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Year: 1875

A timber merchant in New Orleans has
on exhibition a cypress board from Ala
bama, which is 13 feet long, SO! inches
wide and 2 inches thick, and is without
knot or split. This is probably the largest
piece Of timber ever seen in any market
outside of California. The companion to
this plank is reserved for our Centennial
Exhibition. The tree from which it was
feet in diameter
Year: 1875

When it takes SO little to make Detroit
boy happy, no one could have the heart to
refuse his requests. A Porter street boy
yesterday secured two boards and an old
bedquilt, set up grocery in the back
yard and stocked it with an apple, four po-
tatoes. a whistle, two steel pens and an
ancient horse -radish crater, and he sat on an
ash box all the afternoon and finally closed
a complaint.
Year: 1875

l. Any who takes paper regularly from the Pcss
Office whether directed to his or ansher's or
whether he has subscribed nos responsible for the
payment.


pay all arreaages the publisher will continue sand
IL until payment is made and collect the whole amount
whether tho paper is taken from the Office or not.


s. The courts have decided that refeing to take the
ing and leaving s aeealisd for pfia aefa evidence
of intentional fraud


Papers ordered to any address be changed to anof
er address at the option Of the subscriber ga 81


Remitances by draft check, money order registered
letter. may be sent at risk. All Postmastees
quired to register letters application.
Year: 1875

From the Detroit Free Press.


When Detroiter makes up his mind to
do a mean thing he gets aboard crowd
ed street car and waits till it stops on a
switch and everything is quiet, and then
sings out:


II thank heaven that I haven't red
noser'


The passengers will look at each other
right and left, and the foundation is laid
for an all-day's feeling of utter desolation.
Year: 1875

They talk about General Butler being
shelved and all that, but those who calcu-
late upon such a thing count without their
hosts. If he does not mean to be heard
from before the close of this century then
what does this iCem in the New York
World mean? General Butler is having
mounted at Chcopee sword four feet tlong,
of finest Toledo temper, the hilt of which
will cost $1,000" The cost of the hllt
would suggest that the General has an idea
of entering the army of the Khedive.
Year: 1875

In the proceedings Of the House OF
Delegates published yesterday, it will be
seen that resolution Was adopted to the
effect that so much of the Governor
message as relates to the Centennial, be
referred to spccisl committee Of five
with recommendation that they report
bill appropriating u sufficient amount
to accomplish the purpose therein inil-
Gated.


This has the right sound in it, and
shows that the members are not unmind.
ful Of the necessity of the States being
not only represented, but well and cred
itaDly represented, at the grand United
States Exhibition next year, The advsn
tages which will accrue to the State arc
So paipabe and immense, and have been
50 frequently set forth in our columns,
that 1t is not worth while to again mention
them in full. Suffice it on this head to
saw, that the minerals, timber and agrlcul
tural resources of the State are worth to-
her untold sums of wealth, for of her 81
counties about - contain coal,
and all contain more or less OF ore
Of different kinds, and the great OBJ
stacle to the proper development Of this
wealth lies in the fact that it is 50 little
known. This occasion affords an op-
portunity for advertising these things to
the world, such as rarely ever occurs,
and which will certainly not occur
again in the present generation. In
short, the great and obvious advantages
which such State exhibit will en-
sure, makes aid from the Legislature
almost All imperative necessity, and 1t
will. doubtless, be granted.


But the next question Is concerning
the amount of such appropriation. To
make an estimate of what will be required
10 make the State exhibition at Philadel-
phia what it should be, it is necessary
to understand what the Centennial man.
ayers for West Virginia propose to do.


Its their intention first, to search out and
collect specimens Of all the different min
era, and ores Of the State Of her timber;
of her farm productions, and, in fact, OF
everything upon which she does or has
reason 10 RELY upon for future prosperity.
Already the impetus which has been
given TO this movement, has been the
means of bringing to notice some of the
finest specimens Of all these different ar
;iclcs which can be found anywhere in
the world Now AL these things have to be
collected. classified, boxed up, and sent
on to Philadelphia, where they have 10 be
received, unpacked and placed in position
to attract attention, and then when the
exhibition j over, they will have to be
repackcd and reshippcd to this State,
And here We would remark,
in passing, that it is expected
sufficient collection, especially
Of minerals, &c, will be made to make
two interesting and ample sub-collections.
These may be deposited, one in the Capt.
tol and the other at the State University
at Morgantown, or at any other two
places the State may prefer. They will
not only be Of general interest; but of
very great value in many ways to the
State in future.


