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Year: 1875

(Which way will that tidal wave goT is
the coDundrum which is troubling the politicians to-day.


Congressman King has not been so urgent
for that indictment TO be brought up since Congressman
schumaker and Col Richard b. Irwin got back from
Europe.


1t looks as if Gov. Hayes had been nearer
to the Presidency than he will ever be again The rural
editor has already begun TO dag in the work OF keeping
him at Tire front


They do say that Prof Marsh only scratched
the surface OF the Indian frauds and that invesga
ting committee should take hold OF the snhect for the
purpose Of finding out the facts most astounding reyela
tons would be made.


Here Is discovery. II makes a splendid
platform for Gov Hendricks, too. The Columbus tGaJ
Enquirer says the Indiana statesman is a bardmoney
but at the time not hard money enough 10
hurt" That seems to it the Governors complaint ex
actly.


Those Ohio Democrats who are burdened
with the impression that they controlling the action
of the party IN the entire West and South should mcdi
tate upon this observation from the leading Democratic
journal OF Illinois, The HprinGfeid register II s hardly
that after the experience OF the past ten years
the Democracy of the nation win hunt around Ohio and
There is too much Of growing around there that
" rotten At the butt"


The situation in Massachusetts is "puzzer"
to the political prophets One side seems to have about
as good chance FOR victory the other Considering
that the State formerly had Republican majority Of
10000 and that the Republican managers have all along
assured Us that Mr. Rice will poll the old party vote. 1t
sounds qeery enough to hear The Boston Advertiser pro-
dieting Republican victory by the modest majority OF
10000, and then adding that 1t only hopes for that
in case unremtng efforts 10 poll full vote ar3
kept ny TIL the close OF election day Verify the lnGe-
pendent yoteris abroad IN the land


Senator Dawes has been trying to be funny,
and succeeded in telling unusual amount Of truth
In speaking Springfield Mass, night last week, he
a. In tlp hand Of
all the the party discouraged because the rest of
party didn't say their prayers as often as they dd
gathered together at Cincinnati and got up platform
of their own more Republican than the Republican party
ITSELF" That tribute to the Cincinnati platform shows
that the Senator learned something during the past
three years He didn't think that IN the summer OF
ls72 He has just caught up, evidently with mat nt
tie band of Republicans, purcr thah an te res' vi 'e
nnrfYr
Year: 1875

ter of his action unaltered and only shows
that the pecuniary loss it eutailed was not To-
tai but partial-an amendment when we
cheerfully accept for what it is worth. Inc
other admits that he did impose upon credit
ors a mortgage upon property which virtually
did not belong to him; but pleads in excuse
that he would have paid for the property ana
made everything square if land speculation


in which he was then concerned had turned
out as he had right to anticipate. Dir. Noxon
is not the sort of man to make good judge.
Year: 1875

ing ready always strikes the Navy Department
in the few weeks preceding election is not ex-
planned. 1t is a comfort, however, in view OF
the extensive preparations for active service
to find that no speck of war is visible on the
horizon, even through the best of marine
glasses
Year: 1875

By the termination Of the suit which has
been so long and so fercely waged between
Commissioner Stedman and the American Ma
tional Life and Trust Company, the papers OF
New-Haven are relieved of a large and fire.
ouent burden on their news columns. The de-
cision of the court enabling the Company to
continue It's existence if Its trustees will add
$50. 900 to It's assets, while it is virtually Il
victory for the corporation, docs not make
that evident showing of wealth or good
management which is desirable to tempt new
investments in its funds. On the other hand
the course of Commissioner Stedman toward
the insurance interests under his charge has
not been such as TO win the sympathics of the
men and women whose means are involved in
the prosperity of the companies.
Year: 1875

The Republicans of Brooklyn had the dis
advantage of a stormy night for their ratlllca-
ton meeting but considering the circumstances
the audience was very large. Ex-Gov. DIX
made an able address on the hard-money
theme, and other speakers handled many OF
the broader issues of the campaign; but scarcely
sufficient time was devoted to topic OF lar
deeper interest to Brooklynites-the need ana
prospect of publication in their local politics
and of a reduction of the burdens under which
tax-payers are labOring.
Year: 1875

