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Year: 1870

Carry or send orders for dry oak and pine wood
for cooking and kindling to the Office Of the wood
factory, on the south side Of the Basin, between
Tenth and Eleventh streets. Carts are ready aud
waiting to carry Il out to customers. ts-.--
Year: 1870

From the Newbnryp0rt Herald, June 16.l


The trial OF Frank ID. Bowers and James Il. Kicker
for the murder OF Nathaniel Z. Lord, OF Peabody, in
the Supreme Court o. salem, was finished on Tues
day afternoon. Attorney General Allen was less
than an hour in making the closing argument, and
Judge Gray made the charge to the jury. The Jury
TOOK the case and retired, and 1t is said hat at first
ten were in favor Of verdict or murder in the first
degree and two were opposed, but after they had
been oIt an hour and three quarters they agreed
upon u verdict OF murder In the second degree
against each OF the prisoners. In answer
to the question, they mad anything TO
say why sentence should not be passed upon
them, tney replied that they had not, whereupon
judge Gray informed them that the law placed no
discretion In the power OF the Court In passing the
sentence. which was as io.lowB-rhat the prisoners
be taken to the state Prison in Charlcstown, and
there be imprisoned during he term OF their natural
lives one day IN solitary confinement and the residue
at hard labor.


All through the trial the prisoners appeared per-
fectly cain, collected and even Indifferent, evincln4
not the slightest emotion or anxiety. When the
sentence was pronounced which doomed them to q
life OF sach hOpelessless and disgrace there was
slight change In their countenanccs. Both appeared
TO be somewhat moved, aud there were indications
OF tears the eyes of RicSer. There consider
| able emotion manifested among their fr.eals an,
relatives, the father and mother oil Rtcker leayn,
l the court room overwhelmed With grief
Year: 1870

Veto by the Governor Of the Foreign Insurance


Bill.


ALBANY, June II. 1870.
The Governor has sent the Foreign Insurance BIZ
to the Secretary Of State without his approval He
says che bill does not establish equality, but dis.
crlminates severely against the foreign companies
t excludes from the estimates OF capital all real es.
tate which foreign company may hold here; also.
while giving the foreign companies no credit
FOR what capital they may have invested
with the Insurance departments bf said States. it
nevertheless deducts from this limited portion OF
their liabilities every where, whether on their bus.
ness In this State, In other State. or abroad In
Guiding among the liabilities fifty per OF all un-
earned premiums. whether these premiums DertaIn
TO their business here or elsewhere. He proceeds
further ana al length to show the Injustice OF the
bill, ana suggests that at the next of the
equality desired.
Year: 1870

Yesterday at the Yorkville Police Court 0ficer
James Lotus. of the Nineteenth precinct preferred
a complaint against Robert Lee, who, lie had been
informed had struck one Thomas Kelly with stone
on the head, fracturng his skull and severing two
arteries The injured man Is now confined In Belle
vue Hospital, and the opinion OF the physician who
attends him Is that the chances are that his wounds
will prove fatal. Justice Bixby committed Lee TO
await the result Of Kellys injuries.
Year: 1870

The following record will show the changes IN the
temperature for the past twenty-four hours IN COM
parson with the corresponding day OF last year,
indicated by the thermometer at Hudruts Pharmacy.
HERALD Building, Broadway, corner OF Ann street,
Year: 1870

Lieutenant Commander Glass and Lieutenant Glib
son have been ordered to the Mohican.


Lieutenant Graham has been detached from the
New FORK Navy Yard and ordered TO the Michigan,
and Assistant Surgeon HOyt to the Seneca.
Year: 1870

DRAKE AND THE CHIEF JUsrICEsHIp.- j
When Chief Justice Carter of the United
States court of claims decided to resign
and retire from the bench, his position
was offered by the President to Senator
Drake Of Missouri, and it was the Presi.
idents intention to make the appointment
this winter. Senator Drake is nov try
ing to obtain fulilment of that prom.
ise, but the President does not desire,
owing to the result Of the election in
Missouri, to spare Senator Drake from
Congress at this time, partly because q
Democrat would be likely to succeed him,
and partly because Drake is one of the
warmest supporters of the administra.
ton.
Year: 1870

