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Year: 1872

The last tale of mans unfaithfulness
to man, comes from Selma, Alabama.
On the LIST of January, 1871, a syndicate
of young men was formed, one of whom,
the most trustworthy of them all, was
appointed treasurer: They then signed
a temperance pledge and agreed to de
posit on the firstday of each month SIC
each, to be divided at the end of the
year among those members who re.
mained faithful to their obligation
One by one they tainted and fell, until
at the expiration of the specified time
there was only one who had not yielded
to the liquid temptation. He repaired
at the hour of noon on New Years
day to the appointed place o1
rendezvous, to receive the.$1, 44O which
he had SO nobly earned. But the other
eleven were not there, so, full of fiery
thirst, he fastened to q neighborinp
saloon to take his first nip for twelve
month. He had partially swallowed il
when ten of his colleagues entered, and
revealed to him the horrifying fact that
his watch was twenty minutes too fast.
He, too, had fallen, ana the vision of q
we'll filled pocketbook vanished. The
eleven then repaired to the Office of the
treasurer, only to learn that he had lost
all the money playing .draw-poker with
one of the church trustees. An effor,
is now being made to keep the SORROW


full story out of the newspapers.-zros
Times.
Year: 1872




Saturday afternoon boy, about II
years of age, while crawling along the
leads of house on Third street, near
Bryant, for the purpose of clearing the
obstructions in the water. pipe, slipped
and rolled over the edge of the roof.
In his desperate efforts to save himself
he succeeded in grasping the raised
edging of wood and tin that bofdered
the roof, and so hung, suspended by
his hands, forty feet above the street,
utterly unable to regain his footing.
The accident was witnessed by a woman
on the opposite sidewalk ); and her
screams brought at once to her side
three men who saw, with horror and
amazement, the predicament of the
poor boy, who, without a cry or strug-
gle, was hanging over certain death,
with only the frail grip of his weak
hands. They ran across the street into
the house and up stairs toward the at
tic, when, as they reached the second
story, sudden thought struck the last
man, and he let Ills companion go up
without him. -.


Underneath where the boy was hang
ing is. small, old-fashioned porch,
which, projects out about three feet
from under the centre-window of the
second story, ana ont of this window
the woman ON the opposite side of the
street, and those with her, saw man
step on the porch, and look up. As he
stood he was Immediately under the
boy, but too close to- the house for his
apparent purpose, the boy hanging
just over the railing he stepped over
the latter, and with his feet resting on
the edge of the platform of the porch,
and one hand grasping al iron support,
he waited. In the mean time, the other
two men had reached the roof and were
descending, when they discovered the
impossibility of reaching the boy in
safety, and one of them called for a
rope.


Before any one could move to the aid
of the exhausted boy, he with shrill
cry let go his hold and fell. As he ap-
preached the man on the porch the lat
ter was seen to reach out his free arm
under him, and then the boy was
grasped by him. A cry of horror went
up from the crowd as the man was seen
to stagger and swing around the end of
the porch with his load; but his hard
held it's grip on the iron and mo-
ment afterward he Carried the boy
through the window and turned him
over to his mother, who had only just
realized that something was wrong.
The name of the man whose presence
of mind enabled him to save life, and
whose courage made him forget the risk
of his own, is Cambel Williams.
Year: 1872

An old farmer went out one day look
ing over his broad acres, with On ax on
his shoulders and small dog at his
heels. They espied woodchuck. The
dog gave chase and drove him into a
stone wall, where action Immediately
commenced. The dog would draw the
woodohuck partly out from the wall,
and the woodchuck would take the dog
back. The old farmers sympathy get
ting high on the side of the dog, he
thought he must help him. So, put
ting himself in position, with ax above
the dog, he waited for the attraction of
the woodchuck, when he would cut
him down. So an opportunity offered,
and the old man struck, but the wood
chuck gathered up Mt the same time,
took the dog in far enough to receive
the blow, and the dog was killed Oh the
spot. Forty years after, the old man,
in relating the story, would always add i:
"And that dog don't know to this day
but what the woodchuck killed him.
Year: 1872

! IFrom Governor Palmer.s Great speccl,.]


Our regular friends do not say that


Greeley is dishonest, Indeed, they


say he is too honest to be President.


They say he is soft. They have an
idea that ihan must have a little
infusion Of dishonesty to make him


dt for the Presidency. Laughter.


