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Year: 1873

A STATEMENT FROM ONE OF THEM THAT
THEY WILL NOT VOTE UNLESS GIVEN Of |
FICE.
Messrs. Editors AS the city election is ap-
preaching there has been some very sharp talk
amongst our people, as to whether they will
use their right OF suffrage or not. We know
- the servant should receive something for his
labor, y but ever since we have had that suf-
frage the weak-kneed Republicans have been
seeking us day and night, only for our votes
Just before election, and they have been using
US as door-mats and serfs, only to put their
friends in office. They have promised, time
and again, to do what we know is in their
power to do, but fail But this time know
of over 200 who have promised to never touch
politics Or,vOte until the Republicans make
good some OF their former promises. We do
not intend to receive any more banquet-ln
suits.


II We had not men suitable to fill office we
would not complain if we could see, some
where in New Castle county, colored men or
even man, in some official position, we would
have some backbone to use our thousand
votes. But this is not the case and tell me
not, the Republican party has not the power
we are like other people, il we do have greai
patience.


Now, as this is a movement thought of somt
time since, and just adhered to, there may b'
some OF us who will not agree this time bu
u Will not be long before their eye teeth are cut
we are in earnest about this matter we hav
men in our ranks who fought and bied IN tn
late war Of the few who returned it was no
their fault, but by the Providence of Cod
They are educated they are real estate own
ers to some extent they are good, Teliabl
citizens, who IL elected to office, surely wOul
execute its functions, with that surety whic
would reflect credit to themselves as citizens
and their race as Americans


What Speaker Blaine said in reply to Cha!
Sumner Is true "The cOlOred people as elias
are not highly educated. but are very sens
tive" Every word Of that remark is true.


has been said we cannot help from voting
Nay, not so 4; we waited for freedom and /
benefitss 30 will we politically. Yours fl
elevation, HIRAM SMITH.
Year: 1873

The seal Of the Confederate States is said
to have been made in London, at cost Of
one hundred and twenty-five pounds and
twelve shillings, S612 so, and was placed in
the custody of Lieutenant Chapman, with in
structiOns to take It at any risk safely to
Richmond. He accomplished the mission, but
so near the collapse of the rebellion, that it
was only officially used In one or two instances
Lieutenant Braines' commission, who COM
manded the rebel cruiser Florida, is said to
have borne its imprint, but aside from this
and the distribution of a few impressions
given to crafty curiosity, there Is no record of
its use Electrotypes from the original are
now being made by New York electrOtypeT
for sale, the proceeds of which are to be applied
to Southern charities.
Year: 1873

We learn that the leading criminal law gers
break down the new Jury law providing fOF
intelligent jurors. The reason given for his
action, but one of the number, is that ut would
ruin the criminal practice ifallOwed to stand. "
No better reason could possibly be given for
M9 eontinnance on the statute books.
Year: 1873

A FOURTH STREET NUIsANcE-On the north
side Of the Fourth street market house, between
Market and Shipley streets, can be almost con-
stantly seen q very offensive pile of watermelon
rlnds and canteloupe skins. Unthinking persons
buy MELONS from the venders along Fourth street,
eat them on the spot, and then throw the refuse
IN the street. 1t is afterwards swept mp In piles
close TO the Market house, where it soon becomes
foul and sends out an outrageous smell, to the
great annoyance Of the passers by. The Board OF
Health committee from the Third ward should at
tend to this matter and have the nuisance abated


ABOUT LOVE LETTER.-One of eur colored
fellow citizens is again in trouble. He has long
admired a cOlored widow living ia the next block
above, but being afraid TO come out boldly and
reveal his passion, went to a white man of his
acquaintance, the other day, aud asked him te
write the lady letter asking her hand in mar
rage The friend wrote, telling the woman, in 9
few brief lines, that the size of her feet was the
talk OF the neighborhood, and asking her If shG
couldn't pare them down q little. The name oi
the colored man was signed, and be was to cal
on her on sunday night for an answer lev
days after the writer of the letter met the negrC
Emping slong the street, and asked him what tht
widow said. The man sho wed him q bloodsho
eye, scratched nose, lame leg, and q spot on
the scalp where handful of wool had been vio
lently jeTked out, and he answered in solemn
tones. ''She didn't say muffin, an didn't sta,
dar morn a minute l"-Read,ng Eagle.
Year: 1873

SALEs.--Ogle & Miller will open The Fan sea.
son OF sales of Real Estate by selling forty-one
of the finest building lots that have ever been of
fered over Third Street Bridge. Every one should
attend this sale as the most desirable lots over
there situated as they are in tho most thickly
populated and best business portions Of that neigh
boIhoods and will double themselves in a short
| time.