The coal mines Of Lincoln county arc
among the most productive of the State
and only need developing to make them
source of wealth to their owners and
uu immense revenue to the county
Heretofore no one has seen dt to take the
matter 10 hand few individuals have
opened small mines 10 supply local de
mands. but beyond this nothing has been
done to disembowel the vast strata OF
bitumen that underlies large portion of
Lincoln county. Recently, however,
some Eastern capitalists, who know how
tn appreciate the value Of such hidden
treasure, havo purchased five or six thou
sand acres of thesn mines, notice of
which purchase we gave in tho Herald Of
September 18th. These capitalists have
organized company for the purpose Of
exploring their valuable purchases, and
really Aat'ering. Borings have been made
and shafts sunk over on area of about
three miles, and coal of superior quail
ny has been discovered not more than
ten or twelve feet from the surface, the
veins being from seven and eight to ten
feet thick. A superior quality of canal
coal is also said to DO interspcrsed
through the mines.


Another matter Of great interest to tho
citizens Of Troy and the county generally
is, the manner 10 which this great staple
is to be transported into the vast com
mcrcial mart Of the State. The company
contemplate laying track to the North
Missour, railroad from tho mines, at once
unless some guarantee is given them that
the St. Louis and Keokuk railroad will
be completed without delay. In case
this assurance is given them, a track will
be laid from the mines to intercept the
road at or near this place. The products
Of these mines would be no small item OF
freightage, and the directors of the ST.
Louis and Keokuk road are doubtless on
the slookout, From a conversation we
had with ono Of tho directors and the
railroad agent Of this county. we learn
that the work which is cow but scarcely
begun will be rushed as soon rs the winte
freezes break up, and within ten or twelve
months the road between this point and
the North Missouri will be in running
order.


1horo is Other coal land in the county,
which In time will be developed, aud our
people will 6nd it much more convenient
and cheaper to burn coal than wood
The prices we have been paying for coal,
from l7a to 25 cents erbushei delivered,
will be reduced by competition to 10 and
l2a cents, making the cost Of fuel about
halfthat wood now costs at 50 90 per cord
and sl.0O for cutting. Besides this It
will render Lincoln one Of the most do
sirable counties in the Stale, and. induce
the immi grafton Of thorough business
and active families.
Year: 1870

The Republicans Washington special
tsJs: From the latest advices received,
Secretary Fish stated to day that the
feeling in Europe seemei to be more
pacific, and expressed the opinion that
there would be no general war. There
is no truth in the report that the United
States has been invited to the congress of
the great powers to effect an amicable
settlement ofthe existing difficulties, and
even if an invitation should be extended.
our government woul not accept 1t, as
we have never interferred in European
politics, and it's against the policy of
the administration now to do SO.
Year: 1870

Some of the papers arc still talking
about the propriety of registry law
under the present aspect of affairs "a sort
OF liberal way Of registering voters to
prevent fraud, and all that sort O. thing
yon know. Out with it. There is no
need of anything Of the kind. Let us
inaugurate tho old style Of every man
voting regardless Ct preliminaries ou
election day, without being compelled to
lose the time and pay the expense Of
registering or lose his vote. Registry
laws are only engines Of trickery fol
willy politicians. Oat with them
Year: 1870

One day last week, while the women were
bathing at the free bath house, foot of Fifth
street, New York city, horrible yell was
heard in the bath. The matron rushed in,
and found person with masculine cast of
countenance in the grasp of some eight or
ten nymphs, who were sousing her under
water at an alarming rate, and at every dip
they screamed out, "We'll give it to you,
you internal scamp -iip-"How dare you
intrude your dirty carcass among us unpro
tected females" (another Dip "and if you
stay in here another minute two dips in
quick succession) well duck the life out f
you" The unfortunate wretch was rescued
from their clutches, and when the truth was
ascertained it was found that the visagos had
almost drowned poor German girl under
the supposition that she was male in
disguise.
Year: 1870

special to the World from Washington
says; The diplomatic circles here last eve.
ming were greatly agitsted over the advces
received yesterday by the British Minister
here, indicating the extreme danger of a
rupture between France and England on the
question of the occupation of Belgium.


