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Year: 1872

It is not generally known that wife alone can make homestead of the property which she and her husband own, and on which they reside. The husbands consent IS not requl- site, the law stating that the homestead land and house, not exceeding in value 5000, can be selected by the husband and wife, or either of them. A case illustrative of the power of the wife in this respect lately oc- cured here. A husband, who was hopeless drunkard, after running through all his per sonal property, was preparing to sell the homestead in which he, his wife and his family lived, without consent Of his wife. Fortunately she heard of it, and quietly went and registered the property as home stead. The buyer, when searching the title, buttcd up against her declaration, which made it impossible for her husband to sell the property. All wives in a like position should follow tIis example. If husband will not provide for his wife and children, 1t is the duty of the wife to protect both by taking advantage of the homestead law The law not only legally makes the wife halt owner of the homestead, but also eXempts 1t from sale for subsequent debt, execution or liability.-Real Estate Circular.
Year: 1872

The blow struck against the Apaches by Captain J. w. Mason, is the second visita tion of punishment to their treachery, since the Quaker policy was abandoned. General Crook intends to redeem his word to smite where he fails to conciliate. few more cases of chastisement like that bestowed by Captain Mason, and we shall probably find these Indians suing pitifully for peace. Where terms are granted, they should in every in stance be disarmed and forced to cultivate not only friendly relations with the whites, but the soil also, to gain for themselves an hones, support.-Saa Eancisco Call, Oct. s.
Year: 1872

The way to blow out kerosene lamp, with accuracy and without danger, and thus render obituary notices more scarce, is to blow sharp long breath across the top of the chimney, after turning the wick down. This creates an up draft which extinguishes the light.
Year: 1872

beg to inform the pubic, that owing
to their inability to close out Their en-
tire Retail Stock by January l, they
have determined to extend the clos
ing sale thirty days longer. The re-
mainder Of their Retail Stock will
be placed upon the counters at prices
less than original cost, and far below
those Of


ANY HOUSE IN THE CITY.
We shall inform the public through
the local columns OF the special bar
gains which viii be offered TO close GER
tain lines Of goods. Being determined
tOsell the ENTIRE RETAIL STOCK
at any sacrifice, we shall mark our
goods at prices BEYOND ALL COM
PETITION.
Year: 1872

In the matter Of the rule nisi in the case
Of A. Rosenberg rs. City Of New Orleans
writ of injunction to eDioin and restrain the
said city OF New Orleans from proceeding
further in making or preparing to make any
payment Of any appropriation certificates,
or from loaniDg or receiving any money for
any such purpose, and from paying any
such certificates out of any moneys coming
into the city treasury until the gold certif-
Gates Of plaintiff herein shall have been
fully paid, or the bonds for which they call
delivered, and also from paying any GER
fused the writ Of Injunction prayed for.
Year: 1872

sheldon said the great Macaulay, lis
| one Of the names in British history destined
not to die-destined not to die, because the
name of Sheldon is inseparably connected
with the cause of hberality of opinion"
| These sentiments bring themselves to our
mind as we now recall the candidacy OF
Hon Lionel 4. Sheldon fo~ reelection as
member of Congress from the Second Con-
gressional Districs-a probate Judge in very
early manhood; distinguished soldier be
fore be was thirty years Of age; q Repre-
sentative in Congress, twice elected by
large majorities, and in all these capacities
invariably the advocate of the rights of all
Executing the law in the Legislature pro-
nouncing upon its constitutionality on the
BENCH defending its execution in the field;
such are the features, nay indeed the char
acteristics IN the public career Of General
Sheldon.


He has been faithful 80 the interests of
all the people of Louisiana, and his name
is inseparably connected With the cause Of
"'iberality of opinion


The laws by which our levee interests
and euv sugar and rice interests are pro
tected are mainly due 20 him. By him
more, perhaps, than any one al of the ar
tempted usurpations Of power weee sue
cessfuily resisted. He is the peer of the
ablest debater on the floor of Con gress and
takes an active and prominent part in all
its proceedings. Can the people Of the second
congressional district afford to ignore the
claims Of such man for reelection Shall
weo in other words, fail to evince our ap-
probation Of what he has done, and done
so well, 20 prove his character as man
and as statesman He voted for amnes-
ty. He voted to extend 10 all those rights
that are their due