Sale on Saturday afternoon Sept 9th at 3L
O'Clock
Year: 1873

= A New FISH TRAP.-It is said that a
splendid eel trap can be made by disem.
boweling dead horse and anchoring the
same by the neck in the river. The idea
is derived from the finding Of a mans


body in the river once full Of those slippery
customers. His wife, with an eye to busi-
ness, ate the eels, and thereafter regularly
set the old man as an eel trap, whereby


he was of more account dead than alive.
Year: 1873

The execution of the notorious Count
ess Du Barry is described us follows by
an eyewitness q" Upon arriving at the
Pont au Change | found Il very large
crowd assembled there. I had no need
to ask the reason OF the assemblage, for
ut that moment | heard the most ter
rible cries, and almost immediately saw
come out of the court of the Palace of
Justice that fatal cart which Barrere
has called the bier of the living A
woman was in that cart, which slowly
drew near the spot upon which [ was
standing. Her figure, her attitude, her
gestures, expressed the most frightfuI
despair Alternately red and deathly
pale, she struggled with the executioner
and his two assistants, who could scarce
ly hold her upon the bench, and utter
ing those piercing cries which had first
arrested me, she turned necessarily
from one to the other invoking pity. Tt
was Madame du Barry, being conveyed
to execution. Only about forty-two or
forty-three years of age, she was still,
in spite of the terror which disfgured
her features, remarkably beautiful.
Clothed wholly in white, like Marie
Antoinette, who had preceded her
few weeks previously on the same
route, her beautiful black hair formed Il
contrast similar to that presented by II
funeral pail cast over coffin. In the
name of heaven, she cried amidst her
tears and sobs, save me, save mo /
have never done i'll to any one; save mel"
The delirious frenzy of this unfortunate
woman produced such an impression
among the people that those who came
to gloat over her sutterings had not the
courage to cast at her word of insult.
Every one around appeared stupehed,
and no cries were heard but hers-but
hers were so piercing that | believe
they would have drowned even those of
the mob had they been uttered. Dur
ing the whole route she never ceased
her shrieks for Life life and to
struggle frantically to elude death,
which had seized upon her already. Up
on arriving at the scaffold it was neces-
sary to employ force to attach her to
the fatal plank, and her last words were,
Mercy mercy But one moment
longer, but one and then all was
still "
Year: 1873

The Roseburg (Oregon) Plaindeoic,
| relates: A correspondent writing from
Canyonville sends us the following in
that place About ten DAYS since.
Henry Blann and his wife, of Canyon
vile precinct, went out into the noun
I tains to look after their sheep. When
about three miles from home his two
dogs got after Il bear, and after severe
chase succeeded i'll compelling the bear
to climb tree. About the time that
Mr.. Bland and his wife reached the foot
of the tree another ferocious bear put
'in an appearance and savagely attacked
the dogs in the immediate presence of
Mr., and Mrs. Bland. The fight now
became animated and furious, dogs and
bear rolling over each other in the death
struggle down Il deep mountain into the
canyon below Bland was armed with
II Henry rifle, but dared not shoot for
fear of killing his dogs Now came the
question how to rescue the dogs; only
two cartridges We're III the rifle, and
these had to be used to the best advan-
tage Mrs. Bland urged her husband
to go to the assistance of the dogs,
while she, alone and unarmed, under
took to keep the ferocious monster up
the tree. He started down into the
canyon to where the conflict was raging,
guided by the growls and yelps of the
dogs and bear. He arrived not mo-
getting the best of it, and would only
be pacitied by the last shot from the
now empty rifle.