The steamship Excelsior will positively
sail to-day for Hamburg with the entire mail


A dispatch from Bismark to the consul OF
the North German Union says that private
property on the high seas will be
exempted from seizure by Prussia without
regard to reciprocity.
Year: 1870

WE very rarely meet SO fair and
square a hit as the following from the
Charleston. South Carolina, RepuJli-
can, of April 18th, Radical organ of
that city:


A Democratic exchange thinks it
has hit on wonderfully bright idea
about colored voters, which it ex-
presses thus:


If they want consideration, they
must act like men of intelligence and
independence--that is, they must dis
criminate. Until colored people dis
criminate," it is clear they have no
Discrimination; and as long as they
go like flock of sheep (all one way }
they will themselves prove unworthy
to be voters.


White voters in South Carolina
have been for many years In the habit
Of going like flock of sheep, all
one way" Have the white voters
" no DISCRIMINATORY" Has there
been no editor Of p" discrimination" in
this State for all these years2 We
rather suspected this, but we hardly
expected them to convict themselves
of it. rsr re.


No South Carolinian can we'll for
get the old penning" process of that
State, to which alIusion is made by
the Republican.
Year: 1870

FoREcAsrrxG Whilst we claim to be
neither prophets ourselves nor the SONS Of
prophets, We think We are able to forecast
with tolcrab'c accuracy the general condi-
tion Of the farming and laboring interests
Of our people for the coming year. We
give, then. as the results of our divina-
tion. that the year 1871 Will prove to
these interests. and consequently to all
interests, for all interests are more or less
dependent upon these a period ofdeprcssion
and suffering the like of which the '.oldest
iuhabitant' does not remember. It will
be recollectcd that we have had two con-
secutive failures Of our corn and tobacco
crops. the last being decidedly the worst.
We think we are within bounds when We
state. that the corn and tobacco prcduets
Of our county for the current year will not
be found to equal by half of tobacco and
two-thirds of corn the results Of an ordi-
nary year of yield, In addition to this,
the wheat crop is at least a third short
and there is bad failure. also. in nearly
all vegetable" productions That the
great majority Of our people will be corn
buyers before the commencement Of Sum
mer. We regard as certainty. What
will they have to exchange for corn or to
convert into money to buy corn or other
necessaries of existence What boots it
10 us IL corn as 3 barrel in Baltimore
and other necessaries in proportion if we
have nothing to buy with or to barter for
these? This is a question that should
provoke reflection and induce the best ac-
ton that the case admits of. What that
action is. we don't set up ourselves to
know. but whatever il is. We are certain
that the very best next thing is. to commence
the new year with firm purpose of self
denial and rigid economy in all the de-
tails Of our domestic expenditures.
Year: 1870

EVERY MAN IL Ills OwN lioUSr.-iD
this country there is no working man. be
he ever so poor and humble. who may
not, If he will, better his condition with
each succeeding year. To do this, he
must correct the habit of spending every
week the full weeks earnings. lie must
begin by saving little instead of spend
ing all. Half dollar will amount to
twenty-six dollars year. In four years
this saving will give the sum of over a
hundred dollars. In ten years, adding
interest to his saving. the poor man will
be able to buy little house. # be saves
dollar week instead of halt dollar,
he can have house twice as large; and
larger still in proportion to the weekly
amount of his savings. Who will net be
a householder? 1t is what we waste, or
spend in useless selfindulgcncc. that keeps
Us poor.
Year: 1870

EE- A Dusch=san at Decatur married
second wife in about a week after the
loss Of wife No. 1. The Sabbath follow
ing the bride asked her lcrd to take her
riding, and was duly Seat up" with the
following response: ''You dinks ride
out NIT another woman in 50 soon after
the death of mine frau y
Year: 1870

The Stats -Zeitung (Tammany- y-DemocraD OF
this city thus welcomes the Excise provision
of the proposed new City Charter:


I'm regard to the Excise law, perhaps large
part or our German citizens Will feel disappointed che
obnoxious Sunday clause has not been stricken out en-
tirely but it has been modelled that its evasion
easily accomplished and its strict enforcement made
difficult as possibe-hat is in case police placed IN


der city control would at all think OF strictly eniorchs
IT, The Puritan Sabbath observance is retained IN fSn
but still it provided that travellers may eat ana
drink whatever they please the back door Is ao"ed
remain open and beersardens in the suburbs OF the
city need not be in the least disturbed In order TO carry
the law authors have thought it necessary TO maAs
an apparent concession 10 the bgot Doors bauer an'
backwoodsmen OF the interior OF the State Prdciicap'
social liberty will be restricted by it, but In the nef
ests of the principle OF religious liberty, more rad'ea
measure would have been desirable"
Year: 1870

As the operations of this most useful law
are being more clearly defined and understood,
the community are becoming more and more
satisfied with its provisions.


