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Year: 1873

Innovations are stealing in even among
so conservative portion of the community as
that of the Friends. Year after year we have
been accustomed to see the Quakers in their
drab bonnets and sad-coored suits, not so
numerously, indeed, as in Philadelphia, but
numerously enough to lend, now and then, a
quiet and mellow trait to our vivid and pic
turesque thoroughfares. If any association
could stand perfectly still, it would be thought
that that of the Friends could do So But in
one of their congregations-that of the Scher-
merhorn street Friends Society of Brook
lyn-a change has at last crept in which
admits of whole families sitting together in
meeting irrespective of sex. OF course the
thing will not stop here. In few months we
shall have young Quakers and young Quaker
esses sitting together in meeting, whether in
the family or out of it; and, this grand change
being adopted, there is no telling where the
matter will end. On the whole we cannot
but congratulate the Schcrmerhorn street con-
gregation upon the new step taken. We have
q great respect for the Society of Friends as o
Sect but we have a reverence also for any
spirit of progress which shall tend to draw
the sexes together into nearer relation, at
the same time retaining pure and natural
conditions. We think this Quaker step is in
the right direction
Year: 1873

| mucn rs no conceivable iniquity could de-
prive the Executive of that Not TO expect
too much virtue in the Senate. however, it
must be admitted that its confirmation Of Mr.


Williams nomination will stand on very diff
ferent ground morally from the Presidents
act in presenting his name. Confirmation by
the Senate does not discharge the Presidents s
responsibility, because the Senate may as
sumo that responsibility as in great
degree q guarantee for the man. 1t is
not an act of public virtue to refrain
from making q mischievously bad appoint
ment; but it would be an act of high moral
courage that no sane creature anticipates at
the hands of the present Senate, to put itself
in conflict with the Executive over an appoint
ment in which the main thing at stake is the
respect, the reverence, which the people have
for the Office Of Chief Justice-a reverence that
may be easily crushed, but that generations
will not restore. Our last provision against
such wholesale abuse of the appointing power
as has now eliminated in the appointment Of
Mr.. Williams is impeachment and of course
it would be ludicrous to consider the possi-
bility of that remedy at present; for blind,
immoral power of party, right or wrong, in
both houses will support whatever is done,
with self-satisfed conviction that if the
deluge does come after, there will be little left
for it to ruin. SO all our contrivances, all
our guarantees, all our constitutional restraints
are vain and worthless; and we must simply
accept the fact as we find it, that as the SOL
diers Uttered their horses in the temple, so
badly advised Executive has put Mr.. Williams
OF Oregon, in the place once occupied by John
Marshall of Virginia.
Year: 1873

dent OF the United states.


We publish to-day in another part of the
paper an address from General Quesada, the
agent of the patriot government of Cuba in
this country, to the President of the United
States, in which the Cuban question is treated
at great length and with ability and an ap-
peal is made for the recognition of the Cubans
as beligerents 1t represents, no doubt the
sentiments of his government and compatriots,
and is well worthy of consideration for tha
facts presented, calmly and without exaggera-
tone. General Quesada writes like q
man who feels the weight and inn
portance of his subject, and he handles it
with solemn and heartfelt earnestness. Should
the present difficulty between the United
States and Spain lead to war the freedom of
Cuba must be the result but if war be avoided
the question of recognizing the Cubans as bel
ligerents will remain an open one, and it
would be well for the government at Washing,
ton to consider the arguments adduced in
favor of recognition. The fact that state
of war has existed for five years. war,
that has cost Spain over sixty thousand men
and enormous treasure-cannot be doubted.
Indeed we know that, so far from the
war having any prospect of being ended,
the struggle has assumed larger pro-.
portions. The Cubans have stronger
force and are better prepared for war
than heretofore They have both an
organized government and military system.
They have even reasonable prospect of sue
cess in the end, though the struggle might
last long, while there is little chance Of Spain
suppressing the insurrection. Holding the
balance of justice fairly between the COM
batants, if even our government and country
had no interest in the freedom of Cuba, il
could not be impoltic or wrong to acknowl-
edge the Cubans as belliaerents If the culs
Year: 1873