Wescannot think that the case of Mr.. NoSon,
Republican candidate for the Supreme bench
in Syracuse, is at all improved by the two
distinct defenses put forth by his friends and
analyzed by correspondent in another col
umn We have examined the matter with care
and candor, and with every disposition to
think well of gentleman who seems to enjoy
the good opinion of many of his neighbors,
and toward whom personally we have certainly
no feeling whatever; but there is nothing in
these two answers to change our previous
judgment. One reply leaves the moral charac-
Year: 1875

A reduction of about two per cent in the
estimates of the cost of governing this city for
the coming as compared with the past year is
the total measure of economy that taxpayers
can now hope for. The reduction is principally
under the head of estate Taxes" and in the
absence of further appropriation for the
Fourth-ave. Improvement, while on the other
hand there is an increase of the amount paya-
bic for interest on the debt In nearly all the
other appropriations the differences are so
small that it looks very much as if things
were going OH in the old way.
Year: 1875

A letter from Philadelphia furnishes care
full review of the political situation throughout
PENNSYLVANIA. Both parties have been 80 tim
orous about the really important issues of the
campaign that no forcibe efforts have been
made on either hand to change the convictions
of the mass of voters. This condition of al
fairs might be supposed to facilitate the fore
cast of Tuesdays vote, but it only renders
evident probability that the contest will be
IA pretty close one, and that much depends
upon the strength which the Prohibition party
exhibit.
Year: 1875

The opinions which Minister Gushing must
necessarily have expressed in his mysterious
memorandum on the Cuban conflict are, no
doubt, irritating to Spaniards who persist
emily hope to reGstablsh royal authority III
the rebellous island. Unwelcome advice to
the Government at Madrid seems to be the
order of the day, as The London Times advises
them to abandon "a distant dependency which
"can never be governed save by military
"power" rather than run the risk of dismem-
bering the monarchy. The traditional friend
illness of England for Spain gives this opinion
more than ordinary significance
Year: 1875

SENATOR CHANDLERS SUCCESSOR
Judge Isaac p. ChriStiancy, who was elected
by the Michigan legislature yesterday to
succeed Mr.. Chandler in the United States
Senate Tor SIX years from the 4th OF March
next, Il a native Of Michigan, and is 62 years
OF age. he was democrat until 1854, when
he deserted the party on account of its stand
on the slavery question. and has since been a
republican. He is now one OF the judges of
the Supreme Court OF the state, TO which DO
sitiOn he was first elected in 1883. He was a
member OF the constitutional convention Of
lsJ0, is a fine lawyer, and his uprightness
and purity of character is universally con-
ceded. At the time OF the contest for the
Chief JusticeShip OF the Supreme Court OF
The state, Senator Chandler recommended
Judge Christiancy for that position.
Year: 1875

The MARYLAND RAILROAD CAPITATIoN
TAx-In the superior court of Baltimore
yesterday morning, In the case of the state
against the Northern Central railroad, to re-
cover One-half of one per cent. OF the gross
receipts as the state tax, involving a large
amount, Judge Dobbin rendered a decision
against the state, styling the tax arbitrary
and greatly exceeding the general assess
ment On other propertY in The stale
Year: 1875

THE HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE this
morning agreed to report bill TO extend for
three years the time for allowing soldiers and
sailors OF the late war 10 file before the Court
OF Claims petitions for back pay, bounty and
due.
Year: 1875

The local reporter is hugging himself in
anticipation of rush of items next season.
During the languid winter months he will
study up the action of poisons and of those
who suffer from them. The reason of his
hope is the glowing panegyric on edible fungi
which is going the rounds of the papers. In
it the deliciousness of these articles Of food
is set forth in way eminently calculated 10
stimulate the appetite and the research Of
readers, who will hereafter wander through
fields and hunt about tree-stumps to find the
coveted delicacies. As the description is
highly scientific and abounds in such terms
as d. Cesareus, Kaiserling, AgaricuS, and
Myceltum, the searchers will inevitably get
confused, pluck the poisonous toad-stool. eat
thereof and die. Then the local reporter
will rise in his might, ard indite items headed
"Fatal result of ignorance"
Year: 1875

must produce good and nothing but good.
Nobody could have looked upon the clear,
wholesome faces, erect heads, full chests and
springy gait and motion of the crowd of stu
dents gathered on the grounds at Brunswick
on Saturday, without the conviction that bet
ter things are coming to mankind from the
system which they illustrated. And the as
surance of the college officers that excellence
in studies and department keeps pace with
excellence in physical training is not at all
surprising.


