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Year: 1873

ONE BABY William Smoot
takes the fares from the passengers upon
a certain line Of ferry boats, as they go
from the wharf TO the vessel. The other
day woman came up to him and asked
him to hold her baby minute while she
went back to look for her husband. Mr..
Smoot laid the baby on the ground in
comfortable position, and just then the
husband and father came up and took the
child, and started off to look for his wife.
A moment after he had gone, Mrs. Smoot
with her baby, came up TO ask something
about dinner, and just as she started to
leave, up came the woman who had left
her baby. She hadn't met her husband,
and as she saw Mrs. Smoot, it rushed up
on her that that estimable woman was
kidnapping the child entrusted to Smoot.
Before Mrs. Smoot-(it seems to us we
are getting a great deal of Smoot into this
article somehow, but it can't be helped }
before Mrs. Smoot had gone three feet,
that indignant and bereaved parent made
a plunge at her, and seized Mrs. Smoot's
child. She stroye to tear it away from
Mrs. Smoot, and that lady, believing
he.wonTan to be a maniac, resisted des-
perately. AT last Smoot came to the as
sistance of his wife, and just as he began
to pull off her assailant, the husband
came along with the baby, and was
alarmed to sec man fighting with the
mother Of his child. The conflict became
general, until the bystanders interfered.
Then the difficulty WIS explained, and
Smoot went back to his post. The only
remarkable result that ensued was that
the boat on that trip carried over as dead
heads twenty three boys, who slipped on
board while Smoot was in battle array
He will probably decline to watch strange
babies after this.-,Sdt. Fee. Post.
Year: 1873

The London Telegraph prefaces an ac-
count of very heroic act of self-sacri-
fee by which British sailor saved the
lives Of a ships company by the sacri
fee of his own, with remark which it
would be well for those who are dsmayed
and discouraged by the record of bad ac-
tions and crimes which are chronieled by
the public press, to bear in mind. "How
different" says the Telegraph, "the his
tory Of the daily life Of humanity would
appear, if, instead OF chronicling all the
sad and evil things done under the sum- ,
it were possible to record all its good and
honest actions Journals are, in this re-
spect, like doctors-they have to deal
chiefly with the morbid phenomena Of
human existence, the crimes, the quar-
rels, the ambitions, the wars, the jeal-
ousies, the political struggles. Those hap
py and honest things, which are, in reali-
ty, thousand times more common than
unhappy and shameful events, must go
for granted, just as medical publications
fill themselves with pictures of disease
from end TO end, without even mention
ing the fact that health is the normal and
general condition of people,"


The particular incident concerning
which the Telegraph has made the above
text, occurred on board a pilot vessel in
Australian waters, which in July last was
forced upon her beam ends by tre-
mendous wave, at the same time break
ing the mainmast short of. The schoon-
er could only be saved by cutting away
the triangle of spars and shrouds and can
vass holding her down, but James Mar,
one Of the seamen, who had been sent
alott before the accident, was on one of
the floating spars, and the crew hesitated
TO cut the wreck adrift, for life for them
meant death for him. In this exigency,
taking in all the circumstances, Mar gave
the word in a clear and loud voice that
rose above the storm, Chop away mates
chop away ~ The command was obey
ed, and the little vessel arose from the
trough of the sea, her. crew all saved,
while the hero of this simple and sublime
action was swept under by the full force
Of the rolling waves. How much nobler
such an illustration of manhood than any
which battle-felds afford and how refresh
ing TO reflect that while crime is almost
always sure Of publicity, virtue and gen
erosity of the most exalted character may
exist in the most unlocked for places,
and be only unknown because it has no
opportunity for its exercise.
Year: 1873

MARK TwAIN's LAST ADVENTURE
l got into the cars in juxtaposition to a
female. That females face was perfect
insurance company for her. 1t insured
her against her getting married to any,
body except a blind man. Her mouth
looked like a crack in dried lemon, and
there was no more expression in her face
than there is in a cup of cold custard
She appeared as though she had passed
through one famine, and got about two
thirds through another. She was cid
enough to be the great grandmother Of
Mary who had a little lamb. She was
chewing prize popcorn, and carried in
her hand yellow rose, while bandbox
and cotton umbrella nestled by her side.
i was full Of curiosity to hear her speak.
60 / said The cxigenccs of the times
require great circumspection in a person
who is travelling. Says she, what .? Says
l, the orb of the day shines resplondent
in the vault above. She hitched around
uneasy like, and then raised her umbrella
and said, don't want any of your sass
git out And / got.
Year: 1873

ITEMS EVERY MAN SHOULD READ
We have probably all of us met with in
stances in which word heedlessly spoken
against the reputation of woman has
been magnifed by malicious minds until
the cloud has become dark enough to
overshadow her whole existence.