All the work above alluded to is apso-
lutely necessary, and will of course in.
Year: 1875

other. But we will say further, that the
statement n ade by the little sheet, that
we would not publish the evidence EN-
bodied in the majority report, is proven
equally as true as are its other assertions
by the appearance of that report in our
columns this morning. And we desire to
ask why ii did not publish yesterday the
minority report as promptly as 1t did
that of the majority the day before?
To have done so, however, would have
been inconsistent with the position OF the
Radical press, as heretofore taken, which
is simply to give one side of this question,
Year: 1875

The Mayor of New Orleans announ'
COS to the Common Council that the
CITY cannot pay both the necessary
expenses of its government and tho
interest on its debt, and the former
must have the preference.
Year: 1875

It il not necessary at this time to 60 into any e1pla-
nation why Elmwood col1srs have becone such favor
ties. Those who hare used them have found them so
pleasant to that they have largaiy helped the
spread By their recommendation
Year: 1875

the price will be raised to a200 per lot Mr.
Brown will spend the winter in the South, and
re ndyise all who intand TO b.co1ne suburban
residents to be sure and give him q call before
he goes.
Year: 1875

The discharge of the jury in the case of
Tilton VS.. Beecher without verdict is
result prophesied by many in this section
from the commencement of the trial. and
at last the entire country fell into the belief
that such would be the case. The mofal
effect of this disagreement cannot amount
to much one way or the other, for the COM
munity have taken sides, and their opinions
would not have been changed in the slight
est degree by anything the jury might
have determined As it stands, Mr.. Tilton
is no worse of, and Mr.. Beecher is without
legal record in his favor. Judicious per-
sons will never cease to regret the proceed
ings, for they have soNn the seeds of
harm, which will permeate many a house
hold and many a pulpit. There is one
figure in the trial which looms up into
splendid proportions-that of the presiding
Judge. His bearing throughout the pro-
tracted trial has been one of thorough dig
nifty and great power. His decisions have
been made in prudence, wisdom and JUS
tice, and they have carried with them the
weight and authority of law, and the an
nails of jurisprudence, either in this coun-
try or in England, do not afford an exhibi-
ton of greater fairness, perspicacity and
accurate learning than that afforded by
Judge Nelson's charge to the jury. So
perfect, so just, so even was it in all its
proportions that it gave supreme satisfac-,
ton to both sides. When the fierce and
terrific nature of the contest is considered
this fact becomes all the more remarkable.
His conduct of the trial has given him q
lofty position among the judges of the
land, and hereafter all his utterances from
the bench will be read with profound re-
spect. Previous to tie trial his reputation
was local one now it is the pride of our
country and worldwide in celebrity.
When one proves the possession of a judg-
nent SO clear, ready and powerful, and so
invariably unbiased, it is in proof of the
possession of virtue that is noble, q heart
that is generous, and an intellect that is a
power. Ermine' as beautiful and spotless
ss Judge Nelson's commands admiration,
and confers honor upon the arena of legal
strife in America.
Year: 1875

misS'oners for its distribution among
the Eat American painters, sculptors and
inv ,ors, 80 that their whole minds, their
ep energies might be given up to work
fc' he glory and ornamentation Of our
c try, and free schools for the develop
L at Of genius ought to be generously es-
L AZ: led. What would be the resultf
L. iful things are appreciated as such in
al : varying degrees of capacity to COM
pr, md INFINITE beauty. The enlargement
of tie soul, the power to appreciate, comes
from education. Then the higher aud
more general the education of nation the
more sublime will be its veneration for the
beautiful, and more marked will be the
favor of Heaven in return. The better
liberty is understood, the more art and
science are cultivated, the more profound
and glowing will be the enthusiasm Of
patriotism and the quicker it will bound to
the defense of what is held dear. In view
of these thoughts how grand, how power
full and how full of lofty meaning is the
motto, "God and our Country"
Year: 1875