The studen's have started fairly in good
ways. With proper help, encouragement
and appreciation from parents and friends we
may hopefully look for generation of men
whose lives shall be habitually regular, chaste
and abStemious, and whose minds shall be
sounder for their sound bodies.
Year: 1875

we do rot read anonymous letters and communi-
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases indispensable, not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty Of good faith


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used.
Year: 1875

The cures made every uay py Freligh' s
Remedy are really wonderful. Magic is
the only word to express the action of this
truly Invaluable medicine. Everybody
that once uses it experiences relief, and not
only continues to use it himself but recon-
mends it to his friends. If you arc suffer-
ing from Neuralgia or Rheumatism, send
at once for bottle and try it. Druggists
generally sell it.
Year: 1875

Forbearanre is not always a virtue, even
IN a clergyman. Imagine the feelings of
the rural divine who, after getting fifty
cents for marrying couple, found that the
bridegroom had gone of with his new silk
hat.
Year: 1875

T,AXpAYERS TAKE NOTICE THAT, IN
i pursuance of acts Cf the Legislature, you
are required to make out a statement under
hished By me, so lar as the same is applicable
t.. your case. and deliver the same to mo or at
my office, within five days from the day de-
mand is made, or the Assessor will estimate
the value Of your property and assess the
same accordingly, and no deduction will be
made Ly the board OF Equalization in the as
sessment made by the Assessor: and you are
further notified that in ease you have not
Real Estate within the county, of sufficient
value to secure the taxes, demand will be
made for immediate payment of the same,
and if not paid without delay. it will be my
duty to collect tho same By distraint and sale
of property.


Assessors office, Eureka, New. April p
1873. j. G. POWELL, Assessor,


ap23-tf Eureka county. New.
Year: 1875

AS SEVERAL marriages have been per-
formed within the past year in our State
authority to solemnize the same, we would
call the attention of all parties interested
to the requlrementso of the statute regulat-
ing marriage. The minister must first
obtain a license from the District Judge,
by producing credentials that the said
minister has been regularly ordained in
some religious society or congregation
within this State. For the violation of
this statute the minister may be finedany
sum not exceeding $500, and imprisoned
until such fine is paid.
Year: 1875

".
Louis Republican:


One Bush, three-card monte dealer.
follows his vocation at Council Bluffs
Iowa. Some years ago he left his home
In Indiana and went West, in response to
Mr.. Greeley. He did locate lands. but
went to gambling. He prospered, and.
feeling well over his prosperity. sent for
his father to come to Iowa and eat with
him the fruit of the vine and the fat of
kids. The old man thought he would
go and see his prosperous son, and took
the train for Council Bluffs. He was met
by young Bush and taken to hotel.
The young man thought best to caution
his father against the three-card monte
players who infested the hotel and were
on the lookout for newcomers. They
had already spotted the old fellow. The
son knew it he gave his father some
good advice before he left him for the
night. But the game went on in that
hotel, and old Bush looked on until he
was satisfied he could do it as we'll as
anybody. He tried, and got up from the
table two hundred and fifty dollars
lighter. 1t was just all he had brought
with him, and the next day he commu-
nicated to his son the sorry intelligence
that he was dead broke. And young
Bush went for those gamblers and the
hotel-keeper that had permitted the swim
die upon the old countryman. He was
very angry at what had happened. for if
he had considered his father lawful game
he could have robbed him just as well
himself. In the fuss that ensued the old
man found out that his son was sort of
boss three-card monte man, and then he
wanted to 60 home. The dutiful son
furnished the money and saw his father
off on the cars--but his game of respect
able business in Council Bluffs was up,
and the son was sorry that he did not
rob his own father.
Year: 1875

A AWoMAN's HANDs.-Bailey says man
is harder than woman, except in his
hands When she sees him take his
ceat-tail to hold stove-Iifter, she pushes
him away in disgust. and takes the hot
object in her bear hand without wincing.
If he should do that, he would drop it at
once, and couldn't helpit. When he has
dish to lift from the stove, he very
properly starts off to hunt up a cloth, and
while he is gone she removes it with her
naked hand, and is there ready to say
things that make him feel small and
worthless, when he gets back.
Year: 1875

KNEW HIM WELL.-A man about thirty
years old, having a shotgun on his
shoulder and tive pigeons in his hand,
was recently standing on a street corner
telling a crowd that he had been out and
Killed five hundred pigeons since sunrise.