They have ON idea that Presidential


metal miist be treated somewhat like


silver. If you MEM to convert it


into plate it is too soft, and you must


put In i little base metal to harden
it. So they insist that Greeley is SO
honest that he reqaires a little infu-
sioh of rascality to fit him for the
Presidency. FBr the first time in our
history we have made q mistake in
taking man who is too honest
Ten years after Greeley's birth Cen
eral Grant was born in the State of
Ohio, and in the course of time some
good friend got him a place in the
national institution ut West Point.
ind he was educated at the expense
OF the country. NOW, supposing
that Grant and Greeley had had the
Same opportunities iii life, and had
worked out their own salvation, what
do you think would have been their
respective positions to-day?
Year: 1872

An Unsuccessful effort was made
in the Legislature before the Inst to
give the printing Of the journals of
that body to the l'icayttne; as they
were given to Carte,'s paper in Cam
eron; aid about dozen other papers,
at q cost to the State of over one
hundred thousand dollars. Cover
nor Warn1oth could not veto these
because the work was pAid for out
Of contingent funds that the House
and Senate had exclusive control
over In the session before that a
law was lobbiea through giving the
Bee the right to print all the legal
sales in the parish of Orleans in
French. Governor Wattnoth did
squelch that little swindle; and he
has never been forgiven. Now, with
a less vigilant officer in the executive
department, the Iiccu,ne and Bee
may both win their game. These
are better arguments than the un-
SUPPORTED charges which these pa
peis bring against the Governor
The parties; interested in the unsuc-
cessful specttlations to which we
have adverted, may deny that they
had any interest in, or knowledge Of
the benefits that the Legislature at
tempted to heap upon them, but as
they credit nobody else for honesty
Of expression, they. cannot complain
if the public MEASURES them by their
own yard sticks.--N. o. Republican.
Year: 1872

Special TO the Appeal


LITTLE Rock, October 5.-What is
now termed the eClayton-Bourbon move
ment, Hunter for Governor, is de-
nounced on the streets as the most COM
plete failure known in the political his
tory of the country. No State in the
Union, it is said, has ever known such
a fiasco. l am told that Indignation
meetings are being held everywhere
throughout the State, and that the whole
ticket will be condemned. It is charaea
terized as a Ministerial trick and a
Bourbon dodge until one scarce knows
what to believe in regard to it. The
Democratic State Central Committee
denounce it, and call upon the people to
stick to their pledges. There is cOnfu-
sion worse eOnfounded. Many intelli-
gent and most of the reliable leaders of
the Democracy are for Hunter, and
there will be some tight skirmishing be-
fore election day. Either Hunter or
Brooks will have to withdraw. Not a
few would prefer that the latter should
get out of the way, but if he continues in
the field they will support him.
heard to-day, among the rumors
that are flying about, that Brooks
was only the creature of Rice, who
wants to go back to the United States
Senate. Hadley, as the APPEAL said a
few days ago, has the key of the situa-
tion, and can do as he pleases. If he
would declare by proclamation the
United States amnesty law supreme
over the State DISTINGUISHING laws,
and let the people register without
taking an oath that may make some of
them amenable to an odious and unjust
law, he would deserve their gratitude,
and might hereafter demand anything
he wanted, even to their votes for Pres
idaOt
Year: 1872

i ABANDON the Book business on account
i OF continued delicate health, and return
grateful thanks 70 my old friends and custom
ers who have patrcnized me for many years
past; asking, also, a liberal continuance Of
your trade for two industrious and energetic
young men, who have been raised in our city
Ny headquarters for the winter viii be at the
old stand, where I shall be pleased to see my
friends and customers.


oc6 JAMES r. .sMITHWICK
Year: 1872

Having enjoyed fine trade from our friends
and the public generally, for the past two
years, and thanking them for the same, we
are now better prepared than ever before to
offer them special inducements for their
further patronage.
Year: 1872

is severely denounced as showing a heartleSs-
ness toward his wife that arOgseS the indigna-
uOn OF decent men. Since the expose she has
closely secluded herself, and, we are told, has
been confined to her bed for several days. she
IS in delicate health. and feels her husband s
disgrace keenly. II she was cognizant of the
plan he had IN view, she is sincerely to be
cOmmiserated, and equally SO If he would
have played on her feelings by the story of his
fictitious and tragic death, which he intended
70 foist on the public by the aid Of hired
tools. The tale VIII ere long be unfolded,
and his
Year: 1872