A large proportion of all the public as
semblages which have gathered for the
past ten days in this country, and have
been chronicled in the newspapers, are
those which related to schools. If we
Judge our educational system by the last
results it exhibits, by the final creatures it
makes when it finishes its man, opens
the school door, ushers him forth, saying,
the world is before you, one might well
suppose the end of what is called education
was to launch annually upon the country
as many young men with the title of law
yers, physicians, and with that somewhat
vague term graduates, as possible. No one
believes that in any legitimate sense one
tenth of these young men are either doc
tors, lawyers, or scholars; that they can
manage intricate or even plain cases at
law; can master the subtle symptoms that
denote the hidden causes in disease, or do
anything better for the world of letters
than that they have just done in their past
graduate addresses. Some have studied
hard for their medals and their sheepskins,
others have them without study; but all
of them when they stand face to face with
the world, nosegay in hand, saying, ''here
we are, you want us, will find that the
world, like the old sphynx that they
have read of in their classics, will ask
them questions too hard for them. Young
men, who among you has learned how the
pest Of grasshoppers may be extermina-
tedH With your subtle analysis of phil
osophy can you tell US whether Beecher
is guilty or innocentf


With your political economy, can you
give us sure guide to the road that will
lead US out of hard times This is what
the world wants to know. Can you answer
them with such solidity and clearness that
your words will carry conviction and
silence doubtf Then, Messrs. Graduates,
you stand ''plucked" at your first examina-
ton. But there is no room for discourage
ment. You are wanted in the field, in the
workshop, on the ship, in the mine-all
over the Union there is need of you.
Your attainments will stand you in good
stead if you determine to work But if you
rely on your college given honors for sup
port, you rest your life prospects upon a
basis as unsupportable as soap bubble. If
you determine to win in the race of life by
putting forth all the efforts and doing all
the work you would be ready to do had
you not been q graduate, and which you
suppose your young neighbor will have to
do because he has no diploma, you may
look for success, and your education will
be help, but now that you have gotten
away from your Alma Mater, remember
the world needs workers, not takers.
Year: 1875

IT APPEARS somewhat strange that
nearly all those who, like the Vice Presi-
dent, are running about the country loose
In the endeavor TO find ou. the first
choice of leading Republicans for the
next Presidency, are apologists for the
shortcomings of the Republican party.
They have disguised themselves in the re-
form dress, and advertise themselves as In
dependents They talk about their old
party as If it had been indicted by the peo-
pie, and instead of defending it on the in
dictment, hasten TO put in a ''plea of
guilty. on its behalf. This is the same
line of conduct pursued by Colfax and Will
son. when accused of having owned stock
in the Credit Mobilier of the Union Pacific
railway. They acted as if guilty, and has
tened to 5Dver up their tracks instead Of
acknowledging that they had owned the
stock or interest, and had ''unloaded"
when they suspected that duty would call
them 10 vote or act on their own interests.
To all such Reformers we say "begin at
home. Reform yourselves. if you please,
but do not plead guilty for the party which
ia every State boldly defends its record. "
Year: 1875

THE infamous audacity with which the
Loader-Price scheme to influence both the
public and jury by false revelations was
concocted. compares favorably with the i'm
becility exhibited in the attempt to execute
the same. Unless the perjurers, and those
instrumental in suborning them, are pun
ished with all the rigor of the law, justice
will soon be begging for recognition in
Brooklyn, and what little true inwardness
there is left in the City Of Churches will
feel like cat in strange attic.
Year: 1875

THE QUESTION of the validity of mar
riage without the interposition of civil or
ecclesiastical functlonary has recently been
solved by an Indiana judge. There seems
to be nothing in the written or unwritten
law of the land, in custom or immemorial
usage that can prevent marriage when
performed In the presence Of competent
witnesses, with the simple assertion, 81
will love, respect and obey" from being
valid. In fact marriage of this nature is
so thoroughly legitimate that nothing but
death or the decree of competent court
can dissolve it.
Year: 1875