Shall the practical recognition Of his
earnest endeavors 20 promote the general
welfare and prosperity Of The South be re-
fused Good sense and good judgment in
spring the people of Louisiana will say
no! Rather let it be said of the people of
our noble State shat they rallied to a man
in an earnest and cordial support of Gen
eral Sheldon, armed with the strong and
confding trust that he will. when he again
takes his seat in the Forty-third Congress.
do all that any one man can do to build up
the waste places of our beloved State, and
to protect and defend our people against
all forms Of injustice and oppression
Year: 1872

The New York Citizen says: "Tht
superDaturally acute detective is wholly
the invention Of romance writer's. He
has absolutely no resemblance to the
stupid policeman, who, under the name
of detective, acts as a go-between Of
thieves and the police authorities. The
average detective of real life is utterly
incapable of forming a train of reason
ing, and is a creature of routine, who
never detects a criminal except by acci-
dent, and who is rather more dangerous
to society than is the criminal himself" 9"
The New York World adds "Any man
of trained intellect-any lawyer jour
nalist, medical man, or even theologian,
who knows how to reason and has some
acquaintance with human instincts
would do more really efficient detective
work than nine-tenths Of the professional
detectives. He would be capable of
forming some theory other than the two
or three conventional theories which are
the stock-in-trade of the detective po-
lice. The series of failures which have
marked the efforts Of detectives in half
a dozen recent criminal cases ought to
convince the police authorities that
some sort of reform is needed"
Year: 1872

The legislature Of Minnesota visited
the asylum for the dumb at Fairbault
recently, and received the following Gu
rious and rather ludicrous address: For
YOU are the men 10 furnish the means to
help the man that built the mill that
ground the feed that fed the horse that
drew the cart that dumped the dirt that
Paddy shoveled to build the road for
palace cars to 60 upon. These are the
men that make our laws and furnish the
means to build house to cover our
heads. that warm our toes. that fill our
mouths, that give us food that feeds the
mind, that makes Us men and women
strong. 70 lean upon, we bid you welcome,
aud for aye shall strive your kindness to
repav
Year: 1872




Olina bandits.


Cor. New York Herald.l


Moss NEoK. Robson Co., N. c., Feb. 16


Henry Berry Lowry, the notorious
outlaw, and his confederates, have beer
holding a carnival here for two days
sleeping at store near the railroad sta.
ton. When the down train for VIII
mington arrived here to-day they had a
barrel of cider rolled out of the store
and were treating large crowd. They
were particularly active in inviting (?j
the passengers out of the cars to drink
familiarly tapping several Of them on
the shoulders and shaking their
hands. When Lowry was told that
he had better keep a good look
out, or some one would kill him or some
of the gang for the rewards offered
by the State, he replied that amy one
who might kill him or any of the gang
could never prove that he had done the
killing; all they asked was to be let
alone, and they would leave everybody
else alone; if they wanted provisions
they would go where they could be OBJ
tained; if they had money they would
pay for them; if not, they would demand
them and take them. They we're, he
said, determined to kill one man, who
was travelling backwards and forwards
on the train. They had warned him
several times not to come up here,
" and" continued he, we would have
killed him yesterday right in the car, if
it had not been for the number of ladies
who were in it.


While he was saying this the individ-
ual whom they had doomed was at that
very moment crouched under a seat in
the rear car. He has incurred the ter
rible anger Of the outlaws, from the fact
that he volunteered last winter as the
executiohes Of 0xendine, one of their
gang, who was hung at Lumberton.
They told the conductor that if be came
I'D here again they would murder him
right on the train. ..


As tho train moved off they saluted
the conductor in military. style and took
a deliberate aim at the train with their
rifles. and continued to fire until L was
beyond gunshot distance. The audacity
of these outlaws out-Herods Herod and
is unparalleled in the history of any
State.