We still think it susceptible of advantageous
amendment. Especially do we think the Gen
eral Orders made by the Supreme Court re-
quire revision.


A misapprehensOn as to the effect of what
is called the &" fifty per cent. clause" has, We
think, good deal detracted from the useful
ness of this law. 1t is supposed that no pet-
toner is entitled to discharge unless his as
sets pay fifty per cent. of the claims against
his estate. This is an error. 1t is true that
the act, as originally passed, had such clause,
the operation of which was postponed one
year. Before the expiration of that year, Con-
gress passed an amendatOry act which re-
pealed that clause and provided, in place
thereof, that no petitioner should be entitled
to his discharge after the 1St day
of January, 1869, unless his assets shall be equal
10 fifty per ccntum of the claims proved against
his estate upon which he shall be liable rs
principal debtor, unless the assent in writing
of a majority in number and value of such of
his creditors as shall have proved their claims
before the Register be obtained. There is no
provision for ascertaning the value OF these
"assets - pyimd fdcie, they amount to the sum
at which they are set down in the schedules,
and, in the absence of proof to the contrary,
it would obviously be the duty of the Register
to certify conformity" in case such sum were
equal to One-half of the amount of the claims
proved before him. In large majority of
cases, no claims at all are proved; and, in such
a case, the District Court for New-Jersey held
that, although no assets were reported in the
schedules, yet, as no debts were proved, the
petitioner was entitled to his discharge.


But upon the other branch of the case, the
bankrupt has only to get a majority in number
and amount of such of his creditors as have
proved their claims before the Register to sign
a simple consent to his discharge. This, it
would seem, would be no very difficult task.
The small proportion of the creditors who are
accustomed to prove their claims-perhaps on
an average not one in a thousand-renders it
In many cases no task at all. 1t is said that
in proceedings under the Massachusetts, In
solvent act-which contains similar provis-
ion. though more com"''""ted and difficult
Year: 1870

upon this boy was officially brought before
the Boarders," and they solemnly resolved
TINT "the charge Of undue violence or unne
cessary severity on the part of the teacher
was not established Good Heavens! will
these Chicago Solons be obliging enough to
tell what testimony and how much of it would
have been Sufficient I" Here was boy with
his brain ruined, child fallen into brute un-
consciousness OF something less, and here was
also evidence that he was reduced to this pitt
full condition through the passionate physi-
cal violence of the teacher; and here,
too, as if it were COroners Jury
sitting in q railway murder case, we are
treated to the everlasting droning verdict
of "Nobody to blamew Why mott Why,
because "the boy had previously been affected
with difficulty in the head" Ergo, all boys
"with difficulties in the head may be pounded
in that region without the slightest restraint
while, upon the other hand, it would be ex-
ceedingly wrong so much as to flip any head
happening to be perfectly healthy. We had
no idea that the Dogberry breed was so far
from being extinct. When we have thus
claim for peculiar tenderness metamorphosed
into an excuse for unrestrained severity, we
begin to wonder what kind of heads 1t has
pleased Divine Providence to bestow upon the
Chicago Board of Education.