1t was dark when Bland returned to
his wife at the foot of the tree The
situation was anything but hatttering.
The empty rifle was of little use, and
upon the determination of Mrs. Bland
TO sit up with the bear, he started for
home for more ammunition. The lady,
being reinforced by the bleeding dogs,
now felt sure that she was mistress of
the situation. With no fire, far from
home, in the midst of craggy noun
tains, this indomitable lady dared to
hold at bay one of the most ferocious
monsters of the forest. The bear, not
liking his new home, determined to
descend the tree, but our heroine, with
stick and the barking of dogs, COM
PEELED Bruin to take Il sober second
thought, and, taking up position on a
lower limb, with eyeballs of fire he
stared at the scene below; but our
huntress was not dismayed by the pres
ence of her horrible companion, but
stood guard until 10 O'Clock, when her
husband and another man came to her
assistance. She then started for home
through the deep canyons and gorges of
the mountains entirely alone, and it was
midnight when she safely arrived at
her own dwelling.


The next morning, as soon as it was
sufficiently light, the bear was shot.
He proved to be one of the largest of
those known as the cinnamon variety.
Year: 1873

An English laborer recently died from
the sting of wasp. The London Lan-
Get says he was stung on the tongue, but
no sting or mark of Il sting could be
found. The patient was put to bed,
and lamentations as hot as he could
bear were applied to his throat. The
part where he complained of pain, and
where he said he had been stung, was
brushed with liquor ammonia diluted so
as to be borne by the doctor without
much Inconvenience when applied to
his own tongue. Pulse, sixtyfour;
respiration, thirty-fOur, not particularly
labored and not strikingly larygeal i'll
character. The patient seemed better
for the lamentations and application of
ammonia to his tongue, and expressed
the comfort he felt, when Suddenly,
about half a minute after an application
of ammonia, he was seized with spasm
of the glottis, his face became pale, with
drops of perspiration on the forehead,
and his arms were thrown out as if to
grasp for air (really to assist respiration
by means of the pectora! muscles). He
said, 81 shall choke and got out of
bed and stood upright, but with no i'm
provement, for he sank on the bed
again, his face became livid, he ceased to
breathe, and his pulse stopped. Notwith-
standing that artificial respiration was
kept up and galvanism applied to the
cardiac region, the patient died just be
fore the arrival of the senior medical
officer of the infirmary, having breathed
about four times after tracheotomy was
performed, and having been in the in
Urinary less than half an hour.
Year: 1873

A SIMPLE WATER TEST. Good water
should be free from color, unpleasant
odor and taste, and should quickly af-
ford lather with small portion of
soap. The following simple test to
show whether water is fit for general
use is given in recent paper by Herr
Heisch on the pollution of water by
sewage. If half pint of water be
placed in perfectly clean, colorless,
glass-stoppered bottle, few grains of
the best. white lump-sugar added, and
the bottle freely exposed to the day
light in the window of IL warm room. the
liquid should not become turbid even
after exposure for week or ten days
If the water becomes turbid, it is open
to the grave suspicion of sewage con-
tamination but if it remain clear, it
is almost certainly sufe.
Year: 1873

Notwithstanding the predictions of ill which
we were told would follow the success of ''Loual
Option in Pennsylvania, it has been attended
by the best possible results The most encour-
aging reports come from the counties where it
has been put in practical operation, not only in
the absence OF Drunkenness from the public
streets and highways, but also in the reclamation
Of drunkards and their restoration to their fam
ilies,in the decrease of pauperlsm and crime, and
the resultant paucity Of cases upon the crimin al
calendars Of the courts.


This state Of affairs is not sectional, we are
told by those in position to know, but prevails
wherever the sale Of intoxicating liquors has
been interdIcted. All the counties send in good
report, and the impression is very general tina,
II the question of '' Local Option were to be-
again submitted to vote Of the people it would
be adopted by a majority largely in excess Of
that by which it prevailed in the spring In
Chester county the best possible results have
been obtained, and from one of the Commission
ers the statement is obtained that the county
prison bad ouly half the inmates that it had one
year ago and the unconvlcted prisoners are In a
smaller ratio In West Chester and from other
places from which information can be had drink
ing and drunkardmaking Seems almost dead.