You're liar y shouted man in the
edge OF the crowd. The stranger hooked
at him long and earnestly. and then in
CURED, 7" Where did you get acquainted
Year: 1875

A GENTLEMAN found the other night,
says the Freemason, that his wife knew
something about drawpoker. Theway of
it was this : The couple have two fine
boy babies. Seeing them asleep in the
same bed, the admiring father wondered
if anybody had better pair than that.
The wife thought not. The husband
then saids speaking in parallels, as he
thought: " If we could draw three queens
we would have full'' that would be
hard to beat and the lady promptly re-
piled Excuse me, if you please, we'll
stand pat on the pair we have"
Year: 1875

Poor Prof. Trask, after demonstrating by
interminable tracts that no man could use
tobacco without dying, first Of all, of heart
disease, and subsequently Of a vast variety
Of other unpleasant maladies, finally died
Of heart disease himself. As Prof. Trask's
heart disease could not have been produced
by tobacco, it is open to his late opponents
to assert that it was due to his
abstinence from tobacco. Such reasoning
would be quite in the manner Of Prof.
Trask's anti-tObaccO tracts, and would
strike heavy blow at the perniciOus habit
of not using tobacco. So long as the vo-
taries of this miserable habit practice it
quietly and in seclusiOn there is, perhaps,
no necessity fo- any interference with
them. 1t is when the habit has gained
such hold upon them thai they shame
lessly ayow it, and actually defend it by
tracts intended ID lure their fellOw-men
from the path OF pipes and cigars, that it
becomes proper to resist their demOraliZing
influence by organized effort, and TO point
out the fate Of Prof Trask as an evidence
of the inevitable effect Of an habitual absti-
nence from tobacco.
Year: 1875

CERTAINLY no man ever knew better
how it is himself than Henry Ward
Beecher, the most extensively adv7r-
tised person the world ever saw, when
he used this language in his sermon Of
last Sunday night.


If an apple woman's stand upsets
and the apples roll In every direction,
that goes into the newspaper; if
wheel comes off a mans wagon, that
goes into the newspaper; if anybody
has anything he wishes to keep secret,
that Is sure to 60 into the newspaper.
Laughter. And there is constant
bringing into view these small
facts and incidents Of life,
for a newspaper morning
journal Of the size of ours, with
such containing quantity of matter
that must be fed to it's like a whale
who takes in hogsheads of water that
he may squirt them out and get the
handful Of shrimps left behind. Great
laughter.) Though there are peculiar
sufferings that are worthy to 60 down
In the pageof remembrance, and which
are written In Gods book of remem-
brance, they never find their way to
the newspapers.
Year: 1875

The amount Of bullion Withdrawn from
the Bank Of England on balance yesterday
was f91, 900.


The Car Of Russia has sent a note to
the Prince Of Montenegro eongratulating
him on the peaceable solution Of the diff
Guilty between his government and that of
Turkey.


King Victor Emanuel gave an audience
Friday to Garibaldi.


The German Reichstag closed its session
yesterday. The bank bill was passed.
Year: 1875

Correspondence Of the Philadelphia Press.


The system Of New Years gifts here is a
great bore, as the whole system Of invOlun-
tary contributions in Europe is invariably.
If a person wishes to give a present or to
bestOw a small fee, it is Is well that the
holiday season should be selected as the
occasion, but to have the whole tribe Of
servants, trades-peOple, etc, clamOrOus
around one for etrenRes, is nei-
ther agreeable nor comfortable.
From the bOotblack to the
concierge, every servant in the house
one inhabits expects present, and the gift
to the concierge must be one Of cOnsidera-
bic amount, else woe to the Unlucky resi-
dents visiting cards and letters; they viii
all 90 astrav, or never be delivered at all.
In houses where the floors are let of in
apartments, the usual fee for the concierge
is one Der cent. on the rent Of each apart
ment. and if the sum sent down be not
sufficient. the high and mighty official will
return it with a recommendation
to the recalcitrant donor to lind
ont how much is the proper
amount. Such an instance actually took
place within my own knowledge. Then
the postman and the newspaper carrier,
and every tradesman you may chance to
employ, all flock around you with ClamOr-
Gus demands, and if a gentleman happens
TO be in business, his etrenHeS to his en-
ploves become a regular tax. An Amerl-
can gentleman, who is at the head OF a
large mandatory here, told me that four
hundred dollars would scarcely cover the
amount be paid out yearly in this manner.
Year: 1875

