shows that during the past year,
there were sent through the mails eight
hundred millions Of copies Of daily news
papers, six hundred millions of weeklies,
and one hundred millions Of monthlies and
other publications.
Year: 1873

Seth Green, the great American fish
manufacturer, knows more about the
finny tribes than the oldest sucker in
the creek. He has devoted himself so
closely to pisciculture that scales are
growing on his back, and he breathes
through his gills. While at a full dress
party he always appears in Goldfish
tail coat.
Year: 1873

RATHER RoUGH-The daughter of an old farmer
over iu North Coventry township, Chester county
was accompanied home from the Lyceum the
other night 10y young man who was 'setting
up" with her. Leaving him at the barn putting
away his horse, while she scooied around the back
him for a corn thief called his two healthy dogs
and set In IN upon him. The young man took TO
his heels his coat tail osclliating about seventy


five oscilliates minute, while the dogs followed
uneomtorably close TO his rear, and the old man
little farther on behind with his faithful shot gun


The young man was greatly discouraged but he
won the race. When the farmer returned home
an explanation ensued and the young man re-
suned his visits. But 10 avoid similar mistakes
in the future he wears a calcne light ON his head
Year: 1873

BELL RINGING CAT-There is a cat in West
Chester, whose owners value him too highly TO
run out freely at nights. In cider to secure his
nightly freedom, however, he goes into the hall
and claws the wire OF the door bell. When the
door is opened to admit the supposed visitor, be
pops out. His tucks in this line have been dis
covered, and now his inventive genius will have
TO seek some other methods of escape.
Year: 1873

a CONTEMPTIBLE 1RIcK.-LAst night some
vicious scoundrel stopped in front Of The cloth.
ing store Of J. Wesley Canary, on Market st.,
above Foorth, and deliberately broke a trunk,
ripped the lining Of pair of pants and stole
two skins worth about So The rascal is known
by Mr. Canary. however, and any repetition al
his infamous aclon will be promptly dealt with
by the strong arm Of the law.
Year: 1873

Cannot arrest the decomposition of the teeth
Nothing will do this but that pure disinlectant
and preservatiSe which, under the name Of so
ZODONT, has become q staple of the tcilet
throughout the world
Year: 1873

QUARTERLY CONVRNTIoN.-rhe next Quarterly
convention of Good Tcnplars of Chester county
meets in West Chester ON Friday and Saturday
next. This will be an important meeting, coming
rs it does on the eve of the spring election. at
Year: 1873

The late Prof. La Mountain was a
brother of the La Mountain who with
Wise made the longest aerial voyage on
record, which was from st. Louis, Mo-,
to the eastern part of the State of New
York, La Mountain has been making
ascensions for the last eighteen years /;
was connected with the signal service
during the war has made between one
and two hundred ascensions-all except
the two last with gas for imitation.


In the fall of 1870 he came very near
losing his life at Bay City, Michigan.
Having made an altitude of nearly three
miles in dense fog, and getting COM
pletely chilled, he endeavored to de-
scend, but found to his horror that the
escape valve would not yield, having
frozen to its surroundings. Pulling
with all his strength, the rope parted
above his reach. He then concluded to
ascend the ropes from the basket to the
canvas and cut it with his knife, but on
searching his pockets he found to his
dismay that he had left it on the ground
at starting. Nothing daunted, he
climbed the icy, slippery ropes with
his freezing hands, and on reaching the
canvas tore with his teeth rents suffi-
cient to let the balloon descend. On
nearing the ground, the wind mean
while carrying him rapidly toward the
lake, he found himself over thick
forest of pines, but was powerless to
stop his descent. The basket striking
tall tree, he was hurled, bruised,
bleeding, and senseless, to the ground,
but after some hours revived sufficiently
to crawl to the nearest farm house,
where he got assistance.


His balloon at Ionia, where the fataI
accident happened short time since
was made of cotton cloth, filed with
oil ; was old and rotten from repeated
heatings, but was by him considered
safe. He made successful start but
when some six or seven hundred feet
from the earth the balloon collapsed
from rent in one side, and fell rapidly
He detached himself from the basket
when about one hundred feet from the
earth, and struck squarely on his feet
breaking the left leg in three places anG
the light in two. No other bones were
broken, and there were but few bruises
His death was caused by concussion O
the brain.
Year: 1873