This man whom they have threatened
is known in Wilmington by the name Of
Frank Marsden, and is sailor boarding
house runner.
Year: 1872

child. three years DID, received into the
Buffalo orphan asylum the other day, was found
TO be suffering from delirium tremens its drunk
en- mother having actually fed her offspring from
the whisky bottle.
Year: 1872

Old Probabilities has become so popular that
our active and ambitious students in Pablo
School No. are about turning their attention,
also, to observations Of the weather, and the re-
cord they make will be found, daily, in the Cox
MERcIAL. Perhaps we may venture to call them
Young Actualities
Year: 1872

At Birdsboro', on the Wilmington and Reading
railroad, there were formerly received about
fifty copies of the New York Tribune but since
the Cincinnati folly, these have been dscontin-
ued, and seventy copies of the New York Times
are taken in their stead And this is a fair sam
pie OF the change that has been going on, all
over the country
Year: 1872

many persona will draw the party line.
1t ia, to my mind. just now, contest
between the big letter G and the little
g. Grant is the little g. Horace Gree
ley has been an unsel6sh, charitable,


liberal philanthropic man. He has
'ripened into cne period. All parts Of
the country like him. and his name is
the symbol of good will and lasting
peace. + believe that if the issue be


made personal and put on the ground OF
character Grant will be hissed ont of the
field. The Democratic party is regain
ing the confidence of timid men in the
North by its good behavior. The South
has gone far to satisfy apprehensioas in
the North by its magsanimity towards
Greeley Nobody could ever charge Mr..
Greeley with nepotism the sale Of in
fuence of any mercenary se&shnsss.


l think the big G will crush the little 6. "
Year: 1872

A Member of the Board of Supervisors
of county in Missouri objected to levy
ing six mills on the dollar for school pur-
poses, because there were only eight mills
in the county, and one Of them didn't have
water enough to run halt the year.
Year: 1872

Gen. Joe Geiger, for twenty years past
the leading Democratic stump speaker in
Ohio, is out against Greeley. In speech
at Columbus few days ago he said:


You can hardly find a man in the town
of Columbus who has not shame on his
face when marching in Democratic pro-
cession. But men talk to you in sober
ness about this matter; they talk about
the accumulation of the men that are go
ing to vote for Mr.. Greeley" I tell you
that an honest Democrat is not going to
give the lie to his entire life by voting for
man who, for the last forty years, as is
well known, has villified him and SLAM
dered his party. (Applause.) That time
is past. These men make no noisy demon
strations. have seen man after man in
the .city of Columbus-men of character
and standing-whO have told me they
were not going to vote this way. They
would as soon be killed as to vote for Hor-
ace Greeley. They are not going to the
polls. They will vote at the State elec-
tion, but will not vote any further; and it
is the quiet element that is going to do the
business through the whole land. It is
the lightning that kills, not the thunder.
It isn't the noise, it IS the energy and force
and will of the American people that
counts.
Year: 1872

With reference to the constitutional
amendment recently officially declared
adopted in Virginia, the Richmond En-
Qttirer says:


" It's effect is to leave the constitution 81
lent upon the subject of lisury and inter-
est, and it will therefore hereafter be in
the power of the General Assembly to pre-
scribe any rate, however high or low. In
stead of being regulated by the organic
law, it is hereafter to be regulated by stat
ute law. The statutes now in existence
prescribe per cent. as legal interest,
which is the maximum rate that can be
pharpedu
Year: 1872

In the active pursuit of pleasure or gain, the
inestimable blessing of health is too often for
gotten, until disease is firmly seated, and the
fact only realized by great bodily and mental
suffering. The Liver is the vulnerable point IN
most persons, and the disarrangement of the or
gan involves almost the whole system; hence
the reason why under Liver diseases there is
enumerated such number of Affections, and
we claim the Simmons Liver Regulator to be a
remedy for them all. s MMa
Year: 1872

The New York correspondent of the
Chicago Tribune writes:


Discussing, the other day, the question
of mans and woman's promptness and
punctuality, was told the following story,
illustrative of the determination of the
feminine mind to keep an engagement.


1t was last winter, | think, that Miss
Anna E. Dickinson lectured at Newburgh,
on bitter cold night. She was adver-
tised to repeat her lecture the following
evening in this city, and learned in the
morning that the river at the former place
was locked up-frozen over indeed, though
no one had the courage to venture across.
The ice was not strong enough to bear a
horse and sleigh, and, above and below the
town, was so thick that to get boat over
was impossible.