To those who are accustomed-not nee
essarily from bad motives, but from
thoughtlessness-to to speak lightly of wom-
en-, we recommend three hints as worthy
of consideration


Never use lady's name in an improp-
er time or in a mixed company.


Never make any assertions about her
that you think are not true, or illusions
that you think she herself would blush to
hear.


When you meet men who do not scru-
pie to make use of woman's name in q
reckless and unprincipled manner, shun
them, for they are the very worst mem
bers Of the community-men lost to every
sense of honor, every feeling of humanity.


Many a good woman's character has
been ruined and her heart broken by a
lie, manufactured by some villain and
repeated where it should not have been
and in the presence of those whose little
judgment could not deter them from cir
culating the foul and Dragging report.
A SANDER is soon propagated, and the
smallest thing derogatory to woman's
character will fly on the wings of the
wind and magnify as it circulates, until
its monstrous weight crushes the poor
unfortunate victim.


Respect the name Of woman, for your
mother and sisters are women, and as
you would have their fair name unfair
nished and their lives unembittered by
the slanderer's biting tongue, heed the i'll
that your own words may bring upon the
mother, the sister, or the wife of some
fellow creature.
Year: 1873

A VALUABLE INVENTION NOT PAT
ENTED.-The cheapest, most simple, and
practical fire alarm for ordinary house
hold purposes in a small weight of lead
or iron made to adhere to the ceiling of
each room with a piece of wax. When
the temperature becomes elevated above
that of the ordinary atmosphere, the wax
will lose its adhesiveness and allow the
weight to drop. The weight can be at
tached by wire to all the bells in the
house, or to sound any alarm extempo-
rized for the purpose. The weights
should be kept away from stove-pipes,
and out of the sun, and one should be
placed in each room and hallway. They
will not fail to give the alarm when
there is an excessive increase of tempera-
ture, and no house should be without
them. This alarm is not patented, and
is free to be used by all without money
and without price.
Year: 1873

A WRITER in an exchange delivers
Sunday School addresses, of which the
following is an example: You boys
ought to be kind to your little sisters,
/ once knew bad boy who struck his
little sister over the eye. Although she
did not fade and die in the Summer time
when the June roses were blowing, with
the sweet words of forgiveness on her
pallid lips, she rose up and hit him over
the head with rolling-pin, SO that he
couldn't go to Sunday School for more
than month, on account of not being
able to put his best hat on"
Year: 1873

ONE trouble with the schools of Kan
sas is that the classes have hardly been
organized before fellow walks in with a
justice, marriage takes place and the
sehoolma'am goes a-kiting.
Year: 1873

A NEWARK man said that Noah's ark
was one thousand feet long. Chambers
said it was only FIVE hundred, and would
not allow another inch even after he had
been fatally stabbed in the back.
Year: 1873

Almost every one has a different
remedy for this most common but none
the less distressing complaint. And the
truth is, that very few of them have any
effect at all, while some OF them only
aggravate the case. The best and safest
way for the sufferer is to let himself
alone till the gastric or nervous de-
rangements which haveproduced ithave
subsided, when sleep generally comes
to the aid of exhausted nature, and per-
fects the cure. The British Medical
Journal, in treating of this subject, says
the only remedies which are of any avail
are those which act on the nervous sys-
TEN, such as hot tea and coffee, or, after
the most violent symptoms have passed
off, little wine or ammonia. The
bromide or potassium is also highly
recommended after the nausea subsidies.
While this exists, it is of no avail. The
writer also thinks that tea and coffee
used in excess constantly, although they
may relieve headache, may also pre-
dispose to the difficulty; and he cites
instances of several patients, who, BY
giving up the use of those beverages,
became cured of chronic or frequent
headaches"
Year: 1873