THE PRESIDENT OF MEXICO has at last
obtained possession of the desperate and
cattle thief of the border. Cortlns is in q
fair way to be properly dealt with. The
citizens about Matamoras desire to rescue
him from the hands of the soldiers, but as
the latter have orders to shoot their pris.
oner in case of such an attempt it is not
likely that it will be made. 1t is to be
hoped that order will be preserved and that
Cortina will be punished as he deserves.
Year: 1875

quarters we also take occasion to express
our qualification at the effort of the pro-
prietors to bring the cost of their journal
within the means of the humber classes Of
tue population of New York.
Year: 1875

LIGHTNING is no respecter of persons.
On the Goth of June it shuffied the mortal
coil from tract distributor in New Jersey,
and on the succeeding morning it put out
the light of a burglar with a pocket full of
professional tools.
Year: 1875

In considering the revolt of the Herzego-
vina the. ambition of Servia must be taken
into account. The Serbs are doubtless led to
sympathize with their brethren of the Bosni-
an dependency by pity for their misfortunes
and by common hatred of the Turk. But
whether this sympathy alone would lead
them to assist the insurgents by money and
arms and men is question. The pity of
one people for another is much more apt to
take the form of prayers than of armed inter-
vention. But for fifty years the Serbs have
cherished the project of establishing great
Scavic principality along the Danube, en-
bracing Roumania and Bosnia. They are
restless and ambitious people, proud of their
blood and history, and passionately intent
upon raising themselves to the position of an
independent nationality. They hold them
selves to be the heirs of that great empire
which once stretched from the Euxine to the
Adriatic, and they cherish the hope of recov-
ering their imperial position. They are
homogeneous population, speaking one Ian
guage, holding one faith, glorying in COM
mon tradition of independence, ruled over by
prince of their own race. Their only rival
as the nucleus of Sclavonic nationality is
Roumania. But Roumania is made up of two
but lately constituted, is governed by foreign
ruler, and is the creation of European diplo-
macy. The Serbs wrung their independence
from Turkey nearly halfa-century ago, have
intimate relations with the Sclaves of the Ad-
riatlc, and inherit the great past Of the old
Bulgarian empire.


The Servian ruler is apparently averse to
war, and is under engagements to the Euro
ropean powers. But the Servian people feel
under no obligations, are bound by no pledges
and are animated by passionate desire to
establish Seryian ascendency in the region
between Hungary and the Black Sea. They
know little of and care less for diplomatic
engagements. If their prince will not lead
them they will put him aside and choose an
other to the seat of Stephen Dushan. Two
powerful obstacles they have to meet, for the
power of Turkey cannot be counted on as
serious obstruction. Russia desires to in
corporate Roumania into her vast dominions,
and will not look with complacency upon the
establishment of great independent Scla-
vonic state. Austria fears the influence Of
Servian success upon her Sclaves of the
Adriatic and the Danube. Neither of these
powers will probably dare to espouse with
arms the cause of the Turk against the
Christian. But all that wheedling and
opI 81 4
ton can do will be done. The great obstacle
to the amelioration of Servia and to the liberia
ton of Bosnia and the Herzegovina is to be
found in the astute diplomacy of Austria and
Russia,
Year: 1875

MR.. GLADSTONE, in an address at the lay
ing of the foundation stone of the new Kings
School at Chester, England, said that this
was time in which it was necessary for al |
who were connected with the commercial and
trading classes of the country to bestir them
selves If they wished to maintain their posi-
ton, as popular education was rapidly ex-
tending. and the result would be to bring out
Of the laboring community considerable
number who would be formidable competitors
to those of the middle class. So far as he
could see, the competition of manual laborers
among themselves was becoming lighter,
while the competition ofmental laborers was
becoming, and would become, sharper and
sharper
Year: 1875

EVERY regular attache Of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate countersigned by Stanley t.
Pullen, Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon us by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent our
Year: 1875

IT seems that after all the Orleans princes
are not going to accept the French Republic
If they can help it. Their opposition is not
calculated to seriously injure the republic nor
to greatly benefit themselves.
Year: 1875