The report of Mr.. Scudamore, the
Director of Postal Telegraphs in Great
Britain, contains romance of the most
original description. After saying how
successful he found the system of en-
ploying male and female clerks to-
gether, and how much the tone OF the
men has been raised by the association,
and how well the women perform the
checking or fault-fnding branches of
the work, he goes on to speak of friend
ships formed between clerks at either
end of the telegraph wire. They begin
by chatting in the intervals of their
work, and very soon become fast friends.
" 1t is a fact, continues Mr.. Scuba
more, "that telegraph clerk in Lon
don, who was engaged on wire in Ber-
lin, formed an acquaintance with and
an attachment for mark the official
style of the language" female clerk
who worked on the same wire in Berlin;
that he made proposal of marriage to
her, and that she accepted him without
ever having seen him. They we're mar
rleu, ana bne HarIldBe, Wn1cn resulted
from the electric afinities, is supposed
to have turned out as we'll as those in
which the senses are more apparently
concerned" Nor must the pruduent
reader run away with the idea that
these young persons were very rash or
that they married without due acquain-
tance. For it is a fact that clerk at
one end of a wire can readily tell by the
way in which the clerk at the other end
does his work "whether he is passion
ate or sulky, cheerful or dull, sanguine
or phlegmatic, ill-natured or good-na-
tured."
Year: 1873

People are content to understand very
little of the conditions of the comfort
in houses. The question of health may
be left to the care of physicians, and
that of beauty to the architect, but one
would suppose, on matters of comfort,
each one would look out for himself.
There is excuse for this neglect in bust
ness men, who are hardly at home long
enough to know whether q house is
tenable or not j; but it is strange that
women will endure damp, foul odors,
smoke and dust, year after year, with
out trying to remove the nuisance. The
only idea most women have Of suppress
ing any evil of the sort is to "send for
man to fix it." Workmen are not
always to be had, and, if they are, cost
money, and breach of comfort may
last years before everything comes to


gether for its mending. Awoman needs
both muscle and management to take
care of family, unless she can afford
to pay third of her income for these
things in others. The clever woman is
an actual acquaintance, who goes about
her house, spying loose knob here and
screwing it up, springing with her light
plane to smooth down a door that sticks
in the casing, fitting neat strip to
prevent windows rattling, besides
papering, painting, and vanishing with
more nicely than one mechanic out of a
dozen. Such woman is worthy to be
called house-mother, after the good
German word. How can woman live,
year after year, within four walls and
not grow fond of them, and seek to add
to their comfort
Year: 1873

HIS FIsHNd.-I had an uncle who
died from excessive excitement caused
by brook fishing for trout. He had
fished for thirty-two years without sue
cess, but early in his thirty-second year
he got o bite. Major" he observed
on his dying bed, 81 should die
happy if were dead certain that was q
trout"
Year: 1873

When the Shah visited Queen Vic
toria at Windsor he saluted her Majesty
with the most perfect delicacy and
grace, and said that hitherto he had
reckoned his years from the day of his
birth, but that in future he should date
them from the hour of his meeting the
Queen Of England.
Year: 1873

-Four hundred and twenty nailcs Of the route
Of tho Canada Pacific have been surveyed since
last Juno between Npigon and Fort Garry.
Tho engineers in charge OF tho work report that
M excellent road-bol is afforded by the line Of
tho survey. They state TINT track-laylng will
begin in tho spring, aud that this part OF tho
road will DO finished In two years.
Year: 1873

A sensible suggostion ia mado by tho House
Committee On Public Health in the Michigan
Legislature. They recommend that all perHons
who sell poison shall be compelled to give with
itprintel directions for the administration Of an
Year: 1873

Eternity, thou awful gulph of time,


This wide creation on thy surface floats


At this particular season Of the year the
sudden change Of temperature affects man,
woman and child with complaints of the
liver, blood, kidneys. bowels and stomach
A rejuvenation must be consmumated or
the necessary diseases incident to tur-
gidity of these organs will ensue Use
Maguire's Cundurango Bitters and avoid
fever and ague, bilious fever, deranged
nervous system lack of physical vigor, in
fact any and all demoralizations of the
body after a winter period of hibernaton,
1t contains no alcohol and viii prolong
life, the dividing line between US and
eternity Sold by all druggists
Year: 1873

A few days since, friend handed Us a
few packages of DR.. Prices Cream Baking
Powder, with request TO try it. We
tried it and found it superb We gave
small packages to few friends, and they
all came back to Us for some more. As
we were not prepared. however, to aban-
don the conduct of the Central to go into
the Baking Powder business, We were
obliged to turn them away disappointed.
For their qualification, and that of the gen
eral public, We will say that this inimitable
Powder can be had at most Of the leading
grocers in this city, and at wholesale Of
Steele & Price, Chicago and ST. Louis.
Year: 1873

A SEVERE TEsT-The Commissary
General of the United States, after a trial
of all the principal starches in the country,
decided that Duryea's Satin Gloss
Starch was the best that could be procur-
ed, and the government from that time to
the present are buying this article This
is fact worthy the attention of consum-
Year: 1873

Unless you wish premature death you
will let all the poisonous hair preparations
alone NATURES HAIR RESTORATIVE is
perfectly harmless as any druggist will tell
YOU See advertisement.