HE BUTCHER BuRRIEL RETURNS TO THE
SLAUGHTER HoUsE.-Burriel, having been feted
and applauded by the Havana rabble, and
probably made knight of some of the numer-
Gus orders of Spanish chivalry, is now ON his
way to the scene Of his cold-blooded butch
cries. 1t is o pity that too tender regard for
international law may prevent Commander
Gushing running tie little savage up to the
yardarm. He likes to have his swing, and we
should like hugely to accommodate him in
this particular.
Year: 1873

VERY IMPRESSIVE CEREMONIES will he held


in all the Catholic churches Of New York to-
day on the occasion Of the dedication of the
archdiocese to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The
services at the Cathedral will be of an un-
usually solemn character, and high mass will
DO celebrated with all the grandeur and So
lemnity Characteristic of the Church of Rome.
Year: 1873

Halls Journal of Health says that
cold bed chambers always imperll health
and invite fatal diseases. Robust per
sons NAV safely sleep in temperature
of forty or under, but the old, the IN
FAINT and the frail should never sleep IN
a room where the atmosphere is much
under fifty degrees Fahrenheit.


All know the danger of going direct
into the cold from a very warm room:
Very few rooms, churches, theatres and
the like. are ever warmer than seventy
degrees. Ifit is freezing ont of doors
it is thirty degrecs-the difference be
ing fortv degtccs more. Persons will
be chilled by such a change in ten min
utes. although they may be actively
walking.


Bnt to lie still in bed, nothing to pro
mote the circulation, and breathe Tor
hours an atmosphere of forty and even
fifty degrees, when the lungs are al
ways at ninety eight, is too great a
change. Many persons wake up IN the
morning with inflammation of the lungs
Who went to bed well, and are surprised
that this should be the case. The
cause NAV often be found in sleeping in
a room the window of which has been
foolishly hoisted for ventilation. The
water-cure journals of the country have
done an incalculable injury by the blind
and indiscriminate advice of hoistine
tn window at night.


The rule should be everywhere du
ring the part of the year when fires arr
kept burning, to avoid hosting outside
windows. 1t is safer and better to leave
tne chamber door open, as also the fire
place: then there is a draft mp the chin
new. while the room is not so likely t
become cold. If there is some fire II
the room all night the window may b
opened an inch. 1t is safer to sleep in


bad air all night with temperatur
over fifty, than in pure air with ten
perature under forty. The bad air ma
sicken you but cannot kill you; the col
air can and does kill very often.
Year: 1873

ERIE, Pa, December &C.


The immediate cause of the accident at
Prospect Station was a broken fange on
the tender-wheel. About sixty rods west
of the station is a trestle work some
thirty-feet high over which the locomotive
and tender of the Eastern-bound express
passed in safety, but the baggage and
passenger cars (only two coaches being
in the train) were thrown from the trestle,
fell thirty feet, and struck top downward.
The weight of the trucks crushed in the
cars, closing up the windows, and, to
render the situation even more terrible,
the passenger coach was partially tilted
upon its side so that, for the occupants OF
that side, there were absolutely no means
of escape. Almost Immediately the cars
took fire, the passenger coach burning at
both ends. Some half dozen persons
waiting at the station were soon at the
scene of the accident, but they worked at
an immense disadvantage. No water
could be had, and the snow that was
scraped up had little effect in staying the
flames.
Year: 1873

V'HE ESTIMATED INCOME
INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION COMPANY If S2,64o,4o0


READ THE REPORT BELOW,
AND YOU WILL BE SATISFIED THAT AN INVESTMENT MADE


IN THE STOCK OF THR
MINISTERIAL, EXHIBITION COMPANf 4
Year: 1873

4 bill was introduced into The Indiana Le-
gislature by Gen. Blocher, fixing the fees for
preachers officiating at funerals and making
the same lien on the estate Of the deceased.
No action was taken till the closing session Of
the House. when a member called it up. The
following Is transcript Of the onlcialrgIster