To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-


! saw to-day an account OF the interview OF one of
your reporters with the superintendent OF Build
ings and desire to say few words in c0ntradic-
tion. The gentleman says If the old department
was in existence 1t never would have allowed the
fire at the Fifth Avenue Hotel to gain such head
way; that the old department put out
more fires on still alarms than the present;
that old Five Engine, in Ann street, put
out so many fires, that the force Of the present
the above, would ask the gentleman II he has ever
noticed the statistics Of this department. The last
annual report shows 1870 fires, OF which 66O were
still alarms and ITO bell alarms with total loss OF
81, ,633, 253 Twelve hundred and ninety-one or
these fires were confined to the buildings In which
as to the numbers in the department. Can the
superintendent name many companies OF the old
department. where more than twelve men per-
formed the actual fire duty? Our statistics
Does The Superintendent remember the fire that
burned through the block from Beekman to Ann
street. up to the back door OF Fives house; the fire
that burned through from Beekman to Ann street
on the block below Fve's house, and buried their
engine in the ruins; the fire from Beekman to Full
ton street. on both sides OF Pearl street, and many
Others in the same locality that unnecessary to
mentiOnS / do not wish to take from the old de-
partment any credit they are entitled to- as mad
the honor Of belonging to the same company with
member seeing him with his clothes wet; but II he
thinks he can cover up his neglect OF allowing the
600 mantraps to be built up in this city by such
statements as these he is mistaken, as he will soon
find out from an outraged public. Let him look to
his Grand Central Undertook, which will probably
be next, and let the Fire Department receive its
Just reward from an unpr eudiced public.


FIREMAN OF THE PRESENT DEPARTMENT.
Year: 1872

Suit Against . street Railroad Conn


pany.


Before Judge Curtis


Some two wears ago Michael NoOnan obtained
the contract for building the sewer in Twenty
third street. terminating at the North River
When the Twenty-third Street Railroad Company
commenced laying its tracks In this vicinity MI
N0Onan, as alleged, prosecuted his work, Dut Win
no regard to the interest or convenience OF the
company, but, on the contrary, placing ms ma
chinery on the newly laid tracks and also throwing
upon them the excavated dirt. To put an end 10
this an injunction was obtained against Mr.
Noonan. This injunction, according to the state
nent Of the railroad people. allowed to stand,
with the understanding that the railroad company
should lay their tracks on the north side OF the
street and give Mr. Noonan unobstructed use and
Dccupation Of hfty feet on the south side Of the
street. But misunderstanding arose, and this
has eliminated In cross suits between the company
and Mr.. N0Onan Out OF this suit grew an applica-
ton for an order to show cause why another in
junction should not be granted This came up for
srgument YESTERDAY before Judge Curtis holding
On the part OF Mr.. Noonan an afidavit was SUBJ
mttted setting forth that he could not 60 on with
Building the sewer without using the whole Of the
street. AS matter OF law it was further claimed
ON his side that, his contract having been made
previous to the obtaining OF their charter by the
Of the street. On this point 1t was further insisted
that sewer was matter of public necessity.
venience, and that on this ground the former was
entitled to the preference. s


Opposing aftdavits were submitted on the part
OF the railroad company In this was set forth the
reason OF allowing the first Injunction to stand as
stated, also and further that the exclusive OF
Ay feet Of the street was all that was required for
After quite . lengthy argument, in which counsel
their respective afidavits, the Judge took the
papers reserving his decision.
Year: 1872

Last evening the new skating park, at the corner
OF Ninth and Grand streets, was formally thrown
open to the public amid the clang and rat-a-plan OF
a brass band The circuit of the pond
was galy decorated with Chinese lanterns
and the pond itself presented an ami
mated appearance. Many OF the skating
celebrities or both sexes-some Of them wearing
masks-appeared on the CLASSY floor for the first
time this season, and sailed around In curves which
might well bafile the Investigations Of mathema
tician. owing to the moderate charge for admis-
si0n-twenty-five cents--there was a fair sprink-
ling OF young democracy among the thr0ng. Racing
an advanced hour.
Year: 1872

suit Against Street Railroad company-The
Pike Will Case Decision by tho Surrogate
What Constitutes a Fraud in Bank
ruptcy-The Second Trial Of


stokes-Terms Of Holding the


Courts in l673-Decisions.
Year: 1872

The following is the opinion OF Fire Marshal
McSpedon regarding the origin and progress of the
fire.