TIE tone Of the Democratic press
in Tennessee is, with very few excep-
tions, friendly to the new. Senator.
Even such as were most bitterly Op-
posed to his election show q disposi-
ton to let the dead past bury its dead,
reserving their criticism until his
policy Of the future is developed. We
have never known our contemporaries
to exhibit, as a whole, more mOdera-
ton of temper than at present. 1t is
a cheering augury of unbroken har-
mony hereafter.
Year: 1875

MADAME THEIRS was offered a box on
the opening night Of the new Paris Opera
house, but she refused it, as it came from
her successful rival in the Presidential
chair-the piOus wife Of the Marshal-Pres-
ident.
Year: 1875

THE memorial which the committee
appointed by the Davidson County
Court Will lay before the Legislature
is printed elsewhere. It proposes to
shake things up in a style that will be
deemed altogether too lively by those
whose interests are Immediately in
volyed.
Year: 1875

A DETROIT wife refused to speak TO her
husband for several weeks because he
went away to his business one morning
without kissing her goodbye. The Joke Of
the matter was that the poor man didn't
know in all that time how he had offended
her.
Year: 1875

We may as well say it now: If it
is proposed that the scenes which char
acterized the Mardi Grds orgies in this
city last year shall be repeated on the
9Th proximo, we protest in advance
against so fragrant an outrage upon
public decency being permitted by the
authorities. In New Orleans and
Memphis such festivities are conducted
with a due regard to prOpriety, but
the carnival of 1874, in Nashville,
was license in its worst form
-unbridled, insolent and shameless.
Many Of the active participants were
among the yilest characters Of the city,
and for the day they held as complete
possession Of the streets as if there had
not been decent man or woman within
our corporate limits. Public sentiment
will fully bear US out IN insisting that
lhe like shall not occur again.
Year: 1875

LARGE PINE BoARp.-Captain John
Harlow has just returned from
months tramp among the pine for
ests of this State. The journey was
undertaken by the Captain a little
over four weeks ago, for the purpose
Of finding tree that board could be
cut from which would make a showing
for Oregon at the Centennial, Phila-
delphia, in 1876. After much labor
the Captain found tree on the banks
Of the Lower Columbia, on the Oregon
side, which measures one hundred
feet to point where it is ten feet IN
diameter. This tree is fourteen feet
at the base, from which board can
be made 100 feet long fourteen feet
wide at one end and ten at the other,
and eighteen inches thick. OF course,
no mill in the world can cut such a
board, and therefore the board will
have to be hewn out. The Captain
has spent over 800 in addition to his
time in hunting for this tree, and is


firmly convinced he has found some


thing which, if sent to the Centennial
4


Exhibition, will astonish the people


who will there gaze upon it.-io'7


land (Oregon) Journal. ~,a
Year: 1875

4 FROZEN SH1P-A whaling vessel
which sailed from London in 1910,
found in the Polar sea a ship embed
ded in the ice, with sails furled, and
no signs Of life on board. The cap
tain aud some If the crew descended
into the cabin, and found coiled upon
the floor a large Newfoundland dog,
apparently asleep, but when they
touched it, they found the animal was
dead and frozen as hard as stone.
In the cabin was young lady seated
at table, her eyes open as if gazing
at the intruders of that desolate place.
She was a corpse! and had been fro
zen in an apparently resigned and re-
ligious attitude. Beside her was a
young man, who, it appeared, was the
commander of the brig, and brother
to the lady. He was sitting at the ta'
ble, dead, and before him was sheet
of paper on which was written, "oul
cook has endeavored since yesterday
morning to strike light, but in vair
all is now over" In another part
Of the cabin stood the cook with tho
flint and tinder in hand, frozen, in the
vain endeavor to strike the fire thai
could alone save them. The terrors
Of the seamcn led the captain from
the spot, who took with him the log
hook, as the solemn memento Of th'


ill-fated ship. It appeared that it al


so was from London, and had beer


frozen in this place over fourteen


years.