Il. Speaker: reckon it Is o leeilc too late
in the moon to take any-action on ,his bill and
therefore shan't have much to say about it.
| only regret that the bin didn': pass for l
don't thiul, there's any class Of people more
deserving or more entitled TO consideration or
who get less Of it than the preachers. I'm
tired Of seeing preachers working for nothing
and begging for living. The fact is, in this
country there's three ways of getting living
"A fellow must either work, beg or steal and
I'm sorry to say that the preachers down our
way, though they work hard enough, have to
beg to get along


Mr Thayer. world ask the gentleman
from Scottif the preachers in his section Of
country derive the chief part Of their income
from preaching funeral sermons


Gen. Blochcr No, sir the preachers down
CIR way have to cut hcop-poles for living
Why, it was only short time ago, down
there, went out 20 get preacher to preach
a funeral sermon, and foundhinin the woods
with a load of hoop-poles on his back, and
there weren't enough clothes on that man to
wad shot gun. think this bill ough. to
have passed, and ny only regret is that it fail
ed to receive proper consideration.


And the General sat down amidst q perfect
storm af applause.
Year: 1873

The following is what the Cincinnati Trade
list thinks Of those characters who complain
of their county papers, and instead Of helping
to support it, send or '1r large city papers, and
thus help to sustain them:


"A gentleman writes to us that his county
paper is so poor that he has.s'opped it there
fore sends us three do,lars for the TRADE List.
We repeat that we don't want subscribers on
those terms. 4 mans county paper is worth
more to him than any other paper in the world,
Or. if it is not, it is his own fault. IL the
county paper is properly encouraged, it may
be relied upon fcr information Of more value
to the people in whose interest it is Issued,
than can be found in all the city papers in the
United States. No man can afford to stop the
paper that publishes the official advertisements
of his county, the public sales, markets, court
news. and other local Intelligence. If the pa
per is poor, the people are more at fault than
the publishers for not giving it liberal patron
age However poor the county paper may be,
it is always worth more than it costs to those
interested in the affairs Of the locality"
Year: 1873

The correspondent Of Tho Western RnTal
says I discovered, many years ego, that wood
could be made to last longer than iroa in the
ground, but 7 thought the process 90 simple
and inexpensive that it vas not worth while
making any stir abou. it. I would as soon
have poplar, bass-wood or quaking ash, a9 any
other kind Of timber for fence posts. I have
taken GU. bas9-wood posts, after having been
set seven years, that were sssound when taken
mp as when they were first put in The ground.
Time and weather seemed to have no effect on
them. The posts can be prepared for less than
two cents a piece. For the benefit Of others I
will give the recipe: Take boiled linseed oil
and stir in it pulverized charcoal, to the con-
sistency Of paint Put a coat Of this on the
timber and there is not a man who will live
to see it rot.
Year: 1873

We regret to learn that Broyet Brigadier
General Northco.. oftha Clarksburg Telegraph,
is again upon the war path Not that bis
being on tho war path hurts or ondangers any
body but himself, but we have some regard for
the General and are pained to chronicle his
having been painfully thrust through o large
pane Of glass and somewhat panied thereby,
bv the editor Of the SIM whom he had assault
ed with his cans. The subiec: is apa;nfulone
and We can only hope that the General may be
as speedily dropped as the General was in his
encounter with Major Eolgson.-WheclinJ
Register.
Year: 1873

Tits said that several members Of Congress
who have converscd with President Grant at
Long Branch in regard to the Congressional
salary law represent him as 'avorng the repeal
Of it. This woull not affect him, MS the Con-
stitution prohibits any increase or diminntion
Of bis salary during the term for which he was
elected


Al this talk about -epeaiing The law incrcas-
ing the pay Of members Of Congress is for
Buncombe The Republicans will try to make
sa much capital ou. of IL as they can, but the
repeal movement viii end in smokc.-Ricl-
mond Win.
Year: 1873