After careful personal examination, and ex-
hausting every available witness that we could
occurred at the Fifth Avenue Hotel on the 10th
inst by which eleven lives lost, have arrived
at the following conclusion First. there is room
occupied by Mary Groves, the room being stuate
inside the servants hall. between the second and
quarters where but one in that part OF the house
used by guests) Room No. sos Is exc feet. The
bed stood on the east side OF the room and an ele
vator In the southwest corner. This elevator ran
from the laundry IN the basement to the top OF
the house, through raoms similar to No. sos. Now,
for the cause OF fire. From some unfortunate acci-
ting into bed-her garments have been set on fre.
They have sm0uldered until after she fell into sleep.
when the flame has burst forth. The draft through
the elevator has carried both fire and smoke from
the room to the top OF the house before the heat
became suficient TO wake the sleeping woman.
When she did awake her face was badly burned,
but her body being covered with the bedcloths was
protected. Her room was then all in names. She ran
from 1t Qeft her door OPEN out into the corridor
into the main building and gave the first
j am fully satisfied that the dormitory occupied
by the servants was filled to sunocation with
smoke and flame carried through the elevator
TO that point. Ny opinion Is that the sufferers
were sufocated before being burned, inasmuch
as the fire had to burn from the hallway through
ne partition par on walls INTO their roais rooms ,S be-
would consume some fifteen or twenty
minutes. The dormitory naturally filed with
filed it backed down and showed Are and smoke
in the stories below. This accounts Tor the fire
being discovered almost simultaneously on all the
were heard almost Immediately on the discovery
OF the Ere below.


A
Year: 1872

ignored the defence OF "emotional insanity and
stultifed themselves by finding verdict OF low
grade of homicide upon the most convincing proof
OF deliberate murder, provided the prisoner was
sane when he shot his wife.
Year: 1872

A Weeks Trial Brought to Close-The Plea Of
Defence Insanity-The Charge to the Jury
A Strange verdict-The Prisoner Found


Guilty Of Granddaughter in the Third


Degree and Remanded for Sentence.
Year: 1872

The Richmond Iva faro kings give
eclat to their grand opening by inviting mem
bers of the Legislature.


"A person looking at some skeletons the
other day, asked a young doctor present
where he got them. He replied, ''We raised
them"


An editor who doesn't know much about
gardening, suggests that for garden making
a cast iron back with hinge in it would be
an improvement on the spinal column now in
use.


"A California editor, in speaking of a mo-
torious ruffian in that State, who is supposed
to have committed more murders than any
other man on the Pacific coast, says: "He
has wonderful talent for bereaying any fam
lily he does not happen to like"


"A man who tried to evade paying his fare
from Boston to Maiden was fined SIS and
costs, amounting to S26 80. The man was
intoxicated, but that plea is getting played
out-he had no business to be intoxicated.
Year: 1872

TRICKING THE TRICKsTERS.-The Kan
sas City Times gives an account of how
couple of sharpers were taken in and done for
on board Pullman car. Their intended vic
tim was merchant from Central New York,
'childlike and simple" apparently. One of
the confidence men, according to the usual
plan of those gentry, had no cash to pay his
fare, but had draft purporting to be drawn
to his order on the Commercial National
Bank" of Buffalo, amounting to S157 40.


1t was delicate thing to ask a stranger,
but would the simple-looking old gentleman
oblge the despairing youth to purchase the
draft? The old gentleman would of course,
but he had only two hundred dollars. Finally
the strangers made up purse OF S2Q3 40 in
cluding the draft for S157 40, for which the
old gentleman gave them his two one hundred
dollar bills, and SO in change, the would-be-
swindlers generously throwing in the forty
cents. Morning came and revealed the fact
that the two rogues had found it convenient
to step off at some casual station during the
night, though the elderly gentleman was
found in his berth all right. The conductor,
fearing from indications that his passenger
had been swindled, approached him and said:
81 am afraid the draft you got last night is
fraud.'' ''Well," was the bland response" l
presume it is, but if it's any bigger fraud
than the two 500 notes We're, why then /
amt S43 in good money ahead-which l
think l am" The elder gentleman then said
that he was not in the habit of passing coun-
terteit money, but he happened to have them
with him, and having taken somewhat eX-
act measure of the two chaps who had at
tempted to swindle him, he had quietly de-
| termined to beat them at their own game.
Year: 1872