The primitive marriage ceremony of
the Puget Sound Indians was very sim
pie, the giving over to the father or
friends of the girl, by the bridegroom,
so much blanket, or gun, or ammuni-
ton, and the taking and carrying away
so much wife. Young wen usually mar
ried the older women, and young girls
the older men, because, as they said, if
young people marry among themselves,
both are piltons, fools, and do not
know how to care properly for each
other but if young man marries a
mature woman, she can cook for him
and see that he does not drink up Mt
once all of the whiskey; while the mid
die aged husband with a girl bride can
make the lodge tight and wrap her up
we'll in the blankets, and provide her
delicate appetite with "hyu-muck-a-
muck" plenty to eat. Contact with the
whites has broken up much of this SIM
plicity. Parties now make their own
bargains, where they are made at all,
which in the vicinity of towns is not
often, without much regard for anything
but chink-a-min and muck-a-muck, mon
ey and food. And if civilization adds
something sometimes to the religious
ness of the ceremony, it is to be feared
it has taken away great deal more from
its sanctity, says q correspondent OF the
Christian ReQister.
Year: 1873

A flag is but yard or two OF bunting


when it is looked at rs matter OF fact


but the men who have been willing Il


die for IL all these hundreds OF years


have seen in it something moro thar


coarse cloth, certainly. A popular


English lecturer, not many years ago


told some anecdotes strongly illustra'


tive of the universal prevalence Of this


poetic feeling among the plainest OF


people. We can only repeat two OF


them from memory. An English regi.


ment in India had had its colors moth


ing but a square yard Of bunting, OF
course) taken away from II for some
act Of insubordination. Every man had
his rations and pay as usual, and no
physical punishment OF any sort was
added to the ideal one mentioned. Yet
every man in that regiment groaned
and suffered under the chastisement.
Coarse, illiterate, brutal fellows, per-
haps, they we're. Why should any of
them mind the taking away Of regi.
mental flag Common-sense would
laugh at such q punishment for such
men. But the commander knew what
he was about. A fort was to be storm
ed at the top of long hill The enter
prise was peculiarly perilous one, and
one that required something more than
ordinary courage and ordinary persist
ence. The commanding officer rode
down the line to the position occupied
by the disgraced regiment. Men !"
he cried, your colors are at the top of
the hill--charge !" And charge they
did, that single regiment, up the long,
cannon.swept hill, through the abattis,
over the ramparts, into the fort at last,
n mere handful of them left to receive
the flag again, for which more than two
thirds Of the brave fellows had gladly
given their lives ! There was no COM
nonsense in the matter, else the fort
never could have been taken at all.
The poetry in the souls Of those rough
soldiers overbore all that, and who
shall say that the poetic was not the
worthier and more manly view?


Some of the warlike tribes in India,
when enc OF their men falls in battle
after showing extraordinary courage,
decorate his wrists with red silk
thread if he be private, narrow rib
bon if he be an officer, and broader
one as the rank of the dead rises. Not
many win this posthumous honor at
all, and there is no mourning for those
whose death is thus repaid. An Eng
lish army marching upon Lucknow
came upon strong hill-fort which it
was necessary to reduce. A sergeant
and seven men constituted the advance
guard on the march, and when the close
of the fort was discovered,
the buglers with the main body sounded
the recall as an order for the sergeant
to withdraw his guard and join his regi
ment. The little squad mistook tn.
bugle sound. and thought it was an
order to charge. Obeying it as such,
they went to their certain death on the
of the fort. The army coming
up stormed the place, and after some
hours of desperate fighting they took
it. They found there the dead bodies
of the sergeant and all his men, and
around each ,Cr'ist Uas the broad red
ribbon, a poetic tribute from the Sepoys
to the heroism of their dead enemies.
Year: 1873