During the early part Of the flight every pre-
caution is adopted to prevent leaving heavy
TRAIL or one easily to be followed; to this end,
instead ofmoving, as is customary, 10 single 6e,
thereby leaving clearly defined path, each
warrior moves independently of Ills fellows un-
til all danger from pursuit is safely passed,
when the party falls into single file, and, with
the chief at the head, moves along iu almost
uubroken silence. Ii during an attack upon
the frontier settlements the Indians should en-
counter unexpected and successful resistance,
necessltating premature withdrawal and tight
on their part, they still resort to stratagem
in order to secure their safety Iu accordance
with plan previously formed and understood
by each member of the party, and specially
provided for an emergency, the war party lind
ing themselves about to encounter successful
resistance on the part of the frontiersmen beat
hasty retreat, but instead of taking their
flight in single direction aud 10 one party,
thereby leaving an unmistakahle clue for their
pursuers, the entire party breaks up into hume
rous smaller bands, each apparently fleeing in
au independent direction, few of the best
mounted usually falling behind to attract the
attention of the pursuers and give time to those
of the party who are burdened with prisoners
and captured stock to make good their escape.
10 such an emergency, as this, rendezvous
1Or the entire party mas Decn previously uAcu
upon. Its location is usually upon or near
some water-course or prominent landmark,
distant perhaps thirty or forty miles, thither
all smaller parties direct their course, each
by separate aud usually circuitous
course. Should either of these smaller
parties find themselves closely pursued, or
their trail being followed and all efforts to
throw the pursuers off prove unavalllng, they
relinquish the plan of uniting with the others
at the established rendezvous as that would lm-
peril the safety of their comrades, aud select q
new route leading neither iu the direction Of
the rendezvous nor of the village, in order not
only to elude but to mislead their pursuerS.
Then ensues long and tircsome fight, until,
having worn out or outwitted their pursuers, OF
whose movements they keep themselves tho
roughly informed, they make their way 10
safety to the village. At the latter, lookouts
are constantly kept on some prominent hill to
watch the coming Of the absent warriors aud
give notice OF their approach. A war party re-
turning from successful raid into the settle
meuts, and bringing with them prisoners and
captured stock, IS an event OF the greatest lI-
portance to every occupant OF the village.
Having arrived within few miles of the vii
lage, and feeling sale from all danger from pur-
snit. the chief in command of the war party
causes signal smoke to be sent up from some
high point along the line of march, we'll know
iug that watchiul eyes near the village are on
the alert and will not fail to observe the signal
and understand its meaning. e eaerM Custer,
az GalanyJor December.
Year: 1873

There is no crop which feels the drought more
sensibly,or is moro disastrous in its failure to- ou
Peninsula farmers, than the corn. 1t s one o.
their staple productions. Upon it many hans
their hope of the season, and from it calculate
the payment OF their debts. But we fear that
this season the crop has been seriously injured
Dy the drought, which is now happily at an end
Already some farmers in the lower Peninsula,
where hay is not grown to any considerable ex-
tent, are in their fodder fields to provide food
Tor their stock, which will of course, prevent the
further growth Of the corn, and it has scarcely
mad time to mature yet. Altogether, the pros.
pect is not a fattering one
Year: 1873

Woman he shriekod, this is getting
serious. Unhand me | say And be
tried to disengage himself from her EN-.
brace-wbile all the braketnen, and the
baggage master, and the news boys stood
around and said his conduct was infamous,
In the midst Of the struggle stranger
entered with carpet bag. lie looked
exactly like Slimmer-and when he saw
his wife in SINNERS arms he became ex.
cited, and hoored Simmer with the car.
pct bag, and sat on him. and caromed on
his head, and asked him what he meant
Simmer was removed on a strctcher, and
the enemy went off with his wife and fam.
lily in cab. He called next day to
apologize. His wife made the mistake
because of SINNERS likeness to him
And now Simmer wishes he may soon be
kicked in the face by mule, SO that he
will resemble no other human being or
cartb.-Mar Adcier.
Year: 1873