Miss Dickinson declared she would cross
the Hudson, and offered handsome price
to any man who would assist her in accom-
plishing her object. Several stalwart fell
lows whom she had consulted assured her
that it was worth ones life to attempt the
passage, aud fatty refused to aid her, antil
she expressed her resolution to go alone.
This so shamed them that they finally con-
sented to get sleigh and try to push her
across 70 Fishkill, where she could take the
down train for New York, and reach
Cooper Institute in time for her lecture.


The mercury was in the vicinity of zero
and the biting wind, sufficient to freeze the
marrow in ones bones, was sweeping down
the Hudson. The three men bundled up
the little lady in blankets and rcbes, cover
ing her so completely that she could neither
see nor walk, and placed her, as if she had
been baby, in the sleigh. One went be-
fore and two behind, and off they started
with their bundle of feminine resolution.


The way was long; the air was bitter; the
blast was rough. The men worked like
Trojans; but they did not succeed in reach
ing the opposite bank for nearly three hours,
when, after many narrow escapes, they
picked up their charge, frozen through al
her wrappings, almost stiff, and carried
to the railway station. They were too
late for the train. 1t was fully half an
hour beforethe fair lecturer was sufficiently
thawed to be able to stand on her feet, and
even then she was so cold and in such pain
that she was obliged to pace the room for
more than four hours until the next train
arrived.


Her glorious energy and flexible resolu-
ton, however, carried her through. She
reached the city about nine o. .clock-her
lecture had been announced for eight
when she drove at once to the Institute,
without a morsee of food, and still suffer
ing intensely from cold. She delivered
the lecture at any rate; but she could
scarcely stand the while, and was SO per-
turbed in mind from what she had suffered
as scarcely to be able to collect her
thoughts.


Some one, speaking of this instance of
heroism to Henry Wary Beecher, not long
after, asked him if he thought any man
would do what Anna Dickinson had done
for the sake of keeping an engagement.
''No," replied Beecher, 81 don't think any
man would; and, if he would, he'd be a
nOnfoupdod foOlij
Year: 1872

her husband to get up and see what was
the matter. He did SO, and soon returned
saying that the Captain had told him there
was no danger. He got into bed again,
but his wife could not sleep, and was again
alarmed by the sound of many feet running
to and fro. A moment later the steward,
brave man, of whom all spoke well,
rushed into the stateroom and told them to
put on their lite preseryers as the ship was
sinking. This was terrible shock, but
they fastened to obey the order. The two
children of young couple lay asleep, one
baby six weeks old, the other boy Of three
years. The father took the biggest child
in his arms. The mother clung to her in
fant, and the two struggled to the deck.
The saloon was


Knee.Deep I'm water


by this time, and 10 less than five minutes
man and wife were in the water. The
waves ran high and soon husband and wife
were swept asunder. The former lost
strength, relaxed his hold on the child and
both were drowned. The mother held
her babe above the hungry waters
until her strength too was exhausted, and
then a wave larger than the rest dashed it
from her arms, aud saw it sink slowly to
the depths below. Just as she was ex-
bausted, and after her life-preserver had
slipped from beneath her arms, the Mecca
sin came up and she was recalled to
life, which, for the pres
eGt, at least, is bitter indeed. have my
husband here, she said, but they never can
find my babies in SO large sea. The poor
woman goes to Philadelphia this afternoon,
where her parents live, and where her hus-
band will be buried.


A H0rrfd Hoax.


The dispatch to The Euensng Mail last
night, reporting the loss of the yacht
DaRntless, is untrue. She is at Newport.
Year: 1872

The card of Gen. Cheatham which we
publish this morning came to US too late
last night to permit more than very hasty
reading. 1t is plain, frank aud manly,
characteristic Of the man. Although a
soldier in war he is in peace 8 citizen,
richly devoted to the pursuits of peace
and well calculated to represent the inter-
ests of the great body Of the people. As
The standard bearer Of the Democracy,
''the old Guard" which never surrence rs,
win rally around him. Cheatham and
Victory.
Year: 1872

NEW YORK, Aug. 3l.-Among the miss.
ing is the wife of VIM. f. Sheridan, Of the
Globe Theatre, Boston. Sheridan says he
knew nothing of the disaster until there
was a great rumpus outside of his state
room. | rushed out to find the steamer
sinking, and hurried my wife into a life
boat. There were too many of us In the
boat. We proceeded nearly TO land when
the rough sea caused our boat to tip over,
Year: 1872