The calendar or cases for the Marine Court pre-
sents for the Judges all the business they can pos
sibly get through with during the May Term. Parts
!, and opened yesterday, with Chief Justice
Shea and Judges Joachimsen and Gross holding
Court in the order given above. Judge Howland
holds Special Term, thus alternating with the
Judges who sat during the April term. There was
the usual rush OF lawyers and their clients that
marks the openings OF the various terms or this
Court, and which indeed presents little dminuti0n
till the last day for the calling OF case. The only
drawback TO perhaps more complete disposal or
the ever increasing business OF the Marine Court
is perhaps TO be found in the lamentable lack Of
Court accommodation. The work OF the Judges
has Kept more than pace with the extended
jurisdiction which the Legislature has from time
to time given to the Court, but no corresponding
facilities nave followed TO carry out these measures
OF the Legislature. There is no lack of disposition
however, on the art of the Judges, who, in their
miserable quar- cers, conscentously and cheerfully
as may be work through the Summer and Winter
months and suffer equally, II not In like de-
gree, from heat and cold through the want OF the
accommodations referred to.
Year: 1873

Timely Warming TO Jurors.
Yesterday being the first day Of the Trial Term OF
the Marine Court for the month OF May, the Clerk
OF the Court called the jury panel, and, several
jurors not having answered to their names, Judge
they may fail to answer.
Year: 1873

From the Greeneville Sentinel and Reporter.


In the space of about as many months
we have received three several copies Of
petition to the General Assembly asking
for the republication of the Tennessee re-
ports prior TO the year 1861.


Now, we desire to Ssy emphatically that
we are adverse to any such proposition. 1t
may be diff ;Ult to get these reports; many
may be out of print, and the bar of the
State but meagerly supplied, yet we cannot
see upon what grounds of right this demand
is made upon the Legislature. Must the
State 60 into contracting business for the
publication of books for the benefit of the
legal fraternity of the State? Is the propo-
sition anything more or less than an at
tempt to make the State furnish the capital
for an immense book Job, which is to bene-
f. private individuals, who are
too stipgy to engage in the
work themselves? These reports
were printed in regular order and furnish
ed by the State TO all parties legally enti-
tied thereto, to become part of the official
records of the Courts and Attorneys Gener-
al offices. If those books are missing the
State is not responsible for their replace
ment.


Lawyers should be permitted. to buy
such books as they require at will, and are
so permitted. If book needed by them
cannot be had, is the State in duty bound
10 provide for its publication for their ac-
commodation? Certainly not.


The State is in no condition to embark
in such sn undertaking at this time, even
If it were expedient. Witness the wrest-
lings of our Legislature with the giant OF
our finances. Who can safely predict the
future of the State credit? Where are we
to get funds to pay the interest due upon
our bonds; to meet the daily expenses OF
the Government, always heavy; and to in
augurate a public school system, now
sheer necessity? Shall we start another
drain to the treasury in the specious guise
Of this book job? We say, no!
Year: 1873

The Case Before the Supreme Court


Protest Of Senator Coulter Against


Legislative Action I'm the Premises.


The following is the protest of Mr.. ]. n.
Coulter, entered on Senate Journal OF Fri
day, against the passage Of Senate joint res
olution S5, requesting the postponement Of
a cause before the Supreme Court:


1. The powers of the Government are
divided into three distinct cardinal depart
ments-the Legislative, the Executive, and
the Judicial. The legitimate constitutional
business of the Legislature is to make laws;
that of the Judicial department is to con-
strue and enforce them-to decide such
cases as may be brought before the court
according to law, and this department eau
not, without violation Of the Constitution,
be in any degree under the control, direc.
ton or advice of the Legislature. Within
the spere of its action, the Legislative de-
partment can not intrude. Each in its
sphere is wholly independent OF the other.
The contrary doctrine is utterly subversive
of the fundamental principles Of our gov
ernment.


AS well might the Judge, clad in the Ger
mine robe" descend from the sacred forum
of that high court and dictate the character
of our enactments. The resolution re-
quests the Court 10 defer its decision and
suspend its action, In cause pending be-
fore il, that the Legislature may examine
into the merits of the case, or the ques-
tiops involved. This is not the province OF
the Legislature. 1t is wholly under the
jurisdiction of the Court, which is bound TO
Year: 1873

decide it according TO the law; nor can the
Court, without subseryiency that would do
grade 1t, shrink or evade the performance
Of this duty.