Only baby's grave,


In lonely place.
With turf and grass to hide
Its little face.
No shelt'ring tree, or vine,
Grows near the spot
A mournful little bed,
By love forgot.
Only a baby's grave,
Without stone
To mark its resting place
Poor little one,
Yet on the soft green grass
A snow-white shell
Nestles, half hidden there.
The tale to tell.
Only baby's grave
A tiny thing,
Yet the sweet-throated wren
Comes there to sing.
And blue-eyed violets,
And daisies sweet,
Bestar that little bed


From head to feet.
Only a baby's grave.


Yet who may know
The many tears that from
Two sad eyes flow?
Someone remembers we'll
The sweet blue eyes
That softly closed, beneath
The April skies.
And though no marble shaft
May mark the spot,
We cannot say it is


By love forgot.
Some mothers to ider heart
Is buried there,
And on the velvet turf


Is many tear.
What matter if no wealth
Is buried there,
The little spirits gone


Where angels are.
There are no rich, or poor,
In heaven, above,
One bond uniting all


In holy love.
Year: 1873

England.


The publishers of the Boston Weekly Journa. |
invite the attention of the reading public to the |
attractions of family newspaper, which for the
past forty years has received from the intelligent
classes of New England most cordial support.
The thousands who rely upon the Weekly Jour
nal for
Neps, General Reading and Information,
Will cheerfully indorse tho fulness of its news,
the freshness of its weekly compendium of gener |
al intelligence, and the reliability which may be
placed upon its editorial comments. The aim of
the publishers has always been and will continue
to be, to send out n weekly sheet which shall he
free from all sensationalism, and shall present a
large amount of reading matter, which shall keep
its readers felly po ted up regarding


The Leading Erents OF the Hour,
While its pages shall not only reflect tho substan-
tial progress of opinion upon topics which are
connected with the


Social and Political Interests
0fthe people of New England, but shall also con-
tain large amount Of matter which will instruct
and edfy the large circle which depends mainly
upon its columns for their knowlede of what is
going on in the great


Business Centres Of the World.


The same features that have given to the
Weekly Journal its strong hold upon the people,
and have Caused ita subscribers to renew their
subscriptions year after year, will bo retained.
We do not propose to Introduce any catch-penny
novelties, for the field is already filled with such
newspapers, but we do propose to fill its


Thirty Sir Long Columns
That every member of a household may find
someting which they shall read with pleasure and
profit. There are papers which contain larger
amount Of literary reading, but there is no paper
published in New England which furnishes
So Large an Amount of Nepsy Reading


at such a Moderate Price.


When it is remembered that by forming Clubs
paper like the Boston Weekly Journal can be
secured fity-two times each year for three cents
per week, the statement would seem to warrant
circulation of a hundred thousand in the New
England States. We confidently believe that an
inspection of its columns will convince any one
that the investment Of such a trifing amount is
the wisest expenditure that any man can make
who desires


First. Class Family Newspaper.
Which he can place in the hands of the members
of his family, confident that there is nothing OBJ
Jectionable in any Of its many departments
We shall be happy to send specimen copies free
of expense. We invite the attention of postmas-
tiers and agents to our terms. There is no adj
vance in price, though the paper last year was
greatly enlarged and improved


One copy by mail, 81 90


FIVE copies to one address, 90


Ten copies to one address, Ii 90
And one copy to the getter up OF club of ten.
e All orders must be accompanied by the
money. All papers are discontinued promptly at
the expiration of the time for which payment has
Year: 1873

1t has been demonstrated that live
cat can be roasted in the cooking range
in about one hour and twenty minutes :
the experim. ut was tried at Halls Hotel,
Whitehall, on Sunday morning of last
week. The oven door was left open the
night before and pussy finding it nice and
warm curled himself up inside for a quiet
nap. In the morning the porter started
the fire, shut the oven door and went
about his other duties, and in little
over an hour the cat was taken out "done
brown"