The South says: The class to which the
peanut belongs approaches to the pea tribe,
but it differs from both the pea and the bean
by popularity which distinguishes it from
all other known plants, and in which it shows
the instinct of an animal. 1t, in fact, intro
duces its food or pod, if we may so call it, in
to the earth, for the purpose of ripening its
seed. The arachis, or peanut, has thus also
derived the name by which it is known in
Europe of ."earth-nut'' from this singular
operation. The flowers, leaves, and stems
are produced in the ordinary manner we see
in the pea tribe. When the yellow flower has
withered and the seed fertilized, there is moth
ing left but the bare stem which had support
ed it. This stem, in which is the germ of the
future fruit and pod, now grows rapidly in
curved manner, with a tendency to arrive
shortly on the surface of the ground, into
which it penetrates this now naked stem, and
sinks into the earth several inches. 1t is in
this obscure position that the fruit takes its
ripened form, and is either gathered from its
hiding place or left to the future season, when
its time of rising into new existence calls it
from what was thought its unnatural posi-
ton.


The peanut culture has increased so much
in Virginia and the Carolinas that we can
now dispense with importations from the
West coast of Africa. The bulk of Southern
production is derived from narrow strip of
land, extending about forty miles northerly
from Wilmington, N. G.
Year: 1872

PRINCIPAL PAYABLE In GOLD
AT THE END OF THIRTY YEARS
Interest at Seven per Cent


IN GOLD,
payable semi-annually, on the 18th days of Anril
and October at the Company's Office


80 Pine street, New York
Year: 1872

The old Pioneer Barber Of Phoebe. has lust
opened neatly fitted Barber Shop on Main
street, adjoining Higgins Restaurant. He is
fully prepared to do any thing in the tonsorisl
line In the most approved style. au2S.lm
Year: 1872

MEASURING FURNACE HEAT. - An in
strument has been invented in Germany
which will measure with perfect accuracy
the heat of the hottest furnace. 1t is
based on the principle that the resistance
of pure metals to the electric current in
crenses with the temperature in a very
simple ratio A platinum wire of known
resistance is coiled around cylinder of
fine clay, and covered with tube of the
same material. The test is Daniels
battery. of two cells, With p resistance
ineasurer, aud is placed in the furnace
whose Temperature is to be ascertained.
Year: 1872

ALcoCK's Porous PLAsTER's In Water on the
chest they perfect Cure.-They appear to have
peculiar effect upon the nerves allayng irritability
while supplying warmth They seem To accumulate
electricity, and aid the circulation of the blood
through the part whore applied, by which healthy
actions are induced


NERVOUS AFFECTIONS OF THE HEAD CURED
For two years have been great sufferer from
Neuralgia in the head and found only temporary re-
lies from all the various remedies that have tried
until applied one Of AICocks Porous Plasters,
cut It into three strips, placing one under each
shoulder blade and the other over the small of the
back; and for the past three months I have had
scarcely twinge Of the old pain.


advise all who suffer from nervous diseases TO lose
no time in making trial of the wonderful Porou,
Plaster.


A. F. STERLING, sec'y Singer Mfg Co.


New York, June s, 1868. Sold BY all Druggists.
Year: 1872

A bank account is good thing to have
bot if too freely drawn upon it runs out
Bodily health is the frat of blessings, but
because . good constitution bears abuse
wonderfully, do not assume that a reckon
ing day will never come. Live ssnsibly
and moderately and at the first symptom
OF dyspepsia, disorders of the skin, kidneys,
liver or blood, use promptly DR. WALKER's
CALIFORNIA VTSEGAR BITrERs, the IN.
rivAlsd purifier Of the blood and renovation
Of the system, which is q certain cure.
Year: 1872

Rennes Pain Killing Magic Oil is sold
by most of our Druggists and Merchants,
and has become q standard article in mar
kst. This position it has won by its merit
It is clean to use. 1t cures pain where it is
used faithfully, and we intend always to
keep it in the house to use. Try it.
Year: 1872

Some ladies suffer dreadfully with the
headache and this causes their hair to fade
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