What better results could be expected to iow
from an experiment IN 80 short time Even
the most sanguine advocates of the measure are
realizing more than they expected, while its op-
pouents are forced by actual accomplishments
to admit that their opposition at least a fac
tious one. Time will doubtless prove the wisdom
Of the election which has been made, and we
shall expect to see a confirmation of Local op-
ton when 1t shall be again submitted to vote
nf the manila
Year: 1873

The track through the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad tunnel trayersing the western portion
of Baltimore and connecting with the Northern
Central Railroad was completed yesterday and
the tunnel will be open for travel on the Goth.
Year: 1873

delay in the completion of the work. He was
originally to have received fifteen per cent on
all the payments for building the piers below
high-water mark. About the time that the
Committee of Fifty discovered this arrange
ment by which the Superintendent would nave
received about 100000 year for his services
the per centum allowance was reduced two
thirds. and finally to nothing, and he is now
serving without pay.


The reports also call attention to the fact
that Mr.. Kingsley is practically the Directory
He holds and votes majority OF the STOCK
subscribed by private individuals, and al the
two cities which furnish nine-tenths OF the
money are without actual representation Id
the Direction, it follows that Mr.. Kingsley Is
supreme in his control of the work. with
absolute power in the hands of one man, the
marvel is that the Committee have not found
fraud at every step of the investigation. Ihe
result ia an Endorsement of Mr.. Kingsley as
gratifying to the public as it doubtless
is to himself, and will inspire renewed
confidence in a gentleman whose energy
was long since recognized, and whose honesty
and economy will be no longer questioned.
But because the past is secure that is no
reason why we should go forward in this
great work with the door for the thieves who
may get into possession left wide open.
Hence the recommendation of the majority
report that the charter be amended, so as to
give the two cities of New-York and Brooklyn
proper representation in the Direction, is a
wise suggestion, which ought at once to be
acted on We hope the Company will adopt
the resolution submitted by the Committee,
and take immediate steps to secure amended
lpCislation
Year: 1873




Relieved of much irrelevant matter, intro
duced to prove what was already admitted.
the several reports on the management of the
East River Bridge fail to establish fraud.
but prove that there is only ample op-
pOrtunity for peculatiOn. Material has
not been bought without competition, as
charged, and contracts have been awarded
to the lowest bidders. Supplies have been
purchased of a company in which the Super
intendent and at least one Director of the
Bridge were interested but in no instance
cited have they as Bridge officials contracted
with themselves at higher prices than were
paid to others. To few cases the bills of
this company have been paid upon the certif-
cation of the purchasing agent only, but the
amount involved in these transactions is small.
and there is no proof that they were fraudu-
lent.


The one monstrOus irregulariy ia found in
the amount of Superi ntendent Kingsleys COM
pensatiOn and the manner of its payment
This is not a new discovery, for nearly or quito
a year ago the Committee Of Fifty of Brook
rection, and the return by Mr.. Kingsley of
$4,000 which had been oveTpaid to him under
a system which, TO say tho least, was indef-
mite and imperfect, and which would have in
cited a corrupt man to extravaganza rather than
to economy in the expenditures for the Company.
The amount of his pay was made 10 depend upon
the magnitude of his expenditures. and the
Year: 1873

Now that the House Of Representatives has
fairly gotten into the investigation OF the
Credit Mobilier business, it evinces determi-
nation to go to the bottom of things. The
additional Committee which has been ordered
is for the purpose Of inquiring into the legality
of the Credit Mobilier Association. The sup
position is that Mr. Ames's organization has
received bonds from the Union Pacific Rail
road Company, and that the United States Is
liable for the interest on those bonds. Have
those bonds been legally acquired by the
Credit MObilier Association, which is crea-
ture of the Union Pacific corporation Have
any of the shares of the Association, which Is
supposed to hold these bonds, been held by
Copgressmen or other officers of the Govern
mentR These are questions which the new
investigation will seek to satisfy. They are
questions in which not only the taxpayers OF
the country are interested, but also every man
who desires to see the tone Of public morals
kept high and pure.
Year: 1873

A curious proposition has been made III the
House of Representatives by Tennessee
member. 1t is in the interest of the whisky
and tobacco men, and proposes an entire re-
peal of all taxes on these two commodlties
To replace the revenue thus abstracted OF
diverted it is further proposed that one per cent
shall be levied on the gross earnings OF rail-
roads, and half that amount on bankers,
brokers, and insurance companies transac-
tons. Without discussing the expediency or
justice of imposing this new tax, 1T must be
admitted, that as long as any taxes are laid
on anything, the Objectionable luxures of
whisky and tobacco ought to bear their share
The probability is that these articles will be
taxed as long as we have any internal revenue
duties of any kind.
Year: 1873