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer 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 poem on our fourth page, from the
pen Of the Rev. DR.. Hill, is of interest at any
time. The last stanza is of particular in
terest now in view of the season and of the
mo untain excursions over the Ogdensburg.
Year: 1875

A New York letter tells the following


Wen call him Henry, as that is pop
ular name. He came down from Troy
last week in company with an elderly
woman and her daughter. The girl was
the dulcinea OF the hero Henry and their
purpose was to get married. The first
two days they passed getting together q
wedding outfit; lots of nice underwear
walking suits, indoor costumes and Il
series of bonnets were bought and sent tc
the East side hotel whore the trio stopped
Sunday was to be the bridal day, and or
Saturday night Henry went off to invite
some friends to see the fun. During the
time they had been in the hotel, n spruce
young clerk had paid divers under hand
attentions to the Trojan damsel, and on
this Saturday evening he found the bride
elect in the parlor, and had long con-
versation with her. What he sand, and
how he said it will never be known. But
when Henry came back at nine o'clock
the obliging clerk met him with the in
formation that Dulcinea and hcr mother
had gone to the Gilmore garden concert,
and he was to go right up there and find
them.


The obedient man jumped into car,
and headed for Twenty seventh street
Meanwhile every newly-bought article
was speedily packed into trunks by the
bride elect during that absence, and the
hotel clerk and the lady went off on the
eleven o'clock boat for New Haven. The
returning lover woke the echoes and
reused the hotel when he received note
at the desk, in which the taithless girl
advised him to renew an engagement
with some previous flame who resides on
Mount Ida in the classic city Of Troy
BECAUSE" said she, - never knew
what love was till | met Mr.-, and
we have gone together"


There was tearing of hair and gnashinp
of teeth when the prospective mother-in-
law was aroused and told the news.


Dulcinea had been in and out during
the not evening, but had gone to bed at
ten, SO she supposed. She had consider
ately brought mamma a seductive bran
dy punch, in which bunch of mint was
not the only green thing after ma got her
nose in.


The two deserted creatures sat and la
mented together, and the buxom mother
was the irst to suggest comfort. "Cinny
was young, inexperienced thing; girls
are no good, anyway" Henry began to
think they were not. mother -in-law
Mrs. M-had not been an unpleasant
prospect, and the upshot Of it was that
Sunday morning at twelve o'clock there
was a wedding, but the bride was Mrs.
-, and not Miss.
Year: 1875

He SPOILED THE STORY Recently n
young lady fell into the the river Cairnc,
in Wits, England, and would have been
drowned but for her heroic rescue by n
young man who swan with his fair charge
to the bank, amid the hearty cheers of
the lookers-on. The young couple, very
little the wolse for their recent ducking,
were escorted by an admiring crowd to
the nearest hotel, where the hero was re-


warded by being entertained at party
in honor OF the happy termination Of what
might have been II very lamentable oc-
currence. Complimentary speeches and
high encomums were shovered upon the
" lion of the evening"" But the greatest
honor of all was in store for him. The
happy father in the presence of the blush
ing maiden, offered him her hand and
$500 This unlocked for and spontane-
Gus act of generosity evoked general sat
iStaction and the guests were considerably
disappointed when the gallant rcscuer,
after thanking the enthusiastic parent for
his kind offer, announced that although
he should be glad to meet Miss again
as II friend, he certainly could not accept
her hand. What actuated him in this
decision does not appear to be known.
Most likely he was engaged already.
Year: 1875

The Leavenworth belle is frequently
forced to take whisky in self defense. At
a ball given there recently, as a young
man was gathering her in for a round
dance. her nose went up like the leaf of
sensitive plant, and jerking herself loose
from him, she exc claimed: "John, amt
you got no more of them cardemon seeds?
Because if you amt I'll have 10 have an
other drink or change my partner"
Year: 1875

The Democratic jig is up. Our friends OF
the opposition have enjoyed themselves
greatly for year now, and were fortunate in
having their laugh before they we're tossed
over the fence. Twelve months are long
time to be happy, and the Democrats ought
not to complain.
Year: 1875

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


we cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used,