There were few Of us who could swim,
and only eight or ten succeeded in laying
hold Of the boat. My poor wife was not
among them. Sheridan here became very
much agitated, and hid his face in his
hands. In moment he resumed with
broken voice: l have No physical trouble.
Ny grief is elsewhere. have telegraphed
to Providence to learn if my poor girl
was among those who were taken there by
ha AVDnnn ha
Year: 1872

Some newspapers call me Moses.
Slavery was already abolished with some
exceptions, including some portions of
Tennessee. But practically slavery
mettled without proclamation before
the army. Knowing the Confederacy
was gone and to stop these armies
after armies coming down on US, for the
sake of peace and to stop the sacrifice Of
human life, did proclaim great fact al
ready existing, that the negroes were free,
because the armies would retire if they
knew slavery was dead. In answer to some
one in the crowd l said l would be their
Moses if no one else would. 1t may yet
prove a prediction. The Israelites were
forty years in the wilderness. In less time
the colored people may be wanting Mo
ses. (Subdued voices, Let them go.) Don't
ridicule what may be prophecy.


If the constitution is buried let us go and
dig it up, and appeal to the Redeemer for
its resurrection.


THE BLOODY CHAsM.


I don't want to look into that bloody
chasm. Too many of our countrymen are
buried in it. Close it. Let no seam Of
mark remain of it.


Let us hope the day is coming when we
shall celebrate the 4th OF July South as
well as North.


am not asking favor of you, but COM
plying with the high behests of honor and
duty. a mere huckster in politics is very
different from a philosopher who under
stands the science of government. | have
ever preached the same cardinal thoughts
as utter to-day. | feel proud of devoting
my last years to them, though it may cost
me much labor or may cost me my life. Ii
fail or perish, all | ask is, no tombs or
trophies, bus burying place inyour midst,
with the epitaph "Here lies one who loved
and toiled for the people,"


am no office seeker. The little place is
not much to me. The little money is
nothing. l will give you check in ad-
vance for the salary to do as You please
with it. Ii man is TO be sent to Con-
gress because he is needy and wants the
salary, the American Congress has reached
a pretty low ebb.


The county of late has been ruled by
rings, but have not been fortunate enough
to get into any of the rings. Look at poor
down trodden Mexico, on whom nature
has lavished all her wealth, vibrating like
pendulum from one military faction TO
another. What is your condition here?
North, it is Gen. Grant, Gen. Sherman,
Gen. Sheridan, etc. In the South it is
Gen. this, Gen. A, B, G, D, E, F, and on
to the end of the alphabet. A Confederate
soldier tcld me the other day that he
thought the Rebel army had been disoand-
ed for ever. But no, the Confederate
army must remain strictly organized to
vote for the Generals. Isn't it time for the
boys that served TO ask something


But they've no no use for them except
to vote and talk about comrades in arms.
The officers got pay and were out of harms
way. The poor soldier slept on the ground:
| was better friend to you, smnested
the whole South. aA~s-a
We used to have party. Party won't
Year: 1872

a MoTHER's INFLUENCE. The solid rock
which turns the edge Of the chisel bears for
ever the impress of the leaf and the acorn re-
ceived long, long since, ere it had become
hardened by time and the elements. If we
trace back to its fountain the mighty torrent
which iertillzcs the land with it's copious
flood, we shall find it dripping in crystal drops
from some messy crevce among the distant
hills. So, too, the gentle feelings and afFec-
tions that enrich and adorn the heart, and the
mighty passions that sweep away all barriers
of the soul and deSolate society, may have
sprung up in the infant bosom in the sheltered
retirement of home. " should have been an
atheist" said John Randolph. eff it had not
been for one recollection and that was the
memory of the time when my departed mother
used to take my little hand in hers, and
caused me. on my kness, to say, Our Father,
which art in Heaven"
Year: 1872

If man were: to take his seat at any place
Of public gathering or amusement and Keen his
hat on, he would be hisSrd, or hustled out. or
handed to the police. But women, nightalter
night, go with the most prepoStcrous pile of
rigging on top OF their heads. lust as hirh as
men hats, and keep the unhappy men behind
dodglng the neyer-quiet pile and never giving
one moments clear view of the stage or the
performers. Perhaps it will be well enough to
revive the old Purltanic text, "Topknot, come