We lay it down as broad and general rule
that school teacher who cannot manage his
or her pupils without destroying their brains
by physical violence, is not fit for the business
of education and in these enlightened days
would hardly be thought fit to drive herd OF
cattle, or to be trusted with the care of horses.
Rarey tanned Cruiser by kindness; school
masters and mistresses tame little boys and
girls by free use of the cowhde, which has
been banished from all respectable stables. If
n brutal driver should kill his steed by over
driving or unnecessary blows, the courts of
Justice would have something to say about it;
but when teachers kill little boys, the bland
Boards of Education unanimously resolve that
the victim invoked his own fate, and that
nobody else is to blame


In order that we may not be accused OF In
Justice to the teacher or to any person who
has been connected with this painful affair, we
think it right to add that it has been con-
cluded with one Of those ceremOnlalS called
CorOner's Inquest, and that after hearing the
testimony of large number of doctors the
JuIy found that the inflammation of the boys
brain "arose from natural causes and the
teacher was "exOnerated from all blame in the
natter The fact however remains that
lad subject to brain disease was physically
maltreatcd, and never spoke afterward. We
leave the intelligent reader to draw his own
conclusions
Year: 1870

Mr.. Lawrence introduced bill in the House
yesterday to alter the present mode of paying
pensions The bill provides that the Secretary
of the Interior shall select in every county a
National Bank, a Postmaster, an Assessor or
Collector of Internal Revenue, or other exist
ing Government officer, to prepare all papers
pertaining to the payment of PENSIONS for pen
sioners, free of cost, and that pensions shall be
paid every three months, instead of semi
annually, as now. Though this is an improve
ment on the present system, yet payment
every three months is not what the pensioners
want. Their necessities demand monthly pay
ments and the impracticability of such pay
ments through the Post Office has never yet
been demonstrated. Two months ago the
House adopted q resolution, offered by Gen.
Butler, asking the Postmaster-G r-General to re-
port a plan for paying the pensions through
the money order department of the Post Office.
We would like to ask why this resolution has
not been acted upon.
Year: 1870

The inexpressible corruption of the Demo-
cratic municipal administration of this city
has done more than any other single cause
to bring the Democratic party into disrepute
and disgrace everywhere. The World, day
or two ago. said:


1t SO happens that here, in this great focus aud
center, the Democratic party is allpowerful; aud II
shows itself incompetent 10 govern the city wisely the
country will hot likely trust it with the governments
Of the Union If the Legislature should give us bad
city charter fruits would begin TO ripen about the
time OF the next Presidential election"


But what will you do to put an end to tho
corruption The men who organize it, and who
grow rich upon it, are the leaders of the Dem
ocratic party, the authors of its policy, the die
tators of its measures in the Legislature, the
controllers of its appointments. Will you help
lis to break down the power of these bad men.
and to drive them from place. Or would this
also endanger the prospects of the Democratic
party, and the ascendency to which it looks
forward
Year: 1870

The redemption in some shape of our Green
backs ought to be no longer delayed. Our
plan is-Resume but, il we cannot carry
that, we are ready to do the next best thing.
Hence, we call attention to the plan submitted
70 The Chamber of Commerce on Thursday by
nsr. W. p. Groom, in these words:


esolred That s the duty Of the Government to issue
60 the holders OF its demand oblixa-
tons interest bearing bonds In exchange therefor
whenever they shall request the samel; ana DO iur


Resored That this Chamber respectfully requests Con.
gress TO cooperate with Secretary OF the Treasury IN
Enforcing the Legal Tender and National Bank acts.
both in spirit and letter; and also TO cooperate WIN nun
offered to the holders OF legal tender to fund them
lat their optionl in OF 81 600 and lts multiple INTO
bearing interest at the rate OF 65O per cent per
annum said bonds dncludng INTEREST," to be made paya-
bic Oh demand in sad legal tender notes.


We are averse to diverse rates of interest
on the National Debt. They tend to provoke
jealousy and dissatisfaction. We believe that,
under proper management, aided by steady
and vigorous reduction of the Debt by pur-
chase or payment, we might rapidly fund the
entire Debt in an untaxable American Consol,
having thirty or forty years to run and draw
ing but four per cent. interest, payable quar-
terly) but, if we keep talking of A. and o.
pcr cent we shall of course be unable to fund
at four. When we get our Consol to selling
freely. we would offer to fund the Greenbacks
therein. and thus bring them to par with Gold
at once. Few or many might be iunded, out
all would he raised to par with coln.-But this
idea of funding tho Legal Tenders IN low
priced bond, itself convertible into Legal
Tenders at the option of the holder, Is deserv-
ing of careful consideration, which we trust II
will receive.