Much 20 the popular relief, pleas for further
delay in the Tweed case have been overruled,
and it is now in a fair way for trial. The
jury panel has been prepared, and it is hoped
that to-day will witness the actual beginning
OF this long deferred suit.
Year: 1873

Thomas Briggs, of Detroit, has boy
baby about ten months old, who is ad-
mitted at the beginning of this article
to look just like his father and to be
the smartest boy baby of his age in De-
troit. Yesterday morning the child was
sitting on the floor, playing with five or
six big coat buttons on q string, and
taking an occasional nibble at an apple
to bring out his first crop of teeth.
Mrs. Briggs and a neighbor were talk
ing away as only women can gossip,
when the baby hid the buttons under a
mat and started to finish the apple. A
bit of the skin got in his throat, and he
gave cough and whoop and paved
the air and rolled over on his head.
"Oh, them buttons he has swallowed
them buttons p cried the mother, as she
yanked him up and shook him. "Pound
him on the back p yelled the other wo-
man, trying to hold the baby's legs still.
Run for the neighbors p cried Mrs.
Briggs. "Oh, he'll die q! he'll die /"
screamed the other, as sheran out. And
the neighbors came in and made him
lie on his stomach and cough, and then
turned him on his back and rubbed his
stomach, and jagged him about allsorts
of ways until he got mad and he went to
bowling. Then boy ran for Briggs,
and Briggs ran for doctor, and the
doctor came and choked the baby, and
ordered sweet oil and a mustard plas-
ter, and told them to hold him on his
back. Everybody knew that those six
big buttons were lodged in the baby's
throat, because he was red in the face,
and because he strangled as he howled
and wept. They poured down sweet
oil, and put mustard across 'him, and
wept over him, and the mother said she
could never forgive herself. Boys drove
by calling out: "Slab wood for sale p
and the scissors man went by shouting
"Sharp sharp p but that distressed
crowd held the baby down and shed
their tears over his whole length. The
doctor was looking serious and Briggs
was thinking that he hadn't done any
thing to deserve such a blow, when one
of the women pushed the mat and dis
covered the buttons. Then everybody
laughed and danced, and they kicked
the sweet oil bottle under the bed,
threw the mustard plaster at the doctor,
and Mrs. Briggs hugged the bowling
angel to her bosom and called him her
"wopsy topsy hopsy dropsy popsy little
cherub,"
Year: 1873

A very curious visitor from unknown
regions is described by farmer Of Tip
pecanoe county in the Lafayette Qnd.)
Journal as follows:


"Mention was made short time since
of the fall of q wonderful aerolite, in the
lower part of this county. We met Mr..
Harter, who discovered it upon his
farm, near Romney. The fragments in
all, it is supposed, will amount to about
a thousand pounds in weight, and some
features are presented which will be OF
great interest to scientific men. The
aerolites heretofore found are of solid
and metallic nature. having evidently
struck the earth as compact bodies.
This one is entirely different. From
the traces it is easily determined that
the vast descending globe came hurting
through the air in one glowing, motion
mass, and that at the moment of its i'm
pingement it was in liquid state. The
fragments are honeycombed, like Gin
der, and vary greatly in their weight.
It is further evident that the globe was
hollow, from the smoothness of the con-
cave parts. The outside presents the
appearance of soft body that has
struck upon solid particles, as the in
dentation of grass blades, straws and
sticks are plainly discernible. One of
the fragments had fallen on large
stick of wood, and conforms to it exact
ly. The very texture of the wood can be
seen. Further than they fell around
the spot where the main bodies were
found numerous little balls of the same
material varying from q shot to an or
dinary sized marble. They were per-
feet spheres, and can be accounted for
upon no other hypothesis than that the
rapid revolution Of the liquid mass in
its descent threw off these particles by
centrifugal force. Parts of the mate
rial have been subjected to intense heat
without the least effect being produced,
and they show unquestionable evidence
Of igneous action. A box of these frag-
ments will be shipped to the Smithson-
ian Institute, and the remainder are in
tended for the Purdue Agricultural Col
lege."