Justice shall be administered without
sale, denial or delay, Is the mandate Of the
Constitution. How can the Court delay
the hearing Of q case before 1t, at the request
OF the Legislature, without a violation Of
their constitutional oaths?


The precedent is most dangerous. II
the Legisga.ure may ask delay, why notas
well ask that It shall not be heard at all?
The principle on which it may ask delay
for one term or less, would authorize the
asking for delay for years or for all tims to
come. When the State happens to be .
party to suit in court, she stands precisely
on the same footing as any other suitor,
subject to the law Of the land and the rules
of the court. She has her constitutional
officer, who represents her interests, snd
who Is responsible for his acts He alone
or some legally constituted authority can
be heard In the court, to represent the IN
terests Of the state. No Legislative Com
mittee nor even the whole body, has the
right to make single motion In the court.
The Legislature may make, but cannot ad-
minister the laws. 1t may BY law
direct its proper officer what
he shall do, but the courts cannot be 30
directed, or even by request, conform 70 the
viii Of the Legislature, without degrading
their dignity and violating their duty, and
the Legislature by such an act, oversteps
the limit Of its sphere, and invades toe
sphere of a coordinate branch Of the gov
eminent.


In this, as in ali cases, there is sn ad-
verse party interested, and what right has
the Legislature to say that one party shall
be favored as against the other? Each Is
equal in right to be heard before the law,
and the court must lmpartially declare their
rights under the law.


II the Legislature may dictate delay, Il
may as equally direct the decision.


The resolution in spirit leads TO servile
subordination Of the high prerogatives Of
the court, to the coprice Of the Legislature,
and is subyersive Of the spirit Of the Con-
stitution.


The Supreme Court in view Of It's high
functions, cannot be trammelled In It's ac-
ton, even were the resolution put in the
stronger form of an enactment; because the
imperative duty of the court would be, TO
declare such an act unconstitutional and
void. Then why stultify ourselves and in
suit the Supreme Court by such q resolu-
ton? It's admitted we have the right, and
doubtless it might be well enough to re
quest the States counsel, to procure such
delay, If possible, but certainly imprudent
to tamper with the courts.


But the State being now no party TO the
suit, once dismissed out Of it, on the pru-
dent motion of her attorney, why seek en-
tanglement Herewith, and 6e again con-
cerned therein? For these reasons voted
against the resolution, and protest agxinst
its passage.
Year: 1873

The Commercial says il does not think the sale
aries OF CongresSmen too high.


Now, what do you suppose the Gazette prints
this fOFY We never said anything OF the sort, aud
the Gazette ought TO know it Commercial


Look over your files and you will find the GA
EKTTE is not mistaken. Some very indifferent
memories sometimes require TO be frightened up
q little, and the Commercial is one Of that sort


Very well, We will let the past 60 if you will
Only join 10 the demand oh Grant and the rest oi
the salary grabbers" 10 repeal the hill increasing
the Congressional salaries. ....
Year: 1873

SALE OF MARKET REvENUEs.-The recent
change made by orr City Council relative
to the market ordinance took an unusual
number Of spectators and meat vendors to
the Ci:y Hal yesterday to attend the auc-
tyuras Obtained for the month OF June:
Year: 1873

The Apostle of Temperance - A


Schooner Lost with Ali Aboard.


BOSTON, Oct. 10.-The Catholic socie-
ties here are celebrating the birth day Of
Father Mathew by grand parade.


A capsized schooner was picked up to-
day near port and the body of a woman
found lashed TO the wreck, it is supposed all
hands perished.


Eight persons have been arrested in
Boston on the charge Of circulating obscene
literature and all but one have been locked
up in default of bail.


A WOODWARD avenue business man
found counterfeit fifty-cent scrip among
bis currency the other day, and he put it in
his vest and that afternoon gave it to lit
tie girl begging on the streets. When he
came back from tea he found the same
piece of scrip in the drawer again, and,
questioning the clerk, he learned that a lit
tie girl had brought it in, bought sti,k of
gum and gone away with forty-nine cents
in good money. That bank has suspended
on currency payments TO beggars.-Detroit
Free Press.